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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, • • • NEBRASKA. The Educational Spirit. Dr. Andrew S. Draper, writing on the trend of our modern education ir. Appleton’s for August, closes his pa per with this significant paragraph: “No one can foresee the destiny ol the republic, but that there is an ed ucational purpose abroad in the land which has never before been so per vasive and so ambitious in any land seems clear. It is the spirit of a mighty people, gathered from the ends of the earth, enlightened by the world experiences of a thousand years. It is the spirit of a people with out look and expectancy. They expect to use the wealth and the political power of the nation to make certain that every son and daughter of the nation shall have the fullest and freest ed ucational opportunity. The functions of the state concerning every manner .of educational activity, in and out of schools, are being steadily enlarged and strengthened through the initia tive or the common desire of the mul titude. Growing appreciation -s giv ing greater heed to the advanced in stitutions and bringing them to the aid of all institutions, and therefore to the intellectual quickening of the entire country. Everything that the nation, the state, or the municipality can do to aid true learning, without any Injustice, it is to be made to do. And the learning which aids doing, and the culture which is tne product of labor, are to be of the most worth.” Minnows and Mosquitoes. Scientists, who have been battling against mosquitoes with crude oil and other devices for destroying the troublesome and dangerous pests, have come to the conclusion that min nows are of more service than oil in ridding water of mosquitoes. Gold fish have been used with great suc cess in Hawaii in destroying mos quitoes, and a test of the services oi toy minnows in the same work has satisfied the scientists that the lat ter are more efficient, and especially so in stagnant water. Southern cit ies which have been spending consid erable amounts in the purchase of oil for destroying yellow fever mosqui toes are now considering the more general use of minnows in stagnant pools, says the Chicago Sun. The city of New Orleans is spending $60,000 in a campaign against mosquitoes, and the chief city health officer fa vors the use of minnows rather than any other means that has been test ed. Here again a remedy that crea tion seems to have supplied natural ly for the work has been indorsed after much expensive experimenting in other lines. A New Departure in Banking. Is the time-honored phrase “in banking hours” to become obsolete? A step, at least, in this direction has been taken in the establishment, in the city of New York, of a bank that never closes except on Sundays and holidays. It does business day and night. At this bank money passes to and fro across the counter from dawn to dawn. What would Father Knick erbocker say to midnight banking? asks the Four-Track News. And yet why not? It is one more great con venience added to modern life. It typifies the spirit of our age. Every thing must be ready to our hand. We ■will not wait until to-morrow for the thing that we want to-day. The but tons of our desires must be where we can press them at will. We tele phone, telegraph, travel at midnight —and now we bank at midnight. It is the logic of events; the answer to the onrush of modern life. John D. Rockefeller is learning tard ily the important truth that com munion with the world is worth more than great riches, says the Washing ton Star. For years this man has led a life apart from his fellows. Natur ally of a shrinking nature, and secre tive to an unusual degree, he has held aloof by means of his money, buying great estates wherein he could lock himself away from the sight of his fellow men, hiring guards to keep the public at a distance, riding in special trains and on private yachts and oth erwise maintaining a distance between himself and the ordinary run of men. This very exclusiveness whetted the public curiosity and increased the pressure. Rockefeller made the mis take common to many men of his temperament of thinking to avoid at tention by forbidding it The average woman would rather have her husband pat her cheek than give her a thousand dollars.—San Francisco Bulletin. Most men, re marks the Chicago Record-Herald, wili have to accept this statement as cor rect, because they have no means of disproving it. The post office department approves the automobile for rural delivery serv ice, but the carriers are waiting to hear where the bargain counter is located. A French paper speaks of Secretary Root as "that Yankee intruder” in the affairs of Central and South America. Not an intruder, says the Boston Herald—simply a follower of one James Monroe, and in that capacity a welcome guest. The fact that there are only about a dozen Americans now in St Peters burg is ■ an indication that several Americans abroad have decided to do their innocent by-standing in some rather more favorable place. A TOOL FOR LOVE By FRANCIS LYNDE AUTHOR OF "THE GRAFTERS." ETC. (Copyright, 1806. by J.F. Lappinoott Co.) CHAPTER V.—Continued. Here the matter rested; and, having done what she conceived to be her charitable duty, Virginia was as anx ious to get away as heart—the heart of a slightly bored Reverend Billy, tor instance—could wish. So they bade Adams good-by and picked their way down the frozen em bankment and across the ice bridge; down and across and back to the Rose mary, where they found a perturbed chaperon in a flatter of solicitude aris ing upon their mysterious disappear ance and long absence. "It may be just as well not to tell any of them where we have been,” said Virginia in an aside to her cousin. And so the incident of tea-drinking in the enemy s camp was safely put away like a little personal note in its en velope with the nap gummed down. CHAPTER VI. While the technoiogian was dispen sing commissary tea in iron-stone china cups to his two guests in the “dinkey” field office, his chief, taking the Rose mary’s night run in reverse in the company of Town Marshal Biggin, was turning the Rajah’s coup into a small Utah profit. Having come upon the ground late the night before, And from the oppo site direction, he had seen nothing of the extension grade west of Argentine. Hence the enforced journey to Carbon ate only anticipated an inspection trip which he had intended to make as soon as he had seated Adams firmly in the track-laying saddle. Not to miss his opportunity, at the first curve beyond Argentine he passed his cigar case to Biggin and asked permission to ride on the rear plat form of the day coach i.or inspection purposes. “Say, pardner, what do you take me fer, anyhow?” was the reproachful re joinder. “For a gentleman in disguise,” said Winton, promptly. “Sim’larly, I do you; savvy? You tell me you ain’t goin’ to stampede, and you ride anywhere you blame please. See? This here C. & G. R. outfit ain’t got no surcingle on me.” Winton smilea. “I haven’t any notion of stamped ing. As it happens, I’m only a day ahead of time. I should have made this run to-morrow of my own accord to have a look at the extension grade. You will find me oh the rear platform when you want me. ’ “Good enough,” was the reply; and Winton went to his post of observa tion. ton; whereupon they went in to ap pease the offended majesty of the law. As Winton had predicted, his an swer to the court summons was a mere formality. On parting with his chief at the Argentine station plat form, Adams’ first care had been to wire news of the arrest to the Utah headquarters. Hence Winton fopnd the company’s attorney waiting for him in Judge Whitcomb’s courtroom, and his release on an appearance bond was only a matter of moments. The legal affair dismissed, there en sued a weary interval of time-killing. There was no train back to Argentine until nearly five o’clock in the after noon, and the hours dragged heavily for the two, who had nothing to do but wait. Biggin endured his part of it manfully till the midday dinner had been discussed; then he drifted off with one of Winton’s cigars between his teeth, saying that he should “take poison” and shoot up the town if ha could not find some more peaceful means of keeping his blood in circula tion. It was a little after three o’clock, and Winton was sitting at the writ ing table in the lobby of the hotel elaborating his hasty note-book data of the morning’s inspection, when a boy came in with a telegram. The young engineer was not so deeply en grossed in his work as to be deaf to the colloquy. "Mr. John Winton? Yes, he is here somewhere,” said ine clerk in answer to the boy’s question; and after an identifying glance, “There he is—over at the writing table.” Winton turned in his chair and saw the boy coming towards him; also ne saw the ruffian pointed out by Biggin from the courthouse steps and labeled "Sheeny Mike” lounging up to the clerk’s desk for a wfc.'cpered word with the bediamonded gentleman behind it. What followed was cataclysmal in its way. The lounger took three stag gering lurches towards Winton, Greatly to his satisfaction, he found that the trip over the C. & G. R. an swered every purpose of a preliminary inspection of the Utah grade beyond Argentine. For 17 of the 20 miles the two lines were scarcely more than a stone’s throw apart, and when Biggin joined him at the junction above Car bonate he hao his note-book well filled with the necessary data. "Make it, all right?” inquired the friendly bailiff. “Yes, thanks. Have another cigar?” "Don’t care if I do. Say, that old fire-eater back yonder in the private car has got a mighty pretty gal, ain’t he?” "The young lady is his niece,” said Winton, wishing that Mr. Biggin would find other food for comment. "I don’t care; she’s pretty as a Jer sey two-year-old.” “It’s a fine day,” observed Winton; and then, to background Miss Carteret effectually as a topic, “How do the people cf Argentine feel about the op position to our line?” “They’re red-hot; you can put your money on that. The C. & G. R.’s a sure-enough tail-twister where there ain’t no competition. Your road’ll get every pound of ore in the camp if it ever gets through.” Winton made a mental note of tnis up-cast of public opinion, and set it over against the friendly attitude of the official Mr. Biggin. It was very evident that the tdwn marshal was serving the Rajah’s purpose only be cause he had to. “I suppose you stand with your townsmen on that, don’t you?” he ven tured. “Now you’re shouting; that’s me.” “'then if that is the case, we won’t take this little holiday of ours anj harder than we can help. When the court business is settled—it won’t take very long—you are to consider your self my guest. We stop at the Buck ingham.” un, we do, da we? Say, ’pardner, that’s white—mighty white. If I’d ’a’ been an inch or so more’n half awake this morning when that old b’iler buster’s hired man routed me out, I’d ’a’ told him to go to blazes with his warrant. Next time I frill.” Winton shook his head. “There isn’t going to be any ‘next time,’ Peter, my son,” he prophesied. “When Mr. Darrah gets fairly down to business he’ll throw bigger chunks than the Argentine town marshall at us.” By this time the train was slowing into Carbonate, and a few minutes after the stop at the crowded platform they were making their way up the single bustling stret of the town to the courthouse. “Ever see so many tin-horns and bunco people bunched In all your round-ups?” said Biggin as they el bowed through the uneasy, shifting groups in front of the hotel. “Not often,” Winton admitted. “But it’s the luck of the big camps; they are the dumping grounds of the world while the high pressure is on.” The ex-range rider turned on the courthouse steps to look the sidewa.it loungers over with narrowing eyes. “There’s Sheeny Mike and Big Otto and half a dozen others right there in front o’ the Buckingham that couldn’t stay to breathe twice in Ar gentine. And this town’s got a po lice!” the comment with lip-curling scorn. “It also has a county court which Is probably waiting for us,” said Win If I know it. Let him take it into court if he wants to. I’ll be there, too." The beaten one was up now and ap parently looking for an officer. "I’m takin’ ye all to witness,” he rasped. “I v-is on’y askin’ him to cash up what he lose to me las’ night, and he jumps me. But I’ll stick him if there’s any law in this camp.” Now all this'time Winton had been holding the unopened telegram crum pled in his list, but when Biggin pushed nim out of the circle and tnrust him up to the clerk’s desk, he be thought him to read the message. It was Virginia’s warning, signed by Adams, and a single glance at the clos ing sentence was enough to cool him suddenly. ‘‘Pay the bill, Biggin, and join me in the billiard room, quick!” he whis pered, pressing money into the town marshal’s hand and losing himself in the crowd. And when Biggin had obeyed his instructions: “Now for a back way out of this if there is one. We’ll have to take to the hills till train time.” They found a way through the bar and out into a side street leading abruptly up to the fir-clad hills be hind the town. Biggin held his peace until they were safe from immediate danger of pursuit. Then his curiosity got the better of him. “Didn’t take you more’n a week to change your mind about pullin’ it off with that tin-horn scrapper in the courts, did it?” No, said VYinton. “ ’Taint none o’ my business, but I’d like to know what stampeded you.” “A telegram”—shortly. “It was a put-up job to have me locked up on a criminal charge, and so hold me out another day.” Biggin grinned. “The old b’iler buster again. Say, he’s a holy terror, ain’t he?” “He doesn’t mean to let me build my railroad if he can help it.” The ex-cowboy found his sack of chip tobacco and dexterously rolled a cigarette in a bit of brown wrapping paper. "If that’s the game, Mr. Sheeny Mike, or his backers, will be most likely to play it to a finish, don’t you guess?” "How?” “By havin’ a po-liceman layin’ for you at the train.” “I hadn’t thought of that.” “Well, I can think you out of it, I reckon. The branch train is a ’com modation, and it’ll stop most any where if you throw up your hand at it. We can take out through the woods LET S HIKE OUT O’ THIS, PRONiO!” brushed the messenger boy aside, and burst out in a storm of maudlin in vective. "Sign yerself ‘Winton’ now, do ye, ye low-down, turkey-trodden—” “One minute,” said Winton, curtly, taking the telegram from the boy and signing for it. “I’ll give ye more’n ye can carry away in less’n half that time—see?” was the minatory retort; and the threat wa3 made good by an awkward buffet which would have knocked the engineer out of his chair if he had remained in it. Now Winton’s eyes were gray and steadfast, but his hair was of that shade of brown which takes the tint of dull copper in certain lights, and he had a temper which went with the red in his hair rather than with the gray in his eyes. Wherefore his at tempt to placate his assailant was something less than diplomatic. “You drunken scoundrel!” he snapped, “if you don’t go about your business and let me alone, I’ll turn you over to the police with a broken bone or two! ’ The bully’s answer was a blow de livered straight from the shoulder— too straight to harmonize with the fic tion of drunkenness. Wlnton saw the sober purpose in it and went battle mad, as a hasty man will. Being a skillful boxer—which his antagonist was not—he did what he had to do neatly and with commendable dis patch. Down, up; down, up; down a third time, and then the bystanders interfered. “Hold on!” “That’ll do!” “Don’t you see he’s drunk?” “Enough’s as good as a feast—let him go.” Winton’s blood was up, but he de sisted, breathing threatenings. Where at Biggin shouldered his way into the circle. "Pay your bill and let’s hike out o’ this, pronto; ’ he said in a low tone. “You ain’t got ho time to fool with a Carbonate justice shop.” But Wiuton was not to be brought to his senses so easily. “Run away from that swine? Not and across tne hills, and mog up the track a piece. How’ll that do?” “It will do for me, but there is no need of you tramping when you can just as well ride.” But now that side or Mr. Peter Big gin which endears him and his kind to every man who has ever shared his lonely roundups, or broken bread with him in his comfortless shack, came uppermost. “What do you take me fer?” was the way it vocalised itself; but there was more than a formal oath of loyal al legiance in the curt question. "For a man and a brother,” said Winton, heartily; and they set out together to waylay the outgoing train at some point beyond the danger limit. It was accomplished without further mishap, and the short winter day was darkening to twilight when the train came in sight and the engineer slowed to their signal. They climbed aboard, and when they had found a seat in the smoker the engineer of construc tion spoke to the ex-cowboy as to a friend. I nope Adams has knocked out a good day’s work for us,” he said. "Your pardner with the store hat and the stinkin' cigaroots?—he’s all right,” said Eiggin; and it so chanced that at the precise moment of the say ing the subject of it was standing with the foreman of track layers at a gap in the new line just beyond and above the Rosemary’s siding at Ar gentine, his day’s work ended, and his men loaded on the flats for the run down to camp over the lately laid rails of the lateral loop. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Puppies. “I didn’t enjoy myself one bit,” pout ed the petted heiress, who had just retunmd from Europe. “I saw a pup py win a grand pedigree over there that I wanted, but pa wouldn’t buy him for me.” “Too bad, dear,” replied her friend. “Was he a French count or British duke?”—Philadelphia Press. Newly Mined Opals. When first taken from the mins opals are so soft that pieces can be picked off with the fingers. NEW HEAD CF GRAND ARMY Robert B. Brown of Zanesville, O., elected commander in chief of the Q. A. R. at the Minneapolis encampment, enlisted in the Fifteenth Ohio infan try, at the age of 1G years and served in the Fourteenth Army Corps in the Army of the Cumberland until he was mustered out in 1864. He then reen listed as a veteran soldier, and served as such until the end of the war. Hu was a private throughout the first three years of his service, and then became a noncommissioned officer. Mr. Brown is now editor of the Zanesville Cour ier. He was born in 1845. HAD BOYS’ WELFARE IN MIND. Andrew Carnegie Tells Why Family Left Scotland. Andrew Carnegie was recently in vited to attend the excursion of the old handloom weavers of Dunfermline, Scotland, his native town. He was 'unable to do so, but from Skibo castle he sent the following letter, in which he gave some reminiscences of his ancestors in the weaving town of Fife: ‘‘By inheritance I think I would be en titled to rank myself with that ancient and honorable guild, for my Grand father Carnegie and father were weav ers in the olden days and very proud of it. My Grandfather Morrison did not have the distinction, but he was a good shoemaker and thought there was ‘nothing like leather.’ Even upon my own account I should have some claim to membership in the old weav ers’ society, for I remember well I as sisted in ‘giving in’ the threads to my father when he was ‘putting in’ his web, and a very proud boy I was in doing so. Well do I remember the morning that my father came home to WOMAN HAS WON HIGH PLACE. Dorothea Klumpke Accorded Fame In Scientific World. The fame of Dorothea Klumpke has I been achieved in lines that would not j ordinarily make it more special, but ! she really stands among the notable women of the scientific world. In | France she is regarded as the leading woman aeronaut, but as an astrono ! mer and mathematician she is accord ed a more enduring and precious repu tation. She was born in San Fran cisco in 1861, her father, a native of Germany, having been one of the Forty-niners. Her mother was the strong force in the family, and four \ of the Klumpke girls have won some distinction. One is a distinguished artist, another a famous physician, and the third a violinist, all making Paris their home. Dorothea has stu died in Berlin and Paris and taken all kinds of prizes and degrees from the highest institutions in France. When the international astronomical congress resolved to map the stars a special department was created and MARRIAGE A LA FINANCE When He Reaches the Summit He Throws His Companion Down. tell mother that there wasn’t a net^i web for him to get and the family council decided that we should sail for America, my mother saying: ‘Not for our good, we could manage to get along here, but there will be more scope there for our boys.' So we set sail for the new land.” 4 Then amt Now. ‘‘I suppose,” said the modern actor to the stately old member of the pro fession, “that you got a few press notices when you trod the boards? 1 am mentioned 15 times in the papers this morning. There are four notices of my new motor car, three items about my dog being lost, five stories about what I like for dinner, and two mentions of my taste in neckties, with one paragraph about my trunks being lost on the line.” “Yes,” sighed the old-fashioned, out-of-date actor; "I got a few notices —but they were all based on the im pression that I had played my part well.”—London Answers. Dorothea was placed in charge, with corps of assistants. Among 50 com petitors she obtained the post of as sistant observer at the Paris observa tory. There she has photographed many stars, and valuable results have come from her work. It was to her eldest sister that Rosa Bonheur left her chateau and some of her famous works. Preserve Putnam's Cottage. The Putnam cottage in Greenwich, i Conn., is to be dedicated as a museum | by Putnam chapter, Daughters of the : American Revolution. This is a small | house whose legend is that Israel Put | aam was occupying it as his quarters i when surprised by British cavalry, and he dashed away on his trusty mare ' down the precipitous steps of “Put's hill,” was shot at, but turned at the foot of the steps and shouted: “I’ll hang ye to the next tree when I get ye.” The cottage is about 200 years \ old. Happy Oyster Bay. One of the luxuries of the seashore in Oyster Bay which may be men tioned are crabs, which sell for two dollars a dozen. Love Is Everything. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures where there is no l>ve.—Lord Bacon.' A statue of Gen. Nicholson, the mu tiny hero, was recently unveiled at Delhi by I-ord Minto, the viceroy of India. Horse Now Better Than Ever. Everything bearing upon the his tory of the horse indicates that tha percherons and shire horses of to-daj are much heavier and greater in bulk than wild horses ever were, anywhere on the globe. The horse has made gradual and steady progress for thou sand3 of years. He is a better animal than he ever was before. The furnace of affliction refines ui from earthly drossness, and softens us for the impression of God’s ow# 1 stamp.—Boyle. GAINED ^34_POUNDS Persistent Anaemin Cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills After Other Remedies Had Failed. “ When I began taking Dr. Williams Pink Pills,” says Mrs. Nathaniel Field, of St. Albans, Somerset county, Maine, “I was the palest, most bloodless person you could imagine. My tongue and gums were colorless and my fingers and ears were like wax. I had two doctors and they pronounced my trouble anmin in. I had spells of vomiting, "'mid not eat. in fact, did not dare to, . ad such ais jressafter eating. My stomuch was filled with gas which caused me awful agony. The backache I suffered was at times almost cnbearable and the least exertion made my heart beat so fust that 1 could hardly breathe. But the worst of all was the splitting neuralgia headache wh-cb never left me for seven weeks. About to i - time I had had several numb spells. My limbs would be cold and without any feeling and the most deathly sensations would come over me. “Nothing had helped me until 1 began taking Dr.Williams’ Pink Pills, in fac t, I had grown worse every day. After 1 had taken the pills a short time I could see that they were benefiting me and one morning I awoke entirely free from pain. The distress after eating disap peared and in three weeks I could oat anything I wanted and suffer no incon venience. I also slept soundly. I have taken several boxes of the pills and have gained in weight from 120 to 154 pounds and am perfectly well now.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Fills enre anaemia because they actually make new blood. For rheumatism, indigestion, nervous headaches and many forms of weakue» they are recommended even if ordinary medicines have failed. They are sold liy all druggists, or will be sent postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per Ix'x, six boxes for $3.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. False Alarm. From the valley there came a cloud of dust and a distant rumble. The man of the stone age rushed up the mountain and perched himself on the highest peak. "Shucks'” .exclaimed the fugitive, as he slipped down to the valley again, "it is only a poor dinosaur roaming about for his breakfast. From the noise I thought it must be an auto mobile.” And the man went back to his peaceful occupation of hewing an apartment house out of a solid cliff. In a Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smart ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all druggists, 25c. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. "Pugs” Ordered from Seattle. The chief of police of Seattle, be lieving that prize fighters bring crim inals and other undesirables in their train, has ordered all pugilists, train ers and others connected with tht ring to leave the city or take up some respectable employment. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOHtA, a safe and sure remedy for infanta and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. \ The Kind You Have Always Bought. Carloads of Whisky Lost. Among the few other things lost In the shuffle during the earlier relief proceedings in San Francisco were nine carloads of whisky, and, despite strenuous efforts, the whisky ha3 not been traced yet. Socrates and Henry George. The bust of Socrates in the Capita line Museum at Rome looks like the late Henry George. Lewis' Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. A poor man isn't necessarily a cheap man. A HEALTHY OLD AGE OFTEN THE BESTPARTOFLIFE Help for 'Women Passing Through Change of Life Providence has allotted ns each at least seventy years in which to fulfill our mission in life, and it is generally our own fault if we die prematurely. * MrsMaryKoehn e H Nervous exhaustion invites disease. This statement is the positive truth When everything becomes a burden and you cannot walk a few blocks with-,' out excessive fatigue, and yon break out into perspiration easily,* and your face flushes, and yon grow excited and shaky at the least provocation, and you cannet bear to be crossed in any thing, you are in danger; yonr nerves have given out; you need building up at once! To build up woman’s nerv ous system and during the period of change of life we know of no better medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound. Here is an illus tration. Mrs. Mary L. Eoehne, 371 Garfield Avenue, Chicago, 111. .writes : “ I have used Lydia E. Pinkham ^Vegetable Compound for years in my family and it never disappoints; so when I felt that I was nearing the change of life I commenced treat ment with it. I took in all about six bottle* and it did me a grea t deal of good. It stopped my dizzy spells, pains in my back and the headaches with which I had suffered for months before taking the Compound. I feel that if it had not been for this great medicine for women that I should not have been alive today. It is splendid for women,old or young, and will surely cure all female disorders.” Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., in vites all sick and ailing women to write her for advice. Her great experience *is at their service, free of coet,7
