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Annual Salt Consumption. The annual consumption of salt In England Is forty pounds per head. France consumes thirty pounds; Rus sia, eighteen pounds; Austria, siztaen pounds; Prussia, fourteen pounds; 8pain, twelve pounds; and Switzer land, eight pounds. When Woman Gets the Lead. No matter how much a man may say against the missionary society or sufTraglst question, when he wants any Important matter carried through he asks for woman’s Influence. Approach of the Dawn. "When you get Into a tight place and everything goes against you until it teems that you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that Is just the place and tho time that the tide will turn.”—Harriet Beecher Stowe. .. • Washington Is Popular Name. There are more counties In the United States named for Washington than for any other man. The capital, a state and two cities exceeding 20,000 In population also bear his name. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, it put up 16 ounces in pack ages and sells at same price as 12 ounce packages of other kinds? Many a train of thought carries no freight. It Cures Colds, Coughs. Sore Throat. Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. 17se at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers every where. Large bottles 25 cent* and 5o cents. r WE DEMAND > YOUR ATTENTION. V tf anyone offered you a good dollar (or an imperfect on« would you take it? If anyone offered you one good dollar for 75 cents of bad money would you tJce it? W’e offer you Id ounces of the very best starch made for 10c.' No other brand ts so good, yet all others cost 10c. for 12 ounces. Otirs is a business proposition. OERANCE StARCM b the best and cheapest We guarantee it satbfactory. Ask your grocer. The DEFIANCE STARCH CO, Dmah*. Neb. ! Thompson’s Eyi WitM W. N. U.f Omaha. No. 53—1904 Beet Culture Attracts Mosquitoes. The beet culture aids the mul tlplication of the anopheles mosqui toes, which are responsible for mala ria, is the opinion held by severa Italian experts, who found that ii places where the anopheles had nevei before appeared the cultivation a beet sugar attracted them in grea numbers. The man who has only & two-inch lake of wisdom always thinks he has to dam it in with a big wall of words. —Chicago Tribune. Not Wholly Beneficent. Experiments with the theory that music may be osed as a medicine show that appreciable changes of pulse and blood pressure follow the in fluence of an automatic piano. We have noticed it ourselves. It had not, however, occurred to us that the effect was sedative or curative.—Philadel phia North American. — When a high-salaried office finds U necessary to seek the man you mai expect to see thieves trying to brea); into jail.—Chicago News. Many Children / re Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders forChildren. used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’« Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Head ache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis orders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms At all Druggists’.25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. How to Quiet a Horse. When a witness in an English court remarked that it was necessary to sit on a horse s head when he was down to keep him quiet, the judge replied: “Nothing of the kind. People don’t seem to understand that the only thing necessary to keep a horse from kicking when he is down is to get hold cf. his ear and keep his ncse up in the air. I have seen a lady keep a horse quiet in that way without soiling her gloves.” SPECIAL NOTICE. UNDOMA Hair Tonic will lend tc your hair that soft fluffy appearanct appreciated by people of good taste and refinement. Ask Your Barber. Send us your name for free treat ment. THE UNDOMA COMPANY, Omaha Scott a Rapid Writer. Scott is said to have written “Wav erley” in less than six weeks. He wrote very rapidly, seldom revised, and as a consequence his novels were full of blunders, errors and anachron isms._ $36.00 per M. Lewis’ “Single Binder,’ straight 5c cigar, costs more than othei brands, but this price gives the dealer a fair profit—and the smoker a better cigar Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. Books Always in Plenty. There is no truer word than that oi Solomon: “There is no end of making books.” The night of a great library verifies It; tliero is no end—indeed, it were pity there should be.—Bishop Hall. _ Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of De fiance Starch is fast taking place ol ali other brands. Others say they can not seil any other starch. The latest museum freak Is a pig with two legs. Outside a museum it isn't necessary to have four legs to be a hog. Dealers say that as soon as a cus tomer tries Defiance Starch it is im possible to sell them any other colt? water starch. It can be used cold oi boiled. __ A little sympathy that gets into out feet is worth a whole lot of sorrow that never soaks deeper than our feel ings. Mm, Winslow* Sooth! nr Syrup. For children teething, softens the fnir.s, rednre* tT> CamBiauon.adayspaln.curcs vtinuuoUw. ixalxnus A little sorrow may teach more than many sermons. “Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy mre<l my wife of s terrible disease. With pleasure I testify tolMaiarteiouseffiuacy.” J.Sweet, Albany,X. Y. The empty head, needs a haughty air. iFor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have _ Always Bought _9 Bears the ---I Signature otes Digestion JCheerful- if 3nd Rest.Contains neither B \ Morphine nor Mineral. B U1 Narcotic. I ' -. —.... {H I Seel Remedy forConstipa- [p Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea |S a .( onvutsions.Feverish- ■ ind Loss or Sleep. IS : Simile Stature of B § Thirty Years 1ST 0 RIfl f . ;*t * - * -p-'.'-Hr>$ Advertlwr,enie Kindly Mention Thie Paper. BEGGS’ CHERRY COUGH «y^UP «m CMgiM aod aUt SUPREME COURT ENDS DECISION OVER FLOODS rrrz=== INDICATES CHANNEL TRIOR TO JUI7F A, /dOf. INDICATES NECK OF LAND THROWN INTO MISSOURI CHANGE OF CHANNEL AND NOW RETURNED TO NEBRASKA BT SUPREME COURT BE C/SION. The decision of the United States 1 Supreme court giving to Nebraska a neck of land thrown into Missouri by a change of the river channel in 1867, and declarng the middle of the old chancel to be the boundary between the states, has cleared up a number of long standing disputes between states bordering on the Missouri, Mis sissippi and other rivers and removed a number of havens for criminals who have taken refuge on land in dispute between states and evaded convictions by pleading that the state whose au thorities arrested them had no juris diction. COST OF RURAL DELIVERY. | Millions Expended That People Shall Have Proper Service. Postmaster General Wynne writes in the World's Work: “In 1897, when the rural service was started on pro bation, $40,000 was deemed sufficient for its trial. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1904, nearly $13, 000.000 was expended for rural free delivery. For the fiscal year upon which we have now entered $20,SIC,- j COO has been appropriated for the con tinuance and extension of the rural mail service. There were 24.566 rural routes in existence at the end of the fiscal year. June 30 last. 9,446 new routes having been put into operation during the fiscal year. Oct. 1. 1904. there were 27.135 routes established, and the service was being extended at the rate of about 800 routes a month. Taking 450 people as the average number served on each route (a mod erate estimate) the rural service in operation Oct. 1. 1904. was bringing the mails within easy reach of the homes of 12,213.750 residents of rural districts. Automatic Savings. A new idea for encouraging thrift is being developed in Italy. It is noth ing more or less than an automatic bank. In a cast-iron pillar there are three slits. In the top one the coin is inserted—a ten-centime piece, if it is false it is promptly rejected, and falls out of a lower slit. If it be good, the receipt promptly drops from the third opening at the bottom of the box. So soon as the depositor has collected five or more of these re ceipts he can exchange them for a I bank pass-book at the regular savings bank, and on his savings he will be paid by government interest at the rate of 4 per cent. By means of this excellent little invention the laborer is ; able to place a fraction of his daily wages at interest without the trouble ! or time incident on making a journey to the nearest postoffice, a great con venience, seeing that such banks are open only at certain hours, and those r.ot suited to the man who works with 1 his hands. . Judgment Instead of “Red Tape.” When a business organization be comes a body of thinking men and women, instead of a vast machine of which each individual is but a part, it becomes possible to govern them more by the spirit and less by the j letter of the rule, thus utilizing indi j vidual judgment at those points where a strict adherence to the rule is unde i sirable. says Success. It becomes : possible to eliminate a great deal of ; detailed system or “red tape,” and to substitute active judgment. This de velops*individual capacity in the em ploye, while it greatly lessens operat ing expenses for the employer and en riches the business with more intelli : gent work. Welcome to Chinese Students. It is for the advantage of this coun try that we shonld establish the Amer ican point of view as widely as possi | ble throughout the Chinese empire. The more this can be done the better I it will be for our commerce and the ! industries upon which that commerce | depends. Leaving out all altruistic consideration it is for our own unques tionable interest that we extend Amer ican ideas and American influence in the largest measure possible in that land of almost limitless markets, and to do this It would be to our great ad vantage to encourage high-class Chi nese students and high-class observ ers of our institutions.—Boston Tran ■ script. New Raccoon Dog. In the New York Zoological park is a white raccoon dog from northern Japan, which is regarded as repre senting a new species and has been i named Nyctereutes Albus, says a sci- j entific Journal. The ordinary raccoon dog of Japan and China is an animal closely allied to the true dogs, but with a marked superficial resemblance to a raccoon. If the New York speci- j men really indicates the existence of j a white species of raccoon dog. the fact will be of considerable zoological interest. Gypsum Industry Grows. There has been a great advance in the gypsum industry of the United States in recent years, the output for 1903 having exceeded 1,000,000 tons. The expansion has resulted mainly from the increased demand for gyp sum wall plasters, which have almost j entirely supplanted the ordinary lime j plasters for modern structural pur- J poses. A very large quantity is used j also in the manufacture of plaster of aari? and as feruU^er.—Efcglafcerjjtg j *tjd Mining JowSST, j NO FRIENDS IN POLITICS. Mean Trick Frank Hatton Played cn Congressman Cannon. Congressman Cannon was not al ways so powerful in Washington as he has been of late years. He tells with glee of a visit he once paid to the postoffice department when blunt Frank Hatton was postmaster general. He took with him a constituted who wanted to be postmaster of his village. Cannon was bitterly opposed to him, but did not want to turn him down openly. When they reached the de partment Cannon left the would-be postmaster outside the screen door and went in to see Hatton. He told Hatton he intended to bring the man in and ask for the place for him, but begged Hatton to refuse if. “Where’s the man?” asked Hatton. “Just out side the door.” Cannon replied. “In that case,” replied Hatton, raising his voice so be could be heard a city block. “I want you to know I have lying enough to do here without lying for you. Bring hint in.” Cannon brought him in and Hatton blandly appointed him. Teaching Preventive Medicine. It is a fact of which the medical profession is well aware that the bet ter class of newspapers are the great educators of the common people. They furnish them with their high school and college courses and do more than i any other agency to form the opinions of the great multitude. This being the case, it behooves all reputable physicians to join in an effort to give the papers such medical reading mat I ter as will interest and instruct their , readers. In no other way could pre , ventive medicine be taught so thor oughly and successfully as through the medium of newspaper publicity. I nthinking people, and indeed many of independent mind, believe absolute ly everything they read in their paper. , Therefore preventive medicine could [ easily be instilled into the minds of this body.—Medical Journal. --- Qualifications for Wife. Ex-Senator Marion Butler oi' North Carolina got into a discussion with a couple of friends the other evening on that all burning social question divorce. At the conclusion of the de bate the senator related this: “Down my wav I have c friend who seems to be a confirmed bachelor. He’ some years past middle age now and the homeliest looking cuss you ever saw. But he's a humorist. One day I asked him jokingly why he did not get mar ried. 'Because with me.’ he said, ‘mar riage is possible only under three con ditions.’ ‘Indeed, and what are they?’ I asked. ‘Well, my wife,’ be replied droily, ‘must be rich, beautiful and a fool. Unless she is rich and beauti ful I won't marry her, and unless she be a fool she w-on't marry me.’ ” Roosevelt With Fulton. It is an almost forgotten fact that President Roosevelt's grandfather was the first man to navigate a steam boat on the Ohio and Mississippi riv ers. Cart- Roosevelt w as a close per sonal friend of Robert Fulton, invent or of the steam craft. Soon after Ful ton's successful voyage on the Hudson the captain conceived the idea of launching such a craft on what were then Western waters. In the spring of 1811 the vessel was launched at Pitts burg and the president's grandfather began his voyage to the gulf. He en tered the Mississippi during the times of the earthquake which devastated so much of southeastern Missouri, but weathered the ttimult successfully and continued his trip to New Or leans. Brave in Misfortune. Joseph Maurer, a plucky resident of Canal township. Venango county. Pa., while driving his team hitched to a log cf wood was struck by the log. breaking his leg in two places. After vainly yelling for help until he nearly perished with the cold he crawled to the horses, drove them along side a stump, pulled himself with his broken ! leg to the top of the stump and then to the back of one of his horses and in this way succeeded in getting home and securing the services of a > surgeon. " —» When Too Tired to Sleep. If you are overtired—“too tired to sleep,'* as we sometimes say—bathe I the neck and temples with hot water. Bathe the back of the neck particu larly. This seems to relax the mus cles and the veins that supply the brain with blood. Lie down to sleep with peace, for it will come surely. The same treatment will wonderful ly retresh during tne day. a heart- i ache may often be relieved, even I curs3, by bat applications to die back \ flf Tfur uuji. ~' ~ q*~^..'1 . - - *. .,—1. . ...«... ______ Following Directions. "The Home Magazine," chuckled the counterfeiter, as he slipped a bunch of fresh greenbacks into his wife’s purse, "says that the most acceptable presents for our dear ones are thing3 j we have made ourselves.” — The Way He Was Christened. “Why 'Philosopher' John Burdett?” I asked an English judge concerning | one of the parties to a chancery suit the other day. “Christened that way, my lord,” responded P. J. Burdett’s counsel. _ Ancient Ann Reflects. A man thinks it awfully stupid for a woman to lose her pocketbook, but : he fprgets how often she has to help | him find his collar button, and remem ber for him just where he put his hat —Baltimore American. Deeds Not to Be Recalled. No man sees all the meaning of his deeds before he commits them; but. once committed, it seems as though | they had become part of the history of the universe, and the consequences are inexorable.—R. J. Campbell. —————————————— Cut Aldermanic Speech Short. J L*mg speeches by Liverpool (Eng land) aldermen are not encouraged The lord mayor of London has been provided with a sandglass and no , member of the council may speak ; more than ten minutes. Storekeepers report that the extra ! quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. Sleepless Creatures. There are several species of fish, reptiles and insects which never sleep during the whole of their existence. Among fish it is positively known that pike, salmon and goldfish never sleep at all; also that there are sev eral others in the fish family that never sleep more than a few minutes a month. There are dozens of species of flies which never indulge in slum ber, and from three to five species of | serpents which also never sleep. Longevity In Warm Climates. Statistics show that more people live to be 100 years old in warm cli mates than in northern countries. We know that here in Mexico there are many centenarians, for in towns not forty miles from the capital are not a few men and women beyond the 10€ year line. Germany reports 778 cen tenarians, France 213, Ergland 14G an‘t Spain 401, and the population of Spair Is relatively small.—Mexican Herald TO erRE A COLD IN ONE DAT Ttke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet*. All ilrusr rUu refund the m uey If It falls to cure. E. W. Grove's signature Is on each box. 25c. A Sunday Custom. In some of the small English vil lages the custom still prevails of ring ing the church bell for five minutes at 8 o’clock Sunday morning if there is to be a sermon preached at the 11 : o’clock service. If no bell rings the prudent housewife understands that j the service will be shorter, and she arranges her dinner hour according j iy. _ Cornstarch to Remove Grease. Cornstarch will remove grease most effectually. Rub a little fresh, dry I cornstarch into the soiled place and it will begin at once the process of ab sorbing the grease. Brush the first used off carefully from the garment, and proceed in the same way with , more until the disfigurement has en I tirely disappeared. _ Knew Where the Ball Struck. I They were on a golf course not far ! from Glasgow. “A splendid stroke! j Caddie, did you follow that ball? said the player who had just driven. “Xaw, sir.” .replied the caddie, “but I think that gentleman wi’ the red coat can tell you where it struck. I see him feeling his head.” — A Detached Belfry. The Tillage church of East Bergholt Suffolk, is probably the only one Ir England which possesses an entirely distinct building for the belfry. The bells are hung in a shed many yards away from the church, and are work ed from above instead of from be neath. _ George Eliot's “Middlerrarch.” George Eliot is said to have writ | ten ‘•Middlemarch” in four months. ; Some doubt is thrown upon this state ■ ment by the fact that she commonly worked slowly, writing with great care : end deliberation, and making few erasures after the work was done. Dates from Twelfth Century. The grotesque knocker on the sanc .Ttary door of Durham cathedral, arhich bears a rather distant resem blance to a lion, is said to be of the .welfth century. What Shocking Taste! T met Mabel this morning oat wi Iking with her brown collie dog. She was wearing a bine frock. Just fancy wearing a bine frock with a brown dog!"—Stra- Stories The Sunday suit never made the Monday saint. Burdens may be the ballast that <aves the ship. The more helpful the deed the more holy the day. Worry is the worst wolf that comes to our doors. — — sr "■ " ■ - A frozen heart does not make a stiff back. One of the best tests of a sound man is that he possesses great wealth and is not arrogant. The people in the primary of life are always the first to show the grad uates how to do it Some successful men are 95 per cent backbone and some others are 95 per cent cheek. Anyway, one-half of the world knows that the other half is looking for the best of it Modesty is a great ornament, but sometimes it is more ornamental than useful. A good reputation is like good health; it is not fully appreciated un til it is lost. Canned charity may feed the hungry, but it cannot fill the heart. The great thing is not so much to fill the pews as to fill the people. Love leaps over the lines of liking. There may be such a thing as a man who has stolen once and then stopped, but we don’t know him. —Phrenological Journal. There are still many opportunities for young men; the trusis haven't been able tJ grab ail of them. Young man. if you have doubts about anything, g've your conscience the benefit of the doubt. There is nothing on earth so full of mischief as a mischievous woman. A battlesh!p in the hand is worth two ultimatums in the bush. Insomnia is seldom caused by the things a man doesn’t say. The favorite pastime of a lynching party is looping the loop. Lots of people pray for the poor^» and let it go at that. It’s a wise Indus:rial stock that knows its own par. 1 m m iss Rose Hennessy, well known as^ a poetess and elocutionist, of Lexington, Ky.. tells how she was cured of uterine inflammation and ovaritis by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound* “ Dear Mpa Pixkiiam : —I liare been so bli ssedly helped through the us® of Lydia E. 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