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<«■' '■ — ■■■■■■ '■ ■-■■■■■■ ■ — ——— *—■— — —— HISTORIC HOX/SES Iff WASHIJVGTOJV. Historic Washington will soon be only a memory. One after another the historic buildings of this town, which have housed men entitled to at least a small niche in the hall of fame, are being torn down. The next big square of ground whose buildings are to be razed was where no less a personage than the brilliant and combative Henry Clay held his peace, for in this block was his home during his long and brilliant career as a representative in Congress, then as a senator, again as representative, and yet again senator. government in order to build the new committee rooms for the United States senate, to correspond with the opposite side of the capitol. where the committee rooms of the house are being built. This block has a curious mixture of old and modern architec ture, and has not so many houses of great interest, having been less built up than the other side in early days. Those houses which are of historic interest, however, are fully a century old, and in one or two cases there is no record of when they were built. By all odds the most interesting i formerly called No. 225 “home.” It was known many times as a fashion able boarding house, which attracted statesmen of all styles and kinds. Somewhere in the early eighties, it was the first Washington home of Dr. John Witherspoon Scott, father of the first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, who died within a month after his daughter, in the White House. Alter the death of William Brent, No. 225 became the property of his daughter Virginia, who had married Robert S. Chilton of the state depart ment. Mr. Chilton was. after his mar HOUSES OF THE GRANGERS AND JUDGE CRANCH. THE CHILTON HOUSE. Here also was the former home of the distinguished son-in-law of Presi dent John Adams, Judge Cranch of the supreme court, who came from Massachusetts, and it was here that the president and his wife, Abigail Adams, made many visits to their daughter. Next door to them lived Francis Granger of Suffield, Conn., postmaster general in the cabinet of President William Henry Harrison, and in the same house his distinguish ed father haa lived before him, Gideon Granger of Suffleld, postmas ter general from 1801 to 1814, under Presidents Jefferson and Madison. This block of houses, which is north of the Capitol, bounded by Delaware avenue, B, C and First streets, has been condemned by the of these is the house which is known as the Chilton house, No. 225 Dela ware avenue. It is a tall, yellowish gray brick house, perched upon the top of a high bank like a bald eagle on a rock, the grading of the street long after it was built having left it high and dry. and the owners hav ing to add a basement, and afterward terrace their front yard. The house was built in 1809 on the level of the street, by William Brent, formerly of Virginia, at that time clerk of the supreme court. His own stately mansion was beside this “new house,’’ this latter having been put up for renting purposes. It was in this house that Henry Clay, lived in Washington. And he is not the only personage known in history who | riage, sent to Goderich, Canada, as i our commercial agent and remained ! there for thirty years. From the time of William Brent's death the house was known a3 the Chilton house and on their return from Canada Mr. and Mrs. Chilton again took possession of it, expecting to end their days there. The house is more quaint and an cient looking on the inside than on the outside. The hall is wide and roomy, according to the fashion of the day and the magnificent idea of hospitality, and the drawing rooms are large, square rooms, with broad window sills and high mantels. The doors are finished with massive, shin ing brass locks, screwed upon the inner side, and finished by a huge brass key with a ring at the end. l Traveled Robin Brood. W. S. Reed, M. D.. tells the story of a robin who took possession of a pas senger coach which had been left for several weeks unused at East Thomp son. on the Southbridge branch of the New York. New Haven & Hartford railroad. The robin built her nest on the framework of the trucks under the body of the car. The bird had been seen around the car by different em ployes of the road, without their sus pecting the presence of the nest until the car was coupled on and hauled to Southbridge. The mother followed the train, and on its arrival brooded and fed her young, which were just hatched. She followed the train back on its return trip to East Thompson, where she again fed and housed the young birds. On the second trip of the train, in the afternoon, the bird again followed her young to South bridge and back to East Thompson, where the car was sidetracked and given into possession of the robin, rent free, until her family were grown. The distance traveled by the bird in the two round trips was 8G miles.—Christian Register. A Glorious Mansion. I praised the earth. In beauty #vn. With garland* gay ot various green: I praised the seas, whose ample field Shane glorious as a silver shield: And earth and ocean seemed to say, "Our beauties are but for a day.” I praised the sun. whose chariot rolled On wheels of amber and of gold; I praised the moon, whose softer eye Gleamed sweetly through the summer sky; And moon and sun in answer said. "Our days of light are numbered." O God! O Good beyond compare! If thus Thy meatior works are fair, !f thus Thy bounties gild the span ruined earth and sinful man. How glorious must the mansion be Where Thy redeemed shall dwell with Thee! —Reginald Heber. Happiness Merely Comparative. Happiness, iike beauty, is merely comparative. If all women had flat noses, like those of the belles of1 Africa we should find some flat noses extremely beautiful and other flat noses not at all presentable. A lone widow with three children and one small bed required her oldest boy to sleep on a pile of straw in the corner. One* bitter night the howling wind coming through the cracks kept blow' ing the straw’ away. The little fellow shivered until blue in the face. His ■ hands were nearly frozen trying tc j hold the straw’ in place. Finally the mother rose and completely covering her son with straw laid upon it an old door which had been leaning against the outer wall. ihe wind then blue in vain, and a happy voice came from the corner: “Mama, it ain’t every boy that’s got a door.’’ JVOVEL STyLE OF HO\7SE BOAT. HOUSEBOAT MADE. OF STREET CARS. •, A fad for living in houseboats has ttacked residents of Southern Cali fornia. A pioneer in acquiring a home on the water is J. J. Jenkins, former ly of Pittsburg. Mr. Jenkins created a novel house fcoat. the demand for which has beerf po great that it is impossible for the invento- to Keep up with it. He de rided to build for himself a house boat on the bay at San Pedro, and in fasting about for material saw some abandoned cable cars, relics of the days before the residents of Los An geles were whized about on electric cars. Lumber is high in Southern California, and labor is even higher, so Mr. Jenkins decided to convert these old cars into houseboats. Two cars were placed upon caulked float and converted into the cosiest sea homes. All around is a veranda. Across the end of the cars is a tiny kitchen, equipped with a stove, a sink and other conveniences. The remain der of the cars can be thrown into one room or separated into dining room, parlor,- sitting room and bedroom, in which latter is a comfortable bed that folds up in the '/all. The dweller in the household on San Pedro bay has many advantages. He can go out on the veranda in the morning, throw a line out and in a short time have a good mess of fish; or he can row ashore and gather clams. He is never bothered by the heat and the bay serves for a huge • bathtub. ' Straw for Hat* 100 Years Ago. In the early part of the last cen tury there were fewer factories in this country than now, and many things were made by hand which to-day are the work of machinery. This was es pecially true of the braid for straw bats. Rye straw was commonly used, although wheat was also in demand. But the rye straw had- longer stems and was more easily handled. In driving along the country roads, in Massachusetts particularly, late in the summer one would see great bun dles of the straw hanging on the fences to dry. When the sun and wind had done their share of the work. It was placed in casks where sulphnr was burning until It was bleached to a pale yellow. Then it was split into narrow widths suitable for braiding.—St. Nicholas. No Coffee or Dessert in Japan. Coffee is not popular in Japan. M^ben guests arrive for a dinner party Ui0v are received In an anteroom and tamed lately served with tea and before entering tb. banquet hall. The cups in which the tea is served are very small and of the finest porcelain. They have no han dles. but are passed on metal trays, which take the form ef a leaf. The tea is brewed directly in the little cups, and served without sugar or cream. Dessert, so dear to the Occidental housewife, is also unknown in Japan. At formal dinners rice forms the last course. It would be a breach of eti quette to serve the little cakes which come before dinner with the tea dur ing the final course. * New Zealand’s Exhibit. The New Zealand exhibit in the Palace of Forestry, Fish and Game, at the world's fair, consists of a splen did collection of trophies of the chase, wild boar heads, a fine exhibit of Kauri gum, from which varnish is made, and an interesting display of photographs and paintings of Maori life in New Zealand. Cost of Civil War Sea Fighting. Our navy cost us during the Civil War *300,000,000. The River Styx News. After being tied up for several weeks the Stygian ferry resumed ope rations yesterday, Capt. Charon had gone out on a strike, but the shade ol a Russian battleship came along and started to steal the captain’s business so he was forced to stop striking. Ananias is telling a queer tale about a horse he knew before he died. It seems that the horse ate some in fant food which was stored In the barn, and thereafter it would roll out of its stall in its sleep, try to get its feet in its mouth, and whinnie a strange sound that resembled “pa pa,” “ma-ma.” Alexander the Great and Lot’s wife had, a narrow escape from going to the bottom of the river Monday after noon. They were out rowing, and Alexander the Great, in a spirit of fun, began to rock the boat. Almost immediately it upset, and both people were thrown into the Styx. Pompey and Noah, in a new antoboat, rescued them, but not before Lot’s wife was almost dissolved in salty tears. She says Alexander the great is too fresh fo» ber. anyway.—Cleveland Leader TWO DAGGERS WITH HISTORIES. One for Which Senator Quay Would Have Traded His. Senator Quay of Pennsylvania was a collector or Indian relics and took great interest also in autographs, coins and stamps. Often, though, he ridiculed, good uaturedly, collectors’ hobbies. He was showing a reporter his In dian robes one day. The young man took up a curious antique dagger that lay on a buhl table. “This dagger must be very old,” he said. “Has it a history?’ “It has indeed,” said Senator Quay. “It is the dagger fhat Macbeth thought he saw. A descendant of Macbeth gave it to me in Scotland several years ago.” Senator Quay smiled. “There is only one dagger I would trade this for, and that is a dagger that used to hang on the wall in Alphonse Karr’s study,” he said. “Karr, in one of his stories, bad poked a good deal of fun at a woman named Colet. Mme. Colet, enraged at being made a butt of. stabbed Karr. He, on his recovery, hung the dagger she had stabbed him with above liis desk, with this inscription beneath it: “ ‘Presented to Alphonse Karr—by Mme. Colet—in the back.’” MINISTER KNOCKED OUT ELDER Disgraceful Scandal That Has Dis rupted Pennsylvania Church. Rev. Samuel P. Montgomery of Pittsburg is among the best, known United Presbyterian preachers in western Pennsylvania. The reverend gentleman has some mining stock which he tried to unload on members of bis flock. Elder Edward P. Heath thought this was unclerieal in the ex treme and he said so to Mr. Montgom ery at a church meeting. The latter, a muscular Christian. promptly knocked the elder down. Mr. Heath jumped up and the two clinched for a moment, but the preacher landed once more and the elder “went down and out.” as they say at godless prize fights. Next day Mr. Heath caused the arrest of the pastor, who gave bail. All of which has caused great scandal and commotion among the faithful of the congregation. How to Rule a Husband. When the writer was about to marry, the wife of a well-known judge gave her this advice: “My dear, a woman needs the wis dom of Solomon, the patience of Job and the meekness of a dove to get along with the best man that ever lived. I have my third husban<j, all good men. but all cranky at times. When they are cranky, keep still; when they fret, hold your tongue, and always remember that it takes two to make a quarrel.” In writing to the dear old lady af ter some years of experience at the headquarters of an array, where I was surrounded by some thirty-thou sand men. I took occasion to say; “The more I see of men the better I like them; and as to quarreling, you are quite right. I should like to add that your admirable advice might per haps be supplemented by adding: Ex ercise tact, and spell it large.' Tact will win nine times out of ten where npen hostility and aggressiveness fails.” The response was: “You are right; we are improving with each generation.”—National Magazine. Old China as Table Decorations. /Georgina, countess of Dudley, is said to have been the first hostess who grasped the possibilities of old pieces of gold and silver as table decorations. Old china lends itself to this pur pose as readily, as was proved at the dinner party given by Baron and Bar oness Alphonse de Rothschild this week in their fine mansion. Rue Saint Florentin. The flowers were the price less orchids for which the baron’s con servatories at Ferrteres are celebrated, and the golden and mauve tints'of the exqusite blossoms were thrown into harmonious relief by the pieces of green Sevres china placed on the table. A London hostess not long ago made a sensation by decorating her table entirely with La France roses and using a dinner service of pink Sevres, matching the flowers perfectly. —Izondon Graphic. Wise Man of the Trolley. “Yes,” said the conductor, as he gave the motorman the double ring, “I can tell what day of the week it is by the size of money these young fellows have. Now, there is that kid in front just gave me a flve-dollar note and made me hustle for change. That’s his salary. He’ll be walking down town next Friday morning. 'That young woman there, who just gave me a dollar bill, had to look through a pocketbook full of samples on Satur day morning to find a nickel.” “But this is Monday,” remarked the observant patron, “and I saw a man give you five cents just now. How do you account for that?” “Oh. that’s easy,” said the knight of the cord; “he’s married.”—Baltimore News. Gen. Kuroki Half French. , Several French soldiers, survivors of the Chinese expedition of 1856, are responsible for the statement that Gen. Kuroki, who is leading the Japanese forces in Manchuria, is in reality half French. His name, they say. is prop erly spelled Curique. According to the story of these soldiers, a French offi cer, Capt. Curique, while serving in China in 1856, married a Japanese girl. A son was born to them, who was given the Japanese name Kuroki, cor responding to the French Curique. This son is Gen. Kuroki. Capt. Cu rique died last year in France. Until the last he corresponded with his son, who has since become famous. When I was III. He brought me flowers when I was ill. And placed them where I saw them bloom; And all the while they used to fill With perfume delicate my room. I was a maiden, youn^ and fair. And he had culture, rank and wealth; The flowers, and his kindly care. Helped lure me back to hope and health. But now that I am well and strong. No more he comes—he passes by; And. tho’ I would not do him wrong, I wish that he had let me die. —Thomas F. Porter in Boston Globe. I AERIAL GLOBE THE LATEST FREAK. The freak fever has broken loose again, this time in the form of an eating desire to give Chicago some thing to take the place of the late lamented Ferris wheel, its one time promised stadium, its porcelain lined subway and other beautiful things that dreams are made of. The man who Is responsible for thi3 proposed globe is bamuel M. Friede, a Chicago inventor, who has spent the greater part of his life inventing things to give a calm and restive peo ple thrills at so much per thrill. He designed and built the airship tower at Sans Souci Park. That freak works. He says his globe will also work. The aerial globe will cost $1,000,000 and will accommodate from 25,000 to 30.000 persons easily at one time, i having a capacity six times that of the Eiffel tower and ten times that of the Ferris wheel. The extreme height of the globe will be 700 feet above the ground and will be surmounted with a steel flagstaff seventy feet higher. The base will cover an area 1,200 feet in circumfer ence. The base will'act as a giant pedestal, which will rise to a height of about 250 feet, directly upon which will be built the globe, which will measure 350 feet in diameter, or about 1.000 feet in circumference. About the globe will he located the observa tory towers, which will be about 100 feet high, making the entire structure a total of about 700 feet. The pedestal will be formed of eight gigantic legs, slightly inclined upward, holding the first large floor space, called the aerial suspended roof gar dens, at a distance of 110 feet above the ground. \ This roof garden, octagonal in shape, will be divided into four spaces—two for restaurants and two for theaters. One restaurant in the globe will be located in the aerial coliseum, 314 feet above the ground, with a seating capacity of 10.000 and a promenade around the top of the seats 1.000 feet in circumference. Windows will be equipped with telescopes, where vis itors will be enabled to look down and around the city. In the coliseum proper will be con structed a large floor space about 600 feet in circumference and aixnit fifty feet in width, with a race track around the extreme end and three circ us rings in the middle, one on each side of the elevator shaft large enough to ac commodate the largest circus perform ances ever given. Under the coii seum seats, with many open door* leading to them, there will be a space 800 feet in circumference and fifty feet wide, which will be used for ex hibition of caged animais. THE FRIEDE AERIAL GLOBE, A FREAK RESORT PLANNED FOR CHICAGO. SUCCUMB TO CUPID’S WILES. Female Clerks Not to Be Relied On, Says* Employer. It can hardly be credited that Cupid should have any serious connection with the dry goods business, yet a lo cal firm experiences the greatest dif ficulty in keeping competent assistants on account of the interference of the little blind god. One of the managers of the dry goods company said yesterday: "The marrying habit seems to have gained a permanent hold on this store. \ve are constantly obliged to engage new salesladies to fill the places of those vho leave us to be married and con duct homes of their own. This con stant change cannot help affecting our business to some extent, as customers become attached to certain salesladies and are tempted to change trading places when a new etie is called to wait on them. "More than a score of young ladies have been married from one depart ment in the last eighteen months, and in one of our advertisements for help we felt obliged to make a stipulation that applicants must promise to re main unmarried at least one year. This exaction has not served to pro bib. t the evil, and our girls continue to marry."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Hobbies of Holland's Queen. The queen of Holland is an enthusi astic farmer. A dairy has been estab lished in connection with the royal castle at Loo and it is run on quite businesslike lines by its owner, large quantities of butter and miik being sold regularly from the dairy, which is now self-supporting and profitable. Another hobby of the young queen is photography, and, like Queen Alex andra and other distinguished ama teurs. she is quite an expert with the camera. Iron Plant for Mexico. Frontera. Mex., is to have a mil lion-dollar plant for building steel, iron and wooden vessels for river and ocean navigation. A complete outfit of machinery and tools has been or dered from the United States. CHARM OF MODULATED VOICE. An Accomplishment That Is Not Hard to Acquire. One man has said: ‘Shut me up in a dark room with a m’xed multitude and I can pick out the gentlefolks by their voices.” No matter what your voice is, you can improve it by learn ing to modulate it. High-pitched, stri dent voices are sharply criticised, and it is quite within our power to change them. In the comppas of every voice there are three registers—the middle or throat, the lower or chest, and the upper or head. The use of the middle pitch for talking is very desirable, but the voice should be trained to slide up and down, varying with the emotions —low when the mood inclines toward seriousness, and higher when it be comes tingled with excitement. An interesting speaker constantly changes his pitch—not abruptly, out with ease and skill—and the greater range one has the more certain he is to get and retain the pleased attention of listen ers. CROSSED SEA IN TINY BOAT. THE COLUMBIA II., HER OWNER AND CHART OF HER VOYAGE. It is generally supposed that one who ventures into ocean solitudes in a boat little more tfcan three times longer than himself, and who, afte • months of empty days and silent nights, finally makes his way acros the Atlantic, would have much to say about the loneliness of such a journey—of the tedium and of the un easy sleep when ones eyes grov heavy and the unguided cockleshell is ‘left to founder in some sudden squall or be cut in two by some speeding liner. But Ludwig Eisenbaum says no. He has just teturned from such a trip across the Atlantic—one that was ex tended to seventy-six days, and throughout th£tt time, he says, he was never lonesome for a minute. “As for storms,” he said, “they are frequently welcome, for then I could take in sail, get my anchor out, crawl into the little covered space w’hich I “I figured it out this way. My boat took up only nineteen feet of room, called my cabin, close the hatch be hind me and sleep contented.” "But did you feel no uneasiness go ing to sleep not knowing when you might be drowned like a rat in a hole by a sudden capsize or cut in two by some other vessel?” “No,” said the adventurous mariner soberly. "I never thought of that. My boat capsized with me once—in a southeast gale—about ten o’clock in the morning. I had got a sea anchor over—a bit of wood shaped into a triangle and covered with canvas, one end loaded with lead so it would stand upright in the water and act as a drag, keeping the boat’s head to the »» SG&. "But about going to sleep, and the danger of being run down when no one is keeping watch?” "Well,” said Eisenbaum, soberly, and the course I was traveling was something like three thousKnd miles. I calculated that if a ship did come my way she would have to hit me plumb, or I wouldn't care.” "Then you had no collisions?" "Yes, one with a whale. That was early in the morning of October 1, near Maderia. I had lashed the tiller and was sound asleep when I was awakened by the boat hitting some thing and then seemingly trying to stand on end. I crawfished out of my cubby hole, and was almost swept overboard by a sheet of water. That whale had been asleep, same as I was, and the boat had almost slid over him before he woke up. For a minute or two he slopped that tail of his around in a way that almost swamped the boat.” Eisenbaum is forty-five years old, Gorman born, but a naturalized American. He says he undertook the voyage for the glory and what would come of it. HI8 VOICE NOT GOLDEN. Why Parepa Rosa Was Greater At traction Than Mark Twa’n. When Parepa Rosa was still charm ing gold and banknotes out of the pockets of her audiences she appeared in concert in Hartford, and in the same week, as it happened, in which Mr. Clemens had delivered a lecture. To hear Mark Twain people had paid a dollar and a half for the best seat in the house; to hear the diva meant five dollars for a seat very far from the best. So the local humorist was moved to write to the committee in charge of the two entertainments. He pointed out the monetary par tiality which had been shown, assert ed that it was obviously unfair, and closed with this: “If Mme. Rosa makes her money so much faster than I do mine merely because she sings, let me tell you that I can sing my self, and am open to engagements at her terms.’* And Mr. Clemens himself enjoys telling ho^ promptly he received in answer: “A mere disturbance is not music." AND HE A BOSTON MAN! Theatrical Magnate Naively Ignorant of Colonial History. William Harris, the Boston theat rical manager, while eminent in Ills way, is not an authority on history, especially Colonial history, as will ap pear hereafter. It will be remembered that Clyde Fitch’s play “Major Andre,” which was produced in New York last fall, was anything but a glittering success. In point of fact it ran just two weeks. Some time after, Mr. Harris came to New York and called on Frank Mc Kee, who produced the play. In dis cussing the melancholy fate of the drama, Mr. Harris expressed the be lief that Mr. McKee should have known that it wouldn’t succeed. “Those spy plays never do go with the public,” he declared emphatically. “Well," demanded Mr. McKee, “why on earth didn’t you tell me it wouldn’t go? You’d have saved me a good deal of money.” “How on earth was I to know it was a spy play?” demanded the Bostonian indignantly.—New York Times. CENTER OF WOOL TRADE. Distinction Admitted to Belong to Bradford, England. While large numbers of English merchants are visiting the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition many American business men engaged in the manu facturing dry goods trade are making transatlantic voyages expressly to at tend the exhibition recently opened at Bradford. England. That market holds the record as the greatest wool center in the world. Although limited in scope, being main ly devoted to textile industries, so di versified are the interests connected therewith that thousands of whole sale dealers as well as retail dealers figure it as the chief attraction of a European trip this year. The display of wools comprehends raw materials and yarns from which such fabrics are produced. The dif ferent processes employed In manu facturing are shown in detail, from the time the wool leaves the sheep until It is made in the form of dress goods and then converted into model costumes.