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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1904)
Big Valley. ( Crowded out lor lack of space last week. ) Health is the vital principle of bliss. . , Mrs. Groves and daughter Lillian are on the sick list ; Wm. Banks passed through Big Valley last Friday. Foreman Banks is chief cook at the Joe Stuart ranch. Buster Dew is riding a pitch fork and herding cattle nowadays. J. W. Groves went to Johnstown last Thursday after a load of corn. Miss Anna Tillson closed a most successful term of school in district No. 86 last Friday. We un lerstand that Joe Kennicot is intending to go to Wyoming to follow the cattle trail. We saw some fish hist Sund-u that Dave Groves caught some where , but we don't know just where. David Groves has be uu to shov el hay. He will be a little soft we expect after going to school all win ter. David Eichardson and son Arthu > passed through Big Valley last we * k from the lakes where they bad lxen trapping. They report the rats al most all caught. A report from Minnesota says there were three weddings in one family the same day. Of courts * this is leap ypar but they hadn'i ought to all leap at once. ( ThH wciX'8 itumi. ) Jesse Brosius has some hay t < > sell cheap. Clarence Groves went to town ilu middle of last week. Willis Barnard pas-sed through here one day last week. Mr. Harris passed through Big Valley last Thursday. David Groves has been hauling hay since shhool was out. Love can neither he bought uoi sold , but it may be exchanged. ' , Billy Brosius is working for JOP X' * 3fGoehran in his brother Je se place. J. W. Groves was a caller at Wil son Hros. ranch end day last week. Mrs. Joe Leader is visiting in Chadron.Ve suppose Joe makes a good housekeeper. A great many are trying alfalfa in this part of the county , hut we do not think it will be a success. March came in like a timid , pit.- ful , bleating lamb. That is a sign that it will go out like a wild and roaring lion. Last Wednesday was quite breezy in Big Valley. The wind turned over sever al hay stacks and raised up a little sand. It seems queer that Dave Groves | does not go over to XVill Smith's any more. Atl winter he has been going there from two to six times a week. week.We We noticed a question in the Woodlake something like this : 'If a man goes to town to buy bis wife a silk dress and himself a jug of whiskey and a plug of tohacca , which would he forget ? " We are not sine that he would forget either , hut if j he did , it most surely would be the silk dress. * BIG VALLEY WIZZATID. Now is the time to get your in surance on your buildings and stock. Storms have already begun > and if you are without insurance it'will ' be your neglect. It costs but a trifle to insure against fire , light ning and tornadoes in the best state companies. They are represented by I. M. Rice , Valentine , Nebr. * One of the best sales of registered , cattle ever held in Northern Ne braska will be the Hereford offer ing to be maee at Plainview , Neb. Friday , March 25 , 1904 , by L. L. ! Young , of Oakland , Neb. , and Holt Bros. , of Laurel , Neb. Fifty-five animals of the very best Hereford | blood strains will be offered. The , sale will attract for miles and ; breeders will be in attendance from far and near. Eead the advertise ment elsewhere in this paper , and write L. L. Young , Oakland , Neb. for catalogue. Jv Plans For Installing Exhibits Complete , and Work Is Being Rapidly Pushed Transportation Companies Have Solved the Problem of Caring For Increased Freight Traffic. 'ITII the opening days of 1001 work on the Louisiana Purchase Exposition passed into the last stage , that of installation of ex hibits and beautifying. Yet progress on these final touches has kept pace with the work of con struction for a major portion of the last twelve months , so that the line of < lc- markation between actual building op erations and final endeavor is diilicult to Indicate. Thus , even while roofers * were employed on the Palace of Ma chinery , the great steel crane , itself an exhibit , was swinging parts of engines that might -well be called mammoth into position , so that the dawn of 1901 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , IN FKONT OF THE ELECTRICITY BUILDING , WORLD'S FAIR. shows nearly all of these modern crea tors of force in position. And so it is on Agriculture hill. Nine months ago thou sands of rosebushes were planted in order that they might gain strength from long tenure of the soil , and in like manner other exhibits of nurserymen were in place long before snow com menced to fall. Tracks are laid in the huge Palace of Transportation , and turntables have oeen placed on solid concrete founda tions. These are being burdened with locomotives of the latest construction and with modernly equipped coaches. In other palaces floor space that has been marked off is being decorated and other wizards , transferring bare walls into places of enchantment. By an arrangcuent recently made be tween a transportation company and the railroads it is believed .there will be no delay in delivciing the many train loads of exhibits within the gules of the Exposition. , Extensive preparations have been perfected to handle all freight that comes into the city , and. in addition to service by a system of big drays some propelled by steam , others drawn bj * horses which is designed for the smaller shipments , car load lots will enter direct over the several switch lines that wind in and out between the buildings. In order that no delay might be caused by severity of the weather the Exposition management looked espe- ciallj * to the construction of the road beds during the late fall of 1003 , and now there is no danger that heavy drays will be stalled in soft , muddy places , but all can proceed on a smooth , hard surface to the place of destination. Acting in accord with the general spirit of facilitating rapid installation , the Terminal Railroad Association , which , controls all shipments of freight delivered by roads from Hie east , has doubled its capacity for handling freight in both the St. Louis and East St. Louis yards , and it is now believed that during the busies } weeks , which will undoubtedly be those of March and April , there will be no congestion across the two big bridges that span the Mississippi. Should there be. how ever , resort can be had to the ferry service , which also has been increased in order 1o care for any emergency. Shippers all agree that freight is ar riving in St. Louis better today than ever before , and this notwithstanding the fact that the terminal facilities arc not quite completed and that a number of tracks cannot be operated because of laborers being engaged in their re construction. A recent test proved that H consignment of freight from Boston was delivered in a building on the Fair grounds seven days after its shipment from .1 warehouse in that eastern city , and all persons who have any knowl edge of such matters must admit that this is very fair time. As for the western roads , they all have - spursleadingdirect to-the'Expo"- " sition , and in many instances cars can be switched direct into the grounds without even a day's detention in the yards. Those who have the work of dcliver- ing.exhibits in charge say that they can keep pace with the men who do the in stalling , and'that , unless the unfore seen occurs , there should be no delay in filling the palaces with the wares that will comprise the wonderful dis play. The situation is very satisfactory to all concerned , and the general belief is that St. Louis will not only have the greatest Exposition ever held , but will also give to the world the only Fair to be ready on time. As for the beautifying of the Exposi tion , it is only a question of putting the men at work. Every plan has been made ; all the preliminaries are com- A FACADE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS PALACE , WORLD'S FAIR. with handsome interior homes where various exhibitors will display their wares , and in many instances the wares themselves are being placed in position. On Government hill several compa nies of soldiers are preparing for the mounting of the great rifled cannon that will make such a formidable dis play , and under supervision of men from the United States navy the deck of a. modern warship is assuming inter esting proportions. Art hill shows the palace of stone and the two annexes ready to receive the paintings and works of bronze and marble. Xo less forward are conditions on that interesting adjunct to this Univer sal Exposition , the Pike. All the large amusement buildings are practically complete , and within the walls now are atggo carpenters , creatorg JQ illusions pleted. The landscape gardeners have laid out the grounds to meet the ap- j proval of the most exacting critic , and it needs only the warm rains of spring to coax into bloom the seeds , bulbs and I plants that within a week can be placed In the soil. In like manner the color scheme for the palaces has been definitely arranged , so that painters have but to follow instructions , and al most within a fortnight the beautiful i buildings will shine resplendent in the j holiday coats that they will wear for seven months , beginning April 30. j Long ago eloctrip wire cables were laid throughout the site , and now it Is ; but a matter of attaching the hun dreds of thousands of globes which will , illuminate both the water and the air , BO that at night the Wprld's Fair City 'Ehall shine even more resplendent than luring tlie day. CLAUDE . . . .f .n A Svrlnbnrne Story. A5tv2ruon Charles Swinburne , the poet , tells how when a schoolboy at Eton he found himself once in thi- ame railway carriage with the head master. Dr. Goodford , who was grimly reading a newspaper. Mr. Swinburne's father , .who did not know the peculiar shrink ing of august head masters from strange parents , interfered with the reading by asking Dr. Goodford's opin ion of Algernon Charles. ' 'Now. " con tinues Mr. Swinburne , "as a matter of fact Dr. Goodford had never set eyes on me and probably did not even know of my existence ; but. enraged. I sup- postit my father's rather unconven tional interruption , which he no donbt considered a slight on his dignity , he glanced down at me with a scarlet face and said deliberately. 'Your boy. sir your boj * is one of th" " < My worst in school ! ' and then inlrene'jetl himself once more behind his newspaper. " It was no use for Algernon Charles to pro test that Dr. Goodford did not even know him by sight. "Do ; , ou think. " retorted Swinburne senior.-"that I am going to take your word before that of your head master ? " So there were no junketings for Swinburac junior in the Christmas holidays. Pa rij ell's 1C yes. "Anent .your allusion to the color of ravnell's eyes , ' ' writer ; a lady corre spondent , "many years ago a young girl passed a man on the staircase of the Itailway hotel. Wcstport. Ireland. There was tragedy written all over him. So uncommon were the man's eyes that they made clear to the * girl a phrase in Shakespeare she had never before understood. 'Eyes like carbun cles. ' The girl joined her friends and said , 'I have seen a man with eyes the color of a solid mounted carbuncle. ' The late Captain Boycott , who was one of the party , said , 'Then you have seen Parncll , for he is the only man I know with eyes that answer to that , and it is not likely to be he. for if he wcr * in this neighborhood he would be at Newport - ' port House. ' The party 'traveled to | Dublin by the evening's mail train. | At Mullingai1 larnell got into the same carriage and sat opposite the , writer who wrote on the margin of the paper she was reading , 'The man I saw in the hotel , ' and passed it to Captain Boycott , who returned it with the add cd words , 'It is Parnell. ' " London M. A. r. A "VVclsh IiC In Wales there is a legend of Irish smugglers who arrived at Llar.ddona many years ago in a boat without rud der or oars. They were looked upon , according to- the Irish custom of send ing malefactors to a sea doom in this plight , as outlaws. However , they had been allowed to land , and a spring of water bursting forth in the sand at the place was taken as a sign of their right to a refuse. But they ill repaid the Welsh. The men lived by smuggling , the women by witchcraft. It was not possible to overcome the smugglers iu a fray , for each carried about with him a black lly tied in a knot of his ker chief , and the moment the knot was undone the lly Hew at the eyes of the opponents and blinded them. If Ihe Llanddona witches attended a market and bid for anything no one ventured to bid against them. Provisions From Trees. There is a tree which grows in Su matra , Algeria and China which is known as the vegetable tallow tree. From its fruit large quantifies of oil and tallow are extracted , and the fruit is gathered in November or December , when all the leaves have fallen. Excel lent candies arc made from the berries of a tree which grows in some parts of Soutli Africa and the Azores. At Sierra Leone is found the cream fruit tree , the fruit of which is very agreeable in taste. In Ceylon there is the breadfruit tree , from which a food is made in the same way that we make bread. It is said to be equally good and nutritious. In South America we find the milk tree. The Xtnrcljonc Family. The celebrated name of Praise God Bare-bone was borne by a member of the Cromwell parliament called togeth er after the dissolution of the Long par liament in IGdo. The royalists called the assembly "Barebones' parliament. " At the time when General Monk was in London Barebonc headed the mob that presented a petition to parliament against the recall of Charles II. Of the Barebonc family there were three brothers , each of whom had a sentence for a name Praise God Barebone. Christ-came-into-the-world-to-save Bare- bone and If-Christ-had-not-died-thou- liadst-been-damned Bareboue. Business Vie v of Health/ "Old fellow , yon cught to eat more fruit. It's cheaper toan paying doctor bills. " "But I don't have to pay any doctor bills as it is. I am never sick. " "That may be. but if you'd eat more fruit 3-011 would be able to draw divi- ] lends on your health. " Chicago Tribi i line. J i Trying : Them On. "My new play is sure to make a hit , " said the eminent actress. "It gives me an opportunity to show twenty superb gowns. " "Gracious , how many scenes do you appear In ? " "Only five , but one of them's a scene at the dressmaker's. " Too Much For Him. 'Tli ° y say that after seven re hearsals Charley Swimmingtoh actu ally stumbled through the wedding ocivqiony. " "Overtrained , I suppose. " Cleveland Plain Dealer. . It ia useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never rea soned iuto.T-Swift. W. T. Bishop , ' LIVEBY FEED AND SAIE STABLE The Wilber JWn Your Patronage Solicited. Chicago Minneapolis idwards , Main Office Manhattan Building , ST. PAUL , MINN. Dealers in Stock , Grain , Provisions HI Might and sold for cash or carried on reasonable nwrjrins. upon which a commission will be charjrcd of on grain , i on stocks and on flax. Private Wires. \ \ rite for our market letter and pri vate telejrraph cipher mailed free. Ship Your Grain to Us. Prompt Returns. Best Facilities Liberal Advances Usual Commissions. BRANCH OEF1CE Valentine , Nebraska. (1st ( door north 1st National Bank. ) Lincoln Des Moines Meals Lunches Short Orders JHfc XANGHOO U First class meals at all hours , I a.\ ai.d iiij.1.1. C . .Mteisiu season. Pies , cakes , dough nuts always on hand. l.L. Cohota , Prop. J. L ArHBURM , < . extractor an. Build er in Brick or St-one Work. Valentine , - THE Lint Only Double Track ! iitilr < HHt bt'tirt'1'ti titnl C/i i < ? / / . Diri'i't limttt * \t His. IHrrvt Hin > to ItHtrl ; Hill * / / to nt'iir > iintl tiiiU' f Business N otices. Notices under this heading 5 cents per line iach Insertion. Among reading matter , 10 cenr > per Hue each insertion. All kinds of heavy hardware am HV.HUI vinHi itnrU Ht K Mreulclander The Red Front Merc. Co. carry a 3 < > mplete line of sporting goods. Good fresh Meat and Lard at Stetters Meat Market. - 26 For all kinds of Undertaking Groods and Undertaking work call > n the Red Front Merc Co. 27 Barred Rock , line bred , E. B. Fhompson Strain , 30 hens , headed 3.y 2 cockrels from J. A. Penn , AJta , Iowa , scored by F. II. Shel- aberger , one 88 , one 891 , Dec 23 , L903 eggs for sale , 15 for § 1.00. Write leave orders Stet- meor at - ; ers' Meat Market. Miis. R. A. MARIIALL , 8 A. Valentine , Nebr. T1.HKTABM2 Lint" at O'neili , Nebr. ioing Kast. Going West. Leaves 10.10 a m. Armes 9:50 : p. in . Passenger. dail > except ( Sunday. 'onncctions with Elkhorn trains east and vest-bound from all points west of O'Naill. hottest route to Sioux City and beyond. Through connections for Sioux Falls , Minne- ipolls , St. Paul and all points north and west. uy local ti kets to O'Neill. FBED KOGEUS , G. P. A. * Sioux City Jowa sional Card The Loup Valley Hereford Kanch. Brownlee , Nebr , Prince Boalxlcl 131(593 ( and Curly Coat 112201 at lieatl of herd. The blood of Fowler. Anxieiy. Jxird Wilton and Sir Gladstone predomi nates ic my herd. No stock for salt * at present. Ranch four miles nori to-west of Brownlee , Nebr C. II. FAVI.IIAIKIC ; MILL PRICES FOR FEED. iMii , oiilk 75 per cwt $14.00 ton r orts bujk 85 per cwt $16.00 too /Oc ' 113.00 " , . Feed 1.05 $20.00 " L/orn. . . . . . . . . . . . . .y D " $18.00 " I .hop corn 1 .OU $19.00 " fats 1.20 $23.00 " ETTA BROWN 8UPT , PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Third Saturday of each month and Friday preceding. VALENTINE NEBRASKA H. DAILEY , Dentist. Office over the grocery depannent of T. C. Hornby's store. Will b in Rosebud agency July 3rd , Oct. 2nd and Jan. 1 , 190i. A. N. COMPTON Physician and Surgeon 1 > ffir.u at Quigley & Chapman's t rug Store. .Nights The Don- olier residence. Cherry Street. Edward S. Fwray Physician and Surgeon UJflce Fraternal Hall or El- lutt's Drug Store. 19un2 Robert G. Easley , ATTORNEY AT ] LAW. over Red Front GENERAL LAW PRACTICE Vsileiitine , ISTc"biaslca. . A. KIMBELL Barber Kirstclass Shop in Every .Respect ( ItWuiuuie flair Tonic , Golden Star Bair 'om ' > . Herpteide and Coke's Dandruff Cure. ry Pompeian Face Massage Cream John Nicholson , Dentist. Will be in Valentine on the 20 , 21 , 22 ind 23rd of each month. Reserve , our work for Mm. Office at Donoher House. LEEOY LEACH County Surveyor Valentine or "Woodlake K > KRAL. WOHK PlfOMPTLY ATTENDED TO. HENRY ATTGUSTON Blacksmith Brownlee , K HI * general blacksmithingathard Mines prices for cash. . CRAMER , City Deliveryman. nk.s. valises and packages hauled to and mm the depot and all parts of the City. ' M. WILSON , Proprietor of Valentine Dray , do all kinds of drayinjf , express nd freight work. Special atten-10 1 given to fine furniture- -A-y-S Tabules Uoctors find A good prescription For mankind The 3-cent package s euoush tor usual occas ions. The family bottle ( GO cents ) contains a iupply for a year. All druggists sell them.
