loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
College Men.
Neither in scholarship net in fitness
for the business of life does .the prod
uct of the great colleges of the pres
ent day compare with the graduates
turned out from the little colleges of
a generation ago. Then, it is true, the
boy with the diploma was often too
stuffed with Latin and Greek and phil
osophy to be much of a practical man;
now he knows a little about manners,
more about clothes, something about
"grinds,” “peaches” and “profs,” but
the sumum bonurn of his knowledge
relates to drop kicks and line bucking.
The old type was better, says the
Washington Post, because, though im
practical, he had a trained mind and
was inured to discipline, whereas the
new product has gotten most of his
Braining in the ways of a good time.
College life is. or should be, a period
of training which prepares the youth
for the business of a broader life. It
will not do to cultivate exclusively the
superficialities, which the atmosphere
>lat most of the larger universities is
doing. One of the reasons why men
who come up from rude walks of life
without the benefits of education fre
quently outstrip the college graduates
is because such men have trained
their powers through hard work, while
the College man has vitiated his tal
ents through overmuch play.
The bureau of engraving and print
ing at Washington has completed de
signs by Postmaster General Meyer
for a new issue of United States post
age stamps. It is expected that ship
ments to postmasters will commence
some time in November. The new is
sue has been designed with the ob
ject of obtaining the greatest sim
plicity commensurate with artistic re
sults. The profile has been taken in
each instance, giving a bas-relief ef
fect. All the stamps are of a similar
design, containing a head in an ellipse,
the only decoration being laurel leaves
on either side of the ellipse. The let
tering is in straight lines, at the top
being “U. S. Postage" and at the bot
tom the words "Two Cents.” The one
cent stamp contains the head of Frank
lin, while all the others will bear that
of Washington, taken from busts by
Houdon. The color are the reds and
blues of the early stamps. Director
Ralph of the bureau of engraving and
printing regards the new stamp as the
most artistic ever issued by the gov
ernment.
David Lubin, formerly of California,
has finally won complete success for
his long-cherished plan to aid agricul
ture in a world-wide way. After ap
pealing in vain to his own government
to encourage agriculture by bounties
on leading agricultural staples, instead
of continuing a hopeless struggle he
changed his base of operations in be
half of agricultural interests and ap
pealed to the king of Italy with so
much persuasiveness that his recom
mendations were adopted by that
monarch much as he made them. The
result is the endowment and perma
nent establishment at Rome of the
International Institute of Agriculture.
The test of its value is shortly to be
made. Within a month delegates
from 46 nations will meet at the first
session of the general assembly of the
institute, and working plans will be
considered and probably adopted.
Xo labor movement of modern times
is more needed or likely to do moro
good than the organization of wage
earning women. The woman has a
harder time than the man in a single
handed fight to earn a respectable liv
ing and maintain herself in decent
surroundings. Last month simul
taneous conferences of the Women's
Trade Union League were held in
Boston, New York and Chicago.
Women united in a cause are almost
irresistible, and this is a cause which
can have few enemies.
Approaching completion in the ship
yard of the Elswick works at Xewcas
tle-on-Tyne, England, is the Brazilian
battleship Mina Geraes, which has su
perior armament and arrangement to
the British Dreadnought class, as well
as being the heaviest battleship yet
built in the world. The cruiser Invin
cible and the battleship Superb, of the
Dreadnought class, are also to be seen
at the shipyard.
A biography of the late Dr. Gilman,
formerly president of Johns Hopkins
university, says he "knew everything
and yet was not a specialist in any
line.” He would probably have met
the requirements of the writer of a
current magazine article who com
plains about the prevalence of special
ization and its evils.
A Toronto dealer advertises music
by the pound, and probably the pian
ists pound when they play it.
The farmer in Warwickshire, Eng
land, who worked in the hayfield for
21 hours in a single day, beginning at
1:30 in the morning, is getting a good
deal of newspaper notice, and per
haps he deserves it, but what did he
do next day?_
A device is on exhibition in Toronto
for harnessing the waves of the ocean;
but if the inventors really wish to
make good, let them tell us the age of
the seas by examining the teeth of the
storm.
PHOTO CcoPrP/cnr /9cp
BY <T-, L-TOP#WCOO
WINNER CROSSING THE LINE HI. THE WHEELBARROW RACE
EFORE the year 1925 has dawned it
is probable that nearly every hos
pital for insane in America will
work for cures from an athletic an
gle. Physicians who have had the
care of mentally incompetent per
sons declare that sports are the
chief adjunct to insane treatment.
The patients become wonderfully
interested and enthusiastic over
wheelbarrow races, sprints, three
legged races, and the fun they de
rive front this sort of exercise is de
clared far greater than that which
falls to the share of the sane ath
lete or the athletic fan who partici
<--uampionsnip games on the field, diamond,
track, gridiron and gymnasium floor.
A great alienist once said that where physical
well-being is to be found there is usually a compe
tent mind also. Athletics naturally promote bodily
improvement, and with it comes the elimination of
the diseased portions of the brain. Thus medical
men hope to eradicate insanity among the patients
at the hospitals.
The heat of the athletic struggle takes the mind
of the patient from his woes, if that be the form
of mania, and one crazed woman is declared to have
been cured within two months after having par
ticipated continually in athletics at a hospital for
insane in the east.
There is no athlete who gets as much apparent
enjoyment out of his successes as the one who is
insane. They take it as a new kind of play and
take to it with all the vim that their physical at
tainments will permit.
Dances are also given in some asylums, to which
the public is admitted by invitation. These, while
they have their pathetic side, of course, afford
much pleasure to the inmates, especially the young
er ones.
Surgeons declare that some day all varieties of
insanity will yield to treatment and be curable.
An operation on the brain is said by them to be
the solution but as yet the man has not arisen wrho
can perform such an operation wifh unfailing suc
cess. There have been isolated cases now and
then that have proved successful, but the brain is
one of the mysteries of the human body that has
been reserved for a future generation to solve.
Meanwhile, however, under the new order of things
the insane are far from an unhappy lot. It is only
those of sound minds who are able to realize the
plight of those atfiicted people; while they in their
ignorance are Derhans happier than many who have
the great nervous
strain that Americans
were under. But they
were both wrong. For
once figures lie.
Though there were
only 74.028 insane in
hospitals in 1S90 and
150,151 in 1906. the
actual number of in
sane pro rata has de
creased.
Here is the proof of
r/fi/dH OF THE 75 YARD DA6H TOR WO/iE/S PA TIEN T<S
the full use of their
faculties.
Not long ago there
was considerable talk
about the rapidly in
creasing number of
insane in this coun
try. Various causes
were assigned to it.
Some said the growth
of the cities account
ed for it; others
thought that it was
it is possible. This was very strongly brought out
not long ago in an asylum near Chicago. There
was a patient there who had the idea that he
was King Edward. The king was all right in
every other way, but his idea on this point was
so strong within him that it gave his normal
pait very little room to move about. From
morning until night he would talk over various
matters of state with his cabinet ministers, who
were anyone who happened to be near him. and
in greeting the women with a graciousness that
the real king would find difficult to imitate. Kut
the king was a jolly monarch. A smile was on
MEN PATIENTS WATCHING THE ATHLETIC CAMELS
it. In 1890 there wert 162 hospitals, while in
1902 there were 328, and many of ihe older ones
had been enlarged. In other words, the country
is taking care of the insane and taking them out
of their homes, and incidentally the idea grew
that because the institutions were increasing in
number and size the number of cases was like
wise growing abnormally.
It is not generally supposed that there is a
brighter side to insanity. The 5.000,000 people of
this country who have relatives in asylums prob
ably do not see this bright side and few of the
other millions realize it. But nevertheless it is a
fact that the darkest days of the affliction are
over.
Nearly every patient in an institution is normal
in all but one or two subjects. The dangerous
insane are, of course, another matter; to them
it is always night, and will be until some genius
discovers a new method of treating the brain
more satisfactorily than is known at the present
day. But these others are normal human beings,
with normal wants and ideas on all subjects but
one or two.
In the old days this normal part of their nature
never had its outlet; their lives were never given
the leeway necessary for even a moment's happi
ness. But to-day it would not be an exaggeration
to say that the insane in institutions are a reason
ably happy lot.
In many institutions entertainments are given
regularly by the inmates. The man who has the
idea that he is King Edward is allowed to sit
in his royal box in all his majesty, and, as his other
faculties are unimpaired, he enjoys the show to
its utmost. The woman who believes she has in
herited a milliion from her uncle sits in the front
row, happy in the belief that in a few days she
will leave the institution and buy a silk dress for
every woman she leaves behind.
The indulging principle in the treatment of the
insane to-day is sbvply to humor them whenever
his face continually and if he had ever had a
chance to rule anywhere, no one would ever have
accused him of cruelty. He was modeled after
the lines of old King Cole. But one day a pa
tient was admitted whose weak point happened
to be the idea that King Edward had sent emis
saries over to kill him. The doctors hesitated
about putting the new man in the same room
with the king, but both w:ere perfectly harmless,
so the experiment was tried. All went well until
the new patient learned that King Edward was
about. Then he fled in terror and hid under a bed,
and all the coaxing the nurses could do could
not drag him out again. They were in a dilemma
that taxed the resources of the institution. Final
ly, they decided to put the case before the king
and depend upon his well known good nature
to help them out. He was alive to the situation.
His grief was touching, for a more harmless king
certainly never breathed. Profuse with regrets at
the strange mistake, the monarch approached the
man under the bed and commenced to parley
writh him. With all his negative graciousness the
king assured the benighted one that he was delud
ed. Strange to say, the new man gradually began
to believe it. Something in the king’s face in
spired confidence and at last he came out. The
two soon became fast friends and the monarch
raised his new found friend to the peerage. This
man is now out of the asylum, cured of his de
lusion. But the king still rules his little king
dom as happily as the man who rules his home.
According to the best known alienists in
America, the natural condition of the insane per
son’s mind may be restored to normal by first giv
ing health to the body, which ultimately, it is
claimed, will carry itself to the brain, the blood 1
being purified and eventually carrying away the
diseased portions of the brain. This, of course,
cannot be made to apply to the cases which are
violent, unless unusual conditions prevail, but at
least athletics may be pronounced a great aid.
ASKED TO BE BURIED ALIVE
Mode of Death Selected by a Chinaman
Condemned for Fratricide.
Rough justice as it is administered
‘n most parts of China is sometimes
;empered by individual tastes, as an
incident printed in one of the China
port journals attests. A man in Su
:hien, condemned to die, preferred to
be buried alive, and his wishes were
carried out to the letter.
During the famine two brothers
who lived in Suchien fought desperate
ly to stave off starvation from their
families and bad blood arose between
them. At last the elder brother sold
his father’s coffin for food. When he
refused to divide the proceeds with
his younger brother the latter cut ou
his head with a cleaver.
Because it was too expensive to
carry the murderer several scores of
miles to the nearest yamen of justice,
the local elders, including the father
of the murderer whose coffin had been
sold, sat in justice upon the culprit
and condemned him to death. He
asked that he be buried alive instead
of receiving the horrible torture of the
slices.” The father interceded
with %.C3 other elders to get them to
grant his son’s request.
A grave was dug, and the victim,
with his arms and feet securely bound,
was trundled in a wheelbarrow to the
edge of the pit by his wife. There
upon the murderer’s own request his
bonds were loosed and he walked to
the grave, lowered himself into it
and was ready.
The victim’s wife put a felt hat over
his mouth at his request, and then she
helped the elders to fill in the grave
with six feet of earth.
Springs for Fruit Wagon.—Get a
good set of springs for your farm
wagon an use them wherever you
have any fruit or vegetables to haul
to market
VISITS WITH
&M€MBY
A Cat Party.
It is an honored axiom that old
maids and cats are the most congeni
al of companions,
but Miss Tucker
was an exception.
I am sure it was
Miss Tucker that
was the excep
tion, for the cats
in her town are
just like other
cats—purry and
likeable.
“Drat the cats!
anyhow! ’ ’
screamed Miss
Tucker one morn
ing as she opened
her back door and
discovered that
Jones’ cat hail
stolen a piece of
liver left by the
butcher on the
back steps.
“Drat the cats!
I wish there
wasn't such a
thing on earth."
and the irascible
old lady rushed
back into the
house for the tea
kettle. Pouring
the boiling water
into the dishpan,
she lay in wait
for Thomas.
Having taken
precipitate flight
1UU1 imu 111 cl * l v giuumi ium
safely and reconnoiter. Seeing the
coast clear once more, he stalked
cautiously toward Miss Tucker's back
door and was just about to pounce
upon the unoffending liver, when the
door suddenly opened. There was a
wild swish, and a fiery hot liquid fell
in a flood upon him! Yowling in pain,
the cat flew over the fence and dis
appeared under the Jones woodshed,
just as little Johnny Jones appeared
upon the scene and shook his fist at
Miss Tucker standing threateningly ,
upon the back stoop.
"I'll fix you fer that, doggone ye,” j
yelled Johnny, forgetting neighborly !
etiquette and civility to his superiors, j
That night, after Miss Tucker had
retired, there began a series of most
disheartening wails about her back
stoop. Rushing down stairs, lamp in
hand, she opened the back door.
Horrors, the stoop was covered with
cats! Grabbing the broom, she pur
sued them madly down the path. Then
she returned, railing at the varmints.
No sooner had she gotten into bed
again, than the chorus, greatly ac
centuated, began once more.
Mercy! This time it was on the
front porch! Again the maiden lady
charged the cats and retired, and once
more the cats returned. After chasing
them away tour times, she pulled the
covers over her head in affright.
There was something uncanny about
it all—and besides a black cat with
yellow eyes had almost bewitched her
iu the darkness as she struck at him
with her broom.
All night long in a perspiration of
fear, she lay in bed, her head as well
as her body covered with comforters.
As soon as the first suggestion of
dawn appeared, she got up timidly and
approached the porch. As she did so.
a great tiger cat jumped to the ground ;
and fled into the bushes. Cautiously
opening the door. Miss Tucker peeked
through a tiny crack onto the porch
floor. Strewn all over the porch was
more than a bushel of catnip. Rush
ing hurriedly to the back stoop, she
found this also covered with the same
aromatic plant. Little Johnny Jones
had been revenged.
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Tickleinktums.
r
If a young man tells a girl she has
beautiful liquid eyes, she will be dis
appointed if he doesn't drown in their
depths. As one writer expresses it,
when he says her lips are luscious,
she wants to know what he is going
to do about it.
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An editor pays very little attention
to the head of a poem. What he is
interested in is its feet.
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What matters it if you warm your
heart at an imaginary fire so long as
you warm it!
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Even the undertaker has to be un
dertaken in the end.
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Proverbs are only excuses for easy
ediiorial squibs.
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When in Rome, do the Romans first.
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Need Help.
An exchange says that the people who
need religion are: The man who left his
horse stand out In the cold all day with
out a blanket on: the man who growls
like a wild beast when his wife asks him
for money: the woman who is not what
she ought to be: the minister who is
looking for an easier place ami a higher
salary; the man who walks the streets
with his hands in his pockets, while his
wife carries the baby; the man who
keeps a dog and says he can't afford to
take the home paper.
Nothing New.
Fashion is ever changing, but it
must be confessed that all the dresses
we “create” are merely variations, im
provements, or transformations of
models worn in other days.—Moda,
Rome.
Very Old Painting.
What is believed to be the oldest
European painting in existence has
been found in Crete by the Italian
archaeological mission. It is on a
I sarcophagus, and is supposed to have
been produced about 2500 B. C.
TWO GOOD STORIES BY BARRIE.
One Told by Successful Author Is De
cidedly Against Himse'f.
Mr. J. W. Barrie, the author of
“What Every Woman Knows,” tells a
good story against himself.
A lady of his acquaintance had
taken a friend to see one of his plays,
and, quite astonished, he asked her
why she did so.
“Oh,” was the reply, “it’s such a
quiet street for the horses!”
He also tells of a playgoer who re
ceived no response to his repeated re
quests to a lady in front of him to
remove her huge hat.
At length, exasperated, he said: "If
you won't take off your hat, my dear
madam, will you he so kind as 10 ft id
back your ears?”—Woman's Lit
ALPINE PERILS.
Disgust of Timson, who ha* been
dodging his tailor for the h - six
months, when lie suddenly com* w:
him at the summit of a mount a,:: •
Switzerland.
A Dead Bird.
Samuel Butler, the witty but
trie author of “Erehwon"—which
means “Nowhere”—and of many •
remarkable and suggestive books
now more read than during k: '•
time. He died in 1902. In one of h
notebooks he tells this incident, which
must have amused the great Charles
Darwin:
Frank Darwin told me his father
was once standing near the hippopota
mus cage when a little boy and air’,
aged four and five, came up. The hij>
popotamus shut his eyes for a min'd
“That bird's dead,” said the little
girl. “Come along.”—Youth's Com
panion.
ED GEERS, “The grand old a; in." he
is called for he is so honest i.u iiir.g
horses in races. He says: “1 have used
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A Nice Hint.
“I know what I’ll do,” said the girl
whose bashful lover would not pro
pose. “I’ll go out as a trained nurse.
“But that is a profession. You
know nothing about it,” he replied.
"Haven't I had sis months' experi
ence sitting up nights with you?"—Il
lustrated Bits.
(Important to Wlothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of
In Use For Over .‘JO
The Kind You Have Always Be ugh t.
The Language of the Plant*.
“He didn't care to write to her when
he wanted her to arrange for a see: ■ t
marriage, so he sent her a running
vine.”
"What did she do?”
“Sent him a canteloupe.”
Lewis' Single Binder cigar—riches*, rm-t
satisfying smoke on the market. Your
dealer or Lewis’ Factory, l’eonj, III.
John D. Rockefeller and the duk- of
Westminster each receive over 2r.O
begging letters a day.
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SOPHIA 4
KITTLE5EN
HEALTH VERY POOR—
RLSTORED BY PE-RU-NA.
Catarrh Twenty-five Years—
Had a Bad Cough.
Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston, ill.,
writes:
“I hare been troubled with catarrh
for nearly twenty-five years ami have
tried many cures for it, but obtained
very little help.
“Then my brother advised me to try
Peruna, and I did.
"My health was very poor at the time
I began taking Peruna. Sly throat was
very sore and I had a bad cough.
“Peruna has cured me. The chronic
catarrh is gone and my health is very
much improved.
“I recommend Peruna to all my
friends who are troubled as 1 was.”
PERUNA TABLETS:—Home people pre
fer tablets, rather than medicine in a
lluid form. Such people can obtain Peru
na tablets, which represent the medici
nal ingredientsof Peruna. Each tablet
equals one average dose of Peruna.
Man-a*iin the Ideal Laxative.
Ask your Druggist for a Free Peruna
Almanac for 190V.
