* .. Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Evidently if Japan wants peace It •Will have to fight for it. By common consent the new battle ship New Jersey will be assigned to the Mosquito fleet. “An Iowa bank cashier loses $£»• 000 and flees.” Can this be consid ered a double loss? Another matrimonial agency Is in the toils. What is the use of an agen cy of that sort during leap year? The lambs are bleating in Wall street again, and the sound is a joy ful one to the shearers.—Baltimore Sun. Alexieff has arrived at St. Peters burg without a scratch. But it must be remembered that he started to run early. ■ _' Now that flour is up and still rising, the beef trust is perhaps justified in making a few sarcastic observations to the vegetarian. The czar says he has no fear of the outcome. Wait till he w'akes up some night to find that the czare vitch has the croup. The cook problem may be met in various ways. For instance, there is Mr. McDougall of Brooklyn, who never eats cooked food. France ought to make an end of this brutal duel fighting. There is al ways danger that the implacable con testants may die of fright. A New York Dogberry has ruled that no man can be “disorderly” In a saloon. Perhaps not, but what a spec tacular imitation he can put up! A Brooklyn man who had lost his memory had it suddenly restored by the sight of his wife. This has hap pened before, on various occasions. Israel Zangwill thinks the wcwld pices for a great dramatist. Mean while “McFadden's Flats” will resume an unbroken career of phenomenal prosperity. The public concerrf over how much money Miss Nesbit will get from the Thaws is unwarranted. Being a cory phee, she will get everything that is coming to her. Earl Grey, now governor general of Canada, predicts a population of 50, 000,000 for the dominion in 1950. That’s the way we grow over here, and why not Canada? The expenditure of $25,000 upon the summer home of Thomas Nel son Page at York Harbor does not indicate that he is in the class of poor and struggling authors. A University of' Wisconsin freshman shot a sophomore who attempted to haze him because he derided the foot ball team. Even this, however, does not decide the merits of the team. The king of Spain has consented to act as arbitrator between Honduras and Nicaragua. Who can deny that Progress is progressing when children may settle disputes between great na tions. Gen. Andre’s friend, Capt. De Gail, fought a duel with Deputy Syveton with pistols at twenty-five paces. Neither man was hurt, and they are nominated for delegates to the peace congress. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says the police have stopped a revolution down there by’ catching the revolu tionist and putting him in jail. There must be an Anglo-Saxon on the Rio Janeiro police force. A California man has a cow which he prizes so highly that he hires a Pullman car in which to take her from one fair to another. She may, indeed, be a noble beast, but since she can’t “tip” the porter it isn’t like ly that they have a very high opinion of her. Mr. Carnegie says universal peace will come in the year 3000 A. D. Ap parently Andrew is convinced that it will be slow, hard work getting peo ple to understand that it is foolish to go to war when it is just as easy and much cheaper to get killed at grade crossings. Young Mr. Rockefeller continues to | talk to his Bible class about money, ! and his latest dictum is that wealth j cannot take one to heaven and is a i relatively unimportant matter to the truly happy life. And the wistful Bi ble class listens respectfully, as com mon people always do when money talks. _ It is disclosed that a Boston man I who recently failed owed $1,670 to a dressmaker. The Boston Globe feels that he will have the sympathy of most women for the goodness he showed to his wife. But the dress maker—what shall she base her sym pathy upon? With a German physician suing an American for $2,000 for one consulta- j tion and a French physician suing an other American for $100,000 for failing to cure his wife, our citizens will do well to come home to get sick. A California professor of philosophy announces that there are too many women in the colleges. They inter fere with the attainment of high scholarly ideals, he says. He must be an elderly person who has no daughters. r ■ i ■ ■ ' If it Is true that young Cornelius Y'anderbilt aspires to a diplomatic ca reer he may find he has much to learn. The language of some members, of the Vanderbilt family h»fl not al ways been exactly what would be •^1^* ^ - -- ■ Electricity Kills Insects. The Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift (Berlin) announces that it has receiv ed from M. Lokuzejewski the descrip tion of an apparatua for the destruc tion of insects, of their larvae, and of caterpillars, the apparatus having re cently been presented to the Odessa Technical society. Under a wagon drawn by horses or run by an alcohol motor there is placed a small dynamo. This dynamo is moved by a system of gearing placed on the axle of the ve hicle, the dynamo being connected with an induction coil in front of which is placed a Wehnelt interrup ter. The negative pole of the induc tion coil is connected with the iron framework of the vehicle, that is con nected with a series of metallic brooms placed behind and under the wagon. These brooms may be moved in a vertical direction, and as they give forth a large shower of sparks, any insect within the range of the broom is destroyed. The wagon should follow immediately behind the plow, as the latter, by opening the earth, brings to light insects and larvae. Feeder for Stock. One of the disagreeable tasks in re lation to the care of horses, cows or other cattle is the necessity of arising early and supplying them with feed. This is especially true with milk deal ers, bakers and many others who are compelled to get up an hour or two before serving their route in order to feed their horses. This is also the case on Sundays with all drivers of teams. Automatic time stock feeders are not new to the trades, by any means, but few are as simple as the one shown in the illustration. This is so constructed that the feed may be Allows the Feed to Fall. automatically released at a predeter mined moment by attachment to an alarm clock and fed into a trough or manger. A chute, through which the food is to be passed, is shown in the illustra tion, with a hinged door at right an gles to the inner wall thereof, the door being connected with an arm which projects through the wall of the chute. This arm is fastened to a spring held to a pin in the outer wall of the chute. A bracket supports a clock upon the other side of the chute, the clock hav ing an alarm attachment. The key which winds the alarm apparatus is connected to a spring-pressed bolt which is mounted in the wall of the chute and designed to support the hinged door when the same is weight ed down with food. As the clock runs down the cord withdraws the bolt, and when the proper time is reached the door is released and the food falls down to the manger. After the door is relieved of its weight the spring will cause it to resume its normal po sition. This would also be very useful in large establishments. The patentees are John R. Ray and William E. Sankey, of Salem, Mo. Would Exterminate Rats. Unremitting warfare against rats is advocated by Sir James Crichton Browne, who says that people now adays are living under sanitary condi tions which will seem as shocking and wiong to their descendants 200 years hence as conditions that obtained two centuries ago appear now. In advo cating a crusade against rats, as the great carriers of disease, Sir James suggests a new form of relaxation. “We have with us,” he says, "lots of gilded youths whose time hang:, heavy on their hands, and who might vary their amusements by rat-catching, which must be quite as exciting ahd elevating as pigeon shooting. If the sporting papers would give a descrip tion of the battues and reports of the bags, with odds on the favorite rat catchers and portraits of the record breakers, those pernicious little ro dents would soon become scarce—un less, indeed, enthusiasts should take to breeding and laying them down as we do pheasants. Great things may be expected when sport, fashion and sanitation join hands in rat-catching.” Seismographs on Railways. An indication of the swift progress of the Japanese mind in practical sci ence is afforded by Doctor Omori’s re cent report on the measurement of the vibrations of railway carriages by means of seismographs. The primary purpose of the seismograph is to measure the oscillations of earth quakes. Japanese engineers use it for determining the proper balance of locomotives and the state of the per manent way on railways. Many prac tical advantages In the saving of fuel and the detection of faults in con struction have thus resulted. The Harm of Flashlights. The New York Medical Record calls attention to the injurious effects of flashlight advertising signs whicn show a brilliant light every few sec onds. “The effect of this alteration of light and darkness is most trying, not only to the eyes of the passers by, but also and especially to residents in the neighborhood whose windows look out on the signs. One may sleep in a bright light or in darkness, but no nerves can stand the strain of a mo mentary illumination of the sleeping .apartment recurring several times a minute.” Improved Decoy Ducks. A decoy duck that will flap its wings and rise from the water has beeii put on the market. The decoy Is mounted on a rod which fits into a tube where by the decoy may be anchored. The decoy is connected with a cord to the ahnro nr whorevpr th« hnnt**r In »nrt GROUND FLOOR OF BARN. Plan Provides for Much Accommoda* tion Within Small Space. F. M.—I have bought timber for a barn 30 by 52 feet with an L for a straw' shed, 20 by 30 feet. I would like to know how 2 could lay out the basement to accommodate 10 or 12 head of cattle, a root house, a pen for small pigs, two or three stalls, and a box stall for horses. The bents are as follows: 20 feet for large mow; 14 feet drive floor, and 18 feet mow and granary over horses. I do not intend to close in under the straw shed. I would like to arrange so as to have cow and horse stable door under the shed. The barn will run east and west, with shed on the east end. The accompanying plan provides for 8 single cow stalls; 3 single horse stalls; tw'o box stalls, one of which ■ Ground Floor Plan. A. shed. 20 by 30 feet; B, passage be hind cattle; C, cow stable; D. horse sta ble: EE, box stalls; F. feed room; G. root house; H, pig pen. may be used for cattle if desired; root house, pig pen and shed. The manure may be removed direct from both the horse and cow stable into the shed. Pump Not Working Well. J. L. McD.—A well 34 feet deep contains 12 feet of water. A pipe inches in diameter leads from the well to the stable, a distance of 110 feet, with a fall .of 3 feet. After the pump has been idle for a time one has to pump about eighty strokes be fore water comes. What is w’rong with the pump? In this instance it appears that either the cylinder is too small or too high in the wheel or that the valve is loose in the cylinder and leaking air. If the latter is the case, the pipe empties after each operation, and the whole has to be refilled with a loose valve, which accounts for the large number of strokes necessary. If the cylinder is too small, it would require a large number of strokes to bring the water up to that point in the well, and if it were too high up, especially with a loose valve, it would have the same result. I should recommend the examination of the valve as the most probable cause of the difficulty. —J. B. R. Transplanting Bearing Apple Trees. Sub.—What is the best time of year to transplant apple trees that have been bearing about four years? The best time to transplant apple trees is early in the spring, as soon as the soil is dry enough. I fear, how ever. that to transplant apple trees which have been bearing for four years w’ould not be a very successful undertaking and 1 would not advise doing so. It would be much better to leave the trees where they are, even if it were necessary to use the ground about them for something else, and to plant young trees on the spot intended for these bearing ones. If, however, it is determined to transplant the trees at any cost, the work should be ver^ carefully done and as many roots as possible kept on. The trees should be headed back severely, at least tw-; years’ growth being taken off all round the tree.—M. Transplanting Rhubarb. L. A. G.—What is the best time to transplant rhubarb which was grown from seed sown last spring? Rhubarb may be transplanted at any time after the leaves die down in the fall; but with young seedlings 1 should advise you to wait until spring to move them. There is danger of small roots being thrown above the ground by the action of frost, and if planted this fall they might have to be set again in the spring. Prepare your ground this fall by plowing under well retted manure; or, still better, plow out trenches four feet apart. Fill the trenches to within Six inches of the top with manure, throw in two inches ol' fine dirt and set the plants having them three feet apart in the rows. Mulch each fall with manure, /which should be forked around the plant? the following spring.—C. E. H. Power from Water Pressure. W. H. C.—How much power can I get from 50 feet of a fall of water running through a 2-inch pipe? The spring is about 22 rods from the house. The amount of power supplied in this instance is so trifling as not to be worth considering. The distance, 22 or 23 rods, together with a small size of pipe, reduces the original head of fifty feet so materially that the power available is only one-seventy flfth of a horse power. Troublesome Lilac Bush. L. W.—How can I get rid of a lilac bush. We cut It down a year or two ago and now it has grown up and is spreading all over the yard? There is no way of getting rid of the lilac except by digging it out. If the main clumps are dug out there will be little trouble in getting rid ol the smaller ones if they are dug up during the summer and new shoot* are hoed off as they appear. Roup in Turkeys. E. M. P.—Will you kindly publish [ the treatment for roup in turkeys? Mr. A. G. Gilbert, poultry managei at the Central Dominion Experimental farm, recommends the use of a solu tion of Platt’i* chlorides, made of s solution of one part chlorides to five parts rain water. Bathe the head and affected parts well and do so several times ner dav. Sooarate the sick birds ' FLEETS OF AMERICAN NAVY. Fear Admiral Evans to Be in Com mand of Largest. Rear Admiral Evans, who was a year ago in command of our Asiatic fleet, is to succeed in March Rear Ad miral Albert S. Barker as commander of our Atlantic fleet. This now con sists of three squadrons and a tor pedo flotilla. Rear Admiral Barker is In command of the three squadrons, Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis com manding the battleship squadron. Rear Admiral Sigsbee the Caribbean squad ron, and Rear Admiral James H. Sands the coast squadron. All told there are in the North At lantic fleet nine battleships, seven cruisers, two of the new monitors, sev en torpedo boats and five colliers and supply vessels. Rear Admiral Evans will in March have command of the largest fleet in the American navy and one of the largest fleets in the world. Rear Admiral Davis will re main in command of the battleship squadron and will be second in com mand of the fleet. Rear Admiral T. F. Jewell, who has been in command of the European squadron, was retired Nov. 19 and was succeeded by Capt. Harrison G. O. Colby. The squadron consists of the Olympia, Cleveland and Des Moines. The Pacific squadron, now at Pan ama under command of Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, ii composed of the New York, Boston, Marblehead, Wyoming (new monitor), and four other vessels. The Asiatic fleet, under command of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, is now divided into three squadrons. The battleship squadron (Wisconsin, Ore gon and Monadnock) is under the im mediate command of Rear Admiral Stirling; the cruiser squadron under command of Rear Admiral William M. Folger and the Philippine squad ron under command of Rear Admiral Charles J. Train. The South Atlantic squadron (Brooklyn, Atlantic, Castine and Mar BIT OF RUSSIA* FATALISM. Lesson from Recent Destruction of Torpedo Destroyer. The light-hearted manner in which the commander of the Russian des troyer Rastoropny blew up his boat at Chefoo after bringing dispatches frcm Port Arthur was quite in har mony with Russian naval procedure. Two Japanese torpedo boats were waiting outside the harbor, and so. after gallantly running the gauntlet of an entire fleet in order to reach Che foo, he destroyed his ship. An American or an Englishman would have done his best to escape. A Frenchman would have undertaken to fight his way out, and if defeated have gone down with his colors fly ing. A German in the last resort would have prudently opened the sea cocks. He would not have blown up his ship in a neutral harbor. But to the Russian none of these things seemed worth while. What is a destroyer more or less in the des tiny of an empire? Why go to so much bother to save it?—New York World. Ministers Gather in Cafe. Every Monday afternoon about 4 o’clock a group of Lutheran ministers meet in a quiet cafe near the New York postoffice and discuss parishional affairs, meanwhile decorously sipping a glass or two of lager, and maybe smoking a cigar. Dr. Richter, pastor of St. Peter’s German Evangelical church in the Bronx, is a regular at tendant at these gatherings, which last for an hour or two each week. The doctor has six strapping sons, but he does not think any of them will go into the ministry, there being no inducement in this country, he says, for a young man to take up the pro fession. He wants them all to be come farmers. Connubial Bliss. Congressman Fitzgerald's latest story is of an Irish couple in Boston EX-PRESIDENT KRUGER’S LAST VOYAGE: THE BODY CONVEYED ON BOARD THE BATAVIER VI AT ROTTERDAM. On October 31 President Kruger’s remains were taken on board ship in order to be conveyed to their last rest ing-place in South Africa. It was the president’s wish that he should be bu ried at Pretoria, and to this the Brit ish government acceded. ietta) is under command of Rear Ad ! rairal F. E. Chadwick and the Atlantic ! training squadron has been in charge ! of Capt. Royal B. Bradford, who be came Rear Admiral on the retirement of Jewell. | The battleship Ohio, ready for serv | ice, is still at San Francisco. The I cruiser Chicago left San Juan,. Porto Rico, last week for the straits of Ma gellan. There the Chicago will be ! come the flagship of the Pacific squad I ron. The new armored cruisers, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, are ap proaching completion and will soon be a part of the battleship squadron of | the North Atlantic fleet. Growth of the English Tongue. To-day over 135,000,000 people speak English. It has displaced French as the language of diplomacy and is now making great headway as the univer sal language of trade. All North America, South Africa, Liberia, Aus tralia, New Zealand, Samoa, Hawaii, most of Polynesia and various small states have permanently adopted our mother tongue, and there is every rea son to believe that the 10,000,000 of Filipinos wil be using it in the course of time. With the construction of the I Panama canal, Central America also will probably yield to its influence to a large extent.—Kansas City Journal. Woman in Toledo School Board. Mrs. Pauline Steinem, described as the most prominent Jewess of Toledo, Ohio, and a great favorite with the late Mayor Sam Jones, has been elect ed to the city’s school board. She ran 700 votes ahead of her ticket, and her plurality was about 8,000. The total number of Toledo women registered as voters this year was 3,302, but they electioneered zealously for Mrs. Stei nem and contributed $110 for her cam paign expenses. Village Turns Out Great Men. Dr. Alexander Mackenzie, president of Elmira college, Elmira. N. Y., is one of fifty men contributed to the Pres byterian ministry from the village of West Zorra. Ont., in the past half cen tury. The village has only 600 inhab itants, but the church there is the largest country congregation in the Canadian Presbyterian communion Zorra was settled seventy-five years ago by exiles from the north of Scot land. Xaiserln Studies Medicine. One of the most studious royalties in Europe is the German empress, who cares but little for the pomp and ceremony of courts. Her majesty’s favorite study is medicine and she has instructed herself so well in the art of healing that she is regarded as quite an efficient adviser In cases of ordinary illness. John W. Foster Re-elected. John W. Foster has been re-elected president of the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of , America. whose connubial bliss was occasional ly disturbed by violent misunderstand ings. They were devoted in their own way, however, and when the husband died he left a temporarily inconsolable widow'. A friend dropped in to see how she was getting along, and in the course of a chat remarked: “I’m glad to hear that poor Mike died happy, anyway.” “Indeed he did, Mrs. Laff erty,” was the reasonably cheerful re ply. “Sure the lasht thing he done was to crack me over the head wid a medicine bottle, the darlin’.” No More English Milkmaids. “Where are you going, my pretty maid?”. “I’m going a milking, sir,” she said. But the maid goes a-milking no longer. Dr. A. E. Harris, medical officer of health for Islington, Eng land, in a report presented to his council, states that during his inspec tion of dairy farms in various English counties, m no single instance did he find that a woman, as in the olden days, milked the cows. “The loss of the dairy maid,” he writes, “is a na tional one, for she was at least clean ly. Now it is not unusual to find a man fresh from other work milking the cows with dirty hands.” Rojestvensky as Society Man. .Thirty years ago Admiral Rojest vensky w*as naval attache of the Rus sian embassy in London. By his many graces and especially in waltzing, he turned the heads of all the marriage able girls of the English aristocracy. Whenever he led the cotillon his host ess was simply transported with joy. At an evening party not so long ago a noble dame, who had been a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria, was heard to murmur the admiral’s name, which she pronounced with perfect and even melodious ease. “Ah,” she said, with a sigh, “I wanted to marry him.” Youth of Governor-Elect Douglas. Out in Colorado they still remember Governor-elect Douglas of Massachu setts, who, when a young man, con ducted a cobbler shop in Golden. His shop was a little wooden shack which stood about where the Crawford house is now located, and his fellow townsmen little dreamed that “Will” Douglas would one day be among the leading shoe manufacturers of the world, to say nothing of becoming chief executive of the old bay state. Thinks Boxinn Beneficial. District Attorney Jerome of New York is a determined foe of lawbreak ers, but, being a great admirer of the fistic art, he has a tender spot for pugilists. “I think boxing is one of , the finest sports,” he said recently. ; ’Indeed, I should favor its being legal ized. Of course.” he added, with a knowing smile, “under such rigid re strictions as would insure against bru- ! tality.” Undertake not what you cannot per form, but bo careful to keep your immlses.—George Washington. j W/jLFO&P ff. /CEELfflrts and is working his way through the institution, at times serving as a waiter. CURE FOR BRIGHT’S DISEASE. Important Medical Discovery Made by Professor Ayres. At the fifty-fifth meeting of the American Medical association, Prof, Ayres of the New York Post-Graduate hospital is said to have "startled the convention by the announcement that he believed that Bright's disease, in the early stages, at least, was cur able.” His treatment consists in the injection of drugs directly into the kidneys. According to the newspapet accounts, he has cured forty-three cases, and out of ninety-three which he has treated only one "failed to re spond.” It is said by many that in the early stages—rather an indefinite phrase—of Bright's disease, a patient can cure himself by a rigid devotion to buttermilk. We have known at least one man. a very brilliant man who found this simple remedy worse than the disease. After three months of nothing but buttermilk, he £aid that he preferred to die, and he died. —With the Procession, Everybody’s Magazine. INDIANS CHEATED OF LAND. Rev. Joseph Schell, Catholic Priest, Makes Serious Charges. Rev. Joseph Schell, the Catholic priest, who has been investigating frauds alleged to have been practiced upon the Winnebago Indians in Ne braska. took luncheon with President Roosevelt recently and told his story to the chief executive. Father Schell has recently been arrested on the JBEW