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Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. a.id Pub.' LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. This is the open season fcr minis ters in Bulgaria. It would seem that Patti's other visits were merely au revour tours. Living Is high In New York. Even a dog ate $100 for luncheon the other day. At this season of the year no boy needs to be told that swimming is a healthful exercise. A Minneapolis hospital offers to treat a man free. Huh; most any can didate will do that. The remodeled White House con tains thirty-two miles of wire—and several people to pull it. They are busy In New York Just now counting the geese that "Get Rich-Quick” Goslin plucked. Bulgaria should Join hands with Ja yin and divide the expenses of the enthusiastic search for trouble. Any reasonable man will admit that there are two sides to every question—his side and the wrong side. Mr. Whistler is no more and the gentle art of making enemies is rele gated exclusively to our reformers in politics. What worries the sultan is not that his treasury is empty, but that he has reached the end of his ability to go into debt. American warships in European wa ters have been winning peace vic tories (hat are no less valuable than those of war. People who can't get along without borrowing trouble might save wear and tear on their nerves by moving to Paterson, N. J. Prosperity—among the politicians —is beyond question. The diamond importation has increased 50 per cent during the last year. It Is said that Indians have ac quired the divorce habit. Perhaps the real truth is that some of the squaws have decided to strike. The peek-a-boo shirtwaist may shock us, but It has one great advan tage, the dear girl who wears it at tracts all the mosquitoes. The latest bulletin from Jim Cor bett’s camp proves conclusively that when his "new blow" has been tried out, Jeffries will again be a boiler maker. Anthracite coal fields have been dis covered in Colorado equal in extent to those of Pennsylvania. The Mis sissippi valley will now be between two fires. When an old fashioned mother wants to say in a back handed way that her hoy is good at Bchool, she says that he likes all his teachers.— Atchison Globe. It is hoped that the Fourth-of-Jiriy victims have nearly all been accounted for. The automobile accidents con tinue, however, to be reported in grad ually increasing numbers. Mrs. Corbett has dreamed that her husband will knock out Jeffries in the thirteenth round. But if she wanted to be convincing, why couldn’t she make it some other round? A New York corporation, of which the stock is said to have been "ail water,” has been declared bankrupt. The company’s floating debt did not keep the directors in the swim. Peace once more reigns in the edu cational world since the president of the State university of Vermilion, S. D., has been exonerated from the charge of drinking beer and smoking Cigars. Prince Botijar of Paris calls the Servian affair an "operetta.” Well, it depends, Prince. If you had been playing the star part doubtless it would have seemed a little nearer the legitimate. Dr. Stiles claims that in some cases the "laziness disease" has been fatal. The only case just now recalled Is that of the man who was too tired to get off the track when the train came along. England complains that we have seized some of her islands. But we have not It is merely an exchange We gave her William Waldorf Astor, and surely he Is worth more thau any little bunch of islands. Jacob Jung and Marie Mosser, aged i7 and 63 respectively, kissed each sther in Lincoln park, Chicago, re cently, and were promptly arrested. Poor young things! How can Chica go tolerate policemen with no tender lentiments in their souls? When the theosophtst lady and gen tleman who etood up before their ’riends the other day and said they married w*ant to call it off they will find it necessary to go through I few additional formalities. The law ia aueer about tome of these things. WHERE THE WORLD’S FINEST SHIPS OF WAR NAY MEASURE THEIR STRENGTH More ships of war are now watch ing each other In Chinese waters than were ever assembled before on the Asiatic coast In the history of the world. It needs but a spark thrown into the Manchurian powder magazine to blow Russia's treacherous diplo macy sky-high, and clear the stage for the greatest naval battle of mod ern times. And there would be but one result. Russia’s Asiatic fleet would be annihilated, except such ships as escaped to the refuge of the forts of Vladivostock or Port Arthur. As to landing troops and fighting on land—that is another story, but against the combined fleets of Japan and England, Russia's Asiatic squad ron could not hope to stand. In the threatened naval war China, whose very existence as a nation is at stake, can take no part. The naval power of China was blown from the face of the waters by the Japanese guns at the battle of the Yalu river. Admiral Evans has his fleet in that land-locked sea, the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, covering the approaches to Tien-Tsin (the port of Pekin) and within easy distance of Port Arthur and New Chwang, where the Russian troops are said to be mostly concentrated. In that same region the British have assembled a fleet of twelve warships and there Is a Japanese contingent there also. The rest of the Japanese navy Is on the coast of Japan ready to strike at any point on the coast of the mainland from Vladivostock to Port Arthur. Besides the ships of war England has in the Gulf of Pe chi-li she has others scattered about the Chinese coast which could be drawn upon. Taking all the ships of war of the four nations—Great Brit ain, Japan, the United States and Russia—now in Chinese waters or ready to sail from the coast of Japan, the roster shows a fleet of 168 war vessels liable to be precipitated against each other In one great battle which would make the memory of Trafalgar as insignificant as the pro verbial ‘.'thirty cents.” It will be seen by a glance at the accompanying illustration that the al lied fleets are superior to the Asiatic fleet of Russia in every respect. To get ships from the Baltic Russia would, if war were declared, have to run the gauntlet of England’s great Channel squadron, and her Mediter ranean fleet as well if they attempted to go through the Suez canal—the only feasible route. And, more than CoffPA/ZJTWt Q)T/?CNGT/i OF TfiE FtEETeF /JJEF731ED /N THE (pULT 3E Pe-OtZ-L/ 4lUEO Pa T/QNcS /<34c)/t/FJ cr tt/lg. Pv&S/A 34 d)Zf/f& of Wa/z^ all, in case of war, Russia will need all the ships on her Baltic coast which she now has there. Russia’s Black sea fleet would be locked up in that body of water if Turkey stuck by her treaty and prevented the pas sage of the Bosporus and Darda nelles, as in all probability she would. To force those straits, even if it were possible, would bring down the wrath of all Europe on Russia. If by any chance the Black sea fleet should get through, or a part if it, the Brit ish Mediterranean fleet would easily take care of it. So Russia's naval force in the East In case of war must fight at its present strength, with no hope of reinforcement. The information possessed by Japan relating to the strength and disposi tion of Russian fleets and troops in the Pacific and on Asian soil is most thorough and extensive. She has been carefully collecting this infor mation by a small army of spies in preparation for just such a contingen cy as the present. All this valuable Information Is, of course, at the ser vice of .her allies. Japan has well equipped dockyards handy for the use of the allies and stores of all kinds for the use of the fleet. Russia has only one well-equipped naval station on the coast, that of Vladivostoek, but Port Arthur is a strongly fortified port in which her fleet might take refuge, and of late she has been storing naval supplies there and starting the equipment of a dock-yard. New Chwang is also fortified. But in order to get from the naval station of Vladivostok iround to the scene of the gathering of the fleets of the allies In the Gulf ?f Pe chi li the Russian ships would have to traverse the entire length of the Japan sea and round the lower snd of Corea, being all the while within striking distance from the roast of Japan, and then cross the Yellow Sea to the entrance of the gulf. France has In the disturbed waters a fleet consisting of two battleships, three armored cruisers, twelve gun boats and seven torpedo boats, this fleet no doubt would be passively frlendy fro Russia, but no one expects France to fight In the quarrel. There Is an alliance between Russia aud France, but It does not go so far as that. France does z&t want a war with England Just n~w and, in fact, is trying 60 be especially friendly with her. If war conies it win in all human probability be confined entirely to the East. A British fleer will sail into the Baltic and blockade Cronstadt just as it did in the Crimean war. Some . ■ ■ ■' /Pc/<xr/J<6 {AMD Ot/r/wrrezB the /fu./EcJ' 7 to / other of the Russian Baltic ports may be bombarded and blockaded, but in Western Europe it will be just a case of belligerent nations sitting down oppisite to each other and making faces while the real coniest is being fought out in Asia and in Asian waters. Should the United States be come involved the American Euro pean squadron might effect a junction with the British fleet in the Baltic and help inveigle the Russian Baltic fleet into a fight. The voice of Japan is for immediate war. The struggle .with Russia is to the Japanese the "irrepressible con flict.” It is an rfxiom of Japan's poli cy that Corea imtst be either under Japanese influence or Japanese, and Russia is threatening Corea. The same action on the part of China made Japan go to war with her. Russia plays transparently fast and loose, throwing the blame for her acts first on one minister and then on an other, ready to disavow any or all acts of her agents, but never refrain ing from profiting by them, and all the time strengthening her position in Manchuria—doing it every day, while fleets and armies are assembling. As to the land forces which will bo involved in case of war, nobody knows how many troops Russia has in Manchuria. It is claimed her facil ities for transportation are so great that more than 1,000,000 men could be rushed into Manchuria within three weeks. On the borders of Man churia are 50,000 European troops r PPOB/1BLE 7HB47VZ OF HUP under European drill masters. Japan has an army of 100,000 men ready to throw into Corea or to land In Man churia. England and the United States could draw smaller bodies of troops from Hong Kong and the Phil ippines. But In spite of all combina tiona, the land forces of the allies would, in the beginning at any rate, be greatly outnumbered by the Rus sians. Still, how the Russian troops would stand the shock of actual war is a question. American officers who accompanied the allies on .the march to Pekin have not a very high idea of the Russian soldiers. The Yalu river, where the Russians are concentrating troops, forms the boundary line between China and Corea. A concentration of troops on the banks of the Yalu looks like an intended invasion of Corea, and in case of war the Russians might make that kingdom the battlefield. The Russian navy is an untried fac tor. How her sailors would show up in actual war nobody knows; not even they themselves. It is a navy with out history and without tradition. All its “glorious past” is before it. The Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, where the fleets are now assembled is an oval body of water about as big as Lake Erie. For the most part it is shallow. The Liao-Tung peninsula, reaching down from Manchuria and the Shaun tung peninsula, reaching up from the south, separate the gulf, except for a narrow strait, from the Yellow sea. The great peninsula of Corea puts down between the Yellow sea and the Sea of Japan. The island empire of Japan stretches northward in a semi circle from the extremity of Corea to the Russian island of Sakhalin. It looks small on the map compared with the vast expanse of the Russian em pire—but so do the British Isles. This is the theater of the threatened war, a war which will result—if it comes— in Russia assuming a commanding and prepondering influence in the Pa cific, or of having her ambitious schemes in that direction checked for at least for a generation.—New YorV Press. HOW PEARLS Akc MADE. Their Humility of Origin Is Similar To Diamonds. As in the case of the diamond, which is only crystallized carbon or black lead, pearls exhibit a humility of ori gin which stands out in striking con trast to their intrinsic worth. For the pearl is an unnatural, or one flight al most call it a diseased, product. Each pearl has for its nucleus, or starting point of formation, a parasitic worm. Formerly it was regarded as a com mon occurrence that the pearl owed its origin to the presence under the ‘•man tle” of the oyster (the skin which en velops the animal and lines the shell) of some concretion in the shape of a minute grain of sand. A scientist now declares that his experience negatives this view, or, at any rate, places the sand nucleus in the position of a very infrequent occurrence. If the shell be injured and sand gains access to the interior pearl formation around a sand grain may then be possible; but by far the greater number of the pearls found lying free in the oysters owe their being to the presence of parasitic worms. The real nature of the process which causes the formation of a pearl is the deposition around the little for eign body of the pearly substance of the shell lining, secreted by the '•man tle.” Presumably this Is an attempt on the part of#the animal to lessen or abolish the Irritation which a fore!.<n particle must set up within living tissues. AFLOAT FOR 350 YEARS. Strip Anita Retired After Long Reo ord of Slowness. What ship in the world can boast such a record as the Anita, which hat just been sokl to be broken up? She was registered at the port of Genoa and has been afloat almost since the days of Columbus. She was built in Genoa in 1548, and her last voyage has not long been over. It was from Naples to Teneriffe. It is true she was 205 days on one voyage from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro, but what is that to a ship which has weathered such countless storms and tornadoes in all parts of the world? The sturdy old vessel has been en gaged in the carrying trade between Spain and the United States. Of course she has been repaired frequently dur ing the many long years of her life, but still her original style has been preserved, and she still exhibits her high bow and stern and lavish carv ings of oak. The schooner Raven of Beaumaris is a famous old vessel. She has been engaged in the coasting trade during the reigns of five British monarchs. In fact, her age is 114 years; but the old ship has been taken to Carnarvon harbor to be broken up. A fine old warship is the old 70-gun frigate Anne. She was crippled and run ashore orf Dungeness in Admiral Torrington's battle with the French fleet in 1690. For a full 200 years she has been embedded in the sands there. She has become visible once more, for the hulk now shows plainly at low tides close in to the snore. Expedi tions are being organized to raise some of her old brass guns. A still older warship is a Spaniard which has been discovered lately un der 200 feet of water off Messina. From this vessel six guns have been recovered, including two guns seven feet long. These bear the date 1A62 under the royal escutcheon of Spain—which makes it pretty certain that she was sunk in some raval engagement in the seventeenth century.—Stray Stories. MADE A DANCING JOURNEY. Remarkable Feat Performed by Old Time English Actor. William Kemp, an English comic actor who flourished during the last years of Queen Elizabeth, and who belonged to the same company as Shakespeare, and “created” Dogberry, danced from London to Norwich, a distance of 114 miles. He was accom panied by a servant, an umpire and a man with a tabor and pipe. Crowds hindered his start on Feb. 11, 1G00, and many met him at every place. Several tried to dance with him, but none could rival his pace; the mor' successful were women. Although de layed by a snowstorm, he did it in nine days, and on the way accepted a challenge or two, each time coming off best, except when a Chelmsford maiden of 14 danced till he was “ready to lie down.” On his return he wrote an account of it, which ends with a warning to those with whom he had made wagers that if they did not pay up he would publish their names. The “Nine Daies’ Wonder,” as the title runs, is a merry, readable pamphlet. Among other curious in formation in it is the statement that the customary way to deal with pick pockets at the theater in those days was to tie them to a post. Lsment of the Lay Brother. Iona, O Iona! My days go sad and slow. For 'mid your Island meadows I hear no cattle low. I miss the fields of Kerry, The green fields and the klne, And In my brother's chanting Is heard no voice of mine; Iona, O Iona! My mates are glad of cheer. But If the Kerry peasant, Dwell sad and lonely here. I send an exile's sighing Across the sundering sea; O would I were in Kerry. Or the kine were here with me! Iona, O Iona! The Saint sleeps well, I trow. Nor dreams that one poor brother’s Heartbroke for Irennd now, Heartbroke to be a lierdboy And watch the cattle feed, And call the cattle homeward Across the darkening mead. Iona, O Iona! All summer swallows stay About your towers: the seagulls To Ireand take their way. And would. I cry with weeping, The seagulls’ road were mine. To hear and see the lowing. The kind eyes of the klne! Iona, O Iona! -Unidentified. Cunning Rats. The achievements of the rat would t»e incredible if they were not estab lished on authority beyond dispute. \ rat has been seen, for example, to mount a table and upset a box of figs jn to the floor for the benefit of twen :y waiting rats; and the stopper in a lask of oil has been removed by rats which then dipped their long tails nto the bottle until it was dry. Sugar las been found in deep drawers thir :y feet from the place where the rats lad found it, and they have been known to carry eggs from the bottom if a house to the top without break ng them, the egg resting upon the aind legs of one rat and the forelegs if another as they climber the stairs. A. man-of-war was once so overrun with rats that they destroyed a hun fred-weight of bisuits every day, and ■t was necessary at last to smoke the ship between decks. As Corrected. The Parson—You wouldn’t be so poor, 'i nomas, were it not for the fact that you are intoxicated half the time.’’ Thomas—Thnsh (nic) not it. par thon. I’m (hie) ’tox’cated half th’ lime, cause I’m (hie) so poor. Shee?” The August Century. The August Century will contain ihe openfng chapters of the Hon. An* flrew D. White’s "Chapters from My Diplomatic Life," deaiing with the minister’s first mission to Germany,. 1879-1881. The ambassador found in those two years that hti duties and pleasures gave him experiences mounding almost almost every note k'om the sublime to the ridiculous, ind brought him into close touch not July with such personages as Presi lent Hayes, Secretary Evarts, Bea tonsfield. Browning, and the Emper ors William I, Frederick and William' II, but with all kinds of Americans in all kinds of predicaments. Patti’s Real Name. On her forthcoming tour-—the last ind flnalest—Madame Patti might use 4er right and full name, with which Americans are entirely unfamiliar. She was baptized Adelea Juana Maria Clo rinda Patti. Most of us know her sim ply as Patti, and a few of us as the Marquise de Caux, Signora Nicolin) ind Baroness Cederstrom. $100 REWARD $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to lean* ■hat there is at least out dreaded disease that icience has been able to cure in all its states, and hat Is'Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Vatarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarih Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and ,-nucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying he foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curative powers .hat they offer One Hundred Hollars for any case hat it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. A Crippled Explorer. Paul Fountain, author of ‘‘The Great Mountains of South America.” a wonder book of travel and explora tions, has been a cripple from his. birth. Yet. as his work shows, he is an intrepid rambler among strange lands and peoples, and no hint of his infirmity reaches his readers through his pages. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. Got “Buffalo Bill’s” Jewelry. "Buffalo Bill,” while appearing with his Wild West show at Dudley, Wor cestershire, Kngland, was robbed of property valued at $2,000, including a pin bearing the initials of King Ed ward, who gave it to the showman; a oair of diamond cuff links, a gift from 3raxxl Duke Alejffis, and other jewelry. CITC Permanently rnre*. Tto Jttiior nereonsnewi aftep I I ■ « first day’a u»e or Dr. Kune’s Great. Nerve Rest 01* !r. Rend Tor KKKK 93.00 trial bottle and treatise. t>it. K. 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