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Loup City Northwestern
GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
The Insurance companies think par
lor matches are not to be made light
vt.
In Denver some of the lovely wo
men are now referred to as 'beautiful
repeaters.”
Senor Sagasta is far behind In fill
ing King Alfonso’s orders for new
Spanish cabinets.
The Molineux murder trial cost the
public half a million dollars. Justice
is an expensive luxury.
Let us hope that no recently elected
legislators are getting new pockets
sewed into their clothes.
This is the season when a pretty
miss, ready for a kiss, is always near
him who has the red ear.
London dispatches say it will cost
$100 a day to see the Indian durbar at
Delhi. That will bar most of us.
The Romanoffs have dodged too
many bombs to permit a member to
irtroduce a Pistolkoff into the family.
Paris is taking to educated cats.
It will be a fine thing if the cat can
be taught that back roofing is bad
form.
Out in Kansas, whenever the young
men appear to be rather shy the girls
make traps and call them literary
societies.
The people who believe that wis
dom will die with them might have
a different opinion if more of it lived
with them.
Some of the people who think they
were born to command do not dis
cover their mistake until they get
married.—Puck.
The Count and Countess de Castel
lano may have to pinch a little, but
they will somehow manage to live on
|200,000 a year.
Sometimes the impossible happens.
A cat so frightened a New York wo
man the other day that she dislocated
her jaw screaming.
A Russian princess claims that she
has discovered the secret of perpetual
youth. Hope it will be catching like
the Russian influenza.
The names of the new submarine
torpedo boats are not particularly ap
propriate. Neither the adder nor the
moccasin is a water snake.
Prof. Garner says that monkeys do
not use grammar in their language,
bo that bad grammar cannot, after all,
be called monkeying with one’s Eng
lish.
Bridgton, N. J., has a vigilance com
mittee, formed to introduce union
hours for “sparking.” Lovers are ex
pected to knock off work at 11 p. m.
sharp.
These men who are offering prizes
for love letters ought to have gump
tion enough to go out and earn them.
They are better when they are secured
that way.
Gen. Corbin recommends that
American soldiers be taught to sing.
He doesn’t go so far, however, as to
advise the use of the piccolo or the
yellow flute.
A New York man who is seventy
two years of age has inherited $15,
000,000. He ought to be old enough
not to let a little thing like that
start him a-going.
The people down around the isth
mus could have blasted a ditch across’
with the powder they have burned in
popping away at each other in the last
thirty or forty years.
When a woman 62 years of age puts
a valuation of $30,000 on her heart in
a daniage case it is no wonder that
the hearts of 17-year-old maidens are
regarded by many as priceless.
A piece of pie has formed the basis
for a divorce suit down in Indiana.
Pie has been guilty of many misde
meanors, but we do not recall that
it ever before tried to disrupt a fam
ily.
An Iowa editor has been robbed of
his revolver and his money. That is
what comes of carrying a revolver.
A man without one may be robbed,
but the result will not be quite so
humiliating.
T. "Pay” O’Connor has undertaken
to give a list of the great men who
have been unmade by their wives.
This is a much easier task than to
rame those who have been made by
their helpmates.
The Count of Flanders, who has
given up his claim to the Iielgian
throne, may be or.e of those people
who can look far enough ahead to
see that the Belgian throne isn't going
to be worth much to the claimant
after awhile.
Our compliments to that German
prince who has made an offer for
Miss Goelet, and we beg to say that
our girls never marry unless they
think they love, although, in the
case of titled foreigners, they some
times act on insufficient evidence.
Services Suddenly Ended
Irate Father Breaks Up Religious "Revival"
on Street—Meeting Was a Pronounced
Success Until Interrupted.
Hallelu
HOOP-E-E!
jah!"
A slender maiden
with very large eyes
thus expressed her feel
ings in State street last
Sunday. With her were
four other women. One
of them carried a gui
tar. but in the events
that followed she was not seen to play
It. She seemed to be what circus peo
ple call a “filler in the noisy”—that is,
her mission was to pretend she was
playing the instrument, while as a
matter of fact she didn’t know one
string from another.
The shouts delivered by the slender
girl caused something bordering on_a
panic in State street. Men who had
“Whoop-e-e! Hallelujah!”
been walking quietly along two blocks
Irom the scene of the queer revival
turned upon hearing the yell and ran
as though they were following a fire
engine. Within half a minute after
the slender girl had expressed her
feelings fully 200 persons were around
the little missionary band, pushing for
more room, treading upon one anoth
er's feet, and saying things not wholly
in accord with a religious meeting.
It was a queer quintet that attract
ed the attention of the crowd. No one
seemed to be leading the services. One
of them would start up with a song
and the others would join in. They
stood near the curbing, three of them
in a line, and the other two at right
angles. One of those who stood at
right angles was a small woman
dressed in black. She was not very
enthusiastic, but she seemed to take
a keen delight in the shouting and
dancing that was done by the others,
for she smiled and clapped her hands
whenever a particularly loud yell was
uttered or a difficult gymnastic feat
performed.
The girl who stood next to her was
rather tall and very pretty. Next in
line was the slender girl; then the
woman with the guitar and at the foot
of the line was an attractive looking
brunette.
"Praise the Lord, I feel so good that
The Brunette's Shout Brought in a
Batch of About Fifty Additional
Spectators.
I wouldn’t give up religion if I was
threatened with eternal damnation for
keeping it!” exclaimed the slender
girl. Then she smiled happily at the
crowd and began dancing.
“We will all feel better when we
repent,” sang the tall, pretty girl, and
the others joined her in the song. The
woman with the guitar moved her lips
and worked her Ungers, but no sign
of a tune came from the instrument.
“Whe-ew!" suddenly shrieked the
brunette. “Oh, it's such a pleasure to
know, your soul Is saved!”
“Yes, and the Lord gives you that
feeling,” said one of the others.
The brunette’s shout brought in a
batch of about fifty additional specta
tors. She smiled as she saw them
running toward the gathering, and
then said:
“Come on! Come from all sides. We
The Little Woman In Black Saved the
day.
want you to hear us, for the Lord
wants your souls!” At this juncture
:he little woman in black knelt, down
ind began praying. The crowd !;s
'.ened in respectful silence, half a
lozen men taking off their hats. One
>f the women started up a hymn.
Fr'hen this had been finished the slen
ler girl began Jumping up and down.
“Ump-tiddle ump-tiddle ump-tiddle
i (lee. Hooray. My! Haw happy 1
feel.” she shouted.
The singing aad shouting continued
for afacnt five minutes, and then came
a lull.
The missionaries had evidently ex
hausted their repertoire of songs. Tie
slender maiden looked at the taS!
maiden and both of them blushed
The girl with the guitar suddenly dis
covered that it needed tuning. The
brunette began tying her handkerchief
into all kinds of knots. It was plain
that the enthusiasm of the workers
was in danger of dying out.
But right at this point the little
woman in black saved the day. Ad
vancing to the front of the line she
raised her hand.
‘Friends, it was not always thus
with me,” she began. ‘‘Once I was
poor, and I suffered. Then I became
rich and had all that the world could
supply me with. Finally 1 found the
Lord, and now I am happier than ever
before in my life.”
“Hoor-a-y!” shouted the slender girl.
A horse that was passing the crowd
reared up on its haunches when she
screamed. Three men who were eat
ing in a cafe across the street rar
outside with their napkins arount
their necks. Even the little woman
in black involuntarily caught her
breath as the yell was uttered.
Just then a red-faced teamster drove
toward the crowd and stopped his
wagon back of the girl. He gazed at
her Intently for several seconds, and
with an exclamation sprang from the
vehicle.
“Now that I have been converted 1
want you all to know-”
‘ What on earth are you doing out
here on the street, Florence?” It was
the teamster, and he was very angry.
Tears began welling into the large
Helped Her Up on the High Seat.
eyes of Florence as she turned hpon
the man.
“I just wanted to do some mission
ary work, pa." she sobbed.
“Well, you just come home with
me,” said the teamster, and, seizing
Florence by the hand, he dragged her
through the crowd to the wagon
helped her up on the high seat and
drove away.
“Hooray:” shouted the pretty girl.
But there was no response from Flor
ence. Her face was burled in a hand
kerchief.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Letters Mark Twain Gets.
Mark Twain is long suffering in the
matter of a correspondence loaded
with requests for favors from un
known people. He has. consequently,
received the impression that when
people find time hanging heavily on
their hands they sit down and write
a letter to him asking for something.
These requests are always preceded
by profuse compliments. “In my
judgment,” said Mark Twain recently,
“no compliment has the slightest
value when it is charged for, yet I
think I never get one unaccompanied
by the bill.” The latest letter he has
received Is somewhat in the nature of
a climax even to those that have gone
before. A school teacher asks for his
portrait in oil. “There is nothing we
would appreciate so much,” wrote this
admirer, with true naivete. “It could
i be used for years and years in the
school.” But the fact that it would
cost the author a thousand dollars or
so entered nowhere into the enthu
siastic brain of the correspondent.
Claim Motto Is Welsh.
“Ioh dien,” the motto which belong?
to the Prince of Wales, is usually
translated “I serve,'' and tradition has
it that it was taken by the black
prince from the royal helmet of the
blind king of Bohemian who was killed
on the field of Crecy. It is a notable
fact, however, that the late Dr. Wil
liam Ihne, professor of English litera
ture at Heidelberg, rejected this
theory. He held that the motto was
of Welsh origin and took its rise at
the time when Edward I presented his
new-born eldest son to the Welsh
chieftains at Carnarban castle as their
| future sovereign. He held the child
up in his arms and exclaimed in
Welsh, “Eich dyn," meaning ‘This is
your man.” The explanation is ac
cepted by many antiquarians.
Yale Man as a Missionary.
Dr. Samuel Guorney of the Yale
medical school, class of 1901, will go
to Oomgalli, Rhodesia. South Africa,
i to become a medical missionary. He
| h the man who took charge of Cook,
j the smallpox patient in Derby, two
] years ago. when no one could bo found
j to undertake the nursing. For this ho
j was presented with a gold medal by
I the legislature. The nisslon at Oom
galli is one of the most important in
South Africa. Dr. Gu?rney is now
purchasing $10,000 worth ci equipment
for the manual training ichool and
hospital.
Corset a Foe to Health
Writer Claims It Is Not Only Unsanitary
But Disliguring—At Best Its Constant Wear
Produces an Inartistic and Artificial Shape.
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OME time ago Dr.
Phillippe Marechale at
tempted to get a law
into the French stat
utes giving the gov
ernment control of the
sale of corsets. He
made it a misdemeanor
for any woman under
thirty years of age to
wear one. imposing a penalty of three
months in prison or a fine of $200.
He planned to have the manufacturer
and dealer submit reports to the au
thorities of all persons purchasing
them, on pain of having their prop
erty confiscated. Dr. Marechale evi
dently was fully aware of the opposi
fion this attempted reform would
irouse among women, and he framed
the law' so stringently that no one
could escape. It did not pass, how
ever. and women who are wedded to
their corsets will not be divorced
from them unless it should be decreed
in Paris by the makers of fashion
that suppleness, grace, natural curves
and health should be among the
requisites of a fashionable woman in
stead of the stilted, artificial, cramp
ed deformities which the fashionable
modiste now turns upon society.
Boys are allowed to reach maturity
without being made over, but girls
are not.
Education in the line of physical
culture, however, is widening the
horizon of American women, and
many are adopting a healthful mode
of dress and many more would if
they could adjust their clothing prop
erly. Discarding the corset is only
half of the battle. If the heavy
skirts hang from the waist and the
bands are tight the discomfort Is
greater than the corset and the injury
nearly as great. The muscles which
have been weakened by the corset
must be strengthened by systematic
practice so that they will keep the
Doay erect ana
firm and per
form the office
of the steel and
w halebone.
Then, with un
derclothing and
dress made to
correspond to
the law of beau
ty and natural
form, the eman
cipated woman
'/ARTISTIC/
•HtAL'niruC^
GowH:
will grow strong, happy and attrac
tive.
The degree of lacing in every coun
try is like a barometer, indicating the
artistic and moral condition of the
epoch. The earliest mention of gird
ing was made by that first dress re
former, the prophet Isaiah. Israel,
grown proud in prosperity, was given
over to idolatry, social degradation
and anarchy.
An artificial shape of the waist
among the Egyptian women accom
panied an age of extravagance.
According to Rousseau and others,
compression of the body was not prac
tlced by the Spartans. Women were
considered part of the state and were
placed under training scarcely less
vigorous than the men; nor Is there
evidence of waist stricture in the
succeeding period, that of the wor
ship of the beautiful; but in the days
preceding the destruction of the
Greek republics, when patriotism and
morals were forgotten, courtesans
originating in this lowest order of
society was adopted by women of
WN
rank. The Romans in their turn took
up the fashion.
During the early middle ages the
custom was not practiced, but about
the eleventh century the power of
fashion began to be felt and extrava
gant dross and tight bandaging in
creasing. A portrait of Henry III.,
son of Catherine de Medici shows
that tight lacing was also practiced
by men.
After Napoleon’s elevation to im
perial power he adopted the most
rigorous system of court etiquette.
An attempt to resurrect the Medici
corset was made by the ladies of
Paris fashions, but it was opposed by
the empress.
Napoleon said concerning the re
vival of tight lacing in 1810: "This
wear, born of coquetry and bad taste,
which murders children, tells of frivo
lous taste and warns me of approach
ing decadence.” Bouchant, a writer
of that period, says: "Stays are
not composed of whalebone or of
hardened leather, but of bars of steel
from three to four inches broad, and
many of them not less than eighteen
inches in length.”
The corset was introduced into
England in the twelfth century, aud
at first was comparatively harmless.
Its exclusive use characterized the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. The body
was incased in a stiff armor, and both
men and women squeezed in their
waists and swelled out their gar
ments below.
This age of literature was the dark
age of morality so far as the court
was concerned. The folly in dress
was unlimited. The ruffs for the neck
were stiffened by metal wires and
by colored starch. These were so
immense that a spoon two feet long
was necessary to convey food safely
to the mouth. The hair was colored
in divers hues or was shaved to ac
comodate wigs of various colors.
The Puritans made bitter warfare
on “devilish fashions;” the Puritan
conscience banished these follies with
the immoralities of the times, and
our Puritan ancestors came to our
shores without the stiff ruff and
without the steel armour about the
waist. As in other countries, the
passing of simplicity and a vigorous
industry marked the passing of sen
sible dress, and in 1820 a writer in
Boston describes the practice o!
wearing the corset day and night,
tightening it when lying down and
again in the morning.
The corset of the present day is
more flexible and less objectionable,
yet it Is still a relic of barbarism,
writes Mabel Stillman in the Milwau
kee Sentinel. The cheapness of it
puts it within the reach of every
class, and the yearly output, not in
eluding those which are imported,
amounts to 60,000.000.
The Crown of Roumanla.
The crown of Roumanla has a
unique place in the history of rnon
archies as the only crown which has
been refused successively by father
and son. When, within the memory
of the present generation, Roumanla
became a kingdom, Prince Leopold,
the elder brother of King Charles, was
declared official heir, but the prince
surrendered his rights to his son,
Prince William, the renunciation being
formally registered in the senate 22
years ago. For eight years the son
was heir to the throne and then in
1888 the prince, treading in his fath
ers stops, gave up his rights in favor
of his brother, and the brother, Prince
Ferdinand, is heir to King Charles to
day.
Chinese Government Advancing.
The Chinese imperial government
has taken another step in advance by
appointing a Japanese scholar of dis
tinction, Dr. Unokichi Hattori, to a
professorship in Pekin university. The
doctor was in that city during the
siege. He is to be dean of the school
of literature. The appointment is a
sequel of the visit of the famous Chi
nese educator, Wu Ju-lun, to Tokio to
tamiliarlze himself with Japanese edu
cational methods.
•the proof of the puddinq
LIES IN THE EATiNG.”
The doctors are dumbfounded, the
druggists astonished, and the people
excited and joyful over the wonderful
cures and tremendous sales of the
great Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil. Every
case of Rheumatism—some of many
years’ standing—has given way to
this powerful remedy. Thousands of
certificates like the following can be
furnished as to its value:
George Scisyer, Publisher of the
Chilton, Wis„ "Volksbote,” used St.
Jacobs Oil for “almost unbearable
pains in the back, which had com
pletely prostrated him.’’ A few appli
cations cured him entirely.
Mrs. Fred Eberle, Bellalre, O., was
for a Ions time severely troubled with
Rheumatism. St. Jacobs Oil instantly
relieved and entirely cured her.
Rev. Dr. B. Pick of Rochester, N. Y„
suffered so intensely from Rheumatic
pains that he was unable to preach.
Several applications from a bottle of
SL Jacobs Oil “relieved him.”
F. Radder, Cleveland, Ohio, says:
“Two applications of St. Jacobs Oil
cured me of great and long-continued
pain in my foot.”
Messrs. C. L. Brundage and Son,
Druggists. Muskegon, Mich., write.—
“St. Jacobs Oil has a wonderful sale.
We sold eight bottles at retail yester
day. This will give you some idea
of how well it is liked in this sec
tion.”
Mr. Louis Hinkel, of East Poesten,
Kill, N. Y„ says:—“I call St. Jacobs
Oil the best liniment 1 ever used. It
cured me of Rheumatism and pain in
the back.”
Herman Rittner, Manchester, N.
H.:—“I have tried St. Jacobs Oil, and
found It excellent. All those who have
purchased it speak of it aa ’simply in
comparable.’ ”
Geo. G. Erffle, Palestine, 111.:—“I
was in bed suffering from a swollen
leg, I used St. Jacobs Oil, its effect
was wonderful. The following day I
attended to my business again.”
Dr. Otto Fuls. Reading, O., writes:
—“The sale of St. Jacobs Oil is con
stantly Increasing: it is praised by
everybody, and never fails to give en
tire satisfaction.”
Half Rates.
Plus 12.00, one way cr round trlp.vla
Wabash Kailroad. Tickets on sale first
and third Tuesdays of each month to
many points south and southeast. Aside
from this tickets are on sale to all the
winter resorts of the south at greatly
reduced rates. The Wabash Is the
shortest, quickest and best line for St.
Louis and all points south and south
east. Ask your nearest ticket agent to
route you via the Wabash.
For rates, folders and all Information
call at Wabash corner, 1601 Farnam St.,
Omaha, or address,
HARRY E. MOORES,
, Gen. Pass. Agt. Dept., Omaha, Neb.
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l' Never look like a bargain counter
after the pick of the remnants is gone.
Ready to Die.
Not long ago Senator William P.
Frye of Maine was summoned to pre
pare a will for a man who was very*
ill. It was necessary, of course, to se
cure two witnesses, and they had to
be sent for. While awaiting their ar
rival the invalid seemed to get worse, ^
and Senator Frye thought it his duty,
no minister being present, to talk se
riously to him. He told him that he
was very ill. and that it was likely he
would soon depart this life. 1 And are
you ready to meet the great change?”
Frye asked him. "I will be," was the
reply, "as soon as those d—d witness
es get here.”
Premier Balfour’s Musical Tastes.
Arthur James Balfour is said to be
the first musical premier England has
had. He is an enthusiast for the art
and Is catholic enough in taste to like
Wagner, although his idols are Han
del and Bach. He is a friend of Mme.
Wagner and has been Iialreuth more
than once. He used to make long
journeys to hear the lesser known
works of Handel and in January, 1887,
the Edinburgh Review printed an arti
cle by him on that composer. He has
been a subscriber of the Richter con
certs from their commencement.
The Hansons Are Happy.
Aahley, N. D., Dec. 8th —Cured of
that moat dangerous of all Diseases,
Rheumatism of the Heart, J. H. Han
son of this place loses no opportunity
of singing the praises of Dodd’s Kid
ney Pills.
"I am able to work again,” says
Mr. Hanson. “And am feeling better
than I have for five years. Broken
down and fairly used up and suffering
from Rheumatism of the Heart and
Dropsy 1 was in very bad shape.
“Then I started taking Dodd’s Kid
ney Pills and—well, you can Bee how
I look and I feel as well as I look.
My Rheumatism is gone and tho
Dropsy with It.
“I don’t think they’ll ever bother
me again, but if they do I’ll just get
some more of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I
know that will flx them.”
Mrs. Hanson, too, whose health was
far from good, took the same remedy
and she joins with her husband in
recommending Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Old age would be bereft of a gener
ous share of its comforts if it could
not boast of when ‘i was young."
A mule or a woman could never bo
happy unless they could kick about
something or other.
Lava Continues Hot.
The lava streams from the eruption
of Vesuvius in 1858 were so hot twelve
years later that steam issued from
their cracks and crevices. Those that
flowed from Etna in 1787 were found
to be steaming hot just below the crust
as late as 1840. The volcano Jorulia.
in Mexico, poured forth lu 1759 lava
that 87 years later gave off columns
of steaming vapor. In 1780 It was
found that a stick thrust Into the^
crevices instantly ignited, although no
discomfort was experienced in walking
<n the hardened crust.