Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA — .. » __ 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 CREVICE Jr (fi&fV / FA!y 7>U T/C Jh'AP£J FOfirtEO BY ERQSJOSf OF LAVA FORZIAT/C-H 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. ■ — 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 © sg.aiR r ' !j! f GEORGE. £ jAV/iaiAMs r r /| \ J 021 - l?03 M ] •' ; V 'mu p e --V MYL*5T l.uACY AftolTtfA PPrCiOvo OJv£ 'tint YOVWG MENS CHRliSTJAN A££OCtATf ON » LEAVE»TTO YOV Bfi.OVZf' YOVNG f^FN OF rA«r .OVV^C J TO CARR* ON ANL TO EXTEND Monument Erected in London to the 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. - ^ 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,