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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1908)
Loop City Northwestern 4. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. The Painful Truth. A charming anonymous bachelor, writing of woman, says, “A man of in tellectual tastes is unduly disposed, as a rule, to value frankness, and this quality is not one that women rate very high." If one looks closely into the slight feminine aversion to frank ness it is seen to rest on the idea that a frank statement is bound to be a dis agreable one. If I have a stoop, my frankest friend tells me of it. If my French accent is bad, my s--'.:p too salt, my new wall paper too vivid, or my spring gown unbecoming, 1 learn these facts from the various folk who believe in speaking out what they think. On the other hand, my complexion or my preserves are praised by those gentle souls who are not possessed by any lofty sense of duty toward social truth fulness. and who whimper their com mendations apologetically, as if they decried their own enthusiasms for be ing less useful than the fault findings of their critical neighbor. Women— nice women—have been taught for centuries that approval may be mis taken for pursuit. So they restrict ap proval to glance and smile. They may speak their free minds in that gloomy region where condemnation awaits the shrinking victim, but not in the sun shine. even if that does fall on the just and the unjust. Until we can separate frankness from pain-giving in the thought of women, says Youth's Com panion, their masculine friends must continue to bewail the woman's lack of frankness. The truer and deeper the womanliness of the woman, the more she shrinks from inflicting suffering. Even when it might be wholesome, she avoids it: and to give pain in the in terest of an abstract ideal of frankness seems to her little less than an out rage. Is-she wrong? The Taste of Tin. A man may live in the city and buy a squash and eat it. That is all he can do with a boughten squash, for a squash that he cannot raise he cannot store, nor take delight in outside of a liie. And can a man live where his garden is a grocery; his storehouse a grocery; his bins, cribs, mows and at tics so many pasteboard boxes, bottles and tin cans? Tinned squash in pie may taste like any squash pie, but it is no longer squash, and is a squash nothing if not pie? Oh, but he gets a lithograph squash upon the can to show him how the pulp looked or God made it. This is a sop to his higher sensibilities, writes Dallas Dote Sharp in the Atlantic; it is a commercial re minder, too, that life even in the city should be more than pic—it is also the commercial way of preserving the flavor of the canned squash, else he would not know whether he were eat ing squash or pumpkin or sweet po tato. Hut then it makes little differ- ] ence, all things taste the same in the city—all taste of tin. That Cupid is fully up-to-date is at tested by a marriage just reported. The bridegrom is the manager of a large telephone company and the bride was lately chief operator in one of the offices. The gentleman, in the line of his official duty, had occasion to talk with the lady and was so impressed by her voice that he sought an intro duction. and the romance has cul minated in providing him with a charming partner for life. And tele phone girls, who are bright and quick, will instantly see the point. A soft, low voice is a good thing in woman at all times, and not infrequently one of the first aids to matrimony. Wonder stories come out of the east from time to time about the price per word paid to Mark Twain for what ever he writes, the average rumor tag ging somewhere around 35 cents. Ue ing thus equipped with a market, Mark need not care though he lost $50,000 in the Knickerbocker bank. If he got hungry all he would have to do would be to reach for his trusty fountain pen, dash off a couple of words and have enough for a modest breakfast and one of his celebrated bandless two-for-a nickel cigars. That is better than hav ing an uncle to whom one may write. There is more humiliation in store for the proud and haughty auto which has taken possession of the public streets and put even the most prancing of steeds in the second class. A pound has been started in New York for autos left in the streets unattended and, to rub it in, the pound is under the control of the street-cleaning de partment. A mountain settled in New Jersey, causing an earthquake, the other day. If New Yorkers who summer in New port were to settle it would cause something fully as wonderful in the minds of shopkeepers of that home of haughtiness. A New Y'ork man has been sen tenced to prison for "not longer than his natural life." It must be a relief to Win to know that he will not be ex pected to hang around the place after death. Wonderful Phraseology. A party of American tourists who were comfortably established in a ho tel in Germany discovered a new con tribution to "English as she is spoke,” only this time they found it in the written word. The building had been recently wired for electricity and un der the bulbs in each room directions were posted in French, German and English. The French was irreproach able, the German nearly so. The Eng lish read as follows: "To open and shut the lightening electrical on, is re quested to turn to the right hand. On going to bed it must be closed. Other wise the lightening must be paid.” Hog Cholera. The greatest drawback to the hog industry which breeders in this coun try have to contend with is what is known as "hog cholera" and "swine plague.” Hog cholera is a highly contagious disease and unless checked is liable to carry off a great number of hogs in a very short time. Mr. A. P. Williams, of Burnetts Creek, Ind.. tells of an experience which he had with some hogs that had the cholera. “Five years ago.” says Mr. Williams, "I was in the em ploy of Mr. J. D. Richardson, Lafay ette, Ind., as his barn foreman. Some fine hogs that I was feeding took the cholera. I gave them Sloan's Lini ment and did not lose a hog. Some were so bad they would not drink sweet milk and I was compelled to drench thena I have tried it at every opportunity since and always find it O. K.” Write for Dr. Sloan's free book on the treatment of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, and Poultry. Address: Dr. Earl S. Sloan. 615 Albany Street, Boston, Mass. LOST TEMPER WAS COSTLY. Poet Banker Threw Away and Bought Back His Own Property. Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet banker, had a high temper and was exceedingly sensitive. One day, exas perated by the crass stupidity of a servant, he threw a book at his head. The boy ducked and the book sailed out of the window. After it hurried the menial, but he was too late; a passerby had picked it up and walked off with it. Stedman began to wonder what book he had thrown away, and to his horror discovered that it was a quaint and rare little volume for which he had paid $50. His chagrin was intense, as the work was almost unique and the prospects of replacing it were remote. Some time afterward, when brows ing in a second-hand book shop, our splenetic poet banker perceived to his .great delight a copy of the very book he had lost. He asked the price. "It's very rare,” replied the dealer, "but as you are an old customer I'll let you have it for $40; nobody else could have it for less than $60.” Stedman gladly paid the $40. got home with his treasure as soon as possible, and sat down to gloat over it. A card dropped out of the leaves. It was his own. Further examination showed that he had bought back his property. It cured him of casting books at serv ants’ heads.—New York Press. WEDDED BUSS. Salesman—You ought to have a talking machine. >lr. Grouch—I have. I married it OLD SURGEON Found Coffee Caused Hands to Tremble. The surgeon's duties require clear Judgment and a steady hand. A slip or an unnecessary incision may do ir reparable damage to the patient. When he found that coffee drinking caused his hands to tremble, an Ills, surgeon conscientiously gave it up and this is his story. "For years 1 was a coffee drinker until my nervous system was nearly broken down, my hands trembled so I could hardly write, and insomnia tor tured me at night. "Besides, how could I safely per form operations with unsteady hands, using knives and instruments of pre cision? When 1 saw plainly the bad effects of coffee, 1 decided to stop it, and three years ago I prepared some Postum, of which I had received a sample. "The first cupful surprised me. It was mild, soothing, delicious. At this time 1 gave some Postum to a friend who was in a similar condition to mine, from the use of coffee. "A few days after, I met him and he was full of praise for Postum, de claring he would never return to cof fee but stick to Postum. We then or dered a full supply and within a short time my nervousness and consequent trembling, as well as insomnia, disap peared, blood circulation became nor mal, no dizziness nor heat flashes. "My friend became a Postum en thusiast, his whole family using it ex clusively. "It would be the fault of the one who brewed the Postum, If it did not taste good when served. “The best food may be spoiled if not properly made. Postum should be boiled according to directions on the pkg. Then it is all right, anyone can rely on it. It ought to become the national drink." "There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Rattle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. WINTER WHEAT CROP HE REALIZED $38 PER ACRE. K>3 OATS $37 PER ACRE IN SOUTH ERN ALBERTA, WESTERN CANADA. Coaldale, Alta, Can., Nov. 19, 1907. Sir: I beg to say that this year we had 849 acres of grain, consisting of 197 acres of spring wheat and 158 acres of oats. The average yield of wheat was 38 bushels per acre and oats 74 bushels. We were ottered $1.00 per bushel for wheat and 50 cents for oats, making the acre val ues for the two crops $38.00 and $87.00 respectively. We also had 50 tons of hay worth $13.00 per ton, and 500 bushels of po tatoes, worth 60 cents per bushel, the latter off 3Vi acres of ground. Our best yields this year were 107 icres of wheat, making 41 bushels per acre at $1. 00 per bushel, would be $41.00 per acre; 47 acres of oats, yield Ing 95 bushels per acre were sold for 50 cents per bushel. Proceeds. $47.00 per acre. 1 might add that 50 acres of our oats were "stubbled in.” During the spring of 1906, we hired about 300 acres broken by steam. We put in and harvested 55 acres of grain last year, did the remainder of our breaking, worked up the ground and seeded this year's entire crop, put in seven acres of alfalfa and five acres of garden potatoes, trees, etc., all with one four-horse team. During har vest we hired other teams, but, aside from this, and part of the breaking, the one team did the work of raising practically 19,000 bushels of grain, worth $12,000. Yours truly, W. H. PAWSOX, JR. WINTER WHEAT 25 TO 30 BUSH ELS TO THE ACRE IN SOUTH ERN ALBERTA. Warner, Alta, Canada. Jan. 9, 190S. Dear Sir: This is the first year of farming in this settlement. Mr. A. L. Warner raised twenty-five hundred and fifteen bushels of fine winter wheat on one hundred acres of break ing and Tenny brothers had sixty acres that went thirty bushels per acre. The winter wheat that is in this year looks fi ne. Spring wheat here went thirty bush els per acre, oats fifty to eighty, bar ley fifty, and flax ten to fifteen on sod. The settlers here are all well pleased with the country. The stock have not required any feed except the grass up to this date and are all fat. Yours truly, F. S. LUFFING WELL. (Information as to how to reach these districts, rates, etc., can be secured from unv agent of the Canadi an government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere.—Ed.) RESOLVED TO SNUB EVE. Mrs. Intheswim Intended to Draw So cial Line in Heaven. The minister had dropped in to tea, and the conversation had drifed through various channels to the ques tion of whether or not we should know each other in heaven. Presuming that our physical beings would be perpetu ated. and that recognition would be as sured, the minister had asked various ones at the table among whom the Bib lical characters they would be most interested in recognizing. Some mentioned one prophet and some another, but one lady, noted for her social exclusiveness, had not spoken. Turning to her the minister said: “And who would you like to meet in heaven, Mrs. Intheswim?" Mrs. Intheswim pursed her lips. “I really don't know," she said, “but there is one thing I do know, and that is that I shouldn't care to meet Eve. In fact, I don't know that I would speak to her if 1 did!" HER GOOD FORTUNE. After Years Spent in Vain Effort. Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse, of Cam bridge, X. Y„ says: “Five years ago i nuu a uctu idu duu it affected my kid neys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges fol lowed any exertion. The kidney secre tions were badly dis ’ * colored. 1 lost tiesh and grew too weak to work. Though constantly using medicine 1 despaired of being cured until I began taking Doan's Kidney I’ills. Then relief came quickly, and in a short time I was completely cured. 1 am now in ex cellent health.” Sold by ail dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. Prosaic Pa. "Katherine." called the old gentle man from the top of the stairway, i "are you still telling that young man ! 'good night' In the vestibule?" "Yes, pa," called the fond daugh ter. "Well, don’t you know you art wasting the light?" "Oh, what's the difference. It it 'love that makes the world go round.’" "Yes, and It also makes the gas meter go round." The Difference. "Grafton calls himself a 'profes sional man' and yet he takes no part in anything but politics. Is politics a profession or u business?" "Well, when bis side is in power it's a business; otherwise it's merely a profession."—Philadelphia Press. Quality Purity iOUNCES I . 9UESmaNI‘#‘ The Power Behind the Dough! BAKING POWDER 25 Ounces for 25 Cents A real power that raises and sustains tne dough with absolute certainty. No failures. A cake made with K C cannot fall. We insist upon refunding your money if a trial does not con vince you. TEXAS THE PLACE TEXAS is the Best State for the Homeseeker. Fertile Lands, Diversified Crops, Farming all the year. Health, Climate, Schools and Churches. I he San Antonio and Aransas Pass Ry. traverses the b»*st portion. Send 2 cent stamp for Folder and Information. GEO. F. LEPTON, G. P. A., San Antonio, Texas. Young: None think the great un happy but the great. ONLY ONE “HROMO Ol ININK” That Is LAX ATI VK BKOMO yLiNINK. Look fol the siknature of K VV. (IK'JV E. Used tho World over to Cure a Cold in One Dttjr. *J5c It is her winning ways that often enable a woman to get the better of a man in the matrimonaial game. It’s the judgment of many smokers that Lewis" Single Binder 5e cigar equals in quality the best 10c cigar. . The Wicked Husband. “Why does a man lie to his wife?” asks a woman writer. Dear me; does he?—Duluth Herald. Give Them Titles? By granting titles of nobility to American men we might stop the flow of good American money into the coffers of titled foreigners who marry American girls, but the remedy would be worse than the disease. Gone, Anyhow. Mr. Jawback—That boy gets his brains from me. Mrs. Jawback—Somebody got 'em from you, if you ever had any—that's a cinch.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. All Beach. Wilfred was sitting upon his fa ther's knee watching his mother ar ranging her hair. "Papa hasn't any Marcel waves like that." said the father laughingly. Wilfred, looking up at his lather's bald pate, replied. “Nope; no waves; it's all beach.”—Harper's Weekly. Billion Dollar Grass. Most remarkable grass of the century, i Good for three lousing crops annually. | One Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold S3. 800.U0 worth of seed and had .100 tons of hay besides. It is immense. Do try it. Fob 10c AID this notice send to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse. Wis.. to pay postage, etc., and they will mail you the only original seed catalog published in America with sam ples of Billion Dollar Grass. Macaroni Wheat, the sly miller mixer. Sainfoin the dry soil luxuriator. Victoria Rape, the 20c a ton green food producer. Silver King Barley yielding 171 hit. per acre, etc., etc., etc. And if you send 14c we will add a pack age of new farm seed never before seen by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co.. I si Crosse, Wis. K. & W. The ‘‘Patrolium" Wagon. The telephone in police headquar- j ters rang. 1 "Is this the police station?” in quired a woman's voice. "It is,” said C. E. McVey, the desk sergeant. "Well, I wish you ail'd send the pa trolium wagon over to Fourth and Oak streets right away. Ole Bill's got drunk again and he's just raising Cain. And say,” the voice added, "if you all don’t send that wagon mighty quick you all might as well send a hearse, ’cause I'm goin’ to hit that fool nigger in a minute.” The wagon made a “hurry” run. but returned empty a few minutes later. The driver reported that he could And no trouble.—Kansas City Star. The Flatterer. The tramp hud applied to the farm er's wife for assistance. "You have a beautiful voice, lady,” he said. She looked interested. “Have I?” "Yes, ma'am; I'd rather hear you say no. lady, than most other women say yes.” Then she drove back the dog and gave the wanderer half a loaf and a chunk of cold beef. MONEY FOR RECIPES Prizes of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) In Gold for the Best Recipes. For our syndicate service to newspapers through out the fountrv we wish to obtain from the House wives of the l nited States their choicest reel pcs for appetizing dishes. Five Prizes in Gold of '1 en Dol lars (flU.UUi each will he paid every mouth for trie Util Recipe for making Class 1-BREAD. Class *-CAKK. Class2—PIES. Class 4—DEsSHUTS. Class5-ANY ORIGINAL DISH OF YOU Li OWN INVENTION. When we print the Prize Recipes in the papers of the United States the winners’ names wili he attached. To help cover cost of advertising an entrance fee of 25 cents i silver or money order ma-t he sent, with the recipe in each clase—hut > «»u may send more than one recipe in a single s-> w th hut the one entrance fee. should you have a g«**d n< . |>e (or more than one in e-ich of the live class. one is,liar (instead of fl-25' will be accepted as in.: entrance fee. And remember that as Jong as this advertisement appears the Prizes in (*ol«l will be paid ev'ru days forthc recipes received during the current month. If y,,u do not receive a prize this month, you may the next. We reserve the r.ght to purchase at our regular rates such recipes as may prove of merit hut do not win prizes. This is a splendid opportunity for every Housewife to earn the tidy sum of Ten iHjIlars tor more . uGold by herskillasa cook: and t«» have the satisfaction of knowing that thousandsot other 1 louse wives will know that she devised the dish. A list i f tin* Prize Winners will be printed here each month, or mailed direct on receipt of stump. Donrtdelay in entering th unique and instructive gastronomical Prize Competition. INTERNATIONAL PRESS BUREAU. 84 La Salle Street, Chicago, 111. * _I Typical Farm Scene. 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BFAUF'RQ this paper de Ai/ial/L/Au siring to buy any* thing advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for. refusing ail substi tutes or imitations. PARKER’S . HAIR BALSAM BCleanaes and beaut.ftei the hair. 1 Promote* a luxuriant growth. I Never Falla to Hestore Gray I Harr to its Youthful Color. I Cure* »calp diseases & hair fa.ii.ng. 1 JOc, and j 1 \K< af l>rug£nt9 PILES ANAK ESI Selves instant relief. IS A S1M1M.K LTKK. Pi at drucpist* or by mail. Sample FltKJS. Address, "ANAKESIS” Tribune Bldg.. N» vs- York. PATENTS 1 KKK HKI’OKT. Writefor particular^. \V. J. liti.i.A Co.. Century UMk-, W.tssfc.. D. C. w Thompson's Eye Water DEFIANCE STARCH 2m W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 10, 1908. There Is Only One “Bromo Quinine ’1 That la Laxative Bromo Quinine USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE A COLD IR ORE DAT. Always remember the full name. Look for this signature on every box. 26c. *rzri?L0 Its Danger. Nurse—“I’lease, ma’am, I can't find little Franzi anywhere. We've looked all over. .Mistress—“Did you look to see if he’s been gathered up by the vacuum cleaner?’’ It Sharpens His Vision. ’ Yes. he is near sighted. Says he can’t distinguish faces fifty feet away "! don’t believe it. Ever since he hits owed me $7 he has no trouble in recog nizing me clear across the street, and then dodging round the corner.” Withdraw Into Thyself. Dost thou too shrink within, with draw into thyself, into thy memories, and there, deep down, in the very depths of the soul turned inward on itself, thy old life, to which thou alone hast the key will be bright again for thee, in all the fragrance,all the fresh green, and the grace and power .if iis spring! — Ivan Turgenev. When Husbands Tire of Kissing. When a wife discovers that her hus band is tired of having her kiss him she never after that neglects it. She thinks it a sign that she is a lovely character because she often kisses her husband when he doesn't like it. Men are such cowards that they never confess that they are tired of ki.sing their own wives.—Atchison Globe. Freaks of Clocks. Clocks sometimes stop running for no apparent reason. During an elec tric storm it is not uncommon for them to stop abruptly, only to resume their regular functions with as much accuracy as ever after a certain in terval of time. The interval may be only t'er a few moments or it may be for years. Esthetic Side of Cookery. The object of cooking is not merely hygienic, but esthetic also, for cooking improves the appearance of the food, develops new flavors, and makes it more attractive. A mental process be gins at tlie sight of pleasing food which reacts on the gastric organs in such a way as ro promote digestion.— Lancet. Must Please Women. An English periodical says that it is women that make the success of th • stage, as they are the great patrons. Where they go the men are bound to follow, and it is necessary, first of all. that a play shall succeed, to make it interesting to the women. The facts prove this to he true in this countrv as well. A Tennessee Utopia. Hurrah for Big Sandy! X'o blind tigers, no slums no kinky headed ne groes! Good churches, good schools, good people! Merchants are busy, la borers whistling as they go to school or play, wives singing as they patch their husbands’ “pants.” — Benton County (Tenn.) Star. Time for Memory’s Help. And now. when the clouds gather and the rain impends over our forest and our house, permit us not to be cast down let us not lose the savor of past mercies and past pleasures: but like the voice of a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memory survive in the hours of darkness.—Robert Louis Stevenson. Value of Work. Work is the true friend and con soler of man. raises him above all his* weakness, purifies and ennobles him. saves him from temptation and helps him to bear his burden through days of sadness, and before which even the deepest griefs give way for a time. To Find Unlucky Days. To find out which days bode evil take the date of the full moon. Count the days before instead of after this date and multiply the number by the number of days in the month, and front the result the unlucky days of the months are found. Proverbs and Phrases. Add not fire to fire.—Greek All things are full of God.—Cicero.— Baltimore Sun. Afflictions are the best blessings in disguise.—Longfellow. Omaha Directory Write for otir new spring and sum mer style books for men and women. Heady February 15, 1908. 3leRmJta Chytfnray Cq, 15th and Farnam Gts. Omaha, Nebraska. HORSES and MULES Auction every Thursday and Friday r«.r the entire y ear E. W. ANSPACH Union Stock Yards, So. Omaha. Carload Consignments Solicited. THE PAXTON S Rooms from $1 up Bingle, 75c up doublt*. CAI-K CHICKS HBASOMABLK DON’T H\ having them experimented on bv trav eling fakers. I'omv* to us for Free Exami nation. H. J. PENFOLD <fc CO.. Ltuiiiiu Scientific Opticians, 140S Karna.ni. Omaha. If In Doubt, Buy A JOHN DEERE Do You Drink Coffee NMiy put the cheap, rank, bitter flavored coffee lu yoy stomach when pure GERM AN-AM ERICAN COFFEE «>»t» uo mor«! Insist on having it. Your ffru %r sella it or cau tf«C it.
