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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1907)
; - s.s -e - A NERVOUS SUFFERER CURED BY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. /The / Medicine That Makes Rich , Re < J Blood and Performs Wonders as a Tonic for the Nerves. Why are nervous people invariably , pale people ? The answer to that question explain rwhya _ _ remedy tliat acts on the bloo < 3 jean cure nervous troubles. It explains why Dr. Williams' Pinij ( Pills for Pale People are also for nervoud ( people. ! It is because of the intimate relation ; between the red corpuscles in the blood and the health of the nerves. The nervous system receives its nourishment tlirough the blood. Let the blood be come thin , weak and colorless and the ( nerves are starved the victim is started ron the road that leads to nervous wreck. ' 'Nervous ' people are pale people but the pallor comes first. .Enrich the blood and the nerves are stimulated and toned tip to do their part of the work of the | body. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make red blood and transform nervous , irrit able , ailing people into strong , energetic , forceful men and women. , Mrs. Harriet E. Porter , of 20 Liberty avpuue , South Medford , Mass. , says : . "I had never been well from child- jhood and a few years ago I began to .have dizzy spells. At sucli times I could { not walk straight. I was afraid of [ paralysis and was on the verge of ' 'nerrous prostration. Then neuralgia [ set in and affected the side of my face. 'The ' pains in forehead my were excru- jciating and my heart pained me so that pny doctor feared neuralgia of the heart. [ I tried several different kinds of treat- pnent but they did me no good , i " One day my son brought me some of jDr. Williams' Pink Pills and I found ithat they strengthened my nerves. I jtook several boxes and felt better in ( every way. There were no more dizzy attacks , the neuralgia , left me and I have been a well woman ever since. " Dr. Williams * Pink Pills are invaluable , in anreiaia , rheumatism , after-effects of the grip and fevers and in sick head aches , nervousness , neuralgia , and even partial paralysis and locomotor ataxia. Our booklet "Nervous Disorders , a Method of Home Treatment" will be sent free on request to anyone interested Write for it today. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists , or will be sent , postpaid , on receipt of price , 50 cents per box , six 'boxes for $2.50 , by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company , Scheuectady , N" . Y- A Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forever. J. T. Felix Gouraud's Oriental Cream or Magical Beautifior. Removes Tan , Pimples , Freckles , ilotU Patches , Bash , and bkin Diseases , and every blemish on beauty , and de fies detection. It has stood the test of 69 rears , and Is so harmless we taste it tobesurelt Is properly made. Accept no counter feit of similar name. Dr. L. A. Eayre Bald to & lady of the haut- ton ( a patient ) : "As you ladles will use them , I recommend Gournud's Crenm' as the least harmful of all the § kla preparations. " For sale by all druggists and Iancy -Goods Dealers In the United States , Canada and Europe FEUD , T. HOPKINS , Prop , , 37 Great Jcnes Slraei , KwYoil He Could .Fill Hie Bill. A day or two after George B. Cor- telyou assumed the duties of Secretary of the Treasury , he was visited by an -elderly man \vho wanted an appoint ment as confidential clerk to one of the assistant secretaries. Notwithstanding the fact that he was - very busy at the time , Mr. Cortelyou .gave the elderly person a hearing. On account of his age , Mr. Cortelyou said , he felt that he could not comply with "the request So , gently but firmly , he dntimated to the old man that it was -about time for him to go. This , however - ever , did not dampen the latter's spirit rin the least. "Xow , sir , " said lie , "as I feel myself peculiarly competent to fill one of these confidential clerkships , I hope that you will further consider my ap plication. " Then , wagging his head anost impressively , he added : "Oh , Mr. Cortelyou , I could be so confidential ! " "Success Magazine. " Up to His Xamc. A teacher in a mission school in Bos \ ton had among her pupils a colored boy named Ralph Waldo Emerson- I Longfellow. As he was absent one Sunday , she asked the class if any one knew the reason for his absence. "I reckon I do , " said one small , serious-looking boy. "What is the reason , Johnnie ? " "I guess he's home writing poetry , " fc responded the boy , with a delighted fci fci chuckle. i i , AN OLD EDITOR , Fount ! 92OOO Worth of Food. The editor of a paper out in Okla. said : "Yes , it is true when I got hold of Grape-Nuts food , it was worth more than a $2000 doctor bill to me , for it made me a well man. I have gained 25 pounds in weight , my strength has returned tenfold , my brain power has been given back to me , and that is an absolute essential , for I am an editor and have been for 33 years. "My pen shall always be ready to epeak a good word for this powerful nutritive food. I had of course often read the advertisements regarding Grape-Nuts , but never thought to apply V the food to my own use , until , in my extremity and sickness the thought came to me that it might fit my case. The statements in regard to the food are absolutely correct , as I have proven in my own case. One very fortunate thing about the food is that while it is the most scientifically made and highly nourishing , concentrated food I have ever known , it has so delicious a taste that it wins and holds friends. " -There's a Reason. " Read "The Road to Wellvllle , " in pkgs. fy * nions of Great Papers on important Subjects. TRAGIC TEASING. YOUNG \voumn drowned herself near Wil mington , Del. , the othe/ day because she could not endure the playful taunts of her associates about a trivial personal matter. She had begged them to stop , but they per sisted. She then threatened to end her life if the persecution continued , and still they teased her. Then she carried her threat into execution , and no\v the young people who engaged in their pas time of annoyance are overwhelmed with regret. , This tragedy carries an impressive lesson , applicable. ' to great numbers of people who do not realize the sen sitiveness of othdrs. Of all subtle cruelties none is more abominable than the persistent reference to a subject that is painful to another. Yet this form of torment is Indulged in constantly. Parents tease their children about things that may seem trifling to them , but are serious and important to the little folks. They cause great suffering of mind by thus incessantly "poking fun" at the youngsters whom they are supposed to cherish and guard from pain. The expression is often heard : "Oh , it is good for her. She is too sensitive. She will have to get used to being criticised and teased while she is young. " Yet this very treatment is cal culated to render the child more keenly susceptible to mental torture than before. It may not be doubted that many a child's nature is warped by injudicious jocularity on the part of its elders. Washington Star. THE STOCK EXCHANGE. , ANY persons think of the New York Stock Exchange as a seat of commercial iniquity , and have been encouraged. in this view by magazine articles picturesque and expert in phrasing , but not so accurate as they ought to be. When something unusual , like the recent decline of stocks , calls attention to "the market , " we realize bow little thought most of us give to it day by day. It seems remote from the interests of the man of small means. But the central stock-market is a solid and important institution , and the conditions which it Indicates at tjie end of each day's trading are almost sure signs of the state of the country's production and commerce. It is true that a great many of the transactions on the stock exchange are mere gambling , and represent nothing more than the turning of money from one man's pocket into another's ; it is also true that even in legiti mate trading there is a fever and hysteria which per verts not only commercial values , but life values. Nevertheless , most of the chicanery and madness of stock transactions flourishes not in the central market , nor in the offices of those who guide it , but in the suburbs of the business , in offices not related to the exchange or to any reputable banking house. Real stock transactions bear a definite relation to' the business of the country , and after due allowance Is made for the artificial manipulations , so difficult to A GLIMPSE OF SHERMAN I It is not always the great things men do that keep their memory alive. Frequently it is some surall act of kindliness , some pleasant speech or manly courtesy , which remains in the minds of those who knew them. So in Illinois there is a young man who thinks of General Sherman not as "Old Tecumseh , " the soldier , victor in stren uous campaigns , but as a kindly , rough-bearded old gentleman , who car ried Irfrn over niiies of road on his lap In order that at the end he might real ly see his boyish hero , the soldier. It was in the early eighties. The county In which the boy lived was to dedicate a soldiers' monument on Me morial day. General Sherman and Governor Oglesby were to be the two speakers of the occasion. From where the boy lived it was six miles to the county seat , lie had to walk the distance. But worst of all misfortunes , it rained all the day be fore , when he should have been workIng - Ing in the garden , -and so on Memorial day the boy had to get down on hands and knees and pull weeds under a broiling suu , across row after row of young vegetables , so that he did not get away from home until 1 o'clock. Only an hour , and six miles to go ! He knew it was useless. It would take him two hours , and when he got there he would find everything over and the general gone and there was no use in anything , anyway. Tears rolled down his cheeks now and then , and he felt like a much abused boy. Every little while a buggjor car riage passed him going in his direc tion , but all of them were full , and there was no one to give him a lift. But at last , when he was certain that he could never get there , a buggy which came up from behind did not pass , but stopped beside him. "Hello , bub ! " said a kindly voice , "Going far ? " The boy looked up through misty eyes. Two gray and quizzical old faces peered at him out of a muddy buggy. Two pleasant old gentlemen were on the seat "Y-y-yes , sir I'm , trying to , " said the boy. . . - v "Climb in , than/ ' said the man near est him , and as the boy , not believing his ears , put a foot on the step , the man reached out and lifted him in , and seated him on his lap. "Where 'you going ? " he asked. " " "I was a-going to the monument , " Ba'ld the boy , "but I didn't think I would get there. Do you suppose I will ? In time to see General Sher man ? " old man who was drivinp cluck- practice on the market as a whole , we find the exchange a sound register of the state of the country. The same things that all human beings feiur , .crop failure , war , strikes , depress the market. That is why men were afraid , when the market "broke ; not so much because they care for the stocks , as that they feared the signs of the end of prosperity. Fortunately the market recov ered , and there was no panic. But for a few days all intelligent persons watched the market with respect and attention. YoutlCompanion. . BOYS AND THE STREET. HE Illinois Senate has passed a bill which will have the effect , if it becomes law , of requiring boys between 14 and 1C to be law fully employed during school hours or to be in school. Some latitude will probably be allowed to the interpretation of the word "employed , " so that it may cover useful work at home or under the direction of the boy's parents as well as work for hire. The intent is to keep off the streets the boys who are iot in school. The street is not the place for a boy under 16. Habits of idleness unfit the boy for serious work and give him a distaste for it. No phase of the criminal history of the city is more disquieting than the increase'in the number of adolescent criminals during recent years. " This increase - _ crease is due , more than'anything else , to the failure of parents to see to it that their boys are kept under dis cipline after they have reached the age of 14. The gang that meets near the corner saloon is not good company for the boy who expects to make a success of life. * * * Boys who will be men can be made or ruined by the habits into which they fall before the age of 1G. Idle ness during two of the most important of the formative years is likely to lead to incompetence and failure- nothing more sericms. It is better for a boy to enter upon life as fully equipped for the struggle as possible. To some boys two years more of school would be an in valuable help. To others aq earlier start in business era a trade would be more important But to no one in average health can two years of the lessons of the street be anything but hurtful. Chicago Tribune. PLAY A NECESSITY OP LIPE. HE gospel of play will , we are confident , win for itself a hearing as the gospel of whole- someuess and a fuller life. It will go far to create a better race of manly beings , a better social state and throw a new lighten on the piety of grimness and "other worldli- ness. " What we have said has been applied mainly to city life , to the overpacked and unnatural crowd ; but it is applicable in a modified form to'country fife. The people who live among the trees and brooks do get , in spite of themselves , a certain relaxation , yet they need what they do not get the useless sport , the utter relief for a portion of each day from "trying to make ends meet" New York Independent ed to the horse , and the other , stroking his beard , said : "Why yes , I guess you will. Yes , I reckon he'll gel there. Eh , Dick ? " "Why why , yes , I reckon so. " said the other. For some reason they both chuckled. "Want to see the general , eh ? " said the old man who held him. "Don't care about the governor , eh ? " "No. sir , not so much , " said the boy , truthfully. "You see , he lives right here in this stite , and he didn't inarch through Georgia , or have songs about him , or anything. " "Why , no , so he didn't ! Did he , Dick ? " asked the boy's old gentleman again. This seemed to amuse them very much. They chuckled about it a while , and then the old gentleman who held the boy began to tell him stories about the campai is General Sherman had fought in , and about sol dier life , stories some of which were in the history book ; but most of them were new to the boy. Then the other man told some stories about Mr. Lin coln. "Did you knowxhim ? " demanded the boy ; and to his delight they both did , and told more stories about him. Six miles was a long way to walk , but it was a short way to ride , and It seemed as if they had hardly started when the boy heard a tremendous shouting and cheering , and there was the crowd , all lined up along the road , cheering. Cheering whom ? He felt a motion back of him , snd turned , and saw bis old gentleman take off his hat and smile and bow ; and the other sld gen tleman did the same. They drove up to the square and set him down , and every one stared at him. and then he saw them mount the platform with the committee. He had , indeed , arrived in time to "see the general , " for it was General Sherman and Governor Oglesby who had brought him. MOST EXPENSIVE OF HATS. Sombrero Presented to Grant and One Owned in Pitt.slnirf ? . | The most expensive hat in the world is a Mexican 'sombrero on exhibition in the national museum. Washington. It cost $1.500 in gold and was present ed to Gen. Grant while in Mexico in 1SS2. Samuel Sherard of Pittsburg , Pa. , probably has-the - costliest hat owned by any private individual. It cost $1,100 and is made of spun glass. It was made by an old Alsatian at Pittsburg. He invented a process for spinning and weaving glass , and the hat has consid erable elasticity , being as hard to break as an or'dinary Panama. Mr. Sherard has own l this unique headpiece for ten years and occasion- j aJy ? wears it because in a good-natured moment he promised the inventor to do so. so.WluSe WluSe William H. Seward was Secre tary of State in Lincoln's cabinet some of his South American admirers sent him a Panama hat which cost $1,000. It was exhibited in a New York show window for a year or more. Panama hats used to be frequently sold as high as $500 apiece , one New- York merchant selling three hats at that price in a single day in the sum mer of 1S07. but they are no longer on the market Panama hats are not made in Pan ama , but this name was given them because that city was formerly the greatest market for these goods. The finest hats come from Payta and Guayaquil , Peru , and are made of the fiber of the pita or pineapple plant This fiber is soft and pliable as silk , and some of the hats are made so flue that they can be folded up and put in the vest pocket. NO SUCH BECOSD OP TALK. Fifty-ninth Congress * the Most Tallc- ative in the Country's History. Completed records made by clerics of the Senate and House show that the last Congress the Fiftjvninth did more talking than any other in the his tory of the country. Their researches go back fourteen years , or to the Fifty- second Congress. The latter Congres * filled 2,020 pages of the Congressional Rqcord with its talk , as against 4,810 for the Fifty-ninth. In the Fifty-second Congress 10,323 bills were introduced , but the Fifty- ninth set a new figure with 25,897. The Fifty-second Congress was in session 340 legislative days and passed 398 public and 324 private bill * The Fif- ty-ninta was in session 227 legislative days and passed G92 public and 0,248 private acts. Most of the measures known as private acts are for the cor rection of military records or the grant of pensions. No Congress ever passed the number of bills that were made into law as the Fifty-ninth. It appears that such a thing as a dishonorable discharge from the army or navy , uncorrected by leg islative act , will SOQU be a positive curi osity. Congress is not only generous to the nation's fighting men in the matter of pensions , but it is also charitable in tht- matter of expunging from the rec ords anything set down against their conduct A Sole Theory. "A shoemaker is the most paradoxi cal of human beings. " 'Why so ? " "Because his first word is his last * * Baltimore American , t When a man observes conventional hours in calling on a , girl , it Indicates , among other things , that the affair isn't very serious. EAILWATSLAUGHTEE TERRIBLE INDICTMENT AGAINST AMERICAN MANAGERS. More Attention Pnld to Increasing Dividends than to the Practical Method * of Transportation Acci dents Likely to Increase. A list of the wrecks in the last twelve mouths constitutes an awful indictment against the American railway mana ger. } n no part of the civilized world is transportation attended by so many perils as in the United States , and of late the danger seems to be increasing instead of decreasing. Scarcely ; a day passes that the newspapers ' papers do 'not have to report some new disaster. In many instances the trage dies are the result of gross careless ness on the part of the railroad people. Spreading rails , open switches , dis regard of orders , carelessness of en gineers , conductors aud train dispatch ers explain some of the other disasters. In a few cases washouts , snowstorms and fogs caused wrecks. These are the only instances in which the railroad people can be held blameless. Something : lUulieallyVronpr. . No part of the country seems to have escaped , and , if anything , conditions appear to be worse on big railroad systems , where passenger traffic is sup posed to be attended by every safeguard that experience can suggest , than it is on smaller lines , where roatlbeds are weak and the equipment is not up to the times. That there is something radically wrong with the railroads is certain. James J. Hill , president of the Grdat Northern , acknowledged this when he said that be never took a railroad trip nowadays that he did not fear disaster. Transportation men say the railroads are not to blame and that railroad managers are struggling against condi tions such as they never confronted before and which they could not guard against. They say the public has no conception of the strain to which the railroads have been subjected in the last year or two. There has been a tremendous increase in traffic. The in crease came suddenfr. The railroads have done their best to handle it. but they have been unable to get cars or locomotives to meet the needs. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to the Great Lakes nearly every road is glutted with freight. If this excess of business could be handled promptly the railroads would make immense profits. The railroads did profit largely in the early days of the rise in the tide of traffic , but there was no end to the volume of freight , and soon men and machinery beran to suffer from the strain. Cars and loco motives need rest and repairs just as human beings do. When they do not receive it they are liable to break down. Men cannot be pressed to the limit of endurance week in and week out , month after month , without giving way. Railroads to Blame. But this explanation does not fully explain. Men who go to the root of the trouble lay the responsibility for present conditions upon the shoulders of half a dozen big men , who know more about finance than they do about practical railroading. There has been an evolution in the railroad business in the United States in the last eight or ten years. It lias been a period of reorganization and consolidation. Masters of finance rather than masters of transportation affairs have ruled in the councils of old and A PATHETIC APPEAL. -Cincinnati Post. Spyglass that Tells Distance. M. Gerard , an officer of the French navy , has invented an instrument called the telimeter , which enables one to find accurately the distance of any visible ob ject whose height is known , without com plex calculations. The principle on which , this instrument works is the combination ofy two prismatic rings so adjusted as to give a variable refractive angle , enabling the user by means of a graduated scale to read off the distance of the object looked at without stopping to go through a mathematical calculation. merger naf Nearly every new systems. Attended by a stock issue largely of water , which has been saddcd upon f of finance masters the railroads. The were discounting the growth < of tbe nation development of the properties tion and the consolidating. erties they were Every "observant person has been the Span- fact that since aware of the i Cnerican war the nation's business rate. a great has been expanding at the country s oiech- The only bnhich of with.this . anism that has not kept pace railroad. It has the expansion has been oC been the policy ofthe masters of nevr finance to cheek the building into sub- ones lines , force independent traffic so that aission and concentrate rev- t would yield the largest possible which they systems trunk -mie to the . The have succeeded. controlled. They railroads of the United States to-day are in few hands. But in their hunger and early returns for large profits they have absorbed , from the properties the masters of fmance-'have neglected the physical well being of the railroads. They have looked more to net earnings than to improved roadbeds , additional equipment and better service to the public. They viewed \vithinore , favor the manager who worked men and cars to the limit all-the time and show ed a reduction of operating expenses , with a big increase in gross earnings , than the one who always sought to im prove the property. When about a year ago the tremendous deus bulge in the volume of traffic carua suddenly it found the railroads unpre ' pared. 'The masters of finance had not added many locomotives and cars to the possessions of the properties they had absorbed. Neither had they extended the terminals of- the various roads to meet the requirements of a constantly growing traffic. Division superintend ents , yardmasters , masters of transpor tation , train dispatchers , conductors , firemen , engineers and brakemen did all they could. They buckled down to their work as only well-trained , earnest , efficient men will do. When they were called upon to work extra hours they" did so wiyingly. But they could make no impression on the flood. The more they battled , the more freight seemed to pour in upon theoi. Locomotives capable of drawing * thirty loaded cars were pressed to drag trains of thirty- * ix or fortyl Men who could work safelj" and well twelve or fourteen hours a daywere kept on duty sixteen or eighteen. Cars that should go to the repair shops were kept in service on the chance that they would get through all right. As it was with freight so was it witb passenger traffic. Every passenger car that could bo utilized seemed to ba needed. One branch of the service seemed to keep pace with the other in growth. And now the railroads are in the throes of the reaction from the strain- Equipment has given way and men have given way. Hundreds of persons have been killed and hundreds more probably will be slaughtered before affairs come to a normal state. The dozen < and dozens of freight wrecks with t'ie killing or maiming of rail road employes have been too s-nall in interest to attract general attention. Tears Kill Disease Germs. Dr. C. Lindahl of Copenhagen tells in the London Lancet of his discovery that tears have the power to kill various bac teria which produce disease in the human body. This bactcriacidal capacity of thi lachrymal fluid is not due to its inor ganisms which it contains , known as leu cocytes. The fluid when heated and cooled fails to prevent the growth o bac teria to the same degree as when in iti normal state. From Far and Xear. Four churches and a school house wert wrecked by a tornado at Rome ' persons e in p Francisco because of labor trouble * The fire department of Wyoming , Ohio ,