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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1906)
In the Kick of plutocrat summoned hia prlrat * 1.11 * ecretary : "Williams , " he said , "you are familiar With all my affairs. I want you to maka a rapid calculation showing as nearly as 1.11I fposslblq the amount of money I have wrung from the people over and above a I/ fair , legitimate profit on the capital orig- IJnally invested. " The private secretary did so and show- 'ed him the result. "It's a great deal more than J thought , " , sald thg plutocrat , "but that makes no Difference. I shall proceed now to for- jtnulate a plan for the immediate restitu- lion to the people of the vast sum I hav ' " wrongfully But here , with a violent effort , ho ( i hook himself and awoke. It was only Ic. dream. I t 3 MAKE EVERY B&f COUNT- no matter how" baa the wealfe You cannot afford to be Without a TOWER'S WATERPROOF OILED SUIT P VOE SUCKER , "When you buy ff look for the SIGN Or THE FISH TCTOKS - AJTOWtR * CANAOUN co tro TQOTO CAN W. L , DOUGLAS BEST IN THE WORLD itf.LDougas$4GiltEdg0linBx ! icannotboequallsdatsnjprioG To Shoe Dialers : W. L. * iglasf Job- bin ? Hoopla toe most complcj ? H > tais eorairy I for Catalog if SHOES rOS EVEEYBODY AT ALL PHICE3. Men'a SHoos. 05 to Sl.BO. Boys' Shoes , $3 J to $1.30 , Women's Shooo , S4.OO to f X.8O. Mls ea'Children's 8ho a. 92.23 to $1.OO. 3Cry W. TL. Douglas "Women's , Misses and | Children's shoes ; for style , fit and -wear \ they excel other makes. ' If I could take you Into my large { factories at Brockton , Mass. , and show jyou how carefully W.L. Douglas shoes IBfe made , you would then understand why they hold their shape , fit better , I wear longer , and are of greater value than any other make. Wherever you live , you can obtain W. L. , I Douglas shoes. His name and price Is stamped if 1 on the bottom , which protects youajpuast high i prices and Inferior shoes. Take no substl * U tute. Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes end Insist upon having them. Fast Color Eyelets used ; they will not wear brassy. \ Write for Illustrated Cataioz of Fail Styles. { f W. L. DOUGLAS , Dcpt. 14 , Brockton , Mass. BUSHEL That's toe WHEAT CROP IX Western Canada This Year This-with nearly 80,000,000 Bushels of Oats and 17.000,000 Bushels of Barley moans a continuation of good times lor he farmers of Western Canada. Tree Farms Big Crops Low Taxes , Healthy Climate , good Churches and Schools , SplencSd Rail way Service The Canadian Government offers 160 acres of 'land FREE to every settler willing and able to comply with the Homestead Regulations. Advice - / vice and Information may be obtained free from W. D. Scott. Superintendent of Immigration. OUpira , ' Oaaads. or . T. Holtnea. SIS JncktAn St. . St. Puul. Minn. , and J. -McLjichlun. . Box 116. Wutertown. So. iakota. Authorized Gorernment Agonts. ' Please oar nbere Tna saw this advertisement. 1-gySioAc CUT Lint You CANNOT all inflamed , ulcerated and catarrhal con ditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh , uterine catarrh caused by feminine ills , sore throat , sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. . \ But you surely can cure these stubborn f ' affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic . which destroys the disease gerras.checks ' discharges , stops pain , and heals the inflammation and soreness. Paxtine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ills ever produced. Thousands of women testffy to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. > ' Send for Free Trial Box R. PAXTON CO. . Boston. Mass , * JOUN XV.MOHIttSfe Pro uccessfully oPrinctpal EximtnerU.B. Ponalon etTJtrar. ] . IS adjudicating clalmc. attrjrtaoft . One turkey mother con take care of two. dozen poults. , . Cows kept in stalls will coasume from three to four tons of hay a year Let the cow frisk in the open air once in a while ; continuous stable life is not good for her. Hay green in color nnd sweet in taste Is the only quality that is fitted for a cow in milk to eat. Don't wash duck egss , for -washing takes off the natural coating , opens the pores in the shell , and paves the way to early decay. Scatter a generous quantity of salt , and wood ashes , for the horse on the ground and see how clean he will clean it up. It is good for pin worms. Some men are judged by their build ings , others by the kind of stock they keep. A very good impression of the kind of a man is seen by looking Into his back yard. The seed corn topic A\ill not down and it ought not to until every.-farmer can obtain a satisfactorv stand. Some tests of seed reported this spring show a low vitality. Make every square inch of the farm rich but the lawn , and make that beau tiful. A lawn that does not present beauty to the eye is out of place. A field that is beautiful and not rich is an abomination to its owner. In the adjustment of a cultivator the shanks should be easy to handle by the operator and at the same time do good work. I have seen men working like a nigger at an election cultivating corn when there Is no need at all for such efforts. In the long , hot days there is a ten dency for farmers and their wives to work too hard. One ought to be wise enough to know that old age will come later on and if one wishes an easy old age he should use discretion when in his prime. Not every rich field will produce good crops ; not every trotting bred horse w-ill trot ; not every drafter will escape the barbed wire ; not every banker is honest ; not every bright thing that glit ters is gold ; not every church member is a Christian. There is all the difference in the world in the way men cultivate corn. Lots of men lose more than their wages in the corn they tear out. All boys on farms should be taught how to cultivate corn. It Is an essential factor lu their agricultural education. A new milker will not get as much milk as the one to which the cow has been accustomed. A cow has some rights that are to be respected. Wheth er she has or not she usually assumes the right to withhold her milk when she has a new milker. The small breeder who Is overstocked with horses should never refuse a fair offer for such animals as he has de cided to sell. Cost of keeping and risk of injury from accident are items that should not be overlooked by the man who desires to make the breeding of horses profitable. Yes , clover seed is expensive. The question is can one afford not to buy it ? As a rule not enough study is giv en the advantages of having clover. Eight dollars appears to be a big price , but it Is not so much when we consid er the area a bushel will sow. Then the advantages reaped by it are to be regarded. To keep your flock as free as possible from sheep parasites , give the animals a change of pasture , say once every ten days. Alfalfa , red clover , oats or any high-growing forage Is good for sheep , inasmuch as the animals are not so liable 'to become infested -with parasites as when eating grasses -which grow lower. The man wJio cannot be Induced to select and test his seed corn properly should plant thick and then thin It to the required amount. If he does not want to do the work himsel. ' he can hire hoys to do it. A man Is running a risk when he sets his planter to "three grains to the hill" of seed that has not been managed properly. Better have four or five and thin to three. It Pays to Cnponize. A gain of four pounds per head In weight and of ten cents per pound . . price is quite -worth wnile when you remember that It can be done on about the same amount of feed. It iswise to caponize every cockerel not wanted for breeding. There is very little pain caused by the operation if done skill fully and at the right time less pain than is often endured by cockerels in their fights with one another. Butter Should Be Kept Cold. Recent experiments on the tempera ture desirable for storing butter indir cated that about 20 to 25 degrees Is right , maintaining the butter at several degrees below freezing point. . Storage j men have found considerable trouble this year from the fishy flavor , which Is more in evidence than usual , and the causeyis under Investigation by the de partment of agriculture. Low temper ature does much to prevent this trou * ble. Heavy Hampxliirc Inml > .s. Harry L. Andrews writes as follows to the American Sheep Breeder : My flock of Hampshlres are well along In lambing , and I think I have a finer bunch of lambs this spring than ever before , although perhaps not so great a per cent of twins as usual , but what they lack in numbers they more than make up in size. I weighed two lambs on March 1 , a ram lamb , 29 days old , that weighed 40 % pounds , and a ewe lamb , 31 days old , that weighed J57 pounds , which I think not very bad considering they have not been pushed at all. HOTV to Cut Seed Potatoes. Round potatoes , with few eyes , such as Carman , are best cut by hand , as machine cutting leaves some pieces without eyes. In cutting the seed , leave sufficient body with each piece to fur nish abundant vital food to support the sprout until it has time to take root in the soil. The size of the pieces is more important than the number of eyes. All perfect germinating sorts , such as Green Mountain and TV. W. Mammoth , may be safely cut to one eye. All im perfect or blind-eyed sorts as Living ston , Seneca to the piece. TaiiiTvorth. Swine. The Tainworth , a much despised and ridiculed breed of swine , is making reasonably good headway in the Unit ed States. Why shouldn't it ? The one crime that it has committed is growing a long snout But snout and head , taken together , weigh less than the av erage head of other breeds. If Tarn- worths could produce the long side and short stub head at the same time they ' would certainly do so to please the American people , but Tamworths can not violate any law of conformation. The law of correlation says that a short head cannot go with a very long body. Why do not more people grow Tain- worth pork ? If they would once try it , like the Gauls on first tasting the wines of Italy , they would want more , says Orange Judd Farmer. ProfitM in Fancy Apples. Stories are coming east of the large profits made by fruit growers in east ern Washington state. In the Wenat- jhee valley the prosperous condition of orcharding has increased land values to as high as $250 per acre for the-raw land with water rights. Orchards in full bearing range all the way from § 700 to $1,000 per acre. The boom Is the result of a very favorable season , when good apples have been selling at $2 a box at shipping stations. One or two unfavorable seasons might change the situation. The region is described as more like a great orchard village than an ordinary farming section , the farms being small and the houses close together , with telephones , electric lights and other improvements common. The orchard work is carried on In a very thorough manner , with the land kept thoroughly cultivated and cleaned. The trees have a long growing season and apples fruit at five years from setting. The apples produced here are of very fine appearance and have a peculiar , waxy skin , which finds favor with the buyers. The actual flavor is not equal to the best apples produced In the east , but the Washington apples are careful ly graded and packed and sell close to the top of the market prices. Plowing : Hilly Land. Hilly land ought never to be culti vated , but kept in grass. Sometimes a farmer has nothing but hills , and if he raises a crop of grain It must be on tlus kind of land. In plowing hilly ground one should never plow up and down the hill unless hewants his soil carried away with the flood and great ditches washed in the field. Always plow around the hill , beginning at the mse and winding up the land at the : op. In this way the soil Is thrown so that It acts as a barrier to the water and will not wash away. The other day I saw a hill that had .been plowed In an ideal manner. It had been in grass and the farmer had commenced at the base and plowed round and round it , throwing the thick inverted sod down the hill and leaving a space at the corners of his land that drained he hill nicely. A recent heavy rain had not damaged it in the least , for all the water had drained off from the cor ners of the land. The corn should ba planted in the manner the hill was broken. Never plant corn up and down a hill , for a dashing rain will wash it out Then If the corn is planted the way the land was broken there will -be no harm done the land in cultivating it If you have to cultivate the corn plant ed up and down the hill , it simply ' makes matters worse for the soil la ] loosened up to be carried away. Agricultural - | cultural Bpitomlst An Old Aoaunlatanco. It was. the first meeting of the Snake- 'ipeare Reading Club for Working Girls , 'and ' the serious-nilnded young Englishwoman - ' woman who had dealt out copies of "Hamlet" to the members awaited com ments. The first , says a writer in the Lon don , Daily News , came from a girl be longing to that Immense army of "book- folders" so familiar to all frequenters of working girls' clubs. "Oh , I know this well , " she said , in a superior tone. "Really ! " said the pleased teacher. "Is it your faro rite play ? " The girl looked at her pityingly. "Lor' , I ain't read it ! " she chuckled. "We stock 'em at our place. I've 'ad 'undreds through my 'ands. 'Amlet ? t'm sick to death of 'irn ! " 8ICK FOR TEN YEARS. Constant Backache , Dropsy and Severe Bladder Trouble. Fred W. Harris , of Chestnut St. Jef ferson , Ohio , says : "For over ten years I suffered from kidney disease. The third year my feet and hands would swell and remain puff ed up for days at n time. I seemed to have a constant back ache. Finally I got so bad that I was laid up In bed with sev eral doctors in attend ance. I thought sure- wu ly i would die. I changed medicine and began using Doan's Kidney Pills when I was still In bed. The relief I found was so great that I kept on until I had taken about ten boxes. Yhe kidney secretions be came natural and .after years of misery I was cured. I have increased in weight , and show no symptoms of my former trouble. " Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-MIlburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. Versatility. "Haven't I seen you before some where ? " asked the customer at the lunch counter. "Yea probably saw me at some Igorrote village , " said the dusky waiter. "I was one of the Igorrotes. suh. " You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE. Write to-day to Allen 8. Olmsted. La Roy , N. Y. , for a FREE sample o Allen's Foot- Ease , a powder to shake Into your shoes. It cures tired , sweating , hot , swollen , ach ing fee'L It makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain care far Corns and Bunions. AH Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it. 25c. In Frisco , 1OOS. The stranger , rapt in wonder , gazed at the dazzling palace of white marble. "And who , " he said , in tones of awe , "is the owner of this superb edifice ? " "Pete Hardup , " his guide replied. "He saved half a ham and some rolls from the great fire and opened a sand wich stand. " Mr * . WtasloWa Booncx * Braur for feMthlas ; eoftoaa th * spuni , rdnoea inflaoxauttioa , ok l jtpla.cur \Tind oolie. 2i cents n bottle. Deepest L.n.lce oa Earth. The deepest lake in the world is be lieved to be Lake Baikal , in Siberia. Nine thousand square miles in area , or nearly as large as Lake Erie , it is 4,000 to 5,000 feet deep , so that it contains nearly as much water as Lake Supe rior. Bacon to the value of over $30,000,000 was imported by Great Britain in 1904. STor Infants and Children. I , . . . . . . . rt i'U' ! .1 jnijtwii. > ii tt * i iitiH'imu.iiMihi.rtfitiiu Ategetable Preparationfor As similating liieFoodandBegula- as achs andBovreis of # , it i-1 * * Promotes Digestion.Cheerfur- nessandltest.Contains neither OpiumMorphine nor liueral. OTIC. . B.lOl' CianJifdSugar 1 1te Aperfecl Remedy lion , Sour StomachDiarrhoea -te Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- ness and Loss OF SLEEP. K HV B Facsimile Signature KEW YORK. if EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. THS CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YOHK CITY. * THE F/1E3LY' * FAVORITE MED1OIKE CATS2AR.TIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS At the Conversazione. "See that man with the re-enforced forehead and prominent teeth ? That's Mbuldypast. He's more sought after by literary men and critics just now than any other man in the room. " "What for ? " "He claims to have unearthed an orig inal manuscript from the pen of Martin Farquhar Tupper , author of 'Proverbial Philosophy. ' " "I see. They are trying'to get him to suppress it. " Great Britain maintains an army of from 00,000 to 80,000 whites in India continually. S. C. X. U. - - - Xo. 37 1UOG. Jfcr One Thougrht. "M-ni-m ! " the doctor with - - mused , r serious face , "the glands of yon ; > throat are coated " "The idea ! " gurgled Miss TVoodbjf ' "Stylishly coated , I hope. " PMlada.V phia Press. At tUe Xlht School. "What do you understand , " asked thi * instructor , "by the current newspape > phrase , 'government pork ? ' " "That means , " said the student wit ) ? the bulging brow , "the hogs that fatted in the official sty. " ' ' * -VI ' . - ' " " " ' * - - - Vi . , % - * A-a * v . vi If more than ordinary skill in playing brings the honors of the game to the winning player , so exceptional merit in a remedy ensures the commendation of the well informed , and as a rea sonable amount of outdoor life and recreation is conducive to the health and strength , so does a perfect laxative tend to one's improvement in cases of constipation , biliousness , headaches , etc. It is all important , however , in selecting a laxative , to choose one of known quality and excellence , like the ever HiV pleasant Syrup of Figs , manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. , a laxative which sweetens and cleanses the system effectually , wnen a laxative is needed , without any unpleasant after effects , as it acts naturally and gently on the Internal organs , simply assisting nature when nature needs assistance without griping , irritating or debilitating the internal organs in anyway , as it contains nothing of an objectionable or injurious nature. As the plants which are combined with the fi s in the manufacture of Syrup of Figs are known to physicians to act most beneficially upon the system , the remedy has mat with their general approval as a family laxative , a fact well worth considering in making purchases. It is because of the fact that S VfUP © F FUGS is a remedy of known quality and excellence , and approved by physicians that has led to its use by so many millions of well informed people , who would not use any remedy of uncertain quality or inferior reputation. Every family should have a bottle of the genuine on hand at all times , to use when a laxative remedy is required. Please to remember that the I * genuine Syrup of Figs is for sale in bottles of one size only , by all reputable druggists , and that full name of the company California Fig Syrup Co. , is plainly printsd on a l the front of every package. Regular price , 50c per bottle. C'J r ' > ; j' - VT.kC.vKa ; ftfeyfci < Jgr PUTNAM FADELESS YES fartir csjort AM < ay etfcerdye. OK lOc package eofors all fibers. They dve ! g CD ( ! water better than wy other dye. Tw CM * vt. Write for foe boakkt-IUw to Bye , Bteack H * ttt Colors. MOJVXOE T > R7C CO. . Vnionoill * .