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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1906)
Do Ton Open Your Mouth ( Like a young bird and gulp down what * , 'evcrfood or modlctno may be offered you ? jOr , 'do you w nt to know something of the composition and character of that which jyou take Into your stomach whether as food or medicine ? Most intelligent and sensible people now-o-days insist on knowing what they employ -whether as food or as medicine , Dr. Pierce believes they have a perfect right to insist upon such knowledge. So he publishofi-bcoadcast and on each bottle- wrapper , whaQiIT& 41cInes arc made of enave esJjyrfnTIfcr-ettUb This. h e feels he can w Mifford to do because th < v morn UJejogycd ten tsjol which his medlclnea Erclnade'are studied and understood thg roore wiirthe r superior curairye virtues' For the cure of woman's peculiar weak nesses , Irregularities and derangements , giving rise to frequent headaches , back ache , dragglng-down pain or distress In lower abdominal or pelvic region , accom panied , ofttlmes , with a debilitating , pelvic , catarrhal drain and kindred symp toms of weakness , Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is a most efficient remedy. It is equally effective in curing painful periods , In giving strength to nursing mothers and In preparing the system of the expectant mother for baby's coming , thus rendering childbirth safe and com paratively painless. The "Favorite Pre scription " Is a most potent , strengthening tonic to the general system and to the organs distinctly feminine in particular. It is also a soothing and invigorating nervine and cures nervous exhaustion , nervous prostration , neuralgia , hysteria. spasms , chorea or St. Vitus's dance , and other distressing nervous symptoms at tendant upon functional and organic dis eases of the distinctly feminine organs. A host medical authorities of all the several schools of practice , recommend each of the several ingredients of which "Favorite Prescription" is made for the cure of the diseases for which it is claimed to bo a cure. You may read what they say for yourself by sending a postal card request for a free booklet of extracts from the leading authorities , to Dr. R. V. Pierce , Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In stitute , Buffalo , "N. YM and it willcotne to you by return post. .A Positive fj 1 IL9 CURE ' ' Ely's Cream Balm f is quickly absorbed. ' * Gives Relief at Once. It cleanses , soothes heals and protects the diseased mem brane. It cures Ca tarrh and drives away a Cold in the _ _ _ _ ! Head quickly. Be-Ay i stores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full size 50 cts. , at Drug , gists or by mail ; Trial Size 10 cts. by mail. Ely Brothers , 56 Wan-en Street. Kew York. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN , A CertalaOcre for FevcrlslincBS. Constipation , Headache. Stomach Troubles , Teething . . . . IMsordcrs , and Destroy - Mother Gray. Worms. They Break OM Gelds Kurso in Childin 34 hours. At all Drnejtirta. Zi eta. ran'a Home , Sample mailed FREE , Address. H. rorkOU7. A. 5. OLMSTEO. La Roy. N Y. Troubles of nn Amateur. ( "I thought you had gone to raising bees , " said the man from the city. "I don't see any sign of them around here. " ( "I had half a dozen colonies of the .finest bees I could get , " answered tie uburbanite , "and a wnole library of lit erature on bee raising ; but they swarmed one day , and while I was looking through my hooks to find out what was the proper thing" to do when bees swarmed the blam ed things flew away , and I've never seen 'em since. " Fully 2,500 persons commit suicide ia Russia every year. DESPAIRED Ancemlc Woman Cured by Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills Recommends the ; Pills to All Others Who Suffer. Anaemia is just the doctor's name foi bloodlessuess. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure anaemia a's food cures hnuger. They cured Mrs. Thomas J. McGaun , of 17 Lincoln Place , Plainfield , N. J. , who says : "In the spring of 1903 I did my usual hoHso cleaning and soon after ward I began to have the most terrible lieadacb.es. My heart wonld beat so irregularly - , regularly that it was painful and there came a morning when I could not get np. My doctor said I had ausBmia and he was surprised that I had continued to live in the condition I was in. I was confined to my bed for nearly two months , the doctor coming every day for the first few weeks , but I did not improve to amount to anything. Al together I was sick for nearly two years. I was as weak as a rag , had headaches , irregular heart beats , loss of appetite , cramps in the limbs and was tumble to get a good night's sleep. My legs and foot were BO swollen that Ii feared they would burst. "Before very long after I tried Dr. Williams'Pink Pills I felt a change for the better. I liave taken about twelve boxes and although I was as near the grave as could be , I now feel as if I had a new lease of life. I have no m6re headaches , the heart beats regularly , my cheeks are pink and I feel ten years younger. I feel that I have been cured "very cheaply and I have recommended the pills to lots of my friends. " Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists , or will he sent by maiLon re ceipt of price , 50 cents per box , six boxes $2.50 , by the Dr. Williams Medicius Co. , Scheuectady , N. Y. "i * * > Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. T SPELLING EEFOBM TENDENCIES. STUDY of spelling reform by F. Sturgis Allen shows that there Is less evidence of change ef spelling in British usage than there is in American. Shall -we spell "aesthetic" or "esthetic ? " British publishers do not take to the latter. On the other hand , "American publishers who publish for the British as well as the American market , " Mr. Allen tells us , "find that adopting the e ( which is considered an American ism ) tends to injure the sale of their books to the Brit ish trade. " Considerable changes , he adds , are taking place in American usage in the direction of returning to British usage ; as , for example , "honour" for honor , "cen tre" for center and "traveller" for traveler. After all , American publishers vsrho want the widest market for books of a certain class have to consider the fastidious buyers in Australia , Canada , South Africa and other British colonies as well as in the United States. It thus happens that the personal interest of many bookmakers in this country run counter to the project of extended "spelling reform" endowed by Mr. Carnegie. The type writer and typesetting machines seem to be chiefly re sponsible for the common substitution for the dipthongs , as the machines would become much more complicated If they provided for them. "Should the dictionaries , " Mr. Allen asks , "give the preference to 'e' forins when usage does not , without indicating that usage prefers the dipthong forms in those cases ? " Usage , after all , is and should be the master. The time is past when dictionary makers could undertake to dictate. Baltimore Sun. FTJTUBE OF SAN FRANCISCO. AN FRANCISCO started to rebuild even be fore she had any assurance that she could establish herself more securely against fur ther earthquakes. That showed the quality of her courage. It has , nevertheless , been giving her satisfaction to hear the testimony of earthquake experts and architects and builders to the effect that she can make her buildings strong enough to resist even worse shocks than they have experienced. Professor Nakamura , of the Imperial University of Tokio , the architect sent by Japan to inspect conditions at San Francisco , reported some time ago that one of the great causes of damage had been the poor quality of mortar and the faulty construction with the use of hollow tiling and fire blocks Instead of concrete , He gave the San Francisco people formulas for the kind of mortar which , according to Japanese experience , will resist shocks , and he told them that even brick buildings , If properly set in mortar , can be made proof against damage. The writer on applied science in the current Forum adds his testimony as to the stability of the steel frame buildings , when properly braced and when established on sufficiently solid foundations. For the smaller buildIngs - Ings re-enforced concrete that Is , concrete with an im bedded metallic network Is approved for its resistance both to shock and to fire. Even the light and water problems of San Francisco are said to be susceptible of entirely successful solutions , both from technical and from commercial standpoints. The substitution of electricity for gas will do away with one of the worst of the fire dangers that coming from the gas mains the earthquake has broken. The water pipes can probably be made secure against the worst breaks by laying them on concrete foundations. Indirectly San Francisco is planning to make great conflagrations Improbable hereafter by establishing a system of broad THINK PLANTS HAVE EYES. Scientists Thus Explain. Why They Seek to Avoid the Sun's Glare. Plants are toy no means so stupid or EO 'helpless as they commonly get cred it for being. No matter how a beech happens to bfe placed in the ground , the root -will turn down and the stem grow up Into the air- and there -manage somehow or other to find its way to the nearest support Especially remarkable is the beha vior of vegetables toward light House plants , as every one knows , grow in the direction of the window , but if the pot be turned halfway round the leaves will nevertheless manage to screw themselves back into their old posi tion , and the sunflower will "rubber round" all day long so as to stare at the sun. In temperate countries leaves grow at right angles to the rays of light to get as much of it as possible ; In the tropics they set themselves edgewise to get as little. Evidently , then , plants come at least as near seeing as do some animals. Pretty much all that has been known ibout the matter , however , is that they attend only to the blue rays of the sun ; for though they will grow per fectly -well in red or yellow light they show not the slightest inclination to turn toward It . A German botanist Haberlandt who for rsany years has been studying those problems , has concluded that the whole apper surface of each leaf is a sort of compound eye. The thin , translucent skin which in most plants covers the jreen , succulent tissue of the leaf Is itself , in certain cases , composed of imumerable rounded cells. These , thinks Professor Haberlandt are so nany minute lenses which concentrate : he light upon the living substance be- , ow and enable the plant to distinguish Detw.een light and darkness , or be- : ween weak light and strong , though lot ° f course , to see objects. Such primitive lenses he finds In the fig , vy , magnolia , wood-sorrel and other jlants. Certain plants , like the pepper md the balsam , have in addition little jye spots which in structure approach .he eyes of many of the simplest ani- nals and appear , In a cense , to be real iyes. iyes.t any rate , plants do act as if they tould see and Professor Haberlandt has bund that each of these supposed sense > rgans can be made to print a bright > pot on a photographic plate. Rol ler1 * . boulevards , which the fire will not be apt to leap , even if the water supply Is in part Interrupted. Some of these boulevards are planned to be put through at once , others after five years and others after ten years. San Francisco has every reason to feel confident that H Is as safe as any other city , and much safer than many , against the recurrence of disaster with destructive results akin to those of last April. Chicago Record Herald. CHECKS ON PROSPERITY. HE rich bear little of the general burden of taxation , in any country , proportionately to the poor. The British Chancellor of the Ex chequer hints that an attempt will be made to throw the income tax more heavily on the rich. The Liberal party may also adopt the principle , practiced in several European countries , of taxing Income from property more heavily than income based on effort Prussia , Saxony and Wur- temberg tax Income from property about three times as much as income from work , and Denmark twice as much. The principle is recognized in Italy. The only objection to a progressive income tax is the encouragement that it gives to perjury , and this objection it shares with the ordinary forms of taxing personal property. Income tax es , inheritance taxes , and laws in restraint of monopoly are all efforts , of course , toward the one goal of so ar- jranging the laws that society shaH grant to the individual only as much as IB for the material and spiritual wel fare of the race. Massachusetts has just declared , through her Supreme Court that no person or body In that State shall make It a condition of sales that the purchaser shall not handle the goods of other dealers a significant example of what is to be expected more every year in the direction of preventing the individual or the corporation from having too much In common with the supposed disposition of the much-wronged hog Collier's Weekly. THE COLLEGE ADDRESSES. HEN a man is called-upon to speak to col lege students he usually weighs his words most carefully. However extreme a partisan may be in other circumstances , when setting forth his views In the presence of those who are learning about the great problems of life he strives to be judicial and fair-minded , consequently , the annual college addresses afford a dis tinct guide to what the leaders of thought really think. Those addresses this year were remarkable for their cheerful optimism and for their faith In the honesty and uprightness of the men of the present generation. There were some exceptions , but the rule was that the young men about to begin the struggle for survival were told that the old-fashioned virtues have not gone out of style , that honesty and uprightness are still highly prized , that greed for gain is as despicable as It has always been , and that the road to success lies along the straight and nar row way which has commended Itself to men by centuries of experience. This word is needed. It is important that a true and wholesome standard shall be held up for admiration at the time when young men begin to finda standard necessary. It is a most gratifying sign of the firmness of the moral foundations that neither the colleges nor the men whom they honor by invitations to speak have been swept from their feet by the tide of sordid accusations too many , alas ! proved that has lately been flooding the country. Youth's Companion. PUTTING HIS FOOT IN IT. Mrs. Skrappy Oh ! Why didn't I marry a sensible man ? Skrappy Because , , madam , a sensible man would never have married you. I POLITE JAPANESE CHILDREN. * ? Japan is the country in which the word "boor , " or an equivalent , is not needed. In that land habits of polite ness 'begin ' to foe formed with the first training of the child. Albert Tracy , In his "Rambles Through Japan , " writes ofwhat he observed in the most obscure parts of the country. Among the many things which he found to praise none is more pleasing than the fine courtesy of the children. I saw some children emerging from school , and stopped on the opposite side of the street to look at them. They came out with none of the rude -bolster- ousness which characterizes pupils at home , but walked sedately and quietly , with books and slates under their arms. The first to come out were not a little startled , evidently , at seeing a bearded foreigner looking at them. They stop ped a moment , and then , witii a cour tesy which I wish I could imagine pos sible in an English town or an Ameri can village , made an exceedingly re spectful bow , and passed on. Of course I returned the salutation. The next ones -repeated their civil ity , and then as fast as the1 pupils came to the front they stopped and made pro found reverences all along the line. It was a very pretty picture , and quite well illustrated the polite bearing of the Japanese , who are thus trained to civil ity from childhood. Before a baby can speak , almost be fore It can totter alone , It is taught to lift the hand to the forehead on receiv ing a gift ; and I never saw a child fail to make this signal of respect and grat itude without being reproved or remind ed of the omission by some bystander. At another place I came suddenly upon two pretty children who , approaching preaching from the opposite direction , were completely taken by surprise- and had no opportunity to escape. Their faces showed that they were very much frightened , and the younger , clung * closely to his brother. Just as I was about to speak they made the most profound of reverences , withal eo pret'tlly that I gave them each a penny , demonstrating , I hope , in their minds that even a white-faced bar- , foarian Is not dangerous If one is polite. Everywhere. The Preacher And now , brethren , remember that we must all appear be fore that dread tribunal where all our misdeeds shall be brought to light The Hearer Great Scott ! Is this niuck-raklng being taken up by the chruches , too ? Cleveland Leader. RUSSIAN HORROR. Victim * of Slecllec Mammcre Perlsfc Miserably of Thirst. The full horror of the massacre at -Sledlce will never be known. The ofE- cial report is that 100 were killed , but this is far belowt he total. Whole ( blocks of houses were burned and tre mendous damage -was done by shells from the battery of artillery that fired recklessly Into the mob. sAll this , however , Is merely incident al , being as nothing when compared to the awful details of that Russian tra gedy. A terrible feature of the woe of Siedlce is that many persons died of thirst The drunken soldiers and police cleaned out blocks , leaving only the dead and wounded behind. Many of these buildings were not entered for five days and it is said twenty bodies of men and women , who died from their wounds and thirst have -been picked up. up.One One Jewish girl was found uncon scious on the floor under a water fau cet Two policemen had broken both 'her ' legs and cut her in the side with a sword. She had dragged herself across the floor , < but was unable to rise to the faucet There she lay in agony for nearly five days. She revived just Jong enough to gasp "Water ! Water ! " and then died. An old white-headed Jew , "one of the wealthiest men in the city , was -found dead in a bathtub in his house. He had been shot twice in the 'body ' and evi dence was found showing he had spent two or three days helpless on the din ing room floor. Blood cots showed whore lie had dragged himself to the bath room.Apparently , in a delirious ecstasy at getting water , he had turned on the faucets , struggled over the side into the bath and was drowned. A few days ago , with a prayer for Russian freedom on their lips , Senaide Konoplianikovo , the girl who assassin ated Gen. Min Aug. 28 In the Peterhof railroad station , walked with firm step up a scaffold and was hanged. When the 'black cap was being pulled on the girl in a loud voice called : "Long live the social revolution for land and lib erty ! " WRECKED BY DYNAMITE. Explosion nt Jell i co , Teiin. , Does $1OOOOOO Damage. A terrific dynamite explosion at Jellico , Tenn. , caused the loss of at least nine lives and more or less seriously injured not less than fifty people. Property dam age estimated at $1,000,000 was done and the tow-n of Jellico , Ky.was practically destroyed. At least 500 people are home less. Without exception every business house in the town is either totally wreck ed or badly damaged. The union station of the Southern railway and the Louis ville and Nashville railroad , located about 100 yards from the scene of the explo sion , was shattered to splinters. This cut off all telegraphic communication and news of the explosion TVOS handled by telephone. The explosion occurred upon the Ken tucky side of Jellico , and in consequence every business house on that side of the town was wrecked. Not one was spared. A large number of residences located near the railroad on the Kentucky side were demolished. As a result it is estimated that one-seventh of the population of the two Jellicos is homeless. A car loaded with dynamite , and con signed to the Rand Powder Company , was brought in by the Southern railway from the direction of Knoxville and was side tracked in the yards used .jointly by the Southern railway and the L. & N. It is believed that the explosion was caused from spontaneous combustion in the car. The spot where the car stood is marked by a crevasse in the earth fully twenty feet deep and about thirty feet in diame ter. ter.Word Word was received in Winnipeg , Man. , of a dynamite explosion , which occurred on the right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway near Finmark , northwest ern Ontario , in which five were killed out right and six injured. A gang of Finland- ers was engaged in tunneling , according to one story , when the premature explo sion of a large quantity of dynamite oo Burred. * The advance in the price of sugar will make many of us look sour. Europe proposes to prevent the Shah of Persia from hiding under the bed. Palma might catch those recalcitrant Cubans 'by putting a pinch of pie on their plates. Bank Wrecker Stensland doesn't know so much about its being "Home. , Sweet Home. " The Chinese Emperor is getting to 'be ' almost as great a promiser as the Czar of Russia. Before the court gets through a Pitts- burg divorce suit they arrest most every body in sight. It is claimed that Gen. TrepofFs death was due to natural causes. Natural to Russia , no doubt. What Cuba especially wants is to learn the difference ( between a ballot box and a waste paper basket "Segal got all the money ; I was fool ed , " says Hippie in his confession. So were the rest of 'em. How fortunate would be all nations who go to war if they had some big friend to make them behave ! Cuba knows a hint when one as large as a skyscraper begins taking ominous strides in its direction. The insurance companies are not aP quitters. They have paid $55,000,000 of their San Francisco losses. Between being arrested and committing suicide , ou poor bank wreckers are hav ing a very unpleasant time. The Czar is beginning to find out that , you can't govern an empire nor lay pave ments merely with good intentions. PERUNA PRAISED. MRS. ESTHER M. MILNER. Box 321 , DeGraff , Ohio. Dr. S. B. Hartman , Columbus , Ohio : Dear Sir : I was a terrible sufferer from. pelvic weakness and had headache continuously. I was not able to do my housework for myself and husband. I wrote you and 'described my condi tion as nearly as possible. You recom mended Peruna. I took four bottles of it and was completely cured. I think Peruna a wonderful medicine and have recommended it to my friends with the very best of results. Esther M. Milner. Very few of the great multitude of women who have been relieved of some pelvic disease or weakness by Peruna ever consent to give a testimonial to be read by the public. There are , however , a few courageous , self-sacrificing women who will for the sake of their suffering sisters allow their cares to be published. Mrs. Milner is one of these. In her gratitude for her restoration to health she is willing A GRATEFUL that the women of LETTER TO the whole world DR. HARTMAN should know It. A chronic invalid brought back to health is no small mat ter. Words are inadequate to express- complete gratitude. Benjamin Hobbs of Springfield , Mass. , is the oldest active armorer in America. He has been in government employ forever over fifty years. Wanted Women In each town to soil extracts , , toilet articles , massajjo cream , etc. Waterloo1 Cliem cal Works , \Vut6rIoo. Iowa. A Wise Cnt. A time cat story Is told by a corre spondent of the Hartford Courant A family moved to a new home twelve miles from the old one. They gave their cats to a friend about six miles- from the new home. One of them , the mother cat , remained at her new quar ters only a short time , and nothing was heard from her until this summer , when nearly two years had passed. One morning she was discovered in the yard of her old mistress' "home in the city which she had never seen , being born and raised at the old home in the coun try. To the greeting of her mistress she responded with every show of affec tion and delight Of course , the wan derer was made welcome. She shows a decided aversion to being put out of doors at all , and clings with a devotedness - ness which Is really touching to her oldL friends. "Now , " asks the writer , "could this be merely diance that pussy , In her tramp life , should find her way to that particular place , or do these dumb creatures know more than we give them credit for ? " The trahi was called the limited , but what was limited about it ? It ran at an unlimited speed , the incivility of the conductor and the brdkeman was unlim ited , as was the rapacity of the porter. "It's a mystery ! " exclaimed the littla party of foreigners. But in a moment they entered the drawing room car , and their wonder van ished. "Of course , it's the good taste of the Jecoratlons I" they whispered , and , remem bering their manners , pretended not to no * tice.Puck. . THE WAY OUT. Chi of Food Broncht Sncceea and Happiness. An ambitious but delicate girl , after falling to go through school on account 3f nervousness and hysteria , found In Srape-Nuts the only thing that seemed to build her tip and furnish her tha jeace of health. "From Infancy , " she soys , "I have lot been strong. Being ambitious to earn at any cost I finally got to the Sign School , but soon had to abandon ny studies on account of nervous pros- ration and hysteria. "My food did not agree with me , I Few thin and despondent. I could not njoy the simplest social affair , for I uffered constantly from nervousness Q spite of all sorts of medicines. This wretched condition continued tntil I was twenty-five , when I became aterested In the letters of those who ad cases like mine and who were being ured by eating Grape-Nuts. "I had little faith but procured a box nd after the first dish I experieneed a ecullar satisfied feeling that I had ever gained from any ordinary food. I lept and rested better that night and i a few days began to grow stronger. "I had a new feeling of peace and jstfumess. In a few weeks , to my reat Joy , the headaches and nervous- ess left me jg life became bright and. . opefnL I resumed my studies and' ' iter taught fen months with ease o mrse using Grape-Nuts every day. It now four years since I began to use rape-Nuts , I am the mistress of a ' ippy home and the old weakness has jver returned. " Name given by Post al Co. , Battle Greek , Mien. ' "There's a eason. " Read'the little k-Tfle Road \Fullvllle , " In pkgs