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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1908)
Tin * Per/ninoi ! CJomT. The dentist's sleeve was smeared fc-lth a pale/lust. He beat it with his & > alm. : nnl a p ° rfimed cloud arose. "Makeup. " lie said , laughing , "the flay's unusual harvest of makeup. Why the deuce , to front the fierce white light of a dental chair , -.rill women come to me with makeup plastered thick on their pretty faces ? They all , or nearly nil , do it. Their lips are reddened , their brows penciled , their cheeks routed. : wl in a few cases the liny net work of veins in the temples is outlined in blue , regains away at their teeth. I mop up all that makeup on my cent lerve. I smear red over while noses , black over pink chel : . I'liew ! Look oul ! " And. hrushiiig Ii s < u.T agaii. he leaped h-n-U fo s in 'lieueet . -'nell- ing cloud thai filli'l Hi" air. - Khange. . RATTLESNAKE AS A DIET. 3t I i neolari'tl lo Re a Succulent UliIHInn < o the Table. There seems to have been an unneces sary amount of excitement aroused by , the fact that rattlesnkaes were served i&t a recent supper in this State at which 'a ' party of automobilists participated , , eays the Philadelphia Inquirer. The icvent would have caused no comment 'tn ' the wilds of Pike County , for the rea- eon that where the rattlesnake lives he ! is respected , lie is not fooled with be cause his fangs contain poison. But Tvhcn he Is once dead he Is a succulent addition to the hible. The point should not be overlooked that in the last agonies of death the rattlesnake has a way of biting himself committing suicide to end his mis eries. In such cases it would be , to say the least , most imprudent to eat the poison-impregnated llesh. But it Is sat isfactory to know that in such cases the Hesii turns green and can easily be detected The rattlesnake is one of the most edible of his tribe. In the south he is much esteemed as a diet. He lives on squirrels and mice and birds , and is not tie dangerous creature most persons imagine. On the contrary , he is the highest of all snake creatures because , hc irives plenty of warning and does not desire to attack or be attacked. Ho is bes-t eaten after ho has been dried and cured , much after the manner of cod fish. In the south there is a fine way of smoking rattlesnake flesh , with the resuli that when you eat him there is a sort of smoky , gamy flavor that Is at leas-t enlivening especially when you find out what you have been eating. The snake is not a favorite with civ ilized man because of a prejudice that eeems to have lasted a long time. But it is only a prejudice so far as the table is concerned. Rattlesnake stew Is one of the things that adds to the joy of life There is an aristocracy about the rattlesnake that all will appreciate after they have eaten him. It is mere low-down and ignoble prejudice that leads people , to imagine that this sort of flesh is discomfiting. Peanuts Imported. So many peanuts are eaten In this th country that the native supply is not shwi sufficient for the demand and about wiPi $3,000 worth of the African nuts were Pipe imported from Mar.se ffles in 190G and. po cli over $70,000 worth in 1907. The west CO coast of Africa produces quantities of 4C peanuts. 4CR ASTOU1SHED THE DOCTOR R fate faH < Dld Indy Got "Well irith Chansre of to Food. ' A great scientist has said we can put thm off "old age" if we can only nourish fa the ibody properly. eli To do this the right kind of food , of eliA course , is necessary. The body manu he factures poisons in the stomach and in 5 testines from certain kinds of food etuffs and unless sufficient of the right A 'kind ' is used , the injurious elements 1.ai .overcome . the good. ai 'ttly grandmother , 71 years old , " la li writes a. N. Y. lady , "had been an in- Talid for 18 years from what was called ga vi consumption of the stomach and bow viPi Pi els. The doctor had given her up to gt Pf "I saw so much about Grape-Nuts in that T j > ersuaded Grandmother to try fn it.She could not lieep anything on her ai than minutes. so stomach for more a few "She began Grape-Nuts with only a sc tl toaspoonful. As that did not distress bl her and as she could retain it , she took blDl a litllc more until she could take all of IK 4 teaspoonfuls at a meal. Cl ClSi "Then she began to gain and grovr Si stroug and her trouble in the stomach tu xvas gone entirely. She got to enjoy good health for one so old and we know P' Grape-Nuts saved her life. sin "The doctor was astonished that instead suG G stead of dying she got well , and with suB out a drop of medicine after she began de the Grape-Nuts. " "There's a Reason. " Na.me given by Postum Co. , Battle st Creel : , Mich. Read , "The Road to Woll- the yillein pkgs. a Ever read the above letter ? A new to one' appears from time to time. dr They are genuine , true , and full of IK human interest. sun THE WEEKLY I 8 Ik Tf nbl\k I 'V ' , Mil ! tftt JS34 Americans repulsed the British at battle of Ly oil's Creek. lSJ-"i Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at the island of St. Helena. IS20 : Spain ratified treaty ceding Flor ida to the United States. IS4'2 Completion of the Crolon water works celebrated in New York. ISIS ( > First public application of ether , to deaden pain in surgical opera tions , made at Massachusetts gen eral lictbnital iii Boston. ISDO First national convention of ! the Woman's Suffrage party met in Wor cester , Mass. IS.The ! bombardment of Sevastopol began The Ostcnd manifesto , rec ommending the purchase of Cuba by the United States , was issued. 1835 : Grand Trunk railway opened to Brot-kville , Ontario. is : ! ) John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. IS * The Prince of Wales visited Bos- ton. * ISG.'J Gen. Grant nppointed to the com- inaiul of the departments of the Tenfil Cumberland and Ohio Bat tle of Bristoe Station , Virginia. 1SGG Twenty-five hundred houses de stroyed by fire in the French quarter of Quebec. 18GS " The Oregon Legislature withdrew its assent to the fourteenth consti tutional amendment. ISIS 1 Congress of American women met in Chicago Dedication of the Lincoln monument at Springfield , Illinois' . 1S7S Lord DniTerin laid the foundation stone of Dufiferin Terrace at Quebec. ISIS Centenary of the surrender of Cormvallis at York town celebrated. 1SS4 Republicans carried the State and congressional elections in Ohio. 1S91 ! Phillips Brooks consecrated bishop of Massachusetts. JS -A memorial to Sir John A. Macdonald - donald unveiled in Toronto. 1S95 Milwaukee celebrated fche semi centennial of its incorporation. 1S9G The dispute over the Catholic schools in Manitoba was settled by compromise. 1890 Gen. Jimincz elected president of the Dominican republic. 3900 Lord and Lady Minto completed a tour of western Canada to the Pa cific. ' ' 1905 Lutheran council in Milwaukee adopted resolution favoring interna tional arbitration. 1906 The W. C. T. U.'s world's congress - gress assembled in Boston. 1907 The first regular wireless dispatck for commercial purposes was sent over the Atlantic ocean Philip pine Assembly opened by Secretary Taft The Hague peace conference closed. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. The American Smelting and Refining Company has issued its annual report for the year ending April 30 last , which shows a decrease in earnings , compared with the previous year , of $3,810,770. President Daniel Guggenheim , in his report - port to the stockholders , said that the de cline in business had not impaired the company's surplus which amounts to $13- 408.219. David Roberts , cousin of Gen. Lord Roberts ( , ' "Bobs , " of British-Boer war fame , who lives in Chicago , and Robert . Cumming" , an elevator owner of Clif ton , 111. , closed out September corn on the Chicago Board of Trade with a half million ; profit , thereby tying double ami fancy sailor knots in the tails of the bear element , led by such masters as J. Ogden q Armour ; and James H. Patten. Their holdings at one time were more than 5,000,000 < bushels. Commercial failures in the month of r August , as compiled by R. G. Dun were ! 1.199 iii number and $23,782,378 in amount of liabilities. In the same month n last year there were 850 failures with g liabilities { amounting to $13,197,749. Re garding the general situation , Dun's Re view says that , despite the gradual im provement in business and the pronounced growth of confidence , the aftermath of the panic of last October is extending over a into the new year further than was at a first thought. "Money has become easy and high-grade commercial paper can be sold at low terms , but loans are still , scrutinized with care. Erratic fluctuations - tions in the prices of raw material , nota bly in wheat , cotton and hides , have com plicated tie situation. Improvements were noteworthy in the lumber and building class of industries over last August , the greatest failures being in lihe manufac a turing industries. The Wisconsin ( Bell ) Telephone Com pany has absorbed the Western Wiscon : Telephone Company , which had 1 , . " > 00 subscribers and exchanges in Arcadia , Galesville , Trcmpealeau , Fountain City , a Blair , Ettricl : , Whitehall and Imlcpcn- deuce , Wis. \ Frost ami then warm sun rn\s dc- j stroyed 20.000 bushels of ripe tomatoes in g fields on Muscatine island , causing , loss of $10,000 in one day. The toma toes had been in a frozen state for three days and were being gathered by all the G help available. Thirty minutes after the t shone the crop was a total loss. 1 The great white plague costs the people ple of the United States over a billion dollars each year. This statement waa made by Prof. Irving .Fisher of Yale before one of the sections of the tuber culosis congress. lie estimates that consumption kills iiS.JOO : every year in the United States. This is equal to the deaths from typhoid fever , scarlet fever , diphtheria , appendicitis , meningitis , diabetes , smallpox and cancer all put together. Then again , it generally takes three years to die. during which time the poor victim can earn little or noth ing. Finally the scourge picks out its victims when they arc young men and young women , at the very time they are beginning to earn money. The mini mum cost of such items as doctor's bills , medicines , nursing and loss of earnings before death amounts to over $2,400 in each case , while the earning power which "might have ibeen , " if death had not come , brings the total cost to at least $ S.OOO. If this is multiplied by the 138,000 deaths , we find the cost is bigger than the almost incalculable sum of $1,000,000,000. Prof. Fisher esti mates that over half of this cost gener ally falls on the luckless victim him self , but the cost to others is over $140- 000,000 a year. As a matter of self- defense it would be worth while to the community , he shows , in order to save ' merely a quarter of the lives now lost J by consumption , to invest $ .jf > 00,000,000. } I At present only a fraction of 1 per cent j j . , ' of this money is being used to light the j disease. Five million people now liv- j j . ing in the United Slates are doomed to fill consumptives' graves unless something - thing is done to prevent it. As each death means anxiety and grief for a j whole family , he estimated that there | will be over 20.000,000 persons rendered miserable by these deaths. It has been reported that District Attorney Jerome of New York had been asked by William Nelson Crom well , organizer of big trusts and coun sel for the government in the purchase of Panama Canal rights , to investigate charges of blackmail against one Alex ander E. Bacon , who claims to have found evidence that a part at least of the $40,000.000 paid for those rights by the United States went to Cromwell indirectly. The story told was to the j effect that American financiers had bought largely the stock of the French company prior to the purchase by the American .government. It was said that the Cromwell syndicate had net ted ? 3G.oOOGOO in the deal. By order of the Secertary of War an investiga tion has been Ivgun at New York of charges brought by Presidnt Brothers of the Balanced Cable Crane Company of Baltimore , who claims that he was deprived of a contract for Panama Ca nal work , although he was the lowest bidder. Ever since the passage of the pure food law. manufacturers h.ne com plained of the injustice of denying . , them the use of the small amount of preservatives necessary to Keep certain kinds of food products from fermenta tion or other form of deterioration. Professor Wiley of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agri culture has appointed a pure food com mittee , to represent the different States having pure food laws , the e.bject of which will be to harmonize the State laws with the laws of the government. The committe will also , wthout doubt , define what is a safe amount of preser vative to be used. It is said that there has been an increase of ptomain-poi- soning since the pure food law went into effect , but perhaps the statement , Jike some of the food products , can best be taken with a grain of salt ov of boracic acid. ' After taking observations of the Wright trial llights at Fort dyer , the Navy Department has set forth the requirements - quirements of aeroplanes that will be acceptable to that department for use in scouting and dispatch bearing. They iin must be able to tloat on the water and rise from it without extra aid. They jnrst be supported wholly by the air without the aid of a gas bag. Each machine is to carry two persons and a eufiicient amount of fuel for a continu ous flight of 2UO miles for four hours at an average sX ] > ed of forty miles an hour. They must be able to light with out damage on either land or water and float on the water without wetting any of the supporting areas. The Secretary of the Navy has writ ten ( a letter to Robert Conklin , master of arms at the United States naval training station at Newport , commend ing him for his fearless action in jump ing overboard fully dresssed and res cuing from drowning Woodward Pliel } " . * , G-year-old boy , at Newport , Aug. 29 last. The army board of physicians which was ordered by the department to ex amine Colonel W. F. Stewart , Hie ex iled officer at rod. ( Jranr , who came under \ the displeasure of President Roosevelt , has reported that Stewart is suffering from heart disease , and is blind in his right eye , these ailments having been incurred in active service. The doctors arc of the opinion that the colonel is unfit for actire rice. Refugees from Aletz , Mich. , Arc Trapped by Forest Fires and a Score Perish. FIFTEEN SKELETONS .FOUND. Engineer and Fireman Have Thrill ing Escape After Seeking Safety in Vain in Water Tank. Nearly a score of men , women ami children , refugees from the Michigan forest fires that have destroyed seven towns and have caused property losses estimated at several million dollars , were burned to death in a relief train wreck Friday. The train , consisting of box . cars , alter leaving the town of Motz in the upper peninsula , struck a burn ed out culvert and left the track. The passengers were trapped on all sides by the flames and cremated in a fiery furnace. Fifteen charred skeletons were found in the burned wreck. The forest fires above Alpena. in Presque Isle county , suddenly become threatening Thursday , after it was be lieved that the lu > avy rains early in the month had extinguished them. They spread rapidly and soon were menacing ft number of towns along the line of the Detroit and Mackinac Bailroad. The village of Met/ , with about 100 inhabitants - itants i ( , lay in the path of fhe flames. Its situation became dangerous Thursday - day night. = BELGIANS TO COME HERE. Movement to Send n Flood of Tham to United States. The next great influx of Europeans into the United States is likely to be from Belgium. Leon ( Jcnnis , Belgian vice consul at Havana , who was in New York on his way from Antwerp to Cuba , said there was a movement n foot in Belgium to send a large part of the country's laboring and farmer population to America. It was not a government project , but the govern ment was looking into the matter to the extent of finding out for the pros pective flood of immigrants , which Mr. ( Jenis said might for a time rival the influx of Italians into the United States , in what places they might best settle as fanners and laborers. Belgium , . Mr. Oenis said , was the most densely populated country in Eu rope and was suffering from the hard times more than countries that had more land to cultivate and lue on. The present population is estimated as somewhat under .9.000.000. and if the State of California had a population so dense she would be supporting much more than 100,000.000 people. lie esti mated that there was one person to a little more than every half acre h : Bel gium. He is coming back here in March to look OAcr the country to see where the Belgian immigrants may best fit in. If the congestion was not relieved , he sclfl. there would be much suffering in Belgium. The immigrants would make very desirable citizens , being hardj workers. Mrs. Avlor's Soeinl .Standard * . The woman who for many years has bcon the recognized loader of the inner elect of New York's fashionable society , and who is the oldest member of the Astor - tor f.imily. has signalized her retirement from that lofty semi-ofHcial station in a frank interview with Miss Rebecca Ins- ley for the October Delineator. Mrs. MAP OF MICHIGAN FOREST FIRE SHOWING WHERE RELIEF TRAIN WAS BURNED. TJifB2JLC.ve.ttCS - ' iv TT / t'\ \ The railroad sent in a relief train of box cars. Household goods and mercantile stocks were loadeel on some of the cars and the people filled the others. IJow many were taken aboard is not known , nor is it known whether any of the farmers from outhing points had come into Metz seeking refuge i from the flames. With its load of frightened men. wo- nien and children the train pulled out of Metz about midnight and started for the north , with flames along the tracks on both sides. The cars pro ceeded toward the north as far as Hawk's station , about half-way be tween Metz and Millersburg. There the fire was sweeping across the track so fiercely as to make further progress I in that direction impossible and the train was headed back toward the south for Alpeua. While rushing through the fire ami 'smoke the engine struck a culvert which had been burn ed. It left the rails and fell into the ditch. Engineer Foster and Fireman L ° e took refuge in a water tank , where they stayed until the water became so hot that they had to leave the lank and run for their lives. They , with Con ductor Kinville. realizing that the train was hopelessly ditched and that to remain with it meant certain death , started to Pos.cn. They left the wreck and ebcaped by crawling along the tracks on lUeir hands and knees , with the forests , on both sides roaring fur naces. Conductor Kinville is reported to be blind from his burns , but Foster and Lee are understood to be not nevercly injured. There are reports that several otlms escaped -with the trainmen. Astor expresses the hope that her influ ence will be felt in discountenancing "the undignified methods employed by some New York women to gain a following , " adding that they had given entertainments that belonged "under a tent rather than in a gentlewoman's house. " The ideal of "societv" which Mrs- . Astor clings to is that of the olel French salon and she refers with praise to the better conditions in England to-day , where statesmen and artists grace the social functions of the leading women. All her life she says she has thought of doing the same thing in this country , but was prevented by the unfavorable conditions. Among these she mentions tlie fact that we have only poli ticians where the English have states men. ' 'Many of our Senators and Con gressmen .sPPtn to base their title to public fa\or. ' ' she explains , "upon their uncouth manneijs and lack of refinement , upon the Lint that they once wore no socks or once wore blue jeans. " And then she exclaims that if they \\ere all like Mr. Roosevelt "what a difference there would be. " lie at least is not above "paying scrupulous attention to his wardrobe and his man- no rand any hostess in New York or Newport "would ho proud to entertain him. and the men in Washington like him. " She next excuses her failure to re alize the more democratic ideal in Amer ica on the ground that here people are unwilling to recognize any authority in social matters , as they < le > in England , where the King is th" leader of society. Here "each woman is for herself and trying to outdo the others in hvhh dis play and mad extravagance. " She ad mits that the younger generation are in clined to go to excess in their amuse ments , but denies that they are degener ate. She says that the women are "easily trained in domestic matters , and taught to appreciate their responsibility to the poor , " and that tiheir charity work is au important part of their lives. JAPANESE lU AMEEICA. Tha 00,000 Bachelors Here to Furnished with Wives. The 90.0 < J < > Japanese bachelors in th'i United States are to be married offi cially. Emigration Agent Shimanukl of Tokio has made it his business to provide them with wives from their own country and to that end he has established the "KyoKkokai. " This weirdly named institution is a sort of matrimonial agency for supply ing Japanese brides to Japanese set tlers in America. Of these it ia esti mated there are 100,00) . of whom DO per cent are wifeless. The proefeduro is as follows : When a Japanese atiroad wants a wife he sends his photograph , dul- certified , to the agency in Tokio. This is submitted to all the candidates for m.itriinony at the Itynkkokai , and those girls who have been favorably impressed ' ciul their photographs in return , with a record of the- fitness and general attainments of each. All the girls entered at the Kyokkokai are in structed how to lie useful wives to sx't- tlei's in America. The main idea of the scheme is that if all the Japanese in America can be persu.ide'd to settle there and futind families , their children may become American citizens , tliui tending to an ultimate removal of the anti-Japanese feeling in the United States. Ohio Coiii ' > ry. Ohio is going after the saloons with a \engeanee. Already sixteen counties have held elections under the Hose lo cal option , and every one lias gone "dry , " driving several hundred saloons out of business. It is predicted now that when rise elections are over nine- tenths of the counties in Ohio will bo so. It is planned to have elections in the majority of the counties before the presidential election , others wailing till afterward for fear of the effect the voting may have on the regular e-Icc- tion. oi the "White One of the principal orators' at tin sessions of the Intel-national Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington tlris * week was Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University. lie said the annual cost of tuberculosis to the United States is over $5.000,000,000 ; that I.'KJ- 000 persons die of that disease each year , and that 5,000,000 persons now liv ing are destined to die from it unless measures were taken to prevent. Tu berculosis wipes out as many lives as lo typhoid fever , scarlet fever , diph theria , appendicitis , meningitis , diabe- es , small pox and cancer all put to gether. He strongly recommends isola tion hospitals for the incurably af- lieted. Grt ut 7jOMH front Forest Fires. It is feared that the total loss by forest fires in the east this year will amount to $50,000.000. Already the forest fires of Canada have burned up timber valued at $30,000,000. Destruc tive fires are also reported from the \rest , and , taking Canada and the Uni ted States together , the loss from this cause will probably amotint to about $100,000,000. When It is considered that the value of all the hog products exported by this country in 1007 waa only $130,432,473 , that the value of tha corn exported for the same year was only about $ -J5,000,000 , and that the value of neither the oats , wheat not f lour exported in 1907 came anywhera near the hundred million mark , one gets some idea of what such a great loss means. { To be sure , it is divided be tween Canada and this country , 'but ' our share of it is so great that thera are comparatively few articles of do mestic merchandise on the export list which return us as exports the value of that share. NUBBINS OF NEWS. Representatives of the coal miners < H Washington and the coal operators met recently and sizned an agreement for th * present wage scale to be in force for tha next two years. President Roosevelt has told Israel Zungwill , the playwright , who was hla guest at luncheon , that the line , "Not being American , hold troth * * ing we our sacred , in "Tho Melting Pot. " was an unjust slui upon American domestic life and suggest ed that it be changed , which suggestion. ZingwiH is considering. P. T. Eker and S. Ecker were sen tenced at Clarksburg. W. Va. , to foua jears in the penitentiary for making spu rious nickol.s. which were used to work slot machine- . Grand Duchess Elizabeth , widow ol Grand Duke Sergiti ? . who was assassinat ed at Moscow in 1905. has retired to a Ru ian convent near Moscow. She may decide to take the veil. At a reception in the Lyric Theafer , > e\v York , under the auspices of the United Irish League , John E. Redmond and Joseph Devlin , the Irish envoys , were given a rousing reception by a large dience.
