Loup City Northwestern __ __ i J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. IvOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. At last accounts John Bull still had * firm grip on the tail of the Tibetan wcif. The Japs, having taken up base ball, evidently imagine the Russians are umpires. What kind of heroes do the doc tors who tell us to avoid iced drinks ; think we are? One hundred new stars discovered fcy a Harvard astronomer? Did he fall down stairs? An ugly girl inherits a lot of good i looks when a rich relative dies and ‘ leaves heet. The Hague tribunal has taken ad vantage of the general midsummer lull in business to retire for a well ejfrhod rest. ‘ Whaling Revived,” says a newspa per headline; but the article refers to the whale-catching industry, not to parental discipline. A Jilted lover in Montreal has sued for damages for time lost in courting. But why in the world isn't that man a resident of Kansas? Just in order to make sure of the integrity on the part of China, Great Britain w ill make its occupation of' Weihaiwei perpetual. It is now announced that the Igor rotes won’t have to change their clothes. How could they, when they haven’t any to change? The Cong Island youth who applied for divorce after one day of married life should complete the baby act byj accepting a good spanking. Would an ancient treaty with the | unspeakable Turk keep any Euro- J pean power out of the Black Sea in case it sorely needed to go there? This report that Harry Lehr has; brain fag is certainly surpr' dng. It j was supposed that Harry's perform arvces only made other people tired. Perdlcaris has gone to i'aris, where he is praising Bandit Kaisull as the | greatest man in Morocco. Raisuli is! the man who made Perdicaris famous ! u feature of a recent wedding is said to have been a fee of,$100,000 riowever, the man who can’t raise more than a $5 note is still In the . game. f --- They say meal’s very bad for the system in hot weather, anyway. Let’s all eat something cooling and easily digestible, like cucumbers, for instance. The statement in* the lies Moines Capita! that Harry Lehr is appearing before Newport aristocracy in a tux edo coat and red necktie is manifest ly incomplete. Our aaleftxoed contemporary, the JJJi Phimpo, expresses the hope that Turkey will lend Russia no assist ance. Therp Is no Hanger. Turkey always borrows. ■- -■ *'v-— One of the most curious things In tfed*, world Is the fact that every body who never had It knows of some place where hay fever positively has to go right out of business. Prophet Barton of the Millennium Lcagae Bays'the greatest evil In the world Is the concentration of money. We still feel, nowever, that our in ability to concentrate It ia even worse. are glad to note that Mr. Wil liam Waldorf Astor’s daughter’s steady company has some money of his own. She will be able at least to keep a girl and he won’t have tc mow the lawn. While President Kruger may not have been specially loved for the en emies he had made, it is worth while to note that at his taking off all the London papers spoke generously of his remarkable career. The latest fad among the fashion ables at Newport is to cut from the newspapers all that is printed about one's self and then to paste the clip pings into scrapbooks. Of course, it is clearly understood that the fash ionables themselves do not do the work. Mr. Claus Spreckles Is going tc send an Ohio man over to Hawaii to look for an insect that will eat the bugs that eat the sugar cane. It is understood, however, that no effort will be made to kill the trust bug. Mr. David Miley of New fork, 103 years old and good for twenty more, attributes his longevity to his simple habits of life. He eats nr/hing but stal> bread and weak soup, puts sug ar in his beer, never visits the bar oer .and never uses soap. Under these circumstances we shoutJ think he would pray for an early death. Just why even an Indiana scientist Should care to manufacture more in sects will remain a mystery to those of ns who know how vain all mos quito dope is where the fish bite best 9S1 fy JM WEEKLY PANORAMA SCULPTOR OF THE CIVIL WAR. John Rogers’ Works at One Time Had Great Popularity. The death of John Rogers, sculptor, calls to mind a striking personage who came into sudden notice during the civil war through the modeling of groups illustrative of army and typi c.-al American life. Small plaster re plicas of these were seen in thotf rads of homes the length of the lan position being next in importance to that of supreme ranger, to which Mr. Sherrard was elected. EFFECT OF DISMAL WEATHER. Lowers the Moral Tone of Many Human Beings. Thomas A. McQualde, superintend ent of detectives in PittBburg, has long held the idea that depressing weather has a decided effect on the moral tone of human beings. Many, he says, are unable to work during the periods of low barometer and es pecially on sticky, rainy days. On such occasions he has remarked men walking the streets who are on the verge of Insanity. Time and again he has made It his business to watch people who are on the streets on such days and discovered for the time being they are entirely irresponsible. In many people, he says, the animal passions are aroused to such a degree that they are unable to continue their work. They wander about the streets In a dazed condition, often requiring constant watching, so that they will do no harm to themselves or to oth ers. Appendix Vermiform!*. It has remained for a Memphis, Tenn., surgeon, Dr. Alfred Moore to unmask the dreaded appendix verml formis that has so long wrought havoc with the human race. This strange survival has long baffled science as to Its origin and its function, but the Ten nessee doctor after much thought works out the problem, Illustrated with extraordinary Illustrations, in the New York Medical Record. Minus the pic tures, the surgeon’s conclusion is that the appendix was "the distal end of a tube that led from the vitellus to the lower part of the embryo.” That s all —Just the "distal end of a tube.” Mankind may now breathe easier. It is not so terrible after all. Women Would Be Stock Brokers. A number of New York women have set themselves the task of se curing admission to the floor of the stock exchange. It is not so much their purpose to try their hands at the bulls and bears in an endeavor to increase their already large bank rolls as to elevate the tone of the exchange and by their presence lend to it a refining influence. This idea is the result of the recent announce ment that a woman ha3 applied for membership on the Dublin stock ex change. Ethics of Summer Boarders. Preachers In Stroudsburg, Pa., arc taking the summer boarder question by tbo horns, so to speak. One ot tnem preached 8unday evening on "Are Summer Boarders and Visitors a Help or a Hindrance to This Coun ty?” Ho took occasion to say that these guests were welcome, of course, but they were expected to behave themselves while taking their outings. Evidently Stroudsburg has had an ele ment of vacationists that has painted the town gayly. I >1 WHEN SHALL WE LEARN? Experience is a teacher, we are pro verbially informed, whose school is dear and supported by those who lack intelligence to learn in any other. Some months ago we were stirred ! deeply by the slaughter by fire of hun dreds of women and children in Chi cago. Cause—corruption and indiffer ence in the management and over sight of theaters. For the last few weeks w-e have been talking about the slaughter by fire of hundreds of women and ohildren in New York. Cause—corruption and indifference in the management and oversight of steamboats. The theaters were some what improved, temporarily at least. The steamboats may also be tempor arily improved. We do not know. It : is doubtful, to say the least. For ! back of it all lies a vast indifference. We Americans take the chances. We accept grade crossings, reckless auto mobiles, firetrap hotels, buildings which fall dow'n, steamers and thea j ters and railway trains exposed to i fire. New York Central tunnels, any i thing, everything, in the way of need | less danger, just as we accept polit | ical corruption in general, because we simply do not care. We would rather not make an effort or a fuss, or lose our time. We tried to get through congress a law making ship owners pecuniarily liable for lives de stroyed. The ship owners interfered, congress was obedient, and the peo ple lay down and forgot. We tried j to get through congress a law for | more stringent inspection of steam boats, and it was killed with the plea of economy. l>et us eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we may burn ; up ourselves.—Collier's Weekly. I CONTENT AND HASTE IN WORK. President Charles \V. Eliot says in the July World’s Work that the prin ;ipal sources of satisfaction and con tent in daily work are the active ex »rcise of one's powers; achievement, cr the getting well done something worth doing; harmonious co-operative j effort, putting mind into work or using judgment and skill, successfully en i countering risk, making adventures i and mastering novelty and variety. It is, unquestionably, easy to have all satisfaction in daily work de stroyed by the imposition of condi tions which make satisfaction impos sible. If labor is pressed beyond tne limits of strength and health, content I tu it is impossible. Any overwork de j strays the physical basis of satisfac- j tion in toil. If the hours of labor are | exaggerated, so that, reasonable time I for meals, family life; recreation and ■sleep is not to be had ,the due satis faction in toil will not be realized. The conditions of modern urban life tend to develop in the American population an unreasonable haste and stress in both work and play. This haste and ; stress are quite as highly developed i ■in the higher employments as in the I lower; and, relatively to numbers, j overwork now prevails in the higher employments more than in the lower, probably because there is more and keener pleasure in them, and they j are, therefore, more liable to be pur sued with an inordinate zeal. A POPE'S DEMOCRACY. — The Papacy loves precedents, and ; Pius X. has been vastly gratified by a statement put into his hands by one of his librarians that Pope Sixtus V.. of old time, had a sister who. very finely dressed, was brought to her ' brother by the cardinals. Thereupon the pontiff affected not to know her. She was therefore hurried out of his presence. "The cardinals," says the record, “led her out of the palace and had her dressed in her usual clothes— those of a washwoman.” Then she returned and the pope, “advanced from his throne, embraced her and called her his dear sister." Pius X. has now a quotation ready for those who criticise the present dress of his sisters.—London Chronicle. BLUNDER OF THE RICH MAN. It is a bail blunder for the rich men to try to shirk their civic duties. It creates prejudice against them. They may not care for that, but it is a mat ter of serious care to them whether or not the law is upheld. Without law their vast property interests would be worth nothing. The more the people respect the law the better it will be for the property owners, and if for no higher and nobler reason it is clearly in the material interest of the rich that law an dorder shall pre vail and It is therefore in their inter est to discharge their civic duties with faithfulness and with willingness and to respond cheerfully to the de mands of the state authorities.—Rich mond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. DANGER IN TOO MUCH HURRY. It is charged that while only trained, high grade men can operate trains that are not fully equipped with all the latest improvements, the installa tion of these improvements is often used as an excuse for employing in ferior men. thus off-setting any meas ure of safety that might have been added by the improved equipment. The public, after all. is to blame. Every man, of course, regrets the loss of life in railway accidents and is . ready to censure the managers for running trains at too high a rate of speed, but when he starts on a trip lie wants the speed limit removed. The nation is in a hurry and the rail roati company that proposed to lessen the speed of trains for the express purpose of reducing the chances of accidents would promptly be ridiculed as an old fogy outfit and its business would go to Its rival.—Washington Post. Every man ought carefully to fol low out his peculiar character, pro vided it is only peculiar, and cot vi cious.—Cicero. I ENGLISH IN JAPAN. Until forty years ago an English book was practically unknown in i Japan, the only foreign literature studied was the Chinese, and the first language to be taught in the schools j was the Dutch. Now, while English is the most com mon among the people, and is studied by all high school pupils, German and j French are favored generally by scholars and physicians. There is a foreign language school in Tokyo, ; where almost all languages are taught, j and, curiously enough, Russian is the ; favorite. The study of English literature in Japan is represented by Prof. Yuzo Tsu Chouchi, who has translated into Japanese some of Shakespeare’s plays —“Othello,” “Macbeth,” and “The ! Merchant of Venice.” The most widely known English writer in Japan is Carlyle. All stu dents of English literature in Japan read his works. Next to Carlyle comes ! Macaulay, and the new Hanyaku, or translation style, was practically cre ated by borrowing his language by the Minyushamen .a literary hand in Tokyo. Emerson is greatly admired, and his w ritings have influenced many notable Japanese journalists to-day. Mill and Herbert Spencer have also I influenced the thought of modern Japan. Tennyson. Longfellow. Wordsworth, Byron and Milton are the most popu lar poets, and in fiction Irving, Thack eray, and Dickens are the best know-n. Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” has been recently translated into Japan ese.—Chicago Journal. DISREGARD OF HUMAN LIFE. The widespread condition of danger to human life in the appliances of our eager and hurrying civilization can only be due to k certain carelessness, a lack of earnest attention to the safety of the Community. Partly, no doubt, it is due to too much eagerness to save expense and make the greater profit, even at the risk of occasional unnecessary losses. Corporations, capitalists, contractors and builders need to be held to stricter require ments and lawmakers and officials need to be held to a higher responsi bility; but it all depends in the last analysis upon the state of the public mind and the spirit of the people. There is where a higher regard for life and care for the general security needs to be cultivated.—New York Journal of Commerce. JAPANESE HUMANITY. Without a single white man to ad vise or control, with few war cor- j respondents to comment or criticise, the Japanese are keeping up in this campaign as high a standard of hu manity and kindness to their foes as any civilized power in the world. Prisoners who have escaped “speak in enthusiastic terms of the manner in which the Japanese treat the Rus sian wounded. The Japanese army doctors, it seems, are splendid, and they personally saw to the comfort of all the Russian wounded.” Civi lized man is an incarnate paradox. Having called to his assistance all the highest talents in one depart merit of science to provide the most awful and barbarous instruments for destroying his fellow-man, he sum mens with the same breath the mas ters of another science to undo as far as possible the inevitable conse quences of the use of shot and shell, torpedoes and submarines and all the other deadly machines of modern warfare. looked at from one aspect, war is the negation of all humanity; regarded from another, it evokes hu manity's loftiest products.—London Telegraph. WORK THAT SHORTENS LIFE. Metal polishers are said to become disabled In about seven years. For that reason they command high wages. Most of them die of con sumption. The stonecutter's life is a little longer, but death comes to him in the same way. Workers in trenches » and sewers, street-cleaners, canal-dig gers, workers in caissons, tunnels, in compressed air, bridge builders and railroad laborers are short lived. The tunnel under the North river cost more than a score of lives by acci dents besides permanently impairing the health and shortening the lives of unknown scores. Building of the New York and Brooklyn bridges was very fatal to human life. An engineer told me that they kept the facts out of the newspapers as much as possi ble. All great works of engineering are prosecuted at. an expense of hu man life and health—Health Culture. STILL EAT MUCH MEAT. Despite the vogue of the health fooil, the number of beasts slain for food has never been so great as now. The butcher shops have been thronged, notwithstanding ail done by the pack ing combine toward checking the de mand. Vegetarianism has thus lan guished. The old and often used ex amples that the Greeks who fought at Thermopylae and the athlete who won the Marathon race ate only lentils have lost their potency through too great familiarity.—New York Globe. AMERICA’S RIVALRY OF EUROPE America is becoming a keener rival of Europe every year. When thf Panama canal is opened the field ol battle will be in South America anc Eastern Asia. There the interests o) Germany and Great Britain are seri ously threatened in an equal degree and both countries will therefore b« dependent upon one another in futur* possibilities.—Berlin National Zeitung Love your neighbor, but don’t teai down the fe. * Rings Returned, but Fern \* .t *’Some girls are ad'1 ' • . habit of returning tfc< r 1 the result would be consider*- : w ■ derful if it were not that others are reporting similar results da. . Ku-fc.se qua is fast arriving at a v r r. ; *t a* “Dodd's Kidney Pills are the one i .re care for Rheumatism.” Anomalous as it may -on; sweet to suffer when the .-'if for those we love. $100 Reward, S100. The reader* of this paper win t»e p ■ 4 • • that there ts at lean one dread- d disease :! »" » has been able to cure in ail Is* et»*ea. «: i t Catarrh. 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When a man begins to take whisky is a medicine he soon become- , ihronic invalid. A girl would rather feo hungry than niss an opportunity to have her for une told. A pound of candy will go further vith a woman than a ton of arcn nent. Money has kept many a man out of he penitentiary—and out of heaven dso. Every heart agony makes a fle-ee >attle in life and each sufferer a hem -,S?-‘,KiCV“"1Vl Krowr'«» frequent >8 the brain and heart expand. * ^ J -*• A