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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-11-12
A Surprise Party

~ SURPRISE TdTly
A most pleasant time was en-
joyed Friday evening, when fife
teen girls surprised Chrisue
iiouse, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. james House, on her fit
leenih birthday The girls NJ. t
at he hcne OF Rita and Nita
Coulthard at five O'clock and.
hsn proceeded To the home Of
CtrisJie House. Mrs. House as.
sted by her Two daughters,
y nei AZ Il Ahs I'd, Ell, served a
,Wu course dinner at S X O'clock
Christie cut he birthday cake,
which was so arranged as to be
easily cut INFO fifteen pie ces.
The Vic roIa furnished the mu-
sc while they we're eating.
Eun;ce U. hing, a niece. and
Grace +, ggs ot missouri Valley
arg s+vt al solcs.
he n mairder If 'fe evering
was u. mt u dying re W 2: mes
which { hl's,,t. had Iearnsd a
he schorl in DunlsT, where she
g now al,t dsng.
A, times Geek they dersrted
Cor their r.. mes after wishing
h''~. many happy letu ns
Of the day.
Hundreds of limitations have
come and gone 81, ce Foiey's
Honey and Tar Compound be-
40 years age to loosen
he grip of coughs ard e. Id
You can not get substitute to
dc for you what Foley's Honey
ard Tar Compound will d -
for coughs, colds, Group, bron-
chial affections, la grippe
coughs, and tickling throat
Buy 1T of your druggist and
feel safe. For sale by all deal
ers. n26
Mrs E Hutchens of Lincoln,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Pud.
dy of t.nis city, was operated on
for appendicitis in Omaha Sal
urday and is reported as get
ting along nicely.
Tom Krauskopk of Carroll
spent Sunday here with home
folks.
John Murphy and bride re-
turned from their wedding trip
today and will soon be at home
to their friends on Sixth street.
Geo. Hoover came down from
Carroll for an over Sunday visit.
Miss Grove of Wahoo, Neb.,
is here for a few days the guest
of the Olmstead home.
Chas. Harder has bought the
Joe Deal farm of 200 acres. $
Corrected Majorities
The semi-official returns give
the following figures for the
county:
Senator
Cunlmins 1864 1872
Governor
Clarke 1886 III
Congressman, 9th District
Green 2471 COZ
Senator, 34th District
Dewell 24l7 456
Representative, 32d District
Pitt 1852 688
Auditor
Albertsen 1851 587
Treasurer
Stearns 1868 1884
Clerk of Court
Irwin $500 413
Recorder
Berry PTS IT'S
Sheriff
Myers 3O45 1908
County Attorney
Mclaughlin 2493 365
Coroner
Case 1913 2O9
Supervisor
Van Scoy 2783 829
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-11-12
Misses Fern Jones and Fern
Hall, of Dunlap, were Sunday
visitors of Mrs. L. M. Burnside.


While hi+ched to a water wa
gon, the mule team belonging
to L E. Clark of Woodbine, ran
down the track toward the on
coming passenger train here
last evening, and just at TIE
critical moment the mule team
side stepped and the water va
gon was struck and sma he'd g
pieces by the engine, but the
team and driver escaped seslou>
harm.
Mr.. and Mrs Glenn Silk
and Ralph Beckley, of Omaha,
were guests of friends last
evening.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-11-12
Hack! Hack! Hack!

= With raw tickling throat.
tight chest, sore lungs, you
need Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound, and quickly The
first dose helps, it leaves q
soothing, healing coating as it
glides down your throat, you
feel better at once. Every user
is a friend. For sale by deal
ers. n26
Abe Hoover returned to his
home in Des Moines today az
ter a weeks visit at the Geo.
Hoover home.
Editor Kelly, of the Monda-
min Enterprise was a pleasant
Times caller Sunday.
Hal Newton was called to
Minneapolis, Saturday night or
account of the serious illness Of
his sister. Mrs Arthur Ellis.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-21

cause it deals with one of the most
unselfsh of human emotions
mothers love. &c.,.
But when l got through with the
story was unsatisfed. 1t ended with
the boys following George into the
church service. Something that won't
hurt anybody, of course.
But the story starts out by saying
that George and his companions were
law students and all of them sons Of
Christian parents. 1t is fair to assume
that they graduated, were admitted to
the bar and became lawyers. Pos
sibly George himself became a Judge.
It is possible, at least; that some OF
the law students became judges.
1t may be that all of them became
regular church attendants, and that
none of them ever afterward played
cards or drank wine.
But l would like to know what else
they did, as lawyers or judges. The
crookedest corporation lawyer l ever
knew never drank wine or played
cards. He was a prominent member
of my church-or the one / was born
in and graduated from. He was such
an alfred good Methodist that he
wouldn't read a Sunday newspaper.
But what he wouldn't do to get a
franchise ordinance through a coun-
Gil or win a case in court wasn't
worth talking about
presume there are judges on the
bench who were put there through
the influence of the interests that ex-
plot the people judges who have
cruelty twisted the law to make it
help the strong Cypress the weak
judges who have accepted railway
passes and then kissed the hand that
passed the passes out-judges who
have helped street railway compan-
les, gas companies, steam railway
companies and other privately owned
service corporations get rich by rob-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-21

doesn't mean anything to me unless
know what kind of men George and
his companions grew up to be-what
kind of lawyers and judges they were.
The mere matter of attending
church service cuts no figure. 1t all
depends upon what religion means to
those who attend. l have known
preachers sons that never missed
church or Sunday school service;
who attended prayer meeting on
Thursday night, and even joined the
foreign missionary society to raise
money to convert perfectly good
heather into very poor Christians.
And l have known them to go the
human limit in dissipation in after
life.
There are other stories that would
read Just as well as the one about a
sons courageous action. l imagine :
a true story could be written about
a pure, sweet girl starting for Chicago
from some small town in Illinois
coming to that big city to earn her
living and make her own way in the
world. l can imagine her being the
daughter of perfectly good Christian,
parents, and coming with the bless
ing of a mothers love, and mothers
holy prayer for her preservation
from all harm.
l can imagine her disappointment
after she came and got job in one of
the department stores and tried to
get along on, say, Sc week. can
imagine her pride, and her reluctance
to go back home and admit that she
hadn't made good.
can imagine all the inhumanity of
her struggle to exist and live a de-
cent life. l can imagine her hearing
the old familiar church bell can
imagine her going to church and
still working for S6 a week. l can
;,,,o zinc tho ract of tho ctOTu Co
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
How Can | Know My True Love?

sexes, Love II n supreme longing Of one
individual for another. But that longing
ls to share all the realities OF life and
not emotion alone.
The person you low truly is the one
with whom YOU long to share all the good
that comes TO YOU and whom you yearn
to protect from any evil that threatens
them.
Love should be based on companion
ship, on conseniaity, or respect. trust.
tenderness ana a loyal belief that life
with the object OF your affections at your
side viii be better and happier than IL
could ever be- under any other circum-
J stance
/ Love has been called Friendship with
fine, loyal friendship plus sex attraction.
But congenislity OF mind and spirit is
! fully as important as the longing for
emotion and affection that many people
confuse with love.
Girls and men alike may know their
true loves by four signs that point to
love as the signs OF the compass point in
the four great cardinal directions. The
great signs 81 love are four-and there
are four minor ones, too.
First there is a longing to be with the
object of your affections, Next there Is
a desire to save him all pain and to give
him all JOY, Then comes a great surgng
faith In his strength and honor. And then
comes a LONGING to be in all things fine
and splendid so that you may be worthy
/ OF the gift of his love.
And for the four lesser directions on
the compass OF love there are these four
symptoms OF love a constant state
OF comparison in which no one else seems
to even approach the high standard OF
your beloved. Next a foolish little ten
dency 20 shirl work and fall a-dTeaming
OF him. Third, wish 10 run and tell
him everything that happens and a feel
ing that nothing Is worth much until he
has known or seen II, too. And, last, a.
great disdain for every one who is not
wise enough to appreciate the dearly be-
loved.
When you EEL all these emotions and
iealously and distrust and petty selfish
ness and desire To prove your power by
wounding are no part Of your attitude.
you may be sure that your true love has
come,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
Advice to Lovelorn
FOrEet Him.
By BEATRICn PAIRFAx


Dear Miss Fairfax; Several years ago
was engRged to a young man and al
though he has left me / Rave never been
able 70 forget him and love him more
now than ever. I thought / could forget
him, but several years has left me Just
the same toward him have had plenty
uf fine chances with other young men
that have a great deal more than he,
but none OF them seems TO appeal TO me.
DO you think ] shall ever outgrow my
fret love, as | am still young, DO you
think IL would be right for me 10 marry
him II can win him back? ! cannot
understand why | still love him, as he Is
poor and has nothing that would attract
the Average Phl, Your advice will be
very much appreciated by, A READER.
lie apparently doesn't care very much
for you or he would not let several years
elapse without indicating the state Of his
feelings, You would better put him out OF
your llfe II It's possible Try yourself In
the company OF others, read good books
and see II II does not help to clear your
, mind. II he Is worthy OF YOU and cares
for you he will come back, but you would
be doing yourself n great wrOng to try
TO lure him back
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29

nine times out OF a hundred an autopsy
on the body Of their dead love would
show that the deceased had come to its
end, not by clean dagger wound that
struck through its heart, but that It had
been pricked to death by pin points.
When all is said II is easier to forgive
big wrong than It is to put up with
constant little irritations II is the con-
slant dropping Of water that wears away
stone, and the oeaseless little shattering
OF ideals and rending OF illusions that at
last shatter domestic happiness.
Take the woman, for instance, who
adores her husband so that she is fran
tcally Jealous Of him, He loves her. and
he feels that she might trust him, AMI
| have sume respect for his loyalty and
honor Abstrsctly she does, but when It
comes to the concrete she cannot endure
/ TO see him show another woman even
/ ordinary cvility. When they go out II
| he does not act like boor to every
/ woman they meet, there are tears an 1
/ Mysteries when they get home.
| She Is even jealous Of all other women
! collectively and goes through his pockets
I for letters in feminine handwriting. She
calls him up over the phone TO see that
I he Is really at his office. and makes her
self pest and a nuisance by suspecting
a mythical other woman
The result is inevitable. She could not
kill love quicker II she'd gone out gun
ming for Il with a gattling gun Hel
husband resents her lack OF faith. She
bores him with reproaches, Bnd on the
| principle that ono might ss we'll hs
hanged for a sheep as a lamb. she often
drives a man who would have otherwiss
been faithful TO hunt up some mors
reasonable woman for solace.
Then there Is the woman who makes
her love a prison house in which a mar
is always conscious OF the bars and bolts
She makes the marriage ceremony de-
prive him OF his liberty ana thencefortf
she srrosates "a herself the right e
police his every movement lie cannot
move from his own fireside without Civ
ing a complete account Of all he did, 1uo
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
Gains NeGO Complexion
BY PeeiiRg Her Skin

Keep still, sad heart, and cease repin-
Ing, behind the clouds is the sun still
shining, / was fOrCibly reminded OF these
lines when, after months OF iFetting over
my ugly complexion, l found how easy II
was to remove the cloudy muddy skin
and bring forth bright. new complexion.
! got an ounce OF ordinary mercoliEed wax
at my druggistA and used this like cold
cream every night Tor two weeks, wash
ing IL Off mornings. Lo ana behold! That
old skin had all peeled off! Tht healthy
young skin underneath gave me a COM
pleNiou as pure, white and soft as a
young girls ! experienced no discomfort,
the skin came Off so gradually ana gently.
Several friends have been similarly bene-
fitted. I'm sure anyone whise skin Is
soiled tanned, wlthered. blotehy, plmply
or frecklcd. can acquire the loVeliest COM
pleXion imaginable by vslng this remark
able treatment.
Another treatment that brought mora
sunshine was one TO remove wrinkles A
face bath made by dssOlving ! OF. pow
dered saXolte In = pt, witch hazel, soon
erased every line, It's Wonderflll.-J
Ortf In The Queen-Adyertisem
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
Murder of Love Is Commonest of Crime
And All Too Frequently the Death Wound Is Not Inflicted
by Stab. But by Pin Pricks

catches no more flies after marriage than
It did before, and the wife who has to
stand for insults from the bully that she
is married to learns 10 hate him and fenr
him just az any other woman would who
was forced by circumstances to endure
"A cad.
Men Kill their wives love by being
parsmonious to them and by making the
women who spend their lives doing the
dreary round OF domestic work feel that
they are slaves who are grudgingly fed
ard clothed for their services No love
was ever robust enough to survive the
question What did you do with that
quarter ] gave you last week.
Men kin their wives love by petty
tyranny and by sheer injustice. The man
who takes advantage OF his wfe's finan-
clal dependence on him TO treat her ~
he would not his stenographer} or his
! cook. or any woman employe who was
free 10 get up and leave doesn't shine
as a hero Of romance IN her eyes any
! longer lie just lookb the poor, miserable,
( contemplate coward he is
! Love is an exotic that can only live In
/ the warm air OF happy home. lie
cannot exist In an atmosphere fun ~
/ pickering and querrels, nor I'm one that Is
surcharged with the querHous complaints =
! and temper OF a woman or the surliness
J OF man.
I Yet there are women who deluge theii
( husbands with reproaches and who nag
them every minute the unfortunate men
are At home, and there are men who
never speak a pleasant word In their own
nouses and st whose approach laughte,
IL hushed and the very cat takes TO IN,
I cellar,
And these people have the nerve 10 com
plain that their husbands and wives Dc
not lovo them, and that their homes are
unhappy!
And they never realize that they hav'
murdered love, anh with their own hand'
have destroyed their happiness.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
Man and the Weather

general usefulness OF weather bureau
work, but there should be no mistake
concerning the bases on which 1t rests.
When weather predictions succeed, it is
because the atmosphere has settled into
state of regular action and reaction
between the forces that control its
phenomena, and then the weather OBJ
servers can follow the course of a storm
and predict its arrival at particular
points as easily as train dispatcher
can trace the run of an express across
the continent by simply consulting his
time table.
But when the powers of the air concert
a change of schedule, the scientific
meteorologist is. for time, as uncertain
and upset in his calculations as the popu-
lar weather prophet, and less to be de-
pended upon for local predictions than
some wise old farmer who studies the
behavior of tree frogs. earth worms, hens
and chickens, and other animals which
seem to have a foreknowledge OF natures
moods that is denied to us.
Meteorology can tell. from observR-
tions gathered widely on land and sea,
what the general state of the atmosphere
! is during a long spell of wet or dry
weather 1t can also make very generaD
predictions concerning changes likely to
occur in these general states of the
atmosphere, but II refuses to be held TO
strict account in such things. If you
use an intellectual microscope you VIII
| find in it's schedule what is common on
railway time tables. Subject 20 change
without notice.
! 1t is no wonder then, that thousands
OF people have more faith in st. swithin
just now than in the weather bureau.
Last Wednesday was St Swithn's day,
and the old saw says
est Swithln's day, II thou dost rain,
For forty days it will remain.
St Swithins day II thou be fair
For forty days twill rain ma mair,"
This Scotch English weather saint has
his compeers in other countries. In
France II is ST. Medard the state OF
whose day is supposed to govern the
summer weather for forty days after.
IAu over the world there are similar
superstitions. which are supersttious
only in their form for there can be no
doubt that they are based on the results
OF long continued experience. II the type
Of weather prevailing about the time OF
the occurrence Of one OF these days really
does, upon the whole, continue foI
several weeks, it must be because q
general law is in operation tending &c
produce a stagnation in the state Of the
atmosphere.
st. Swithin's day occurs between three
and four weeks after the summer solstice
and II is well known that, by that time
the character of the season has generally
become settled, and is not liable TO b'
much changed untll the sun has sunk 81
far toward the autumnal equinox tha
the heat received by the earth durinl
the daytime becomes so much less thar
} that radiated at night that genera
atmospheric change Of state in the north
ern hemisphere must necessarily occur.
We need a meteorological Newton; bu
. III we had one is II certain that W,
. should be any happier Newton estab
lIshed the law OF grayitstion, but nov
there is much dissatisfs ctlon because VI
don't know what grsvitation is. NeWtol
r could only tell US what il does.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29

said. and thought. and furnishing an
Rlbi for every hour.
1t is not reasonable 20 suppose that oe-
cause a man takes wife he changes all
Of his tastes and habits. and no longer
finds pleasure in any OF the amusemcnts
to which he was accustomed, and yet
this kind of wife never even gives he,
husband an evening off in which to en-
Joy himself in his own way. She makes
Of him liar because he has to tell un.
truths to square himself at home, al
though he would be truthful enough IL
she would only stand for the truth. This
woman kills love because II is not in
human neture for anybody to love his
taller.
There s also the woman who kills love
by her complaints She forgets that she
marries OF her own free will and accord,
and that she knew that she was marrying
"A poor man. She makes the deadly mis-
take of striking at a mans vanity by
! bemonning the fact that she could have
/ n aried better, and lamenting that she
can't have as fine things as some Of her
| neishbors do.
| She kills love by wounding her hus.
bands self-love. No man ever forgives .
woman Tor that.
Men kill their wives affection for then
by indifference, There is a theory that
woman who once loves man cam
stop.
! She Just goes on loving him anyhow
This is mistake A woman's love car
be starved to death very quickly, and
when man absorbs himself in business
and ceases TO show his wife any atten
ton or tenderness, her affection Il
mighty apt TO turn up its little toes Il
the daisies.
Men kill their wives love by shee
brutality. There are husbands who thinl
that marriage gives them the right {,
criticize their wives, and say things L
them that they wouldn't dream Of ssyini
TO any other woman on earth. Vinega
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
by BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

In all the old fairy tales. Prince Charm
ing comes riding upon n wonderful white
charger and his happy love knows him
at sight Life, unfortunately or luckily
taccording as you prefer to have your
pleasures ready made or TO work for
them), Is not IN the least like the fairy
tales OF love,
Life In fun Of people who would not
know their true love II they met, or o.
folks who get tired of waiting for love
and marry for a home, or for support, OF
to satisfy passing fancy But there are
many honest souls who are convinced
that they would not know love II they
met him, ana they write me in great
numbers to ask how they may recognise
love when Il comes
Now love nf the right sort is based on
more than mere attraction between the
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29

rheumatism. The conclusion that
persistent spell Of rainy and gloomy
weather followed the great explosion is
as warranted as many others that have
been drawn by learned men, because that
would be logical means of causing the
offending pair to appreciate what they
had lost,
II you ask professional meteorologist
why the North Atlantic seaboard has
been so persistently afflicted with clouds,
rain, muggleness, excessive humidity
and general atmospheric gloom this sum-
mer, he will very likely look you de-
family in the eyes and assert that you
are suffering under an illusion; that the
weather is all right and running its
regular gait, and that you have forgotten
what happened last year. Then he win
discourse to you on the law of averages,
and prove mathemstically that. in the
long run, the seasons don't vary.
All this is really a confession of ignor-
snce Meteorology at present, Is a
science of averages and generahues II
has to deal with a subject whose ele-
ments are so shifty that nobody can
surely foresee their varying combina-
tons,
To foretel change Of weather is like
foretening the shape that a puff OF
smoke will take and to account for a
spell Of good or bad weather is as diff
cult as 10 account for the birth and per
sistence Of a cloud that hangs for hours
in a blue sky. The general causes ar'
known, OF believed TO be known, buI
science, to have much practical value
must master the details.
do not mean TO cast doubt upon the
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29

Lost in the plans for his two small
weeks vacation, Billy tips back fiction
filled head and sees it all-swimming in
golden sun and silver moon--a wide
hotel-veranda gemmed, like bracelet, on
the balustrade with myriads of girls
sapphire girls soberly sweet and wistful-
pearl girls all in white and smiles-topaz
girls with coppery hair and hazel eyes
diamond girls with laughter always bub-
bling and breaking like the pulse of
mountain spring--ruby girls with a dan
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
Late Hours.

Dear Miss Fairfax; I attended an en-
gsgement party on July 3, ana left said
party st 1855 q. m. and the people who
my action, saying that ! should have
waited until lunch was served. DO you
think me at fault for what have done
r. a. II.
No man who attends seriously TO busi-
ness can afford to stay at parties even
as late as the hour you mention, Re
freshments should be served before mid
night II you say courteous good night
TO your host you have nothing with which
20 Tsproach yourself,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29

When we see a
man and n woman
who are madly in
love with each other
when they marry, in
the course Of a few
years land in the
d iv rc e court, or
else arrive at a state
where although they
stay together We can
hear their matrimo-
nial fetters clank as
they walk, We are
apt TO rush to the
conclusion that some
big and tragic wrong
has awakened them
fr m loves young
I dream.
Not at all. NinetY-
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
The Seeing Eye
BY CONSTANCE CLARKE.

by CONSTANCE CLARKE
One saw a homely cottage small
Against beetling hill
Some struggling trees that dropped their leaves
Upon the low door SILL
The loneliness of all outdoors,
So deep and dark, and stil
The other glimpsed dying fire
Upon a hearthstone wide
twinkling flame OF candle liGat
That fitfully deserted
woman in a low armchair.
cradle by her side.
One was stranger doomed TO roam,
The other called the hoyel home