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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1906)
Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, . . . NEBRASKA Sizeable Legal Fees. » One million dollars for a fee! Tf»at •ounds like a big amount, and yet an assertion was made shortly after the ■upreme court made its decision which impelled the general government to nay $4,000,000 for the removal of the Cherokee Indians to Indian Territory :hat one-fourth of that amount was,to be paid as a fee. It would not be strange, remarks the Washington Star If the report was correct. When we remember the large fees that have been paid in Indian cases there is a natural inference that nothing is im possible in the way of fees when claims against the government are involved. Contracts have been made in Indian cases which meant that when the laws were enacted and the money paid that enormous fees were to be given the attorneys. The case of the Methodist church south is too vivid in the minds of men in Washington not to be re called when other big fees are dis cussed. Here was a case where more than one-third of the whole amount col lected was paid to the attorney, the fee being more than $100,000. There have been cases known where fees of $750, 000 and perhaps larger in Indian claims cases were paid. Nowhere has the shrewd attorney fared so well as in the Indian claims. Sometimes there has been legislation seeking to protect the Indians and providing that no more than ten per cent, of the claim shall be paid to the attorney. But long before the legislation passed con tracts were made which gave the at torneys these enormous fees. Kind of Hen Needed. It one were to go to the president of the United States and ask him to name the country’s greatest need, he would reply in his quick, conclusive way: "Clean men.’’ He knows, says the De lineator. Smart men there are by the thousands; rich men abound more than in any other age of the world; able men are found in every state ana township, but even from a population of 80,000,000 the chief executive has difficulty in finding the man of excep tional character for a post which re quires a square and flawless morality It is to his credit that he misses no op portunity to preach manhood. But neither presidents nor preachers nor teachers can do the work of fathers except in their own families. We do not mean to underestimate the marvel ous influence of the mother. In most lands men who reach success give their mothers the credit . “All that I am I owe to my mother,” said Lin coln. "It was you who taught me to write so. You really did, dear moth er,” said the crabbed Carlyle. We get our moral qualities from our moth ers. our mental from our fathers, say the physiologists, and as we look back we find this maternal affection the loveliest thing on earth. But isn’t there a conviction down deep in our souls that we should have done much better if cur fathers had taken time and tiouble to share oud confidences in the • jears that counted most? Good of Playgrounds. Playgrounds are necessary In every community for young and old. A few •weeks ago the National Playground as sociation was formed. Its chief movers were not those primarily interested in sport, but educators and sociologists. In an address to the delegates. Presi dent Roosevelt said: “I owe my first interest in the playground question to Jacob Riis, when he spoke of the poor children who were not allowed to play in the streets, but had to play in the streets because they had no other place to play.” Every town, even the small one, where the child and the young man are free from the terrible confine ments of the city, knows that it is wise to provide a generous playground. Play is a right of youth. Just as sure £.= there is no appointed adequate field for games and romping, sd sure are forbidden lawns to show wear, and the windows in the barn to show broken lights of glass. f —— ‘ Rev. William Pierson, a local exhort er who ran a Gospel wagon for many years, was stricken with apoplexy in Washington the other night while in his wagon just as he was giving out a hymn. He fell to the floor of the wagon, was taken to a hospital and died A reporter asked Mr. Pier son’s assistant what hymn the ex horter was giving out when he was stricken. “1 don’t just remember the title of the hymn,” said the assistant, '"but it was No. 23.” In the course of the conversation on psychological matters the talk rested on that ancient theme, the solitude oi < he soul. Some one asked the girl wbc was to graduate in June if she liked being alone. "That depends,” she an swered, sweetly, “on whom I am alone with.” The large instrument used by the ic» man for carrying the chunks ie said to be entirely too large this sea son. He is thinking of using bon bon tongs. A daily paper is responsible for the statement that a single county in Ne \ ada, covering 16,000 square miles, has nowhere within its borders even a mis sion hall in which the Gospel 16 preached, and yet there is a popuiatios of several thousand people in this ter ritory. A woman census taker in Chicago reports that in 24 fashionable flats she visited she found only one child. How could she expect to find them when even the janitor could not? WHAT TO DO WITH THE QUEEN OF MOONSHINERS PUZZLES U. S. OFFICIALS Authorities Feel They Must Have Recourse to Strenuous Action to Restrain Betsy Simms. YOUNG, FEARLESS, AND IDOL OF OUTLAWS In Prison for Dealing in Whisky That Had Paid No Revenue, She Severely Cuts Jailer in Attempt to Escape—Three Indictments Now Against Her. Much as has been written of the ways and doings of the mountaineers »f North Carolina, any person at all familiar with the lives of the inhabit ants of that romantic region cannot but ft* 1 that the half has not been told. Loyal to a degree that holds life worth nothing if a friend can be terved, an enemy punished or a traitor put to death, the mountaineer is typi cal of a state of existence the world has long outgrown. The average man of more sedate temperament and cooler blood leaves the avenging of his wrongs to courts Bf law and the judgment of his fel lows, but in the mountains each man Is a court of law unto himself, and is not faasfled with the slow methods of justice with which other communi ties are conversant It has been found a matter of mon nmental difficulty to impress upon1 these people that there is wrong in the making of "moonshine” whisky. To them the product of the com they grow is theirs, whether it is converted Into the staff of life or the delectable liquid of the worm and still. The ef forts of the “Revnooers" to put a stop to the distilling of the juice of the eorn necessarily, therefore, are not looked upon with favor, and conflicts with the officers of the law are fre quent. Just now the federal officials have a complication to deal with whicn is more than usually knotty. “Queen” New in Jail. “The best looking gal in the moun tains!” Betsy Sims, “Queen of the Moonshiners," is languishing in the big and lonesome jail at Columbus, the high-up little mountain town which Is the county seat of Polk, one of the smallest and most isolated of the North Carolina counties. What to do with her is the problem puzzling the authorities. Betcy, though only 22, is as daring and well versed a woman, both in the ways ol making whisky and of sell the good fortune to find her. on foot, and very near the South Carolina line, which she knows perfectly well. When she saw the three deputies coming, she knew they were not her friends, and made a bold dash for the line. As a sprinter she is a success, and her running was like that of the Grecian girls who competed in the ancient Olympian games. The depu ties did not stop to admire, however, but gave chase and dashed across the state line, coming up with and taking hold cf the stout and charming Betsy about a hundred yards over in South Carolina. Betsy was nearly out of breath from the run, but had voice enough left to give a signal, which brought out of the thick bushes near by five tough-looking moonshiners, any one of whom was ready and willing to die for Betsy any time. Betsy had a good-sized revolver slung about her waist, and very poorly concealed by a checked apron, but her moonshine friends made no concealment what ever of the pistols which they had in hand, and while they fingered these, they parleyed with the detain ing deputies, letting them understand that they were willing to pay cash for Betsy’s appearance in “co’t,” and that they were “willin’ to put up $25 in greenbacks if Betsy could be sot. fi*ee now and 'pear at C’iurabus next t«rm.” Deputies Made Terms. The deputies thought it wise to temporize, and decided to take the cash, which the moonshiners gallantly put up, and Betsy retired with them, looking back archly at the officers, her charming eyes sparkling with de fiance and the roses in her cheeks deepening until they were like pe onies. Her face was framed in a pink sunbonnet of the type which is worn on week days by all the mountain girls. Betsy did not let her daring and her adventures end with her capture, I MAKING A^P BARGAIN IN \ MOONSWNf „v\ Betsy 5/ms lug it, as one could find In that wild country, even in a full day’s ride, and ■he is as pretty as she is adroit and daring, with a killing pair of eyes, bright and well-filled cheeks and hair which defies conventionalities, Betsy has cat no little figure in Polk county since she was 1$, for even at that early age she began her work as a seller of contraband whisky. She made herself such a figure, in fact, that even the older moonshiners began to look up to her and in their rude way to idolize the plucky girl, who bad been bred all her life to think the selling of whisky was an act of the very best sort, and that the "revnooers” were a race of people who deserved only death and who were sent out as op pressors of the people. Such Is the faith which is literally the backbone of Betsy’s point of view, and that of her moonshiner companions, who make corn whisky in the shaded and well-hidden hollows in the mountains, through which run streams whose wa ters are always Just cool enough to give the distillery worms the right touch. Capture of Betsy. Betsy has year by year become more and more daring, and more beautiful. A few months ago she be came extremely bold in her sales of whisky, going to and from the stills, sometimes alone, and sometimes with male companions. Finally the state authorities decided it was time to ■top her, so they sent three deputy sheriffs for Betsy. The deputies had but the very next day her moonshine friends showed up with $150, they having sold a horse for that sum. There was a “big meetin’” not far away, and it was thought it would be a good time to buy an extra lot of whisky, and so it came about that then and during the remainder of the month of April Betsy sold nine bar rels of the stuff, some of it in Polk county, some in Rutherford, and some over the line in South Carolina. But, although she kept in touch with her business all the while, she showed up at the term of Polk county superior court the second week in May, es corted always by a party of her moon shiner friends. She wore a different dress and a different hat on each of three days, this being the most im portant event in her existence to date. Got Cases Continued. There were three indictments against her, but she contrived, on one plea or another, and by means of a tre mendous lot of swearing by moon shiner friends, to get the case contin ued, always putting up a cash bond for appearance. She thus invested $200. Then the attention of the judge was directed more particularly toward her, and he found the extent of her work and the damage she was doing in parts of two states, in her open violations of the law. She must have felt in the very air that something was wrong, for when the judge took his seat on the morning of the fourth day Betsy failed to show up. The judge issued a bench warrant for her, and she was found at the home of a moonshiner not far from the little town, brought back and tried, and the judge decided to make an example of the bold young creature by sending her to jail at Co lumbus for four months. Astonished the Moonshiners. The moonshiners were simply par alyzed by the- sentence, for some of them thought that Betsy bore a charmed life, 90 to 6peak, and one of them, in an outburst of admiration, had said on the third day that she would "come clar,” and that "no jedge an’ no jury can tech her, in my min’.” But Betsy bad not quite reached the limit of her resources. The jail at Columbus is an old-fashioned barn of a structure, three stories high and of brick, and is generally slimly tenant ed. It happened that when Betsy first entered its walls a man was there on his way to the penitentiary to serve 12 months for the practice of the gen tle art of manslaughter, he having in some kind of mix-up slain a fellow mountaineer with a knife, and ‘‘gittin’ off light,” as the other side of the case put it. Betsy was put on the secoua floor of the jail, this prisoner stairway and set lire to the trap-door, burning a hoie therein, through which Chalmers descended. He and Betty, after passing the compliments of the; day, for they were acquainted, decided on the mode of action, and then Chyrf mers fell to work to make a tffole through the side of the Jail, while Betsy made a rope out of blanket* and bedding, and aramged such goods and chattels as she had with her ijk shape for quick remoral. Chalmers, with true gallantry, decided that jft was best for him to go through the hole first, thus testing the latter, a^d, incident ally, the rope below. Otft he got and flitted away. Nearly Vanquishes Jailer. Betsy was going, too, but as she was half-way through the hole she felt the rude hands of the jailer upon her, and was hauled back into the room. This aroused her fighting instinct to the limit, and like a lioness she sprang upon the jailer, who had a bad quarter of an hour, for not only was Betsy a good wrestler, but a star hair puller and seratcher. Not satisfied with these accomplishments, she whipped out a knife and cut the jailer Pt/ftdOED By T//AA7Tf/fPP£0 ASCPPiP MA M00NSMMEP8 CAMP whoa? name is Chalmers, being on the floor above. A rather rude flignt of steps leads from the second to the third floors, through a well-locked trap-doqr of wood. How She Broke Jail. The weather was cool, and there was a fire in Betsy's room. She did not feel equal to the task of getting out of jail unaided, so she sought the com panionship of Chalmers. They talked to each other, commonplace while the jailer was anywhere within hearing, but business when he was out of the way, the business being the best means of getting out. Betsy was the more resourceful of the tw'o, and so, taking a "chunk of fire,” she went up the five times. He was compelled to knock her down and then to tie her hands and feet. The matter was at once reported to the judge, who ordered that she be placed in the strongest cell and close ly watched, and at the next term of court she will be indicted for an as sault with intent to kill, not to speak of another indictment for attempt to escape. Some of her moonshiner friends have in a o.uiet way made threats that she will not stay in jail long, but the county authorities say they can hold her. Betsy's exploit in the jail has given her an added importance and value among her associates. Clje l^aration System aitb Justness By CHARLES F. PIDGIN. The term “busi ness” must be used to include all financial, commercial and indus trial enterprise, and when so used it covers a very large field. Into this field the system of summer vacation may be said to have pent trated to a comparatively slight extent. The great mass o» working people do not in any large measure enjoy vacations, except such as they take with loss of pay. » In some degree, however, this question is kindred to the ques tion whether shorter hours and better conditions for labor have had a good or a bad effect on business. The answer to this question, of course, is easy, because the figures are at hand to prove the increased productivity of the American workingman in the more favorable en vironment. Still the direct question of how business has been affected by the summer vacation system admits also of a direct answer. It may be said decisively that it has not hurt business wherever it has been tried. If it has not been tried on a very extensive scale, speaking com paratively, it yet has been tried on a sufficiently extensive scale to prove its merits. In the case of the salaried clerk distinct benefits undoubtedly have followed the introduction of the summer vacation system. In the first place, the person who looks forward to a vacation has constantly in mind a goal at the end of whicji is a certain prize. Other things being equal, the position that offers him a vacation offers to him a distinct attraction. He aims to retain that position during the months preceding the vacation season, and he looks forward to the prospect with pleasurable anticipation. It is often a joy that lightens toil. The employer himself, I think, is r$ady to testify that he is the better off, as well as the employe, for the rest and recreation that the employe obtains on a vacation. A tired employe may be as ineffective as a lazy one, and the wise employer appreciates this fact. Again, there is an economic advantage in the present vacation system, because it tends to take so many thousands of people out of the city every year for a period of two weeks or more, who distribute their expenditures in travel and in country places, which are developed in many ways by the money that the summer visitors bring. The summer visitor has been the builder, to a great extent, of prosperous towns and communities, that but for his visits would have remained undeveloped. Travel is a good thing for the trav everybody whom the traveler meets or with whom he sojourns. This is a phase of the summer vacation system that has been of dis tinct advantage to business. ^WAYS OF COOKING LAMB. •;A Few Recipes Approved by Our Eng lish Cousins, with Lamb Pie as Matter of Course. Stuffed Breast of Lamb.—Take one or two berasts of lamb according to the quantity required; put it whole into warm water, and boil gently foi one-half hour, remove to a dish, then take out as many of the bones and pieces of gristle as possible, spread the meat quite flat, then set aside to get cold. Make a stuffing with bread crumbs, chopped parsley, finely minced sweet herbs, and a little chopped lemon peel; season with pep per and salt, bind with an egg. Put | the stuffing on the boned side of the lamb, roll up tightly, and fasten with small skewers; place in a baking-tin sprinkle flour over, and bake one hour. Braised Shoulder of Lamb.—Bone a shoulder of lamb, cut off the knuckle season well with pepper and salt spiinkle with flour and a little mixed sweet herbs. Roll up tightly, and bind w-ith tape, or fix with small skewers Put into a fireproof earthen dish with cover, with it put about one ounce butter, and cook for about 20 minutes Cut up in slices two shallots, two on ions and two carrots, add to the meal with a tablesponful of chopped pars ley, and a bunch of sweet herbs; near ly cover with stock, then set in the oven, covering closely, and cook for two hours. Remove the meat to a hot dish, take off the tape, strain the gravy over, and serve very hot. A dish of tomatoes baked in bread crumbs is a nice vegetable to serve with this dish. Lamb Pie.—Middle of the neck of Iamb with just about two chops of the best end is used for this pie. Put it in warm water, and stew gently for one-half hour; there should only be enough water just to cover it; divide the meat in convenient size pieces, re move as much bone as possible, dip each piece of meat in flour, then sprin kle with pepper and salt, and a very little chopped parsley; cut up two sheep's kidneys in quarters, dip in flour, arrange them with the lamb in a pie-dish, nedrly fill the dish with the gravy the meat was boiled in, and from which the fat sould have been removed; cover with a short crust, and bake in a moderate oven for one and one-half hours. Stewed Neck of Lamb with Peas.— Cut up two-pound neck of lamb into convenient size pieces, put them in a stewpan with a breakfast-cupful of green peas, a small lettuce cut in pieces, six or eight green onions. iCover with cold water, then stew very gently for one and one-half hours. About 20 minutes before serving, a few more peas may be added at the same time, writh salt and pepper to taste. Serve on a very hot dish. Cold Roast Lamb Minced.—Cut the cold meat into small dice, boil the bones and all the rough pieces in a little water for one and one-half hours with a chopped-up onion Strain this gravy into a clean sauce pan, add a little mushroom ketchup and seasoning to taste. Put in the meat, keep it on the stove for one-half hour, but do not let it actually boil or the meat will harden. Serve on a hot dish surrounded by sippets of thin toast. USE OF THE COLD MEAT. There Are Many Delicious Ways of Serving What Is Left of a Cold Roast. The cold roast sliced thin is pink and juicy and makes a delicious sup per with some palatable condiment It is best, however, to save it till the next day, as even the most appetizing dish is not relished as much if served twice on the same day, says What-To Eat. Only perfect slices should be served cold, reserving the ragged bits for other uses. These may be warmed in the gravy with a little chopped on ion, and poured over split hot bis cuits. Or they may be made into de licious hash with potatoes and onion, and served on slices of toast. Still another way is to run them through a chopper with half the amount of bread crumbs and a small onfon. Add the cold gravy and a beaten egg. This may either be molded into small, flat cakes and fried, or baked in a loaf to be served with tomato gravy. A sim ple but palatable salad may be made by chopping fine some of the bits, add ing an equal amount of chopped cel ery and a little onion; make a dress ing of vinegar and made mustard. Serve on a lettuce leaf, garnished with hard-boiled eggs, cut in quarters lengthwise. There Is no more delicious or di gestible meat than a rare beef roast, if properly cooked, and each successive “warming over” may be made a de light.—Prairie Farmer. To Make Colors Fast. To preserve the colors of ginghams, printed lawns, etc., and before wash ing almost any colored fabrics, it is recommended to soak them for some time in water to every gallon of which Is added a spoonful of ox gall. A strong, clear tea of common hay will preserve the color of French linens. Vinegar in the rinsing water for pin* and green fabrics will brighten these colors, and soda answers the same purpose for both purple and blue. Tne colors of the above fabrics may be preserved by using a strong, milk warm lather of white soap, putting the dress into it instead of rubbing it on the material, and stirring into a first and second tub of rins.ng water a large tablespoonful of ox gall. To prepare ox gall for washing colored articles empty it into a bottle, put in it a handful of salt and keep it closely corked. A teacupful to five gallons of the rinsing water will suffice. Under the Matting. When laying matting, place several thicknesses of newspaper under it, to catch the dust which sieves through After a thorough sweeping, freshen matting by going over it with a cloth dampened with ammonia water. When Cleaning Carpet. To clean your carpet, lay it face down on grass and whip with rattan switches. Then sweep thoroughly on both sides, and lastly go over the right side with a cloth wrung out of ammonia water. TONIC TREATMENT Weak Stomach and Sick Headache Cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. The symptoms of stomach trouble vary. Some victims have a ravenous appetite,others loathe the sight of food Often there is a feeling as of weight ou the chest, a full feeling in the thn a; Sometimes the gas presses on the h art and leads the sufferer to think h<- b - heart disease. Sick headache is a fre quent and distressing symptom. A weak stomach needs a digestive tonic and that there is no better tome for this purpose than Dr. Williams Pu..; Pills is shown by the statement of M A. O. Merrill, a mining man, of Oneal*. Calif., a veteran of Battalion C, Thir l U. S. Regular Infantry. “ I had never been well since I left the army,” he says, “alwayshaving ha : trouble with my stomach, which wa weak. I was run down and debilitated. Could keep nothing on my stomach, and at times had sick headache so bai that I did not care whether I lived or died. _ My stomach refused to retain jveu liquid food and I almost despaired of getting well as I had tried so many kinds of medicine without relief. Then I was bitten by a rattlesnake and that laid me up from work entirely for a year, six months of which I spent in l>ed. “ One day a friend recommended Dr. Williams’ Piuk Pills to me and I began taking them. They cured me when all other medicine had failed. I have recommended the pills to a great many, for daring my recovery every one asked me what was helping me so' and I told them Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. I can not speak too highly of them.” If yon want good health yon must have good blood. Dr. Williams' Piuk Pill actually make new blood and rest nr shattered nerves. They are sold by all druggists or sent, postpaid, ou re oeipt of price, 50c, per box, six boxes for $2.50 by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y Suggesting Safe Coarse. McFibb—That fellow Huskle called me a liar! Newitt—Yes? “Yes. What would you do about It?’’ "Well, if I were you. I'd make it a point always to tell the truth when he’a around.--Catholic Standard. Best He Could Say. "What do you think of these peek a-boo shirtwaists the girls are wear ing?” "Well, they’re almost clothes.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Cure the Kidneys and the Pain Will Never Return. Only one way to cure an aching back. Cure the cause, the kidneys. ihousands tell of [ cures made by * Doan’s Kidney Phils. John C. Coleman, a i prominent merchant I of Swainsboro, Ga., [ says: “For several years my kidneys were affected, and my back ached day and night. I was languid, nervous and lame in the morning. Doan’s Kidney Pills helped me right away, and the great relief that followed has been permanent " Sold by all dealers. 50 eents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. REASON OF HIS GRUDCE. And It Was Good and Sufficient, Ac cording to His Con struction. “Sir,” we said to the stranger whom we were endeavoring to enlist in our society for the preservation of Niagara falls, “now that we have outlined the motives and principles of our organi zation will you not put your name in the roll?” “Not by a long shot,” he growled, relates Judge. “But. sir,” we argued, surprised at such a callousness toward the beauties of nature, “surely you, like all other patriotic citizens, wish to see this ma jestic spectacle of grandeur preserved from the ruthless hands of commer cialism.” “Don't care a hoot about it.” he muttered, turning, as though to leave ns. We clutched at his coat lapel and begged him to wait a moment. “Do you mean to sr.y.” we continued, “that you do not care if this mighty cataract were changed from a marvel ous. inspiring, awe-compelling sight to a measly, factory-dotted cliff?” “As I told you,” he answered, shak ing himself loose, “I don’t care a con tinental cuss what becomes of Niag ara. I went there on my wedding tour.” Then we noticed a large bump where his bald spot is growing toward his neck. Iwows now Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Case for a Time. It’s easy to understand how ordi nary people get fooled by coffee when doctors themselves sometimes forget the facts. A physician speaks of his own ex perience: “I had used coffee for years and really did not exactly believe it was injuring me although I had palpita tion of the heart every day. “Finally one day a severe and al most fatal attack of heart trouble frightened me and I gave up both tea and coffee, using Postum instead and since that time I have had ab solutely no heart palpitation except on one or two occasions when 1 tried a small quantity of coffee which caused severe irritation and proved to me I must let it alone. “When we began using Postum it seemed weak—that was because we did not make it according to diree tions—but now we put a little bit of butter in the pot when boiling and allow the Postum to boil full 15 min utes which gives it the proper rich flavor and the deep brown color. “I have advised a great many of my friends and patients to leave off coffee and drink Postum, in fact I daily give this advice.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Many thousands of physicians use Postum in place of tea and coffee in their own homes and prescribe it to patients. “There’s a reason.” A remarkable little book. “The Road to Wellville,” can be found in Pkga.