D. C. DOE, A. P. CULLEY, Vice-President, Cashier. FIRST BANK OF LOUP CITY. General Banking Business Transacted. Capital Stock, $50,000. Loans on Improved Farms at NINE per cent. Best Company and Heat Terms to be bad in the west. CoRRRSI’O.vdknts: Chemical National Bank, New York City, N. Y., Omaha National Hank, Omaha, Nebraska. - -- ATTENTION FARMERS! * I represent the BEST and CHEAPEST (Mutual) HAIL INSURANCE IN NEBR. w® write Insurance at actual cost. The limit of our premiums is live per* cent* We only assess such part of live per cent as is necessary to pay losses and expenses, and this part of said five per cent is not collected until the ' first day of next September and November on small grain and corn in their order respectively. NEBRASKA HAIL INSURANCE COMPANY, M MARION E. ZINK, Agent. LOUP CITY. NEBRA8KA. f ALL WOMEN all the 9 ■ which woman ■ by weakness or HHr derangement in Mr the organs of menstruation. Nearly always when a woman j organa are affected. But when they ere strong and healthy a woman is very seldom sick. la nature's provision (or the regts* 1 latton of the menstrual (unction. i It cure* all "female troubles." It I ts equally effective for the girl In 1 her teen*, the young wife with do- I meetlo and maternal cares, and I the woman approaching the parted ■ known as the " Change of Life." I ! a They ell need It. They ere ell 1 *“**“**• | BRITISH S. S. GARONNE. THE ONLY STEAMER ■ • SAILING BETWEEN VAN COUVER AND ST. MICH AELS THAT CARRIES THE BRITISH FLAG AND IS FULLY PROTECT ED FROM THE SPANISH WARSHIPS ll Is the quickest and only safe way to Alaska. The largest and best equipped Steamer in the Alaskan trade, connecting with our fine Klver Steamers atst. Mich aels, making the Journey as pleasant as possible and comfortable as a trip on the Hudson. For further pari Iculars address. KLONDYKR-CHICAGO TRANSPOR TATION AND TRADING CO. 417—418 Monadnock Bldg.. Chicago. Agents Wanted. In every county to supply the Great Popular Demand for Arnica's War for Humility TOLD IN PICTURE AND STORY Compiled end Written try SENATOR JOHN J. INGALLS. Of Kansas. The most brllliently written, most pro. fuseiy end artistically Illustrated, and most Intensely popular ’rook on the sub ject or tbe war with Spain. Nearly 200 Superb Illustrations from Photographs taken specially for this great work. Agent* are making #.v> to $100 a week selling It. A veritable bouansa fur live canvassers, apply for description, term* ami territory at once. N D THOMPSON PUBLISHING COMPANY ST- LOUIS MO. OR NEW VORK OITV ACKTYI.KNK «A». YME l.ltlltY or YME Ml TO ME. why lint lie lnde|ieiiileiil and own your own little ga- plant whlcli will give four tliura more light than ordinary gas. or •leetrlc llghie at one half the custf Appllcal de for use In churches, stores, factories, hotels, residences and country homes, safer than ordinary gas or ker osen* lamps Approved by all the Hoard* of I'nder writer* through >ut the t'ulod States We Want a Itfai cl*** agent lit •very lu*». Write lui catalogue anti price#. Tun Antil kMK U as M yi lllhN I'll Akron. Ohio sifnncgQ m BRICK HARDWARE 8 FURNITURE STORE. BUILDERS HARWDARK OF ALL KINDS A CAR LOAD OF FURNITURE A #2.00 bedstead for #1.75 A 66 cent kitchen chair fur 4bets. A 0.60 Oak dining table lor 4,60. A center table for 1.10 Worth 2.00 A 0.50 mattress for 2.50. A 2.00 bed spring for 1.50, A beautiful book case and writing desk for 10.00 worth 12. r’0. Sewing machines from 11.00 up. The Monarch, While and New Home. A No. 8, cook stove for 11.50. All cooking utensils at the low est prices. Lamps and Lamp goods, all kinds and prices. A fine bed room suit for 11.75 worth 14.00. Agency for n fine line of Pianos anil organs. For the GOODS and the PRICES call and see us and don't miss the place, the BRICK STORE, K. H. WATKINSON, Prop. at the South West Corner of the Square, COOP CITY, • - • NEBRASKA A- S- MAIN, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON LOUP CITY. - - NIBRASKA OFFICE.—One door east of Clisse's drng store. It. J. NIGHTINGALE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOUP OITT, i i ND T. INKS, 1‘UOI’lUKToH OK Eipress and General Delivery Line. All Kxpresa or Freight oriler* prompt ly attended to. T. 3. NICHTINCALE, LAWYER, lH*e:s a General Law and Cillection Business A Nuisry I'uiiiir. ssd Tfi»* Urllrv lit 4 »m« #. IN»« Hoot V*rib of k'lr»i ti*ak. imr city* • • NteiHiMu W J. FISHER, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Will Defend In PurweltMure t'sws AMU In. A Uennrnl H«al Kntatn Hoaiminn. !»•**# In Ndsvhwmiiim Ituiulifej, ItMl’tlCW. NMIMUhA Warned An Idea 2Sfj3 THE SUNDAY JOURNAlI FREE. During the great war excitement peo ple cannot get enough paper* to read on the aH absorbing topic. The State Journal, aa a special offer, w ill send tree the great Sunday State Journal, three month* to any person sending In $1,00 fora year's subscription to the Semi-Weekly State Journal During these exciting times The Semi-Weekly Journal beats tlieoldwcekly ill to pieces and with a big slxuen-pnge paper thrown In, is the greatest bargain ever offered for $1.00, Just think! you gr. Cady’s Condition Powders, are just what a horse needs when In bad condition. Tonic, blood pari' -r and vermifuge They are not fo >d but medicine and the best in use t > put a horse In prime condition. Price 35 cents per package. Awarded Highest Honors* World’s Fair. I BAKING ! POHDIR MOST PI KFICT MADB. A pw Ciifi Cimw v* Ij»w 9m» »■« S*»*.i«Ml. **»" w *ay «)>— 40 VtAfti TUB STANDARD OLD SMOKESTACKS. In Article For Which There In Always* Demand. Among the very groat variety of thing* that may be bought at second land are smokestacks of iron or of iteel. It may be that an establishment puts in a bigger boiler and want* a big jer stack. If it ia using a steel or an Iron stack, the old one ia taken down carefully and a new oneaet op. Tbo old itack may be sold to a dealer in aecond tiaud boilers and machinery, or the owner may keep it and sell it himaelf to Homebody that wanta a aecondbaud smokestack. If it i* aold to a dealer, be may remove it to bis own yard, or it may be that the original owner keeps it on bia premise* nntil the deuler has sold it. A manufacturer may move from ono plaoe to another and sell the old plant, or part* of it. Here would be a secondhand amokeatack. Secondhand stack* are bought by varioua user*. It may tie that the iinokeatuck of an estab iisbment ia 'vorn ont and that the boiler la not and that a secondhand stack would Iaat ont tbu life of the boiler. In ane)i a case tho user would get a second band stack if be could tlnd one suitable. Secondhand atacka may he naed with varioua temporary plant* act up by con tractor* and other*. A amokeatack may be Llown down in a windstorm and tbe user aupply tbe plaoe of It with one bought secondhand. A steel or iron ataok ooata about half aa much aa a brick ataok. A aecondbaud Iron atack ooata about bulf aa much aa a new one. Stack* of metal are made now uaually of ateeL Tbe steel uaed ooata now leia than wrought iron. There ia an increasing nse of ateel instead of brick atacka Steel atack* up to 0 and 7 foet in diameter would be claaaed as portable stacks; larger stack* would be of more or less permanent character. Steel smokestack* are now made np to 18 feet in diameter. Verv large smoke ■tacks may be lined with brick. Secondhand smokestacks op to ii feet in diameter aro likely to be found in ■took in the yard of the dealer in second hand boiler* and machinery, and ho i* likely to have stuck* of lurger sizes else where. There is ulwuys a demand for secondhand smokestacks.—New York Son._ AVOIDING “A TOUCH." Od« WomM'a Chcorfnl Method of Vmnj log ft Poll!* llrqiujnt. Men have something to learn from women in tho art of warding off "touches” for coin. Women respond to ■nob requests about onoe in every thou sand times, hot they are scientific in their refusals. A Washington woman with a reputation as a borrower turned op at the home of one of her friends fbe Other morning with a much done over story about a persistent aud threatening dressmaker and tbe usual request for the loan—"pay it back tomorrow, cer tain”—of |6. “Why, my dear, certainly,” was the pleasant rosponse to her carefully re hearsed little yarn. "You poor thing, you I Just wait till I run up stairs and get my purse. ” She ran up stairs. Tbe male bead of the house happened to be in tbe room where she kept her purse. He saw her dig the purse out of a chiffonier drawer and deliberately remove a wad of bills from it, leaving about 87 cents » i silver and oopper in the obange receptacle. The man was mean enough to lean over the stair railing when his wife went down stairs to the parlor with her flat tened pocketbook in her band. "Oh, I’m so sorry, Mrs. X.,” he heard her say, "but I really thought I had the money. I And, though, that John, as usual, bus been at my pursa— I heard him say something about set tling a plumber's bill last night when I was half asleep—aud tbe mean thing has only left me enough for oar fare. Too bad! Of course, you know, if I bad it,” etc.—Washington Post. The Coin Cam* Baok. "I have once or twice read how small the world was, ” said a young fellow, i! . i _ — A._I... T I_ __ of the same kind I am going to tell. I confess I never believed them, bnt now I know better. Last summer, when in New York on my annual visit, I was ■truck with a sudden whim and scratched my initials on a 30 oeut piece, cutting iuto the silver deep enough to make a lusting impression. I paid for a cigar in the HofTman House with the coin and guyed myself with beiug fool ish. I bad forgotten all about the quar ter when I entered a Carrollton cur and gave u halt dollar to the conductor. Im agine my surprise when he huuded me in change the 30 oeut piece 1 spent in the Hell man House I I think I will keep the coin uow uud ever more as a curios ity," and the speaker polled the money from his pocket uud showed it in veri fication of his story.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Curious Policies. Aocideut insurance policies have tak en many carious shapes, ranging from the peuuy in the slot to the coupon In the weekly newspaper, hut the limit has been reached in Loudon, where the purchaser of a bunk uf cigarette paper is insured (or fill (or a period uf TO days. The auuuai cost of tbis amount of insurance is about TO rents a year, provided the bolder of the novel policy Is not a cigarette fiend l'be amount of Insurance is specifically set aside for the defraying <3 funeral • ipeusss in the •vent uf accidental death.—New York Journal Animals are often able to bear vary protracted (ailing la the Italian earth qaakee of ITllfi twu huge were batted la the mine of a but hi lug They wet* taken out alive 44 day* later, but very lean and weak Dating Ike Inal fig ysats Ureal ftstt am bar been at war inut* frequently then any other Mika The total nwni bet uf Urge and steel 1 ware aeged Jar lag Itat item tSMSsk In el*-at Mb «s esse a yeas THE VOICE ABOVE Lost on the drift, and where the foil oloud* flow The sleep above him looms, End strong wind* out of distant region* blow The snow In streaming plumes. End yawns the gulf of tie crevasse below In sapphire glowa and glooma. Elong the precipice there m no way That he may aurely tread, lllglit la hla foothold on the ailppery atay That tramblea to hla tread, End chill and terrible the dying day Falla faat about hla head. Dould be but hear acme lowing of tha hard. Home mountain bell ring clear. If aome familiar aound one moment atlrred To guide him loat In fear! Be darea not mov*. Horn* beckoning leading word, Ala*, could he bnt hear! In thoae waate place* of the earth and dim No star ahlnos forth at all. Through awful loneliness enshrouding him Ho gives one shuddering call, While horror of great darkneaa norm* to swim And fold him In Its pall. Then Ilka blown breath of mualo In the height A cry come* far and low. He thrills, he springs, be gathers all hla might He feels new pnlaca glowl HI* father'* voice—be needs not sense nor sight! He knows the way to gol —Harriet Prescott Bpofford la Harper’s Mags line ____________ REPORTER AND CHINAMAN, The Newspaper Mu Was Vary Tired Wheo the Oriental Finished. Numberles* are tbe trick* which newspaper reporter* play upon one an other to relieve tbe somber "grind" of their calling. Two young men employ ed on a morning paper in a large city were detailed one day to oall upon tbe resilient Chinamen and "interview" them respecting aome immigration meitsure tiien pending in oongrea*. One of the two reporter* waa a beginner, and tbe other, an experienced man, naturally assumed tbe management of tbe assignment. "Billing*," be aald after they had invaded several laundries without any important renim, uere in mure, a wish you would go iu and talk with the proprietor. I waut to know what be thinks abont Chinamen voting. I’ll go on aud pull off an interview with the man who runs this cigar shop next door. Bomember to use the very aim- ^ plest English at yonr command." The young reporter went inside the tea store, took ont his notebook, sud thus addressed the proprietor, who hap pened to be alone at tbe moment: “John, how? Me—me—Telegraph, John I Newspape—savvy, John? News pape—print things. Uu’stan? Me want know what John think about China man vote, see? What John think—Chi naman—vote—all same Melican man) Savvy, John? Vote? What think?” The Chinaman listened to him with profound gravity nntil he had finished and replied: “The question of granting tbe right of suffrage to Chinese citizens who have oome to the United States with ths avowed intention of making this coun try their permanent home is one that has occupied tbe attention of thonghtfnl men of all parties for years, and it may become in time one of paramount impor tance. At present, however, it seems to me there is no exigency requiring an expression of opinion from me upon thii subject. You will please exouse me.” The young reporter went outside and leaned again, t a lamppost to rest and recover from a sudden faintness tbai had taken posHcssion of him. His oom rade had purposely “steered him against” one of the best ednoated Chi namen in the United States.—Youth'i Companion. Beading at Breakfast. Beading at breakfast is fatal to socia bility. In breakfasting alone it is per missible, but not in oompany. Leigh Hunt wrote in The Indloator: “When we lived alone, we could not help read ing at meals, and it is certainly a dell . . . . _A._J_ f_ U1UUO LlJllJg *U ICnUlUD HU OHWHUHIMIHg book at a particularly interesting pas sage with a hot oup of tea at one’s el bow and a piece of buttered toast in one’s band. The first look at the page, accompanied by a coexistent bite of the toast, comes under the head of intensi ties. ” A book at breakfast is no compli ment to the cook, bnt a newspaper ii an insult. On the other hand, a news paper at breakfast is a benefit to the doctor, for it ia when one is pnt ofl one’s guard by the straggle with the folds and the aearoh for items of inter est that the way is made eaqr for the approach of dyspepsia. In the old days of The Spectator and Tattler, when papers were of a reason able size and reposeful to boot, they did no barm. Now—well, now the largest circulation in the world may produoe the poorest digestion. It has been re marked (by a collector) that the only literuture suitable at breakfast is book sellers' catalogues, but siuoe catalogue* lead always to telegrams or envy this 1* doubtful. Tbe liue should probably b# drawn at private letters. —Ccrnbill Mag axiue. British respectability has been defined in a Loudon police court hy a priaouei charged with begftug, and the deflnl tiou seems to have been accepted by ths magistrate, fur be discharged her. She said; "I'm a respectable woman, a tat loros* Why, 1 make upturns for Mr. Newton—Mr. Newton, the magistrate, I mean. If I'm respectable enough •* make a magistrate • trouser*. I'm good enough fur anyUttug." warn Tks* raster Nuuliag—You often hear ef mil made men. but newer of self mads w tastes*. Lashin—Woman prefes to be miles toed- Detroit free i*»rs* In U as many, to prevent p4m being hsaiaed M evil pnipuenn none la el lowed to be sold without e wrtitmi