Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOTJP CITT, . . NEBRASKA. No matter who wins the New York election contest the lawyers can not lose. Ill luck Is still pursuing the Russian prisoners in Japan. They are to be sent home. The university presidents can tackle football, but they don’t seem to be able to score. Artist Gibson has left the country, but the girls will continue the effort to live up to his pictures. Two French generals are about to fight a duel. A careful inspection of the moon discloses no blood. One vote for Mark Twain was cast at the election in New York. What joke there was was on the voter. The recent revolution in Brazil-last ed only a few hours. Some saloon keeper must have capitulated early. The state of New Jersey is out of debt and has $3,000,000 in the treasury. Of course, everybody knows it's taint ed money. A St. Louis woman's club decides that women can not love man and art at the same time. Then let art be passed up. Why is it that a wise suggestion from a foolish man never gets the at tention given to a foolish proposition by a wise man? Spanish students are rioting now. Possibly football is a good thing after all for the purpose of working oft the students’ surplus energy. If John Kendrick Bangs carries out his intention to become a New Eng land farmer, he will find that farming in New England is no joke. It is ungrateful of Russia not to use W. T. Stead’s remedies for a dis tressed nation, considering the fact that he has not patented them. Russia is going to have a douma and China is going to have a parlia ment. Why is it none of these for eign nations ever wants a congress? Russian prisoners at Kishinev re volted in a body and set fire to the jail. The simple life did not appeal to them when so much was going on out side. That $100,000 package of securities has been found intact in the street in Philadelphia. Now somebody will probably assume that it was hidden in the grass. The Detroit man who has erected a statue of Satan in his front yard and has to guard it from the good little boys may be sure of the earnest sym pathy of Miss Mary MacLane. Being an optimist, Mr. Stead pro phesies the loss of 100,000 lives in Russia. If he were a pessimist, he adds, he would say two millions. But Mr. Stead always was emotional. It is gratifying to observe that the descendants of Pocahontas have been thoughtful enough at last to arrange for a suitable monument to the mem ory of their illustrious ancestress. These articles telling people how to be as tall as they should be. do not meet the popular demand. 'W^iat people really want to know is how not to be so short as they mostly are. A Chicago wife wants a divorce be cause her* husband spent all his money. That is a crime, as all wives will agree. Husbands should bring all their money home and leave it on the bureau. A telegraph line is soon to be ex tended to Timbuctoo, but the office there will probably never achieve such importance as has at times been at tributed to the ones at Mole St. Nicho las and Che Foo. A fire in New York was started by the burning of a pile of letters ignited by the heat from a radiator. Unless they were love letters one janitor, must be doing all that can reasonably be expected of him. The king of Spain is a skilfull and fearless rider, a keen motorist, a dead ly shot with either rifle or revolver, a splendid fencer and an exceptionally clever boxer. The people hope that he will also be a good king. Prof. Jim Jeffries’ remark that he “wouldn’t play football for $1,000 a minute” shows clearly how the princely income of a successful prize fighter makes him arrogant when discussing a question of wages. Prince Louis cabled from New York to the London Times: ‘‘We find twen ty-four hours in the day a wholly in sufficient allowance for the daily fare of American hospitality.” Royalty never did care much about an eight hour day. Jan Kubelik, the violinist, is going to make a tour of the United States, and will bring with him Mrs. Kubelik and the twins. This ought to keep emotional young women from going crazy as they used to do when Pade rewski played. The retirement of Constantine Pe trovilch Pobiedonostseff, the aged chief procurator of the holy synod of the Russian church, will not be seri ously regretted by newspaper men who every, now and then have had to write hie name. It is proposed in Russia to bring the Julian calendar up to date by shorten ing the Russian February by thirteen days and beginning March 1 in the Gregorian style. When people get to fooling with the calendar, February al ways get it in the neck. The Wheeze-Makers. New York play reviewers are prone to lighten the weight of their com ments with jokes twisted from the titles or the plays under considera tion. For some time this has worried Frank Wilstach, who writes: “Lucky is the dramatist who can find a name for his play which the facetious New York critic cannot use as a handle for ridicule. The follow ing illustrate the point: ‘Who Goes There?’ was presented at the Princess theater, and one critic answered the title; ‘“Nobody Goes There,” or, is likely to.’ Wilson Barrett’s play, ‘Lucky Durham,’ was presented at the Knickerbocker by Mr. Willard, when one brilliant young man said the play was A cross between Bull Durham and Lucky Strike.’ When ‘The Money-Makers’ was offered at the Liberty, one pigeon-toed joker said: ‘While “The Money-Makers” is the title, no real money is likely to be made out of it.’ Clyde Fitch has been rather successful in heading off the joker who might brand his play with a jest, yet when Maxine Elliott presented ‘Her Great Match’ with great success at the Criterion a pro tege of Joe Miller could not refrain from saying: ‘ “Her Great Match” failed to strike!’ “The temptation was too great to resist. The wheeze-makers are al ready busy with Mr. Fitch’s play writ ten for Viola Allen, ‘The Toast of the Town.’ One of them has asked whether the play is from ‘Bred in Old Kentucky,’ or whether it is the drama tization of a bakery. The next thing that one may expect is that one of them will say it is called ‘The Toast of the Town,’ because it is dry, over looking the fact that good dramatic toast is crisp. Imagine a play by Clyde Fitch being dry! Mr. Mansfield puts on ‘Don Carlos.’ How, in hea ven’s name, are they going to make a joke out of that? Finally, Nat C. Goodwin is out with a gun looking for the ninnyhammer who said ‘ “The Beauty and the Barge” went down with all hands!’ ” Personal Mention. Ellen Terry will not visit this coun try until next season and then she will be heard in readings and not in theatrical productions. In Lincoln J. Carter’s new romantic drama, “The Flaming Arrow,” many of the scenes are actual representa tions of historical places in the West. James J. Corbett is to be starred in “The Little Church Around the Cor ner,” In Cambridge, Mass., has sent out many footlight favorites—Marion Ballou, Christine McDonald, Blanche Ring and Minnie Ashley being some 'of the most prominent. Harry B. Smith is the first Ameri can libretist who has had the cour age to satirize the nouveauriche Amer ican in his aspirations in Europe. He is said to do this very successfully in "Miss Dolly Dollars.” In the role of the Hon. Jefferson Jackson Clover, secretary of the de partment of agriculture in the new musical satire, “Cloverdell,” Henry Clay Barnabee is said to have a role in which he is perfectly fitted. Edmund Breese’s first appearance in public was made in an amateur pro duction of “Romeo and Juliet,” in which he was cast as Friar Lawrence, but owing to the illness of the Romeo was pressed into service for that role. The Aborn Production company has secured the rights from M. Whitmark & Sons for the Bostonians’ most suc cessful opera, “Robin Hood.” The company began a tour Nov. 13, in Troy. Vivia Brewster sings Maid Mariam. Corinne, the leading lady of “The Rogers Brothers in Ireland,” made her first stir in the Boston amusement world when she won the first prize in the greatest baby show ever held in Boston at Horticultural Hall on Tre mont street. Fumagalli, the Italian actor, has un dertaken to give Rome an entire sea son of Shakespeare. The bard is popular in Italy, and it is said that no Italian actor considers that he has sounded all the depths of art until he has played him. Countess Kinsky-Palmay, a Hun garian soubrette, well known in Eu rope, will appear at the Irving Place theater. New York, in December un der the direction of Heinrich Conrad in “Heisses Blut,” the piece on which the book of “The Rollicking Girl” was based. “The Belle of Mexico,” a new comic opera by R. B. Smith and Raymond Hubbell, who are responsible for “Fantana.” is soon to be produced by the Shuberts. James T. Powers will be the chief fun maker of this new production. Christie McDonald will be seen in the title role. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Faversham in New York last week, and the boy and his beautiful mother are doing splendidly. And “The Squaw Man.” in which Mr. Fa versham is appearing at Wallack’s, is SAM BERNARD. Principal Comedian in the Clever Musical play, “The Rollicking Girl.” January in Bernard Shaw's romance, “Cashel Byron’s Profession,” which has been arranged for stage pur poses by Stanislaus Stange. Miss Irene Cromwell of the “Babes in Toyland” company is a veritable Cinderella as far as the size of her foot is concerned. Miss Cromwell plays Little Miss Muffet. Grace Elliston’s scene in “The Lion and the Mouse,” where she poses as a newspaper woman, is the nearest approach to the genuine article the American stage has ever seen. Among the cast selected by Mau rice Campbell for “The Little Gray Lady” will be Julia Deane, Edgar Sel wyn, Dorothy Donnelly, William Humphreys and Alfred Hudson. Douglas Fairbanks is making such a pronounced hit as Lute Ludlam in “As Ye Sow” that Messrs. Brady and Grismer are looking for a comedy in which to feature him next season. Henry B. Harris has secured from Charles Klein the English rights of “The Lion and the Mouse,” and has arranged with Charles Frohman to produce the same in the immediate future. John Oliver Hobbs (Mrs. Craigie), the famous novelist and dramatist, will be the next celebrity to make a tour of America. She comes under the direction of the J. B. Pond Lyceum bureau. Contracts have been signed by Mau rice Campbell, whereby Henrietta Crosman will begin her New York en gagement at the Garrick theater, in “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” on Christmas day. Paulina Edwardes’ new opera, which will be produced presently, is to be en titled “Queen Beggar.” It was writ ten by Harry Paulton and Alfred Bob byn, who composed the music of “The Yankee Consul.” A New York impresario has offered Lina Cavaleria a three years’ engage ment at $1,200 nightly for the first season and an enormous increase for the second and third. Cavaleria has not yet accepted. Frank Gilmore, the Rev. John St. John of “As Ye Sow,” made his first stage appearance as a boy of 12 in pantomime. His earlier experiences were on the London stage, but in 1892 he came to this country. a genuine New York success. Sc there is a happy family. Will F. Granger, one of the members of a company playing a melodrama at Toledo, Ohio, was shot in the eye dur ing the progress of the play one night last week. The action of the drama includes the rescue of a girl from a cage of lions. One of the lions showed anger and a revolver carried by the rescuer was accidentally dis charged. Graham may lose his sight. Mme. Schumann-Heink, who is now on the road in “Love’s Lottery,” un der the management of Fred C. Whit ney, will close her tour in six weeks and return to her home in Germany, where she will rest for the remainder of the season. Her health this sea son has been very poor, and the form er grand opera prima donna has been compelled to remain away from many performances on that account. Mme. Modjeska began her farewell tour of the United States at the new Lyceum theater, Harrisburg, Pa., last week, presenting “Mary Stuart.” This was her first appearance in America since 1903. Several New York theat rical managers and state officials ot Pennsylvania were in the audience Mme. Modjeska will appear only in “Mary Stuart.” “Macbeth” and “Much Ado About Nothing” on her farewell tour. The success of Miss Nethersole in “The Labyrinth” has led to a change in her original tour. Her manage ment has arranged to have her open her New York engagement at the Herald Square theater Nov. 27. The original tour as booked embraced a portion of Canada, Baltimore, Phila delphia and Boston, but all except the Canadian engagements have been canceled to allow her to get to New York as soon as possible. In “The American Lord,” a comedy “pure and simple,” which has been prepared for his use by George Broad hurst and Charles T. Dazey, William H. Crane will have the role of a hustling westerner who is forced by circumstances to go to England and take charge of an old estate. His inno vations on a place and among a people who have come to look with disfavor on any alterations made in the estab lished order of things afford mnch of the fun of the piece. 2HAV£B LOJ4ELIJ4ESS FO'R WEALTHj - With Alaska furs valued at $25,000 from Nulato, on the Lower Yukan, Garrett Busch has arrived in Seattle after eight years spent in trafficking with the Indians in the wilderness which he was the first white man to penetrate as a trader. When Mr. Busch reached Nulato. Aug. 12,1897, with a miner’s outfit as his sole pos session, he foresaw in that gloomy solitude a trade in the furs which pro tect animal life from arctic winters which would exceed in returns the reasonable possibilities of mining ven tures. Mr. Busch settled down at the place where the little town of Nulato now stands. He built a one-story cabin with lumber which he sawed from the native timber and began to trade his miners’ supplies to the natives for the furs which they knew so well how to trap, but of whose value they had no conception. Through the first win ter he lived alone, except when an oc casional squad of Indian trappers came by and stopped in curiosity to learn what manner of man had set tled in so lonely a spot. To these In dians he traded his humble supplies, except the provisions which he actu ally needed to sustain his own exist ence until spring. The visits of the Indians were few and far between. The solitary trader was often homesick as he sat through the almost perpetual darkness of the arctic winter. In the short hours of glimmering daylight he gathered his little stores of firewood, dragging them through the snow, and then sat through the long night counting off the days on the calendar until spring. His nearest white neighbors were at Anvik, 200 miles down the Yukon, and at Weare, 240 miles up the stream. He never saw a white face until near ly a year after his arrival at Nulato. When spring broke upon the lonely hermit life- assumed a more cheerful aspect. The fame of the new white trader had spread far through the In dian settlements, and the natives be gan calling regularly at the post with their stock of furs. They came from Koyokuk, from Innoko and from Kus hokwin, some of them traveling near ly 500 miles.—Seattle Times. VM'B'RELLA TELLS OF T'RACE'Dy “Look at me! Just look at me!” It was the umbrella that spoke, or, rather, the remains of what once ha