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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1902)
THE VAL ENTINE DEMOCRAT I. M RICK. Pub Uher VALENTINE , NEBRASKA. Experience Is u school. It ia also faying , at times. Men are like eggs. Plenty of honest men. but few ' 'strictly" honest sweetest meat Is not always in < ± he largest nut. A great pedigree may contain littlo virtue. In duo tiino It will be discovered that Mattie Bennett , the head of the murder merger * is a real lady. alias Stone suys she will not lecture oa her experiences. She may , however , .jneuUem the matter casually to her Xnends. 2-ever Judge a cigar hy the name It Jjcara. The gentlemen who christen -cigars are paid for their extravagance Jbi nomenclature. Ura. Astor did not go so far as to say ; aat every man who has a college edu- cjidon is a gentleman. Some college graduates are moneyless. In undertaking an air-ship perform ance the fear that a man may iall down At It is always more accentuated than 3u the cose of other enterprises. One of General Funston's admirers .refers to him as "a man of dasn and jgo. " His record shows that "splash go" would be nearer the truth. JL Hussion promises a single-rail sys- tem Lhat will cairy pasbeiigers at the xate of 200 miles on hour. The ambu lance will no doubt be on hand to meet trains. In municipal art , it pays to spend money lor the best. Noble architec- < ture is u perpetual instructor of the people , a constant symbol of the high- jex ideals. Some people keep so busy trying to let the world know they don't take themselves seriously that they forget ithat the world doesn't caro whether they do or not. Some men who claim to have master ed the question of insurance in all its details never do anything more prac tical than solicit blotters from the in surance companies. A man has patented a ' 'windmill" which is propelled by sunshine instead 4 > f wind. Perhaps it is only an adapta- .tion from the Kentucky distillery , is propelled by "moonshine. " I Mrs. Astor says that only men who Srnve college educations can be gentle- jinen. That is rather sweeping. How- erer , not even women who have col lege educations can be gentlemen. Had Mrs. Astor thought of that ? It is announced that the new presi dent of the National Congress of Moth- ra has children of her own. It is safe to say , therefore , that she has neigh bors who don't believe she knows the least thing about the business. Delarey'a magnanimity to the wounded Mcthueu is in part , a * least , explained. Delarey's wife and chil dren wore once British captives and Methuen was considerate of them. There is no place on earth where man ly meu hare their being in which will not be founJ the "touch of nature that tnalr.es the whole world kin. * * Woman has shouldered so many mod ern burdens that even her voice has learned to "carry. " A delegate at the recent Daughters of the American Revolution Congress said that she heard all the speakers without difficul- tyr whereas in the House of Represen tatives , where she went one morning , she could understand little that wus fiald. Her comment , "Men's voices do not seem adapted for public speaking , " Is one of the many humorous revenges brought In by the whirligig of time. - George Washington could not tell a lie , but lies couhl be told to him. The lollsh poet , Niemcewicz , wrote in his diary , recently published for the Grst time , that Uo prevaricated when Washington , asked him about Kosciu- sfco. The offense was committed for the purpose of concealing the fact that the patriot had left his country to head a Polish organization. It must have liecn as difficult to face Washington with a falsehood as to have talked heresy to Jonathan Edwards. Tuera arc scientific experts whose testimony Is to be taken with respect. They deal in facts. For example , a chemist will fln I what proportion of iinison is contained in a certain sub stance that may have been adminis tered with mischievous intent A phy sician will describe an injury and tell < f results and causes where shot or stab woonds are involved. An archi- Jest will be able to explain how a bridge or building has fallen. But the loo usual export is none of these. He is a man who for a grc.'it price offers 11 pci-sonal opinion as to handwriting. A trial , especially one in which human life or liberty is involved , should be conducted solely on evidence. Opin- 4on Is not evidence. The real weuluiess of flre insurance (11 this country is the extravagant scale of expenses. These are claimed to arer- Age'40 per cent of the premium income , though an official of the board of ander- prrlters was unable to acc < n t for more than 28 per cent With all the lavish outlay of the lire insurance coin- . panics in drumming for business 30 pel ' cent of the premium receipts is a lib eral allowance fur the r expenses. A business that requires no gr at outlay to secure and yet is carried on at so , large a percentage of cost requires revi sion elsewhere than in its scale of i charges. To tax its profitable custom- 1 ers to pay the cost of corporate inca pacity is an outrage that can be toler ated only under compulsion. An English journalist , writing about what ho c-alls "the Americanization of the world , " gives full credit to the work of American women in this direc tion. He quotes a remark which the late Lord Dufferin made some twenty years ago : "Few people have any idea of the extent to which the diplomatic service is Americanized by the influ ence of marriage. Nearly all the at-f taches of the various embassies at Washington are captured before their term of office expires by American beauties and American heiresses. The result is that the diplomatic service * the only service which is really cosmo politan , is Americanized through and through. " To show that our women are doing a corresponding work in the Oeld of business and finance , the En glish journalist quotes a Parisian edi tor who has advanced an interesting theory , that through American mar riages the titled houses of Europe are postponing for a time the downfall'- which must follow the invasion of Yankee trade and democratic'leas. . Thus the daughters and sisters , by means of the millions earned by the fathers and brothers , are temporarily preserving a state of affairs which those very millions have doomed. In ternational marriages have heretofore1 been a subject rather of impertinent jest than of grave consideration on broad economic grounds. Contrary to the general impression regarding these marriages , they are usually happy , and few of them are brought about by mercenary considerations. Moreover , to think of the American girl who mar ries abroad as an agent in the "Ameri canizing of the world" gives her an im portance which her brothers seldom at tain. The speculative spirit of the age has done much to turn tlie minds of young men in the wrong direction. Without doubt some large fortunes have been built up by speculation , but the rec ords of every speculative market will show that where one man has acquired riches by this means , hundreds have been utterly ruined. The pathway of speculation is strewn with financial wrecks. In considering this subject it should not be forgotten that the world hears only of the few successes. The many failures interest us comparative ly little ; hence we seldom are told of them except when they end in suicide or u penitentiary sentence. William J. Ouahau , president of the Home Savings Bank of Chicago , says truly that too many young men to-day have become infected with the passion for specu- latiug in stocks and grain. There is a haste to grow rich. Conservative methods in business are regarded as too slow and out of date. The hope of gaining fortune without labor has be come very alluring. All this , however , is a fatal delusion. Even where wealth Is thus gained it Is more often a curse than a blessing. The fortune quickly gained and without labor generally is is speedily dissipated. Yet the adver tisements in daily papers constantly > ffcf flattering opportunities to young ' men for the making of fortunes by some short cut , and the fact that these idvertisements continue to appear indi cates that they prove alluring. But the "act remains that , as a rule , to which : here are few exceptions , permanent "ortunes must be the product of sound , conservative building ; and this Is truer : o-day. almost , than it ever was before. Most of the wealthy men of to-day be- jan fortune-building from the ground i ip. They began by cultivating habits ) f thrift and frugality , and at a time1 ivhen these habits were far more gen- ; ral than they are now , and , while they worked longer hours for less pay , they > aved more money. Fortunes built up n that way are likely to be much more J lermanent than those which are the mtgrowths merely of some lucky itroke In speculation. In Old Mex co. "Mexican laboring men , " says a Kan sas man who has been visiting in Mex-J co , "work for 12 cents a day. This may leem incredible , but it is a fact. Yon 1 ; ee more copper cents in that country mil more are used , perhaps , than in my country on the globe. It is not rncouimon to see a Mexican woman gt > o market and buy a cent's worth of vood , a cent's worth of corn or coffee , ind a stalk of cane. She will make a ire in the center of her adobe house ind prepare a meal for the family , rhey eat cane as we would an apple ; C"he ox cart an i wooden plow are still n use. The ox teams are hoirnessed so he pressure of the load comes upon he head , just in front of the horns , nslead of the shoulder and neck. " ' Past Disappearing. It is estimated that there are fewer ban ten thousand wild elephants left n all the countries on the globe , and hat five of these will be killed ofl ! vhere one is born. It is a matter of inly a few years when the last one nust go. A Question. "My father weighed only four pounds it his birth. " "Good gracious ! Did he live ? " Jmart Set If there is one word more than an ther we long to open the back door of hearse for , and slide it gently in , It Is GIRLS. OT long ago in this department the question of manners was touched upon , the suggestions re lating to the manners of the girls them selves. There is another side that still deserves mention. This Is that young women should be exacting in the mat ter of the manners of the young men who are their companions. Little lapses of manner should not go unrebuked. In an article in one of the magazines last winter the story was told of a French princess' rebuke of the rude playfulness of a distinguished writer. He was a guest in the drawing room of the princess , and was enjoying a chat with her when another gentleman joined the group. "Go way , you big jealous person , " said the first comer , "we don't want you. " The princess in stantly resented and rebuked the fa miliarity. She rang for a servant , and on his appearance , said , gravely : "Or der M. About's carraige. He does not dine here to-night , " and M. About had nothing to do but make his adieux and pass out dinnorless and mortified. It is admitted that this rebuke was al most too radical , but the incident will serve to emphasize the care all women , and particularly young women , should take to repress undue familiarity on the part of young men. Of course it is conceded that the girl requires a little courage som-otiines. and the young woman dreads to give of fense or to have herself dubbed haughty , but this should not deter her from holding her associates of the other sex to the standard of manners which she should set high. Some young men have an abominable practice of touch ing a young woman unwarrantably ; they will take her arm on the street to help her over a gutter or up a stair when there is not the least need for the assistance. It is only exceptionally ex pected nowadays that a man need offer his arm to a lady with whom he is walking at night At a dance not long ago a young girl seated herself , fol lowing a waltz , in a large arm-chair , whereupon her partner perched himself : > u the arm. Instantly the girl rose , and not daring to say anything , rebuked liim by her look. The young man also quickly stood up and begged her par- Son. It is safe to say that his manners will never be lax in the presence of that girl again. Another girl at the same fiance was noticed permitting her part ner to fan her with her fan , which was iittached to her belt by rather a short ribbon. She should have detached her Can and handed it to him outright , riiere is not space in the limits of this paragraph to multiply instances , only to sum up , girls , that your manners should not only be dignified in them selves , but command dignity from those around you. Many young men . 2rr through ignorance , and will be' ' grateful , if they are the right kind of roung men , for little Lessons given with i deadly courtesy that Is yet unmistak- ible. Harper's Bazar. Food for Younpr Children. It is a common mistake for parents : o begin feeding their children solid 'ood too early , writes Helen W. GooUe , H. D. , in Good Housekeeping. For a : hlld under 14 months it is much the safest course to give no solid food at ill. It is true that many children seem : o be able to digest solid food at an jarly age , but it is also true that giving t at this period is frequently responsi lie for the digestive disorders during he second year. After the child is a year old it should mve some form of farinaceous food idded to its milk diet. The best metli- d Is to make a gruel of some cere-U , 'or example , oatmeal , if the child Is Iiv : lined to be constipated , barley if its jowels are inclined to be loose , and idd this gruel , after straining , to the > aby's milk. Beef juice ( made by broil- ng a piece of round of beef lightly ind squeezing the juice from it ) , may > e added to the diet as early as the burteenth month. Begin with a tea- poonful and gradually increase to two ir three ounces at a time. The child nay take oranges and prune juice as : arly as the fifteenth month , and a lit- le later strained prunes and baked ap- > les without the skins. Fruit is an mportant part of a child's diet , and hould be given regularly after the ifteenth month , except in cases of iarrhoea. After the eighteenth month , mlf a solf-boiled egg may be given in- tead of , or in alternation with , the icef juice. Divorce Amonff the Rich. "It is among the rich or , at any ate , in classes above the so-called Corking classes that divorces most requently take place. "Opponents of divorce laws not in- requently urge in support of their po- ition the many marriages and divorces f certain popular actresses. I think he matrimonial habits of actors and ctresses should not be permitted to omplicate the nodern problem of di- orce. The kaleidoscopic alliances of liss Blank give the ordinary sober itizen moral vertigo. He usually nows little about the men whose very ames the footlight lady disdains. The fhole transaction has an appearance f unreality and vulgarity that is dis- usting. "Children are guardians of the home. Hiere there are few or no chil iren i the family there are many lurking angers. These dangers are more fre- uent among the rich than the poor. . church la New York attended by many people of wealth undertook to have a Sunday school for the children of these persons , because there was some objection made to regular Sunday- school on the ground that it was filled with poor children from the ten ments. But it was discovered thai there were in the whole parish only twenty-nine children of Sunday school age from homes of wealth , and five of these were in one family. Family life suffers incalculably from limitation of its numbers. The maternal instinct even in a wife who believes she lacks it. Is a restless force that lea Is to many dangerous quests and is often respon sible for conjugal alienation. "But not only Is the natural hunger of a woman's nature satisfied by chil dren. In talcing care of them she has a soothing and engrossing occupation if she will be truly a mother. Moreover , when a strain comes between husband and herself she is strong in the strength of her children. Their com panionship and their inspiration help her to stand firm and to be patient and without authority or love to do what she considers her duty. " Kev. Percy S. Grant in Ainslee's Magazine. A Small Waist Beantifnl. Now of course I am expected to say that a small waist is ugly , but on the contrary I think that a small waist is beautiful , writes Ethelwyn Wetherald in Good Housekeeping. Not unnatural ly small , not grotesquely and ridicu lously small , as those of fashion plates always are , but with the natural small- ness of nn erect , healthy , full-chested woman. To attain a beautiful , natural slenderness one needs not to compress the waist but to develop the shoulders and chest and to restrain and direct the appetite , so that the stomach is not filled with indigestible food which bloats and distends the waist A little "bag of bones" with a twenty-inch waist is a revolting spectacle ; the same bag of bones flattened out Into the similitude of a bedslat is only a little less repellent : a huge woman who can with difficulty achieve any waist at all Is not attractive ; but the firm-fleshed crirl with strong arms , solid shoulders. Cull chest , and a twenty-six inch waist lias a magnificent figure admired by men and women. If she marries she will have healthy children ; if she re mains unmarried she is abundantly able to take cure of herself. Her motto Is not "Health before beauty , " but "Health and beauty before ruinous fashions. " A Mahogany Restorer. A la 'y writes - garding the way in which she dealt with furniture that ivas old and had become sad In color "Kerosenewas not successful , and : urpentine required too much rubbing , ind even then was not satisfactory for : he carved parts. So we tried a little ; > iece with a solution of two heaping : ablespoonfuls of sal soda to a quart of varm water , put on with a toothbrush > vell soaped , the place being iminedi- itely rinse > l with cold water and dried ivith a soft cloth. Since then we have ised it on several woods , natural and stained , and , homely as the recipe may sound , it has never failed to give good esults. Afterward the wood should ) e rubbed with a mixture of raw oil md turpentine. One mahogany an- : ique a hundred years or more old- hat was so discolored as to hide the uitural grain of the wood came out as > right as new under this treatment. " Box Plnita. Box plaits are quite the rage , and ange from a profusion of narrow ones o the broad namesake of Gibson. An sxainple in beige etamine shows clus- ers of five at both the back and front if the blouse , with corresponding clus- ers on the skirt so arranged as to eem continuations of the upper ehenie. Two clusters of box plaits are et in at each side of the skirt , each laving a point at the top of which tardly reaches the knee. There's a Tit le turndown collar of embroidered izard-green velvet Hat Hints. Flower hats hold. Forget-me-nots are especially liked. Ribbon roses are as durable as they .re lovely. Straw embroidered grass linen drapea aost gracefully. Chiffon scarfs en applique hare the ame advantage. Stocks are a feature among the love- y old-fashioned flowers. Straw loops and black quills trim rhite San Toy charmingly. A charming pale blue hyacinth hat .as the crown of fine foliage. An Irish lace picture hat is trimmed nth a white plume caught by a pearl abochon. There is something in mere pretti- ess that turns even a woman's head -men have been willing victims since be world began. It's invariably the one-hat woman rho chooses a gala garden party affair , 'en to one , too , she's the woman who ever goes to garden parties , so she j never well crowned. Indeed , choosing a hat is Just like lioosiug a wife , or a house , or a horse ; ou want something as handsome as ossible , of good quality and style , ractical , durable , sensible , in accord rlth you and yours , not pretentious , either stupidly simple just fine and ght If you're beginning the hunt we el for 701. Philadelphia Record. 9 do DROPS For Infants and Children. ! The Kind You Have Always Bought Ategefable Preparalionfor As similating IheFoodandBegula- Ung ihc Stomachs andBowcis of Bears the Signature Promotes DigeslionjCheerfur- ness andltest.Cofilains neither Opitim.Morphine nor > Iiiieral. of /ilx.Senna KotktlU&J sLiiseSfed Jtoyxrmuit - . Watayern. Ftoran Aperfecl Remedy forConstipa- fion , Sour Stomach , Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Fcvensh- ness and Loss OF SLEEP. , For Over i in i , Facsimile Signature of V & # & & & * Years Thirty NEW YORK. . EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. . . r < -rtT lin COMPANY. NEW YOHK CfTY. Turkey Queen of Texas. Miss Anita Martin is known hroughnub Texas as the "turkey liieeu" on account of the many tur icys which she has raised on her anch in that state. So great has leen the increase in Miss Martin's nisiness since she started with four urlccys five years since that she now jrnpl iys two women and a boy to lelp her take care of her 100 birds. Iiss Martin sells the turkeys o regular customers , and claims to Mve cleared $2,500 this year. The nost expensive birds are those yhieb. feed on nuts and other fancy Kids , which render their flesh weeter and more nalatable. AM the 4gs are hatched by incubators , and he food which the turkeys eat is rown on the ranch" , thus saving uuch expense. Miss Martin heartily ecommends women to enter the tur- : ey-raisiug industry. fon Can Get Allen-a root-Ease FREE. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted , Le Hoy , S' . Y. , for n FUEE sample of Allen's Foot- % . se , a powder to shake Into your shoes , t cures tired , sweating , damp , swollen , i chins feet. It makes new or tight shoes : isy. A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. Ill druggists and shoe stores sell it. Recovers Jetre'ry Cable. Mrs. Kobert S. McGormick , wife of he'United States minister to Aos- ria , recovered a valuable piece of ewelry by means of the Atlantic able , says a New York Herald dis- 1,1 tch from London. Soon after caching London from the United tates Mrs. M'Cormck missed a leautiful emerald ring. Her maid lid nob remember putting the ring n with the other jewelry at the sTew Yoik hotel and , on a venture , > lrs. McCormick decided to cable he" hotel. To her great joy a reply i'as received in a few hours saying he ring bad been found. The ring , t is said , cost more than $2.600. Gon On' of Myle. Miss Stone says thutMme. Tsilka's : iby softened the hearts of the bri- ; mds , says the Chicago Eecord-IIer- Id. Ah , what a wonderful thing a i.iby is I And what a pity that it las become unfashionable. Ainrricjxn * HIT. ) Long Kiown It. Santos-Dumon enthusiastically says America is the greatest country on : irth. Can he be foolish enough to idieve , asks the Chicago Eecord- lerald that this is news to us ? The City Hall in Philadelphia cost vor 316,000,000. Electric pumps , to extin < ruisli ] fires , are to be placed at intervals ) along tbe trolley car lines in Iloueo. When necessary , the current is tc be switched from the trolley wires to the electric pumps , and water at once thrown on the conHugratluo. Advice to ICm cI Sage. | Russell Sat'eis complaining because his rent is to be raised this spring , } says the Chicago Record-IIeralcU Russ ought to save up and buy a ? little place somewhere. , ( The ColIar-lIuj-litglFlend. * The collar buying liend , who nsnal ly buys one shirt collar at a time an < 2 soils half a dozen others with his dirty hands in the operation , says- the Chicago Tribune , is coming in * at last for his share of public denuo.4 ciatiOD. Fish to the vaiue of $50.000,000 are. landed in the United Kingdom ao nually. This unknown harvest ofj the sea is gathered by some 74OOQf fishermen. ' JUSTTHIKKOFIT Rrnry farmer bis landlord , no in earn * brances.his bankac-count- iucruasin year by yvaJV [ li nd yulue increa mg . stooincreasing , iplea * did climate , exo-lleot' school * % nd churches , low taxation , high priceC > for cuttle and Knin , ow railway rate * , and every possib e comfort. 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