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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Wealth-Making Education. The Central Education Board pur poses using a part of the great in come assured by John D. Rockefeller's gift of $32,000,000 in agricultural dem onstration work in the south. The board will teach better use of the soil of a section which is greatly fa vored by nature and sadly neglected by man, in many respects and as to extensive regions. The instruction given will be in the form of example rather than precept. There will be enlightenment through Ihe eye. It will take shape in crops which will appeal to the natural desire of south ern land-owners and tenant farmers to make as much as possible from their cotton, corn, pastures, fruit and other products. * The opporlunity for improvement is immense. The average harvest in Ihe south is a national disgrace, as to many staples of agriculture. The yield ought to be more than doubled, in whole states, on the same acreage. There is defective tillage, lack of fer tilizing and careless ignorance of the rotation of crops and the use of the soil. In great part these evils are due to want of knowledge of the soil and of the needs of farms. Gross mis takes are made for lack of informa tion concerning seed and the adapta tion of crops to fields, ’['here is urgent need of enlightenment all along these lines. The money spent in teaching practical agriculture in the south will, remarks the Cleveland Leader, be money well invested. It will return many fold to the section most directly interested and to the country as a whole. Play in V/ork. Thomas A. Edison, the famous in ventor, announces that he will dis continue work and engage in play for a time. The statement was made on the day he was 60 years old. This does not mean, says Troy Times, that - Mr. Edison intends to lapse into id'o ness. To a man of his sort mere idle ness would no doubt be unendurable. But, having gained a competence as one result of what he calls 45 years of experimenting with electricity, with a view to developing commercial value, he will now pursue the study purely as a scientist. That additional bene fits will come from such investiga tions as he will make is reasonably certain, for Mr. Edison himself has ‘ intimated his belief that, great as have been the achievements of elec tricity, we are still in the infancy of development. Meanwhile everyone will wish for Mr. Edison the utmost pleasure and happiness in the occu pation to which he will devote a dig nified leisure. It is not many years since Ameri cans in England were criticized by Englishmen as using bad English. This all seems to be changed, for the other day Sidney Lee, a well-known British author, said in a lecture in London that the Americans use better English than the English themselves, and some of the London newspapers agree with him. One of them, in speaking of Americans, says, “Their best writers succeed in maintaining a purity of style—American law books, for instance, are models in this re spect—which need not fear compar ison with that of our own, and their best speakers are not only almost pe dantically correct in their English, but have a copiousness of vocabulary rarely attained by English orators.” Ice from the Alpine glaciers is be ing quarried now for distribution in large cities. Glacier ice is perfectly pure and transparent, and has many qualities which are greatly appre ciated by consumers. What a fine thing it would be, exclaims the Bos ton Jludget, if we had a glacier or two here in New England! A young man in a Missouri town en couraged the undertakers some by standing on his head for 20 minutes for a wager. However, it cannot be said that a man who can see no bet ter use of his head than to stand on it is much of a loss to the aggregated brain power of the community. The Baldwins in Philadelphia have turned out 30,000 locomotives since 1870. Before that, in 37 years, only 2,000 locomotives had been construct ed. Somebody, of course, will figure out just how far these 32,000 locomo tives would stretch, ranged pilot to tender along a line of track. A lot of cattle out in the state of Washington have died as a result of eating dynamite carelessly left along the roadside by the government road raakers who worked in the vicinity last fall, and their owners are all ready to explode. The kaiser is in such good humor now as the result of the elections that the kaiserin may safely give an un limited 'order for *a new hat, without fear of incurring the imperial dis pleasure. ‘‘Stick to your telephone" may be feminine for ‘‘stick to your gun." Twice, recently, girl operators have kept their places in the face of actual danger, and by their prompt action have avoided panics. f ___ The attack on Rmsuli may be more or less hindered by a disinclination on the part of the sultan’s soldiers to being held for ransom. Gen. Kuropatkin’s little book will be read with sardonic interest in little old Japan. COWBOYS QUIT GAMBLING Licensed Games of Chance to Be Abolished in Territories. NOT MUCH PROFIT IN THE BUSINESS THESE DAYS Handlers of the Roulette Wheel and the Faro Deck Ready to Surrender to Public Opinion Without a Fight—Lit tle High Play of Late Years, Anyhow—Even Euchre Is Now Forbidden in the City of Prescott, Arizona. Raton, N. M.—By the middle of this pear licensed public gambling will probably have disappeared from the territories of the United States. The ease and apparent willingness with which the tiger has surrendered sur prises some people who looked for a fight. But the end has been approached so gradually, through regulation and high license that even the gamblers themselves were prepared for it. It is a complete surrender by what was once regarded as an impregnably in trenched evil. This passing of the professional gambler shows the ad vance of public sentiment due to per sistent agitation, and it follows natur ally the disappearance of the frontier. There are no longer any wickedest towns. Where the gamblers will go or what they will do is not certain. The Ari zona closing law ' becomes effective April 1, and it is. expected that by July 1 a similar law will be in effect in New Mexico. A number of the Arizona professionals will doubtless Dome up into New Mexico to think the matter over, and then drift down into old Mexico, or over into Nevada, where everything is still wide open. Business No Longer Pays. One reason why the gamblers have given up is that the business of pub lic gambling no longer pays—there is nothing in it. The high license fee in this territory $400 a year for each will leave the territory; the rest will be driven to cover.” “Are there any big games now run ning in this territory?” “None that an oid gambler would call big. Of course there is stiff play in Albuquerque, where the profligate sons of new rich men abound, but such games are raerly public. There is only one blooded player in Santa Fe. “The only really profitable games are away out in the mining camps or at the front of new railroads. About the deadest town in New Mexico is Cimarron, which was once to the south what Julesburg was to the north. “With the disappearance of the cowboy and the petering out of new mining camps gambling for high stakes has died out. W'hen the gam bling spirit subsides it doesn’t matter much what the law is—so we simply don’t care whether or not the legisla ture prohibits public gambling.’’ Some of the liquor sellers and gam blers of New Mexico are men of su perior intelligence. The other day a tenderfoot had occasion to consult a book "The Land of Sunshine,’’ by Lil lian Whiting. The only available copy in town was the property of a gam bler. When he went to return the book he found a barkeeper immersed in an abstruse scientific wrork. Desir ing an expert opinion on the new cor poration law passed by the territorial legislature, the same visitor was re ferred to a saloonkeeper as the only ance, and the experiment of exceed ngly hyh liquor licenses, as much as $2,000, has been made with satisfac tory result#. That most of the games are unfair requires no proof. In his message Gov. Hagerman treats of this feature thus: “Some of the games as played here afford the player 250 per cent, less chance of winning than similar games afford in the large gambling estab lishments of Europe, which p*ty enor mous dividends to their stockholders. . . . The games most general in New Mexico are so arranged that the chances are many times in favor of the proprietors.'’ There has been long and gradual preparation in New Mexico for the impending prohibition of public gam bling. About 1890 the female warb lers, or concert hall singers, were put out of business by territorial enact ment. Then came a further tightening of the lines which did not become ef fective without a struggle—the law against packing guns. By the six shooter law every man on arrival in a town or city was compelled to shed his revolvers and cartridges and leave them in the custody of some resident until he was ready to go home, or to pay a fine of from $50 to $300 if he refused or neglected to do so. Still heavier fines were imposed for using or brandishing a deadly weapon. Stringent Law Proposed. Now the territorial council is con sidering a bill providing that "any person within the territory of New Mexico who deals, plays, carries on, opens, or causes to be opened, or con ducts either as owner or employe, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge-et-noir, rondo, fantan, poker, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, chucka luck, slot machine, or any banking or percentage game, or any other kind of game played with cards, dice, or any* device, for money, checks, credit, or any other representative of value, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or both.” y As in all reforms the impelling force has been a gradually crystallz ing public opinion. Both Arizona and New Mexico have ambitions in the di rection of statehood. The defeat of I_ - C/ > — ■ . 1 i ■■ ■■ »mmmi ■" H rf/V— ■ - ■■ ■" ■-» Raton's Leading Wide Open Gambling Shop—Bar on Opposite Side of Room. table, and the disappearance of cow towns and mining camps have causec the profits to dwindle. The writer has been at Raton for about two months and in that time has not seen 01 heard of a game worth mentioning. Unless a stranger wanders into : saloon he would never suspect tha public gambling is a source of reve nue for the support of the public schools here. Last summer, when i couple of new railroads were beins built into this city, there was higl play, but since then the business ha; been dead. There is practically no playing a all in daytime, and at night there arc only a few isolated games of poker Once a month, on the occasion of : railroad payday, the roulette wheels may whirl for a night, and then dus settles on them again. Nor is there perceptible anywhere the demoraliza tion which is supposed to accompany the legal recognition of public gam bling. This town of 6,000 inhabitant! is as quiet and orderly and clean mor ally as any town of like size in the United States. Leading Gambler Talks. When the leading gambler of Ratoi was questioned as to the outlook he said: ‘'They've got the drop on us and we must submit. R's poor consolation but still a consolation that we haven’ much to give up. Some games wil stop entirely and a number of sport! man in town who had made a study of it. In his message to the legislature ■ Gov. Hagerman advocated the passage of a stringent anti-gambling law pro viding penalties of from $200 to $5,000 1 fine, and imprisonment of from two months to one year, and recommended that any deficit be made up by in creasing the amount of the liquor li censes. At present two-thirds of the net amount received by the territory from liquor and gambling licenses is paid into the district school funds and one-third into the general county school funds. This open indorsement of public gambling is objectionable to citizens generally and peculiarly so to prospective settlers from the east. The number of retail liquor licenses in the territory in 1905 was 585, whole sale licenses 23, and gambling licenses 360. The total Income therefrom to the territory was only $164,000, of which less than half came from gam bling licenses. The figures for 1907 show no material change. In the city of Raton there are 19 saloons and 17 licensed gambling tables. The former pay to the city $100 a year and the latter $200 a year > each. Equal sums are paid to the ter ritory for the county and district • school funds. Most Games Unfair. I In the towns of Roswell and Artesia i gambling has been abolished by ordin the joint proposition last fall has in creased the rivalry between them. The threat of the Littlefield bill put Arizona on her good behavior, and now New Mexico is compelled to fol low suit. In their excess of zeal, however, some Arizona municipalities have gone too far. All Games of Chance Prohibited. The Arizona gambling law is due to take effect April 1. But Prescott, the capital city, could not wait until then to show off her newly donned white robes of virtue, and passed an anti-gambling ordinance, effective Feb ruary 1, which shut down all 40 of her public games and interfered seriously with social diversions. The ordinance prohibits the playing of euchre for prizes, and all other gambling games popular in social cir cles are likewise put under ban. Hereafter the Prescott woman who offers her guests prizes for winning any game of chance or skill puts her self exactly on the same plane, so far as liability to arrest and punishment is concerned, with the gambler, who backs a crap game. Fear of enforce ment of the new ordinance has also stopped the giving of prizes at parties and church entertainments. Purchased Fidelity. Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.—Seneca. LARGE SUMS SPENT BY WOMEN ON PERFUMES ♦ Five Thousand Dollars a Year by No Means an Uncommon Sum for One Member of “Society" to Expend on Various Swee".-SmeUing Devices— Scent That Sells for $60 a Small Bottle Bought by the Dozen Bottles. Five thousand dollars a year is the sum that a considerable number of women in New York spend for face creams, lotions, perfumes, bath and toilet powders, according to a drug gist who has a smart clientele. “Yes,” said he, “I know offhand of at least 20 women who spend fully $5,000 a year on toilet articles such as perfumes, face creams, tonics, toilet and bath powders, and this is entirely exclusive of toilet articles such as powder boxes, bath sponges, manicure articles, etc. “This may sov.nd like an exaggera tion, but when I tell you that we have perfume costing $60 a bottle that is bought by rich women by the dozen I bottles and that powders, both bath and toilet, with the same scent are equally costly, you can perhaps see how so much money could be spent in this way. “An interesting fad of rich women to-day is to have a certain perfume made for them exclusively. It is naturally an expensive operation, but anything to be individual. “It is productive of some funny epi sodes at times. Women are like sheep. They all follow one another, and if one woman gets something new or unusual they all want the same thing. “They will come to me and say casually: ‘That is rather good per fume that Mrs. Blank uses. Do jou know what it is?’ That is a trade secret, or rather a matter between my. customer and myself, so I merely say: ‘It is made to Mrs. Blank’s or der. If she is willing that you should know I’ll be very glad to tell you or .make it up for you, as the case may be.’ “That settles it, for Mrs. Blank has no intention of divulging the secret. She means, if possible, to be indi vidual and have things that every other woman she knows doesn’t have.' “To show you how this thing works, one of my customers with no end of money came in the other day, saying: 'Can’t you get me up a special per fume? I have asked two or three other big houses to do so, but wouldn’t dream fbf using the concoctions they sent me. I want something delicate and lasting and one that is decidedly distinctive.’ “ ‘Come in a couple of weeks and it will be ready for you,’ I replied. “I set my chemist to work and had a variety of odors made up, one of which my customer decided on. “One woman came in here the other day and ordered $250 worth of toilet stuff to be sent to Italy, where she is to spend the winter. So that is the way the money counts up.. “Most of these women of whom I speak think no more of spending sev eral hundred dollars on toilet things at one time than they do of buying a postage stamp. However, I happen to know that they spend ten times that amount in philanthropic ways, which surely does mitigate their seeming of l fense in other lines.” ___ _______ MAIL-ORDER WAYS A BAD ADVERTISEMENT FOR CATALOGUE HOUSES. AT SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE Sooner or Later It Teaches Every Mail Order Patron the Error of Sending His Money from Home. The methods of the mail-order houses are their worst advertisement. Sooner or later there will come a time in the experience of every purchaser of their goods when he will wish “he hadn't done it,” when he will wish he had spent his money with his home merchants. This is not only because he will see the ruin wrought in his own community by the nefarious prac tice of sending the money of the com munity to the city, but also because of the practices of the mail order con cerns. The story in the catalogue sounds well. It sounds like you would get the identical thing you wanted and at a much lower price than you had im agined it could be bought for, and you order it. The purchase arrives and when opened you feel that some mis take has been made, that the conoern has sent you the wrong goods; it is not what you ordered. Ah, but it is! The difference is be tween the way it actually looks and the way it sounds in the catalogue. You explain that the goods you re ceived is not what you ordered and ask for an accounting, and are told that it is you that is in error, that you got just what you ordered, and then if you are wise you buy of the time we would have no local merchant to do our buying. Catalogue houses, I have found from bitter experiences, are tricky. If those who are dealing with them will watch their purchases, they will find it so sooner or later. Our last deal, had it occurred here at home, would have been straightened out in five minutes and without feeling, but with you it takes me all winter to get my money back when the goods are not satisfac tory, and even then I get only a credit card which is lost through studied carelessness upon the part of someone in your concern so that I have noth ing to show for my claim. Every man should trade at home if conditions admit of purchasing a good article at reasonable prices. If not, then he had better trade at the next town or city that his money may go to build up the country around him. He sends it to Chicago that it may go into profits of some big mail-order house until there is enough sucker money to build and endow some great charitable institution as a monument to the greatness of the mail-order man and the gullibleness of the easy pub lic. I have already asked that you adjust the matter of bur last deal. I want my money returned without further dickering and unless I get it I shall certainly get its equivalent in adver tising you and your methods among the people of Lake county. Awaiting your reply, 1 am. Yours truly, CARL SCHULTZ. Wolf Lake, Michigan. P. O. Baldwin, Mich. Can you, Mr. Purchaser, not profit by the experience of others and turn your money into home channels by trading wTith home merchants where you will get a dollar’s worth for a dol lar, or must you follow the mail-order The one sure method of curbing tl the thongs of home patronage. Are spending your money at home and h sending it to the city to swell the forti home merchant next time, and know what you get when you pass over the money for it. He may not be able to sell you what you thought you were buying from the mail-order house at the catalogue price, but he can sell you, if he has it, the same goods you get from the mail-order houses at an equal or less price than they ask for it, and what is more, he can sell you what you really want at as reasonable a price as you can get it for else where. The following letter, written by a Michigan farmer, explains in a clear and unmistakable way the danger of buying of mail-order concerns. It was addressed to one of the largest of this class of institution in this country: Baldwin, Mich., Jan. 12, 1907. Gentlemen: I have your favor of recent date, and also your catalogues and accom panying circulars offering premiums for distribution of the same among my friends. I have no doubt that, as you say, I will thereby confer a great fa vor upon you, but I am compelled to take issue with you on the statement that I will also confer a favor upon my friends. In my dealings with you, extending over some time past, I have received no favors from you—I paid for all I got, and the length of time I traded with you, instead of establishing friendly relations and gaining me ad ditional favor as it would in a home store, gave you the opinion that, un like a new customer, to whom you give your very best, so they will come again, I was a steady comer and any old thing would do for me. Our last deal opened my eyes and convinced me of your policy. Your catalogues offer some apparently great bargains. But let us draw up our chairs and see if there are not a few things very essential to the rural citi zen that are not mentioned within its voluminous bulk. For instance, there is no reference to paying cash or exchanging goods for wheat, oats, corn, beans, butter, eggs and hay. How much will you pay for cattle, sheep and hogs, f. o. b„ at Baldwin? How much will 0Du pay to support the Lake county schools and educate our children? How much for improv ing our roads and bridges? For sup porting the poor? For the general public expense? On what page do you offer to con tribute money to the support of our churches? What line of credit will you extend to me when my money is low because of sickness, or poor crops?' What do you provide in the way of entertain ment for the public and in the way of providing those things that make a town desirable and thus keep up the value of my property? As a matter of fact, do you do any thing to help locally, or do you merely take the money out of a community, returning nothing whatever, beyond the value of the goods bought? Think ing it over carefully, I believe it is better to call upon our iwcal dealer and look over his stock whare we can see the goods before buying. There are then no errors in change or re funds to be haggled over across a 300 mile stretch. ifes, it is better to trade at home. Our home merchant’s guarantee upon an article means something, as he wants our good will. Keeping the money at home benefits home indus tries and thus, indirectly, us. We can not expect to sell our products to the local merchant and do our trading in Chicago. It is all one-sided and some le mail-order giant is to bind him with you helping in this work? Are you slping your town to grow, or are you ines of the mail-order man? man's lead to trouble for yourself and destruction for your community? Dc not wait for that evil day when you have learned wisdom in the expensive school of personal experience, but profit by that purchased by others You will find it far cheaper and more satisfactory in the end. Duel Between Partridges. The mating season is a time ot great excitement among the par tridges, and generally extends ovei a fortnight or three weeks, according to the size of the stock and the pro portion of the sexes, says the Country Gentleman. Should cocks preponder ate to an excessive degree, the busi ness will not be settled till many a pitched battle has been fought to the bitter end, and the weaker males ei ther driven away or actually killed. A cock partridge is so poorly armed for the fray that it is a matter for surprise he should be^ible to kill one of his own kind, but if a battle is watched there will no longer be cause for wonder, once a bird recognizes itself beaten it appears to make no further attempt at defense, and tamely submits to be scalped by its successful rival. There is nothing in the whole ani mal world quite so craven as a beaten partridge, for it seldom makes an ef fort even to escape. A Turkish Health Report. The French government, wishing to obtain definite statistics on points re lating to certain Turkish provinces recently sent blanks -with questions lating to certain Turkish provinces, to be answered to the Provincial gov ernors. The replies received from the Pasha of Damascus are worth quoting: Question. What is the death rate in your province? Answer. In Damascus it is the will of Allah that all should die. Some die young and some die old. Q. What is the annual number of births? A. God alone can say—I do not know, and hesitate to inquire. Q. Are the supplies of water suf ficient and of good quality? A. From the remotest period no one has died in Damascus of thirst. General remarks as to the local san itation: Man should not bother him self or his brother with questions 1 that concern only God. A Squelcher. “I gave that odious Mrs. Dough purse something to think o* this after noon,” says Mrs. Bankfull to her hus band, who was amusing himself by tossing $20 gold pieces into the artifi cial lake in the drawing room for the pleasure of hearing the gold pieces plunk as they sunk. "Whajja say to her?” asked Mr. Bankfull, rolling himself a cigarette in a hundred-dollar bill. “She was boasting about the soli* gold radiators they are having put into their new house, and 1 told her we thought steam heat was so old-fash ioned that we were going to heat our house with radium hereafter.”—Judge. Minister Discovers Comet. Ministerial duties do not prevent the Rev. Joel H. Metcalf, of Taunton, Mass., from pursuing astronomical in vestigations. His study of the stars has resulted in the discovery of a new comet, which is now being closely ob served by astronomers throughout the world. It has been named Metcalf’s comet. i DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Cur* the Kidneys and the Pain W;ll Never Return. Only one sure way to euro an aching back. Cure the cause, the kidneys. Thousands tell of cures made by Doan's Kidney Pills. John C. Coleman, a promi nent merchant of | Swains boro. -Gu.. I says: “For several years my kidneys were affected, and my back ached day « dUU UlgUl. i " languid, nervous and lame in the morning. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right away, and the great relief that followed has been permanent.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Burro Drivers Carry Candles. In Mexico all vehicles, be they handcart, automobile, or anything be tween, must carry a light at night. This rule or law is rigidly enforced. Even the drivers of the poor little burro or mule carts, on their two wheels, must carry a light. So, rather than buy lanterns, which cost money, they take a dip candl'’. and wrapping it in a bit of newspa per to shield it from the wind, carry it in their left hand as they drive along homeward from work after evening has fallen. The effect s striking, as the light, falling strongly on the Indian driver, throws the face of the man into strong relief against the darkness. FEW KNOW THIS. Gives Simple Home Prescription and Directions to Use. ) A well-known specialist is authority that Kidney and Bladder Troubles t f all kinds are in nearly every instance readily relieved by taking a. few doses of the following simple home-made mixture: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-ha f ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce: Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. The dose is a teaspoonful after nu a s and at bedtime. These ingredients can be obtained at any good pharmacy, and are mixed by shaking well in a bottle. Victims of Kidney, Bladder and Urinary diseases of any kind should not hesitate to make this pre scription up and try it. It comes high ly recommended and doesn't cost much to prepare. Quick Cure Effected. Saturday afternoon an Atchison young lady complained of sore and tired feet. She was so crippled that her father carried her upstairs. A few hours later she was invited to at tend a dancing party that night. She not only went, but danced until three o'clock Sunday morniny —Atchison Globe. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot r^acj the seat of the disease. Catarrh Is a blood or o .rut * tutlonal disease, and in order tocure It you must i i Internal remedies. Hail’s Catarrh Carols ta-n fr ternally, and acts directly on the blood and inuco ; surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, is not a quack m cine. It was prescribed by one of the best physl. ac« In this country for years and is a regular pre*- r pr! r It is composed of the bent tonics known, combmei with the best Mood purifiers, acting directly n ;ii• mucous surfaces. The perfect combination th two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful rt ■ suits in curing catarrh, .^end for testfmonla «. fre« . F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo. O. 6old by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constfputlon. When doctors disagree it i3 well for the patient to get up and see if any thing really ails him. Lewis’Single Hinder straight, or c _rn ;• good quality all the time. Your dealer Lewis* Factory, Peoria, 111. An opinion carries conviction only when expressed with force. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces In flAnimation, allays pain, cured wind collo. 25c a bottle. All thy virtue dictates, dare ta do. —Mason. ■will it T "-u W.' A. Mitchell, dealer in general merchandise, Martin, Ga., writes: “My wife lost in weight from 130 ! to 68 pounds. We saw she could not live long. She was a skeleton, so we consulted an old physician. He told her to try Peruna. ^ “She gradually commenced im-, proving and getting a little K strength. She now weighs 106 jj pounds. She is gaining every day.' and does her own housev/ork and! cooking.” _J
