THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT I. SO. KICK , J'ub YALENTINE , NEBRASKA. Jii ovder to bu a gentleman uiauy a. tn.-m has to forget himself. Real worth will crop out , but some body else is likely to cut the crop. ' iive-thousand-dol- You-can't fasten a - Jar education upon a fifty-cent boy. In Denver some of the lovely women pro now referred to as "beautiful re peaters. " All men may be made of dust , but some men have a lot more of the dust than others. The hardest misfortunes we have to bear are those we anticipate but which never happen. Let us give Adam credit for ouo thing. lie didn't tip the 'waiter who handed that apple to Eve. The3r are forming a milliners' trust In New York. The time for men to get their guns is fast approaching. If those anarchists really wish to make away with King Leopold they might try hiding dynamite bombs in bis whiskers. In saying that coeducation results in { ove and eventually in marriage for- Jner Minister Wu has given segrega tion another black 'eve. A Brooklyn woman has sued a Pull man porter for breach of promise. No tvonder she deems that she should have compensation for losing such a prize. We note with pleasure that after a lapse of 2.JJ03 years Greece and Persia have patched up their ancient quarrel. Thus is another war cloud in ihe East happily dissipated. King" Leopold says the anarchists can't scare him out , but it is repurtod that he turns pale whenever he hears the cook making the steak render with the potato masher. A Chicago man who was asked u > name the things which had contributed most to his success mentioned 4 J luck as one of them. This is ason - Berful admission , coming from one w'v. Is up. Recently Emperor William shot Eighty rabbits in twenty minutes , or it the rate of one every fifteen seconds. We are beginning to suspect that the Kaiser is not much of a true sports man , after all. and that he goes hunt- Ing with a gatling gun. There is talk in Austria of establish- Bg a newspaper especially for nervous jersons , in which accounts of catastro phes will be treated in a soothing style. This will give a new color name to jour nalism. If it is "yellow" to jar sensitive nerves , it may be considered "gray" to leave them undisturbed. Many faults have been found , both by practical men and theorists , with the governments of American cities. Fun damental defects have been observed , their existence has been admitted , but acknowledgment is tempered , in nearly every case , with proper extenuating ex planations. The trouble seems to be that American cities have not com pletely mastered local situations and irranged their system's of management ; o conform exactly to their character- sties. One of the natural beauties of the town of Eustis , in Franklin County , Maine , is a noble grove of pines border- Ing the highway. A lumberman want ed the trees , and offered ? 3OOU for them enough to pay the debt of Eustis but at a specirl town meeting it Avas voted , 47 to 4 , not to accept the offer. Thus the little town set an example to larger places. Evidently the people realize that even if a community could afford to sacrifice its beauties , it would have no moral right to do so : for a nat ural adornment like the Eustis grove "belongs" not only to the persons now living In the town , but to future genera tions of residents , and in a deeper spir itual sense to every human being who lhall draw rest and refreshment from : he trees. That day Is a suggestion of Siberian ; liruate when womanhood does not fecore a fresh triumph in the irrepressi- ile conflict of the sexes. Since this gov ernment began a woman's head has dever decorated a postage stamp , but at last the outrage of a hundred years has been recognized , and the mother of her country , Martha Washington , will be honored , with her sex , by the appear ance of her profile on an eight-cent fctamp. This , while a decided victory , Is not an unalloyed joy , for an inquiry would demonstrate that not more than Pj"ty-five women in the United States tver saw an eight-cent stamp , or know lhat a stamp of that denomination is is- lued. However , It is the principle true womanhood Is after , not stamps , and ihe knowledge that somewhere in the ttorld the representative of woman is Imltten on her fair brow by a canceling taachme brings balm to the bruised teart At least It cannot be said of tfartha , as of George , that she looks Ike two cents. Ridiculous stories about the young filing of Spain are matched , now and } gain , by equally unflattering remarks b print about his kingdom , and the leader .needs to remember that there must be "another side" * f more agree able purport. Speaking of Alfonso' subjects , a Bost' n clergyman who speri the summer in Spain has recently writ ten : "When I am told hereafter of th lazy , unenterprising Spaniard , I shal remember the man with tiu. hoe seei every whenthrough the Bsisque prov inces ; 1 shall remember tbe side hilli cultivated , where in Colorado only tin best plain lands are utilized ; I pluill rn call the magnificent improvement ! along the San Sebastian riverways : shall tliink of the modern electric slnv cars and lights , and the excellent waj in which new Madrid is being built and I shall put them and the manj workers in field and city alongside ol the indolent loafers around the Puert ; del Sol and say , 'Yes. the one oxists. bu so does the other. Forces are makii : ; for decay , but more potent ones an talcing for new life. ' " The report that Northwestern Univer sity. at Evanston. 111. , has all the s.u dents that it can possibly care , " > r will its present accommodations. : : ul ih ' the enrollment has reach , d the Ian- figure of 3.COU , invites attention am w i the remarkable general increasel \ : is noticeable in collegiate attendant , throughout the country. Twenty yeai : ago there was not a college or univer sity in the United States which coal , ! boast 3,01)0 ) students. Harvard , thi largest of them all , was considerably below that mark , and did not pass I until some ten years later. Last year however , there were six institution1 having more than : > . ( ) ( ) ( ) students each and two others which were so close \ the mark that they must have pass. . it handsomely by this time. And it' tlit rate of increase at Northwestern. wlri < .1 ' had ii , < 500 in the fall of 1001. has been ; . all comm n the list must now be cons'u erably enlarged. Turning from tin growth of the greater universities to ; general consideration of the subject , ii appears to the CMiicago Record-Hera. , that there has been a tremendous gah all along the line. A report of the bu reau of education for the year 1SS2 pui the attendance at colleges and universi ties then at 04.00(5. ( The estimates fo : 11)1)2 ) ) came to 101,221. Possibly SOUK allowances should be made in a compar ison of these two figures because of th results of affiliation and consolidation University means much more than il did , and includes schools that were n. I formerly classified along * with collegia ! * ! institutions. But when due weight ii given to this fact it will be seen thai the number of students at the collegi and universities has increased mud ; more rapidlythan the population which went from fifty millions in 18- to seventy-six millions in 1000. Ilela tively speaking , the percentage of gaL in the latter case was so small as to IKJ completely outclassed. THE LEOPARD-SLAYER. Modest Soldier Who Braved theWratl of a Local Mairiiate. A recent writer in Chambers's Jour nal gives an interesting reminiscence of his official experience in India. At- he sat outside his U-ut one day he heard wild cries , and an orderly dash ed up , crying excitedly that a wild leopard had invaded the cavalry lines. It had killed one horse and stampeded a hundred , and the sahib must come at once. Hastening to the spot , he found the leopard dead on the ground , surrounded by a crowd of men , six or seven of whom were standing close beside the body with naked swords in their hands , and the swaggering air ol ! victors. Only one of the men did not swag ger , and his sword was the only one which had blood upon it. This man stood aside while the others rushed up claiming to have slain the creature , and only after they had finished speak ing stated quietly that he had killed it , as it had killed his horse , and that they had only come up after it was dead. They wished to share the re ward offered by the government for killing dangerous Avild beasts. lie ask ed respectfully for an investigation , which was promised. But In conversation at the dinner table that night it appeared that tin leopard was probably not a wild beasl at all , but an escaped chetah , or traim.il hunting leopard , belonging to the loca. judge. The next morning its owner ac companied the colonel to the lines where he immediately identified th : carcass in the presence of the regiment which stood drawn up waiting for th ? award of the government bounty to be decided. Then he turned to the colonel and said in an angry and accusing voice , "Please order the men who killed th ? leopard to fall out. " Only one man , Ilazara Sing , came for ward , out of all the previous claimant.11 to the honor. "Are you the man who killed my leop ard ? " asked the judge. "Yes , " answered he , steadily. "The leopard came into the lines , leaped on my horse's back , and began tearing its throat open. I drew my sword and cm it down with one blow. My horse died last night , and I am now a beggar , having no money to purchase another horse , which would cost me three hun dred rupees. " ( The native cavalry pro vided their own mounts. ) "Well done , my man ! " said the judge , to the amazement of the listeners , whd had expected an outburst of wrath. "Come up. to my house and 1 will make you a present of the amount youwill need to buy another horse. I "will do this because I consider you to be a brave and truthful man. " The braggarts of the bloodless swords got only the ridicule of the regiment , both for their hasty claim and Its hast ier withdrawal , while Hazara Sing bore afterward the nickname of thii Leopard Slayer. He was later , for gal lantry in battle , promoted to the rank ot L native officer. it' t-Mfr > > &S Vi" ' 5SS5jSLi ! INGE Lord Curzon has been Viceroy of India he has become a great sportsman , or shikari , as the term is in the East. At first he contiued himself to the popular and comparatively riskless sport of snipe-shoot ing. That proved too tame , however , and soon His Excellency sought to establish a reputation of a killer of big game. Toward this the fates and the special advantages which the ( Jovernor General can command have favorably contributed , and Lord Curzon can now boast of having bagged as many tigers as some of the best sportsmen who have spent years in the pursuit of big game in India. Lady Curzou , loo. has all the instincts of a sportswoman. She has ac companied her husband on several of his shooting expeditious , but it was only on a recent visit of Their Excellencies to Hyderabad that she actually took part in a "kill. " True , she did not handle a gun , but she ascended the machan , or shooting-ledge , and awaited ihe arrival of Mr. Stripes. - Usually the machan is used by solitary sportsmen who have had khubber ( news ) of a tiger who has been causing havoc among the cattle , and. possibly , among the natives in a district. A kid is tied to the foot of the tree to which the machan is affixed , and the j-porlsmau sits over it until the bleat- ings of the animal attracts the tiger. On the hitter's approach the sports man , of course , has him at a distinct advantage , and only a bungler can fail to kill. In the case of the Viceroy's shoot the beaters did all that was necessary in driving the tiger within range. One of the accompanying illustrations depicts the method of conveyance by which Lord and Lady Curzou traversed the jungle. A number of streams abouud in the Nizam's big game preserves , and the negotiations of these with befitting dignity necessitated the carrying of Their Excellencies in the elaborate chair arrangement. It also minimized the risk of either coming to grief through the worst of Indian pests snakes. This method of progres sion is made as comfortable as it can possibly be by reason of the remark ably well-balanced stride which generations of practice have taught the car riers to adopt. A sensational incident was reported in the Indian papers as occurring in connection with a recent shoot. A gun which was being handed to Lord Curzou accidentally exploded in both barrels. Luckily no one was hurt , but how narrow was the Viceroy's escape may be judged from the fact that a hole was blown in his helmet. An inch or so lower and the bullet would have pierced his brain. Apart from this incident the shoot was eminently successful. Four tigers fell to Lord Curzon's gun or. to be correct , three tigers and a tigress. Our first illustration reveals the vanquishing Viceroy. Lady Curzon , and the largest of th1 ' The tiirer measimd " " > ' ' -or and the tigress S feet. CARRYING LORD AND LADY CURZON THROUGH THE JUNGLE. HE PROVED HIS HONESTY. Thonsrh His Fraud "Was but Fourteen Cents , He Paid for It. The Great Northern passenger depart- 'ment received another contribution to the conscience fund yesterday , but the earnings will show an increase of only 14 cents and that amount will be deb ited to stamps. However , the 14 cents quiets the teasing , nagging conscience of a North Dakota-farmer and stock man , which will , compensate the pas senger department for the trouble of making out and cancelling a ticket and auditing the 14-cent account. It was last May that a farmer living at Rugby Junction , Pierce county , N. D. , decided to go to Leeds , twenty- seven miles east , to look at a bunch of yearlings that he knew were for sale , lie had planned to make the trip in a buggy , but it happened that when he j was ready to go there was some work on the farm that needed to be done , so h6 set his hired man at it and de cided to go on the railroad. He paid 81 cents for a ticket from the junction to Leeds , intending to walk from there to the farm where the cattle were pastured. But on the train he met an acquaintance , who told him that it would be nearer to go to Niles and walk back from there. So when the train reached Leeds he stayed in his sent. This farmer really had no intention of beating the railroad out of the 14- cent fare for the four and two-thirds miles of ride between Leeds and Niles. The railroad beat itself. The conductor of the train got off on the station plat form at Leeds , yelled "all aboard , " and gave the signal to go ahead. Nobody got aboard and the conductor did not think of going through the train again to collect fares. So the Rugby Junction man rode on to Niles without paying for his ride. He found the bunch of yearlings and bought them ( cost him something like $205) ) , and then made arrangements for driving them home. It happened , there fore , that he did not have a chance to square himself with the road on his return trip. He dismissed the matter from his mind for a time , but every now and then It would occur to him that he was a poor class leader in tlu > chuch if he took an underhand advant age of "Jim Hill. " It took him four months to arrive-at the conclusion that the only way out of the difficulty was to repay the com- pany for the ride , and that is why ( Jen- j eral Passenger Agent Whitney received , 14 cents in stamps. St. Paul Pioneerj j Press. Straining the Language. An amusing liberty which a native of Muscle Shoals took with a word in ( ail- language comes out in a story told in ' the New York Times. A man borrowed the native's horse without stopping t < : isk permission. In the course of a fe days the animal was returned , but th native did not take a kindly view ol the matter , and conclnded to have legi ; ! redress. He announced his intentior of having the offender arrested. "What will you have him arrested for ? " he was asked. "For horse-stealing , of course. " "How can you maid ? horse-stealing out of it. when he returned the horse ? ' "Ain't it stealing if he brought 'iis back ? " "I'm not a lawyer , but I don't see ho it can be. " "All right , then ; I'll have "im arrested for usury. " . "I don't see how you can make usurj out of it. either. " "Why , hang it all ! he used 'im , didn'J he ? Yes. sir. he used 'im three or foui days , an' used 'im mighty hard , too , bj the looks of 'im. " No Need to Adiourn. A story that suggests Sydney Smith'i mot , that the British army ought nevei to leave England except in case oJ actual invasion , comes from a South crn State. The legislature of that Statt were tardy in adjourning last year although there seemed to be no im portant business under consideration. "Judge" Jones , one of the legislators was met bj' a friend in the street on hot morning , and the two stopped ta talk under the shade of an awning. "Goin' to clear out pretty soon , jedge ? " "I suppose so , " answered the states man , mopping his brow. "Anything much goin' on down aJ the capital ? " "No. " "Why don't they wind up , then ? " "Well , that's just the trouble There's nothing but a lot of petty bus iness to bother us , and we don't mind that. I wish something important would come up , and then the motion to adjourn would be in order. " Just as His Mother Used to Do. lie criticised her puddings , and he didn'l like her cake ; He wished she'd make the biscuit thai his mother used to make ; She didn't wash the dishes , and she didn't make a stew , And she didn't mend his stockings as his mother used to do. All. well , she wasn't perfect , though she tried to do her best , L'util at length she thought her time had come to have a rest ; So. when one day he went the same old rigmarole all through , She turned and boxed his ears , just as his mother used to do. New York News. When a motber calls her boys to get up in the morning , she has so much sympathy for them that she never call ? good and loud till the sixth time. cience Tattooing the cornea with sterilized India ink is recommended by Dr. .1. L Borsch for lessening the uusightliiwss 5f opaque spots on the eye. When the- opacity is slight the treatment ma ; , considerable restoration of even give a iight. The breathing or blowing of wells driven on the plains of Nebraska has been lately shown to coincide with changes of barometric pressure , but it is thought that low pressure can hard ly account for the force with which the air is expelled from some of the wells. Few persons would guess that th- smallest things visible to the eye are the stars. Yet Dr. Edward Divers wa < no doubt correct in declaring such to Ve the case in his address before the -hemical section of the British Asso i-iation at Belfast. Great as many of Ihe stars are in actual magnitude , their listarice is so immense that their angu lar diameter becomes insensible , and they approach the condition of geomet rical points. The minute disks that they appear to have are spurious , an effect of irradiation. The world's greatest monument , prized as a marvel of antiquity , seems to have been made with tools we class as modern. From evidence collected at Gizeh. W. M. Flindcrs-Petrie con cludes that the pyramid builders used -solid and tubular drills , straight and circular saws and lathe tools , all of which were set with cutting stones , and they did work that would puzzle the artisan of to-day. Some granite cores show that the drill sunk one- tenth of an inch at each revolution , while the cut was clean and uniform through soft sandstone and the hardest granite. As diamonds were very scarce , it is supposed that the cutting material was corundum. Associative memory , says Prof. E. G. Conklin of the University of Penn sylvania is the fused impressions of processes which occur together , so that when one is recalled the other comes with it. Then he adds. "There is no luestion whatever that a bee leaving " ; s hive and flying for half a mile finds is way back by associative memory. ! t must travel by landmarks : it can not travel by any scent of itself in the atmosphere. That is out of the ques tion. " Among other creatures giving evidence of the possession of associa tive memory , which is the first stage in the development of psychic life. Pro fessor Conklin mentions ants and wasps , as well as cuttlefish , squids and the higher mollusks. Birds and many mammals show a high degree of asso ciative memory. The Rev. John M. Bacon , who for several years , with the aid of a bal loon , has industirously explored the atmosphere over London , givei , a strange picture of the sky ware ? * : te sion of the world's greatest city , jme- what fancifully , and yet with a cer tain degree of truth , London might be said to be (5,000 feet high , or deep , for up to about that level the air over the vast town is unmistakably London air. Between ,000 and 5,000 feet above the housetops is a region where dust re sembling chaff , filaments and woolen fiber , such as would arise from thor oughfares and from the sweeping of houses , seems especially to accumu late. At least there is more there than nearer the ground. In calm weather aerial London becomes to a certain extent stratified. From above (5,000 feet one can often look down upon the surface of the haze , as if it had a defi nite limit. A. Complicated. Case. A country "squire" is often called upon to settle questions which tax both his knowledge and his ingenuity. One such matter was presented to Squire Prescott of Banbury not long ago. "Square , " said a solemn-faced man , stopping the lawyer one day as he was leaving the postofiice , "there's a point 1 want you should settle , and whatever you say I'll abide by it , whether you think as 1 expect you will or not. " "Well. let's hear what it is , " said Squire Prescott , good-naturedly. "It's just like this , " said the man , stepping closer and speaking in a lower tone. "Hen Rogers wants to trade farms with me , but we can't quite agree on terms. His cow pasture is bet ter than mine , but I've got twice as many blueberry bushes as he has ; his corn is all started and mine isn't , but I've got screens to five windows and two doors. There's less stones in his meadow land than there is in mine , but there's more bog. "Now , I won't tell you which is which , but one of us thinks Hen's collie dog had ought to be throwed into the barter , and the other one thinks that my heifer would just about even up. Now what should you say was the fair : hing ? " He Fulfilled the Requirements. Johnnie had been told to write a ; hort composition in which he should say something about all the days of the week. The little fellow thought a few min utes and then triumphantly produced this : "Monday , father and I killed a bear ; md there was meat enough to last over Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , Frl- 3ay. Saturday and Sunday. " Our experience has been when a man goes off on a "trip , " the good effects only last about a week ; at the end of lhat time he is as cross as ever , and his liver in the same condition it was before he went away. When Backs Are Bad. j Rnd imeks are- caused by kidneys. Most b a c k" ache pains are- kidney pains. Backache I * the first symp tom of kidney disorders. Neglect the- warning of the- back , serious , troubles lollow. It's only a step to urinary derangements- ' disease. diabetes , dropsy , Bright's . to be cured : Read how . CASE NO. 24 13.rr. . Joseph Barter milLs. of the foreman Calmes , " as : i lent- Postorla. O. . says : "I Just to ' Kidney Pilk recommend Doan's ly Octobeu of and it is the mouth day , of ISJb , 1SOO , as I did in the summer of the when , after taking a course cured me of kiuncjr treatment , they complaint and backache , winches often so acute that 1 was d.lhculty m and had sleep at night remaining on my feet all day. I nni or an } an- still free from the lumbago and unhesi novance from my kidneys , tatingly declare that 1 am only'too- or pleased to re-endoyse my opinions Doan's Kidney Pills. " A FIJEE Till A L of this great kidney- medicine which cured Mr. Calmes ivill to any part of be mailed on application " . Address i-ostei- the "United States. Milburn Co. . Buffalo , N. Y. ! or sale- 50 cents per box. by all dniggldts , price Eat only fo id that is easy of di gestion , avoiding indigestible dishes , and taking but one to thiee kinds afc a meal. Wages of the working people of the United Kingdom , according to oBl- cial statistics , showed a decrease of $7.920,000 last year as compared with the preceding year. The commission of United States senators in Hawaii accepted an invi tation to a native banquet. The principal disli was tooked doe , which the ITawaiians have long considered one ol the greatest delicacies. The- senators thought they were eating- uast pig. ELT'8 LIU CfO CREAM Bsl is prepared for sutferers fron rasal caturrh who use an atomizer in spraying the dis eased membranes. All th < healiiiK and soothing proper ties of Cream Ilaini are retain ed in the new preparation. It doesnotdryup thesecretions { pricc.inclyjjing sprannu tube 75c. Atdru TfristsorEly liros. , 50 Warreu St. , N. Y. , mail it SHOES UNION MADE W. L. 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Many people say "It is the best of all your prepir rations , " Price 15 cents , at all druggists , or other dealers , orbysendins this amount to'us in postage stamp * , we will send"you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public un less the same carries our label , as otherwise It la not genuine. CHESEGROUGH MANUFACTURING CO. 17 State St. , New York City. Salzer's Rape Kieen Kivea liich , (1 ( food SEEDS JTEVER FAH ! f 1,000,000 Gissfssnsrs ffj Proudest record of any seedsman on cart * and yet we are reaclJnc out for more. BE YOU SATISFIED ? Are you entirely satisfiedwith the goods you buy and with the prices that you pay ? Over 2.000.000 people are tradine with us and getting their goods -wholesale frices. Our 1,000-page catalogue will be sent on receipt of 15 cents , it tells the story. CHICAGO The house that tells the truth.