Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
If the amateur theatrical hug is dan
gerous, what must be said of the real
article?
Can you name more than three peo
ple you have ever known who could
tell a story well?
Don’t waste any sympathy on Sully.
He got exactly the dose of medicine
his system needed.
Grim famine is beginning to stalk
through parts of Russia and even the
Tomsk cats are starving.
“True poverty is a blessing,” said
Father Huntington; and so it un
doubtedly is; but ah—what is truth?
London's experts are only half
right. It is not the biggest guns but
the ability to use them that wins bat
tles.
A Chicago alderman has just pub
Hslied a poem entitled “On Seeing a
Robin.” Yes, Chicago aldermen have
changed.
If you must speculate be prudent.
Don’t plunge on margin until you have
remembered to give a $265,000 house
to your wife.
Prince yuca-yowah-Fute-yalaf-Saba
vousaw-Mohamed of Central Africa is
lecturing in this country, but his name
is not yet on every lip.
One sad thing about it is that the
magazine editors will never ask Mr.
Sully to write articles on the disad
vantages of college education.
Patience, perseverance and practice
will achieve wonders. Probably 5 per
cent of our population can now pro
nounce Vladivostok without stutter
ing.
The juice of the rubber tree is 56
per cent water and 44 per cent rub
ber. The percentage of water is said
to be much greater iu the rubber
trust.
Andrew Carnegie says that the cap
tain of industry who seeks a hoard of
dollars is of a low type. What a bles
sed thing is reform!—Philadelphia
Ledger.
The “displaced mine” seems to be
about as unpleasant for the Russians
at Port Arthur as the “salted mine”
was for the guileless in the earlier
days of the West.
Jiji is the name of the leading news
paper of Japan. It requires a pretty
long stretch of the imagination to find
that no Japanese breakfast can be
complete without Jiji.
Asked what impressed him most in
this country, W. B. Yeats, the Irish
poet, replied: “The fat Irishmen; we
have none at home.” Come over, the
rest of you, and fatten up!
Gold deposits have been discovered
in Thibet. This being the case, the
Grand Llama may as well get ready
to move out. England can't let Thibet
lie around unused any longer.
“Do I like America as well as I did
in former years?” says Patti. “O, no;
the country has changed so much, and,
really, it has not changed for the
better.” Just like Patti’s voice.
The people would like clean money,
no doubt, but they are willing to put
up with badly soiS*l currency rather
than not have it. The $10 bill microbe
isn't so very abhorrent, after all.
Various gentlemen who at one time
or another have thought they could
buy up all the wheat in the world will
find the account of Mr. Sully’s experi
ence more thrilling than a detective
story.
If a gallon of gasoline will run an
automobile 20 miles and gasoline costs
15 cents a gallon, bow long will it
take you to save up money enough to
buy a second-hand peff-peff-peff ma
chine?
Mr. Kubelik’s axperience with a
German audience differs from similar
ones of some of our violinists in that
sticks, stones, cabbages and eggs
were not intended as a reflection upon
his playing.
When the busy American reads
that the census of India, just taken,
shows a population of 294,000,000, or
four times that of the United States,
he just naturally can’t help wondering
how they all get a living.
“The main business of the child,”
avers Principal Watt, “is to grow.” It
is the opinion of many experienced
parents that the main business of the
male child is to eat. Growth is mere
ly secondary and incidental.
John O. Heald of Orange, having of
fered a prize of $100 for the words
and music of a song that will best
exemplify the true Yale spirit, poets
will now rack their brains for a stir
ring phrase to rhyme with “T. H. with
Harvard!”
Hetty Green having recently re
nounced $4 a w’eek rooms and pur
chased a handsome house in New
York with art gallery and music room
attachments, it is now in order for
Russell Sage to design for himself a
marble palace.
People going home from church in
Pittsburg one Sunday were surprised
and shocked when the wall of a club
house suddenly fell out and disclosed
a number of their friends and neigh
bors playing poker in the upper rooms.
Such is the story; but how' did the
good people know it was poker?
According to the tenets of the
«new thought” practitioners, all ma
terial ills vanish before the vigorous
onslaughts of our mentality; but no
body has reported that new thought
will bring down the price of flour.
••DO EVERYTHING. WELL,” SAYS
PRESIDENT OF C., R. I. AND P.ROAD
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Everything worth doing is important. Don’t think you haven’t a respon
sible position until you are promoted. Do everything well.
—Benjamin L. Winchell.
The photograph and sketch are por
traits of Benjamin L. Winchell, the
newly elected president of the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad.
The drawing was made by a staff art
ist of the Chicago Examiner, and
shows the man who has just been ex
alted to the headship of one of the
world's greatest transportation sys
tems discussing the days of his $10
a week clerkship and telling how he
rose from a humble country lad to the
position of eminence which he now
occupies.
Knows Much of Russia.
Dr. Edward A. Steiner, professor
of applied Christianity at 5owa col
lege, Grinnell, who wrote the author
ized American biography of Count
Lyof Tolstoi, is credited with knowing
more about Russia and the Slavic
world generally than any other living
American. He is a native of Vienna,
where he began liis education. Later
he was at Leipsic and Heidelberg, re
ceiving from the latter the degree of
doctor of philosophy.
Women to Make Statue.
Miss Caroline Wood, daughter of a
prominent St. Louis judge, has re
ceived the commission to make a
statue of “The Spirit of Missouri”
to surmount the dome of the Missouri
building at the world's fair. The Mis
souri statue is her first large effort.
Another woman sculptor whose work
will be prominent at the fair is Miss
Janet Scudder, a Terre Haute girl.
Her work for the exhibition is a statue
of President James Madison.
• FRANK D. ARBUCKLE OF
t ILLINOIS CHAMPION GUNNER.
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Frank D. Arbuckle, who now has
the distinction of being the champion
gunner of the world, was born April
19, 1885, at Kingston, De Kalb county,
111. He worked on his father's farm
and attended the district school until
his sixteenth year, when he entered
the United States navy as an appren
tice, where he served two and one
half years. At present he is on the
cruiser Newark. He was in the re
cent engagement at Sahto Domingo
Feb. 3. In a recent target practice
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for championship he fired a six-inch
gun twelve times in one minute and
fifty-four seconds, hitting the target
eleven times, thus breaking all pre
vious records. The world's champion
ship was heretofore held in England,
the best record being the firing of a
six-inch gun twelve times in two min
utes, hitting the target nine times.
The Uinted States championship was
held by a gunner from Wisconsin, but
young Arbuckle, only 18 years of age,
has given to Illinois the world’s cham
pionship.
Kaiser Decorates American.
George W. Boyd, general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania railroad,
has received from Emperor William
the Order of the Crown in recognition
of various special acts of kindness to
Prince Henry of Prussia, who visited
this country two years ago. The dis
tinction was conveyed to Mr. Boyd
through the medium of Ambassador
Baron Von Sternburg. The Order of
the Crown was instituted in 1861 by
William I to commemorate his coro
nation as king of Prussia.
Dose Should Cure Anything.
Congressman lAcey of Iowa has
made a great medical discovery and
he loses no time in presenting it to
the world. “It’s a cure for pneumo
nia,” says Mr. Lacey, “and it’s a sure
thing. Take six drops of asafetida,
mix it into a drink of whisky and
take it before going to bed. To be
sure, you’ll smell rather emphatically,
but no pneumonia germ that ever
came down the track can stand the
fumes. They vacate in a hurry, And,
really, I can't help admiring their
judgment.”
Judge Once a Factory Hand.
Judge C. W. Raymond, recently ap
pointed chief justice of the Uinted
States court of appeals in Indian Ter
ritory, was a factory hand in an in
terior town of Illinois twenty-live
years ago. Joseph G. Cannon, now
speaker of the house of representa
tives, became interested in the young
man, induced him to study law and
has remained a helpful friend. Judge
Raymond was appointed to the federal
court at Muskogee by President Mc
Kinley in 1901.
American Professor Honored.
Prof. W. W. Campbell, director of
the Lick observatory in California,
has been elected a foreign member of
the Societa degli Speilroscopisti Itali
an!. This society consists of thirty
Italian members and thirty foreign
ers. Prof. Campbell has been request
ed to serve on an honorary commu
te®, presided over by the minister of
public instruction for France, whose
purpose is to forward the project for
| erecting a monument to the eminent
| astronomer, Jerome Lelande, at Bcurg,
j the place of his birth.
MOVE OF GREAT BRITAIN J
LOOKS LIKE LAND GRAB ]
While Russia is engaged with Ja
pan in the debatable land of eastern
China, England is fighting her way
into the debatable land of southwest
ern China. Col. Younghusband, at
the head of a detachment of the Brit
ish army, has forced his way over
the Himalayas into Tibet and has de
feated the Tibetans at Guru, not a
hundred miles south of Lhassa, the
Tibetan capital.
This advance of the British into
Tibet had been more carefully pre
pared than was the Russian advance
into Manchooria. Bhotan, the semi
independent mountain state lying
south of Tibet to the east of the trade
route from Bengal to Tibet, was
brought under British control in 1865.
British influence in Nepal, the Hima
layan state south of Tibet, west of
the trade route, was established in
1815. Between the two lies Sikkim,
a Tibetan state, and a British protect
orate was established over this in
1890. Control of Sikkim gave the
British possession of the trade route
as far north as the mountain passes.
Meantime Russian agents, Japanese
; priests, and Chinese travelers had
penetrated to Lhassa. A Japanese
priest was the first man to live for
any length of time in the mysterious
city, and on his return he published
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mitted the Tibetan people to purchase
scarcely any tea grown in India.
Col. Younghusband left Darjeeling,
the outpost on the Indian frontier, in
October last. He made his way to
the higher mountain passes, where
he was confronted by the Tibetans,
who insisted that he should return.
He held his position, however, and
sent for reinforcements. Then he pro
ceeded northward by way of Yatong,
Chumbi, Pharljong, and over the dif
ficult pass beyond into the Tang-la
valley, making a new base at Tuna.
A short distance north of this point,
the Tibetans, under command of the
general at Lhassa, disputed his pas
sage. The result was two engage
ments, in which the Tibetan loss is
reported at 750.
This means war, with as many pos
sibilities as hang on the outcome oi
the campaign in Manchuria. The
British detachment at Tuna will be
reinforced, and the Tibetans will make
resistance. In the end the British
are likely to capture Lhassa and ex
tend British influence to all of south
ern Tibet.
Tibet’s standing army is reputed to
be one of the strangest aggregations
of soldiers of modern times. Consist
ing of about 4,000 men, so far as
known, it presents the features of an
bis observations. Among the things
he reported was the success of a Rus
sian expedition to Lhassa bearing
presents to the Grand Lama, or sov
ereign of the country. Among the
presents was a consignment of Amer
ican, or Springfield, rifles sent by the
Czar as a personal gift to the Tibetan
ruler.
England's answer to this report of
Russian success was to order Col.
Younghusbcnd with 300 men across
the mountain divide into Tibet. The
expedition was called a commercial
mission, and its object was declared
to be to persuade the Tibetan gov
ernment to remove the restrictions
on the Indian tea trade. It was rep
resented that, while Tibet purchased
from China every year tea to the
value of $800,000, the government per
army of medieval days. Part of the
force that is opposing the British ex
pedition into Tibet is reported to be
armed with matchlock guns. Most
of the Tibetan soldiers, however, are
armed with lances, bcws and arrows
and slings. The ordinary Tibetan is
more inclined to trust to divinations
and spells of oracles and priests than
to weapons. The lamas encourage the
superstitious beliefs, with the result
that the soldiers think their prayers
and incantations will procure them
supernatural assistance in battle and
make them invulnerable against bul
lets. One of the Tibetan rules of war
fare says: “See that there are no
lazy, sick or timid in the ranks, but
only those who fear not death.” This
explains why so many, 400, died in
the recent battle.
One Time He Had Forgotten.
Senator Knute Nelson was telling
colleagues about his experiences with
a subcommittee in Alaska. They
made a landing at Nome one day when
the sea was so rough that the passen
gers were put in a cage and swung
ashore. “And that,” he concluded,
“was the only time any man ever had
me in a cage.” “Not much,” bluntly
interposed Senator Berry of Arkansas,
with whom Mr. Nelson has many a
timQ and oft fought over the battles
of the civil war. “We had you in a
cage at Port Hudson.” And Senator
Nelson had to admit it. He was taken
prisoner by the Confederates there
and for a season held in durance vile.
Review Was Not Flattery.
In “The Life of Dean Farrar” his
son. Reginald Farrar, has included
many extracts from "yen I Have
Known,” for example, the following
story of Browning, which is worth re
calling: John Stuart Mill, happening
upon a copy of “Bells and Pomegra
nates,” sent a request to Tait’s Maga
zine for permission to review it. The
editor answered that, “unfortunately,
he could not insert a review of ‘Bells
and Pomegranates,’ as it had been
reviewed in the last number.” Mr.
Browning had the curiosity to see this
“review” and found the following:
“ Bells and Pomegranates,’ by Robert
Browning: Balderdash.”
Senator Pettus in Bad Plight.
One of the greatest sticklers for
propriety in the Uinted States senate
is Mr. Pettus of Alabama. The other
day he arrived minus a cravat and
only learned of his mistake after he
noticed some of the pages snickering
at him. The old gentleman hurried
into the cloakroom, where he re
mained until a messenger brought him
the necessary article of apparel.
Condemned Guns Not Useless.
Condemned guns are not by any
means useless. There is at Willets
Point, L. I., a magnet made from two
Dahlgrens, 15-inch pops wound with
eight miles of heavy cable and
charged with electricity.
Nothing Doin’.
Oatcake—Did that air city chap
what wuz up tew your place huntin’
last week manage tew hit anything?
Hayrix—Gosh, no! Even when he
went tew start fer home he missed
th’ train, by hen!
Australian Wheat.
The three important wheat states
of Australia produce 35,000,000 bush
els. The yield to each acre in New
South Wales is 10.C bushels, in South
Australia 6.9 bushels and in West
Australia 4.6 bushels.
Woman Prisoner Is Mistreated.
A young woman prisoner in the jail
at Lille was kept in a cell all night
under such conditions that both her
feet became frostbitten and had to be
amputated. An inquiry has been
ordered.
Virginian’s Useful Life.
Dr. Moncure D. Conway, who re
cently celebrated his seventy-second
birthday, is a descendant of the Wash
ington family and was born in Vir
ginia. He married Miss Margaret
Daniel, granddaughter of Thomas
Stone, a signer of the declaration of
independence. Dr. Conway was a Uni
tarian minister at Washington.whence
he was compelled to go on account of
his sermons against slavery in 1857.
Going on a visit to England in 1863,
he became minister of South Place
chapel in 1864, where he stayed for
about twenty years and whither he
returned for another five years in
1892.
Independent Oklahoma Town.
Andrew Carnegie heard of a little
town in Oklahoma which had no libra
ry and decided to supply what he re
garded as a necessity. The multi
millionaire offered to furnish $5,00C
for the library, provided the citizens
would guarantee proper support for
the institution. He gathered a new
idea of Oklahoma’s optimism and in
dependence on learning that the citi
zens resented his offer as an insult.
“Make your offer $20,000 and we may
take it under consideration,” wrote
the towm officers, but so far Mr. Car
negie has not decided to do as sug
gested.
Western Pioneer Dead.
William F. Syron. a pioneer of Ore
gon and Washington, is dead at his
home in Garfield, Wash., aged 81
years. Mr. Syron and his young wife
left Iowa in 1852 with a party and
crossed the plains with ox teams.
When the Syrons arrived in Oregon
they had one ox, the usual prairie
schooner outfit and 25 cents cash. In
1877 they moved from Oregon to
Washington.
Americans Smoke Much.
If our annual output of domestic
cigars were to be made into one long
cigar of the usual diameter there
would be produced a “weed" that
would go eighteen times around the
world at the equator.
Proper Definition.
“Say. pa," queried little Johnny
Bumpernickle, “what is self-control?”
“It's something a woman possesses
who never buys anything at a bargain
sale that she doesn’t really need,”
replied the oid man.
Russian Officers Lose Perquisite.
The premiums of $250 and $500
offered during the last three years
to Russian officers to learn to speak,
read and write the Chinese language
will be discontinued at the end of the
present year.
Fastinn an Old Custom.
The ancient Persians, Hindus
Egyptians, Buddhists, Greeks, R&
mans, Jews all fasted. The Jews used
it as a means of insuring victory ovei
an enemy, or bringing down rain from
heaven.
i JURY PLACES STAIN ON UNITED
U STATES SENATOR BURTON
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United States Senator Joseph Ralph '
Burton of Kansas, who was found
guilty of using his official position to
protect a fraudulent concern in its use
of the mails, has been prominent in
the Sunflower state for years as a
politician and campaign oiator. He
was born in Indiana, and after receiv
ing a college education began to prac
tice law in 1876. Then he moved to
Kansas and did his first campaigning
for Garfield two years later. In 1S94
and 1896 he was an unsuccessful sen
atorial candidate, but was elected in
19dl to succeed Lucien Baker in the
, upper house.
Joseph Ralph Burton, senior United
States Senator from Kansas and a
political leader of wide influence
throughout the West, was convicted
by a jury in the United States Dis
trict Court at St. Louis March 29 of
accepting compensation to protect the
interests of the Rialto Grain & Secur
ities Company, a so-called “get-rich
qv uc concern,” before the Postoffice
Department at Washington.
The Senator was found guilty on
six of the seven counts in the indict
ment. On the other count, the third
one, a verdict of not guilty was re
turned. This third count is similar
in charge to that of counts one and
two, and for this reason the govern
ment announced at the beginning of
the trial that it did not desire any con
-v iction.
The court ruled that the Senator's
bond of $5,000 be continued, and that
the defendant report from time to
time pending arguments on the motion
for arrest of judgment and other le
gal steps taken prior to the appeal to
the United States Court of Appeals.
The case establishes the precedent
of a prosecution under section 1782
of the revised statutes of the United
States, which prohibits members of
Congress from accepting compensa
tion for their services in any case
which involves the interest of the fed
eral government.
Senator Burton’s recourse is an ap
peal to the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals, which body is the final ar
biter of his case. Pending the final
action of that tribunal he may give
bond and obtain temporary freedom.
In the course of the trial it develop
ed that during his term of office Sen
ator Burton had a total income from
hts law practice at Washington
amounting to nearly $25,000 a year.
The evidence adduced against Sena
tor Burton may be summarized as
follows:
First—In November. 1902, he accept
ed a proposition to become general
counsel of the Rialto Grain & Securi
ties Company, a concern whose opera
tions at the time were under the scrut
iny of postoffice officials.
Second—Burton demanded $2,500 for
his services, but he was satisfied to
be paid in monthly installments of
$500 each.
Third—Soon after his employment it
developed that the federal grand jury
was investigating the Brocks Broker
age Company, with which Major Hugh
C. Dennis, president of the Rialto
Company, has been associated.
Fourth—In December, 1902, Dennis
was indicted; appealed to Burton for
help.
Fifth—Numerous letters written by
Burton showed that the Senator was
using his influence to prevent the in
suance of a fraud order against the
Rialto Grain & Securities Company.
Sixth—Burton submitted regular re
ports to the Rialto people telling them
how matters were progressing at
Washington, advising them of reports
filed at the Postoffice Department and
closing with the assurance that “if
vou look after things at your end of
the line I will attend to matters
here.”
Senator Burton was indicted in Jan
uary last. Although, as a member of
Congress he could not be arrested un
til after that body adjourned, he vol
' untarily surrendered himself to the
prosecuting authorities.
He was elected to the Senate Janu
ary 4, 1901, so that he still lias two
years to serve.
DAN DALY IS DEAD.
Eccentric and Popular Comedian Suc
cumbs to Consumption.
Dan Daly, most eccentric and one of
the best beloved of comedians, died
suddenly March 20, in the Hotel Ven
dome, New York. He had been suf
fering a long time from consumption,
but always insisted to his friends that
his ailment was stomach trouble. His
wife died a little more than a week
ago, and the comedian failed rapidly
since that time. He was 40 years old.
The Daly family, of which Dan was
the youngest son, was noted because
of the theatrical successes of its mem
bers. Dan was called the “eccentric
comedian,” because nobody could imi
tate him. although there were more
“imitations” of his methods than of
those of any other comedian. Cecelia
Loftus and Fay Templeton each had
an “imitation of Dan Daly” in their
repertoires. His automatic move
ments and tne peculiarly slow
and measured tones of his voice won
him fame.
When he was a boy. his brothers,
Tom and Robert, were already on the
stage, and they gave him a small part
in “Vacation,” in which he was very
successful. He did better in “Up
side Down” and better still in “The
City Directory.” Under George W.
Lederer’s management he played in
“In Gay New York” at the Herald
Square Theater, and finally in “The
Belle of New York,” in which he won
his greatest success here and in Lon
don. Last summer he was the star
in “John Henry,” which proved a fail
ure, and since then he has been in
“Dan” Daly, the Comedian.
vaudeville. So great a drawing card
was he in vaudeville that managers
willingly paid him $1,000 a week for
his services.
Vagrant Had Small Fortune.
Barbora Honora Venus Brown
Ryan, a Boston character for many
years past, was arrested for vagrancy
the other day, and upon being search
ed $6,000 was found concealed in her
clothing. She was permitted to de
part from the courtroom in peace, but
with a warning to keep off the streets.
Honored Name in Old Place.
Within a few weeks a Von Moltke
will again figure as head of the gen
eral stafT of the Prussian army. Von
Moltke II. is the nephew of the great
strategist of the later nineteenth cen
tury, to whom for long years he acted
as aid-de-camp and will consequently
be no stranger to the palatial quar
ters of the Konigsplatz when he enters
them as chief. Count Helmuth never
commanded a brigade or a division,
much less a corps. On the day of
Count Von Moltke's death he became
aid-de-camp to the emperor.^
The Different Washingtons.
Samuel Hill of Seattle tells an anec
dote of how some people in this coun
try distinguish between Washington
that is a state of the union and Wash
ington that is the federal capital.
“When I was speaking at one time to
an association of farmers in the state
of Washington,” said Mr. Hill, an
old man came forward and said:
‘Young man, where do you live? I
live in Washington, sir,’ was my reply.
‘WTiich Washington,’ he asked, ‘tax
eatin’ Washington or tax-payin’ Wash
ington?’ ”
Brings Lawsuit Against Father.
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton of San
Francisco, wife of the artist and au
thor of that name, is suing her father.
Albert Gallatin, for the recovery of
$10,000 which he promised to pay in
a contract with his first wife at the
time of their divorce in 1881. The
money was to be turned over to her
when she should reach the age of 18
years, but Gallatin for eight years kept
her waiting by one excuse and then
another, she alleges, and finally re
pudiated his contract altogether.—
Chicago Chronicle.
Danger in Hand Shaking.
Dr. W. E. Young of New York city
sounds a note of warning against the
all but universal practice of shaking
hands. “A small parasite,” says Dr.
Young, “attacks the palm of the hand
and readily communicates itself to the
handshaker. The parasite carries his
family with him and he is most diffi
cult to dislodge.” The doctor says
that the itching palm is epidemic on
the upper east side of New York and
is most prevalent among those whose
business or social duties call for fre
quent contacts.