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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1908)
Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - - NS3RA3KA Why Take Life Too Seriously? I Some of us are beginning to realize that we have taken life too seriously; that we have not hail enough play; that we have not had half enough fun. Many business men see the fallacy of working too matj.v hours a day. For merly men thought thoy must spend most or all of the daylight hours in working. Intense application to busi ness had become almost a religion. But now they are beginning to learn that it is efficiency, mental vigor, freshness of mind and body, and not necessarily long hours that do things; and that this mental vigor, freshness and energy which produce efficient work are impossible when the body is weary and the brain is fagged; that mental robustness means physical ro bustness, writes Orison Swett Maiden in Success. So there has been a steady shortening of the working hours of men of affairs and an in creasing of the play hours, just in pro portion to the importance and efficien cy of their work and responsibility. Multitudes of men now find that they can accomplish much more in a year by spending part of the time which they used to put into work in playing golf, tennis, or some ether game, or in flying about the country in an automo bile. There are plenty of business men in this country at the head of great establishments who get through an enormous amount of work, who do not spend more than three or four hours a day in their offices, and who frequently take long vacations. They find that a good deal of play and mix ing much with the world not cnly im proves their health and multiplies their efficiency, but also gives them a broader, saner outlook. A Clean Sport. The future of bast-ball ought to be bright. Even the crowds which are now looking at the major league games are small when compared with the attendance at great, crucial sport ing contests in England, where often 100,000 people pay to see a football or cricket match, though it may be doubted whether any English sport i3 conducted without betting, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The fu ture of horse racing in America is not bright, for nobody has yet suggested a way to make it popular without bet ting, a wmy to conduct betting without moral dangers, or a way to teach Americans indifference to the waste ful, cynical, parasitic, vagabondizing influences of gambling. Baseball, a sport which gains strength from its ■conquest of gambling, promises to in crease its prestige, as the real king of sports in the United States. The fisheries congress has discov ered the interesting fact that the Mas sachusetts cod on which the Pilgrim fathers and their descendants sub sisted is responsible for the develop ment of American intellect, as a steady brain diet, but also—and here is where the Puritan settlers will turn In their graves—its salty qualities de veloped the great American thirst which water alone will not quench. The fisheries congress had better stop at this stage of its discoveries, or all New England will be up in arms at these dreadful exposures. That sec tion can stand the soft impeachment about the brain food, but that the ancient Pilgrim fathers implanted the thirst of the modern Kentucky colonel is too hard a pill to swallow. A pastor in a Pennsylvania town has been compelled to resign his charge on account of an attack he made upon the powder puffs used by the femi nine contingent of his congregation. Hot shot on the part of the women fol lowed the powder attack, and the ex plosion which resulted shook the church to its foundations. The pastor will leave presumably for parts where powder puffs are not popular—if he can find such a locality. It now appears that when Queen Victoria of Spain recently visited Eng land it was a regular case of “going home to mother,” just like the ordin ary wife who has grievances to be re dressed. In this case it was the for mality of Spanish etiquette, and the spirit of the English girl will probably break the chains which have for gen erations held royal domestic life in Spain. , It is said that there are more blonde criminals than any other kind. First study the complexion and the weight of a man before imparting this infor mation to him. A man in New Jersey was tried for the murder of three people, found in sane and sent to an asylum, all in the same day. There are some things about Jersey justice which other com munities might do well to imitate, re marks the Baltimore American, espe cially those in which the law's delay in dragging out criminal cases for days, weeks and months is a scandal to the authorities and turns the courts into sensational melodrama houses for the masses, depriving these courts of both dignity and efficiency. A boy of three in Connecticut saved a girl of five from drowming. The in fant phenomenon is usually an un bearable nuisance, but a specimen of the kind can be not only tolerated but also voted highly desirable when he begins the hero business at this early age. “Aeronef,” kind friends, is the proper word for that kind of aero plane. The art of flying is going to give the dictionary makers an excuse for selling you several new editions before long. AST of Pittsburg they look upon the man who goes to Chicago as brave. A woman vis itor is hailed as a her oine upon her return. They regard Chicago as the frontier of the I'nited States, teeming with wild holdups, ghastly murders, the mecca for confidence men and desperado gangs. Such is not the case to-day. Perhaps it was a quarter of a century ago, but the present-day Chicago is perhaps the most carefully guarded city in the country. The why and wherefore of this greatly improved condition is 5,000 policemen-athletes. And the reason for the athletic force is the civil ser vice lawr with its physical require ments, which the man who would be come a “cop” must equal or excel to become a full-fledged minion of the law. service law the Chicago police, fire and stationary engineers' departments now have a standing eligible list, the num ber of names running up into the hun dreds. Hence neither Chief of Police Shippev nor Fire Marshal Horan are ever worried about securing good, stur dy men. They are always on hand ready to report for duty at a mo ment's notice. Scarcely a mouth passes but that new themes of work are suggested to the civil service commission, tried out and either accepted or rejected. It was the civil service body which gave the impetus to the move for an ideal police force and which eventually re sulted in the formation of Chicago’s famous “ber.uty squad” of coppers un der the direction of Maj. Iloudet, a soldier who has seen service in the Cuban campaign in the Spanish-Ameri can war. Maj. Boudet and his "beauty squad” head the list of Chicago polieemen ideals and the force is proud of them. The beauty squad pays more attention to soldierly tactics than other sections NfW^DOCTONj^ W GIVING Vik MEDICAL, s E&i E1UJCLEJ % tie must nave a perfect chest, heart, lungs, his muscles must be strong, his bones well knitted he must be at least five feet eight inches in height, and not more than six feet five inches. Applicants in taking physical tests must tip the scales between 150 and 250 pounds. Obesity, muscular weakness and poor physique are insurmountable barriers to the man with a craving for a place among the “finest.” Every muscle in the body undergoes a test, which is made by the use of machines and weights. The Chicago policeman must be able to carry himself well, he must be shifty on his feet, quick to think and act. His eyes and ears must be perfect and his family tree must be absolutely devoid of hereditary diseases. In fact the Chicago force to-day is one which de mands that a man be a soldier, athlete and min ion of the law combined. During certain months each year examinations are conducted and dur ing the fiscal twelvemonth 6,000 men were ex amined. Of this number about one-lialf were suc cessful. First the doctor looks over the appli cants, then the physical examiner takes the men in hand and puts them through the most rigid tests required anywhere in the world. After that the written examination is given in which each applicant’s education is brought to the fore. Civil service tests are severe and absolutely honest. It is up to the applicant himself to pass the tests. You cannot be appointed upon the Chicago police force by possessing acquaintance with a man “with a pull.” So great has been the success of the system installed by President El ton Lower of the civil service commission and his aides—H. D. Fargo and M. L. McKinley—that to day every city of any size in the United States has its eyes focused upon the details and meth ods employed by the Chicagoans. Since President Lower became the leading light in the work of giving Chicago an efficient police force, great strides have been taken by the city toward making its citizens absolutely safe from criminals. Physical Examiner Edward G. Westlake is in a measure responsible for bringing out the best bodily qualifications in the men who are turned over to him for inspection. Says Examiner Westlake: “Stage fright during the physical examination is one of the worst setbacks which the tests meet. When a man becomes ‘flustered,’ knowing that a good job depends upon his every movement, it is quite natural that the best he knows will not push itself to the surface. Hence it is the duty of the examiner to allay the fears of the applicant as much as possible. "Consequently I have found that it helps men to do their best by applying suggestions and occa sionally allowing a man to lay off for a few mo ments until he can compose himself. When the period of embarrassment passes, as it invariably does, the best that is in the applicant is bound to come out. The men take the tests purely upon their own me. its and perhaps the most severe of the weight-lifting requirements is that of lifting a 30-pound dumb-bell from a lying posture, the weight being held back of the applicant’s head. This is to test stomach muscles. It does not seem difficult to the observer, but try it Just once and you'll feel that passing the physical test is far from easy.” Mr. Westlake is a newspaper man on the staff of the Chicago Evening Post and his 20 years in the newspaper business, part of which was spent in knocking about in police districts as a reporter, taught him much regarding the needs of the de partment. Before he entered a newspaper office, he served as a railroad fireman. The constitu tion which that rigorous vocation gave him, along with an enviable muscular development, has stood him in good stead in demonstrating the use of the tests before admiring gatherings of would be “cops.” Firemen and stationary engineers are also in cluded in the civil servi-ce physical tests and to day Chief Horan of the fire department is work ing hard with the civil service officials to have the standards raised so that an even sturdier force may be secured to battle with Chicago con flagrations. Following is a table, showing what is required in tile way of height and weight be fore the strength and agility tests are given: Minimum Cir ferenee Minimum Maximum of Chest Height. Weight Weight Quiescent. 5 feet 8 inches 150 pounds 190 pounds 35 inches 5 “ 9 44 155 44 195 “ 35 “ 5 “ 10 *• 160 “ 200 “ 36 5 “ 11 44 165 “ 205 44 37 6 *' 44 170 *• 215 44 37^ 6 44 1 “ 175 44 220 44 38 6 44 2 44 180 “ 230 44 39 6 44 3 44 185 44 235 44 40 6 44 4 44 190 44 240 44 41 C 44 5 44 195 4 4 2 5 0 42 Before the applicants face Physical Examiner Westlake, they are scrutinized by physicians and records show that 6o per cent, are rejected. To show some of the men's overestimation of their qualifications it is recorded that recen^v 1,500 filed applications in a bunch and of this number only 370 succeeded in emerging unscathed from the medical, physical and mental tests. Mr. Westlake lays out a table of tests, showing the figures which indicate meritorious perform ances. The table: Strength Test. Capacity of lungs . 290 Strength of back . 245 Strength of legs .500 Strength of upper arm (H. P.).10-10 Strength of fore arm (R. L.).6S-67 Pectorals . g> Traction pull .57 Dumb bells . 50 Abdominal muscles .50 Adductors . 145 ftopc. toil Condition (Excellent, Good, Poor).Good Successful applicants must be able to expand their lungs about four inches, exhibit strength of hack, legs, upper and lower arm. Then there is a test of the pectoral muscles, a traction pull, the lifting tef dumb-bells weighing 60 and 70 pounds, testing of the abdominal muscles by the lifting of a 30-pound weight behind the head from a prostrate to a sitting posture. Following these tests come rope and ladder climbing, which, with the agility examination com plete the physical work. Then the applicant condition is marked “excellent,” “good,” “poor.” As a result of the requirements of the civil of the force and is per haps some thing of an experiment in the prop osition ol in trod u c i n g military tac tics into the work of the policemen. P£OV%AL MU/CL£ T£Jt\ Maj. Boudet's charges perform a manual of arms, which, if anything is more complicated than that which the soldier is compelled to learn. One of .the prettiest sights imaginable is the series of evolutions which these policemen carry out. There are some tax-paying Chicagoans who scoff at pretty evolutions, but they, Maj. Boudet claims, are not of the far-seeing class. He points out that the drilling of policemen in this manner teaches them to handle themselves with grace and ease and makes them abler in the duties they per form. Only recently the beauty squad, about 100 strong, gave militiamen of the First Illinois infantry, sta tioned at Chicago, a drill exhibition in the big First Regiment armory. So perfect were the evo lutions that even the soldiers were awed. The po licemen formed revolving wedges, hollow squares, five-pointed stars, circles and other ingenious for mations, the perfection of which had taken them months to accomplish. The squad is formed on the order of a military company. There is Maj. Boudet at the head, a first and second lieutenant and the regulation number of sergeants and corporals. Gaining a place on the Chicago police force to day is perhaps as difficult a feat as the average man of middle age would care to attempt, and for that reason the department is composed of the best physiques that the city can furnish. The same is true of the fire department, the efficiency of which is evidenced by the fact that during the past fiscal year every conflagration in Chicago was put under control before the fii-e could spread to adjacent buildings. The medical test, which firemen as well as po licemen undergo, follows: IS THE RESPIRING MURMUR clear and distinct over both Rungs?. Is the character of the Respiration Full, Easy and Regular? ... Are there any indications of Disease of the Organs of Respiration or their Appendages?.u. IS THE CHARACTER of the Heart's action Uni form, Free and Steady?. Are its Sounds and Rhythm Regular and Normal?. Are there any indications of Disease of this Organ or of the Blood Vessels?. IS THE SIGHT Good?. Is the Hearing Good?. IS THE APPLICANT subject to Cough, Expectora tion, Difficulty of Breathing, or Palpitation?. ARE THE FUNCTIONS of tile Brain and Nervous System in a Healthy State? . Has the Brain or Spinal Cord ever been diseased?. IF THE APPLICANT has had any serious Illness or Injury, state expressly what effect, if any. is per ceptible in the Heart, Lungs. Kidnevs or other Abdominal Organs, or the Skin. Eyes, Ears, Limbs, etc. Has applicant been successfully vaccinated?. Any TUMORS or Evidences of Surgical Operation?_ ARE KIDNEVS normal?.;. HAS THE APPLICANT any predisposition, either hereditary or acquired, to any constitutional dis ease. as Phythisis, Scrofula, Rheumatism?. HABITS use of Stimulants and Tobacco. Porpoises in New York Harbor. New York harbor was treated to a strange visitation one night recently. A school of porpoises, numbering as many as 100, and headed by a vener able patriarch in gray whiskers, swam in, took a leisurely survey of their sur roundings and then returned to the open, something for which the oldest inhabitant could recall no precedent, sajs the Boston Transcript. The vis itors came in through the new Am brose deep water channel. Perhaps they assumed that it had been pre pared expressly for their accommoda tion. At any rate, they seemed to ap prove of it. This phenomenon occurred on the night which a soothsayer had appointed for the submergence of Manhattan by a tidal wave. But the skeptical public did not take alarm. On the contrary, the old watermen said it betokenr 1 fine sea weather. | Wrecks in San Francisco Bay. What a melancholy sight the bottom of San Francisco bay must present A diver recently told of going down to the City of Chester, sunk many years ago at the mouth of the harbor by one of the large China steamers He descended with a stout heart and a mind lured to the tragedies of the sea, but when he saw two sisters of charity sleeping quietly in their berths, and nearby a man on his knees, sway ing back and forth with the motion of the tide, and a dim, mysterious light over all the somber objects, his heart tailed him and he gave the signal to be hauled above. The San Rafael lies there, too. She went down in 190’ | sent to the bottom by a collision with I another steamer in the fog. Th i relentless tide runs over her coz> cabins and beautiful stairway, dart with the passage of time. I VISITS WITH I 1 1 Repartee. "I'd like awfully to make a happy home for you.” drawled the younz man as he nudged his chair closer to hers and grasped his left hand in his right, because hers had eluded his grasp. “Do you know,’’ he continued, “I’d carry water for you all my life and never once think of seeing the elephant — ’t would be such joy just to know I served you.” “Really?” scoffed the girl, curling her lip disdain fully. “Yes, really and truly. Why, I'd stay at homo every night, quit smoking, wind the cat, put the clock out and split the kindling—all in a maze of dee-light. Just to feel your loving presence ever near would be pay enough for Little Willie, meaning me. Do you know—” “Xo. I don't know,” interrupted the girl, reaching for a bon-bon box on the table at her rieht. “1 don't know and neither do you. Of course I'm crazy about you, too. I am so in terested in you that I can't sleep nights without dreaming of you, and when any of the boys ask me to go to the theater. 1 stay at home always, because I don't want to hurt—” “Whew! Yes, you do! What were you doing out last night with Frank Hitchcock, then? One would think you would be shaming yourself into a nunnery just to be walking around with another mail when you think so much of me. Now, bonest, Marne. I think a lot of you! The fact is, I'm coming into the die-for-you class just as fast as the Colorado express will bring me, because I know when it comes to girls you are city broke and a high stepper. There never was an other like you, and that's no kid. You better believe me when I tell you that I'm wearing my liearj away for you. Do you know I—” “Yes, I do—but you don't—and be sides I've ordered my wedding dress already and it's blue to match your pink mustache, Arcy-bawld. I knew a w'eek ago, when we met, that I had better hurry awa’ to the dressmaker's and be ready for Christmas bells! Somehow I could tell from the color of your eyes that you were going to be affectionate. I was simply crazy over you, too. It was evidently the psychological moment for two hearts to beat as one, the vital period for crystalizing our protoplasms of affec tion, as it were, and—” “Stop, woman, stop! The first thing you know you will be hoist by your own petard, whatever that means. Anvhowr, if you knew what I think of you, you would—” “Let me talk. I want—” “No, pardon the assumption; let me talk because I have more to say, and—” “More to say than a woman? Im possible!” “More to the point. Now, Marne, you love me to distraction—and I love you there and back again—and we’re both dying to get married! Now watch me closely, lady.” For a moment he fumbled in his vest pocket. "Presto! Let me put this ring on your finger—and we will awa’, as you say, to the preacher man.” Suiting the action to the w-ord, he reached for her hand, slipped the ring on her finger and made an attempt to lift her hand to his lips. Snatching it free, she held it up to the light. "Three for a dollar any day at The Globe. Is that how you love me?” “Far be it, dearest. They are only two for a dollar—and at The New York store, not at The Globe. They are better than those at the Globe. Listen, birdie. Will you or will you not take a look at this license?” “The w'hat?” she gasped. ‘The license. I got it this morning on the way down town.” "Now, really, Mr. Fowler, don't you think this is carrying good-fellowship too far? Suppose this license is pub lished, and Frank, er—” "He won’t, take you to the theater any more, of course, Miss Quitter. Of course not! Alas! My heart is brok en—but I have found a yellow streak in you after all. Good night. I'm go ing. Can't tear myself away, hardly, but I've got to crawl off by myself and weep my eyes out! Adois, until to morrow night!” "That’s the time I made her quit kidding, all right, all right,” he mused as he walked homeward under the trees, “but, say, she would have had it on me good and plenty if she had looked at the names on that’ old license of dad’s. Wbee!” A Helpful Suggestion. Miss Cunning—Why don’t you pro pose to her by telephone, then? Mr. Hamley (timid)—Maybe she wouldn’t know who I was. Miss Cunning—Exactly; that might help your chances.—Half-Holiday. Antiques. De Style—I hear your wife is a connoisseur in antiques and is fond of bringing old things into the house. Gunbusta—Yes; we were hardly married when she sent for my mother in-law.—Puck. [ PERUNA A TONIC OF GREA T USEFULNESS i ■ ■ i —i i -■ -. i — i HON. P. S. THABIN. lion. R. S. Tliarin, Attorney at l a*. Rnd counsel for Anti-Trust i.i writes from Pennsylvania Ave., N. \V , Washington, D. as fobov.: “Having used Peruna for catarrh fit disorders, 1 am able to testify to lt» great remedial excellence and do nor hesitate to give it uiy emphatic on dor - ment and earnest recommendation t-, all persons affected by that <1 border, it is also a tonic of great usefulness. ” Air. T. Uarneeott, V\ > -.t Aylmer Ontario. Can., writes: “Mast winter ’ was ill with pneumonia after having la grippe. 1 took l’eriuiafor two mouth-, when I became cpiite well. 1 a > in duced a young lady, who was all run down and confined to the house, to tat- e ^ Peruna, and after taking Peruna 1 r three months she is able to follow her trade of tailoring. / can recommend Peruna for all such who are ill and re quire a tonic.■’ Pe-ru-na Tablets. Some people prefer to take tablets rather than to take medicine in a fluid form. Such people can obtain Peruna tablets which represent the solid me dicinal ingredients of Pernna. Mach tablet is equivalent to one average dost of Peruna. TROUBLE AHEAD. a -—-——————————— He—I fear the worst. She—What's happened, George? He—Your father h^s paid back that $23 he borrowed. Where Willie Was. There is a humorous story of Mark Twain’s “absent-mindedness," but it doesn’t match the following: The Professor (at the dinner table) —Oh, by the way, Mrs. Chopsticks, have you seen your little boy, Willie, lately? Mrs. Chopsticks—No, professor, 1 have not seen him since ten o'clock, and I can’t imagine what has becom< of him. In fact, I am very much wor ried about him. Professor—Well, seeing Martha pour me out that glass of water just now reminds me of something that I had on my mind to tell you some time ago, but which unfortunately escaped my memory. It was just about ten o’clock, I think, that I saw little Wil lie fall down the well. His Lucid Answers. They were asking the eminent law yer why he took such a large fee from the trust. "I think it w'as its largeness that made it easy to take,” he smilingly answered. , Then the state's attorneys con ferred. “And didn’t you stop to consider that the money was tainted?” they asked him. "No,” he ingeniously replied, “I only stopped to count it.” This closed the proceedings for the day.—Cleveland Plain-Dealer. ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR Old Lady Got Well with Change of Food. ■'* A great scientist has said we can put off “old age” if we can only nourish the body properly. To do this the right kind of food, of course, is necessary. The body manu factures poisons in the stomach and intestines from certain kinds of food stuffs and unless sufficient of the right kind is used, the injurious elements overcome the good. “My grandmother, 71 years old.” writes a N. Y. lady, “had been an in valid for 18 years from what was called consumption of the stomach and bowels. The doctor had given her up to die. “I saw so much about Grape-Nuts that I persuaded Grandmother to try it. She could not keep anything on her stomach for more than a few minutes. “She began Grape-Nuts with only a teaspoonful. As that did nc t distress her and as she could retain it, she took a little more until she could take all of 4 teaspoonfuls at a meal. A “Then she began to gain and grow' i strong and her trouble in the stomach ’ was gone entirely. She got to enjoy good health for one so old and we know Grape-Nuts saved her life. “The doctor was astonished that in stead of dying she got well, and with out a drop of medicine after she began the Grape-Nuts." “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to VVell ville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of hurrrin interest.
