Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, • • NEBRASKA. No Short Cut to Nationality. There is no short cut to Philippine nationality. Its attainment is a long task, calling for infinite patience and self-control. The population must greatly increase and must effectively occupy the entire archipelago, satis factory relations with the Pagan and Mohammedan peoples must be estab lished. education must do its work, and the social order be entirely trans formed, before the basis of national life is laid. Yet the aspiration for national existence cannot justly be dis couraged. It is the motive power under which the greatest of popular tri umphs have been achieved, writes Dr. David P. Barrows, in his "History of the Philippines." The situation is one peculiarly delicate, and yet full of the greatest promise. There is every reason why both Americans and Filipinos should hold their tasks with constant devotion and watchful ness over self. There could be no bet ter motto for all who are engaged in( this undertaking than the words of Secretary of War Taft, on whom, more than on any other man. rests the immediate future of the Philippines: "In my view, a duty is an entirety, and it is not fulfilled until it is entirely fulfilled.” Emil Zerkowitz, comercial councilor of Hungary, stationed in New York city, makes an interesting statement of conditions and possibilities in his country. He shows that there has been much progress in material f!e Telopment, and in this connection re marks: “Hungary offers great re sources for enterprises of every kind -—a rich market for American export ers, a fertile soil for financial and in dustrial investments and advantageous business relations for importers.'1 In this connection there is furnished also much information going to show the extent of Hungary’s foreign trade. This trade is large and increasing, and the Commrecial Councilor adds: “Ef forts of the Hungarian government and of the different business and so cial circles in Hungary to bring Hun gary in closer connection with the United States have not been without effect, and we hope that these efforts will steadily increase the friendly feeling and the commercial relations between both nations." The doors are opening in various directions, and the American producer and consumer may find Hungary a profitable field. If anyone is laboring under the delu sion that our South American friends are not progressive he should at once get rid of the notion. The Chilean gov ernment has entered into a contract for improvements in the harhor of Val paraiso that will cost *20,000,000, and the Argentine congress has been asked to approve plans for additional docking facilities at Buenos Ayres ia voving the expenditure of *9,000,000. The people down that way are build ing railroads in every direction and are utilizing every means of develop ing the material interests of the coun try. And the field promises rich re turns for the people of the United States. \\ hat is needed, declares the Troy (N. Y.) Times, is closer com mercial relations and a supply of American ships. Now the Cuban women have formed a league for the gaining of equal suf frage. There seems small doubt that this question is one which the century will be called upon to settle, but it must be removed from the field of hys terical demand on the one hand and prejudiced opposition on the other, and be judged in a calm and liberal spirit by both men and women on its merits and the benefits and conse quences to the community of its ac ceptance or rejection. It is not a question, says the Baltimore Amer ican, which can be settled at all on i‘s sentimental side; on the contrary, it must have the most practical solution. The treasury building at Washing ton is undergoing important repairs that in some respects amount to a re construction and which will assure greater stability to the historic struc ture. The east side of the building is being removed, the sandstone to be re placed by more durable granite. The fine architectural appearance will be in no way altered, but there will be less likelihood of collapse. The sand stone columns, in the language of the experts, are •‘dead" as a result of long exposure to the elements and are liable to disintegrate. The granite pillars will be of the sort that will en dure indefinitely. A Boston woman who has just cele brated her golden anniversary as a cook, boasts of having made and baked 394,000 pies, 2.000,000 doughnuts and something more than 1,500,000 pud dings, besides a multitude of other dainties and no end of baked beans. The British Medical society says that smoking will make the nose red. but it will probably be a long while before the majority of persons will consider a brilliant nose with any but the most uncharitable reflections According to Mulhalls estimates 1130.000. 000 persons speak English and 84.000. 000 German. Russian is spoken by upward of 85,000,000, but these numbers are far exceeded by 360,000, 000 to 400,000,000 Chinese and 140, 000,000 or more Hindustani. Perhaps the dogs are envying the prerogatives of mankind and wonder ing why they cannot plead the miti gating circumstances of brainstorms and emotional '-.sanity when they kill people. Are the Japanese A World Menace? By ST. NIHAL SING (Copyright, by Joseph 15. Bowles.) During and immediately succeeding the Russo-Japanese war the press of Europe and America went into ecsta sies over the prowess of the Japanese soldier and the level-headedness and strategic ability of the officers who en gineered the task of grappling with the Russian army and navy. Enthus iastic panegyrics were written re garding the sacrifices which the pa triotic islanders had made to avert a menace to their national existence. Lavish praise was bestowed on the wonderful manner in which Japan, in a brief term of years, had modernized and prepared itself to whip the occi dental with his own weapons. During the last few months the tenor of comments has considerably changed, and in many instances edi torial writers are deploring the fact that any "fuss" ever was made about the achievements of Japan. The peo ple hfctve commenced to remark that, after all is said and considered, the Japanese are ordinary humans and not supernatural beings, and the Pacific coast influx of Japanese immigrants has created an extensive and inten sive alarm, and caused thinkers and statesmen to pause and consider that the Japanese aggressiveness, fanned into volcanic activity by the successes in the Russo-Japan war. constitutes a menace to the world—at least to the Pacific coast of Xor’h America. And it is not the Occident alone which is cogitating over the world menace of Japan. The orient also is displaying unmistakable signs of being fearful of the menacing position and tactics which the island nation has assumed of late. Like the Occident, the entire ori ent showed unbounded admiration of Japan's struggle with Russia. To the orient the issues involved in the Russo-Japan war meant more than they did to the western world. The Asians were enthusiastic and appre ciative of Japan's proving to the Oc cident that an Asiatic nation was cap able of using western methods of warfare to defeat a western people: and if possible the praise of the orient was more lavish than that of the Occident. But, as in America and Europe, the Asian attitude toward the mikado's subjects has undergone a great change. Asia has become fearful of the methods Japan is em ploying to secure commercial mar kets and proclaiming its political suzerainty in Asiatic countries. The first shock was occasioned by the excesses committed by Japan in Korea. To the entire continent it was patent that Japan was not assum ing the suzerainty of Korea for altru istic purposes; the peninsula was to be rid of the Russian and to be util ized by the expanding Nipponese. It was expected by eastern peoples that the Japanese would make the civiliza tion and development of Korea and its resources a mere secondary object; very few Asiatics had expected that they would subject the Koreans to the militarism since forced upon them. Japan can offer but feeble excuses for her policy of self-glorification and ex pansion and for inaugurating a reign of terrorism in Korea. Her present attitude toward China and her administration of Manchuria unmistakably indicate that the Jap anese are determined to carry their operations farther in the continent. If the Chinese reports are to be re lied upon, it is certain that the Jap anese are making the best of their tenure of Manchuria. By practically monopolizing its trade; by offering special facilities to her own merchant princes and captains of industry, by transplanting the petty shopkeepers and affording profitable employment in railroad and government offices to the Japanese proletariat, etc., they are paving the way for complete domina tion. Japan's program of expansion, it may be remarked, is much like that of England. The island nation of the orient appears to be bent the same way as the island nation of the occi lent. England went to India for trade purposes. The East-India Company, a purely commercial organization of monopolists, finding that the govern ment of the day in India was impotent and that general lawlessness and an archy prevailed, formed visions of ob I taining the political supremacy or Hindostan; since the throttling of the Indian industries and the control of the East-Indian markets could then, by control of the tariff, be more effec tively and easily brought about. When the English went to India it was the East-Indian "gold" that at tracted them. At that time the coun try was industrially prosperous. East Indian muslins and brass and wood art work were the furore of France and England in that day; but with in a ffew decades the law was so made and administered by the British that English manufactures dis placed the East-Indian, just as the Englishman displaced ths natives of the land in the government offices. Within a few generations the East Indians fell from their pre-eminent in dustrial position and to-day, by means of a boycott of English goods and various other devices employed to overcome the barriers placed in their way by the alien tariff makers and administrators, they are just re generating themselves from the low est and most discouraging sloughs of decadence. Japan's career in Korea and Man churia significantly shows that the subjects of the mikado are following in the footsteps of their occidental ally. For commercial purposes rail roads, telegraphs, post oilices, electric lights, etc., have been established in India, and a few million of East-In dians have been enabled to come in close contact with western culture, but India has paid a woeful price for these features of modernization and the benefits which have accrued to India from them are merely incidental. Japan's political administration of Korea and Manchuria may add these and probably other features of civiliza tion; it may lead to imparting educa tion to Koreans and Manchurians; but this will be incidental and for these advantages Korea and Manchuria will pay a most exorbitant price. When the Anglo-Japanese treaty was signed a few years ago. the peo ple of India, who had expected that the Japanese would display Asia-for the-Asiatics sentiments, denounced the alliance and expressed keen disap pointment that an Asian nation should join a European power to keep India, an oriental country, under subjection. Hindostan was bitterly chagrined. This disappointment is becoming acuter and changing into a feeling of resentment since the development of Japanese plans for exploiting Korea and Manchuria. The people of India are fast awakening to the conscious ness that the foreign policy of Japan is not to merge in an Asia-for-the Asiatics combine, but to reserve Asia for the Japanese. These apprehensions of the East-In (lians are amply justified by the senti ments of the Japanese, crystallized in a recent frank statement by Count Ofeuma. the Japanese statesman, made before the Kobe chamber of com merce. He said: "You can go everywhere with ease and pleasure under the protection of the Japanese fleet. Being oppressed by the Europeans, the 300.000.000 peo ple of India are looking for Japanese protection. They have commenced to boycott European merchandise. If, therefore, the Japanese let the chance slip by and do not go into India, the Indians will be disappointed. If one will not take gifts from heaven, heaven may send one misfortune. From old times. India has been a land of treasure. Alexander the Great ob tained there treasure sufficient to load 100 camels and Mohammedan At tila also obtained riches from India. Why should not the Japanese stretch out their hands towards that country, now that the people are looking to the Japanese? The Japanese ought to go to India, the South ocean, and other parts of the world.’’ Count Okitma has since corrected this report of his speech and declares that he did not mean that Japan should politically subjugate India, but only meant that the island nation should commercially exploit it. Raman da Chatterji, the editor of the Mod ern Review, one of the highest class East-Indian publications under purely native management, trenchantly com ments on this point: "It is not often that we shall hear so honest an avowal as is contained in this extract, of the real aims and inten tions of Japan. . . . The Japanese ambassador in London was referred to before publication for his comment on Count Okutna's speech, and he an swered that it referred only to trade interests. It will be strange indeed j if Englishmen can accept this expla nation. A speech which referred to trade interests only, founds all its sanction—not on South sea or char tered enterprises, not on the history of factories or merchant colonizations, but—on Alexander the Great, on Mo hammed and on Attila. . . . The Eng lish are alone in Europe in being blind to the aims of Japanese foreign policy. . . . Certain it is that should English policy drive the people of any Asiatic country into a despairful acceptance of the Japanese, the peo ple of that land would ever after have cause to curse the day. If we want to know what are likely to be the methods of Japanese rule, it is well that we should keep our eyes upon Korea.” All the other enlightened Asiatic countries share this East-Indian atti tude towards Japan. China appears to be wide-awake in this respect. From the niauner in which the Celes tials are protesting against allowing the Japanese to smuggle arms and provisions of war into Manchuria at the present time it is evident that the Dragon Empire is alive to the menac ing attitude Japan has assumed tocvard Asia. The possibility of a war between Japan and China perhaps depends upon how full the coffers of the Japanese exchequer are; or how much money England and other pro Japanese occidental nations can loan the mikado's government; but certain it is that the entire Orient is vibrant with a dread of the new Japanese slogan: "Asia for the Japanese.” To Surpass Eiffel Tower. M. Tournav, a Belgian engineer, has been commissioned by the committee for the international exhibition at Brussels in 1910 to erect a tower at lxelles which will be much higher than tha Eiffel tower. The cost is estimated at |240,000. Our Older Civilization. i You always have to travel to the east for monuments of a time older than your own. New Yorkers go to Europe, Europeans go to China and Japan. But it is not often that New Yorkers think of themselves as typify ing something of this kind to others, says the New York Press. Yet in a recent issue of a Chicago paper the editor of questions answered column suggests to one of his readers that she go to the Catskills or White mountains for a walking tour rather than to Colo rado, the one given reason for the eastern trip being that the Inquirer "will meet an older civilization." Jumped at Him. Miss Knox—Yes, that’s Mr. Dubley. He's Miss Passay's second fiance. Miss Wise—Nonsense! He’s the first one she ever had. Miss Knox—You misunderstand me. | I mean she accepted him in a second. BOLERO AND BLOUSE p —Bolero* 5-- jg -Blouse to Match Skirt. BOLERO.—This is a most useful little coat, In the same material as the skirt; blue and white striped tweed is used here, the revers and cuffs are of white cloth stitched at the edge. There is a wrapped seam down each side of front and back, with a small opening at the end of each, ornamented with buttons; buttons also ornament the cuff. BLOI SE OF SILK AND LACE.—This little blouse is quite a novel idea, and would be very smart when made; the bodice part is of the same mate rial as skirt, glace silk would be most suitable; it fastens down the front, and is trimmed along the outer edge with a piece of velvet, the little lie-over collar is also trimmed with velvet, the under arm parts and the sleeves are cut all in one, in piece lace, the sleeve is finished at the elbow with a band and cuff of the silk, the cuff is trimmed with velvet. BLOUSE TO MATCH SKIRT—This blouse would make up well in the same material as the skirt, providing the material is something soft; fhe yoke is of piece lace, piped with silk to match the material, which is tucked to fit the yoke, the tucks are about one-quarter inch in width, and are carried down three inches, the sleeve is a simple puff, gathered at the elbow and put into a shaped band which is piped with silk,, a little bow of silk is worn at the neck; the waist-band also is of silk. STRIPES AND POLKA DOTS. Methods of Trimming That Will Make Any Simple Frock Ornamental. One of the pretty ways of making a simple frock ornamental is trim ming it with an opposite design in the same coloring. To be explicit, polka dots are in fashion and frocks in this design are trimmed with wide bias bands of plaid or striped material in the same color. A striped frock is trimmed with a wide straight band of polka dot mate rial. A plain surface is trimmed with both the polka dot and the striped fabric, and when the combination is well done it does not really look like a patchwork quilt. It can even be carried out in yokes and stocks, as nets in fashionable col ors now come with a tiny polka dot of white. It is usually in a small open circle instead of a real polka dot. but it gives the same effect. These nets are put in tiny tucks and used instead of lace, embroidery or muslin. Placing a Couch. Couches are now so much used in sitting rooms that any arrangement that has even a spice of novelty should be welcomed. So try putting the couch in the corner of the room so that it touches the wall at one end and behind it. At the other end, with its back against the divan, stand a bookcase, which is a complete screen to the couch. The latter piece fronts out toward the room, so that any one entering sees the bookcase at once, and on going farther into the room the couch comes into view. INDOOR GOWN. Plain white lawn was used to make this indoor (town. The surplice waist has a broad trimming band made of triangular sections of tucking put to gether with a narrow beading and edged with lace. At each side are folds of lavender satin and a bow of ribbon with long ends conceals the closing in the waist. Prevent Eye Discoloration. Often when playing a child will run against some object which will hit the eye, and as a bruise on the eye is not only more disfiguring, but more pain ful than one anywhere else on the body, it is well to know what to do for it. Immediately after the eye has been struck with enough force to make it black, apply a cloth wrung out of wa ter, as hot as can be borne. Apply new cloths as hot as can be stood for 20 minutes, and the blood which has col lected and clotted will become thin and pass off to its proper channels. A bruise on any other part of the body may be treated likewise. A Pleasant Economy, This is the time of year when the mother with a small daughter may lay in a supply of hair ribbons, for they can be bought at this season of the year very cheap, and a ribbon is always of use where a little girl is concerned, either for hair ribbon or sashes. To put away a ribbon when one find3 it for sale cheap is a very wise thing to do, and will save a lot of expense when school begins in the Jail. LITTLE ERRORS THAT WORRY. How Some of Them May Be Avoided by the Home Dressmaker. It is usually the little errors in dressmaking that are the most irri tating and annoying to the woman who does her own dressmaking. The unlined waist is one of the hardest garments to fit correctly. When wrinkles come at the base of the arm hole, the trouble usually is that the armhole has been made too small. If it is. do not cut it out, but simply snip it with the point of the scissors to see if the wrinkles are removed. If the wrinkles are not removed, then trim the armhole. If the waist wrinkles at the base of the collar line in the back, see if your i belt is in the proper place exactly at the waist line and that the line from the center back of the' belt is plumb. If you are sure that the belt is cor rectly placed, then snip the collar with the point of the scissors at each side of the center back of the collar and wrinkles in all probability will be removed. Ribbons Must Match. Debutantes-to-be are most particular about their ribbon accessories, and gorgeous, indeed, are some of the sashes, coiffures and blouse bows no ticed at the week-end society festivi ties to which members of the younger generation are sometimes admitted. With her Dutch-necked dinner frock of girlish white Swiss or point d'esprit the jeune fille wears a flowered sash tied trimly about her slender waist and arranged at the back in butterfly loops, two of which may be drawn half way to the shoulders. The hair bow and sleeve rosettes may be of softest chiffon satin, matching the grounding of the sash, but her opera glass bag is preferably of the figured sash ribbon, lined to match its satin bordering. Hosiery Decorations. Since the fad for decoration has be come so widespread, the girl with a talent for fashioning flowers and bow knots with her needle is decorating the fronts of her hosiery from toe to ankle with quaint designs. These are of natural flower tints on the delicate hosiery worn with evening gowns and in self tints for those matching street costumes. Sometimes lace butter flies and bow knots are used as in serts. first being appliqtted upon the j webbing which is then cut away from j the underside. Faded hosiery of a first-class quality may be successfully home-dved, and thrifty young worn- j en overloaded with passe evening hos- j iery may easily transform it into a sort suitable for street wear by dyeing it tan, taupe, brown or blue. Gold Bands for the Hair. Gold bands are decidely more chic i than ribbon ones for the hair, and j come in single, double, triple and even | quadruple forms. These combined i with tortoise shell or amber are ex- j tremely handsome.—Vogue. Ivory and Gold in Scissors. Ivory handled scissors are so pretty they may form a new incentive to feminine industry. A girl has just brought home from Europe a dainty pair of snippers ihat are attractive enough to make even an athletic maiden sit down and sew. They are made of the finest steel, of course. The ivory holes for thumb and finger are inlaid with gold. Nothing just like them has been seen even in the bags of gorgeous brocaded silks which contain the fascinating sewing imple ments.—New York Press. Threading Frock With Ribbon. The fashion of threading the frock with ribbons at flounce depth around the skirt is a pretty one. The slits are cut about three inches or more apart, then buttonholed. The rib bon or velvet is passed in and out as one would when using beading, and the fullness of the skirt is drawn up to suit the wearer, when long ends are tied into bows and loops either at intervals or just at the left side. It is no use thinking that beading will answer, for it will not. The ma terial of the skirt itself must be cut through. with uUNCZf£Y'* (Copyright 1903. by Byron Williams.) Mumblings. One way to keep a stiff upper lip is to cut it. •fir fir fir Many a man who thinks he has an ear for music should be using that same ear for a penrack. ☆ fir fir Who cares for the hard times. Our onions, lettuce and radishes are grow ing faster than we can eat 'em! fir fir fir "Do your shopping in the morning while the clerks are fresh," advises a Chicago newspaper. Most of them are that way all day. Why hurry down? fir fir fir It is the author that gets out a book for the first time who knows he will sell the entire edition to his friends. The experienced writer knows that friends all expect autographed copies free. fir fir -A Romance is the road to tacks and sleepless nights, and love and crying babies; the path down which every youth must tread to be a man; the winding way that leads by briared borders to home and happiness, fir fir fir Just about now your Thanksgiving dinner is pecking its way out of a turkey egg and looking for the first time upon the wonders of this life. Soon your dinner will be scooting about in the tall weeds and grasses searching for a meal of bugs and snails, and chirping shrilly at a grand daddv toad as he hops dopily about. Pass the cranberries, please. o o o (S) Park Poetry. They held each others’ hands, and oh The sun was steeped in rosy glow! And as the shadows came apace. He rubbed his whiskers on her face. She squealed, of course—they always do Unmindful of the passing crew. From off her rosy lips he sipped The nectar—and he never slipp’d. Except when she would dodge like sin— And then they* pricked her on the chin! “Oh, my.” she cried, “you must behave— Oh, ouch, get out! You need a shave!’* “A kiss without some whiskers, dear, Is like a saltI