Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, July 13, 1911, Image 7

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    LOCATED HIM RIGHT AWAY
Possibly Display of Bill of Generous
Denomination May Have Had
Some Effect.
A southerner who was visiting St.
Louis wandered into the dining room
of the hotel and , seeing a negro serv
ant who had all the importance of an
army officer standing near the door ,
asked him who the "head nigger" was
around there. The negro stretched
himself to his full height and pom
pously replied that "there ain't no nig
gers in St. Louis , sah. We is all
gem'men of color. "
"Well , " said the southerner , drawing
a $100 bill from his pocket and finger
ing It , "I expect to be at the hotel for
some time and want to make sure that
I will be taken care of. "
"Oh , sah , " said the negro , whose
eyes were popping from his head , "did
you want to know who the head 'nig
ger waiter' is ? That's me. " Allentown -
town Call.
A DIFFERENT ENTRANCE.
First Burglar I see that 'Mr. Bill-
yuns entered his yacht In the July
races and got a $100 silver cup.
V Second Burglar Tve got him beat a
block. I entered a yacht las' week an'
jgot a whole silver service.
The Girl's Handicap.
In her pretty new frock sister Mabel
felt quite proud as she sat on the
front step and watched , some boys
-playing on the sidewalk.
After a time one litle boy came up
to talk to her and to admire , in his
rough little way , her bright shiny
shoes and pink sash.
"See my nice square-cut waist , " exclaimed -
-claimed the girlie , "and my nice coral
"beads ! Don't you wish you wuz a
"No sire-ee , " replied the boy. "I
wouldnjt want to be any girl at all ,
"because lookie how much more neck
you haf to wash. "
Answering the Dean.
The man who Thackeray calls "the
greatest wit of all time" Dean Swift
of St. Patrick's cathedral , Dublin
was as ready to take as to make a re
tort.
tort."Why
"Why don't you doff your hat to
me ? " he asked a small boy who was
coaxing along an obstreperous goat.
"I will , " said the lad , "if your honor
will hold the goat's horns ! " an an
swer which delighted the dean.
Youth's Companion.
No Wedding Day Bargains.
T he Husband ( during the quarrel )
You're always making bargains.
Was there ever a time when you
didn't ?
The Wife Yes , sir ; on my wedding
day. L
Modern Ethics.
Do not kick a man when he Is down.
Turn him over and feel in the other
Docket Galveston News.
WRONG SORT
. Perhaps Plain Old Meat , Potatoes and
Bread May Be Against You
for a Time.
A change to the right kind of food
* can lift one from a sick bed. A lady
in Welden , 111. , says :
"Last spring I became bed-fast with
severe stomach troubles accompanied
by sick headache. I got worse and
worse until I became so low I could
scarcely retain any food at all , although
' though I tried about every kind.
"I had become completely discour
aged , and given up all hope , and
thought I was doomed to starve to
death , until one day my husband , try
ing to find something I could retain ,
hrought home some Grape-Nuts.
' . 'To my surprise the food agreed
with me , digested perfectly and with
out distress. I began to gain strength
At once. My flesh ( which had been
.flabby ) , grew firmer , my health Im
proved in every way and every day ,
and In a very few weeks I gained 20
pounds in weight.
"I liked Grape-Nuts BO well that for
four months I ate no other food , and
always felt as well satisfied after eat
ing as if I had sat down to a fine ban
quet.
"I had no return of the miserable
islck stomach nor of the headaches ,
-that I used to have when I ate other
food. I am now a well woman , doing
, all my own work again , and feel that
life is worth living.
"Grape-Nuts food nas been a God
send to my family ; it surely saved my
life ; and my two little boys have
thriven on it wonderfully. " Name
, -given by Postum Co. , Battle Creek ,
Mich.
Rean the little book , "The. Road to ,
'Wellville'inpkgs. "There's a reason. "
Ever read the above letterT A nevr
-one appears from time to time. They
are genuine , true , and fall of unnxar
J Interest.
FEE ! ME
Great Many English Women Are
Pigeon-Toed.
Neighbors From France Declare They
Should Have School for Teach
ing of Foot Deportment Hob
ble Skirt Blamed. '
London. The Englishwoman would
be the most graceful woman in the
world if she could only learn the
graceful management of her feet.
This , In effect , was the verdict of a
party of Frenchwomen who visited
Hyde Park , and who apeared to derive
considerable amusement from watchIng -
Ing the awkward way in which the
English women in the penny chairs
placed their feet
"Maladroit , " "gauche , " were a few
of the criticisms overheard expressed
tn tones of.varying intensity.
irwas 'noticed that the ladies sitting
In the row the objects of these com
ments were apparently all unaware
of the criticism their feet were
causing. * '
Though not , perhaps , the usual
habitues of the park , they were most
ly well dressed women , wearing the
customary "hobble" skirts and the
rather conspicuous shoes of today ,
which are made In various shades of
\eather \ to match the stockings.
One of London's leading teachers
of dancing and deportment later in
the day said that most English women
aeed a course of "feet discipline. "
"It is another example of the danger
af adopting a fashion set by a foreign
country , " she said. "The 'hobble'
skirt the present mode was evolved
oy French costumers to suit French
women , and Frenchwomen are re
nowned the world round for their
graceful feet.
"English women hastily adopt the
fashion without thinking that , prac
tically for the first time in the history
of fashion , the feet form a conspicu
ous part of the tout ensemble. There
are no crinolines or loose plaited bell
skirts to hide them.
"Beyond a little drilling in the man
agement of her feet which she gets in
the hobbledehoy , short skirted period
of her life , the English woman is
never taught the necessity of graceful
control of her feet.
"Now comes suddenly this tight
skirted vogue and her feet are re
vealed in all their pigeon toed or
sprawling awkwardness. Not all of
them , of course , for some English
women are naturally graceful from
the top of the head to the tip of the
toe.
"English women are fully aware
that the new skirt makes smart shoes
and stockings absolutely de rigueur
but they forget that smart shoes and
stockings draw special attention to
the feet and make it equally compul
sory that they should place them
gracefully. "
FLY SPREADS DEADLY GERM
Dr. Flexner and Aid of Rockefeller
Institute Discover Disseminator
of Infantile Disease.
New York.
Experiments carried on
} n the laboratories of the Rockefeller
Institute of Medical Research have
demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt
that the virus of Infantile paralysis is
carried from the sick to the well by
the common house fly.
It had been really understood the
poisonous element of the disease is
transferred from those suffering from
It to persons brought in contact with
the patients ; also that healthy persons
carry the virus from the sick to the
Well. But in thinly settled sections of
the country the disease has spread in
a manner that could not be accounted
for by any of the foregoing means of
transmission. This led to the sus
picion that the common fly was the
carrier , and resulted In experiments
Which have been and are. still being
carried on by Dr. Simon Flexner , di
rector of the institute , assisted by
Paul P. Clark , Ph. D.
AUSTRIAN EMPEROR NOT DYING.
. Reports that have been sent broadcast to the effect that Emperor
VIENNA.
peror Francis Joseph has been attacked by senile decay and is nearlng
his end are vigorously denied by those close to the venerable ruler and seem
to be disproved by the Emperor's continued activity of mind and body. He
still insists on attending personally to state affairs.
WILL FIND DEFORMITY
Child's Curved Spine Often Es
capes Doctor's Scrutiny.
Dressmakers' Measurements Disclose
Defect When the Time for Any
Effective Treatment of Trouble
Has Passed.
Chicago. "If your child has a back
ache and your doctor can't cure it ,
send for the dressmaker ; she knows
more than the doctor about crooked
backs. "
Such Is the advice given by Prof.
Henry D. Thomas of the Northwest
ern University Medical school in a
lecture to the members of the Chica
go Visiting Nurse association at the
Wesley hospital.
"In the clinic records there are the
histories of 4,000 cases of bowed-legs
and 3,000 cases of scoliosis , or curva
ture of the spine , which were treated
In the last ten years , " he continued.
"In the cases of spinal trouble the dis
ease began when the child was from
three to eight years old usually.
"No one knew anything of the dis
ease in many cases until the child was
old enough to go to the dressmaker.
Then it is too late for any effective
treatment. The girl's mother girla
have 75 per cent , of the cases never
sees it , the family doctor overlooks It ,
and not until the dressmaker begins
to do some measuring does the de
formity appear. Once started , the
process continues with terrible ef
fects.
"The number of children who suffer
from this disease Is very large. Some
estimators state that it is as high as
GO per cent. ; others place the figure
as low as two per cent. My own calcu
lation , based on an examination of the
WOULDN'T GO WITHOUT THEM
Ocean Liner Is Held While Porter In
Taxi Speeds to Ship With
Wealthy Woman's Lingerie.
New York. Miss Elenor Spang , a
wealthy unmarried woman , who owns
a house in Washington and another
In Paris and who recently has been
a guest of the Hotel Plaza , was
booked to sail on the Kronprinz Wil-
helm.
For several days past she had
overseen the packing of her 15 trunks
by her French maid , Celeste , who un
derstands little English. She had
placed some of her lingerie in a suit
case to have by her in her cabin.
When It came to packing her fish
ing Implements for Miss Spang , is a
great fisherwoman she told Celeste
to "leave out the longest reel. "
Celeste thought she meant the
'lingerie. "
When Miss Spang arrived at the
ship , accompanied by Max Thompson ,
assistant manager of the Plaza , she
found on looking over her baggage
that the suit case containing the
lingerie was missing. She became
panic-stricken. No , it was absolutely
impossible for a lady to sail under
such conditions. She must have
those things.
What should she do ? Sailing time
was only 20 minutes away. .
Thompson dashed to a 'phone ,
sailed up a porter at the Plaza , gave
instructions where to find the suit
case , and ordered him to rush to the
Twenty-third street subway line in a
taxi. Thompson dispatched another
taxi to meet the porter on the Jersey
side. Then Thompson begged the
captain to hold the ship. The captain
agreed to wait five minutes no more.
At four minutes past the hour for
sailing no taxi was In sight It
looked as though Miss Spang would
not sail. But exactly at 10:05 the cab
come in sight The porter sprang out
and heaved the suit case over the
rail , and Miss Spang sailed.
JAPS WILL EAT FROGS' LEGS
Student Returning Home From East
ern College Takes Jumpers Along
for Breading Purposes.
Storrs Conn. Kemao
, Inonya , a
Japanese student who
has just re
ceived his diploma from the Connec
ticut Agricultural college here , Is on
his way back to Japan , carrying with
him , carefully crated , a dozen of the
largest and best specimens of bull
frogs he has been able to gather from
the ponds In the surrounding country.
It Is his intention to use them In the
propagation o the species in his na
tive land , where the frogs are small
and not edible.
school children in Chicago , is three
per cent My examinations , however ,
were made without removing the
clothing , and so the real figures may
be higher.
"Sometimes the curvature Is con
genial ; sometimes it comes from rick-
etts ; often the position which a child
assumes in school is the cause. The
child has a slight deafness in one ear ,
an astigmatism in one eye too slight
to be noticed , or perhaps is simply
weak. Sitting all the time in some
crooked position day after day and
year after year will develop a good
case of curvature.
"The only way to effect a cure Is to
begin the treatment early. . Hence
mothers , family physicians and nurses
should examine children very careful
ly , and especially carefully when the
child complains of some weakness or
shows signs of being always tired. "
HENS LAY AN EGG EACH DAY
Small Flock of Rhode Island Reds
Make Remarkable Record-
Owner Has No System.
Wallace , Ida. Twelve eggs a day ,
seven days in the week , for twenty-
eight consecutive weeks is the record
of twelve hens kept in the center of
the Coeur d'Alene mining district Only
in the last few days , when one of the
number began to sit , was the record
spoiled.
The twelve hens are Rhode Island
Reds and are the property of Peter
Caw , who lives seven miles northwest
of Wallace. Mr. Caw's home is well
up in the mountains at an altitude of
more than 3,600 feet Throughout
nearly nine months the ground is.snow
covered. It is only now that the last
of the snow Is leaving. At more than
one time during the winter the snow
has been banked around the building ,
nearly ten feet deep.
Mr. Caw has no steam-heated houses
for his chickens and he neither cares
for them nor feeds by any book sys
tem. The home of the fowls is an old
barn , their feed selected scraps from
the table. With these they have pros
pered and with clock-like regularity
have furnished a neat income. Eggs
in Wallace during the months past
have ranged from 25 to 50 cents. Fig
ured at the low price , the twelve hens
made a gross earning In the twenty-
eight weeks of $49.
MARRIAGE ENDS BABY F\ATS
Owner Marries Waitress , Who Is Not
Fond of 'Children and Prefers
Families Without Them.
Brockton , Mass. Brockton's famous
"Baby Flats , " built exclusively for
families with babies , will hereafter be
rented to babyless tenants , says John
Hill Bartlett , the owner , whose venture
had resulted In ex-President Roosevelt
sending him a personal letter of com
mendation.
Two yearp ago Mr. Bartlett an
nounced that he saw no reason why
families should be barred from tene
ments because they bad children. A
years ago he married a waitress. Now
he says he renounces his former opin
ion of bables.
Mr. B&rtlett does not express him
self as opposed to babies , but 'Mrs
Bartlett frankly admits she prefers
families without them ,
STATE CAPITAL CHAT
NEW LAWS EFFECTIVE IN NE
BRASKA JULY 7.
Friday , July 7 , a large number of
laws enacted at the late session of
the state legislature will become ef
fective and many laws by which the
people have been governed in the past
will be repealed at that time.
The new closed primary law , the
automobile regulation act , the reapportionment -
portionment measures , several re
forms attempted in the line of the con
duct of the state's business , the trust
compari1 act and the law providing for
the commission form of government
for cities over 5,000 in population lead
the others in general Importance and
are among those which will be opera
tive statutes.
Among those measures which were
enacted at the 1911 session and which
are of moment to the people of the
state at large are the following :
H. R. 433 Requiring the registra
tion of stallions.
H. R. 177 Relating to the control
and suppression of infectious diseases
of domestic animals.
S. F. 115 The Ollis stock yards bill.
S. F. 273 The Placek senatorial re-
apportionment.
"
S. F. 200 The Alberts judicial re-
apportionment.
S. F. 314 The county attorney's sal
ary act.
S. F. 342 The Banning bill provid
ing for the commission form of gov
ernment for cities.
H. R. 5 Providing for the incorpo
ration of religious societies.
S. F. 171 The Tibbets-Jansen trust
company act.
S. F. 84 Relating to the payment
of jurors.
H. R. 3S9 Making judges ineligible
to election to other offices while still
holding the office for which they were
elected.
S. F. 173 The Bartling bill chang
ing the method of teaching at the
Omaha school for the deaf.
H. R. 309 Providing for the ap
pointment of legislators in cases" of
vacancies.
H. R. 176. The act relating to the
salaries of clerks of the district
court.
H. R. 60 The county commission
ers' salary bill.
H. R. 572 Relating to the fees paid
insurance examiners.
H. R. 216 A fire escape act.
H. R. 243 The game season meas
ure.
ure.H.
H. R. 219 The Hardin-Sanborn
pure seed act.
H. R. 53 The service letter act.
H. R. 360 The Bulla hotel commis
sion act
S. F. 240 Relating to the sanita
tion of factories.
H. R. 481 The printing commis
sioner bill.
H. R. 197 Provides for the con
struction of storm sheds on railroad
right-of-way for use of shippers.
S. F. 319 Railroads to furnish men
to protect freight.
H. R. 158 Relating to the releases
and assignments of mortgages.
S. F. 271 The Smith mortgage tax
act.
H. R. 274 The state aid to bridges
over streams more than 175 feet wile.
H. R. 352 The McArdle automobile
act.
act.H.
H. R. 703 Creating a department
for the inspection and supervision of
construction of state buildings.
H. R. 590 All state buildings to bs
constructed within the appropriation
made for same.
H. R. 98 Creating an advisory
board of pardons.
H. R. 2 The Eastman agricultural
school act.
H. R. 257 Telephone booths to be
constructed in depots for the use of
patrons.
H. R. 71 Relating to the hours ol
trainmen's service.
H. R. 286 Relating tothe testing oi
grain in wagons.
H. R. 109 Relating to the carrying
of concealed weapons.
S. F. 55 Relating to the hauling ol
voters to the polls.
S. F. 318 The anti-bucket shop act
H. R. 107 The Housh anti-free gift
act.
act.H.
H. R. 313 Prohibiting minors undei
eighteen from using tobacco.
H. R. 215 Prohibiting hypnotic ex
hibitions.
S. F. 175 The Hoagland Indeterm
inate sentence act.
H. R. 538 The Grossman medical
college bill.
State Fire Commissioner Randall Is
in the western part of the state inves
tigating the causes of some recent dis
astrous fires. He is looking into the
conflagration in McCook , which gave
the fire department so hard a fight to
save the town ; also into a supposedly
incendiary fire in Hastings.
Potatoes are too high for use in the
state instiutions , according to the de
cision made by the state board of pur
chase and supplies. Until the pres
ent price of $3 per bushel Is reduced ,
the board will not buy tubers.
Tie state board of agriculture has
inspected the work in progress and
just completed at the state fair
grounds. Two sections of the steel
framework for the new grandstand are
up and the whole superstructure will
be in place within two weeks. The
board looked over the diking which
has been lone on the west and north
west , six feet in height for a distance
of 1.-500 feet and about three feet for
another 1,500. The embankment is in
tended to prevent overflows from Salt
rreek.
Corned Beef
Everybody IHces good
corned beef.
Everybody likes Lobby's
because it is good and is
ready for serving as soon
as taken out of the tin.
Bay Libby'i Next Time
CARING FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Thirty-Nine State and 114 Local Sana
toria Provided , but These Are
Only a Beginning.
In spite of the fact that state sana
toria and hospitals for tuberculosis
have been established In 31 states , and
114 municipal or county hospitals In
26 states , vastly more public provision
Is needed to stamp out consumptlon.-
, 'says the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
'Nearly every state east of the Missis
sippi river has provided a state sana
torium , and west of the Mississippi
river , state sanatoria have been es
tablished in Minnesota , Iowa , Missouri ,
'Arkansas , Texas , Kansas , Nebraska ,
'North ' Dakota. South Dakota , Montana
and Oregon. There are 38 sanatoria
provided by these states , Massachu
setts having four. Connecticut and
Pennsylvania three and Texas two. In
cluding special pavilions and almshouse -
house , there are 114 municipal or
county hospitals for the care of tuber
culosis patients.
Apart from these Institutions , how
ever , and a few special pavilions at
, prisons , hospitals for the insane , and
some other public institutions , a grand
total of hardly 200 , the institutional
icare of the consumptive is left to pri
vate philanthropy.
Her Father's Child.
The six-year-old daughter of a well-
known evangelistic preacher was
playing on the sidewalk one day , when
& . shabbily dressed and downcast man
approached her father's house.
Halting at the foot of the steps , he
looked at her , and in a weary voice
the voice of an unsuccessful book
agent he asked if her father might
be found in his study.
"He isn't home , " said the little girl ,
drawing close to him , and gazing up
into the tired face , "but he'll be home
pretty soon. You go into the house ,
you poor , perishing soul , and mother * ! !
look after you till he comes. " Youth's
,
Companion.
Would Try Another.
There was going to be a picnic that
morning , says the Cleveland Plain
Pealer. The little boy prayed before
he retired at night that it might be
a fine day. And when he looked out
of the window at the peep of dawn , it
was raining.
In the evening the little boy
wouldn't say his prayers. "Mamma , "
he asked , as he was going to bed ,
"where do they sell idols ? I want to
get one to worship. "
A Catastrophe.
A cat was being chased along thereof
roof of a New York building. It lost
its balance and fell on a boy who was
standing on a balcony on the second
floor. The startled boy fell In his
turn , landing on a baby carriage , for
tunately empty , which another boy
was wheeling in the street. The first
boy dislocated his wrist ; the cat was
killed.
The devil is proud of the man who
is mean to his wife.
To The Last
Mouthftil
one enjoys a bo\vi of
crisp , delightful
Post
Toasties
with cream or stewed
fruit or both.
Some people make
an entire breakfast out
of this combination.
Try it !
"The Memory Lingers 99
Sold by Grocers
Postum Cereal Company , Ltd.
Battle Creek. Mick , , U. S. A.