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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1910)
, - , , , . ' . . . . ' , . ' - . : \ ' . , .Yuo15 ' .RMEPS' HALL . or _ _ 7 , . . II T LAST the farmer is to be honored by being A placed formally : en tne scroll of fame. The great agricultural State of Illi nois is pointing the way for the rest of humanity . in according their rightful honor : to the tillers of the soil . by establish ing the Illinois Farmers' Hall , of Fame , to be situated at the Col- lege of Agriculture of the State Uni- versity at Urbana. In this Hall of Fame win hang portraits of those com manding figures in the realm of agri culture who have done things as not- . able in the struggle of , man to obtain from the soil its last atom of product- iveness as some of the warriors have done in. wringing victory from the enemy's battalions. The movement thus begun in Illinois. Is already attracting attention and arousing enthusiasm all over the United States and in foreign lands. The commission : of the Illinois Farmers' Hall , of Fame , which is in charge of the work of passing on the merits pf names suggested for places in the hall , has received communications from numerous governors of states and from . several foreign countries praising the Idea and declaring that agriculture . should long ago : have been honored in ! some such way as that now started in Illinois. President Taft and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson have written in ; hearty "commendation of the Hall of Fame/ Four men have thus far been chosen for places in the Hall of Fame 'by the commission. They are Cyrus Hall Mc- Cormick the inventor of the reaping machine ; Jonathan Baldwin Turner , the original promoter of the agricul- . tural and industrial college ; James N. Brown , the first president of the Illi- nois State Fair ; the successful promo- ! - ter of the introduction of the various improved breeds of horses , cattle , . sheep and swine from Great Britain ; a successful breeder and exhibitor of the best class of live stock ; the first to in- 1 , troduce shorthorns into Illinois ; Isaac Funk , who was selected as the best type of a successful pioneer farmer and a most worthy promoter of the science of agriculture in vogue in his day. day.The The life story of Mr. McCormick , , the first of the men to be honored by . the place in the hall ; is the story of , one of the greatest inventors the last century produced , though it was a par- . ticularly prolific century as to the men : of inventive genius who lived in it. Mr. McCormick's invention of the reaper was an invention which not only brought him personally the great- est fame and a huge fortune , but it ; has done and is doing a vast amount . of good throughout the world. Through ! , the agency of the McCormick reaper man obtained more of the yield of the earth , for this time and labor saving device means that greater areas have been placed under cultivation than . would have been possible had no reap- I er ever been invented. i Mr. McCormick : was born in Rock- : bridge County , Virginia , Feb. 15 , 1809. His parents were both of Scotch-Irish descent. His father , Robert McCor ' mick , was a well-to-do farmer , who himself had considerable mechanical ingenuity. Limited in his educational facilities , young McCormick obtained a fair common school education. He . . then began to work on one of his fath- er's farms. When he was only 15 rears old McCormick's inventive gen- LATEST PHOTO OF MARS. \'iews Taken in France Show Many Changes on the Planet. , The latest news concerning the planet Mars states that a first snow- tall " . has been observed on the Antarc- ' tic region of the planet. The news r , comes from Prof. Lowell , who states that two patches have appeared lat I itude 65 degrees-one in longitude 100 degrees and the other in 190 degrees. This year the planet Mars : has been ( particularly interesting. In September and October it was nearer the earth than in the preceding years , and as- tronomers were busy directing their I Ii * , : .yy. ! sz : r r . - A KECEXT 1'IIOTO OF 3IARS. 1 felescopes , great and small , at its shin- Ing surface. The beautifully drawn illustration of the planet given here was made at the observatory at Meu- I don by M. Antoniadi , an amateur as- Id ; ' tronomer and a draughtsman of great talent , well known for his previous works on the planetary surfaces. M. Deslandres , the director of the.Meudon Observatory , had kindly put at his dis- . . posal ; the great double telescope of the . : observatory. d' , " ' . . > < ' , i : . / . . . . . - "f' , : / ' ' " 4 ii J I I \ - - - . 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With his own hands he made his first machine on this principle. This pioneer reaper consisted of three . main features-a vibrating cut- ting blade , a reel to bring the grain within reach of the blade and a plat- form to receive the falling grain. This machine , drawn by two horses , was put to a practical test during the lat ter part of the harvest of 1831 in a field of oats within a' mile of the Mc- Cormick 'homestead. The test proved to the satisfaction ofthe neighboring farmers , who had been invited to wit ness it , that a successful method of cutting graifr by machinery had at last been evolved. Entering into a partnership with Ms father and two of .his brothers , McCormick began to turn out his reapers in some quantity ; after having made improvements on the pioneer machine. In 1844 the first consignment of the reapers was sent to the western prairies. In 1849 the sales amounted to 1,500 reapers. In 1851 Mr. McCormick exhibited the reaper at the world's fair in Lon- don , and , he afterward spent some time in bringing the machine to the attention of European agriculturists. There was hostility ' to the reaper at first in Europe , because it threatened to decrease the hand labor , but the Europeans were finally forced to adopt the' McCormick machine because of its SONG THAT HAS BEEN VOTED THE MOST POPTJIAE OF AMEBIOAN PATRIOTIC AIRS. - I I WISH I 'f AS EST DIXIE'S LAND. By Daniel D. Emmett. - I wish I was in de land ob cotton , Old times dar am not forgotten , Look away , look away , look away , Dixie Land ! In Dixie land whar I was born in , Early on one frosty mornin' , _ " Look away , look away , look away , ' Dixie land ! - - Chorus- Den I wish I was in Dixie- ' Hooray , hooray ! In Dixje land I'll took my stan' , To lib an' die in Dixie , . Away , , away , Away down south in Dixie. Away , away , Away down south in Dixie. Old missus marry "Will-de-Weaber , " William was a gay deceiber , Look ; : away , look away , etc. . But when he put his arm around " , er He smiled as fierce as a forty pounder- Look away , etc. Chorus- His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaber , But dat did not seem to grieb 'er , Look ; : away , etc. ' Ole missus acted de foolish , part. An' died for a man dat broke her heart Look away , etc. v Chorus- ' Now , here's a' health to- de next ole mtesus . . , * Ah ! all de gals dat want to kiss us , ' Look away , etc. - But if you want to ' drive 'way sorrow Come ( an hear dis . song ' to-morrow . , Look ; : away , etc. Chorus Dar's . buckwheat cakes an' Injun " -bat- ter , - _ , ' ' ' ' , > . . < " ' . - - I enormous economic advantages. The London Times declared , after the Lon- don world's fair , that the value of the ' \ McCormick reaper was equal to the entire cost of the exhibition. Mr. McCormick died on May 13 , 1884. . Mr. : Turner , the second of the can- didates selected for the Hall of Fame , was for fourteen years a professor in Illinois College , from which he retired in 1847. In.a convention of teachers held in Pike County in 1850 he sug- gested a plan for the establishment of a state university ' 'based upon the col- lege and seminary fund-then esti- mated at about $300,000 - ' which met with the approval of those present , and soon after he delivered an address at Griggsville in the same county , in which he gave utterance to his views in reference to a "system of national education. " This is believed to have been the prelude , if not the ' actual inception , at least so far as the West was con- cerned , of the measure which , in the next twelve years , was debated with constantly increasing interest in edu- cational conventions , industrial asso- ciations and other deliberative bodies throughout the country. Mr. Brown , the third candidate chosen for the Hall of Fame , was born at Bryant Station , Fayette County , Ky/ , October 8 , 1806. After attending school at Lexington and Transylvania University , he located in Korrim County , Kentucky , and engaged in farming and breeding shorthorn cat tle. He removed to Island Grove , in Sangamon County , Illinois , in the year 1834 , and brought with him from Ken- tucky several shorthorn cattle. These were the first shorthorns .brought to . Illinois. He engaged actively in farming , breeding and feeding cattle and the breeding of shorthorns , adding to his herd by purchase from the importa- tions to Kentucky and Ohio from Eng- land. He -was largely instrumental in . forming the Sangamon County fair at Springfield. I " The fourth of the chosen candidates , Isaac Funk , was born in Clark County , . Kentucky , ' Nov. 17 , 1797. His grand- father , Adam Funk , was a German emigrant , and his mother , whose maiden name was Sarah Moore , was one of the same thrifty and vigorous stock. In 1807 the family moved to free soil in Fayette County , Ohio , and Isaac lived there until he was 23 , spent a year at the Kanawha Salt Works in Virginia , then returned to Ohio , where for several years he worked on a farm for the stipend .of $8 a month and' "found. " In 1824 , with his broth- er , Absalom , he went to Illinois , first trying Sangamon County , .but finally settling in , McLean County , near the station now known as Funk's Grove. They built here a pole shanty , 12 by 14 feet , roofed . with riven four-foot clapboards held down with weight poles instead of nails. The floor was carpeted 'in Indian fashion , with peel- ed elm bark. There was no window , and but one door , made of clapboards. As soon as the house was completed , they began to break the virgin sod of the prairie for corn , and bought and sold cattle. For many years Isaac Funk grew corn on his black prairie soil , raised and bought and sold cattle , , Tiorses , mules and hogs ; suffered privations , losses , disappointments and the hard ships of him who blazes the way in new' lands. At last he built a big , comfortable home ; bought land until he owned about 25,000 acres of Mc- Lean County , and was worth at the time of his death close : to 2000000. Among the communications of ap proval received are those from the Mexican secretary of the department of agriculture , the Japanese minister of agriculture , and from the governors of Minnesota , Florida , Virginia , Ken- tucky , New Hampshire , Louisiana , Kansas Mississippi , Massachusetts and South Dakota , , and from the agri- cultural departments of numerous oth- er states. - - , . . - . - - ' I , F . % . 1 1c9-1 ! ' --iw . . / , . I ifr/ T/ . : . I . /AI . / enenttA. rA' ' - . JI IJ - / ; - FAq'I 1/ 4 , . . os0 . . I Makes you fat , or a little fatter , Look away , etc. Den hoe it down and scratch your grabble . . . , t ' , . \ ' , " . .urOTI Z1 nl J _ / . To Dixie's land I'm bound to trabble Look away , etc. , . Chc r o _ _ _ , . _ t ' . , , . . . . . . . ' . . . . - - - STATISTICS &jJT1 \ ii i I i ARI JOBS ! TII4N 'WRINj ( . F MARRIAGE is not already a total failure , it promises to be . . . I come so" if the present rate of increase in divorce continues J In the past twenty years nearly 1,000,000 wedded pairs have ' sought relief in the divorce courts of this country , and the num ber of divorces is on the increase to an extent out of all pro . 't ' ! ' portion , to what should naturally ; follow from the increase in- population. In spite of the ! discouragement of divorce by the passage of stringent laws , by the preaching of the churches , by the slowness of the courts to grant decrees , and' by the efforts of certain social workers to make "the lower classes" satisfied with their lot in life , the steady march of divorce in no wise halted , and the percentage of the speed at which it travels is at once alarming to those who think that divorce is an evil and in- teresting to those who are fond of probing into causes. . Not only is the divorce movement compounding itself in the United States , but it is also acquiring jjcceleratcd speed in all the Christian coun tries of Europe where it is tolerated. To those to whom all this spells social disintegration and decadence the figures are appalling. In France the num- ber of divorces has increased from 2,602 in 1884 to 13,140 in 1904. In Nor- way the increase in divorces during the thirty-one years last past has been 881.8 per cent. In the same length of time the population of Norway has . increased only 23.5 per cent. During the ten years last past the number1 divorces , granted toy courts in Belgium has increased 619.9 per cent , whii& . the increase in population in the same decade has been only 38.6 per cent. In Holland-divorces have in twenty years increased 576.7 per cent , while th& Dutch themselves have increased only 42.6 per cent. Roumania , and even Russia , show similar advances. France by no means heads the list with its 502 per cent. In England the increase in divorces has been 398.5 per cent , against an increase in population of only 43.2 per cent , and covenanting old Scotland can figure up an increase in divorce of 428 per cent , while the popu- lation shows an increase cf only 33.1 per cent. In the United States it ap- pears that the greatest number of divorces are sought in the third and fifth ; years of marriage. It appears from the figures that wedded pairs get tired of each other in large numbers as the third year of marriage life rolls- . around. _ Of course there are two sides to it. There is a man side and a woman , . side. There are bad wives and there are bad husbands , and there are hus - bands and wives that are both bad together. And then there are marriages. . in which a good woman - a ' perfectly useful and kind , good woman - ami the- same kind of a man convert each other into something not much better than beasts. What sort of relief are pairs like that to seek ; : if not legal and : final separation , with the privilege of trying their luck a second time ? Di- vorce is sweeping the world like the cholera used to sweep it before Dr. Koch discovered the comma bacillus. To stop it a new social serum ; , or anti- vtoxin , will have to be . discovered by some German thinker who has noth- ing else to do. ' . \ PARENTS Ol1 $75,000,000 BABY. . . " - . r . : . ? , . , a t ri 'y fr I k i : , c T. : . , . , . ' C . 1 P . . . . . : : : ; . . . - . , . > . , , . . > " { oo' " . ' . \ S . . ' . ' - ' ! . , , % , : it k % , : Y v 4 - , , J ' . .r } . . . . . . . . 2 A/ F \ , h + I \ ; - . -and Mr E 1.Uara.M Lea I' . John R. McLean : and Thomas F. Walsh , Washington multimillionaires , were made grandfathers by the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. ' Edward Beale McLean : , the latter formerly Miss Evelyn Walsh. The parents of . \VIint Are the Trump of Life. "What are the trumps of life ? " I"Hearts , " said the maiden fair ; "For sweetheart , maid , or wife , Love is beyond compare. " "No , " said the heartless flirt , "Diamonds the trumps shall be ; Hearts are as cheap as dirt ; Give wealth and power to me. " i "No , " said the man blase , "Gluts are the trumps we want ; Such gauds for the young and gay , But Clubs' for the bon vivant. " Then the gravedigger said : "Vanities soon are past ; The earth shall be your bed , And Spades must win at last ] ! " -Smart Set. The Boy and His Aunt. Little Nephew -Auntie did : , you mar- ry an Indian ? : ; Aunt - Why do you ask such a silly question , Freddy ? I Little Nephew-Well , 'I saw some I scalps on your dressing table.-Pear- ' i son's Weekly. - ' the baby are the only children of the , multimillionaires , and the little new. . comer thus is heir to the combined' McLean and Walsh fortunes. Th ® ' wealth of McLean is estimated at- $25,000.000 and of Walsh at $50,000,000 . . . - . OVERWHELMING WORLD DISASTERS OF THE DECADB- Martinique volcanic eruption and : earthquake (1902) ( , 32,500 killed. Vesuvius eruption and earthquaky in southern Italy (1905) , 550 kille , San Francisco earthquake and fire (1906) ( , 400 dead. , . Iroquois Theater fire , Chicago (1903) ( ) , 598 killed. . . Messina , Sicily , earthquake (1908) , 100,000 killed. , . . Galveston , Tex. , tidal wave ani y , storm (1900) ( , 8,000 killed. I Courriere ( France ) mine disasUt- (1906) ( , 1,060 killed. " , FantineN. Spain , 1905-20,000 dead. - China , 1907 - 200,000 ( estimated ) < ' . . _ - , 4J dead. , - Russia , 1908-Wiped out thousand . ; ' , : total number unknown. . - Plague . f _ . I I Bubonic plague , India , causes ove * * 50,000 deaths annually. , > ' . - . , Cholera epidemic , Russia , 1908 - I9f - 000 dead. - _ : . : - " . - -
