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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1911)
Hoods Sarsaparilla Eradicates scrofula and al other humors , cures all theii effects , makes the blood net and abundant , strengthens at the vital organs. Take it. Get it today in usual liquid form o : chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs. 16 THE N A IV ! E OF * THE BEST MEDICINE for COUGHS 5 COLDS HOW HE EARNED THE MONEY Pretty Sister Persists n Her Question ing Until She Gets an Answer. A certain pretty girl has a small brother who'is. as small brothers are apt to be , , the plague , of her existence , and ov.er whom she. attempts to main tain a rigid , elder-sisterly discipline. Yesterday afternoon she saw him eating candy. "Why , Phil , " she said , "where did you get that candy ? " "O.lljoiighf.it , " Philip replied , airily - ly ; and Philip's'sister , who knew the deplorable state o his finances , raised her eyebrows , suspiciously. "Where , " she began , "where did you get the money ? " Phflip whistled , "I earned it , " he an swered , with great assumption of dig- .nity. .nity.The The big sister wondered for a mo ment , tien ( aughed outright. "You 1 never earned , a cent in. your life , Phil , " eheV exclaimed. "You'r too lazy for anything : Tell me , " very sternly , "vsraera you got that money. " "None o' your business , " answered Philip , impudently , "you ain't my mother. I tell you I earned It , I did. I earned tbis all right I got it from jyour beau , yesterday afternoon when I saw biiu kissing the baby's nurse. -Well , wfeat'fi the. matter ? I guess I earned ifc all fight. " Art In the Nude. The photographer's lady was very preoccupied showing some samples of work to prospective , sitters , when a tall and raw-boned individual - , appar ently from "the land , " stalked solemn ly into tbe. studio , and intimated that he would ( ike to , know what the "pic- ters" vrere worth. "Like tbat. $ a dozen , " said the' photographer's lady , handing 'him one. one.The The farmer gazed Jong and earnest ly at the photograph of a very 'small baby sitting in a. wash basin. "And what would it cost with my clothes on ? " he finally asked. The Wise Bishop. To the brilliant Episcopal bishop of Tennessee , Dr. Thomas F. Gailor , a Memphis man , of rather narrow views , complained about charity balls. "I doubt if it be quite reverent , Bishop. " the man said , "to give a ball .lor the purpose of charity. " But Bishop Gailor , with a saving burst of common sense , laughed and replied : "Why , my dear fellow , I'm sure , if it would do anybody any good , Td dance tlie whole length of Memphis in : full canonicals. " Motherly Advice. Margery was playing school with her dolls. The class in physiology was reciting : "Now ; children. " she said , "what are your hands for ? " "To fceep clean , " was the prompt reply. "STes , " repeated , the little teacher , "hands were given us so we could keep them clean , and 'member , too , " she added , "vre must keep our feet clean , 'cause there might"be an acci r I dent. " Metropolitan Magazine. Trae c&arltywilt seek to purify the sreli and. not rest content with painting the pump. CHEATED FOR YEARS. Prejudice WUI Cheat Us Often If W Let It. You. Vflll bo astonished to find how largely you are influenced in every way far unreasoning prejudice. In inanr oases you will also find that the $ ref cUce faas swindled you. or rather , aaade you swindle yourself. A case in. illustration : ' 1 hare been a constant user of 6ra | > e-Wuts for nearly three years , " says a correspondent , "and I am hap- BF t say that I am well pleased with lh § result af tbe experiment , for such it * has been. "Seeing your advertisement in ai- Enpet ail of the periodicals , for a long time I looked upon it as a hoax. But after years of suffering with gaseous an * bitter eructations from my stomach ach , together with more or less loss of &t > petite and flesh , I concluded to try Grape-Nuts food for a little time and note ffee result. tei fouad Ct delicious , and it was not long till I began to experience the beneficial effects. My stomach re sumed Its normal state , the eructa tions and bitterness ceased and I have gained all my lost weight back. "I am so well satisfied with the resslt tkat so longas I may live and retaiii my reason Grape-Nuts shall constitute quite a portion of my dally food. " Read "The Road to Wellville. " in plcgs. "There's a Reason. " Ever reud iJie nbovc letter ? A nc rene one appearx from time to lime. They arc Pennine , true , and full of human Interest. THE LITTLE BROWN JUG ' 'ATI ' 1 KILDARE By MEREDITH NICHOLSON Illustrations By KAY WALTERS Copyright 1308 by Th B6bbs-Merrfll Company. SYNOPSIS. Thomas Ardmore and Henry Maine Qrlsjvold stumble upon intrigue when the ffovSrnors of North and South Carolina are reported to have quarreled. Gris weld allies himself with Barbara Os borne , daughter of the governor of South Carolina , while Ardmore espouses the cause of Jerry Dangerfleld , daughter ol the governor of North Carolina. These two young ladies are trying to fill the shoes of their fathers , while the latter are missing. Both states are in a tur moil over one Appleweight , an outlaw with great political influence. Unaware of each other's position , both Griswold and Ardmore set out to make the other prosecute Appleweight. Valuable papers in the Appleweight case are missing from the office of Gov. Osborne and Griswold places the theft at the door of the scheming attorney general. Ardmore charters a caboose and starts for the border to plan the arrest of Applewcight. Terry meanwhiler is a guest at Ardsley. A.rdmore's possel takes the field. CHAPTER X. Continued. He was more buoyant than she had seen him , and she liked the note of affection that crept into his tone as he spokeof his friend. "Ardmore is the most remarkable person alive , " Griswold continued. "You remember I spoke of him this morning. H& likes to play the In scrutable idiot , and he carries It off pretty well ; ' but underneath he's real ly clever. The most amazing ideas take hold of him. You never could Imagine what he's doing now ! I met him accidentally in Atlanta the other day , and he was In pursuit of a face a girl's face that he had seen from a. ca'r window for only an instant on a siding1 somewhere. He declared to me most solemnly that the girl winked at him ! " Griswold was aware that Miss Os borne's interest in Ardmore cooled perceptibly. "Oh ! " .she said , with that delight ful intonation with which a woman utterly extinguishes a sister. "I shouldn't have told you that , " said Griswold , guiltily aware of falling temperature. "He is capable of fol lowing a winking eye at a perfectly respectful distance for a hundred years , and of being entertained all- the time by the joy of pursuit. " "It seems very unusual , " said Bar bara. with cold finality. 'Griswold remembered this talk as , the next day , aboard the train Abound for Turner Court House , the seat of Mingo county. South Carolina , he pondered dered a telegram he had received from Ardmore. He read and re-read this message , , chewing cigars and scowling at the landscape , and the cause of IUB . perturbation of spirit may be roughly summarised in these On leaving the executive mansion the night before , lie had studied maps in his rooui at the Saluda house , and carefully planned his campaign. He had talked by telephone with the prosecuting attorney of Mingo coun ty tint } found that official politely re sponsive. So much liad gone well. Then the juxtaposition of Ardmore's estate to- the border , and the possible use of the liouse as headquarters , struck in upon him. He would , after all , gcnerou&ly take Ardmore Into the game , and they would uphold the * ionor and dignity of the great com- nionH-eaUii of South Carolina togeth er. The keys of nil Ardmore's houses were , so to speak , in Gris- wolcTs riocket , and invitations were unnecessary between them ; yet , at At lanta Ardiuorc had made a point of asking Griswold , down to help while away the tediuai of Mi's. Atchison's house party , and a * a matter of form GrisAVoId v/irefl ftora Columbia , ad- rising Ardiuorc of his unexpected de- icent. Even iai case Ardmore should still fee abroad in pursuit of the -winking sye , the doors of the huge house would be open to Griswoldvho had entered there so often as the owner's ramiiiav friend. These things he aonderod deeply , as he read and re read Ardmore's reply to his message , i rqply which was plainly enough latcd at ArdsleF , but which , he could lot kuow. had really been written In caboose 0180 as it lay on a siding in : he southeastern yards at Raleigh , uid thence dispatched to the manager it Ardsley , with instructions to for- vard it as a new message to Gris- vold at Columbia. The chilling words ; hus flung at him were : * rof. Ilenrr Maine Griswold. Saluda Hoitntr. Columbia , S. C. : I am very sorry , old man , but 1 can not ake you in just now. . Scarlet fever Is pidemlc among my tenants , and I could iot thinlc of exposing you to danger. As eon as the accursed piague passes I rant to have you down. An epidemic that closed the gates rf Ardsley would assume the propor- ions of a national disaster ; for even f the great house itself were quar- intined , there were lodges and bunga- -we * j lows scattered over the domain , where a host of , guests could .be entertained in comfort. Griswold reflected that the very fact that he had wired from Columbia must have intimated to Ard- more that his friend was flying to ward him , pursuant to the Atlanta in vitation. Griswold dismissed a thou sand speculations as unworthy. Ard- more had never shown the remotest trace of snobbishness , and as far as the threatened house party was con cerned , Griswold knew Mrs. Atchison very well , and had been entertained at her New York house. The patronizing tone of the thing caused Griswold to flush at every reading. If the Ardsley date line had not been so plainly written ; if the phraseology wore not so characteris tic , there might be room for doubt ; but Afdmore Ardmore , of all men , had slapped him in the face ! But , scarlet fever or no scarlet fever , the pursuit of Appleweight had precedence of private grievances. By the time he reached Turner Court House Griswold had dismissed the ungraciousness of' Ardmore , and his jaws were set with a determination to perform the mission intrusted to him by Barbara Osborne , and to wait until later for an accounting with his unaccountable friend. Arrived at Turners , Griswold strode at once toward the courthouse. The contemputuous rejection of his message by the sheriff of Mingo had angered Griswold , but he was destined to feel even more poignant insolence when , entering the sheriff's office , a deputy , languidly posed as a letter "V" in a swivel-chair , with his feet on the mantel , took a cob pipe from his mouth and lazily answered Gris- wold's importunate query with : "The sheriff ain't hyeh. sen. He's a-visitin' his folks in Tennessy. " "When will he be back ? " demanded Griswold , hot of heart , but maintain ing the icy tone that had made him , so formidable'in cross-examination. "I reckon I don't know , sen. " * "Do you know your own name ? ' persisted Griswold sweetly. "Go to hell , seh , " replied the deputy He reached for a match , relighted his pipe , and carefully crossed his feet OH the mantel-shelf. The moment Gris wold's steps died away in the outer corridor the deputy rose and busied himself so industriously with the tele phone that within an hour all through Pondered a Telegram He had Re ceived. the Mingo hills , and even beyond the state line , along lonely trails , across hills and through valleys , and beside cheery creeks and brooks , it was known that a strange man from Co lumbia was in Mingo county looking for the sheriff , and Appleweight , alias Poteet , and his men were everywhere on guard. Griswold liked the prosecuting at torney on sight. His name was Haber.- sham , and he was a youngster \vith a clear and steady gray eye. Instead of the southern statesman's flowing Prince Albert , he wore a sack-coat of gray jeans , and was otherwise distin guished by a shirt of white ami blue checK. He griimeQ as Griswold bcrit- a puzzled look upon him. "I tcok your courses at the uni versity two years ago , professor , and I remember distinctly that you always wore a red cravat to your Wednes day's lectures. " "You have done well , " replied Gris weld , "for I never expected to find an old student who remembered half as much of me as that. Now. as 1 un derstood you over the telephone. Ap pleweight was indlcttid for stealing a ham in this coanty by the last grand jury , but the sheriff has failed or re- fusea to make the arrest. How did the grand jury coine to indict if this outlaw dominates all the bill coun try ? " "The grand jury wanted to make a showing of virtue , and it was. of course , understood' between the fore man , the leader of the gang , and the sheriff that no 'warrant could be served on Appleweight. I did my auty ; the grand jury's act tvas c- 37izpary : and there the wheels of jus tice are blocked. The satae thing is practically true across the stat ? line in Dilwell county , North Carolina. These mea , ld by Appleweight. use iheir intimate knowledge of tbe coun try to elude pursuers when at times the revenue men undertake a raid , ind the county authorities havrs never seriously molested them. Now and ; I ? ! i one of these sheriffs will make a 'eint of going out 'to look for Apple- weight , but you may be sure that due lotice is given before he starts. Three evenue officers have lately been killed tfhile looking for these men , and the jovernment is likely to take vigorous iction before long. " "We may as well be frank , " said Jriswold in his most professional ? oice. "I don't want the federal au- ; horities to take these men ; it is im- > ortant that they should not do so. Khis is an atfair between the govern- < I ors of the two Caioiiuas. It has bee ] said , that neither of them dares pres the matter of arrest , but I am here ii Gox , Osborne's behalf to give the lii to that imputation. Gov. Osborne ha ; been viciously maligned. Suppose al these people were arrested in Ming < county under these indictments , wha would be the result trial and acquit tal ? " "Just that , in spite of any effor made to convict them. " "Well , Gov. Osborne is tired of thi : business and wants the Appleweigh scandal disposed of once and for all. ' "That's strange , " remarked Haber sham , clearly surprised at Griswold's vigorous tone. "I called on the gov erncr in his office at Columbia onlj ten days ago , and he put me off. He said he had to prepare an address tc deliver before the South Carolin ? Political Reform Association , and he couldn't take up the Appleweighl case ; and I called on Bosworth , the attorney general , and he grew furious ly angry , and said I was guilty of the gravest malfeasance in not having brought those men to book long ago When I suggested that he connive with the governor toward removing bur sheriff , he declared that the gov ernor was a coward. He seemed an * ious to put the governor in a hole , though why he should take that atti tude I caii't make out , as it has been generally understood that Gov. Os- borne's personal friendliness for him secured his nomination and election to the attorney generalship , and 1 have heard that he is engaged to the governor's oldest daughter. " "He's a contemptible hound , " re plied Griswold with feeling , "and at the proper time we shall deal with him ; but it is of more importance just now to make Applcweight a prisoner in Xorth Carolina. If he's arrested over there , that lets us out ; and If the Xorth Carolina authorities won't ar rest theirov : n criminals we'll go over in Dilwell comity and uhow them how to be good. The man's got to be locked up , and he'd look much better in a North Carolina jail , under all the circumstances. " "That's good in theory , but how do you justify it in law ? " ' 'Oh , that's the merest matter of formulae ! My dear Habersham , all the usual processes of law go down before emergencies ! " The airiness of Griswold's tone eaqsed the prosecutor to laugh , for this was not the sober associate pro fessor of admiralty whose lectures he1 had sat under at the University of Virginia , but a different person , whose new attitude toward the law and its enforcement shocked him immeasur ably. "Weil , as T told you over the telephone - phone , we hear u great deal about Ap- plsweight and his crowd , but we never hear much of their enemies , who are , nevertheless , of the same general stock , aud equally determined when aroused. Ten of these men I have quietly called to meet at my farm out here a few miles from town , DD Thursday night. They coine from flifferont points over the country , and cve'll have a small but grim posse tha ivill be ready for business. You may lot know it , but the Appleweights are most religious. Appleweight himsel joasts that he never misses church on Sunday. He goes also to the mid svcek service on Thursday night , so [ have learned , and thereby hangs our jpportunity. Mount Nebo church lies iff here toward the north. It's a lone y point in itself , though it's'the sptr tual center and rendezvous for a wide xrca. Jf Appleweight can be taken it all , that's the place , and I'm willing o make the trial. Whether to s ani ; edo the church and make a fight , or seize him alone as he approaches the ) lace , is"a question for "discussion vith the boys I have engaged to gn nto the game. How docs it strike 'Oil ? " "First rate. Ten good men ought o bt ? enough ; but if it comes down to sumbers , the state militia can be sronght into use. The South Carolina Cational Guard is' in , camp , find we 'an ' havQ a regiment "quick enough , if a-Blc it. " ITabcrshajii whistled. ' . ( TO KE OXTINTn-O. > A Strange "God Tree. " What is a god tree ? Nobodv knows r had ever heard of sjieh a thin uu il. not long ago. an ethnological ex- lorer came across quite a lot of them n certain little known islands along IIP west coast of Sumatra. Tbe god tree is carved out of wood , ith curiously fashioned branches of ae same material. On these branches re hung strings of bright colored bits f cloth and tiny baskets Dlled with rains of rice. The whole affair is ct isorc than three feet high. According to ihe belief of the na ves of the islands aforesaid , a god ves in the tree. He is not a partic- larly good sort of divinity and , if he ikes a notion to leave the tree he is able to do folks a mischief. The sst way to persuade him to stay at ome in the tree is to make the latter [ .tractive by adorning it in the man- &r described and by supplying rice i baskets for the god to cat. The god is a household god and the ee v/hich he inhabits is kept in a jrner of the family dwelling. Woman as Bank Officer. Both the paying and the receiving : llers in the Maiden Lane Savings ink of New York are young women , i a circular recently issued the offi- als of the bank commended these vo women for their efficiency , accur- : y and the general excellence of icir work. Since they have been in See no shortage of cash has been iund and they readily detect discrep- icies in signatures and are unvary- .gly punctual and courteous to pa ons of the bank. WHERE GALLANTRY CEASES One .Thing That a Woman Ha * . No Right to Expect From a Man. "I always believe , " he gallantly said , "in yielding to the Jadies. " "I suppose you always give way to your wife when you and she happen to have an argument ? " "Invariably. " "And you never fail to relinquish your seat in the car when It happens that some woman would have to stand unless you did so ? " "Certainly. " "Do you take off your hat when you get into an elevator where there are ladies ? " "I never fail to do that. " "If you had secured the last lower berth in a sleeper would you give Jt up to a lady who would otherwise have to occupy an upper ? " "Of course. I have done it fre quently. " "In case you stood in line in front of a ticket window , would you be willing to go away back to the end BO that some woman might have your place ? " "Say , what do you think I am a fool ? " Different Now , of Course. "Civil service reform has given us a splendid army of civil servants. It wasn't always so. " The speaker , Mayor Whitlock of To ledo , smiled. "When I was writing my first short stories , " he resumed , "we had civil servants of a different stamp. An elderly resident of my native TJrbana sought out , back in those days , his congressman. " 'Congressman , ' he said , 'I support ed you at the > polls , and now I expect you to get my boy a good civil serv ice job. ' " ' "All right , friend ; ' the congress man answered , 'what can your boy dor " 'Do ? ' snorted the other. 'What can he do ? By crinus , man , If he could do anything , do you think I'd be bothering you ? ' " An Optical Illusion. "I 'specks Mlstah Rastus Plnkley Is In trouble , " said Miss Mlrjni Brown. "Las' evenin' I saw de teardrops streaming down , his face. " "Demwarn't teardrops , " replied Miss Cleopatra Jackson. "He des got hisse'f a little splattered up flllin' his Christmas gif fountain pen. " Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still ex ist , but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain. Avoiding the Executioner. "Why does a hen cross the road ? " "So as to avoid getting into the chicken pie. " Judge. TO CUBE A COLD IN ONE DAT Take LAXATIVB BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money If It falls to euro. E.Vf. QUO VK'S signature is on each box. 25c. One of the worst things under the sun Is a shady reputation. " - . ! $ - _ ? _ - ? : NEGLECTED COLD , GOT VERY WEAK A Bad Cough. Tried Many Rsmtdies. Restored by Ptruna. Mrs. A. S. Rucker , R. F. 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