Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA.
Reluctant Obedience.
A wise puppy being told to lie down
In a certain place will obey meekly
at the moment, and then, waiting until
his master’s attention is diverted, will
slip slowly away from his post. His
reluctance to stay where he is told is
not based on a dislike of the spot, for
he will often select it for himself—but
purely on his prejudice against obedi
ence as such. So the child loves to
assert his freedom by doing what he
would consider a serious hardship if
he were compelled to do it. A keen
zest is added to play if it is close to
the edge of the forbidden. Like many
of the naughtinesses of human kind,
desire for the unpermitted underlies
the great advances of the race. Erect
a barrier, and the child and the man
long to climb over it, says the Youth's
Companion. The impassable moun
tain, the unsailed ocean, the mysteri
ous law of nature, the infinitely dis
tant star—these are so many irresist
ible magnets to the pioneer, and they
lead him, through what we may truly
call an audacious disobedience, to new
worlds and new triumphs of mind over
matter. “Why are the cows always
getting out of the pasture?" asked the
schoolmistress of the old farmer.
“Wal, I suppose it’s because they
want to be where they ain't!” A
glorious impulse, which climbs from
brute to man—and so on, to the
heights of future development! The
puppy, the cow, the child, the pioneer,
the man of science alike may glory in
their reluctant and temporary obedi
ence to the voice which says, “Stay
here!”
Bookless Homes.
College teachers report almost in
credible ignorance of standard litera
ture among classes that come up to
secure the higher education. An ex
amination of the minds of many fresh
men brings to light cavities of appal
ling magnitude; young men from well
to-do homes arrive at the college gates
without any of the passwords which
admit men to educated society. They
have a hazy idea that the Bible is an
old book which belongs with “The New
England Primer” on the dusty shelves
where obsolete publications are put
out of the way. They have heard of
Shakespeare, but are under the im
pression that he was a popular novel
ist. They have no knowledge of Col.
Epmond, Mr. Pickwick, Sir Roger de
Coverley, Miles Coverdale, or Evan
geline. They know something about
Rip Van Winkle because they have
been to the theater, and for the same
reason they are not without impres
sions of Hamlet, though they fail to
associate his tragic career with Shake
speare. The examination papers in
English are sometimes far more
amusing than the journals which
make joking a profession. If it were
not for the entrance requirements,
says the Outlook, some students who
knock at college doors would be as in
nocent of knowledge of the literature
which is supposed to be the common
possession of educated men as if they
had just arrived from Mars. . . .
Bookless homes are merely boarding
houses for neglected children.
It may be that science and the doc
tors will yet prevail on man to steril
ize the tempting lips of his lady love
before kissing her, but if the latter
were consulted she would prefer to
have him bring along his barber tools
unless he comes with a fresh shave.
A Chicago girl has had a man arrest
ed for making her cheeks sore by
kissing her while he was in an un
razored condition. It is very annoy
ing to the tender and confiding young
woman who has read about kisses in
the books suddenly to have a shoe
brush shoved against her face, says
Chicago Daily News, and to be ex
pected to like that sort of ' thing.
There is room for reform in kissing,
but the kisses and not the scientist
should say what the reforms should
be.
The t Seattle university professor
who is advising the young men of his
classes not to marry until the cost of
living is lower, has put himself into
direct conflict with the Roosevelt gos
pel of anti-race suicide. Moreover, he
is wasting his breath. The chances
are that numbers of his young men
are already engaged to ‘ coeds” and
will cheerfully marry on nothing a
i-ear before next Christmas. Even the
shadow of the dollar, says the Cleve
land Leader, can not extinguish young
love and hope, and fortunate it is for
th# world that this is so.
There was never a better time than
now for the study and practice of sci
entitle dieting. The provision market
quotations are furnishing all the requi
site inspiration for a more rigid regu
lation of what we eat. It is not only
healthful, but necessary.
Yes, America was indulgent to
Spanish ships during the recent war,
but Spain distanced us in the matter
of snch consideration. She refrained
from shooting a decent sized hole into
our naval outfit.
If the royal baby at Madrid has
wanted anything he hasn't got up to
date, it is because be hasn’t learned
yet bow to ask for it
The Rev. Mr. Aked’s observation
that man does not live by stocks and
bonds alone was never truer than In
these slumpy times.
Trees don’t mind
enough to hurt. Moi
roots down deep and
THE BEST HE COULD GET.
Amateur gardener Could Not Under
f stand Why Seeds Did Not Sprout.
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The woes of the amateur gardener
are vary amusing to others, but de
eid»Ily real to the-®1 man who has
spoiled a suit of clothes, blistered his
hands and lost his temper in his ef
forts to make things grow.
A young man, recently married,
early in the spring secured a sub
urban place, mainly with the idea of,
“fresh, home-grown vegetables.’ Every
evening he would hurry through his
supper and rush out to his garden,
where he displayed more energy than
skill. But, alas! When many little
green things began to break the
ground in his neighbors’ gardens, his
own remained as bare as the Sahara.
“It certainly has got me beat,” he
confided to a friend at*his office one
day. “I can’t understand why not a
blessed thing has come up. I planted
peas and corn and tomatoes.”
“Perhaps the seed were refective,”
the friend suggested.
“I hardly think it was that,” the
gardener replied, “for I got the very
best—paid 15 cents a can for them.”
LIFE INSURANCE A SACRED
TRUST.
Responsibilities of Officers and Di
rectors.
Evidently President Kingsley of the
New York Life Insurance company
has learned the great lesson of the
times with respect to the responsibil
ity and duty of directors of corpora
tions. Speaking to the new board of
trustees, on th^ occasion of his elec
tion to the presidency, he emphasized
the fact that “life insurance is more
than a private business, that life in
surance trustees are public servants,
charged at once with the obligations
of public service and with the respon
sibilities that attach to a going busi
ness which at the same time must be
administered as a trust.”
He also realizes that similar respon
sibilities rest upon the officers of the
company. “I understand,” he saysj,
“your anxiety in selecting the meto
who are day by day W carry this bur
den for you, who are to discharge this
trust in your behalf, who are to ad
minister for the benefit of the people
involved the multitudinous and exact
ing details to .which it is impossible
for you to give persoiial attention. My
long connection with the New York
Life—covering nearly twenty years—
my service in about every branch of
the company’s working organization,
gives me, as I believe, a profound ap
preciation, not merely of the heavy
burden you have placed on my shoul-.
ders. but of the standards of efficiency,
the standards of faith, the standards
of integrity, which must be main
tained at all times by the man who
serves you and the policyholders in
this high office.”
Best of all, perhaps, he feels that
words are cheap, and that the public
will be satisfied with nothing short of
performance. “My thanks, therefore,”
he continues, “for an honor which out
ranks any distinction within the reach
of my ambition, cannot be expressed
in words; they must be read out of
the record I make day by day.”
PRIVILEGES OP A GENTLEMAN.
Youngster Probably Will Change Ideas
in Course of Time.
There is a small boy in this town,
says the Baltimore American, the
son of a rather distinguished lawyer,
who has decided opinions on what
constitutes true aristocracy. One day
recently a friend called upon his
mother, and, while waiting for the
hostess, was entertaiaed by the small
boy.
“What are you going to do when
you grow up?” was the stereotyped
question she propounded in the effort
to start the conversation.
“Oh, I am going to smoke.”
“Yes?”
“And chew.”
“Oh!”
“And gamble.”
“Indeed!”
“And swear.”
“Really!”
"And drink corn whisky.’'
“And why are you going to do such
things?” asked the visitor aghast.
“Oh, all southern gentlemen do
them!”
Careful Public Guardian.
One of the pillars of the city ordi
nances is a traffic policeman stationed
at Fourth avenue and Twenty-third
street. He loses, no opportunity of
making war on persons who drop
banana peels in the street. He
pounces upon an offender and orders
him to pick up the slippery menace
to life and limb and to carry it to a
receptacle for waste on the sidewalks.
—New York Herald.
^COULDN’T KEEP IT.
Kept It Hid from the Children.
“We cannot keep Grape-Nats food In
the house. It goes no fast I have to
hide it, because the children love it so.
It is Just the food I have been looking
for ever so long; Something that I do
not have to Btop to prepare and still is
nourishing.”
Gripe-Nuts is the most scientifically
made food on the market It is per
fectly and completely cooked at the
factory and can be Berved at an in
stant's notice, either with rich cold
cream, or with hot ndlk if a hot dish
is desired. When milk or water is
used, a little sugar uhould be added,
but when cold cream Is used alone
the natural grape-sugar, which can be
seen glistening on the granules, is suf
ficiently sweet to satisfy the palate.
This grape-sugar is not poured ever
the granules, as some people think,
but exudes from the granules In the
process of manufacture, when
starch of the grains is*changi
starch to grape-sugar by the
of rainuf&ctdre. Thlit, in eflf“
first set of digestion; thereto
Nuts food hr pre-digeittd an
by
stomach.
Pasture
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OLD CITY HALL, CHARLESTON, S. C
From stereograph, copyright, by Underwooa <£ Underwood, N. V.
This structure is renowned as the birthplace of independent government
in America.
WATER FOR NEW YORK.
WORK ON WORLD’S GREATEST
ACQUEDUCT IS BEGUN.
Tremendous Engineering Project Will
Cost $161,000,000 and Is Estimated
Will Take From 15 to 20 Years
to Complete.
Peekskill, N. Y.—With impressive
ceremonies work was formally in
augurated the other day on one of the
greatest engineering undertakings in
the world's history—the aqueduct
which is to supply New York city
with water from the Catskill mountain
region.
The aqueduct will be the greatest of
ancient or modern times. It will cost
$161,000,000—$20,000,000 in excess of
the estimated cost of the Panama
canal and 30 times the cost of the
Corinth canal, which the Roman em
pire under Nero undertook but did
not finish.
It is estimated that it will take be
tween 15 and 20 years to complete
the aqueduct. When finished it will
increase the water supply of the
metropolis by 500,000,000 gallons every
24 hours, led under the Hudson river
more than 100 miles away from the
seven artificial lakes to be constructed
in the Catskills, and of these sources
that at Ashokan alone will contain
more water than all three of the lakes
of Killarney.
The building of the aqueduct,
which will have the capacity of a
small river, beneath the Hudson river
and the irregular country adjacent
known as the Highlands is an ex
tremely difficult problem. An enor
mous territory must be drained, whose
northern boundary is 130 miles from
New York city. In an area of over
several hundred, square miles entire
towns must be destroyed to make
room for the reservoirs. It has been
decided to carry the tunnel beneath
the famous headland of the Hudson
known as Storm King. At this point
the viaduct will be built more than
500 feet below the surface of the
river.
The aqueduct will be covered
throughout its entire length. Much
of it will pass far below the surface,
where it will be necessary to tunnel.
In places where the aqueduct will be
above or near the surface it will he
built in the form of a trench and later
arched over. In such cases even the
roof will not be left exposed, but will
be covered with earth and stone to
'strengthen it against all possible at
tacks of time and weather.
The aqueduct will carry 30 times as
much water as did all the famous
aqueducts of Rome combined. Twelve
reservoirs which must be constructed
ttf hold the enormous flow of water
from the various watersheds of the
Catskills and adjacent hills will far ex
ceed in size anything of the kind in
the world. One of these reservoirs
will be 12 miles long, with an average
width of one and a half miles. The
Ashokan reservoir alone will have a
capacity of 170,000,000 gallons, or
double the present water supply of
New York city.
BEER DRIVES OUT ABSINTHE.
France Takes More of the Former and
Less of the Latter.
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Paris.—The consumption of beer in
France has increased by more than
40 per cent, during the last five years.
In 1906 it reached the imposing total
of 317,040.000 gallons.
It does not appear that the increased
use of beer has diminished in the
slightest degree the consumption of
wine and cider. But Consul Mason is
quoted as saying that, as the consump
tion of beer increases, that of alcohol,
especially in the perilous form of ab
sinthe, is slowly but steadily decreas-'
ing.
The statistics of 1904 show that
during that year the amount of ab
sinthe sold for drinking purposes in
France fell off more than 130,000 gal
lons, or 2.8 per cent. This is not
a sweeping or conclusive reform, but
statistics seem to show that the max
imum danger point has been passed.
Much of the beer is imported (or
purports to be so) from Pilsen and
Munich, though most of the leading
breweries in other German cities have
Paris agencies and distribute their,
beer to retailers. This entails high
prices to customers, as there is a
heavy import duty. Under the stimu
lus of this protection the brewing in
dustry of France has developed rap
idly both in respect to quanity and
quality of its product.
’PJ-IONE MARRIAGES ILLEGAL.
Texas Estate Tied Up by Contesting
Heirs.
Galveston, Tex.—If the higher courts
of Texas affirm the decision of the
Nolan county court that a telephone
marriage is not a legal marriage there
will be a rush or remarriages in Texas,
where the telephone fad has been
quite popular.
The $250,000 estate of the late
Thomas Wemberley, ranchman, is tied
up on this legal point. Upon his death,
some months ago, a contest of the
will was made by certain relatives,
and the question of the legality of the
marriage was raised by counsel for
relatives of the dead ranchman. This
question was fought upon every
ground. , The court held that a mar
riage ceremony to be legal must be
solemnized by a minister or judge or
other authority in the presence of the
contracting parties and witnesses, all
of whom shall attest the ceremony.
The Wemberleys were united by a
telephone ceremony, in which the
bride and bridegroom responded to
the justice, who married them over a
telephone when they were 20 miles
apart. There have been several hun
dred telephone marriages in Texas,
and a few years ago an east Tdkas
judge refused to recognize a man and
woman as man and wife in a court
proceeding because they had been
married in this way.
Produces Vegetable Novelties.
Washington.—One of the agents of
the department of agriculture working
on his New Jersey farm has produced
a new vegetable novelty in the shape
of a seedless tomato. The variety has
been called the Giant, because of the
large size that the plant attains.
Six yearB of experiments was neces
sary to produce the seedless tomato.
Each ordinary tomato contains hun
dreds of seeds, while the form now de
veloped seldom contains more than 50
seeds, and often none.
Before attaining success in his ex
periments the government scientist
produced large crops of freak toma
toes. Some plants included clusters
no larger than peas. In one instance
the fruit had the flavor of a straw
berry.
FAMILIAR FIFTH AVENUE SIGHT
Miss Anna Held, the famous French actress, and her poodle, who may be
seen spinning down “Millionaire's row” most any nice day that she is in New
York,
WILL SEEK REVENGE ON STAGE.
Ex-Convict Will Appear in Own Play
to Exploit Alleged Wrongs.
Middlebfiry, Vt.—Declaring his in
tention of going on the stage and ap
pearing in the star part of a drama of
his own production to right his al
leged wrongs, John Ketcham, who has
been serving a sentence for complicity
in the wrecking of the Farmers’ Na
tional bank of Vergennes, was re
leased recently from the Addison
county jail. Ketcham’was a teller in
the bank and assistant to the cashier,
David H. Lewis, who, like Ketcham,
was sentenced to prison following the
discovery of a shortage of about. $50,
000 in 1902. Ketcham has served five
years and two months.
Ketcham, by mail correspondence
and by telephone, has conducted un*
dauntedly a campaign against political'
interests which he asserts were re
sponsible for his downfall. He has
busied himself with efforts to prove
that his conviction was a miscarriage
of justice.
In addition he'has written a book
giving his version of affairs which
brought about the failure of the bank,
and attacking prominent persons of
the state.
Ketcham was one of the younger
men in Vermont politics and had
served two terms in the state legisla
ture.
Returns with Rare Books.
William Putnam, the librarian of
congress, has reached London after
an extended tour of the continent, in
which he picked up a number of rare
books for the congressional library.
Germany Bars Camera Fiends* ;
Law to Stop Taking of Photographs
Without Obtaining' Consent.
Berlin.-r-The snapshot photographer
in Germany is threatened with extinc
tion owing to the risk he will run of
being mulcted in heavy lines under
the new act which goes into force
soon.
The right oL all persons to the ex
clusive reproduction of their por
traits or those of their houses or be
longings is made absolute by the new
enactment The law, hbwsver, permits
the granting of permission by anyone
to a photographer to take his photo
graph or that of his landscape or of
his cattle or horses. But there is
danger ahead for the amateur or pro
fessional who takes snapshots of some
one or something without previously
arming himself with the necessary au
thorisation. Prosecution and punish
ment may quickly follow., -
Even when requested by s friend *o
take a photograph of a room with its
sire, the danger is still great, for the
rcom may contain pictures, and if
these are recognizable in the photo
graph the photographer is liable to
prosecution by the artist.
Oddly Sensitive.
A Joke writer said of his trade:
“One of the first things we teach
our apprentices is never to use in
jokes common names, such as John
Smith, Jones, Brown, Robinson, and
so on.
“Why? Because the owners of such
names are oddly sensitive. John Jones
hates to pick up a paper and see a
Joke about his getting drunk, or beat
ing his wife, or kissing his typewriter
and being found out. Furthermore,
when such a Joke appears, John Jones’
friends dip It out and send it to him.
“Hence the Jones and Browns con
tinually write to editors to remon
strate against the use of their names
in the Joke columns, and hence many
edliots have' a
Long a Hermit in London Hotel.
London.—It seems a curious thing
that a man should choose one of Lon
donjt largest and busiest hotels for a
hermitage. Yet for years a man lived
In one of those famous hostelries ab
solutely secluded from the world
without and within. He occupied the
same rooms for 20 years, and the
only time that he ever left them was
at each midnight, when he went out
for air and recreation, which he took
in the open square near by. He
never spoke to anyone in the hotel,
except to one of the proprietors and
his waiter, who served him faithfully
for the score of years he spent un
der the same roof with them. None
of the hotel patrons ever saw him.
He never received visitors and no let
ter or communication was delivered to
him during hia sojourn there. De
spite all the mystery surrounding him
and his remarkable alienee, the imp
went through- life in an otherwise
sane way. He bad plenty of money,
apparently, as bis bills were paid
Jomsw where the
The Psychological Moment.
The fact that Priam was closeted
with the adjuster did not prevent Cas
sandra from dropping in to say that
she had told him just how it would be.
“She was all I saved,” murmured
the burnt-out monarch, jerking his
thumb at, the retiring prophetess.
“Say no more,” rejoined the other.
“We’ll call the loss total, and if I could
make it any more than that, old man,
I’d do it, under the circumstances.”
This incident ‘shows the value of a
word spoken at the right time.—Puck.
Parental Advice.
“Father, I am thinking of getting
married.”
“All right, my son, but remember
that love is not everything. Take
care to select a wife who will support
you in the style to which you have al
ways been accustomed, or you run the
risk of being very unhappy and may
be of having to go to work yourself.’
Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying •
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear- j
ing quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Pa was a MCKer.
Geraldine—What do you think of
pa?
Gerald—He has good terminal faciln
ities.
It Cures While You Walk.
Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for
hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25c. Don’t
accept any substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y.
His Wife: You needn’t make any
excuses, John. It's all right; you re
just in time to walk the baby for an
hour or two.—Puck.
Does Your Head Ache?
If so, get a box of Krause's Headache
Capsules of your Druggist. 25c.
Norman Lichty Mfg. Co., Des Moines, Ta.
Years may come and years may go,
but the time will never arrive when a
man will sit up and patch his wife’s
clothes after she is asleep in bed.
Lewis’ Single Binder straight 5c cigar.
Made of extra quality tobacco. Your
dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.
Buyers are esteemed; good met
dross are deemed.—Chinese.
Were He a Bird.
With an ugly sneer he tossed aside
the bread which she had made with,
her own hands.
“If I were only an ostrich—” he be
gan.
But the young woman cut him
short.
“Yes, if you only were,” she
snapped, “then I might get at least
a few decent feathers for that old hat
I’ve worn since my wedding day.”
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
est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in
jurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap
proached by other brands.
M. C. Russi, of Andermath, who has
just celebrated his one. hundred and
first birthday, is the oldest Alpinist in
the world. Last summer he scaled the
Gutsch mountain without assistance.
The greatest cause of worry on
ironing day can be removed by using
Defiance Starch, which will not stick
to the iron. Sold everywhere, 16 oz.
for 10c. _
If a man is incompetent ha usually
charges it to bad luck.
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Bold by all dealers
or sent bv mail
posti.8id for 20e.
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Thompson’s Eye Water
W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 28, 1907.
ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT.
AVjgefable PreparationforAs
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Him Seed
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Exact Copy of Wrapper.
Infants/Children
^tb months old
Doses-35 Cents
uhJORIA
For Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
YOU can furnish your table
with fine American china.
Every twenty-five cent family package of
»
Quaker Oats
contains either a cup and saucer, a
plate, a bowl, etc., of fine American
china.
'T,u- best oatmeal, the best dishes and
assortment.
Quaker Qats Qmp&ny.
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AfHlMtt Berries just on the mark et—