LOUP (ITY NORTHWESTERN GKO. K. HKR81ICOTKR. Kdlfor »»d Tub. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Plerpont Morgan la going to Italy. Look out for a macaroni trust. Burning question in France: What shall we do with our volcanic islands? Only propose to blow a golden bub ble, and thousands will subscribe for soap. Washington's "sweet girl graduate of 1902 carries a cane. Must be a sugar cane. Mark Twain has again retired for ever from the public platform. This is about the sixth time. King Oscar of Sweden is writing his memoirs, but there is no immedi ate danger that he will lecture. Joseph Jefferson has played "Rip Van 'Winkle” more than 4.000 times. 1 Playing it must seem like work now. Every week as the summer ad vances the lawn mower pushes heavier; it is the nature of the ma chine. The alleged gigantic British ship ping combination turns out to be nothing but an echo from this side of the water. Samuel L. Clemens. LL. D., is the way to write it now. The gentleman, how’ever, will continue to answer to Mark Tv*ain. Many paupers have lived to be a hundred years old, but there is no record of a millionaire having at tained that age. ■William Sunday, the old-time ball player, who is now winning fame as an evangelist, has proved that there may be something in a name. Has that Nebraska banker who has been enjoined in three counties from marrying the woman of his choice never heard of St. Joe, across the lake? Andrew Carnegie has been present ed with the freedom of the Plumbers* Association of London. We did not know that Mr. Carnegie was as rich as that. It is in order to remind the young King of Spain that if he is going to restore the greatness of his kingdom he should not waste any time talking about it. Philanthropists who have recom mended cold cures to an ungrateful world are now busy telling about sure death remedies for the annual mos quito plague. Musolino, the notorious Italian ban dit, has been sentenced to prison for life. Paradoxical as it may seem, this permits of the query, How long will he stay there? There is a man at Hanlonton, la., whose name is August Vainkingel Btemhausenklotzer, which seems alto gether too long a surname for August —or even June. Edgar Williams, a telegraph oper ator at Indianapolis, is a grand father at the age of 39. This is an other evidence of the arrival of the young man and strenuosity. ■ ■ ■ — .- i Newrs is cabled from London that J. Plerpont Morgan is in good health. That being the case independent ship companies might as well get down the book and read the account of their finish. The fact that many of the most dis tinguished pickpockets of the world are present at the coronation of King Edward adds a human interest touch to the otherwise awe-inspiring program. A man haa been sentenced to jail 'or one year for stealing a pair of shoes worth $2. On this basis how long should a banker stay in jail who has been sentenced for stealing thou sands of dollars? Somebody has discovered that there are thirty distinct varieties of the kiss smacking their way around the world, and the enumeration does not appear to include those on the Ella Wheeler Wilcox list. The Shah of Persia has made Em peror William a present of a decora tion worth $5,000. This will be suffi cient to enable the emperor to have the rooms occupied by the shah cleaned up after he leaves. They are just beginning over in China to tury Li Hung Chang, and it is expected that they will be at it for several weeks. Evidently the Chinese don’t believe in turning from a man just because he happens to be dead. By getting married in Chicago Ploter Rybarczyk and Maryanna Staaszynska, Boleslaw Werbaachow ski and Jozefa Czajkowsky, and Anton Brzcywski and Anna Jozijnska have succeeded in simplifying matters a little, anyway. It Is safe to say that the surviving residents of Martinique are not par ticularly interested in the quest of the scientists who are trying to find what is inside of Mount Pelee. The general impression is that there isn't much left to discover. ri!E ONLY SAFE WAY •ROTECTION FOR ALL OR ELSE FOR NONE. f the Principle Be Abrogated as Re gards Domestic Sugar and Tobacco Are Not Those Interests Justified In Demanding Other Reductions? S The Republican leaders in the sen ite are evidently endeavoring to ar range with the stalwarts to forego heir opposition to the sugar trust ind permit Cuba to get its ‘'relief" vihout at the same time depriving he trust of the profit which it antici >ated by the pretended benevolence, t is even asserted that the stalwart lenators have given “intimations imounting to assurances" that their ipposition shall be “nominal ’ and that he Cuban bill as it is proposed to be intended will be permitted to pass without serious contest. This is •quivalent to saying that the stalwart lenators have entered into a conspir icy to fool their constituents with a show of opposition when in fact they lave privately agreed that the apos :ates shall pass their bill. We as sume that the rumor is an undeserved dander upon the stalwart Republican senators and that they propose to use ill means permitted by the rules of :he senate to prevent the consumma ;ion of the intended outrage. The stalwart Republican senators can kui :he bill if they will. If they do not ihey will be held responsible. As for ‘party harmony,” let those restore it svho provoked the trouble by aposta tizing from the doctrines which they were pledged to sustain. Such free-trade Journals as the New V’ork Times, Boston Herald and oth »rs are exhibiting much unholy glee it what they vainly imagine to be an error of the stalwart Republicans of the house in joining the Democrats to amend the Cuban bill by repealing the differential duty on refined sugar. We can assure our free-trade contem poraries that no "error” has been committed. The stalwarts of the house deliberately Joined the Demo crats in so amending the bill that no Republican congress can pass it with out such open and brazen repudiation of the pledges upon which they were elected as shall consign them to polit ical graves from which no resurrec tion is possible. They expect the bill to be beaten by Republican votes. They are nevertheless aware that there is a bare possibility of the bin passing as amended. While they do not expect this con tingency, they are prepared for it. If the amended bill becomes a law it will be notice served in a form which cannot be misunderstood that if any Interest entitled to protection shall be sacrificed by the party of protection then, so far as the votes of those sac rificed can avail, there shall be not a shred of protection left to any inter est. That is the position of the stal warts of the house. In that position they are sure of the enthusiastic sup port of their constituents. Our free trade contemporaries may “hair this as looking to a free-trade triumph. We assure them that they are mistak en. It makes sure the maintenance unimpaired ot the sound protectionist doctrine under which we have at tained our unparalleled prosperity. And it is the only safe way. The strong interests will tumble the weak overboard in a minute if they can. Let them do it if they dare. The con sequence will be the election of a Republican Congress composed of members whose honoi can be depend ed upon.—San Francisco Chronicle. GOUGING THE FARMERS. Effect of Repealing Duties on Cattle and Meats. A contemporary which is somewhat given to ejaculatory utterance advises as a means of regulating the Beef Trust the "removal of all tariff duties on foreign foods." This is simply a proposition to subject the farmer to whatever higher price the protective tariff system may impose on the things he consumes, and expose him to low free trade prices on things he pro duces. The Beef Trust is but one of many trusts, the purpose of which is to obtain higher prices for their prod ucts than could be obtained under free competition. When the farmer buys wire to fence in his fields with he contributes to the profits of a trust. When he buys a plow he contributes to the profits of another trust. When he buys salt for his cattle he pays twice as much as he w-ould if there were no combination to fix an artificial price on that necessary article of hu man and animal consumption. But when the farmer has beef to sell our free trade contemporary says the price must be regulated by the cost of producing beef in other countries. Possibly our contemporary would advocate a like remedy for the regula tion of trusts engaged in the manufac ture of wire, plows and salt. That, however, involves free trade. It would be impossible to repeal the du ties on goods made by trusts and to maintain duties on goods in the pro duction of which the hand of the trust is not easily traced. Absolute free trade means internal revenue taxes of about double the rates at present collected. Nearly one-half ol our federal revenue comes through the custom houses, and if that is sacri fired the tax on home Industries must be nearly or quite doubled. Undei such conditions the export of manu factured goods would cease Foreign gopds would be imported at less than tffl cost of home production with In ternal revenue taxes added to the nat ural cost. Instead of finding new mar kete tor our manufactured goods, we ahonld lose the niarkaU we have gained under Ttie policy «*f protection. The Heel Trust can he regulated In another way. At present prices, and possibly at a little less, farmers will find it more profitable to feed grain to cattle than to sell it at prices fixed in foreign markets. Farmers are well aware of this, and if let alone will solve the beef problem.—San Francis co Hulletln. THE AMATEUR TARIFF TINKER. - f Should Obtain Views of Employers and Wage Earners. Several days ago the Dispatch cabl ed attention to the fact that Represen tative Roberts of Massachusetts, w^s anxious to revise the tariff laws. Mr. Roberts was elected to congress as a Republican, but since taking his seat he has been painting terrible pictures of what the people would do at the next congressional elections if the ex isting laws were not modified. He Is circulating a petition among his colleagues calling for a caucus, at which the question of considering the necessity of tariff revision shall be discussed, and, If possible, a program for party action shall be adopted. • If we understand Mr. Roberts cor rectly, the only way the Republicans can prevent the tariff being made the sole issue of the next campaign Is by placing certain articles on the free list, and reducing the rates on others. If this is not done, says the Solomon from Massachusetts, the Republicans will be forced to assume the defen sive, with the result that the Demo crats will control the next house. Mr. Roberts should visit lork or some other great manufacturing cen ter, and ask a few questions. He would learn, for instance, that the Dingley bill meets with the approval, not only of large employers, but of the men who labor. He would soon discover that tinkering with the tarifT would be the worst thing the Republican party could do. His assertion that unless we "modify the bill, the Re publicans will be placed on the defen sive,” is ridiculous in the extreme. Now that the silver issue has been buried there is only one question be tween the two great parties, and that is the tariff. For years the Republi cans have been successful because they advocated protection to Ameri can industries, and when the people so far forgot themselves as to elect a Democratic president and the make shift known as the Wilson bill emerg ed from the halls of congress as a result, business received such a stag gering blow that it took the nation years to recover. Instead of being placed on the de fensive, Republicans, thanks to the present law, are the aggressors, and the Democratic leaders know it, not w’ithstanding their assertions that the tariff breeds trusts. England has free trade, yet in the newspapers this morning may be found articles telling how business men in that country are organizing to protect themselves against “American invasion.” But Democratic orators and editors will not call British combinations "trusts.” They reason that there can be no trusts without a tariff. The fact is the tariff has no more to do with trusts than a mountain with the ocean, but if the Democrats can make political capital with the cry, of course they intend to use it. The Re publicans welcome a contest on the tariff, and good reason they should, for the full dinner pail is no dream, but an actual fact, and Just so long as the leaders flatly refuse to threaten the welfare of the business and labor world by tinkering with the tariff, just so long will the Republicans continue to remain in power.—York (Pa.) Dis patch. Greatest of Commercial Travelers. Hard to Be Candid. The very men who raise this issue are the men who have found fault so strenuously in the past with those who have favored a protective tariff, because the farmers had no part nor lot in it. It was in response to this complaint that a duty was placed upon beef cattle, the product of the American farm. Now that what they complained of for not being done has been done, these same complainers are raising a howl and saying the duty on cattle and beef Is the foundation of the beef trust. It is so hard for some people to be candid when dis cussing a question that so materially affects the living of so many of the people of the country. The trust question in all its bearings ought to be discussed on a higher ground than that of petty partisau politics.—Knox ville iTenn.) Tribune. Only Genuine Brand. The kind of reciprocity which B'aine favored, which President Mc Kinley meant In his great Buffalo speech and which the Republican party has declared for Is the only genuine brand and the only kind thal true protectionists will favor.—Valley j Mills (Texas) Protectioniat. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON I. JULY 6; EXODUS 1C: 4-15 -THE GIVING OF MANNA. Golden Text—“Give tls Thl. IJnv Our Gaily Urea (I*-Matt 6:11—Trust, the First Lesson In God's Training Hihool — Provision for Sabbath. T, The Israelites In God’s Training School. Why They Needed a Lesson In Trust —Vs 1-3. Our last lesson In the Old Testament, six months ago. left the Is raelites at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez. They had crossed this arm of the Hed Sea, at or near the present Suez. Then they proceeded southeastward to ward Sinai, keeping close to the shores of the Red Sea. Three routes were pos sible (1) The Phtllstia road, the northern road, around the Mediterranean. This they avoided, because It would lead them through the warlike tribe of Philistines. (2) The "Way of Shur," directly east. They rejected this, because it traversed the worst of the desert. They chose, therefore, (3) the southerly route, towards Sinai. l ho Israelites had now entered their training school, where they were to re ceive forty years of discipline. This training transformed them from a nation of two million slaves, weakened in spirit and body by two centuries of servitude, into a people strong and self-reliant enough to conquer Canaan. The story is one that Is duplicated In the life of every man and nation that Is led by God from sin and weakness into power for good, we shall find it full of instruction for our selves. The Lessons Grow Harder. Turning eastward fi*om the pleasanter neighbor hood of the Red Sea. the Israelites en tered upon the Wilderness of Sin. be tween the sea and Sinai. This was a most inhospitable region, dreary and desolate, though not yet free from the fear of Egyptian border garrisons. They had been thirty days away from Egypt, their food was almost exhausted, anil no fresh supply was In sight. It was a severe test of their faith, and their faith failed, even with Marah vividly in mind. They fell to murmuring against Moses and Aaron, wished they had died in Egypt, and longed for its "fleshpots," or meat dishes. IT. God's Answer to the Complaining People.—Vs. 4. 5. Evidently this murmur ing, faint-hearted people needed a lesson in trust, and therefore God made that the first lesson in his wilderness training school. 4 "Then said the Lord unto Moses." God may have spoken audibly, or. just as really, by prompting his thoughts. Be hold, I will rain bread from heaven for you." The manna, called by name later. "And the people shall go out and gath er." The manna fell outside the camp (v. 14). "A certain rate" (day's portion) “every day." If they gathered more than enough for a day, the extra portion be came corrupt and useless (v. 20). “That I may prove them.” The test lay In their obedience to God's rules for manna gath ering. So God used the one tree in the Garden of Eden to test Adam and Eve. "Whether they will walk in my law, or no.” God wanted their trust in him and their obedience to his laws to become as Instinctive as walking. 5. "On the sixth day ... it shall be twice as much as they gather dally." They were to gather on Friday twice as much as usual, and God would miracu lously preserve It over the Sabbath from the usual corruption. God's Ways of Teaching Trust. He still sends us bread from heaven, liter ally. Every grain field, botanists tell us. gets the greater part of its growth, not from the soil, but from above—from the air, sunshine and rain. But. to strengthen us. God gives us something to do in connection with every gift. He could have sent to each tent of the Israelites its daily supply of man na in a covered dish. but. instead, he compelled them to go out and gather it Thus the farmer must plow, sow, and reap, though God, after all, does the most of the work. 3. God sends us A day’s portion at a time, "our daily bread,” "strength for the day,” light and wisdom for the day; no more. He wants us to trust him for the morrow. III. The Lesson from Moses. He re bukes the Israelites' Complaints.—Vs. 7 8. The next step was for Moses to com municate God’s promise to the murmur ing people. He did this in such a way as to shame them for their ingratitude and lack of faith. 7. "And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord.” It seems plain, from v. 10, that the reference is to the glowing of the cloud, which showed that God was displeased, notwithstand ing his gracious purpose to supply their wants. "For that he heareth your mur murings against the Lord.” These words were a warning, reminding the people that their complaints were really finding fault with God. and that God could hear every peevish word. 8. "And Moses said." Speaking this time directly to the people, and not through Aaron. "The Lord shall give you." One of the reasons why Mose,s was a great prophet was his full confidence In the promises of God. A dollar bill may be very dirty and ragged, but we trust it because of the government seal upon it. So we trust God-fearing men, not because of themselves, but because they have identified themselves with God. We, like the Israelites, forget that God hears our complaints Many of our wor ries we should hardly like to put into words and speak them aloud, remember ing that God is present. Yet he hears our thoughts. IV, The Lesson from the Cloud. Ood rebuke* ht* Murmuring People—Vs. 9-12 A wise teacher goes over the lesson more than once. In different way*. After Moses had taught It at God's command, the Lord himself railed the people together for a still more Impressive lesson. The summon* was proclaimed by Aaron: 9. "Come near before the Lord.” That Is. probably, before the cloudy pillar. God's visible manifestation of himself, The Is raelite* knew that God I* everywhere, but he was In a cloud In a special and pe rular sense; Just as we find God especial ly near to us In our church, though he ts also In our homes and schools and of fices. "For he hath heard your murmuring* ” Would not God have sent food If the Is raelites had not complained? Most as suredly; and he would have sent It at a time and in a way far better for them. God understands our needs, and loves us. and we can safely trust him to meet all our real wants, To Unenrh Thirst Easily. A physician recommends what is certainly a unique manner of quenen ing thirst, and pertinent as summer approaches. The physician makes the statement that thirst disappears and perspiration is diminished by keeping a small round pebble in the mouth. By this means, he asserts, he has gone as many as eight hours in a broiling sun with nothing but crack ers and cheese for luncheon, and at the end of that time was not suffering from thirst. PARROT WAS AN APT PUPIL Maiden Lady'* Pet Has a Lamentable Fall from Grace. A most estimable maiden lady llv .ng Dochester has a parrot, which, by tint of great effort, she has taught to recite verse after verse of scriptural texts. The parrot became a sort of animated Bible, until he fell Into evil ways, and there is now much mourn ing on the part of the maiden lady, who has decided that the precept, “Evil communications corrupt good manners,” is a true one. She has a niece who is a very lively young woman, and who also has a parrot. The young woman lives with a lot of wicked brothers. A few weeks ago she came on from New York to pay her aunt a visit. She brought her parrot along, too. The birds on first acquaintance solemnly winked and blinked at one another and both were silent for a time but later were heard chattering together in a friendly fash ion. It was a few days later that the maiden lady had a terrible shock, says the Boston Herald. She was roused from her slumber by her good Sunday school parrot talking, but alas! Instead of texts from the Bible, slang of the most modern description, intermingled with a few violent swear words, issued from the good old bird’s beak. The New York parrot had taught its quiet Dorchester friend all of this new language, and now all Bi ble texts are forgotten, and the maid en lady, in mingled sadness and an ger, is looking for a new home for her corrupted Polly. CLEVER PARISIAN DRESSMAKER. Humble Beginning of Gay City’s Lead ing Man Milliner. Paguin, the leading man milliner of Paris, was a clerk on the bourse a few years ago, with no knowledge of dress making. He is a very handsome man and when he met a pretty dressmaker who had a small shop he married her. Gradually the two extended their es tablishment until to-day they are the Joint aristocrats of fashion, standing easily at the head of all dressmakers in the French capital. Once thorough ly established in a prominent way, the clever and ornamental young couple inaugurated a new regime. No haughty seclusion, no barred doors at the Mai son Pequin. Madame was met at the door by monsieur himself, and to be met by Pequin was a treat. The most beautiful of Parisian elegantes and the homeliest old dowager received the same flattering welcome, the same tender interest. The charming wom an, the handsome man, both so deeply interested, both so deferential, both so intelligent. This was a new experi ence and the Parisienne smiled and purred, bought more than she intended and came again. It Was the Proper Place. An English member of parliament of a generation now past was not noted for his habits of personal clean liness. Once he was visiting a sea side place and one day while out in a boat with a sailing party he was swept overboard, but was happily rescued. When the excitement was over a young fellow rushed down into the cabin. "By Jove!” he exclaimed, "we’ve been having such an exciting time on deck!” "What is it?” asked everybody. "Mr. Blank was washed overboard.” “I'm glad of it,” snapped a fastidious matron. Everybody was horrified. “Well, I am,” she exclaim ed. “Just think of that man being washed on board!” A Bohemian Experiment. Lorin Eggleston, Postmaster and one of the wealthiest merchants in Millerton, N. Y., has made a special study of the tramp question for years. In company with his wife and J. H. Whittaker and wife of Malden, Mass., he will take his vacation In gypsy fashion this season. They will travel through the country, the men selling and trading horses, while the women tell fortunes and sell lace and other gypsy wares. In an interview Mr. Eg gleston, who contemplates starting on the trip about July 1, when his term as postmaster will have expired, said he had decided that the easiest life to lead was that of tramps and gyp sies. A Kaiser Anecdote. The kaiser Is fond of children, and likes them to answer frankly the ques tions he asks them. While visiting the Syrian orphanage at Jerusalem—one of the institutions that owes its ex istence to the German Protestant Mis sion—the emperor examined the little native scnolars in geography. He asked one boy what those African states were called that were not under the sway of native rulers. “German colonies,” was the prompt reply, which elicited from William II. the following laughing observation: “If I were to carry out this boy's dangerous policy af annexation it would plunge me at once into a war with England and France!” Glasgow Old-Fogyish. “Glasgow is quite free from corrup tion, but there is considerable bosh about the ideal municipal government of the city,” said a Glasgow man now touring this county to an interviewer the other oay. “The public improve ments are far behind those of many cities in the United States. The elec tric lights are queer, old-fashioned things, and the city permitted the construction of overhead wires for the street railways. Commissions were sent to various cities to look into elec tric light systems and electric rail ways system. 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