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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1901)
CVLOV$ Mescme*. @U D 0U WDOU TfWy/£fl£>7T<& fjjocD B/nrur Gtyn/jQ a ^ AB& maxDmtf ffimaan&OGn. . The grim Matterhorn, standing in ■ts cloud-capped majesty, has claimed vro more victims to its fascination tnd only a miraculous accident pre sented the number from being four. It is another costly tribute to the tnngeruus delights of mountain climb ing Not a season passes without its list *f terrible deaths: scarcely a day without an accident. And yet the fascination of a snow crowned mountain peak is too strong for the average tourist to resist. This most recent fatality occurred only a few weeks ago and caused the death of I)r. Black and Miss Bell, both of London. Two other members of their party, Miss Trow and the guide. Carrel, were badly injured, but by a miracle es caped death. A landslip was the cause of it—one of those treacherous accidents that j are constantly occurring in all moun tains. The party was well on its way to the peak of the Matterhorn when the ground beneath them began to give way. There was no salvation for them. The iron-shod poles could find noth ing by which to hold; slowly the ground began to sink beneath the climbers and, with the others looking helplessly on, the four doomed ones slid over the edge of the precipice and dashed upon the crags below. It was a sheer fall of thousands of feet. Below them jagged peaks of rock j jutted out and seemed almost to reach for them. Dr. Black and Miss Bell were prob ably killed instantly. The escape of the other two was miraculous. Carrel, the guide, struck upon a ledge of rock and an instant later the lifeless body of one of the women fell beside him. There, for hours, they lay with the weight of the other two bodies pulling taut the rope about their waists and aid reached them just in time to revive the dying spark of life. The accident was, of course, a shock to all who heard it. but it did not act as a warning. Parties of mountain climbers are to day struggling toward the peak of the Matterhorn and the tragic death of Dr. Black and Miss Bell will be put down In the list of accidents that are not likely to happen again. And now, at almost any moment, w’e may hear of an accident even greater in horror than this one. The Roche de la Clusette is likely to topple over Into the busy valley of the Travers any day and send thousands of tons of rock and earth hustling upon the people below. And. Instead of heeding the warn ings of experienced engineers, tourists are crowding the neighboring hotels and are swarming up the mountain side, peering into the great clefts that have already opened among the rocks. If the crash should come now the death list would be appalling. The rocks may give warning enough before they fall to enable the tourists to get out of the way. but then again they may not and the engineers say fAC.-A A SKCTX.H PIAP& ” Or A /*ie/rigef* oe -rvt. PAtery it Is a toss-up which course they take. Given the favorable conditions—a sudden, unheralded slip, the tourists swarming over the toppling crags, the crowds in the valley below—and the fascination of the mountains will sure ly have claimed enough victims. The Arab amt the Telephone. We had a party of Arabs along with us and took them all over a great newspaper office, writes a New Yorker. I Everything was wildly astonishing to them. They had imagined that the Ko ran contained all the wisdom and knowledge of the world, yet here was the telephone, the electrotype, the printing press. The place was a verit able enchanter's castle to them. They would never have believed in the tel ephone if I had not called up their hotel and got one of their own party at the end of the wire. The dervish who had come along was bold as W'ell as pious. When he heard that his friend five miles away was talking through the instrument he made a dash at it. He was greatly excited and yelled in a megaphone voice. He thought we were tricking him. but here was his friend talking Arabic. He rolled his eyes at me in a despairing manner and then began a search for devils, being quite convinced that the 'phone was an invention of Satan. Cleaning t’lano Key*. To keep piano keys dean and pre vent the discoloration of the ivory, dampen a piece of muslin with alco hol and with it rub the keys. The alcohol can do no damage, and if fre quently applied the keys will stand in want of no other treatment, but if they have already begun to turn yel low rub them with cotton flannel wet with cologne water. Even old and dis | colored ivory may be rejuvenated, no | matter what the cause of discoloration j or of how long standing An acid ap I plied repeatedly will usually restore the keys to their original whiteness. Cotton flannel cloths wet with a satu rated solution of oxalic acid and water and laid upon the keys will remove all stains. Care should always be ta ken in the use of such a bleacher as ttiis that it does not touch anything from which the color is not to be re moved, for it does not work witl\ great , certainty.—Chicago News. Autos in a Thunderstorm. “Is an autocar safe in a thunder storm?" The answer to this question is, generally speaking, in the affirma tive. Although an autocar contains a comparatively large mass of metal, it could not take, and would not in vite, the discharge of a cloud such as would l>e dangerous. It would invite such a discharge, and would probably be wrecked by the discharge, if it formed part of the discharge path to a conducting mass below. Such a con ducting mass would be1 the wet ground of a large level field, under which a l>ed of clay existed, so that the wet could not get away. A path like this might also be formed in certain spe cial cases on a wet road, but they would be rare. For safety, then, in a thunderstorm the autocar should keep right out in the open and on the hard est bit of road that can be found.— Chicago News. Seamen Displaced by Machinery. The old wooden battleship Vermont, which it is proposed to discontinue as the receiving ship of the Brooklyn navy yard, when in commission in the £>0’s carried a complement of 1.100 of ficers and men. The new battleships, altogether much larger and infinitely more powerful, do not require crews to exceed 600 men. To such an extent does machinery displace human labor. —Chicago Chronicle. "I see you advertise for some one to I run your trust,” said the young man ! to the magnate, “and 1 wish to apply i for the position.” "Have you ever had any experience running trusts?" inquired the magnate with interest. "No." replied the young man, "but I ran a bucketshop which robbed the I people for five years."—Ohio State [ Journal. IN SCHOOL. .I. L_ Teacher—Johnnie, what did George Washington say when his father asked him why he cut down the cherry tree? Johnnie He said, ‘ come, pop, let's hury the hatchet.” WAR ON CATAPILLARS. forpft of Tree Defender* Oi j;>tiii/.«ad to De*troy the Pe*t. Fairmount park. Philadelphia, has a caterpillar crops composed of men who lo nothing but scrub down the shade trees and kill the dislodged insects. The implement used is simply an or dinary scrubbing brush nailed to a tong pole, and it takes considerable endurance to keep up such work all day. As soon as the caterpillars touch ;he ground they start to climb the tree tgain. and the men have to step lively U) kill all the fallen oues. Said one of 1 them the other day, according to the j | Philadelphia Record: “This is the only ■ really effective way of getting rid of I the pests. I have tried other ways, hut they were no good. Take tar traps, for instance. 1 have watched cater pillars wriggle their way out of their fur, leaving it in the tar. Poisons, in stead of killing them, seem to make them fat. 1 took one of these lotions to a drug store, where I had bought it. 1 and told the man it was worthless. ‘Just pour some of it down a caterpil lar's throat and see if he doesn't die,’ said the druggist. ‘You re foolish.' I i said. You ve got to catch your cater pillar first to do that, and after you've caught him you might, as well stamp on him, and then you know he’s dead.” How H(* <<aiii«-<l Eip^rlfnre. She (receiving a cycle lesson, naive ly)—I suppose you learned how to teach girls to ride while your seven sisters were learning? He (with his arm around her)—Oh, yes, I saw how their fellows taught them!—Brook lyn Ragle. A square foot of honeycomb contains about 9,000 ceils. Fads of Collectors MOST OF THEM ARE INDEED CURIOUS Of all mild forms of mental eeeen ! tricity, the mania for ‘•collecting" for collecting s sake is the most wide spread and, as a rule, the least harm ful. France, as might be expected, is the collectors' own country. In a pop ulation of about 39.000,000 there are 3,000,000 collectors. The French have a mania for collecting in every line ex cept families. Even the offer of large prizes to fathers and mothers for the largest collection of children cannot make that sort of collecting popular or fashionable. But when it comes to button.-, or corks, why, that is another matter. One Frenchman has a much prized collection of corks labeled and classified with the greatest care—sou venirs of hundreds of dinners, lunch eons and suppers with his friends. An other wrappers, which somehow seems to be about “the limit” for pure use lessness. Then there is a collection of birds’ eyes which another Paris dandy shows with vast pride and vaunts as being superior in interest to a collec tion of suspenders possessed by a listed rival collector. Paris, however, inclines to the suspenders. One collec tor boasts of a collection of garters j contributed by popular actresses and another of a collection of fuueial in vitations, such as are sent out in France after a death. The French pos ter collectors are innumerable, and there is one man who has a mania for gathering up old advertising bills and posters, which he obtains by constant- ! iy luuluting the shops of the city, espe- ; daily the grocery shops. In thrifty j France the luxury and extravagance j of paper bags for carrying articles j home from the shops are almost un known. The grocer, the huckster and i the fruiterer use old newspapers, leaves from old ledgers—any piece of , old paper big enough to wrap their I goods in. This collector. Dablin by name, goes about the shops fussing ! over these wrapping papers, and when ; lie finds anything like a postor or an advertising bill he buys a cent’s worth of something anil has it wrapped up in his ‘‘find." The Princess Maud of England has a collection of elephant’s tusks, walrus teeth and the teeth of alligators. Bis marck used to collect thermometers— a harmless fad. but a strange one for i a "man of blood and iron." It would have seemed much more appropriate had Bismarck collected the elephants' tusks and alligators' teeth and the Princess Maud had gone in for the thermometers. But that is one peculi arity of collectors—they never collect what you would expect them to. Carmen Sylva, Queen of Ronmania. who prides herself on her knowledge of art and literature, has a fancy for collecting perfumery bottles, and the Queen Dowager of Italy collects old shoes. The modern teapot collectors— ! and their name is legion—are fathered I in their fad by George IV. of odorous memory, who was the first collector of the sort of whom there is any record. Meyerbeer's brother collected theater tickets and programs until he died, out ; and out insane. His body was wrapped | in the papers and had collected, and, as in life he had been figuratively bur I ied in his collection, so in death he | was literally burled in it.—New York j Press, Florid* I.ob*t«*rs. Below Miami we have a substitute ! for the lobster that lives in the crevices i of the coral rock till his season conies, ; and then he sprawls over acres of sand, fat and fine. This Florida sea crawfish is of excellent flavor, grows to four pounds in weight, is abundant and easily taken. He is not only the equal of the lobster, but better, it only remains that he be Introduced to the gourmand, with proper preparation and he will immediately become a favorite. V,e would much prefer to see some Floridian grow rich on this Florida dainty, but if none of us will do so, let 1 the fishers of the North Atlantic come down and take possession; it is not well that such good eating he left to the watery world alone. Florida Times-Union and Citizen. A Sii|MTahui](tftUre of Intellect. “Has your country any really great thinkers?” asked the tourist, skepti cally. “Too many of 'em.'’ answered the Kansas agriculturist. “Every once in a while we run across a man that's masquerading as a farm hand, but who doesn’t want to do a thing but think." —Washington Star. Tokyo a City of Pleasure In Some Ways Japan's Capital Is More Fasci nating Than Paris. Of all the lands in the world none exerts the peculiar fascination of Ja pan. Others have equal beauty of scen ery. greater grandeur, more noble works of art, more interesting prob lems of society, writes David Starr Jordan in the Humanitarian. But none possesses an equal fascination. No one who has been In the real Japan, which lies outside the treaty ports and the foreign hotels and railways, ever could or ever would forget his experience. No one, if he could, would ever fall to return. The great secret of this charm lies with the people themselves. They have made a fine art of personal rela tions. Their acts are those of good taste and good humor. Two cities of about the same size and relative im portance are Paris and Tokyo. No two could show' a greater contrast in spirit. Both are in a sense cities of pleasure. Tokyo is a city of continu ous joyousness, little pleasures drawn from simple things, which leave no sting and draw nothing from future happiness. Paris is feverish and feels the ‘‘difference in the morning" and the "hard, fierce lust and cruel deed" which go with the search for pleasure that draws on the future for the joys of the present. No one who catches the spirit of , Paris can fail to miss the underlying sadness, the pity of it all. The spirit of Tokyo—not of all Tokyo, but of Its life as a whole—is as fresh as the song of birds, as "sweet as children's prattle is," and it is good to he under its spell. Paid » Debt ‘JB Years Old. After having run for twenty-seven years a debt has been paid to'Spregins. Buik k Co., of Hopkins Place, by J. J. Holditzell of Myersdale, Pa. Twenty seven years ago the latter failed and was unable to pay a large number of creditors, including the Baltimore firm, to whom he owed $900. "Give me time-,’' he then said, "and 1 will pay every cent that 1 owe.” And t'aith fully lias the Pennsylvania merchant kept his promise. Year after year, he has toiled, paying off the obligations that he had contracted in former years and cancelling debts with firms that had forgotten all about them. None was more surprised than the Baltimore firm when he walked into the office and announced that he had come to pay the tong overdue bill. Beside the $900 he also paid another sum to cover the lawyer's fees which his creditors contracted when he failed. New York Sun. Mourning of the Chinese Laws on the Subfect and the Punishment Inflicted. If a son, on receiving information of the death of his father or mother, or a wife, suppress such intelligence, and omits to go into lawful mourning for the deceased, such neglect shall be punished with sixty blows and one year’s imprisonment. If a son or wife enters into mourning in a lawful man ner, hut, previous to the expiration of the term, discards the mourning habit, and, forgetful of the loss sustained, plays upon musical instruments and participates in festivities, the punish ment shall amount for such offense to eighty blows. Whoever, on receiving information of the death of any other relative in the first degree than the above men tioned, suppressed the notice of it, and omits to mourn, shall be punished with eighty blows; if, previous to the ex piration of the legal period of mourn ing for such relative, any person casts away the mourning habit and resumes his wonted amusements he shall be punished witli sixty blows. When any officer or other person In the employ of the government has received intelli gence of the death of his father or mother, In consequence of which in telligence lie Is bound to retire from the office during the period of mourn ing. if, in ordpr to avoid such retire ment, ne falsely represents the de ceased to have been his grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt or cousin, he shall suffer punishment of 100 blows, be deposed from office and rendered Incapable of again enteriug into the public service.—The American i^aw Review. Dinner with a Dun. A young scientist who visited South America was telling of the hospitality of the citizens of the far-away republic and their method of entertaining their friends. "I was looking over the Held in the interest of the Columbian Expo sition, said he. “At one time l was stopping at a town 110 miles from the nearest railroad. *l'his town is reached only by pack animuls and everything is carried into the place on the backs of the patient beasts. On the day be fore I left a leading citizen invited me to his house, where he said a reception would be given in my honor. 1 found about thirty people present. We sat down to a bountiful feast, at the close of vThlch the cigars were brought out and we enjoyed ourselves until day light, according to the custom of the country. A tine variety of wine was served during the night. The next day I learned that the party consumed 180 bottles of champagne. This wine nad been shipped 10,000 miles by water, L’50 miles by railway train, and had been packed 110 miles into the town. The cost of transportation was appall ing to an American, but the natives seemed to think it a mere bagatelle. The wine for the feast probably cost $1,500. When a man is a guest of a South American grntleman everything in the house belongs to the guest.”— Rocky Mountain NV.vs. i i Til* Kngllth Ara Growing TslS» T "So nation is increasing in height and weight so rapidly as the English, says a British journal. The proof of this is shown in statistics recently col lected of the height of 10.000 boys and uaeD. “At the age of 17 these averaged 5 feet 8 Inches; to the age of 22, 5 feet » inches; at 17 they weighed 10 stone 2 pounds; at 22, 10 stone 13 pounds. In fifty years the average has gone up for tha whole nation from 5 feet 1% Inches to 5 feet 814 inches. The aver age height of the British upper classes at 30 years of age is 5 feet 8^ Inches, of the farm laborers 5 feet 7 3-6 inches. The criminal class brings down the average, as their height is but 5 feet 5 4-5 Inches." Psd*r*w»kt I* Fond of Billiard*. M. Paderewski, like other mortals of less note, has his hobby—namely, bil liards. He plays nearly every day when he can spare the time from prac ticing and composing, and Is a very fair cueist. "I think I like billiards," he says, “because it not only exer cises my eye and hand, and keeps them In training even when 1 am amusing myself, but It also produces to me the delicate and refined artistic feelings which l have so often to express on the piano, and when, for Instance, 1 play my favorite Chopin." WRENCHED FOOT AND ANKLE. Cured by St. •Incob'i OIL Gentlemen: A slwt time ago I severely wrenched my foot and ankle. Tho Injury was very painful, and the consequent inconvenience (being obliged to keep to business), was very trying. A friend recommended St. Jacob's Oil, and I take great pleasure in informing you that one application was sufficient to efTect a complete cure. To a busy man, so simple and effective a remedy is invaluable, and I shall lose no opportunity of suggesting the use of St. Jacob's Oil. Yours truly. Henry J. Doirs, Manager the Cycles Co., London, England. St. Jacob’s Oil is safe and sure and never-falling. Conquers pain. The dinner gown still clings to its very long sleeves or to sleeves end ing at tho elbow. Some women affect the sleeveless bodice and bare arms for dinner, but the mode is not con sidered correct. Plso's Cure Is the beat medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. O. ENDsr.tv, Vanburen, lud., Feb. 10, 19u0. A dog speaks the deaf and dumb language with his tail. YELLOW CLOTHES ARK CNSIOHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cros* Ball Bltia A11 grocers sell large 'i or., package, 5 cents No, it is not paradoxical to call a blind philosopher a seer. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES eoloi more goods, per package, than any other. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. An unbecoming costume is not a bad habit that grows upon one. Sire. Windows soothing Yyrup. "for children teeit'ng, nuftens the guinn, reduces 1 r Samniailon. sllsjrn pa.a. cure* wind colic. J5c a bott;* Said the cobbler: “My work is in itself a walking advertisement.” Rheumatism, neuralgia, soreness, pain, sore throat and all bodily suffer ing relieved at once by Wizard Oil. la- V teraally and externally. The crazy person who goes to Eu rope is what they call “gone abroad.” Women Rarely Fall. To take advantage of a cheap article of household value. But wise women want to know if the low-priced article has merits. Defiance starch costs far Ies3 than any other starch and gives far better satisfaction in the laundry. Makes linen look like new. Order at your grocers. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha, Neb. A tailor’s good presswork is pub lished abroad. A« Ton Dilni Allan’* Toot Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen. Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Base, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The Barbers’ union isn’t exactly a consolidated gas company. Agents and solicitors should not fail to read adv. of Household Uuest Co. in this paper. Their offer is very liberal. It is always easier to ridicule a truth than to realize it. IF YOU I'SIC SILL BLUE, Got Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue. ) Large J oz. package only 5 cents. Women are always better than men in morals. SrATS or Ohio, Citt or Toledo, f Lucas Countt, f*8, Frank J. Chenqy makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the Urm of F. J. Cheney &Co., doing business In the City of Tblpdo, County aid State aforesaid, and that said Urm will puv the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for euch and every case of Catarrh that eanuot b* cured by the u*e of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed lu mv presence, thisOtb day of December. A. D. I8h& re... , A. W. GLEASON, |SU| Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure la taken internally, and Acta directly on the blood and mucous surface* jf the system. 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