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LOUP (ITY NORTHWESTERN OKU. K. BEKS H COTE li, Mltor »«d Pob. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Cuba richly deserves to be happy and prosperous. As usual Uncle Sam's sympathy took the cash form at once. One thing the meat trust can't put up the price of is newspaper roasts. Haiti is not a volcanic island, but it is having a lively eruption all the same. The Queen Regent of Spain may now put away her crown and catch up on sleep. Santos-Dumont is about to run the greatest risk of his life. His engage ment is announced. Herbert Spencer, the only man who has found out everything, has just sent another book to press. The trouble with most of the In ventors of air ships is that they leave needy families behind them. King Edward is a regular attendant at the opera in Lonuon and keeps tab on the fellows who go out between the acts. The Florida jackass who killed bis sweetheart, four other persons and himself began at the wrong end of the series. If King Alfonso is like most boys of his age. it will not be long before his head is too big for the crown of Spain. The Shah of Persia is again to visit Paris, and the disinfecting corps of the city is being strengthened and re stocked. Gen. Uribe-Urlbe has been whipped again. We fear that the doughty gen eral is the Gentleman Jim of South America. Queen Wilhelmina is now the only woman ruler on earth—-that is, if we wish to he technical about a matter of this kind. If we can limit the height of a building by legislation, why cannot the size of a jackpot be prescribed in the same manner? There is comfort in the thought that for obvious reasons Hetty Green may not keep loaded the pistol that she is permitted to carry. King Alfonso’s next hurrah will oc cur as soon as the old, bloodless min isters of state decide on the girl they want him to marry. Mr. Morgan might be able to con tribute something of value to the gen eral safety of the world by undertak ing a volcanic merger. If French titles are to be abolished later on it might be well for the American heiress to hustle in quick and secure a few bargains. Emperor William is perfectly willing to let the mailed hand of monarchy meet the hand that can sign a million dc/llar check in friendly clasp. Russell Sage is prooably another who hopes there will be no rush to overwhelm the volcano victims with more money than they may need. Old Ben Franklin was a vegetarian from choice. Had he lived in the present day his vegetarianism would have been a matter of necessity. School children in Elizabeth, N. ,T.. are to be taught how to exterminate mosquitoes. There’s nothing like fit ting them for the battles of Jersey life. YermolofT, the Russian minister of agriculture, says he profoundly sym pathizes with tne starving peasants. However, mere sympathy will buy no beefsteak. The Wisconsin man who has invent ed a musical scarecrow that is oper ated by a windmill has the sort of tal ent that ought not to be hidden on a back country farm. When last heard from the Haytien navy was fishing from the bow of the boat and sternly refusing to join either side until somebody could show the color of money. An Omaha school principal has de cided that where shirtwaists are con cerned there is no question of equal rights. The girls have all the monop oly on wearing privileges. Tenosynovitis is the name of a new disease caused by excessive devotion to the game of ping pong. It will be more fashionable this summer than golf sunburn or bridge whist brain fag. An underground lake of asphalt is reported to have been added to the many recent mineral discoveries In Texas. The big state in the south west appears to have all sorts of nat ural wealth hidden away under the fertile crust that forms its surface. People who are in the habit of sell ing their old books to the junk man should keep the fact in mind that an old volume bearing the date 1567 brought $1,100 in New York yesterday. There was nothing valuable about the book but its age. REJECT COMPROMISE. PRESERVE INTACT THE PRINCIPLES OF REPUBLICANISM. Having ITanlarnrt Itaalf “I’ncompro mt.lngly In Favor of tha American System of Protection,'* the Party Can not Afford to Swerve from That Policy. The pending bill on Cuban reciproc ity is. like most compromises, satis factory to no one, but how far reach ing in its effect, should It become a law, it is Hot safe to conjecture. We have never had a compromise tariff law that has not been most injurious to our industries. We never com promise upward, it is always down ward. In 1816 we repealed the tariff of 1789 and its amendments of 1812, and in a spirit of compromise and concili ation passed a law that was thought to be protective, but, alas! how dis astrous it proved to be. We let down the bars just far enough for England to dump her surplus at prices which ruined our own manufacturers. It was In 1816 that Brougham said in the House of Commons: “It is well worth while to incur a loss upon the first importation, In or der, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those infant manufacturers in the United States which the war has forced into existence." And England poured in her fabrics far below cost, anil we dearly paid for the repeal. Again, In 1833, for compromise and conciliation, we substituted for a splendid protective law, low duties that were to be even lower and lower as the years went on. We compro mised our Industrial liberty and prog ress to save the Union. We saved it for a spell, but, oh, how dearly it cost us! Ruin came quick and fast, and the Union we had saved was bank rupt. The tariffs of 1846 and 1857 were free trade "on purpore," just as the tariffs of 1841 and 1861 were protec tive "on purpose.” But, in 1883. we resorted to compro mise again. Both houses of Congress and the President were Republican, but there was a clamor for revision. So we had the commission and we lowered the duties, especially on wool. Again we compromised with the free traders of the South and their north ern allies, and again we lost millions by the transaction. And now again we are in the same position as in 1816, 1833 and 1883. We have a splendid tariff law in success ful operation. We have prosperity, and we have a president and both houses of Congress professedly pro tectionist. And yet we have a bill pending to lower duties, and which strikes at our agricultural progress and prosperity, as well as a growing industry giving employment to thou sands. and bound to become one of our great industries if left alone. What does it mean? Why this desire to compromise again? A man or woman who compromises his or her reputation is treated with contempt and opprobrium. It should be and will be the same with a political party. The Republican party once declared In its national platform: "We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protec tion.” And yet to-day we are debating a compromise. History forbids it. Ex perience forbids it. Intelligence for bids it. Common sense forbids it. Hon or forbids it. “But it is such a little compromise and so harmless,” say Payne and Grosvenor and Dalzell and Babcock and Russell and Lane. So says the frail creature at the begin ning of her downward career. But there is always a next step, and soon the descent becomes easy and rapid, till shame and dishonor and ruin come. No man can afford to compromise his reputation. No woman can afford to compromise her fair name. No par ty can afford to compromise its honor. Every Republican in Congress should be "uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection." If any swerve from that principle he is dishonorable towards his constituents and toward his country. He was elected to protect all the industries and all the labor of his country. If he has changed his faith he should resign his seat and let another take his place. There should be no volun tary surrender; there should be no willing compromise. We are making history these days, as we were in 1816 and 1833 and 1883. Shall the pres ent be a repetition of the past? WAS ORIGINALLY A GOOD IDEA But It Ha* Cone Wrung in the Con fusion or Con Dieting Claims. In an obviously unkind spirit the New Orleans Item digs up some an cient history to prove that consisten cy is a rare jewel among the truly great. Taking Us cue from the sar castic remark of Congressman Cush man that with a collection of Gen. Grosvenor's speeches to fall back on he had made a triumphant campaign, '■because he could always prove or disprove anything that ever came up,” the Item goes back to the time when that erratic statesman from Ohio said of the Dingley tariff, then under consideration: "There is not a rate of duty, not a principle of taxation, that has not been protested against by the sugar trust and fought to the bitter end be fore the ways and means committee. We propose that instead of sending $125,000,000 a year to the foreign countries of the world, most of which goes to pay labor in the production of sugar, we will make it possible for •vtry pouad of sugai that we want to be produced In the United States o! America. The Republican party cornea and offers to the agricultural ists of this country this magnificent boon. We will protect the industries of the country in all directions from further demoralization, and we ask you to turn aside hundreds of thou sands of acres of the splendid lands of all these states from the produc tion of corn and oats and wheat and potatoes and cotton to be put into an already overstocked market, to the production of sugar, and give to the farmers upon the farming lands of this country a better market with less competition than they have now.” There was a splendid economic idea in this proposition to turn aside hun dreds of thousands of acres—it would become millions after a few years of assured protection—from the produc tion of coarse and cheap staples to the more profitable culture of sugar. What has become of that idea? It seems to have disappeared in the confusion of claims—claims for do mestic agriculture and for the honest and honorable carrying out of Repub lican pledges on the one side, and claims for the “relief” of somebody or something outside of our own peo ple—Cuban planters, perhaps; sugar trust, to a certainty—on the other side. It is a clear case of a good idea gone wrong. The Democratic Motive. Democratic papers are printing a lot of rot about an alleged Democratic tri umph on the sugar differential amend ment. As a matter of fact, the Demo crats in the house have been voting all sorts of ways on the Cuban tariff con cession bill. At first they voted with the concession Republicans but finally acted with the no-concession mem bers. The object of the latter is to stop all tariff tinkering at the present session. The purpose of the Democrats of course is to make trouble for both Republican wings, their motto being “A plague on both your houses.” The Republican differences in the House concerns no point except that of tariff concessions to Cuba, some favoring, others opposing it. The differential has been drawn in to defeat the bill in the senate. But tor the bill undertaking to make a special tariff exception in favor of Cuba there would be no dis agreement among the Republicans In Congress. Yet if the Dingley tariff Is to be disturbed in relation to Cuba other changes will be proposed and the differential amendment is a proof of the assertion. The Democratic self-glorification is silly.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Fearful Straddle*. There is a picture. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Payne), with one foot planted on the wall of protection, with the other set firmly in the ram parts of free trade, with the American Sugar Refining Company in his arms, and the platform of the Republican party in his hip pocket—there is a tableau that with the aid of a slow curtain and a little red fire would bring tears to the eyes of an Egyptian mummy.—From the speech of Repre sentative Cushman, of Washington. Mr. Robertson, Democrat, I-onUlana. Mr. Robertson, Democrat of Louisi ana, is rapidly earning the enmity of every free-trader, and especially the bitter hatred of Pitchfork Tillman, the sworn foe of business men and their employes. Congressman Robert son proposed to spend $2,500,000 for the improvement of the harbor of Ha vana to relieve Cuba by furnishing work for all who might need employ ment. This, he thinks, would be far better than lowering the duties and turning out of wrork tens of thousands of American laborers unless they sub mit to a serious cut-down. Such pro tection sentiments from Louisiana, if uttered in the presence of Shotgun Tillman, would have called forth the dramatic cry of "Renegade! Ter a-a i-tor!” Free Hide* anil F're# Shop*. If New England wants free hidps and the West free shoes and free cotton goods, a little scheme of reci procity might bo accomplished just as under Cleveland New England asked for free wool and got it. Bui don't forget that at the same time such a large slice was cut from protection to woolen fabrics that the woolen business of New England looked pre cisely like 30 cents. LoaUlun*'* Welfare. "If the Louisiana sugar crowd should decide to carry the State for Teddy in 1904.”—Exchange. If the people of the Creole State awake to their own best finsneial and political interests, that Southern com monwealth will cast its electoral vote for the Republican nominee in 1904 just as sure as flowers and fruit lux uriate in the fructifying light and warmth of the sun. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XI, JUNE 15; ACTS 18: 8-15 PAUL CROSSES TO EUROPE. Golden Text—“Thoo Khnlt He HI* Wlt nixi Into AH Men"—Act* 88:1ft—Tho First Europtun Church Founded li/ the Greatest of Missionaries. I. Planning for the Second Misslar's-v Tour.—Acts 15: 35-41. After their return from the Jerusalem visit described In our last lesson, Paul and Barnabas remained some time in the Syrian Antioch Then Paul proposed to Barnabas that they re visit the churches which they had found ed In Asia Minor during their first mis sionary tour (A. D. 45-4*). lie would visit his spiritual children to see how they were growing in grace. Barnabas was quite ready to go. But when they began to form their plans of campaign, a prac tical question arose. Bnrnahaa wished to take with them his relative John Mark. But Paul was unwilling to risk taking with them as a helper one who had left them in tho lurch in the midst of their first journey. Kach one was so decided in his own judgment that they ugreed to separate. Thus the missionary work flowed In two streams instead of one. Barnabas and Mark went to Cyprus. The results of their work are not re corded in the Acts, but are recorded in the great Book of Life, to be made known at some future day. Paul chose Silas, who probably did not start witii him from Antioch, but joined him In Asia Minor, at v. 4. where the plural "they" is first used. He was joined by Timothy at Lystra. ami later by Luke at Troas, v. 10. where "we ’ is first used. II. Paul Revisits the Churches of Asia Minor.—Acts 15: 41: 1G: 1-5. According to the best manuscripts accepted by the R V.. v. 34 of chap. 15 Is omitted, and it Is understood that Silas returned to Je rusalem before he went on the missionary tour with Paul. They were to met in Asia Minor, as the narrative implies «t v. 4. where “they” is first i sed. Paul therefore started alone from Antioch, by land along the road leading north, and then turning west to Tarsus. Here they strtK the great Roman road through the Ciliclan gates, the pass through the Tau rus mountains to IJerbe and Lystra. and afterwards to Iconium and Antioch of Pislclla. Two results of this tour were (1) In crease in numbers, converts from the heathen population. (2) They confirmed and established the churches, both in faith and life. The process was some thing like that which goes on in the ten der shoots of vines and other plants in the autumn, when they change into hard wood capable of enduring the winter's cold, and of bearing blossoms and fruit the next season This was done by fresh teaching and larger truth; by Paul's own zeal and courage: by the assurance of the friendship of the brethren at Je rusalem and Antioch; by their Christian activities, and their success in winning souls to Christ. III. The Call to a Wider Field.—vs. o 10. By this time Silas had Joined Paul and Timothy. 6. "Phrygia and the region of Galatia." Galatia is Gaulatla. the country of the Gauls or Kelts. "And were forbidden." ihat Is. hindered by a command. It is not said in what way they were forbidden, whether by inward monitions, by vision or other divine com munication, or by some providence as a political disturbance. Very possibly the command came in more ways than one, each confirming the other. It is quite probable that it was their plan to go to Rome, and begin their work in Europe at the center of the empire, for Paul says in his letter to the Romans (15 : 22, 23). written in A. T). 58. only c'.x years later, that he had "been much hindered from coming to you." while he had had "a great desire these many years to come unto you.” Rome was not then in a condition for Paul to begin his work th»rc. for the Jews were expelled from Rome very soon after this (early in A. I). 52). and Paul, being a Jew. could not have remained there. Moreover, God had a much better way. as well as more fit ting time, for Paul to go to Rome. "To preach the word in Asia.” They had now come within the province of Asia, the western province of Asia Minor, which included Mysla. Lydia and Carla, and the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna and Sardis. 7. "They therefore kept to the north across Asian Phrygia with the intention of entering the adjoining province of Bithynia: but when "they were come to" (opposite) "Mysla," and "assayed” (were attempting “to go" out of Asia "Into Bithynia.” the "Spirit” of Jesus “suf fered them not."—Ramsay. 8. "And they passing by Mysla.” "Ne glecting Mysla, that is, passing through it without preaching." “Came down to Troas." A seaport in the same district as Homer's Troy, but farther south. On a 1 iter occasion Paul left ills cloak, hooks and parchments there (2 Tim. 4: 13). C. ' And a vision.” that which is seen, a sight divinely granted In an ecstasy or trance or sleep.—Thayer. "There stood a man of Macedonia," recognized as from Macedonia by his dress (Blass), or by his words "come over,” etc. Ramsay, as Re nan. thinks it was a vision of Luke whom Paul had previously known, and whom in his vision he recognized as his old phy sician and acquaintance who had some connection with Philippi, and whom Paul had met hefore somewhere in his travels. 10. "Immediately we endeavored" "sought means” "to go." Paul's answer to the call was earnest and instant. As often to us there came to Paul a very difficult question to decide. “He felt the whole heathen world calling him, hot he did not know when- to begin." “All Europe lay hefore him, hut Asia lay be hind him unevangellzed." "Should he go forward, or should he turn back and make another experiment." “It might well seem to aim a step of doubtful ex pediency. to leave the better-known lands and peoples, and plunge nto new and un familiar scenes.”—McGIfTert. Light Is thrown by this incident upon the way God calls us to our work for hhn. arid guides us In or r decisions as to duty. (1) A great need of something to be done. (2) Fitness and power to do that work. (3) The guiding hand of provi dence. hedging our way from other things. (4) The voice of the Holy Spirit, impressing our minds and guiding our judgments. IV. Founding of the First Church in Europe—Vs. 11-15. The “we” sections, one beginning with v. in, "are introduced for the definite purpose of marking the writer's presence with St. Paul.”—Know ling "They” is used again when the company leave Philippi: and the "we" section begins again at Philippi in Acts 2u: 5, 6. Nlne-Yeur-OI<1 » Mumter. \ dispatch from Dresden says that the police of that city had been puz zled some time as to the fate of sev eral children whose bodies have been found in the Elbe. Investigation has brought a most horrible fact to light. It appears that the son of a street sweeper, a child of nine years, lias been the author of these mysterious o'jcths. Fifteen days ago he pushed a little boy and a little girl into the riv er. and four other children have per ished at different times by his hand. IF AFFLICTED WITH RHEUMATISM fan May B« Glart to Knew Thera An 1,437 Brmertlaa. The latest computation of the num ber of distinctly rheumatism cures puts it at 1,437. It la one of the pe culiarities of rheumatism that the cures prescribed for it are more nu merous even than the varieties of the ailment Itself. A brief enumeration of remedies in cludes horsechestnuts, wlntergreen tablets, electric rings, magnetic watch charms, red flannel bandages—white flannel is considered of no efficacy— goat’s milk, ealisaya, horse-hair poul tices, raw onions carried in coat pock ets and ice cream soda. These are only a few of the best known remedies, and do not include several which owe their fame to com binations of sundry ingredients. One old-fashioned cure is made up of a pint of old ale and a small measure of grated horseradish put in a jar or demijohn and allowed to stand over night, after which a glass is drunk before each meal. In favor of many of the established whimsical rheumatism remedies it is to be said that they are unusually palatable, can be bought cheaply and are generally harmless, recalling in this particular the case of the patient for whom rock and rye was prescribed and who declared that it did him great benefit—even with the candy left out. Rheumatism appears in so many forms, it afflicts so many persons, it is so readily connected with weathei conditions, and the knowledge of its causes is so indefinite and on some points so much disputed that the pro vocation to give remedies for rheuma tism is readily understood, though thlt fact does not moderate the general conviction of acute sufferers from rheumatism that the remedies offered them constitute an aggravation of the disease. MEERSCHAUM IS NOT EXPENSIVE Coat Dcpasdi Largely In Carving ol tbe Plpea. Fire in a pipemaker’s shop the other day spoiled the proprietor’s stock ol meerschaum, and Incidentally disposed of the idea, common In most smoker's minds, that the commodity is very ex pensive. Meerschaum itself is not very expensive. That used by the manufacturers in this country Is im ported as a raw material from Austria, and most of it is obtained in Asia Minor. Usually there are three or four dif ferent grades, running from the rough and mixed to the pure and finely grained article. There is no duty upon it. The chunks, not unlike cannel coal in shape, are packed iu oblong boxes, about two feet and a half long, a foot wide and a foot high. The raw mate rial is quite brittle and has to be soak ed in water before it is used for model ing. Meerschaum pipes are expensive be cause much of the material from which the bowls are made has to be thrown away before a piece is found that has no flaws in it. The shavings, however, are never wasted. They are used to make a cheaper grade of pipes, which are known as chip meer schaums.—New York Post. He K»pt A-Sw limnin'. The other day in New York a man named Boyle had an experience that it is better to read about than go through. He was working at a man hole, when the ladder gave way. He fell into the sewer, and was carried for more than a mile underground in a torrent of water that ran like a mill race, in absolute darkness and deluged with mud and slime and all manner of filth. He was dashed against brick walls, well-nigh overwhelmed with dirt that was emptied over him from side sewers, and finally he was pitched into the East River and was fished out by a bargeman. Doyle’s own account of the matter is interesting, and the chief fact is that he never gave up. "I kept a-nwimmin’,” was his succinct way of putting it, and even when he found himself in the middle of the East River, half unconscious, he “kept a swimmin’.” One must confess to a good deal of admiration for a man who, un d'T such circumstances, in about as hopeless a condition as a human being could possibly find himself, though still keep in the game.—May Woman's Home Companion. The Enduring Pie. The young women at the University cf Indianapolis contended in a debate with the young men that “pie is not of greater service to mankind than ice cream.” When these young wo men become experienced wives they will feel shame that they should have decried the value of pie. When there are big bills for spring hats and spring dresses to be paid, they will fill their husbands with pie, knowing that un der its benign influence all the genial and generous impulses will be awak ened. The fancy for ice cream is a mere passing characteristic of young womanhood; but the passion for pie which fills the breast of every normal man is an enduring source of happi ness to the tactful wife. For an Untainted Rule. The Hollander’s first duty in South Africa is to support an administration, honest and impartial, untainted by the touch of gold; and, as long as it be honest, it is no concern to our Hollander whether it be English or German or Boer or “international.” What the Hollander has to guard against is the influence of the Dop pers and the Krugerites being again introduced into South -Africa, and against Holland being made the cen ter of intrigue by those who seek tc regain the authority which has now been lost to them.—Hague Hollandia. HOSPITAjJECRETS. A Nurse Says; “ Peruna is a Tonic of Efficiency.” 5 MRS. KATE TAYLOR. J Mrs. Kate Taylor, a graduated J « nurse of prominence, gives her ex- » 4 perlence with Peruna In an open » * letter. 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