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"But Pm old Jim Kelso," protested the man.
 You might be old Jim anything else and it would make no difference. If you ride you'll have to pay. Want ticket?"
 'sNo, sir. I jest called to ask if you hadn't a new conductor on this train young, smooth-faced feller who come out here from St. Louis month or so ago?"
 ''Yes, sir-Joe Cummings"
 "Waal, what I'm goin' to do is to sl1eer the butes right off this kid and go up to Cheyenne fur nothin'. No use to pay fare when ye kin bluff the conductor"
 "Thafs the idea, eh?" asked the agent.
 That's the idea, sah, and if he don't show up agin for a week you'd better send party out to hunt fur him in the woods. Some folks may pay their way up to Cheyenne, but ain't that sort. Names old Jim Kelso remem- ber."
 ''Yes, I'll remember"
 MT. Kelso walked around by himself until the train rolled up. and he didn't see the sign which passed between the agent and the conductor. As he started to get aboard the smoker the conduc- tor took him by the arm and pressed the muzzle of a revolver to his ear and said:
 ''NIr. Kelso, have you got ticket for Cheyenne?"
 1T don't think hev," was the re-. ply.
 Are you going to get one?"
 ''Mebbe I don't need one"
 Perhaps not. If you are going up alive you'H want ticket and can take any ear. If you are going up as a corpse your friends at Cheyenne can pay the bill and you'll go in the bag gage carl"
 'I'll think it over," said MT. Kelso as he stepped back few feet to size up things, but before he had made up his mind the train had departed
 "Goin' to Cheyenne?" asked the agent as he looked out and saw the old man leaning up against the wall
 ''Name's old Jim Kelso," replied the buffer as he looked up and down the tracks.
 s'Yes, I know"
 And the conductor didn't skeer."
 "Oh, he didn't?"
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What passed through your mind when 1000 of them insecks, each with teeth like buzz saw, lifted you and the gals three feet high?"
 1T dunno"
 The farmer was about to put an- other question when I suggested that I'd better hurry on for the doctor.
 "What I was tryin' to git at" he said as he followed me out, ''vas whether that young feller thinks he was run through a thrashin' masheen or gored by bull, but Tll talk to him later on. The three gals is upstairs in bed and wuss off than he is, and the only one who kin talk keeps ca1lin' out fur somebody to help her off the barbed wire fence. They'll all live, I reckon, but they won't want no more hornets nests to ornament halls with. Yes, tell the doctor to hurry up, and tell him I say it'll take him three hull days with a par'r O pinchers to pull the stings outi" M CHAD
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heap Q comfort down thar? If SO, don't let me disturb yol'
 ain't eomplainin',' sez she. but jest fur change 70 might pull me out,
 But am l an onery man?' sezI
 Yo' surely arr sez she. but be- tween an onery man and an onery bar I'll take the man. I shan't take back no mo than that. zeb White-notif if yo' keep me down we're a week
 T wasn't feelin' quite satisfied but I knowed she was woman of her word, and so I cut grapevine and lowered it down and pulled her out. Then I shot the bar and went off and got two men to help pull the karkass out. He was the biggest, fattest bar any body had seen around we're fur ten vars. l sold the pelt alone for $2O in cash, and we had bar meat till we got tired of it. Reckon we've got sum O the grease in the house yit, and it's prime stuff to ile up yo'r butes.'
 And you bought the dress and shoes, of course?" 1 asked
 of co'se," he replied. ''I never did feel quite right about it all. Pears to me like the ole woman got ahead of me in the fuss, in the dream and in the b'ar-skin, and she never really took back any of them words Deed, but she went round braggin' over me and holdlin' her nose so high that l felt mighty humble all winter"
 And as he got up and knocked the ashes out of his pipe andl wound up the quaint old wooden clock he said to himself:
 "Yes, wimin is curus crItters-mighty eafus' M. QUAD.
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CnItixnte Cheer.

It was favorite saying of Bancroft, the historian, who was a vigorous old man at 90, that the secret of long life is in never losing one's temper. The re- mark was simply concrete way of ex- pressing the hygienic value of amiabili- ty-a principle which, until lately, has scarcely been considered in the train ing of children. Hitherto we have re- garded fretfulness, melancholy and bad temper as the natural concomitants of illness. But modern science shows that these mental moods have actual power to produce disease. No doubt in most cases imperfect bodily conditions are the cause of irritable and depressed feelings, yet sometimes the reverse is true, and better knowledge of physio- logical laws would show them to be effect rather than cause. The fact that discontented and gloomy people are never in good health is an argument in favor of the theory that continual in dulgence in unhappy thoughts acts as a poison and creates some form of dis ease.-Detroit Free Press.
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THE MISTAKE SHE MADE.
She Did Her Best to Entertain Bored
 Guest.

At 8 party the hostess said to a guest "I want you to entertain MT. Blank a ht- tie; he looks bored to death. l will intro- duce him, and yoV must try to amuse him. You know his strong point is butter, on which he has written a book"
 The lady-guest graciously undertook the task of entertaining the man, inwardly won dering that he should be so interested in butter-of which she knew very little-when his face indicated mind given to much pro- found thinking.
 However, with butter in view, she began on the weather, gradually got to the eoun. try, then on to a farm, from that to cows, and at last to butter. The man looked more bored than ever, the magic word butter" producing not the slightest effect, and he left her somewhat abruptly, and soon with drew from the house.
 "I did my best" she explained to the hostess; q went through agonies to prove that was deeply. interested in butter, but it was all in vain"
 "Butterl" exclaimed the hostess. "What possessed you to talk to that man, of all men, on butter? I told you he had just written book on Buddha, and I knew how deeply you two were interested in the same subject"
 Tit-Bits.
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II. 3 o. Improvement. Completed.

The improvements on the Main Line of the Baltimore and Ohio, west of and be tween Martinsburg, W. Va, and North Mountain, have been completed Novem- Der lst. They cover q distance of nearly four miles, starting three miles west of Mar tinsburg, and extending some distance west of Myers Hole, which is near the North Mountain station. At Myers Hole the line was changed, taking out some very ob. iectionable curvature, and the roadbed raised nearly fifteen feet, eliminating two grades of 42 feet pei. mile which came to. gether at Myers Hole and substituting there for an almost level track. This point on the road has always been a dangerous one, and many freight wrecks have occurred there. Apart from doing away with the dangerous feature of two sharp down grades coming together, as was the case in this instance, the saving in operation of the road by the change will be very large, as it enables the tons per train to be greatly increased and reduces the liability of accident to the min imum At Tablers the road-bed has been lowered about l3 feet, and the same at Tabbs, besides taking out objectionable curv- ature and reducing the rate of grades at these points frofn42 feet per mile to 10 feet per mile, thus increasing the cars that can be hauled per train. Though these improve ments have cost quite sum of money, the expenditure is fully justified by the great saving in operation.
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Cbe man lUbo Didn't Go.
 Copyright. 1s97)

HALT an hour before the train for
 Cheyenne was due a roughly-elad man with a rifle on his shoulder and two reYolvers in his belt entered the depot at Wharton and said to the ticket agent:
 Pm old Jim Kelso. Nfebbe you never heard of me?''
 Not that remember of, " replied the agent.
 "Waal, that don't make any differ epee, I reckon. I want to go up to Cheyenne"
 A dollar and forty cents, sir.''
 What fur?"
 For ticket to Cheyenne
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And I shan't slSassly go to Cheyenne not this time. I'm goin' over to the hill to think it over-and to kick my self-and to figger it out-and to hang right around these yere parts and let you and Cheyenne and that conductor from St. Louis go to grass and be hanged to youl" NJ QUAD.
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Stories.

She did not proclaim her story to the world. She was proud.
 Fourth" she said to the elevator boy, in loud voice.
 That is to say, she proclaimed the third story below hers, and then got out and walked the rest of the way up.-Detroit Journal.
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A Rig Regular Am

The mightiest host of this sort # of invalids whose bowels, livers and have been regulated by Hostetter M Bitters. 4 regular habit of body s<s E about through using the Bitters, n5T lently agitating and gripping the inf#S but by reinforcing their energy and css q flow of the bile into its proper chans Malaria, la grippe. dyspepsia, and tender to inactivity of the kidneys, are conquer by the Bitters.
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 N1O0 Reward R1OD.

The readers of this paper will y to learn that there is at least O disease that science has been ah all it's stages, and that is Cau Catarrh Cure is the only
 known to the medical frater1 being a constitutional diseassl constitutional treatment. Half Cure is taken internally, aeting upon the blood and mucous surfac1 system, thereby destroying the foul of the iiErase, and giving the :. strength by building up the constitt assisting nature in doing it's waz proprietors have so mach faith tive powers that they offer On9 Dollars for any case that it fails . Send for list of testimonials.
 Address K. J. Cheney & Co, TolabA
 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the be z
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Self-Respect.l" orter have seen yer self smirkin' an primpin' when ye asked the lady fur piece Q pie" remarked Mean dering Mike Anybody 'ud a thought ye considered yerself a beau ideal.'' That's wot I am, replied Plodding Pete. "Pm a hobo ideal ."-Washington Star.
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Rara Avis.-Caller- My grandmother is l04 years old, and is hale and hearty. What would be the chance of" Dime Museum Manageable chance at all. Centenarians are too common to command any salary worth mentioning" Caller But my grandmother never saw George Washington and never was kissed by La Fayette." Dime Museum Manager-"That's different. I'll give her hundred week "-Chicago Trib- une.
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Society Note.

Nellie Chaffie tried very hard to get some conversation out of young Clamwhooper, but he answered in monosyllables. At last, hearing violin playing in the next room, she asked:
 Do you play tue violin?"
 "No; that's a fellow in the next room, he said with sudden outburst of loquac- ity.-N. Y. World.
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A Necessary Mensnre.

''We had to have little Dicks pretty golden curls cut off"
 That was too bad.'
 "Yes; but his mother couldn't stand the bad language he used when she eombed the tangles out."-Chicago Record.
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His Advnnfnre.

Slapshard-Hello, old man; how arw you?
 Spunkup-You have the advantage of me- sir
 "Thats so. I don't know you.''-N. Y. Journal
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Heavy Gale.

A Yankee, in describing gale of wind, says: "A white dog, while attempting to mouth open and turned completely inside out. ."-Tit-Bits.
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Hoarscness Leads On

to serious irritation of the throat, and may end in a racking, rasping cough. Dr. Bells Pine Tar-Eloney will quickly clear the throat and leave the voice clear and smooth. It is an infallible remedy for coughs and colds and all disorders of the throat and lungs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-21

Nothing tries fellows patience more than to find all the windows locked when he tries to raise them suddenly in the morn ing.-Washington Democrat.
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Great occasions do not make heroes or towards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have becopae.- Canon Westcott
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Fits stopped free and permanently cured
 No fits after first days use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free S2 trial bottle d treatise. Dr. Kline, 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa.
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CrneI Mnn.

tI cried all day yesterday"
 "What for?"
 'tIt was our wedding anniversary, and Henry said: Tt seems to me that some thing awful occurred ten years ago today, but can't remember what 1t was. De, troit Free Press.
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Where They Are.-"Where are the great men of whom the stage used to boast ?" asked the tragedian "Doing the continu- ous on the other short, most likely" an swered the comedian, irreverently. delphia North American.
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of it's truth and organs of it's activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do noth- ing of ourselves but allow passoAe to it's beams.-Emerson,
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Returned Tourist-"Mr. Hayseed, I met your runaway son in the west. He has be. come successful Chicago drummer" Farm CT Hayseed-"Must "a been some other fel- low, mister. My son had no ear for music, and couldn't keep time to tune ter save his neck. He hadn't nothin' 'cept cheek an impudence. ."-N. Y. Weekly.
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Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal as cough medieine.-F. M Abbott, 3S3 Seneca St., Buffalo, N Y, May 3, 1894
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Explaining Tt.-'T presume the reason why the chainless bicycle isn't as well known as the other kind, " remarked Rivers, '1is that it always travels in eeg."-Chicago
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Flies are never as active as when you want to sleep in the morning Washington Democrat
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We would rather see a man unusually homely than just ordinarily good looking Atchison Globe.
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It's Different Then.

''I saw him with his arm around you" 'fSir!"
 On the waltz, you know" "Ohl l"-Chicago Post.
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Many Lixen nre Saved

by the timely use of Dr. Bells Pine-Tar. Honey. When cold ereeps upon you, or cough racks your lungs, no remedy is so prompt or effectual
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Tneligible.-First Ocean Wavs did you summer?" Second Oea "At Newport. And you?o Wave Atlantic City. l haves see. Detroit Journal.
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Surprised? Why? A very bad sprain
 Cured by St. Jacobs Oil. A sure result.
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Like rubber are the muscles after St. Jacobs Oil cures soreness and stiffness.
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A mothers praise of her children never in- terests any other woman.-Chieago News.
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We should call learning to ride bicycle in the hot sun, Washington Demo crat.
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Some people write in dialect to hide poor spelling w ashington Democrat.
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What the fox lacks in legs, he has to make up in cunning.-Ram's Horn.
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A cats heaven would have to be full of mice.-Ram's Horn.
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Why Is staF FIng TobnccO the Bests
 Because 1t is made from selected stock of the best grade of leaf that grows The ingre- dients used in it's manufacture arc absolute ly pure-nothing injurious to the system en- ters into 1t.
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A person looking out for old people all ways makes good impression Washing ton Democrat.
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How My Throat Hurts!-Why don't you use Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar? Pike's Toothache Drops Cure ln one minute.
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Gone surely when St. Jacobs Oil cures A bruise. Leaves no sign.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-30

to establish a means of measuring the
force Of the wind at high velocity.
Scientific men have so far been unable
to discover an accurate method Of de-
termining the force of high winds. The
professor has enlisted the interest OF
the Illinsis Central railroad in his ex-
periments, and that company has
placed at his disposal a train with
fast engine, a special car for expert
ments, and a section of its tracks at
Centralia. The apparatus used by the
professor and his assistants is n some
what complicated one. 1t consists Of a
pressure board, two steel disks and a
vane fitted upon freight car. These
are supplemented with a speed record
er, and with this machinery Professor
Nipher can gauge the velocity and the
pressure in pounds of the wind cur
rent created by train which rushes
past the experiment car, which stands
still. Professor Nipher, who is con-
Quoting the experiments, is one of the
foremost physicists in this country.
For many years he has been head pro-
fessor Of physics in the Washington in
stitution, and is the local authority on
subjects falling within the range OF,
his speciality.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-30
Some Tested Points in Diet.

The fact that milk has become e.
tremely popular with all classes of ply.
sicians of late years is emphasized by
a recent writer in the North American
Review. Formerly fever patient was
forbidden to take the article, while in
modern practice it is about the only
food allowed, and q well-nigh exclu-
sive diet of that liquid is said to be
very efficacious in diabetes. At the
German spas, Carlsbad, Wiesbaden,
etc, very little bread is allowed, the
diet being mostly made up Of milk,
eggs, grapes and lean beef; a non
starch diet s the rule, bread, starchy
vegetables aid cereals being almost
excluded. Rice is easily digested and
an excellent food, except that it
abounds in earth salts Fruits are not
only digested in the first stomach. but
they have large part Of the nourish-
ment already in a condition to be ab-
sOrbed and assimilated as soon as
eaten. The food elements in bread and
cereals have to undergo q process OF
d. astion in the stomach and then be
passed on to the intestines for Still
further chemical change before being
of use to the human system, showing
the advantage Of a diet of lean meats
and fruits
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-30
Fog and Coal Gas,

According to the statement of Pro1
Lewes, a London fog deprives coal
gas of Ill per cent Of it's Illuminating
power, but this is not so astonishing as
is the fact that, under similar circum-
stances, the searching light of an in
candescent burner loses rs much as
2O.S of it's efficacy. The reason given
by Prof. Lewes for this phenomenon
is that the spectrum Of both the incan-
descent and the electric light ap-
proaches very nearly that of the solar
spectrum, being very rich in tho violet
and ultraviolet rays. 1t is precisely
these rays which cannot make their
way through a London fog. To this
is attributed the fact that the sun looks
red on a foggy day. The violet rays
are absorbed by the solid particles
floating in the aqueous vapor of the
atmosphere, and only the red portions
of the spectrum get through. The in
teresting additional statement is made
in this connection that the old argand
burner is much more successful in re-
sistlng a London fog than any of its
later rivals.-Science.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-30

execution of a relative on the gallOws
which was the method employed il
Spain up to about thirty years ago fol
carrying out the sentence Of death.
GarrDte wondered that q more eX
peditiOus and, therefore, mercifu
method had not been discovered. He
little thought then that he would be
the one to furnish his country with q
substitute for the gallows, but the
thought haunted him so long that he
at length found it assuming ordered
form in his mind. and in time the pom
derOus death-dealing machine that has
immortalized him in his country came
to be fact
The two points of excellence claimed
for the garrote are these: That it can
be made with reasonable care to kill
instantly and that it sheds not one drop
of blood. Force that is measured by
horse power is the agency it EMPLOYS
and it's aim is the breaking of the vic
TINS neck
The unfortunate is first made to sit
in chair directly under two heavy
iron bars, one of which is adjusted OH
the back of his neck and the other
vulgarly known as the cOrbatin. or
necktie-under his chin. Then the OK
ecutiOner grasps the handle. gives a
vigorous twist and death is instancous.
The entire machine is made of iron
and ordinarily weighs several hundred
pounds. They are ordinarily of Ynrv
rough construction thus adding to the
horrifying impression which the cir
cumStances connected with them can
not but leave in the mind Of any OBJ
server.
Persons who have witnessed al sorts
of capital punishment are unanimous
in the opinion that garroting is the
most revolving and appalling of all. 1t
is not always as expeditions as its in
ventor mace it possible to be. A
vicious eXeCutioner can prolong it Drac-
tically at will, and herein is the sys-
TENS great drawback as it is now
constituted. Cases are citable in which
the process was prolonged twenty.
thirty minutes, even three-quarters of
an hour. The eXecutioner merely gave
twist enough to the handle, or lever,
to choke his victim. Then he turned it
back and twisted again, this time a
little more than at first, and so on un
til, his spite having been satisfied or
his instructions perhaps obeyed, he
gave one final turn and ended the tor
tured life. Such was the execution of
Maloja in Mantanzas, Cuba, in 1888.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-30

That property has responsibilities to
organized society, as we'll as rights to
be protected by it, is fact that seems
often to be overlooked by the owners
Of large wealth. In the long run the
rights of property cannot remain secure
if the responsibility that goes with it's
ownership is ignored. Wealth demands
protection from thievery and violence
at all times, and no society is civilized
that does not afford such protection.
But what shall be said of the wealthy
corporate interests that insist to the let
ter upon the rights which law confers
upon property, even to the ordering out
Of troops in their behalf, and then cool
ly shift disproportionate share of the
burden of maintaining the government
from which they claim those rights up
on the shoulders of other and probably
poorer members of the community? 4
great deal is heard in these days about
attacks on the rights Of property, and
it is indeed unfortunate that the wild
and revolutionary talk of a certain
class Of agitatOrS should find even as
much response as it does among part
of the population. But let wealth re-
member the duties it owes to society
and the dangers that menace its rights
will vanish and the power of the revo-
lutionary agitator will cease Let hon
est wealth array itself on the side Of
the public and honest government
when unscrupulous wealth is trying to
plunder the public. In short, let wealth
remember the responsibilities which it
owes to society, and the rights which it
claims will be accorded without ques-
ton