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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1902)
I AT THE 3 END OF THE RIVER. “At the bend of the river,” a spot to charm equally the angler and the seeker after rest, is a gem of photo graphic art. The picture was made by Nanna Louise Brown of South Haven, Mich., and is certainly a strik ing bit of scenery—a veritable para dise in which to while away a hot summer afternoon. Cares would weigh heavily on the mind which i would not be soothed by a sojourn in such a spot WHY HE WAS SHOCKED. Fact That He Had a Mortgage on the Ccw Explained it. For many years there has lived in t South Dakota town a German who is familiarly known to Ills fellow citizens as “the Baron.” In his early manhood the fcaron became estranged from his titled relatives as a result of his marriage to a daughter of a London shopkeeper. He then came to this country and by his thrift ac quired considerable wealth. Though a devoted husband and father, he has long been known as the town Shylock, and woe to the poor farmer who is unable to meet in full on the date agreed upon all claims upon him by the inexorable baron! One day while several men were silting in a general store, the baron entered and listened attentively to a story that was being told by an ac quaintance. The young man was de neribirg how, while coming to town that morning, he had seen several In dian girls cutting up a cow that had died of some bovine disease a day or two before. “Veil?” demanded the baron, when the narrator finished. “Veil?” “Web,” replied the young man, "the heathens are actually going to use the flesh as food. What do you thin? of that, taron?” An angry flush colored the Ger man s face, almost purple, and his whole figure seemed to dilate with Indignation. “Vot do I dink of it?” he cried. “It disgusts me mit human r.adure. I hadt a mortgage on dot gow!" TEA GROWN IN AMERICA. Japanese Government to Investigate South Carolina Gardens. According to a Charleston (S. C.) special In the Atlanta Constitution, Sinko Hatto, a wealthy Japanese now residing in New York, has been ap pointed by his government to make a thorough study of the tea growing conditions In South Carolina. He will maSte a thor ough inspection of the Pinehurst tea gardens at Summerville and will go from there to Rantowles, where the American Tea company has bought a big plantation. Mr. Hatto said that his government had been greatly Interested in the published re ports from the tea plantations in South Carolina and for business rea sons it was desired to get facts as gathered by a personal representative. The gardens at Summerville, which were planted more as an experiment than anything else, have since become a splendid paying investment and Dr. Shepard, the proprietor, has disposed of the home-grown teas at good prof its. So impressed were eastern capi talists with the enterprise that a com pany was formed and 5,000 acres of laud were purchased betweei#Charles ton and Savannah. On this plantation the plants have been set out and in the course of time- the fields will have an enormous yield of fine teas. WORKING ON POTATO PATCHES. On City's Vacant Lots a Big Source of Income to Philadelphia. One is accustomed to think of the vacant-lot potato patch as something belonging exclusively to Detroit, the home of the late Gov. Pingree, the or iginator of the idea. It appears, how ever, that the plan has been used with effect in other cities, notably in Phil adelphia. Of the results there a com petent observer says: "Kaeh year we have saved the city of Philadel phia more than we have spent. Wo have saved it in the expenses of the police courts and jails. A man who has a garden for which to care has less time to hang about saloons. He has an objed around which his thoughts and plans may center. An example of this is the case of a col ored man, who askeu for a plot when the land was being apportioned the first year. He was old, partially para lyzen and very drunk. It is the pol icy of the associatlton to give land to any one who applies; whether a man keeps his garden or not depends upon himself. The superintendent ex plained the conditions and assigned a plot to the man, who made many wordy and incoherent promises. The next day he appeared in a compara tively sober condition, but his right arm was almost useless, and he worked slowly and awkwardly. The next day he was too drunk to work at all. So it went on, almost constant drunkenness varied by occasional spasms of industry. Nevertheless, he managed to keep the garden. Grad ually It became the intoxication which was intermittent, while the habit of working grew upon him, and exercise brought strength to the useless arm. He still has his garden and each year he finds progressive respectability more delightful." The Infection of Insanity. A Berlin newspaper has published an article in which the claim is made that insanity is Infectious. Whether it is so in the same sense that other diseases are may well be doubted, but no student of social conditions can doubt that there are classes of people who are susceptible to the infection of unsound ideas. Nothing is too absurd for belief, to these people, and fads of all kinds, in religious thought, political reform and social customs result. We presume that no anti toxin for either physical or mental liability to the germs of erratic opinions will be discovered. Salvation from a good deal of this ten dency to go wrong is found in an ef fort to be natural and go quietly about the work at hand. General good health and good nature are excellent as a means of resistance to disease germs of any kind. Cupid never bothers about the re sults. TACT OF A GENTLEMAN. How Frank Stockton Relieved Feel ings of a Friend. Last winter, while Will N. Harben was writing Abner Daniel (Harpers), he often met Frank R. Stockton at the Author's club. One afternoon Harben told Mr. Stockton of his new book, and added that he had been trying to get up his courage to ask to be allowed to send it to him when it was published. Stockton assured Mr. Harben that he would be glad to see it, but just then another novelist sauntered across the room and said: “Frank D- has just sent me a copy of his last book and wants me to review it. I suppose you are often bored with similar requests?” It was an awkward moment tor Stockton and Harben, but the former was equal to the emergency. “Well,” he said, carelessly, “It is rather hard to write reviews of books for friends when one is busy writing novels, but I do certainly like to read books written by men I know." The conversation took a turn, and Harben walked away. He thought the matter had passed out of the mind of the genial humorist, but a few min utes later Stockton came to him and said: “I don’t want you to forget to send me that book. 1 am greatly interested in it” But Mr. Stockton never lived to receive the promised “first copy.” He died while Mr. Harben was reading the proofs of the novel. Handle Much Gold. About 45,000 sovereigns pass over the Bank of England counters every day. New Way to Aid Temperance. Williamsport clergymen are utilizing street car ads to fight the liquor evil. “MOONLIGHT ON THE LAKE/* SERVING THE PUBLIC IMMENSE SUMS EXPENDED TO SECURE NEWS. ’ubllahers of American Newapapera Spare No Expense in Gathering In formation—Intereating Pacts in Re cent Census Bulletin. People who believe newspapers to lay are making money hand over fist ind raking in unlimited numbers of ihekels from their advertising can •efer to the recent census bulletin on ‘Printing and Publishing" and get nuch valuable Information. It is asserted by Mr. W. S. Rosslter, he expert agent of the bureau, that ihe newspaper managers have made ind are making daily large sacrifices or the public benefit, and the last .en years have been a period of Im portant gain to the public at the ex pense of the publishers. “At the close of the decade,’* says Mr. Rosslter. ‘‘the dai'iy newspaper vas more of a public institution than ;ver before, because It sacrificed an ncreased share of its revenue for ihe public benefit, obtaining no com pensating financial return from either purchaser or advertiser." To the uninitiated this phase of the lewspaper business comes as a puz zling proposition. They see that a lewspaper increases in size, gets a wider circulation and carries more idvertising, and they naturally arrive »t the conclusion that the paper is making excessive profits. It rarely occurs to them to take into account that an enormous increase in expense ls always incurred in this develop ment. The progressive newspaper of our Jay gives its readers the news regard less of cost, with the result that the public is always the beneficiary in the transaction. The telegraph news service of a first class paper is most elaborate, and is obtainable only through heavy expenditures on ac count of telegraph tolls and the pay if correspondents. The bill for the white paper used :s a heavy and ever increasing ex pense, and each additional page means additional outlay. As the cir culation grows, so does the bill for the white paper. To print all the lews and give space to advertisements it the same time becomes to publish ers a serious problem. In giving some interesting facts ilong this line, Mr. Rossiter says that m a certain New York paper, whose circulation is much over 300,000, the advertising entails a cost of 21 cents t line for the white paper alono, and ae adds: “The publisher who secures a cir culation of huge proportions confronts ihe necessity of securing from his ad /ertising patrons a return of the cost if his paper space they occupy, with i margin of profit.” There are a number of American aewspapers, according to this author .ty, whose expenses In the actual cost of white paper threaten to ex ceed the returns from advertising. In the decade on which Mr. Rossi :er based his statistics advertising ias showed no remarkable rate of .ncrease, while the expenses of the lapers have grown enormously. A letter instance where papers spared 30 expense in securing news cannot ae cited than the Mont Pelee afTair. rhe American public was kept thor lughly posted in every detail of the great catastrophe, and to do this thousands of words were cabled to Ihe press at a cost of from $2 to J4 a word. So far, then, as benefits are count ed, the public has been the gainer in :he newspaper business, and in many mstances at the expense of the pub .isher. WHERE OEMS CAME FROM. Mystery Surrounds Original Reposi tories of Many Precious Stones. The natives of India, up to the be ginning of the eighteenth century, re ferred to rock crystal as “ an unripe diamond.” At that time India was thought to be the only land which produced that precious stone. It was not, therefore, until the discovery of India that the diamond was known to us. Yet as far back as 500 B. C. a "ditactic history” of precious stones was written, and in Pliny's time the supply must have been plentiful, as he wrote. “We drink out of a mass of gems, and our drinking vessels are formed of emeralds.” We are also told that Nero aided his weak sight by spectacles made of emeralds. But it is very difficult to determine whence all the gems came, as discov erers took care to leave no record. The nations who traded in them were afraid of their whereabouts being known, and even the most ancient merchants would not disclose any def inite locale. All sorts of myths have accordingly sprung up concerning the origin of gems. “Diamond” was the name given to a youth who was turned into the hardest and most brilliant of substances to preserve him from “the ills that flesh is heir to.” Amethyst was a beautiful nymph be loved by Bacchus, blit saved from him by Diana, who changed Amethyst in to a gem. whereupon Bacchus turned the gem into wine color and endowed the wearer with the gift of preserra tion from Intoxication. The pearl was thought to be a dew drop the shell had opened to receive Amber was said to be honey melted by the sun, dropped Into the sea and congealed. According to the Talmud Noah had no light In the ark but that which came from precious stones. DON'T GIVE UP. Don’t be discouraged by past ef forts to find relief aud cure from the myrlad'j of ills that come from sick kidneys. You may pass nights of sleepless tosslng.annoyed by frequent urination. 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There are several ways of killing eats, and even a moderately ingenious person might be expected to discover some means of putting an objection able dog to death without bringing himself into serious clanger. But the Pennsylvania miner who tried to end the existence of a mongrel cur by fastening a slow fuse dynamite cartridge to his tall, only to be pur sued by the affectionate creature and overcome by a dual disaster, deserves little sympathy. He was simply too stupid for ordinary tolerance. Low Rates to the Northwest. Commencing September 1 and con tinuing until October 31, 1902, sec ond-class one-way colonist tickets will be sold by the Chicago, Milwau kee ft St. Paul R’y from Chicago to all points in Montana, Idaho, Utah, California, Washington, Oregon, Brit ish Columbia and Intermediate points at greatly reduced rates. Choice of routes via St. Paul or via Omaha. 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