Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY. • - NEBRASKA.
When monarehs seek the simple life
their subjects can well afford to fol
low their example.
Absence only makes Henry James
fonder of America. That is why he
stays in England all the time.
The hours we spend in wishing
ana craving for the impossible could
be better spent in working for the at
tainable.
A man of intelligence, wealth and
power who treats his subordinates
with rudeness and insult is a natural
coward.
People w'ho show no kindness or
mercy in wealth and power will cer
tainly receive none when poverty
comes to be their lot.
The man who doubts and the man
who scoffs have this difference be
tween them: The one uses his reason
and the other his passion.
Possibly sleeping-car porters may
become so wealthy that they will
turn the tables and tip passengers who
have made the jaunt unkickingly.
Prof. Ross says the idle rich are
more dangerous than the hoboes. It
must be admitted, however, that they
are less apt to hit you with a piece
of gaspipe.
"Only people with a million or more
can afford to have 'stuporous melan
cholia.' " says the Washington Her
ald. Well, it isn't exactly a disease
that many of us crave.
If the learned professor of Harvard
should speak politely to the laboring
man would not the laboring man give
the learned professor a seat? Let the
learned professor try it.
They are talking of sending wireless
messages around the world. For what
purpose" So that a man can telegraph
to himself instead of tying a string
around his thumb when he wants to
remember something?
King Menelik of Abyssinia claims to
be the descendant of Solomon and the
queen of Sheba, and certainly it is no
violent wrench of facts to say he is a
much better behaved old fellow than
some of our distinguished senators.
We do not know that it will make
any particular difference in the world's
history whether Gladys is happy or
not. Would some of her patriotic ad
visers guarantee happiness for her
with an American husband whom they
might pick out?
The Sheridan statue commission has
approved and accepted the model of
the statue of Gen. Philip Sheridan,
which is to ornament Sheridan Circle,
Twenty-second street and Massachu
setts avenue, in Washington. The
model is the design of Gutzon Borg
lum of Xew York.
The battleship Mississippi lias been
accepted by the government. It is in
order now for somebody to discover
that she was constructed along anti
ouated lines and that it would be pre
posterous to expect her to last more
than one round In a battle with any
thing bigger than a rowboat.
Farmers in many parts of the coun
try have been able, owing to the mild
winter, to do a good deal of work, ac
cording to reports, but have found it
i^lcult to get help in spite of the
number of unemployed men in cities.
Getting up at. 4 o'clock a. m., and go
ing out to feed the stock does not ap
peal even to the hungry men.
Orsa. fn Sweden, has. in the course
of a generation, sold $5,550,000 worth
of trees, and by :neans of judicious
replanting has provided for a similar
income every 30 or 40 years. In con
sequence ol the development of this
commercial wealth there are no taxes.
Railways and telephones are free, and
so are the schoolhouses, teaching, and
many other things.
Now a movement has been started
to compel women to take off their hats
in church. The movement might as
well be dropped at once before its ad
vocates lose unnecessary sleep and
grow thin through worry. If a wom
an is to take off her hat in church,
what, she will naturally argue, is the
good of her Easter millinery? The
logical conclusion of this argument is
too self-evident for formal statement.
Helen Keller's latest intimate and
detailed account of her experiences
and emotions in an existence where
she Is deprived of sight and hearing
and restricted to the three other
senses, is a remarkable paper in many
respects. But is not more remarkable
declares the Boston Herald, than her
declaration that if a fairy bade her to
choose between the sense of sight and
touch she would not part with the
warm and endearing contact of human
hands. Those who possess both gifts
of sight and hearing would perhaps
ponder long before choosing.
King Menelik of Abyssinia has an
embarrassing habit, when he wants to
make himself agreeable to his fellow
potentates of the earth, of sending
them pet lions. He has just sent a
couple to the pope, whose mild and
gentle character is about the last that
would willingly take tip Abyssinia
lions as playthings. The only way,
however, not to displease the well
meaning dusky monarch is for re
clptent to profess himself delighted at
getting the very things he wanted in
the line of domestic pets, and then
fbtp them to the nc: eat zoo.
CONGRESSMAN TO RETIRE
Congressman Robert G. Cousins of Tipton,
la., one of the most brilliant orators In congress,
where he has served eight terms, is about to re
tire at the demand of Gov. Cummins. His col
league, Congressman Birdsall, will do likewise.
The two senators for the stale had formed a
combination, or machine, which carried every
thing for years. Hut Gov. Cummins resented dic
tation and set out to reduce the machine to
scrap it on. It was no guerrilla warfare either,
for the governor boldly announced his candidacy
to succeed Senator Allison, and declared war
upon everybody who maintained an alliance with
the Allison machine. Cousins failed to get under
cover. Later he found that the governor was
more powerful than the machine he was fighting.
and when he found the gun turned on himself he said, like IJave Crocketts
mythical 'coon: "Don't shoot; I'll come down. I'm a gone coon."
Congressman Cousins was born, educated and has spent ail his life in
the district he now represents. He was born in Cedar county in 1859, grad
uated from Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, in 1881, and admitted to the bar the
following year. He was elected member of the Iowa state legislature in
188t>, and was chosen by the house as one of the prosecutors of State Auditor
I. L. Brown in the impeachment proceedings before the senate. His conduct
of the case attracted considerable notice, and in 1888 he was elected prosecut
ing attorney for his uistrict and also presidential elector.
He has been in congress since 1892, and has filled many important po
sitions. notably that of chairman of the committee on foreign affairs and
chairman of the committee on expenditures in the treasury department.
Birdsall has served three terms without attracting any particular attention.
AUTHOR LOSES IN POLITICS
Owen Wister, author of "The Virginian,” lias
been taking a whirl at politics. He came out as
the reform candidate for scdect councilman of
ihe Seventh ward of his native Philadelphia, and
got *J46 voles on the cry against "dirty streets,
dirty water, dirty air and dirty police,” hut his
opponent, a common, ordinary, organization Re
publican, got 3.45S votes and the election. Still.
Mr. Wister is not discouraged. He did better
than he expected. He expected 500 votes and
he did somewhat better, so he expresses himself
"dee-lighted.” His friends were mostly "inde
pendents.' in the sense that they could not be
depended upon, otherwise he might have come
within hailing distance of the victor.
Wister is not the first novelist to make a
hash or the political game, uooin larsingron weiu to me muara ie»is
lature to make a fight against the cigarette bill, but failed, and he never got
back. Now he and that other Hoosler author. George Ade, are helping along
tile long, thin boom of the long, thin Mr. Fairbanks in Indiana. Ade is to
go to the national convention as a Fairbanks delegate. Another unsuccess
ful politician, though a successful novelist, is Winston Churchill, our own
Winston, not the much-advertised Knglishman of the same name who is
making a muddle of English politics. The American Winston ran for gov
ernor of New Hampshire on the reform ticket, but failed ingloriously. So
Owen WUter fails in good company.
Mr. Wister is a lawyer by profession, but like Anthony Hope his briefs
are few and far between. He finds writing novels more entertaining and
more lucrative. To gather material for his stories he spends several months
of each year in the country of the long-liorned steer and the bucking broncho.
His descriptions of ranch life and cowboy doings are graphic, for he has
studied them for 20 years. He is said to be more at home on the ranch than
in his native city, but he was equally as much at home in Paris, where he
spent several years studying music after his graduation from Harvard. He
has never got over his love for the gay capital, and to this day he regularly
leads the Paris newspapers.
He has written several very successful books besides "The Virginian,”
the one that brought him before public attention being "The Dragon of
Wantley." He has also written a musical burlesque and several songs, be
sides much prose and verse for the magazines. He is 4S years of age.
PORT ARTHUR RECALLED
The passing of the death sentence upon Gen.
Stoessel is a harsh ending to the career of this
Russian commander, who three years ago was
acclaimed around the world as the "hero of Port
Arthur." The general, who was decorated by
Emperor William of Germany and honored by the
Russian army for his defense of the Port Arthur
fortress, has now been tried and found wanting
in courage and capability by his own people.
Even Stoessel's former enemies’, the Japanese,
came forward to say that he does not deserve
this treatment at hands of his country, and Stoes
sel himself argued before the court-martial that
i he had justification for his act. In his last words
a before the court Gen. Stoessel, broken in health
jg and fortune, accepted full responsibility for the
surrender of Port Arthur and pleaded for the death sentence if the court
should decide that a crime had been committed.
The basis of the indictments upon which Stoessel, Gen. Fock, who com
manded the Fourth East Siberian Division of Port Arthur, and Maj.-Gen. Reiss
chief of staff to Gen. Stoessel, were tried for their lives was a secret report
made by Lietit.-Gen. Smirnoff on the defense of Port Arthur. Smirnoff was
acting commandant of the fortress, Stoessel being commander of the Kwang
tung peninsula. Smirnoff categorically accused Stoessel of cowardice and in
capacity, and finally of the deliberate and treasonable hastening of the sur
render to save his own life, and in defiance of the decisions of two successive
councils of war. The report was extremely biased. Gen. Smirnoff declared
that the fortress, which was surrendered to the Japanese January 1, 1905,
could have been held for six weeks longer.
In opposition to»th* statements made by Japanese officers who were the
first to enter the fortress, Capt. Tsunoda, who, on behalf of Gen. N’ogi, con
ducted the negotiations for the surrender of the fortress, came out last sum
mer with an open letter in defense of Stoessel. The Japanese captain painted
a pitiable picture of the conditions prevailing at Port Arthur.
MAY BE BRITISH PREMIER
Right Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, who is
slated to succeed Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
as premier of Britain, is one of the very few mem
bers of the present cabinet who are not Scotch.
He is a near approach to it, however, for he is
a Yorkshireman and represents a Scotch con
stituency. It might be added, too, that his better
half is Scotch, being the daughter of Sir Charles
Tennant. He is a clear-headed, clever, shrewd
lawyer and a hard worker. He has been in public
life since 1£8G as member for East Fife, and while
he has been playing one of the most important
roles in the drama of national politics, he has
been carrying on an enormous legal practice at
the same time.
It was Mr. Asquith who first came out in fa
’'or of restoring selt-government to the conquered Boer republics and ex
pressed the hope that this step might result in a confederation of South Af
rica. a practically independent country administering its own affairs as Cana
da does without any interference on the part of the imperial government.
He has succeeded in part, and when he is premier it is possible that the rest
of his program may be carried out, and Boer and Briton left to settle their
o-wn disputes. He is now 5(i years of age, a comparative juvenile as things
go in Britain, where a man is not recognized as a statesman until lie has
reached three score and ten.
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NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
The school board at Fremont at its
regular meeting instructed the super
intendent to enforce the rule for pay
ment of tuition for nonresident pu
pils.
Mass meetings have been held in
the Methodist and Presbyterian
churches of Valentine with the end in
view of forming a campaign to drive
the saloons from the city.
Fire broke out in the general mer
chandise store of Wolf & Williams at
Cedar Rapids. The fire company
quickly extinguised the blaze with a
loss of but $1,000 by smoke and water.
A special election, to be held May
5, for the purpose of voting on $1,000,
000 bonds for the erection of a new
court house and jail was recommend
ed by the county board of Douglas
County by unanimous vote.
According to advices received by
the state railway comission, the
Grand Island stock yards trouble has
been settled. A hotel lias been estab
lished at the yards and provisions
have Keen made for calling the stock
men so that they will not miss their
trains.
The Western Life ami Accident
company of Denver was denied ad
mittance to the state by the insur
ance department. The department
held that the name was so near that
of the Western Mutual Life and Ac
cident association that confusion
would result.
Herman Bouche, who has killed two
men in Madison county during the
last twenty years, was found guilty of
manslaughter in the case against him
for killing Frank Jarmer. a Norfolk
saloon keeper, near a resort there
last May. The jury was out sixteen
hours. Motion was made for a new
trial.
Governor Sheldon has been invited
to be present on the occasion of the
festivities of San Francisco incidental
to the arrival of the Atlantic fleet
some time in May. The governor is
going, and he will take with him his
staff and the silver service which he
will present to the battleship Ne
braska.
A number of democratic editors met
in the Paxton hotel at Omaha and
elected officers for t lie Nebraska
Democratic Editorial association, us
follows: President. .1. it. Donovan,
Star-Mail. Madison: vice president. H.
Clay Davis. News. Falls City; secre
tary-treasurer, W. H. Smith. Inde
pendent-Democrat, Seward.
A telegram has been received from
Congressman Kinkaid to the effect
that Mr. Kinkaid has received assur
ance that the subcommittee will re
commend an appropriation for a fed
eral building in North Platte. It
seems likely that this session of con
gress will give an appropriation for
both a site and the building.
Food Commissioner Johnson has
been notified that Drug Inspector
Nicholson bought a flask of unbian l
ed whiskey of F. W. Haufgarn. G«> 1
First street. Hastings. Mr. Nicholson
has turned the bottle over to the
county attorney and Food Commis
sioner Johnson lias requested that
officer to prosecute the man wtio sold
it for failure to brand in accordance
with the pure food law.
Arthur Kinaman and Charles Elli
ott were arrested in York on the
charge of having broken into a Bur
lington freight ear and taking there
from a small case of cigars, several
boxes of apples and a package of
ready print paper. The cigars were
found buried in a field near the city,
the ready print paper was destroyed
and the apples were eaten. The boys
will probably be sent to the reform
school.
in accordance with the policy of
the present commissioner of Indian
affairs, the Winnebago Indian board
ing school will not be continued after
July 1. A day school will be estab
lished in that portion of the reserva
tion where the Indians have their per
manent homes. An endeavor will be
made to induce them to send their
children daily from their homes
rather than have them housed, clothed
and fed at the expense of the govern
ment.
Congressman Boyd is advised that
the following pensions have been
granted persons residing in the Third
district of Nebraska for the week be
ginning with February 20: Richard J.
Rotisch, Wayne, $12: John Buhrow.
Bloomfield, $20; William H. Willi
ams, Schuyler. $12: Zalrner E. Peck.
Palmer, $15; Isaac W. Britendall,
Fremont, $15; August H. Surber, Wa
terburg, $12; Jacob W. Abbott, Chap
man, $12; Jeremiah Mapes. Clear
water, $12.
Secretary Rovse of the state bank
ing board has issued a call for a
statement of the condition of state
and private banks at the close of bu
siness February 28.
Following are some of the land
deals closed lat week at Harlan: M.
N. Claypool to K. F. Ditch, 356 acres,
consideration $22,000; F. N. Grannis
to John Dunlay, 160 acres, considera
tion $8,500; D. D. Warner to M. I„.
Vosburg, 240 acres, consideration $10,
500; M. B. Holland to John G. Meier,
440 acres, consideration $22,500; John
G. Meire to George Dake, 320 acres,
consideration $15,000.
FACTS
FOR SICK
WOMEN
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(KANSAS CITY TO COUNCIL BLUFFS, INCLUSIVE)
EVERY DAY
March I to April 30,1908
$30
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to San Francisco, Los
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To Everett, Bellingham,
Vancouver and Victoria,
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To Fortlandand Astoria.
To Tacoma and Seattle,
via Spokane.
To Ashland, Roseburg,
Eugene, A lbany and
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branch lines in Oregon.
To Spokane and inter
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points.
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What a Settler Can Secure In
WESTERN CANADA
160 Acre* Grain-Growing Land FREE.
20 to 40 Bushel* Wheat to the Acre.
40 to 90 Bushel* Oat* to the Acre.
35 to 50 Bushels Barley to the Acre.
Timber for Fencing and Buildings FREE.
Good l*w* with Low Taxation.
Splendid Railroad Facilities and Low Rates.
Schools and Churches Convenient.
Satisfactory Markets for all Productions.
Good Climate and Perfect Health.
Chances for Profitable Investments.
Some of the choicest grain-producing lands in
Saskatchewan and Alberta may now be ac
quired iu these most healthful and prosperous
sections under the
Revised Homestead Regulations
by which entry may be made by proxy ton cer
tain conditions), by the father, mother, son,
daughter, brother or sister of intending home
steader.
Entry fee in each case is $10.00. For pamphlet,
“Last Best West,’’particulars as to rates,routes,
best time to go aud where to locate, apply to
W. V. BENNETT.
801 New York Lite Building,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Don't Rub It In.
Cimmiserate with vour brother mo
toriset whom you find kneeling in the
dust of the road belaboring a punc
tured tire. The nail manufacturer is
a busy man. and there may be another
nail further down the pike for you.
Pride goes before a puncture, and the
haughty n>.an is generally the firs t to
find that he is out of gasoline.
Must Have Hubby's Consent.
A Frenchman can secure a divorce
front his wife if she goes on the stag'
without his consent.
Her Models.
“I saw a woman standing in front*
of a big display window in a down
town store the other day." says an ob
server. "with a little pad in her hand
sketching something. I afterward
learned that she is one of the high
priced dressmakers in town, and that
her success is due more than any
thing else to her ability to sketch off
any gown that one of her customers
takes a fancy to and reproduces It."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Chines Faith in Ginseng.
Many of the Chinese believe that
when all other remedies fail and death
is at hand ginseng has the powrr to
bring back health and longevity:
hence, when they feel the need of it
they will pay fabulous prices for cer
tain kinds of roots. A root to be really
valuable as a commodity must come
from the mountains of Kirin, or be re
puted to have come from there.
Bank of England's Capital.
Tlie capital of the Bank of England
is £14.500,000. It has stood at the
same figure for the past 9n years.
YOUR EYES
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So. ICtli St.. Omaha. Factory on prem
ises. Wholesale and Retail.
Greediness Rebuked.
At dinner, at a country hotel, Toole
was sitting next to a gentleman who
had helped himself to an extravagant
ly large piece of bread. Toole took
it up and began to eat a slice from it.
"Sir,” said the indignant gentleman,
"that is my bread.” "1 beg a thous
and pardons, sir,” replied the actor,
“I mistook it for the loaf."
Convenience in Travel.
For women who travel away fronr
home, especially if there is a baby. a.
heme washing apparatus is most con
venient. This consists of a small tub
and a tiny galvanized iron washboard.
These may be placed in the sink and
the dainty lingerie and baby clothes
washed out without any trouble. The
articles may be washed as they be
come soiled.
Work and Nerves.
It is hard on a nervous man to do ;i
big job of complicated mental work,
in a short time. On the other hand,
if he was not nervous, but phlegmatic,
he would never be able to get the job
done in time. So. there you are!
The Philosopher of Folly.
“They may say what they like,"
said the Philosopher of Folly, "about
the political canvass, but I notice that
it sails the Ship of Sta'e as often as.
the wind can be raised.”
And She Often Gets It Right.
Woman reasons as she drives a
nail: cdoses her eyes and takes a
chance at hitting it right.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Final Argument.
If a woman can't convince herself
any ether way that her husband loves
her she can do it by remembering he
told her so before they were married.
—X. Y. Press.
Lots Now Getting Scarce.
“We can no longer afford to give a
town lot to every subscriber,” says
the Billville Banner. “We need the
few lots we have left for a denietery
to retire to."—Atlanta Constitution.
An Omitted Incident.
The shaft sped from the bow of the
elder Tell and clove the apple to the
core. "Say, dad," remarked Tell, Jr.,
"that was an arrow escape, wasn't it?”
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