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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05

All surface cancers are now known
10 De durable. by Bucklsn's Arnica
save, Jas: Walters of Duffield, va.
writes: II bad a cancer on my liz
Tor years that seemed incurable, tin
bucklen's Arnica Salve healed IL and
now II Is perfectly WE'LL" Guaranteed
cure for cuts and burns. 25c at Con-
nell Bros. drug store,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05
Consider.

The lilies OF the field whose bloom IN
brief: -
We are they;
Like them we fade away,
AS doth a leaf.
Consider
The sparrows Of the air of small account;
Our God doth view
Whether they fall or mount
He guards us. too.
Consider
The birds that have no barn nor harvest
weeks;
God gives them food;
Much more our Father seeks
To do us COED.
Christina q. Rossetti.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05
~s=ss OF TIE Il 4Ese.

Their Personal HABITS 81 With
Their Usual e. So ,a,as.
Next time you are la te..own, no
tice the finger nails e. abltaniA
You will be surprisei. ~ossibly. 80
find that they are Is clean
and brilliant as thougl hey had lust
come from the manicure
AS are his finger nails, so is the
rest Of the Chinaman's body. Ii is one
of the queer contradictions about this
contradictory people tiat although
their houses are usually surrounded
by a fringe of dirt and although they
don't take to modern sanitation a bit,
they are very clearly in their per-
sonal habits.
The daily bath is an institution. A
bathtub Is not necessary. Your China,
man manages very we'll with few
cupfuls of water and Washrag.
He completes his toilet by polishing
his long nails, and every day or so he
dsits the barber, who shaves not only
the scanty hair on his face, but also
his head and the inside of his ears.
~ he can afford it the Chipaman puts
on clean blouse every day or two
1t is no accident that these people are
nation Of laundrymen. II comes to
them naturally.
Last summer a bunch OF university
students took summer job on a big
California ranch. The regular hands
had good deal of fun over their
habits of personal cleanliness.
They're regular damn Chinamen,'
said the hands. Always washing
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05
New Ineandesesnt Iamn.

A new tncandescent lamp with zir.
conium filament is announced in Ger.
many. Prof. Weddin. a physicist. re-
Gently presented a lamp of this kind
to the Electro-Technical Society OF
Cologne.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05
The Inevitable R..uI.

Isn't he drinking a good deal late
ly7"
Yes. He says he's had a lot Of
trouble and he's drowning H."
We'll. he'll have lot more to
drown"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05

No pill Is as pleasant and positive
as DsWitt's Little Early Risers.
These famous little pills are so mild
and effective that children, delicate
ladies and weak people enjoy their
cleansing effect, while strong people
say they are the best liver pills sold.
Sold by w. l. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05
Town Pet wen Looked Afte,.

The municipal authorities OF wies-
baden have provided vulcanite leg
for pet stork which 10 kept in the
park. and which recently had one OF
its limbs amputated.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05
You Can Live In
Clover
While You Sleep In
terestis Piling up

And adding itself to the prin-
cipal. Take our advise and
pave the way for comfort
and -" living in clover. Do
1t by opening an account
with us. Do it now.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05

only one remedy in the world that
Will at once stop itchlness of the skin
IN any part of the body. Doan,s
At any drug store, so
cents.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-05
JOYS OF MATERNITY
4 wOnAH's BEST HOPES REALIZED
Mrs. Potts Tells How Women Should
Prepare for Motherhood

The darkest days of husband and
wife are when they come to look for
ward to childless and lonely old age.
Many wife has found herself inca
pable of motherhood owing to a dis
placement of the womb or lack Of.
strength in the generatiye organs.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
At about so J."

When one knows the age Of a woman
one knows the woman. The very fact
that she permits you to know her age
exposes her character. She no longer
masqueradeS. She has lost certain
uncertainty, an eyanescent delicacy,
that was an irresistible charm. Wom-
en-, like philosophy, are divided into
two classes, the movable and the I'M
movable. Also, like philosophy, it is
the unknowable woman who is the
speculable. Therefore to get her at her
highest capacity she must be unmar-
ried and about 80.
The married woman presents certain
unacceptable telltale data She has
children, and those children have ap-
parent ages, two facts which go far in
determining her annals. If she is I'M
married and is not about 80" she is
under 80. again a definite fact. Being
"about So is indefinite She may be
more Or less. No one hazards a guess.
There is a delightful vagueness in be-
ing about 80" 1t has nothing to do
with dates. and many of US who from
our youth up have felt no attachment
for dates can forgive the unattached
their confessed Indifference.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
/ M,uMary Nmmick

Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, is fully quail
fed to give helpful advice to sick women:
Read Mrs. Dimmick's letters.
Her first letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham -
g have been a sufferer for the past eight
years with a trouble which fiSSt originated
from painful menstruation-the pains were
excruciating, with inflammation and ulcera-
ton of the womb The doctor says l must
have an operation or cannot live do not
wants submit to an operation if can posi-
bly, avoid it. Please help me."-Mrs. Mary
Dimmick, Washington d. G.
Her second letter;
Dear Mrs. Pinkham -
"You will remember my condition when !
last wrote you, and that the doctor said
must have an operation or | could not live.
/ received your kind letter and followed your
advice very carefully and am now entirely
WELL As my case was so serious it seems q
miracle that am cured. / know that I owe
not only my health but my life to Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to your
advice / can walk miles without an ache or
a pain, and l wish every suffering woman
would read this letter and realize what you
can do for them."-Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 59th
and East Capitol Streets, Washington, d. C.,
How easy it was for Mrs. Dimmick to,
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass,
and how little it cost her-a two-cent
stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply!
As Mrs. Dimmick says-itsaved her life
Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands
of just such letter as the above, and
offers ailing women helpful advice.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
cLINGs TO SUPERSTITION.
Indian Will Not Shed Peculiar Beliefs
of His Fathers.

The American Indian has many
deep-rooted superStitions that are lu
dicrous and amusing, but in this re
spect he is probably no worse thar
other savageS of present and pristine
tribes. In fact, all primitive peoples
were nursed on superstition; and even
In our own civilized age there are
many intelligent CaucasianS who enter
tain extraordinary beliefs.
The soothsayer, necromancer and
seer are no longer plying their roman
esque vacations, but we still have the
"second-sight' swindlers, the palmiSt,
mind reader. double-evil mediums,
pseudo phrenologistS and fortune tell
ers, whose thrifty prosperity goes to
prove that the general public must still
be highly credulous.
Several years ago a San Francisco
newspaper made a test of popular SUI
perstition by placing a high ladder di-
rectly across the sidewalk in such a
manner that the multitude could easily
pass under it,
Four out Of every ten walked out in
the street rather than pass beneath it.
An average Of two out of the remain
Ing six walked under it, only through
oversight, persuasion or after much
consideration. Then, among the civil
lied masses, we still have the old pin
superstition. The barking of a dog
near the home Of sick person still
preSages to many the step of death. If
a black cat crosses our path by night
there are many Of us who will humble
an lmprecatiOn of danger. And we
nurse other equally ridiculous supersti-
tons too numerous to mention.
But the Indian, as an abstract exam
pie of the genus homo, is a composite
character of paradoxical pecularities,
and his superstitiOns seem to be direct
ly innate. He is at once noble and
base, shrewd, cunning and ignorant,
inspired with a profound veneratiOn for
all which he cannot fathOm, and yet
grossly superstitious in his conception
of things temporal. The natural the
Ogony of his heart is sometimes beau
tiful, but from prehistoric time he has
been hampered by these Unborn fam
cies.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
Dancing Birds of Laysan.

Sailors visiting the islands of Lay
san, in the Hawaiian group. are great
iy amused by the curious antics of the
Laysan albatross, or gony. These birds
sometimes perform in pairs a kind Of
dance, or, as the sailors call it, cake
walk" Two albatrosses approach each
other. nodding and making profound
bows, cross their bills, produce snap
ping and groaning sounds, rise on their
foes, puff out their breasts. and finally
part with more nodding, and bowling,
only to come together again and re-
peat the performance. Occasionally
three engage at once in this singular
amusement
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
SAVED BY A BOY.


When the wife of one Of the United
States Senators was baby Of two
years she was rescued from great
peril by the courage of her sister and
her 9-year-Old brother. Her father,
Mr.. Lee, lived in a farmhouse with his
wife and five children, and one day
the home was attacked by the Ute In
dams. Lee shot three of the Indians
in their first rush, says a writer in
the New York Sun, and then he and
his family prepared for fight to the
death. The cabin was log-built, and
afforded absolute protection against
bullets.
THE children will be Drained or car
ried captive and your father and my
self shot down if the Indians get into
the house." said Mrs. Lee, handing a
knife to her eldest daughter. Don't
let yourself or your sisters be taken
alive"
A smell Of smoke revealed the In
dams first move. They had thrown
brush on the roof and fired the house.
1t ignited slowly, for everything was
damp from recent rains, but the dwell
ing soon filled with suffocating smoke,
and the baby was thrown into convul-
sions. While the mother was frantic
ally trying to restore the little one,
Mr.. Lee attacked the burning roof.
Emma, q girl of eleven, made a rush
for the barn and returned in safety
with a crowbar With this implement
the father was enabled to pry off some
Of the blazing logs, but the smoke
continued to grow dense.
Lee was about to go for water when
Emma sprang forward.
Let me co. she cried IF you
should be killed what would become
OF the rest?'
The child made several trips under
cover Of her fathers gun, and the fire
was put out
Charles, a boy Of nine, then an
ounced his intention of making a
break through the Indians and run
ming to Beaver, four miles away, for
help, but both parents refused to give
their consent Charles stood the mac
ton as long as he could; then with q
cry that he would not stay to die by
smoke, he made a dash out Of the
door and was gone. Barefooted and
half-clothed, the boy escaped the no
tice Of the savages, and ran at top
speed to the town. His feet were
bruised and torn by rocks and briers
but he never slackened his pace until
he met a man on the outskirts Of the
village.
Indians he gasped; and the man
wheeling his Norse round, rode bach
% Beaver. repeating the boys cry
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
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closed down., two dull season." two fellow clerk stole"
enc; Sassed boss, one: woman worked cheaper" one
1t will be noted in large majority of the the
fault with the employees Indeed remarkable part
Of this symposium is the exceeding frankness Of the dis
charged in admitting this fact OF the
two but two three make any claim that their employers
at fault
Another fact is revealed There Is little of in
efficiency the part Of the workers aside that
duced by bad habits Four admit they
these just out of high school and say they will
hold of the next job with rmer determination succeed
Ihey have learned that business is not SNAP"
Liquor drinking heads the list Of The idea that
the wheel of business must be ubricated borne
out by experience. Gambling goes along with drink 1t
simply short cut to business ruin
Careicssness which IS second in the list inexcusabe
THIS fault, together with that Of sweheadelnes is pecu
ary the fault of younger and is not without
The deduction from the entire matter is this: These
workers discharged themselves. They Voluntarily put
themselves out of buSineSs-Cincinnat Post.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
EUROPE'S BIGGEST THEATER
New Coliseum In London Seats 5000;
Covers One and Il Quarter Acres.


London's recently completed Coli
scum has the largest theater and larg-
est stage in Europe, says a London
special to the st. LOUIS Post-Dispatch.
Luxurious seating has been provided
for 5000 persons. The stage mechan-
ism is the last word of ingenuity. 1t
consists Of revolving tables on which
the scenery will be changed as if by the
wand Of Prospero, and it is said that
by their means the race for the Derby
can be represented from start to fin
ISL. Yet the London Coliseum illus
trateS the smallness Of many modern
things compared with those of the an
cient world.
The Roman Colosseum seated $1,000
people, Whereas the London Coliseum
covers an acre and 4 quarter, ROme's
amphitheater extended over five acres
Without a doubt great things will be
done at the London place of amuse-
ment, but the Staying of 5000 wild
beasts in the arena-one Of the little
items Of Titus inausuration-wil GER
tainly be no part of the proceedings.
1t is more just to compare the new
Coliseum with the Colosseum which
was erected just so years ago on the
edge of Regents Park by Decimus
Burton. This fine building, which
Samuel Rogers, by the way, insisted
| was finer than anything among the
remains Of architectural art in Italy,"
an opinion in which he probably stood
alone, was built to accommodate Mr..
Hornor's famous panorama Of Lon
| don.
| Mr. Hornor worked on his panorama
| in a shed erected on the top Of st.
Paul's at the time Of the renewal of
the ball and cross. The original ball
was rolled down Ludgate Hill amid
| the plaudits Of the multitude, and
both ball and cross were placed In the
Colosseum among other "cOncomita Mt
appendices" to the panaroma. These
included some surprisingly modern in
situations. There was an elevator to
take spectators up to the platform
from which they were to look down
with an extra ordinary illusion of
height. upon the pictured London.
In the forties the building was en-.
larged and given another entrance in
Albany street, where the name "Colos-
scum Terrace" still survives. The
panorama Of London was succeeded in
1S4S by one Of Paris, and this by a
panorama Of Lake Thun, in Switzer,
land. Then the original panorama was
restored. From time to time side
shows were added: "a Gothic Aviary,'
"Sthctite Caverns." THE Hall OF
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22

|
There are 1871 pastors in the three Metropolitan annual
conferences in 190 these being the conferences New
York City, These pastors be divided into four classes
The members Of the first class numbering 22 receive
$1,000 year those in the second, numbering
1884, 1000 81 800 those the third, numbering 211
5000 $1,000 and those in the fourth numbering H. 5000
or less The salaries paid the abest and eloquent
Methodist preachers in the metropolis than
received by many in subordinate places in large bust
brethren less than half large the of good
mechanic
Outside the cities, both in New York and in other States
salaries smaller. MY college chum," distinguished
New York lawyer quoted saying, my equal in
every respect and in respects my superior After
twenty five years Of successful ministerial work dscov-
cred that his annual income when in his prime the
exact amount paid for the of horse the livery
stable In the rural districts the pay pastor often
much less than the keep of city horse
The smalnesS of the salaries of Methodist preachers
partly due to the fact that in every community this church
draws to it poor people but it is largely owing
to the noble time honored policy of Methodsm having
"a church for pastor and pastor for every church
The flock may not number dozen. 1t may be mining
camp in Alaska. 1t may be in city slum. However
small remote inaccessible and will have shep
people to come in and get the gospel They took them
wherever they and their have been doing
likewise ever since.
man has to pinch and squeeze to rear and educate
family and dress preacher is expected 81 800
year. especially in city. The fact that thousands
educated gladly and laborousy their church
much less shows that the age is
sometimes represented and that religious heroism
dead The superannuated ministers of the Methodist
Church accept their annueS without regarding
Aims we'll they may for they have earned all they get
Chicago Tribune.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
SAVED CHllO'S LIFE.
Remarkable Cure of Dropsy by Dodd's
Kidney Pills.

Sedgwick, Ark, June 19.-The case
Of w. S. Taylor's little son is looked
upon by those interested in medical
matters as one of the most wonderful
on record. In this connection his faith
er makes the following statement:
Last September my little boy had
dropSy; his feet and limbs were swol-
len to such an extent that he could
not walk or put his shoes on. The
treatment that the doctors were giving
him seemed to do him no good, and
two or three people said his days were
short, even the doctors. two of the best
in the country, told me he would not
get better. l stopped their medicine
and at once sent for D0dd's Kidney
Pills. | gave him three Pills a day,
one morning noon and night, for eight
days; at the end of the eighth day the
swelling was all gone, but to give the
medicine justice, | gave him eleven
more Pills. | used thirtytive Pills in
all and be was entirely cured. / con-
slider your medicine saved my child's
life. When the thirtyfive Pills were
given him. he could run, dance and
sing, whereas before he was an invalid
in his mothers arms from morning III.
til night"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
BANK OF ENGLAND LOSSES.
ForGers Secure What Rioters Have in
Vain Repeatedly Tried to Gain.

Vain Repeatedly Tried to Gain.
The Bank of England has been re-
pcatedly attacked Ey rioters. In 100
the tory rioters, after sacking and
burning several chapels in the neigh
bOrhOod, began TO storm the gate Of the
bank and it would have Jared i'll with
the odd lady" if the queen had not
promptly sent her guards, horse and
foot, to tie rescue. In 1880, after a
fanatical mob had destroyed Newgate
and left behind it a trail of blazing
Catholic chapels and tallow chambers
shops, it marched, thousands strong,
on the bank. Its reception was a hot
one, for the roof Of the building
Swarmed with clerks and volunteers,
who had actually nodded bullets from
their melted inkstanGs, while a ring
of soldiers fenced the building. The
rioters made two furious OnSlaughts,
but were received with such a murder
Gus hail of bullets that they turned
and fed.
But where raiders ana rioters failed
to do the ''old lady" injury many
clever forger has succeeded. "Old
Patch" lottery Office keeper, robbed
her of no less than s1,00O,0OO by a
long series of forgeries, in which he
manufactured ink and paper engraved
the plate and printed the notes single
handed. He was caught at last and
obligingly hanged himself in Jail.
Fauntleroy, banker, was still more
successful, for he pOcketed $1,S00,OOO
by a system of forging powers Of at
torney to sell stock which was not his.
He was hanged at Newgate, but it Is
said was clever enough to save his life
by inserting 4 silver tube in his throat,
escaping later to Paris to the enjoy
ment of his ill-gotten gains.
John Mathison, clever amateur en-
graver and the most daring forger Of
them all, printed Bank Of England
notes by the hundred, Forging the wa
termarks so skillfully as almost to defy
detection. and scattered his counter
feits prodigally from one end of Eng
land to the other. He was cleverly
caught at last by one of the bank
clerks, but even then, it is said, he
would have escaped conviction had he
not confessed his guilt in a spirit Of
bravado, actually volunteering to show
the authorities how he had so success
fully produced the watermark.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
Not the Kind.

II had an uncle Gle up in Vermont
last week. said the Boston man, land,
though there is nothing so very queer
about an uncle dying. this relative Of
mine didn't have fair show"
las how" was asked.
"Well, when he was 20 years old a
tin peddler advised him to always car
~ snuff around in his pocket to throw
into mad dogs eyes, in case he met
one. He carried that snuff for forty
years and never used it."
well"
Zone day, after he had carried it for
thirty years, he was crossing field
and an old bull got after him and
gave him a toss. When he came limp
ing into the house and told US about it
/ said:
why didn't you throw snuff in his
eyes, Uncle Jerry?
"'Why. that peddler told me to use
the snuff on dogs, and that if ever a
bull got after me l was to use ground
cinnamon. 1 hadn't any Of the blamed
stuff with mel"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
FOOD IN SERMONS.
Feed the Dominic Right and the Ser
mons Are Brilliant.

mons Are Brilliant.
A conscientious, Woodworking and
eminently successful clergyman writes:
81 am glad to bear testimony to the
pleasure and increased measure Of eff
cheney and health that have come to
me from adopting GrapeNuts food az
one of my articles of diet.
For several years / was much dis
tressed during the early part of each
day by indigestion. My breakfast, usu-
ally consisting of oatmeal, milk and
eggs, seemed to turn sour and failed
to digest. After dinner the headache
and other symptoms following the
breakfast would wear away, only to
return. however, next morning.
Having heard of Grape-NUts food,
finally concluded to give it a fair trial
l quit the use of oatmeal and eggs
and made my breakfasts Of Grape
Nuts, cream, toast and Postum. The
result was surprising in improved
health and total absence of the dis
tress that had, for so long a time,
followed the morning meal NV diges-
ton became once more satisfactory,
the headaches ceased, and the old feel
ing of energy returned. Since that
time, four years ago, l have always
had Grape-Nuts food on my breakfast
table.
II was delighted to find also. that
whereas before l began to use Crane
Nuts food l was quite nervous and be-
came easily wearied in the work of
preparing sermons and in study. q
marked improvement in this respect re-
suited from the change in my diet.
am convinced that Grape Nuts food
produced this result and helped me to
a sturdy condition of mental and phy-
steal strength.
Il have known Of several persons
who were formerly troubled as | was.
and who have been helped as 1 have
been. by the use of Grape-Nuts food.
on my recommendation, among whom
may be mentioned the Rev. -, now
a missionary to China" Name given
by Postum Company, Battle Creek,
Mich.
There's a reason"
Read the little book, The Road to
MELVILLE" In each pkg.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-22
Lucky Versenaker.

Here's a little poem | wrote last
night" said the man with the unbar-
bered hair and shiny coat. as he shuff1ed
into the editors presence.
Did you really write thisY asked the
editor, as he glanced over the manuscript.
Sure" answered the verse maker.
well" continued the man behind the
blue pencil Its u fortunate thing for
you that I'm not in fighting humor to-
day"