Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
China’s Ifffoelcome Guest.
China has trophies of its own, and
one of them is the presence in that
country of the Dalai Lama, the head
of the Buddhist faith, whose tradition
al home is in the sacred city of
Lhassa in Tibet. Several years ago
when a British expedition forced its
way to and into the holy city the Dalai
Lama gathered his voluminous skirts
about him, assembled a big and
gorgeous retinue, shook the dirt of
the town from his sandals and set out
for regions where his privacy would
not be disturbed. He took refuge in
northern China, and he has been on
Chinese soil ever since. Apparently
he has conceived a liking for travel,
for he has moved about a great deal,
his latest procedure being a ceremo
nious visit to Peking, where of course
he was received by the imperial au
thorities as became his state and his
position in the religious world. But it
seems that the Chinese government is
getting a little tired of the visitor. It
was all very well to have him as an
honored guest for a short time, but he
has manifested a strong desinelination
to return to his home. What makes
matters worse is that the hundreds of
retainers who follow him about are a
rather unpleasant lot. A Peking dis
patch describes them as "a w-ild, dis
orderly, unkempt looking crew, giving
no impression of their religious affilia
tions.” As they live on the country,
insist on being well cared for and are
not above creating very lively disturb
ance if they do not get what they
want, their presence is not an un
mixed joy to the kindly and hospitable
but peace-loving Chinese.
An .examination of candidates for
the new women s nurse corps of the
United States navy was recently held
;in Washington. Of those who passed,
20 young women have been selected
'to take a preliminary course in the
Navy Medical school. There they will
study for six months, at the end of
which time they will be examined
again and, if they pass, will be as
signed to one of the 18 naval hospitals
in the country as nurses. It is intend
ed that they shall be the nucleus of a
corps which will eventually number
150 highly trained nurses, some of
whom will be stationed in the naval
hospitals in Yokohama, Honolulu and
Manila. The woman selected to or
ganize the new corps is Miss Esther
V. Hassan, who is not only an experi
enced nurse, but has seen service in
the relief corps in Cuba, Porto Rico,
the Philippines and various army
lamps in the United States.
The truth about us as a people lies
somewhere between the constant
warnings against corruption and pleas
for altruism from idealists like Presi
dent Tucker of Dartmouth and the flat
tering pronouncement of a learned
French woman recently arrived in this
country for her third long visit. “As a
people,” she said, “your ideals and
your moral tone are ahead of any Eu
ropean country; individually you are
apt to be disappointing. But the fact
glone that here one constantly hears
reference to ‘service,’ and the desire
and intent to render 'service'—that
serving has been made, however re
cently, a public ideal, strikes the for
eigner forcibly.”
Cheese must have been a rather
dear or scarce article of food in 1502,
for it is recorded in the “blackbooks”
of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's
Inn that at Easter term, 1502, it was
“agreed by the governors and bench
ers this term that if any one of the so
ciety shall hereafter cut cheese im
moderately at the time of dinner or
suppper, or shall give cheese to any
servant or to any other, or shall carry
it away from the table at any time,
he shall pay four pence for each of
fense. The butlers of the society shall
present such defaulters weekly, under
pain of expulsion from office.”
There will not ba a wireless station
in Washington on top of Washington’s
monument. There are yet a few places
left in the modern human heart in
which pure sentiment has still the bet
ter of bald utility, and it does seem a
trifle shabby to turn a testimonial to
the Father of His Country, supposed
to be erected by a grateful nation, into
a self-supporting institution.
New submarines will bear the
names of Snapper, Pickerel, Carp,
Tarpon and Bonita, which don’t sound
so warlike as Shark, Adder, Tarantula
and the like, now in use. Still, it
wouldn't do to trifle wdth either.
A Newark woman applied for a di
vorce on the ground that her husband
wras unbearably religious, and among
other things prayed for her wicked
soul every night. This is a very rare
complaint, however. It must be ad
mitted that the majority of American
husbands are too polite to be so spirit
ually rude to their wives.
Fifty miles without lighting, in a
flying machine with no gas bag to hold
it up, beats all the ballooning ever
done in all the world. •
Judging by those western cloud
burst reports, the C. P. R. would have
ehovut superior tactics if it had sent
out the Empress of Britain instead of
the Imperial Limited.
Having had its glorious war, Japan
Is row engaged in paying the piper
at the cost of high taxes and pinching
economy.
Despite the continued drought there
Is a large quantity of mud flying about
ia political circles.
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HEX a man goes hunting
tigers from the back of an
elephant, about one-third
of the danger lies in the
damage the tiger might do
and the other two-thirds is
contributed by the various
things the elephant is li
able to do. In fact, if the
danger from the tiger were
the only thing to consider,
tiger hunting would be a
favorite diversion for so
ciety hunt clubs where tea is served
at the end.
In a tiger hunt, anywhere from a
half dozen to 100 elephants are used.
When an Indian prince goes forth on
a royal hunt, there are even more ele
phants than that brought along. When
a normal man issues forth, he en
deavors to get along with the half
dozen. For elephants are expensive;
they cost all the way from $100 to
$1,200; a dollar a day to feed, besides
the pay of the guides, which is not
cheap. So that the man who has a
tiger skin that he has captured him
; \TV P °r ll00r' has i)r°bably paid close
to $1,000 for it.
India is the only country in which elephants
are used for hunting. In Africa the elephant is
not tamed; he is captured almost solely for his
ivory. But in India the elephant is used quite
entirely for hunting and'working purposes.
The excitement of a tiger hunt begins long be
fore a tiger is even sighted. The wild bees of
India build their hives in a hanging position on
the limbs of trees. Very often these drop down
close to the ground and the thick underbrush
hides them from view. It is a not infrequent in
cident of these hunts for an elephant to calmly
walk into one of these hives and scatter the busy
inmates in all directions, whereupon the bees
quickly recover and seek revenge upon the clum
sy elephant and his riders, and all the other ele
phants of the party. Such an incident is a com
mon occurrence that helps to enliven a tiger hunt
and for the time being drives all thoughts of tiger
skins from the hunters’ minds. The basket or how
dah in which the hunter rides is another feature
that often lends excitement to a hunt, such as
no tiger could provide. The hunter, that is the
gentleman hunter, who has gone to India for the
sport, occupies the howdah. This is a very large
basket fastened to the elephant’s back bv a very
strong rope. The spectacle reminds one of a
captain standing on his bridge, high above the
lashing waves. The native sits in the elephant's
neck, or, to follow the same fi3'u-e of speech he
is down on deck.
Now, elephants are often skittish and liable
to fly off in a panic. They do this, quite forget
ful of the captain on the bridge, and the result
is that the tiger hunter often has to cling with
both hands to the sides of the howdah and re
ceive a severe shaking up as though he were a
pebble in a tin can. Nor is this without its dan
gers. Often when the elephant becomes panic
stricken he will charge into a jungle and tear
madly about until he drops with fatigue.
Another danger is when an elephant gets caught
in a tropical mire and flounders about. At these
times the elephant will grope about for anything
he can reach, to poke down under his feet to get
a firmer foothold. Small trees and branches are
thrown to him which he dexterously arranges with
his trunk and fore legs until he has built a foun
dation upon which he can rest. But at these
times the elephant is not scrupulous in regard to
CROJG/UG A STREAM .
INTO THE JUNGLE '
the material he uses. A
story is told in Asia of
an inexperienced hunter
who, when his elephant
was floundering about in
this way, thought he
would be doing it a ser
vice by dismounting. He
did so; whereupon the
elephant seeing likely
foundation material in
him, snatched him with
his trunk and buried him
in the mire.
And so, the actual ti
ger dwindles into a minor
role when he is hunted
from the backs of ele
phants. In fact, some
sportsmen pooh pooh the
idea of using elephants
<*1 du. i ney can it parlor bunting. And, except
for these incidental dangers, they are right. When
a tiger charges, as he sometimes does, it is only
the native on the elephant's neck who is in danger.
The man in the howdah is high aloft with a whole
head. And if he should miss and the tiger come on,
the worst that could happen is that he will have no
driver to guide his elephant back to camp.
} et elephants are more or less indispensable in
this kind of hunting. The Asian forests are very
dense and stalking is not only very dangerous but
it is often impossible. In some parts of the jungle
no man can get through. The elephant, on the oth
er hand, simply beats his head against an obstruct
ing tree and flops it over. And then, too, he carries
the supplies which, of course, are necessary on trios
of this kind.
The control its mahout (driver) has over the
huge but docile animal is truly marvelous, as he
verbally directs it here to tear down a destructive
creeper, or a projecting bough, with its trunk; there
to fell with its forehead a good sized tree that may
interfere with its course in the line; or to break
some precipitous bank of a mullah (water course)
with its fore feet, to form a path for descending into
it, and then, after the same fashion, to clamber up
the other side. And if its driver should chance to
let fall his gujhag (iron goad) the elephant gropes
for it and lifts it up to him with his trunk. In tiger
hunting, however steady an elephant may be, its
behavior depends largely on the conduct of the
mahout. If an elenhant gets frightened he §oes
BRINGING A BAG INTO CA/iP
A WAIT on THE EDO6 OF THE. dCJHGLE
among the tree jungle and then the chances of the
man in the howdah grow slimmer with every stride
of the animal.
The Call of the Jungle.
BY BERKELEY HUTTON.
Many a time I've come back from a trip, leaving
half my men and all my ivory rotting in some dead
ly African swamp, half dead with fever, swearing
that I'm done with the business for good. And some
bright day, in six months, or even three, the smell
of the jungle gets into my nostrils or the coughing
roar of a lion’s challenge—and that settles the
business. Hack I go again, knowing precisely what
is coming—the sweating days and the chilling
nights, the torments of insects and of thirst, the
risks and hardships, and the privations. For once
Africa has laid her spell upon a rnan, he's hers for
ever. He'll dream of her—of the parched and blis
tered veldts he's crossed under the blazing sun
light; of the nights, those moonlit haunted nights
when he's watched beside a runway, waiting for the
game to come down to drink, and listened to the
ripple of the water on the flats, the stealthly snap
ping of branches all around him, the scurry of
monkeys overhead; listened to the vast silence, into
which all smaller sounds are cast as pebbles are
dropped into a pool.—Everybody's Magazine.
VALUE OF FRUIT
Too much cannot be said in favor of
giving the children all the fruit they
want. Dr. John Tatham, in a lecture
uot long ago, made a special plea for
a diet more generally enriched with
fruits for young children. “The pas
sion of the young for fruits,” said Dr.
Tatham, “might perhaps be described
as a relic of our simian ancestry, but
it is also an expression of constitu
I licnal wants, and the intense ecstasy
which children enjoy in partaking of
it is something which should not be
denied them without good reason.”
The fruit hunger may be taken as
an expression of wants of th'System
not to be neglected with impunity.
The banana is one of the most nour
ishing of all fruits, and has been rec
ommended as a useful food for typhoid
fever patients, inasmuch as, although
a solid food for all practical purposes.
-ontaining as it does some 95 per cent..
)f nutritive matter, it does not possess
sufficient waste to irritate ■ the ulcer
ated mucous membrane. Nearly the
■vhole amount taken into the stomach
s absorbed. The banana contains
nuch iron and is therefore recom
mended to anaemic patients.
Sided with Father.
"There is a little chap in our town.'
said the suburbanite, "wh-w r
nd mother ha e word
ly, and have them loud t..
1
heard by the neighbors. The burden
of their recriminations, when audible,
is, on the wife’s part, that she ever
lowered the Hicks family sufficiently
to' marry a Stubbs; and on his part
that he ever honored the Hicks family
by allying it with the house of Stubbs.
One day last summer the young sen
of the house went fishing. He had
barely got his line into the brook
vhen he heard his mother calling him.
"'There it is.’ said ho. d. gu-tedly,
he minute the ub ) s ns to
sh the Hickses begins to holier.’ ” i
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THE REMEDY WAS EASY.
The doctor had told her she had no
organic trouble and the cure rested
with herself. She had doctored and
drugged for years, so, learning this
good news, she determined to try a
new plan.
Here is what she did:
She cut out all medicine.
She stopped dieting; that is, she
tested things till she found those that
agreed with her, and ate of them
freely.
She ate slowly, laughing and talk
ing much in the process.
She gave up violent exercise, but
took a brisk walk each day.
She took a cold sponge bath each
morning, going back to bed for five
minutes afterward before beginning to
dress.
She gave herself massages of the
abdominal, chest anil throat muscles
for five minutes, morning and even
ing.
She stopped overstraining her mind.
When her head or eyes began to feel
tired she rested them.
She neglected to worry and culti
vated her amusing friends.
In a month she was well.
Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that tne
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Has Done Good Work in Japan.
Miss Elizabeth Russell, who found
ed the Kwassui girls' school at Naga
saki, Japan, in 1879, celebrated her
seventy-first birthday a short time
ago. She is still connected with the
school, where she does the work of
three people. Ileginning with a hand
ful of girls, the school has grown un
til at present the enrollment is con
siderably more than 100. It numbers
among its grauates some of the best
known women in the Japanese empire,
several of whom traveled many miles
to show their respect and gratitude
to their old teacher at her birthday.
Starch, Mce everything else, is be
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery—Defiance £ .arch—all in
jurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap- !
Broached by other brands.
Australia's First Theater.
The first recorded production of a
play in Australia took place in June
of the year 1789. It was called "The
Recruiting Officer.” The proceeds of
the first pay night (some $20) went
to the family of a man who had been
drowned. In January, 1796. a rough
and ready playhouse was opened and
the public had to pay one shilling a
head for admission. The payments
were made in kind, wheat, flour or,
rum taking the place of the usual
currency.
The Silkworm.
The silkworm, which spins or pro
duces silk threads, was a native of
China. For thousands of years the ;
Chinese would not allow the eggs of
the silkworm to go out of the country.
About 550, two monks are said to have
brought to Europe a few eggs hidden
in their canes. Now it is quite domes
ticated and has been so long fed by j
man that the female is as nearly mo
tionless as if she had no wings, and [
the male merely flutters without leav- j
ing the ground.
SAYINGS OF SAGES.
The essence of generosity is ever
in self-sacrifice.—Taylor.
In all things it is better to hope
than to despair.—Goethe.
Humility is to make a right esti
mate of one’5s self.—Spurgeon.
No thoroughly occupied man was
ever yet very miserable.—Landon.
There is no genius in life like the
genius of energy and industry.—
Mitchell.
Adversity borrows ' its sharpest ,
sting from our own impatience.—
Bishop Horne.
They Want to Know.
The charitable people of London
have formed a union to see that the
money given by them is properly
spent
Densely Populated.
The microbe population of a twelve
sunce piece of cheese has ben esti
mated at 5,000,000,000.
Always Welcome.
Even those who marry for love
done do net object to a little money
>n the side.
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represented by a carat. In England it
is customary to reckon 15H- carats
to the ounce, Troy. This makes the
carat equivalent to 205.3 milligrams, or
3.1683 grains. An attempt is now be
ing male to secure general recognition
in all countries of a metric standard
carat of 200 milligrams.
Advancement in Turkey.
The new Turkish minister of educa
tion says: “We have compulsory edu
cation at present, but we lack pri
mary schools. We shall establish
them. We shall develop the existing
higher education. The study cf his
tory will now be allowed. We want
a regime of liberty, and particularly
of liberty of the press, even with all
the evils it means, for it is a neces
sary evil."
California's Trees Very Old.
The great trees of California, it has
ben said began life before the earli
est dawn of Chinese history, and at
the time of the deluge were older than
the art of printing from type is today.
Prof. Charles E. Bessey, however, con
tends that even 2,000 years ts a great
over-estimate, actual ring count of a
tree 25 feet in diameter having indi
cated only 1,147 years.
Bad Climate for . urnrture.
China is a bad place for furniture.
In the summer months it is so damp
that furniture put together with glue
falls apart and drawers stick, while in
the dry months furniture goes to tho
other extreme and often exhibits
cracks half an inch wide.
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Australian Country Homes.
In the Blue mountains, three hours
from Sydney, are many beautiful
country houses, mostly bungalows
with wide verandas all round, where
Sydney people fly in February and
March to get away from the heat cf
the city by the harbor.
Peru Adopts Standard Time.
By a decree of the government of
Peru, issued by President Pardo, tho
;ime of the seventy-fifth meridian west
;f Greenwich was on July 28 adopted
is the national standard time for the
.vhole of Peru. The meridian is only
i few minutes from that of Lima, and
-uns almost exactly through the mid
lie of the country. All timepieces
hrougheut Peru will now coincide
vith those in the United States where ,
eastern time is kept. Peru is the first
South American republic to adopt the
world standard.
THE LAST PHASE.
A rarer patriot, perhaps, is he who
is willing to be shot to pieces for his
He is no doubt a patriot who takes
jff his hat whenever the band plays
:he lugubrious national anthem.
But rarest of all is the patriot who
wishes so ardently for the safety of
lis country that he will not be dis
’runtled when it is saved by the othef ^
'ellow’s formulary.
A careful survey of the political
ield discovers the usual conspicuous
ibsence of this variety of potriot.—
ihick.
