Loup City Northwestern
GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub.
LOUP CITY, - • NEBRASKA.
Campaign poets are beginning to
break cover.
Sir Thomas Lipton feels he has
one more good lift in him.
The fast young1 man who lengthens
his nights also shortens his days.
Modified arbitration is prescribed
as the modified milk of the coal cocoa
nut.
Another thing for which civiliza
tion is clamoring is a noiseless
match.
The Candy Trust, if it is oppressive
enough, will do a vast deal for this
country's teeth.
Those gray old boys recently at
Washington have a good many
parades in them yet.
One may be permitted to wonder
what Gen. Sherman would have called
a prolonged coal strike.
“It’s a matter of love for the flag,”
says Sir Tommy. Same here. We'd
like to see you win it. but-.
Multimilionairc Stratton's millions
will not multiply very rapidly iu the
bands of the Colorado lawyers.
Beefsteak is 44 cents a pound in
Berlin, and the policy players are all
inserting the price in their gigs.
Nellie Jay won the Kentucky Fu
turity stake, which was worth $10,
000 to her owners. She's no jay.
The business people of Venezuela
want peace. But business people have
not been running Venezuela for a long
time.
The hero who is about to marry into
Miss Anthony's official family has not
yet made public the pledge he has had
to sign.
Dr. Louis G. Knox, the famous lion
tamer, has taken to himself a wife, |
and will continue the work of his i
profession.
Prof. Patten of Dartmouth college
believes that man is descended from
the horseshoe crab. Why, this is
worse still.
If the Sultan of Sulu ever realizes
how extensively he is being ured for
farce comedy purposes he will prob
ably revolt.
Frenchmen are now fighting duels
over Zola. This fact would not of it
self indicate, however, that Zola wan
a great issue.
The sultan of Turkey has built a pri
vate theater, probably figuring that
this is the only way he can get rid of
the encore fiend.
A bottle has drifted in three seas
for 28 years. On land it would have
been found and its contents noted
within 28 minutes.
A servant girl famine threatens
New York City. So far as we know,
there is not a servant girl feast any
where in the country.
This has been a comparatively bad
year for Russell Sage. He has had
to dock himself for being off eight
days, owing to one cause and an
other.
The sweat box has been declared
illegal and police authorities may
be compelled hereafter to put suspects
In an ice-box and freeze the truth out
of them.
Carnegie has received the freedom
of the city of Perth, Scotland. It is
safe to turn Andy loose in a canny
flcotch town where he can be
watched.
An Iowa jury has declined to award
damages to a young man who sued
for breach of promise. He probably
failed to exhibit the necessary signs
of wear and tear.
A Milwaukee woman has vindicated
her sex by leaving a will in which
she bequeaths her estate to her hus
band during his life, providing that he
does not marry again.
At a wedding in Connecticut recent
ly “The Angel's Serenade” was whis
tled by a young woman while the cer
emony was in progress. Can you guess
what tune will be whistled a year
hence?
A Chicago jury has just awarded an
“injured” husband one dollar as dam
ages for the alienation of his wife's
affections. The informaiton is not at
hand as to how many of the jury
were old bachelors.
A bridegroom In New Jersey, GO
years old, threatens with arrest a lot
of serenaders who threw bad eggs at
him because he refused to set up a
keg of beer. When a man of that age
marries he can’t understand a joke.
The largest increase In postal re
ceipts in the history of the service
was shown in the reports of Aft;
leading postofflces for September.
That was the month in which the
people who were away on vacations
wrote home for money to get bat
with.
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COLD STORAGE AND CORNERS.
New Methods of Preserving Consti
tute Aid to Trusts.
The improved methods of preser
ving foodstuffs devised by science
have been supplied to constitute an
unmixed gain for mankind, enabling
us to spread the good things of one
season over another and to correct the
shortage of one year or country by
the abundance of another. But cold
storage has, it appears, its disadvan
tages, since it enables the capitalist
to corner the supply of perishable
foodstuffs and exact a higher price,
says the Baltimore Sun. The market
need not be glutted with peaches or
eggs if the cold storage man can put
the extra supply away to wait for a
scarcity and higher price. While the
cold storage thus increases the avail
able food supply and tends to prevent
waste, at the same time steadying
prices and preventing violent fluctua
tions, it also increases the control
over the market exercised by com
bines. But there is a limit to the
power of the combine to affect prices,
as is seen in the case of wheat or
corn which are not so perishable as
peaches and eggs. Theoretically the
capitaist should be able to control the
world’s supply of wheat and be able
to sell at starvation prices, but in fact
he does not do so and cannot do so.
rn the long run the prevention of loss
by cold storage may tend, by increas
ing the general supply of a given ar
;icle, to reduce its average price.
ORIGIN OF WOOD ENGRAVING.
Many Countries Contend for the Hon
or of the Invention.
Much controversy was at one time,
?xclted about the country that could
’laim to have originated wood engrav
■ng. A very simple process was
known to the Egyptians for the pro
duction of stamps, and it has been as
serted that the Chinese printed from
blocks of peartree as early as the
kenth century. The independent orig
'nation of the art has been generally
credited to Germany among modern
latlons. In the Cologne district a St.
Christopher, which has often been re
produced, was cut in 1423, a St. Se
bastion in 1437 and a Madonna has
been dated 1418. Playing cards were,
however, in use in France in the mid
dle of the fourteenth century, and the
figures were impressions from wood
blocks, states the Scientific American.
It is allowable for France to dispute
the priority of Germany, and many at
tempts have been made to claim the
art as due to French enterprise. M.
Henri Eouchot of the Bibliotheque Na
tionale, now declares that a part of a
block with a representation of a cru
cifixion has been discovered in a coun
try town of France. The costumes
are evidently those worn in the mid
dle fourteenth century, and it is as
sumed that the wood block belongs to
some time between 1340 and 1350.
NOT WHAT HE EXPECTED.
How Mr. Ingalls' Lesson in Politeness
Was Wasted.
M. E. Ingalls, prominent in railroad
affairs of the middle west, has a rule
that callers must send in their names
from an outer office and await his
summons if he desires to admit them.
It is told of him that, not a great
while ago, the rule was ignored by a
stranger, who swung wide the door,
let it close with a bang, and jerkily
asked:
“Ingalls in?"
"I am Mr. Ingalls,” replied the rail
road man, his choler rising.
“So?” queried the stranger. “Letter
for you.”
And he handed over an envelope.
When Mr. Ingalls read the contents he
appeared surprised and asked:
"Do you know what this says?”
“Yep,” replied the stranger. “Sta
tion agent in our town said you’d give
me a job if I brought that to you.”
“Indeed!” commented Ingalls, ironi
cally. “Well, do you not think your
chances would be better if you at
least knocked before entering, re
moved your hat when you entered,
and asked for ’Mr.’ Ingalls instead of
merely ‘Ingalls’?”
The stranger looked discomfited,
reached for the letter, and slowly left.
Before Ingalls recovered from his sur
prise, there was a knock on the doer,
and, responding to his ‘Come in!’ the
stranger re-entered softly, removed
his hat and gently inquired:
“Is Mr. Ingalls in. sir?’’
The magnate, deeply impressed with
the fact that his little lecture had pro
duced quick results, said cheerily:
“Yes, my friend—I am he. What
can I do for you?"
“Do for me?” came the answer.
Then, louder: “Do for me! You can
go to the devil for me, you bald head
ed little duffer! That’s what you can
do!”
And he denarted, slamming the door.
A PAT PON OF ART.
Boston Woman Who Was Mistaken
About Value of Her Purchase.
One of Boston’s “patrons of art”
stepped into a picture store on Boston
street the other day, and, after an in
spection of the stock, called a sales
man and asked the price of a bit of
coloring that appealed to her fancy.
"Three fifty,” was the reply. “You may
send it to my address,” she said, and
took her departure.
A few days later she was again in
the store, wearing a look of extreme
dismay. Having located the clerk
from whom she had made the pur
chase, she inquired if some mistake
had not been made in the price. “I
think not,” he said; “have you the bill
with you?” “Yes, here it is.” “I see
no mistake in it.” “You don’t mean
to say that the price was $350?”
“Why, certainly, and we considered it
a very low figure.”
Taking the picture from under her
cloak, she handed it back to the sales
man. saying, “I thought the price was
$3.50 from what you said.”—Boston
Herald.
Paris Has Bad Summer.
The summer season of 1902 will
count among the worst in tne annals
of Paris. It has been a failure in
every way.
Steamers on Swiss Lake.
There are 65 steamers on the Swiss
lakes. The largest can transport 1,200
passengers.
AMERICAN NAVAL BASE IN CARIBBEAN SEA.
The rapid growth of the govern
ment’s Idea regarding the amount of
rontrol we should exercise over the
waters of the West Indies and the
turroundlng territory may be Inferred
Tom the Increase In the program an
nounced only a few weeks ago by the
tavy department. The statement was
then made that, owing to the unset
tled conditions prevailing in this part
of the world, the gunboat Bancroft
tias been ordered to Porto Rico as a
station ship.
Heretofore, when it has been nec
essary to display our flag in some tur
bulent Latin-Ameriean port, much
valuable time has been lost and extra
expense involved by dispatching a
vessel from New Tork or Boston. It
seemed advisable, therefore, to sta
tion the Bancroft 1,200 miles nearer
the scene of action, where she would
be able to reach her destination in
two or three days from the receipt of
orders from Washington.
Scarcely had the Bancroft started
when the navy department decided to
anticipate by nearly six months the
naval maneuvers to be held next
winter, and ordered Rear Admiral Jo
seph B. Coghlan to assume command
of the newly created Caribbean di
division of the North Atlantic squad
ron. Admiral Coghlan expects to
hoist hi3 flag on the Olympia Oct. 20
and sail for Culebra island, which
will be the headquarters for our Carib
i bean naval force. In addition to the
flagship Olympia there will he seven
other vessels In Admiral Coghlan’s
division.
Culebra is one of the several small
islands off the eastern coast of Porto
Rico which we acquired from Spain
when that island was ceded to us by
the treaty of Paris. The largest ol
this group of islands is Vieques ot
Crab Island, five miles from Porte
Rico and eight miles from Culebra
It has a length from east to west ol
twenty-one miles, with a width of sIj
miles and forms the southern bound
ary of Vieques Sound
Culebra Is only about half the size
of Vieques Island, b*t. has been given
the preference j.b a naval bane on ae
count of its fine harbor.
JUST A TRUCK DOG.
Scrawny and Dirty, but He Did Hla
Duty Well.
! He was a dirty, scawny dog. but he
maintained the dignity of his standing,
or running, in fact, in jogdom. He
might have been white at one lime,
with his black spots defined sharply,
Out circumstances evidently had com
pelled an existence that in recent
/cars had not permitted a bath other
than that provided by falling rain, and
the indications were that he had not
taken advantage of opportunities in
that respect frequently.
He was trotting along under a truck
that crossed Fulton street at a busy
hour of the day. He glanced neither
to the right nor to the left, but kept
his gaze on the heels of the horses in
front. If he had been a coach dog he
j would have been under the axle ot
j the front wheels, but, being a truck
j dog, ho was under the rear axle.
Whether he had been trained to trot
! there as a protector of the tail-end of
1 the truck from the exasperating urch
j Ins of the street, says a writer in the
j New York Times, or had of his own
| volition dropped back to a rear poai
i tion as a concession to the difference
| between a coach dog and a truck dog,
J the chronicler knoweth not. At any
rate, he knew his duty, and he was
! doing it.
AN ADVENTURE IN ITALY,
Artist Tells of Somewhat Ludicrous
Incident at a Well.
Mortimer Menpes, the artist, tells
the following travel story of an inci
dent near Naples: "A whining
Neapolitan pestered us wuth requests
that we should taste his orange li
queur and buy a bottle, only one bot
tle. This made us cross, for we were
'^ery hot. and neither 1 nor my daugh
ter drink wine. Moreover, the man
was blocking our view. To get rid
of him we attempted to climb a wall
by the side of a well. I got over safe
iy, but in attempting some more
graceful and aerobatic feat my daugh
ter missed her footing and fell head
long into the well below. On rising
lo the surface she clung like grim
death to a small piece of mossy stone
projecting from the side of the well,
and I, above her, waited in agony of
mind, scared and shivering, until
ropes and ladders were lowered and
she half walked and was half pulled
l\p. The most excited person of all
w-as the wine merchant, who leaned
over her, his face deadly white with
oatches of green, pouring pints of his
oreeious orange liqueur down her
throat gratis.”
Some Young-Old People.
Mrs. Castlebury writes from Phila
delphia Vi her 75-year-old son in Newf
York that she never felt so gay and
iolly in het life as at this very time,
and feels quite positive that she will
live to be ov»>r 100. Her handwriting
1 Is like copperplate. It is so steady and
clear. At 97 she is planning amuse
ments five years ahead. "Old Man”
Cochrane, a highiy respected citizen of
Brooklyn, aged 93, walks from his
home in Lewis avenue to Richmond
Hill, a distance of seven miles, to
romp on the lawn with his grandchil
dren. The late Secretary Gresham's
mother has just celebrated her 100th
birthday, hale and hearty. The ad
vertising collector and assistant ad
vertising manager of the Detroit Free
Press is younger at 82 than any other
man on the paper. He walks thirty
or forty miles aday, takes a drink
whenever he feels like it. and plays
cards until midnight. James F. Se
ror, at 88, superintends his farm and
country place at Pelham Manor, and
there is scarcely a day that, he does
not handle a rake or hoe himself. As
a diversion he pushes a lawn mower.
There are others. Glory to every
green and vigorous old age!—as Chas.
A. Dana said.
A Frontier Jail.
Graham county jail, at Clifton, Arlz.,
. is unique. It comprises four large
spartments hewn from the solid
quartz rock of a hillside. The en
trance is through a box-like vestibule
af heavy masonry' and equipped with
three sets of steel gates. The floor
yf the rockbound jail is of cement, and
the prisoners are confined exclusively
in the larger rooms. Some of the
most desperate criminals on the
louthwest border have been confined
in the Clifton jail, and so solid and
heavy are the barriers to escape that
30 one there has ever attempted a
break for freedom. The notorious
Black Jack was there for months. The
wall of quart2 about the jail is fifteen
reet thick. Clifton is one of the great
?opper mining camps in Arizona, and
has the reputation of being as deprav
ed a community as yet exists on the
frontier of civilization. In summer
the mercury there frequently rises
to 120 in the shade and in the winter
It never goes below 40 degrees.
Limit in Initials.
“These initials that girls are wear
ing,” declared Dick, “are about the
limit. They have them stuck over
everything they wear—embroidered, I
suppose the term is. Whenever I see
a girl with an ‘M’ on the shoulder an
almost irresistible temptation to say
‘Hello, Mamie,’ seizes me. When a
J girl with a ’C’ sprawling all over her
stock passes me 1 never know whether
to whisper, ‘Good morning, Carrie,’
or ‘Cissy, wink.’ The worst ever in
Initials was traveling along Four
teenth street on Thursday. The poor,
misguided girl wore a white gown
with a black crepe clasping the lert
sleeve. A high three-inch ‘D’ embroid
ered in white almost covered the
mourning band. An initial on a crepe
band would breed doubts whether ‘D
was the person mourned or the wearer
of the crepe.’’—New World.
Gacr's War Record.
George F. Baer, most belllcoso of tli»
mine owners at the recent conference
in the White House, has a war record
of which he has some reason to be
proud. He was the youngest captain
nnd later the youngest major in tin
army of the Potomac during the civil
war, having been commissioned to tIn
former grade before his 20th birthday
Mr. Baer is considerably the youngest
looking of the coal operators who ui
tended the conference. He leads an
active life, getting up every morning
at 6 o'clock and walking miles daily
before retiring at night.
An Obstacle to Piety.
One of Senator "Billy’ Mason’s sto
ries is about two of ills brothers. Ed
and Jim, who dealt in wool at their
home in Iowa. Jim went to a revival
meeting (unthinkingly, the senator
says) and “got religion.” In his first
burst of enthusiasm he told his broth
er of how much better he felt since hi
conversion and urged Ed to come into
the fold. The latter pondered gravely
for a time and then said; "Ain't any
noubt but what religion’s a good thin a
and I’m glad you’ve got it. Jim, but
I guess you better let me alone just
now,” he continued, reflectively. “You
see. Jim, one of us has got to weigh
the wool."
CT. JACOB'S OIL.
In cases where bronchitis has be
come chronic from want of proper
treatment in the earlier stages, there
is nothing so good as Dr. August
Koenig’s Hamburg Breast Tea, in con
junction with which is strongly ad
vised the use of St. Jacobs Oil as an
outward application along the front of
the throat, from close up under the
rhin to well down to the top of the
chest; the one remedy assists the
other and as intended, they work in
complete unison. The wonderful pen
etrating power of St. Jacobs Oil ena
bles it to reach the adhesion of for
eign matter, which lines the bronchial
tubes and which makes breathing
more and more difficult. As these ad
hesions become Inflamed and enlarged
St. Jacobs Oil causes such adhesions
to break away, making expectoration
easier and more free. Dr. August
Koenig’s Hamburg Breast Tea, drank
slowly and very hot, soothes and
heals the parts, is comforting and
quieting, stops the cough and relieves
the breathing. This manner of treat
ment (and there is no other two rem
edies that will work together so suc
cessfully) reaches the difficulty from
the outside and the inside at the same
time. St. Jacobs Oil reaches the roots
of the adhesion and assists I)r. August
Koenig s Hamburg Breast Tea in clear
ing them; then both remedies act in
unison in healing and curing.The above
remarks apply with equal force in cases
of asthma, croup, whooping cough, en
larged tonsils and all bronchial affec
tions. Every family should have St.
Jacob’s Oil and Dr. August Koenig's
Hamburg Breast Tea always in the
house in order that they may be
promptly used in the flrst stages.
Often the maladies develop with won
derful rapidity and complications take
place with equal suddenness.
Nothing is more distressing than
young men trying to act old or old
men trying to act young.
Ben»r« of ointments tor Catarrh Thai A
Contain Mercury, 1
As mercury will surely destroy the sense ol
Miiell and completely derange the whole system
when entering It through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never bo used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is tenfold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo. O., contains no mercury, and Is taken
Internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure he sure you get the genuine.
It is taken internally, and made In Toledo, Ohio,
by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Isold
by Druggists, price "Sc per bottle.
Hall s Family Pill* are the bosk
Pedigree never filled a nungry man’s
Btomarh.
W. N. U.—Omaha. No. 44—1902
K INVESTMENT
The Preferred 6tock of the
W. L. Douglas sco°.e
Capital Stock, $2,000,000.
S1,000,000 Preferred Stock.
$ l ,oco,oco Common Stock.
Shares, SIOO each. Sold at Par.
Oal) Pref rred Stock offered for S’le.
W. L. Djuglas retain! all Common Stock.
The PrefcrrM Stock of the* W. I>onKlaA Shoe Com
piny pAy* tn*Mfr than SavIitk* Hank* ot tiovcrTintent
ik»ud». hTenrdoUar ot itock offerd the public has
✓ behind It more tint!) n itnllkr <
worth of act iml assets. W. I,
Dotiffta* continues to own
1 one-half of the business. and
? Is to remain the active head
5 of tiie concern.
vi This biisinets is not an nn
developed prospect. It is a ;
//demonstrated dividend pay
/ er. This is the iarcest trashiest
in I he world p: odnchifr Men’s
tJoodvear Welt (Hand He wed
Process) shoes, and has al
ways been Immensely profit
able, Thera has not been a
year in the past twelve when
v tlie business has not earned
'ifcwln actual cash much more
Uwthan the amount necessary
/IBL'to pay 7 per cent annual
The annii.il business now In $6 600 000, it in Increasing
JW7 rapidly, and will eoual $7.00 ou) for the yenr ltt*.
The factory In now turning out 7*0o pairs of shoes per
clay, and an addition to the plant Is Wing built which
wuilncrease the capacity to 10,000 pairs per dHy.
1 ho reason 1 am offering the l‘rer erred Stock for salo
is to perpetuate tlie business.
If you wish to Invent In the best shoe business in the
world, which is permanent, ami receive 7 per cent on
your money, you can purchase one share or more in this
great hum ness. .Send money i>y cashier ’s check or certi
fied check, made payable fo W. 1* Douglas. If there
is no name in yonr town. scn«l l.y ..*»»••<»•« nr
post office money orders. " ‘X
fill Information about till, (Treat
UHl proOtaHe bnalnoM arnt npon application. Ad circa*
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