Loup City Northwestern
GEO. E. BEN8CHOTER, Ed. and Pub.
LOUP CITY, • - NEBRASKA.
A good epitaph la all right In Its
place, but it comes so late.
The woman with a past is often the
most eager to tackle a future.
In a year Minister Wu will be able
to continue his interrogatory by
cable.
The English language is to be taught
In Mexican schools. Make way for
Mexico.
World wide sympathy is expressed for
Doukbobors in their efforts to Chris
tianize Canada.
That French movement for universal
peace might first try its hand on the
chamber of deputies.
Exercise Is great to keep people
warm. And it doesn’t cost any more
than It did last winter.
It was indeed a brilliant society
event In London when Capt. Tew and
Miss Ward were made one.
George Gould walks to and from his
office every day. We always knew we
resembled George in our nabits.
Lord Curzon has found King Solo
mon’s throne, and flatters himself
that it will prove to be a good fit.
Mr. Carnegie’s digestion is reported
lo be impaired. Evidently he has been
eating something besides Scotch oats.
Some men manage to consider them
selves great by bequeathing their
brains to certain institutions of learn
ing.
But then, it is possible to lead a
too strenuous life. A New York boy
has played truant from school 108
times.
Apostle Smoot is said to be very
susceptible to the blandishments of
the fair sex. Smoot is easily smitten,
no doubt.
The Ohio man who advertises for a
wife with money enough to offset his
brains should apply at> the nearest
almshouse.
But after all Sir Hiram Maxim Is
not the only foreign celebrity who has
come to this country with the inten
tion of flying high.
King Alfonso has a cabinet crisis
on his hands, but it will take some
thing worse than that to spoil his
taste for cigarettes.
The Britons whipped the Boers, but1
the latter are getting a terrible re
venge. They’re all writing books and
selling them to the English.
Newport has established an asylum
for dogs and cats, and it is now in
order for the dogs and cats to estab
lish an asylum for some of their own
ers.
Payno Whitney has bought fifty
acres at Manhanset, Long Island, as a
site for a country seat. 11* evidently
doesn’t believe that ten acres is
enough.
May Yohe and Captain Strong are
preparing tcf go upon the vaudeville
stage. The vaudeville stage has much
to answer for, but really it doesn’t de
serve this.
Sunday newspapers may have to re
duce their size on account of the
Bcarcity of paper. If this is a blow
at the comic supplement, let the fani
Ine do its worst.
A fire in a large Chicago brewery Is
said to have ‘‘damaged the stock.” If
this means that the beer was badly
smoked It might be bottled and sold
as Scotch whisky.
A University of Michigan professor
has discovered seven new poisons.
This should put additional life into
the growing Infant industry of dis
tributing candy by mail.
The man who built the first apart
ment house In New York in 1853 died
this week. He lived to see 75 per
cent of the people of the island living
in apartments and swearing at the Jan
itor.
- I
If some of the stories told before
the anthracite strike commission by
the miners are true, the Almighty
must have forgotten something when
he made out President Baer’s divine
commission.
. . i
If Brother Smoot is already having
a hard time dodging the brickbats of.
the purity league and bands of hope
It is evident that he will have to go to
Washington In an armor-clad car If
tie is actually elected to the senate.
A German critic has been compelled
to pay ?25 for the luxury of saying
that a certain actress moves as grace-;
fully as a hippopotamus. We have
known cases where the hippopotamus
would have been the propor one to
bring action.
Great Improvements are talked
about in France. A law abolishing all
titles of nobility has been drawn up,!*
and now the fashionable ladies of
Paris are proposing to do away with
the soup course at dinners because lt<
-makes their faces red.
i Philosophical
| Observations
! By BYRON WILLIAMS.
"Upon my soul!—Upon my Nethersole!” says Adoniram Meek in the
Journalist of New York, "but have you ever posed as an unwilling literary
adviser?” By your insole, we have, Adoniram. It was
Of Being a daintily built poem, constructed with delicate fingers
an upon a heliotrope background. There was a cockatoo
Adviser. crest on the letter-paper and a triumvirate of initials,
laced and interlaced like a football eleven on a down
ball, ornamented the envelope. We were not only selected as advisory board
but unanimously instructed to publish the same. She had soulful eyes. As
a woman she was par excellence; as a writer she should have puttied up her
umbltion and forgotten it. She was more than a friend of mine. Pardon, but—
“To be wroth with one we love .
Doth work like madness In the brain.” ' '■*■■■
►-or words to that effect. We are over the love and the madness now, but
this didn't help us at that time. We worried over the advisory board's busi
ness until our friends noticed we were getting queer. At last, when all was
still, one beautiful night, we led her to the "Bridge of Sighs,” and, while the
moonlight bathed our faces in its mellow light, we tried to tell her our affec
tion for her was too great to permit of hypocrisy—that the poem was a misfit,
an acrobatic inspiration that needed to fall from a parachute and break its
fragile meter. While her slender frame shook with anguish and the vibrations
of the bridge across which a dog was trotting, we dropped her scented attempt
into the placid depths below, hieroglyphics, cockatoo crest, entwined initials
and all! It was caught by the wet water and whirled away. One cannot
press one's suit when there are mourning togs on the object of one’s adora
tion—and thus we left her! Six months later she married the editor of the
rival paper, who was fishing for bullheads down the stream that night. Ho
plucked the poem from oblivion, pulled the kinks out of it. run a fancy border
around it and won the author! Upon our soul, Al-jnlram, women and poetry
are
"Variable as the shade.
By the light quivering aspen made.” < \
XXX
Readers will recall the story of the proud father who had a new 4baby at
his house and who would not take $10,000,000 for the little rascal or give 10
cents for another!
A Discussion An Iowa judge has decided that a baby’s value is
of $3,000, and yet there are many married couples who
Young America. don't seem to want one at any price.
On the other hand, there are the folks who don’t
seem to be able to get babies enough. A new one arrives every January 1
and sometimes registers as early as Thanksgiving day.
Those who can’t afford to have babies and who cannot half take care of
them have a vigorous crop; and those who could give them palatial homes and
gratify whims of children, fail to produce anything whatever, except a pug
dog or an automobile occasionally.
There is still another class which wants babies and can’t get ’em. They
pray for them and are ever on the qui-vive for the whir of the stork’s wings,
but the stork goes down in the levee districts and leaves a hundred babies,
with nary a baby on the hilltop. Sometimes these yearning people get tired
of waiting for someone to leave a bit of infantile majesty on their front door
steps and adopt one from a foundling society. Others seem to want the
home brand blown in the bottle and refuse to take unreliable pedigrees.
These are the kind of people who leave their money for the benefit of the
Home Library fund!
Those who have no babies are divided on the subject of desirability, but
those who have had one and lost it, those who have followed a tiny blossom
of purity to the quiet churchyard, never forget to yearn for that baby’s coo.
It is this type which would rather hear a baby bawl than go to a grand opera.
XXX
The young man In a crash suit who accidentally sat down in the rasp
berry pie at a Sunday school picnic, had troubles of his own; but his was a
four-flush woe compared to the sorrow of a man we
Family Man know. There were mice in this man’s home and his
Who wife set a trap in the pantry, where the festive pest
Was Hungry. was wont to gambol at night over the mince pies and
the sponge cake. The top, one of those cute
cheese-shaped affairs with long tunnels in the side that lead on to a tid-bit
ahd death in the center, was tucked away on the floor in a jolly little nook
where the mice were sure to see it and investigate.
One night the man came home late and retired, but he could not sleep.
Then he began to get hungry and slipping slyly out of bed in his robe de nuit
he groped his way to the pantry intending to seize a pie and doughnut and
satisfy his craving. Deftly he felt about and found the coveted pie. He was
just about to raise it to his lips when his big toe struck a nice little round
hole! There was an ominous click, followed by a terrified roar that awakened
everybody in the house.
“A mud-turtle, by thunder!” howled the victim, grabbing for his bare foot
and falling into the tinware! Pandemonium reigned for a considerable time
and the wife came near shooting the husband for a burglar. Now they still
have mice in their pantry, but mouse-traps that fit bare toes are relegated to
the ash heap. The mice are correspondingly happy!
XXX
Sixty-four divorces were granted in New York one day recently and even
then there wasn’t half enough to go round!
We are not given to admiration of old Roman laws,
Sixty-four Divorces and yet we find, on analysis, that our marital relations,
in so far as divorce and loose living prior to divorce is
One Short Day. concerned, are not unlike those existing in Rome. The
history of Roman law in this regard exhibits a transi
tion from an extreme theory to its opposite. The early laws were strict as
to allegiance in the bonds of wedlock, but later the old law of “manus” was
done away with and the greatest laxness existed. The spouses were compara
tively independent of each other. The bond was easily dissolved and while it
lasted was loose and easy. Much the same condition seems to be in the
ascendency in this country to-day when we study the statistics of the divorce
courts and learn of the faithlessness of those who have sworn to love and
cherish and keep themselves unspotted before the world. There was a time
when wild oats were supposed to be sown and harvested prior to marriage,
but nowadays the crop is an attenuated and long drawn out agricultural effort
that thrives after, as well as before, marriage. _
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It has been suggested by an inventive genius that Uncle Sam start a
story to the effect that fishing is good along the line of the Panama canal.
The idea is to get all the fishermen down there digging
Digging worms. In this manner, it is cited, the ditch can be
the dug without serious cost to the government. It is well
Panama Canal. known that a man will do the hardest of work with
the hallucination that he is playing or having an out
ing. Many a time have we dug Up a ton of dirt back of the barn looking for
fish-bait, when life was too short to spade In the garden. The same amount
of energy directed toward digging the canal would accomplish wonders. There
must be at least 40,000 fishermen in this country and most of them are not
too fat to dig their own bait. The New Jersey anglers would be little good
on the Panama, as they call angle-worms ‘•night-walkers” and catch ’em
above ground by lanternlight; but the average fisherman is an enthusiast and
digs fast when he does dig. According to our estimate it would take only
about thirty minutes to complete the canal next spring when the suckei
season opens.
AAA
’Tis said that Dr. Newell Dwight Hlllls advocates devoting thirty minutes
each day to laughter. The advice if. undoubtedly good from the standpoint ol
health, but suppose Pierpont Morgan or Russell Sage
Now, Quit fooled away thirty minutes daily ‘'haw-hawing"? The
Your result is evident. They would lose at least $50,000 for
Snickering! every “haw," $100,000 for a "haw-haw" and $200,000
for a "he-he-haw-haw”! Every "ha-ha" would give
them the debit side of the ledger and thirty minutes of “ha-ha-ho-ho-he-he
haw-haw!” would make laughing stock of their bank accounts! It might be
all right for you or I to laugh, for we can snicker considerably cheaper than
the nabobs. When we laugh It means only a titlllation of tho rislbles, a
strengthening of the stomach muscles and a loss of three-fourths of a mill on
the dollar! But with Morgan and Sage, Vanderbilt and Oates—they simply
can’t afford to laugh and lose so much money. We would keep ttota laughing
ourselves if there were millions la it!
Disposal of the Dead
a Problem in Cities
•
Almost every page of the recoids of
London and Paris contains examples
of the desecration of abandoned
graveyards, and there iB hardly a city
In the Old World that has not disturb
ed at least one of these resting
places of their whilom inhabitants.
Ii our towns of rapid growth, the
cemetery of to-day becomes the heart
of a metropolis to-morrow; the demoli
tion of graveyards in New York and
Boston has been a frequent occur
rence until it fails to attract at
tention.
When the Colon cemetery of Ha
vana became overcrowded, the Cu
bans found it necessary to clear it of
skulls, and promiscuously shoveled
them into a common boneyard. It pre
sented an aspect so ghastly that Gen.
Wood concluded to cover the pit and
re-open it only for the next overflow
of skeletons, expected in about five
vears. In certain cemeteries of Lon
don, corpses are buried in standing
postures because no room is left to
lay them down. Bodies of the poor
generally are packed over each other
in tiers, and the trench is kept open
until filled. In the poverty corner of
Calvary cemetery this has been the
customary treatment?, of the remains
of paupers. NewtowiV,, where Calvary
is situated, harbors eij^ity corpses to
every living inhabitant. \ The conveni
ent villages of Corona, Iflmhurst and
Woodside, once parts of Newtown,
which now are annexed to New York,
and constitute the geographical center
of the enlarged city, might increase
in population if it were not for the
proximity of vast and dreary charnel
fields.
A law relating to public health pro
vided ferty years ago that no grave
be dug or opened south of Eighty
sixth street, and that no cemetery be
opened in any part of the city and
county of New York. This law should
be enforced and applied not to Great
er New York alone, but to the terri
tory within a radius of 100 miles
around every populous town. People
who insist on their inanimate bodies
remaining inviolate should have them
carried to a distance where they can
neither inconvenience nor injure the
living, who need the room, and are
natural heirs of the departed. Famous
irtermural cemeteries, like Mount
Auburn (Boston), Greenwood (New
York), and Laurel Hill (Philadelphia),
could be transformed into admirable
parks. Monuments of architectural
beauty might remain undisturbed.
Others might be replaced by trees
with suitable tablets to mark the
spot of those upon whose dust they
grow. The Turks, loth to disecrate
the grave of a Mussulman, have
adopted a similar custom, and thereby
have made the cemeteries of Constan
tinople attractive to strangers.—Louis
Windmuller in Municipal Affairs.
Scientific Men Are
• w Rebuffed by Sultan
No surprise was manifested at. the
information received from Constanti
nople that the Sultan of Turkey had
again refused a "armin” or permis
sion to an American named Banks to
excavate “Tel Ibrahim,” a mountain
about nine hours' ride northeast of
the ruins of Babylon, where a tradi
tion of the country has it that the
tomb of Abraham is situated.
There are two of these so-called
“Tombs of Abraham” in this region,
the one Mr. Banks desired to exca
vate and the other southwest of
Babylon, where tradition says the
Tower of Babel was situated. Inter
est is attached to both places owing
to the ruins of buildings of an ancient
people and to the traditions invested
In them by the Arabs and Turks, but
iicheologists do not believe that
either is the site of the tomb of Abra
ham, locating the last resting place
of the patriarch of the Children of
Israel in the Cave of Machpelah, near
Hebron, in Palestine, where Abraham
buried his wife Sarah.
Two years ago Mr. Banks, who is
i graduate from Harvard made ef
forts to secure permission frem the
Sultan of Turkey to excavate the Ur
or City of Chaldees on the western
bank of the Mesopotamia.
It is said that John D. Rockefeller
contributed $12,000 to the fund which
Rapid Progress Being
Made by the South
The progress of the south during
recent years is one of the wonders of
the age. Between 1880 and 1900 the
population of the south increased
fiom 16,369,960 to 23,548,404 or 44 per
cent, but in the same period southern
agricultural, manufactured and min
eral products increased in value from
$1,134,586,229 to $2,844,646,440, or 157
per cent. Farm values grew from
$2,290,364,321 to $3,951,631,632. Farm
ing is improving, as is shown by the
fact that, while the acreage in wheat
increased in the two decades but 12
per cent, the crop increased 82 per
cent. The average per acre is nearly
two bushels higher than the average
for the whole country. The corn, hay
and oat crops about doubled, and
the cotton output increased over 99
per cent. The value of the crop of
cotton in 1900, seed included, was
$550,000,000. The rice and sugar crops
much more than doubled, and the
product of southern tobacco is 70 per
cent of that of the entire Union. The
rural population is accordingly fairly
prosperous, and its gain in numbers
between 1890 and 1900 was much
larger than that of all the rest of the
United States.
1880 there were 161 cotton factor
TO MARK INGALLS’ GRAVE.
His Friends Seek for a Stone Such as
He Described.
The grave of the late John J. Ingalls
at Mt. Vernon cemetery will be
marked by a native bowlder deposited
in Kansas soil in the glacial period,
according to an Atchison, Kan., dis
patch in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
This will be done in obedience to a
letter written in the senate chamber
at Washington, Dec. 10, 1890, to Mrs.
Ingalls in Atchison. The letter fol
lows:
“The cold wave has passed off and
the morning is like April. The world
Is so lovely at its best; this life is so
delightful that I dread the thought of
leaving it. I have seen and experi
enced so little of what may be seen
and known that it seems like closing
a volume of which I have only glanced
at the title page.
“What an uncivil host life is, to invite
us to an entertainment which we are
compelled to attend whether we like
it or not, and then to unceremoniously
take us by the arm and bow us out
Into the night. Btormy and dismal, to
go stumbling about without so much
as a lantern to show us the way to an- '■
other town.
“Our ground In the cemetery should
have a ‘monument.’ I hate these obel
isks, urns and stone cottages, and,
should prefer a great natural rock
one of the red bowlders known as the
‘lost rocks’ of the prairie, porphyry
from the North, brought down in
glacial times—with a small surface
smoothed down, just large enough to
make a tablet in which should be in
serted the bronze letters of our name,
‘Ingalls,’ and nothing else.”
A stone such as described is now
being sought.
The Melted Coin.
Place the coin in half a walnut shell
and fill the shell with a mixture oi
three parts of dry, powdered niter,
one part of flour of sulphur and a
little sawdust, well sifted. Light it,
and when the mixture is melted it
will be seen that the coin is alsc
melted, the shell not having sustained
any injury.
The receiver is sometimes as bad aa
the transmitter.
Actions are crystallized thoughts.
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ies; in 1900 there were 400. Between
1890 and 1900 the south gained 2,747,
839 cotton spindles, against a gain of
hut 2,172,410 in the north. In the
same period the capital in cotton
manufacturing increased from $53,
000,000 to $124,000,000. But oil mills,
furnaces, rolling mills, furniture and
other woodworking mills have also
sprung up as if by magic. An epitome
of the manufactures of the Bouth
shows 92,522 manufacturing estab
lishments in 1900, with a capital ol
$1,111,688,852 against 43,725 establish
ments in 1880, with a capital ol
$251,692,038. The value of product
has grown from $445,672,461 to $1,
419,001,873. The mining output in
1900 was $115,352,763 against $17,807,
646 in 1882. The lumber industry has
also increased phenomenally.
This industrial progress has re
sulted largely from the expansion ol
the railway systems and the improve
ment of harbor facilities. Southern
ports have increased their exports
since 1880 by 99.5 per cent, this being
a sequel of the increase of southern
railway mileage from 21,612 miles tc
52,594 miles, a growth of 143 per eentJ
against the growth of but 98 per cent
in the rest of the Union.
Mr. Banks raised to defray the ex
penses of the expedition he was or
ganizing. He returned to Constanti
nople and as the representative of
several American universities, includ
ing. it is said, Harvard, he applied to
the Porte foe permission to excavate.
Refusal was^ipacie by the Sultan
owing, it is said, to the religious asso
ciations of the so-called tomb of
Abraham, many of the Mohammedans
believing that the mountain, which is
the place mentioned as Cuthal In
Second Kings in the Bible, is really
the site of the burying place of Abra
ham. In addition to the question ol
offending the religious beliefs of the
natives of the country, it is said that
while Mr. Banks was consul at the
City of Bagdad he incurred the dis
pleasure of the Porte.
It was declared at the university
that it is problematical whether
Banks will ever secure permission to
excavate in any part of the Ottoman
Empire, although the Sultan has al
ways been cordial toward exploring
expeditions, especially those from
America, and at present a party ol
German scientists are at work not
far from where Banks desired to ex
cavate.
There are now some six Europeans
in the Buddhist priesthood in Burma.
bfTome depressed and discouraged.
b#-auso that dry, harking cough
bangs to them continually. They
have taken much medicine, mostly of
the advertised quack sort, nothing
like Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburg
Breast Tea, the discovery of a then
noted German pnysician 60 years ago.
We do not say that this will cure a
case where the lungs are badly dis
eased, for It will not, and up to this
date there is nothing that will cure
under these conditions; but on the
other hand, If the lungs are not hard
hit, the patient should take Dr. August
Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, a cup
full every night on going to bed, hav»
It hot, drink slowly, then every other
night rub the throat and top portion
of the lungs with St Jacobs Oil, cover
with oil silk, let it remain an hour,
then remove. Eat good, plain, nour
ishing food, live in the open air as
much as possible. By all means sleep
as near out of doors as possible, that
Is, windows wide open, except In the
very severe weather. Take a cold
sponge bath every morning; then Im
mediately rub the body vigorously
with a coarse towel. Tako Dr. August
Koenig’s Hamburg Drops every other
day according to directions. One
can buy the three remedies for $1.25
of any reliable druggist. Begin the
treatment at once and see how much
better you will be almost within a
week’s time.
Hadn’t Found Either.
Henry Ward Beecher returned to In
dianapolis after he had rone to Brook
lyn. for a little visit, and his friends
arranged a reception for him, which
was inadvertently planned for Wed
nesday evening—prayer-meeting night.
Late in the evening there appeared a
severe looking elderly gentleman, who
came to Mr. Beecher with an air of re
buke, and said: “Mr. Beecher, this is
prayer meting night. I went to the
First Presbyterian prayer meeting, to
the Third Presbyterian prayer meet
ing, and to the Fourth Presbyterian
prayer meeting, expecting to meel >
Lord Jesus and Henry Ward Beecl *
The good man paused, and Mr. Beel
replied with that irrepressible twir
in his eye: “Well, my dear sir,
plain that you didn't find either
them.”
A Versatile Typewriter.
Selim Haddad, a Syrian educated aK
the American college at Beirut, Syria®
has-perfects*! a typewriter for writing®
in Turkish, ^ Asgbic and Persian. I
Though these
over 600 letters or charp
reduced the number of *
three. The machines are
In this country, and the 1
presented samples to th
Turkey and Khedive of E
A Problem Solv
Cabbel, Kans, Dec.
part of Kansas has solve
question. How can Kldi
be cured, and as Rheumaj
Disease, Diabetes and
resulting from Diseased
common to all parts of
the news Is of great lnt
The cure is Dodd’s
Hundreds of people wll
of their own experience
Cunningham for exanfcl
Kidney Trouble of lonfjl
sought relief in vain.l;
Doctors and Medicines
kinds.
Finally he tried Dodd’l
and he stopped right ■
who tries Dodd's Kid*
Kidney Complaint evei*
any further. Here ls^
ningham says: H
"Dodd’s Kidney PllW
for Kidney Trouble.
them and know for
me more good than
used."
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if the contracting lefl|
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