THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
I. BI RICK , Pub Uher
TALENT ] NE , NEBRASKA.
There is no skipping of pay dayb In
Jhe disbursement of the wages of sin.
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r1 The number of railway employes of
I' tlJ classes in the United States iii 1'JOO
-I was 1,017,053. '
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< Probably no work is so well done as
r Jthe work his satanlc majesty finds for
iUe Jiands to do.
Criticising the Bible is perhaps the
surest way of getting your portrait
Into tiie newspapers. "
When a man Is sure he Is In the
wrong he Is all the more precise and
careful with his arguments.
After all , the best trust this country
eould have is a trust In the ultimate
judgment of the people.
And now the Philippines are propos
ing an exposition with government aid.
Does the exposition follow the flag ?
All the European powers except
Poultry Bigelow express themselves as
Jn favor of peace with the United
States.
all the sad words , " etc. Despite
their Insistent explorations the looters
In Pekin now learn they missed over
100,000.000 taels buried a few feet uu-
flerground.
A man who "looped the loop" on a
bicycle at 100 miles per hour Is still
mllve. but people who skate across a
celling on a bicycle ought not to ex
pect to be considered good insurance
risks.
Boston doctors nre complaining in
their nubllcnticns of the prevalence of
"cigarette heart. " This disease may
Jdll the party directly concerned , but it
has Its valuable feature in that it shuts
off the cigarette breath.
There seems to be no problem which
the modern engineer cannot solve. No
sooner do we learn that the Hudson
.River is to be tunneled than we hear
that the Great Salt Lake Is to be
bridged. The bridging of the lake at
R width of twenty-three miles , twelve
f which will be through deep water ,
Is a work to which the words "of stu
pendous magnitude" can be applied
without the slightest exaggeration.
More women should be elected to
chool boards. Late developments in
chool affairs have shown that the help
of earnest women Is much needed. The
Influential and representative members
f thp school boards too frequently use
their power for selfish purposes not cal
culated to increase the efficiency of the
jichools. Women are so divested of
-direct responsibility In the manage
ment of public affairs that they can
unselfishly give their best talents to
the furtherance of public education.
f\ Beyond a doubt the encouragement
which our liberal patent system has
ifforded to inventors is in a very large
flegree responsible for our present su
premacy iu the world of industry. The
Inducements which it has offered for
the improvement of methods , processes
jind appliances have been large , as
have the rewards of successful inven
tion. Our improved machinery and
methods have given American indus
tries a distinct advantage , in miiny
lines , over our European competitors ,
notwithstanding the fact that wages
ire much higher litre than in Europe.
Prosperity sometimes manifests it-
telf In unexpected wajs. A Kansas
newspaper records it as a suggestive
fact that in the town where it is pub
lished many thousand dollars have
been expended during the past year in
erecting monuments , to the dead. There
may be something novel in the thought
that a town's prosperity , or the re
verse , may be disclosed by a glance
over its graveyard fence ; but the fact
reported suggests something more and
better It shows to t in the hard times
the dead were nol : > rgotten , and that
many a last resting-place remains un
marked not from lack of affection , but
from lack of means , on the part of
those who are left behind.
"Does a college education pay ? " was
& question recently propounded to
President Hyde , of Bowdoiu College.
The answer is its own best comment :
vTo be at home in all lands and all
ages ; to count nature a familiar ac
quaintance and art an intimate friend ;
to gain a standard for the appreciation
of other men's work and the criticism
of one's own ; to carry the keys of the
world's library in one's pocket and
feel its resources behind one iu eve-y
task he undertakes ; to .make hosts of
"friends among the men of one's own
It nge who are to be leaders in all walks
of life ; to lose one's self in ueuerous
ntlmsiams and co-operate with others
for common ends ; to learn manners
from students who are gentlemen and
form character uruler 'professors who
are Christians those are1 the returns
of a college for the best four years of
one's life. "
- . rail-
The project forv-a.uortli-aid-south
. way , connecfing alTthe Americas , and
making it possible for a traveler to
journey all the way from Canada to
Patagonia by rail , was enthusiastically
approved by the Pan-American Confer
ence. . It is not a new scheme , and of
course something more than the reso
lutions of a conference will be required
to put it on the way to realization. But
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the engineering difficulties are not in
superable : ami the amount of new con
struction net-essury to link existing rail
way systems into one continuous trans
continental line is estimated at only
live thousand miles. If the amount of
new mileage built in the United Slates
during the year 11)01 ) could have been
distributed in the proper districts alonsr
the proposed * line , the scheme would
have been realized. Probably the pro
posed railway would cost less money
and would be attended by fewer dim"
culties of construction than the groat
railway which the tss'r has been build-
Ing across Siberia ; but behind the Si
berian enterprise there was a resolute
national purpose and great resources.
There must be powerful incentives be
fore either governments or capitalists
can be induced seriousb7 to undertake
the Pan-American railway. Yet wlieu
the railway is built , as probably some
time it will be , its material advantages
and political consequences may dwarf
those of the tsar's great enterprise. It
will bring the American peoples closer
together , in sentiment as well as in
time ; It will promote the exchange oC
Ideas as well as of products ; and by
quickening travel , commerce and cor
respondence it will break down old
barriers and further the interests of
peace.
The complaint of an age limit under
which the young secure a monopoly of
employment is not peculiar in organi
zations like the Federation of Labor.
It is heard In every line of business , in
the newspaper offices , in politics. The
vigor and activity of youth are said to
be grossly overestimated against the
experience of age. It is charged that
youth often wins in the competition
because , having fewer responsibilit es ,
it is content with smaller pay. The
boy makes a present sacrifice expecting
that he will reap his reward in the
future. The man is done with sacri
fices , and thinks it is time that the re
ward was forthcoming. Conditions are
such that the complaint Is by no means
surprising , but It was hardly a helpful
suggestion at the Federation meeting
in Chicago that all men over 45 shou d
be shot , and it is certainly impossible
to compel the employment of HTMI be
yond that age. Laborers of al sorts
will have to continue in the ihe : ir ole
struggle for bread as the ec < uomic
forces about them may determine. If ,
however , there is an arbitrary age limit
it is irrational. Age may raise ? pre
sumption one way or the other , out it
can never determine the value of the
Individual. One man at 45 may be
active , energetic , progressive , juterest-
ed in his work and in the life about
him. Another at 25 may beinactive ,
and lack both energy and interest. One
man may be really young at 43 and an
other old at 25. Intelligence may in
crease with age , or. laying aside the
question of mental growth , this person
may'have both years and intelligence
and that person may lack bojth years
and intelligence. Limit or no limit ,
the individual factor can hardly be left
out of consideration , and , of course , it
will not be when the individual superi
ority is marked. The persons who suf
fer the most cruelly and with the great
est seeming injustice are thffee who ,
being competent but no more than com
petent , are obliged to give way in the
contest. But it is a great deal easier
to note the fact than to discover a way
by which they may be assured a better
fate. !
WHAT ANIMALS DO IN A STORM.
Tliey Dislike the Wet AVeatber and
Seek a Place of Safety.
Both wild and tame animals , four-
footed or with wings , have a deep-
seated aversion to wet weather. Even
water fowl will seek a dry hiding place
when it rains.
Did you ever watch the actions of
cattle before a big stormV If so. you
must have seen they grow more and
more uneasy as the clouds gathered.
You also saw them run up and down
the lield , as if seeking to escape some
impending danger. Finally , when the
storm breaks , they draw dose togeth
er , and , with lowered heads , present a
picture of despair. ' 1
Domestic animals , when it rains , will
always keep indoors , or , failing that ,
lliey seek shelter by the barn , or under
trees , or beneath the hedges and thick
ets : in short , in any convenient place
where they may not bo entirely ex
posed to the downpour. (
It is the same with fowls ; they dis- ! I
like the rain , which soaks Their feath
ers. They scale sheltered places , and
creep under wagcns , or behind boxes !
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and boards. Chickens do not mind'
getting their feet wet , for they will
scratch the ground soon after a show
er , iu search of worms , and beetles. i
Wild birds do their best to keep out
of the rain. Some of them build a
roof over their nests ; others choose a j ; '
homo under the eaves , or under a pro
jecting cliff , where they may be safe
from the discomfort that the rain
brings.
But most of them are without shel
ter provided in advance by their own
forethought. These take refuge Si any
place that they happen to laid at hand.
If you watch them before the storm
you will see them looking for such a
place. If the storm comes suddenly. .
the small and helpless ones seem iie-
wildered. flying from tree to tree , and
from limb to limb qtiitu uuablev to
make up their raiiids exactly where to
hide themselves. Pittsburg Dispatch.
_ The Doctor's Way.
Sometimes my doctor inctris ifnj
At Doyle's across the "way.
And there win-ne'er he treats me
I always have to pay.
Philadelphia Press.
Unoccupied Land in ? ? - rua.
There are about oO.OG/V'iK ' ) cnas of
unoccupied public land y\t luiani
-Montana. .
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HERE'S AN INTRICATE MACHINE TAT § [
CAN UTTER DISTINCTLY FIVE VOWELS.
A remarkable triumph in mechanical invention has just been achieved l y
Dr. Marage of London , who has succvfded in constructing a machine that can
utter plainly and distinctly the five vowels a , e , i , o , u. This remarkable result
is achieved by passing currents of air through a series of receptades. the interior
shapes of which are exactly like those of'the human mouth"when it pronounces
the vowels. The lirst illustration shows the machine , and the second shows the
waves of vibration of various vowel sounds.
Although niaiiy attempts have been made , it is only now that success has been
attained , and before long we may expect to have a machine that can really
talk. Of course , the phonograph is not a talking machine , because it merely
gives off a record that has already betn made upon a cylinder by an actual
human voice. Dr. Marage's machine , however , creates the vowel sounds at first
hand.
hand.This machine , as will be seen by thp illustration , has been constructed so as
to reproduce the interior of a person s mouth while pronouncing the different vow
els , using the plastic substance employed by dentists.
These false mouths , as it were , are made of plaster of paris and are fitted to
sirens giving the appropriate combinations of sounds. Dr. Marage then sets his
machine in operation , and the vowels are produced synthetically.
Dr. Marage purposes to modify the steam sirens used on shipboard so that
they will imitate the vowel sounds. Thus different phonetic syllables may ba
obtained which may be used as an international alphabet.
IN A MORALIZING MOOD.
The Children Have u Hard Time of It
According to Tliia.
How useful children are ! When I am
ill-tempered 1 don't swear any more
I simply spank one of the children ,
says a writer in the Yellow Book. Now
don't sneer and set me down as a
mean , contemptible man. You do it
yourself , if you have any children , and
if you have not you hate them all on
general principles. Come down off
your peJestal , illustrious sir or madam ,
and analyze your actions with an X-
ray. There , now , didn't I tell you so ?
That conscience of yours doesn't look
very well in print , does it ?
However , let us return to our chil
dren. They are just as useful when
we are In a self-satisfied mood. When
I feel like swelling out my manly bos
om and am nearly bursting with pride
I don't talk about myself as I used to.
I just blow about the children and
make myself disagreeable without
laying myself open to the charge of
conceit.
And what slaves children are ! Prom
morning till night they are bossel
around by everybody from their mighty
father down through the descending
scale of elder brothers and sisters , ser
vants , neighbors , tradesmen , street
cleaners , policemen , to their own moth
ers. Think of the "Doii'ts" a small boy
hears in one day. All the books "Don't"
ever published wouldn't make up the
sum of "Dbu'ts" my small boy hears
in the waking hours of any twenty-
four. How in the world he ever accom
plishes anything , in spite of such an
avalanche of "Don'ts" I fail to see.
But he does , sturdy little Titan that he
is.
Behold him now. He is playing foot
ball with his baby sister in the title
role. I suppose I ought to stop and
I yell "Don't" at him. But there , his
j mother has savel me the trouble. And
baby sister is madder at the interrup
tion than he is. How essentially femi
nine ! The same chord has boon touch
ed that makes a woman mad when you
interrupt her husband while he is beat
ing her. But stay ! 1 must not begin
to moralize about women. That is a
task that would take a lifetime.
ENDED UNPLEASANTLY.
Baseball Argument Between Two
Nei bluM * ; , idsj in a Quarrel.
Mr. Mi.xer and Mr. Briggs wei'e visi
bly agitated. They had been friends
and neighbors for years , but now the
roots of brotherly affection were in Jani
ger.
"I'll tell you , " said Mr. Mixer ve-i
hemeutly , "that it is all nonsense to say
that a swiftly pitched ball can be bat-
ted as far as a tossed one. "
"Much you know about it , " said
Briggs hotly. "The resiliency in the
fast ball when opposed by a swiftly
moving but naturally "
"RotI' ' cried Mr. Mixer. "Anybody
with half sense can see that a slow
ball "
"Rubbish ! " snorted Mr. Briggs.
They glared at each other.
"Say. " said Mr. Mixer , "let's get the
Hammond boys to go with us to the j
vacant lot isack of my house and I'll
show you jut.t where you are off your
base. "
"Agreed , " said Mr. Briggs.
Ten minutes later Mr. .Mixer with a
bat in his hand was facing Ted Hamj j
moml in the vacant lot. . .
"Gimme a slow one about here , " said
Mr. Mixer , as he indicated a height
from the ground of borne three feer.
Along came the ball a slow and aggra
vating twister. Mr. Mixer sminnsrly
awaited it. Thvn he hauled hack am ] !
swath d a great jrasli in the innocent j
atmosphere.
"One strike. " yelled Bud Hammond ,
who held me sphere in his lnr mitt.
Mr. Mixer expectorated on his palm
and there was blood in his eye. Again
he swathed the quivering atmosphere.
Again the giggling Bud called jj strike.
But the third time he hir the ball. It
went directly upward , and when it al
most reached terra firma was nabbed
by the clever Bud just a foot inside the
diamond.
"My turn now. " said Mr. Briggs with
an air of poorly concealed triumph
"Your record with the slow ball is just
twelve linear inches. Gimme a hot one. "
The hot one came , but Mr. Brigg ?
tvas not readyy it. It flew by him Jind
struck with a dull thud in Bud's mitt.
Another hot one was equally fortunate.
"Oh , hit the ball , " said the disgusted
Mixer. "Foul it or something. "
Mr. Eriggs did foul it. He fouled it
with such signal success that it flew
from his bat at a merry tangent , and ,
catching the smiling Mixer under the
jaw , almost tore his head loose from its
fastenings. Two minutes later any
passer-by with ordinary eyesight might
have seen a tall , thin man with a base
ball bat in his hand wildly cavorting
around that two-acre lot , with a vi
cious-looking fat man in hot pursuit ,
followed closely by a boy with a big
mitt and another boy with no special
mark of distinction. Around and
around the lot they went , until there
came a blesed interruption.
"Pa , " shrieked little Jane Mixer over
the back fence , "supper is ready. " The
merry-go-round ceased , the two princi
pals walked away with glances of unut
terable contempt. And the great scien
tific problem remains unsettled. Cleve
land Post-Dispatch.
CLUBMEN IN AMERICA.
Tliere Is a Very Small Class as Yet of
Professional Idlers.
Nothing belter proves that this town
is a community of busy men than the
peculiarities of the clubs. In all the
great capitals of Europe the clubs are
frequented at all hours of the day and
far into the night. Most of the New
York clubs are nearly empty during
business hours , and few of them are
open long after midnight. The class
of professional idlers is relatively so
small in New York that they make up a
considerable proportion of the mem
bership of very few clubs. In the large
clubs they are an insignificant fraction
of the membership.
Most New York clubs have an early
breakfast hour , and in nearly all of
them there are members who would
like to have the hour earlier than it is.
On all business days most of the club
habitues breakfast between 7:30 : and 9
o'clock. After 10 o'clock the breakfast
room usually has three or four occu
pants. A few men of leisure breakfast
later , but between 10 o'clock and 12:30 :
it would be liqrrt to find a score of men
in any one of the great clubs unless
some special occasion had brought them
together.
Within the last ten or twelve years
luncheon has become an important
1 meal at many up-town clubs. It used
to be that only a few men of leisure
took luncheon at their clubs. With the
i up-town movement of business , how-
! ever , hundreds of men have adopted the
i habit of taking luncheon at some one of
the clubs between 20th street and oOth
street. A good many clubs , indeed , owe
I a considerable part of their member
ship to the fact that they are con
veniently situated for business men
who prefer luncheon at their club to
luncheon at a restaurant Men estimate
that the.v can literally save money by
joining a club that furnishes luncheon
at a moderate price. Tips given at 300
luncheons equal two-thirds the annual
dues of the ordinary club , and food and
cigars are a little cheaper at a good
club than at a good restaurant.
The club luncheon hour is an unusual
ly pleasant one , very different from the
same hour at a down-town restaurant.
But most men do not linger long even
at the club luncheon. The business
habits of the town assert themselves
even here. New York Sun.
Tyburn ,
Tyburn wa the place of execution
iu London for felons , and was used for
this purpose from the reign of Henry
IV. 1399-1413 The bodies of Crom
well. IroJon. and Bradshaw were ex
posed at Tybun , Jan. 30. 1001. The
last execution at Tyburn took place in
November , 17S3.
Mudie's Library.
M mile's circulating library in London
has 3,000.000 books constantly In cir
culation , and employs 178 people.
Locomotive Fiures. .
.In fifteen years a locomotive will run
240,000 miles and earn § 300,000.
Seattle Assay Ofliue.
The Seattle assay office has handled
$55,000,000 since its establishment.
Blood in the Human Body.
The amount of blood'in the human
body is 1-13 of the body weight.
SAYS :
fe-ru-na is an Excellent Spring Catarrh ]
Reme-y 1 am as Well as Ever.1 ;
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HON. DAN. A. GltOSYEXOR , OF THE FAMOUS OHIO FAMILY.
Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor , Deputy Auditor for the War Department , in a letter
written from Washington , D. C. , says : < ,
"Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derive
from one bottle of Peruna. One week has brought wonderful changes-
and I am now as well as ever. Besides being one of the very best
spring tonics it is an excellent catarrh remedy. "
DAN. A. GROSVENOR.
In a recent letter he says :
"I consider Psruna really more meritorious than I did when J wroet.
you last. I receive numerous letters from acquaintances all over the1
country asking me if my certificate is genuine. I invariably answer
yes. " Dan. A. Grosvenor.
A Congressman's Letter.
Hon. H. W. Ogden , Congressman from
Louisiana , in a letter written at Wash
ington. D. C. , says the following of Pe-
runa , the national catarrh remedy :
" / can conscientiously recommend
you Psruna as a fine tonic and all
around good medicine to those who
are in need of a catarrh remedy. It
has been commended to me by people
who have used it , as a remedy par
ticularly effective in the cure of ca
tarrh. For those who need a good
catarrh medicine I know of nothing
better. " H. W. Ogden.
Treat Catarrh in Spring.
The spring is the time to treat catarrh.
Cold , wet winter weather often retards
.1 cure of catarrh. If a course or reruns ,
is taken during the early spring nionth-f
the cure will he prompt and permanent.
There can be no failures if Peruna iSJ
taken intelligently during the favorabl |
weather of spring.
As a systemic catarrh remedy Peruna
eradicates catarrh from the systena
wherever it may he located. It cures
catarrh of the stomach or bowels withf
the same certainty as catarrh of the head.
If yon do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Peruna ,
write at once to Dr. Hartman. giving a
full statement of your case , and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad
vice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman , President 08
The Hartman Sanitarium , Columbus ,
Ohio. v
We are the laruesi manufacturers of
vehicles and harness In tho world sell-
Ing to consumers.nr.d-vvebavf'bgen do
ing business In this way for 29 years.
WE HAVE 80 AGENTS
hut ship anywhere for examination
guaranteeing sale delivery. You are
out notliinRlf not satisfied. We make
195 styles of vehic'es and &j sty lea of
hamfs. Our prices represent the
of No. 71 j Open Stanhope , has U
cost material aad racking , plus
No. 3J1 HuEijy. Price , Ji9.00 , As good one profit. Our lar o free catalogue Inch Kelly rubber tires. Prke ,
ass-113 for ea.OO more. eiiovs complete lit.n. Sendforit. 182. As good as sells for ( SO more.
P3ATT ELKHART ,
Switchmen are paid for sidetrack
ing people.
The twenty-two shipyards of Ger
many employ 6,000 men.
More than J40.000 men are engaged
in anthracite coal mining.
England buys from Kussia $15,000-
000 worth of eggs per annum.
The way of the transgressor is often
rough on the other fellow.
Any man can learn to make mis
takes without serving an appretice-
ship.
Victoria , Australia , ships to Lon
don each year about 88,000,000 worth
of butter.
! Not less than 185 species of butter-
flics are found in Mexico and Cen
tral America
infrequently the wedding ring
is a circle that squares the debts of
a poor man.
The doctor's , son may follow in his
father's footsteps by becoming an
undertaker.
A great fortune Das been matle !
from the wire device and rubber cork i
for beer bottles.
In Ashantee grows a troe. resemb
ling the English oak , which furn
ishes excellent butter.
The cost of the canal to connect
the Tauuton river with Boston harJ J
bor is estimated at 558,000,000.
Cotton lands having an area of 170-
000 acres have foe n purchased in
Louisiana by Cleveland capitalists.
Would Tak ; no t hancf'ft.
A St. Louis judge has decided thad
a hired girl can not be held liable for
the crockery she consigns to the rub
bish heap. Which doesn't materially :
change the situation. Even if shej.
could , most of us prefer to lose the } "
chinaware than to take any chances
of losing the girl.
Town for Xor.
Jonesboro. a new village now being
laid out at Fort Lee , five miles frona
Richmond , Va. , is to be populated"
by negroes only. The site consists
of 800 acres , cut up into building lots , )
a park , orchards , grazing lands and (
small farm trucking.
Many School Children ora Mcldy. ;
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
nurce..fnlly used by Mother Grav , a nurse id
Chilean's Home , New York , break up ColdiP
in hours cure Feverishnesg. Headache , btom ,
ach Troubles. TeethinDisorders , and Destroy ,
Wor-n 1Vn tUon. and te.stimoiiluls THF1Q
NEYKK FAIL. At all ' !
druggists' , a > c. Sample
mai.cd P K. Address ALL..H H Owar o r '
Roy , New York.
inputted m Liberia. , "
The American Liberiana
som&
times have a hard time of ib in Li
beria , insulted"almost
daily by na
tives , who despise them because they !
were former slaves of white"men *
The cry is raised , "Me no slave ! Me
no slave- !
If the United States
emigrant wants to fight he can have *
all he is looking for. In Liberia no
man can vote
unless
he
owns rea *
estate.
The freight charges for hauling
anthracite coal from Pennsylvanll
m nes aggregate 840,000,000 a yearw
MM H-H * 4MH.4M8MH. < MH .
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* and other disease 7
t The Only Durable Wall Coating germs are nurtured 2
and diseases
dissemr
* Kalsomines rot rub off and - r
* are temporary , , scale mated by wall paper *
Write us and see how helpfulwe can be , at no cost to Ton
A in getting beautiful and healthful homes. Address
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| Alabastine c. , Department D , Grand Rapids , Mich. >