Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA.
Immigrants Enslaved.
The Italian immigrants and other la
borers sent to the south and west by
New York padrones are the victims of
cruel treatment and repression is one
of the statements made by License
Commissioner John N. Pogart in the
annual report of the work of his of
fice, which he submitted to-day to
Mayor McClellan. Mr. Bogart reported:
"The Italian immigrants are too gen
erally the victims of the padrone. It
is characteristic of the Italian immi
grant that he looks with suspicion on
everybody but his own countryman,
and in him he puts a confidence that is
almost incredible. The padrone has
practically instituted slave system
among his countrymen. He hires the
immigrants by the hundred to go out
of the city to work on contracts and
obtains from the employing corpora
tion what is known as the commissary
privileges; that is, he furnishes the
workmen with food and lodging, de
ducting the cost from their wages. As
the padrone is the sole arbitrator of
the cost of these necessaries, it can be
imagined how much the ignorant im
migrant obtains as the n U result of his
labor. In recent cases brought to the
attention of the commiss.oner of li
censes it was shown that hundreds of
Italian immigrants who believed they
were going to Philadelphia or Pitts
burg were really landed in the swamps
of Florida and the wilds of North Car
olina, where they were kept on rail
road construction work under the sur
veillance of armed guards until they
became too sick to be of value, when
they were turned loose to make their
way back to New York as best they
could.”
Value of Services.
' It only remains to decide who shall
determine the value of the individual’s
service in industry. Shall it be de
termined by public officials who have
no direct interest in the matter, or
shall it be left to the judgment of
those who receive the service? As to
which is the safer method, says an
Atlantic writer, there can scarcely be
a moment’s doubt. Granting all that
may be said about the depravity of
popular tastes and the whimsicalities
of fashion, of the maltreatment of the
genius and the prosperity of the time
server, all this and more may be said
about the insolence of office, and the
arbitrariness and stupidity of public
officials, elective as well as hereditary.
Obviously, no one is in so good a po
sition to appraise the value of a serv
ice as the one who is to receive it.
His judgment or his taste may be
perverted, but the same is equally
likely in the case of any functionary
to w-hom it may be entrusted. If the
individual is to be left free to pursue
his own interest in the way of per
forming service, it seems to follow
necessarily that he must also be left
free to pursue his own interest in the
way of securing the services of
others.
“Shape” Bars from Job.
Shape counts for more than scientific
knowledge as a qualification with the
civil service commission, according to
the assertions of Miss Dana L. May, a
comely miss from Mulligan. Miss
May is in Washington camping on the
trail of the commissione-s. She is a
graduate of Ann Arbor high school
and the state normal school at Ypsi
lanti, Mich. She brings documentary
proof to show that on her mental ex
amination she made a string of 100s in
every branch except two or three. The
result of her physical examination was
a disappointment, anl when she
sought explanation she was informed,
she says, that she was net tall enough
in proportion to her width. Miss May
confesses she is in tho ‘ short and
stout” class. “If I were a society miss
with a wealthy father 1 suppose I
would be called ‘petite,’ ” said she.
(‘‘As it is I am short and stout.”
1 While John D. Rockefeller is enjoy
ing life abroad the manager of his
’huge estate in the Pocaiuico hills is
paying 25 cents each fcr all snakes
killed on the property. This disburse
ment is at the request of Rockefeller,
.who is mortally afraid of snakes. They
'abound in the Buttermilk hill section
and the oil king never sets foot on the
ground there, always having a car
riage. He also offers two dollars for
every dog killed on the estate, though
he had some difficulty with neighbors
on this account. His offer for the ex
termination of snake3 has, however,
been welcomed by everybody in the
neighborhood.
It would not be advisable for the
average man to follow the example of
Gabriele D’Annunzio in the matter of
traveling outfit Recently on a Jour
ney D'Annunzio took 14 trunks and an
Italian newspaper had the enterprise
to make an inventory of their com mts
with the following result in part:
Seventy-two shirts, 144 pairs of plain
socks, 24 pairs of silk socks, 48 pairs
of day gloves, 24 pairs of evening
gloves, eight silk mufflers, eight violet
umbrellas, ten green parasols, 20 dozen
handkerchiefs and 100 colored cravats.
Joe Tung Lee, a Chinese junior in
New York university, took second
prize at an "oratorical contest” there.
A young Jerseyman named Limonze
took first; he Is a licensed Methodist
preacher and is working his way
through.
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Judge McVey of the district court at
Des Moines Las ruled that a man who
smoker cigarettes is not a fit person to
bare the care and custody of a child.
Some of these district judges know
what’s what
LOVE, HOPE AND WORK
How Lina Cavalieri, “Most Beautiful Woman of
Europe/’ Has Won Her Way to Fame and
Fortune by Hard Work.
IS AIDED BY HER SISTER’S DEVOTION
Love Affair with Prince Alexander Baratinski the Begin
ning of Resolve to Give Up Easy Life and Fit Herself
for the Trying Roles Written by the Most Fa
mous Masters of Music--Now the Idol
of Adoring Paris.
Paris.—That the most heautitui
woman of Europe,” may be discontent
ed with her job is shown by the ex
traordinary case of Lina Cavalieri.
As a music hall star of the first
magnitude she was flattered and feted.
She had but to show her beautiful per
son and warble a few ditties to earn
heavy money. The world had prac
tically told her that her loveliness was
all-sufficient without talent.
• Lina Cavalieri tossed aside the bril
liant sinecure and plodded the hard
road leading to grand opera. When
Parisians learned it they shrugged at
the unpractical choice and as good as
forgot her. Now she has just given
them a might}’ jolt by coming back as
a grand opera star, with a rumored
engagement at the Paris opera itself;
and furthermore she has just bought
a splendid mansion in the Avenue de
Messine. But why she grew discon
tented with being “the most beautiful
woman of Europe,” and how she threw
up the music hall sinecure on the off
chance of succeeding in grand opera
remains a secret.
The secret spring of Lina's change
of base began with a great hope, con
tinued through a great despair and
ended in a great devotion. The hope
and the despair were those of worldly
love. But the devotion was that of a
sister.
Nothing could be more striking than
the contrast between the lives chosen
by the two girls. When their widowed
mother died ill Rome in 1889 Ada was
15 years of age and Lina 17. As there
were no relatives and the property was
small, friends put them in a convent
school of aristocratic connections,
whose side specialty was the edu
siderable Russian house and a young
inan about Paris.
Prince Alexander came to have im
mense admiration for the talent, the
voice, the beauty and the goodness of
the girl.
“You must cultivate that voice,” he
told her. "You are wasting yourseit
on the music hall stage, which is not
worthy of you. Take up opera!” he
advised her.
On Road to Grand Opera.
Like the camel that is being loaded,
Lina groaned in spirit. Like the
I camel, she was slow in getting started.
I But, still like that reliable creature,
; once started, she kept going. In 1896-7
| the music halls saw no more of Lina
; Cavalieri: and it became known that
1 she was diligently cultivating her voice
under Mine. Mariani-Masi.
Three years passed in work and love
and hope. Then Lina's chance came in
1900, when she was allowed to make
her debut at no less a musical center
| than the Theater Royal of Lisbon as
Nedda in “Pagliacci.”
Unhappily, the Lisbon public is a
hard one. When it pays for grand
opera it insists on having something
near perfection. The debutante was
young, exceedingly lovely, with a
sweet voice; but she showed inexperi
ence. Did she not aiso display nerv
ousness due to emotion over some lov
ers’ misunderstanding? One would
prefer to think so—for the judging of
Prince Alexander!
The first night the Lisbon public
made no sign. The second night it
simply chased the whole company from
the stage of the Theater Royal.
Alas for work, for hope, for love!
There was riot in front of the curtain
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cation of poor girls of good family for
governesses and companions.
Has World at Her Feet.
On account of her age, Lina’s time in
the school was short. Once in the
world, it did not take her long to de
cide against the teaching career. Be
sides her beautiful person, she had a
pretty voice; and even had the voice
been less her first appearance on the
music hall stage left no doubt as to
the kind of success she might expect.
It was at this time that Lina Cavalierl
gave her friendship to Prince Alexan
der Baratinski, second son of a con
and panic and recriminations behind it,
and in a row that would not have been
out of place in a Latin quarter cafe
Lina Cavalieri and Alexander Baratin
ski spoke their parting words.
We know no more than this. Was
it one of love's hateful treasons? Was
it desertion in the hour of need? The
girl had worked and slaved to please
him. The world would have liked to
see him stand manfully by her in her
hour of failure. That Lina has never
accused him proves nothing. She may
have been too proud—or she may have
been in the wrong. And, note, that
Baratinsld never defended himself
proves nothing. He may have been too
chivalrous or ho may have had no
excuse.
Barntinskl fled to his yacht. Simply
that.
Cavalierl moved with dignity to the
railway station. On her lonely trip
from Lisbon to Paris by the Sud Ex
press, accompanied only by a faithful
maid, the company disbanded—who
knows what hitter thoughts may have
been hers? Ah, work that had all gone
for nothing! Henlly, 1 know of no
more pathetic figure than that of the
disabused and lonely girl returning to
Paris.
A few weeks later in Paris she
learned that Prince Alexander had al
lowed his Paris apartment to be sold
out by the sheriff. The young folks
never met again. Prince Alexander
shortly afterward married the young
Princess Yourievski, morganatic
daughter of the deceased Czar Alexan
der II., living with her mother in high
Parisian society. And Lina Cavalieri ,
remained "the most beautiful woman
of Europe!”
lime. Mariani-llasi she began to hope
And when at last Lina was to make hei
debut in grand opera at Lisbon she
was waiting anxiously to learn the re
sult.
When she learned the pitiful result
Ada Cavalieri took a great decision.
Quitting her place at Genoa she hurried
to Paris.
She settled down beside her wound
ed and reckless sister. Did she try to
comfort her? How could the born old
maid comfort her? But it is certain
that the frigid Ada wrestled with th<
fiery Lina seven days—and triumphed!
Groaning in spirit like the camel,
Lina again renounced the easy life and
money of the music halls. Again she
took up the burden of grand opera.
Love, with great shining eyes, no long
er beckoned her. But on and on she
bore the burden, with her sister always
by her. How she finally succeeded is
well known.
In 1901 she was singing the principal
part of Mimi in Puccini's “Vie de
Boheme’’ at no less an opera house
than the San Carlo of Naples. Next she
secured a brilliant engagement for an
entire season at the Imperial theater
of Warsaw—singing Violetta in “Trav
iata,” Marguerite in “Faust,” Mimi in
"Vie de Boheme”—and taking fine re
venge on the cruel Lisbon public by an
overwhelming triumph as Nedda.
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Here the devoted sister intervened
with force front her humble empioy
: ment at Genoa.
Too Beautiful for Governess.
On leaving the Roman convent
school three years after her elder sis
1 ter had quitted it, Ada Cavalieri (to
1 give her the family name adopted and
j made famous by the other) had to face
the same hard proposition that con
' fronted Lina.
She was quite as beautiful as Lina.
Indeed—as you shall learn, if you have
not already heard it—the sisters d*ok so
much alike that photographs, of one
have been mistaken for the other.
Also, she had a voice. Yet she never
hesitated. She had been educated for
, a governess. It was correct and hon
orable to be a governess. And a gov
! erness she would be. Even after she
had lost her first three places by a
strange and unique fault she never
wavered.
Surely, it was a unique fault.
‘ This young girl is too beautiful to
be a governess,” wrote her first em
ployer to the superioress of the school
as she returned her. ‘'Her conduct has
been irreproachable. She is goodness
itself, intelligent, patient and with a
talent for teaching. Yet I will not
keep her. Her presence cannot but
prove a danger in a household.”
At last a good and generous lady—
beautiful enough herself not to be jeal
ous of another's beauty—took the per
secuted Signorina Ada as teacher for
her two small children. I may not
give her name; she was the wife of a
foreign consul.
Ada Cavalieri had watched her bril
liant sister's triumphs with uneasy
wonderment that grew to terror.
She had fought with Lina lo give up
the music hail career. She had never
ceased bombarding her with letters of
expostulation. Later on she compro
mised.
Urged Sister Onward.
“If you will not give up the stage, be
a real artiste!” was her final appeal.
When Lina had begun studying with
Succeeding years confirmed this suc
cess, and artistic and social satisfac
tions of grand opera ceased to cost her
anything financially. Or. the contrary,
she had never done so well in the halls.
At the Theater of Ravenna, at the
Grand Theater of Palermo, at the
Opera of St. Petersburg, and notably
at the ultra-artistic Casino-Theater at
Monte Carlo she has had repeated en
gagements. In Russia she is all the
rage. Her own country of Italy has
taken her to its heart.
And she has bought a mansion in the
Avenue de Mecsine for her Paris resi
dence!
During her present summer vacation
she will furnish it herselt—a work of
peaceful satisfaction.
Beautiful Old Maid.
It is a quiet street and rich—the
Avenue de Messine. It is a short
street of only 34 numbers, running
from the statue of William Shake
speare in the little square of the Boule
vard Haussmann to the delightful Parc
Monceau, surrounded by its palaces.
It is a street of the newly rich, per
haps: few great titied families live in
it. But those who inhabit it are snug
and at peace with the world. Well,
among all, there will be none more
snug than a most glorious old maid.
You know who it is. There can be
but one such—“the most beautiful old
maid in the world!”
In her own way she is happy. Is it
not strange Here is beauty gone to
waste, you will say. Well, judge for
yourself. Some time ago the somber
sister had a skittish moment. It in
cited her to prove her equal beauty.
How she dressed in one of Lina’s
gowns and posed to one of the first
Paris photographers as her famous sis
ter is a tale that has been more than
once told.
For a time the counterfeit present
ments circulated in commerce, being
practically undistinguishable from pho
tographs of Lina Cavalieri. Nowaday.*
they scarcely exist.
She Pare of the “(three W&”
in Hiuhent lEimratum
By WILLIAM H. MAXWELL.
Superintendent of New York City Schools.
HE public schools have been a good deal criticised for what
is said to be a neglect of the “Three R's’’ and the tendency
to special courses. As a matter of fact, the so-called “Three
R's” have probably never been more carefully taught than
now. I know that there are many people who would return
to the barren instruction of 60 years ago, despite modern
educational methods. It is said that children to-day do not
spell and cipher as well as those of half a century ago, and
great has been the lamentation over the change.
But the facts are quite different. It is not generally
known that actual tests have been made by submitting the examination
questions of 60 years ago to the children of to-day in similar grades.
In the test made in Springfield Mass., it was found that whereas in 1846
there 40^ per cent, jwho spelled in the test correctly, in 1905
there was 51 per cent. In arithmetic the contrast was even more
remarkable. Sixty years ago 29 per cent, of the class had solved the
problems correctly, while in 1906 65 per cent, were correct.
So much for Springfield. The tests made in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
were even more striking. The questions were given to boys and girls
in the eighth year of the elementary schools, where the children were
much younger than in the tests made in 1846. The percentage of cor
rect answers at that time had been 29, while in Brooklyn it was 71 per
cent. In the arithmetical tests in 1846 the percentage of pupils who
received 70 per cent, or more was 17, while in Brooklyn it was 35. Six
ty years ago more than two per cent, missed every word and more than
ten per cent, spelled but one word correctly. In the Brooklyn test there
was not a pupil who missed every word nor one who spelled but one
word correctly. Again, in the test in 1846 some 27 per cent, missed 17
words or more, while in the Brooklyn test but a trifle more than one
per cent, spelled so badly. The figures speak for themselves.
Very positive conclusions may be drawn from these figures. In
stead of neglecting the three R’s, it will be seen that our pupils are
twice as proficient as were the children of 60 years ago, for all their
oldtime brain tiring and uninteresting drill. Meanwhile our modern
course has been extended to include execution and expression in im
proving those attainments that depend chiefly on judgment and mem
ory. The acquisition of skill in any intellectual or bodily function de
velops a reserve of intellectual power to be drawn upon when occasion
requires.
The work is becoming less theoretical and more practical along
all lines. - -
Girl Eorsebreaker.
Miss Winnonah Vpn Ohl„ a New
Jersey girl 20 years old, is making
quite a reputation as a horsebreaker.
Five years ago, a slender slip of a
girl, she went to South Dakota with
her mother, who had been sent thither
for a change of climate. Miss Win
nonah learned to ride bronchos out
there and on returning east she took
to training and breaking horses, in
which work she has been remarkably
successful. She has never sustained
any injury while thus engaged.
Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trouble
can be entirely overcome by using De
fiance Starch, as it cap be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Sacrifice Made by Judge.
Justice Holmes, of the supreme
court, in order that he may preserve
his mind free from distractions of in
formation and misinformation that
would impair his efficiency and wis
dom as a jurist, does not allow him
self to read the newspapers.
Little Girl’s Desire.
Mabel had always worn high-topped
shoes, much to hr own dissatisfaction,
and one day while admiring her moth
er’s slippers she said: “Mamma,
can't X have a pair of low-necked
shoes next summer?”
Any man who has to get up and get
his own breakfast while his wife lies
in bed is likely to feel like turning
the “God Bless Our Home” motto to
the wall.
Defiance Starch—Good, hot or cold—
the best for all kinds of laundry work,
1G oz. for 10c.
One-half the world doesn’t know how
the other half lives, unless it is by
not paying their bills.—Puck.
Lewis’ Single Binder straight 5c. Many
smokers prefer them to 10c cigars . Your
dealer or I,ewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.
The amount of work a boy puts into
baseball would raise a lot of potatoes
for him to eat.—N. Y. Press.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap.
For child ren teething, softens the gums, reduce? In
flammetlon. allays pain, curaa wind colic. 25c a bottle.
It lequlres tha burning of a good :
deal of money to make a “hot time.”
OPERATION AVOIDED
EXPERIENCEOFMISS MERKLEY
She Wae Told That an Operation Wan
Inevitable. How She Escaped It.
When a physician tells a woman suf
fering with serious feminine trouble
that an operation is necessary, the very
thought of the knife and the' operating
table strikes terror to her heart, and
our hospitals are full of women coining
for just such operations.
There are cases where an operation
is the only resource, hut when out* e ,
siders the great number of cases of
menacing female troubles cured by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound after physicians have adv 1
operations, no womanshouhl submit to
one without first trying the Vegetal,
Compound and writing Mrs. Pinhh . ,
Lynn, Mass., for advice, which ;
Miss Margret Merkley. of 27:, Th i
Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
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shooting pe-ins through the pelvic nry, ■
bearing down pains and cramps romp • i
me to seek medical advice. The doctor, aft
making an examination, said 1 had a tee
trouble and ulceration and advised an oj
tion. To this I strongly objected and dm ; 1
to try Lvdia E. Pinkham's Vegetal,]- i
pound. The ul<*eration quickly healed ail
the bad symptoms disappeared and I am
once more strong, vigorous and well.'1
Female troubles are steadily on the
Increase among women. I f the month
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