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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30
BECAUSE IT'S OLD.
Seems to be the Only Reason Why
This is Interesting.

A warrant was exhibited at the state
treasurer's office last week by Mr.
Adams of North Topeka, which proved
to be quite a curiosity. It was issued to
Theron Tucker at Topeka, Feb u, 1856,
and was for S19. 1t was signed y H
Lane, chairman executive committee of
Kansas and by y. K. GoodIn, secre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30

called reformers in this state Justify
their shady methods upon the ground
that everything is legitimate that will
further their ends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30
Relief in Sig Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
ease relieved in six hours by the New
Great South American Kidney Cure -
This new remedy is a great surprise on
account of its exceeding promptness in
back and every part Of the urinary pas
sages in male or female. 1t relieves re-
tention of water and pain in passing IL
almost Immediately. If you want quick
relief and cure this is your remedy.
Sold by Geo. W. Stansfeld, 6S2 Kansas
Ave, and Sim Drug Co, 607 Kansas
Ave. druggists. Topeka. Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30

Neutrality-suspicious. who suffer from
coughs and colds should heed the warn
ings Of danger and save themselves
suffering and fatal results by using
one Minute Cough Cure. It is an in
fallible remedy for coughs, colds, Group
and all throat and lung troubles. C.
w StanslieId. $50 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30

There is a
music of health.
The in stTu-
ments of that
music are men
and WON e n.
Men and wo-
men who are
healthy will be
happy. Their
lives will be
a u t h e ms of
health.
T h ere are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30

Colds quickly caught are more quick
ly cured by Beggs Cherry Cough Syr-
up. At druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30

The richest of Klondike finds is Beggs
Little Giant Pills. They cure not only
constipation, sick headaches and bill
liousness, but relieves all kinds of dis
order. Take no substitutes. At drug
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30
Rucklen,s Arnfca salvs.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fee
yer Sores. letter, Chapped Hand ;, Chill
blains, Corns. and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per
feet satisfaction or money refunded.
Price % cents per box. For sale by
Swift Holiday Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-30
One dose

of '77" taken at the beginning of
Cold is worth half a dozen afterwards.
When you feel the first chill or shiv-
er, or your throat feels scrapey, is the
easy time to cure Cold or check the
Grip.
This is why so many people keep a
vial of ''77'' handy; in the pocket, on
the office desk, or in the home.
If you forget your bottle you will be
safe in asking your friend for a dose;
it viii be considered a compliment.
ar is everywhere.
Neglected Colds take longer, but are
always broken up by III"
DR.. Humphreys Homeopathic Manual
Of Diseases at your Druggists or Mailed
Sold by druggists. or sent on recent Of
.. so cents or 81 Humphreys Med Co
Cor. William and John SITS, New York
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The gamblers have maxim on which
they base their calculations for their
daily bread, that "a sucker is born ev
cry minute" sucker in their par
lance being a gullible person who de-
spite repeated warnings stands ready to
give up his money to the first sharper
he meets. In fact, the sharper does not
always have to go to much pains to
get the suckers money, as he is ready
to deliver it on the first plausible op-
portunity. OF course, a sucker being
born every minute, it is always harvest
season for the sharpers, but we do not
remember Of reading an account Of so
big haul as that recently made by the
E. S. Dean Company, Of New York, a
bucket-shop concern that has just con-
veniently failed, leaving a host of pa
irons to mourn their losses. The head
and front Of this corcern, the match
less contriver of this colossal fraud, is
said to be a woman, and if this is true
she most assuredly hath the voice par
excellence" in roping in victims. 9th
er schemes are but mere patches to
hers. Through plausibly worded ad-
vertisements, pointing out how easy it
is to get rich, she attracted patronage
from half the States, and en- ready
SNAPPED the spring of the trap and got
away with a million and a half of
money. The only ambiguity about her
advertisements was that they did not
ayp1a in W. iah ,a,,fr to ,.;al
She knew all the time. These tricks
are played every year, but no one ever
seems to profit by thoir exposure. A
dozen years ago the great fund w"
scheme in Chicago was brought to
grief, but nobody knows how many
fund schemes on the other letters of the
alphabet had brought fortunes to the
projectors. This was to be their final
coup, and it failed, but nobody suffer
ed much, except the victims. Truly,
the gamblers are right, for the crop of
suckers seems ineXhaustiblc. A few
weeks ago Mr.. Hill, of the Chicago
Board of Trade, exposed the modes of
bucket-shop keepers, but they might be
exposed every day in the week and
there would still be an abundance of
flies TO walk into the bucKet-shop par
lor. The web is too. beautiful and too
attractive to be resisted. AID the
game looks so easy! A man can sit
down, pencil in hand, WITH the reports
and statistics Of the wheat or stock
market before him, and figure up for
it in actual practice and his money van
ishes as if it were fairy money. For,
while it is the maxim of the gambler
that a sucker is born every minute, it
is the maxim Of the buckct-shop man
that the suckers money, when paid, is
his and Under no circumstances to be
paiC out, except as bait. This is the
reason why the bucket-shop manor
woman-can fail and yet grow rich.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Pifh of Oniniona.

s'The retroactive clause in the Ding
lev tariff act has had it's answer in the
retroactive vote from the big cities in
the different States" says the Dover
Index.
With reference to the retroactive
clause of the Dingley bill the Boston
Post says: 1.-THE House Of Representa-
tives has in effect set up a Government
lottery in every custom house and in
vites merchants to risk their money ON
the chances of one rate of duty or an
other turning up ON the final drawing"
In the view of the Baltimore Sun.
'.the great danger is that the Dingley
bill will be so loaded down with pro-
visions that are practically prOhibitive
that it will reduce revenue instead of
increasing it. while it will impose ad
ditional burdens upon the masses Of
the people"
..The protectionist newspapers are
busily engaged in explaining the causes
of political reaction as evidenced by
the results of the recent municipal
elections" says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. ''There is one cause for dissatis-
faction which they have not yet urged,
and that is the dilatorinesS Of the Sen
ate in passing the Dingley tariff bill.
The people are so anxious to be Etsre
heavily taxed?'
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
The Tariff and the Trusts.

The account in the San Francisco
Examiner of the manner IN Whlch the
different trusts have been allowed to
write their own schedules Of the Ding
lev tariff sufficiently explains why the
sponsors of that measure did not wei
come a proviso that articles controlled
by trusts should be placed on the freq
list. 1t would have been rather queer
if they had been willing to punish the
men that made their bill.
This easy method of framing tariff
bill by farming out the work to the
various interests that expect to profit
by it is nothing new in Republican tar
iff legislation. Precisely the same
course was followed in the preparation
of the original Mckinley law. The
trusts and capitalists to whom the par
ty managers felt under obligations
wrote the schedules that affected their
respective interests. and in many cases
these schedules were adopted word for
word. The people who were to pay
the taxes had nothing to say until the
following November, when they spoke
with considerable emphasis. 1t ap-
pears evident. however, that the i'm
preston made by their remarks at that
time has faded out, and that they will
have to speak again at the next oppor-
tlmity
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Canadian Resentment.


The story coming from Montreal that
the new Canadian tariff will be pro-
British and anti-American, and that the
Liberals will pursue a policy the very
reverse of that they have been advo-
eating these many years, is not entitled
to much regard. 1t bears marks of Ca
madam toryism and American prOtec-
tioniSm.
1t is certain, however. that the rep
resentatives of the Liberal Govern
ment who were recently in Washing
ton did not return home in an amiable
mood. They were treated in a manner
which they might have expected, but
which in their commercial good will it
seems they did not expect. They were
treated with downright incivility and
contempt and given to understand that
while the party in power professed to
favor reciprocity in the abstract or
with certain countries, it had no thought
of anything but strangulation for trade
with Canada.
Very likely protectionst hostility
which was so ostentatiously mani
tested in Washington will have its eff
feet upon the tariff policy of the Lib
erals
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

Lieutenant Peary has been detached
from the Brooklyn navy yard and Or
dered to report for duty on the Pacific
coast, but announces that his plans for
reaching the north pole will go on all
the same He is at present hoping that
some person or persons will give him
$150,000, and he will then start on his
trip. The greatest part of the money,
he explains, will be needed to maintain
a colony of Eskimos at point further
north than any previous colony has
ever located. There might be some
thing that would thrill the world in the
accomplishment Of this plan, and yet
there are practicalminded people who
will think that the money asked for
could be better used in founding col
ony Of poor white people in some lower
latitude
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Eoas of War Let Loose.

"By the powers" is the fayorite objur
CATION in the Island of Crete just now
Boston Transcript.
Greece just at present is the bat-eared
bull-pup of the powers great interna-
tional bench show.-New York Press.
The maxim to the effect that discretion
is the better part of yalor has evidently
not commanded much respect in GreeB
literature.-Washington Star.
The war footing of Turkey seems to be
composed chiefly Of men and arms, while
that of Greece is confined largely TO the
spirit of Marathon.-Chicago Tribune.
The airship ought to sail over to the
Graeco-Turkish frontier. Its owner could
make fortune selling reserved seats ia
the war correspondents.-C Cincinnati Trib-
une.
Considering the national dress of the
Greek soldiers, it seems a paIpable def
ance of the fitness of things that their
army is not equipped with bicycle corps.
Baltimore American.
The breaking out of the Graeco-Turkisb
war on the mainland makes the naval
blockade of Crete appear ridiculous. The
powers are left holding the bag.''-In-
dianapolis Journal.
If the European powers could hit upon
an equitable plan for distributing the Otto
man empire among themselves, their sym
pathy with the Turk would not last over
night.-Chicago Record.
1t is an interesting coincidence that the
last European war was begun twenty
years ago under almost exactly the same
circumstances as the one now declared.
1t was that of Russia against Turkey
Boston Herald.
The English papers have it that Osman
Pasha of Plevna fame is now practically
at the head of the Turkish army. and that
preparations for this war have been care
fully made. This is not encouraging to
the Greeks.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Hetairia Ethnike of Greece is the
biggest kind of union. Just now it is
running the Government at Athens, and
has on the Turkish frontier a large num-
Der of walking delegates who are doing
things to disturb the poise Of the Sultaa's
turban.-Columbus Dispatch.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Industrial Progress in Russia.

The recent industrial growth of Rus
sia has been one of the marvels of the
present decade. In addition to her eX-
tensive sulphuric acid industry, Russia
is opening up important manufactures
of chromate salts, vitriol, phosphates,
lead, zinc, tin, strontium and copper
salts and mineral dyes, and platinum
is almost a Russian monopoly. In med
icinal plant growing the progress in
Russia is very great. Six castor oil
factories, all working from native
grown seed, were represented at the
worm wood, caraway, fennel, anise and
pine needles were also shown. The
output Of Russian benZine has grown
from 81 800 gallons in 1882 to nearly
100000 gallons in 1894. The petro-
leum industry is the second largest in
the world. One firm alone owns 1SS
miles of petroleum pipe lines. 1t has
an enormous fleet and owns I, ,157 tank
wagons for the conveyance Of its prod
ucts by rail. The industry of the dry
distillation of wood in Russia is only
just beginning. In northern Russia,
away from the railways, there are still
many thousands of square miles under
wood, yet up to the present only one
half per cent of all the resin, but a
slightly larger proportion of the tur-
pentine used in Russia has been of
home manufacture. 1t has generally
been assumed that the Russian fir
could not be made to yield turpentine
and resin of equal quality or abund-
ance to the French Or American pines,
but experiments show that Russian
turpentine, if collected by the French
process, does not differ materially from
the French, except that it is deXtrO
eyre to the same degree that the
French is laevogyre. Moreover, bal
sam was obtained from one variety
that will advantageously replace Can
ada balSam for technical and micro
scopic purposes. The day of the chem
ical exploitation of the Russian forests
is therefore dawning, and within a few
years the country o. the Gar may ex
port, instead of buy from abroad, acetio
acid, wood naphtha, acetone, wood
vinegar and acetate of lime. The i'm
portance of the Russian licorice juice
and licorice root industry is generally
EnnUn
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
DEPREsslOMoN THE FARM.

There are quite a number of people
who, having passed all their lives in a
city, are disposed to regard the farm
er as the luckiest of all individuals,
and the one who is always assured of
a comfortable living.
The usual idea of the farmer, by those
who have had no experience in farm
ing, is that he is sure Of his sustenance
from what the ground yields him, and
that the surplus products mean so
much clear cash in his pocket. But the
working of the farm necessitates help
which, while the pay is not large, eats
considerably into the receipts. Then to
keep UP the production of the land, Ter
tiliZers have to be utilized, and large
sums are expended yearly, for agricul-
tural machinery.
After the ground is planted, and
even up to the time the crop is plucked,
the farmer is constantly facing the pos
sibility Of having the entire season S
labor swept away. Too much wet
weather means the ruin of crops;
drought means that they will be burned
up by blistering sun, while sudden
storm may sweep away in an instant
property which he has been years in ac-
quiring, or the produce which is ready
for the market.
The past few years have been decid-
edly unfortunate for the farmers in
every section. The price of produce has
been small, and the demand light, be-
cause the masses have had no money.
In many instances crops did not pay
for their cultivation, and within few
miles of some of the big cities potatoes
and many other lines of farm produce
have been allowed to rot in the ground,
because the price would not repay for
the labor of marketing.
No matter how disastrous the season,
taxes pile up upon the farmer, and as
a climax to the period of depression the
law steps in and dispossesses him. Not
until the volume of money is largely in
creased. and comes in medium Whlch
will be placed in circulation, instead OF
being boarded away, will there be any
real and practical relief for the farmer.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Rebuke to Tariff Boomers.

If the Republican party is correct in
it's claim that the election of Mckinley
indicated a great popular demand for
more tariff the elections this spring do
not indicate it. Why. if the Dingley
tariff rates were just what the people
wanted, wouldn't the elections this
spring have been the most enthusiastic
kind of jubilation meetings over the
iamming of the bill through the House:
If more tariff were all that is necessary
for prosperity the jamming of the Ding
ley bill ought to bring the dawn in
sight.-Utica Observer.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

mans ring end armed with broom or
a kettle of hot water as an expression
Of resentment. The mail box adver-
tiser will do well to leave off his ne
farious practices. He is defeating his
own object and is courting reprisals.
The mail box is provocative Of enough
worriment without being made the
target for obtuse persons who don't
know enough to advertise in the proper
way-that is to say, in the newspapers.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
THE cEDARS OF LEBANON.
Several Groups of the Famous Trees
Are Still Standing.

arc StiI StdHuiuSs
In st. Nicholas there is an article en-
titled silk and Cedars," by Harry
Fem, the artist, describing visit to
the mountains Of Lebanon. He says.
Every girl and boy of the Christian
world has heard and read, over and
over again, of the "Cedars of Leban-
on" but very few have any idea of the
locality and surroundings of the ia
nous grove. 1t is a popular error, by
the way, to suppose that there are no
other cedars remaining besides this
group at the head of the "Wady" wal
ley or canyon) Kadisha. There are, to
my knowledge, ten other groves, some
numbering thousands of trees. This
particular group that we are about to
visit is called by the Arabs by name
which means "Cedars Of the Lord" J"
They number about four hundred trees,
among them a circle of gigantic fellows
that are called by the natives 1.-The
Twelve Apostles" upon the strength
of an old tradition that Jesus and his
disciples having come to this spot and
left their slaves standing in the ground,
these slaves sprOuted into cedar-grOveS.
There is every reason to suppose that
in the time of King Solomon these
scattered groves were part of an enor-
nous unbroken forest, extending the
entire length of the Lebanon range of
mountains, about one hundred miles,
running nearly parallel with the Med
iterranean shore from a little below
Beirut. The SUBMITS of the range are
from fifteen to twenty miles from the
coast.
The Lebanon-that is, the "White"-
does not derive it's name from glitter
ing snOwpeaks, but from the white
limestone cliffs of it's SUBMITS. The
first historical mention of the trees is
in the Bible q Sam. ", ~: :"And Hiram,
King of Tyre, sent messengers to Da-
vid, and cedar trees, and carpenters,
and masons; and they built David an
house."
From that day to this the people have
been almost as reckless and Wasteful
of these noble giants of the mountains
as our own people are of these cedars'
first cousins, the redwood trees of the
California coast-range. AS we approach
the grove, which stands upon the top
Of small hill, the foliage is almost
black against the snow-covered crags
of Dahrel-Kadib, which rears its high.
est peak over ten thousand feet above
the sea.
There is a Maronite chapel in the
grove, it's patriarch claiming the sole
right to the sacred trees; and, luckily.
the superstition with which the trees
have been surrounded has been their
salvation. All the cedars of Lebanon
would have been demolished for red
wood years ago were not the people
threatened with dire calamity should
they take a single stick.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
GODS PUNISHMENT.
At Last the Little White Box Became
FL. ] rison.

A Last the w niue bOA beCa m q
FL. ] rison.
The tailors wife took her little boy
out for walk the day after they moved
next door to the undertaker's. The little
fellow stopped just outside the wide
windows and pointed his chubby fore
finger at the white coffin within.
whats that, mother?" he asked. He
had never seen a coffin.
That's what they put little boys in
when they're naughty" said the moth
err That's the way God punishes.'
Every day after that the brown-eyed
boy stood for many minutes and looked
at the tiny coffins behind the heavy
glass He grew very obedient, too, but
the mother had become so accustomed
to fault-inding that she never noticed
how we'll he minded, but continued to
scold, just the same. With every re-
proof his beautiful, brown eyes would
grow dark with a mist of tears, and he
would ask, half fearfully:
"Will you put me in the white box for
that, mother? Will God punish me
now?"
Months passed. One day the restless
feet went astray again, and the moth
er, in the moment of her extreme vexa-
ton, punished him more severely than
usual.
Don't put me in that white box,
mother" he pleaded over and over
again between his sobs.
So saying, he fell asleep. When he
awoke the fever was on him, and the
pattering feet wandered away no more.
Another week passed. Then the brown
eyes looked UP into hers, the pale lips
quivered, and he said feebly:
'Have you got the white box, mother:
Has God punished me yet?"
Two days later the carriages came
and bore him away in state. Gods pun
ishment had come-Chicag go Tribune.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road Company, which employs 5000
coal miners. and whose wage scale gov
erns that of 10000 miners in Alabama,
has asked its miners to accept a re-
duction of 1215 per cent. beginning
June 1. The President says that this
will enable the company to take several
large contracts for export shipment. In
other words, if the men will work for
one-eighth less than their present
wages the company will re able to
pocket lot of money.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Self-Sacrihce.

Hubby-Yes, dear, you look nice in
that dress, but it cost ME heap Of
money.
Wife-Freddie. dear. what do 1 care
for money when it is a question Of
pleasing you:-Tit-Bits.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The Coroner's jury viewed a body
which had been taken from the Chicago
River and returned verdict that the
decedent "came to his death by drown
ing from a cause unknown" This is
fully as clear as the Chicago River it.
self
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

ALI virtue is cumulative. Exception
al deeds of moral excellence or heroism
are but the richest of the fruits which
a noble character is continually yield
ing. Our admiration and respect thus
called forth should not be confined to
them, but should extend far back into
the past life which has made such
things possible.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The Buffalo News calls attention to
the case of Noah Raby, Jerseyman,
125 years old, who started to smoke
his mothers clay pipe 120 years ago
and has smoked ever since, and asks:
How would it have been if he had
smoked cigarettes?" If he had smoked
cigarettes he probably wouldn't have
been over 75 years old now.