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Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Sympathy soothes aching hearts, but t is of small use in warming cold feet. It isn't always the shortest month that is the easiest on the coal pile. When a woman stops calling a man t>y his name, the end of formality is at Hand. Will plain Mr. Hobson be such an attractive kissing proposition as the gallant captain? "What constitutes a New Yorker?” asks the World. Well, conceit is one Df the ingredients. More power to the elbow of Miss Rogers, late of Wellesley—though she floesn't seem to need it. A Siamese working elephant may be bought for $650, but it costs more for feed than an automobile does. News from the Balkan states indi cates that Miss Stone’s ransom money has been fairly well invested. Chicago is now bragging because Its birth rate has not decreased. It is a case of, how much? not, how good? Undue attention to the mote in our neighbor’s eye gives him an op portunity for effective repartee.— Puck. The Chicago doctor who tried to argue against a hallful of women might have known where ho would wind up. With The Hague tribunal so handy It would seem as though the Dutch labor unions might arbitrate their grievances. Radium is selling at $900,000 a pound in the European market, and most of the inhabitants have shut off their radiators. The Moroccan pretender has gath ered his forces and gone to pretend ing again. He may be Gen. Uribe Uribe in disguise. The first wireless newspaper has been printed on board a ship at sea. Even a dash for the pole may gow have added terrors. , What a mammoth federation of women Venezuela will have if the daughters of the revolution in that country ever organize! The Crown Prince of Saxony is not to be consulted as to the successor of the errant Louise. All wives must look alike to a crown prince. The story that Mr. Morgan is going to buy up all the Cuban railroad sys tem is not at all improbable. He has the necessary money and the buying habit. The task of traveling at a $10,000 pace on a $3,000 salary has again wrought Its customary ruin and dis grace. Its frequent repetition waxes tedious. Some of the specialists believo Knapp, the Indiana man who mur dered his six wives, is a degenerate. They don’t explain why they hold this extraordinary opinion. Secretary Shaw has decided that ten thousand dollar gold certificates may be issued to individuals on de mand as well as to banka. Demand yours early, as the supply is lim ited. Calcium salts, it is announced, will cure nervous diseases. The calcium light has been applied to many emi nent personages without causing a re duction either of nerve or of swelled head. That Mississippi judge who charged the grand jury to indict persons ac cused of playing progressive euchre probably has been forced to attend a progressive euchre party at some time in his career. A Frenchman, who contended that the soul could leave the body and return, succeeded in proving part of it. He let his soul out all right, but the undertaker attended to the rest, and he hasn’t reported. Probably if the wild birds had any thing to say about it they would in sist that the privilege of remaining alive seems quite as important to them as it does to the gentleman in the bird-dealing business. At the Cincinnati fire a man on a burning roof was saved by writing a note on his cuff and throwing it intc the street. That should be a warn ing to people with undetachable cuffs not to sleep higher than the second floor. George Manville Fenn, an English writer, recently reached his 71st birthday. The titles of his books fill seven pages of the catalogue ol the British museum, although you may know no more about him than posterity will. A congressman In the house res taurant the other day had for lunch a milk punch, a chicken sandwich, an oyster stew and a piece of custarc pie. And the country Is paying him $5 000 a year to help control the des tinies of this mighty nation! Whale Hunting Ojif the Coast o_f Long Island Araagansett, on the extreme east ern coast of Long Island, saw a flag climb a tall pole in front of Capt. Joshua B. Edward's home In Atlantic avenue the other day. It seemed as if the natives for miles around had been watching for this particular flagstaff, for simultaneously, with the unfurling of its fluttering stripes to the breeze other flags began climbing poles far and near. Then began a stampede of the vil lagers toward the beach. Helter skel ter they inn, some carrying oilskins and rubber hip boots, while others were equipped for the sea. Women and children joined the procession. Everybody headed toward two low covered boathouses a short distance whales how It fooled some of the best whalers on Long Island. This is whale weather off the coast and the loss of one whale and that one the first sighted of the season in no way discourages the whalemen of Long Island. Floods of whale food are now working along the coast giv ing the water a deep red tinge. Ac cording to Capt. Joshua B. Edwards, who has sailed around the world sev eral times and captured whales in every zone and is considered an authority on whales and whaling, the whale food is a minute marine crusta cean and it moves along in a solid body generally working to the wind ward. When this tide of red is seen off the coast it is then that the land A Finback. back from the surf line. Ranged along the surf line were men with telescopes warily sweeping the hori zon. “There she blows!” chorused the men with the telescopes. “There she hlows!” echoed the crowd that lined the shore, as two fountain like jets of water sprang into the air. Two miles out at sea a bulk re sembling the hulk of a capsized ves sel was seen to plunge along, rising and falling with the swell of the ocean and every now and then spurt ing the big jets of water that first at tracted the attention of the lookout at Capt. Joshua B. Edwards’ house. It was a whale, and there was no time to lose. Thrusting aside the big log that served as a prop, the wide barn like doors of the house in which the whaleboats are kept were swung open by the whalers. Ready hands seized the first boat. It was rolled out and lifted on the shoulders of a hardy crew, who carried it to the surf line. A second and then a third boat fol lowed. Quickly a crew was selected for each, and watching a favorable moment the three crews dashed into the water with their boats. In a twinkling they were beyond the surf line with sail let, and the hunt was on. Capt. Joshua B. Edwards’ boat led the chase. He is familiarly known as Cap'll Josh, in order to distinguish him from his brother, Cap'll Jesse Ed wards, a no less distinguished whaler, Cap’n Jesse’s boat was in second position, and the third boat shifted its course a little to form a triangle with the other two in order whalers prepare ror a nunt. What is known as the right whale is the species sought after by Long Island whalers. This whale yields considerable oil. but its chief point of value is the whalebone which is taken from its mouth. Fifty feet long is the average whale caught, and it yields about fifty barrels of oil and about five hundred pounds of whale bone, which, owing to the scarcity of the article, is to-day valued as high as $2 and $3 a pound. Cap’n Josh Edwards is 77. Despite his years he is considered the most expert boatheader on the coast, and ! of him we hal our suspicions and immediately made off. “The Shenandoah was under steam and gave chase, but although several times within range of us, she never fired a gun. Finally the chase was leading her away from the fleet of whalers we had quitted and she put about and made for the fleet, destroy ing more than a dozen vessels. We concluded that she was afraid to Are at us, as she would probably alarm the fleet, and they would maJte off. “But whaling along the coast in sight of your own home and family is different from whaling in the Arctic. Our crews here on the coast are made up of six men all told. There is the .harpooner oar, the bow oar, the mid ship oar, the quarter oar and the aft or leading oar and the captain of the boat or the boatheader, as he is known. “When we push off from the shore the boatheader takes the steering oar, while the boat steerer or harpooner takes a position in the bow. The reason for thi3 is that the boatheader by reason of greater experience, is supposed to know how best to ap proach a whale, for the whole fight depends on getting an iron into the whale and making fast. Quick as the whale is made fast the boat header and steersman change positions, and then the real fight begins. “With bomb lance, or even the old fashioned lance, the boat header then does his best to despatch the whale in quick order. A whale's life is locat ed under his two flippers, just the same as a man’s life is under his arms, and a lance planted just back and beneath either of the flippers generally kills the whale at once. “Sometimes whales run in pairs, and then we simply make fast to one and then set out to kill the loose whale by means of lances. It is always bad policy to kill the whale you're fast to first. "It’s not all fun. We had made fast to a whale off here one season when a loose whale came up sudden Cutting Up the Blubber. it need® only the cry that a whale is in sight to take out the few rheu matic kinks in his hack. He is about medium height, of heavy muscular build, with long gray hair and light blue eyes, and a face tanned by wind and sun. He went to sea when he was twenty, has made four whaling voyages, the first time being out forty-four months. He is well educat ed and one of his sons is a practicing physician and another is a chemist. Before a blazing wood fire at his home in Amagansett the other day, while zero weather and snow and ice prevailed outside, he talked learnedly of whales and of his adventures in Launching the Whaleboats. to prevent trie escape of the sporting monster. Off toward the southwest, spouting like a hand fire engine, and feeding on the whale food that works its way along the Ixmg Island coast at this time of the year, waa a large right whale. With watchful eye and quick ear it was regaling itself and occa sionally taking a sounding by way of keeping it back from getting sun burned. It appeared in a tranquil mood when Cap n Josh’s boat silently drew near. There was just wind enough to send the whaleboat scudding along under gentle pressure. As boat head er, Cap'll Josh held the steering oar while the boat steerer, whose place is in the bow until the whale is fast ened, stood with harpoon ready pois ed waiting to let go at the word of command. But this particular whale knew its business. Without warning it sud denly let itself drop to the bottom of ihe ocean like a fifty-ton iron weight. "He's sounding,” bawled out the first crew to the other boats. For a few minutes they hovered around the spot and then they were aroused by a cry from one of the other boats. "There she blows!” was the chorus, as two sprays of water as cended from the ocean about a fourth of a mile away. Again the chase wac taken up and for more than three hours this whale just played tag with Cap'a Josh, Cap’n Jesse and the other crew and as darkness fell it waved them good night with its tail and went oft ocean ward, probably to tell the other different parts of the world. "It. was fifty-two years ago last Sep tember,” said the Captain, "that I first started out to take lessons in whal ing. 1 left Sag Harbor aboard the whaler Ontario, under the command of Capt. George Brown, bound for. the Arctic ocean. “We were gone forty-four months, but Capt. Brown didn’t bring the ves sel back. He was killed in the Arc tic seas by being struck by a piece of swinging blubber as we were cutting in a big catch. I think his widow still lives in Sag Harbor. “My last whaling voyage was in 18f>2, and we were in Behring Straits and just on the outside of a big fleet of American whalers when we were chased by the rebel privateer Shen andoah. As soon as we caught sight ly alongside the boat, and with a sweep of his flukes he cut the boat clean in two between where I was standing In the bow, and the bow oarsmen. It was like a lightning stroke and was done so neatly that we didn't even feel a jar. We were quickly rescued by another boat, and we finally killed both whales. “A finback one day towed us through the water at the rate ol about a mile a minute, and we were going out to sea like an escaping tor pedo boat. We hung on, however, until finally the iron came out and the whale escaped. “On another occasion a big whale came up right under our boat and hoisted us clear of the water and tip ped the boat over. A seine boat came to our assistance, but we didn't give up the fight and brought in the whale that night.” Several years ago Capt. Gabriel Edwards, also a brother to Captain Joshua, was knocked twenty feet out Of his boat by flukes of a dying whale. He was picked up unconscious and didn’t come to until the next day, and has never fully recovered from the blow. When a whale is caught it is towed ashore and hauled up out of the reach of the tide. The blubber is removed in huge rolls and chunks and hauled to the try house while the bone is re moved from the mouth with great care and soon the products of the chase are ready for market. Even a use is found for the skeleton, which is sold to some museum or institu tion. Every small boy in the eastern end of Long Island hopes to become a whaler some day. If he had his choice between the presidency of the United States and a master’s certifi cate aboard an old-time whaler such as his father and grandfather talk about ho would unhesitatingly accept the ship. But the whales are being driven from the coast by the increas ed navigation, and whaling as an industry on the Long Island coast bids fair to die out soon. And with the failing of the industry the old natives who have chased whales from boyhood are in their declining years and they, too, will soon pass away. The Wnale Beach*iJ. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XIII., MARCH 23>—REVIEW OF THE QUARTER'S LESSONS Golden Text—“Lo, I Am With You Alway, Even Unto the End of the World”—Matt. 28:20—Some Sugges tions to the Tcacherc. One of the most Important uses of a review Is to bind together in one con nected whole what we have been learn ing In detail, and to enable us to tract the movement of the early history of the church, as a river that broadens in sympathies and numbers, and deepens in experience anil knowledge as It Hows through the years. Matthew Arnold. In his epilogue to Les sing's Laocoon, writes:— "The movement he must tell of life. Its pain and pleasure, rest and strife; His eyes must travel down at full The long, unpauslng spectacle.” "But all! then comes Ills sorest spell Of toil—he must life's movement tell! The thread which binds it all in one And not its separate parts alone.” The New Center. The first twelve chapters of the book of Acts, which we studied bust year, relate the history which centered pi Jerusalem, and concerned chletly the Jewish element In the church. Then one of the olTshoots from Jeru salem took root In the city of Antioch, three hundred miles to the north, which thenceforth became a new center, con cerned chlelly with the Gentile element, a missionary church from which the gospel reached out to every country of the Ho man Empire. Radiants from the Jerusalem Church. —The Jerusalem church was also a cen ter of missionary operations. Though not recorded in the Acts, we learn from oth er sources with great probability that Peter was a missionary to the Jews as far as Babylon and Rome. Andrew to Sythia, Asia Minor, and Greece. John to Asia Minor, especially Ephesus. Jude to Assyria and Persia. Thomas to Syria, and perhaps Persia and India. James to Egypt and Palestine. Radiants from the Antioch Church.— Illustration. There is an Oriental legend of a fountain into whose waters a good angel Infused a mysterious power, such that a new fountain rose and gushed wherever some drops fell on the barren plain, so that a traveler, carrying a por tion of this water, could safely traverse any desert, because lie took with him the secret of unfailing springs; and he could impart their water to others. "Beneath the cross those waters rise, and he who finds thorn there All through the wilderness of life the living stream may bear; And blessings follow in Ills steps, until where’er he goes. The moral wastes b*gln to bud and blos som us the rose.” SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS. I. Take your scholars, hy means of the map, on a series of Journeys with 8t. Paul and His Companions. Trace the mis sionary journeys. Note who went with Paul on each Journey. At each stopping place recount the events that took place there, the methods of work, the obstacles, the successes, the time spent. II. Sum up the progress of the gospel during the six or seven years included in this quarter's lessons. The extent of territory reached. The broadening of Christian thought and life. The churches founded. The Epistles written. III. Note the obstacles overcome. In every place there was opposition, often persecution, sometimes mob violence. Illustration. "By reference to Wat son’s biography of Thomas Jefferson it will he found that the Declaration of In dependence was finally adopted on July 4. because the members of Congress were so greatly bothered by the tiles, which swarmed into the hall from a livery sta ble near by, that further debate became almost impossible." So by such small things as a Jew eating with Gentiles, as the blaspheming of Jews, shrines of Diana, a charge that Paul hail brought a Gentile into an inner court of the tem ple. the course cf history was changed. IV. Note that the same forces are at work now ns then, and they have lost none of their power. The century just ended has witnessed much in the prog ress of the gospel that parallels the his tory we are studying V. All ages of Christian progress are missionary ages. In civil and commercial lines, colonization has extended civiliza tion and commerce to many countries, and has strengthened the home countries. So the missionary enterprise has spread the gospel into many lands, at great cost, overcoming obstacles as great as moun tains which Christ promised that faith should remove, enjoying much success, and always blessing a.id strengthening the home churches, "That host that heeds not hurt nor sear, Led by the Bright and Morning Star!" —Mrs. Spoftord. What would Jerusalem and Antioch have been had they kept their gospel to themselves? The church that is not a missionary church is a dying church. The Value of Encouragement. A word of encouragement is always the most profitable of investments. Nothing else returns so great divi dends. Julian Legrard, the Paris merchant, never tired of telling how, in the panic of 1857, his firm was on the brink of oertrin failure for lack of £20,000, which for two days he hai‘ tried in vain to raise. The crisis was at hand, when a stranger enter ed his office ar.d offered him the need ed sum on his personal note without interest. Legrand had been member of a school committee years before, and, not praising merely the rich boys, had gore to a certain poor lad, commended him for his work in the examination, and told him he could do better if he tried. That had been the turning point in the poor boy's life, and now he had come to repay, in part, the debt he owed for that one word of encouragement. Chief Business of the Church. Any tool or instrument is at its best only when it is doing that which it was designed to do. A man is at his beat when lie is doing the thing for which he is fitted by natural gifts and education. We do not call in a law yer to take charge of a case of pneumor-ia. nor a physician to take a case in court. The average preach er would soon wreck a bank, and th* average banker would as quickly wreck a church. The Church of Christ is an instrument designed of God, and designed for a purpose. ALL Tir.ED OUT. The wear y, worn-out, all ttred f • e 11 n g s tome to every body who taxes the kidneys. When the kid neys are over worked they fail to perform the duties nature has provided for them to do. When the kid neys fail, danger ous disease quick iy luiiuwa, ui iu ary disorders, diabetes, dropsy, rheu matism, Bright’s disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure all kidney and bladder ills. 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The trouble with the average man at 50 is that he’s only about half as smart as he thought he was at 25. Senators' Biographies. In the directory of the Fifty-eighth congress, just out, Senator J. Frank Allee, of Delaware, describes himself as "president of the Bay State Gas company,” this announcing his identi fication with Addicks. Mr. Heyburn, the new Idaho senator, Is described as ‘not affected by the silver craze of 1896.” Representative Ames of Mas sachusetts is probably the only mem ber of congress who gives the name of his grandfather (Benjamin F. But ler) and also that of his father (Adel- * bert F. Ames). The new senator from Utah, In a six-line sketch, takes pains to say that he was “married Septem ber 17, 1884, to Alpha M. Eldridge.” He thuv makes the attack of the Utah remonstrants an endeavor to ‘‘correct the record.” Chicago Man's Remarkable Light. A Chicago inventor, Mr. George Ma grady, has discovered a process of manufacturing a thirty-six candle pow er light that will never go out. While experimenting with photographic chemicals four years ago Magrady's attention was attracted by a glow in a small globe. The glow was caused by a chemical which the inventor keeps secret. Magrady enlarged the glow and perfected the light by plac ing it in an air-tight glass. He says there is no reason why the light will not remain brilliant forever, if it Is not broken. A company has been formed to manufacture the lights in numer ous sizes. A patent hood fits over tho globe and covers it completely when the light is not needed. WAS REFUSED LIFE INSURANCE. Rejected on Account of “Coffee Heart." Life Insurance companies have fully established the fact that the use of coffee causes an organic derangement of the heart, shortening the long beat and imperiling life. For this reason habitual coffee drinkers are refused life Insurance in many cases. 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