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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1904)
"T f & & & * & & & & * & & & & * & & ? & & * &A& t& * P 'li WFl &l Opinions of Great Papers o important Subjects. affa § § : . | | > § a & Ks& § t v&v&v $ * eeZ * * % * i t i&ep < W fit9ff Matrimony and Cyspej.s a T is not good for man or woman to cat alone. Thus medical authority has spoken for .roars. solitary diner out. having no company be fore him , other than his food , swallows it im- j properly masticated , hurries one course upon I another before the stomach can properly adjust itself to the conditions that tax it , and acquires a dyspepsia that distress him severely and makes life a bhii print. print.The The increase in dyspepsia and kindred ailments , so one who has been gathering information asserts , is largely due to the Independence manifested by both sexes regarding matrimony. In other words , were there fewer bachelors and bachelor maidens there would be less demand for ton ics to brace up an impaired digestion. In spite of the orthodox joke about the j'oung wife ruining her husband's digestive apparatus by her attempts at cookery , it is establisned that there ar : . in reality , much fewer cases of dyspepsia among the wedded than among those who choose to remain single. Food consumption should be a task of slow process , and the mind should be free from arr- and unnecessary ex citement during the meak hour. This is best established when two persons dine together and enjoy such good-na tured chaff , raillery or interesting chat as diverts them for the moment. A few are so gifted as to be able to dine alone and dine deliberately by the amusement derived from their sur roundings , but the rule is , as the restaurant-keepers can "well testify to. that the single diner eats his meal in from one-third to one-half the time taken by those who dine in company. The inference , of course , established by this research is that matrimony is a good thing for dyspepsia , and possibly this fact may establish a new line of thought in some crusty bachelors and fussy bachelor maidens , who are unable to eat a meal without topping it off with a few specially prepared tablets and nostrums to help out their poor stomachs. New York Telegram. Farming a Great Industry. HE annual report of the Secretary of Agricul ture shows that farming is still the chief busi- .iess of the people of the United States. Fast s our other industries have grown , especially vithin recent years , agriculture still far sur- lasses any of them in the amount of its cap ital , in the value of its products and in the number of people engaged in it We have been bo.istiiig of the rapidity with which our exports of manufactured goods have increased , of our "conquests of the markets of the world , " but Secretary Wilson shows that the balance of trade in all products ex cept those of agriculture ran against us $8155.000,000 dur ing the last fourteen years. The balance of trade in agri cultural products was § 4,800.000.000 in onr favor , however , so that the total balance in our favor , thanks to the fann er , was $3.940.000.000. While we have not been able to turn out or , at least , have not turned out enough of other commodities to supply our wants , we have raised enough farm produce not only to meet our own demands , but to feed a large part of the rest of the world ; and the agri cultural lands of the country still possess large resources that never have been exploited. In the couse of time the country's industrial population no doubt will become so great as to consume all the food that the land can be forced to produce. Kansas City Journal. EngJish as the World's Language. HERE is a significance , more important and far-nac'hing than appears on the surface , in the announcement that the English language is to be the medium employed in the arbitration of v § pfrA rne Venezuelan dispute at The Hague court. It \jjs \ ri tirgJ IK'S so * ollo been the custom , still very generally in vogue , for such exchanges to be carried on in French that French has become recognized as the diplo matic tongue , the language to be observed in international courts and in the interchange of communications between nations. The first radical departure from this rule was in 3SS ! ) . when English was used in the international parlia ment that settled the Sainoan dispute between England , Germany , and the United States. The growth of the United States as a world power has f BATTLING WITH AN ANCHOR. To hoist to the cat-head an anchor weighing eight thousand pounds , with a gale of wind bloAving and a tremendous deus sea rising , is a difficult task. The New York Sun tells how this \vuik was undertaken on a warship in LIiipton Roads. In order to raise the anchor to the deck of the ship the hundred-pound cat-block had to be fastened by the huge hook which de- pendt-d from it to the ring in the bal ancing band 011 the anchor shank so that the power of the winch could be ' 1 IIP great anchor hung so that when tTit- wave receded it was clear of the water , but each incoming crest sub- inergrd it. several feet. As the ship tossed on the waves there was great C.gor that the enormous weight of the anchor would send the anchor through her thin plating. But with seas big enough to toss the ship about 11 ? easily as if she were a flshing- jjoal. and to swing that anchor back iir.tl forth like the pendulum of a toy Hock , it was no child's game to hook the cat-block. Two men were chosen , each a fine specimen of the American sailor. Just under the arms of each a line was made fast , and men on deck stood ready to haul away in case of need. The two sailors "watched their \ chance , and , when the ship's head " Avas well out of water , over they went ) Thej- had hardly reached the anchor } -when a wave rolled in that surged four feet above their heads. When It / passed both were clinging , almost breathless , to the shank of the an .1 . chor. chor.But But the instant they \vere clear of water they jumped to their work and strove to get the block in place. With the ship hauling one Tray and the wind fe undoubtedly had a greater influence in this step tovrard making English the universal language than any other cause. This nation is now an interested party in any dis putes that may arise In the Pacific. She has her interests in China , by reason of the united action of the Powers during the Boxer revolt , and her position as arbitrator and peace preserver In South America has become more pro nounced with the development of that continent and its American continent. Russia , it is true , has a larger popu- pean countries. More people speak the English language than use any other tongue spoken in Europe or on the American continent : Russia , it is true , has a larger popu lation than the United States and Great Britain combined but millions of her citizens do not speak the Russian Ian guage. Aside from oilier considerations , the 'e is a force and directness to plain English that are not found in any other tongue , and international relations are now such tha plain , direct , concise terms are needed to avoid complica tions. The adoption of English as the diplomatic Ian guage is but a natural step in the right direction. Wash ington Post ' How We Catch Colds. London Hospital , a medical magazine maintains that colds are caught , the colds that M have nasal catarrh for their chief symptom in the same way that other infectious diseases ! * fi a are caught , by the lodgment of a germ. The character of the germ is not specified. This is no new discovery or theory. Knowing persons have long been careful about exposing themselves to in fection by persons who have a cold , lest they "catch" it. The old notion that a cold is result of exposure to draught or to coid air , or of getting the feet wet , has been aban doned , although it is true that one may get a chill in thai way which will afford some of the symptoms and sensa tions of the nasal catarrh caused by a noxious germ. It is safer to avoid close contact , and all unnecessary contact , with a person who has this cold. A horse that has been wintered out often catches a cold upon being brought into the stable in the spring. Experiments with disinfectants have shown that it is not the warmth of the stable that induces the cold. Arctic voyagers are commonly free of colds until their return to a community where they pre vail. Iu t.he small rocky island of St Kildaone , of the Western Hebrides. Scotland , colds are unknown except when it is visited by some vessel , and it is said that the inhabitants can distinguish between the different kinds of colds brought by different ships. There is much similar evidence relating to the subject , and the Hospital declares that "some source of infection must be present before it is possible to catch cold. " What appears to be needed is a specific germicide which may be used either for pre vention or cure. Boston Herald. Fue ! from the Marshes. series of experiments has lately been conducted under the auspices of the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology , into the fuel value of marsh mud. Now the anuounciraient is made t this material contains the elements of coal an equal if not greater amount than peat. The fact is well known that the mud bogs of Holland , of some parts of Germany , and yet more of Rus sia , are being worked commercially on an extensive scale for the supply of what is in fact artificial coal , resem bling it in appearance , iu specific gravity , , in heat uuits and iu effective service , in this country , Mr. Edward Atkin son says , we may be justified in considering it proved that New England and many other sections , distant from coal mines , are in possession of material that can be con verted into domestic fuel at lower cost than any coal can be secured , and in many respects of better quality for cooking and other domestic purposes. It is also available for gas production : also for conversion into coke at lower cost and of purer quality than any other fuel that can be obtained in New England. Mr. Atkinson considers the secret of conversion to be solved ; and he also asks this question : 'May it not be possible that the Irish peasants who have been converting the turf of their hill slopes into domestic fuel for generations have taught the scientists a lesson in heat and power which they had wholly over looked ? " As long as New England cannot have natural gas , she may find "mud coal" from the marshes a gooil substitute. Buffalo Commercial. blowing another there was small chance for them to drag that hundred- pound block in still a third way. Again and again they had it almost fast ened , when a great wave knocked it away and buried them far out of sight. Still the two men struggled at their task. Then the inevitable happened. The great cat-block swung far out as the ship plunged forward , hung poised an instant , as if taking deliberate aim , and came sweeping back straight at the head of one of the two men. It struck him on the back of the head and knocked him ten feet from the an chor into the sea. The rush of an incoming wave swept him away from the ship , and for a mo ment it seemed as if he would sure ly be lost. Then was justified the wis dom which had placed the line about his shoulders. The men on deck drew him in , unconscious but safe , and in ten minutes he was declaring to the officer in charge that he could surely hook that block next time. But the captain had formed another plan. He determined to haul up the anchor as far as was possible , so that it should have the smallest room for play , and to make harbor. Just at nightfall she reached quiet waters , and once more the unruly anchor was let go again. WAS THIS MAN HONORABLE Tried to Beat an Express Company , but Lost by the Transaction. Now that the Mary and Ann prob lem has been disposed of let me tell of an actual case which came within my knowledge several years ago , says the Brooklyn Eagle. These were the facts : A wealthy and close-flsted bank er in a certain Illinois city was accus tomed to sending currency by express to his correspondent bank In Chica go. Somehow the express agent got a suspicion that the banker was saving expressage by sending larger sums than he pretended , so one day when the banker brought in a package which he said contained ? u,000 the agent gave him a receipt as usual for that amount , and later in his private office opened the package and found that it con tained $10,000. Without saying a word to anj'body the agent hid the package away in his safe and awaited develop ments. In a few days the banker came in to say that the Chicago bank had not received the package. "Very well , " said the agent. "I will send out a tracer for It" A few days later he told the banker that the package must have been lost in transit , so he counted out $5,000 and handed it over to him. Now , the agent fully expected the banker to object to a settlement on a J5,000 basis and was prepared to tell him that when he paid double expressage - age on all the packages he had sent in the past the remainder of the $10.000 would be returned to him. But the banker preferred to lose the money rather than confess his dishonest methods , so he accepted the $5.000 and signed the regular release , believing that nobody but himself knew the lost package contained double that amount. Up to this time the agent had acted faithfully in the interest of his com pany , but now a question arose In his mind as to who rightfully owns the remaining $5.COO. Never mind what he actually did with it The question is , dear reader , what would you have done with it , and why ? Good Linguists. No less than 111 officers of the Brit ish army have qualified as interpre ters In the Russian language , 83 'of. whom belong to the Indian servlca. . ) Few men can afford to staaid on their dignity all the time. It i * nee- . essary to get off and ' hustl * occasion- ' ally. iiTTfi TfTSiTiiii" S-r Sri GREATNESS OF THE LOUIS WORLD : FAIR Chicago , Paris and Buffalo Expositions Could Be Swallowed Up in It , with Room Left for Omaha , Atlanta or Charleston. . l < BY ROBERTUS LOVE. World's Fair at St. Louis will THE the greatest exi > ositioii ever held. The superlative adjective describing this exposition is used with a.uhority. The acreage of the Louisiana Purchase'Exposition site is sutlicicnt to include the combined acreage of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chi t-ago in lS9r > , the Paris exposition in 1SS9 and the Pan-American exposition at Buf falo iu 1900 , with space enough left over to accommodate an exposition like that of Omaha or Atlanta or Charleston. Upon thtse 1,2-10 acres has been built nn as semblage of edifices surpassing in archi tectural splendors "the grandeur that was Greece and the glory that was Koine. " Within these buildings is being installed a universal collection of the products of nature and man , more com prehensive , more diversified , more inter- ( -sting to the average human than ever -.VMS attempted before in the history of rie ! race. | The World's Fair at St. Louis is far t.Toater than was contemplated by its creators. It has been estimated that at least thirty per cent of the extent of this exposition has boon added to the original conception , the promoters of the enter prise merely promising at the outset that they would build an exposition larger and more universally inclusive than any predecessor. The enterprise has grown by involuntary accretion. Like a snow ball set rolling , it has gathered size and soli-lily , until it now is crystallized into a tiling of such immensity that even the nu'u who set the ball a-roliing marvel at its magnitude. Great Imposition Site. The exposition site is a mile and a quarter by a mile and three-quarters in extent. Six miles of fence enclose the grounds. The Intramural Railway , op- * & ® SSB $ % * 3 N > * - $ fffv < * ? 33f < & ? S ? A3 fef&ll r.iXAU.L. Ot.EDUCATION. . . iled by electricity , which has just been uaiileted , has fourteen miles of track ; t runs around the exposition as a belt ' . K- , with loops to take passengers into : e midst of the magnificence here and I : ere. and there are seventeen stations it which the sightseer may get aboard > r alight. The World's Fair has nineteen exhibit naiuces. The outdoor exhibits include -i-vfiral features of striking novelty and \tent that never have been seen at nny ' v | > osition. Among these may be men tioned the Mining Gulch of eleven acres , situated in a natural ravine running out from the edge of the main picture of the exposition , where the processes of mining and reducing the various metals of com merce will be , , demonstrated daily at model mines and furnaces in actual op- . rarion ; the physical culture section. ULiTHERN FACADE , PALA ii , Ux v . u iAJJU&TitiES COVERS FOURTEEN ACRES. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. It costs $2.740 to kill a man in war. .lews are barred from Siberia as be- tiii undesirable.settlers. There are 2.S35 licensed automobiles 11 the State of New York. There are 230 glaciers in the Alps hat are said to be over five miles iu st. Petersburg has the highest death .ie : for any European capital , 51 per ur it v * asic Leather waste is no longer wasted. Manufacturers use it in a compressed form , instead of iron , to make cog wheels. The Empty Box. Miss Verisopht "Why wasn't Mrs. Tiarabump at the opera last night , L wonder ? " Miss Verjuice "She had such a cold that she couldn't speak above a whfcp- er , so of course there was no use in her fftfing. " Judge , of St. Peter , and there Ls being set ny within this home of music the largent pipe organ ever constructed. The Cascade Gardens are new to expo sitions. Terraced hillsides leading down from Festival Hall and the Colonnade of States to the Grand Basin , or lagoon , ara fitted with stately stairways , whose bal- PALACE OF MACLLLNEllY THIS BUILDING COVERS TEX ACRES. which includes a splendid stone building for gymnasium exhibitions and au out door stadium like those ot" ancient Greece , where will be held the quadren nial Olympian games and many other | notable athletic contests ; the rose garden , of six acres , in which will be in bloom 30,000 roses of various hues ; the Aerial Concourse , from which great airships lr < m various countries will start upon the contest for the grand prize of $200,000 and a number of lesser prizes ; the Suuk- fu Garden between two of the grand ex- 1-iLit palaces ; the Gardens of the Na tions , several foreign countries having reproduced , upon the liberal allotment oi" 1 ground surrounding their government Ktildings , some of the famous gardens of i their chief cities or monarchical estates. Features of Kiiormous Matrnltudc. ' Another feature of enormous magni- i tu le which no other exposition has i known , even on a small scale , is the Philippine Islands Exposition aptly termed an exposition within an exposi tion. This occupies forty acres and inv - v hides a group of buildings having names l.iuiihar to those of the main exposition ! Education , Agriculture. Ethnology , i Government and the like. One thousand natives of the islands will live in this Filipino reservation during the World's Fair , carrying on the occupations iu j which they engage at home , so that the ; ireneral visitor may observe here iu St. j Louis a considerable bit of the life and j enterprise of the far-off archipelago. A I reproduction of a part of the walled city ' of Manila is one of the interesting features - j tures of this enterprise , and there are huts and shacks and large buildings coil- ' strutted by the natives themselves , of native bamboo and uipa , and outfitted with native household utensils and fur niture. There is more than a mile's length of picturesque lagoons , upon which the Ve netian gondolier will push the Veuetian gondola. Festival Hall , the central ar chitectural feature of the great fair , has a dome larger than that of the cathedral . , . * . ustrades and landings support statues' by the world's most famous sculptors , and down the slopes rush and roar tite- waters from splendid fountains , leapiu.jp and splashing over artificial cascade con structions. Government V reP Represented. The i'nlJi'd Stati-- . ! : < > vi > riuscnt is rep- r ? . - utvil i. . ThenL -i ; : - never -i < > rr. > a * main Government lmiuKi. , hi unich nJt tiie adnriitist rnlivtami executive depart ments oi. the government will show ex hibits ; , and the Smithsonian Institution. : md other governmental enterprises o i general interest will have space. There * is a separate building devoted to fisheries , ! in which the United States Fish Coiu-1 mission is to make an exhibit of living ; ( jshcs and other water foods and com-r inevcial products , from the minnow t * > the whale. There is au Indian exhibit , with a separate building , wherein will be ! OF ( Corner entrance. The doorway Is 00 feet high and the building covers nine Indian schools in open session , and. all tribes of the red man will be represented1 ellmolojrically and otherwise. The- Alaska - } ka exhibit will astonish the world , m ! showing the marvelous agricultural re sources of Uncle Sam's "farthest aortk * * territory. The government also has ex tensive exhibits of the life-saving ser vice , the army and iiavy armament anii vessels , the Bureau of Plant Industry , * the Agricultural College , forestry aa4 , other branches of industry and enter prise. A ground map o the Uaitei States , covering several acres and shew ] ing each State growing its- most disti - ' tive crops , is one special feature. Forty-seven States and' territories eA the United States are participating fer the fair. All but threeor four of thes % have separate buildings Some of tb * State buildings are os large and elegaat an exhibit palaces at aa ordinary exposi lion. More than $ G.OCO000 is the aggre gate of appropriation for State and territory - ' tory participation. Fifty foreign governments are taking part in this World's Fair. Most of them' will have buildings of their own. llaay of these foreign buildings are completed and others are going up rapidly. Go-1 many , Great Britain , France , Japan * Russia , Brazil , Belgium and other uj . tions have erected buildings larger and more ornate than any foreign govern ment structures ever seen at an expost-i - yva * tion } ' ALL OVER THE WORLD. ' An ostrich farm will be exhibited by Arizona at the ' next World's Fab. ' A man in Manchester , England has invented an electric pickpocket alarm. The United States uses about a third , * i more coffee than all the rest of the ; Every rural school in Sweden possesses a garden , In which the stn ! dents receive practical Instruct ! u Ia horticulture.