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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1911)
Try Dbby's Chicken Sonp If Libby's Vegetable Soup Libby's Tomato Sonp Jj ft at your grocers , /jjg' evv ? . V CS , McNeUl Libby POOR RETURN FOR CHIVALRY Incident That Probably Has Forever Discouraged Kind-Hearted Mr. Jones. Chivalrous Mr. Jones purposely dropped a fifty-cent piece at the foot of a poorly dressed woman who passed through the Subway turnstile loudly lamenting that the ticket agent had cheated her out of half a dollar , then he picked the money up and gave it to her. "Excuse me , madame , " said Mr. Jones , "I think you dropped this. " "Oh , no , " she said , "it can't be mine. Perhaps you dropped it , your self. " "Oh , no , " said Mr. Jones. "It is yours , I am sure. I picked it up just as you passed. " She took the money , and hurried after another man who had passed at the time the money dropped. "Excuse me , sir , " she said , "I think you lost this. " "Thanks , " said the other man , and Jumped aboard a train that was ready to start " ! " said chivalrous Mr , Jones. New York Times. AN OUTSIDER. I Gwendolyn She is not going to Itop at that resort any longer. Genevieve What is the reason , no den there ? Gwendolyn Not that exactly. There IB one lone man , who has proposed to all of the girls but her , and she feels so out of place when they are holding an experience meeting. An Unlaureled Hero. Here is a niche in the Hall of Fame for Seth A. Eaton , a rural mail car rier from the Middleboro post office , who , surrounded by woodland fire , his * horse lying on the ground stifled with smoke , his own hair singed , his hat "burned and one side of his face and Lands blistered , was still mindful of duty and saved the mail he v/as car rying by burying it in the sand before he fought through the line of fire to safety. Not all the heroes tread the battlefield. Fall River Herald. A Book Agent's Order. First Book Agent Did you receive an order at that house I just saw you come out of ? Second Book Agent Yes , I was told to "git" COMES A TIME When Coffee Shows What It Has Been Doing. "Of late years coffee has disagreed with me , " writes a matron from Rome , N. Y. "Its lightest punishment being to make me 'logy' and dizzy , and it seem ed to thicken up my blood. "The heaviest was when it upset my stomach completely , destroying my ap petite and making me nervous and ir ritable , and sent me to my bed. After one of these attacks , in which I nearly lost my life , I concluded to quit the coffee and try Postum. "It went right to the spot ! I found it not only a most palatable and re freshing beverage , but a food as well. "All my aflments , the 'loginess * and dizziness , the unsatisfactory condition of my blood , my nervousness and irri tability disappeared in short order and my sorely afflicted stomach began quickly to recover. I began to rebuild and have steadily continued until now. Have a good appetite and am rejoicing in sound health which I owe to the use of Postum. " Name given by Postum Co. , Battle Creek , Mich. Read the little Book "The Road to Wellville , " in pkgs. "There's a reason. " Ever read the above letter ? A nctv erne appears from time to time , They are genuine , true , aad foil of Interest. NEBRASKA AS IT SHOULD BE KNOWN [ This paper was read before the Ne braska Press association at Its meeting In Omaha , June 5-6-7 , by Will M. Maupln , of Lincoln , Nebr. ] We of Nebraska should know , and knowing tell the world , what Nebras ka is and is to be ; what Nebraska offers to the homeseeker , the invest ment seeker and the health seeker ; what hidden potentialities for human happiness lie dormant in her fertile soil , and what she is annually con tributing to the sum total of the world's created wealth. In the beginning of this necessari ly brief paper I want to say , and say emphatically , that the last session of the Nebraska legislature , which per formed many good deeds , neglected the ripest opportunity ever offered a legislature to confer a lasting benefit upon the state. I refer to its failure and neglect to make the initial ap propriation for a Bureau of Publicity and Immigration. There was no reasonable ground for opposition to the measure ; no reasonable objection in economy. In fact there was no opposition to the bill. But , unfor tunately , it did not offer opportuni ties for log-rolling and trading. It had behind it the solid backing of every enterprising organization in the state , of every wide-awake man who is anxious to see Nebraska take her rightful place among the states of the republic. But because legisla tion today has become largely a mat ter of "You tickle me and I'll tickle you ; " so largely a matter of trade and barter , this splendid measure calculated to give us a start in the great work of making the truth about Nebraska known to the world , was allowed to die of inanition , of mal nutrition , of sheer neglect. And in doing BO the legislature worked a grave injury to the commonwealth. States , like corporations and part nership and firms must advertise in these strenuous days or fall to the rear. Constant , persistent , insistent , intelligent advertising is the keynote of success in any business , and there is no greater or more important busi ness than the building of a state. But there is a condition precedent to intelligent advertising. The con structor of the advertising must know what he is advertising. No man engaged in advertisement build ing can hope ever to know too much about the business or the goods he is exploiting. It is all well enough for the newspaper men of Nebraska to claim that they are constantly ad vertising Nebraska , but the plain , unvarnished truth is that they are not doing it as it should be done , and for the very simple reason that they do not know all they should know about Nebraska. I have lived in this state for a quarter of a century longer by several years than the average Nebraska editor. I have tried in my weak way to advertise Nebraska to the world , and I thought for years I knew Nebraska pretty thoroughly. Something like six years ago I began studying Nebraska from a different angle. Formerly I had studied it from a car window or in political conventions or by converse with friends in my office. Now , af ter studying Nebraska for six years as any merchant studies his stock any successful merchant , I mean I have just begun to realize that what I knew of Nebraska up until six years ago was as nothing , and that if I keep on acquiring knowledge for the next six or eight years as I have during the past six or eight , at the end of that time my knowledge of this great state may qualify me to emerge from the kindergarten class and enter the first primary. The longest span of human life in this age would not suffice to enable one to graduate from the great school wherein knowledge of Nebraska is imparted. Merely as a basis upon which to work intelligently while you study , I purpose giving you some concrete facts about our beloved state. I will not waste your time in detailing bald statistics. The average human mind can not think in millions. Statistical tables appeal only to statisticians. Columns of figures frighten and repel the average man. Because of this I undertook , while serving as chief of the statistical bureau of the state , to present the statistics about Nebras ka in a more attractive form than the usual table of figures. I hope I may be pardoned if I lay claim to having achieved some measure of success in advertising Nebraska abroad. I am of the opinion that the crop statis tics of Nebraska , and all other statis tics , received a wider range of pub licity under the plan I adopted than they had achieved before. One bul letin of comparative statistics reached a circulation of 70,000 with requests for upwards of 250,000 more. And such great journals as Collier's , Leslie's "Weekly , Munsey's Magazine and the Cosmopolitan , to say nothing of the great daily newspapers , gave free to Nebraska a measure of pub licity that could not have been pur chased with money. Now , here are some facts about Ne braska , tersely told , that will serve as the basis of many a good adver tisement of Nebraska : Nebraska was admitted to the union in March , 1867 , and is there fore forty-four years old six years less than half a century. All this progress , all this wonderful develop ment , has been wrought in less than fifty years. Civilization' ! ; history records nothing like it. Seventy-seven thousand square miles of territory , 415 miler east and west and 205 miles north and south. Forty-nine million acres , eighteen million acres cultivated. Upon these eighteen million cultivated acres Ne braska In 1910 raised upwards of $400,000,000 worth of grains and grasses. Of the thirty million uncul tivated acres more than one-half are just as good for corn , wheat , oats , rye , barley , alfalfa , potatoes , broom corn , etc. , as the eighteen million cul tivated acres , and one-half of the re maining acreage will in time , under intelligent cultivation and proper knowledge of the conditions to be met , be added to the wealth produc ing area. It took Nebraskans more than a quarter of a century to learn that they could not adapt Nebraska soil to the Nebraska man. Then came the most wonderful discovery of the age the discovery that by adapt ing the man to the soil , Nebraska could be made the greatest agricul tural wealth producer in the world. Since that discovery every year has seen hundreds of thousands of acres' of soil , heretofore considered worth less , brought into cultivation and yielding returns that are so astonish ing that it is hard to make people be lieve the truth. There is room in Ne braska for a half million more till ers of the soil who will till intelli gently. Landseer , when asked what he mixed his paints with , replied , "With brains ! " And there is no bet ter fertilizer than brains. Nebraska is the fourth largest corn producing state , and the young est of the three , raising more corn to the acre than any other state. Nebraska is the fourth largest wheat producing state , and the youngest of the three raising more wheat to the acre than any other state. Nebraska is the fourth largest pro ducer of oats , and the youngest of the four , only one state excelling her in production per acre. Nebraska is the third largest pro ducer of sugar beets. Nebraska manufactures more but ter per capita than any other state , and her dairy industry is in its in fancy. Nor is Nebraska alone an agricul tural and live stock state. Twenty- five years ago we shipped in prac tically every manufactured article we consumed. Last year our total manu factured products were approximate ly worth $250,000,000 , or almost one- half as much as our total of agricul tural products and live stock. Start ling as it may sound , there is no state making such rapid strides in manufacturing lines as Nebraska. There is a reason. A dollar invested in Nebraska manufacturing establish ments brings a greater return than a dollar invested in any other state. But , as I said early in this paper , the human mind can not think in terms of millions. If I say that in 1,910 Nebraska produced 36,000,000 pounds of butter we merely smile and say , "that's some butter. " But you'll probably sit up and take no tice when I tell you that if all that butter were packed in pound cartons , and the cartons stacked up end on end , it would make a column of but ter two and one-half inchs square and 285 miles high ; or if loaded into standard freight cars it would make a train over thirty miles long ! In 1910 Nebraska hens produced 102,000,000 dozen eggs one billion , two hundred million eggs. Placed end to end they would reach once and a half times around the world , and they were worth more money than all the gold and silver dug out of any one state in this Union during the same year. Imagine , if you can , all those eggs rolled into one big egg , and then imagine a hen big enough to be the author thereof. With one scratch of her foot she could excavate enough dirt to make a basement for a City National Bank building , and throw the dirt across the Missouri river. Ever hear of "King Cotton ? " Texas is the greatest cotton producing state , yet her 1910 crop of cotton was not worth as much as Nebraska's corn and wheat crop by $30,000,000. The total tobacco production of the Na tion last year wasn't worth as much as last year's crop of Nebraska corn , and it wasn't our best corn year , either. Pennsylvania is the greatest coal producing state , but her coal output last year was not worth as much at the mine mouth as the grain , hay and live stock of Nebraska on the farmsteads. All the gold dug from Uncle Sam's soil in 1910 wouldn't pay for Nebraska corn and wheat in 1910. And mind you , this with less than one-half her fertile soil under cultiva tion , and that less than half not yet intensely farmed so as to produce the maximum results. Let us load upon freight cars all the grain , grasses , live stock , butter , eggs , poultry , potatoes and sugar beets produced in Nebraska in 1910. Would they make a train long enough to reach from Omaha to Sidney ? Yes , and then some. From Omaha to Salt Lake ? Yes , and a bit further. From Omaha to San Francisco ? Yes , and a little further. Well , how long ? In order to get a main line track long enough to hold that train it would be necessary to bridge the Atlantic ocean , the English channel and the Baltic sea. With the caboose of that train in St. Petersburg , the conductor who carried orders to the engineer in the cab would have to walk and walk and walk until he reached an engine that projected out into the Pacific ocean fourteen hundred miles west of San Francisco , for that train would be ten thousand and four miles long. In 1910 Nebraska , with a population of less than a million and a half of people , produced more from her soil than Japan , with forty million people , produced and purchased from other nations. The per capita of agricultur al wealth production of Nebraska in 1910 was greater than that of any other state. Her two main cereals , corn and wheat , were worth more than the nation's output of copper ; her four main cereals , corn , wheat , oats and rye , were worth more than the nation's output of iron ore ; her butter , eggs and poultry were worth practically as much as the nation's output of crude petroleum ; her hay output was worth more than Alaska's output of precious metals , and her baby crop worth more than the baby crop of all the other states combined. You think you know Nebraska ? I doubt if there is an editor here who is familiar with the history , the pro ductivity and the resources of his own county. Nebraska a desert ! What other state has as many miles of riv ers within her borders ? Nebraska has over 800 miles of Platte river wholly within her confines. And with the Blue , the Nemahas , the Loups , Pine , Stinking Water , Republican , Salt , and creeks too numerous to men tion , she possesses an undeveloped water power that would rival Niagara. She ought to be manufacturing from Nebraska grown raw material every finished product that humanity eats and wears , and pretty near everything that humanity uses , using Nebraska power and paying wages to Nebraska workers. I claim that Nebraska , with more to advertise than any other state , is the least known state at home or abroad of any state in the Union. Kansas spends $30,000 a year in pub licity and immigration work ; Missouri spends $40,000 a year Colorado spends $15,000 a year ; Washington and Oregon gen spend $25,000 a year each ; Cali fornia spends a quarter of a million Nebraska doesn't spend a dollar. Any wonder thousands pass us by to invest in the higher priced and less productive lands of the northwest ? Any wonder that Canada is getting some of Nebraska's best ? Any won der that the Nebraskan in New York who undertakes to tell some of the real facts about Nebraska is laughed at and set down as a chronic prevaricator cater ? Time that we made Nebraska known to all the world ! High time that we acquaint the world with the marvelous improvement that has been wrought within her borders in less than a generation ! High time that we let the world know that right here in the heart of the once "Great American Desert" we have builded in less than a generation a state that stands at tfie front in education , that stands at the front in wealth produc tion per capita , that stands at the front in development of manufactur ing , that leads all other states in civic reforms and accomplishes them with out revolution and wholly by thought ful study and intelligent progress. But before we can adequately tell the world we must first know Ne braska. So this is the message I bring you , fellow newspaper men : Let us study Nebraska , study her history , her resources and her possibilities , to the end that we may be fitted to ad vertise our beloved state to all the world for what she is the most pro ductive , progressive and pushing ; the most enterprising , energetic and en thusiastic ; the most intelligent , in dustrious and inspiring in short , the greatest area of productivity peopled by the most progressive people in all the world. This toast I give to you : "Nebraska , the producer of the best of all things ; of bad things the pos sessor of least ; a state without a 'bread line' or a child sent breakfast- less to school ; with a future unlimited and a past to be proud of ; a state of homes and schools and churches her greater development our duty , her bounty our sufficient reward. " O , the glories of Nebraska ! "With her fields of waving grain ; With their promises of plenty 'neath the summer sun and rain. Rippling wheat fast turning yellow for the liarvest soon to be : Rustling cornblades in the breezes mak ing sweetest melody : Billowed fields of scented clover curing 'neath the skies of blue : Sunny slopes , and shaded valleys with the clear streams rippling through Over all is peace and comfort , not a trace of sorrow's pall. And lo live in Old Nebraska is the great est joy of all ! O. the glories of Nebraska ! Far abroad her stores are spread : From the measure of her harvests are the distant nations fed. Here within her wide dominions , wrought from stretch of desert lands. Is the greatest work of progress ever wrought by human hands ; Here , within a generation , we have builded. strong and great , On a. deep and sure foundation , a pro gressive , happy state. And at even , resting , list'ning to the children's laughing call Say , just living in Nebraska is the great est joy of nil ! O. the glories of Nebraska ! Like an Kdun Garden spread : Filled with nature's fruits and flowers , and a blue s-ky overhead. Like that "Land of Milk and Honey" that the Israelltlsh spies Said spread out across old Jordan to de light their wond'ring eyes : Like old Caanan seen by Moses as he viewed the landscape o'er , "With that country's richest treaures laid before him and some more. O , there's lots of joy in living where the streams of plenty fiow , And to live in old Nebraska is the great est man may know ! O , the glories of Nebraska ! Sing her praises full and free ! Wontlerous past that's but the promise of the greatness ye * to be ; Pouring forth her wealth of products as from Plenty's Goldefc. Horn , Filling all the world's storehouses with her crops of wheat and corn. Spread between the mighty river and the mountains of the west , Fairest land in all creation , by the God of Bounty blest. And from rose of early dawning till the long , gray shadows fall Jus * to live in Old Nebraska Is the great est joy of all. The Asylum Murder. Lincoln , Neb. The coroner's jury which investigated the death of Charles Brookman. killed Saturday night by Martin Skew , of Omaha , at the Insane asylum , brought in a ver dict exonerating the authorities of the institution of any blame in the matter. The overcrowded condition Beneficial , CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. in tfte Clrcfe , on evoro Package of tfia Genuine. 4 DO. NOT LET ANY DEALER ' DECEIVE YOU , ; 0 SYRUP OF FIGS AND ELIXIR OF SENNA HAS GIVEN UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION FOR MORETHAN THIRTY YEARS FAST , AND ITS WONDERFUL SUCCESS HAS LED UNSCRUPULOUS - SCRUPULOUS MANUFACTURERS OF LMITATIONS TO OFFER INFERIOR PREPARATIONS UNDER SIMILAR NAMES AND COSTING THE DEALER LESS ; THEREFORE , WHEN BUYING , NotetfeFuffNameoffhe Gompan RUNTED STRAIGHT ACROS3.NEAR THE BOTTOM. AND IN THE CIRCLENEAR THE TOP OF EVERY PACKAGE.OFTHE CENUINE. REGULAR PRICE 50e PER BOTTLE ; ONE SIZE MINIATURE F1CTURE OF PACKAGE. ONLY. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. SYRUP OF FICS AND ELIXIR OF SENNA IS THE MOST PLEASANT. WHOLE. SOME AND EFFECTIVE REMEDY FOR STOMACH TROUBLES. HEADACHES AND BILIOUSNESS DUE TO CONSTIPATION. AND TO GET ITS BENEFICIAL EFFECTS IT IS NECESSARY TO BUY THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE WHICH IS MANUFACTURED BY THE CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co THE IDEA. _ Peggy Didn't the lawyer know you were an actress ? Kitty Gracious , no ! He offered to get my divorce without any pub licity. That Might Be Inducement. It was during the hot spell and on the hottest night of the week that a South Side teacher took a number of her little charges for a car ride. In the public square they piled out and were marched to the telescope set up by a man who vends peeps at the heavenly bodies at so much per peep. The children were told that they might look at the moon , a little lec ture accompanying the lesson that the moon was a cold bed } ' . "Teacher , " spoke up one little South Sider , "when you look through the glass does your face get cold ? " Cleveland Leader. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA , a safe and sure remedy for infants and children , and see that it Bears th $ Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Charged. Willis He calls himself a human dynamo. Gillis No wonder ; everything he has on is charged. Judge. How can a man expect his wife to be interested in his business when half the time he doesn't know the color of her last new dress ? Mrs. "U'lnsIoWs Sootningr Syrup for Children teething , softens the gums , reduces Inflamma tion , allays pain , cures ivlud colic. 25c a bottle. Our idea of a true philosopher is a man who is able to explain away his faults to the satisfaction of himself. When a laxative is needed , take the al- v.-avs * potent Garfield Tea. Composed of Herbs. Many self-made men forget to make themselves agreeable. Chew and smoke nntazed toDacco. cheap and undoped. Mcriwether & Edwards. Clarksville.Tenn. Many a man has discovered that popularity is not worth the price. Why Rent a Farm and be compelled to pay to your landlord most of your hard-earned profits ? Own your own form. Secure a Free Homestead in _ Manitoba , Saskatchewan or Alberta , or purchase land In one oftnee districts and bank a profit of $10.0O or 912.0O an &cre every year. Land purchased yean ago at $ lu.pp an acre has recently chanced hands at $25.00 an acre. The crops grown on. these lands warrant the advance. You can Become Rich by cattleraisinrdairyin rraixed fanning and grain growing 'in the provinces of Manitoba , Saskatchewan and Alberta. Free homestead aad pre emption areas , as well as land held by railway and land com panies , will provide homes for millions. Adaptable soli , healthful climate , splendid schools and churches.stood railways. For settlers' rates , descriptive literature "Last Best West , ' how to reach tfcecountrv and other par ticulars , write to Bnp't of Immi gration , Ottawa , Canada , or to the Canadian Government Agent. L T Mats. 315 Jidcsoo SI , St. Pint , Klnn. J.M.H LjdiJin. Drwr197. fjtrrtinr3.S D. ( Use address nearest you. ) 83 Instead of Liquid Antiseptics or Peroxide 100,000 people last year used Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic The new toilet germicide powder to bo dissolved in water as needed. For all toilet and hygienic uses it is better and more economical. To save and beautify the teeth , remove tartar and prevent decay. To disinfect the mouth , de stroy disease germs , and purify the "breath. To keep artificial teeth and bridgework clean , odorless To remove nicotine from the teeth and purify the breath after smoking. To eradicate perspiration and body odors by sponge bathing. The best antiseptic wash known. Relieves and strengthens tired , weak , inflamedeyes. 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' * After many years of study in the active practice of medicine , Dr. R. V. Pierce found that when the stomach was out of order , the blood impure and there were symptoms of general break ' down , a tonic mads of the glyceric extract of certain 'roots was the best corrective. This he called Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Being made without alcohol this " Medical " , Discovery" helps the stomach to assimilate the food , thereby curing dyspepsia. It is especially adapted to diseases attended witb excessive tissue waste , notably in convalescence from various fevers , for thin-blooded people and those who are always ' * catching cold. " Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent on receipt of 31 one- cent stamps for the French cloth-bound book of 1008 pages. Address Dr R. V. Pierce , No. 663 Main Street , Buffalo , N. Y.