Loup City Northwestern
GEO. E. BENSCHOTER. Ed. aid Pub.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Lou Dillon, 1:58*4, Insists that tba
mare Is still the better horse.
Every girl Is fond of a love story
when the right man tells it to her.
Bankers who meddle with the buzz
saw of speculation must expect to get
aurt.
As to the other battleships, the Mis
souri proceeded to “show them’’ her
heels.
Elderly gentlemen who wish to get
married should join the United Statee
senate.
It may be, of course, that no charm
ing young widow really wants David
Bennett Hill.
There Is no doubt that the ship
building trust was ingulfed in a sea of
its own making.
Paris, not satisfied with her reputa
tion for race suicide, has adopted the
motor baby carriage.
There are several old men in the
Senate, however, who can't marry
young wives—just yet.
We cannot Understand why the re
ported illness of the Sultan of Turkey
should “give rise to alarm."
If Japan cannot get into a scrim
mage any other way some lively foot
ball team might accommodate it.
There are even some girls who do
not think that it is a terrible crime
for the right young man to kiss them.
The sultan declares that the Mace
donian rebellion has been entirely sup
pressed, and oh, how he hopes he’s
right!
And yet this youngest of all Brit
ish cabinets isn't so doocid young. Kif
ty-one isn't a juvenile average age, by
any means.
It will not take argument to prove
that the defaulting Princeton bank
cashier was respected and trusted by
business men.
Several carloads of splendid scenery
accompanied by Sir Henry Irving have
arrived In New York preparatory to a
tour of the country.
Lord Rosebery’s remark that “you
cannot prevent a Btorm by sitting on
the barometer” Is one that Mr. Mor
gan will fully appreciate.
Patti says that her coming tour is
positively her last. Of course. No
Patti farewell tour would be genuine
lacking this announcement.
It is said that swamp mud, when
suitably prepared, makes a good sub
stitute for coal. Thus far, we believe,
no swamp mud trust has been organ
ized.
The Chicago professor who wants
to see prayer meetings enlivened by
an occasional college yell seems to be
a good subject for fervent prayer
himseli.
Joseph Leiter is paying his debts at
the rate of half a million dollars a
year, but what credit is it to a man to
pay his debts when he makes half a
million a year?
A Russian newspaper has struck
Uncle Sam a sharp blow on the wrist
by making disparaging remarks about
his navy. But the old man has not
noticed the slap.
Germany wants to dig the Panama
canal. The man who is looking for a
sure thing to bet on will make no
mistake in acting in accordance with
the “tip” that she won't.
If Russia should deem it necessary
to call on France for aid in the little
unpleasantness that is likely to occur
in the far Bast the reform in the Brit
ish army will not have been made too
soon.
"New York is Just like Sodom of
old,” declares the lady who is known
in Zion City as Mother Grinwald. "1
don't believe you can find ten just
men in it.” Well, there's Russell
Sage, for one.
Will the Ney York clergyman who
advocates euthanasia in the case of
hopelessly incurable and suffering pa
tients kindly indicate what he expects
to do with the existing statutes re
garding homicide?
Those Northwestern university co-eds
may be willing to give up cream puffs
and chocolate eclairs but if they are
like other girls it is going to take a
superhuman effort to wrest their
fudges away from them.
The British soldier’s discovery that
he could get intoxicated by eating
charges of cartridges containing cor
dite gives a new danger to war. The
devil has evidently been at work dur
ing the summer trying to evade the
canteen law. •
Yes, Ann is 18 and Mary 24. Now.
Ann’s beau is as old as Mary wa:
wnen Ann lacked six years of being
as old as her beau now is, and the dlf
ference between Ann’s age and that
of her beau Is one-seventh of het
beau’s age- How old Is he?
MAKING NAVAL HEROES.
la Offim’i Training is One Which 'Neve*
End*.
Tin* education and training of an
ifllcer of the United States Navy, snys
Success, have In view the single pur
pose of fitting 111iu to exercise, prop
?rly and without faltering, command
,n battle. His education is obtained
it the Naval Academy; liis training
never cuds. Upon ilic- completion of
four years of* study at Annapolis,
where he learns the theory and some
practical knowledge of his future pro
fession, lie spends two years at sea,
requiring information which will lie
useful when he places his foot upon
the first rung of commissioned rank.
Returning to Annapolis, he recieves
his commission, and then is sent back
to sea, an “insect” among tiis seniors,
hut an ensign end an officer to his
family and his friends. As a mid
shipman he has performed the duties
of an enlisted man. and as an ensign
lie is consequently equippe 1 to drill
the division placed under his command.
He imparts to the men tlie intricacies
of their calling, displaying patience
surprising to a civilian unused to tin*
ways of the service. While recently
on board the United States ship
Prairie, a training ship for landsmen,
I saw Lieutenant Edward H. Watson,
one of 'the young watch and division
officers, tench a man how to tie a knot.
The knot was simple, but the man was
dull. Again and again Batson took
the rope and twisted it. directing at
tention to each stage of tne operation
as he advanced. At last the student
grasped the idea. Durin % the after
noon when free from other duties, he
occupied his time in perfecting him
self in his lesson. When next he was
asked by Lleutenani. Watsou to tie the
knot, there was celerity in the move
ment which brought forth a word of
commendation. The pride that Pushed
the landsman's face repab’ the trouble
his officer had taken.
When Philip Wan Called Down.
The late Captain Philip was fond of
relating an expet fence he once hail
when he was stationed at the Cramps
shipyard in Philadelphia as inspector
of the cruiser New York, which was
then building there. One day, when
work was stopped for the noon hour,
he saw a soldierly looking man come
aboard with some ladies, ai.d proceed
to show them about the ship with ns
much authority as if lie were the de
signer and builder. The soldierly man
stopped beside n couple of ventilators
which were lying on deck ready to lie
put in place, and, touching one of them
with his little cane, remarked, with an
nir of profound wisdom: “These are
the smokepipes,” and approaching the
hammock nettings and putting out his
gloved hand, lie added: “This is the
place where the heavy armor is put
on. This is to lie one of the armored
fighting ships, you know.” This was
too much for Captain Philip, and so
he appronchel the party, and touched
his cap ns he said: “Excuse me, sir,
tlint is not the place for the armor.
That is a hammock netting, where the
men stow away their hammocks dur
ing the day. And there are not smoke
pipes, but ventilators.” The military
man drew himself up to his greatest
height and surveyed the man in dunga
rees with glacial dignity. “Excuse me,”
he said, with heavy emphasis on the
me. “but I am Captain Blank, of the
army, and I think I know a smokepipe
when I see one." Captain Philip de
clared that it would have been almost
a crime to take down a conceit like
that, and be made no reply to the mil
itary man whatever; but turned and
went nbout ids work, leaving Captain
Blank to finish explaining the intrica
cies of the cruiser to his friends.—An
gounut.
What Faria Dora For Poor Children.
In Harper’s Magazine Stoddard
Dewey gives some interesting facts
concerning the fresh air colony main
tained by the municipality of Paris
for the children of the poor:
"In 1889 there were 200 children to
profit by tills colony of Mandres-sur
Vair; now there nre 10(i0 each year, and
the property has been handed over per
manently to the Eleventh Ward. The
movement has become general in the
Paris schools, and the municipality
lins come to the aid of the insufficient
ward school funds. In 1891 the city
raised its contribution for these school
colonies to 200,000 francs, anil th*
school funds of the twenty wards gave
94,000 more; and 5530 children, under
the care of 209 teachers, had their
summer outing, Mandres is the larg
est of these colonies; the total expense
of Journey hack and forth and three
weeks’ stay is fifty-three franc and
eighteen centimes for each child—a
little over $10, as exchange goes!”
A British Flouting Exhibition.
A scheme is reported to he on foot
for the organization of a floating ex
hibition of British manufactures,
which will make a tour of the Brit
ish Empire. The plan is to fit out a
targe ship with samples of all elasspa
of manufactured articles>svhicb Great
Britain supplies or can supply to hoi
colonies, including oven fairly heavy
machinery. Austria did the same
thing some time ago, when a steamer
carrying nil kinds of samples left
Trieste for the Far East, Australia,
etc., but in the end the enterprise wus
m absolute failure.
Keflectlon* of a Bachelor.
A widow nnd her fun are soon start
'd.
The thing that interests a woman
nost about a joke is trying to see the
joint.
A man's stomach has a lot more to
lo with reforming him than his con
icienee.
The wonderful thing about a woman
unking love to a man is that when
ihe is doing it she acts as if ho were.
-New York Press.
.GETTING TOGETHER
HARMONY RESTORED AMONG
IOWA REPUBLICANS.
Speeches of Governor Cummins, Sen*
tor Allison and Congressman Lacey
Show the Party to Be United on the
Paramount Issues of the Day.
An encouraging sign of the times, a
gratifying indication of the persist
ence of the right and the weakening
of the wrong, is to be found in three
notable Republican speeches delivered
in the state of Iowa. In the first of
these speeches, that of Gov. Cummins,
at Des Moines, Sept. 26, one natur
ally looks for the reappearance of the
“lo\>a idea.” But it is not there. You
will not find a single allusion to the
“monopoly-sheltering tariff;” not a
word about the immediate necessity
for tariff revision; no insistence upon
"potential competition” as a means of
bringing in an era of lowering prices;
“domestic competition if possible,
foreign competition if necessary.”
None of these things which Gov. Cum
mins has urged so strenuously in the
past two years appears in the speech
of Sept. 26. The “Iowa idea” is seem
ingly laid away and forgotten. For
the most part the speech is sound in
its Republicanism and stalwart in its
protection as “the best adjustment
that we can make within ourselves
to enlarge the production of the coun
try,” he yet favors, through reciproc
ity, the larger admission of competi
tive goods from foreign countries, and
the inevitable decrease of domestic
production that must follow in the
lines of industry selected for slaugh
ter. Is it not astonishing that intelli
gent men should in one breath dilate
must frame no reciprocity arrange
ments that will do injustice to friend
ly ccsafrtes—for example, Great Brit
ain—and that In securing concessions
we must do It "without impairing tho
protective policy in our own country."
By these wise and intelligent stand
ards we can never have reciprocity In
competitive products. It is an Im
possibility. Senator Allison has
strengthened his reputation for big
brains and profound political sagacity.
The third of the great group of
Iowa speeches was that of Congress
man John F. Lacey at Allerton, Oct.
13. Here was a fine, old-fashioned,
straightaway Republican speech. Wo
do not find in it any reciprocity fool
ishness. It does not deal with that
question at all. Mr. Lacey devoted
himself wholly to the practical issue
of Republican tariff making versus
Democratic tariff making. He sketch
ed in bold outlines our tariff history
from the organization of the govern
ment up to the present day, and clear
ly demonstrated the invariable value
of the protective policy and the in
variable blight and curse attending
our occasional lapses Into or toward
free trade. That is tho point to be
kept in view: Under whose scheme
of tariff making, that of the protec
tionists or that of the free traders,
has the country prospered most?
That is tho issue now, just as it has
been the issue every time the Demo
cratic party has undertaken to regain
control of national affairs, just as it
is going to be the issue next year.
It is well that men of Congress
man Lacey’s great ability should
make genuine, orthodox Republican
speeches. The country needs them,
"Lest wo forget.”
Shall We Abolish It?
Mr. Chamberlain is presenting some
sad pictures of British industrial de
TARIFF REFORM’S GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT.
PROSPERITY]
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Tariff Reformer—You see, Mr. Miller, dividing the stream cannot take any*
thing from the force and power of Protection.
Uncle Sam (Miller)—Say, but you’re a chiltnp. Don’t you see the wheel has
stopped going round?
upon the tremendous blessings and
advantages of protection and in the
next breath advocate the purchase of
a greatly Increased volume of foreign
i competitive goods? Yet that is pre
cisely the attitude of Gov. Cummins.
From the standpoint of sound and
logical economics it is the attitude of
a schoolboy!
Senator Allison, in his speech at
Clinton, on the 10th of October, was
much wiser and shrewder. He did not
put both feet in the reciprocity trap.
After telling his hearers that tariff
revision must not be thought of at
least until after the election next
year, "not until the voters have again
passed upon the policy that should
prevail In our tariff laws.” the dis
creet and level-headed senator took
saie, sensible ground regarding reci
procity. Thus:
”lt is probable that In the future
provisions for such trade will be
largely made by modifying our tariff
on condition that such countries modi
fy their laws so as to give us an equiv
alent and so that we will receive
as well as grant benefits. This will
be done so as not to Impair our pro
tective policy.”
If done at all—which it never will
be or can be under a Republican ad
ministration—“this will be done so
as not to Impair our protective pol
icy.” That was McKinley’s stand in
the speech at Buffalo in 1901 that has
been and still is being so flagrantly
distorted and perverted. It is the
stand of all sound Republicans: “Not
to Impair our protective policy.” If
our protective policy is not to be Im
paired, there can be no such thing as
reciprocity In competitive products.
Again said Senator Allison, always
Insisting upon safe and consistent
qualifications:
‘”In making these reciprocal ar
rangements, whether by law or treaty,
with any country, care must be taken
not to do Injustice which would in
volve us in difficulty wdth other
friendly countries with which we have
treaties, or which have already given
us great advantage in their laws for
the free export of our products to
such countries. Great Britain is an
Illustration of an open market for all
our products.
"In making modifications of our tar
iff In the future the possibilities of
reciprocal legislation should be utilis
ed so far as practicable, securing
thereby valuable concessions without
impairing the protective policy In our
own oountry, and without doing In
justice to countries that already give
us tree access to their markets, or
L access to them upon favorable terms.”
, Note the saving clauses that we
cUne. In his speech at Greenock he
said: “The sugar trade has gone, the
iron trade is threatened, and the turn
of the cotton trade is coming next."
Yet the Democratic party would make
our protective tariff the paramount
issue in 1904. “The wicked tariff, the
tariff which makes the rich richer
and the poor poorer, which fosters
trusts, which gives ao real prosperity,
let’s abolish it,” they say. Yes, let’s
abolish it. Let’s forget the experi
ence of 1893. Let’s get a taste of this
industrial decline which has opened
the eyes of our British cousins to the
fact that the protective nations have
prospered amazingly, while Great Bri
tain has gofte backward.—Spring Aid
Union. f
Sugar Trust's Latest Move.
The active efforts of the Sugar
trust to buy up the beet sugar fac
tories in the West ought to result in
improving the prospect of a reciproc
ity treaty with Cuba. The American
Sugar Refining Company, as tne trust
is known, is said to have obtained a
controlling interest in the following
Michigan factories: Sebewaing Sugar
Refining Co., Sebewaing; Sanita C.
Sugar Refining Co., Croswell; Penin
sula Sugar Co., Caro; Tawas Sugar
Co., East Tawas, Mich.; Michigan
Sugar Co., Bay City; Alma Sugar Co.,
Alma; Saginaw Sugar Co., Saginaw;
Valley Sugar Co., Saginaw; Menomi
nee River Sugar Co., Menominee.
It is expected that as soon as
the beet sugar season is over the
management of the factories will be
placed under one head. The combin
ed capitalization of the companies
absorbed by the American Sugar Re
fining Co. is placed at $6,350,000.—
Hartford Times.
The Outcome of Protection.
Says Mr. Mosely, in summing up
the Report of the Industrial Commis
sion to this country from England:
"My personal conclusion is that the
true-born American Is a better educat
ed, better housed, better fed, better
clothed and more energetic man than
his British brother, and infinitely
more sober; and, as a natural conse
quence, he Is more capable of using
his brains as well as his bands.”
And It is all duo to American wages,
the outcome of protection which has
built up and maintains our home mak
ket.
Not Yet.
The beet sugar outnut ueit year will
be enormous if—but we will not bor
row trouble. The Cuban treaty is not
In operation yet.
•
Few great men have paid more en
thusiastic tributes to their wives than
Tom llood, and probably few wives
lave better deserved such homage.
‘You will think," he wrote to her in
me of his letters, “that I am more
’oollsh than any boy lover; and I
plead guilty. For never was a wooer
io young of heart and so steeped in
ove as I; but it is a love sanctified
ind strengthened by Jong years of
•‘.'cperienee. May God ever bless my
iarling—the sweetest, most helpful
ingel who ever stooped to bless a
nan." Has tixere ever, we wonder,
ived a wife, to whom a more delicate
and beautiful tribute was paid than
'.hose verses, of which the burden is,
I love tbee, 1 love thee, ‘tis all that 1
pan say."
• • e
“I want thee much ’’ Nathaniel Haw
thorne wrote to his wife, many years
after his long patience had won for
him the flower “that was lent from
heaven to show the possibilities of
the human soul.” "Thou are the only
person in the world that ever was
necessary to me. And now I am only
myself when thou art within my reach.
Thou art au unspeakably beloved
woman.”
* • *
Sophia Hawthorne was little better
than a chronic invalid; and it may be
that this physical weakness woke all
the deep chivalry and tenderness of
the man. And he reaped a rich re
ward for an almost unrivaled devo
tion in the "atmosphere of love and
happiness and inspiration" with which
his delicate wife always surrounded
him.
* • •
The wedded life of Wordsworth with
his cousin, "the phantom of delight,"
was a poem more exquisitely beautiful
than any his pen ever wrote. Mrs.
Wordsworth was never fair to look
upon, but she had that priceless and
rarer beauty of soul which made her
life ‘‘a center of sweetness" to all
around her. “All that she has been
to me,” the poet once said in his lat
ter days, "none but God and myself
can ever know"; and it would be dif
ficult to find a more touching and
beautiful picture in the gallery of
great men’s lives than that of Words
worth and his wife, both bowed under
the burden of many years and almost
blind, “walking hand in hand together
in the garden with all the blissful ab
I sorption and vender confidence of
youthful lovers.”
• * •
It never needed "the welding touch
of a great sorrow” to maae the lives
of Archbishop Tait and his devoted
wife "a perfect whole.” Speaking of
her many years after she h.td been
taken from him, he said: "To part
from her, if only for a day, was a pain
only less intense than the pleasure
with which I returned to her; and
when I,took her with me It was one
of the purest joys given to man to
watch the meeting between her and
our children.”
• • *
When David Livingstone had passed
his thirtieth birthday with barely a
thought for such "au indulgence as
wooing and weddirg,” he declared
humorously that when he was a little
less busy he would send home an ad
vertisement for a wife, “preferably a
decent sort of widow”; and yet so un
consciously near was his fate that
only a year later he was Introducing
his bride, Mary Moffat, to the home
he had built, largely with his own
hands, at Mabotsa. Prom that "su
premely happy hour” to the day when,
eighteen years later, he received her
“last faint whisperings” at Shupanga,
no man ever had a more self-sacri
ficing, brave, devoted wife than the
missionary's daughter.
In fact, they were more like two
happy, light-hearted children than se
date married lolk, ami under the
magic of their merriment the hard
ships and dangers of life in the heart
of the dark continent were stripped of
all their terrors'
* * •
Jean Paul Richter confessed that
he never even suspected the potential
ities of human happiness until he met
Caroline Mayer, “that sweetest and
most gifted of women,” when he was
fast approaching his fortieth year;
and that he had no monopoly of the
resultant happiness is proved by his
wife’s declaration that "Richter is the
purest, the holiest, the most godlike
man that lives. * * * To be the
wife of such a man is the greatest
glory that can fall to a woman”; while
of his wife Richter once wrote: "I
thought when I married her that I
had sounded the depths of human
love; but I have since realized how
unfathomable is the heart in which a
noble woman has her shrine.”
Some Reflections
Of ^
BzvcKelor Girl.
There is considerable learned dis
cussion and poring over statistics In
progress to ascertain whether or not
: college women marry as generally as
they ought to, and, if not, why not.
The grj.ernment seems inclined to
punish matrimony among its employes
by discharging the guilty woman. New
York and some other cities have gone
to the courts to find out if they cannot
discharge a woman teacher who so
far loses her self-respect as to marry.
Shall we ever reach the happy day
when it will be nobody’s business
whether a woman marries or not?
* * * 4
As to the allegations that college
women do not marry as generally as
they might, could and should. It may
be because they don't want to, and
then again it may be because men
don’t like educated women.
* • a
College women may not marry, tut
you can usually tmst all the female
Idiots to get two husbands apiece.
* * *
Much of a man’s success in life de
pends on the degree of loyalty he is
capable of inspiring.
it * *
If modern male writers would study
Shakespeare more they would know
more about women.
* * •
First love is ardent, hut undiscrlml
nating. It is merely a matter of pro
pinquity. Almost anybody will do.
* • •
It Is wonderful how much the repu
tation of some men depends on what
other people think they know.
* * *
The "nagging woman" and the “out
door woman” do not trot in the same
class.
• • •
No self-respecting woman ought to
want to be a White Man's Burden.
• * •
The woman with a history may not
have loved and lost. She may have
got him.
• • *
If man has a broader sense of Jus
tice than woman, as he likes to claim,
it 1® because he has always been out
ir. the crowd where this particular
virtue was instilled into him et the
point of a club. "Justice was born in
the marketplace.”
* • •
Most people have loved at least
three time*. If they haven’t they have
missed a lot of uducatlca&l experi
ence.
• • •
If there Is anything a nan bates it
is a woman who is eternally discuss
ing her own achievements, 'iet that
is what women have always had to
stand from men in the most charming
of all their roles—that of liftener.
* • •
A man is always sorry for the worn
an he didn’t marry.
• • •
Mrs. Russel Sage discusses the diffi
culties of housekeeping in a current
periodical. After saying that she has
three servants in her house who have ■
been with her for periods varying
from ten to thirty years, Mrs. Sage
soberly remarks: "Cooks are difficult
to keep, as they are more in demand
in marriage. Men like to marry cooks.
They feel that the food question is
settled then, whereas chambermaids
and waitresses do not appeal as close
ly to a man s interests.” This is bet- i
ter than anything the bachelor girl
ever reflected.
• • •
Men have always been devoted to
tobacco, which soothes the nerves,
and women to tea, which harrows
them up. Savants who make mankind
their special study should find food
for thought in this fact.
• • •
There is a lot of nonsense written
by blithering idioty about “under
standing women.” They set up a
sphinx and call it a woman and then
make a great fuss over “analyzing”
her. As a matter of fact the lines of
marked difference in character be
tween men and women are much
smaller and less conspicuous than the
broad, underlying t/aits which are
common to humanity.
• • •
We are more apt to remember our
puppy-loves with a smile than a tear
How Zebras Are Caught. flj
Zebras are captured in German East ^
Africa by the natives, who surround
them. When they discover a herd
quietly grazing they inclose it on everj
side, the man standing about 100 01
200 yards away from each other, ir
an immense circle, probably ten or *
dozen miles in circumference. Thes*
men have each a stick to v hich Is at
tached a piece of cloth er flag. Thej '
flutter these sticks in the breeze and
drive the animals into a kind of cor
ral. At a recent drive fully 400 ze
bras were surrounded, besides a num
ber of antelopes, some of the lattw
being entirely new variety. As th<
corral was not big enougli the larget
part of these animals were allowed t«
escape Finally eighty-five zebras and
fifteen antelopes were secured
f