The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917, October 02, 1903, Image 2
Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Darn old Noah, he should have killed the two mosquitoes he had in the ark. There is an epidemic of smallpox among the fig pickers of Smyrna. Boil your figs. That young man who took tho prize as a hat trimmer might make a hyper critical husband. Col. A. Hamid, it is said, thinks he would be a happy man were it not for creditors and editors. May Ooelot is at last to be a duchess. After thi$ May will regard heaven as a mere annex. John L. Sullivan still umpires base ball games occasionally, and his deci sions go without unwise dispute. • If all men were like Harry Lehr, everybody could understand why Miss Susan B. Anthony never got married. The hoppicking season has opened in central New York. What a joy ous word, by the way, •'hoppicking" is! In cabling that he is as "fit as a fid dle," Vice Consul Magelssen shows that be is also as vivacious as a violin. With "Big Bill" IJevery on her side, why should Frau Coslma con tinue to feel that life has unlovely aspects? That threatening revolution in Pan ama continues to burn large, ragged holes Id tho pages of the sensational newspapers. It begins to look as though the only thing which might even hope to take away the America’s cup would be a licet of warships. It will never do to again speak of Vesuvius as “she” or “her” after learning that it has thrown rocks a distance of 600 feet. Announcement is made of a tour of this country by the prince of Thurn and Taxis, but he isn't to collect any thing but information. It is more than thirty-three years since France has had a revolution. U the French don't take care they'll be getting out of the habit. Beirut may be trying to qualify a:i tho new capital of the Turkish em pire when the sultan has to pack bit grip and move out of Europe. The dancing professors are In favor of greater dignity. But it isn't dignity that the lady thinks of when an awk ward man steps on her train. Baron Henri de Rothschild has been fined $2 in Paris for auto scorch ing. The cable doesn’t say how he succeeded in raising the money. How delighted Whistler must have been to die if he had prescient knowl edge that the post mortem cron of Whistler stories would hold out like It has. Prof. Langley may take a fearful revenge upon the skeptics by sailing his airship all alone some dark night and never letting anybody know about it. By beginning on the oyster early you may be ablo to enjoy a few speci mens before the scientific gentlemen bob up with the annual scare about oyster bacilli. The Harry Lehr fashion of carrying a purse attached to the wrist is rather slow of adoption in this town, where the police are alert in searching for freaks and lunatics. Even if the powers should succeed in restoring peace to Macedonia prob ably the luckless inhabitants of that region would not have the slightest idea what to do with it. Much sympathy is felt for the. pitch er on the Pittsburg baseball team who had been released because he didn’t rjome up to expectations, and who will therefore become a mere college pro fessor. Few of us realize how many insane people there are walking the streets, untrammeled and unsuspected. Foi instance, a Rochester man recently eloped with a woman and her seven teen children. The American golf players and the American dancing masters are to hole their annual meetings in St. Ixuub in 1904. If the management is shrewd it will get these two associations in the bird cage on the same day. A cable dispatch announces thal Mile. Gjena I.nnjevios, the youngest sister of the lately assassinatee Queen Draga of Servla, is to lecture on the causes of the tragedy in the music balls of Europe. This is chai acteristicaily improper. In the New York city directory for 1903 there are over 3,000 Smiths and i ,500 Browns, and 9.000 names have the prefix "Me.” It looks as though the Anglo-Saxon were following the Hollander into retirement before the resistless advance of the^Ceit. MODEL RESIDENCE NOT COSTLY Ki.. —. .. A model residence like this can be T built for an approximate cost of $7,000. The first floor walls are of local stone, and the gables and roof o£ cedar shingles, stained a mos3 green. At the front of the house is a spacious porch, with stone pillars. One enters the residence through 1 a quaint door, which opens Into a large and inviting reception hall. The pallor, library and dining room are connected directly with the hall, and are admirably situated for light and convenience. The kitchen, pantry and back stairs are located immedi ately in the rear of the dining room. , - The second floor is divided into four bedrooms, each having a large closet and ample space for beds and buFeaus. It has a large bathroom, which is equipped with the best sani tary plumbing. The house is heated by steam and lighted by electricity. BEAVERS BUILD FINE DAM. Remarkable Piece of Work Near Stroudsburg, Pa. A remarkable beaver dam exists near Stroudsburg, Pa. It was discov ered about two years ago, beavers having been supposed for years to be extinct in the eastern states. Now a special law has been passed by the Pennsylvania legislature to protect the Stroudsburg beavers. The dam is located in a swamp, which for many years had been drained of its surface water, except in a few spots. Noting that most of the swamp was under water, although but little rainfall had occurred, the curiosity of a neighbor ing farmer was aroused and he made un investigation which led to the dis covery. The dam had been construct ed around tho northern edge of the swamp, extending in a zigzag course, evidently to avoid obstruction and to increase its strength. It is about 125 feet in length and the top is wife enough for a man to walk upon with out difficulty, ranging from a foot to two feet in width. Further investiga tion in tho vicinity showed that the animals had felled a number of trees near the dam to use in its construc tion. The largest pieces yet found in It are eight inches in diameter by actual measurement. The principal material used, besides branches and twigs, was mud, which had been deft ly worked into it so solidly that a man weighing 235 pounds has walked upon the top without affecting it. The wood which has been used includes beech, white ash and oak. In cutting the trees tho animals worked in a circle around the trunk, making deep er indentations on the side toward the dam so that the trees would fall into the water in the proper direction. Disappointed Archeologists. Bourke Cochran is airing an amus ing anecdote picked up during his European trip. It seems that two distinguished archeologists made an excursion to the Isles of Arran, where interesting remains of an archcolOgl cal nature exist. They camo across a little rough stone building, and both entered into a fierce argument as to the exact century of its erection, one maintaining it was built in the fifth, and the other in the sixth century. A native who had listened to the hot discussion suddenly broke in: "Arrah, yer Honors, both of yeze are wrong. ’Twas put up three years agj by Faisy Doolan for his jackassl*"— 1 New York Times. • # GOAT HAD PAPA’S HAT. But Former Owner Had No Further Use for It. From Rockaway comes a sad tale involving a pearl-gray hat, a billy goat, a small boy, a fond papa and the sea. The fond papa owned the pearl gray hat, and it really was a thing of beauty. One day ho was promenad ing the beach with his little son and the wind cruelly swept the hat into the ocean. Two days later the small boy saw a young man driving a miniature laundry wagon drawn by a sturdy billy goat. Ou the goat’s head was a pearl-gray hat, a trifle dilapidated, with holes pierced to admit the pas sage of the goat’s horns. The small hoy recognized that hat. “Hold on, there,” he shouted. “That goat’s got my papa’s hat." The driver stopped and the fond papa came up to see what was the matter. “Papa, the goat's wearing your hat,” sobbed the small boy. “I fished the hat out of the surf,” explained the driver, who was inclined to dispute possession. “I claim it's mine—or the goat’s.” “Well," said the fond papa, as he gazed ruefully at his lost headgear, “I’ve bought a new hat, but the goat can have that one. The devil himself wouldn’t take It—and he wears horns, too, I've heard.”—New’ York Press. Sunset Guns. Mr. Bascomb had seen wonders enough for his first day away from Banbury, but just as he had settled his tired head against the back of a lounging chair, he heard a distant boom. “What’s that?” he demanded, start ing up. “Oh, 1 hat’s the sunset gun, Uncle Ezra ’’ said his nephew’s wife, in a soothing tone. “It goes off just as the sun rises and sets.” Mr. Bascomb’s mild face took on a look that approached hostility. “I've seen your talking machines and electric bell pulls and under ground rails and overhead trusties and kerriflges kiting here and there with no hoss nor other signs o' draw ering power,” he said, resentfully, “and I've set myself to believe all you’ve told me. But I’ve seen the sun all my days in Banbury, and I know there ain’t strength enough in it when it's setting or when It’s ris ing to tech off a gun, without there’s works going on in this place that ain’t Scriptural nor fitting.” POPE'S CHOICE OF TITLES. Events Which Have Influenced Pon tiffs in Their Selection. New popes are sometimes influ enced by incidents of their boyhood In selecting the titles by which they desire to be known. Thus l^eo XIII., when in his teens, presented an ad dress to Leo. XII., and the event so stamped itself upon his memory that it determined his choice of a title when be was called to the chair of St. Feter. Some similar recollection, it is likely enough, suggested the de cision of Cardinal Sarto, and not, as has been too readily assumed, a desire to give an indication of his prediliction for the policy of Pius IX. Between the last pontiff who bore the name of Pius and the present one there is a striking resemblance mus ically, for Pius IX. was also a pro ficient player on the piano and organ and possessed an excellent barytone voice. His singing of mass was a musical treat, but he suffered agonies while his intimate friend Cardinal Manning was similarlly engaged. ‘‘No Englishman can sing mass decently,” was his criticism on one of these oc casions. The Red Sea. Here is an interesting theory: What made the Red Sea red? The blood of locusts. Read a few lines from Exo dus: ‘‘And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. • • * And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them Into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust In all the coasts of Egypt.” The Red Sea to day is no more red than any other sea. Its reddening was temporary. How the Fiddle Acted. During a recent trial spin of Sham rock III. a violinist on a passing boat serenaded her, whereupon Designer Fife said to Sir Thomas Lipton: “Every time I hear a fiddle I remember a description of the instrument given to me by an unsophisticated country man. He said: ‘It was the shape of a turkey and the size of a goose; a man turned it over on its back and rubbed its stomach with a stick, and by the powers, but it did squeall*”— New York Times. I.EBUKE FOR AN UPSTART. Attorney General Griggs Was Afraid of Turning His Head. When John VV. Griggs was attorney general in President McKinley’s cab inet he broke a long-established pre cedent in his department. He de term 1 ned to break his callers of the habit they had of addressing him as ‘general.” "I have no claim on the military title,” said Mr. Griggs. One Insistent politician (paid nc heed to the attorney’s reqn-st. He considered "general” a good jolly, and by this means persuaded Mr. Griggs, as he thought, to find a position for a friend. "How does your friend like his job?” asked the president's legal ad viser a few days later. “When 1 told him what you of fered,” said the politician, "he turned up his nose. Haven't you something better for him, General?” "I have,” and the attorney general smiled as does a man whoso oppor tunity lias come, “but 1 cannot offer it. If this position has turned your friend's nose a better one will turn his head.” Thereafter the politician and liis friend referred to him as Mr. Griggs. WRECKS OF WALL STREET. • " Men Ruined for Business by Specula tive Operations. “Wall street leaves an ineffaceable stamp upon a man.” said a New York lawyer thp other day. “It isn’t so ap parent when he Is on the crest of the wave, for he spends his money freely and no one questions his means of get ting it. Hut when he goes broke! He is absolutely unfitted for getting on his feet unless he ean do it in a day. He has been accustomed to seeing for tunes won and lost In a few hours, and he can’t see why fortune will not knock at the same door twice. ‘ “I know a man who went broke In a crash six years ago. He is a good business man when not imbued with the fever of speculation. He could obtain a good position at $3,000 a year But he would have to work, and work bard to earn his salary. So he is look ing for ‘easy money’—to make his mil lion in a year. Consequently he has borrowed from his relatives until they arc1 tired of him. They want him to go to work. But I doubt whether he will view the matter in the light they do until it is too late and the last golden opportunity has slipped away from him and left him a speculative and misanthropic wreck.” I Loved You So. T lovcil you so—I was so young, you see. There lay no guile between my love and me, I gave you all my spirit eotild bestow ■ 1 did nut stop to think—I loved you so! I loved you so—I was a helpless thing. My heart, a harp responsive in each ' string ’I'nto your touch, and yet you did not know ‘Nor understand then, that I loved you so. T loved you so! My trembling lips were dumb, My being abject, pleading, overcome. How could 1 voice the useless word# that BO To tell of loving when—I loved you so? d loved you so, T could not smile, or part My lips to breathe the passion in my heart. I dared not lift my eyes—their overflow Would then have told you that I loved you so! I loved you so—and now, is love well worth The years and tears of sorrow since its birth ? A thousand times again I'd undergo Love's crucifixion, for—I love you so! - Annulet Andrews, in New Orleans Times-Uemocrat. Thought He Needed Something. Prof. K. H. Chittenden, director oj the Sheffield Scientific School and pro fessor of Physiological Chemistry at Yale, has been very much Interested lately In the theory that people eat more food than is required, and would be not only healthier, hut able to ac complish the same amount of work or exercise if they ate less. He has even gone so far as to try the experiment on himself. While summering at a fishing resort in Maine he ordered for his usual sim ple bteakfast a cup of coffee. The waitress looked puzzled, hut brought the coffee, asking If that was all. Upon his replying In the affirma tive, she suggested sympathetically: “Don’t, you want a doughnut?"—New York Times. What a Swimmer Says. This is the advice of an old swim mer to those who cannot swim: “Any human being who will have the pres ence of mind to clasp the hands behind his back and turn the face toward the zenith may float at ease and in per feet safety in tolerably still w'ater When you first And yourself in deep water you have only to consider your self an empty pitcher; let your mouth and nose, and not the top of your head be the highest part of you, and you are safe. But thrust up one of your bony hands, and down you go—turning up the handle tips over the pitcher.' There is reason and logic in this. Hie Slur at Chicago. Miss Gladys Deacon has been re peating of late, with considerable scorn, the characterization of Chicago that an Englishman recently made foi her. "Of course," Miss Deacon said, "the Englishman was wrong, but he was rather amusing. He said: •• ‘There are two classes in Chicago, I the aristocrats and the common peo- ■ pie. The common people are those who kill pigs. The aristocrats are those whose fathers killed pigs. Touch on pork any where in Chicago and tney all bristle up.’ ” I Axiomatic. "Be doctors say now date people injure deie health by bathin’ too much.” “Wall, de doctors don’t know much, but once in a while dey stumble onto a intelligent idee. Wldpeople bath. In' every day and people dyin’ every day, anybody wid any sense oughtei see dat water is a good t’ing to keep out of.” Atl UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS TT«e Red Cross Ball Bine. It makes clothe* clean and sweat as wheu new. AU grocer*. King Peter’* First Order*. King Peter has conferred the order of the White Eagle—the highest in Servia—upon his sons, the Crown Prince George and Prince Alexander; bis brother, Prince Arsen Karageorge vitch, and upon his nephew. Prince Paul. These are the first orders con ferred by King Peter since ascending the Servian throne. To Cnre n Cold in one day. Take Laxative Bromo Qninine Tablets. AU druggists refund money if it fails to care. Hoc. Mary Anderson’3 Chickens. At her home In England Mary An derson Navarro has become a most successful raiser of chickens. She does not sell hf,r chickens nor her eggs, but after her own table has been supplied and her friends have been generously remembered she dis tributes the remainder among the poor. Why It Is the nest is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one third more for 10 cents. Hard Prcesed. Ruth—And so you have accepted Peey? I thought you decided to re fuse him. Kate—So I did: but he kept press ing me and pressing me for a favor able answer until I—I— ‘‘Surrendered at discretion?” “Oh. dear, I don't know! 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