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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1906)
He Had I/oct Ills Ople Read recently made a trip through Arkansas on horseback. He lost his way , and rode up to where a squatter was sitting , his fiddle by hid eide. "Jes' rldin' or goin' eomewheres ? " asked the squatter , with little show of I interest "I was goin' somewhere , " answered Opie , "but I've lost my way , and now I'm just riding. How do you get to the next town ? " " ' ' " "Ridin' or walkin' ? "Where do I hit the road ? " \ "Hit it 'on the side or in the middle , or if you-all git close 'nuff you-all can hit It with a stick. " "Are there any forks to the road ? " "No forks 'tall , mister ; jes' straight as a string. " & "You're a d d fool , " Mr. Read said , losing his temper. . "Yes , sir , maybe so , " answered the t * squatter , taking up the fiddle and drawing the bow carelessly over the strings , "but I ain't lost" UTTERLY WORN OUT. Vitality Sapped by Years of Suirr- Inffwith Kidney Trouble. Capt J. W. Hogun , former Posh ) 'li ter of Indkmola , now living at Ar. - tin , Texas , writes : "I was afflicted lor years with par'i across the loii ; and in the hi ; ; and shoulders.T. had headacl also and neur. - gia. My rir : eye , from pr' % was of little ; . to me for ycr The constant 1 of urine kept , system deple' causing nervous chills and night swe.- After trying seven different climr. and using all kinds of medicine , I h I the good fortune to hear of Doni Kidney Pills. This , remedy has cur * I me. I am as well to-day as I w i twenty years ago , and my eyesight 13 perfect" Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a be. . Foster-Mllburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. fBIG RANCH OF TEXAS WOMAN. It Is Nearly an Large as the State of Connecticut. Fence oft the State of Connecticut from the Thames River to the New STork line , make the capitol at Hartford the manor house , then place the front gate at New Haven , and you will have Jan estate of about the dimensions of the King ranch , in Hidalgo , Star , and jNueces , Texas , says the Review of Re- iviews. One million acres and hundreds of thousands of cattle owned by one iwoman ! Ranches containing from 100- jOOO to 500,000 acres are so numerous tas to be almost commonplace. | But it is the breaking up of these ivast holdings which is responsible for jthe sensational development now attracting - | tracting the attention of all America. jOne optimistic Texan told me that the jcattlemen had tired of silence and long- 'ed ' for company. Maybe they have. It 'is the jingle of gold , though , which has stirred them. From five to thirty acres of grass , according to the productive ness of the soil , are required to fatten a steer. i So long as that steer's sell's price fays above all expenses , G pe ? cent on Jthe market value of the land , there is tnoney in raising it. When the land in creases in value , however , there is more money in selling the ranch. The steer .ts falling behind and that is why Texas , jfrom San Antonio , Houston and Galveston - veston on the north to Brownsville on the south , Is booming as it never did before. Mere outposts of a few years ago are flourishing young cities now ; more towns are springing up and there are great plantations where the rattle of the mower and the song of the plowman have supplanted the crack of the cow- hoy's lash and the soughing of the wind In the chaparral. Whither goes the cattleman ? To western Texas and the territories and eventually Into Mexico. OUTDOOR LIFE ZVot Offset the 111 Effects ol Coffee When One Cannot Digest It A farmer says : "It was not from liquor or tobaccc that for ten years or more I suffered from dyspepsia and stomach trouble ; they were caused by the use of coffee until I got so bad I had to give up coffee entirely and almost give up eat ing. There were times when I could eat only boiled milk and bread , and when I went to the field to work I had to take some bread and butter along to give me strength. "I doctored with doctors and took al most everything I could get for my stomach in the way of medicine , but if I got any better it only lasted a little while until I was almost a walking skeleton. "One day I read an ad. for Postum and told my wife I would try It , and as to the following facts I will make affidavit before any judge : "I quit coffee entirely and used Postum in Its place. I have regained my health entirely and can eat any thing that Is cooked to eat I have increased - ' creased in weight until now I woigb more than I ever did ; I have not taken any medicine for my stomach since I began using Postum. Why , I believe Possum will almost digest an iror wedge. "My family would stick to coffee at first , but they saw the effects it had on me , and when they were feeling bad they began to use Postum , one at a time , until now we all use Postum. " Name given by Postum Co. , Battle Creek , Mich. Ten days' trial of Postum in place of coffee proves the truth , an easy and ' pleasant way. 'There's a reason. " Look in pkgs. for a copy of the fa mous little book , "The Road to Well- viUe. " . JH- Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects , DON'T FISH IN THESE WATEBS ! fcCHICAGO chap lost § 5,000 his pile on the stock market. "I'm not kicking , " he says. "Now I can settle down to work again. I've served my conscription time that's all. It's just like Europe. There every man has to serve his time In the army ; here every man has to give a part of his life to the finan cial sharks. " No man is ever beaten so long as his pluck Is left And there may be no real misfortune In the loss of even all a man's money If it leaves him wiser than before. The young man who Tfcmglnea he can beat the "financial sharks" at their own game cannot be disillusioned too young. The older he is when he gets the lesson * the more lie will lose and the harder he will find It to recover. If his sad experience impresses upon his mind effectually the vital fact that success depends upon hustle , not chance , he Is getting the best possible return for his money. It Is true that all of * us must contribute to the "finan cial sharks. " The trusts levy lifelong tribute. And up to the present time there has been no way discovered for avoiding it But we need not voluntarily contribute. They take enough from us through prices of commodities and watered stocks without our bodily plunging Into Bhark-infested waters , St Louis Chronicle. A WIPE WHO CAN WORK. jROVER CLEVELAND WHITE , a Massochu- setts boy of 18 , has jilted his sweetheart , 17 , and married her mother , a woman of 42 , with two sons older than himself. Silly boy eh ? Maybe not Marriage Is not alto gether a question of ages. This young man , though fickle in his af fections , has an idea or two of his own not half bad. "Although 42 years old , my wife , " he says , "doesn't look to be over 25. " This is a point worth considering. A woman , we know , l no older than she looks certainly she is no older than she looks to her husband. So long as she is young in his eyes site Is safely within the limits. "She knows how to cook , " says the young husband , coming to more prosaic defense. "She knows how to wash , iron , mend Clothes and keep house , and that's more than a majority of the young girls of the present day know. " Touth fades. Love very often cools in a5 little while and frequently even congeais in the divorce court But ability to cook , wash and keep house abides always ; and the young man who at 18 has secured to himself such a treasure as this need have no concern for his future. A wife old enough to be his mother and not averse to hard work must be able to support him ; and is not that infinitely better for a young man of IS than a giddy young thing who can do nothing but love him through a brief honeymoon that dismally ends when the larder runs empty ? It would seem that Grover Cleveland White is a wise young man. Kansas City World. DECLINE OP NEIGHBORLINESS. has been asserted that one of the regret- able characteristics of our age Is the decline of neighborliness. There is a plausible rea son for this view to be found in the increas ing tendency of the population to flock in cities. There is an old'proverb of the Ro mans , "A great town is a great solitude , " which still holds good , and is impressively true of the vast modern municipalities. Long ago , when the English cities were villages compared with the overgrown mod ern municipalities , a British writer observed that there was not In them that "fellowship" which was in small communities. In patriarchal times there was little dif ference between a neighbor and a friend , and in dis tricts where the old simplicity of life exists the "neigh bors" are usually , in a very accurate sense , friends and A SOCIAL DILEMMA. An old custom , now obsolete , In the commercial hotels of England is de scribed in the "Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid. " Dinner was then served at 1 telfeck for the commercial travelers , and the youngest man present was ex pected to act as president and to per form the conventional 'duties. On one occasion Mr. Reid , then a young man , arrived In the town of Preston. He did not know a soul , but was directed to an inn , which he reached just as the 1 o'clock dinner was being ser d. The coffee-room , when I enrered it , was filled by commercial travelers , all hovering wth hungry looks round the table that had been laid for dinner. They seemed relieved when I , as shy a youth as could anywhere be found , en tered the room. Instantly they seated { hemselves at the tattle. I looked round for some cor ner in which I might hide myself from what seemed to me to be their almost ferocious gaze , and was filled with alarm when I found that the only seat left vacant was that at the head of the table. A waitress approached me. "You are president of the day , sir , " she said , and motioned me to the va cant seat at the head of the board. I do not think I was ever more mis erable or more frightened In my life than when , under her Imperious direc tion , I took my seat arid met the gaze of a dozen hungry men. On the side board stood the soup-tureens , the wait ing-maids Reside them , but not a cover was lifted or a motion made , and dead silence filled the room. I sat In blushIng - Ing bewilderment , waiting for the din ner to be served. Suddenly , from the other end of the table , a harsh voice issued from th lips of a burly , red-faced man : "Mr. President , if you are a Chris tian you'll perhaps be good enough to lay grace , and let us get to our dinner , which we want very badly. " - I managed to stammer forth the for mula of my childhood. But I was In- tpable of maintaining the deception In brethren. The loss of this- association , so much In evi dence In every large town , finds no compensation in any of the advantages of urban life. "A crowd is not com pany ; faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal , where there is no friendship. " > The commandment "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself , " is hard to obey when the neighbors are multi tudinous. We must leave it to the Interpretation of the wise whether it Is applicable In a great city , save In the general sense that we ahould love all mankind. Obe dience to the Injunction seems to be more faithful in the small communities of the countryside , where life Is close. We can Imagine that the great commandment which im plies the brotherhood of mankind found Its first response where there were no cities. Philadelphia Public Ledger. THE PBEACHEB AND THE NEWSPAPEB. [ EYERAL good points were made by Bishop Fallows in an address before the General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church in a meeting at Philadelphia upon the atti tude of the modern pulpit to the press. The argument was that the minister should use the newspaper as one of the most ef fective agents for assisting him In his chosen work. In the first place , Its style should be followed by the preach er. The Ideal newspaper article , the bishop said , is sharp , short and to the point It is designed to catch the eye and hold the attention. There was a time when the minister was much more Influential relatively than he Is to-day. This does not imply any diminution in the regard paid to the cloth or less Interest in the theme which should be at the foundation of every sermon. It simply recognizes that modern society , with fast malls , telegraph , telephone , and improved mechanical devices has developed the news paper into a .dally encyclopedia of information , illustra tion , and Inspiration , which materially lessens the labors of the minister and at the same time proves one of his greatest aids In the general Improvement of moral and social conditions toward which he ever strives. The Individual minister makes his Voice heard only by a limited number. The newspaper , with its association with agencies for the transmission of important items to all other journals of Its class , makes its Influence felt round the world. Chicago Tribune. TWO-CENT EAILWAY FARES , jHE Ohio legislature this winter passed a two | cent per mile passenger fare bill covering all j railways In the State. Two cent fare has been operated on the many roads In New JYork State for a number of years. The Iowa j legislature killed the two cent a mile railway fare bill for that State. Of course conditions are different In Iowa , the population is not so dense as in Ohio or New York , but the sentiment for cheaper rail way fares is growing and probably within another year some way out of the difficulty may be found. No ona wishes to hamper the railway companies In their efforts to operate their lines at profit Because of crooked worts in certain directions1 the railways of the country hava come in for a great deal of .unfavorable criticism of late , some of which has been deserved , but a good fair survey of the situation in a general way shows that the railways have been instrumental in building up the business of the country and have done more than any other one in stitution in making this the foremost nation so far as do mestic trade and intercourse is concerned. Where the population is thick enough , reduced railway fares pay the companies because cheaper fares induce more travel , but this rule will not apply in every case. The railway men themselves usually are the best to judge and they have been reducing fares for business purposes alone. The inhabitants of Iowa have a right to demand the lowest possible passenger rate commensurate with the service given. The tendency is for cheaper fares and we are sure to get them. Farm. Field and Fireside. which I had been innocently involved , and taking my courage in both hands , told the company that I was not a commercial traveler , and as I knew nothing of the usages of a commercial table , would beg the , gentleman at the other end of the table to take upon himself the duties of president There was a burst of laughter , and good humor was immediately restored , and I was allowed to look , a silent spectator. OVERSHOES IN GERMANY. Use o This Article IB Increasing ; in Kaiser's Realm. Consnl Hurst writing from Plauen , Ufelieves itwill be of Interest to Amer ican overshoe exporters to know that American rubbers are scantily repre sented in that city , which possesses 103,000 progressive inhabitants and has a climate resembling that of the New England States. While the people do not employ this footwear to the extent prevalent in the united States , its use is increasing , per haps more for women and children than rur men. It is a habit further encour aged by the advertising of domestic producers , and there is no valid excuse - vhy American rubber overshoes should not have an equal place with other ii.akes. There are two manufacturing con cerns that now dominate the market one near Hamburg , the other at St. Petersburg , which exports widely. The overshoe In demand Is rather low and Lnnvily constructed , and all on sate In Pianen are pointed in shape , following the style of the shoe in vogue. Storm slippers are not usually kept in stock , as there seems to be little demand for tais variety. The buckle arctic of rub ber and waterproof cloth Is not used here. Although American shoes are on sale , they are without exception of the largest widths made by American man ufacturers , shaped upwith rather nar row toes , so that they approximate the prevailing fashion. The overshoe that must , be furnished to the trade should -aaet the local style of shoe , a style , however , that does not rapidly change. \Vhik from point of durability it may be granted that the foreign overshoes and the American may be alike , the lat- rei , especlallythose shown on this mar ket while somewhat lighter inweight , qunerally surpasses in elegance and fineness of quality European grades. What Is true of Plauen may be as sumed of other German cities , and if there is any disposition on the part of an active wholesaler to explore this ter ritory the way" is open for his energy and skill. It seems astonishing in a large city such as this that the Ameri can rubber Is rarely mentioned , but the imported Russian Is well known and a fine seller. Has Seven Preacher Sons. Seven sons of one mother in the nrin- Istry Is the record of the Mouer family , ofwhich the Rev. J. R. Mouer o < f Mo- nessen , Pa. , Is a member. Five denom inations have secured a pulpit * supply from -this family. Arrangements for a family reunion at rwhich all of the preacher brothers will gather are 'being completed , and it will be held at Mc- Keesport June. The Rev. Mr. Mouer Js pastor of the Monessen United Breth ren church. None of the Mouer broth ers has ever heard any of the others preach , and during the week they ex pect < tobe in the reunion they srlft hold religious services and each iwiil take his part as leader at a meeting. The brothers 'have one sister. She is the wife of a minister , and ihewill also attend the reunion. Philadelphia North America . Reform. The bill was in danger and the gen eral counsel of the corporation which it was designed to enrich hastily called in his legislative agent "All the reform elements are against us , " he said , anxiously. "How are we going to beat down such a formidable opposition ? " "Don't try to beat 'em down. Pay 'em what they ask , " said the legisla tive agent , who In his day had seen a number of quickenings of the public conscience. Puck. A farmer's 'idea of easy riches would be to cut his farm up Into town lot and sell every one of then ? THE WEEKLY 1415 John Huss burned. 1563 France declared war against Eng land. 1GOS Quebec , Canada , founded. 1G85 Battle of Seclgemoor. 1G8G League of Augsburg formed against France. 1734 Dantzic surrendered to the Rus sians. 1754 Washington defeated at battle efFort Fort Necessity , Pa. 1755 Gen. Braddock's expedition against the French in Canada defeated. 1758 Clement XIII. became Pope. 17G2 Peter III. of ! Russia deposed and succeeded by Catherine II. 17G4 Ivan VI. o Russia assassinated. 1770 Turkish fleet burned in Cheemeh Bay. 1775 Washington took command of the army at Cambridge. 177G Virginia adopted State constitu tion. 1777 Americans abandoned Fort Ticon- deroga. 1781 Engagement at King's Bridge , N. T. 37S5 Standard of American dollar es tablished. 1792 Francis II. elected Emperor. 1S09 Battle o Wagram. 1814 Americans captured Fort Erie. 1S27 Kingdom of Greece erected by treaty of London. 1S2S Daniel ,0'Connell , elected member of Parliament , refused to take the oath. 1830 Algiers surrendered to the French. 1833 Dom Miguel's squadron captured by Admiral Napier. 1839 First normal school organized at Lexington , now Framington , Mass. 1849 Rome capitulated to the French. 1852 United States mint established at San Francisco. 1855 First publication o the Kansas Freeman at Topeka. 1SGO Prince of Wales sailed for Amer ica. 1SGG Austria ceded Venetia to France. 1870 France protested against choice of Prince Leopold for King of Spain. 1872 International prison reform con gress met in London. 1880 Bi-centenary of the discovery o St. Anthony Falls celebrated in Min nesota. 1SS3 Steamer Daphne capsized while be ing launched on the Clyde. One hun dred and fifty drowned. 1889 Two thousand laborers on strike in Duluth , Miiyi. 1891 Four condemned murderers execut ed by electricity in Sing Sing prison Park theater , St. Paul , burned. 1S92 Business portion of San Jose , Cal. , burned. 1893 'Silver purchase suspended by Sec retary of the Treasury Carlisle . Marriage of Duke of York , heir to British throne , and Princess Mary of Teck. 1894 The Falcon , with the Peary aux iliary expedition , sailed from St. Johns , N. F Federal troops or dered to Chicago to enforce United States laws. 1898 President McKinley signed reso lution to annex Hawaii Exchange 'of Spanish prisoners of war for Hobson - son and his comrades. 1904 Alton "B. Parker nominated for President 'by Democratic convention at St. Louis Thomas E. Watson of Georgia nominated for President by the People's party. Indiana's Political Millennium. j A plan which has already been agreed to by five counties of Indiana is .J.wigned i to dispense altogether with the merce nary worker and the venal voter in the coming fall elections. The leaders on both sides have pledged their words as friends and neighbors not to spend a dollar lar for such purposes. It is agreed that there shall be employed no man who is known to be purchasable , and the cusrom ] o keeping hangers-on at 'headquarters ' | shall be abandoned. It is also provided that no money shall be paid out for tak ing thirty-day and sixty-day polls , and where it is necessary to employ labor both sides shall pay the same wages and employ no man to whom the other would object. Inspectors and judges of elec tions are to be selected entirely outside of those who serve the campaign committee , and , if possible , business men of known integrity are to be chosen. The plan was formulated by leading Democrats , and has met with the approval of their political adversaries. Neither the State nor the county committees will pay the expenses of stump speakers except in the case of called from other States. Pennsylvania's Introspection. railroad's self-inves The Pennsylvania - tigating committee reported to tlie direc tors Monday that the testimony of - witnesses - | nesses before the interstate commerce commission does not prove that there have . been undup preferences , either as to coal { cars or sidings. The audit company of . New York has been authorized to investigate - i tigate the company's record of car distribution - ! bution for the last five years , and that j work is now in progress. The committee . promises to investigate every phase of the subject 1 [ ALIENS SET NEW MARK. j { Total of 1,062,054 Immigrant * mlttccl During the Punt Year. During the year ended June 30 there was a great increase In the number of immigrants arriving in this country , sa compared \vth last your. The total number of arrivals during the year , in- eluding tourists and citizens of this country , was 1,002,03-1 , or enough to ! nearly depopulate a city of the size oC j Broklyn. If all the ships wnicli brought these immigrants were to ar- I rive at the same time it would indeed be a magnificent fleet. If each ship had a capacity of 1,000 immigrants the fleet would include 1,002 vessels. Of the grand total of arrivals 'Turin ; ; the fiscal year just passed , SS0.543 were aliens who were admitted to the Unit ed States. That is more peopel than there are in the State of Florida , tor instance , and more than there -ire in any one of the several great Westom States. Of the 880,543 aliens , 005,714 were males , 270,829 females ; 100,900 were under the age of 14 , both sexes , and 38,290 were over the age of .45 years. Approximately these aliens brought into the United States with them a to tal wealth of $10,000,000 or enough to buy an entire block of Broadway skyscrapers - . scrapers with probably a snug nest egg left over. Of the number of arrivals 99,884 were citizens who came in the steerage. There were debarred 7,877 , ot whom 195 were criminals. One of those de barred was a polj-gamist. Others were shut out because they were suffering from , diseases. More immigrants arrived from the South of Italy than from any other place. A cityful came from there , or about 221,000. The Jews came next with 125,000 , many of whom were forced to become refugees from Russia on account of the massacres. The total number of arrivals In the fiscal year ended June 30 , 1905 , was 802,979 , of which 788,219 were aliens. ALTON IS HEAVILY FINED. Railroad and Tire Former Official * j Mnt Pay $ MOOO. I Judge Landis at Chicago passed sen tence on the Chicago Alton Railroad and two former officials of the road in , the case charging the granting of re bates. Ao total of ? GO,000 in fines was imposed. The defendants were found guilty under the Elkius law. The sen tence was as follows : Chicago and Alton railroad. $40,000 , § 20,000 on each of two counts. t I John N. Faithonu former vice president - ! dent , $10,000 , $5,000 on each o two ! counts. I Fred A. Wann , former freight agent. $10,000 , $5,000 on each o two counts. Judge Landis declared he say no ex- teuuating circumstances in the case , and in passing sentence the judge said : "A jury has rendered a verdict and from it I see no escape. Counsel has talked about this being open and no torious In Kansas , but there is not a fact before me that this was not a se cret rebate. The Eikins law was passed in 1903. There was considerable agitation concerning its passage. I do not forget that railroad men and ship pers gave clos eand diligent attention to that law and any man interested in the general situation would have had no trouble In finding out about the law. These offenses took place one year after the law was passed. I will say there are not many facts in this case in sup port of the arguments , that this is not a case for substantial punishment. " Russia has agreed that her consul gen- sral in Korea shall derive his exchequer from th'e Japanese government , thus ac knowledging the Japanese supremacy in the hermit kingdom. At Alexandria , Egypt , 100 natives were tried for the recent attack on British offi cers , in which Capt. Bull was killed. Four o the accused were condemned to death , tvro to life imprisonment and twelve to briefer terms of imprisonment. The prophecy o a social revolution without bloodshed in 1910 in France has been made by M. Guesde. the new leader or the Socialists in the Chamber o Dep uties. At that time , he says , the atti tude of the Socialists will be so menac ing that the capitalist government will call out the army , but , as the army will refuse to fire , "the revolution will be bloodless. " The Russian admiral , Rojestvensky , ad dressing the court-martial at Krons- stadt , took all the blame for the surrend er o the gunboat Bedovi to the Japanese , and inviten the full punishment of the law , which would be death. He did this in the hope ot saving the officers who surrendered the gunboat in order to save the life o'f their wounded commander. It was said by sailors of the Bedovi that Rojestvensky's party had boarded the gunboat with the intention o surrender ing instead o trying to escape , and that their first act was to hoist the white Sag. The French budget , which was intro duced in the chamber Tuesday , shows that the military preparation during the Mo roccan crisis cost $50.000,000 , and that internal reforms have cost $30,000,000 , and that , in consequence , a loan would be necessary to meet the deficit. The British House o Commons adopt ed the most contested clause o the edu cation bill by a majority of 277. This clause provides that special religious in struction may be given in any voluntary school on the vote o four-fifths of the parents o the children attending. Thir is the fourth clause of the bill. " - * ! <