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Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - • NEBRASKA. A man does not have to die to leave bis will. He may get married. The hearty feeding nations are the much achieving nations.—Mexicai Herald. -- Every time we hear about Xantippe we make the guess that Socrates wasn’t any angel. It is seldom that the Sick Man ol Europe feels too “poorly” to sit up aiu smile at the powers. Japan is sending troops to Corea but reassures the world by explaining that it is only for exercise. Dressmakers have decreed that the Kangaroo walk must go. In Australia it is called the kangaroo hop. A wallop or two from Mr. Fitzsim mens may convince Mr. Gardner ol the duty of respecting the aged. Young Chamberlalr.’s monocle evi eleutly constitutes his chief point of resemblance to his strenuous sire. A hard fate confronts Count Tolstoi. The Russian government has decreed that he shall stay at Yasanajapoljaha. Notwithstanding the football field is marked off like a checkerboard this season, yet the games are still differ ent. The arbitration tribunal has decided that Venezuela must pay Germany $418,250, but carelessly neglects to ex plain how. And now Canada may vote $125,000 in aid of a polar expedition. Lieut. Peary will probably not be alarmed at competition. Chicago is only a hundred years old, and it must make Editor Stead shudder to think what she will be at two hundred. If the Eastern ladies insist on get ting married they must give up the idea of holding the golf championship for that section. The prison missionary old enough to know better, who married a nine teen-year-old prisoner, got her deserts in getting deserted. The really honest and honorable man is always found in three places at times when he is needed there—in his home, in his business office and at the polls. A Jersey City electrician, accused of bigamy, declares he knowrs noth ing of his second alleged marriage. It was a sort of mechanicai sparking, as it were. At a New York wedding a few days ago a billygoat ate the bride's veil and most of the flowers. This probably happened while the presents were be ing examined. That defenseless W’ife whose cruel husband insisted on reading Thomas Carlyle to her should have got even with the monster by quoting Mario Corelli to him. It is now thought that Dowager Em press An of China cannot live more tnan a year. Alas! that year may cost the Howery Kingdom years upon years of repentance. The method adopted by a nurse girl in Texas to still the cries of an infant —stuffing its mouth, ears and nose full of mud—may be effective, but it is not to be commended. If women had more sense of humor brides could get a good deal more fun out of life by promising to obey, anc then watching the efforts of their hus bands to collect the goods. With English noblemen carrying oil American heiresses and English titled girls preparing to come over and carry off our men of millions the English invasion of America seems to be on in earnest. A New York chaufTeur, charged witli driving his machine at a high rate of speed, successfully pleaded in extenu ation that he was on his way to call a doctor. Automobilists, elsewhere, will take the hint The absence of a minister from a service at New' Haven, at which he was to be ordained, recalls the clergy man of a New Hampshire city who was once missing from a funeral and was found at the circus. Don’t get ready to enter and settle upon the Chippewa Indian lands in Minnesota, Nov. 10, unless you see money in the raising and marketing of bullfrogs. About 522,000 of the 753,337 acres are swamp land. A Newport society leader is quoted as saying: "We should not be too democratic, as it is dangerous, and people are not equal, anyway.” The declaration of Independence .and the constitution can now be considered ob solete. At a convention of women over in Germany the other day it was de clared that corsets and jewels are bar barous. They w ill never get them aboi Jkhed, however, until society can be convinced that they are likely to be productive of larg-‘ families. This arcurnnj review department is for co operation in informa tion on the. enemies of easy errors and friends of forethought, to reduce mutually ex pensive mistakes. It is for mechanical, com mercial and profes sional people; the in dividual employer, employe and rustomer: and consists of extracts taken by permission from the copyrighted tetters, the lectures, notebooks and libraries of Karl M. Trait, Oak Park, Illinois He is hunting the whole world over for information of every day use to you, amt he regrets his inability, personally to reply to contributors. So far as possible he wishes to hare in this space the very idea you would like to find here. I'oti are at liberty to send him any suggestion you may rare to. His collec tion was started in I'd! and now contains un published information dating back to lttm, with, systematic plans extending to lSV!. Pour short story of some example of forethought giren to hiAi may prove to be your most valuable gift to others. Some Tower Thoughts for Train Time and Lunch Hour. Many easy errors are due to: Ig norance-exhaustion — indifference — poor food—lack of exercise—loss of sleep. Many easy errors are prevented by: Attention—harboring energy—earnest ness—plain and good food—systematic exercise—early to bed. Accuracy comes by hitching up mus cle with mind. Ignorance—Attention. No one knows everything about every subject. Some of us are not three years old on some subjects— why, some of us have not been born on some subjects! Ignorance is not so bad if we want to know more, but self-satisfied ignorance—the kind that fights intelligence—is about as unde sirable as anything on record in the history of the world. Attention is the enemy of ignorance and the friend of growth that leads to genuine good ness or that something which is ad mired by all, even by those who fight it on every occasion. Exhaustion—Harboring Energy. Because conditions, customers, cli ents, patients and visitors do not come evenly, a worker's duties are some times bunched, and the exhaustive de mands must be met. Rush work kills more wealthy people than poor people, because they are not prepared physic ally so well for it. Exhaustion due to unnecessary effort Is where all of us have a chance to help ourselves en dure the necessary demands. There is a science and an art in harboring en ergy, the same as money, so that a necessary amount of it will be ready for unexpected requirements. It is possible not only to begin hours and days, but months end years before hand to prepare for hard work. Indifferer\pe—Earnestness. It would be worth a million dollars a minute to civilization if all the in difference could be turned into earn estness. How to do just a very little of it may be for you and I to pull to gether on. A great deal depends on association. The majority of people are like those they think with and if a person wishes to move from indiffer ence fo earnestness it is necessary to become a leader and thke the crowd along, or else form new company or grow self-control. Poor Food—Good Food. Poor food may be rich or plain. Good food must be plain—neither rich nor flat. Potato alone will kill a dog in two weeks, and butter alone would kill him also, though l do not know the length of time for it to do so. Very few of us know what or how to send things down our esouhagus, but 1 have some stories to tell about eating to joy, sorrow, wisdom and regret as well as to love, glory and profit. You may have some stories on this subject, some of which you do not care to tell. Lack of Exercise—Systematic Exer cise Many a giant has been ruined by lack of exercise, while live minutes a day of systematic and sensible exer cise has turned invalids into enviable condlt'on. Everybody is benefited In all ages by special exercises. Foolish excesses are to be kept away from, such as running till you drop dead or lifting till you burst your heart, but the majority of people need to be warned from the other extreme, that of idleness for some parts of the body or general Inactivity No matter how hard our work, we need daily motions for recreation. Loss of Sleep—Early to Bed. Very few are able to regulate their hours of sleep every night in the year. Either one's work or other duties, company or sickness will prevent. Sometimes fires or burglars disturb a whole neighborhood or town. But everyone may be able to retire early once in a while, if not frequently. Bet ter take an evening off occasionally than to have to take a week or a month off for sickness involuntarily. We are tempted to blame our trou bles to the wrong things and not to the foolish things we devote our strength to. Early to bed is better medicine than late getting up. Idle Ideas Invited. You have some ideas you would Just as soon give away as not. and if you were to write a useful hint on some everyday subject—write it on a postal card and have It go to twenty million people, what kind of an idea would you put down? What have you seen, heard, read, experienced or thought on any subject of everyday helpfulness? The most useful information is that which you discover for yourself. History of a Boy's Cane. “Mr. James, you know that cane you let father have—well. It is a little short for him now. and you said you wanted it back when he was through with it—do you wish to take it with you now ?’’ I am “Mr. James," and Mrs. Hart, who asked me this question, lived witli her father. The old gentleman had just enjoyed his ninety-eighth birth day, and I had called to enjoy a few minutes’ chat with him. This man had an atmost>here of hearty good cheer, and I have often gone out of my way to visit a little while with him. It was a real pleas ure to me to let him take the heavy cane 1 had used w hen a boy. because I enjoyed pleasing the old gentleman, and because I had longed to have that cane give some elderly man enjoyment. It was a wholesome looking article. My father made it for me during the Philadelphia centennial, while I was walking with crutches in a little town hundreds of miles away from the great show of the nations. It is one kind of imprisonment for a boy to walk w ith a cane, but it is also one kiud of liberty for a boy to hang up his crutches and be able to walk with a cane. The compensations of nature enable us to get pleasure where it would seem at first glance there could be nothing but sorrow. The Osage orange fences grew near us. and good material for canes could be had with little effort. Except when land is useless, a neglected Osage orange fence is used only for canes. It is good for little canes and big ones. The polished knots can be made as bright as bird’s eyes. I had a great variety of walking sticks and made them to give away to sell. One succeeds in making a suc cess of a work he thoroughly under , stands. I was not thorough in the cane business because while I knew how to make them I lacked commer cial information necessary to produce sales. Had I known a boy in the city, some boy with business sense. I could have sent him canes, he could have sold them and we might have grown an industry that would support both of us. The real reason for this record is one of regret. One day while I was using the cane 1 fame home from school and found my grandfather bad come for a visit. He was the only one of my grandparents living and we thought more of each other than I then realized. During the last nearly score of years I have seen myself many times as I stood in the kitchen door and refused to give or sell him that cane. He admired it very much. It was better proportioned for him than for me, and I have wished more times than I am years old that I had given it to him. He teased me to sell it to him and I refused several times, in sisting on keeping it. It is a mystery to me why such dis cords are possible in this world. i never enjoyed that cane a particle after grandfather left. He gave me a dollar and said good-bye and I never thought lor a moment of giving him I the cane. A few months later my father and 1 attended his funeral and since then 1 have had a love for elderly men. It may be that my selfishness over the cane has been a blessing to others by the reaction of my emotions. I am forced, by my lack of wisdom in the past, to study the comfort and pleas tire of elderly men. It may be that my grandfather never* cared as much for that cane as I thought he did, and thnt Providence permitted me to be painfully selfish for a moment in ordet that I might be more thoughtful ever after. Some time ago a man wrote that he now wished he had spent less time in his "den” under the stairs trying to be a modern Shakespeare and more time getting acquainted with his father and mother, sisters and brothers. Since I have learned more about the hearts of others I am able to recog* nize the lost opportunities. WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Ilow to wisely discriminate when re quested to give is something a good many of us would like to know more about. When to give, where to give, what to give and to what to give ,are puz zles. To sign or not to sign a subscription paper, and to give or not to give when asked to. frequently come up for quick decisions. All kinds of peonle come to the office and also greet us on the street, seeking different sized sums for noth ing or something next to nothing, or something really worthy of our atten tion and encouragement. Recently a man replied, “After you find ninety-nine in a hundred are frauds you begin to get discouraged." Lost money and abused kindness are frequent sources of cynicism, but it is a third mistake to let them be. CUBAN RECIPROCITY SITUATION AND OUTLOOK SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED. American Interests Are Pressing for the Ratification of the Treaty While Cuba Cares Little or Nothing About the Mat.et. In a spirit of candor and fairness, and with a knowledge of the essential facts bearing upon the question, the Washington correspondent of the New York Sun, under date of Sept. 16, treats at some length "The Outlook for Cuban Reciprocity." It is taken for granted at the outset that an ex tra session of congress will be called for Nov. 9 to consider and act upon the proposed reciprocity treaty, and It is assumed that after few days spent in organizing and maneuvering, and per haps in filibustering, the legislators will go home for Thanksgiving week without having made any progress with the Cuban business. This will bring them close to the first Monday In December, the date for the first regular session of the Fifty-eighth Congress—so close, in fact, that it is extremely doubtful whether definite action will be had on the treaty prior to the regular session. The corre spondent thinks that in the very brief space between the end of the Thanks giving recess and the beginning of the regular session “Congress will again tackle the Cuban reciprocity ques tion, which has for many months been a sore disturber of our political peace.” It would not, however, be at all strange or unreasonable if the Thanksgiving recess should be pro longed until the first Monday in De cember. In that event the time spent in the extra session would be time wasted. Should this view of the prob abilities commend itself to the mind of the President, it may be that the extra session wdll not be called, and that the Cuban question will be per mitted to take its turn in the regular legislative proceedings of the regular session. Many senators and represen tatives favor this course, and not with out good reason. It is very generally agreed that action by congress on the Cuban reci procity question long since passed out of the emergency stage, and that the grounds for hasty procedure, here tofore so strenuously urged, no longer exist. That is evidently the view of the Sun’s correspondent, for he says: “That which was perhaps the strong est argument iu favor of a generous policy toward Cuba is no longer an attive factor. That consisted in the presentation of Cuba’s dire needs and In the declaration of our responsibility for their relief. Though very much poorer than most Americans now sup pose them to be, the Cubans are not immediately threatened with economic distress and financial disaster. They have quietly and patiently pulled them selves together, faced the misfortune which confronted them two years ago, and have virtually conquered it. They are getting along as best they can, but they are getting along. Their self congratulation upon and public an nouncement of the healthy condition of their national treasury has created a mistaken belief in the general pros perity of the people. They are not now suffering, but they are far from pros perous. The argument of dire need and American responsibility will have little or no place in the coming discus sion.’’ As a matter of absolute fact, “the argument of dire need and American responsibility” never should have had any place in the discussion, since it never was based upon actual Cuban needs or actual American responsi bility. This being the case, the Sun correspondent rightly concludes that “the issue will turn upon the point of American and not of Cuban inter ests.” The issue has from the be ginning turned wholly upon the point of American interests. It started pri marily in a Sugar trust game of grab, artfully reinforced by the spurious pre text of “relief for Cuba.” The philan thropic feature “caught on” to hard that the grab game was overlooked and lost sight of. Now, however, the charity element disappears and "Amer ican interest” is all that is left. The Sun correspondent further de scribes the situation and outlook as follows: “In former discussions the noise of the campaign lias been made by the beet sugar interests of the United States. It now seems probable that this factor will have little or no prom inence. It is generally admitted that the proposed treaty, limited as it is to a brief term, wrill be of less injury to them than would a continued agita tion, with its disturbance of market conditions. It is currently reported that the active opposition of the beet sugar interests will be withdrawn. ‘Although these interests were gen erally supposed to be the controlling force in the opposition heretofore, such is not at all the fact. Behind the noise and the vociferation of that element there stood another group, less noisy but more effective, really dominating the situation. This con sisted of those who opposed any break in our present tariff barriers. They feared that a treaty w ith Cuba would be a breach in the walls through which would follow treaties with France, Newfoundland, the Argentine, Canada, and perhaps with others, to the entire derangement of our present tariff sys tem. This group has been, and still is, the effective force in opposition to the Cuban treaty. "The strength which this element will develop in the coming session can not now be measured. New influences, partly political and partly economic, have arisen. Attention is called to the declaration of the Republican national platform of 1896, virtually pledging protection to American sugar pro ducers. Mr. Roosevelt’s attitude ia held to be a violation of that pledge of his party. Yet, as President, he haa committed himself unalterably to Cu ban reciprocity, and as members of the party of which he is now the of ficial head the Republicans in congresa are supposed to follow his lead.” As to the action, or non action, of the beet sugar interests, we are not authorized to speak, but we think it very questionable whether the real friends of beet sugar will withdraw their opposition on the theory that a five-year treaty with its reduced tariff proviso is preferable to continued agi tation. It is much more reasonable to suppose that they would prefer to have the treaty beaten once for all in a fair fight, with the certainty that it can never again come up under a Re publican administration as a disturber of peace inside tue Republican party. The San Francisco Chronicle may be considered good authority on this point. In an extended article of ap proving comment on the attitude of the American Protective TarifT league in opposition to reciprocity in com petitive products, whether with Cuba or with any other country, the Chron icle recently said: “With all the capital seeking invest ment in this country, has any one heard of a new sugar factory even se riously proposed in this state since Cuban reciprocity was threatened? The league Is in the right and must prevail.” As to the “less noisy but more ef fective” opposition to which the Sun refers as “dominating the situation” we assume that the Tariff league and those who share its beliefs are re ferred to. The cap fits, and the league is perfectly willing to put It on and wear It. The Tariff league opposes any break in our present tariff bar riers. It opposes the Cuban treaty be cause It is convinced that, as the Sun says, “such a treaty would be a breacn In the walls through which would fol low treaties with France, Newfound land, the Argentine, Canada, and per haps with others, to the entire de rangement of ur present system.” Also because the Cuban treaty would be an act of bad faith and grossly unfair toward the domestic agricultural in terests, which have been guaranteed protection in the production of sugar and tobacco. With reasons such as these for foundation and backing it is not difficult to understand why “this group has been, and still is, the effec tive force in opposition to the Cuban treaty." Opposition based upon prin ciple, upon fair play and square deal ing generally is effective. That it may continue to be ef.ctive in shap ing the action of the Republican party in congress is profoundly to be hoped. Don't Choke Up the Chimney. ; |m>'er|gi/v ■industries The Safer Guide. In spite of the assertion of the St. Paul Pioneer Press—a mighty poor authority, by the way, as to Repub lican yentiment in Minnesota or else where—that Minnesota and the North west “are to-day almost unanimously in favor of tariff revision," the Boston Herald is oppressed by the fear that Minnesota Republicans will continue to vote the Republican ticket The Herald’s fears are well grounded. That is precisely what Minnesota Republi cans may be depended upon to do. Tar iff tinkering sentiment in Minnesota is chiefly stored away in the thought res ervoirs of the fellows who write edi torials for the metropolitan Republi can newspapers. It does not exist among the Republican rank and flic. The best proof of that is the fact that the largest Republican vote Is polled in Congressional districts where the Republican candidates are the most hostile to tariff tinkering. If you are 'looking for real political sentiment yon will find election returns a safer guide than foolish editorials. 3ain Home Markets First. We have pointed out that there Is a $100,000,000 market for sugar right here at home which we can capture for home producers if we will. Like wise there is a $50,000,000 market for raw silk worth trying for, and there are also markets for many other mill ions and hundreds of millions of dol lars’ worth of products. Why not gain these home markets for our own labor and capital before worrying about less profitable foreign markets to be got ten only through treaties and barter! Why They Oppose It. As a rule, the farmers who have been receiving such high prices for all the products of the farm are opposed to ripping the tariff as a means of get ting at the trusts.—Des Moines Cap Hal. * I The World Rolls On. I George Stuart, an Adventist ofVToJ I rott, Kan., is dead at the ripe age of J2. Mr. Stuart's chief pleasure In life was in predicting the end of the world, fie had so much confidence in his flg jres that he several times climbed a ail poplar tree near his home and there awaited the final smash, in spite if such a succession of alarms, Mr. sS'tuart seems to have lived a pretty even life. No woman is happy unless she can get her name and her front hair in the papers, Men usually reach out for more than they can easily manage. Usually the right side of the market i is the outside. Many who formerly smoked 10c cigars now smoke lewis’ “Wiugle Binder’'straight Oc. I,ewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. America's Champion Inventor. Frank Schaukee of Vincennes, Ind , holds the record of the country as an inventor and patentee. He has de signed no less than G.024 instruments of various kinds, obtaining patents on all of them. None of his inventions, however, has brought him fortune, al though he is drawing a small income from some of them. To Cure a Cool in <>nn day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet*. All druggists refund mouey if it fails tocure. ‘.ijc. A Queen Stuffed Them. The queen of Italy has presented to one of the Italian natural history mu seums a fine collection of animals and birds, many of which she stiQIed with her own nands, which she gathered ».uring a yachting cruise in northers waters. Mother Gray's Sweet Towdera for Children Successfully used by Mother (fray, nurw In the Children's Home in New York, curt Constipation, Feverishtiess, Bad (Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate th« Bowels aud Destroy Worms. Over30.000tes timonials. At all Druggists, 25c. Hamel* FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Lelloy.N. Y. Every W'oman enjoys telling how much she figured in her husband's suc cess. Any man who attempt8 10 dodge a bill collector is apt to be found out. When a man's nose is as red as a beet it's usually safe to bet that he js one. Clear white clothes are a sign that the .housekeeper uses Itod Cross Ball Blue. 'Large - oz. package, 0 cents. If (here is anything more pitiful tnan an effeminate man it is a mascu line woman. Denounces Skyscrapers In a public address recently Wheeler H. Peckham of New York took ground against skyscraper office buildings, which he condemned as dangerous to health. "How considerate we are." ho exclaimed. "We build hospitals for the poor consumptive and then we turn around and build sky-scraping structure wnere consumption may breed so that we shal Inot lack for patients.” This matter is beginning to attract serious attention in New Y’ork City, especially in the lower part of Manhattan Island, where the streets are as narrow and crooked as when the Dutch burghers laid them out or their cows traced them across the fields. Fences at 97. Ernest l^cgouve, oldest member of the French academy, has entered upon his 97th year, but is still well and hearty. This wonderful old man vis its a fencing hall every morning at 10 o’clock and has a fast fifteen-minute bout with one of the instructors. He weighs hardly sixty pounds. His daughter, Mme. Desvallieres, is 68 years old and is also ardently de voted to exercise, being easily able to swim the Seine twice without resting. M. Legouve says he has a triple wish —to be able until the last to hold his fork, his razor and his sword steadily in his hand. For a Bad Back. Sabra, Montana, Oct. 19th.—A great many men in this neighborhood used to complain of pains in the back, hut now scarcely one can be found who has any such trouble. Mr. Gottlieb Mm Is largely respon sible for the improvement for it was he, who first of all found the remedy for this Backache. He has recom mended it to all his friends and neigh bors, and in every case It has had wonderful success. Mr. Mill says:— "For many years I had been trou bled with my Kidneys and pains la the small of my back. 1 tried many medicines but did not derive any l>enc flt until last fall, when I bought a dozen boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. After using them a few days I began to improve, my back quit aching and I felt better and stronger all around. “I will keep them In the house right r.long for in my opinion they are the best medicine In the market today, and if my back should bother me again, 1 will use nothing else." In England a candidate stands for office, but in this country he has to hump himself and run. When a man ceases to be comple mentary to a woman he is pronounced unstable.
