fc. — ■ - - — Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. And France won’t be content with half morocco either. Colombia may hold a poor hand, but she has a first rate poker face. The worm has turned. Anti-Hia watha clubs have started into being. Things are moving rapidly when a horse that trots in 2:01 is considered alow. The more popular a driver is, the longer neck his horse seems to have tn a close finish. War between South American repub lics Is always useful in relieving the ennui between revolutions. Mary Macl^ne says the future is a lute without strings. It may also be described as an untooted flute. Mr. Balfour seems fated to play sec ond fiddle. First Chamberlain and now the king is taking first honors. Turkey is willing to bring about re forms in Macedonia if she is only given time and her ammunition holds out The hickory nut crop is reported to be unusually large. If the coal trust doesn’t behave we may burn hickory nuts. Life Insurance companies are not sending agents to Macedonia just at present, as the climate there is very unhealthy. • ■r " 11 A careful statistician says 140,000, 000 safety pins are made in this coun try every year. What becomes of all the safety pins? Ohio country school teachers rre leaving their jobs to run city trolley Oars. Prefer to teach the young idea how to scoot, it seems. The farmers in Central Iowa are clamoring for elevators. Probably get ting too blamed lazy to walk upstairs. —Los Angeles Times. Alfred Austin has written a tragedy. The publishers confidently expect it to take rank with the best efforts ul Messrs. Ade and Dooley. Harry Lehr says the lapel button hole Rhould be abolished. Harry is al ways deeply Interected in some ques tion of supreme importance to man ulnd. Doubtless King Edward feels that the salary he receives justifies him in amplifying the duties of his job to tha extent of acting as his own managing editor. Prominent Citizens Urge Purchase of Jones Site So That Dam May Be Built at Once—Opinions on the Dam Project.—Headlines in Ohio State Journal. Col. Carroll D. Wright declares that the world is better now than it ever was before—and as the world is what we make it, that's a big compliment to all of us. The Washington Post asserts that Lou Dillon and Major Delmar are the only ones who ever kept the promise held out in the sign, "Will be back in two minutes.” Train robbers will have nervous in digestion and fainting fits when they hear that an unguarded clerk carried $3,000,000 from Washington to New York in a suit case. It Is safe to suppose that when the man who was enjoined by a neighbor from swearing received notice of the ’•estraining order there was need for its application right away. In some parts of Switzerland they have laws which make it necessary to have horses hitched to automobiles so that other horses will not be fright ened by them. The horse still lias his uses. Corbett thinks he can whip Fitz simmons and Fitzsimmons thinks he can whip Corbett and both will con tinue to think so as long as the pub lic is willing to pay the admission fee to the ringside. A new York society woman says the Goelets were extravagant in pay ing J2,000.000 for the duke of Rox burghe. Would she have approved ot buying him if he had been marked clown to Jl.999.998? The intending train robbers waved r. red light across the track for Engl reer Boss, but he ran by without stop ping. The man who knows when to disobey ironclad orders is the one worth money to his employers. “Jimnre the Bum," who has just died ;n New York, gets more obitu aries and edttortalR than though ho had been a meritorious citizen. Yet there are "bums” dying every day, "unwept, u’lhonorcd and unsung.” Dr. George F. Kuuz has discovered that the activity of radium is multi plied one thousandfold by mixing it with * pul veri zed willemitc, which costs iittle or nothing. Thanks to the ac tivity of scientists, the world is likely soon to get the full benefit of that mysterious force, radioactivity. ft LET THE PEOPLE SAT WHEN TARIFF REVISION SHALL BE UNDERTAKEN. Senator Hoar Urges That Changes In Our Protective System Be Not Mads Until the People Shall Have Passed Upon the Question at the Polls. Senator Hoar dropped some pearls of wisdom and sound policy in his speech at the dinner of the Essex club on the 10th of September. “The Grand Old Man” of Massachusetts was easily the star among the speakers. He usually Is in any company. He talked about the tariff, about foreign trade and about reciprocity, and it was clear brained, wholesome talk, that was alike timely and pertinent. Tariff revision, he said, might become neces sary, just as it ts necessary to some times revise the statutes of Massachu setts; “but," sa*-* tl;.> vise statesman and profound economist, "you cannot be doing it all the time, because, whenever you are doing it business is thrown Into confusion and uncertain ty.” In the course of time, he added— and no protectionist disputes this— changes may be required In the most satisfactory and the most scientific tariff schedules, but the time to make such changes, he Insisted, was not In the year before a presidential election, but after a presidential election, when tne changes can be made in accord with the Instructions of the people. Note the qualification: Tariff changes should only be made in obedience to the expressed will of the people. The Dingley law, having been enacted in response to the demand of the sover eign people, may not and must not be changed in any essential particular until the people shall have declared their wishes through the ballot box. That Is the thought which the Ameri can Economist has again and again urged as the guiding principle in all tariff changes, whether by legislation or by any other method. It is also the thought which Senator Hoar enter NOT FOR RECIPROCITY. Why Secretary Shaw Had So Little to Say About It. In his speech at Chicago before the National Association of Merchants and Travelers, Secretary of the Treas ury Shaw spoke of three way3 sug gested to acquire more markets for this country. One is reciprocity, to which the secretary referred as a plan "to trade compliments—to exchange trade privileges—to set our doors somewhat ajar for the special advan tage of our people. Considerable has been said along this line, but not very much has been actually accomplished.” Just this passage on reciprocity, and no more, from the cabinet official at the head of the Treasury department. And, in truth, no more can be said. Reciprocity is a neblous thing, an un tried theory. No one can define it. The situation is wisely described in a few words. Reciprocity is not, as yet, even an experiment. Its actual work ings are unknown. One of the three ways commented on by Secretary Shaw is to move toward free trade in the hope that greater freedom of importation will induce other nations to follow the example. "I would like to inquire,” asked the secretary of the business men he addressed, “whether you, in making your purchases abroad, give preference to those countries which favor us with an open door, or do you buy where you can obtain the desired article to the best advantage?’ The answer is evident. Business men buy according to margins of profit. They go for silks to protective France, and not to free trade England. We open ed the door to Brazil, and yet that country continues to sell to us $70,000,000 worth of goods a year, and buys from us only $10,000,000 worth. The third method, which Secretary Shaw approves, is to adopt a system of encouraging "regular lines of Ameri can ships, flying the American flag, and carrying American merchants and American travelers, with their wares and merchandise, the product of American labor,” between our ports VVWNAAA^VNAAAAAAA^VVVVVVVVVVV' t LOOKING BACKWARD. tains. It should be the uniform thought and doctrine of the Republi can party. As to the much talked about and little understood question of reciproc ity as a means of promoting foreign trade the venerable statesman was equally clear and pointed when he saiu: “Everybody is in favor of reciproc ity and everybody is in favor of for eign trade. We wish to sell every thing we can sell to foreign countries and to buy from foreign countries everything that It Is for the interest of the whole people that we should buy rather than make ourselves." That is the question. Reciprocity begins and ends right there. If it be gins at all under and in accordance with the principles of protection to domestic labor and industry. What is we should stop making in order that we should stop making in order Ljat foreigners may make and sell it to us? What industry or group of industries shall we wipe out of existence, dis placing American employment, Ameri can labor and American wage paying? It is a hard question and one that de mands an answer. No advocate of reci procity in competing products has ever answered it; none ever will an swer It except he answer it as a free trader—namely: "No mater what in dustry or group of industries shall be annihilated. Let us have more for eign trade at any cost to domestic labor and wages.' That is not tne answer of protec tionists. and it should not be the answer of any Republican. It is not Senator Hoar's answer. This is what Le said a*, tils EKJ.JX CffiTi dinner: “Do you wish to buy of Canada any thing we can make better ourselves? L>o you want to strike down one American manufacture for the benefit of another? Or do you want to estab lish the reciprocity that Blaine favor ed: 'Soil to Canada everything that we have got to soil tliut she does not produce, and buy of Canada every thing that she has got to sell that we do not produce.’ ” That is Blaine reciprocity. Republi can reciprocity as defined in the plat form of 1900, the only reciprocity that is no’’, free trade. and countries where our trade is un developed. Here is practical food for thought. Secretary Shaw has little to say about reciprocity, because little can be said about a mere theory, if not a chimera.—St. l.oiiis Globe Demo crat. Hampered. The New York Journal of Com merce is of the opinion that our woolen manufacturers are greatly hampered by the tariff on wool. They were not thus hampered during the free wool period, 1894-97, a period of stagnation, loss and bankruptcy. If occasionally, a woolen manufacturer indulges himself in a dream of free trade in wool he Is sure to wake up w’hen he recalls what happened to him as the result of the Wilson-Gor man atrocity, and, particularly, what would happen to him when the re moval of the tariff on wool should be —as it certainly would be—accom panied by a very material reduction of the tariff on woolens. The World Is Advantaged. A Democratic free trade paper, com menting on the fact that the British are protesting against cheap bounty* sugar, says that their attitude and the facts suggest that “the bounty busi ness may be carried so far as to chief ly benefit the consumers of other coun tries and that the production of beet sugar has tended to enormously re duce the world's price of sugar. Thai being the case, it would be preposter ous to deny that the world generally is advantaged.—San Francisco Chron icle. \ Familiar Tactics. The free-traders in England are trying to defeat the protectionists by setting up a cry of the dear loaf. How' like the tactics of the free trades in this country. The facts are against? free trade, therefore the appeal to ig-; noranco must come from the reaim of fiction.—Jersey City Journal. They Know. There is not a farmer in the United i States, whether he raises sugar beets or not. who favors the Cuban treaty. Our farmers know what is best for the country as well as themselves. The Crisla of Alfalfa. Alfalfa (Lucerne) Is frequently spoken of as a comparatively new plant, while, as a matter of fact, it is a very old plant, having been culti vated by the Greeks and Romans long before the Christian Era. Later it was introduced Into South America, gradually travelling northward through New ^Mexico, Southern, Western and Northern states, and lastly .nto Can ada, where the more it is known the better it is liked, said F. C. Elford, speaking at an Ontario farmers’ insti tute. I think the chief objections to lucerne have been raised by persons, who, not knowing it, have tried it once or twice and failed. Those who have been growing it for years are its strongest advocates. In our experi ence of fifteen or sixteen years, the best results have been obtained by following a hoed crop, using as a nurse crop about one bushel of barley or oats per acre. We sow at least twenty pounds of good seed per acre. We put the seeder in front of the drill, thereby getting a deeper cover ing for the seed. Too much care can not be taken in the preparation of the seed bed. Twenty pounds is lit tle enough; some sow thirty. The first winter and spring is the critical period of its history, and in order to get it safely past this danger point, it is better not to pasture after the nurse crop Is taken off, but to allow the young clover to grow and form a mulch so as to protect its roots from the frost. The next season, though it may not look very promising at first, it will produce two or three crops of hay or fodder, and the stand will be come thicker with each successive cutting. Considerable of the lack of success in growing lucerne has been the failure to comply with one or two minor, yet ail Important rules, viz., lack of sufficient previous preparation of the soil, too shallow covering of the seed, and close pasturing the first fall. Sneezeweed. This is a perennial plant growing to a height of 3 feet under favorable con ditions. It is found in moist ground from Connecticut to Illinois and south ward to the Gulf. The whole plant, especially the flower, is bitter and more or less acrid and pungent. Sheep, cattle and horses that are unfamiliar with the plant are often poisoned with Fl&M—Buff zrwfed (TTrlmium CHtfunmaUf, OOfr third natural Size. It when driven to localities where it abounds. As a rule these animals avoid it, but it is claimed that they often develop a taste for it and are killed by eating it in large quantities. The poison exists principally in the flowers. The young plants appear to be only moderately dangerous. In the mature ones the amount of poison varies greatly in the same field. Applying Manure Green. John Parton, being asked the ques tion whether it was better to apply manure green or well-rotted, replied: There is less loss in putting manure on laud green than in rotting it before it is applied. Besides this, there is a special advantage that in putting the manure on in the winter time it is done at less expense. In rotting the manure under the most favorable con ditions chemists tell us that it loses 50 per cent. However, when it is on the land in the green condition and the fermentation allowed to take place in the soil, as soon as any plant food is liberated it is in the place where it is most readily taken up. Besides this, the decay of manure in ferment ing has a beneficial efTect in wanning up the soil. Experiments carefully conducted at Guelph, as to applying manure fresh and rotted, proved that the ordinary way of leaving manure exposed to the weather was wasteful; when protected from rain it was still subject to loss, and when put on fresh the best results were obtained. Onions are of great antiquity and of universal cultivation in every civilized country, some nationalities preferring one variety and some another. The peculiar characteristic odor is due to a volatile organic compound contain ing sulphur. Clover, soy herns, cow peas and alfalfa are all great nitrogen gath erers. LIVE STOCK Before the Lambs Come. A. G. Garnley, a Manitoba shoep breeder, says: The lamb crop, lik< any other, to be successful, must be prepared for beforehand; therefore as the breeding season approaches th» ewes ought to be getting in good con dition, and It cannot be done easiei than by giving them the run of tht stubble aelds after the grain is stacked. Before the breeding season is over the winter will have set in and the flock will be in their winter quarters. No elaborate building it necessary. A hay rack running round the inside, with a small door in the center, just large enough for one sheep to go in and out when the big door is shut. It must be dry and en tirely free from drafts for the sheep to do well; 30x60 feet will be ample accommodation for a hundred good sized ewes, until lambing time. The winter feed should be wild hay, oat straw or oat sheaves. They may be allowed to run at the oat stack, care is taken to remove the overhang lng portions as they eat it away from under, to prevent the chaff from get ting into their wool. The hay is fed in the rack inside, and only what they will eat up clean. Always clean out the racks before the next feeding, j have often heard it said that sheep won’t drink water, but that is a mis take, they will drink large quantities of water at the right time and place. They won’t drink out of a water hole on a cold day, but watered in their pens and in troughs, a hundred head will drink almost two barrels a day. I think good water is most important. Keep salt where they can get it at al.' times, summer and winter. The hay, oat straw, and chaff will have brought the ew’es along nicely till about six weeks before lambing, when, if the lambs are expected when the flock is in winter quarters, the ewres will require a little extra feed , ing, to stimulate the secretion of milk ' Oat chop, or oat sheaves, one sheaf between four, the bands cut and scat tered over the snow, will, along with their usual feed of hay, tone them up and bring them along. When they are let out to the sheaves, be sure and have the door wide open, to prevent them crushing their sides, which is dangerous to in-lamb ewes, being li able to kill lambs. As the time for the coming of the youngsters ap proaches, the shepherd will be mak ing preparations. If the lambs are coming in May very little is necessary ; to be done, but if in March, and the j sheep pen is not warm enough for ; new-born lambs, then warmer quar j ters must be provided. My plan is to I have a shed built of poles, covered with straw and well banked with ma nure, into which turn the cattle, mak ing the vacated stalls into temporary pens, by nailing a few boards across the ends. Care of Breeding Animals. Comparatively little attention is given to this very important subject, because it is not deemoJ necessary by the average farmer. Somehow or other the breeding animals, no mat ter what the class of stock, are ex pected to get along and rustle for themselves. They may even be ex pected to do hard work every day. In fact, as a rule, they are and es pecially is this true In the case of i-orses and cows. Very few people seem to consider the extra strain on the female of carrying young as a matter worthy of consideration, though the proper nutrition of the dam, as will be apparent later, has a very marked Influence on the development of the foetus and its final growth and vigor. Do not overlook the fact that a certain amount of exercise and work Is necessary for the female, as it aids digestion and tones up and keeps the whole system In good con dition, which means the development of a strong, healthy foetus. Such breeding animals as cannot be work ed should, therefore, be given the run of large, shaded pastures where they will be obliged to move around In order to secure the necessary sup plies of food and thus obtain that gentle, stimulating exercise which is so essential for the health of the mother and young as well. The food provided in the pasture, besides be ing succulent, is nutritious and ex erts a desirable physiological action on the system.—Prof. A. M. Soule. The Angora in the United States. The Angora industry has now been successfully growing In the United States for more than forty years. The early breeders worked hard with a few Imported animals, and by crossing and recrossing with the common Mexican goat of the West, the American An gora flocks have grown from nothing to their present number of about four hundred thousand animals. The ob stacles which the early breeders had to overcome were appalling; weak men would have fallen by the wayside, but these sturdy pioneers saw that some day the Angora goat would be a power In the live stock Interests of tho United States, so they persevered, and you are beginning to feel tho im petus of the growing movement. Our association now numbers 425 mem bers, and the value of our flocks reaches into the millions, there being more than forty thousand Angoras oil our association records. We have sufficient foundation stock to proceed with, thanks to the years jt patient work of the Angora pioneers, and, as Secretary Wilson has said, “The An gora industry Is an American institu tion which has cc*o9 lo stay.—w. C. Bailey. 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