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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
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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.
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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^
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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,