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
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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.
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PHILADELPHIA'S FIRST COURT HOUSE
As an illustration of the marvelous
growth of American cities this picture
of the court house erected in the High
street (now Market), Philadelphia, in
1709, and which was the earliest cen
ter of the legal life of Pennsylvania, is
interesting. It Is from «n old paint
ing. Now one of the finest buildings
in the country occupies the site.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON IX.. MARCH 1; ACTS 18:
24-19:6— PAUL AND APOLLOS.
Golden Text—“If Ye Then, Being Evil,
Know How to Give Good Giftc. Unix
Your Children; How Much More
Shall Ycui’ Heavenly Father Give
the Holy Spirit to Them That Ask
It.’’—Luke 11:13.
1. Paul Returns from his Second Mis
sionary Journey.—-Vs. 18-22. Paul having
completed his labors at Corinth, where,
with good success amid many difficulties,
and against great obstacles, he had spent
it year and u huif, went down to Cen
ehrea, the seaport of Corinth, about nine
miles to the southeast. Here he undertook
the Nusarlte’s vow In a modified form, a
vow which could be completed only at
Jerusalem. From Cenchrea he embarked
in a shiii for Palestine, Aquila and Pris
cilla sailing with him, A voyage of two
or three days, with a fair wind, brought
him to Ephesus. He left his two com
panions at Ephesus, and sailed to Ces
irea. Thence he proceeded by land to
Jerusalem, where he saluted the church.
After a brief visit he Went down to An
tioch, the home church, where he was al
ways welcome. This was his last visit
there, so far as we know.
II. Beginning of the Third Missionary
Journey.—V. 23. After a brief sojourn In
Antioch. Paul left the city, and began
his third missionary journey by revisiting
the churches of Asia Minor. Ramsay
thinks Paul reached Derbe in July, and
spent about two months in "strengthen
ing all the disciples" in Lystra, leonium.
and Antioch, the chief cities of South
Galatia, and the regions around them.
III. The Work of Apollos. Preparation
for Paul's Long Mission in Ephesus.—Vs.
24-2,S. 24 "A certain Jew named Apollos."
25. "This man was Instructed,” i. e..
instructed orally, by hearsay, by verbal
reports. "In the way of the Lord.” Jesus.
He knew the prophecies and symbols of
the Old Testament concerning the Mes
siah, and he knew enough about the life
and teachings of Jesus to understand
that the prophecies and symbols were ful
lllled in him, and therefore he was the
Messiah.
"Knowing only the baptism of John.”
The baptism of repentance, the baptism
that pointed to Jesus (Acts 10:4). But he
had not received the power and knowl
edge which had come with the baptism
of the Spirit on Pentecost, and the teach
ing of the Spirit through the church dur
ing the past quarter of a century.
26. “When Aquila and Priscilla." Who
came with Paul from Corinth to Ephe
sus. "Had heard." As he spoke "boldly
in the synagogue.” They soon saw that
the eloquent man was unacquainted with
many facts and truths which they had
learned from Paul about Jesus, and they
"expounded unto him the way of God
more perfectly.” We see the providence
of God in leading these Christian help
ers °f Paul to Ephesus.
27. "He was disposed to pass into
Achala.” That is, the province equivalent
to modern Greece, of which Corinth was
the capital. It was to Corinth that he In
tended to go. "The brethren wrote.” Gave
him letters of recomnn ndution. Here wus
just the man for the occasion.
28. "He mightily convinced the Jews.”
Practical. 1. We note the character
istics which make an effective preacher
or teacher.
2. One may be a true Christian, and
yet be Ignorant of many of the best
truths and experienes of the gospel.
3. Hut if he is a true Christian, he will
not remain content in ignorance, but will
ever be seeking the "more to follow'.”
4. There ore two ways of gaining more:
<1> 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
