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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1907)
OHB MAN'S EXPERIENCE IN WEST ERN CANADA. Are Thousand * of Opportuni ties in Thla Land of Opportunity. To the Editor Dear Sir : The following experience of an Illi nois mail who went to Western Canada six years ago Is but one of the thou sands of letters that could he repro- ducbd showing how prosperity follows the settler on the fertile lands of West ern Canada. This letter was written to ihe Chicago agent of the Government of the Dominion of Canada and is dated at Evarts , Alberta , April S , 1907 : It is six years the 5th of this month since I and family landed in Red Deer , family sick and only $70.00 in my pock- tet Bought a $12 lot , built a 12x14 V3back and went to work as a carpen ter. .Next jlay sold for ? 400 ( had add- ' d lAxlS building to shack ) . Purchased two lots at $70 each and built a 28x28 two-story building and sold for $950. Filed on a quarter section -33 miles ooorthwest of Red Deer and have spent three years on 'it , and am well pleased. Quarter all fenced and cross fenced , wire and rail , 2 miles of fence. House 29x31 feet on stone foundation. Last year was my first attempt to raise fcraiu , 1 % acres of fall wheat , yield grand , but was frosted Aug. 2 , was cut Aug. 1C and made good pig feed. Had 1 % acres fall rye that I think could not be beat A fanner from Dakota cut It for me ; he said he never saw euch heavy grain anywhere. Straw .was 7 feet high. I had 4 acres of 2-ro-wed barley on fall breaking that < 13d not do so well , yet it ripened and gave me all the feed I need for stock and seed for this spring. I did not have grain threshed , so can't give yield , .but the wheat would have gone at least 25 bu. to the acre. Have a log stable 31x35 feet , broad roof and two smaller buildings for pigs and chickens. I have lived in Harvey , 111. , and know something about it I fhave been hun gry there , and though able and willing to work could get none to do. One Sat urday evening found me without any supper or a cent to get it with. A friend , surmising my situation , gave me a dollar , which was thankfully ac cepted and later paid back. Wife and I are thankful we came here. We were living near Mt Veruon , 111. , as perhaps you remember visiting me there and getting me headed for the Canadian Northwest and a happy day It baa proved for me. I have not grown rich , but I am prospering. I would not take $3,000 for my quarter now. The past winter has been a hard one , but I worked outside the coldest day (52 ( be low ) all day and did not suffer. We are getting a school started now that is badly needed. Our P. O. , Everts , is about 15 miles ; there is another office 6 miles , but It is not convenient to us. Wife and I would not exchange our home here for anything Illinois has to offer. Yours truly , ( Signed ) E. EilBERLEY. ' MEN GROW IN THE HILLS. { Tills Is the Philosophy of an. Old Missouri Staso Driver. "There be some that swap gold and days and risk their bones that they may talk first hand about Niagara and the Alps and the lakes of old Ireland God bless her memory ! but I'm here to tell you that old Missouri has a landscape that will make 'em all cor ner pieces in the Lord's great picture gallery of the world. " Col. Hector Evans , stage driver out of Cambria on the valley road , was delivering an oration one morning this week to some legal lights who were traveling on top with him , sa-ys the Ma con ( ilo. ) correspondent of the Kan sas City Star. As the stage coach swept along up country under the mo tive power of four sleek Clevelahds , the scenery spread out like the un rolling of a map. Among the green of the lowlands thousands of dark cattle brushed the dew from the blades and sheep gambol ed to the music of tiny bells. Far across the plain , like a silver ribbon flashing in\the sunlight , the river moved on its silent journey down the valley where it would eventually lock arms with a yellow stream that roared out of the mountains of the north. The lawyers passed the clgara around , and as Col. Evans got his ageing - o going the big team swung around a hill t and opened up another picture of sur- ? b prisii/g loveliness. h "That's land , that is , " he said , wav n ing his whip in grave illustration ; "ev n ery foot of it worth $100 an' acre and n more. 'Cause why ? 'Cause when the 11 Lord made man He made two kinds. 11t Them of the fiat lands and them of the B iiills. Them of the hills thinks out o what them of the bottoms does. You oa can't grow a man of imagination on a plain , and you can't keep a man of the hills from running things. I don't k know why it is , but it's so. MayiJe e ; it's 'cause they're nearer to Him and n can hear Him whisper. " a "Talk to me about the garden of the b gods , " said the old driver , ; n a tone n of gentle deprecation. "What can they raise there ? Nothing but rocks and t ] wildcats and can'ons and digger In li dians and such truck. This ain't no lin garden of the gods' but" here he n raised his hat reverently "it's God'a b > : ' garden. " - b In his day the old driver had journeyed - ; bb bo neyed across two hemispheres , and b -judgment abided in his tents. P She Played. a "She's played bridge so much that I [ she can go through a game with her e eyjss shut" a " Yes , I've been her partner when I c thought she was playing that way. " t Clareland Plaindealer. . * * - ni.ji 4 inions of Great Papers on Bmportaot Subjects * THE PASSING OP THE LOTTERY. AMBLING is a weed which will spring up overnight and flourish at the heels of the law's reaper , but that even the most deep- rooted species can7 be destroyed , if time and perseverance are devoted to the task , is shown by the crushing of the so-called Hon duras lottery. The recent decision of the Federal court at Mobile , Ala. , ends a struggle that has been waged for thirty years , and In whioh all the cun ning and resources of unlimited wealth failed In the end. to override tthe law. The millions that have been filched from the pockets of the poor to add to the wealth of the lottery men are beyond computation. For years the old Louisiana com pany flourished on the money squandered by those whd could not afford to lose for it is always those who hare no money to risk that wager it most rashly. Then came a time when the lottery became a serious menace to the country's prosperity. Everyone bought tickets , or rather fractions of tickets , and the winners were rich and fa mous for a day. Of the thousands who threw away their savings in the vain pursuit of the goddess of chance noth ing of "course was heard. A length the government was aroused and the lottery was driven from Louisiana to find a new name and nom inal home -Central America. But its harvest field remained the United States. Other laws were passed , " * but the"lottery sharks were clever and until January of this year eluded the nets spread for them. At last , how ever , they have been caught , their outlaw business de stroyed and a drop or two taken from the ocean of their profits. The fines of $284,000 imposed by the Southern court upon the wealthy and prominent men who pleaded guilty to the charge of operating the lottery are not the greater part of the punishment which should be their share. % They are gamblers , and as such should be despised by their neighbors and fellow citizeas. Chicago Post THE DIMINISHING BIRTH RATE. ' N the United States in 1000 the proportion of children under 5 to women of childbearing ing age was only three-quarters of what it was in 1SGO. " This significant statement was made the other day by Professor Ed ward A. Ross of the University of Wiscon sin in a paper read before the American Economic Association at Providence on "Western Civili zation and the Birth Rate. " When statistics are corrob orated by common observation they have added force. The statistical statement quoted is corroborated by such observation. The average American of to-day as often heard to contrast the big families of his grandparents with his own family and the families of his set The remarkable fall which has taken place during the last half-century in the birth rate of this country has been obscured by the swelling of population through immigration. Only recently has it attracted much atten tion. A somewhat similar fall , however , is also notice able , In varying degrees , In many other lands. . Even roomy Australia exhibits a like phenomenon. Germany and Russia are the chief exceptions to such a tendency among the leading countries of Europe. The main ex planation , according to Professor Ross , of this "willful restriction of the size of the family" is the desire of parents to observe higher standards of life for them selves and for such children as they do have. In order . to maintain these higher standards , under the pressure of mcdern life , the number to be provided for in the family is limited. On the whole , Professor Ross regards this movement in the line of a diminishing birth rate as "salutary , " in which respect he differs from President Roosevelt The subject is obviously one of basic importance to our social and national future. It would be interesting to know what Professor Ross thinks of the fact that the dimin ution of the birth rate is most marked , not among wage earners , but among those best qualified by intelligence and surroundings to rear good children. Chicago News. THE TO"WIT BE AUTTFUL. ' v HE beginning of summer is a season the' women of every village and town in the country may well organize work for the preservation and creation of beauty. Streets , commons , school yards , cemeteries , all need constant care , and in many towns there are no officials who are entrusted with this duty. In fact , the men who work on the roads too often destroy beauty when they should protect It En lightened park commissioners now encourage the growth of bushes and small trees beside the highway at great expense ; but In the country regions these very bushes are cut away , with a misdirected zeal for making things tidy. tidy.Ten Ten women banded together into an association for beautifying and cleaning the town can accomplish won ders. There Is a certain village where such a committee has wrought something like a miracle. They have put the sidewalks in condition by picking off the stones , cut ting side drains , and keeping the turf at the edge neatly clipped. Waste barrels have been set in different parts of the village ; they are emptied * twice a week , and re lieve the streets of the hateful , wind-blown papers. The bill board nuisance has been abated. The women have painted in a pleasant green an od ] covered bridge , which had been disfigured with advertisements for twenty years. They have also set up a well-drained iron water ing trough , In place of an unsanitary wooden one. Finally , each of theten _ women has cultivated an at tractive flower garden in front of her own house , and taken down the fence separating It from the street Thus at one stroke they have forced the citizens to keep cows and hens off the streets , and built up .a healthy emulation in lawns and gardens , until the whole village literally blossoms like the rose. Youth's Companion. It's quite likely that my mother-in- law will stay until the end of July , " replied the man with the aquiline nose and retreating chin. Then he added : "I see you have no sense of humor. " "What makes you think so ? " asked the man with the crush hat "You never cracked asmile. " "I pride myself on it , " said the man with the crush hat "I never smile .at any of 'em. I flatter myself that my nature is too sympathetic , and then I've bad personal experiences that have de- reloped the sympathetic side of me still more. You get off a neat bit of repar tee or make any sort of humorous re mark and you'll get the cockle-warm ing , responsive laugh from me about as quick as you will from , the next one , tmt I < j6n-rt see anything remarkably omny about that , and I'll bet you lon't" "You're dead right there , " agreed toe man with the aqualine nose. "Of course I'm right I' remember nce when I was a kid I was rambling through the wood and I saw a gray jail of a thing like a Japanese lantern ranging to the limb of a tree. I'd lever seen anything like it before , and lobody had ever shown me one , so I laturally picked up a stick and gave t an investigating poke. The next Oilng ] I was running at the top of my speed ; In a homeward direction , letting ut a yeJl at every jump. Every now ind then something like a red-hot wire iabbed into me , and by the time I got lome I was about as badl- stung a cid as you ever saw in your lifa. Moth- r didn't hold her sides and go Into Its of laughter. She never did have my sense of humor. She put me to ied and bathed my swellings with am- nonia and soda and things. " "A hornet sting is pretty bad , " sate he man with the -aquiline nose , feel- ngly. "I should say it was bad. So is a nule's kick. I was harnessing a mule nce to plow , and as was fixing the reeching he hauled off and kicked me m the knee. It's a wonder he didn't reak the cap , but as it was I was learly three weeks in bed with ice jacked around it , and my leg is weafc it the knee joint to this day. But when ( got to hobbling around on crutches jverybody I knew talked as if it was screamingly hilarious experience. I xmldn't get their point of viev , iough. " * "I don't wonder , " aaid the other man. . "Ever seasick ? " "Never on the ocean. " "Then don't you ever go. Stay ashore and be happy. I went across-the At lantic once twice , in fact , because I came back. It says a good deal for the strength of home ties that I ever did. If there had been any way of tunneling under I'd have done It Sick the whole of the time , and It's the worst sickness there is , I'm willing to bet It wasn't very rough weather at that I must have been the only pas senger affected to any extent It was better than a vaudeville show for the .rest of the passengers , thatsickness of mine an unfailing source of mirth and laughter. And it's seldom I pick up an alleged comic paper that I dent see seasickness alluded to more or less deli cately as the merriest kind of merry jest" "It's one of the stock wheezes , " said the man with the aquiline nose. "So's the green-apple colic , " said the man in the crush hat "Thaf s a jocund sort of experience to have , too. I don't think a goat ever butted me , but I don't think I should laugh If I saw anybody else butted. I should imagine the shock would be extremely painful , something like getting a fall on roller skates. I've suffered that Do you think I'd laugh if I saw a man hav ing his leg amputated or giggle If he lost all his money and got thrown out on the street with his family on a cold winter night ? " "No , " replied the man with the aquiline nose. "But I wouldn't have cared if you had laughed. I'm only sorry that she will have to leave us so soon , but then my wife isn't her only daughter. " The man in the crush hat snickered. "Well , that is a pretty good joke , " he said. Chicago Daily News. Slie Was Cautious. "Yes , Ms wife refused to vote at the election and he says all the other wom en in the club are awfully mad. " "What reason did she give ? " "Said she hadn't been introdnced to any of the candidates , " Cleveland Plain Dealer. Conversation. Small one Why ) sir , do they have the station so far from the campus ? Large one I suppose , my child , they thought It more handy to have it down here near the tracts Cornell INVENTED ARTIFICIAL PEARLS. Silvery duster on a Pond That Set a Bcadmalcer Thinking- . The string of artificial pearls was very beautiful. But for the regularity of the beads any one would have thought it a rope of real pearls worth a king's ransom , says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "I'll tell you , " said the jeweler , as he wrapped up the deceptive necklet , "how the wonderfully perfect artificial pearl came to be invented. "A rich French beadmaker , Moise Jacquin he lived in the seventeenth century found a pond in his garden covered one morning with a lovely sil very luster. Amazed , he called his gar dener , who said it was nothing some albettes had got crushed , that was all. "Albettes were little silver fish bleaks the Leuciscus alournus. The gardener explained that if you crushed them they always gave the water a pearly sheen like that Jacquin put on his thinking cap. "For six years heworked with beads and bleaks , wasting millions on hoth. But finally he achieved success. He learned how to extract the pearly luster , - terfrom the bleaks' scales and to oover a glass bead with it. "What he did and his method is still used was to scrape the scales from the fish , wash and rub them and save the water. The water , decanted , gave off a lustrous fluid of the thick ness of oil , a veritable pearl paint a. magic fluid that imparts a lovely pearly sheen to everything it is applied to. "It takes 1,000 bleaks to yield an ounce of this pearl paint" Webster's Wit. Most men of weight dislike the frail gilt and satin chairs which accidentally fall to their lot in a crowded drawing room. They were In use in Mr. Web ster's time. At an evening reception given to some western lawyers soon after the accession of President Tyler and the dissolution of President Har rison's cabinet Mr. Stanberry , late At torney General , was accompanied by his bashful friend , Mr. Leonard , who immediately retired to a corner and se lected tills gilded trifle as a resting place. In order to withdraw still far ther Iroon notice he tilted the frail structure backward. Down it went , smashed into a dozen pieces , and Leon ard the embarrassed was Leonard the observed of all. Mr. Webster immedi ately nished to the rescue of his unfor tunate 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 , " A man is apt to put his thinking cap on when his wife expresses a desire for a new bonnet 1495 French defeated the Italians at Fornovo. 1540 De Soto entered Alabama terri tory. 1030 Fifteen hundred colonists arrived at Boston Bay. 1G44 Prince Rupert defeated at Mars- ton Moor. 1G45 Montrose defeated the Covenanters at Alford. 1758 Lord Howe killed in ambuscade near Tjconderoga British embark ed on expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point. 1775 Gen. Washington assumed com mand of the Continental army at Cambridge. 177G Continental Congress adopted reso lution of independence. 1777 Americans abandoned Fort Ticon deroga. 1770 New Haven captured by American force under Gov. Tyron of New York. 17S5 Congress established the standard of the American dollar. 1S12 Captain David Porter , U. S. N. , sailed on an expedition against the British. 1S14 British surrendered Fort Erie. . . . Americans victorious over British at battle of Chippewa. 1830 French took possession of Algiers. 1832 United States Congress passed a bill to recharter the national bank. 1333 Reaping machines first publicly exhibited in Hamilton county , N. Y. 1837 Grand Junction railway from Liv erpool to Birmingham opened. 1839 First normal school in America opened at Lexington , Mass. 1842 Attempted assassination Queen Victoria by an insane youth named Bean. 1845 President requested to send a , army for the protection of Texas. . 1S4G Boston and Buffalo connected by telegraph. 185G House of Representatives voted for the admission of Kansas with a free soil constitution. 1SG4 Sherman's troops occupied Kenc- saw mountain. . . .Congress chartered the Northern Pacific Railway Com pany. 1SGS Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour for President. 1SS1 President Garfield assassinated at Washington by Charles Guiteau. 1890 House of Representatives passed the Lodge Force bill. 1S91 City Treasurer Bardsley of Philadelphia - delphia sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment Nineteen persons killed by collision of trains at Ra venna , Ohio. 1893 Prince of Wales married to the Princess Victoria of Teck Lieut. Peary's expedition left New York for the Arctic regions. 1897 Strike of coal miners in Ohio , Penns3'Ivania and West Virginia. 1S9S Chicago daily newspapers suspend ed publication on account of stereo- typers' strike Spanish fleet de stroyed off Santiago. 1900 Democratic national convention at Kansas City nominated Bryan and Stevenson. 1 1t 1901 Cornell won the intercollegiate t boat race at Poughkeepsie. s 1903 Cuba ceded two naval stations to I the United States. i 190i People's party national convention E at Springfield , 111. , nominated Thom g as E. Watson of Georgia for Presi s dent. f 1905 Elihu Root appointed Secretary of t State. 0 Ice Trust Breads Strike. The striking drivers having failed to 1 bring the American Ice Trust to the de sired terms , namely , a restoration of the * higher wages paid to ice wagon drivers last year , with new men rapidly taking their places , and the general p"ublic using t private wagons or trucks to go after urgent - a gent supplies of ice , the striking drivers of New York City gave in and returned to work , largely because they were short o of funds and could not hold out any long er. President Oler of the ice trust feaid the strike was brought on by the leaders of the union , and was not popular with the rank and file. One of the objects was to secure recognition of the union's agents. Chaos in Guatemala Xovr. The foreign diplomats in Guatemala ity , excepting the American minister , lave joined in a protest against the action of President Cabrera in arresting 1GO . prominent citizens and trying them sum- . marily. Preparations for war continue and a state of chaos prevails. Regulating ? the 3IIIk Trade. The new law regalating the size of the wholesale and retail receptacles used in landllng milk between producer and con o sumer -went into effect in Pennsylvania , with drastic penalties for violations. Prior to this the Philadelphia Milk Ex change dealers had used a " 40-qnart can , " which reallj ; held 4G1/ quarts , in buying rom the farmers , and a "quart bottle , " 2 ounces short of the actual quart , in dispensing milk to the public. Glass fac- ories and can makers have been doing a ) ig business in stocking the deatera with : he legal receptacles. Sitfo Light * on "Sister , " asked Melpomene , "why art' thou EO gloomy ? " "Becanse , " uaid Calliope , who , In her ! captrity as tlie mnse that presided over r eloquence and epic poetry , had done a hard day's work at her desk , reading man uscript's- and firing them into the waste basket. "I am oppressed by a foreboding that all my labors have gone for naught. I shall die utterly unknown and mj came will perish'from the earth ! " Little did she think that the most diabolical and soul destroying instrument ever devised for the purpose o torturing the ears of mankind would send her name screaming and tooting down the ages ! Chicago Tribune. Hovr Pnrla Got Its JN'amo. " The city of Paris owes Its origin to the conquest of Gaul by Caesar. When this Roman general on his path of con quest came to the present site of the ' French capital he found a swampy Island in the river Seine , which was Inhabited by a Gallic tribe called Par- isii , who lived in huts made of rushes. Rather than be captured by the Ro mans , these people burned their rude city , which they called Lutetia , or "mud town , " and the great Caesar- quick to appreciate the situation , built a temple to Jupiter and awall round the island. A town soon sprang up about the temple , and was named Par- ' Isii , after the ancient tribe. In later years this was shortened to Paris. COULD HABDLY TOTTEB ABOUT. , A. Vivid DeMcriDtion of tlic Most Ins - s of Miss Emma Shirley , Killbuck , N. Y. , writes : "Kidney disease mysteriously fastened itself unon me two vears ncro and brought awful headaches and diz zy spells. I was all unstrung , weak and nervous , could scarcely totter about Pains in the side and back completely - pletely unnerved meMy food dis - - " * - r/ * > -x ' < f ? tressed .me , I look ed badly and the kidneys were notice ably deranged. I sank lower and low er until given up and at this critical time began with Doan's Kidney Pills. Details are unnecessary. Twelve box es cured me and I weigh six pounds more than ever before. They saved my life. " Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. How It Happened. Uncounted ages ago , while the Egyp tian sphinx was young and tender , there came ' a season much like this one. The day being unusually warm , with , a promise of warmer days to come , the sphinx changed her garments and put on lighter ones. Within a few minutes the weather be came 40 degrees colder. The sphinx sneezed with great violence , and her nose dropped off. Petrified with astonishment , she re mained rooted to the spot. And has remained there ever since. SCALY ERUPTION ON BODY. Doctors and Remedies Fruitless Suf fered Ten 1'earc Completely Cured : by Cuticura. "Small sores appeared on each of my lower limbs and shortly afterwards they became so sore that I could scarcely walk. The sores began to heal , . but small scaly eruptions appeared. The itching was so severe that I would. scratch the sores until the blood be gan to flow. After I suffered thus about ten years I made a renewed ef fort to effect a cure. The eruptions by ; this time had appeared on every part of my body except my face and hands. The best doctor in my native county and many remedies gave no relief. All this was fruitless. Finally my hair be gan to fall out and I was rapidly be coming bald. A few months after , . having used almost everything else , I thought I would try Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap. After using three boxes I was completely cured , and my baii- was restored , after fourteen years Df suffering and an expenditure of at least $50 or $00 in vainly endeavoring to 5nd a cure. B. Hiram Mattingly , Ver- cnillion , S. Dak. , Aug. 18 , 11)00. ) " Never Sad One. Citiman Weil , well , looking for an other cook , eh ? Subbubs Why , no. I can't say Citiman What ? You just said you were. Subbubs I did not I said I was looking for a cook. The others we'va had were not Philadelphia Press. i _ _ _ _ Naturally. Nan How do you like that youn Mr Fish ? Fan O , he's such a cold blooded prop osition t ! A For Infants end Children. file Kind Yon Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of *