Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. The new battleship Kentucky is said to be swift. The Blue Grass state al ways did produce racers. Quiet weddings are now said to be the proper caper. Designed to harmo nize with the divorces, probably. The Atlanta Journal says that Lon don “proper,** is but a small town. But then, so much of it is “improper.” A San Fr-nclsco man is now suing his wife for divorce because she will not talk. There’s no accounting for tastes. To the residents of Port Arthur the case of the Trenton (N. J.) man who never sleeps does not seem at all re markable. The difference between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving is that one has its night before, the other its morning after. In not liking the way American yachts are sailed, the Kaiser is assur ed of the hearty sympathy of Sir Thomas Lipton. In Boston the pianoforte is now used to assist in the cure of nervous dis eases. Eccentricity always was Bos ton’s forte anyhow. This is the time when the cam paign song-writer makes the inventor of names for new breakfast foods look like a wilted seedling. Those current attempts “to reform the Fourth of July” unfortunately ig nore the necessity of first reforming the average small boy. A Brooklyn judge recently declared it to be his candid opinion that Adam deceived Eve. Probably had to to get his share of the fruit. The late Mr. Herbert Spencer’s lady housekeeper desires to meet with a similar position. Highest references. Address the London Times. One of those up-to-date New York financiers has a safe with a tin back. Needless to say that his depositors never get their money “back.” A Chicago woman believes that men should pay their wives regular sala ries. Some of the wives may be de « pended on to get theirs anyhow. It was a man who declared man the proper study of mankind. Whether it is proper or not. man always has de voted most of his studying to himself. A Milwaukee man tried to fly the other day, but owing to the fact that his starting place was only five feet high he is still able to be up and around. A Tennessee court has decided that a woman cannot be compelled to tell her own age. When under oath, the average woman is apt to be under age, as well. The June bride didn’t realize how she will hate next December, when the thermometer is marking 10 degrees below zero, to get up and build the kitchen fire. We’ll bet some mean man meant to put woman's temper to a severe test when he started discussion of the question, “Why have women more tem per than men?” The Academy of Medicine at Paris has decided that excessive meat eating causes appendicitis. It does more. It causes emaciation of the pocketbook and bankruptcy. A Pennsylvania man who inherited $35,000 has received no less than 300 offers of marriage. Money must be uncommonly scarce or women uncom monly plenty up there. Itt ' The theme chosen for her com mencement essay by one of Chicago’s sweet girl graduates was the “Psycho logy of the Pig.” The subject has the true stock yards flavor. , ■ i ■ —— ■■■ ■■ — 4 According to "the Department of Ag riculture, peanuts contain “about four ounces of protein and 2,767 calorics of energy.” We know now why these cir cus men are all so “strong.” An imminent agricultural authority informs us that “hogs are said to cut their throats when they swim.” The trouble with the sort of hogs we have around here is that they can't be in duced to sw’im enough. Judge Brewer recently declared that in forty years’ experience on the bench he had never heard but one law yer tell a lie in court. This is the first time that we knew that the judge -was as deaf as all that. The brilliant Washington Post quotes a current magazine as putting this soul-searching question: “Is America Developing an Aristocracy?” If we are, it is certainly one of the worst cases of “arrested development” on record. * . Two Philadelphia society men fought twenty rounds with hard gloves and one finally knocked the other out. Philadelphia as a whole may be slow and sleepy, but there are parts of Philadelphia which are as alert and modern as the Bowery. A statue of Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of In dependence, was unveiled in Wash ington last week. Considering the length of time the good doctor has been dead, his admiring countrymen have certainly been in no.“rush” to honor his memory. A Pittsburg man who was annoyed by a persistent organ-grinder killed himself instead of the peripatetic musician, which is about as interest ing an example of misdirected enercy as has recently been seen. II • I----— THE MORALS OF AMERICANS. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall thinks that the moral standard of the Ameri can people is degenerating. Dr. Hall is president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York. In the course of an address May 18 before the Re ligious Educational Association in Chicago he spoke of the “relatively good state of the common morality of the American people,” but a deeper examination of the social side of our American life reveals, he thinks, a situation that causes anything but satisfaction. Our activity has aston ished the world, “but morally we are rapidly going astern—so rapidly that one is dumfounded at the contrast after a visit to some of the countries of Europe.” Religion, he finds, has very little part in our civilization to day; our home life might be better, and our people are generally apathetic about their spiritual interests. To much the same intent but more spe ■ cific are the conclusions of Dr. Coyle | of Denver, as disclosed by him May • It* at the opening of the Presbyterian | general assembly at Buffalo. He noted the drift of the people away ! from lofty ideals and from organized | Christianity. It meant something, he j thought, when conservative observers called our time “the age of graft.”— Harper’s Weekly. THE TOO-READY REVOLVER. - There would be fewer murders in the United States like the unprovoked assassination of Andrew H. Green were proper legislation enacted and enforced in every state of the union restricting the sale of pistols and knives under reasonable regulations. In Great Britain a movement is on foot to require proper safeguards in : the 6ale of firearms. There has been ■ too much laxity and injurious license j in such matters in this country. There ought to be a law In every commonwealth in this republic laying down barriers of genuine weight against the carrying of revolvers W'ooiit permits irom tne proper au thorities, and the granting of such permits ought to be hedged about with thorough precautions. More over, any and every offender against such a statute should be compelled to serve a term of imprisonment and not be allowed to escape punishment by the mere payment of a fine.—New j York Tribune. SPEED THE TIME. Music is a great blessing when it i9 music. It is a civilizer. It exalts the soul and—unless it is rag-time music | —inspires noble thoughts. When it is not music it has exactly the op- j posite effect. It makes savages of good citizens, suggests manslaughter i or assault and battery and makes men enemies c* their kind. Some day, when we have grown more civilized, cities will have noise proof buildings in every ward for the convenience of persons learning the violin, the piano or the cornet, and beginners and bad performers gener ally w ill be compelled to betake them selves to those asylums when they wish to practice. Then it may be made lawful to take a club to the ‘guy j next door” if he defies the law and i persists in playing at his open win j dow.—Minneapolis Times. : _ _ TERROR-DRIVEN “RED PETER." — His majesty-by-murder Peter of ! Servia has, according to a strong ar | tide in the London Saturday Review, already begun to reap the fruits of the crime that crowned him; the na tion already faces its Nemesis for having submitted to the disgrace. A “timorous tyrant, himself the ab ject slave of murderers and cowards,” Peter starts at a shadow. One might believe that the ghosts of Draga and of Alexander haunt him. He has sup pressed freedom; “the sole demon strations of joy are manufactured to order by the police.” Spies are every where, with the inevitable results of false accusations, trumped-up charges, private vengeance under cover of pub lic forms. Brigandage has been re sumed. The King cannot obtain cred it. The soldiers remain unpaid, public works are abandoned. “No foreign financier will trust the stony state with a single para.” In his extremity of fear, the Review thinks, Peter has even applied to the rival of his nation—has sued for pro tection to the astute Prince Ferdi-. nand of Bulgaria. It would be a strange sequel to the drama of greed and murder in the Belgrade palace if Servia were to be “gobbled up” by a stronger and saner power, and if “Red Peter” of the blood-stained robes were to lose the throne for which he sold his soul.—New York World. SPAIN SINCE THE WAR. Spain is financially better off than when she was loaded down with colo nies, which she had for generations administered feebly and corruptly, and which she had become incapable of administering at all. Not only that, but they bad forced her to keep a useless navy, and to waste in them capital and energy which were needed at home. If Spain will now establish genuine free government under what ever form, cut off the horde of privil eged officeholders who sap her life blood, reduce her army, provide uni versal free schools, reduce her In numerable holidays to a reasonable basis and turn her attention to the development of her own rich and neglected domain and untouched re sources rbe may enter upon a new and lasting era of greatness.—Cincin nati Enquirer. Man never fastened one end of a chain around the neck of his brother that God did not fasten the other end round the heck of the oppressor.— Lamartine. ~TrTmf-"if ••TniiiimHHTiMinniiiiir-itfiiiirii]iii «r i m SCENE IN WHEAT BELT. One square mile of wheat. Ever see it? Transcontinental trains used to stop in the Smoky Hill valley of Kansas to allow passengers a view of such a wonder. It realized all the travelers’ dreams of agricultural splendor. Hundreds such visions now mark the great grain area of the plains, but their beauty is none the less. Six hundred and forty acres of wealth; $6,000 profit—perhaps more! It shimmered beneath the perfect opalescent blue of the sky, the tall straws bending with their weight of grain. Standing on the seat of the reaper one might see in the distance a glimmer of green pastures and catch glimpses of rustling fields of corn, but here was the heart of sum mer.—Scribner’s. USE OF VAST FORTUNES. Vast accumulations of money al ways were, and always will be, in teresting, but it is obviously difficult for the accumulating individual to make more than a moderate fortune minister to his personal happiness. A very big fortune determines what hjs occupations shall be. and on what he shall put his mind, but it has not much to do with determining how much satisfaction he shall get out of life. The great office of accumulated wealth is to promote civilization to realize new' possibilities of develop ment. When wealth can buy new knowledge for mankind; when it can help a lower race to rise a little, a higher race to rise still more, it is doing about the only thing it can hope to do which is highly important. The more thoughtful of our very rich men seem to realize this. They give money most readily for the spread of knowledge and the discovery of new knowledge. For the relief of suffer ing they are less solicitous. As is natural, considering their training, they want to do things that will pay; that seem to be scientifically useful. The proportion of their incomes that our richest men spend for their own pleasure is a mere bagatelle. What they don't spend at all immediately becomes productive capital, and a large part of what they give away promotes the spread of knowledge.— Harper's Weekly. REAL HEROES ARE MODEST. Our brave men and women do not come from the dime novel readers who love to imagine themselves the subjects of newspaper illustrations and the recipients of popular adula tion. True bravery not only seeks no reward, but it shuns publicity, con tent with the approval resulting from the performance of duty. So if the Carnegie fund is to go to real heroes, its recipients must be sought out, for no deserving candidates will pre sent themselves for reward. Modesty is not a quality that merely enhances heroism; it is essential to heroism itself, since entire obliteration of sel fishness is the incentive to bravery. —Providence Journal. STRATEGY. What has war taught about strat egy? Nothing. The principles of strategy are few. simple, and appar ently immutable. They are the same now as they were in Caesar's time, and have never been better epito mized than by Gen. Forest, who said that the art of war consisted in “get tin’ thar fustest with the mostest men.” The Japanese have managed to do this so far. It Is supposed the total number of Japanese soldiers in the field about equals the total num ber of Russian soldiers. But the Japs had considerably more troops in bat tle at the mouth of the Yalu, Nanshan hill and Vafangow than the Russians. The Japanese generals, up to the present time, have showed themselves to be the superior strategists.—Chi cago Tribune. WORK FOR CONVICTS. "I may never be governor again,” said David R. Francis in an address to the recent good roads convention in St. Louis, “but if I were to be I would surely put the convicts on the high ways.” It might cost the taxpayers a little more to work the state’s pris oners on the roads than it does to keep them locked up, but the ultimate results would probably be more profit able to the state than would be the results from any other use they could be put to. The outdoor work would be good for the convicts’ health and would, therefore, according to the best authorities, exert a stronger influence upon them than indoor work does, and the products of their labor would not then come into competition with the products of free labor.—Kansas City Journal. WHERE OUR WOMEN FAIL. The native-born American woman has been made the subject of discus sion almost ad nauseam; indeed, it would be a matter for no surprise if she were to regard herself as being apart. Her energy, her brightness, and resourcefulness have been lauded to such an extent that the women of other countries cannot be considered in the same category with her. This, loo, is true as far as it goes, and in many qualities the American woman stands supreme. Unfortunately, how ever, she failB in the most Important one of all—that of maternity, fend fails in consequence of her cultiva tion to excess of those attributes which are generally thought not to be within a woman’s province. Her physical powers BUlTer in proportion as her mental powers increase, and as a propagator of the race she can not compete with women of stronger bodies but of less highly trained brains—New York Medical Record, Let us so live when we are up that we Shall forget we have ever been down-—Stockto" Ill BEFORE m IS I PUBLIC EYE | Hfl — — Ikft MEXICO AGAIN HONORS DIAZ. Veteran Statesman Re-elected Presi dent Without Opposition. Porfirio Diaz was, on July 1, for mally elected President of the re public of Mexico. The formal elec tion of Ramon Corral as vice presi leut of the republic was also an lounced by the electors. The election took place two •weeks ago, and it remained simply to an nounce that the returns as to the two candidates w'ere unopposed. The day following the election the Presi dent announced in a proclamation ;hat inasmuch as there was no op position to himself or Mr. Corral they were elected by the people, subject tc the board of electors. The electors announced to the re public and to the world that for six years Porfirio Diaz would be Presi dent and Ramon Corral vice presi dent. The election was received with general satisfaction throughout the country. The election is taken to mean that Corral will, in the near future, be the real President, for President Diaz is aging rapidly and is feeling the strain of office, and he is going to retire in reality, though be will nominally be the President. In doing this he will be relieved of the arduous duties of office and will at the same time satisfy the people, who love and honor him. It is believed that Gov. Miguel A. Ahumada of the state of Jalisco will be selected as Mr. Corral's successor as minister of the interior. RICHER THAN HETTY GREEN. Mary G. Pinkney. Spinster, of New York, Has Much Money. The richest spinster in New York city is Mary G. Pinkney. She is said to have more money than Hetty Green and certainly more than Helen Gould. The reason that her name has never been connected with matrimo nial gossip is that she is 87 years old. Miss Pinkney lives in New' York in the winter time, having fine apart ments in the Hotel Buckingham, and in the summer she goes to her farm up in the Bronx. This farm is worth about $2,000,000. She raises garden truck and flow'ers, and is said to be an excellent farmer. She does not go In much for charity, but she is not eccentric, nor parsimonious. Nearly all her relatives of the younger gener ation are socially prominent. Like Russell Sage, she finds her chief pleas ure in work. F. H. PLATT CRITICALLY ILL. Little Hope Is Held Cut for Son of New York Senator. Frank H. Platt, son of Senator Platt, is still very sick of typhoid (ever in his apartments in the Am* ' / Bonia, New York. It is feared that he cannot recover. He has been ill for eleven days and his condition is Buch that the two physicians in at tendance fear he cannot be brought through the crisis. Russell Sage's Successor. The successor of Russell Sage in the put and call market of Wall street is said to be Amos M. Lyon, until recent ly all but unknown in the financial world. Yet he is worth perhaps $25, 000,000. He is an old man now. He was born and bred on a farm and seemingly never learned how to dress In approved city style. Use for Two Watches. When Assistant Secretary Adee of the state department travels abroad, as he does every summer, he carries two watches on his person with Wash ington and European time. He says: “When I want to think United States I pull out the Washington watch and when I want to think European I look at the other.” To Help Italian Orphans. Capt. Salvatore Pizzati of New Or leans has given $75,000 for the erec tion of an asylum and industrial school for poor Italian orphans of that city. Tho project sgll be carried out by tbs Missionary Sisters of the Saared Heart, an Italian charitable associa tion. i ' --ns1 AS THE WORLD f REVOLVES I I MORE LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Thousands of Acres in South Dakota to Be Made Productive. Three hundred and eighty-two thou sand acres of the choicest of Unclt Sam’s unallotted lands are thrown open for settlement of American cit izens on the 28th of July. This vast acreage comprises a very large part of the Rosebud Indian reservation in southeastern South Dakota. The land has been apportioned in 160 acre tracts, practically 2,400 quarter sections in all. Each successful drawer will have one of these tracts turned over to him, to be his without condition at the expiration of five years, if he meets all of the national government's requiremeuts. To be more accurate in the matter of location, the Rosebud reservation lies in Gregory county, between the Missouri and Niobrara rivers. It ad t \ joins lands already highly cultivated for corn raising. The adjoining farm land is selling now at prices ranging from $15 to $35 an acre. In many in stances recently as high as $40 an acre has been offered for land touch ing the reservation lines. The government disposes of the public lands at a nominal cost, in easy payments—$1 per acre in cash, 75 cents per acre at the end of two years, 75 cents more per acre at the end of the third and fourth years, and within six months after the ex piration of the fifth year a total of $4 per acre. Any citizen of the United States, 21 years of age or over, male or female, and heads of families under 21 years ol age, are entitled to enter a home stead of 160 acres or less, while every soldier ,of the civil war or the Span ish-American war secures the special advantage of having his time of pub lic service deducted from the five years of residence required on th« reservation land. — IN CHARGE CF LIFE WORK. Rev. Bjork Re-elected President of Swedish Evangelical Mission Cov enant. Rev. Dr. C. A. Bjork, who has been re-elected president of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America, at its twentieth annual con vention at Paxton. 111., is a noted churchman and missionary worker. He organized the Covenant in 1885. with a few hundred members; now it has 20,000 members and 180 churches, X / '/■ W. C.A. £JQPfC ■' with missions in Alaska and China, besides xhe North Park College and the Covenant Hospital. Indian Court of Justice. A full-blooded Indian court of three justices sits every Saturday at White Eagle, I. T., to hear misdemeanor cases and punish offending members of the Ponca and Otoe tribes. The court is authorized by the Indian de partment. Little Soldier is chief jus tice and he is assisted by Justice Big Goose and Justice Rough Face. They never speak English while on the bench and they have a high idea of the dignity which belongs to their position. Each is paid $10 a month. It is their unvarying practice to pun ish offenders by the heaviest admis sable fines. Has Long Family Tree. Few Americans can boast of so long and distinguished an ancestry as Mrs. H. A. Mitchell Keays, author of “He That Eateth Bread With Me.” She recently received a letter from a dis tant relative interested in geneoiogy which contained Mrs. Keays’ family tree written out, showing its roots reaching back to Henry III. of Eng land. To Inspect American Institutions. Theodore Moeller, the famous Prus sian statesman, Is expected to visit this country In August. He is com ing on a government mission and he will give almost all his attention to inspecting financial and Industrial in stitutions. Herr Moeller is the pain* i ister of commerce under the kaiser. Must Wait for Publicity. Henry M. Stanley left behind him an immense amount of material con- ' cerning himself in the form of diaries < f the Superior Court of Massachu setts, who held that any agreement ‘elating to the employment exclave* ly of union help, regulation of hours of labor, apprentices, etc., is against public policy and illegal. The case probably will go to the Supreme Court. Four hundred employes in the car shops of the Pullman Company at Pullman have been laid off, and sev eral hundred more, it is expected, will be thrown out of work within a short time, as a result of a decrease in the volume of business. Officials of the company say they are unable to tell when the present slack condi tions will end, and it may be several months before the men can go back to work. Leaders of the strike of garment workers declare the tieup to be com plete and estimate the number of per sons out at 35,000 to 40,000. In a day or two .10,000 finishers, mostly Italian women, who take the work home, will be added to the number of those idle. It is the biggest clothing strike that New York has seen for at least «x years. No wage demand has been made, the strike being merely against the “open shop.” Fifty thousand clothing workers have joined the strike against the “open shop,” inaugurated by the Na tional Clothiers' Association, accord ing to the executive committee of tbe Garment Makers' Trades Council. It was said that the strike would spread and that thousands more would join the strikers in the next three days. Assistant Secretary Crouchley of the L nited Garment Workers of America said the union would win. Less than 10 p'er cent of the mem bership of the brotherhood of boiler makers and iron shipbuilders were in terested enough to vote on the refer endum election of international offi cers. “If cities have bad government because many of their reputable citi zens do not go to the polls on election days,” said one member of the boiler makers, “what kind of officers are la bor unions to have if 90 per cent cf me memuersnip aoes not vote. After a conference with the United Garment Workers. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, announced that he was sat isfied with the action of the New York garment workers in striking against the “open shop." and that the American Federation of Labor will aid the strikers in their fight. The garment workers struck against the “open shop” several days ago, and, according to the strike leaders, several thousand men are out. Everywhere throughout the country the cause of organization among the wage earners, for the purpose of bet tering their condition, is becoming stronger and stronger. Not a day passes without new bodies being formed, and, as the workers are being educated along the lines of what are the real aims and objects of union labor, the employers are also learning that it is with the organized workers they will receive and do receive the best returns.—Freight and Baggage man Labor unions are slowly making their way into Mexico. In the City of Durango, for example, there are three associations, one with more than TOO members. These are not composed strictly of artisans, though in theory they are intended so to be; and net one of them as yet lias attempted to influence the wage scale, though there seems no reason why they should not do so if the need therefor should occur. Their main object is mutual aid, and they fulfill their mis sion to some extent. Secretary Henry White of the United Garment Workers union, in the call issued before the New York and Chicago troubles last week, says this regarding the importance of the coming international convention: “As the time for holding the annual gen eral convention is approaching, it be comes my duty to issue this call for the thirteenth convention, to take place in the city of Buffalo, begin ning on August 22 of this year. As the national union is confronted with the gravest crisis in its history, owing to the organized effort being made on the part of the manufacturers to es tablish the open shop, and the long continued struggle in Rochester and Philadelphia, against the combined employers', and the serious difficulties that threaten elsewhere, it is the duty of each local union to send its full allowance of delegates. The welfare of every local is dependent upon the efficiency of the national body, hence it is to the interest of each local to be represented at the Convention and take part in the deliberations.” Railroad brotherhood magazines are commenting at length on the recent decision of the United States Supreme court which laid down the principle that a telegraph operator for a rail road company and a fireman on a rail road engine are "fellow servants,” and that the negligence of the former causing the death of the latter in the operation of trains was a risk the fireman assumed and was not a ground for damages against the railroad com pany. The Advance Advocate, the offi cial organ of the Maintenance of Way Employes, makes this editorial com ment on the decision: “W’e may next expect the Supreme Court to lay down the principle that a passenger may not recover damages on account of injury received in a railway accident, or that his legal heirs may not re cover damages on account of his death from such cause, because in purchasing his ticket he ‘assumed the risk’ of being killed or maimed. As this decision comes from the United States Supreme Court there is only one thing for railway employes of every grade to do, and that is to dtv mand that they be paid for their la bor in proportion to the risk and dan ger of their positions, so that they can buy and pay for life and accident insurance without depriving their fam ilies of any of the immediate necessi ties or the comforts of life, which they are entitled to enjoy as sharer in the prosperity which th«y have v 'jed tc eat*.