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THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT n I. 31 RICE , Pub Islier. YALENT1NE , NEBRASKA. Nebraska Notes Miss Amy E. Krajicek and Cor tie V. Cook were married at Arlington. Norfolk | has been selected as the next meeting place of the state fire men's tournament , which will be held on July 1 , ,2 , and 3. Warder Beemer of the state peni tentiary has tendered the position of guard to B.L. Fletcher of Tecumseh. Mr. Fletcher has accepted. r It is reported that the Burlington intends to build a new depot at Beat rice this spring. Burlington officials refuse to talk on the subject. Gotlieb Jacobs of Arlington , the I * young faimer taken to the Fremont p hospital four weeks ago to be operat ed upon for appendicitis , died. The Broken Bow Business college which was organized two years ago by C. W. Rousch , has passed into the hands of a corporation composed of the business men of Broken Bow and vicinity. During the month of February twelve farm mortgages amounting to $59,550 were filed with the county clerk of Johnson county , while twen ty-four similar mortgages amounting to $41,424.50 were released. The report that the Burlington will build an extension to Sioux City by way of Fremont is supported by the fact that a party of ten surveyors are working along the line which it is said the new road will take. It is a current rumor that State Superintendent Fowler will be an ap plicant for the position of superin tendent of the Lincoln schools. The position pays $2,500 , which is $500 rnore than the state position pays. Chadron academy , the western Ne braska Congregational institution of Dhadron , with an enrollment of 150 students has been closed on account ; of an epidemic of measles among the students. Five cases are reported at the ladies' dormitory. Charles M. Warren , an old resident Df Gage county , died at his home in Barnetson of Bright's disease. The deceased was at one time agent for the Union Pacific ab Fairbury , but at the time of his death was engaged in the banking and mercantile busi ness. ness.After After a couple of weeks were spent in dynamiting the ice and dragging the waters of the Nemaha for the body of Jesse Roate , who was sup posed to have been drowned near the home of his sister at Humbolt , news comes that the man has been seen in the eastern part of that count7. From what can be learned he placed his cap near the edge of the ice and then disappeared , for the purpose , so he stated , of rinding out whether the folks would look for him. ' 7 KANSAS NOTES The new government building for Emporia is a-comin' right along. The superintendent of construction has been appointed. The noxie Sentinel says that when a farmer near there was asked which one of his boys was sick , he replied : ' 'I don't know. It's one along about the middle. 1 haven't checked 'em up lately. " General Funston has been nine times wounded in battle. If he keeps on catching lead in time the little man will be able to pull down the scales to quite a respectable and im posing ligure. The Lawrence World seems to be quite indignant over what it calls the unfair ruling at the Atchison contest. The other Lawrence papers do not appear to be worrying much over it. If lola wants to make Chanute hopping mad she. might hint that Chanute's opposition to the electric railway is because of the fear that her poofjle might go to lola to do their trading. The Swedish Mission conference has raised $4f > ,000 of the $75.000 necessary , to establish the new mission college at McPherson. It is believed that the balance will be made up the com ing summer and fall. "College spirit" resulted in aBaker man getting a cut on his head with a. rock while passing tthrough Law rence the other day , on the way to Atchison. "College spirit" is re sponsible for a wonderful lot of fool- ' 3ry. Quite a bit of kicking is being done igainst the legislative prayer prac tice. Have the chaplains anything to say ? Marsh Murdock says that mce when he expressed his senti ments against legisative prayers , as i state senator , he was looked upon is a heathen. A Dickinson county woman has 3rought suit for divorce against her jusband. The couple live on a fine farm which is the wife's property , rhe story goes that she gave nim $500 recently and sent him to town to buy lorses. lie filled up in Abilenewent jO Junction City in order to get bet- ; er facilities for a big toot , and blew n every cent of the money. Do you Dlarae the wife for instituting divorce proceedings ? The following blast from the Beloit 3all ought to hold the curly-haired Drofessor for a while : "Professor A. J. Franzmathes , the curly-headed nusic and dancing professor who used : o hold forth in Beloit , now in Kan- ; as City , favors us with one of his atest songs. We think it is very pretty , but would appreciate more a ernittance of $10.25 which he shows 10 disposition to pay , and which ac count has been standing on our books igainst. him for a long time. " Medicine Never Healed a Wound Nature performs the healing process and medicine can only as sist her in doing her work in healing wounds and throwing off diseases Nine-tenths of the diseases of man and beast have their origin in some form of germs and if allowed to run and multiply form complications. The reason that Liquid Koal prevents all germs dieases and cures them , unless fermeniation and inflamma tion have too far developed , is that it contains every antiseptic and germicida known to science. All germ diseases such as hog cholera , swine plague , corn stalk diseasestubercolosis , blackleg and numerous others can be prevented by giving Liquid Koal in drinkIng - Ing water , because they are germ diseases and no germ can live where Liquid Koal reaches it. Liquid Koaj is unaffected Dy the gastric juices of the.stomach , passes through the intestines and from there into the circulation , permeating the whole system and still retains all its germiclal properties. Diluted with w.ater , in the proportion of one to one hundred , it makes the best lice killer known. Price of Liquid Koal delivered at your station is as follows : ONE QUART CAN S1.0O TEN GAL. KEG , S2.5O PER GAL ONE GALLON - - 3.OO 25 GAL. 1-2 BBL , . $2.25 GAL FIVE GALLONS , $2.75 PER GAL 50 GAL-ONE BBL. . $2.00 GAL i do 10 OAL DECEMBER 24 , 1900. We , the undersigned stock raisers of Madison County , Nebraska , ra sing from 100 to 200 bead of hogs each.venr have , after a fair and impartial trial of Liquid Koal manufactured 07 the National Medical Company , of Sheldon. Iowa , and York , Ne braska , found it to be the Best Disinfectant. Uorm Destroyer and Appetizer that has been our pleasure to use. and we jointly think that * man is standing in his own light who does not try it. Wnen their agent culls \vc advise any stock raiser to buy and uKe Liquid Koal. Chaa. Lodge , Norfolk , Nebr. Thomas I * v\'ade , Hattle Creek , Nebr. J. E. Mclntosh , Emerick. Nebr. Wm. Hawkins , Meadow Grove , Nebr. V. T. Roman , Emerick. Nebr. K v Hainan. Newman Grove , Nebr. DECEMBER , 1902. to glye it a trial. It should be on every farm in Nebraska. Bufua Feary , Bee , Nebr Chris Seball , Staplehurst , Nebr. J. H. Feary , Bee. Nebr F. C. Meyer , Stjsplehtirst. Nebr. t Qeo. Mills. Bee , Nebr. Gco. Ringeberger , Seward. Nebr. Wm. Plnghaupt , tstaplehurst , Nebr. J JCiugebergerSr..Geruiau'towu , Nebr \ " If your dealer does not keep it write us direct. 1C A 32-page book on the Diseases of Animals mailed free upon ap C plication to the National Medical Company , York , ISebr. , and f Sheldon , Iowa. C National Cattle and Sheep Dip is the best and cheapest Dip for 1 killing off Ticks and Lice and the treatment of Mange , Texas Itch 1t and Scab in Sheep. It forms a perfect emulsion with water and is 1I harmless to the membranes of the eye. I If your dealer does not keep it write us direct. Information B Bent free. E \ NATIONAL MEDICAL COMPANY 0e 0t YORK , NEBRASKA. SHELDON , IOWA t B TOPICS OE THE TIEES. 4 CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING - ESTING ITEMS. Comments and Criticisms Based Upon the Happenings of the Day Histori cal and News Notes. If a man always pays cash he is en titled to a lot more credit than he ever gets. One kind of happiness is always in our power the happiness that we give to others. It Is the opinion of experts that the prospects for wireless telegraphy in 1903 are a great deal brighter than for wireless politics. In a few years nothing will be in curable except old age , and few of UB would wish to have that cured. There is always a conspiracy on the part of people having necessaries to sell to soak the consumer the limit. Count Lonyay laughs at the report that he deserted his countess. Some men are such hands to appreciate jokes The Grown Princess of Saxony is over 40 years of age. The man with whom she eloped is 23. Guess how it'll turn out. Nothing confers more genuine and substantial dignity than the long and faithful performance of duty , no mat ter how humble. Russell Sage declares that he has never paid to have his shoes shined. He doesn't say whose blacking and brush he borrowed. Professor Delitzsch of Berlin says that Moses was a plagiarist. Would that we had more of this quality of plagiarism nowadays. Definite messages have passed be tween President Roosevelt and King Edward by the wireless system. Mar coni does seem to have arrived. It costs Uncle Sam $1,250,000 a year to run the weather bureau , notwith standing all the information , which is given gratis by the old inhabitants. Too much wind. Dr. Lyman Abbott says it is too much to ask that newspapers shall always tell the truth , because , newspapers do not always know what the truth is. Dr. Abbott might have added that an other reason why some papers should not be asked to tell the truth is because the request would be only a waste of breath. France has now been told , as Russia was a few days ago , that "armed peace" is making a burden too heavy for the taxpayers to bear much longer. Fully 54 per cent of the resources of France go to support the army and navy. As France is a republic , her people may decide to reduce this bur den , but for Russia there seems to be no Immediate prospect of relief. "When General Grant visited the tomb of Ferdinand and Isabella on his tour around the world he turned to his wife and said , "Julia , that is how we should lie. " Accordingly , arrangements were made in the splendid monument on the bank of the Hudson for the great sol dier and his wife to lie side by side , and when Mrs. Grant died her body was put in the granite sarcophagus prepared for her , where it will remain , beautifully illustrating to the world that those who are joined in life be lieve that the union is an eternal rather than a temporal one. A prize of fifty pounds for a safe lamp for burning kerosene was offered at the Grocers' Exhibition in London recently. The lamp was to cost only one shilling and three pence , whole sale. The specifications , as set forth in a trade review , were sensible and salu tary. Since one of the most serious problems in London is the protection of drunkards against themselves , the object in view was to find a lamp which , if thrown by a drunken man at his wife , for example , would extin guish itself. Thu wife might be in jured , but the children and the house would not be consumed. Max Xordau , who poses as an author ity on the future , sees blood spots on . the moon. In a Vienna paper he has tvrltten some dire things that are to iappen when the Isthmian canal is completed. He says there will be a nighty conflict in the Pacific. Accord- ng to Mr. Nordau's plan , the Anglo- t Saxons are to conquer the Germans md French , and then , crossing over to isia , fight out the final battle with Russia for the mastery of that part of C lie world. Mr. Nordau does a fine job ) f word painting , and his story is full > f thrills. But the trend of the world s away from war. That is true in ev- : ry civilized country. It was not very nany years ago- that nations made war 'roin ' choice , and eagerly seized pre- ; exts for slaying human beings. Of vhat use was a military establishment , f there was to be no fighting ? There . ire many wars in history with no prin- ' : iple behind them , and their impelling brce was love of conquest and glory. E Civilized man no longer slays for the eve of killing. He is educating the iger out of his system. In schools , col- eges , millions of homes , the great les- on of peace is being instilled into the uinds of new generations , and the rorld is forced away from strife. ? here will be more wars. They may ven be great wars between strong na- lens ; but the peace army is growing tronger every hour , In Europe and In n onerlca. There are few questions that aanot be settled without resort to force , and it will be a sorry day for America if even a part of Max Nor dau's prognostications should ever come true. Dr. Arthur McDonald , of St. Louis , declares that "automobiles , electric cars , telephones and other luxuries of life are responsible for the increase in crime , insanity and suicide. " What ? you say. Are not these the adjuncts of civilization and is not civilization a good thing ? Yes , but civilization has its perils. It is a great mistake to suppose that luxuries and conveniences add to life. If not judiciously used they subtract from it. Men find strength in struggle. In so far as the comforts and facilities o modern life limit the natural struggle of mind and body in so far do they enfeeble inind and body. As Dr. McDonald says modern conveniences "put an abnor mal strain upon the nervous system as compared with the muscular system. " Therefore the cry , "Back to Nature. " Therefore the thousand and one "sys tems" of muscular development. Pri mordial man found strength in doing things for himself. He had no auto mobile in which to go on a journay. He walked and built up his muscles. He had no telephone to convey a mes sage to a friend. He carried it. Our immediate ancestors had fewer laborsaving - saving devices than we. Inheriting strength from their ancestors , who had still fewer accommodations , our for bears gave to this generation the phys ical capital upon which it is now do ing business. Does civilization , then , weaken the race ? It depends ? If civ ilized man is unable to use rationally the devices of to-day , if he slavishly uses them , neglecting the activities that nature requires , he will go down physically and mentally. The refine ments of civilization ought not to cause man to forget that he" has an animal nature. He Is more than ani mal much more. But he is .animal at the base , nevertheless. In some respects the most notable ca reer in the history of the national House of Representatives has been that of Galusha A. Grow , of Pennsyl vania , which is now nearing a close. Mr. Grow will be eighty years of age next August , and in view of the changes made by the new apportion ment of districts last year he declined to be a candidate for re-election. Mr. Grow entered Congress for the first time when only twenty-eight years old more than half a century ago. He was then the youngest member of the House ; he is4to-day the oldest member. He has not served continuously ; in his young manhood he was elected six | times in succession , and was chosen Speaker of the House for the last of these terms. In his later years , begin ning with a special election in 1S93 , he has been elected five times in succes sion as Congressman at large from his State. What a stretch of our country's history such a Congressional career spans ! Schoolboys , studying American history , think themselves little more than half-way through the ordinary text-books when they reach the "Wil- mot Proviso , " and yet Mr. Grow was the immediate successor in Congress of David Wilmot , its author. His first speech and for years his chief efforts were in favor of the homestead biJl , a measure which became a law before the majority of people now living were born. His first three elections to Con gress were as a Free Soil Democrat ; since then he has been a Republican. In appearance Mr. Grow is a little above medium height and well built ; he stands straight and walks with al most youthful vigor. His face is pleas ing and intellectual , and his thick gray beard is almost the only evidence of age. It has been his practice for several years to deliver in each session a set speech , on some one of the larger -3 ( topics of general interest suggested in the President's message. This yeat . he spoke on the relations of labor and capital. CLEAN CHIMNEYS. Cheap Means Which Any One Can Use. The tendency of pipes and furnace Ques to fill with soot is so marked that any suggestion of a convenient remedy for that condition is worthy of serious . consideration. A correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press says that zinc burned in the furnace is very effective , lust throw upon the fire a handful of sine filings , or a piece of sheet zinc as .arge as your hand , and it clears away ; : he soot as if by magic. Once a week ivill suffice. Shut the door quickly after irowing in the zinc. Our informant says his family has used this method : or forty years , and never had occasion o employ a chimney sweep. As the Pioneer Press suggests , this emedy is not expensive. A worn-out line washboard will furnish enough > f the metal for six or eight occasions. .nd if you have to buy sheet zinc , 25 : ents' worth may suffice for a single ire all winter. Even when soft coal is ised in hard coal stoves and furnaces n he zinc will keep them open , so that r hose who have been unable to secure inthracite will riot be seriously incon- enienced bjr the change. If this recipe from St. Paul is all that s claimed for it , the inconveniences of ising soft coal are reduced to a mini- Qum , and its cheapness more than com- tensates for being deprived of hard oal. If it will keep the chimneys clean he cost of chimney sweeps , as well as . he dangers from fire by burning out , re both avoided. Des Moines Register ? ! J : nd Leader. Charcoal Eph's Daily Thought. ai aim "En' de mostes' diff'unce Ah sees m ietwixt er mewl an' some men , " said lharcoal Eph , in one of his ruminative leeds , "am dat de mewl sometimes hakes his ears , Mistah Jackson. " Baltimore News. Over 060,000 copies of "David Har- tim" have been sold. It would not be surprising if it eventually ran up to one million. An illustrated life of Robert Buchan an is in preparation by his sister-in- law ; Miss Harriet .Tay , who will as far fcs pDssible cast it into autobiographi cal form. "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" ts a clever , wholesome story , and is Recommended as a "cure for the blues. " Pity that there are not more stories like it. President Boosevelt's book of essays called "The Strenuous Life" has been translated into French under the title of "La Yie Intense , " which hits the idea pretty closely. Harper & Brothers are bringing out a new edition of the late Jolm Fiske's "American Political Ideas , " a volume bearing upon the significance of Ameri can development and its "manifest des tiny. " Harper & Brothers announce a re issue of their players' edition of "Ben- Hur , " which has forty-eight pictures in tint , made from photographs of the dramatic version of that popular ro mance. Henrik Ibsen , the Norwegian drama tist , was intended at first for a doctor , and at the age of 16 he had to don a druggist's apron. His ambitions car ried him a little beyond that and he decided to become a doctor and read up for examination at Christiania. In the course of his study he was read ing "Sallust , " and the character of Cataline so took his fancy that he wrote a little playing introducing him. This was Ibsen's first dramatic ef fort. fort.Mary Mary E. Wilkins is a little body , petite and graceful , girlish-looking still , with a pair of piercing blue eyes , says an exchange. Their steady keenness is positively dissecting and disconcert ing. One feels as if he were being read through and through , analyzed , classified , and speared on a hook for further literary reference. And yet Mary Wilkins does not look like a lit erary person. She looks like a society girl , dainty , vivacious , a little past the brief period of budhood , perhaps ; but still a girl rather than a woman. She has a most becoming shyness , too or rather reserve. HIS WIT SAVED HIS LIMB. Surgeon Wanted to Cut It Off , but Not Where the Patient Desired. "Man's dry wit will sometimes save him a deal of trouble under circum stances of a .most trying nature , and I have an example in mind where it saved a leg and probably the life of a man , " said a visitor from Memphis. "Fred Heiskel has spent several years in the Philippines as private secretary of Acting Governor Luke B. Wright and is a wit and wag to the tips of his fingers. He is full of sunshine , takes the world in good nature and has a keen eye for the funny side of things , [ t was this happy temperament no 3oubt which saved Fred's leg and probably his life during a recent siege in Manila. As the" result of an Insect bite his blood was badly poisoned , and Cor a while his life was well-nigh in the balance. His physician , in fact , told him as much , and told him there ivas but one way out and that was the imputation of his right lef. He did not like the prospect of parting with me of his legs and told the physician so with emphasized but polite frank- icss. "I don't really see any other way out ) f the difficulty , ' said the doctor. " * Do you think it "is absolutely nee- jssary to cut my leg off , doctor ? ' ask- ; d Mr. Heiskell. bluntly. " 'I do , ' was the physician's pointed eply. " 'Well , doctor , ' said Mr. Heiskell in i grimly humorous vein , 'if you think , t absolutely necessary to cut my leg > ff I want to make one request of you. ' " 'I shall be glad to grant it if possi- ) le , ' said the physician. 'What is it ? ' " 'It is simply this , ' said Mr. Heis- : ell. 'If you think it absolutely neces- ary to cut my leg off in order to save ny life , I want you to cut it off close ip under the ear. ' The physician concluded that he ould not comply with the request. Mr. leiskell recently returned to this coun- ry with Acting Governor Wright , and le brought his leg with him. It was ust his dry wit that saved him. The ally discouraged the doctor's ambition o use the knift and Fred Heiskell Bulled through all right with both legq nd a life that will figure out a good mg expectancy on any Insurance lan's table. " New Orleans Times- ) emocfat. roman -with Engineering Ability Two mines in the Empire district in lear Creek county , Colorado , which re classed as good paying ones , are tvned by women. One of them be ings to two Boston stenographers , ho went to Colorado on a vacation iur , bought a prospect , began to work themselves and eventually developed into one of the best producers of low. -ade ore in the districe. In the same stricta , Colorado woman can be seen iperintending the timbering , blasting id all the operations of a working ine of which she is the owner. Easy. Lady You look like a h-ird drinker. Tramp No , ma'am , that'9 the easi. t thing I do. Baltimore American. An Ideal Woman's Medicine , So says Mrs. Josie Irwifl , of 325 So. College St. , Nashville , Tenn. , of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Never in the history of medicine has the demand for one particular remedy for female diseases equalled that at tained by tydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound , and never during- the lifetime of this wonderful medicine has the demand for it been so great as it is to-day. From the Atlantic to the Pacific , and throughout the length and breadth of this great continent come the glad tidings of woman's sufferings relieved by it , and thousands upon thousands of letters are pouring in from grateful women saying that it will and posi tively does cure the worst forms of female complaints. Mrs. Pinkham invites all wo men who are puzzled about their health to write her at Lynn , Mass. , for advice. Such corre spondence is seen by women only , and no charge is made. Perfumed ilair. Delicately scented hair is one ot the latest of feminine fads. It or iginated on the stage , but it is be- corainig a common practice with all women who wish to make themselves attractive. A small atomizer is filled with a powerful perfumeand for this the carnation odors are usually em ployed.and the hair is lightly sprayed with the strong essence. This is done just before the hair is dressed for evening , and the scent clings to it all the next twenty-four hours. He Means It. New Berlin , 111. , March 16. Mr. Frank Newton of this place speaks very earnestly and emphatically when asked by any of his many friends the reason for the very noticeable improve ment in his health. For a long time over two years he has been suffering a great deal with pains in his back and an all over feel ing of illness and weakness. His appe tite failed him and he grew gradually weaker and weaker till he was very ; much run down. A friend recommended Podd's Kid ney Pills and Mr. Newton began to take two at a dose , three times a day. In a very short time he noticed an im provement : the pains left his back and he could eat better. lie kept on im proving and now he says : "Yes , indeed ! I am a different man and Dodd's Kidney Pills did it all. I cannot tell you how much better I feel. I arn a new man and Dodd's Kidney Pills deserve all the credit. " The soil of Cuba is extremely fruit ful. Cabbages there are so large that heads weighing twenty pounds each are common. All vegetables do well. ELY'S LIQUID CREAM BALM it prepared for sufferers from nasal catarrh who are used to an atomizer in spraying the diseased membranes. All the healing and soothing properties of Cream Balm are retained in the new preparation , it does not dry np the ecretions. Price , im- cluding spraying tubt , 75 cts. At drug gists' or Ely Bros. , 5G Warren a treat , New York , mail it Eadishes may be eaten from four teen to eighteen days after sowing , lettuce in five weeks after sowing , An electrician in Yienna has in vented an electrical machine for ex tracting teeth. It is a peculiarity of the horse to arise on its forelegs first , while the cow first arises on its hindlegs. The mild weather in Chicago in duced many of the residents to re move their storm windows , under the impression that spring had come. Then the early porch-climbers began sh oting up , and reaped a harvest of family jewels. Sirs. Window's SOOTHING SYRUP for children : eethin ? softens the gums , reduces Inflamatloa illayb pain , cures Triad collie. 25c bottle. MM FAIL INADRY TIME 1 IN A WET TIME. \ Remember this when.you buy Wet Weather Clothing and look for the name TOWER on the buttons. i This sign and this name have stood for the 5E5T during sixty-seven jrears of increasing sales. If .your dealer will not supply you write for free catalogue of black or yellow water proof oiled coats , slickers , suits , hats , and horse goods for all kinds of wet work. A. J. TOWER CO. . THE frtWlW 1" " * BOSTON. MASS , U.3.A. .SIGN J TOWER CANADIAN CO TORONTO. CAN. ! "Mire . - a JK. S. H. KUSE. Ud..gU.arcnSt. . Philadelphia. P * . I. N. U. NO. S83-12 YORK , NEB
