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-- ' . " ,%? ^ . . ... 1 ■ - ‘ ON ; RAPID ^TRANSIT BY GEO. V. HOBART, ("HUGH M’HUGH”) Dear Bunch: Every time I hop Into one of those roomy, comfortable street cats in a city of the second, third or even fourth class. I immediately con trast it with the wood boxes we use in New York, and I find myself growing red in the face and biting my nails. Those squeezer cars that prowl the streets of New York are surely the breathless limit, aren't they?” The squeezer car is the best gen teel imitation of a rough-house that has ever been invented. The are called squeezers because the conductor has to let the passen gers out with a can-opener. Brave and strong men climb into a street car, and they are full of health and life and vigor, but a few blocks up the road they fall out backward and inquire feebly for a sanitarium. To ride on a Broadway street car. for instance, about eight o'clock of an Leaves the Rebellious Standing on a Corner. evening, brir.ga out all that is in a man, including a lot of loud words he didn't know he had. The last census shows us that the Btreet cars of New York have more ways of producing nervous prostration and palpitation of the brain to the square inch than the combined popu lation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tinkersdam and Gotterdammerung. To get in some of the street cars about six o'clock is a problem, and to get out again is an assassination. One evening I rode from Forty-sec ond street to Fifty-ninth without once touching the floor with my feet. Part of the time I used the out posts of a stout gentleman to come between me and the ground, and dur ing the rest of the occasion I hung from a strap and swung out wild and free, like a Japanese flag on a windy day. Some of the New York street cars lead a double life, because they are used all winter to act the part of a 1 refrigerator. It is a cold day when we cannot find it colder in the street oars. In Germany we find Germans in the cars, but in America we find germs. That is because this country is young and impulsive. The germs in the street cars are extremely sociable, and will follow a stranger all the way home. Often while riding in the New York street cars I have felt a germ rubbing against mv ankle like a kitten, but, being a gentleman, I did not reach down and kick it ‘away because the law says we murt not be disrespectful to the dumb brutes of the field. Many of those street cars are built on the same general plan as a can of condensed milk. The only difference is that the street cars have a sour taste, like a lemon-squeezer. When you get out you cannot get in, and when you get in you cannot The Germs Will Follow a Stranger All the Way Home. get out. because you hate to disturb the strange gentleman that Is using your knee to lean over. Between the seats there Is a space of two feet, but in that space you will always find four feet, and their own ers, unless one of them happens to have a wooden leg. Under ordinary circumstances four into two won’t go, but the squeezer cars defy the laws of gravitation. A squeezer conductor can put 26 into nine and still have four to carry. The ladies of New York have start ed a rebellion against the squeezer cars, but every time they start it the conductor pulls the bell, and leaves the rebellious standing on the corner. We are very nervous and careless people in New York. To prove how careless we are, I will cite the fact that Manhattan island is called after a cocktail. This nervousness is our undoing because we are always in such a hurry to get somewhere that we would rather take the first car and get squeezed into breathlessness than wait for the next, which would likely squeeze us into insensibility. Breathlessness can be cured, but Insensibility is dangerous without an alarm-clock. For a man with a small dining-room, the squeezer car has Its advantage, but when a stout man rides in them, he finds himself supporting a lot of strangers he never met before. . One evening I jumped on one of -r_.~ . „.«„ t those squeezers feeling just like * two-year-old, full of health and happi ness. The thought of it makes m« feel quite Tennysonsque! From Cortland street he proudly strode at suppertime that day to take the elevated road which goes up Har lem way. He shook and shivered like the deuce, and then he sadly sighed, because the path was long and loose which led to Morningside. He kissed the down-town girl he rushed, and said: “I know you’ll miss me! but don’t start weeping if I’m crushed; just kiss me, sweet heart; kiss me! ’Tis miles to go, long miles to go to where I do reside, and boogie men are in the cars that run to Morningside!" Her eyes were like two stars that shine and sparkle through the rain; she sobbed: "Good-by, sweetheart ol mine!”—he kissed his love again. “And should I not return some day to claim my blushing bride, you'll find me on the right of way twixt here and Morningside! “Oh, Phyllis, I must pull up stakes this awful trip to make—hark! do you hear the broken brakes refuse to make a brake? Good-by. my love; good-by, my dove! on this I do decide; when airships come in use I’ll take you up to Morningside.” He found a car well loaded down with 50 souls or more to take the pathway through the torvn he'd taken oft before. The guard unto his voice gave vent: “Ooftgooftenooftenvide!” then closed the gates and off they went, bound for Morningside. Fat men sat down in ladies’ laps they’d never met before; and sad and solemn-looking chaps exploded some and swore. Some used the air to stand upon, the floor was occupied by 27,000 feet bound out for Morningside. “I want my hat!” a small man cried in accents full of heat; and when to reach for it he tried, somebody swiped his seat. Ten thousand souls hung onto straps and did the slide-the slide; the human laundry which night hangs out for Morningside. IJeneath the car the third rail snaps Genteel Imitation of a Rough-House. and barks and tries to bite while those who hang around on straps turn over then turn white. It sighs for those and cries for those who in the coaches ride, and makes them wish they did not live far out at Morning side. Where does the fat director ride who owns the iron road? With human sardines does he hide while homeward he is towed? Not on your life! a squeeze like that would surely hurt his pride; he takes the benzine buggy when he goes to Morningside. The cars will crowded be to-night ;• there'll be another crush; for hunger waits on appetite and all must home ward rush, and stand like men to pay the debt monopolies provide on any road, on every road—including Morn ingside! How about it! (Copyright, 1303, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) WHIPPING POST AND STOCKS. Stood in the Raleigh Courthouse Land Until End of Civil War. Up until the end of the war and a little while after the whipping post and stocks stood not far from the northwest corner of the courthouse and between that building and the present post office, and there the last whipping took place, though as it be gan it was sought to be stopped by a federal officer. The sheriff was, how ever, simply carrying out the mandate of the old court of pleas and quarter sessions. In those days the stocks and the whipping post too were special attrac tions, notably to boys. The latter were allowed to ridicule people who sat in the stocks, which held their hands and feet, but not to throw any thing at them. Of course this deprived the boys of some degree of pleasure, yet they contrived to get a good deal of fun out of the thing anyway. It seems odd now even to think of such scenes as these must have been. Figure to your self passing by the courthouse gTeen at Charlotte or Raleigh and seeing a gentleman held by the ankles and wrists by wooden bars, sitting there in the sunshine for all the world to look at. Those were the days of the brand ing iron too. A set of gyves of iron, in use for holding the ankles or wrists, are on exhibition here, but of branding irons there are none. These were used here in January, 1865, for the last time.—Raleigh correspond ence Charlotte Observer. Dishonest Heroines. The steady increase of crime among stage heroines is beginning to get serious. It used to be the men who did all, or most of the dreadful things in plays—I mean the picking and steal ing, the forging and embezzling, and offenses of that kind. Now It is the women—and it Is all the fault of the late Henrik Ibsen. Heaven rest his soul, notwithstanding.—M. A. P. .1 .-./.flcmrvinlnH VlV MlQCl I AVIIIA I lllllltl iQNGVfoYAGgFOR Submarines & PROPOSED TRIP OP LITTLE CRAFT TO THE phil /ppj/sEs fi ZATZJT TYPA or I/O. SUBIiAJfflZ ronprw BOAT JVZVS <JUBXAR1NZ I%AG The recent announcement that the ! navy department contemplates sending the submarines now at Buzzards Bay, Mass., to the far east on their own bottoms attracted a great deal of at tention. That such a trip is practical is not for a moment doubted; indeed, it is pointed out that for a very con siderable portion of such a trip the vessels could operate under their own power, resorting to the towline only in very bad weather or in the event of an engine becoming disabled. With a well equipped parent ship as the Castine will be when the work now being done at Portsmouth is com pleted, such a trip would offer few more dangers than the trip front New York to Norfolk last winter, when for days officers and men went without rest and with no food save cold meat and bread and a few frankfurter sau sages and coffee it was possible to cook on the tiny electric stove each boat is equipped with. That trip ended with all hands nearly exhausted but ready to repeat the task after 24 hours’ rest. “I never really appreciated Josie Sadler's desire for ’a decent sleep,’ ” said one of the officers who made the ' trip, "until it was over.” On that trip what little sleep the men had was in cramped quarters, where the bare deck, and not much of that, wa3 all that was available, and the cold made sleeping difficult, the lack of heating apparatus of any sort in the beats making the temperature about that of the water. One feature of that trip was a heavy snow-storm, and it is not thought probable much more severe weather would be met on the longer journey. On the longer trip it would usually, at least, be possible for the men to be fed from and sleep on tenders when the boats were running under their own power. The tenders could also care for those w-ho may be made sick by the gases from the gasoline engine. These fumes, or carbon monoxide, are deadly in their effect, and in short runs partially submerged w-hen the gasoline motor is used it is not uncom mon for men to be rendered uncon scious for periods of 20 to 30 minutes. When consciousness does return the victim suffers an intense headache and pains in the stomach. Interest in submarines has not been confined to those who work boats either for profit or pleasure. But few persons outside the navy have been privileged to inspect one of these deep sea divers as the service regulations forbid allowing visitors on them. Work on these boats begins early in the morning. Usually before seven o’clock all the men have had their breakfasts on the tender and gone over the side to the smaller boats to relieve the one man of the 12 or 14 assigned to each who has remained on W’atch on board all night. With them goes after commanding officer. The anchor, of mushroom design, which swings from a chain run through the center of the boat, is hoisted and deep water is headed for. The boat is now almost awash, that Is to say, only a few feet of her sides, the tiny deck and conning tower are out of water. Below the men are at their stations, caring for the engines or looking over valves. To the layman it seems as though there were almost as many valves as rivets. They are everywhere. Where there are not valves there is machinery or piping, and an occasional tool box. Forward, under the deck, are the huge gasoline tanks, holding 3,000 gal lons of this highly explosive fuel. Amidships and under foot are the great storage batteries. Aft is the propelling machinery, the electric motors for driving the screw while submerged and steering, the six-cylinder gasoline motor of 500-horse power, used in op erating when on the surface; the dy namos for charging the batteries and the air compressor. All these were all right when the crew left the night be fore, hut machinery sometimes does strange things over night, and each part is looked over carefully. Meanwhile, from the conning tower or from the deck, the commanding of ficer is directing the boat's course by the aid of an instrument about the size of a dollar watch, which at a distance it much resembles. On it are buttons for signals to the engines and two more to steer by. Pressure on one sends the boat to port, on the other to s'arhoard. When neither is pressed the vessel goes on a straight course. This watchlike affair controls the elec tric motor which operates the steering gear, and a long flexible cable makes it possible to steer from any part of the boat. When the point at which it is de cided to-submerge is reached water is gradually admitted to the tanks in the boat and she settles until she is awash. The hatches have previously been tightly closed, then the conning tower is closed and made tight and a sea man takes the electric steering device, while his officer goes below to direct the work of submerging. In his posi tion amids'nip he has his periscope di rectly in front of him. To his left are gauges showing the angle of the diving rudder as well as the wheel by which it is operated and two large dials showing depth of water. Forward and on either side men are stationed at j valves. The first thing done is to trim the boat—that is to say, get her balanced on an even keel, that she may be handled properly. Water is slowly ad mitted to the main tank, then to the trimming or balancing tanks. Some times too much is taken in. Then the excess is blown out by air under 2,000 pounds pressure until the exact bal ance is acquired. To those in the boat there is a re markable lack of movement, of vibra tion there is very little. One feels that he is in a room without windows, and when the “lights out” order comes the sensation is exactly the same as when one finds himself suddenly left in darkness in a strange house. The whining of the engines alone gives evidence of life about, and one is glad when the current is turned on again. It is cool in the boat, too, so cool that the hull begins to sweat great drops of water that, landing on a nervous man's neck makes him shiver. After a few miles under water the orders necessary to rise are given. First water is blown from one tank, then from another, till at last the top of the periscope is above the water. Below, by its aid, the officer has a clear view of all about him. Often these trips consume hours. The Octopus, Lieut. Courtney, has often remained submerged for half a day, traveling from the torpedo station at Newport in a channel always fre quented by commerce to a point as far away as Brenton’s reef and return with only an occasional rise to use the' periscope. On these trips he never1 had an accident, though at. times the channel on the surface was filled with sailing vessels. SHOWMAN KNEW HIS BUSINESS Meant Commercial Loss Should At traction Be Converted. Jamis H. Birch has organized in New York a new club, the Circumnavi gators. No one who has not made a complete circuit of the world is el igible for membership. Mr. Birch, a great traveler, was talk ing about travel in Burlington. The cannibalism that once prevailed among the South Sea islanders suggested a cannibal story to him, and he said: "A man once went to the circus. Near the main entrance to‘the circus there was a side show, and a vast and brilliant oil painting portrayed in all its horrors a cannibal feast— corpses cooking over fires—nude na tive* squatted in a circle, holding to their mouths grilled forearms, hands, and such like delicacies. A genuine cannibal, the poster said, was to be se*n within. “Paying a dime, the man entered. The cannibal, very lightly clad, sat 1 with crossed legs on a divan, lan guidly toying with a spear. His teeth were filed. "The visitor was a man of marked ly religious temperament, and he gazed at the cannibal with horror. “‘Is this really a cannibal?’ he asked the showman. “ ’You bet he is,’ the showman an swered. ‘Do you know how he was captured? That great living curios ity was captured, sir, in the act of boiling an aged Baptist minister over a slow fire.’ “ ‘Then convert him,’ the visitor cried. ‘Oh, my friend, why don’t you convert him?’ “The showman made a gesture of disgust. “‘Convert him?’ he said. ‘Do you think the public would pay a dime a head to see a Christian?’”—Los Angeles Times. Musical Cats. Do you know why tomcats are musical? Because they are all fi<S4AT* strings inside^ - • - — - — * CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS A FATAL DISEASE OF HORSES Probable Causes of the Malady and Its Symptoms—By H. J. Milks, D. V. M., Louisiana. Cerebro spinal meningitis in horses is also known as staggers, blind stag gers, sleepy staggers, bottom sickness, etc., and scarcely any section of the country has escaped the ravages of the disease at some time or other. Numerous theories have been ad vanced as to the cause of this disease. It has been attributed to grazing upon low, marshy places, hence the name bottom sickness. The cause also has been laid to moldy corn or fodder, poisonous plants, exposure to sun, im pure water, etc. Mayo, reporting a very similar disease, concludes it to be due to a fungus, Aspergillus glaucus. The spores enter the circulation, find lodgment in the organs and set up in flammatory conditions. The cerebral symptoms were due to an abscess of the brain. He has also recovered the above fungus from the different or gans. Chester of the Delaware station has carried on a series of feeding experi vious outbreaks in that state, dur ing both the spring and summer months, that the-cause was, in some way, associated with the condition of the feeding materials—either grass or cured products, such as corn. etc.— brought about by the attack of molds or fungi; and that when a complete change to food that was absolutely sound was made, the disease was either checked, or disappeaied en tirely. This, also, would seem to have beei the experience of other investi gators. Consequently, until the exact nature of the agent producing meningitis, as well as a possible remedy, has been discovered, we would urgently recom mend to stock owners, that, as soon as they observe the first symptoms of so-called "staggers,” they at once make a change from feeding materials that are at all suspicious, to those that are perfectly sound. Or, as a *— ■ ■ —" ' — . 1 Brain of horse. Note the i njection of the blood vessels. Kidney of horse showing degeneration of the tubules. The tubules to the right and in the center show the condition to be especially good. ments with negative results. Some even point out the infectious nature of the disease. In the mild cases we got dullness, stupor, weakness, hanging of the head, paresis or slight loss of control over one or more limbs, a slight rise in temperature, 102 to 103 degrees Fahr enheit, often difficulty in swallowing. The visible mucosae were congested and brownish yellow. In these mild cases the weakness never became so great that the animal could not stand and usually it was able to take some nourishment and water. The more severe cases were mani fested by the same general symptoms, often, however, the respirations were much increased and labored. In the severe cases the animals usually re fused food, but often showed a desire for water, although unable to drink. The digestive tract was almost com pletely paralyzed. Purgatives seemed to do little good, no matter what the dose. The hypodermic use of eserine or arecolene did not produce purga tion, but did exhibit other physiolog ical phenomena. The disease generally runs a rapid ly fatal course, lasting from a few hours to four or five days—usually not more than three or four days. The time given by some authorities, eight to twelve days, is entirely too long, except in cases that survive. In those cases that survived, the dis ease attacked slowly, the animal usu ally taking some nourishment and showed all the symptoms of a mild at tack. The mortality was 90 per cent, or more. Treatment availed little, unless started in the first few hours of the disease, and even then prognosis was unfavorable. Although the exact cause of menin gitis in horses and mules has never, as yet, been satisfactorily demon strated, either in this country or abroad, it has been the opinion of Dr. W. H. Dalrymple of the Louisiana sta tion, who has experienced snveral pre matter of prevention at all times, that they do not supply to their animals, or permit them to consume, food of any kind that is not absolutely sound and free from molds or fungi. Colostrum Milk.—The milk given by a cow for the first three or four days after calving is quite different in col or, taste, and appearance from milk in its normal condition. Such milk is called colostrum milk, and has dif ferent chemical composition from or dinary milk. Colostrum milk is yellow in color and has a sweetish taste and a characteristic oily feeling. When i boiled it coagulates, on account of the •large amount of albumen present. When hot water is poured into colo- I strum milk it curdles.—Prof. Harry l Snyder. Feed Light.—Very little should be ' fed to brood sows, as it makes them too fat. They should be given plenty of thin slop in which there is always ' valuable nutriment. , - i Be Careful.—See to It that a horse ] is never frightened in his stall, as it 1 frequently causes him to acquire the habit of pulling on the halter. The Man Responsible.—Men who ] handle horses are nearly always re sponsible for any bad habits the ani- ■ mal may display. Your Harness.—If your harness is old either have it repaired or replace j it with new. Do not risk breakdowns ; or runaways. Clean Milk.—It is generally sup- . posed that milking in the yard is con ducive to pure milk, but even that de pends. The Hen Yard.—Increase the size of 1 the hen yard, so that the grass will ‘ not be all eaten off. - j Alfalfa.—Alfalfa without grain will 1 make thin mature hogs take on fat. I RAISED FROM SICK OEO. After All Hope Had Vanished. Mrs. J. H. Bennett, 59 Fountain St., Gardiner, Me., says: “My back used to trouoie me so se verely that at last I had to give up. I took to my bed and stayed there four months, suffering in tense pain, dizziness, headache and in flammation of the bladder. Though without hope, I be gan using Doan’s Kidney Pills, and in three months was completely cured. The trouble has never returned.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. NOT DOLLARS, BUT EGGS. First Thespian I. n I was play ing in Kansas City and getting my 200 a night— Second Ditto — Hold on, there, Monty; make that five! First Thespian—No, Jack; upon my honor—200 a night regular. Eggs are cheap there. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beau ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory if proper attention wa3 given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. A Polite Boy. “I understand that your little boy is very polite.” “Yes.” “It's nice to see children well brought up. I like to see little boys get up and give their seats lo ladies.” “That boy got down out of a pear tree yesterday and gave his seat to a bulldog before he left the lot where the tree was.”—Houston Post. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly de rive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. contains no mer cury. and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. la buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get thi genuine. It Is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per Dot tie. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Nameless, But All Right. “What play did you see?” asked the amiable mistress of her maid, who had been taken by her best young man to the theater the evening before. “They didn’t tell the name of ft.” returned the maid. “It said on the outside of the theater that it was 'As You Like It,’ and I did like it, but I don't know the name.”—New York Times. Same Feeling. "And haven’t you ever taken a ride in an automobile?” asked the man with the new machine, pityingly. “No,” replied the plain person, “but I fell out of a third-story window sonce.” ihe back is the mainspring of woman’s organism. It quickly calls attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with other symptoms, such as nervousness, headache, pains in the loins, weight in the lower part of the body, that a -woman’s feminine organism needs immediate attention. In such cases the one sure remedy which speedily removes the cause, and restores the feminine organism to a healthy, normal condition is LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia Ave., Rockland, Me., says: “I was troubled for along time with dreadful backaches and a pain in my side, and was miserable in every way. I doctored until I was discouraged and thought I would never get well. I read what Lydia E. Pinkliam’s Vegetable Compound had done for others and decided to try it; after taking three bottles I can truly say that I never felt so well in my life.” Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East EarL Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: *‘I had very severe backaches, and pressing-down pains. I could not sleep, and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink- * S Vegetable Compound, cured me and made me feel like a new woman.*’ FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. lor thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham s \ egetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of y women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, dizziness,or nervous prostration,