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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1908)
I'alnt. Property owners should know how to prove the purity and quality of white load , the most important paint ingredi ent , before paying for it. To all who write. National Lead Co. , the largest manufacturers of pure white lead , send a free outfit with which to make a simple and sure test of white lead , and al. jo a free book about paint. Their address is Woudbridge Bldg. , New York City. The 1'oiver ot tlie "Whale. If the whale knew its own power , it tould easily destroy all the machinery frhich the art of man could devise for catching him. It would only be neccs- Eary for him to swim on the surface In a straight line in order to break the thickest rope , but instead , on being ctruok by the harpoon , he obeys a nat ural instinct , which , in this instance , betrays him to his death. Not having tn air bladder , he can sink to the low est depths of the ocean , and , mistaking the harpoon for the teeth of a sword- 6sh or a shark , he instantly descends , this being his manner of freeing him self from these enemies , who cannot bear the pressure of a deep ocean , and from descending and ascending in tmall space he thus puts himself in the power of the whaler. AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS. Cured by D < mn' Kidney Pill * Aflei Years of Suffering ; . F. A. RIppy , Depot Ave. . Gallatln Tenn. , says : "Fifteen years ago kidney disease attacked me. The pain in my back was sc agonizln. I finally had to glvt up work. Tli-n cam terrible attacks oi gravel with acute pala and passages of blood In nil ! passed 23 Atones , some as lar as a bean. Jilne jean to a stale of eonfinua weakness and I thought I never would be better unti I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Tbi Improvement was rapid and since uslnc four boxes I am cured and have never Jjad any return of the trouble. " Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bos rFoster-MHburn Co. . Buffalo. N. T. No Strniisrcr to That. Mrs. Ilighmus 1 suppose at some time 'In your life you struggled with the Nibc- lunsenlied ? Airs. Gaswell O , yes ; I had an awful siose of that in ' 015. I had to take all kiruls ot nasty medicines before I got it iout of my system. Cook's Book , Free to Housekeepers. A collection of choice recipes foi baking and other domestic sciences lias just been compiled by Mrs. Janet rUcKenzie of the Boston Cooking School. This Cook's Book will be sent fiw to any housekeeper purchasing a r -cent box of the celebrated K. C. Slaking Powder and sending the cou- jpon to the Jaques Manufacturing Co. , Dept. 75. Chicago. The object is to in troduce into families this best baling powder made at about half the "Trust" jn-iei * asell as to give away a Cook's 2ook containing the latest develop ments in the science of cooking , etc. The large announcement of the Jaques Manufacturing Co. elsewhere in this paper gives farther partici lars well \\'orth reading and following. r "What Lava Is Good For. Tourists in Italy are astonished at "the practical use made of the lava that lhas flowed from Vesuvius in past and recent eruptions , for all Naples and Its vicinity appear to be a world of lava. The streets are paved with it. IThere are staircases and statues , fflrinking troughs , brac-a-brac and even jewelry of this strange material which once bubbled from the yellow and drip ping lips of the great crater above. The careless guides make money out of it by pressing coins or other objects on partially cooled fragments and sellIng - Ing these to visitors. On the ashy rianks of the mountain there is enough j lava 10 build another New York or Chicago cage a shoreless frozen sea , it seems , of dull black that shimmers strangely purple In some lights. These heaving billows and snakelike masses were once white hot , stea-ming and even exploding 'as ' the fiery flood met some little in- ' .noeent stream on the wav down. Amendment I ot Accepted. "Mrs. Jagvvay I wish I knew where my ! liusband was. ' Mrs. Kawler You mean , I presume , that you wish you knew where your husband is ? I Mrs. Jngway No , I don't. I know whore he is. He's up in his room , sleep ing off a .headache. of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and -right living and knowledge of the world's best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully piesented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval of the Well-Informed of the AVorld ; not of indi viduals only , but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtain ing the best the world affords. One of the products of that class , ot knoxvn component parts , an Ethical .remedy , approved by physicians and com- ; -nscndcd by the Well-Informed of the World as a valuable and wholesome family .laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs -.and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine , manu factured by the California Fig Syrup Co. , only , and for sale by all leading druggists TRYING TO DEO WE OUT THE BIG NOISE WITH A PHONOGRAPH , MB. BBYAN'S MAIL. Thousands of l.rlloiPour in ot ) lli < VoIirnsKiin Onily. The mail that reaches William Jen nings Bryan these days wou'd ' m.iko UK heart of a mail order house nunagei glad , writes a Lincoln corivs-nomlent. II comes in great volume and the nuinbei of checks , express and posio.'iire ' nnnov orders , crisp bills and promises to pa.v that the daily iiisi.illment of 2.000 t ( o,000 letters bring is a formidable st.icli Vrhen piled up on ilie table \\here tlu mail is sorted and opened. All of Mr. Bryan's mail trees first t < : the Commoner oil ice. There the jrre.itei part of it is cared for. sorted out. and answered. Mail that deserves the at tention of the candidate himself is sent to Fail-view , and there a big force ot stenographers is kept at work. All mail promptly answered. .Much of it i * of a nature that experienced assistants \\lio have been with the candidate a long time may answer without bother- Jug either W. J. Bryan or his indus trious and unusually busy brother. Charles . Bryan. Much of it is Com moner mail. Some of the letters received require no answer , but these are not numerous. Many postcards , some merely contain ing congratulatory remarks and expres sions of hope for Democratic success , are received. Nearly every new post card picture finds its way to the Fairview - view home , and the Bryan grandchil dren have the chance of their lives to acquire a collection of these of un- cqualed size. Some of these postcards contain pictures of the White House , and others suggestions of victory o just as pleasing a nature. Not all are pleasing , however , and the cynics and the jokers take their turn at the post card pranks- . Contributions to the Bryan paper come in great number , and not one re ceived is used. In the mail come let ters for publication that some of the high-class magazines would pay big sums to receive. They are offered gratis , but to use any would involve discriminations for a name or make it necessary to employ readers to go over the large number of articles sent for the purpose of selection. The Bryan political editors are able to till the lit tle paper , and all manuscript is return ed with a stereotyped form of letter to the author. That is another bit of busi ness system that helps to dispose of a daily mail that requires four girls four hours to open. Thousands of people who write to know what Mr. Bryan said on a certain date are answered by a bright young lady -who merely consults an index of The Commoner and Mr. Bryan's books anil sends a dipping of the language asked for. Mr. Bryan's utterances are all in print , and everything he has said through his publications or the news papers is kept on file and indexed so that it may be turned to at a minute's notice. Mr. Bryan himself draws on this source of information. Demot-rul' : Will IIHp tinKiriiiT. . The President has become wonder fully solicitous , all of a sudden , about uplifting the I'-inuer. Doesn't the Pres ident think it would help the farmer to get his farm implements ' 10 per cent cheaper , his clothes . .0 per cent cheap er , and most of his toed supplies 120 per cent cheaper ? But the President loves the trusts and protected interests better than the farmer , lie has let them fatten enormously off the Amer ican consumer , and the farmer is : very large consumer. It is too late foi Mr. Roosevelt to talk about upliftim the farmer. The Democratic party has been assigned that job. Columbh State. ' ! ' ] : Deimicrrnlics C' ; iiipiiua The most far-reaching reform evei wrought in American politics will hav ( been accomplished if Democratic man agers succeed in raising an adequate , fund for this year's presidential cam paiiru from popular subscriptions am ! from contributions limited to sums no ; in excess of $10. KtO. Add the announced purpose of Mr r.ryan and Ilie Democratic National Committee to make public , before tlu election , the name of every contributoi of $11)0 ) or more , and \\e have an abso lute inaiMUlet' that the Democratic campaign fund of 3' OS. be it large 01 small , will be a 11 , clean money. The Democratic estimate of S. > 00,001 to $1,000.000 for the necessary and le gitimate expenses of the campaign con trasts sharply -nth the Republican es timate of .fJ.OO : ( > .ono , and with Treas urer Sheldon's call for half a million just as a starter. If the Democrats deem one million sufficient to pay for tlie maintenance' of headquarters' , the distribution of lit erature , the expenses of speakers ami organizers , what does the Republican National Committee propose to do with the additional two millions , if Treas urer Sheldon c.in get it as he readily can byiiving to special interests a first mortgage on his party' : In ISOo1 the Republican party's hoped- for power of legislation in Congress was sold to the interests that wrote1 the Dingley taiiff. Not the least im portant question in this year's politics is tiio extent to which the Repablicau National Committee and its treasurer are putting the party up at auction and the market in which they are of fering it. But ii the Democratic plan of rais ing campaign money can be made a success , no party in this country will hereafter dare to sell itself for money with which to buy its way to power. Application for campaign money to sources which have no legitimate inter est in polities ill be taken as prima facie evidence of wrong intent. Th- crime against the people of selling'leg islation in advance will bo forever sup pressed. Democratic voters who earnestly de sire the success of their party , because they believe its policies best for the country , should remember that mueii money is needed for the conduct of a trre.it campaign , and should make1 it a part of their party duty to contribute to its expenses according to their means. There will be a creat purifi cation of politics when this course is adopted by the voters of all parties. St. Louis Republic. II oosc volt's AIISTPP. It was not until Mr. Bryan called attention to : t that Mr. Roosevelt knew General T. Coleman Du Pont , head of the gunpowder trust , was in charge of t-ie speakers' bureau of the Republican National Coni'uittee. When he found it out Mr. Roosevelt became very an- irry. His anger is directed atrainsf Chairman Frank Hitchcock. Du Pout's selection for tin * post is classeel by the President as a great blunder. The President's anger is by way of atonement for Hitchcock's blunder. If there was no expression of resentment from , anyone aiid no charge of a blun der against anyone , the people migh conclude that it is an ordinary thin ; for the Republican National Committe' ' to have intimate relations with mis magnates , oven those who. like ( Jen eral Du Pont , are defendants in suit : brought by the government for viola tion of the law. But the Preside-nt' ; anser against Hitchcock will reniov < : 'Msmrirestion or suspicion of Ufa kind. The President ought to send a lettei of thanks to Mr. Bryan for le\iinir bin know that a tru t magnate had form bis unwelcome presence into the Re publican con IK Us. Points Kfvral le to lir.vin. As the two gi'iat political parties an coming to close quarters in the eonlesi for the Presidency many solid reason1 are seen why the probability of llryan'- electum this year is greater th.-in il was at the beginning of September ii IS'.H * or in 1KK ! > . The first of those is that many ol the surviving i nes of what was it those ye.irs par-innately and vehement ly denounced as "Bryanis" iiave beer put into effect 1-y a Republican Presi dent and Congress without subverting civilization or hringim : anarchy. Another is thiit the Chif-auo platform intimates most < > f the things which UK Democratic platform says distinctly and without equivocation. This i1- : al most an open confession that the1 Hvim : policies for which Bryan contended foi are riiriit. and ll'.e voters know th.it. if successful , the Democrats will do what they say. while doubting michtily if the Republican party can free itself from the evil ii-llueiues which control it anil do what ii intimates. The Republican platform and the ut- teraiu-es of the Republican candidate tie the hands of Bourbon standpatter ? who would throw stones at Bryan as the enemy of American industry for his advocacy of rational tariff revision. The hysterical shrieks from that source he.ml in .ISM and in 1WO are pitched in a.much lower key in IMS. Thonirh the "interests" are still ii : close alliance with the Republican or ganization , the outcry of p'-eviou year ? a canst Brvan as the arch enemv of business prosperity is little heard outside the "olumns of a rabid parti- s.ni and sectional press. The people trenerally recnirnh'.e in Bryan the airuresive. . but conservative , leader of one of the irreat politit-al par ties of the I'n I ted States , deliberately rechoscn to be standard bearer after long trial. Even the greater number of those who oppose and \\ill vote agains-f him see in Bryan a patriotic and dignified character who must be reckoned with as a real force in Ameri can politics. Bryan enters upon the contest of this year decidedly stronger than he was in either of his previous candi- elacies. And it is fortunate for the country that th campaign of 100S has gone forward thus far with compara tively little of the acrimony which ma'-ked the contests of ISfW and 1000. -St. Louis Republic. A Cliniti "Do you think there is any reliable way of foretelling the weather' : " "Yep. " answered Farmer Corntassel. "Jos' ihink of the kind you don't want ami then prophesy it. " Washington Star. Stay not until you are tolel of op portunities to do good ; inquire after tliern. Smiles. Lord Tweedmouth , first lord of the British admiralty , is "in a beastly fix. " The Kaiser wrote him a letter and criticised tne - British ish naval program. It was only a per sonal letter and L o r el Tweedmouth replied. To his horror ror , the next thing was the publication- in the Times. En- gland's greatest newspaper , of a al'ticle TWECDMOUTH.SCMSltIOIlal IOKD . and a bitter edito- ial demanding that he make the Kai ser's letter public. The other English lewspapers followed suit , and every- jody began1 to 'want to know what busi- iess it was of the Kaiser's what En- 'land did about her navy , and why he la red to write Lord Tweedmouth about t , and how it could have happened : hat Lord Tweedmouth forgot himself o far as to reply to such a letter , and vhy Lord Tweedmouth couldn't let ev- M-ybody know what was in the letter. One of the cleverest cracksmen that * ver operated in London has been ar- estoel in the person of John Frederick spencer , w e 11 - < viiown citizen and Sunday - school teacher. Only re cently he was given prize of .sr.00 as "most respected cit izen. " Ilael ii'ot Spencer been ar rested while in the act of burglarizing few would have be lieved the charges against him. lie has made a com- " Jonx r. SIM.XCCR. plete confession. "I . . . vas caught red-handed , " he said , "so there is no use denying anything. I \m the so-called 'Mr. Raffles , ' to cap- : ure whom the municipality employed in extra force of detectives at a cost Jf $4.000. " Victor Rosewater. editor of the Omaha Bee and member of the execu tive committee of the Republican na tional committee , is i native of Omaha , where he was born in 1871 , the year the Bee was established by his father , the late Edward Rose- viater. Mr. Rosewa- rer was educated at the public schools in Omaha , Johns Hop kins university , at VICTOK nosMVATLR-jjaitiniore. Ulld Co _ lumbia university. New York , taking the degree of dor-tor of philosophy at Columbia. Since 3893 he has been iclive in newspaper work , being the managing editor of the Bee from that year until the death of his father in August. 1000. when he succeeded to editorship of the paper. Bert M. Fernald. who has been elect- Hi Governor of Maine , is a wealthy farmer and proprietor of a large can nery. He has a farm of oOO acres at South Poland that is one of the linest in the East , and lives on it be cause he prefers it to a city home. Born on a farm , he has lid MM one all his life. Mr. Fornald i.- > "id years old. lie has served in th ° Le - HUST M. islature and two years ago sought the Republican nomination for Governor , ! > ut was defeated. Lady Dorothy Howard , to whom \Viuston Leonard Speneor Churchill , 'he young English statesman , is said to be engaged , is the fifth daughter of the Earl of e'ar- ' lisle and 2(5 ( years 1 old. She is said to be the keenest pol itician in a large family that is en thusiastically de voted to politics and has made speeches at street LADY IIOWAUD. corner meetings in favor of the liberal licensing bill. Her father , the earl , is a unionist and the ninth of the title , which is one of the oldest In Great Britain. Henry M. Nevius. who has been made tommander-in-chief of the G. A. R. . is a native of New Jery. . lie was a law student with the late R. A. Al- jrer. when the civil war broke out. He enlisted from his state , was promot ed to a comniir-sion with the Seventh Michigan ta\alr. . He lost an arm in front of Fort Ste vcns. He has been department com- WTTTTTQ mander for New Jersey twice. He has also been a ind president of the state senate. May Be Instrumental in Merging Efforts Toward More Adequate Protection of Timber. GREATEST LOSS SINCE 1871. Work of Investigating Damage Is Begun by Federal Government Agent B. W. Pullman. The recent disastrous forest probably the most serious in a quarter of a century , may be instrument" ; ; ! in concentrating national , state and pri vate forces to provide more adequate protection against flames which exa/t an average annual loll of ? 2o,000,000. Not since the Peshtigo fire of 1S71 , when between 1'JOO and 1..100 persons perished and many millions of dollars of property was wiped out in a few hours , has the devastation of the ( lames been so great as this year , when from coast to coast the great forest areas of the North have been the constant arena of the struggle against this dreaded enemy of the forest frontier. Accurate returns of the property loss has not yet been received in Washing ton , but the work of investigation has been begun. R. W. Pullman , special agent of the United States forest ser vice , in passing through Chicago on his waj Jo Hio burnt n-slons of Minnesota , told of the prolonged and thus far los ing fight which is being waged to pre vent the wholesale destruction which yearly impoverishes whole regions. liOss Xovr 3Ioro Conspicuous. ' 'Now that the timber of the country is being reduced by luml > ering , " said Mr. Pullman , "and people have awak ened to the fact that the forests do not represent an inexhaustible supply , the loss that is sustained in these flrea becomes the more conspicuous. It is not alone the lumber owner that pays the price. The loss of stumpagc value is but a ( small part of the damage to a neighborhood. "The wages that would have been earned by laborers in the lumber camps and the produce that would have been purchased to supply those camps , the taxes that would have been devoted to the construction of roads and other im provements , and the fertility of the soil that is destroyed , all bring the ulti mate cost of these tires to sums that cannot be calculated. I "From reports thus far received , the fires of this summer have been the most destructive since those of 1S71. The Peshtigo lire of October of that year covered an area of l,000 ! square nn'Iea in Wisconsin , entailing heavy loss of life and property. Other fires in Michi gan that year consumed 10,000.000 in standing timber. ' 'One of the earliest was the great Miramichi fire of 1825 , starting sixty miles above Newcastle , N. I ? . , on the Miramichi River , shortly after noon. Before 10 o'clock at night it was twen ty miles below Newcastle , in nine hours destroying a belt eighty miles long and twenty-five miles wide. In an area of 2,300.000 acres every living thing was destroyed. "One of the most serious ( ires of re cent years was that which started near lUnckley , Minn. , in September , 1004. While the area covered was less than in some others , the loss of life was heavy. Six towns were destroyed , TiOO" people perished and 2.000 were left destitute. It was said that this ele- struction was wholly unnecessary. For many days before a high wind came and drove it into uncontrollable fury it had been burning slowly close to Ilinckley and coull have been put out. "The initial cause of such widespread destruction can be traced to two agen cies , the railroad anel the campers. Both are careless. In many timber countries the roads are required to fit their locomotives with spark arresters. If this law were more fully obeyed the \ danger from this source would be re duced. The camper's culpability is more direct. A few buckets of water poured over the remains of u camp fire will effectively prevent trouble. Forest Rangers JIM Kcoiiomy. "The economy of employing forest rangers to keep constant watch , to pre vent fires by the influence of their presence on those who frequent the woods and to report blazes as soon as they start , when they can easil3 * be ex tinguished , is. becoming understood generally. "It is not unlikely that there will be more extensive co-operation between all the parties interested , the owners of the property and the State and na tional governments as a result of the serious conflagrations of this year. The results of supervision in the national forests has been demonstrated , where loss-es. in spite of the dry season , have been exceedinglv small. " TELEGBA.PHIC BREVITIES Mrs. HarrIVaron. . asod 21. according , to lior tatiimint before she died , was hired to a lonely spot in Oklahoma City , . Okla. . by Harry Parker. : > gcd 28. a gr.nn inspector from lol.i. Kan. , who shot IIT an l escaped. The nsfifth annual meeting of the In terstate Association of Live Stock S.ini- tary Board- , meeting in Washington , voted ed to ask Secretary Wilson , to lift the ( luarantinc regulation for preventing ha spread" Texas or "tick" fever among cattle in several Southern States.
