Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. If a thing ia worth a care, do it carefully. Any man’s salary would bo large If It it were not for his expenses. A woman likes flattery as a child likes sugar on its bread—spread on thick. And now will the numerous widows of the sultan of Sulu apply to con gress for a pension? With a surplus of $9,000,000 for 1902, Spain is in a position to start the foundation of a new navy. Automobiles are to be used in trans porting the mail. Ail that the public has to do is to provide good roads. While the North is wrestling with the coal situation the South is excit ed over me appearance of green bugs. It costs Uncle Sam $1,250,000 an nually to predict that to-morrow will be fair. And then it is likely to rain. It is said that Zola made $1,500,000 writing books. What a power he might have been as a captain of in dustry. It Is a curious and unnoticed faci that the command, "Thou shalt not lie,” does not appear once in the decalogue. The head of the Shakers in America at the age of eighty-three, quite ex cusably thinks that he is old enough to shake his job. The colored girl who fired six shots at her recreant lover and missed him each time should have practiced with a seven-shooter. J. Pierpont Morgan has passes cov ering 55,000 miles of railroad. What a lot of conductors he must be acquainted with. No school boy ever had to write a moral copy book text so often that he wrote It oc the fence on the way home. ■—Atchison Globe. If Uncle Russell Sage’s new valet is calculating on eking out a small stipend with tips and perquisites he Is likely to get left. Yale students are to collect the voices of all remaining Indian tribes In a phonograph. Presumably Yale is planning a new yell. A Georgia paper asks: “Why will young men carry pistols and brass knuckles to church with them?” Why, indeed? Give the minister a show. Boys and girls who survived the swimming season are now furnishing material for coasting accidents. At any cost Young America must have a good time. "Shall I,” exclaims Mrs. Pat Camp bell, “shall I bare my soul to every little reporter?” No, don’t. Choose the big ones. They are robust, and can stand it. Imagine the expression on Uncle Russell Sage's face when he reads that college professors ought to be re tired, as past their usefulness, at the ege of seventy. The German legislators have struck a blow at the Standard Oil Company. It was merely a glancing blow, how ever, and the company is still in the ring and smiling. Vienna surpasses all other capitals in the number of suicides committed each year. Also In the number of princesses who abandon their impe cunious husbands. Certain disaffected elements in China are clamoring for a new em peror. Their desires are not likely to be gratified further than to hear some thing from the old one. A Chicago savings bank offers to give a metal mantel bank free to any one who asks for it. Incidentally, to prevent backsliding in the saving habit, the savings bank retains the key. Despite the possession of vast riches Mr. Rockefeller Is not a contented man. He longs for a good appetite, a cure for nervousness, a panacea for insomnia and a chance to make more money. A nickel-ln-the-slot restaurant has just been opened in New York. The chief claim to recognition which we can see in this innovation is that the same machine will dispense a high ball to make you forget the lunch. The New York woman who has been married four times and divorced three times and is now trying to be divorced again must feel more or less discour aged by her experiments in matrimony. Sir Henry Maxim’s declaration that the bank of Monte Carlo can’t be beaten is a maxim that gamblers will do well to accept without discussion. It now appears that William K. Van derbilt’s house. Idle Hour, is built on sand. Why should a man with so many “rocks” make such a blunder? Historic Boston TcrOern S'oon to "Be 'Torn Bobun What a memory of schooldays will come before people of mature and old age with the announcement that the old Hancock Tavern, the scene of the famous Boston Tea Party's concep tion, is soon to become history, that another of the links which connect the present with the past will shortly be only a thing of tradition and of story. And what a surprise it will be to most of the million of American school children of to-day to know that not only the building but the very room in which the Boston Tea Party was held almost 130 years ago has been maintained until the present time. It was in the little, low-ceiling sec ond-floor room of the Hancock Tavern on the southwest corner that the pa triots, fuming under the impositions of the English in putting an exorbitant tax on tea, gathered on the night of Dec. 16, 1773, and decided to defy the British in the most effective way that occurred to them. That was by at tacking the tea-laden ships then lying in that port and throwing the tea into the harbor. The patriots realized that an open attack would be doomed to failure from the start, so they dressed them selves in the blankets and feathers worn by the Indians, who were numer ous in New England at that time, and having further disguised themselves with paint they rowed out to the tea laden ships, over powered their crews and threw the unwelcome tea into the harbor. What they did is safe in his tory and is known to ali the world. It has been partly because of the world wide importance of what the Tea Party did in that little tavern room that the tavern itself has been pieserved for all these many years. Partly, it has been because practically all of the thousands of tourists who come yearly to Boston to see Bunker Hill, Faneuil Hall, Dorchester Heights, Pilgrim Rock and the various other historic places hereabouts, all insisted ww* or. seeing the Tavern and the very spot where the Tea Party waj held. In a few days the tavern will be closed and the contractors will begit the work of tearing down the famoui old building, to erect on its site an ex tension of an office building about which there will duster no sentiment and no historic associations. John Hancock, the first signer oi the Declaration of Independence, was the friend and patron of John Duggan the original owner of the tavern. When Hancock was elected in 1780 as the first governor of Massachusetts, Dug gan changed the name of his house which was then Cole’s Inn, to the Hancock Tavern, and it has since re tained that name. The walls of the Tea room are em bellished with pictures of the first con ference and of the patriots rowing out to the ships in the harbor, and also ol their throwing the chests of tea over board. These pictures were painted on the walls nearly one hundred years ago, and were done by no mean ar tist. As they are on the solid walls they will utterly disappear when the building »s torn down. An effort was made to save them, but an examina tion showed that the sections of the walls on which the pictures appear could not be removed intact, and the historical societies which tried to save them have given up the attempt. IN PRAISE OF DAD. Writer Thinks He Is of Some Import ance Around the Home. We happened in a home the other night and over the parlor door saw the legend worked in letters of red. "What is home without a mother.” Across the room was another brief, "God bless our home.” Now, what is the matter with "God bless our dad?” He gets up early, lights the fire, boils an egg, grabs his dinner pail and wipes off the dew of the dawn with his boots while many a mother is sleeping. He makes the weekly hand-out for the butcher, the grocer, the milkman and the baker, and his litle pile is badly worn before he has been home an hour. He stands off the bailiff and keeps the rent paid up. If there is a noise during the night dad is kicked in the back and made to go downstairs to find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks, but dad bought the socks in the first place and the needles and the yarn after ward. Mother does up the fruit; well, dad bought it all, and jars, and sugar cost like the mischief. Dad buys chickens for the Sunday dinner, carves them himself and draws the neck from the ruins after every one else is served. "What is home without a mother?” Yes; that is all right; but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it is a boarding-house, father Is under a slab and the' landlady is a widow. Dad, here’s to you; you've got >uiir faults —you may have lots of ’em—but you’re all right, and we will miss you when you're gone.—Stevens County Reveilie. TRICKS OF INDIAN DOCTORS. How the “Medicine Men’’ Treat Those Afflicted With Disease. An Indian trader in Western Color ado claims that the Navajo medicine men treat their patients by means of a belief, nothing more nor less than Christian Science. All sickness is the evil spirit, says the Indian. The rem edy is to get rid of the devil. The en emy of man is mortal mind, claims the Christian Scientist; overcome belie) in material things and there will be nc sickness or death. That the IndiaD has practically no knowledge of even the simplest medicinal remedies is well known among anthropologicai students. Many of the medicine .met do not even employ herbs., but rely on incantations and commands. Their claim to power is not based on any special training or education, and some of their most remarkable cures have been imputed to hypnotism. At any rate, the belief of the af flicted Indian in the power of the healer undoubtedly has much to dc with the cures effected. When a brave is ill and calls upon the tribe doctor the wise man will begin a wild, in vigorating chant, while dancing and running in a circle about his patient Me continues this until the latter is properly enthused, finally commanding him to arise and join in the heroic ex ercise. Invariably the evil spirit ir the form of disease Is conquered. A man 01 powerful fee sick—the doctor. >« By using faithfully what we have. (2) By the instruction and aid of more ex perienced Christians. 5. When we have been helped, let us go to work and help others. IV. Paul's First Work at Ephesus. The New Pentecost.—Vs. 1-7. 1. The Movements of the Missionaries. —V. 1. While Apollos was at Ephesus, Paul was strengthftilng the churches in central Asia Minor, and passing "through the upper coasts" or borders, the high lands in the interior above the sea. “Came to Ephesus.” The capital of the Roman province of Asia, on an arm of the Aegean Sea. 2. A Peculiar Christian Community — Vs. 1-3. “And finding certain disciples ” Christians, though ignorant of the higher truths of Christianity. "They were n small and distinct community about twelve in number (v. 7), still preparing, after the manner of the Baptist, for the coming of the Lord. Something there was which drew the attention of the apostle immediately on his arrival. They lacked, apparently, some of the tokens of the higher life that pervaded the nascent church. O "Uot'o vo rAoolvofP" 'Paul thnn nf course explained what he meant by re ceiving the Holy Spirit, and they replied, "we have not," etc. The aorlst requires the R. V. translation. “We did not so much us hear whether the Holy Ghost was given.” It cannot mean that they had never heard of the Holy Spirit or known of his existence, for the Old Testament has many references to his work, and the Baptist pointed to the baptism of the Spirit to be conferred by the Messiah. What they had not heard was that the promised outpouring of the spirit by the Messiah (Joel) had been bestowed, and the gifts and powers of the spirit, both visible and spiritual, manifested at Pen tecost and In the subsequent experience of the church. 3. "Unto John's baptism.” That is. un to "the profession and purpose John used In baptizing.” See on Acts 18:25. Practical Suggestions. 1. We learn from this account, and from Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians, probably written at Ephesus, that the Pentecostal gifts con tinued in the church. 2. The signs that accompanied this power were to reveal the fact, "in letters that could be read from the stars,” that the Invisible Holy Spirit was actually present, to make the fact clear and un mistakable, to show the source whence the power and Its effects came, and to illustrate its nature. There are those whose experience "re calls the story of the missing child Jesus, and how It is said that ‘they supposing him to be in the company, went forward a day's Journey.’ They Journey on for years, saying prayers, reciting creeds, giving alms, doing duties. Imagining all the time that because of these things Christ is with them. Happy for these if some weary day the blessed Paraclete, the invisible Christ, shall say to them. •Have 1 been so long with you and yet hast thou not known me?’’—Rev. A. F. Gordon, 1>. t*. The Directing Grace of God. A naturalist, who spent some time at the Eddystone lighthouse, and ob served the birds flying madly in great numbers against the panes of the lantern, says it seemed as if all the birds in the world had joined cn one mighty army, "with hut one idea in its head—to get somewhere else at all costs.” These mad flights of the migrating birds find their counterpart in the ruinous restlessness of large classes of human beings. There is no cure for this fevering up of humanity, save the directing grace of God. CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RY. Fist Road to Double Its Track from. Chicago to Omaha. A double track, block system line of transcontinental railway now reaches from the Missouri river to Chicngo. This will be in the way of a distinct revelation to the man who made the trip across the plains twenty-five years ago in a prairie schooner, or on the emigrant train of the seventies. The rapid development of our great agricultural states has been lost sight of to a certain degree in the discussion that has arisen lately concerning the commercial invasion of China and tho far east, our occupation of the Philip pine Islands, the annexation of Hawaii and the whole general movement by which we have suddenly become a world power. But while we have pa triotically discussed these questions, commerce has moved ahead positively and relentlessly in the direction of tho Pacific coast, raising up new towns, building up old ones, making facto ries and farms where wild prairie had been. The result is shown, in part, in the necessity on the part of the Chicago & Northwestern for this double track line, where great trains of live stock and grain move in long lines eastward to feed not only the eastern states, but to afford an outlet for tho products of what is now, more than ever before, the granary of the world. To the westward there is also a con tinuous stream of travel. The North western Line, with its connections, op erates three daily passenger trains be tween Denver and Chicago and threo from San Francisco to the east. One of these, known as the Overland Lim ited, is probably the most luxurious and beautiful train in tho world. Through Pullman service from Den ver, Ogden, Cheyenne, Portland, San Francisco and Omaha to Chicago dally. As to freight movements ,the great double track system across the plains is busy carrying manufactures for Asi atic Russia, cotton cloths for the Chi nese, various articles required by the pioneers who have crossed the Pacific to Manila and gone north to the gold mines of Alaska; as well as the tre mendous traffic for Colorado, Wyom ing, Utah and the Pacific northwest, comprising the product of every known branch of the country’s commercial activity. It was in 1848 that the Galena & Chicago Union, having been completed from Chicago to the Des Plaines river, a distance of ten miles, the first train over the line opened the traffic to Chi cago by stopping on its way east to take on a farmer’s load of wheat, the first grain shipment by rail to Chicago from the west It may be imagined that this wheat was hardly designed for export, and that the travelers on this junket of early days little thought to what proportions this nucleus of a great railway system would grow. But the road grew and in 1867 the lino to Council Bluffs was complete, and the Pawnees on the Platte and the Sioux on the Missouri began to feel the crowding of the white man’s out posts. In 1880 Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin had become well settled, while along the Platte the Indians still remained. The Northwestern had, however, built a line across southern Minnesota and into Dakota as far as Watertown, with feeders to various points, while in Wisconsin and north ern Michigan lines had been extended into the Lake Superior district through Escanaha to Negaunee and Ishpeming. This all seems very recent, but since that time the system has grown until It penetrates nine states of the union, and its heavy lines of freight trains and its palatial passenger service reach all important points from Chi cago to Milwaukee, Madison, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Duluth and Superior, Omaha, the Black Hills and Colorado, with three fast trains between Den ver, Salt Lake, Ogden, Cheyenne and Chicago daily; fast service to and from the Pacific coast. The completion of the first double track between Chicago and the Mis souri river puts the road not only at the front as compared with the other western roads, but in advance of many of the eastern lines that traverse country where the population Is much more dense. The Original American Expansionist. Captain Thomas Read was the pio neer in our expansion policy, but that was just 112 years ahead of time. On a voyage—this is interesting history— in the old frigate Alliance, which his friend Robert Morris had converted into a merchantman, he made the first out-of-season passage to China. There were supposed to be millions in it, but they did not pan out. Commodore Dale and George Harrison accompa nied him, the former as chief officer and the latter as supercargo. Read discovered two islands, which he nam ed Morris and Alliance. They were in the Caroline group, and by virtue of discovery belonged to the United States. The Carolines are not far from the Philippines. Spain came along and appropriated them, while America sat back on her dignity and looked pleasant. Our rights never were as serted nor respected. Germany bought the Carolines, the Pelew and Ladrone islands in 1899 for 16,750,000 marks. Read's discovery is a forgotten chap ter in our history. The Oldest School House. The "old log school house” at Camp Run, Westmoreland county, Pa., is said to be the oldest school house in this country. It is very primitive in all its appointments, but the teacher. Miss Celia J. Miller, who is only 16 years old, has enlisted the help of the "big boys” to make some improve ments. Silence and Superstition. A curious request has been made by the minister of Alsace and Lorraine to the Societe Industriel de Mulhouse, whom he has asked to select for him a competent electrical specialist ca pable of writing series of articles in order to refute scientifically the super stitions of various villagers in Alsace. It seems that the villages in which those superstitions people live have been recently provided with electric tramways, and the inhabitants believe that the aerial wires attract storms, and are the special cause of heavy falls of hail