loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA. An Up-to-Date Navy. United States naval officers do not admit that the monster battleships planned by Great Britain and Italy are necessarily more effective than ■warships of the Connecticut-Louisiana and the Michigan-South Carolina types. Now that fuller details have reached here regarding the Cuniberti battle ship, with which Italy expects to out class the Dreadnaught, there is less disposition than ever to overesti mate the importance of Italy’s move. The assumption that the biggest battleship can whip one e few hundred tons smaller leaves out of account the matter of seamanship, brains, courage, marksmanship, and relative efficiency, says Harper’s Weekly. American warships may not be as big as the biggest, but in per sonnel and equipment they equal any thing afloat. Our newest warships have a steaming radius of 5,000 miles, much greater than that of any other battleships afloat. This is a very im jportant element in the lighting effi ciency of all war vessels, and one in which the large English and Italian battleships are likely to fail. The Indifferent Citizen. Indifference is the blight that af fects all efforts for better things. The prosperous citizen is optimistically (Confident that things are going right iand that any side-stepping must be only temporary. So he lets them go and is content to think that he, at (least, has nothing to worry about. iComfortabiy fixed in the first cabin [with all the luxuries of modern life about him, he cares nothing what other people in the same ship are do ing—whether they are scuttling it, set ting it afire or preparing a mutiny; all he knows or cares about is that it’s mighty pleasant right where he is and that’s enought. This negligence and Indifference clear the way for those who do care and who have selfish ends to serve. All the deals and machina tions that make modern politics dis reputable are due, fundamentally, to the neglect of the great majority to lx? alert, says the Hartford. Conn., Cour ant. It is nonsense to say that society itself is rotten. It holds together just because of its sweet and wholesome Strength. The piratical element that lives on it is tolerated, not dominant. Our Coal Supply. Occasionally fears are expressed that the coal supply of the 'United States will give out. This apprehen sion is entertained because this coun try, while surpassing all others in pro duction, is also the greatest coal con sumer in the world. But every now and then comes the announcement of p new discovery which shows that the limit has not yet been reached. A vein in Pennsylvania has just been found which the experts say contains millions on millions of tons of coal, and they roughly estimate its value at $50,000,000 to $75,000,000. It is about as difficult to convince people of the danger of a complete exhaustion of the coal supply as it is to make them be lieve in the reality of an ice famine. Spelling reform has been receiving the attention of Chinese officials. The director of the imperial telegraphs has announced that a committee has been appointed to recommend a uniform Bystem of spelling the names of Chi nese cities in the Roman alphabet. When the report is adopted telegraph ic messages will be delivered more promptly than is now possible wrhen the English, the French and the Germans each spell the name of the ,same city differently. Fredrick Peterson, M. D., President cf the New York Neurological Society and member of the New York Lunacy Commission, says that in the life in iNew York City the friction is greater than in any other known existence en dured for long periods of time by large numbers of people. Each day finds jpresented the proof that more and Imore we are verging on the limits of ihuman endurance. The kaiser was an honored guest at the Krupp wedding breakfast and made a speech on wifely duties. No tooubt he placed the proper mixing and finishing of good round cannon balls like father used to make near the top .of the list. That California professor was judi cious in timing the announcement of a new language which contains no cuss words. This is the season when the householder takes in the fly screens and puts up the stoves. The site of a spacious Roman villa in the Castle Park, Colchester, Eng land, has been discovered in a re markable way. The intense heat, act ing upon the grass above the ruined foundations revealed an entire ground plan of the various rooms and pass ages. When a girl under 14 gets a mania to become an actress it’t up to her mother to get down the old slipper and try to produce a counter irrita tion. There is a man in Wyoming who declined a political office because he .thought he could not be a Christian and a politician at the same time. He has an erroneous idea. A man may be a Christian and a politician at the same time. It merely depends on the Jcind of politician he is. The Santo Domingan rebels agreed to surrender and be good, and then {went back on their word and took to the warpath. The habit seems to be chronic and incurable. FOUNDER AND HEAD OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH A RECLUSE GATES OF HOME CLOSED TO THE WOF.LD Following Published Story That Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy Was at the Point of Death, Reporters Have Interview with Her at Her Home—Sensational Alle gations of Fraud and Deception Denied—Aged Woman in Comparatively Good Health. New York.—The World, of this city, recently published a sensational story to the effect that Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the revered founder and head of the Christian Science church, was extremely feeble, physically and men tally, and seemingly in the shadow of death. - . The allegation was made that the daily drive seemingly taken by Mrs. Eddy through the streets of Concord, N. H., her home, was a fraud. The World stated that ostensibly Mrs. Eddy makes this daily public appear ance, dressed in velvets and ermine, to show her followers that she is in perfect health. It is not Mrs. Eddy, but an impersonator, trained and cos tumed for the part, who appears in the exhibition drive. The article continued: “This impersonator is now known to be Mrs. Parmelia J. Leonard, of Brooklyn, head of the Christian Sci ence church in that borough. “Mrs. Leonard has been an inmate at Mrs. Eddy's heme at Concord for the last three years. “There she has perfected herself as understudy to Mrs. Eddy, and has impersonated the head of the Chris tian Science church in the daily ex hibition drives when to nn^ve the real Has Only One Apparent Asset. “But none of the charities aided by Mrs. Eddy could be designated by Mr. Ladd or found by searchers. Mrs. Eddy’s only visible asset is the Con cord house and the 40 acres of park land that surround it — valued at $40,000. “Christian Scientists the world over doubtless will be anxious to know what has become of the great fortune of the helpless old lady, confined to an upper story of her isolated home. “They will only have to consult the real estate transfers of Concord, N. H.( for a clew to its whereabouts. “These records show that Mrs. Eddy's estate, Pleasant View, was orig inally purchased in great part by Jo seph T. Mann, her former butler and brother of her present coachman. They also show that Mrs. Eddy's home, its furnishings and all her jewelry, were transferred a few years ago to Calvin A. Frye, the present footman, secre tary and supreme power at Pleasant View. “When an action for damages against Mrs. Eddy threatened to re veal to the public this transaction, the property was quickly transferred back ] to its aged owner. Mrs ■ y M.B.C. EDDY ' o ff'm&iY ' AT 45 --L Mrs. Eddy from her bed would have meant almost certain death to the en feebled woman. Powerless in Strong Hands. "Mrs. Eddy is powerless in the hands of designing persons. They ab solutely control her, and their em ployment of Mrs. Leonard's services is for a deep purpose. Just what that purpose is may be easily imagined. "The World has collected a mass of facts bearing directly upon the sur- i prising conditions that surround the hidden life of Mrs Eddy. "These facts are quite apart from the tenets of Christian Science, so called, and will appeal as forcibly to fair-minded members of the cult as to the general public. "Many millions of dollars—just how many the records fail to show—have passed into Mrs. Eddy's personal pos- j session since the founding of the I Christian Science cult. Millions of her books have been sold, and each book has yielded her a royalty of one dollar. "From the mother church in Boston elie yearly receives a great sum, con tributed by devolees iu all parts of the world in the form of annual dues. One of her closest friends and follow ers estimates Mrs. Eddy’s fortune at $15,000,000, and her annual Income at $1,000,000. "Of this vast sum there is practi cally no trace. There is no public rec ord of its investment, no clew to its distribution. "Her financial agent and cousin, Frederick N. Ladd, secretary of the Loan and Trust Savings bank, of Con cord, while refusing details, has said that Mrs. Eddy's estate is surprisingly small, she having ‘expended the bulk pf her fortune in charities.’ — .— ■ .... ry^/ Frye the Power in Household. "Calvin A. Frye is a great name In Concord. He is a footman in livery on the box of Mrs. Eddy's carriage during the daily drives of the real Mrs. Leonard and fictitious Mrs. Eddy. He is secretary at Pleasant View for the rest of the time, the one in absolute authority, who for three years has guarded Mrs. Eddy with a vigilance knowpn only in prisons. , “Devotees, rich, socially prominent and loyal to the cult, have been turned away from the door of Pleasant View by Frye. They have been as sured that Mrs. Eddy, although in per fect health, was “overwhelmed with work, and could not be disturbed.” They were told that she could only be seen in her daily drives, and w£re cautioned not to peer through the win dows of the carriage under penalty of Mrs. Eddy's displeasure. Her Last Public Appearance. “Mrs. Eddy's last genuine public ap pearance was three years ago, when for a moment she posed on the bal cony at Pleasant View in sight of the assembled faithful. Since then Mrs. Eddy has been invisible 3ave to Frye and the members of his inner circle.” Continuing its charges of fraud and deceit, the World stated that there was ample ground for the widespread belief that Mrs. Eddy is slowly dying from cancer. It has been discovered, says the World, that this dread dis ease has afflicted others of the Baker family; that two brothers and two sis ters of Mrs. Eddy died from it; and that an operation for the same malady alone saved her father's life. “There is positive evidence that Mrs. Eddy has secretly employed reg ular medical practitioners for herself and for certain favorite members of ‘WTZCW ■TOT’Zr'rtV vr V TWTVT-jTVI DOUBT FACTS OF HISTORY. Persons So Fond of the Miraculous That Questions Are Easily Raised. The love of the miraculous is enough to keep alive the belief that i the accepted facts of history concern ing a person who has greatly inter ested the world either by his life or his death are all wrong. Within 20 years a big book has been published In this country to demonstrate that Marshal Ney was not shot in the gar den of the Luxembourg December 7, 1815, but escaped to America and dwelt in North Carolina. For some years there flourished in Germany a man who declared himself to be the son of the duke of Reich stadt by a secret marriage and there fore the grandson and direct heir of Napoleon. This imposter was a clumsy fellow who did not know his book, for the date he assigned as that of his birth was fully a year subsequent to the death of the duke. But we need not travel so far as Europe to find the credulous of the Incredible. Only a few years ago there died in Kansas a man who was believed by many of fche vicinage to be Wilkes Booth. A marked physical resemblance to the assassin caused so much annoyance to a well-known southern clergyman that he took pains to demonstrate by proofs of his birth and education that he was not Wilkes Booth. The fact that Mrs. Fitzherbert made a solemn declaration that she never was a mother does not deter the “Fitz herbert heirs” in this country from bothering King Edward with letters applying for permission to examine certain papers which they believe con tain & secret of vast money value to them. The people who believe these incredible legends in the face of proof positive to the contrary are not all of one kind, not of the class of the Eng lishman who said of the Tichborne claimant “just because he was the son of a Wapping butcher they wouldn’t give him the estate.” Cheap Living in Spain. Traveling in Spain is not expensive, the charges in comfortable hotels be ing only |1.35 a day^ THE MAN THAT WHISTLES. Merry Tune on the Lips Me?'?* a Cheerful Heart. Did you ever meet a man who was an habitual whistler and yet a thor ough scamp? No! The whistler usu ally is a cheerful fellow, and lawless ness and smiles seldom travel hand In hand. The old song says, “Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad,” and it Is true. The man whose inner spirit sings as it goes he Sv attracted the maid from time immemorial. In summing up a man’s most de sirable qualities, women usually men tion strength, which is a physical characteristic, and truth, which is spiritual. But cheerfulness is the mental attribute most in demand. And if he is a cheerful man, it usu ally follows he is an honest man. The cheat, the coward, the blackleg, are not addicted to the open heart and the cheery whistle. The man who will get up in the morning and make a fire, keeping warm with a merry strain of “Yankee Doodle Boy,” hasn’t a sour heart over his task. The man who makes the coffee and flings out the front door for the bakery with “El Capitan" thrilling forth in one big whistle is never the Q'jf. of mean promensitiea who is keeping tally on his service, to say later to the wife: "I make the fires while you lie abed.” Have you ever seen a man whistle a restless babe to sleep? If not you have something, to look forward to. And then, when the babe becomes the small son, have you ever observed this cheerful father teaching his craft to little Johnnie? Through hie fingers and through his teeth, and then the intricacies of the liquid “double trill.” Thus when Johnnie gets at the kindling-chopping age, he has ac quired one of the first principles of a good and desirable man—he is a whistler like his dad, and the envy and emulation of every neighboring boy.—Milwaukee Journal. Holland’s Many Colonies. Holland’s colonies in area are 64 times as big as the mother country. ! her family. It is practically certain a Boston cancer specialist, whose name is known to the world, is now in constant attendance at Pleasant View ” Reporters See Mrs. Eddy. Following these charges the New York Sun printed the following ac count of an interview granted by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy to a party of newspaper representatives at her home October 30. “Mary Baker Eddy is alive, but .old and feeble, and suffering from some complaint like palsy which makes her head and hands shake. She gave prob ablv the last interview of her life this afternoon to 11 reporters from Bos ton and New York, and now, in the words of one of her household, ‘the gates of Pleasant View are closed forever.’ “Since the publication of the story to the effect that Mrs. Eddy was un der the control of her household and that Mrs. Pamelia Leonard, a healer of Brooklyn, was impersonating the leader of Christian Science on her velvet and ermine cloak. She was grasping the curtains with one hand; Calvin Frye, her secretary, stood at the other elbow. Both hands ' were shaking, her head and lower lip con stantly trembled a little, as with a slight palsy. The spokeswoman be gan at once on the first question. “ ‘Are you in perfect health, Mrs. Eddy?’ she asked. “Mrs. Eddy bent toward her with a slight movement of inquiry. The spokeswoman repeated the question a little louder. “ ‘Indeed I am,’ replied Mrs. Eddy. “The effect of her voice was start ling. It had a slight senile quiver, but it was deep and level. The combina tion gave it an unearthly quality. It intensified a feeling which all the re porters confessed to each other aft erward—that this was not a woman, but an apparition. ! “ ‘Have you any other physician than God?’ asked the spokeswoman. No Physician But God. ; " ‘No physician but God. His ever gjfefo Tf/£ H'Gi/SF \ "GOD MOPP /6 Sty PPyp/C/PU *' daily drive, the city (Concord, N. H.) has been full of reporters. H. Cornell Wilson, Christian Science press agent for New York and vicin ity, arrived Monday morning and stood between the reporters and the house hold at Pleasant View. Archibald McLellan, editor of the official Chris tian Science publications, came tip to help, and L. C. Strang, the local man, also was on the job. “ ‘We didn’t like the tone of your story yesterday,' said Mr. Wilson to one man. However, they fought it out until all but two were let iD on the interview. The reporter for the paper which published the original story and a magazine man were not for given. * “A woman reporter went up to Pleasant View and had herself ap pointed spokesman. She came back with three questions, which she had agreed with the Scientists, were to be asked of Mrs. Eddy. In their conclave the reporters added a fourth. There were 11 reporters al together. Wilson lined them up in the big reception room of Pleasant View. This opens from a main hall by folding doors hung over with cur tains. Members of Mrs. Eddy's house hold, including Mrs. Pamelia Leonard, lasting arms are about me. That is enough.’ “As she said this Mrs. Eddy made a sweeping gesture with her disen gaged hand and let go her held on ! the curtain. “‘Do you drive daily?’ “ ‘Yes.’ “At that instant Frye caught her el bow and turned her toward the front door, before which her carriage waited to take her on her drive. Strang fell in on the other side, and Mrs. Eddy walked between them. “ ‘Have you the management of your own affairs?’ asked the spokeswoman. “The question never was answered. At the door Frye and Strang fell back. Mrs. Eddy walked the width of the piazza alone. Her gait had a stately, languid grace, hardly suggestive of old age, but her hand shook badly as Strang helped her to a seat in the carriage. House Now Closed to World. “When the reporters returned to the parlor a woman of the household came forward. “ ‘Christian Scientists are allowed many privileges,’ she said, ‘so I hope you won’t mind if I ask you to go away.’ Sftfsiooys mow v^£/rs/f/srww were fringed about the wall. There came a tap on the folding door. “ ‘She Is here,’ announced one of the healers, dramatically. Shows Evidences of Age. “The folding doors slid back, the curtains lifted—a stately figure in white stood bowing at the door, stately at first sight, but a feeble old woman at second. Her skin was dead white, her cheeks sunken, every oupce of spare fat gone from her face. The long, pointed chin, characteristic of Mrs. Eddy's face in youth, was as beautiful as ever. So, indeed, were the large eyes, and the long, finely-cut nose. Over the face rose a mass of perfectly white hair, crowned by a white bonnet. “She was enfolded in a huge black •Must before one o’clock there came to Pleasant View a belated newspaper photographer. He wanted little. He only wished Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Eddy to come out into the sunlight and pose for him, so the world might see how little they resembled each other. Strang refused him. He added: ‘‘‘At one o’clock to-day the gates of Pleasant View will close to the outer world forever.’ ” As Durable as Stone. Sycamore is one of the most dur able of woods. A statue made from it, now in the museum of Ghizeh, at Cairo, is known to be thousands of years old. Notwithstanding this great age, it is asserted that the wood itself is entirely sound and natural in appearance. Marion Harland. The celebrated authoress, so highly esteemed by the women of America, says on pages 103 and 445 of her book, “Eve's Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife and Mother”: “For the aching back—should it be slow in recovering its normal strength —an Allcock’s Plaster is an excellent comforter, combining the sensation of the sustained pressure of a strong warm hand with certain tonic quali ties developed in the wearing. It should be kept over the seat of un easiness for several days—in ob stinate cases, for perhaps a fortnight.” “For pain in the back wear an All cock’s Plaster constantly, renewing as it wears off. This is an invaluable support when the weight on the small of the back becomes heavy and the aching incessant.” Year’s Tea Production. The total exports of tea from India during the year ended April 26, 1906, amounted to 214,198,943 pounds, val- | ued at $29,294,936. The shipments to the United Kingdom were 166,604,000 pounds; Canada, 15,019,000 pounds; Russia, 9,991,000 pounds; Australia, 7,746 pounds; Turkey and Asia, 3,464 pounds; the United States, 2,1S5,000 pounds; Persia, 1,091,000 pounds, and to all other countries, 8,084,000 pounds. All these countries, except the United States and Persia, increased their pur chases over 1905. The trade with the United States decreased 9.7 per cent, and that with Persia 65.5 per cent. There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country than all otherdlseases put together, arid uutil the lust few years was supposed tube Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced It a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Science has proven Cat-.rrh to be a constitutional dis ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Curr, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is the only Constitutional cure on the market. It is taken Internally In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one bur d.ed dollars fur any oa-e It falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Take Hall’s Family Fills for constipation. Makes Son Private Secretary. 'in appointing his son, Lord Bruce, as his private secretary the earl of Elgin only followed the example of the late William E. Gladstone, who, when he became prime minister in 18.89, appointed Herbert Gladstone, then a young man of 20, to a similar position. Starch, like everything else, is be ing constantly improved, the patent Starches put. on the market 25 years ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the lat ast discovery—Defiance Starch—all in jurious chemicals are omitted, while ] the addition of another ingredient, in- j vented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never ap proached by other brands. Herding of New York’s Poor. Paul D. Cravath, chairman of the tenement-house committee of the Charity Organization society, declares that a close canvas shows that there jre in New York tenements 357,000 rooms that have no windows. Give Defiance Starch a fair trial— try it for both hot and cold starching, and if you don’t think you do better work, in less time and at smaller cost, return it and your grocer will give you back your money. “Now, I am ready, how do I look, dear?” "You remind me of a Sioux in his war paint.” “Oh, you nasty j thing, you—” "Don't cry, darling: I only meant you were dressed to kill.” —Baltimore American. William Pinckney Whyte, United | States senator from Maryland, who re cently celebrated his 82d birthday, aas never been inside a saloon, never I smoked, and never rode in a cab. Women who kiss each other are often guilty of counterfeiting. Lewis' Single Hinder straight 5c. Many smokers prefer them to 10c cigf rs. \ our dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, ill. He is a wise man who either speaks the truth or says nothing. - Defiance Starch—Sixteen ounces for ten cents, all other brands contain only 12 ounces for same money. Brief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief, the blunder of a life.—Beaconsfield. I -- -.- - Dyspepsia jtf Women Caused by Female Disorders and Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound A great many women suffer with a form of indigestion or dyspepsia which does not seem to yield to ordinary treat ment. While the symptoms seem to be similar to those of ordinary indiges tion, yet the medicines universally pre scribed do not seem to restore the pa tient's normal condition. /Mrs. /A. Wri gh t_ Mrs. Pinkhain claims that there is a kind of dyspepsia that is caused by a derangement of the female organism, and which, while it causes a disturb ance similar to ordinary indigestion, cannot be relieved without a medicine which not only acts as a stomach tonic, buthasapeeuliartonic effect on the fe male organism. As proof of this theory we call at tention to the case of Mrs. Maggie Wright, Brooklyn, N. Y., who was completely cured by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound after every thing else had failed. She writes : “ For two years I suffered with dyspepsia which so degenerated the entire systeu that 1 was unable to attend to my daily duties. 1 felt weak and nervous, and nothing that I ate tasted good and it caused a disturbance in my stomact I tried different dyspepsia cures, but nothing seemed to help hie. I was ad v'sed to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial, and was happily surpri.-. to find that it acted like a fine tonic, and in a few days I began to enjoy and prop riy digest, my food. My recovery was rapid, and in five weeks I was a well woman. I have rec ommended it to many suffering women.” No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unquali fied endorsement or has such a record of cures of female troubles, as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compounu. * THE BEST COUGH CURE | I Many a lonesome and expensive S trip to Florida, California or the 4 Adirondacks has been saved by A the use of f Kemp’s Balsam l the best cough cure. 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You will never believe such a statement after you have purchased a large sized Family Package of Quaker Oats. Jhe Quaker Oats Qmparvy iTiy the new Quaker product—Quaker Best Cornmeal. Sold only in sealed || packages, three pounds 10c. Ask your grocer.