Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA
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Little Things That Tell.
As has been often shown, it is little
things that tell. A two-cent postage
stamp does not represent a large out
lay. Yet in times of depression per
sonal and business correspondence
falls off, the result being a large de
crease in the purchase of stamps and
a corresponding diminution of postal
revenue. This rule is illustrated in the
late report of the postmaster general.
His department would have taken in
several million dollars more but for
the “panic” of last' fall. And the head
of a large cotton-thread mill cites an
other instance, and one that would not
he revealed to those with less oppor
tunity for observation. He says a
pointer is to be found in the decrease
of the sale of darning yarn. The aver
age American woman, he declares, will
not darn stockings when the need of
economy passes by. The statement is
confirmed by the proprietor of a de
partment store in New York, who re
ports he has noted the working of the
rule among his customers, says the
Troy (N. Y.) Times. They can afford
to buy more and better stockings and
to wear them undarned. So good times
have come and the “panic” is over.
Emperor William, he'd down by a
parsimonious government to an in
come of $10,000,000 a year, is said by
some to be in financial straits and suf
fering at times for the necessities of
life. It must be hard on an emperor
who has worked for years kaisering in
dustriously at all hours of the day and
night to hear his children crying for
breakfast food and automobiles and
private circuses and not be able fully
to supply the demand. An ordinary
man living in a modest way in a flat
with an income of that size could pay
his rent, settle with the iceman, the
gasman, the telephone man, the milk
man and still have a trifle left for
amusements. With the kaiser it is
different. He couldn't live in such a
modest way and still make his bluff
good. If he were to say, after turning
over the problem in his mind, “Mother,
we will shut up fourteen or fifteen pal
aces and move fnto a flat next year to
see if we can’t save a few millions for
a showery day,” the people would be
gin looking for another ruler who felt
he was amply able to owe it no matter
how large the deficit.
About the time the trustees of the
University of Minnesota were adopting
a rule that professors in that institu
tion who reach the age of 65 must re
tire, on the ground that their services
are of lessened value, distinguished
men in London were assembled to do
honor to Lord Ripon, who recently re-'
signed from the cabinet at the age of
81, after having been in public life al
most continuously since 1852, and were
regretting his retirement. Lord As
quith said of him: “When other hearts
have failed and other feet have lagged,
and other men's courage has grown
faint and dim, he was always in the
forefront of the fight.” It is said of
him also that at SI he is an incurable
youth, it seems likely, remarks the
Indianapolis Star, that with these at
tributes Lord Ripon, were he a profes
sor in Minnesota university, would be
a valuahle quantity there even now.
A man's usefulness depends something
upon what he is, as well as upon his
years.
Up to 18S0 applications for patents
were accompanied by models; since
then mechanical drawings have taken
the place of the models. Wide-spread
publicity was given to a report that
the great accumulation of models in
the patent office, over a hundred and
fifty thousand in number, was to be
destroyed. The report, of course, was
groundless. The models are a precious
record; but the patent office is a work
ing institution, and the old models are
not of practical value in the important
labors of the office. Therefore, as is
quite right, the models are to be kept
in the new National museum, which
■will soon be completed.
This is the list of mile records for
speed made by land travelers: Electric
locomotive, 27 seconds, 1903; automo
bile, 28% seconds, 1906; steam loco
motive, 32 seconds, 1S93; motor-paced
cycle, 1 minute, 6 1-5 seconds, 1904;
bicycle, unpaced, 1 minute, 49 2-5 sec
onds, 1904; running horse, 1 minute,
35% seconds, 1890; pacing horse. 1
minute, 55 seconds, 1908; trotting
horse, 1 minute, 58% seconds, 1905;
man, skating, 2 minutes, 36 seconds.
1906; man, running, 4 minutes, 12%
seconds, 1887; man. walking, 6 min
utes, 23 seconds, 1S90.
Some young doctor at the head of
an Infants' science academy says the
mother is the worst enemy of the
baby. We should take our chances,
however, if we had to be a baby again,
with a real live mother as against a
patent Incubator.
One of the great works of the bureau
of manufactures of the department of
commerce and labor is to assist
American manufacturers by informa
tion that will increase the export
trade. That work has been well done.
A trenchant remark of the New
York judge who observed, in handing
out a sentence to a chauffeur who had
rtm into somebody, that these high
✓ powered and refractory machines
seem to be tractable enough when the
chauffeur is about to run into a trolley
car or a load of rocks.
For one ancient Chinese rug J. Pler
pont Morgan is reported to have paid
$75 000. This indicates again what
foresight and economy in early life
will permit later on.
In the Public Eye
WOULD UNIFY INSURANCE RU'-ES
Thomas Dillon O’Brien, state insurance com
missioner for the slate of Minnesota, is the man
who got behind the movement for uniform in
surance rules and legislation throughout the
country, and seems about to push that excellent
idea through 10 a successful interstate organiza
tion. The idea that the various states should
co-operate and adopt similar methods of dealing
will) the big insurance companies is one that
appeals immediately to the intelligence and com
mon sense of the public, so that the only ques
tion that arises is as to why no such steps were
ever taken before.
Mr. O'Brien interested enough insurance
commissioners from other states to make a na
tional gathering feasible, and that meeting re
suited in a uennue organized pian oi auioa m
the direction he has urged. A Democrat, O'Brien is one of Gov. Johnson s
appointees in Minnesota, and has had the co-operation of the executive at all
points. He is a lawyer by profession, and has been prominent in politics and
in secret society circles for a number of years.
NEW MINISTER FROM HONDURAS
Dr. Luis Laze Arriaga, the new minister to
the United States from the republic of Hon
duras, made a formal address upon the occasion
of his being officially received by the president,
in which he declared that never before has the
United States been so closely allied with the
La in-American states. His own government, he
declared, has planned an even closer and fuller
affiliation with our own for the better develop
ment of the all-American spirit, and he prophe
sied the near approach of the day when the
whole American continent will be practically
one great government and people with the vari
ous separate countries holding a similar relation
to our own individual states at the present time.
Dr. Arriaga is a man of unusual scholarly
attainments and a physician of wide note, who
has held many important positions in his own government. He is 49 years
old and finished his education in Gautemala and in Paris.
SUGGESTED HUNTING TRIP_
Leigh Hunt, the man who put the idea of an
African hunting trip into the head of President
Roosevelt in u conversation at the White House
dinner table, is not second to the executive as
an example of strenuous energy. For that rea
son. perhaps, he is counted as a friend of Roose
velt's.
Hunt’s life story up to the present time is a
series of ups and downs, a varied and altogether
remarkable string of disconnected and differing
experiences, out cf which he has invariably come
winner. He has been a builder of states and
cities, a newspaper publisher in Seattle, a steel
miller, a miner in Japan and Korea, a diplomat
anc royal fiscal agent in Russia, a reservoir
builder and Irrigation promoter in Africa and
half a dozen other things in as many other
places. He lias failed at least cnee for a million, and returned a halt dozen
years late~ to discharge every debt with interest. Mr. Hunt, a native of Indi
ana, is still in the prime of life and lias decided to remain in his own country
'to enjoy the advantages of a familiar civilization.
WILL EXPLORE AFRICA
Rev. Peter MacQueen has Jett his pulpit in
the Harvard Congregational church at Charles
town, Mass., to go into the African interior on an
exploring tour. He tried to resign, but his con
gregation instead gave hint an indefinite leave
of absence.
Dr'. MacQueen prefers the exhilaration and
excitement of travel in far away lands to the
monotony of pastoral work. He spends much of
his time in the former pursuits. He was with
the Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish
war, with Gen. Lawton in the Philippines, in
South Africa during the Boer war and at the
front in the far east during the Russo-.Tap un
pleasantness. He has visited nearly every cor
ner of the earth studying races, fauna and flora,
• ancl topograpny.
A native of Scotland, he came to America in his sixteenth year and
graduated from Princeton. Although a naturalized citizen, he was elected
during the past year to the Royal Geographical society of London. Dr. Mac
Queen is 55 years old.
_NEW FLORIDA SENATOR
D. W. Fletcher, the new senator from the
state of Florida, comes to Washington with one
well-defined plan strong in his mind. That is
nothing less than the construction of a big ship
canal entirely across his state.
It is a modest little stunt, as Senator Fletch
er pictures it, entailing possibly an expendi
turn of some trifling sum like $50,000,000, but
that is nothing like an indication of the real val- j
ue of the big ditch proposed.
Given a non-combatant listener, a large
sheet of paper and a lead pencil. Senator Fletch
er will prove by all the established rules of geog
raphy, commerce, math^natics and hygiene, that
every dollar dropped by our Uncle Samuel into
this big ditch will return big profits. Not only
would it save 500 miles of travel for the big ships
that yank our commerce around that route, but it would prove a decided
stimulus to commerce generally. And so it will—when he gets it.
Disproving an Old Adage.
Pent on an erranu of mercy, a city
prowler made his way into a strange
neighborhood. VVliat impressed him
most was the bookstore windows. In
every one for blocks around were
stacks of a new book he had never
heard of by a writer of whose identity
he v/as equally ignorant.
"Who is this man?" he finally asked.
‘Why is he so popular hereabouts?”
“He is the pastor of the Presby
terian church down in the next block.”
said a stationer. "Every bookseller
in the neighborhood is making a spe
cialty of his book. That is the usual
way of doing things when a clergyman
b'-ings out a new book. Anybody else
might appear in the publishers’ cata
logue every month without arousing
local pride, but with the preachers it
is different. When a minister turns
author that old saw about the prophet
being without honor in his own coun
try is disproved with a vengeance.
Every fall there is a considerable lit
erary output by the pastors of New
York churches. The first place where
those volumes are put on sale is in the
bookstores near the church where the
minister preaches, and usually ihe
largest sales are made there."—New
1 York Times.
Classics in the Army.
This talk about cutting out the
classics, the dead languages, at West
Point, must interest the retired offi
cers who had to wade through Latin
and Greek years ago. Why, every
West Pointer should be able to read
Caesar, at least. There was a famous
British officer, Lieut. Gen. Sir George
Murray, who served in the expedition
to Egypt. When before Alexandria,
the troops having suffered severely
from want of water, his literary ac
quirements were of the greatest serv
ice, instructing him that Caesar’s
army had been in the same predica
ment. Referring to his ‘‘Caesar"
(which he always carried in his port
able library), he found his recollec
tion right; that water had been ob
tained by the Romans from wells dug
at a certain spot in the sands. A
trial was immediately made, and the
result was a copious supply. The
British troops braced up and con
quered Egypt.
Austria’s government has brought
forward a bill in the chamber of dep
uties making insurance against illness
and old age compulsory on all work
men and domestics and those em
; ployes whose annual income does not
1 exceed $500.
V/SW THROUGH ”1
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VIEW THROUCH CREV/CE
Gradually nature's wonderlands in
the United States are being brought
under government control and set
apart as parks, reservations and mon
uments for the litre and enjoyment of
this and future generations, so that
what otherwise would be lost and ob
literated as the years went on is given
a permanent character.
The latest step in this direction is the
recent proclamation signed and madp
public by President Roosevelt creating
VIEW JHOtVM NUNEROS WWDUtG
CANYONS, BROKEN RIDGES, PINNACLES AND
BUTTE'S
Historical interest also attaches to
the region as it is believed that the
■ ill-fated expedition of Gen. John C
I Fremont was overtaken by disaster in
this immediate vicinity and was forced
to turn hack.
This expedition which proved so un
fortunate was the fourth which Gen
Fremont made across the continent
and was undertaken at his own ex
pense after he had resigned from the
army in 1S4S. His object was tht
finding of a practicable passage tc
California by way of the upper waters
of the Rio Grande. With 3d men and
1 L'O mules he made his way through
the country of the TJtes. Apaches. Co
manohes and other tribes of Indians
then at war with the United States.
in attempting to cross the great
Sierra, covered with snow, his guide
lost his way, and Gen. Fremont's party
encountered horrible suffering from
cold and hunger, a portion of them
_ being driven to
canmoausm. ah
of his animals and
one-third of hir
men perished, and
he was forced ta
retrace his steps to
Santa Fe. And it
is supposed that i!
was in this spot
which has been
designated as the
Wheeler nationa'
monument that
this terrible trage
VrCifV THROUGH C'RUIS/Ct.
the Wheeler national monument in
ihe Itio Grande National Forest, Colo
rado.
The’tract included by the proclama
tion is situated on the south slope and
near the summit of the continental
divide at an elevation of approximate
ly 11,500 feet above sea level.
The principal value of the land as
a national monument lies in the fact
that the fantastic forms resulting from
the rapid erosion of rock and soil
make the spot one of exceptional
beauty.
The numerous winding canyons, bro
ken ridges, pinnacles and buttes form
such striking and varied scenes that
it will be much visited by tourists
when it has been made accessible by
read or trail.
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y/cyv through CR£yfce
dy was enacted, and skeletons of
mules, bits of harness and camp
equipage found there give credence
to the belief.
For Inspection of Oyster Beds.
Attention has recently been celled
in the French press to the menace to
public health from the consumption
of unhealthy oysters. The sub
ject is also attracting notice in Bel
gium, where the Royal Society of
Medicine has taken the matter up, and
this learned body has passed a resolu
tion to the effect that oyster beds
ought to be subjected to special in
spection, and that measures should be
taken to regulate the retail sale of the
fish, and that all oysters entering in
to Belgium should undergo a rigorous'
examination.
Grade Touch on Typewriter
Good and Bad Work on Machine Easily
Distinguished.
"When in anything typewritten you
see the periods and commas punched
black and deep,” said an experienced
typewriter, “you may know that the
work was done by a beginner or by
one who has not yet done sufficient
work to have acquired a perfect touch.
‘The reason for the deep punching
of the punctuation points is very sim
ple. Naturally enough, the beginner
at typewriting plays upon all the keys
with equal force, but, as the types at
tached to the keys present unequal
amounts of printing surface, it follows
that equal force applied to all the
keys results in more or less unequal
printing on the papeV.
“For instance, a certain amount of
force applied to the B key might pro
duce of that type a fair impression on
the paper, but the same force applied
to a period might drive that, a mere
point, clean through the paper. In
fact, it is not unusual for beginners on
typewriters to punch holes, in the pa
per with their periods.
“But as the learner progresses in
her art she comes to realize that some
types must be touched more lightly
than others and gradually her period1
become less black and deep, and
with further practice she comes in
stinctively, automatically, to grade her
touch on all the letters and signs until
at last she is able to produce type
writing that is nothing less than ar
tistic in effect, true and uniform and
beautiful.
“It is something fine to see, the
good work of the intelligent, sensitive
and'truly competent typewriter.”
On the Face of It.
"A photographer's is a nice kind of
business,” said the admiring friend.
"It is in the main,” admitted the
photographer, glancing about his stu
dio, “but still there are some ugly
features about it.”—Baltimore Ameri
can. J
FOR FOUNDER OF Y. M. C. A.
Monument to Sir George Williams in
St. Paul’s Churchyard.
London.—Marked honor recently
has been paid to the late Sir George
Williams, founder of the Young Men’s
Christian association. A splendid mon
ument erected to his memory now
stands in the crypt of St. Paul's ca
thedral—a fitting site, as it was in
close proximity to this spot that the
original foundation of the Y. M. C. A.
took place. The association, which be
gan on a capital of $3, to-day numbers
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Memory of Sir George Williams.
820,643 members and controls build
ings and real estate to the value of
more than $50,000,000. It is one of the
most flourishing organizations in the
world; despite the fact that hosts of
other attempts on similar lines have
proved utter failures.
To the personality of Sir George
Williams himself is attributed a large
part of the wonderful success of the
Y. M. C .A., and yet, though his name
is so widely known, he always kept
the personal element in the back
ground. After his death it was found
that every particle of his correspond
ence had been destroyed as if he de
precated publishing his achievement
to the world.
Though the Y. M. C. A. rests to-day
on so solid a foundation it was not
always in such an enviable position;
and, had it not been for the personal
self sacrifices of its founder, it is very
doubtful if the organization would
have weathered many of the severe
crises through which it passed. The
scene of its beginning was an upper
room of a big dry goods store— ihat
of Hitchcock ii Rogers—which stood
in St. Paul's church yard in 1844.
Young Williams was a clerk in that es
tablishment and though but 20 years
of age. he exerted a powerful religious
influence on those with whom he came
in contact. He persuaded several fel
low clerks to join him in prayer once
or twice a week in the dormitory cf
the establishment, most cf the clerks
in those days, -as now, “sleeping iu.“
As to the actual founding of the
Young Men s Christian association as
such, it came into being at a meeting
held on June 6. 1844, with a capital—
collected on the spot—of $3.12; and
the first circular letter, addressed to
young employes in London, was posted
a few days later, young Williams and
his friends scarcely having sufficient
money even to pay for postage and
stationery. However, the dominating
personality of George Williams carried
everything before it, and :he Y. M. C.
A. was launched in spite of all difficul
ties.
After “capturing" London, and then
the rest of England, the Y. M. C. A.
idea was taken up in the United
States, .and in 1876 Sir George Wil
liams visited that country tyid was re
ceived with great demonstrations every
where. It was after becoming firmly
established in the United States that
the Christian associations became a
world-wide movement. Fcr his work
in connection with this organization
Queen Victoria conferred a knighthood
on the founder during her jubilee year,
1897.
Fire Fighters.
“While the people of the United
States were fighting the forest fires."
writes a man from Tampico, Mexico, “I
have been in charge of efforts to save
oil which was running away into the
lake at the rate of 100,000 barrels per
day. We had 500 Mexican troops, the
whole Sappers' and Miners’ regiment,
and about 500 mules in the work. The
boiling salt water coming out with
the oil increased ten times in volume,
decomposing all the oil and leaving
only its base—asphalt. The gas from
this well killed two men and 14 mules
during one month. I had a horse drop
from tinder me, pitching' me into a
barbed wire fence, though the gas did
not seem very strong at the time. We
live about three-quarters of a mile
from the well, but often have to sit up
all night when the wind is in our direc
tion to keep from asphyxiation. We
have oxygen tanks close at hand for
resuscitating persons ’gassed.’ ”
Intensely.
“Your mistress told me she would
be in at this hour," said the caller.
Ts she engaged?"
The maid listened a moment to the
whack-whacking sounds that came
from the nursery on the floor above,
interspersed with loud yells that
seemed to come from the vocal organs
cf a small hey.
“Very much, ma'am," she said.—
Chicago Tribune.
Talking Clocks.
In Switzerland they are making
clocks which do not need hands and
faces. The clock merely stands in the
hall, and you press a button in its
stomach, when, by means of the pho
nographic internal arrangements, it
calls out "Half-past six" or "Twenty
three minutes to eleven,” as the case
may be.
Washington-Made Humor.
“A Chicago man named Cheese
wants his name changed,1’ says the
Allentown Call. Why don’t he move
to Georgia and cultivate the Crackers
instead?—Washington Herald.
Fiats Are Wise.
Rats, which have of late become a J
great nuisance to the London tube ~
by attacking the coverings of electr
cables, have been driven from their
haunts by means of a virus which
when eaten by rats or mice, cause
them to be overcome with the desii
to get into the outer air and to drim
cold water. It is a curious and inter
esting fact that the rats knew wh> ■ •
the tube was nearest to the surface
as evidenced by the gt’feat numbt ;
which found their way to the top a'
the Trafalgar Square station.
Dog w th Tutor and Maid.
Nana, a French poodle belonging b
Mr. Edward Elssworth, a real esta'.
operator of New York, is surely the
most pampered canine in the world
A private room at the Plaza hotel, a
tutor, a maid, a private hath, and a
special menu are among the items ca
the list of the necessaries of life p;<
Tided for the dog. The tutor is en
gaged to teach Nana tricks more com
plicated than the ordinary jump;
through hoops and “shamming d< ad.
and Nana’s food is specially prepart d <
in the servants’ kitchen.
DOMESTIC REPARTEE.
Mr. Knagg—Before you reel me you
said you wouldn’t marry the best man
in the world.
Mrs. Knagg—And you are the only
one who thinks that I broke my word
Sure Sian.
Mrs. Murphy—Arran! ’Tis Saterdih
night an’ th' facth’ry is closin’ down
an’ Timmy don’t know whether he 1
git his pay or not.
Mrs. Flaherty—Here he comes hou..’
now. w|
-Mrs. Murphy—Wirra! Thin be ain't
been paid.
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Chaucer’s House Is Sold.
Hartford Manor, Farington, B rk
shire, England, formerly the honu * t
the poet Chaucer, and the largest
farm on the Pusey estate, has Ik-cii
sold to the leaseholder, George Bay
of Wyfield Manor, Newbury. t:
largest producer of barley in Euglar. :
Pusey is said to have been grant, <t
to the family of that name by Cantu,
by tenure of a horn, which is still
Pot. vie re Pusey’s possession and ben.
the inscription: "King Kncude guv.
William Pewse ye horn to held by t.
Loude.”
Laundry work at home would i .
much more satisfactory if the re. .
Starch were used. In order to get tie
desired stiffness, it is usually nee*
sary to use so much starch that th.
beauty and fineness of the fabric
hidden behind a paste of varyit.c.
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the gftMfe This tr
ble can be entirely ie 1 usii
Defiance Starch, .n b- ;>pl - ^
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Sixty Miles of Logs.
The largest raft of logs ever towed
from Nova Scotia to Boston was cot
posed of enough logs to reach sixty
miles, if placed end to end. it n\,
composed of 7,000 logs, rafted t
gether in a mass of 400 feet in lengt: .
fifty feet wide and twenty-eight fe V
in depth. It floated with ten feet of
logs above water and eighteen f.\ t.
submerged.
Starch, like everything else, is b<
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 23 yea is
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery—Refinance Starch—all
injurious chemicals are omitted, wh li
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap
proached by other brands.
Increases Liquor Duties.
The British government has in
creased the duties in spirits for Sierra
Leone 25 per cent in response to the m
agitation concerning liquor traffic in
Africa.
Starch, like everything else, is be
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those cf the present day. In the in;
est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in
jurious chemicals are omitted, whih>
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ?.| -
proached by other brands.
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