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AT 1'HK COUNTY SK AT.
Olio. K. nKNSCHOTER. j Elinors and
UEO. H. OIBSOW, I Publishers
TEHMs*1.00 per teak, ir paid in advance
Entered at the Loup City Postofflcc for tr»n*
mission through the mails as second
class matter.
Official Paper Sherman County
Dewey lias arrived at Kgypt.
Wonder if the Spanish would’nt like
to make a mummy of him.
When the rainy season ia over in
the Philippine* Aguiualdo will think
it gets tnighly hot all of a sudden.
Head Barretts opioiuo of the
Philippine siutatioD, in the Review
of Review*. We have a copy to
1o&d.
The French nation has become as
patriotically intoxicated at present
as she was the opposite a tew weeks
•go _
The longer and harder copperhead
leaders of the Bryan stripe continue
to howl to the American people the
smaller they continue to appear.
Major General Shatter will have
attained the age at which regular
army otUcers are retired to make
room for others in about three
months.
Two deadly cobras fought to a
finish at the Zoo in Philadelphia the
other day and “chawed" one another
up. The darned things are worse
thau copperheads.
The great Atlantic liner Paris,
that has been on the rocks off the
coast of Kngland for some time has
been gotten off and towed to a safe
harbor. Her damage was not so
grsat as it was thought to be.
Billy Bryan starts out for his
sewond battle in 1900 with “the poor
man's burden" well developed. Anti
trust, Anti-expansion and free silver.
And Henry Watterson. “The no
blest Komun of them all says it will
be anti Bryan.
An old line democrat called at this
ottice last week and in the course of
his remarks aaid that he had been
taking the World Herald for a long
time but had concluded to stop it.
The reason given was that it was a
first class fraud and a oerfect coun
terpart of the genuine copperhead
papers issued during the rebellion
and could not be relied upon for
anything.
The article in the Review of Re
viewa, by John Rarrett, our late
minister to Siam is a comprehensive
and well written article and one well
worth the reading. It contains much
food for thought, and being from
the pen of a man who is strictly re
liable, and one who was on the
ground and studied the 1’hilippino
question by actual investigation
will go far towards forming public
opinion in the right direction. All
should read it who can.
We notice .n the Omaha World
Herald, a published list of their roll
of honor (?) in which all parlies who
contribute to the democratic cor
ruption fuud on the Harvey plan of
paying in installments, have their
names published, with the amount
and how paid given, the name of
our townsman Mr. H. M. Malhow.
SI UU cash and $li oo deferred pay-1
taenia is credited to our populist
candidate for District Judge. Vet
populists think they are not boost
lug the old gang of treasouists by
h iwliog populism.
It is an interesting chapter to fol |
low the delving of the senatorial in
vw«Ugating lu committee ferret
ihg out the fraud* in the *tate house,
as set forth byr the man Hunoos
Wbou) hdinialeu prosecuted for libel
last year, but has never yet dared to
push hie suit Himons evidence U
oorroberaled bv such men as lied
land, and th« rottaa work uf this
man Kdmintea was never equnied in
th* stnte. The entire evidence goes
to show that the other state oiticere
teem eegnttsnt of what was going on,
hut got too timid, before enough on!
iota teem ttaed to earry lb* amend
meat which would hnve added two
populist Judges to the stale supreme
court, and let the matter rest after
having marked and changed 8,000
ballots. Mr. lfedlund says he called
the attention <>f governor Ilolcomb
to the frauds being perpetrated but
got no consolation, I’opulists
should get ft copy of the proceedings
of the investigation and learn what
kind of people they are supporting
If the pop papers wont print the
sworn evidence of these witnesses
buy a paper that will.
The report that Governor Poynter
liberated John Benwell, the murder
er of farmer Ake9on of Cass county
during last May without conforming
to the law in such matters, and done
so under the Italian hand usually
resorted to in disreputable cases by
liberating him under the name of
John 11. Kearns, so that the people
of Cass county would not recognize
the name, will do our governor no
good nmoug people who know the
true circumstances. The records in
the governor's otllce are positive
proof of the case and the district
court records show that it was a
case of cold blooded murder and
not even the attorney wh* defended
Benwell knew of any intention upon
the governors part to let him loose.
The law in the case of pardon makes
it mandatory that the governor shall
cause to be published in a newspaper
within the county from which tuc
prisouer was sent, a notice of tbe
intended pardon, said notice to be
published three weeks before the
pardon shall be granted, so that
the people may have a chance to be
heard either pro or con But our
governor in this ease and at the so
licitation of rich relatives in Canada
even give him what seems to be his
full name, John B. Kearus, the in
itial for Benwell, the Dame under
which he was convicted, aud let him
go free. The Cass county people
did not know of it until the gover
nors certificate of pardon was filed
with the county clerk some six weeks
after the prisoner had gine.
Henry Watterson, of the Louis
ville Courier Journal and one of the
foremost men in the demo
ciatic party, takes up the cry
of (Jen Wheeler“My Country whith
er right or wrong, My Country," and
administers such a scathing rebuks
to Col. Bryan as only a man who
loveB his country more than office
could do. In addressing himself to
Col. Bryan he says:
“This transfer is inevitable. All
that the political adventurer in
American politics can do with sop
bomoric ebullitions of mistaken pat
riotism and his rudimentary notions
about international politics will be
to obstruct and delay it. If the
gulf states are true to themselves
they will stop him iu bis mad career.
They will rise cn masse and show
him that they, also, know a tiling or
two. They will impress upon his
understanding the fact that he is not
upi n a vote-catcher track. They
will fling aside any party which
dares step across the pathway of
their prosperity and which proposes
to manure their wasted fields and to
fill their hungry mouths with com
mon places about "the consent of
the governed." They will say to
him as we say to him, “Sir, the south
cannot live forever on cobwebs."
They will say to him as we say to
him, "Sii we do not get our bread
aud butter out of politics, anyhow,
and, as between Wheeler and Lee
aud you — we f-dlowr Wheeler aud
Lee and the flag, and the further it
carries ns the l»etter." They will
sav to him, as we say to niia, "Sir,
the McKinley administration may lie
sli you ssy it is, hut wt. anil settle
with Aguiuaido first and con*id«r
I McKinley afterwards, aud, mean
while, we have our convictions and
I our opinions, and do not uieau to
fool away our time watching to see
a fiat the adiumistra'ieu does iu
i order that we may do exac-th the
I opposite, as you seem lo kt doing '
| Don'! Stop 1
1 taking Scott’s linniUcm K J
| (4im it** warm w< >th<r. I
9 K«p uk inf it until you arc t
I Cured.
■ It will heal y <>ur luogi and j
k |»v< > -u rich hk-ij m non- I
I nwr as in winter. Ii'a cud ■
f li*ll u*l made easy. j
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THE SCALING LADDER.
Haw It !■ r«ad at rim In Vary HIkH
Bulldlnfra.
The most promising pupils among
those admitted to the school of instruc
tion at the New York fire headquarters
are said to bo those who have served
an apprenticeship in professions that
have called them aloft. Sailors, paint
ers, roofers and steeple climbers have
the advantage of their pireliminary
training. The first thing that a neo
phyte is called upon to learn is how to
handle the scaling ladder.
This bit of apparatus is a long, well
seasoned tongue of timber with short
crosspieces passing through it. It ter
minates at the top with a long hook,
which has three or four ratchetlike
projections on its undersurface and
weighs from 20 to 40 pounds. There is
a special knack in handling it dexter
ously, and many a time a man who is
slight and small of stature can manage
a ladder which a Goliath would find
difficulty in handling.
“There is no piece of apparatus in
the fire department,” says one who has
made a study of its methods, “which,
skillfully handled, can be made to serve
more purposes than this scaling ladder.
The longest extension ladder in the de
partment measures 00 feet, but the man
with the scaling ladder can go up 14
or 15 stories without becoming exhaust
ed. At fires before an extension ladder
can be put in position one fireman can
push a scaling ladder into a second
story window, scramble up and go from
story to story to the very roof. He is
followed by a second fireman, who takes
his ladder with him story by story, and
this fireman by a third, until by the
time the first man has reuched the top
there is a completed chain behind him,
down which the rescued maybe carried
nnd the fireman himself escape.”—New
York Tribune.
SMITHERS' RETORT.
Ill* SircMtle Reply to tbe Private
BonrtMnir llouae Landlady.
Mr. Smithers in a somewhat fastidious
young roan who is looking for a new
boarding plate. Hmitbers can’t abide
the regulation boarding house, and al
ways tries to live with a private fam
ily. He is now convinced that an “ad.”
which solicits boarders for a “nice pri
vate family’’ is often a snare for a stuffy
double flat, inhabited by one small fam
ily and 24 boarders.
Smithers called one day last week at
a place with a glowing description just
on the flank of Michigan avenue’s aris
tocracy.
“Hum I Suspiciously like a boarding
bouse," thought Smithers as he took in
the dimensions. A collarless negro serv
ant who opened tbe door confirmed his
suspicions, but he had gone too far
then to back out. A sharp nosed, snippy
landlady came in with a top lofty air.
“Er—ah, 1 believe I am mistaken,’
he began. “1 supposed 1 should find a
private family. By the advertisement
—hum”—
The laughter and the familiar board
ing house hum of 14 clerks and ten
lady stenographers came up from the
dining room in the basement The mis
tress of the conglomerate “private fam
ily” drew herself up proudly. “You
are entirely mistaken, sir,” she assert
ed in a grasping, $7 a week voice.
“This is not a boarding house, although
we have a few friends living with us.”
Smithers sniffed the air. There was
a distinct odor of prunes and corned
beef.
“Well, I must say,” he remarked as
he turned up his coat collar and fled
down the steps, “that it smells like a
boarding house, madam.”—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Tempted by Flakes.
The Korau gives a story of some very
naughty fishes in David’B time. Know
ing that the Israelites were forbidden
to catch fish on the Sabbath, the wicked
creatures came out of the Red sea in
nnusuul numbers and kept in sight of
the people r 11 throughout the day in
order to tempt them. On the approach
of night they returned into the sea
again.
In a fatal moment some of the Israel
ites yielded to the piscine blandish
ments, caught several of them and had
them for dinner, whereupon David
cursed the Sabbath breakers, and God,
to show his displeasure, changed them
into Hpes and pigs. For three days they
remained in this unpleasant condition,
when a violent storm arose nnd swept
them into the sea.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Human Kye Faster Tbaa tke I'm.
"Yon rend 1,000 miios,” Is the calcu
lation of a clever individual fond of de
tail*. The eyes of tho average busy
man, in reading alone, travel 1,000
miles, which is equivalent to an “ocu
lar trip” a third of the distance across
i onr continent. Even the busiest man
] probably travels with his eyes 10 miles
j of type yearly, and there are doubtless
j many readers who travel six times the
distance If yon read a yellow hacked
i novel, your eye* have traversed from a
j mile to a mile and a half of type. The
! busiest p«n cannot keep up with this
| pacts With ordinary use, yotir peu ha*
not traveled us far a* from New York
j to Albany. - Philadelphia Inquirer
V HttM IISIsmssI.
"It's hard to be happy once jr. ii vs
' got a reputation for saying anrcastic
things," remarked tha sad ayad man
“Whal'a tha IroshW 1”
"I'M i>at another friend I cuupii
Mleated b lltt on being the Meet Ctad
1 beaded (eteiH I Ot| w*. lie took it
1 a* an elbiah-a to the fact tbat be is to
tally la I W .drngt n Wlt,t.
Me Wee SeaweS
Tb* theh4 looked at bins
" Y u era a dyspeptic," h* said
Then be pal bl« war to tbs patient s
j beast and gravely added
"A btgb liver "
"tl«avene ’ tried tba startled pa
tlent '' Tate t as bigb aa tbat, l* lit**
' - Cleveland Plain tfceie*
Hear Ye, to Ye, Hear Ye!
COURT IS NOT IN SESSION,
but I am out making loud calls for you to come and see
the car load of new agricultural implements and to learn of
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T. M. REED’S LARGE IMPLEMENT EMPORIUM
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BURLINGTON ROUTE.
L’nprereriented Low lutes to Colorado
Every day from Jnno 25 to July 11
One fare pms #2 00 for the round trip
to Denver. Colorado Spring, Pueblo,
and Git n wood Springs. Tickets good
to return any time until October 81,
Never before such an opportunity.
Take advantage of it and spend the sum
mer in the Heart of the Rockies—where
heat and dust are unknown—where I
the sky is as brightly blue as Italy’s, and '
tLe air as invigorating as a tonic—where
you can bathe, and swim, and climb
mountains all day, and every day.
See nearest Burlington ticket agent
and get full particulars, or, if you pre
fer, v;rite J. Francis, Genl Passenger
Agent, Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb.
BURLINGTON ROUTE—Cheap
Tickets to Detroit, Mich. Take advan
tage of the low rates—One fare plus $2
for the round trip to Detroit—which
the Burlington Route lias made for the
’«!! meeting of the Christian Endeavor
and go ejjst at about half usual cost.
•Inly 8 4-6 are the dates of sale,
Berths, tickets and information about
return limits,side trips from Detroit,
etc , can be had at any Burlington Route
ticket office,
J. Francis, General Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Neb.
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Late in June or early in July, you can
buy a round-trip ticket to Los Angeles
at about half the usual rate. Liberal
return limits and stop-over privileges.
Don’t make a mistake ar.d go any
otter way than through Denver and
Salt Lake City. That is the route near
ly 20,000 Christian Endeavorers selected
two years ago.
Being the most elevated of all the dl
rect lines to the Coast, it is coolest and
freest from dust. Penetrating the!
very “Heart of the Rockies,” it surpass
es all others in beauty of scenery.
Information and California literature
on request J. Francis, Oenearl Passen
ger Agent, Omaha, Neb.
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Saturday at A. E. Chase’s.
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NOTICE.
We will staud the Stallion ‘Bill
Mac” the ensuing season at the barn of
B. T. Snyder, in Loup City.
B. T Snyder,
N. B. Thompson.
CATTLE AND IMPROVED
FARMS FOR SALE.
The Ord State Bank will sell unprov
ed farms on time. Also cattle on same
terms. Ord, Nebraska.
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( dasressman from New York. I* I lie president
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LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA.
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