Professional Cards
A. P. CULLEY,
Attorney & Gonnselor-at-Law
(Office: First National Bank)
Loup City, Nebr.
ROBT.P. STARR
Attorney-at-Law,
LOUP CITY, NEBRSSKS.
R. J. nightingale
tansy ni CmsIcMt'liw
LOUP PITY. NEB
AARON WALL
La-wy er
Practices in all Courts
Loup City, Neb.
R. H. MATHEW,
Attorney-at-Law,
And Bonded Abstractor,
Loup City, Nebraska
O. E. LONGACRE
Office, Over New Bank.
TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39
S. A. ALLEN.
DEJYTIST,
LOUP CITY, • - NEB.
Office up stairs in the new State
Bank buildin?.
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B ENT 1ST,
LOUP GITY, NEE
OFFICE: East Side Public So uni e
Phone, 10 on 36
ROBERT P. STARR
(Successor to M. II. Mead)
Bonded Abstracter
Locp City, - Nebraska.
Only set of Abstract books in county
Try the
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F. F. Foster, Prop.
Office; Fester’s Barber Shop
jBuilington
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WINTER
JOURNEYS
Winter Tourist Rates
Daily low excursion rates
after November 20th to South
ern and Cuban resorts. Daily
now in effect to Southern Cal
iforma. Lower yet, home
seekers' excursion rates, tirst
and third Tuesdays, to the
South and Southwest.
Corn Show, Omaha
December 9 to 19. Visit
this interesting exposition of
the best corn products and
their use. Attractive pro
gram with moving pictures,
electrical illumination, sensa
tional prizes for the best ex
hibits. Consult the agent or
local papers.
Secure An
Irrigated Farm
We conduct you on the first
and third Tuesdays ot each
month to the Big Horn Basin
and Yellowstone Valley, as
sisting yvu in taking up gov
ernment irrigated lands with
a never-failing water supply
under government irrigation
plants.
Write D. Clem Beaver, Burlington
Landseekers’ Information Bureau.
Omaha, or address
J. A. DANIELSON,
• Ticket Agent, Loup City, Neb.
L. W. Wakklky, G. P. A.
Omaha, Nebraska.
I Cure Nerve-Vital Debility, Weak
ness, Drains, Rupture, Stricture.
Varicocele, Blood Poison, Private
Skin and Chronic Diseaees of Men
i ao not asK you to
come to me first if you
believe others can cure
you. Should they fail,
don't give up. Il i>
better to come late
than not at all. Re
member, that curinp
diseases after all oth
ers have failed has
been my specialty for
years, if you cannot
visit me personally.
•vrite symptoms taai irouuie you most,
vast majority of cases can be cured by m\
vVst-em of home treatment, which is the most
successful system ever devised. 1 make n<
•harge for private counsel and give to each
oatient a legal contract in writing, backed
oy abundant capital, to hold for the promise
Physicians having stubborn cases to treat
are cordially inv*tedVVniHFN °r a11
to consult with me. ’’ womb and
bladder diseaser. ulcerations, menstrual
rouble, etc. I'onfldential. Private home in
the suburbs, before and during confinement.
Motherly care anil best attention guaran
teed. Good homes found for babies,
pnppi POSITIVELY FREE!
I RCLi No charge whatever to any
man woman or child living in I.OUP CITY
or vicinity, suffering from any CHRONIC
DISEASE. a $10 00 X-RAY EXAMINA
TION. Come and let me look inside of you
absolutely free of charge.
Diek SPECIALIST, GRAND
Ur. Ixicn, ISI.HNO. NEB. omce op
posite City Hall, 103 W. Second Street.
THE NORTHWESTERN
T SRMS:—11.0(1 E'EH TEAR. IF PAID IN ADVANC1
Entered at the Loup Citv Postoftlre for trans
mission through the mails as second
class matter.
Office ’Phone, - - - 6 on 108
Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108
J. \V. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pnh.
Grand Island is in the throes of
numerous hold-ups and sand-baggers.
Congressman ICinkaid put $40 into
the Howard county campaign. How
much did he place in the handfe of
Gibson for like eause.
Several cases, widely separated,
seem to make it pertinent to ask
why a primary should be held, if its
result is not binding on anybody?
Uncle Joe Cannon promises to be
good and insists he will not obstruct
congress in the coming session. But
is this one of those common pre-elec
tion promises more often made than
kept?
Do you really think the people pick
the U. S. senators? Maybe, some
times. but over in New York it only
took two people to take Root for
that purpose—Taft and Woodruff, if
they don't fall down.
Pollard, rep., who lost out in the
tirst Nebraska district, wants to try
conclusions again in that district two
years hence. Mr. Pollard should take
something for his ailment. There
may be other men. like Barkis.
Fourth. Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral P. V. DeGraw recommends in
creased usefulness of rural free
delivery service by delivery of pack
ages not to exceed eleven pounds be.
tween distributing office and patrons.
If a farmer wishes to find out the
amount of corn he has on the ear,
multiply the length of crib in feet,
and divide by two and one-fourth.
The easy way to divide by two and
one-fourth is to multiply by four and
divide by nine.
Brother Charley put $110,000 in the
campaign to elect Brother Bill to the
presidency. There is a Brother Bill
and Brother Charley in the writer’s
family, but there's no chance for his
tory to repeat itself with us. is there.
Brother Charley.
The Iowa legislature last week
| selected Gov. Cummins to succeed
I the late Win. B. Allison as U. S.
J senator from that state. Following
I the election of Mr. Cummins, Lieu
tenant Governor Garst was sworn in
| governor, vice Cummins resigned.
A tornado in Tennessee one day
last week passed through two coun
ties. making a track half a mile wide,
destroying many thousands of dollars
worth of property and causing the
loss of ugwards of fifty lives. Isn't
j it a little early, or late, in the season
! for those touchdowns?
It seems Mr. Bryan has not had
enough of defeat, and it is reported
lie will again make a try for Taft's
shoes in 11*12. In the meantime, like
the old maid, who mistook the hoot
of an owl. and insisted ‘-Any one.
Lord, so it is a man.” Mr. Bryan is
also a receptive candidate for U. S.
senator to succeed Elmer Burkett,
while waiting to hear the presidential
call.
Last week, Cooley, chairman of the
Howard county republican central
committee, published over his affi
davit the receipts and expenditures
of moneys handled by the committee
during the campaign. If it would
i not be asking too much, will the
chairman of the Sherman county re
publican central committee please
make affidavit as to moneys received
and disbursed by him and his com
mittee during the like period?
Why did candidate for county at
torney, Fsher, tile his campaign ex
penses in one lump sum, instead of
itemized, as the law commands? He
is a lawyer (!) and can hardly plead
ignorance: besides, as we understand
it. ignorance of the law can not be
plead in defense of any action. Or,
is his non-compliance the result of
the teachings of his boss, who is re
ported to have said. “Some laws are
made not to be kept,” or words to
that effect.
It is announced that Win. J. Bryan
has purchased landed holdings in
Texas and contemplates building a
home in that state. A Texas paper,
in jubilating over the fact, talks of
his succeeding Bailey as senator, and
thinks it a mistake in Bryan staying
in Nebraska. Perhaps Bryan is think
ing of following the example of
General Weaver of Iowa, who, while
confining his operations to his own
state, tried possibilities for congress
in more than one district, but going
Weaver one better by taking chances
in more than one state as well.
The Union Pacific people sent out
letters last week to all newspapers
h iving transportation contracts with
it to surrender the contracts and all
unused mileage, pending the action
of the courts, which has issued a re
straining order against the road, en
joining it from issuing any advertis
ing contracts, and prohibiting said
company from observing in any form
the terms of such contracts. The
Northwestern abrogated its contract
with the road as soon as the supreme
court passed upon the law relating to
the same and sustaining the action
of the legislature some weeks since.
Bank clearings for November show
an immense increase as compared
with one year ago.
The United States supreme court
has upheld an order of the railway
commission of Virginia enforcing
2-cent railroad fares in that state.
Little by little the props are being
taken from under the railroad con
tention against 2-cent fares all over
the country.
Gov. Sheldon closed the agon.^ over
the appointment of the four new su
preme judges in this state by appoint
ing this week Monday the following
lucky jurists: Jacob Fawcett of
Omaha. YY. B. Rose of Lincoln, Jesse
L. Root of Plattsmouth and J. J.
Sullivan of Columbus, the latter be
ing a democrat, thus giving both lead
ing parties representation as per re
sult of the amendment. Sullivan and
Fawcett get the one-year terms: Rose
and Hoot three years.
County option spokesmen are now
claiming that their forces will control
both the house and senate in the
coming legislature. A canvass has
been made of the house membership
by A. G. YY'olfenbargerof Lincoln, and
he reported it as favorable to county
option. Up to the present time, the
general impression has been that the
liquor element would dominate the
house and that the balance either
way in the senate would be very slim.
If the county optionists are able, as
they assert, to organize the house it
is not improbable that they will also
gain the whip hand in the upper
branch.—Ex.
They say there is a skeleton in
every closet. If so, the one in Y\r. J.
Bryan’s closet seems to be the
marriage of his daughter Ruth to
Artist Leavitt. A few days ago re
ports were to the effect that Mr.
Bryan had sent a lawyer over to Paris
to arrange for a divorce of the daugh
ter from Leavitt, and later comes the
news that the artist will soon return
to this country and the couple wlli
live in Denver. The fortune of
prominent people, it seems, is to have j
their private matters aired in public, j
and ever since Miss Bryan was j
married to Leavitt in Lincoln eight
or ten years since, the lime-liglit of
publicity seems never to have been
thrown off them.
Controlling both houses of the legis
lature and having the governor as j
well, the democrats this year pos
sess a tine opportunity to change the
election laws so that the people of
the state may vote directly on candi
dates for United States senator. The
Oregon plan is meeting with a great
deal of favor. It provided that the
nominee of each party for senator
selected at the primaries shall have
his name placed on the ballot at the
general election following. In this
way, the people may give a majority
vote to the candidate of one party
and at the same time elect a legis
lature containing a majority for the
other party. Members of the legis
lature are given the opportunity to
pledge themselves that if elected
they will vote for the man who is the i
popular choice for senator. A law of
that kind, democratic leader's think,
would result in sending Mr. Bryan to
the senate no matter if the state
should return to the republican col
umn. They believe he would get
enough republican support under a
direct system of voting to give him a
majority, just as republican votes in
the recent election helped him to
carry Nebraska as a presidential can
didate. It is their expectation that
republican candidates for the legis
lature would in many cases sign the
pledge to support Bryan if he had a
popular majority. Representative
elect Fred B. Humphrey of Lancaster
county, is engaged in drafting a bill
modeled after the Oregon law, which
he will introduce in the legislature.
Humphrey intends to press the plan
and is confident of securing its enact
ment into law.—Lincoln News.
I
Got His Wires Crossed.
An O’Neill girl got a letter the
other day from her sweetheart who
is a Holt county boy, with a position
in an Omaha whelesale house. Open
ing it, her happy smile froze on her
face as she read: “Dear Mother, I’m
feeling pretty blue and homesick. Io
costs so much to live in Omaha.
Everybody holds me up. Could you
send me ten? I’m home every even
ing by eight and in bed by nine.
Think I’ll have to get my old rain
coat pressed and wear it, though all
the other guys have swell new togs.
I haven’t written to a girl since I've
been here but want to write to you
every day. Your affectionate son.’,
On the same day the mother got a
letter from the boy too. She read:
“My Own Dearest, Sweetest Honey
Girl: 1 know you were disappointed
at not receiving my daily letter yes
terday, but I was up so late last
night that I was half dead all day to
day. Say, but I’m having the time
of my life down here. It costs a
small fortune but you only live once.
See? I have never gone broke yet
and 1 manage to send a little home
every week for mother to bank for
me. It pleases her and 1 don’t miss
it. Got a raise the first, so I blew
myself for some new rags—one of
those flossy overcoats all covered with
buttons and pockets. Did you miss
me Sunday, little girl? I was out for
the day with a swell bunch and
simply could not break away. 1 must
ring off and go to bed. I'm dead
sleepy. Being out every night till
twogets away with me—but I haven’t
seen any girl that has made me forget
you. Write every day to your honey
boy.—State Journal.
He Was a Darling.
Our business men last Saturday
were up against a Darling character,
in the person of a fellow calling him
self by that precious title, who pur
chased perhaps $50 wortli of mer
chandise from various firms, having
the same charged, with the promise
of settlement in a week or ten days.
After he had made his purchase of
J. M. Czaplewski, the manager of the
firm, Louie Spahr, became suspicious,
and with Jeweler Jeffords, who had
also been stung, went to Ashton Fri
day and the fellow gave up their
goods, and virtually acknowledged in
a sweating process that he had intend
ed getting away with the swag with
out paying therefor and if the boys
had not interviewed him that day
would have kissed the accounts good
bye forever. The Darling had been
teaching in Dist. No. 2tf. and on the
day referred to had urged Director
Oltmann to give him the $22.50 due
him at that time, saying lie had to go
Lincoln for medical treatment, but
John had been put next and the con
talk did not go. Besides Jeffords and
Czaplewski, some half dozen mer
chants had been found kind of easy in
various amounts, but will no doubt
take care that the unpaid salary of
Darling will in part at least recupe
them. We understand some of the
St Paul merchants were also con
tidenced. one of them to the extent
of a suit of clothes, and others to
merchandise of lesser value.
A Change Asked For.
The people of Pleasanton are ask
ing that the Union Pacific change
their time card in sucli manner as to
give them two trains a day, instead
of one, as now. It was only a short
time ago that they had but three
trains a week, and they got along all
right. They receive the mail by train
and also each day by stage from
Ravenna. The change they ask for
is that the mixed train which leaves
here in the morning, and makes the
trip to Loup City and return, shall
start from Loup City in the morning
and make the trip out there in the
afternoon, so that they will get the
afternoon mail. Such a change would
seriously interfere with the traveling
facilities here in this part of the
country and cut off the interest of
the many for the interest of a
a comparative few. Besides that it
would cause the moving of seven
families from here to Loup City and
add not a single thing. The train
coming in here in the afternoon
would connect with nothing until six
o'clock at night, causing the east
bound freight to lay here until after
noon, making it arrive at Loup City
almost a day later. We sincdrelv
hope that so Jar as this change is con
cerned, the railway people will leave
it as it is.—St. Paul Republican.
The Football Craze.
Last week the football craze all
over the country seemed to really run
to seed. We are in favor of athletics
but not “exthetics” if we be allowed
to coin the word. From indications
at such times it would seem that the
high schools and colleges and univer
sities were not for the purpose of
brain development but for the mani
festations of an abnormal physical
condition alike detrimental to good
health and longevity. It is a matter
of history that the overstrain too
often indulged in but marks the fail
ure in exams, and a premature old
age, as is found among pugilists.
The correction of the abuses to proper
holding of these contests seems much
like the correction of the liquor traffic
and is increasing rapidly the number
of people who think the only correc
tion will have to be its prohibition.
This is hastened by the so called
efforts among its devotees to make it
a safe game. The tendency to overdo
is an American failing and we will
welcome the time when there is more
of a willingeess to put proper re
straint on all lines of business as well
as recreation, and not live so fast.—
C. H. Burleigh in Hemingford Journal
There are none so blind as those
who won't see, said a wise man. On
this line the New Y'ork Evening Post
says:
“Mr. Bryan's detailed comment up
on the election, in the Commoner,
shows him in a very amiable light,
personally, but plunged in darkness,
politically. lie takes his defeat in
manly fashion, submits cheerfully to
the popular verdict, and says that
no one need worry about his future.
But then he goes on to argue that
the result of the voting was a “mys
tery.” He says with truth that the
campaign was reparded as uncertain;
that there were many indications of
a drift to the democracy, that the
republicau managers were worried,
and really had no basis for their ex
travagant claims. Hence the “mys
tery” of a sweeping republican vic
tory. But there was no mystery after
the returns were in. The uncertainty
before the election was wholly about
the silent vote; but the result showed
that it went almost wholly against
Bryan. In some districts in this city
he did not get half of even Parker’s
vote. Thousands and thousands of
democrats and independents all over
the country were saying nothing, but
had firmly made up their minds never
to vote for Bryan. The only mystery
about it all is that he cannot see the
fact.”
Consciousness of Strength.
It is not fear which makes us peace
able, but the consciousness of oar
strength.—Bismarck.
Ungodly Refinement.
Refinement which carries us away
from our fellowmen Is not Cod's refine
ment—Beecher.
Cobless Corn.
P. J. Sconce, Lake City, la., raised j
a crop of cobless corn on his farm
last summer. A year ago Mr. Sconce
and Garlough, of this county pur
chased a quantity of seed corn in
Illinois. In theshipment was a freak
ear. which instead of the ordinary
cob, was composed of a core of husk,
the grains being neatly wrapped up
on the soft foundation like peas in a
pod. Mr. Sconce was impressed and
decided to plant all the kernels found
on it. To his surprise the ears pro
duced this fall were found to be the
exact reproductions of the single ear.
The ears produced this year yielded
as much corn as those' provided with
a cob and the kernels were large and
solid. The ears were tilled, kernels
even growing among the silk. As a
result of this discovery, the corn cob
may disappear.
Marine Insurance.
Marine insurance is the oldest kind
of modern insurance. Its principles
were first employed in the fourteenth
century by the merchants of Barce
lona, in Spain, when that city was
the capital of the kingdom of Cata
lonia and when its hardy mariners
were second to none in the world.
About the same time, and also at
Barcelona, the famous code of mari
time laws known as the "consulado
del mar" was promulgated, which is
the foundation of the present shipping
laws of every country.
Cato’s Refrain.
It was Cato who always ended every
speech he made in the Roman senate
with the words. “Delenda est Cartha
go." “Carthage must be destroyed.”
It made no difference what subject he
was discussing, Cato always used this
warning, claiming that the safety of
the Roman empire depended on the
destruction of its rival across the
Mediterranean.
Olive Oil Culture.
Owing to the strict government in
spection, practically all Italian export
olive oil is pure on leaving Italy. For
home consumption there is hardly a
sufficiency, from year to year, necessi
tating large imports of cotton-seed oil
from America; and this has induced
the government to take special action
toward the improvement of olive cul
ture.
Wit with a Sting.
The French are undoubtedly a hu
morous and humor-loving people;
only, sometimes, this blithesome, ef
fervescing quality goes astray. In
stead of the sparkle in the glass of
champagne, it turns, by some subtle
chemistry, into an acid sort of drink,
which leaves a disagreeable taste in
the mouth.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Goat Ranch in Kentucky.
Sam Jett of Winchester, Ky., has
a thousand-acre goat ranch in Breathitt
county. It is a mountain land and is
inclosed by a wire fence. His special
ty is the Angora breed. The fleece
of this goat is what is known in trade
as mohair, and is very reliable. The
ranch is proving quite a success.
Car Trace Storm* for Ages.
Terrific sand storms occur in the
Shantung provinces of China. Around
tombs and other places where the soil
is not disturbed the annual deposit of
these storms can be distinctly traced
for ages, layers of an eighth of an inch
being the minimum for any season.
A Venerable Turtle.
A Massachusetts boy, Nathan Samp
son, has found a venerable turtle
which bears markings made by his
grandfather, now 81 years old, which
were put on in 1840, and by his great
grandfather, who marked the same
turtle in 1816.
Temperature Causes Trouble.
The electric locomotives used in
the Simplon tunnel are troubled with
excessive condensation, affecting the
insulation, due to the difference in
temperature in the tunnel and out
side.
The Best Friend.
A good man is the best friend, and
therefore soonest to be chosen, longer
to be retained, and indeed, never to
be parted with, unless he cease to be
that for which he was chosen.—Jere
my Taylor.
Few and Far Between.
An employe of a matrimonial bu
reau in Chicago testified on the stand
that only ten photographs of men and
women out of 10,000 are of sufficient
merit to attract.
Ownership of Submarine Cables.
England owns 60 per cent, of the
mileage of submarine cables, the
United States coming next with 18
per cent, and France next with nine
per cent.
Parisians Fond of Horseflesh.
In Paris last year 49,298 horses were
killed for food, which was 5,000 more
than the previous year. These ani
mals yielded 26,600,000 pounds of
meat.
Bright in Land of Fog.
Although but a few miles from the
mouth of the river Thames, noted for
its fogs, the atmosphere of Herne bay,
England, is rarely obscured.
Kangaroos Still Plentiful.
Kangaroos are still plentiful In
sonqe parts of Australia. One flock
owner boasts of having killed several
thousand in 18 months.
Aim High.
Try to be something in the world
and you will be something; aim at
excellence, and excellence will be at
tained.—Boileau.
A Busy Waterway.
One-seventh of the foreign com
merce of Great Britain passes through
the Suez canal.
Right Will Prevail.
Force can never destroy right—
Berry er.
SALE NO. 3
The Last Sale
We will hold the last sale
of this year on - - • -
LADIES’
COATS AND FURS
December 10-11
Everything will be cleaned up at 25 an<
SO per C3Xlt off. Buy an Xmas fur
CONHISER’s
Kitchen Cabinet, 25x46. basswood
top, weight 100 lbs., No freight
to pay. Price,.
$4.65
Top to match above base.$2.35
All Oak Center Table, 24x24; top 0. 2.00
6-foot All Oak Extension Table. 6.00
Full-size Woven Wire Bed Springs. 1.50
Our 4o-lb Cotton Top Mattress, 4.4. 2.75
We are hdre to get the Furniture business and
will not be undersold. Bring us your bill and let
us give you prices that will sell the goods.
Christensen & Ferdinand!
Furniture Company.
Christensen & Ferdinandt,
Undertakers and Embalmers
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Blacksmith c Wagon Maker
Mv .moo ts> the largest and best equipped run hoi the 1‘laltc I.
1 have it four horse engine and a complete line of the latest Immoreo
chinery, also a force of experienced men who know h w to opciaw- It
torn out a job with neatness and dispatch.
bMY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND I ROM
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pass under and have the run of two lots. Or raise
your gate to drive hogs in or out. Your larger
sotck cannot get out while you are busy. The
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time drop around and look over the gate hungup at
KEYSTONE LUjVIBEp GO.
Loup City, Ashton, Rockville, Schaupps, and Arcadia, Neb.
E. G. Taylor, J. S. Pedler, C. C. Carlson.
President. Vice President. Cashier
■DIRECTORS
W: R. Mellor, £J. W. Long, S. N.[Sweetlam
LOUF CITI STATE" BANK
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA.
Capital Stock, - - $25,000.00
Individual Liability, $250,000.00