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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1905)
ia Llnjrncc , 'A coroner's jury ouce reported that "deceased came to his death by exces sive drinking , producing apoplexy iu the minds of the jury. " A certain poli tician , condemning the government of the day for its policy concerning the income tax , is reported to have said : "They'll keep cutting the wool off the Rheep that lays the golden eggs until they pump it dry ! " An orator bore off the palm for mixed metaphor when lie Oeclared that "the IJritish lion , wheth er it is roaming the deserts of India or climbing the forests of Canada , will not draw in its horns nor retire into its Ehu'll. " A lecturer on chemistry once said : "One drop of this poison placed on the tongue of a cat is suffi cient to kill the strongest man ; " and a lieutenant stated that the Royal Ni cer Company wished to kill him to prevent his going up the river until next year. On one occasion one of the Irish "whips" in the House of Com mons telegraphed to Dublin that "the silence of the Irish members would be heard In the House of Commons no longer. " Chicago , SepL The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company , manufac turers of a widely known proprietary medicine , has brought suit in tiie Su perior Court of the city of Chicago against the Curtis Publishing Com pany of Philadelphia , alleging that it has been damaged to the extent of 250,000 by a recent article in the Ladles' Home Journal. The suit Is based on a statement re cently made in that journal that a tes timonial as to the merit of tho remedy manufactured by the plaintiff , alleged to have been given by Congressman George II. White of South Carolina ? was fraudulent , denial from Mr. White I that he ever gave such a testimonial \ also being printed. ' ' * The Peruna Company declares that > Congressman White did give the tes timonial in good faith , that it has two original letters from Mr. White. It declares that Mr. White was led to repudiate the testimonial through a misunderstanding. This Is the second large damage suit that bus been filed against the Curtis Publishing Company since it inaugu rated its attacks on "patent medi cines. " After Alfonso. Ralph Peters , the new president and general manager of the Long Island Railroad , has a new joke which ho declares was cabled to him from Paris. It has to do with the recent attempt to assassinate King Alfonso of Spain when he was riding through Paris in a carriage with President Loubet of France. " 'Whom are they after ? " Mr. Peters declares the king asked the president. "After you , my dear Alfonso , " re plied the French chief executive , with out a smile. RIGHT To Suffer from Constipation , Bowel and Stomach Trouble. Q. What is the beginning of sickness A. Constipation. Q. What Is Constipation ? A. Failure of the bowels to carry off tha Waste matter which llea la the alimentary canal vvhero It decays and poisons the en tire system. Eventually the results are death under the name of some other dis ease. Note the deaths from typhoid fever end appendicitis , stomach and bowel trou ble , at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation ? A. Neglect to respond to the call of Na ture promptly. Lack of exercise. Exces- ulve brain work. Mental emotion , and Im proper diet. Q. What are the results of neglected Constipation ? A. Constipation causes more suffering than any other disease. It causes rheuma tism , colds , fevers , stomach , bowel , kidney , lung and heart troubles , etc. It Is the one disease that starts all others. Indigestion , dyspepsia , diarrhea , loss of sleep and strength are Its symptoms piles , appendi citis , and flstula , are caused by Constipa tion. Its consequences are known to all physicians , but few sufferers realize their condition until it Is too late. Women be come confirmed Invalids as a result of Con stipation. Q. Do physicians recognize this ? A. Yes. Tha first question your doctor asks you Is "Are you Constipated ? " That is the secret. Q. Can It be cured ? A. Yes. with proper treatment. The common error is to resort to physics , such ad pills , salts , mineral water , castor oil , injections , etc. , every one of which Id In jurious. They weaken and Increase tho malady. You know this by your own ex perience. Q. What then should be done to cure it ? A. Get a bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic at once. Mull's Grape Tonic will positively cure Constipation and stomach trouble In the shortest space of timo. No other rem edy has before been known to cure Con stipation positively and permanently. U. What Is Mull's Grapp Tonic ? \ . It Is a compound with 40 por cent of the juice of Concord Grapes. It eierts a peculiar strengthening , healing influence upon the Intestines , so that they can do their work unaided. The process Is grad- nnl. but sure. It Is nut u physic. It is unlike anything else you have ever usod , but It cures Constipation , Dysentery , Stom- nch and Bowel trouble. Having a rich , fruity grape flavor , it is pleasant to take. An a tonic It Is unequalled , insuring the system against disease. It strengthens and builds up waste tissue. Q. Where can Mull's Grape Tonic ba A. . Your dragsl.st seSis U. Tha dollar tifiltlo contains nearly tureu times the 50- cent size. v Good for ailing children and nursing- j. mothers. A. free bottle to all who liavo never used S II. because we know It will cure you. i 24 FREE BOTTLE 10145 Hits coupon with your name and ad- ilrv.-s and drucgist's name , for a free bottle of Mull's GrapeTonic for Stomach and Bowelsto MULL'S CK\rK TOXIC CO. , tl Third Avenue , Uocli Inland , Illinois Give Full Address and Write Plainly The $1.00 boltlb contains nearly three times size. At dru stores. The genuine ha j a date and number Kfarnpert on the label takti no other from your druggist. Foiled Again. "Ple.Tse giimno a nickel , mister ? " said to ! : tramp. "I never give money to beggars on the str.'cf. " tvplied the haughty pedestrian. "OSi. d.it's all right , " said tho hard hrk victim. "Here's one uv me cards ; you-jo ! ; : n call at me office an * leave your contribution with me Bookkeeper. " "I Went Home ta IMo from Gravel Trouble. I ) ; > rnra < uHnd. Dr. lt < vil Kennedy's FavorUs Hem- txy ccr * < i : ue. " llr . 0. W. Brown. Patcrsbure. N. Y. A fickle memory is bad ; a fickle course of conduct is worse ; but a fickle heart autl i'uri'jsi's , worst of all. G. SSminoiis. S ! OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS An Old , Cd ! Story. HANDSOME Denver woman left a good husband because she was "tired of him" and married a man who was a rake. The expected happened. It was the man who got tired this time. Ho did not lake the woman away from the other man because lie loved her. He mere- wanted to show what he could do. One day this second husband intimated that he was through with her. Made desperate , the woman shot the brute and hilled him. him.The whole thing , tragc.iy and all , was logical. The woman invited , retributive justice. And so did the man. When the woman loft her faithful husband , lured by the tempter , she cut herself from happiness. She was too proud to crawl back and 1-cg the forgiveness of the man she had deserted for a whim. And she lived every day of her life in the scorn of tho man who had done with her what he would. What wonder she was desperate to madness ? And as for him ' .20 got what lie wanted when he took the woman from theside of her husband. It was small satisfaction. It was vx > easy. And when tho de ceived , silly creature realized her status the man got what he deserved. A real man would have staid by the woman to the bitter end. iUt real nu > : i avc not in the business of stealing men's wives. The whole miserable business , from divorce to mur der , is only another lifting of the curtain on the old , old world-tragedy entitlc.l , "Tho Foul That Sinneth It Shall Die. " The play docs not always end in murder , as in the Denver case , but it never ends happily. You can kill a soul without taking a life. DCS Moines News. Why the Postcfiice Doesn't Pay. HE managers of the post office announce tear fully that tho rural free delivery system will cause a deficit. Rural free delivery enables farmers to got mail regularly. It enables a good many people to make a respectable liv ing and , above all , it keeps the inhabitants of the nation in touch will ) each other and with civilization. Whore the rural free delivery goes there is no more of that dreadful unbroken monotony which fills Western insane asylums with fanners' wives. Postofflce officials and others , more or less interested , attribute to the rural free delivery system the national postofflce deficit and attack rural free delivery by impli cation. They are wrong. In the first place , the rural free delivery system should be constantly extended even if it does cause a deficit. In the second place , it Is not rural free delivery which is at fault , but tho national sys tem of allowing the railroads to swindle the government through the postoiRco. The fifteen millions deficit is a very small flea-bite compared to tho enormous sum that the railroads steal every year from the government. The government hires its mail cars from the railroads and pays for a year's rent as much ns tho car costs to build. And those car ? , outrageously overpaid for by the government , are such flimsy deathtraps that no company will Insure the lives of the po.stal clerks that work in them. For hauling these mail cars on the same train that hauls private express cars the railroads charge the gov ernment anywhere from one thousand per cent up in ex cess of the rate that they charge the express companies. Summer Drownings. N nine out of every ten of the numerous cases of drowning which sadden the summer season the fatal accident may be traced back either to gnorance of a few simple rules that should be known and observed by bathers , or else to a rash and reckless disregard of them when known. In the cases of the drowning of good gwimmers , the fatal cramp Is generally due to their having gone into the water too soon after eating or when over heated , and therefore with their strength , unconsciously to themselves , below its par value. Here are the cardinal rules for swimmers : Never go Into the water when overheated , 'or soon after eating. The careful physician would probably insist upon an interval of at least two hours between meal and bath ; one hour is a fair compromise betwe'en zeal and prudence , and a half hour tho absolute minimum for safety. Finally , don't enter the water timidly and by degrees , but boldly and with a plunge , wotting the whole body at once. If one is not able to dive in , he should wade in to knee depth , then wet his head thoroughly and plunge in bodily. These rules have been repeated oflon enough to bo familiar to everybody , but they are continually disregarded. When in distress in the water , cool presence of mind and calm self-control are the essential means of salvation. It is a panic of fear that carries the struggling victim to death before rescuers can reach him. Anyone who has con fidence can float , especially in salt water , .almost indefinite ly , and with practically no muscular exertion. New Yorlr Sun- 7he La-A West. " 3 ! IfEN the convulsions of war and of politics T Spring into existence a new State , it attracts the W f attention of the worldNot loss worth noting the great economic movements which are ] v changing the pages of our geogra- it is not many years since there was little to say about Western Canada , except that great stretches of unoccupied pnude extended north and wc r , from Win nipeg to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Out of this territory west of Manitoba two now provinces Saskatche wan and Alberta will , on Sept. 1 , come into existence as full-fledged members of the Canadian confederation. In this great Western Canadian area , including Mani toba , there wore , by the census of 1001 , only about as many people as in the single city of Cincinnati. Yet its agricultural resources will support twenty millions , nearly one-half tho population of the British Isles. The room for development is thus ample , and that is the first essen tial in the building of a great commonwealth. The new provinces will be largely devoted , as Is Mani toba , to wheat , with some cattle-grazing. They have not been fully occupied heretofore , because the world has been able to get along without their products. 1'ut tfio United States must , before many decades , cease to export wheat , so large will be the demands of its own inhabitants. The densely populated countries of the world arc ever seeking their food supplies from its newer areas. This great region of Canada has boon called "the last west. " It might also be called the "first north" of the American continent , since the successful cultivation of the soil , through improvements in agriculture , is steadily mov ing northward , and it is possible that another generation will see tho tide of humanity rushing into areas not now deemed suitable for Tanning. The length of the summer's day , toward the arctic circle , offsets to some extent the shortness of the season. More important still , areas gov erned by Pacific temperatures are everywhere warmer thar in the older half of the continent. Youth's Companion. A Dwarfish Murderer. E have before had occasion to note the grow ing public indifference to the brutal murder of innocent men coincident with a sentimental repulsion at the thought of the legal execution of the brutal murderer. A case in point : Tha Chicago papers tell us that a fellow of tho street. 17 years old , with a shocking record of fiendish crimes , concluding with a particularly atrocious murder , was lot off because lie is dwarfish in stature. It appears that this youth , with others , broke into a butcher shop , but found no money , which angered him. lie selected the biggest knife in the shop , and as the gang loft , said : "Watch me ; I'm gohf to get even wit' some guy for dis. De foist guy we moots gets dis sticker in his gizzard. " A young follow came swinging along , unconscious of danger , and the dwarf stabbed him to death with the butcher knife. The judge refused to sentence the murderer to be hanged because he was "too small. " Mistaken sentiment. If he is big enough to murder he is big enough to hang. San Francisco Argonaut. COMPARATIVE STREiNGTH OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES IN COMPLETED SHIPS. I Great Britain , France , Germany , United Ftater. Italr. Japan. Russia , Austria , 1.595.731 tons. 603.721 tons. 411,249 tons. 316.523 tor.s. 254.510 tons. 25,661 tons. 221,737 ton = . 112.336 tons. JUST GETTING A NEW SUIT. When Q Bird ? .Ioilts It Is in the Hands of Its Tailor. We got n new suit some of us be cause our old ono wears out. That is the most apparent cause for the new annual suit of the birds. Yet with them , as with some of the favored of us humans , the feathers go out of fash ion. But the annual moult is , first of nil , nature's wise provision for the safety and life of the bird. Feathers are not only covering but also means of locomotion , and hence the bird's only means of life. A year of use leaves many of them worn and bro ken , some of them , through accident , entirely lost. Here in my woods is a crow with three of the large quills In his right wing go no. I can see the gap as he flies over. He has been shot at , nnd nature must replace those feathers If that crow is to survive , even though he conies justly ( human standards ! ) by his loss from stealing corn. The feath ers of this crow and of all birds might last for two years or longer , but to keep the race at Its best , nature has found it necessary to provide a new plumage at least once a year. But there are other reasons , at least there are advantages taken of the moult for other ends ; such as the tem perature of the seasons heavier in winter and lighter in summer , also the adaptation of the color of the plumage to the changing colors of tue environ ment as the change from the dark summer color of the ptarmigan to its snow-white winter plumage to match the snows of Its far northern homo ; then , and perhaps most interesting of all , Is the advantage taken of tho moult , for the adorning of the bird for the mating season. Indeed , nature goes so far , In some cases , as to cause a special moult to meet the exigencies of the wedding as if fine feathers do make a fine bird. All this to meet the fancy of the bride ! So at least the scientists tell us. Country Calendar. Smike as a Hypnotist. Hypnotism has been advanced as an explanation of the peculiar fascination exercised by serpents over weak ani mals , which become so influence : ! by the eyes and body movements of their charmer that they are easily captured. Birds , squirrels and mice arc the readi est victims. According to the Instances observed , the doomed animals sr-cni to realize their danger , but are powerless to re sist the influence. Sometimes a di version , such as n sudden noise , will break the spell. It may have been , in the instances observed , that the victim was a parent trying to distract the snake's attention from its young and approaching incautiously too near its enemy. Or there may have been an at traction by curiosity or antipathy , the victim becoming careless of itdanger through anger or weak through terror. The explanation that a state of hyp nosis is induced Is reasonable. The common hen may be readily hypnotized , ami music renders some mammals incapable of movement. The first move of the snake's victim may bo one of curiosity. Then tho snake may. even without being uvraro of It , exert Us hypnotic influence , anil , seeing ! Its proy within rojfch. naturally avail ! itsolf of Its opportunity. Philadelphia Press. Jjarjjcsi. l-Mcnv in the V.'orM. What is claimed to be the larjro < t plOAv in tho world wa < recently con- . structed for use on a ranch in Cali fornia. It .stands eighteen feet high. ' and Is callable of cutting .1 furrow eight feet wide and sh : feet deep. j M'CALL MAKES . ADMISSION. Says Store than Half Million Was Used in I.ctrJH'atircs. John A. McCall , president of the New York Life Insurance Company , was on the witness stand the greater part of Wednesday before tho Armstrong in vestigating commit- tee iu NevvYork , and in sharp con trast with his first appearance two weeks ago he made no secret of the im mense payments by his company to ' Judge" Andrew Hamilton to influ ence insurance Icg- A. M'CALL. islntion in various States of the Union. Much of the pro posed insurance legislation in various States ho characterized as blackmailing attempts. It was brought out : 1. That since 1000 tho New York Life " " Hamilton $470- has paid to "Judge" , 027.02 for legislative purposes , and has filso paid to others large sums for sim ilar work , bringing the total of such ex penditures up to $509.127.02. 2. That in addition to these payments to Hamilton , President McCall expects him to render bills for his services dur ing the present year which will aggre gate about $105.000. 3. That , besides these payments to "Judge" Hamilton and in addition to the $235,000 paid him in 1003 , ostensibly on j account of real estate deals and for j which he has rendered no account to the I New York Life , ho was also paid $75- 000 in Juno , 100-1 , for which he has ' rendered no account. The total of the sums given him , so far as is known , for which ho has rendered 110 account now stands at $310,000. 4. That John A. MvCall. who is a di rector of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Companjborrowed $75,000 from that institution at 1V > per cent interest. On July 1 last , shortly before the appoint ment by the Legislature of tho insur ance investigating committee , the inter est rate on this loan was increased to 2 per cent , at which it still stands , the loan being unpaid. 5. That John R. Ilejreman , president of tho Metropolitan Life , in addition to borrowing $50,000 from the New York Life at 1 % per cent , also , it was inti mated , borrowed monoy from his own company , the Metropolitan Life. 0. That the New York Life cncour- apes its agents to get new business on tho deferred dividend plan by paying them GO per cent commission of the first year's premiums and only 40 per cent commission on annual dividend poli cies. This , in face of tho fact admit ted by the chief actuary of the New York Life that it is easier for an agent to get new business on the deferred divi dend system than on the plans for which the smaller commission is paid. 7. That the cost to the company of getting new business on the deferred dividend plan is so excessive that in 1003 tho New York Life hud to borrow from its surplus accumulations over $7- 000,000 to pay the expenses of business which in premiums yielded only in that year about $3,400.000. 8. That , "although diligent search has been made during the past two weeks , no record whatever has been found on the New York Life of anyone of the three $50,000 payments to the Repub lican national campaign committee. 0. That four relatives of President McCall , all of them employed by the New York Life at largo salaries , live in au apartment house at 40 West Seventy- second street , owned by the company , at rentals which yield the policy holders only 23-10 per cent on an investment of 203,000 , the cost of the property. 10. That President McCall admits there should be a limitation to the busi ness which a life insurance company may roll up ami that the legislative com mittee should give that subject serious attention. NATION BREAKS RECORD. Foreign Commerce Total for Fiscal Year Is $2GIJ3,97Oo33. All records were broken by the for eign commerce of the United States dur ing the fiscal year which closed June 30. For the twelve months the exports and imports were valued at $2t&5,070.333 , compared with $2,451,014,642 during the previous year , which was the largest on record. The imports were valued at $1- 117,507,500 and exports at $1,518,402- 833 , both new high records. Au unusual feature of American for eign commerce is the small increase in customs revenues , notwithstanding the large increase in imports. Dutiable mer chandise imported reached a value of $000.071,238. an increase of $03,114,107 over tho previous year. Nevertheless , customs duties last year amounted to $2152,000.518. or less than $1.00' ' .00' ' ) i" excess of the duties collected in 11)04. ) Reciprocity with Cuba reducing tho du ties on sugar and tobacco , together with imports remaining in warehouse upon which duties haven ot been paid , account for tho small increase in revenues. The articles showing the largest in creases in exportations during the eleven months for which details re available : Corn , an inrroa < e of $10.000.000. as com pared with the corresponding period of UHH. UHH.Coppor manufactures , an Increase of $2.- 00u,00 ( > . about one-third being in exports to China , where hirtreamounts of copper are in demand for coinage purposes. Cotton manufactures , an Increase of $21'- Oflo.OOO , principally in exports of cotton cloths to China. Kuw cotton , an increase of $0,000.000 during the twi-Ive months. Iron and steel manufactures , an increase of ? 2OOO.OOO. : ! 'Jho principal articles showing de- cresi < t'd exports for the twelve months are : REDUCTION. AVhea * $3 Wheat Hour lI Kruits and nuts Provisions Unmanufactured wood 0,300,0 ) The reduction of exports of whoat and wheat flour Avas due in part to the inade- iiuacy of the domestic crop to furnish any considerable surplus over the home requirement.and in part to unusually large crops in foreign wheat-producing countries. Exports of wheat from tho United States during the fiscal year just L-nded have been even lower than the year before. Jewels valued at several thousands of ilollars have been stolen from the home nf H. Van Renssiser Kennedy , in Elerupstetul , L. 1. Ilio Curative Power of in Kidney Disease the Talk of tho Continent. Nicholas J. Hertz , Member of Ancient Order of Workmen , Capitol Lodge , No. 140 , Pearl Street Hotel , Albany , N. Y. , writes : ' 'A fe\v months ago I contracted a heavy cold which settled in my kidneys , and each time I was exposed to inclem ent weather the trouble was aggravated until finally I was unable to work. ' 'After trying many of the advertised remedies ? or Mney trouble , I finally took Peruna. { "In a week the intense pains in my hack wero much relieved and in foul weeks I was able to take up my work again. "I still continued to use Peruna for another month and at tho cud of that time I was perfectly well.- "I now take a dose or two when I hay * been exposed and find that it is splendid to keep mo well. " Hundreds of Cures. Dr. Hartmaa is constantly in receipt of testimonials from people who hava been cured of chronic and complicated kidney disease by Peruna. For frei medical advice , address Dr. Hartman , President of Tho Hartman Sanitarium , Columbus , Ohio. Doan Hole and Ills Verier. Dean Hole was famous as a joker. His chief verger at Rochester Cathe dral was a gentleman named Miles , the original of Dickens' Tone , who had been connected with the cathedral for seventy-three years. Mr. Miles was the youngest of twelve. Said Dean Hole one day : "Miles , what a pity you never sair your eldest brother ! " "I did , sir , often. " "But you couldn't , " replied the dean. "Why not , sir ? " queried Miles. "Because , " said the dean , "thers were always ten miles between you. " Tit-Bits. CONGRESSMAN GOULDEN. Finds Quick Belief from Bladder Troubles Through Doan's Kidney Pill * Hon. Joseph A. Goulden , Member of Congress representing the 18th Dla- , . _ . _ trict of New York , also trustee of tha Soldiers' Home at Bath , N. Y. , writes : Gentlemen : A a many of my friend * have used Doan's Kidney Pills and have been cured of kidney and bladder troubles , I feel it mj. duty to recommend the medicine. From personal experienca I know Doan's Kidney Pills will cure inflammation of the bladder , having experienced relief the second day of using the medicine. ( Signed ) J. A. GOUDDBN , Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. Mercury and. the Sun. The distance of Mercury from tha sun varies owing to the eccentricity of its orbit. When he Is nearest to th3 sun he receives ten and a half times' more light and heat than we do , but when he removes to his greatest dis tance the light and heat are reduced by more than one-half. Even then , however , the sun blazes in the skies of Mercury with a disk four and a half times larger than that which' he shows to us on earth. "We are never without a bottle of P'o' Ihire for Consumption ia our house. Mrs. E. M. Swayze , Wakita , Olcla. , April L7. 1901. Positively Rude. Ton may not believe it , " said the f - of more or less uncertain years , 'but when I was a giddj young girl I ivas positively ugly. " "Oh. I don't doubt it. ' ' replied tha icartless old bachelor , "but I've often .vondered . how some women managed to reserve their youthful attractions s To Wash Black Stockings. To prevent black stockings from a - turning a greenish hue , wash as followit Dissolve a liberal amount of Ivory Soap n a gallon of water as hot as the hand * rnn bear. Wash through several suda of his preparation ; rinse through two warm raters , adding to the last a tablespoonfn ! > I vinegar. Dry and press oa the wronf 'ide ' with a cool iron. ELEANOR K. PARKER. Tne Greatest Invention. "What do you consider the greatest in- entioa of modern times ? ' ' "The phonograph. " answpred the po- iticai boss , who was having trouble with onie of his loquacious subordinates. "It lever says a thing that hasn't been told o it by somebody that knows what he LJ aiking about. " Washir.jr'on Star. Mr * . "WlnsloTT'n Soorsxxo Srau ? lor CU14r m * thlse : ofteni the ccms. redcctra laflmmrastlon , u > * 7 pain. caret wind ccltc. 25 oenU a bottl * . Sometimes we may learn more from . man's errors than from his virtues. . , &i .