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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Lsborere Becomes Millionaire.
The most interesting citizen of Dan
ville, 111,, is Michael Kelly. Thirty
rears ago his pick and shovel were his
anly capital. He prospered as & lab
rirer, saved money to buy a farm, found
real underneath his potato patch, and
nov ' Mike” Kelly, as he is affection
ately known. Is worth $4,000,000. A
town has been named after him. W'hen
he first turned up in a Danville brick
yard he could neither read nor write.
He will retire from business on Jan
uary 1 next, aged 65 years, one of the
richest men in Illinois.
No matter how much a girl fights
against a man who tries to kiss her,
she can always forgive him for want/
ing to.—New York Press.
The greatest foe of liberty is not
the tyrant, but the contented slave.
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