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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1903)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT I. Jtt KICK , Pubilnhor. TA.LKNTINE , NEBRASKA. Some girls are like sugar sweet and full of grit. The man "who marries for money cer tainly earns It If you are the right kind of citizen you don't have to advertise the fact. The happiest person is one who is re gardless of the future and oblivious of the past. The Greek cabinet has resigned , and their names look like a handful out of the hell-box. Much better results can be obtained by paying a woman a compliment than by trying to argue with her. Chicago physicians have started the "Journal of Infectious Diseases" and seem anxious to have everybody take it There should be no objection to the auburn tresses of a woman provided the color does not penetrate into her temperament. Incredulous individuals are begin ning to suspect that polonium is noth ing but a new breakfast food backed it , i by a star press agent. The center of population for the United States is located in Indiana , but is isn't likely to be there very long if the niobs keep on. A Boston laborer has fallen heir to $2OCQ,000 , Pefore envying him think of , the trouble lie will have in get ting away from the people who want Jo show him jiow to Invest it The year's consumption of tobacco ie United States alone includes Jr 000,000,000 Cigars , i CLOCO.QOO dearj j Bttes and 280,000.000 poundof ulaH * Ufactured tobacco. The one item of smoking and. chewing tobacco , ex clusive of cignrs , cigareles and snuff , registers an annual over all value t f more than $ oOO.OOO. In addition Eng land smokes (5,0110,000,000. ( Japan 3,000- 000,000 and China l/.OO.l'OJ.OOO ' of cigarettes every twelve month. The outside cigarette puffing burns up 45- 000,000 pounds of tobacco and puts about $4,000,000 into the bank account of the American groAver. Speed-craze , or speed-mania , is de fined as a form of disease caused by indulgence in too rapid motion , volun tarily controlled , until a person loses control of himself. The consciousness * ness that there is practically no limit to the increase of speed possible , as in driving an automobile , produces a species of intoxication. In a serious discussion in Paris , at the Societe do llypnologie et de Psychologic , one speaker dAvelt upon the characteristics deA'elopedby the A'ictims of the craze boastfulness , combatiA'eness , violence , hatred and the like. In a normal state the speed-maniacs haA'e no such peculiarities. A series of articles has been running in one of the magazines describing IIOAV tAA'o little cash girls in a department store bought a lovely palatial home for their AvidoAved mother out of a feAV years' saA'ings from their pay , $1.49 a week each. Then there is the bank lerk of sturdy and uncomprom ising honesty , who , out of the savings jfroin his modest stipend noAV owns a ten-room home on Appleblossom street. And the scrubwoman. Avhose husband is paralyzed , who has sav ed enough from the floors to set him up in a comfortable peanut stand at the union station from the proceeds of Avhich , carefully laid aAvay for tAventy years , they have been enabled to have a home on Central park and a modest fifteen-room cottage at New port. These stories are very interest ing , and show what can be done by a romantic young gentleman with paper and pencil. Avho must fill his page or not draw his pay. The Aleutian Islands haA'e been , ever since their acquisition from Russia in 3SOT , the least knoAvn territory of the United States. There are about eighty of them , stretching from the southwestern - western peninsula of Alaska AvestAvard into the Pacific In a chain 1,500 miles long. Their entire area is less than ( } . ; " 500 square miles , and they are in habited by about 1,500 Aleuts , a r.aeo resembling the North American In dians. Few , if any , white men live on the islands. It is said by travelers that the Aleuts are fast dying out , OAA'- ing to the practice of the most ad vanced "A'ices of imperial Home. The islands are mountainous , but contain fertile valleys , wherein grows Avild grass peculiarly delightful to cattle. In the summer of 1901 a Washington sheep company landed 1OJX ) sheep on One of the Aleutian islands as an ex periment. It AAas found this spring that the flock has not increased , ow ing to the depredations of wolves , but that otherwise It has thriven. The company , satisfied with the experi ment , proposes to hind 5,000 cattle and 2. > .000 sheep on the archipelago and to take up permanent pasture land. As the Avorld gradually becomes filled up , use is found for the regions which old geographies were wont to condemn as sterile , barren and worthless. Making the Aleutian islands a pasture is a case In point. " " the following An "institute" is publishing lowing advertisement in some of the papers : "Wanted Young men to pre pare for government positions. Fine openings in all departments. Good salaries. Rapid promotions. Examina tions soon. Particulars free. " It may be that the "institute" has special fa cilities for securing these fine'positionu in the government service where pro motions will be rapid and everything else AA'ill be just lovely. If so it might be able to do a good business by com municating with some of the senators and representatives who are worrying because of their inability to secure government positions for their clamor ous constituents. At the same time it may not be out of place here to give a word of adA'ice to young men who are preparing for fine openings in the government service. Let them take the examinations prepared by the "in stitutes" if they can do so without relinquishing their jobs on the farms and In the groceiy stores. There is no harm in being prepared to accept a fine government position in case one happens during the next fifteen or tAventy years to be vacated , but it will be a serious mistake for any young man to spurn hard Avork on the strength of a promise that he can haAre a government position with the cer tainty of rapid promotions as soon as he is able to pass what some "insti tute" puts forth as a necessary exami nation. Serious mistakes may be avoided if the young men who expect to assist in running the government AA'ill cling to their present jobs till the papers come from Washington. Not long ago a student in one of our universities died and inquiry was made of his roommate as to the cause of the death. "He tried to live ou health' principles , " Avas the ansAver , "and he couldn't stand it. " The reply was not so naive as appears at first glance. There was profound truth in it , in spite of the contradiction. If the ad- ATice of various physicians and other authorities on matters pertaining to health AA-ere folloAved there would be nothing left to eat or drink. Dr. Wiley , chemist for the department of agriculture , says "the devil lurks in the soda Avater fountain and iced tea i5 Simply "icLJ ? : . " lil tile gaffle breath hs calls attention to tb § danger uiat lurks in vegetables groAvn on or under ground Avhieh has been exposed to con tamination by sewage , city waste or garbage. The free use of meat is con demned in hot weather , and even the ' under conditions A'egetables grown healthy tions are denounced as AA'atery and in nutritions. Milk is dangerous , even though the COAA' is known and her en vironment declared favorable , for Avho knoAvs AA'hat latent seeds of disease lurk in her system , the inheritance from remote ancestry ! Cereals are condemned as satisfying the appetite and flesh-producing , but affording lit tle A'itality and not to be depended on as a steady diet. What are we to drink ? Nothing containing alcohol , of course , and no soft drinks , for who can tell what poisonous concoctions are hidden in the sparkling fluid ? On no account is one to drink Avater before it is analyzed , for if the devil lurks in iced tea the deadly microbe is AA'aitimj his chance in the Avater. The only safety seems to lie in total abstinence1 from eating and drinking. Fortunately humankind AA-as born with a propensity for forbidden fruits , and there is little danger that the advice of chemists and physicians Avill bo followed too strictly. Most people AA'ill defy "health princi ples" and liA-e in spite of the doctors. CELTIC TREASURE ROMANCE British Museum Makinc a FIjjht for Prehistoric Kelics. An attempt to dispossess the British museum of certain Celtic ornaments Avhich they recently acquired Avill be made , says the London Express. The- disputed articles in this extiaor- dinary case Avhich the treasury brings against a state institution consist ot half a dozen beautiful examples ol Celtic Avork in gold , including a mas sive. bowl , a model of a Avar galleon fitted Avith scats , roAA'-locks and oars and a Avonderful collar of twisted golc Avire such as Avas worn by the kings and leaders of men nearly 2,000 yeais ago. ago.Those Those had lain buried for centuries in the nortlnvest of Ireland Avhen a farm laborer turned them up Avhilc ploAving in 1.S90. They passed fion. hand to hand , until the British inns cum bought them for 000. On these relics the Irish academy in Dublin assert that it has first claim but AvhateA'ir the means of posessioi : the British museum cannot dispose < 1 any acquisition , unless it be a duplicate except by act of parliament. The - 'British museum declares th j : ir jcles are treasure trove. The IrisM ac.idemy declares they are not. Eveii if they are not treasure trove , rejoin : ! the museum , they are not necessarily Irish. It is quite possible that the.v were carried back to Ireland by a pre historic fre-e-booter after one of his periodical pillaginirs of Saxon castltSi Finally , a parliamentary committee advised a treasury action. In the meantime the Irish academy i * a pauper compared with the British museum and complains that the latter competes unfairly with it. Whatevei the outcome of the pending trial , a policy of sympathetic co-operation be tween the museum authorities of Eng land , Ireland and Scotland is likely to be enforced by the government. Neck and Neck. "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws , ' said the musical young man. "Oh , I don't know , " replied the prac tical young man. "I guess there are about as many ragtime laws as thert are ragtime songs. " Comfort. Those microbes in ( .he ice cream must be having a good time these days. For \\uteivnR r tock. No matter how pure a source of sup ply may be at hand for watering stock , If it is pumped into an open trough and left exposed for any length of time it soon becomes polluted and un fit for the animals to drink. This will not be the case , according to the in ventor , if the stock watering appara tus here shown is put into use. If pure water is furnished to the tanker or ban-el to which this fountain is attached it is claimed that there is no way by which the animal that is drinking can make it foul. The wa- terer consists of a double drinking SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE WATERER. bowl , made of cast iron , which is at tached to the outside of a tank or barrel. On the inside is another chamber , inclosed in which is a brass tloat and lever controlling the flow of the water to the outside bowl. The fountain is automatic in its action , as the lloat rises with the water in the boAvl and cuts off the supply when the proper height has been reached. As the valve is always closed except when water is flowing from the tank to the drinking bowl , there is no op portunity for foreign matter to find its way to the interior of the storage ' oscrvoir. Denver Field and Farm. Koot Crops for Stock. There is not a farmer in business but who can readily spare an acre or two of ground on which to grow root crops. If he has any number of heads 0f stock he will find that he can not grow anything on the farm to greater profit than the small area named put into root crops. Mangel wmv.els are among the easiest of the root crops to grow and they will grow on any soil if the soil is properly prepared. The seed bed should be deep and har rowed several times after thorough plowing. Seeds should be drilled in and from two to four pounds of seed an acre will be required. The space between rows should be kept free from weeds and when the plants are three or four inches high they should br thinned out so that they will stand fifteen inches apart. It will be necessary to keep the field hoed or cultivated until the plants get strong enough to overcome any wood growth. After this no carp is neces sary until fall harvest. Under this sort of cultivation it is possible to grow from GOO to 1,000 bushels on an acre , according to the condition of the soil. Carrots and turnips can be easily rais ed on the same plan , although for gen eral feeding the mangels arc , pin-haps. nore desirable. Thump * in Pijjs. More cases of thumps among pis are reported this year than in some time before , owing , doubtle s , to the rainy weather , wh.ch prev ntod the pigs from getting the sunshine they so much needed. If there is anything farmers need to learn ab.nit th handling of young ifivi.s it is that they need sun and execlso. bsth in con siderable quantities. An ideal pasture- tor young pigs is a place that may In- fenced off from the1 main pasture where there is one or inure trees which will provide shatie. but where there will also be a large spacv of comparatively dry ground , in gra s. on which the pigs may run. If there is vvblte clover in the grass , so much the better for the pigs , and they will ne d lesn corn. Sun and exercise will pre- rent thumps , which disease usually means death. Liice It is not unusual for swine , and par ticularly the youmr pi.us. to be alllict- &d with lice , ard tlr > tr.vub'e is nsualy ! fl.ue to unclean qiiar.eiv. If th pigs ire constantly scratch 111 : thoh .uld be closely examined for lice , and if the rermin are found the piis should betaken taken from the pen and th1 latter thor oughly cleansed. Scrub the pen thor oughly and then wh tA \ a li it. The pigs should also In * -.bbcd with a Solution of sulphui tr i.y usiu * some > f the sheep dips , of which there aiv tnany good on : > s on the market. If no lice are found on the pigs , ihen the trouble genera 'ly come- ; from im- pcoper feeding of .he sew wliild she U nursing. If thi : 5 < tlrjturht to be case , cut tl e e. > - o t of the ration ! or the sow and f d h-r : largely on ' yawpw , - " " * - -V f mi.ldlings , bran and milk for a while. Clean the pigs with the sheep dip , aa suggested , which will allay the irrita tion. Sheep for the Farm. If one is in the raising of sheep ex clusively , one can afford to go into'the question of fancy breeds suited to the market to which he is catering , but the average farmer who raises sheep simp ly rts one more crop from which he hopes to derive an income- , should select the breed from those most common in his section. The general purpose ewe , if this term may be applied to sheep , is the one with some Merino blood in order to obtain the heavy fine fleece. It has been observed that the animal with the close , dense fleece is the vig orous , hardy animal. The ram should be of a good cross or a pure bred , if de sired , but care should be tak n thai ho is of a breed suited to thrive ir the section where he is to remain and under the conditions with which he Avill be surrounded. In selecting sheep for the farm it is generally wise tc look after the merits of each individ ual regardless of the breed to which she belongs , for there are good breeds with poor members of the family jusj as there are good members in breeds that are not so highly rated. In mosi sections where sheep may be raised to advantage there is room for manj more than are now raised. If farm ers would go into this industry , care fully increasing their holdings as thej gain experience , they could mak ( sheep raising profitable. Workshop Tool. I have a cheap force feed drill presi that is very useful on my farm. A timber a. 4x0x0 feet , is supported by legs e , like a trestle. The uprights li and d should be longer than shown , thnt they may be tied together at the top , as the outward strain is con. . < = jd- erable ; both center Uprights are 3x4x 12 inches. All uprights 'are braced as shown at f f.f. . . The bit stpck c is made by bending a VeT 1 nl round rod into shape as shown , , or may UQ purchased at a hardware store. A feed screw is shown at d , which may screw into the Avood , or a nut may be attached to the front side of rear up right. A tool chuck g is screwed to the end of the bit stock. Loose blocks AVOOD OR 1ROX DRII..I. . . . . . of Avood are placed betAveen the bit and the front post b as needed. By using twist drills , either AA'ood or iron may be bored. George T. Price , in Farm and Home. Farm Notes. A farmer should know enough aboui law to keep out of it. No one can be found now AA'ho objects jocts to dehorning cattle. In butter making , next to controlling the temperature is to churn often while the cream is in good condition. IOAVS are giA'en access to their mother , but as they soon find but little to sup ply their needs they become disgusted and readily adopt the idea of paddling their OAVII canoe. A stall for a horse should be fiA't feet Avido. If Avider the horse Avili turn over and get east , if narrower he can't rest. The floor should bo even and level if the horse gets the rest he should have. .Many a runaAvay has resulted just because too much confidence has bees placed in a team. There is always a feeling that "they'll stand. " It pays to make teams secure before leaving them. 1 ho first rainy day that comes , pass a copy of this paper to your neighbaj ana ask him to look it over and tell you hoAA- lie likes it. There is no bet ter Avay one can befriend a neighbor than to hand him a good paper. He Avill appreciate the paper and youi ; kindness. Some men folks on farms never think of helping make or cultivate th < arden. This is considered too small a job for them , and yet they nevei object to partaking of what comes from it. It is "my wife's garden" when tie garden is put in and when the crops are reaped it is 'our garden. " \ Of Uncle Sam's domain of over tAVC , billion acres only 500,000,000 are left for settlement. Under the present system of land laAA's it will only last five years. During the first ninetj days of this fiscal year 0,000,000 acres : wore filed upon. Uncle Sam intends that everybody shall have a farm as long as they last. His farms are go ing fast. Whenever one reads of a combim rt'here farmers are going to' control irices of farm products , one should : est assured that somebody else is > go ing to be enriched by the scheme. II s not among the possibilities to con- : : rol the prices of staple farm prod acts. All attempts to do so Avill provj "allures. When approached to lend : : o any scheme of this character it ( be Avell to look for the African In t > fuel ; hV there. Doughnuts. Half a cupful of butter , one cupful and a half of sugar , four cupfuls of flour , three eggs , two teaspoonfuls of baking powder , half a cupful of milk , a little mace and grated nutmeg. Mix the sugar and butter , with the spices , together until very light. Add to this the sifted flour , through which the baking powder has been stirred , with the milk and eggs. Place a portion of the dough on the pastry-board , Avhich has been thoroughly floured , and roll the dough a little less than a quarter of an inch thick , and with a ring cut it in round cakes. IlaA'e a sufficient quantity of lard in a saucepan in which to float the cakes , but it must be boiling hot. Drop in four or five cakes , er more if the saucepan is large enough not to croAvd them , and let boil unti a light broAvn all over. They will require about fiA'e minutes , and Avhen done Avill have risen to form a round ball. They should be turned several times in the boiling fat while cooking to broAvn them evenly. When cold they may be rolled in fine sugar or left plain , as the taste may be. Croquettes of Macaroni. Boll a quarter of a pound of Italian macaroni in salted water for tweuty- five minutes. Drain , and put it in a saucepan Avith a good ounce of butter , half an ounce of Parmesan cheese and a quarter of an ounce of cooked smoked tongue cut into small pieces and one truffle cut the same. Toss all together , then change it to a well-but tered sautoire , spreading the prepara tion one inch thick on the bottom. Cover with a buttered paper , press it well down and put aAvay to cool. Cut the preparation with a plain paste-cut ter into six parts : roll each one in grated Parmesan cheese , dip in beaten egg and roll in grated fresh white bread crumbs. Fry in very hot fat for four minutes , drain well and sen-e ? n a hot dish with a folded napkin. Salted Corn. Boil the corn on the cob until the milk censes to flOAv when the grain is pricked. With a sharp knife cut off the corn and pack in a stone jar Avitl alternate layers of salt. Have eacl layer of corn tAA'o inches deep , then put on that a layer of salt half ar inch thick. Let the top layer be of salt laid on tAvice as deep as the IOAVCI strata. Press smooth and pour care fully over all melted but not really hot lard. Cut a round of paraffin papei the size of the mouth of the jar and press this on the lard. Keep in a > cool place. Of course this corn must be soaked all night before using. Pea Son p. For pea soup , shell a quart of peas Boil them until soft in one and a halt pints of Avater , adding a few of the pods to give fiaA'or. Hub thorn througl a sieve. Add one quart of beef sto k one teaspoonful of sugar and pepper and salt to tasto. Lot them come just to a boil , then add half-a pint of good cream and serve. Some good cooks advise putting a bit of soda .Avith old peas to make them tender and give them a good color , but this is not ad visable. If they have reached that ex tremity they are only fit for soup. A little sugar is often added AA-ith adA'an- tage , to replace natural sweetness. Blackberry VInesrar. Mash the berries , and Avhen reduced to a pulp add enough vinegar to coA'er them. Set in a warm place near the stove twelve hours , stirring every tAvo hours. Strain and press. Add as many mashed berries tw the vinegar as it contained before , cover and leaA'e in the same warm place for six hours more. Strain , measure the juice , add half as much water as you have juice and stir into this five and a half pounds of granulated sugar for CA'ery quart and a pint of liquid. Bring SOAA-- ly to a boil , boil up hard once , strain , bottle , cork and seal. Roasted Fresh Pork. Take three pounds of fresh loin pork ; season tAvo hours before needed with two good pinches of salt and one good pinch of pepper , well distributed. Put it into a roasting pan Avith half i cupful of Avater , place it in the oven , and let roast for fully one and a half hours , being careful to baste it fre quently with its own gravy. Remove It to a hot dish , skim the fat from the gravy , strain the lean part over the roast , and serve. Canned Khubarb. Cut the rhubarb into inch lengths svithout peeling. Weigh , and to every ? ound of the rhubarb allow three-quar ters of a pound'of granulated sugar. Put the sugar over the fire with a rery little water and boil to a thin sirup , skimming frequently. Turn in he rhubarb and cook for five minutes , tt'ith a perforated spoon remove the -hubarb , pack into jars , fill with the > oiling sirup and fit on airtight covers. Soft Molasses Cake. One cupful of sugar , two-thirds of a mpful of sour cream , one cupful of s'ew Orleans molasses , three eggs , the Hated rind of a lemon , and one and a hird teaspoonfuls of soda. If sour nilk is used instead of cream , use a vhole cupful of butter. This cake an be flavored to suit , also fruit add- d , but in all cases It must not be urned out of the pan until nearly AT BELLBOY'S MERCY. Guests of Netv York Hotels Exposed to a New For i f Nuisance. Guests of New York hotels are prac tically at the mercy of bellboys , so far ns small articles of apparel are con cerned. They can protect their jew elry and other valuable property , but cravats , handkerchiefs , books and'such. things are the treasure trove of the- bellboy , unless he happens to be hon est enough not to take a thing merely because he wants It. The fact that more things of insignificant worth do not disappear is proof of the honesty of the average bellboy. Bellboys arc engaged for hotels not through any agency or intelligence office. They go from hotel to hotel , asking for employment when they have lost their work. It is a peculiar ity of the class that they cling to ho tel A\'ork. whatever difficulty they have- In finding a place. They always want to remain in one capacity or another about a hotel. There is a local association of hotel ? keepers who endeavor to protect them- seh-es against thievish servants by means of a detective bureau that sends weekly bulletins to all its subscribers. These describe the bellboys , chamber maids or waiters who have been found guilty of theft , toll of their peculiari ties of maim r and personal apnearaned- and identify them accurately enough to keep other hotels from employing- theni. For oven after they have been discharged and possibly exposed as- thieves the fascination of hotel work- Is so strong for them that they will run the risk of being caught rather than try at some other line of work. Guests in hotels may lock their doors- and do AA'hat they Avill with their keys. But , saA-e Avhon they are in their rooms , they can never be sure that the- cannot in. bellboy come j Frequently pass keys are sent for and the boys bring them. The keys re main in their possession until they re- : urn to the office , and during that time there is ample opportunity for them to enter any room they Avant to. pick up any little object that may be lying about and then go doAvn to the office. Thefts of that kind can never be pre vented by .the hotel management , and the guests are able to protect them selves only by locking everything up. In nine out of ton discharges from ho tels the boys are sent aAvay for theft. They are usually the brightest and most efficient , at that. New York Sun. DISAPPEARING AYVNI.NG . FOR STORtS. If there is any one feature of a store- which detracts from its appearance- more tluin another it is the decoration of the front with a dilapidated and faded awninir. This may answer all purposes as far as keeping off the sun and rain , but its condition is sure to > proA'e a detriment to the store. In some inensuro this has been improved , upon by the permanent metal awnings ; yet those mr t render the interior of the store dark and gloomy , and neces sitate the use of artificial light on cloudy days. Now , a compromise be tween the two , ideas lias made its ap pearance , nothing less than a metallic- awning. Avhich can bo projecttd over the pavomeiit or withdra\vn at will. In the illustration is presented a sec- SLIDES rNTO THE BL'ILDIXG. tional view of a store front , Avith the- awning partly projected over the pave ment , showing the manner in AA'hich it is operated by the crank and gearing , A horizontal shaft extends across thi face of the building. Avirh gear wheels at either end. meshing Avith racks on. the aAAningsupports. . -supports. The hitter pass through openings in tli- * front of the building between the first and second stories. Avith guides on the inner sides of the Avails to slide the supports into the space provided for them. The guides also serve to carry the-Aveight of the awninir when it is protected , this being accomplished by gimplv turning the crank , as is done \ in ma nipulating the cloth awniiigs IIOAV in use. g Friedrich Thorns of San Francisco : Gal. , is the inventor. " \Viliing to Do Overtime. A manufacturer in the Avest of En"- land , anxious that his hands should keep Christmas in a proper spirit told them that if they went to church on that day they should receive their wages just the same as , if they had been at work. Shortly afterAheid - f 3ress a deputation of solemn-faced em ployes waited uiton their chief. "We're K-illin' to attend church. " said the spokesman , "and if ye ran see your svay to payin' us overtime we're Avillin' : o attend the cb.ap.eUn An Epicure. to s ° blck to * 1 "No , suh , " answered Mr. PiBkley.i dkl favor . took de - up study- natural historv. -finds dat while - ostriches is a heap Jigger dan chickens dey isn't nigh food to eat. " Washington Star. What a good many people need is nora faith in themselves. i y