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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1908)
Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY. • - NEBRASK4 Expensive Funerals. Expensive funerals are very profita ble to the undertakers, who adroitly encourage this form of extravagance, as they are aware that some persons think the respect shown a deceased relative is gauged by the cost of the display. To those who desire and can afford costly funerals, there can be no reasonable objection to the gratifica tion of their wishes; but there is very little wisdom manifested by the poor people who for months after the bur ial of a relative have to stint them selves to pay for their extravagance. It is not uncommon to see from 20 to 40 carriages following a hearse to the cemetery, at a cost of at least five dollars each. The bereaved family thus respected by the attendance of their friends on sueh melancholy oc casions, often return to a home in which poverty has long been known, and perhaps aggravated by the pro tracted illness of the person just laid in the grave. It may be that the chief bread-winner of the flock has been re moved. If this is the case, a costly funeral is very likely to make them more keenly feel the loss of their rel ative. How much better it would be, exclaims the New York Weekly, to save the money that is usually squan dered for unnecessary carriages, and devote the sum to the relief of the needy family. Some poor but proud persons might object to such assist ance, but there are others who would gladly accept it. Negro Abilities. Fresh proof that the ancient Ethio pians were a people of high culture and marked intellectual advancement is furnished by Prof. David Randall Maelver of the University of Pennsyl vania. who has returned from Nubia with a collection of antiquities of artistic worth and much variety and aggregating five tons in weight. The articles he has gathered, Prof. Mac Iver says, represent early negro civili zation that lasted for at least seven centuries. Included among the an tiquities are various works of art and also some Ethiopic inscriptions. Prof. Maelver adds: “Our excavations have shown that the source of civilization of the period which our work in lower Nubia covered was Ethiopian. All the negro works of art were discovered in an extensive cemetery lying about ten feet under ground between Wady Hai fa and Assouan in lower Nubia.” That was the seat of an important empire away back in the dim and dis tant years, and the race in control was black. This should tend to confirm be lief that the negro is capable of better things than some of his opponents are ready to concede. A hint of what, may be expected when the success of aerial navigation Is completely demonstrated is fur nished by the steps already taken by the weather bureau at Washington, re marks the Troy (X. Y.) Times. That part of the government is on the look out for all the help that can be pro cured in foretelling what the elements have in store, and is enlisting the fly ing machines as fast as possible. The bureau has prepared printed forms for the use of persons experimenting in aeronautics, and these forms are dis tributed with a view to getting data otherwise unobtainable. The co-opera tion of aero clubs throughout the country is earnestly desired. The bu reau suggests the sort of observations •taken in the upper air which, in con nection with those made on the iground, may aid materially in further ing meterological knowledge. Thus it would appear that navigation of the air may add largely to scientific lore and may have important results aside I from the matter of the new method of transportation. It may be plain to the receiver of :the Third avenue street car line in New York that every passenger who jdoes not pay his fare steals, but some patrons of the line, while admitting i the appearance of evil, will insist on '•calling by another name their failure to come forward with their nickels. Very little conscience money is turned into the treasuries of the street car companies, while the schemes to get rides for nothing are numerous and in genious and work about one time out of 100. It is a sin to steal a pin and also a street car ride, but now and tthen a man has a special arrangement with his conscience by which he can isleep nights just as soundly, or even more so, if he has put one over on the company during the day. When the orchestra struck during the performance of an opera in Berlin the audience said it would be all right to continue with a piano. Perhaps the people were afraid the management would start up a phonograph if the piano did not satisfy them. It is planned to give a church in Chicago over to the young people who lack the right kind of environment at home for courting. So long as the facilities don’t include a lighting sys tem it ought to be a success. The proud parents of triplets born in Delphi, Ind., named them respec tively James, Whitcomb and Riley. It is up to Mr. Riley to signalize the event by writing a suitable triolet. An Indianapolis paper says: “The woods are full of men who wish to marry." That being the case, why have they taken to the woods? Some Frenchmen are urging the na tion to “turn to its king.” That is one way to make a living, in France. STYLISH JACKET SUIT Though extremlv simple in cut and outline, this attractive little jacket suit developed in white Irish linen will fill all needs for the midsummer call ing costume or church gown, or in fact any occasion where a suit is not out of place. The jacket is a semi-fitted model, with side-front and side-back seams running from the shoulders downward, and giving the long graceful lines to the figure, which are such a feature of this season’s styles. The model is a coiiarless cue with wide oddly-shaped medallions of Battenberg let in at each fide of the front and back, and at the lower part of the flowing sleeves; the latter finished with an edging of similar lace. A cotton passementerie orna ment crosses the front and holds the jack-.t in position. The skirt is a five gored model which is equally appropriate to wear as a separate garment, as well as part of an entire costume, it fits smoothly over the hips, without plaits, tucks or fullness of any description, and faiis in a full flare around the foot. Two narrow bands set on as a trimming about five inches apart are made of strips cf the material the wide insertion of the Battenberg lace being set hetween these bands. Both the insertion and bands may be omitted if desired. For SG bust the jacket requires four and three-quarters yards of material 20 inches wide, two and a quarter yards 36 inches wide, two and an eighth yards 42 inches wide, or one and five-eighths yard 54 inches wide. For 26 waist the skirt requires nine yards of materia! 20 inches wide, Pour and three-quarters yards 36 inches wide, four yards 42 inches wide, or three and three-eighths yards 54 inches wide; one yard 20 inches wide, half yard 36 or 42 inches wide, or three-eighths yard 54 inches wide extra for bias bands, and three and a half yards of insertion to trim. TO WEAR UNDER SHEATH SKIRT. Silk Knickerbockers Appropriate with the New Costume. The shops have already brought out all kinds of silk knickerbockers for the new sheath skirt. Some are lined with albatross, some are of taffeta, unlincd; others are of old brocades lined with china silk. They are perfectly fitted at hips and waist line and are held around the knee with an elastic band. While the majority never use them for this purpose, they promise to be quite popular for all manner of out door wear under short cloth skirts. When these are worn for outings it is not necessary to wear any other pieces of underwear except the un dershirt under the corset, and the corset cover under the shirtwaist. LIGHT AND DAINTY This hat is extremely dainty, being made of lace, dotted light blue ribbon and pink roses. Hankerchiefs as well as parasols are often bordered. Light-Weight Baggage. In packing a suit case to carry around as required it is a great help to remember that light-weight clothes will make a lighter case. A kimono of china silk will be a feather’s weight and take up small space, and for dress occasions all that is needed will be a gown of soft dark silk that will not show wrinkles from much folding into the compass of a suit case. Two waists may be worn with this skirt, one more elaborate than the other; several blouses to wear with your walking suit, and the usual accessories. White Japanese cotton crepe is good ma terial to make vases of, as they will not require ironing and can be laun dered in one’s room in the evening, hung over a chair back and will be dry by morning. An umbrella is a neces sity and may be strapped to the suit case when not in use. White or light yellow or ecru doeskin gloves give a smart finish to a traveling costume. They have the merit of being easily laundered when soiled, they dry soft, and in wearing these the hands are well protected from the soil conse quent upon traveling.—Vogue. NEATNESS GREAT TIME SAVER. Also Considerably Lessens Wear and Tear on the Nerves. It is a big boon to be born orderly. It means such a saving in wear and tear on one's nerves. There are some people who have the desire for neatness, but lack in its execution. They can put to rights, but not keep it up. It is easier *to be born sloven than ! cm* with a wish for orderliness allied to the habit cf misplacing. That place for everything rule is a good one—if you don't forget the j place. Tito woman who can find her belong ings even in the dark is the one to tie to—provided she doesn’t achieve her neatness by nagging and everlasting primpiness. That some girls’ bureau drawers i have a cyclone-struck look may not argue a lack of orderliness so much as an overpressure of affairs. It is not easy when every minute counts to put [ things back in the exact spot where they should go. As the bump of order is the greatest ' time saver known, it is well, however, ; for the busy girl to make strenuous efforts to acquire it. It may take an j extra minute to put tilings where they belong, but time is often reckoned by 1 hours when it comes to hunting them where they don't belong. Orderliness is a good business asset; i the girl who can put her fingers on notebook at an instant's notice, who is not on a perpetual hunt for pencil, eraser and other daily necessities, who has learned to classify her papers for easy finding, rarely makes a failure of her career. Good Sunburn Remedy. Try this formula: 1% pints of or ange (lower water, % pint of elder flower water, 2 fluid ounces of tinc ture of benzoin, % fluid ounce of cologne water, 4 grains of camphor, 60 grains of ferrous sulphate. *4 ounce of citric acid. Shake well before using. Face Touching Up. At present the fashionable woman uses comsetics with freedom, though with great discretion and great clever ness. Never does she appear by sun light at out-of door functions with any thing approaching the suggestion of "paint.” Yet equally would it be im possible for her to appear at the opera or in the glare of a big ballroom with out a penciling of brows and lips, a modeling of cheeks and nostrils and earlobes and a whitening of arms, that bring her physical points in line and coloring into harmony with the vast ness of her environment and the bril liancy of the lighting. Recently it has been the fashion in Europe to preserve a pallid face, but of late, with the re turn of the Greek figure, of apparently unfettered limbs and unbound waist, of virginal braids and snoods and ingenue coiffure's, the fancy has been to allow the roses to bloom in the cheeks.—Vogue. Woolen Underwear Best. Nearly all medical men in the West Indies advise the wearing of thin wool en and not cotton underwear. Many persons wear “cholera belts,” made of flannel. DR. GRENFELL A REAL HERO OF THE FAR NORTH FACTS ABOUT DR. GRENFELL. Graduated from Oxford uni versity, 1S8G, and from the medi cal department, London university, 1890. Began his life work on a mis sion-boat of the deep sea trawling fleet, 1891. W.ent to Labrador to carry the Gospel to the deep sea fishers in 1899. lie reaches 20,000 fishermen on the coasts of Labrador every year. He got from Andrew Carnegie 30 portable libraries to assist him in his work. He has started a series of co operative stores in the north. He operates on patients any where, wherever called, without charge. He carries his ether and instru ments in one pocket and his Bible in the other. He raises $12,000 in New York every year for his work. HOW he did it. Dr. Wilfred Gren fell, the Arctic missionary phy sician, can hardly tell. But he did and he is safe home again now after an experience that would have ended in the death of ninety-nine men out of a hundred. i Out in the ice pack, surrounded by a pack of eight hunger-maddened dogs, fighting him for their lives as hard as he was fighting them for his—he had to face them alone in a tempera ture ten degrees below zero. How he survived is a nine days' wonder even up in frozen Labrador, where men bat tle 3G5 days a year to wrest a living front forbidding nature. \ And when he had conquered the dogs he still had the elements as his deadlier foe. t Dr. Grenfell leads a strange life. He has devoted himself and his life to the Esquimaux and the natives of Labrador—deep sea fishers ali. He is their doctor, missionary, friend. A graduate of Oxford, he has chosen that most barren spot in North America as one where he may do some good in the world. His headquarters he makes at Bat tle Harbor, Labrador. From there, as a base of supplies, he makes trips of hundreds of miles into the frozen north, carrying his surgical instru ments and his medicines along w-ith his Bible and his great good cheer, to say nothing of his books and his foot balls. Until Dr. Grenfell went to Labrador men and women lived and died without as much as ever seeing a doctor, much less having his serv ices. He has had many adventures, but this is the story of his latest: HAD left Battle Harbor," he said, 1 ' to attend several patients ten miles away in a little settlement across the ice pack. It was bitterly cold; the thermometer showed it to be ten degrees below zero. I was traveling over the ice with my pack of dogs when I found I was being carried away from the coast by the moving ice field. Before I realized it f was floundering in broken drift ice, and be fore I could stop the dogs we were all in the freezing water. “They, of course, knew no law ex cept self-preservation. They tried to save themselves by climbing up on my shoulders. I had to fight them back before I could clamber to safety on a piece of solid drift ice. Then the dogs had to save themselves. One by one they scrambled up on the ice floe beside me. "1 had lost everthing. My robes were gone and the supply of food for myself and the dogs. It looked as if it was all up with all of us, because a gale from the northwest was driving the floe rapidly out to sea. And the temperature was falling fast. My clothing was soaked. "So 1 took off my skin boots and cut them in halves. These halves I strapped to my chest and back. “The wind and cold increased as the night came on. and I could see the dogs were growing ravenous. When they are that way they are what their ancestors were, nothing better than wolves. They were yelping for food and I knew it was only a question of time before they would attack me. “It felt like murder, but I killed three of ray largest dogs. I stripped them of their skins while the rest of the pack kept alcof, snarling and yelping. Finally the bravest of them came after me, but I was able to fight them off until I could skin the three dead dogs. Then I threw the meat to the survivors and kept the skins to wrap about myself. "When morning came 1 saw the ice was rapidly drifting from shore. I had nothing to put as a mast ou which I could swing out a signal of distress until I thought myself of the bones o: the legs of the dead dogs. "These 1 managed to splice together. From the top of the pole I flung out a piece of my shirt. It was seen by George Reid and some of his men off Locke's Cove and they came out in a boat and took me off.” FOR 17 years Dr. Grenfell has been working there among the fisher folks or anybody else that needed his services. He has hail two hospital ships lost in the treacherous ice and now he has a third. But very often when he gets a call miles away the ship is powerless to reach the patient and he goes over the ice with his pack of dogs. Already he has established three land hospitals in Labrador, 23 loan libraries, an industrial school and half a dozen co-operative stores. He has seen to it that wireless telegraphy Is installed on land as well as on the fishing boats. 'This gives him many chances to answer calls which cost nothing. Occasionally Dr. Grenfell comes to New York to tell of his work. He has interested Andrew Carnegie and Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. They send as j many footballs as Bibles to the Arctic, I but chiefest of all are the medicines and surgical appliances. “It is queer doctoring,” laughed Dr. Grenfell when last he was here. “I have Canadian and Newfoundland fishermen among my patients, as well as American, Scandinavian and British sailors, whalers of nearly all nation alities, and Indians and Esquimaux. Some of the diseases they spring on me would puzzle the best of special ists. Why, only last winter they called on me to care for a shipload of beri beri. It cleaned out the whole vessel —every one of them had it. UTHE Indians and Esquimaux of the * frozen north are gradually dying off because of the disappearance of the great forests. This drives away the caribou, which means starvation for the Indians. With the Esquimaux it is disease, brought by contact with the white men. We white people are immune against many diseases, but when they strike the Esquimaux the germs light on virgin soil. Eor ex ample, a white sailor brought a sim ple case of influenza into an Esqui maux village of 300 souls. Before it ran its course 41 of the natives were dead. “The Esquimaux up here are all Christians—the Moravian missionaries converted them years ago. Christianity is a saving influence for them; they would have been extinct long ago from the vices which follow trade. As it is. their number decreases with every decade. They are now installing the wireless all the way up the Labrador coast. It is already as far north as Belle Isle, which has summer connec tions with the mainland and the world. Wireless has now been put 300 miles nearer the pole than it ever was be fore. It is of great assistance in my work; it puts me within call when there is an epidemic or a serious case. “We have found the wireless a great help to the fishing industry, which is what our people live upion. The run ning of tlte fish is uncertain and when one ship strikes the fish it can sum mon the entire fleet. “We are gradually getting the na tives to live a proper life. Liquor has crept in among them, and has given us trouble. It is not an essential in cold latitudes for physical well being! I can tell when liquor has seized hold of a place as easily as I can tell an epi demic of diphtheria or beri beri. Per sonally i remain a teetotaller. <*llf E have many eye-diseases in the ” frozen north, due chiefly to the :r!aro of the sun on the ice and snow. The great white plague is creeping in upon us, too. Hut Labrador is still al most germless. We can perform op erations out in the open almost as easily as they do in the marble lined operating rooms in New York. • We wear dressed reindeer skins for clothes, and the lighter and softer the garment is the warmer it is. You could almost put your overcoat in your pocket. With the thermometer at 20 and 30 below zero, with your bread and condensed milk frozen, your but ter no good, then's the time for fat pork—it is nectar! You can never Lord Strathcona of Canada not Ion* ago. THE man he was talking about is just a plain, weather-beaten, self* deprecatory doctor, who is living hi* life just where he thinks he can do the most good. He is a captain of in dustry—under God! Don't think for a moment that he is a soft-spoken, smug country parson —no, indeed! He can play a game of football with the best of them, and he can amputate a frozen limb, set a broken bone or care for a desperate pneumonia case. He can also put up a pretty good fight against the wrong kind of men, just as well as he put up his fight against the hungry dogs. He is a robust, deep-chested, jolly sort of a fellow. He loves adventure. He'd rather set a broken shoulder a thousand miles away from civilization than preside over a well-ordered op eration in a city hospital. They never Dr. Grenfell’s Ship. knew what a surgeon was up in Labra dor until he went there to make it his life work. He is known now from the Arctic circle down to where real civil ization begins. If he knows he is needed he will take any chance—this doctor who carries his lancets in one hand, his ether in the other ami his Bible in his pocket. And if the opera tion is a success he may be crowding a football or a baseball and bat upon his patient as soon as he is able to get about. He may also hand him a tract. AS one English newpaper said of Dr Grenfell: ‘'He is a surgeon, a master mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in running down the rascals who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, a general oppo nent of all fraud and oppression. "He can amputate a leg, contract the walls of a pleuritic lung by short ening the ribs, or cure with the aid of modern methods and home-made ap pliances a man suffering with certain forms of paralysis: a hundred miles from a shipyard, he can raise the stern of his little steamer out of wa ter by the rough application of the principles of hydraulics and mend her propeller; he can handle dynamite and Battle Harbor, Labrador, Showing Two Buildings of the Deep Sea Hospital to th e Left. around to my mission in a devious way and I gave it to the Roman Cath olic." Now just a little about this man who works away in the Arctic that the poor creatures who dwell there may have a little light and comfort in their frozen lives. "If I were asked to name the most useful man on the North American continent to-day, the man who most nearly approaches the heroic ideal, 1 think I should name Dr. Grenfell, said understand it till you live in the frozen north. "There are more feet in Labrador than shoes and we are often called upon to amputate frozen limbs, not only of men but women and children. I remember one case that shows we have no creed in the Arctic. The wife of a Roman Catholic had a frozen leg amputated and I was called upon to supply an artificial limb. I had one in stock, and after 1 had given it to the patient I learned its history. It had belonged to a Baptist soldier who lost his leg in the civil war fighting for the union. His wife was a Presby terian. but when he died she gave it to an Episcopalian cripple. It worked blast an excavation under one of his hospital buildings in which to place a heating apparatus; he can start a lumber mill and teach the inhabitants of lonely Labrador not only how to handle a saw but how to sell the product as a living wage.” Dr. Grenfell reaches 10,000 people every year. He found an Imbecile girl bound in harness and he rescued her. He stamped out smallpox in a fishing fleet. He has operated out at sea on board a tossing smack on two men who were doomed to death had he not come along with his merciful ether and his intelligent knife. Dr. Grenfell is a graduate of Christ college, Oxford, and of the medical de partment of London university. He began his medical missionary work on board a hospital boat of the North Sea fleet. He was sent to Labrador for a vacation and he has been there ever since.—From the New York World. The Eternal Feminine. The best women in the world are extravagant in at least two particu lars; dry goods and preserves.—Atch ison Globe. mtUVUUUMVUUHt \\ WW\ BEWARE OF ONE-TOPIC HABIT. To Be Popular, Strive for Variety in Conversation. When some one asked a very popu lar lady why everyone liked her, she turned scarlet and said with a little laugh, “-I won't pretend that I do not know why I have more friends now than I used to have, for that would be the same as telling a falsehood. The only reason I can give, however, is that some years ago I set a watch over my lips, and was amazed at what I dis covered. One day I was thinking over what I had said to the people I had seen, and when I counted up I had told each and every one about the baby’s cold, and very little else. All at once I discovered why people were edging away from me in stores and at different places where I met them, for I was talking about the baby from morning till night. I had dragged that poor little mite into every conver sation from the moment of her birth. I’m not the only sinner," she went on. "With some people it’s housework and some diseases and some clothes, but I have observed that the woman with but one topic of conversation is never very popular.” Wouldn't it be a blessing if more ladies took themselves in hand, and watched to see if they had but one topic of conversation? There is nothing in the world more wearisome than to be obliged to listen to ac counts of perfect children, or diseases, or troubles with the dressmaker. Some very good people are so one sided, that there is nothing to do but let them enlarge on that one topic and es cape as soon as possible. It is impos sible to get along without mentioning the children and sickness and house work and garments occasionally, but there should be a little variety. With books and music and the weather and the news of the world and church do ings and harmless gossip and flowers and lectures to furnish topics for con versation, there is no need of (sticking to one thing. It takes courage to face the truth and admit that a guardian is necessary, but once the habit is broken up you will bless that day that you took yourself sternly in hand and remedied the evil.—The Housekeeper. WON AT HUNGARIAN FESTIVAL. Romance in Connection with Marriage of New York Artist. Following an unusual romance conies the announcement, after more than a year, of the marriage of Allen Carter Watson, a New York artist, and Miss Anita Mercer, a former Worces ter girl, in Marididi, Hungary, says a Worcester (Mass.) dispatch in the New York Times. A letter has been received by Henri Mercer, a brother, in Templeton, after following him for months over a greater portion of the United States. The couple were mar ried in Marididi on February 19 a year ago and have now taken up their per manent residence in Venice. On January 19, 1907, Miss Mercer and her aunt, Mrs. Clare Spence, with Miss Edna Burley and the latter's mother, Mrs. George R. Burley, found themselves in Marididi. They were on a tour of the world and this day in Marididi is known as All Husbands' day. On this day the unmarried men and women for miles around gather at the village. Every bachelor writes his name on a card and casts it into a tub of water. The single women approach the tub at noon with long poles fitted with spikes. Each spears a card, and the man whose name is on the card speared is expected to marry the girl w'ithin a month. With arms linked, they walk through the village and thus publicly acknowledge their betrothal. Mr. Watson was in Marididi for the purpose of sketching the natives dur ing the fete of All Husbands' day and he overheard Miss Burley dare Miss Mercer to spear for a husband. When in fun Miss Mercer accepted the dare, Watson bribed the native in charge to change the tub for one which con tained cards with his name only. He claimed the forfeit and the walk through the village. A month later to a day, on February 19, they were married in Marididi and later continued on their tour until they reached Venice where they de cided to make their permanent home. Previous to All Husbands' day Miss Mercer and Mr, Watson had never met.
