Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, June 20, 1907, Image 6
of Tvro Familiar Provero It was the habit of the great Gree painter Apelles never to let a day pas liowerer busy he chanced to be , witt ont practicing his hand by tracing th outline of some object , a custoi which has now passed into a proverb- * 'No day -without a line. " He als made it a rule , when he had finishe a canvas , to exhibit it to the view o those who visited his studio , -while h thiinself , hidden behind the picture ixvould listen to their comments. It i Bit id that once a shoemaker censure iiim for having painted a pair of shoe with one latchet too few. Next da ; the shoemaker , revisiting the studic eaw that the painter had corrected th mistake. He then began to criticis the leg of the portrait , upon whlc ! ' 'Apelles came forward and remindei him that a shoemaker should not g beyond the shoes , a piece of advic 'which has also crystallized into : jjrcverb , "Let tlie cobbler stick to hi last" Pliny the Elder. Domestic Economics. The man whose thrifty choice of i wife is chronicled in the Rochestei Herald will doubtless make a success 'In the business of life. His talents de stine him for a wider sphere than thai of a simple farmer's life. He was ai : Alabama youth , and courted two girls at the same time. One was Sally ; the other was Mary. Sally was a very fine girl , thrifty , industrious , and of a do mestic turn. She was not so pretty as some other girls , but James , the swain in question , had courted her in his early years. When he had prospered and earned a little money , he became infatuated with Mary , sweet , pretty , but always idle. The neighbors at first were puzzled by the double courtship , but after awhile they decided that Mary was the favored one. Suddenly James married Sally. The Methodist preacher who performed the ceremony had a little of the curiosity which pos sesses all mankind. "James , " he said , " we all thought you were going to marry Mary. " "Yes , " replied James , "but I thought if I married Mary I should have to engage Sally to wait on her. If I married Sally she would wait on .herself. " Wit. " Most men of weight dislike the frail gilt and satin chairs which accidental ly fall to their lot in a crowded draw ing room. They were in use in Mr. Webster's time. At an evening reception - , tion given to some western lawyers soon after the accession of President .Tyler and the dissolution of President ( Harrison's cabinet , Mr. Stanberry , late i-attorney-generaL , was accompanied by | his bashful friend , Mr. Leonard , who 'immediately ' retired to a corner and --selected this gilded trifle as a resting- Tplace. In order to withdraw still far- rther from notice he tilted the frail rstructure backward. Down it went , smashed into a dozen pieces , and Leon ard the embarrassed was Leonard the observed by all. Mr. Webster Immediately - diately rushed to the rescue of his un fortunate guest and raised him from the floor with the reassuring remark : "Why , my dear Mr. Leonard , you should have remembered that no cabi net work would hold together here. " Demurred. ' "At the rate at which our grand forest trees are being destroyed , " remarked the professor of economics , "it will be only a few years , comparatively speaking , un til all our edible nuts will have become things of the past. " "I don't believe it , professor , " spoke up one of the listeners. "There will never be a time when you can't go to the stores and buy old hickory nuts. " Hospital Horror. First Interne What a funny little ap pendix that last patient had ! Second Interne Yes ; regular comic supplement. WENT TO TEA _ _ And It Wound Her Bobbin. Tea drinking frequently affects peo- 'plc as badly as coffee. A lady in Salis- tbiiry , Md. , says that she was compelled to abandon the use of coffee a good .many years" ago , because it threatened to ruin her health and that she went ( over to tea drinking , but finally , she jh-ad dyspepsia so bad that she had lost twenty-fire pounds and no food seemed to agree with her. She further says : "At this time I twas induced to take up the famous i food drink , Postum , and was so much pleased with the results that I have 'never ' been without it since. I commenced - , menced to improve at once , regained I my twenty-five pounds of flesh and went 1 some beyond my usual weight. ' "I know Postum to be good , pure , and healthful , and there never was an arti cle , and never will be , I believe , that does so surely take the place of coffee , * as Postum Footi Coffee. The beauty of it all is that it is satisfying and won derfully nourishing. I feel as if I icould not sing Its praises too loud. " JRead "The Road to Wellville , " in pkgs. a Reason. " J10 J10f FOTODATION OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP. By Governor Hughes. Underlying all other needs is the cultivation of individual strength of character , of self-respect , and of the sense of personal honor. You do not make a man a better man by put ting him in the employ of the State. Nor is the fellow who criticises ev erybody else , but is quietly looking out for a chance to get a little graft himself , the sort of man who will improve the public service. The employer who will oppress his men aud treat them unfairly will oppress the people if he gets a chance. And the employe who will GOV. HUGHES. cheat his employer , or the represent ative of a union who will betray it for his own adVantage - Vantage , will cheat and betray the public if he is put in office. The man who thinks the first object iu life is to serve himself , and who thinks that the American idea is "every man for himself and the devil take the hmdinost , " will never be a faithful servant for the people. So that it is in the schools and the settlements , in the various institutions and organizations where men and women , boys and girls , are taught to be square , aud that there are limits which personal honor and the sense of right and justice will not permit to be exceeded , no mat ter what selfish advantage is to be gained , and that there are public rights and the interests of the community which are above all mere individual considerations , that we find the security for good government and the pros perity of the people. And I believe most strongly in the cultivation of the 'religious principle and of the faith in the supremacy of the power that makes for righteousness , upon which all else that I have spoken of is based. CULTIVATE SELF-ESTEEM. By Juliet V. Strauss. Nobody's life is a failure unless he him self considers it so. If it suits him , that is all that is necessaryA man may be a bore , he may be utterly useless uud inefficient , or he may be unendurably officious and always bobbing up at the wrong time , but so long as he doesn't know it is he is fortunate above everybody else. There is a certain class of people whom I often think are more to be envied than any others , and that is they who are hopelessly bad form and do not know it. They are handsome , they are elaborate , they are stylish. What more could be desired ? Their sereui- MADE ABJECT APOLOGY. TIic Minister V/lio Married aiillioii- niru Corey to Miibellc Oilman. If ever a man made an abject apol ogy for an act which he admitted was an offense against religion , society and morals , that man was Rev. John L. Clark , pastor of a C o n g r e gational church in Now York City. Clark was the man who married William Ellis Corey , the millionaire presi dent of the United States Steel Cor- " 0" t0 EEV. JOHN L. CLARK , f0 ' belle Gilman , the actress Corey by his life had prac tically forced his wife , who had married him when he was poor and who had helped him in his fight for fame and fortune , to sue for divorce. Before this action his name was associated with that of the Gil man woman and the divorce was nec essary in order that he might marry the stage beauty. Corey appealed to several Episcopal ministers to offi ciate , but to their credit they refused. Only the weakness of a Congregational minister removed the necessity of a civil marriage Instead of a religious one. one.Clark's Clark's congregation was so indig nant that , to save his place , he re turned the princely fee he had receiv ed , made a most abject apology , ac knowledging his sin before the world and begged for forgiveness. This was finally granted , on his promise never again to disgrace his holy calling. \Jtica Globe. BED TOPS AND COPPER TOES. The Boy of Old and His First Pair of Boots. It was the sight of a little pair of boots with dingy red tops and copper- bound toes that stirred memories. They were castoffs , relics of a time when progress and modern ways had not come upon us and changed us so much. Now , when a boy reaches the age of 14 , we give him a safety jazor , and he takes his girl out riding in a hired automobile. In the old days , in the time of the ty in coldly tramping down all the unwritten laws of good taste is a terror to beholders , and has a humorous side calculated to make a cow laugh. There is only one sort of person who is funnier , and that is one who is just as hopelessly good form. Some form is so good that it is bad , and people who are afflicted with this laborious sort are truly ponderous. Their efforts < ire as unlike the consummate social grace of those to the manner born as is the playing of the person we used , to call a "bumble puppy" at whist to that of the real whist player. The "bumble puppy , " how ever , is all right , because he thinks he is. It is only when we become a little bit doubtful of our own success that we begin to be pitiable , and people kick us from pillar to post. People like impudence ; they like duplicity ; they like vanity ; they like display. If you are meek and modest , mild and meritorious , just get ready to turn the other cheek , for you will have reason to do so. If the thought that perhaps , after all , you are not lie smartest thing in town begins to creep into your deluded cranium , expel It , as you would any other pois onous sentiment. Remember you are the center of the universe , and let that thought console you ; give your hat a little tilt over your nose and step out jauntily , for if you slink , somebody will throw a rock at you or tie a tin can to your coat tail. YOTJNG- FOLKS , EEMEMBER MOTHER. By Zelma Travers. There are very few young people who ever stop to consider the tremendous debt they owe to their mothers. In the rush of every day life the mother , with her unselfish devo tion , shrinks to the side and is left there to be neglected 'by those for whom her life has been one long sacrifice1. Mothers demand very little in return for the long nights of broken rest and watchful ness they spent when you were a child , so remember , girls , that a little smile and a kind word will go a great way to pay up the debt you owe. Mothers like fun once in a while just as much as you do , so don't exclude them from your pleasure. Take them into your confidence and tell them your secrets. You won't find a better friend the world over. Nothing will please your mother more than the little gift you pur chase to surprise her. A mother is never so proud as when she is taken out by her son. Don't be ashamed , boys , to show her this attention. .Let ner feel that you , too , are proud to be seen with her. Show her the courtesy that you are in the habit of giving your girl acquaintances , aud you will be repaid when you see the great happiness that will brighten up her worn face. HATCHING SNAKES SOMETHING NEW -PHOTOGRAPHY. . The photographs shown above are among the most unusual on record. Probably not more than a half dozen persons , all told , have ever seen young snakes emerging from the eggs , and it is not known that they were ever be fore photographed. The snakes' are of the viper and viperine varieties. simple life and the straight talk , your boots were the pride and joy of your heart. They had shiny red tops then and the copper looked like gold , and nary a chill touched the legs of the boy who wore them. If you will re member , you and father paid a visit to the shoe shop early in September , and the boots came home with you. They pinched some at first , for a boy who has gone barefoot all summer has feet like pancakes. You tried them on the walk in front of your house and oh , joy ! what a musical squeak they made and how they seemed to proclaim : "New boots ! new boots ! ' ' which Is a very fine message. Then on Saturday night father greas ed them , rubbing the oil well in , and you put in your days hoping for a change in the weather. Indian sum mer , the drifting leaves , warm sun shine and soft breezes grew positively hateful , and you wondered what ueo- ple would do if it stayed hot all win ter and if the things that made it grow cold had slipped a cog , and the cherry trees would blossom on Christ mas day. And then , one night you heard the wind whistling in the chimney and you snuggled down in bed and went to sleep again , and mother had to call you four times before you hopped out of your warm nest , and , glory be ! there was frost on the window pane and a pair of red-top boots waiting for a boy just your size down by the kitchen stove. How warm and nice they felt as you slipped them on over your woolen socks , aud soon you were slipping along the frosted grass in the back yard. You broke the ice on sun dry puddles. You walked through the cornfield , where the frost had harden ed the ground , and the crunch ! crunch ! said : "New boots ! new boots ! " And then , one day the storm came. Grandfather said that the old woman up above was picking her geese , and there were drifts for the new boots to plow Jthrough , and a path to be made to t&e wood pile , and later , when the ice on the big pond was. glary , those same little boots slid across un til your breath came fast. You were as warm as toast. Well did those little red-top boots do their work. At church you were sure that people were admiring them , and at Sunday school how glad you were you had them on when the super intendent put his hand on your head and told father you were a fine fellow. And then came spring and the snow melted and the blossoms came and the red-top boots were forgotten , and you never knew that they were wrapped in paper and laid away with other keepsakes , and that years later a gray- haired woman caressed them with lov ing touches and shed tears because of her boy who had grown up to be a great big man and gone out into the world. Tlie Inilueiice of Books. Books have always a secret influence on the understanding. We cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas. He that reads books of science , though without any desire fixed of improvement , will grow more knowing. He that enter tains himself with moral or religious treatises will imperceptibly advance in goodness. The ideas which are often offered to the mind will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them. Samuel Johnson. WILL THEY FIT ? Chicago Inter Ocean. DEATH FOR KIDNAPERS. Capital Punishment MAT B * Prided -rided br Federal Lawn. Himself a father and an advocate < the rights of the home to the fulle ; measure of protection from the goven ment , It is said that the President wi make kidnaping the subject of a speciz appeal in his nest message to Congres : Many members of the national legish tivo body believe that the stealing c children to hold them for purpose c ransom ought to be elevated to the ratin of capital crime , punishable by deatl Whether President Roosevelt will go tha far in his recommendations is known enl by himself , but that he will speak fc some adequate action is a certainty. The police authorities favor such law. They say that the kidnaper is th hardest of all criminals to apprehem The man who steals a child and keeps i near him ever has a power which hold the authorities at his mercy. The instan they make a threatening move or seer to be closing in on the qu.irry , the kic nnper has only to drop a letter in an mail box informing the police that ur loss they draw off he will kill the chile Then pursuit is paralyzed. Stringent laws against kidnaping ar more needed in the United States tha anywhere else. In England and the COUD tries of Europe the child whose parent have money enough to make it wort while to kidnap lim is guarded like ; hothouse plant , and there is little or n opportunity to get him. The exact re verse is true here. Under present cor ditions the risk ofttimes seems wort ! while to a desperate man crazed fo cash. If , as many lawmakers desire , kid naping be advanced to th ; jlare of ; capital crime , with the gallows or elec trical chair as a certain punishment , i would take a hardy criminal indeed t run the risk. The comparative ease wit ] which murderers escape execution woul not "apply to a kidnaper. The America ) may have charity in a good many in stances and perhaps make more allow ances than he should , but the America ] father who sat in judgment on a guilt ; kidnaper would certainly find no mere ; in his make-up when it comes to passing on the proper degree of punishment. ' ' Fund to Flffht I.a1 or Unions' During the annual convention of th < National Association of Manufacturers a New York , 300 members were present and James W. Van Cleave of St. Louii presided. Secretary Gushing said the : had fought successfully against furthe : legislation for the eight-hour day am against court injunctions. Treasure : Stillman said the association now hac an annual income of $180,000. A com mittee of thirty-six was appointed t < raise § 500,000 a year for three years the money to be spent in educating th < public as to the right view to take ir labor disputes. A poll of the 3,000 mem bers on tariff revision showed about threi to two in favor of limited and reasonabh revision , immediately after the next presi ilential election. President Van Clev < iame out for a federal corporation later tor all enterprises engaged in interstate business. Notwithstanding the mobilization of c arge Mexican army along the Guatenm- an border within the past few weeks : he government of President Cabrera con- : inued in its defiant attitude toward the lemands made by President Diaz of Mex co. Intrenchments had been thrown ui ) y the Guatemalan army , so as to com' nand the town of Ocos , on the Mexicar > order. The Mexican government has begun the nassing of troops along the border oi jruatemala , armed with Mausers anc Maxims , and it is understood that Presi lent Diaz and leading officials of Mexicc sympathize with the insurrection against President Cabrera of Guatemala. Dia : s determined to stop the turmoil on hit ) order and bring Guatemala to terms foi : he murder of Gen. Barillas while undei : he protection of the Mexican govern- nent. The unrest which was evident in manj parts of China has now broken into opet ebellion hi the province of Kwangtung , vhere several large towns have been at acked by the rebels , the residents being Sundered and the public buildings de- jt'royed. The movement differs from the Boxer outbreak of 1900 , in that it is di rected against the ruling dynasty , anc lot against the foreigners. Riots were specially severe in the Swatow district , ind 10,000 rebels , known as triads , tools ± e field , headed by Gen. Sun , formei : aotai of Nanking. At Wong Kong ev- : ry official was killed , while the German nisslon at Lien Chow was destroyed. The Royal Geographical Society oi Condon announces that an accurate sur- ey of the mountains of the Moon ic ilast Africa stows that the greater and aore important part of them lie in the jongo Free State , or on the Belgian side the thirtieth meridian. This would iring Lake Albert Edward , which was tamed for King Edward when he was Mnco of Wales , under Belgian jurisdic- ion. King Leopold is not disposed to aake any concessions in view o recent English attacks upon his Congo policy. It 3 expected that the mountains and water ourses will be renamed. The present eography of the section was based upon nacurate surveys o certain explorers ? ho had little knowledge of scientific sur- eying. Premier Stolypin addressed the douma n response to a challenge from the so- lialists and members of all the left par ies , numbering over half the body , re named outside during the discussion of : he recent conspiracy against the life of he Czar. A resolution condemning ter- orism was then offered by the constitu- lonal democrats and passed. Recently he police raided the committee rooms of : he radical members of the douma , and his caused great feeling. The radical eaders say that the stories of th& con- iphracy were faked in order to discredit lie radicals in the douma. Ds Yea Think For Yourself ? . do you open your mouth like & young lrd and gulp down whatever food or medi ine makbc offered you ? * * J * tf * * i * Intelligent thinking woman. in need of f fromweaknes nervouaness , pain and ? . then it means much to you that tber f > nc tried iftnd true bQneqtfr rp oarrro ? * , sold by druggists forthQjcureof ills. The makers of Dr. Pierco's Favorite Pro scription , for the cure of weak , nervous , rundown - down , over-worked , debilitated , pain-racked women , knowing thia medicine to bo made up of ingredients , every one of which has the strongest possible indorsement of the leading- and standard authorities of the several schools of practice , are perfectly willing , andi in fact , are only too glad to print , as they do , ' the formula , or list of Ingredients , of which' it Is composed , inplain English , on every bottle-wrapper. H * ft ft ft ft The formula of Dr. Piercc's Favorite Pre scription will bear the most critical examina tion of medical experts , for it contains no alcohol , narcotics , harmful , or habit-forming' drugs , and no agent enters into It that is not highly recommended by the most advanced and leading medical teachers and author ities of their several schools of practice. These | auiyhorltiesrccommend the Ingredients ' ' ' ofJ wc ' j av 'Vc' > recriptiori " for the cure of oxacly"thcjaine ; ailments" * * * * * No other medlclny for woman's ills has any' ' such professional endorsement aa Dr. Pierco's' ' Favorite Prescription has received , in the unQualified - ' Qualified recommendation of each of itaj several Ingredients by scores of leading medl- | cal men of all the schools of practice. Is > such an endorsement not worthy of your- consideration ? * * * * * A booklet of Ingredients , with numerous1 authorative profeslonal endorsements by the1 leading medical authorities of this country , ) will be mailed free to any one sending name * and address with request for same. Address1 Dr. E. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y. What did Argand do for the lamp ? " Examine an ordinary lamp in which x > al oil is burned. The chimney pro- : ects the flame from sudden gusts of vind and also creates a draft of air , ust as the fire chimney creates a draft , irgand's lamp was the first to have a. ihimney. Look below the chimney and > x > u will see open passages through vhich air may pass upward and find ts way to the wick. Notice further tat as this draft of air passes upward t is so directed that -when the lamp s burning an extra quantity of air ) lays directly upon the Tvick. Before .rgand , the wick received no supply of iir. Now notice and this is very im- tortarit that the wick of our modern amp is flat or circular , but thin. The .Id in abundance plays upon both sides if the thin wick , and burns it without naking smoke. Smoke is simply half- rurned particles ( soot ) of a burning ubstance. The particles pass off half iurned because enough air has not been upplied. Now Argand. by making the dck thin and by causing plenty of air o rush into the flame , caused all the rick to be burned and thereby caused t to burn with a white flame. After the invention of Argand , the rt of lamp-making improved by leaps .ad by bounds. More progress was nadc in twenty years after 1783 than lad been made In twenty centuries be- ore New burners were invented , new : nd better oils were used , and better ricks made. But all the new kinds of amps were patterned alter the Argand. The lamp you use at home may not > e a real Argand , but it is doubtless nade according to the principles of the amp invented by the Swiss physician n 1783. St. Nicholas. People Tell Each Otncr About Good BTliinsrs. Twelve years ngo few people In the world : new of such a preparation as a Powder for he Feet. To-day after the genuine merit if Allen's Foot-Ease has been told year after ear by one gratified person to another , here are millions who would as soon go rfthout a dentifrice as without Allen's Foot- Jase. It Is a cleanly , wholesome , healing , ; ntlseptlc powder to be shaken Into the shoes. Fhich has given rest and comfort to tired nd aching feet In all parts of the world. It : ures while you walk. Over 30,000 testl- aonlals of cures of smarting , swollen , per- plring feet It prevents friction and wear if the stockings and will save in your atock- ng bill ten times its cost each year. Imlta- fcras pay the dealer a larger profit , other- rise you would never be offered a substitute Then , you ask for Allen's Foot-Ease , the- riglnal powder for the feet. Imitations arer lot advertised because they are "not pcrma- lect. For every genuine article there are aany Imitations. The Imitator has no rep- ; tation to sustain the advertiser has. It : tands to reason that the advertised article1 , 3 the best , otherwise the public would not. > ny It and the advertising could not be com inned. When you ask for an article adver- ised in this publication , see that you get It. lefuso imitations. Open to Conviction. No rock was ever more firmly fixed ban were Mrs. Manser's opinion ; but he considered herself of an extremely liable disposition , with a mind open a conviction on all sides. "It's the strangest thing to me , the ray the rest of the family talk as If were set in my views , " she said one ay to her nephew William's bride , rith whom she had been laboring on he subject of calling-cards for more- ban an hour. "It seems to me you're sort of tak- ig the same tone , " she continued , look- 3g sharply at the young woman , "and don't want you to. There isn't any- ody in this world that's readier to e convinced she's in the wrong than am by people who know more than . All they've got before 'em , ever , Is 3 prove to me that they do know more aan I and I tell you , my dear , there asn't one of 'em ever been able to ia tiifl family ! " CASTOR IA 3or ? Infanta end CMldien. lie Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of