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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1903)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRA1 I. M KICK , I'uli I1 r. VALENTINE , NEBRASKA Women seem to be about all a rcbbei has to fear these days. Witty Oliver Her Cord is creditec with remarking that a hair in the hea < ; is worth two in the brush. SJeop is the great restorer. It is bet ter to call a wideawake policeman , however , when your purse'is stolen. There Is lalk of another duel between French Deputies. If this thing kec-ps up , somebody may be accidentally hurt. The Crown Prince of Siam has been presenting sacred umbrellas to his American friends. There Is nothing BO sacred as the borrowed umbrella. ' Great Britain hag just ordered two more of the fastest and most powerful cruisers afloat. When It comes to ships Mr. Bull always has the price handy. Dr. Gunsaulus says every baby is a messenger from heaven. Well , we were all babies once and ifs taken some of us a long time to deliver our messages. Admiral O'Neil knocks the speed madness in battleships. What is bet ter , he thinks , is fighting power. But 51 battleship that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. A Cincinnati girl declined to marry the man of her choice because he re fused to give up tho secret societies to which lie belonged. Some men are de termined to hang onto the night key at nny cost. A great to-do is being raised over an article by Mr. Roosevelt on the presi dency , written while he was Governor of New York. What he thinks about the presidency now would be really \vorth sitting up nights to road. The medical societies might as well cut out their resolutions condemning kissing , because kissing is an insti tution that is going to flourish right nlong , regardless alike of doctors and microbes. It will continue as Tbng as there are red lips. Plans are completed for the laying of the corner stone of the new campanile in Venice on April 22 , 1003. If the modern structure lasts as long as the old , the people alive in 2903 may say that the builders of the twentieth cen tury were as capable as those of the tenth. Peary has come back from the Arctic circle convinced that the region of the north pole has great possibilities as a health resort. He regards it as the host possible place for consumptives , und declares that ordinarily healthy men gain weight there unless they are cixposed to great and unusual hard ships. His conclusions are in line with the experience of many physicians who are sending consumptive patients into cold regions and keeping them in the open air with excellent results. Another outrage has been perpetra- | ted upon the poor automobilist. A Mr. , Marble has been fined $1 and sent to jail for a year for running into and killing a careless driver of a delivery wagon. Mr. Marble cheerfully agreed to pay the dollar , but remonstrated against a jail sentence as setting an extremely bad precedent. The fact that the victim drove a deliver wagon had been taken into account , however , and the judge felt that he could not further diminish the sentence. It is apparent that if chauffeurs learn that for every dtath caused by them they must go to jail for a year , much of Ihe sport of the automobile will be lost. What's the use of wealth and a $10- 000 conveyance if the petty laws against careless driving are to be ap plied ? Dmerson's law of compensation holds. For instance : Edmund .T. James is president of Northwestern Univer sity. He has positl n , honor , fame , but he Is not happy. Neither is his wife. They have a crippled chilJ. Their daughter Helen will never romp about as other children. She is suffer ing from congenital dislocation of the hip. Dr. James and his wife had hoped much from the skill of Dr. Adolph Lo- renz , who came all the way from Vi enna to perform the successful opera tion on the Armour child. When the examination was made by Dr. Loreuz he shook his head dubiously. "She is too old for a successful'operation. A long course of treatment must precede and even than it is problematical. " Dr. James offered a large sum , all his sav ings , in fact , if the physician would stay and treat his 13-year-old daugh ter. But the eminent physician said it was Impossible. At the time of the child's examination the president of Northwestern was being installed in his high office , and the attendant cere monies were most Impressive. What were this pomp and circumstance of Installation to Dr. and Mrs. James be side their anxiety and pity and lore for their crippled daughter ? Ajid always there will be a sob in their Hearts when they see their child a hopeless invalid for life. Yes , the law of compensation holds. In Now York City recently a degen erate took the life of his wife In such \vny as to shock the sensibilities of the entire country. Why ? Look at the man's picture. Study the details of his Read his motive. Trace tie rec- t on ! of the man's brutal Impulse back its course , and you will find weu ness. The woman he killed was al ! weak. Not in body , but in mcntallt in life-purpose , in character. There wi trouble between the two. Neither w ; strong enough to overcome the iustin of the brute. The stronger brute pr vailed. That is all. Thte man ar woman stumbled , ayArid womc have always stunibrcdT stumbled f < thousands of years , over this grc ; ( ruth : Strength of character come only through obedience. If you want strong body you must obey til.laws ( the body. If you want a strong mill you must obey the laws of mind. ] you want a strong soul you must obc the laws of the soul. Disobey and yo become a weakling. It is inevitabl Disobey the moral law , which by tli way is not an arbitrary thing , but lai deep iu your nature , and you are a mei creature of impulse a creature dei pised of nature and of society , a sel : created weakling. It has taken age for nations to learn that liberty come only through obedience to law. Who will Individuals learn that not only lil erty but strength comes only throug obedience to law ? And if this be take for a sermon , let this be the exhortj : tion : "Quit ye like men ; be strong. " In the autumn of 1818 a plain , motl erly woman , the wife of one of th early settlers of Indiana , died , and wa laid to rest with the simplicity chara ( istic of those pioneer days. There wa not even a clergyman in attendance t offer a funeral prayer. Eighty-fou years have passed since that day. Th poor woman would have said , had sh been asked , that after so long a tim her very existence would almost hav passed from the memory of the living Nevertheless , thousands gathered t dedicate a monument to her memorj The governor of the State , now one o the foremost in the Union , took part ii Lhe exercises in his official capacity. 1 celebrated soldier from a neighborini commonwealth delivered the address Special trains brought to tho seen thousands of school children , each car eying a flag. "What have I done ? " th simple pioneer woman might well hav < isked. The orators of this day woul < reply that she had given Abraham Lin : oln to the world , and had , with he tiusbancl. trained him during thos < > arly years when impressions for goo < ire most lasting. She died before In was ten years old. In similarly appro > riate recognition of the part whicl 'alls to mothers in shaping the charac : er of the child , the mother of Washing on has been honored by a stately mon unent at Fredericksburg. Among thosf inknown to the larger fame , the work s constantly paying its tribute to moth ? rs whom it has never seen. The rare combination of genius , cour ige and energy that made up the char icter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stautoi .vould . have made any man great in hi : xwn generation. It has made a womar jreat In her century , and has stampec in enduring impression upon the age Tor fifty years this woman and hei T-ork have stood in Ihe limelight o ] mblic inspection , and been marks foi idicule and open , often bit tor , opposl ion. But she never faltered. She liv id to see her movement respected and eceiving the serious consideration of ho host mon andvomeii of the time. Vithout in the least degree divorcing orself from the duties of wit'ohood ind motherhood , she has immeasura- > ly sweetened the moaning of those ; acrod words in tho minds of everj1 houghtful man and woman in the : incl. and at the same time has made u j eo that there is a sisterhood which s far broaler than the environs oij food relationship , and the spirit oi ! I'hich stands for better manhood , beh er womanhood , hotter citizenship Wo ay there are no miracles any more. Tet a woman with an idea arose among [ , won to herself a few associates , ailed conventions , sot on foot a prop- gamla , perfected a groat and con- tantly widening organization , sy.stom- tizod it into a powerful influence at he polls in many States and a potent , biding moral influence in every sec- ion of the land. If this is no miracle , ; must be admitted that a new human orco has come into existence and has omo to stay. There is no lack of op- ononts still to the movements that Irs. Stantou fought for. Cut there re few earnest mon and women to-day rho doubt the sincerity of her pur- osos , the high moral attitude of her [ )5rit or the infinite possibilities sug- estod by what she actually accom- lished. Natures Glories. Georgie's aunt was worried because e failed to understand or appreciate nything not strictly practical. Har- er's Magazine tells of an experiment he tried to test his esthetic powers. In her desire to rouse him to a per- option of better things she took him a Niagara Falls. The train brought lem into sudden and magnificent vie\v f the great wonder. She watched him losely as the moment for the test revr near , and was dolighted to sea im press his face to the window , and eep it there. Then he turned to her with beaming ountenance , and pointing to a hill- ide In the background , said , "Say. ee them goats ! " Helped to Hurt a .Little. "What do you think ought to b one with the trusts ? " "I don't know , " answered Sonatoi lorghum. "Heaven knows , I've dont iy best to make 'em give up some oJ beir money. " Washington Star. Trip to tho Bottom. It IB gravely proposed to utilize tht ubmarine Goubet for carrying pas engers om trips to the bottom f Lak < recera at $ S a head. / " 2 - * i ji'-S ' 'Vi . g ifeu . * -T" Pimple Poultry Brooiler. E. A. McNear , of Melrose , Mass. . sends plans of a brooder which is his } wn idea and which he claims will saise every chick put into it. It can be made any length , partitioned off , and the chicks can go in and out of 'he sides instead of the end. Take a DOX 3 feet long , 1 foot wide and IVj feet deep. Cut a round hole in each ind six or eight inches in circumfer ence , according to the size of the stove pipe. I use eight-inch common tin pipe , the same as they use on a fur- SIMPLE IlKOOUCK. nace to heat a hon.se. The cover and bottom can be on hinges , so they can be let down or lifted up and cleaned in two minutes. The pipes should have two elbows. The one at the back should turn down , and tho one at the other end should turn up , so there can be a cover to it , with two or three small holes punched in the cover so as not to waste too much heat. I use a single burner oil stove. This stove will hoat a brooder ten or twelve foot long. Poultry Keeper. SluikcT Dairy in ii. The Canterbury Shakers of Now Hampshire have some1,000 acres of land , and the community numbers about 100 persons. A large quantity of dairy products is consumed by a family of that sizo , aud some years ago with an ordinary dairy and nioth- Dds , some butter had to be purchased for home use. That necessity caused more attention to bo given to tho dairy. Poor cows were sold and more scien tific methods of feeding adopted. In order to fnrthor improve the herd and increase its butter capacity , two thor- DUghbrod Guernsey bulls wore pur- Chased about four years ago from Mr. Mister's , of Barro. Mass. By constant 2aro , and tho raising of tho best heifer calves , the dairy has steadily improv ed , until last season , with a dairy of forty cows , fifteen of which were two- year-old heifers , an average of 300 pounds of butter por cow was made. Instead of purchasing butter for home ronsumption. S'J.OOO worth of butter was sold and # 1.000 worth of stock. They have now about 120 head of cat- He , sixteen of which are pure-bred Guernseys. Tho sifters take entire care Df tho milk after tho milking is done , tin the separator , including the engine which furnishes tho power , care for ; he croam and milk and make the but- : er. Now England Farmer. Use. For IIiv-Killing A. J. Borry , of IIanc.ck County , In- iliana. writes Iowa Farmer : As the time for butchering is approaching there will bo a desire to know of sim ple aud yet handy do vices for aiding the work in butchering. I have made at n vory little expose a very com plete arrangement fur butchering hogs ind my neighbors enjoy it as much as [ do. It is made by taking a large pole about thirty feet long for a lever and another about ten feet long for a post which Is set in the ground. A clevis- shaped iron is made for the top of the post to support the lever and permit ting it to swing around in any position. The lever can be used in lifting the hog In any part of the butchering op eration. It can be swung from the scalding vat to the scraping table , thence to the hanging bracketwhich can be made for several hogs if de- lired. I believe this to be the simplest ind most Inexpensive arrangement for sutchering hogs. Work in Winter. There Is plenty of work to do in win ter if the farm is rightly managed. It Is the season of the year for all re pairs and renewals. Every implement jr piece of machinery should be over hauled and all repairs ordered , so as to be ready for spring work. An im plement that Is in good order saves labor and enables the farmer to hurry with the earlywork when every day Is valuable. The farmer who does not place his implements under cover at this season may be forced to buy new ones much sooner than be expects. Most and L.eibt Profitable Crops. Out of I'll correspondents of the Board of Agriculture sixty-two callec potatoes the most profitable , and twen ty-seveu called them the least profit able ; eight called corn the most protit able and sixty-four thought it the leasl profitable ; forty-one consider hay the most profitable ; thirty-two apples ; teu oar.s ; seven tobacco ; seven crauber ries ; six cabbages ; six sweot corn ; sto strawberries ; four each favored on ions , tomatoes , beans and fruit ; thret each peaches and pears , two market garden crops and two asparagus ; one each for rutabagas , forage crops , eel ery. milk , plums and root crops ; nine thought hay the least profitable ; seven tomatoes ; six apples ; four each said squashes , cabbages and sweet corn three each milk , cranberries and beans two each said onions , pears and cu cumbers , and one each asparagus , grapes , cauliflowers , beets , melons , peas , small fruit and market garden crops ; sixty-two considered the season to have been profitable ; eleven as above the average for profit ; sixteen as an average for profit ; eighteen fair ly profitable , and thirty-seven thought it had been an unprofitable one. Thus it will be seen that much depend ? upon the location , and more perhaps upon the individual as to the profit on crops. In nearly every country corn and potatoes were less than an aver age crop , but the loss on amount in potatoes was largely made up by the high prices.Massachusetts Plough man. Farm Investments. Investors ought to be satisfied witli a low rate of interest in agricultural investment on account of its relative safety. As yet it is a little soon in oui history to expect that the new agricul ture of tho future shall have any spe cial attractions for capital. But the time will come when all of our old depleted lands will be regenerated and revived , through tho era of invested capital. There is very little chance foi any regenerative work in agriculture without such investment. The pooi man must either keep to the skimming policy , or work for others until h has put bj' enough to be a capitalisl himself , in a small way at least. 1 have always been averse to recom mending any man to go in debt foi anything. Yet most of the successe. of this world are made by those who venture in this respect. A never for gotten remark I once heard by a nice old capitalist was to the effect that h always loaned money to the man who wanted to buy manure with it- Hoard's Dairyman. Handy Garden Baskets. Every orchard and garden shoult have a supply of wire baskets of dif ferent sizes and shapes. They are tin cleanest and most dura blc , besides allowing tin free circulation of aii through their contents In use in a gardoi where a water tank am hose connection an available they are i great labor saver. Tht baskets may be filled with potatoes and other vegetables , the hose turnec on and the contents immediately wash od without touching the vegetables bj hand. "When not in use they are oasih hung up out of the way. Exchange. Milk and HOK Cholera. During seas-.ns when hog cholera ii prevalent it has been noted that wha > are known as tho creamery and dairj sections of thy country suffer much lcs < from the disease than those section ; whore the steer takes the place of tin dairy cow. The reason assigned is thai pigs in the dairy sections get a gooc ration of skimniilk , one of the best bal anced rations to be had , and are thus bettor fitted to resist the disease thai purely corn-fed hogs. Creamery Jour nal. Farm Notes. Late fall plowing is what hard , stifi soils need. Vory dry road dust is the only form of earth that will kill lice and thai hens will bathe in. . The short peppermint crop has brought the price to the highest point over recorded , according to a trade au thority. Churning is not agreeable work , but considerable time can be saved by the use of a thermometer. Butter comes rapidly or slowly , according to the temperature , and a thermometer saves labor and costs but little. But few use the thermometer when churning , yet it is almost indispensable In the making of choice butter. Every farm shotitd have at least a small flock of sheep as scavengera There are so many things that sheep will consume that they are considered necessary adjuncts to farming , il waste materials are to be utilized. A well-managed flock will pay a large dividend on the capital invested the first year. The small and unsalable sweet pota for the fat toes are just as valuable tening of hogs as those that are ol marketable size. Sweet potatoes con tain a large proportion of sugar , and suitable for the are , therefore , very fattening of stock. They should be cooked and bran added. Being very wholesome , they may be fed liberally. THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME Are Never Without Peruna in the House for Catarrhal Diseases. Jl I MR. AND MRS. J. 0. ATKINSON , INDEPENDENCE , MO. date of January 10. 1S)7. ! Dr. UNDER received the following letter : "My wife had been suffering from a complication of dise.'ises for the past 25 years. "Her case had bnflii'd tiip skill of some of the most noted physicians. One of her worst troubles was chronic consti pation of several years'standing. . ' She nl.M > wns passing through that most critical period in the life of a woman change of life. In June , ISO. ) . 1 wrote to you about her case. You ad- vihed a course of Periinn ami Manaliii. which we at once commenced , and have to say it completely c-iired her. She firmly believes that she would have been dead only for these wonderful remedies. "About the same time I wrote you about my own case of catarrh , which had been ofJ. . years' stamlimr. At times I was almost past piiii . I commeinvd to use IVruna according to your iristruc tions , and continued its use for about a year , and it ha completely cured me. " Your remedies do a I ! that you claim for them , and even more. Catarrh cannot exist where Peruna is taken according to directions. Success to you and your remedies. " John O. Atkinson. "Love letters should be avoided. ' says the "Hon. Doc. " Brown , of tin Kentucky legislature. "Never mak < love to a woman out of an ii k bottle , ' lie advised in a recent politica speech. "Why , when I courted mj wife , I just grabbed hold\f her and ] .said , 'Sallie , yon are the sweetesi 'thing ' on earth , and your beautj 'baffles the skill of man and subdue ; his ferious nature , ' and I gob her. ' Chemical vinegar , catsup and table .sauces contains no vegetable mattei whatever. Siitisngvs nre Rpady. The butchers of Berlin have 2 curious way of informing their cus tomers of the days on which frcsl : sausages are made , by placing a chair , covered with a lar e , clean apron , at the side of the shop door. Popular in Iowa. Grand View. Iowa , Doc. 20. The most complete satisfaction is expressed in this district over results obtained recently by tiding Dodd's Kidney Pills for those complaints resultini : from dis eased Kidneys. This satisfaction finds frequent expression in words. People who have been cured seem to take pleasure in tolling of it. Take what Mrs. Lydia Parker says for example : "I was troubled with Backache."says Mrs. Parker , 'and all the time when I was stooping over a stitch would take me in the back ami I could not straight en up for n while. "I sent and gi r a couple of boxes of Dodd's Ki.liioy Pills , ami h.'fort' I nad finished taking tho first , the r-ritch h : d gone and it has n > t boon back since. " Other people h k hvtvp had < ; iiiii'ar expediences with Do-Id's Kidney Pills , and their ripularitjvs ; steadily on the increase. Fine G nc t-rs in Montana. But fft.v people are aware that there is in M inttma some of the finest gla ciers iu the world. CltimiifV Siv M'ps stirred Up. London chimney sweeps , who are prohibited from s Ii citing custom by knocking at doors and alsu from using their familiar cry in the streets , will voice their grievances at a demon stration in Trafalgar square shortly. Catarrh ami Hay Fever. Liquid Cream Balm is becomuijr quite is popular iu many localities as Ely's Dream Balm solid It is pn pared for jse in atomizers , and is hi hlx prized by Lhose who have been accustomed to call upon physicians for such a nvatinent. Ylany physicians are nsinc and prescrib- ng it. All the medicinal properties of : he celebrated Cream Balm are contained n the Liquid form , which is To cts. . in cluding a spraying tube. All dru ists , jr by mail. Ely Brothers , 5(5 Warren street. New York. Messrs. ELY BROS. : I sold your Liquid Cream Balm to Mr. Wm. Lamber- : on. 1415 Delaciiaise street. New Or- eans ; he has used two bottles , giving lim most satisfactory results. GEO. W. M'DUFF. Pharmacist. Norwegian farmers are wise , and ire eager to possess farms at the 3arliest opportunityinstead of work ' ing for other pe'ople. There are ibimt 120,000 tanners in Norway , and 109.000 of them own farms. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tfce Kind You Have Always Bought j .Signature of In a letter dated January 1 , 1900 , Mrv Atkinson says , after five years' exne- ' rience with Pertina : " / will ever continue to speak a good word for Peruna. In my rounds as a traveling man I am a walking adver tisement Peruna and have induced many people during the past year to use Peruna with the most satisfactory results. I am still cured of catarrh. " John O. Atkinson , Box 272 , Independence , Mo. When old ago comes on , catarrbal dis eases come also. Systemic catarrh is al most universal in old people. This explains why Peruna has become so indispensable to old people. Peruna is their safeguard. Peruna is the only remedy yet devised that meets theso cases exactly. Such cases cannot be treated locally ; nothing but an effective systemic rein- edy could cure them. This is exactly what Peruna is. If you do not receive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Peruna , \\rite at once to Dr. Ilartman , tfivi.i ; ; a full statement of your case , and lie will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- rice gratis. \d < ? -nv Dr. rinrtman. President of The Llartman Sanitarium. Columbus. O. Valuublo Italics Tor Museum. The National Museum ab Belgradt has come into possession of a collec tion of 08,000 Roman copper coins re cently unearthed near a Servian vil lage. The oldest of chem belong to the time of Caracalla. Lfttl * Light From Moon. If the sky were rilled with fun moons the light would be no bright er than that of ordinary daylight. About 640,000,000 eggs are annually sent from Ireland to England. Forestry That Pay * . In 18(58 Hungary's forests returned little over a million florins a year. Today , own.g to careful administra tion , the yield is over three million florins yearly. A family of unusual size Jatelj pissed ; through Kansas , entoute from Iowa to Oklahoma. It was com posed of Michael Streckendorfer , with sixteen s'ins. two daughters , and grandchildren enough to almosi fill a cai. It costs 2 cents to COOK a breakfasY by elecricily aud 10 cents to cook a dinner. Miss Alice Baitey , oi Atlanta , Ga. , tells how she was permanently cured of inflanr/i * tion of the ovaries , escaped sur geon's knife , by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " ' I had suffered for three years with terrible pains at the time of men struation , and did not know what the trouble was until the doctor pro nounced it inflammation of the OV ies , and proposed an operation. * ' I felt so weak and sick that I felt cure that I could not survive the or deal. The following1 week I read an advertisement in the paper of Lydia E. Pinlcham's Vegetable Com pound in such an emergency , and so 1 decided to try it. Great was my joy to find that I actually improved after taking1 two bottles , and in the end I was cured by it. I had gained eighteen , pounds and was in excellent health. " Miss ALICE BAUJTT , 50 North Boule vard Atlanta , Ga , SfOOO forfeit If original of aboo * letter proving genuineness cannot t * pro duced. duced.The symptoms of inflammation and disease of the ovaries are a dull throbbing pain , accom panied by a sense of tenderness and heat low down in the side , with occasional shooting pains. The region of pain , sometimes Shows tome swelling ;