Loup Ci!. .urthwestefB J. Vf. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, • • - NEBRASKA. Society r 'd Education. In order to express the significance of the recent Social Education Con gress, which was held in Boston, the broadest possible definitions of “so cial” and “education- are necessary, 'leretofore educational problems have been left largelv to teachers and ex perts in pedagogy. This congress was ■tot a teachers' meeting, but a confer ence of leaders in all departments of »ife. The variety of the subjects dis cussed and the many interests repre sented by the speakers showed that real education touches life at every point, says the Youth’s Companion; that, as wise men have always felt, education is the development in all possible ways of the individual and of the unit in society. The business man explained what he demanded of the schools that are sending him young clerks and workmen. The man of pub lic affairs showed what the schools should do for the boy and the girl who are to vote. From the laboring man, through a union leader, came the message of the experienced work man to those in charge of the matur ing boy who is soon to choose a trade. Physicians and specialists in physical culture pleaded for the care of the body, for education which should teach respect for the finely organized instrument of thought and labor. From the churches preachers of many denominations spoke the word for spiritual culture in all education of the hands and the brain. Public li brarians traced the relation of their institution to the schools. Banker, president of public service company, manufacturer, tradesman, professor, psychologist—all these in some way asserted the great truth that educa tion is not merely the concern of spe cialists, it is everybody's business, for it is related to every part of every man’s life. Once this is realized, our schools will be vitalized as never be fore. Health of School Children. The growing interest, taken in Ger many in the health of school children is evidenced by the appointment ot IS school physicians, in Munich and in Klberfeld. Many other cities have followed the example of Wiesbaden, which in 1890 was the first to appoint a school doctor. In Wurtemberg the authorities have even extended the system to the high schools. In Aus trla it has just been ordered that candidates for teachers’ positions must be examined in the subject ol school hygiene. Throughout Germany efforts are being made to equip the teachers of the lowest grades of the public schools in matters ol health. The installation of shower baths in each schqpl is being carried out as a matter of course, wherever this is possible. Two cities have al ready followed the example of Char lottenburg in establishing a school in j the woods near the city, in which may be taught children suffering from chronic diseases, who are not physi cally able to take the regular course but, on the other hand, are not hos pital patients or unable to study at all. During the summer months, this “wood school,” as it is called, has kept open all day, the children being fed there. The American custom ol fresh-air trips, says the New York Post, is also being imitated in Ger many, special attention being paid tc delicate children. In Kolberg, the popular bathing place on the Baltic, there was opened this summer a school sanatorium, to which were sent child patients from many places. Enthusiastic automobilists are urg ing that a national highway be built between New York and Chicago. The proposed road is not intended for the amusement of rich pleasure-seekers but for the farmers, who are to own traction wagons in the future and carry their crops from the farm tc the best market. A party has traveled between the two cities by automobile noting the best route to be followed, the location of gravel pits and the grades to be overcome. It has ob tained facts enough to make its inquir ies worthy of respect. Whether the national highway is ever built as such, says the Youth's Companion, there will be a continuous good road across the state of New York in a year or two, built by the state or by the various towns and cities; and there are excellent stretches of good road in the other states along the line. A peculiar fact in the life of Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who has just been transferred from the naval portfolio to that of the Attorney general in the president’s cabinet, is that he has never visited Europe. Down in central Illinois a woman lied on a shopping expedition. She was resigned to go that way, but would have preferred to have lasted :o match an improbable piece of cloth pith an impossible bit of ribbon. A New York doctor cured a case of lockjaw by bleeding the patient. The case, says the Washington Star, nas attracted widespread attention, because nowadays the doctors are not supposed to bleed a patient until after he is cured. There is some advantage in being a shah. The shah of Persia told his doc ors that if they disagreed they should ill be put to death. They agreed and consequently the shah is still Uv tng. A SIMPLE FORMULA PRESCRIPTION OF AN EMINENT SPECIALIST IS GIVEN. Necessary Ingredients Cost Little and Can Be Secured at Any Good Drug Store—Will Break a Cold Quickly. —— — Mix half ounce of the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine with two ounces of glycer ine and half a pint of good whisky; shake well and use in teaspoonful doses. A noted authority on diseases of the throat and lungs who estab lished a camp for consumptives in the pine woods of Maine, declares that the above formula will heal the lungs and cure any cough that is curable. It will break up a cold in twenty-four hours. The ingredients can be se cured from any good prescription druggist at small cost. Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is put up only in half ounce vials for dispen sing; each vial is securely sealed in a round wooden case with engraved wrapper, showing the name—Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) prepared only by Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, O. —plainly printed thereon. There are many rank imitations of Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure), which are put out under various names, such as Concen trated Oil of Pine, Pine Balsam, etc. Never accept these as a substitute for the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, as they will invariably produce nausea and never effect the desired result. Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is also said to be a perfect neutralizing agent for uric acid. Transformation in New Mexico. "Three seasons of rainfall have transformed New Mexico from an ex panse of unproductive territory into a country of bountiful crops, running streams and happy, prosperous peo ple,” is the report which E. W. Fox. register of the government land office at Clayton, N. M., brought to Washing ton.—Washington Post. Kept a Diary Seven Years. Henry Arthur Jones, the noted Eng lish playwright, was giving the stu dents of Yale an address on the drama. “Your American vernacular is pic turesque," he said, “and it should help your playwrights to build strong, racy plays. But neither varnacular nor any thing else is of moment if persever ance is lacking. “No playwright can succeed who is like a man I know. “I said to this man, one' New Year's day: “ ‘Do you keep a diary, Philip?’ “‘Yes,’ he answered, ‘I've kept one for the first two weeks in January for the last seven years.’ ” NOT DOOMED TO SECLUSION. Austrian Nuns of Noble Blood Lead Pleasant Lives. The “first lady” in the Austro-Hun garian court i3 now the abbess of the Theresian Convent of the Noble La dies in Prague, a position which is always held by an archduchess. The Archduchess Marla Annunciata, the present abbess, who is a niece of the emperor, has succeeded to the position of first lady through the widowhood of the Archduchess Maria Josefa, wife of the late Archduke Otto. The noble nuns of Prague live a very different life from what is the usual conception of convent life. They play a leading part in the society of the city and are not even compelled to live In the ab bey, where each is provided with two rooms and service. Handsome car riages with liveried servants are also provided for their use, and they have a box in the opera. Each noble lady is paid $500 a year, while the abbess has a salary of $10,000. When they attend conrt balls they must wear black evening dress with a ribbon of light blue. THEGRA... _e^ClFlC RAIL ROAD AND WESTERN CANADA. Will Open Up Immense Area of Free Homestead Lands. The railway facilities of Western Canada have been taxed to the ut termost in recent years to transfer the surplus grain crop to the eastern markets and the seaboard. The large influx of settlers and the additional area put under crop have added large ly to the grain product, and notwith standing the increased railway facil ities that have been placed at the dis posal of the public, the question of transportation has proved to be a se rious one. It will, therefore, be good news to everyone interested in Western Can ada to know that an authoritative statement has been given out by C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, that that rail way will do its share towards moving the crop of 1907 from Alberta, Sas katchewan and Manitoba to tide water, and thus assist in removing a serious obstacle which has faced the settlers during recent years. Mr. Hays, who has just completed a trip from Port age la Prairie to Edmonton in a prai rie schooner, a distance of 735 miles, which was covered in eighteen days, is enthusiastic about the country. This will be gratifying to settlers in the Canadian West, even if Mr. Hays declines to be bound to a time limit with the exactitude of a stop-watch. The Grand Trunk Pacific road will be in a position to take part in the trans portation of the crop of 1907, and that will be satisfactory to the settlers in that country when the harvest is gar nered. The wheat crop of 190G in Western Canada was about 90,000,000 bushels, and, with the increased acreage which is confidently expected to be put un der crop next year, it is safely calcu lated that fully 125,000,000 bushels will be harvested In 1907. The necessity for Increased transportation facilities are, therefore, apparent, and the state ment made by Mr. Haj’s will bring en- i couragement to the farmers of the ' Canadian West, new and old. The opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads 1e thus assured by , the agent ,of the Canadian Govern- | ment, whose address appears else- , where. \ \ I SAD YEAR FOR CUPID WAS ONE JUST PAST * • i )OMESnC JARS FREQUENT AND SEVERE | \fatrimoQjpl Wrecks Almost Beyond Counting Have Strewn the Shores of Life—West Far Ahead of the East in the Number of Divorces That Have Been Asked For and Granted. Chicago.—Surely New Year's day nust have been the saddest that Cu •id ever has spent. When the little tod balances his books for 1906 he vill be compelled to sit down and veep, for the list of the matrimonial vrecks of the year shows an awful lumber of disasters. There have teen enough domestic jars to shake he continent worse than the earth luake shook San Francisco, if they all lad occurred at one instant. The ears that have been shed would make i salty sea if they could be collected ►n the desert basin of Sahara. Indeed, it has been a bad year for lupid. Divorces have been more lumerous than in any other twelve nonths since marriage became an in stitution. Princes, dukes, counts, ftatesmen, magnates, and millionaires, jutchera, doctors, grocers, lawyers, ind laborers have come to grief in •heir iove affairs. In the good old days people married tnd “lived happily ever after.” Now he problem of the novel begins in stead of ending at the altar. People jet married and then get divorced. Chicago still leads the world in di 7orce population, and perhaps in the acility with which divorce is grant 'd, due cause being shown. The hear ng of testimony and the granting of i decree in default cases in this city akes only a few minutes, and the iverage length of time consumed is tstimated at ten minutes by people who study divorce methods. That s why the local courts are known as ‘divorce mills.” They work with the speed of a steam buzz saw as they go through the knots of matrimony. Your lawyer flies the papers, your case ■s called, and burr-r-r—you are di- j forced. It is the women who keep the buzz | ;aw working in the divorce mills in Chicago. Four out of five suits are jrougkt by the wives. The men are neaner than the women, perhaps; »r else the husbands are more willing :o tough it out. without appeals to the tourt. Mr of Festivity in Courtroom. While Cupid weeps at the sight of l divorce court, that is more than the lompiainant does. One Chicago di S A/R6 Tj |1|) force lawyer says that there is a no ticeable air of festivity in the court room when cases are being heard, rhe average woman who appeals to the courts for release manifests no sense of sorrow or humiliation. It s a business proposition with her. She sues her husband for his cruelty matter of separation has been set tled, but the count still Is clamoring for money—millions of It—to pay his debts. Perhaps in the final disposi tion of the case he will receive an allowance even greater than the ali mony of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who draws $250,000 a year from her former WHALEBONE AT $8,750 A TON. ;t Might Pay Now to Look Up Those Old Whalebone Ribbed Umbrellas. “I see by the papers," said Mr. 2rlllfinby, “that, the last quotation for whalebone in England was £1,750, or, •ay, about $8,750 a ton, making whale lone worth now somewhere in the lelghborbood of $4.50 a pound—a pretty costly commodity. “I can remember the time when whalebone was cheap, very cheap; when we used to burn whale oil in amps and use whalebone for umbrella ■lbs. Those old-time whalebone rib >ed umbrellas were not much like the present steel ribbed close rollers. "No. They were of the bulgy out K>rt of gingham umbrellas that yon tee now somet'mes reproduced after a aahion on the uomic stage, but which ire now nevor actually used by any body, though fince they were used by Jverybody, umbrellas with whalebone dbs. And wfaalt I was going to say was this: “People are oqt all the time look ing through the country for old furni \ __ l tuwj, quaint old colonial, and that sort of stuff. Why couldn't we hunt up those umbrellas—there must be millions of them lying around In country garrets—why couldn't we lock up those old whalebone ribbed ging ham umbrellas, for the whalebone there is in them? Don’t you think there may be an idea here for mak ing money. IN A MODERN HAREM. Circassian Slaves Now Wear Copies of Paris Fashions. Less picturesque than the descrip tion in Pierre Loti's “Disenchanted” was my reception in the harem of Bos nia Hanum, the wife of a close rela tive of the throne, says a writer in the Boston Globe. I was assisted out of my carriage by a gaunt eunuch in a black frock coat and red fez, who gave me the shiverB as he clutched my arm with his sable paw. Inside the hall I was met by a crowd of female slaves, who helped me to remove my wraps. They varied or desertion and tells the story to the court in a business-like way. The uninformed stranger, strolling into the courtroom, easily might think the dispute was over a grocery bill or a ruined gown, rather than a ruined life. The law says she may have a divorce, and she proposes to get it. That is all. If her husband has a good position or a bit of property, she asks for alimony. The struggle for some form of maintenance sometimes becomes strenuous, showing that the woman regrets the loss of the man who has been her support rather more than the loss of the man who has been her husband. All this is. like a comic opera, but it makes Cupid weep. He has been tell ing the world for thousands of years that marriage is a sacred institution, and now he first discovers that it is a joke. The proportion of divorces to mar riages in New York is one in four. In Chicago it is one in nine; in San Francisco it is one in four. The further west you go the more fre quent are divorces. The decree sepa ration has hitched its wagon to the star of empire. Kansas City, Los An geles, and Seattle are as bad as San Francisco, in each of these cities there being one divorce to every four mar riages. The statistics for Sioux Falls are kept locked up in a reporter proof vault. The most notable case of the year, perhaps, was the international tragedy of the Castellanos. For years the world had witnessed the extrava gances and indiscretions of Count Boni and wondered how much longer the poor countess would endure them for the sake of her children. Ameri can sympathy, almost without excep tion, has been with Anna Gould, for however much Jay Gould, the rail road magnate, may have been dis trusted, his daughters always were popular. Count Castellane was a ri diculous joke to people who took life lightly and an exaggerated villain to those who took it seriously. Troubles of Heiresses and Titles. When (he countess finally left her husband, people on both sides of the Atlantic said it reived him right. The husband, W. K. Vanderbilt. Count Castellane is said to ba.ve cost $15, 000,000 when the Gould family first bought his title and it probably will take as much more for them to be rid of their bad bargain. The domestic wreck of the Marlbor oughs was more of a surprise to the world. There had been rumors of disagreements, but these were not thought to be serious. The duke of Marlborough, like the count de Cas tellane, was not able to understand the character of American girls. They might be attracted by a title, but they would not submit to the indiscretions —it is a mild word—of their hus bands. It was said at the time Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt married the duke that she had made the best bargain of any American girl that ever bought a foreign lordling, but her present nnhappiness proves that the belief was unfounded. Among the wrecks of the year none has caused more comment than the “Pittsburg eases,” which include the Yet within a month it was an nounced that Mrs. Yerkes had mar ried Wilson Mizner. At first the pub lic refused to believe it Mizner was not 30 and the widow of Yerkes was more than E0. He was a gay young soldier of fortune, and people only laughed when he smiled and admitted that the marriage had taken place, especially as Mrs. Yerkes tearfully and indignantly declared that the idea was absurd. But the news was true. Mizner and Mrs. Yerkes were man and wife. Be fore people were through talking about the case the couple quarreled and parted and remained apart. It was said, though not known to be true, that Mr. Mizner had insisted upon her giving him $1,000,000, and that she had refused. After the sep aration Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner explained the marriage by saying: “Mr. Mizner came to me at a lime when 1 was looking at life through eyes that were filled with tears. He was an artist. He enchanted me. The way I was ap (1|| M&s Marffli/k Ull D/CMm^ppy tragical unhappiness of the Thaws, the Coreys, and the Hartjes, and cer tainly no other cases have caused greater distress to Cupid, the deity of all true lovers. It would seem that the gleam of suddenly acquired mil lions, as seen through the smoky at mosphere of Pittsburg, is sufficient to blind the eyes of love. William E. Corey was ruined by Mr. Carnegie, so Mr. Corey's uncle is re ported to have said. This was be cause Mr. Carnegie put Mr. Corey in the way of becoming rich. The head of the great steel trust, looking for pleasure and "thrills” in the byways of life, found only unhappiness. As the familiar saying goes, "he couldn't stand prosperity.” All the world is familiar with the story of Mr. Corey’s spectacular rise in the world of fi nance and of the alleged escapades which caused his wife to leave him. She obtained a divorce last summer after living in the state of Nevada long enough to acquire citizenship under the liberal laws of that state. In her bill she charged her husband with desertion, but it generally was understood that the family happiness was wrecked by Mr. Corey’s public at tentions to Mahelle Gilman, an act ress. The Hartje case of Pittsburg made the whole country gasp. It involved grave charges against Mrs. Hartje anil her coachman and counter charges on the part of the wife that she was the victim of a conspiracy, in which her husband—the man she had loved and with whom she had lived—sought to blast her reputation by hired and perjured testimony. This was one of the most notorious domes tic tragedies ever aired in any court of any land. It was worse even than the Tagagrt case. Alone it was enough to make the year memorable in the matter of divorce. In contrast with this the trouble of Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes and Wilson Mizner were almost farcical. Mr. Yerkes, the traction magnate, died in New York in December last under circumstances that called the atten tion of the whole world to his widow. Although they had not been living to gether harmoniously during the later years of his life, Mrs. Yerkes declared that her husband had never ceased to love her, and that she was devoted to his memory. proached first startled and amazed me, then captivated me.” But within a few days she discovered, she says that the young man did not love her The case was a nine days’ joke to the public, but it was a great shock to Cupid, who insists that all matters pertaining to love be taken seriously Four Times as Many Separations. Among the more famous Chicago ' cases of the year might be mentioned that of Clarence Eddy, the organist J This was a musical romance, in which j the first discord was struck after near ly 30 years of married life. The "ar tistic temperament” of the great or ganlst is mentioned in connection with the domestic unhappiness. Cupid has had trouble from time immemorial with the artistic temperament The separation of the Eddys occurred in Paris, and Mr. Eddy first brought suit in Chicago, but afterward dismissed his case and secured the divorce in South Dakota last summer. The list of the year s domestic trag edies might be continued almost end lessly. It is no wonder that Cupid weeps. Efforts are being made by di vorce congresses and reformers to cure the evil by a national divorce law-. It is claimed that if the road to separation were made more diffi cult to travel there would be fewer , divorces and perhaps less unhappi ness. , In recent years, while the popula tion was increasing 30 per cent, the number of divorces has risen 300 per - cent. The disproportion is increase ing rapidly. If it keeps on for another ; generation there will be a divorce for | every marriage. I Meantime dejected Cupid ponders • the case. He knows how to mak« « people fall in love and marry, but ht ] can find no way in which they maj < be happy though married. He doubt! much if legislation against divorce ( would compel them to continue tc ] love one another. j “I am angry with Dick,” said the 1 pretty girl, with a myriad of blushes * "and I only give you that kiss through revenge.” “It reminded me of revenge," laugh ed the lucky young man. "In what way?” “Well, you know, ‘revenge it sweet.’ ”—Chicago Daily News. in age from 15 to 40; some of them were negresses, but the majority were Circassians. The latter are supposed to be the most beautiful of all Turkish women, on which account the slaves of the sultan are always selected from among them; but in this instance I looked in vain for any trace of good looks, and, indeed, could hardly help smiling at the comic effect they pro duced, dressed up to the nines in the latest Paris fashions, executed by lo cal dressmakers. GOLD NUGGET A BEAUTY. Alaskan Mine Has Probably the Largest Ever Found. It is not an uncommon thing to see men who have enough greenbacks to choke an elephant, but it’s not often that one meets a man with a gold nug get large enough to make even a horse sick if he had to try to eat it without having it run through a quartz mill. There is a man in Los Angeles, Cal., however, who has the nugget, and he is the Klondike king, Clarence Berry, I A who has come from Alaska on a visit to his brother. The nugget might bf likened to a man's hand with the palm turned upward, for it is over six inches long, almost four inches wide, is an inch thick at the thickest part and “weighs” |1,510. There are few men who can dig such chunks of gold out of their owr mines, but Clarence Berry is one cu these lucky miners. He is one of the pioneers of the gold mines o Alaska, and having been one of tb« first men to get to the various rict diggings, his energy and persever ance have been rewarded with a large amount of gold. How much no on« knows but he, and be won't telL Prunes N*w a Necessity. Prior to 188S the prunes consumer < in this country came almost entire!; from France and the Danublan prov inces. The consumption was small an< the fruit was considered a delicacy Now more than 100,000,000 pounds o dried prunes are eaten yearly in th* United States, and, needless to say the product is no longer regarded as i - luxury. | Cl Furs, Hides, Pelts. Write for price# and ship to McMillan Fur &, Wool Co., Minneapolis, Minn. A man's good judgment usually shows up the day after. TO CtlE A COLD Ift OAF DAT Take LAXATIVE; BHOMoQuininnTan ct». V.r t aristK refund mot»e* if it laiis to ciira. '» bUUVE ij signature is on each bo*. 25Q The last person to forget a kindness Is the one who does it. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c. "t <•'» pay lUc for cigars not.so good. Your dyete:u wl cri entering It through the mucous Mirl.tce*. F . articles should never be used except on pre-» tlous from reputable phyilclttns. an the dama^ • t :.** * will dots ten fold to the good you can p* »;i > ... rive from them. Hail's Catarrh cure, manuf*»< * by F. J. Cheney & Co.. T'dedo, <>.. i g--* t f Tftuulne. It i> taken Internally au Ipjo. S«#ld by HruggfleU. Price. TT>c. per butt e. Take Ilall’s Family "-** constipation. Long Sight. The longest distance ever com passed by human vision is 183 miles, being the distance between the Cn comparghe park, in Colorado, and Mount Ellen, in Utah. This fe*’ was accomplished by the surveyors of rhr United States coast and geodetic sur vey. who were engaged, in conjunc tion with representatives of other ;ia tions, in making a new measured- nt of the earth. Sheer white goods, in fact, any tine wash goods when new, owe much --f their attractiveness to the way the. are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beau ty. Home laundering would be equ.il ly satisfactory if proper attention w.is given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has suffieien; strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. ’Way Up in Maine. "Well, no,” said the crossroad* storekeeper up in the Androscoggin® kigginmemphremagogkattawauipus i• gion, “i ain't got them articles in stock at present, but. I guess yew can find the olive iie at the post office and th. canned tomaters at the barber shop. So yew shot a moose, did yew? Well, that's reel line, but I kind o' hoped il yew was goin' to have an accident yew'd shoot Hen Pussley, yewr guide, i ain't vindictive, or anything of tie kind, but he's been owin’ me five shil lin’s for I d'know how long, and I kind a’ think I c'u'd c'iect k easier out o' his estate than I can out o' Hen.”— Smart Set. MEN STILL LIVE IN CAVES. froglodytic Villages Are Found In Northern Africa. Grottoes and caverns are used more jr less as shelters by primitive peo ples and thus inhabited caves are ot :ourse most frequent in Africa. A con lideralde number of natives make :heir home* in caves along the soutb srn shore of the Strait of Gibraitar and in some of those caves are found he polished stones and arrow heads }f the stone age. Troglodyte villages ire frequent in the Tebessa territory >f Algeria, one of which, at Djeurf. 550 feet above the gorge of the Wadt dallail, is reached by steps cut in the ■ock. The inhabitants of the Tunisian sland of Galite are cave dwellers, heir habitations being grottoes which hey have dug out of the limestone, or mcient burial caverns that they have niarged. The subterranean villages of rlatmata and of Medennie, hewn out if the rock, are in southern Tunisia A Christian monastery built under ground in the twelfth century still ex sts at Goba, Abyssinia. The enor nous cavern discovered several years igo within two hours’ walk of the port if Tanga, in German East Africa, con ains rooms the roofs of which a « ^ rom 120 to 250 feet above the floor. ** )nly a few of these vast chambers lave yet been explored, for the entire avern seems to be inhabited by mil ions of bats. One of these killed rith a stick measured nearly five feet cross Us extended wings. DFADPRC of this paper de ULf/ll/£>nJ siring to buy any thing advertised in Us columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substi tutes or imitations. ^ III irflDUII Irrigated Farms. Big new lALirUnniA QoVt aided canal. Only wee »*. Write Wooeraa, lttt O’Farrel St, Baa Fraac ioa.