Leup City Northwestern
GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. a.id Pub.
LOUP CITY, - * NEBRASKA.
The profits on tea must be immense
It would be more fitting to nam«
that baby Oliver R. Iseiin.
To guard his laurels Dan Patch will
have to sleep in hiB racing harness.
Lillian Russell is a mother in law
Good-by, Lillian, take care of yourself.
At last reports there was nothing
the matter with a single one of Baer's
four paws.
That Texas man who has had two
appendices removed must feel like a
new edition.
Bulgarians threaten to do Prince
Ferdinand a favor by taking his throne
away from him.
The big fight at San Francisco is a
thing of the past, but the football sea
son will open pretty soon.
When a woman begins to pay full
fare for her children she realizes that
she is getting along in years.
Colombia is ostensibly looking out
for her sovereignty, but she isn't go
ing to miss the sovereigns.
No man really feels his importance
until after his wife called his atten
tion to the fact that he Is somebody.
The Kansas definition of a gold
mine is "a hole in the ground owned
by a man who is a liar.”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Mr. Jim Scanlon has issued a chal
lenge to Mr. Jim Jeffries. Mr. Scanlon
Is evidently looking for a large bunch
of trouble.
The rise in the price of cod liver oil
from $22 to $160 a barrel Isn't due to
the Increased demand for It as a popu
lar beverage.
A Kalamazoo woman Jabbed her hat
pin into the wrong man, with fatal re
suits. She probably acknowledged that
the joke is on her.
Following the fashion of dedicating
books to one whom the author ad
mires, the author of a book just out
dedicates it to himself.
King Peter K. G. Vitch of Servia al
ready is talking of abdicating. What
ever else his predecessor may have
been, he wasn't a quitter.
The price of radium has been
marked down from $5,000,000 to $2,
721,555 a pound—but the manufacturer
does not give trading stamps.
Illustrated invitations were issued
1o a hanging in Montana. Here is a
suggestion to Newport society, which
is looking for something novel.
The emperor of Austria has Just
snubbed the king of Belgium. Old
Franz Josef acts like a person who
never had a scandal in his house.
“You can’t save your fellow-men un
less you are willing to touch them,"
says Bishop Potter. And the contribu
tion is always taken up in church.
Has Mr. Morgan run his course as a
popular sensational idol? Just now
it looks as if there wasn’t a snap
shotter so poor as to do him reven
ence.
The news of the discovery by Dr.
Dunbar of Hamburg of an antitoxin to
cure hay fever will make sundry sum
mer resort landlords and landladies
feel sad.
The time for a trip around the world
has been reduced to 5t days, 8 hours.
89 minutes—which is evidence that
Jules Verne was not an Impracticable
dreamer, after all.
Strange as it may seem. Mr. Jef
fries has not received as yet any of
fers trom the editors of leading maga
zines for an article entitled “How I
Licked Mr. Corbett.”
A German actor has been sent to
Jail for getting off stage Jokes about
the emperor. If they were anything
like the American stage jokes we
can't blame the emperor for shutting
him up.
Before Sir Thomas takes the Sham
rock home it would be interesting to
see what Capt. Barr and a Yankee
crew could do with her, against tho
Reliance sailed by Capt. Wringe and
his British crew.
The Japanese, who are talking of
entering a yacht In next year s raca
have a choice of several routes for
getting it into American waters, but
their quickest plan would be to have it
built in this country.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is au
thority for the statement that thirty
six robberies at the point of revolvers
have occurred in St. Louis since July
4. This is encouraging for those who
are thinking of attending the exposi
tion there next year.
“Any number of well shaped, well
made stocks may be bought at almost
any of the shops at 25 cents each,”
says the New York Times, and still
everywhere around us the girls are
making stocks at the expense of hours
and hours and h-ours of valuable time.
PLAN TO MAKC WASHINGTON
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY
It la the Intention to make Wash
'ngton both the Paris and Berlin of
America. Plans which have been
considered by Congress for making
.he nation’s capital grander, more
Deautiful and more splendid in every
respect, call for tho expenditure of
millions upon millions.
The first step in this long-looked
for aggrandizement will be taken in
iarnest when the work on the Union
Railway station is under way. This
sreat building alone will cost $20,000.
)00. Several years will be occupied
each home, accommodating all told
12,500 visitors at a time. In ten years
it is believed that 12,500 at a time
will demand the accommodation.
Designs have already been sub
mitted to Congress for a National Pa
vilion, adjacent to the Homes of the
States in National avenue, to contain
open air and covered halls, restaur
ants, apartments and a roof garden
It is largely of glass, with casements
to be closed for warmth in winter
and open for pure air in summer
through Venetian blinds.
♦ he Nava] Observatory and 100 acres
of Potomac Park into a breathing
spot, to be styled Istoria Park.
The third is a new White Houss,
or Executive Mansion. The designs
are drawn by Paul J. Pelz, architect
of the new Congress Library. The
present White House is to be pre
served as a relic of the day when it
was of a size commensurate with a
population of 5,000,000. We are to
day 80,000,000.
A pavilion memorial bridge across
the Potomac is the fourth aggran
DBSKSrr FOR ANATIOKM, -PAVILION, ADdLACBHT TO WCO^ES OP THB &ZXTE0
OK KAtnOHAL avt^tui;
In its construction. The station will
excel in size and magniflcence every
thing of lt^dass in the world. No
railway can be barred from its facili
ties. The mileage represented will
be about 41,000.
In keeping with this colossal under
taking will be the homes of the states
on National avenue. This is a sug
gestion by a person whose name and
identity have been searched for in
vain. The idea is for the United
States to give a tract ot land 5,000
feet in length and 250 in breadth, the
frontage to be allotted proportion
ately to the population of the differ
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The aggrandizements planned are
seventeen in number. Louis Napoleon
wiped out miles of solidly built
blocks in the heart of Paris for the
glory of France; what, it is asked, is
to hold the United States back from
razing the rookeries that besmirch
Washington?
The first aggrandizement is the im
provement of Pennsylvania avenue.
This broad, asphalted thoroughfare
has a world wide reputation, being
fully as well known as the Champs
Elysee and Unter den Linden, yet it
is the ugliest street on earth so far
as its architecture is concerned. There
dizement. The fifth is a Centennial
avenue as a boulevard. The sixth is
a series of ornamental porticos for
shelter and a luxurious promenade.
The seventh involves the clearance
of Sixteenth street of rookeries and
its embellishment as a bisecting boule
vard to be called Executive avenue.
The Park Istoria is the eighth ag
grandizement. calling for the removal
of museums and the construction ot
a street of dwellings of mankind
through the ages. The ninth is the
National avenue, for Homes of States,
referred to at the outset.
The tenth aggrandizement is the
"Proposed Mcmorial hall of prbsidents, an American walhalla.
ent states, and In the order of their
admission into the Union.
The bestowal of this land by the
government would be an exact divis
ion of the people’s property among
themselves, as Franklin Webster
Smith points out. Speaker Reed
thought the idea a fine one. Pres
ently there will be fifty states in the
Union. The fifty State Homes along
National avenue will provide fifty
reading rooms, fifty writing rooms,
fifty sets of home newspapers, fifty
bureaus of information, fifty halls o;'
social converse, fifty places for busi
ness appointments, fifty trysting
places for sweethearts, fifty public
comforts. There will be 260 seats in
is but one respectable building be
tween the Treasury and the Capitol.
The rest would disgrace a third-class
village. Most of the buildings are
low, old, weatherbeaten and ram
shackle.
Pennsylvania avenue, from the
President's house to the Capitol,
ought to be the finest of all streets.
It has a few trees; it should have
many more. When “Boss” Shepherd
spent $44,000,000 oil the outskirts of
Washington he sadly neglected im
portant thoroughfares near the heart
of the city. These have been eyesores
fdr generations.
The second aggrandizement is the
conversion of 220 acres adjacent to
beautifying of tue banks of the Poto
mac. There will be terrace garden#
and broad boulevards.
A National Hall of Fame is also
planned. It will be in the colonnade
of American Galleries on the Poto
mac.
Some of the designs that have been
before Congress and met the approval
of leading Senators and Representa
tives are published herewith. Th®
whole country Is waking up to the
fact that residential Washington is
superb, while municipal, or legisla
tive, Washington is a shabby disgrace.
All roads will lead to Washington.
The city’s aggrandizement should bo
a national hobby.—New York Times.
PROGENITOR OF THE PRESENT AUTOMOBILE
Some weeks ago an illustration
was published in the Globe of Golds
worthy Gurney’s automobile vJ 1827.
The machine which two years after
ward reached a speed of nearly twen
ty miles an hour is shows heiewlth.
An Automobllo of 1829.
I It differed from the former in many
, particulars, the most noticeable
I change being that he put the motor
| in a separate carriage, since the popu
lar prejudice was too strong to al
I low passengers In tU» sante vehicle (
with a steam engine.
This motor carriage had curious
drag shoes for brakes, and the en
gine was driven by steam from a
tubular boiler. It weighed with water
and cake about ten pounds.—Boston
Globo
TAMED WYATT EABP
VTL'STERN BAD MAN COWED IM
DAWSON CITY.
Diminutive Member of Canada Mount*
ed Police Too Much for Old-Tir.ie
“Terror"—The Power of Rigidly En*
forced Law.
Since Wyatt Earp, once famous as a
?un fighter in Arizona and California,
arent up into the Klondike very little
Aas been heard of him by the outside
vorld. Earp was never a man who
:ould easily be tamed, consequently a
Story told of his suppression a few
veeks ago by a diminutive cockney
nember of the Canada mounted police
will be interesting to some of his
h lends here.
"Earp drifted into Dawson several
nontbs ago full of a determination to
?et action.” said a San Francisco man
some of Earp’s .old Western friends
Jhe other night. He discarded his
store clothes, got himself a flannel
ihirt, a pair of leather trousers and a
sombrero, stuck a gun in his belt,
loaded up on bad whisky and went
around the saloons and faro banks
Dailyragging everybody who would
stand for his game, and taking a few
shots at some men who resented it.
“Well, the fact that Earp was hit
ting it up got to the ears of a little
five-foot cockney member of the Can
ada mounted police, one of whose
duties it was to see that Dawson be
haved Itself. Now', Earp didn’t know
much about the Canada mounted
police and the manner of men who
compose it.
“Therefore when he was interrupted
in the gentle amusement of cleaning
out a faro bank in Dawson one night
by this little chap coming up to him
with a request that he give him his
gun, he opened his mouth and his
eyes very wide, swore a mighty round
of oathB and asked the little fellow in
riding boots and cap if he wanted to
visit hades at once or wait a few
hours.
“Earp was somewhat surprised
when the little fellow simply smiled
politely and said:
“ ‘You must give me the gun or
Irtiry it, sir,’ and extended his hand for
the weapon.
“Earp swore some more, but not
quite so eloquently, for all the while
the little man was smiling; calmly in
tis face. Finally, Earp, clean flustered
by the situation pulled his gun from
his belt and fired it three times into
the ceiling, whereupon the little man,
still smiling said:
“ Now. you'll have to bury it or I’ll
have to take it away from you, sir.’
“ ‘Take my gun away from me!’
roared Earp.
“ ‘Exactly,’ said the little man. ‘May
be you doubt I’ll do it, sir?’
"The witnesses of this colloquy did
not know what to expect from Earp,
but they knew what would happen
pretty soon if Earp became defiant,
because in Dawson people know what
to expect from the Canadian mounted
police. They knew, too, that this lit
tle cockney had squelched every bad
man who had ever come Into Dawson,
and they didn’t doubt that he would
attend to Earp.
“However, a crisis was averted by
JCarp's putting his gun back into his
■belt and starting to leave the place.
Just as he got to the door the police
man walked over and tapped him on
the shoulder.
“ ‘I beg your pardon, sir,’ he said,
‘but if you come out with a gun in
sight to-morrow, I shall have to take it
away from you.’
"Earp turned purple with rage, but
he had no nerve left when he con
fronted that politely smiling face. He
roared a few oaths back at the amused
crowd in the gambling house, and then
went to the Goldea Lion saloon, where
hs took a few drinks and proceeded to
tell what he would do the next day
when the cockney tried to take his
gun.
“ ‘Why, I’ll blow him full of holes,’
he said.
" ‘Yes.’ said a listener, ‘but when
you put a hole in him you put a hole
m the British empire, which It will fill
with two men. If you kill them, fgur
will take their places. In the end,
Earp, you will have the whole British
army here if necessary just to put you
out. Better let him alone.’
“The next day. Earp. very sober and
very thoughtful, appeared on the
streets of Dawson in the store clothes
he came to town with. Almost the
first person he struck was the cock
ney, who had evidently been waiting
for him, prepared to take his gun
away if he showed it. As soon as he
saw Earp he stepped up very politely
and said:
“ ‘Thank you, sir,’ and then turned
on his heel.
“Earp hasn't been deuce high as a
bad man in Dawson since that inci
dent. Incidentally, I might say. if he
had elected to mix it up with the
cockney he’d be sleeping under an
epitaph to-night: for of all the real
tough men I ever saw, either for or
egainst law and order, those Can
ada mounted police are the limit.”—
New York Sun.
A Leprosy Patrol.
The Hawaiian government employs
agents who travel all over the is
lands looking for indications of lep
rosy in remote places. Banishment
is so dreadful that frequently the
family o.' a leper will keep him
secreted for a year or two before
discovery is made. A person who is
supposed to have the disease is sent
to the receiving station in Honolulu,
where he is examined by five medical
(xperts. If “a leper” be the verdict
money, position, influence, race or
color cannot change the decree which
sends the patient to Molokai.
BUFFERED fcr fifteen years,
Completely Restored to Health.
. Mrs. P. Brunzel, wife of Brunzel,
•too* dealer, residence 311i Grand
Av%., Everett, Wash., says: “For flf
teen years I suffered
with terrible pain in
my back. I experi
mented with doc
tors and medicines
but got little if any
relief. I actually be
lieve the aching In
in my back and
through the groin
became worse. I did
not know what it
was to enjoy a
night’s rest and
arose in the morn
ing leeling tired and
un re freshed. My
Buffering sometimes was simply indes
cribable. Finally, I saw Doan's Kid
ney Pills advertised and got a box.
After a few doses I told my husband
that I was feeling much better and
that the pills were doing me good.
When I finished that box I felt like a
different woman. 1 didn’t stop at that,
though. I continued the treatment
until I had taken five boxes. There
was no recurrence until a week ago,
when I began to feel miserable again.
I bought another box and three days’
treatment restored me to health.
Doan’s Kidney Pills act very effective
ly, very promptly, relieve the aching
pains and all other annoying difficul
ties. I have recommended them to
many people and will do so when op
portunities present themselves.
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine, which cured Mrs. Brun
zel, will be mailed to any part of the
United States on application. Address,
Foeter-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For
cale by all druggists, price £0 cents
per box.
The Nerve-Racking Piano.
The general belief that the piano
was not only an instrument of per
cussion but of torture finds confirma
tion In the researches made recently
by a Berlin nerve specialist. He as
serts that out of 1,000 girls who be
gan to play the piano before they
were 14 no less than 600 were affected
by some kind of nervous disease,
while out of 1,000 girls who had not
been put at playing scales only 100
were so affected. His recommenda
tion is that girls should not begin to
work on the piano until they are 16.
Waldon Fawcett describes fn thd
fceptember St. Nicnolas the success of
a savings bank experiment tried by a
Washington, D. C., public school, a
success which is likely to set other
schools experimenting along the same
lines. This school savings bank is
conducted in every way just like a
real bank. The principal makes him
seif responsible for the safe keeping
of the funds, and at the close of each
day's business deposits the daily re
ceipts in one of the city’s ordinary
commercial banking institutions. Pu
pils are tellers and bookkeepers, do
ing all the work involved; and the
children's pennies foot up already to
the respectable fund of two hundred
dollars.
Belonged to Electoral Commission.
It has been noted that only three
of the fifteen members of the famous
electoral commission of 1877 survive
—ex-Ssenator Edmunds, Senator Hoar
and General Eppa Hunton of Virginia
—the two last having been chosen on
the part of the bouse of representa
tives. rtll of the five Justices of the
supreme court who sat on the com
mission long since passed away.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color
Silk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling.
Some men are proud of their mis
deeds and ashamed of their virtues.
An’s 70th Birthday.
The 70th birthday of the empress
of China, which occurs next year, is
to be celebrated in Peking with un
precedented splendor. If the present
plans are carried out, the cost will
amount to nearly $b,000^000. One
balf of this sum has already been put
aside by the director of the treasury,
TBhuan-lin; the remainder the pro
vincial mandarins who owe their po
sitions to the empress will be expect
ed to provide.
Edwin L. Sabin’s “The Match
Game,” announced for the September
century, will be the third in the Cen
tury’s series of stories of village boy
life, stories which bring nine out of
every ten gray-haired men very close
to their days of bare feet, careless
grammar, and care-free fun. Frederic
Dorr Steele will illustrate the story of
the match between “our” nine and
"their” nine with pictures of "You”
and “Fat Day.” ‘’Billy Lunt” and
"Spunk Carey,” "Hen Schmidt” and
"Chub Thornbury.” "Doc Kennedy”
and “Red Conroy,” “Hod O’Shea,” and
the other nine lads who played that
eventful names. The very names
stir Jolly memories.
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all other makes.
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dealers everywhere.
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price on bottom.
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