The Northwestern '•UBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT THR COUNTY SEAT. HEU, K. BKNMrHOTKK, Editor and Publisher TERMS:—*1.00 per year, if paid in advance Entered at the Eoup City Postoftlce for trans mission through the malls as second clans matter. Considerable talk is being in dulged in regarding tbe educational privileges of two children known as the Bentley children, and living with B. T. Snyder of this city. These children, as we understand it, were formerly of North Blatte aud have both father and mother living. The father, we understand is well to do and abundantly able to care for and educate the children. He was at Loup City a short time before the holidays aud stated to the di rector that he did not mind pacing the tuition but that he would like to know whether or not his children hud a place in tbe world. Now it might here be stated that Mr. Snyder has also in his eare and keeping his grand children and they have been, and are now going to school without being charge** with tuition fee, in as much as they are making their home with their grandparents and have been enumer ated iu tbe district. But us to ‘.he two Bentley children, it was decided by the board that it was equitable and just to the tax payers of this distrsct for the father to pay for the education of bis children, and for them it 19 contended that a tuition tee be charged. Mr. Snyder paid a tuition fee for the month of .Janu ary hut failed to pat lor February, and at the opening of school for this month last Monday the teacher, persuant to instruction* form the boaru, sent the children home. There is some contention as to the condition under which the tuition for Jaunarv was paid. If we mis take not (and if we do we beg to be corrected), Mr. Snyder say that the director agreed to hold the money until he (Snyder) met with the boaid to consider the matter. In such an event should Mr. Snyder fail to ap pear at all, the director would always have funds on haud. Mr. Pedlar, the director says, that he agreed to hold the money until the board should act upon it, and at the same time giving Mr. Snyder notice of date and place of the next, a special meeting. At this meeting Mr. Snyder was present, but it beiog a special meeting and not a full board present no business of any kind was transacted. But a meeting two night* later was arranged. At tbis meeting all members of the board were present, but Mr. Snyder, for getting the date, or mtsscalling Thursday for Friday, failed to come and the meeting was held open until 9 o'clock when the director reported the payment of tuition for the month of January and asked the board what should be done with it. The matter was discussed and, by motion, it was ordered turned over to the treasurer. On Monday, pursuant to a standing order^em the board to the effect thfUfe^ie teachers should not receive jHLwresident pupils with out certilicffiptf tuition paid, the Bentley ch»5fren were sent home, it having appeared that the tuition for February had not been paid. This has created an unpleasant feeling. No one wants to see a child deprived of educational ad vantages, but being a member of the board, and having studied the case carefully, we are of the opinion that we have done as near right as it is possible to do under the cir cumstances. Mr. Snjder, we understand is now taking the initiatory steps to b< - come the legal guardian of the child ren in the county court of Lincoln county were the children former!) resided, and when he receives his appointment from the proper legal authorities in such cases there will be no question as to their becoming K sidents of this district. DfiiillJ of Population Compared. Norway’s population is the smallest in Europe compared with hi*» area. Each of her inhabitants could have 40 acres of land, while the Briton would have to be content with less than an acre. According to statistic collected by the Census bureau the gross value I of the products of iu laufautare in the United States iu 1900 was over #13,Got),900,000, hh compared with about 19,000 000,000 in IhOO. an increase of 38 per cent. Georgia no longet figures as the “Black Patch ' on the map of the W. C. T. U. The recent enactment by ( that state of a tetnpereuce education ' law which provides for the teaching j of the evils of alcoholism in oonoeo | tion with the instruction in hygeian. 1 makes such teaching compulsory in every state in the Union. A writer from Oklahoma state that those who are comfortably locat ed in Nebraska bad better stay where they are, and adds that the weather is so ebangable there that a farmer, while on the r<>r.d lost one l of his oxen with the heat, and while he was skinuiug him the other one froze to death. How about that Joe?. For those who complain of the lack of galantry on the part of Ame ricans, the fallowing may prove in structive: Ambassador Choate was present at au informal dinner at which all the guests were intimate friends. Some one proposed that each in turn should answer the question; If you were dead and could come back to life, whom would you prefer to come as? When it come Mr. Choate’s turn he said, “I would pre fer to come as Mrs. Choate’s second husband”. Gen. A. W. Greeley, chief signal officer of the United States Army, says that a favorite pass time of the Philappino insurgents is to chop down the telegraph poles in the Islands and drag a wa\ miles of copper wire. This they seem to do largely from a spirit of wanton ness, and the laziness of I he average Filippinogivt-s way to an industrious energy when working such destruc tion. There are now (5.500 miles of telegraph and cable lines in the Phil ippines and thirteen out of the four teen larger islands ate already in telegraphic communication MCKI.H.KY MEMORIAL I W. T. Owens. G. II. Gibson. A. P. Colley. Geo. E. Benschoter. . .. S. F. Reynolds. T. H. Eisner. A. E. Chase. W. S. Waite. D. C. Grow. R. J. Nightingale. E. A. Brown. J. S. Pedler. J. W. Conger. W. T. Chase. Odendahl Bros. T. L. Pilger. S. N. Sweetland. .. L. G. Fisher. J. I. Depew. S. E. Gallaway. John H. Travis. Walter Moon. W. R. Mellor. M. C. Mulhok. A. M. Bennett. 1ST $2.00 1.00 1.00 50 25 50 25 25 25 50 25 . 1.00 25 50 1.00 25 50 25 25 - 25 1.00 1.00 1.00 50 50 Total $14 50 I “I hobbled into Mr Blackmon'* drug store one evening "’says Wesley Nelson, of Hamilton, On., “and he asked me t<> try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for rheu matism with which 1 hail suffered for a longtime. I told him I had no faith in any medicine as they all failed. He said: ‘•Well if Chamberlain’s Pain Balin does not. help you, you need not pay for it,’’ I took a bottle of it home and used it according to the directions and in one week I was cured, and have not since been troubled with rheumatism.” S »ld b>' Odendahl Bros. Inscription* Header Vtite* Void. Of the 2,500 defective votes cast at the recent election in New York more than half, it is said, were rendered void by inscriptions aimed at Mayor Van Wyck, such as “Anybody but him.” "Not the ice candidate,” and so forth. Sometimes the name and ad dress of the voter were given.—Chicago i Chronicle. Kxmvsittoiig in Jixitm. The Palestine exploration fund has been for the last two years carrying or. excavations in western Judea. Remains extending in time over fifteen centuries have been unearthed. We have here two well defined pro-Israelite periods, and also the Jewish Seleucidan and i Roman periods. j - WHAT PEOPLE EAT. /oni<* CuricHi* Inseet Dliliei for tht Allg.fini( of the Appetite. The ancient Israelites ate locusts, tri. d in oil, and many modern travelers In Africa have pronounced well-cooked locusts to be both succulent and nour ishing, with something of the taste of boiled eggs. The old great philosopher, Socrates, who knew several things, consldt red a dish of well-cooked grass hoppers to be more toothsome than quail on toast, and the French army in Algiers found that grasshoppers, sim ply boiled in salt water, were not only good eating, but a valuable addition to army diet, and the old campaigners carried the custom back home with them, so that today grasshoppers are valued in many French provinces as an article of food. In Poitiers, France, the children catch grasshoppers In the fields and eat their legs raw. The French bon vivant enjqys his dish of snails and in many French country dis tricts a cricket called the cockchafer Is regarded as excellent food. In fact, a resolution once offered in the French senate, to provide funds for the de struction of the cockchafer because of its injury to vegetation in certain sea sons, met with strong opposition from many learned senators because of its value to the ppople as a food product. The palm worm of India, a white, oily insect, about three inches in length, is considered a delicacy by the natives, whether eaten raw or cooked in vari ous ways. It is sometimes united with hour and made into cakes, or its oil Is extracted and used as the base of gravy and sauces as an appetizer with other lool products. The white ant of India and Africa, fried in butter, is also a thoice article of food. In Australia the larvae of the horned caterpillar are regularly sought for food. They are lound in decaying trees and have a value and flavor according to the spe cies of tree they have been taken from. The natives eat them raw, but the civilized tribes prefer them fried. We can imagine the lady of the family, with her market basket, dickering for her favorite brand of caterpillar eggs. Buffalo Bill’s Indian Duel. Ex-Congressman John Finnerty tolls the following good story of Buf fo.lo Bill: "Years ago, in an Indian 'scrap' in which I bore a part, Buffalo Bill and Yellow Hand, the noted chief of the Cheyennes, had an all but hand to-hand fight, and it was one of the finest things I ever witnessed. Yellow Hand was one of the best looking of Indians and was possessed of a mag nificent physique. In his war paint he was superb. What Yellow Hand Was for an Indian Cody was and is for a Caucasian. The two were about as fine specimens of the red and white races as could be found. They were mounted and made a dead set for each other. When some 20 paces apart they opened a simultaneous file, with the result that both horses fell dead in their tracks. Neither of such ex perienced horsemen, however, was to be caught by a falling animal, and both alighted on their feet. Both rifles again came to shoulder with ma chine-like precision, and again the two shots were at once. This time Yellow Hand missed by a hair’s breadth, but it w» not so with Buf falo Bill. His bullet crashed through the Indian chief’s brain. To this day Cody preserves among his trophies Yellow Hand’s bonnet.” HAD TO CONQUR OR DIE tiIt wt* ju«t about gone” writes Mrs Rosa Riebariison’ of Laurel Springs, N “I hail Consumtpion so bad that tbe best doctors said I could not live more than a month, but I began to use Dr. Kiug's New Discovery and was wholly cured bv seven bottles and am now stout and woll." It's an unrivaled lifs-saver in Consumption, Pneumonia, La Grippe and FronchitU; iofaliblo for Cough0, Colds, Asthma, Hay Fever, Croap or Whooping Cough. Guarnateed bottles 50c and 81.00 Trial bottles free at Odendshl Bros. Drug store. PUBLICATION NOTICE. Fred Slehr and Anna stehr. his wife, non resident defendants, will take notice that on the -8th day of January, 1912, Anna Peters, plaintiff, Hied her petition in the liitrict Court of Khennan county Nebr. against said defendants, the ohject and prayer of which are to set aside, annul and have declared void a certain deed from Anna Peters to Fred Stehr, dated April 9th 189U and recorded in book 11th of daeos nt page MU, of the records of Sherman connty, Nebraska: Also to set aside, annul, cancel and have declared void a certain mortgage given by said Anna Peters to said Fred stehr dated May 18th.. 1894 and recorded In Book 22 at I’age ssi, of mortgages of the records of said county: Also to set aside, annul, cancel and have declared void a certain mortgagefor $;liu!0 from said Anna pet ers to said Fred8tehr dated May 28,1895 and recorded in book 23 of mortgages at page 251 of the records of --aid County, all la it g upon lots 2U and 21 in block 19 of the original town of Loup city, Nobraska. and to quiet title of said premises In plain tiff. Also to have an accounting of proper ty amounting to $.110.10 duo from said Fred slehr to plaintiff and Judgment for same. You are required to answer said petition on or before the MUh day of March, i90.\ liated this gstli flay of January, 1992. A'na Peters. my C has fj. hr an. her attorney I i WANTKD-sSEVEB.YL persons of CHARACTER and good deputation ill each state (one in tills eornty required) to rep resent and an vert ise old established weal t bv busin- ss house of solid financial sta id mg. salary s|sun weekly with expenses additional, a’l payable in cash each Wed nesday direct from t lie head offices. 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