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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY. - - NEBRASKA. Dangerous Exhibitions. The time has come for a note of warning regarding certain public ex hibitions that are becoming increasing ly popular—those where the performer earns his livelihood by deliberately risking his life. The interest to the onlookers in these performances arises from the fact that life for a moment hangs by a hair. Agility, muscularity, beauty of movement have become sec ondary, whether the feat is “looping the loop,” riding the bicycle round and round the sloping sides of a huge basket with no bottom to it, or taking chances in a cage with some wild beast. It is one and the same appeal to something within us that craves unhealthy excitement. It is true that the “gladiator" in these days does generally escape with his life, but the quality of the amusement demanded proves us akin to those far-off ances tors whose one idea of a good holiday was a batch of Christians and plenty of wild beasts. Nothing grows so quickly by what it feeds on as this de mand for excitement, and it is well understood by the caterers to the pub lic taste that the “shocker" of to-day is the platitude of to-morrow. For a season we could hardly believe in “looping the loop." but the dish rapid ly grew insipid, and tabasco had to be added, so the loop was looped in a motor-car, then in a motor-car with a piece of the track removed, and so on. The “thumbs down" of the ancients is represented to-day by the girl who stops chewing gum long enough to re mark indifferently to her escort, "Well, ain't he got the nerve!" as the trainer enters his den of beasts still wearing the bandages left from his last encoun ter. If these things must be. let us at least spare the little children, urges the Youths' Companion. They need the placid quiet of their childhood, with its simple pleasures, just as they need bread and milk. Bad taste as well as good grows by what it feeds on, and your child does not really need to have Christians butchered for his holiday any more than he needs curried lobster and champagne. Before Mr. Taft had retired from the head of the war department it was his privilege to direct the quartermas ter general of the arm}- to reserve a suitable plot in the National cemetery at Arlington for a monument to negro soldiers who lost their lives in the civil war. This action is taken in compliance with a request from the Colored Soldiers' Monument associa tion, which is raising money for the purpose indicated, an object with which Secretary Taft is in full and cordial sympathy. It is most suitable that a memorial of the kind should be raised at Arlington, in sight of the capital of the nation and the seat of the government which thousands of negroes fought bravely to save. Since Andrew Jackson, five vice presidents have become presidents through the death of the incumbents of the White House. Some of them would have never been honored with second place on the ticket had this contingency been seriously consid ered. Tyler was nominated because of his lamentations over Clay’s defeat. Fillmore got the job because Webster wouldn't take it. Johnson was picked by Lincoln, who made the mistake of his life. Arthur was chosen because Morton refused under the conviction that he could not win. Roosevelt was literally forced into fhe place from which fate led him to exalted pre eminence. If a "pied piper" who would entice away all the rats and leave the chil dren should appear in the coast cities of the world, he would be welcomed by the sanitary authorities. The sani tary department of Cuba is the latest to start a crusade against rats. A quarantine against Venezuelan ports has been declared on account of the bubonic plague, and an appropriation has been made for the extermination of the Cuban rats. Robert Vernon Hareourt, who was elected to the British parliament to succeed John Morley, elevated to the peerage, is half-American. His mother, the second wife of the late Sir William Harcourt, was the daugher of John Lothrop Motley, the historian of the Netherlands. There are in parliament a number of other Englishmen with American mothers, not the least con spicuous of whom is Winston Church ill, grandson of the late Leonard Jer ome of New York. What will the women say to the as sertion recently made by John Burns, president of the British local govern ment board, that the "servant prob lem” arises not so much from the scarcity of good servants, as from the incompetency of present-day mis tresses to manage their help? Whether his charge is true or not, a girl without training for the work will find it as difficult to run her house and direct her servants as her husband would find if he tried to direct a business without first learning how. Mark Twain has the right idea of living. He says: “I don’t eat accord ing to the food experts, and I don’t do anything according to rule, but I take precious good care to do the things that agree with myself, and not the things that somebody else has found good for them.’’_ Club wTomen in Boston are about to solve every problem except those in regard to women’s hats and gar ments. They leave such perplexing question? to tha me" I : I BEWARE! END OF THE WORLD ONLY 12,000,000 YEARS AWAY! By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. M., LL. D. Then the Sun Will Shrink^ Lose Its Heat and Inhabitants of the Earth Will Freeze and Starve to Death. EASOXING from the prfnci pies of the pretty gener ally accepted nebular hy pothesis_ the end of the world Is to be reached very gradually through the Increasing reign of cold and the 'lengthening of the earth's day. For !t is evident that the sun cannot keep) on radiating heat at High Droteted Scientists Hatfe It All Worked Out—“Things Are in a Dad Way," Warns Adherent cf fiehular Hypothesis — World’s Center Gio/ing Forth Warmth May Sa-Ve Us for a Time, Dut "Ultimate Destruction is Ine-Vstable, Wise Ones Say. sun will have become so far cooled oft that wo shall be indifferent to everything else that happens. Another limit to the future of the habitable portion of the earth is brought to light by the rapid prog ress of erosion that is going on all over the land surface of the world. Wallace estimates that otic foot of Five MILES 0ECOV.V AM O POUR. HUMPR-ED DC 6 PIPES, ABOVE IT PPIfLS % Ai IF / TWS /*w»j 4 6 h T ce tup Place.'/: yjow.'/y <he present rate, or, indeed, at any late, forever. As Lord Kelvin has well said, we know that the sun Is cooling off Just as certainly as we should know* that a hot stone which we encountered in a field was cooling off, though w*e had not seen it long enough to measure the rate of Its cooling. Heat Is not a permanent quality of any known object. The sun must be losing its heat, and hence in time will become a cold and liteless object. If things continue to go on as they now do, astronomers tell us. the sun will lose its life-giving heat long before 12,000,000 years have elapsed. Like all other cooling bodies, the sun must be diminishing in size. Its diameter must be contracting. Newcomb estimates that in less than 5,000.000 years the sun's diameter will contract to one half its present length, so that the sun will occupy only one-eighth of the UNKNOWN WHEN—? KEPOfiTfR — HAVE SEEN EE'S'Ue.SJfO JhTE ZVlEW you/ WHETHER iri$ TUL/B yQ v GoinQ OUT 0* , /l'oGO-000 \ y«as/ ©pact: it uuw after that to Jt does now, rapidity. occupies, it is hardly possible for it continue to furnish as much heat as but it must then cool off with great This reasoning is based on the supposition that the sun is not yet a solid body, but is so hot that Its mass is still in a gaseous state. But the force of gravity upon the sun is so great that the gas is compressed into a much smaller proportionate com pass than it is on the earth. The force of gravity on the surface of the sun is 27 times that on the earth, so that a man weighing 150 pounds on the earth ^ould weigh nearly two tons on the sun. So great is this pressure of gravity on the gases of the sun that are they reduced to one-quarter the density of the solid nucleus of the earth. But so long as the nucleus of the sun continues to be gaseous it will continue to grow hotter as it dimin ishes in size. So soon, however, as it loses suf ficient heat to allow the material to take on the solid form, a crust will be formed and the radiat ing heat will rapidly diminish. Probably, also, the heat radiated will diminish long before that time, even though the sun is growing hotter, be cause of the diminishing size of the globe. The only way that the astronomers can see to avoid this slow paralysis of the sun, and so of the whole solar system, is that lately proposed by Prof. Langley In a sensational article depicting what would happen if a dark world moving at an incred ible speed in space should come so near our sun that the two would collide. In thi3 case the origi nal heat of the sun might be restored, but the ca tastrophe would practically produce spell an ex pansion of its volume and such an increase of its radiating power that everything on the earth would be burned up, producing about such phenomena as are described by the Apostle Peter, Indeed, the re semblance between the words of the apostle and the theory of the Washington astronomer was as striking as it was unexpected, so much so that some readers may not know from which source the fol lowing quotation is taken: "The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works therein shall be burned up.” Rut the suggestion of the astronomer was pure speculation. There are no apparent signs of any such approaching catastrophe as Dr. Langley sug gests as possible. At any rate, we may settle down to the conclusion that so far as astronomical forces are concerned the present order of things will not be disturbed for three or four million years. Rut an equally gloomy prospect Is before the world in the distant future from another cause which Is in slow operation. The length of the earth's day Is slowly increasing through the re tarding Influence of the tides produced by the moon. To be sure, this effect Is so slight that It has not been directly perceptible since accurate methods of measuring the time of the earth's revolution on Its axis have been observed. Rut that it must be taking place Is as sure as that friction will stop a railroad train when the steam Is turned off. The tides raised by the moon's attraction are distributed by the continents so as to present many anomalies, but when considered In them selves they act the same as a wave three feet high constantly running in an opposite direction to the revolution of the earth, and so by friction re tarding 11s motion. Astronomers are agreed that similar tides produced on the moon have reduced her revolution on her axis to a period of 28 days. Eventually the revolution of the earth will be reduced so that our day will be several times long er than now. When that time comes the nights will be so cold that nothing can stand It, and if they could the days will be so hot that what was left by the cold would be destroyed by the heat. Rut that time, also, Is so far In the future that the present generation may put It out of their minds. This catastrophe will not arrive for many million years yet. Indeed, before that time arrives the the earth's surface is, on the average, washed away bv the st reams every 3,000 vhars and deposited at the bot tom of the ocean. This amounts to more than 300 feet In a million years. As the main elevation of North Amer ica is 748 feet, and that of Europe 671 feet, it follows that by the operation of present forces Europe will be washed into the sea in 3,000,000 years, and America in 3,000,000 years. What providence has in store for us after that, no man knows. If the sunk en portion shall rise at the end of that period, as it did at the end of the coal period, there will be dry land to live on, but it is doubtful if it have such stores of iron and coal as have blessed the present race of human beings. There are two other sources of heat to which we may look with much con fidence and hope. It was more than a dream of Ericsson to Invent an en gine which could be run by collect ing the direct rays of the sun through immense sun-dials, thus generating the heat necessary to set in motion the wheels of industry. But the suc cessful carrying out of his plans would necessitate the transfer of our great manufacturing centers to the rainless regions of the world where perpetual sunsnine prevails, it. therefore. will rot be Impossible that the desert of Sahara and the sandy wastes o' Central Asia shall In the future usurp Ihe place now asrumed by the localities In proximity to the great coal fields of the world, while the latter become overgrown with briars and brambh a like the mounds of many an ancient center of civilization. Still another possible source from which we may draw Infinite quantities of heat and power is to be found In the heated center or the earth. As we descend below the surface of the earth, the temperature rises cn an average of one degree in 60 feet. At a depth of two mliS3. therefore, the temperature of boiling water would be reached, and at. a depth of five miles a temperature of more than 400 degrees. It would, therefore, not seem by any means Impossible to bore into the earth deep enough to make a portion of Its heat available for all ordinary purposes. The world, however, la concerned with Impend ing catastrophes nearer at hand. The prosperity of the present time Is largely due to the rapid ity with which we are using up the reserved stores of nature upon or near the surface of the earth. Thus geology, while it opens up to mankind the stores of c-ocq that era hurled for safekeeping In the depths of the earth, point c to their limited quan tity, and calla upon men to use them economically and leave as much as possible for future genera tions. Wastefulness of these limited stores is a sin. At the same time It gives the philosophical student of history a sobering view of the destiny of man, Nothing is more certain than that man has not been always on the earth, und that he is not always to stay here. The world Is like a transcontinental railroad train and the human race like a passenger who gets on at one end and has to get off at the other, Out of mystery man came and lr.to mystery ho goes. The visible world Is a passing shew. All that. Is unchangeable lies In the world of the unseen. (Copyright, 1903, by Josrpli 11. Bowlrs.) I : < RICHES AND TROUBLES. Advice and Comment on the Subject by Philosophic Uncle Rufus. “My frens," said Uncle Rufus, as he sat down In a sunny spot on the steps of the grocery, “make no mistake about riches. No man eber gits to be wuth a millyun dollars dat his tryb bles don't begin de next day. He's got to git his h'ar cut once a week a*d shave once a day. He must keep his jhoes blacked day and night, and If ¥ his necktie works around under his left ear he loses his roslshun In so ciety. “You and me know dat two-shillln’ suspenders hold up our trowsers as well as a p'ar costin' six dollars. De millyonalre knows It, too, but he's got to pay oui $5.75 extra cause he’s In de : swim. “In our mind’s eye we see de rich j man seated In a red velvet chair, “In all de y'ars dat I knowed a sartln rich man sunthln’ was alius happenin' to him. While I was gwlne on foot his hosses run away and broke his laig. While I was hijoyln' my kitchen stove his steam plpe-a busted and killed his cook. While my cabin was too small game for thunderbolts one cum along and tore half de roof off his house. While me'n de old woman was grubbln' along by ourselves ho had to have 10 of his relations In ue house. My dawg wasn't wuth 1C cents, but he libed on. His dawg was wuth $250, and he was alius gkiln’ lost or plzeaed. "Dat millyonalro had no show to eat onlonc, make lasses candy or popcorn. Hg cobber slid down hill, went rabbit • huntin' nor urank cider out o' a Jug. If he eber sot down of an evenin' wld his shoes off to take comfort his wife dragged him off to de theater or his barn took fire. While I saved up $100 la ten years, and am libln' to-day, he spent $20,000 a year to run his house far de same time and died v/lshin' he could have had hoetake and bacon for ‘ breakfast acd had de felicity of wearln' ' a patch on each knee and two behind J him.” 3 “*■**"*——■i—wiwnw MMlit : * ;==::==5g^^ pram mm7® WITH “cwczf^r9 (Copyright 190S, by Byron Williams.) In Passing. The woods in the country now have their interesting quota of baby rab bits, just big enough to give you a merry chase before you can hold one of the soft, timid little creatures in your hands. And as you cuddle bunny to your face, he likes the heat and loses some of the fear with which his wild little eyes are eloquent. When you release him, he hops off through the brush as fast as his baby legs will propel his plump, tiny body, for bun is a creature of the wood, a being of the open, and you are not his kind. In stinct teaches him to fear you, and he goes. But wasn't he a dear, though? ☆ ☆ ☆ When Columbus landed in America, to express his gratitude lie knelt upon the sand. N'ow when fortune hunters come to the land of the tree, they kneel upon the Turkish rugs and have the sand to ask the hands and pocket books of our daughters. Columbus was a discoverer, but the later day adventurer is a joke—on the girl, vr ☆ * An ex-politician has been appointed sexton of a New York cemetery and, as yet. not one of his present constit uency has raised a voice in protest. •fir ☆ ☆ The man who has no friends can get his sure thing tips on mining stock from mere acquaintances, and ioee his money just the same. ☆ ☆ fir A man is doubly disappointed in love when he wants a divorce and cannot get it. o n n In June. She is garnishing her wagon For attachment to a star Where the Pleiades are twinkling And the luminaries are. Now upon the threshold standing, With a stern, determined eye, Iligged in taffeta and ribbons. Sue is bound to do or die: Ab, beyond Italian sunsets, Lie the Alps her feet will scale. For in her vocabulary There is no such word as “fail:" Oh. the world is but an oyster. Cuddled neatly in a spoon, For the graduate in rutiles On Commencement Day—in June! But the pretty little maiden Who is hitching up her star. Soon will quote another author. Soon will guide another car. Proud as Lucifer she'll guide it Past the scrambling, worldly crew. With a little duffer in it Who is gaily singing. “Goo!" o o o T rifies. A javelin sometimes misses its mark, but a bouquet, never. ☆ is * Nowadays a $15 a week salary is a great preventive of dyspepsia. ☆ ☆ ☆ Some men make so much hay in the sunshine that they are sunstruck. ☆ ☆ # It is better to pick your teeth in public than to pick a quarrel in pri vate. ☆ ☆ ☆ It takes more money to make the automobile go than it ever did to make the mare do likewise. ☆ ☆ ☆ No man who spends ail his salary, leaving nothing for a rainy day, has true love for his wife and babies. ☆ ☆ ☆ Most every woman, at some time or other, has donned man's clothes just to know how it feels to wear the trous ers. ☆ ☆ ☆ A Boston girl named Birdie, and weighing 20S pounds, has just become the wife of a bean eater, weight 114, named Magnus. Speaking of incon gruities, here's one. o o o Joking. You want to laugh again, you say? And I must tickle you or bust? Well, stick your funny bone my way And X will do it if I must. Tee hee! I have a grouch today—a beaut— And if I wasn’t hired to joke, I’d go out on a dreadful toot And strike the high spots and go broke. Whoop-ee! I know of course you have to laugh. That you have not a grouch today. And so I ask: “Why is a calf Unlike a load of clover hay?’’ Oh, hey? [ knew you couldn’t—in a year— But, darn you, I will HAKE you laugh. rho difference is. it would appear. Hot ween a hay load and a calf— Ba-rahl— ts Just because a kitten’s tail— I mean a black cat now, like soot— fXas never yet at any sale Been auctioned off as licorice root: Take that! Life’s Wisest Policy. It Is wiser to act than to ask “why;” safer to “keep your own key and your jwn counsel," and better policy to en :ourage a flexible opinion, taking the flews of many and weighing them, with the possibility of changing your | nind. The Epworth League. The Epworth league was formed by epresentatives of various young peo ile societies of the Methodist Episco ial church of Cleveland, O., May 14 SS9. V' .— A TERRIBLE CONDITION. Tortured by Sharp Twinges, Shooting Pains and Dizziness. Hiram Center, 518 South Oak street, Lake City, Minn., says: "I was so bad with kid ney trouble tnat I could not straighten up after stooping without sharp pains shooting through my back. I had dizzy spells, was nervous and my eyesight af fected. The kidney secretions were ir ' “ regular and too fre j quent. I was in a terrinle condition, but Doan’s Kidney Pills have cured me and I have enjoyed perfect h alih since.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents r. box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. THE REASON WHY. i l First Passenger—I wonder why • train is making such a long stop a* [ this station. Second Passenger (experienced •:. i eler)—I suppose it is because n > happens to be trying to catch the train Weary Willie's Complaint. i , William J. Ryan, president of tl ** • i supreme council of public ha kn • : , New York, said the other day tha: winter panic had reduced the hark ; men’s receipts considerably. “We'll have to come down to Eng lish rates—12 cents a mile inst<; d 50 cents—if we have many more s;, 1 panics,-’ Mr. Ryan said. "Every!' . felt the pinch. I overheard a tramp grumbling in a public square “‘The trade ain't like it used to be. he said. 'Here ten times running ■ day I’ve asked for a bit of bread. : 1 what do they give me? Why, durn it, just a bit o’ bread.’ ”—Exchange. The extraordinary popularity of fir*-* white goods this summer makes tl* choice of Starch a matter of great i: portance. Defiance Starch, being fr* *■ from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen er makes half the usual quantity f Starch necessary, with the result of Perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. The Wife Did It All. Hewitt—Couldn't you get the per son you called up by telephone0 Jewett—Oh, yes. Hewitt—But I didn’t hear you say anything. Jewett—It was my wife I called. Your Druggist Will Tell You That Murine Eye Remedy Cures Eyes. Makes Weak Eyes Strong. Doesn’t t. Soothes Eye Pain and Sells for 50c. There is at least one woman in the worid for every man in the world to think the worid of. Lewis’ Single Binder straight 5c _■ r Made of extra quality to!u *•*. Y .r dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. Cirls are partial to automobiles be cause they have sparkers. A SURGICAL OPERATION If there is any one thins: that a woman dreads more than another it is a surgical operation. We can state without fear of a contradiction that there are hun dreds, yes, thousands, of operations performed upon women in our hos pitals which are entirely unneces sary and many have been avoided by LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND For proof of this statement read the following letters. Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman, Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “ For eight years I suffered from the most severe form of female troubles an 1 was told that an operation was mv only hope of recovery. I wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound, and it has saved my life and made me a well woman.’’ Mrs. Arthur B. House, of Church Road, Moorestowu. N. J., writes: “I feel it is my duty to let people know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound has done for me. I suffered from female troubles, and last March my physician decided that an operation was necessary. My husl- 1 objected, and urged me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and to-day I am well and strong.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. ror thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ult * ra tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, and backache. Mrs. Pinkham invites all siek women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
