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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1903)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT 31 BICE , Publisher. TALENT1NE , NEBRASKA A hae lilt In time may save tin i. me. The Iron will of the average man It nothing but pig iron. Qlvle reform Is awaiting th inven ' tlon of wirele s politics. A Turoman Invariably has more listen ing than speaking acquaintances. From the epicure's point of view fine fpather * do not make fine birds. Any man who Is determined to en joy life , whether he does or not , is a true optimist . bachelor imagines he's a born dip lomat because he is able to settle his affairs out of court. Happiness consists in finding some one to love and in working for that aoine one. Even the man who lives a useless life may serve a purpose by posing as an example to others. The lady who plays bridge whist can not be expected to countenance the man who plays poker. That's differ ent If old Geroulmo has repented of all Ids sins he is to be congratulated on his speedy work. The feat beats riding ninety miles in nine days. "William Shakespeare , " says the Cincinnati Enquirer , "prjobably did not ' write the Shakspeare works. " This "ttirows the whole qtlestion ojen again. A writer In "Hie laris Figaro says the o ? T urkey is doing more for , on tuftH ttny 1 1 * ] | § IS Europe. Still , that "isn"f"saying so much foi the sullaji. . Altogether , the Humberts seem to have made a profitable business trans action. Having collected theic $10 , 000,000 In advance , they can afford to stay in prison five years at $2,000,000 a vear. Japan now proposes to trade Corea to Russia for Manchuria. As Japan doe ; not own Corea and Russia has no title to Manchuria , both nations would pro tit by the bargain , like men trading stolen umbrellas. Profiting by the disastrous experi ence which has practically stripped the older settled States of their origina magnificent forests , the interior depart ment has set aside 6,000 square miles of land In Alaska as a timber reserve Lumber is an article of such scarcity in Alaska that there has been improvi dent cutting of trees in the timber belts for mining and building purposes Bj' establishing a system to enable the lumbermen to use matured trees without destroying Immature growths the forests may be so conserved xs to yield a continuing supply. Despite a rigorous and rational prop aganda cremation as a mode or" dis posal of the bodies of the dead grows little In general faror. According to German statistics the total number of incinerations after death In Europe : uid the United States during 1902 was only 9,920 , ef which France , despite her declining birth rate , furnished nearly half , and the United States , despite their vast population , less than a third. When grief caused by death is not personal the hygenlc argument for incineration seems convincing , but ix-lion the personal test arrives subjec tion of the dead te the furnace turna human feeling away from the crema- * on' . Nothing wnich science or art can devise robs the coffin of Its living agony. Securely Incased , the gentle earth continues to appear the most Kindly receptacle of pulseless human hearts. The biggest thing hi England isn't the king. It is precedent. The Eng lishman Is content to do things as his father and his father's father did them and doesn't seem to be able to learn the meaning of the word , "Progress. " JiiBt now the shoe statistics make jrood reading. John Bull Is a famous shoemaker. Once he could point with pride to his shoe product English shoes were clumsey , but they wore well and were what the English were used to , so John Bull was content and pleased with his trade and his meth ods. An American business man doesn't ask for any better opportunity than is afforded by a competitor who js satisfied. "Let well enough alone , " isn't worth a red cent as a business motto. In 1S92 the United States sent to Great Britain 1,507 pairs of shoes. They were better than the English shoes. They wore well , were artistic In shape and finish and cheap enough to find ready sale. In 1893 we export ed 498,027pairs of shoes. In 1902 the United States exported 3,966,760 pairs of shoes , and more than 1,000,000 pairs went to England. They were valued at $2,030,890. In addition , 1,495,587 pairs went to various English colonies. The business is growing In spite of the efforts of English manufacturers , and it all goes to show that the Amer ican workman and the manufacturer make a team that is Invincible. The despnwl farm and the woman \vlio must' support herself have o e Ihing at least in common they are not l.icnl problems. Careless writers have almost made it appear that aUl the deserted farms are In New Englanc and all the women who have to ear : their own living are restricted by ci : cumstances to the cities. Two essay recently read before agricultural BO cletles In the Central West suggest j wider and truer view of the situa tlon. One essayist told of a wonrai who bought a farm , when overworl forced her to retire temporarily fron her profession. She hires a man fo : outside work and a woman to do th < rougher housework. She enjoys pun air , fresh vegetables and plenty ol milk and butter and eggs , and re ceives enough money for the hay pro duced on the farm to meet all hei expenses. The heroine of the othei essayist was a successful stenogra < pher , who , wanting a house of hei own , pitched upon a three-acre plac which was far from cities , but wlthlq reachable distance of several summei hotels. By study , perseverance , tacj and common sense , she presently found herself marketing every yeal five thousand pounds of honey , fifteen , hundred ducks and quantities of fina fruit Probably there is not a county In any State which does not offer sim ilar opportunities for tired women to rest by change of occupation , and meantime earn a living ; or for ambi tious women to take up fruit-growing , market-gardening , poultry-keeping , oi some other specialty , and carry It on to a profit. We glory In the women who have sought out such openings ; Their number should increase. The man with the cheery smile. all know him , and you are all glad yotj do. He Is a blessing to his friends and strangers take to him. Everyone feels good when the cheerful maij hoves in sight. His coming drives oul the shadows which have been lurking In gloomy corners. His advent is lika a stray streak of sunshine , stealing in between gray clouds. Jfo matterf what the cheerful man's avocation Tsj everyone feels , , the better .of having come in contact with him. He may be the grocery man , of the ice man , or the gas man , or the doctor man ; "latter . what . * * , < kryl [ . * of - , a * + nuin + - ' * * H is , Tie Is always welcdlnf. if he iJ the grocery man , his smile gels" litrti more orders than if he were gloomy. The most exacting housewife neyci ! notices short weight when the sunaj1 Ice man hands in the daily supply oi frozen water. The gas man's bills arq not half so hard -to pay when they ara presented by _ a collector with an il luminated countenance. And the cheer ful doctor. He is a man who is a veritable blessing. His patients look for his visit longingly and his ring at the door bell Is worth all his physic. Perhaps he has not anything like the ability of the physician who does not smile quite so expansively , but you just know that he has twice as much practice. The cheerful man Is not hi the same class as the affable man. Ho beats him by a head every time. The latter type is not always to be trusted j sometimes , just sometimes , his smooth , polished ways are only on the surfacej But the cheerful man is nearly always jood hearted. He loves his fello vi men , and he would just as soon theji knew it He may not have anything to give but his cheering words and tindly looks , but they are given so generously that they are worth theii tveight In gold. The cheerful man ia ) ften abused for the very quality svhich really endears him to hid 'riends , but if anything should happen : o take him away from the haunts of nen he is missed more than anyone ; an possibly imagine and mostly btf : he very ones who have often called ilm an intolerable nuisance. Thq iheerful man is all right , and every > ody , always down deep , thinks so ) Used by Tabby. A French professor has become th < l Holumbus of Catland. He has learneij he language of cats. The vocabular s so small that it is a matter of woni ler that the world waited so long fotf iomeone to put it among the thlng tnyone may know. Here are some oi lie cat words he has learned : "Aelio" la a request for food. "Aliloo" is a request for water. "Lae" is a request for milk. "Bl" expresses a desire for red meat "Bleeme-b ! " means kitty wants cook < d meat. "Ptlee-bl" is mouse meat and is ap- died to any food which kitty fondled iefore devouring. "Meouw , " uttered simply , Is a greetj og ; uttered fiercely and with acceni n the "Me" is an expression of hatrecj nd defiance. "Mieuow , vow , wow , yelwoyow low , ys-ss-syow" in the yell of defi nee in battle and Is variously accent d to tell of the progress of hostilities ys-s-s-s-s-s-yow" being the cry o , attle madness. . "Yew" signifies that the cat is istress and needs human aid. It ttered very softly. "Parriere" is a request to open q oor. oor.Turrieu" is the I-love-you of cat- | ind , and when uttered with rolling r" and a rise on the last syllable ia call from a mother to its kitten. t Louis Post-Democrat. A Matter of Donbt. "I suppose , my boy , " said the strang * r in town , "I can jump on any ono C these cars and go to the park. " "I dunne , " replied the newsboy Anudor guy dat looked as clumsy as ou tried to jump on one de udder day Q' he went ter de morgue. " Philadel- hia Press. At the Play. "This is what they call realism , 1 ippose ? " ' "I guess so. Everything seeing tea a real except the sentiment. " De- oit Free Press. I ? _ Home-Mnde Fruit Ladder. The average fruit ladder , as found in nest orchards , Is not particularly de sirable mainly because it is not de- Jigned for this particular work. The broad top of the common ladder makes It almost impossible to get it among ( he branches in a firm position. Where bne has considerable fruit to gather , a special ladder constructed after the i lau of the one in the illustration will DO found not only useful , but will save tonsiderable time in the fruit-gather ing season. A pole , preferably a green one from the woods , should be secured , having if of the desired length. The largest end should be split up about three feet Und a brace inserted to keep the sides kpart. The ends which stand on the ground should be sharpened or covered frith sharpened pieces of iion , which iny blacksmith can fashion and at tach. Bore holes one and one-half Inches in diameter in both sides as far apart as the rungs are to be placed. Ihe rungs should be formed of some lough wood so that they may not be made too buugling. At the top of the pole a strip of strap iron is fastened ivith a long hook so that # may bo passed over the branches did the tree , fhe illustration on the left of the cut ; hews how the hook is fastened on. Dhls ladder will cost but a small sum , ind if well made will last for years. U VJ HOME-MADE FRUIT LADDSK. [ t would be a good plan to have sev- jral of them of different lengths. Lime and Fulphur Wna' . Fruit growers are quite interested in he formula composing the new in- ( ecticide , lime and sulphur , but have bund the labor of making it consid erable because of the necessity for boil- ng the mixture. Recent experiments lave shown that if potash or caustic oda Is used there will be no neces- Ity for boiling. The formula for mak- ng in this way is this : Take twenty ounds of sulphur , forty pounds of ime , five pounds of caustic soda and ixty gallons of water. Make a thin iaste of the sulphur and dissolve the austic soda in water. In slaking t-he lime , use only enough rater to make it boil rapidly. During he process of .slaking , pour Into the ime the sulphur paste , and then the austic soda solution , adding water if .ecessary , and stirring rapidly until 11 bubbling stops , when dilute with rater to the consistency and strength eeded for the spraying. The use of bis material in spraying Is not only decided check on scale , but very ef- ective against various insects. Ap- lications may be made In the late ill , in midwinter and Ia tha early pring. Crops for Orchards. If the soil in the orchard is in good hape and fairly rich , the best cover rep is undoubtedly crimson clover , nd this may be sown at any time ow. If the soil is poor crimson clo- er is not likely to succeed , so that omething that will add humus to the oil should be used rather than to at- 2inpt to get the benefit of the leg- mes. For sowing in an orchard of : iis kind rye will probably be most itisfactory. It should be sown about le 1st of September , and plowed un- er in the earlj' spring , and then the iiinmer cultivation of the surface soil iken up again. It is quite probable iat following this method will put le soil in shape so that another fall will be fit to grow crimson clover. Good for Ho s. Take six bushels of cob charcoal or iree bushels of common charcoal , ght pounds of salt and one pound of psom salts , two quarts of air-slack me , one bushel of wood ashes. Break le charcoal into small pieces and loroughly mix the other ingredients ith it Then take one pound of cop- 2ras and dissolve in hot water , and ith an ordinary watering not sprin- le over the whole mass and again ix thoroughly. This mixture should i kept dry. Feeding a portion of it rice a week furnishes something that le hogs demand and assists in taking f the gases of the stomach , expelling orms and regulating their conditions. Winchester ( Ind. ) Herald. Large Farm Families. One of the English agricultural so- eties has started a new form of com- itition along the line of the anti-race licide idea. The first prize went to e farm laborer who had brought up id established .in a career the greatest imber of children. The winning fam- * had a record of 19 children born , 17 brought up and 12 of these at work. The second pri e winner had 15 chil dren , IS Drought up ; al-usefuTly occ'u pied. There were 10 entries , and thosa next Jn order fcad 16 , 14 , 13 , and 11 children , respectively. Te Vftlne of Fertilizer. The Purdue Experiment Station has been conducting a number of experi ments with corn , using different kinda of fertilizer. The tests show thai kainit is valuable as compared with straw or lime. The corn was plantec the second week in June. The corn on the plats to which kainit or straw was applied made ajcontinuous growth , and after the middle of July these plats could readily be distinguished br TIJEATED AJS'D UNTREATED EARS. that shown on the plats on which no fertilizer was used. The treated plat ? did not ripep as eaiiy as Hie others , and the fodder was" ? ITgfcij : ilamag d by frost on September 27 , although no injury was done to the ears. The core was cut from the different plats Oc tober 3 and husked October 19. Tha yield and treatment are shown in the accompanying table ; - Yield Pec Acre- Plat . Sound corn , Fodder , No. Trtv./cnti bushels. tons. 1. Straw 48.4 2.30 2. None 28.G 1.39 3. K.iiult 55.8 2.43 4. Kainit. Lime 52.4 2.48" 5. Lime 25.1 1.48 0. Ftraw 48.6 1.92 7. None 16.1 1.04 8. Kairlt OJ.4 2.43 9. Kainit. Lime 52 2.21 10. Lime 15.04 1.04 11. None 4 .96 The conclusion is that returns ara bound to be profitable in land treatet as were the plants in the experiments cited especially as to kainit or straw Another thing shown is that the influ ence of the treatment is bound to be effective for years to come , as the lane will the more readily respond to laboi put upon It Street Potatoes. To keep well sweet potatoes should be dug whem the soil Is quite dry and afterward spread thin to cure for ten days at least in an outbuilding secure ti-om rain and frost. Road dust one- th'rd of which is composed of fine sand is best for packing in. Place a layer oi dust In the bottom of box or barrel oi whatever is used to pack in , then a layer of potatoes , being careful to cov er every potato completely with dust before adding the next layer. The last layer is dxist We keep srweet potatoes in this manner all winter , and they s ° em as fresh as when first packed. We keep them in an outhouse until severely cold weather , merely covering the boxes with carpeting , etc. When severe cold sets in they are removed tea a room where a fire is kept part of the day only. Failure to keep well is often due to too much heat or packing awa.1 in too wa-rm materials. Cor. Ohio Farmer. Prolific New Wheats. New varieties of Russian wheat have been tested with good results at a branch experiment station In Kansas. Several kind3 , Kharkov , Crimean , Theiss , etc. , yielded pver forty bush els per aero , and others ranged from thirty-five to forty bushels. The seed Is being sold to Kansas wheat grow ers. .Farm Notea. The crab apple is one of the hardies ; jf trees , and as there is nearly always i demand for crab apples in market they are found profitable by some. The Blossoms are beautiful in spring , and : he trees are more ornamental than ; ome which are used for shade and or- lament The large and growing de- nand for pure jellies and preserve ; should create a larger market in the future for crab apples. Roller process bran is , on the aver- ige , better than old process bran. Bran s rich in ash , or mineral matter , vhich renders it a suitable food for rrowing animals. It serves well witli ill foods which are lacking in line oi ) one forming material , and is valuable n the manure heap. It may not b > qual to linseed meal or some othei 'oods , for certain purposes , but it is n 'ood that should alwaj's be used. A city boy is greener in the coun- ry than the country boy is in the city i dairyman recently hired a younjj : ity chap and sometime during the firs' ' veek gave him the order to "salt th < 3 : alves. " He found out later that thli oung American had rubbed about < S [ iiart of salt into the hair on the bacli if each calf. Laterwhorses running ii he pasture discovered" these salty : alves and proceeded to help them- elves , resulting in many instances in he hair being licked completely off. Hothouse farming is not only profit * .ble , but it seems to possess quite a ascination in the very nature of tha rork. Most florists and hothouss ; ardeners appear interested and even nthusiastic , while their eons often ake special interest in the work undei lass , and are not so likely to leave he farm as are other young men irj be country. Gardening in moist , peri etual summer has both pleasures and rawbacks , but seems as near as any- Uing to an ideal pursuit for men or romen adapted to .the requirements , j JS INTERPRETATION , Ui < ' L.IFB By Jei. P. T. Alton. Jesus salth unto them , My meat is t ( < Io the will of him that sent me , and t < finish his work. St. John , iv. , 84. Life ISA reat desire. From the crj of rhevTiew born infant to the sigh oi the departing soul there is a reaching out , a longing after , a , never satisfied desire , for something beyoml the at tainment of the present moment. The soulof man is so cou-tituleJ that jt cannot rest satisfied in itself. It needs some object which it may desire as the "sutnmum bonum , " the highest gocd , the ali 'satisfying end , the final dappiicss. ! ' In onleito live , one must desire. There is an" old saying , "As long as there is life there la hope. " We can change that and say just as truly , "As long as there is hope there is life. " Without hope , without desire , life-soon fails , because life is but a boundk-sg EbWil V * desire. an unfulfilled quest. We JiilAv/ that it sometimes happens tlik the flickering light of life in some roul is kept alive by the power of an intense desire-that when the animal strength is all gone and science looks for the end there comes a new power to the rescue of the soul struggling for a longer respite , and the spark of life- is kept burning until the desire has been gratified , until the message has been given or the face of the beloved one has been looked upon once again ere the fainting ? oul falls asleep. And so it was with the life of the world. Without hope , without longing , with out this innate aaid never failing de sire , the world would fall aslec-p and all things would be as at the begin ning. . But when God created the heaven when in the eternities en- and the earth , ties of the past there came forth the power of life , there was wrapped up in that genesis the propelling , uplift ing , expanding force of a great desire. Never could that life remain silent or passive ; it must , consciously or un consciously , reach out , long after , work for soui ° end in the eternities of the future. So ' through the ages one eternal purpose runs. " Let us unJerstaud , then , that our life Is made up of desires that we are the creatures of a hope which passeth our understanding ; that Tve are the product of all the past efforts of life to reach its final destiny ; that we are the conservers of the ener gies by which future generations shall be enabled to reach the goal of their quest. Let us realize that our happiness in this world , that our life in the futur world , that our contribution to the lif < of the ages to follow , all depend upon the choice and direction of our prcs ent desires. Let us grasp this fact and we will tremble ere we choose the thing that shall be supreme in our thought and life. There have always been two way by which man has tried to gain for aimself the desire of life. The first Lias been by collecting and surrounding himself with things that will minister to his physical well being. This ia the primary and lowest conception of fia.ppiness. We can trace it back to the earlier stages of life , and it probably irose from the Instinct of self-preser- ration. The other way that man has : ried to satisfy this yearning for a more perfect life Is the cultivation of ; he intellect and widening of the hori- son of knowledge. Neither in the gratification of the physical nor in thi levelopment of the intellectual has nan found the end for which he ex sts. sts.And And now we turn to the great In- : erpreter of life , the one who is him self "the way and the truth and the ife. " What did he make the supreme ind all important thing in life ? The mswer comes without hesitation , the loing of the will of God. "Jesus saith into them , my meat Is to do the will if him that sent me , and to finish his vork. " The "world has never seen a ife so perfectly happy , because neither ither life has been so entirely in accord vith the divine will. Jesus Christ carne lot only to reveal but to do the will the Father , and because he gave limself in perfect obedience there nust have come to him the perfect lappiness. We can realize the desire of life , we an attain unto perfect happiness only Q so far as we give ourselves to the oing of the will of God. There is nether ther way. Everything must be made ubordinate and contributory to this ne supreme aim , to do the will of rod. Everything that conflicts with he will of God as revealed through esus Christ must be given up without uestlon If we are to enter Into the ullness of life ; such Is the gospel of Jhrlstianlty. / The message is that happiness and eaven and "the fullness of life with rod are yours when you can say with he Master , "My meat ia to do the will f him that sent me , and to finish his rork. " J3HORS THE TURK. By Rev. Camdem M. Co&era. Any one who knows the Turk knows iat he ought to be wiped off .the face t the earth. The Knights Templar \ In the crusades showed him that he did not own the earth , yet even to-day this scoffer , whose hands for a thou * sand years have not been dry froro the blood of innocent women and chil dren , slill holds the sacred sepulcher of our Lord. It is Indeed time Cat a new crusade was being preached whea > in the face and eyes of all the powers- this little indolent beast of prey cap- keep on defiantly and openly killing ; innocent Christians. SPHEKES FOR 3IEN AND WOMEN" . By Rev. R. A. White * Men and women have respectively rar d certain characteristic mental and" spiritual contributions to social prog- ress , which havs been d 1 ssimilaiy Through an age long spec alizatioD' of function or divl - : siou of labor thc-i menial and spirr Kiiil d similarities of sex have beea developed and a < > c.ntuated. In gejjv eral the tasks' Te quiring the greatest * strong-ill of bonr KUV R. A. WJIITK.strongill and muscle have * fallc-n to men. The tasks requiring. more prolonged effort , but under Ie l ; tension , have fallen to women. New industrial conditions seem about to shift the line of the sexual division , of industrial tasks. How far this wills shift the mental and spiritual charac * terlstics of men and women remains- to be seen. The invasion of man's in dustrial and professional world by women must eventually have a very marked effect on sex temperament Out of th"s complicati n of sex divi sicn of labor appears" few marked contributions peculiar to each sex. . They are never exclusive. Still they are more emphasized in the one sex. than the other. First man appears as- the provider. To hunt the game and bring it home was his business. When agriculture and industry took the place of the. primitive life man still contin ued the provider. Upon him fell the' responsibility. Again , man haa been the pioneer. IB > the great historic migrations we have- no Instance of a woman leading the- migrating hosts. In explorations man has been and is still the pioneer. Man- has been the pioneer In truth seeking and finding Of some COO religious sects only eight were founded by wom en , and these r.re comparatively tmim- portant. In philosophy and metaphysics - sics , In Invention , in the vast mental' "ventures which have transformed hu man thought , with few exceptions , the- leaders have been men. Out of all this have emerged certain not exclusive but characterizing vir tues. First , man has excelled in ag gressive courage. Woman also exhibits- courage , but it is passive courage. . The courage of the men is in action , , of the woman in endurance. Another vlrtue of man has been honor. It some times appears well battered and frayed at the edges. No one EO.VS that woman , also haa not honor , but the life of man- , as warrior and pioneer developed a peculiarly masculine honor , which has- been and still Is very important In. social progress. It arose in days when. laws were lax or did not exist when a maa's word took the place of law. . It still exists in business. Man , the provider , the subduer , the- pioneer , the creator of new Institu tions , with the accompanying virtue * of masculine courage and masculine- honor , has contributed in a special and characteristic way t social prog ress. With modifications man will continue to mold social progress lu similar ways and through similar vir tues. These masculine elements wilt affect the home , education , religion- ind business and give to each a mas culine coloring which no merely fem inine coloring can supply. Those who seek to make men and women siuiilar- in tastes , habits and aims seek the- : mpoEsible and the unprofitable. So- jial , educational and religious life re- luire for th-ir full consummation and symmetry both the man and woman : > lements of mind and soul. DJLD AND NSW 3y Elshop Samuel Fallows. Man possesses a religious nature , vhich in all lands and ages has found" expression in varied forms. The foun- dation of all re ligion is faith in a power atove man _ It is a belief old as- the human soul and. as permanent as human existence. AH the old truths which pagan and heathen religions taught primitive W = - Christianity affirma BISHOP FALLOWS ithout their commingled - mingled errors. Tie love of God for man and the love of mac for man as revealed In Christ have only just begun their glorious mission. Christ ret waits for his true throne. Human ity has not yet learned its new name , [ or it has not been interpreted com pletely with the spirit of Christ. Su- : > erstltlons are yet to be removed. Bigotry has not yet been buried , So- : Ial antagonisms still prevail. "The statelier Eden' " has yet to. come back o man. "Who make * quick use of the nent Is a genlns of rater.