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.
