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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15

Of this great element of national wealth. The
forest is the representative Of motherhood 1t ferzes
the earth upon which feeds 1t bears the fruit of the
past and the seed of the future vigorous and healthy
forest Is the height Of natures adornment Man has
been wasteful Of his natural possessions the
Of its energy. We have not been content with using
these resources; have wasted them reckless prod
igals.
Perhaps the grandest forest remaining the
earth is that in northern California Oregon and Wash
ington visited Oregan first in 1887, and remained
many days in the vicinity, but had first last and only
view. The whole country was covered by pail Of
smoke from the burning forests.
This wicked than the destruction of
forests the Atlantic only because the great woods
of the Pacific finer and for the further that
they last The example of the Atlantic States
Is to profit by remember the hills and streams Of
the Eastern States in boyhood After long absence
/ revisited of these old streams The trees had
been feled and the springs had gone dry. The swim
ming holes filled with dry sand and gravel. 1t
looks Niagara falls might yet be converted to
q dry cliff, surrounded by all sorts Of mills
Rain produces forests and forests produce rain Great
and injurious changes Of climate almost certainly follow
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
THE TRUE UNIT OF SOCIETY.
BY Bishop Samuel Fall0w.

The day Of personality has
gone by. The man who writes the
editorial articles in the newspaper
is unknown except to a few. It is
so with the teachers in The public
schools perhaps to a greater ex-
tent than any other calling. The
absurd and unjust determinations
that have heretofore been made
against a woman because she is q
woman are eeasing. The most
thorough infidel, whatever else he
NAV DENY. cannot deny that Chris.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
An Intricate Problem.


Mrs. Kbrown-That conductor insult
ed me.
Mr.. Kbr0wn-How?
Mrs. Kbrown-Wanted me to pay
fare for Tommy.
Mr.. kbrown-Well, Tommy is quite a
chunk Of a lad. He looks
Mrs. KbrOwn-And you, too? Do YOU
mean to insinuate that l look old
enough to have a child old enough to
pay car fare?-CleveIand Leader.
Worth knowing
that Allcock's are the original e..n
only genuine porous plasters; all OF, 80
so-called porous plasters are limitations
Willing to ObliEc.
"Say," Queried the butchers assist
ant, "can get a quarter from you this
morning.
"Well, you've struck me pretty early"
replied the Texas steer, "but I'll let you
have one as soon as I am dressed"
Times Spur.
Winston say time runs on. What
makes time run on?
Dinks-The spur Of the moment,
uppose.-Birmingham England Week.
u Post.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15

parents? They cannot shirk the re-
sponsibility.
What is true of the boy, Is in yet
greater degree true of the girl. If the
home Is not made q haven for the
youth, then, indeed, are society and
the nation in danger.
Where are your boy and your girl
tonight ?-Toledo Blade.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
From Pig to Pork.

Passerby-Is that your pork down
there on the road, guv'nor?
Farmer-Pork! What dye mean?
There's a pig O. mine out there.
Passerby-Ah, but there's a motor
car just been by.-London Punch.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
WOMAN WANTS TOO MUCH.
UGH.
BY Juliet Y. Strauss.

There are many compensations
to being a woman, if one only
knows how to find them. The
great trouble with women Is that
they are always asking too much
Of life Man wants but little here
below, and he gets it. Woman
wants too much; size doesn't get
it, and Is constantly fretting over it.
If you start out to beam earn
est woman, be sure that you are
earnest about the right things, and
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
To Be ENCOURAGED.

"Do you think young people should
be encouraged i'll literary effort?"
"Yes,' answered Miss Cayenne. II
would rather have people write their
impressions Of things in general than
insist on telling them to e"-Wash-
ington Star.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS PAYS.

Only the other day business man who is
former preacher, and a still enthusiastic mem
Der Of the church, declared to me that the
world in its business relations had to be con-
sidered wholly in the light Of the times; that
for the man in business to attempt anything
else would be to run headlong into q stone
wall.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15

sassinate Queen Elizabeth.
1634-First colony arrived at Potomac
for settlement of Maryland.
1641-Archbishop Laud sent to the
Tower.
16S6-James II. of England forbade the
bishops to preach on contrOverted
points.
1714-Gibraltar and Minorca coded to
the English.
1716-Aurora borealis first seen in Eng
land.
l770-BoSton massacre
l716-South Carolina instructed her del
egates for independence. 80. Gen.
Washington fortified Dorchester
Heights.
1779-Americans defeated at Brier
Greek, Ga.
1791-District of Columbia organized.
lS11-Massacre of the Mamelukes at
Cairo by Mehemet Ali.
1915 Napoleon, having escaped from
Elba, landed at Cannes en- route TO
| against Algiers.
tS17-Suspension of habeas corpus act.
AS25-Great earthquake in Algiers lasted
five days.
fS30-William Cramp established his
shipyard at Philadelphia.
lS43-Congress of United States grant
ed $4,000 to Morse for telegraph
| Thames tunnel opened
1S4S-Income tax riots in London.
1S49-Department of the Interior estab-
| lished.
l954-City of Glasgow lost between Liv-
| erpool and Philadelphia; 400 lives
lost. ...U. S. steamer Black Warrior
seized by Cuban authorities at Ha-
| vana.
lS56-Free State Legislature in Kansas
constituted. .. .Covent Garden thea
ter, London, burned.
1S57-Supreme Court decided bred Scott
case.
1S61-Abraham Lincoln inaugurated
President of the United States.
1S62-Gen. Beauregard took command
of the Army of the Mississippi.
1S63-Act of Congress suspended the
habeas corpus act during the Civil
War.
1S67-Terrible earthquake at Aletekene,
Levant.
1S6S-Barnum's museum burned at New
York.
1S69-Pardon of Arnold and Spangler,
assassination conspirators
1S7O-President Lopez of Paraguay de-
featn6 and ki11ad hatt1o 90 Ao,,;
daban.
lS7l-Congress set apart Yellowstone
valley for national park. Treaty
OF peace between Germany and
France.
iS73-Great fraud on the Bank of Eng
land discovered.
1SlS-Hot Springs, Ark, nearly destroy
ed by fire. Bland silver bill pass
ed over the Presidents veto.
1S79-Presdent Hayes vetoed Chinese
restriction bill.
1So4-Great snow blockade ON Canadian
Pacific and Grand Trunk railroads.
1SS5-General strike of Missouri Pacific
railroad employees.
1SS6-Eruption of Mount Etna.
1SS7-China ceded Chusan Island TO
Germany. :. Henry Ward Beecher
stricken with apoplexy. Score of
lives lost in burning of steamer w.
h. Gardner near Gainesville, Ala.
....Mrs. K. Druse hanged at Her
kimer, N. Y, for numbering her hus-
band.
1SSS-Local option, Kansas City, closed
every saloon for the first time.
1SS9-Violent earthquake in South Amer
lea.
1S90-British steamer Quetta sunk in
Torres Strait, Australia; 100 lives
lost.
1S91-Eleyen Italians accused of killing
New Orleans chief of police lynched |
by mob.
1S94-Mr. Gladstone resigned as Prime
Minister of England
1S95-Great fire in Toronto. JAPANESE
carried Nechwang after a battle of |
thirteen hours. >. Gar of Russia
prohibited use of knout in Furnishing
peasants.
adopted a gold standard.
1905-John II. Regain, last surviving
member of Confederate cabinet, died.
Egg Dealers Lose Heavily.
The phenomenally mild and opeu win
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15

1t will be noticed in every home in
which there is coy corner that the
dog, in seeking comfortable places to
sleep, never enters one Of them.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
FORESTS VITAL TO NATIONS WELFARE.

Forestry has found some difficulty in at
tracing attention. because Of the assumption
that the subject is purely one of sentiment.
But the subject is in the highest degree one
Of practical utility. The poet and the painter
may rejoice in the contemplation of the
woods But the farmer, the miller the boat
man, and the lumberman may now combine to
preserve as well as to enjoy the beneficial
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
CLIPPING THE HORSE.
RECOMMENDED BY LEADING
VETERINARIANS.

Clipping Improves the Health OF
the Horse, Makes Him Feel Bet
ter, Work Better, and Increases
His Value.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
RESTORE STRENGTH
Or. Williams Pink Pills Actually
Make New Blood and Good
Health Follows.

The evil effects that follow many dis
eases - particularly the grip and the
wasting fevers, such as typhoid and
malaria, are caused by the bad condition
in which these diseases leave the blood.
AS a result, the flesh continues to fall
away, the sufferer grows nervous and
irritable, and even slight exertion causes
shortness of breath. These are danger
GUS symptoms and indicate that the
system is in state that invites pneu-
monia, bronchitis or even consumption.
What is needed is a new supply of rich,
red blood to carry health and strength
to every part of the body.
CT was all run down from the effects
of the grip" says Mrs. Amelia Hall, of
No. 5 High street. Norwich Conn, "and
could not seem to get strength to walk;
could not eat full meal, my stomach
was so weak, and was so nervous that
I could not sleep. I could only stay in
bed a few minutes at time, either night
or day. The least little thing would
startle me. had difficulty in breath
ing and had frequent fainting spells.
"My general health was completely
wrecked and I had neuralgia and rheu-
matte pains, dyspepsia, cOustlpaCiou'
and female weakness. My physician at
tended me for the grip and again for
the condition that it left me in, but
got no strength from the tonics he pre-
scribed In fact, nothing helped me
until I tried Dr. Williams Pink Pills
and they cured me.
81 grew stronger and gained flesh
from the time began taking them. /
am satisfied that the pills are all that is
claimed for them and I shall do all can
to make their good qualities known"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cure ner-
vous disorders OF every kind, check
wasting diseases and build up strength.
For booklet, address the DIR. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15

tanity guards and gorifes the home The individual
is not the unit of society The unit Of society consists
in a and united in holy wedlock
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15

Don't be discouraged, no matter
how long or how severely you may have
suffered from nasal catarrh. Ely's
Cream Balm will cure you. 1t is an
honest remedy of thirty years standing,
free from cocaine and mercury. Unlike
the snuffs and powders so widely and
falsely advertised as cures for catarrh.
Ely's Cream Balm does not fool the
sufferer by deadening his nerves and
drying up the secretions in the nasal
passages. 1t liberates the secretiOns
and clears the passages, soothes the
sore membranes and brings them back
to health. Nasal catarrh must be treat
ed by direct application to the inf1amed
tissues, not by doses taken into the
stomach. A stubborn case is not con-
quered in day, but a mass of testi-
mony shows that Ely's Cream Balm
relieves at once, and in a short time
completely cures the disease. And un-
like the snuffs and powders it contains
no cocaine, no mercury, nor other in
furious drugs. All druggists. SOC. Mail
ed by Ely Bros.+56 Warren Street, New
York
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15
Thorough.

II hear" said one financier, that
Mr.. Rockefeller is bathing his feet in
the early morning dew to benefit his
health"
"Yes," replied the other. Having
gotten all there Is cut Of oil, he is
going to try water Star.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-15

-905-John Fl. Regain, last surviving
member of Confederate cabinet. died.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-11

were overthrown? We found the state,
then not more than half so populous
and opulent as now, burdened with a
bonded debt of nearly twenty-five mill
ions Of dollars. This debt was the direct
eutgrowth of the most arrant thieyery
and official dishonesty which ever dis
graced an American state. The foul
story that makes up this dishonesty
chapter chapter has been so often ex-
plotted, not only in the press and on the
stump. but by legislative committees and
In judicial hearings, that it ought to be,
and doubtless Is, familiar to every in
telligent Missourian. There should be
no need for me to again review it in
detail on this occasion. 1t is sufficient
to say that when we wrested the state
from republican plunderers we found
this enormous debt resting upon it.
The bonds representing this debt of
S22. 000, 900 bore interest at the rate of
six and seven per cent. But the state
had been so debauched and the miser-
able scandal of it all had become so widely
known that the credit Of the state was
SO impaired that these high-interest-bear-
ing bonds were hawked about the mark
cts of the world at less than eighty
cents on the dollar, often vainly seek
ing purchasers at hat deprecated value.
The tax rate levied for state purposes
at that time was onerous, almost con-
f%iscatory, being fifty cents on the 500
valuation, or practically three times what
1t is TODAY,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-11

Again, the boast is made that during
the last fiscal year the Republican State
Treasurer has received a larger sum in
the way of interest on public moneys
than any of his Democratic predecessors
received for n year. l nave no doubt
that is true, but to boast of that is even
worse than ludicrous; 1t is foolish, and
If l were disposed to be harsh, 1 might
fairly say It Is not quite honest. When
the Republicans were in power, the
Treasurer of the state made no account
whatever of interest collected. In that
day, so dear to Republican memory, the
treasurer was answerable on his bond
only, for the principal paid into his
hands, II ne loaned the money, as he
as an emolument Of his office. The
Treasurership then was a fat and Juicy
job. The salary provided by law was
but an item Of no great Importance in
the aggregate the Treasurer received for
handling the moneys Of the state. But
they changed that as they changed the
fee law applicable to the Secretary Of
State. A statute was enacted which
peremptorily required that the public
money should be let by open and COM
p%9etitive bids to the highest bidders on
that the successful bidders should Sc
cure the state, first, by a personal bond
to be approved by the Governor, and,
secondly, by Keeping on deposit with the
treasurer state OF. government bonds in
an amount at all times equal to the
pemocratic law, passed by a Democratic
legislature and approved by a Demo-
cratic Governor. Bound nolens volens to
obey this law. Mr.. Gmelich, when he be-
came Treasurer, was obliged to advertise
Tor bid for the money OF which he was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-11
THE NEW

But If this picture is loathsome, and
IL it stirs your blood to mutiny, turn
from It to that other Missouri, redeemed
and .rehabilitated by her loyal and de-
voted Democratic sons-and behold a
picture beautiful and glorious.
For thirty-two years, from 1872 to
1904, the Democratic party was su-
preme. During hat period the Demo-
sFntlf paTsay S ifs affairs. the rW vtate ye ana
g the Republicans were again tri-
umphant, and once more came into pos
session Of all the more important offices
Of the state, save the ,g%overnorship
state at that time? What was the Mis-
souri, that we then delivered over to the
Republicans? We turned over to them
a state free from debt. The enormous
a combination Of Republican incompe-
tency and rascality had imposed upon
the state, had been entirely l~iquidated.
There was not a state bond in exist
ence.
The credit Of the state, which had
fallen so low in the day Of Republican
ascendancy. had been restored. Long
before the old bonds, which bore six
charged they had been refunded at three
and one-half per cent and sold in the
markets at more than their face value.
The credit of the state was on a par
with that Of the general government
-
The tax-rate for state purposes had
been reduced from so cents on the 500,
the rate prevailing when the Republicans
surrendered the state, to only II cents
on the 500. This was the lowest tax
rate imposed for state purposes by any
state of the union.
Our public institutions had been multi
piled and improved. We had built three
great asylums for the insane, three mag
nificent normal schools, an asylum for
the feeble-minded, two reform schools,
the University and School of Mines, a
supreme court building and library, and
had been destroyed by fire. In addition
to that we had remodelled and enlarged
the state capitol. the deaf and dumb
school, the Fulton asylum and the peni-
Tertiary, doubling, and in some cases
quadrupling, their capacity. These insti-
buttons for the most part were of the
the most modern and approved appii-
ances, n had been administered with
rare economy. integrity n wisdom.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-11
NATIONAL POLITICS.

Turning from state politics Senator
Stone discussed national questions at
considerable length. 1t would too greatly
prolong this report to set out his re-
marks in full on national affairs, and
hence only a synopsis of that part of
the speech will be given with partial
verbatim quotations from it. Among
other things, he said:
Republicans tell us that Roosevelt is
the Issue in this campaign. They present
him---the man Roosevelt, the President
as the n commanding subject of i'm
mediate interest and present public con-
Germ. They jeer at Democrats because
they say we are cropping darkly in eager
search for what they sneeringiy denomi-
nate a, paramount" Not so with them.
They have their paramount. Roosevelt
Is to be the alpha and omega, the be-
ginning and the end. the ~all-in-all of
Republicanfsm In this campaign. Secre-
tary Taft. o n the fifth of September, in
a speech delivered at Bath In the State
or Maine, gave utterance to this ex-
allied deliverance:
1T has been suggested at times, as IL
1t were a ground for criticising the Re-
publican party and the Congressman who
now go back to their constituents for a
Judgment upon their course, that they
propose to make Mr.. Roosevelt the issue
in this campaign, They do propose to
make Mr.. Roosevelt the issue in this
campaign. because he is the issue"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-11
OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

Our public institutions, eleemosynary
and educational were inadequate to the
public need, and such as we had were
languishing through neglect or had been
looted by officials as bold in crime as
buccaneers. Even the public school fund,
held by all in such high esteem, and
which a wise public sentiment demands
h be sacredly guarded, was fraudu-
lently diverted to the extent of more
thar 100000 in open violation of the
Constitution; and one of the first and
most notable acts of Governor Brown
was to restore this great sum with
interest to the fund from which it had
been unlawfully distracted. During this
republican regime, when enormous reve-
nues were being extorted from the peo-
pie under the. heaviest tax rate ever
levied upon them, not a public building
wal constructed in the state, although
at that tim we had only a pretensc,
the merest shadow of a pretense, of a
university, not a single normal school
worthy the name AND only one asylum
for the insane, which was constructed
prior to the wal. What became of the
vast revenue collected during that period
only the Omnipotent who beholds all
things and those who handled the reve-
nues could tell. One thing is certain,
there was no structure, no monument, no
or value-within the broad confines Of
the state to show that any part of it
had been expended in the public interest.
You must know that only a minor part
of these great revenues were necessary
to meet the legitimate demands of or
binary administration OF the remainder
it must be that what was not wasted
was worse than wasted.
I have said that our public institu-
lions were looted. Let me give a single
example, one of many that might be
given. II you will turn to page 121,
House Journal, adjourned session 18th
General Assembly, held in 1870, you will
find that a committee was appointed by
Speaker Orrick, a staunch republican, to
investigate the affairs Of the peniten-
tiary. That committee, a majority being
republican, among other things reported
AFTER a patient hearing n a careful
examination of the books Of the institu-
ton (~penitentiary) We are forced, re-
luctantly, to the conclusion that the
management thereof has been of the
most reckless character and highly detri-
mental to the interests of the state.
Indeed the penitentiary and the supplies
purchased, ostensibly for it's use, seem
to have been regarded as the legitimate
prey of almost everybody connected
| with it in an official capacity, and in
some. if not many, instances, favored
| friends were invited into the ring 10
( share the spoils."
This is what even a Republican COM
| mittee of a Republican house reported,
reluctantly reported, as they said but
so rampant, riotous and rotten had the
management of that institution become
that even the rabid partisanship of thai
| day could neither conceal nor gloss il
over.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-11
THE MOST BASTARD CRIME.

Bad as these things are, and there
were others of like character, the most
bastard crime Of all was the disfran-
chisement of tens of thousands of the
best men of the state. In order that
they might retain their hold upon the
state, laws were enacted by the repub-
leans which denied the right of suffrage
not only to those who had participated
on the southern side in the civil war,
but those also who ever in any way
sympathized with any person. identified
with the Confederacy; not only so, but
these disfranchised Missourians We're in
penalties, both of fine and imprisonment,
to practice their professions. 1t is a
welI-known historical fact, which none
will dispute, that school-teachers and
even ministers of the gospel We're. i'm
prisoned, the one for teaching children
the alphabet and the other for invoking
the mercy of God on fallen men, of
whom none had fallen lower than the
malignant reprobates who enacted and
enforced these monstrous laws:
OF course under such conditions health
full progress was impossible; and the
fact that the state advanced at all is
conclusive proof of its wonderful and
inviting resources. There is no occa sion
for astonishment that Missouri ranked
low in the list of states when it came
into Democratic hands, being then but
the eleventh state in a total of thirty
six.
This was Missouri as we found it.
This was Republican Missouri. This
was Missouri as she was fashioned by
Republican statecraft. Look upon the
picture If you have the heart to do 1t, and
say what you think of it.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1906-05-13
Sub Mintcr in Gbicaeu.

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tor IN einem Snuie mar, no Der Ero.
ieIior ais Scbrer Der llniperiitGt bon
Gblca0o mobnte. Goitrom lit Elm
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tungcn Iielt uno 9tifts bon Der Ah.
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