Nebraska Newspapers

    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. Read the following
case:
Veteran Joshua Heller of 706 South
Walnut street, Urbana, 111., says: ’‘lit
the fall of 1899 after getting Doan’s
Kidney Pills at Cunningham Bros.’
drug store In Champaign and taking a
course of treatment I told the readers
of the paper that they had relieved
me of kidney trouble, disposed of a
lamo back with pain across my loins
and beneath the shoulder blades. Dur
ing the interval which had elapsed I
have had occasion to report to Doan’s
Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings
of attack. On each and every occa
sion the results obtained were just as
satisfactory as when the pills were
first brought to my notice. 1 just as
emphatically endorse the preparation
to-day as I did over two years ago.”
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr. Heller
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United State? Medical
advice free; strictly confidential. Ad
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists. Price
50 cents per box.
When some men hear of a neigh
bor losing his good name they are
probably glad they have none to lose.
If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
use Red Cross Bull Bluo. Large '£ 03.
package, 5 cents.
Don't prolong a quarrel. Make g
hard fight, and then quit—win or
lose.
INSIST ON GETTING IT.
Some grocers say they don't keep De
fiancu Starch. This Is because they havo
a stock on hand of other brands contain
ing only 12 oz. In a package, which they
won't be abl6 to sell first, because De
fiance contains 16 oz. for the same money.
Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 os.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Btarcb. Requires no cooking.
Practice is said to make perfect,
yet few doctors or lawyers are mod
els of perfection.
MORE FLEXIBLE ANII LASTING,
won't shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance starch you obtain better results
than possible with any other brand and
one-third more for same money.
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. A well
known merchant of White’s Creek,
Tenn., proprietor of a large store
there, says: “Three years ago I was
examined for life insurance and to my
surprise was rejected because my
heart action was at times out of placo
15 beats in 60.
“I consulted several good doctors
and was invariably asked by them, ‘Do
you drink ardent spirits? use tobacco?
or drink coffee?’ To the first I an
swered ‘Very little,’ to the second
‘No,’ to the last ‘Yes,’ and they would
all say 'Quit coffee.’
“I determined to do this. I had read
about Postum Cereal Coffee and nought
and used it, and I liked it as well as
the best of real coffee, and as a re
sult of its use in place of coffee I find
myself without a skip in my heart
action and I can get insurance on my
life cheaper by 25 per cent (notwith
standing the advance in age), than I
could when I first commenced using
Postum.” Name furnished by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.