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loiip City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher IAHJP CITY, - - NEBRASKA CLOTHES. Mere man has been consistently and earnestly poking fun at woman be cause of the vagaries which fashion has imposed upon her. Latterly, this has been more marked, perhaps, than in the olden days when the funny fel lows who write paragraphs, figurative ly, were out the hoopskirts and the big balloon sleeves. Of late much merry laughter has been expended over the woman of the patella shape and the peach basket headgear, it is thoroughly convulsing, says the Pitts burg Post. Woman is such a queer sight, togged out to represent an ani mated mushroom. But what of a man and his attire? Is the laugh to be on one corner of the mouth? Does not the shoe on the ether foot pinch a little? Those strange shoes of the emerald hue. And what of all the other green things he dons that give him the appearance of a string bean at a little distance, if he chances to be of a lean and hungry build? Consider for a moment the "swell-dresser” who swings up the avenue, his sack coat extending to the region of the patella, two or three buttons the fraction of an inch apart, boldiDg it together, the trousers, turned half way to the knee, as though reaching upward to meet the coat, and themselves bellying like • pair of balloons. Consider the diag onal cut of the pockets and the curi ous bands and braids about his cuffs. Is he not a sightly figure? “uivuiuwin; win uuc ucru (laoocu by the legislature of New York after a wrangle as to which of the depart ments should have the licensing pow er, and it is possible that more impor tant provisions may have been over looked in the contest. The fact that it places the maximum speed limit at 30 miles and retains the present road rules is evidence that it is not likely to improve conditions on the road to any great extent. A speed of 30 miles au hour may be extremely dangerous on some roads w’here it is impossible to see for any great distance. The railroads find danger at curves that are hidden by foliage, and there are many highway crossings thus ob scured. There are probably few farmers who have closely figured the average cost of marketing any given unit of their crops as a manufacturer figures upon each article he turns out, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. As long as there was nothing to be done but to plow and sow and reap and count up the total result such calcu lations were not called for. But that easy time is passing. It is the man who makes two blades to grow w’here one grew before, not two blades upon twice the area of ground, who is on the road to wealth. A clubwoman in a discussion how to make home happy uttered the now fa mous dictum, “Feed the brute.” A New York magistrate has taken up the challenge and supplemented this dictum with the order to feed the brute well. Here is a field of argu ment in which the weaker sex signal ly fails, says the Baltimore American. Eve tempted Adam with a toothsome morsel, and her daughters have suf fered the penalty of tempting man through his palate ever since. Another wealthy English nobleman is reported to have sold a Rembrandt masterpiece for $500,000. Presumably the purchaser will be set down as a rich American, and the vials of British wrath will be opened on his head. But where will come in censure for the British nobleman who wanted the money more than he wanted to keep the picture as a national possession? International control of the air is to be advocated at the fourth Pan-Ameri can conference to be held in Argen tina, at which time aeronautics and wireless telegraphy will be discussed. Possibly that is all that is intended, but the casual reader might imagine some trust was getting ready to squeeze the breath out of us. The an(j the romance of octogenarians rub each other by the elbow in the day’s news. Cupid is a queer little chap, and Jhere is no accounting for his ireaks. Anti-vivisectionists are now holding a congress in London and trying to convince the world that the life of a dog is of more value than the life of a man. The remarkable thing about most of these feather-brained people who rush along city streets in automobiles Is that they have nothing to rush about. It would be annoying if a judges decision should unmarry 3,000 or so couples who were wedded in good faith and prefer to remain wedded. Japan's government ought to be sol id with the people for some time. It has supplied good crop prospects. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has lived to a ripe and honored old age without seeing the popularity of her great song grow dim. Paris merchants would hate to con nive at smuggling, but they want to sell lots of goods to American visitors. At the same time no one is obliged to eat wheat bread. There’s rye cake and corn pone—just as good. It is dangerous every once in awhile to spit on the sidewalk. J tfAU ICERM/fl/f g/rfi <f HE autograph fiend has a far more amusing fad just now than the mere col lecting of or dinary signatures of ex traordinary folk, and the newest thing in this hobby necessitates the possession of a "ghost book" to hold the signa tures which portray the "ghosts” of the eminent ones. These little books are Decoming terj e^eu**** both in London'and in New York. They have an advantage over the ordinary autograph album, because the collecting of signatures has been so overdone that many of the "great ones have had rubber facsimiles made of their very best autographs—not the kind that appears on their checks—and instead of taking time to respond whenever a stamped and addressed envelope is inclosed, all they do is to pass ^he letter, request anli nnvninna nvnr tn their secretary—or perhaps it never gets beyond the secretary at all and the an o graph is stamped on in such a manner that it selves the purpose well and saves Mr. Author, Mr. Actor 01 Mr. Singer a lot of time and trouble. But a request for a name in one s ghost book has a certain novelty about it and there is, too, considerable curiosity to see just what sort of a ghost one s name will make, so that nearly everyone will take the trouble to picture his ghost for you. In making the collection for a ghost book, partially reproduced here, many well-known men and women were asked for ghosts. President and Mrs. Taft were immensely amused at the idea and both took the keen est interest in seeing how their ghosts would turn out. The big statesman adjusted his glasses, fold ed with the utmost precision the paper on which he was to inscribe his ghost, looked around for a stub pen, which, unfortunately, he could not find on his desk in the Hot Springs bungalow and then he wrote his name and hastily folded back the paper. “Cannot say that for such a big man as 1 am in the flesh my ghost cuts such a wide swath," he laugh ingly remarked as he held the pa per up for Mrs. Taft to view. "But anyhow’, the smaller one's ghost the better—perhaps." he added. “Mrs. Taft was more pleased with her ghost than she wTas with that of her husband. “You are more important just now, but my ghost is a far more artistic creature than yours and really more spirituelle,” she laughed. It will be no ticed that a part of Mrs. Taft's ghost bears a re markable resem blance to a Ma sonic emblem. Miss Mary Gar den practiced sev eral times on her ghost before she would allow the final one to ap pear in the writ er’s ghost book. "Ghosts, like ev erything else, im prove by practice, and I look upon my final ghost as a worthy effort,” laughed Miss Gar den. “In fact, I see the urn above from which my spook must have hopped out,” she said, and sure enough, if one v. ill look at the prima donna’s ghost it will be found quite true. Miss Geraldine Farrar was enchanted with her ghost, which she said looked like a veritable butterfly. "How splendid to be so picturesque a ghost!” Miss Farrar commented. Miss Emma C. Thursby has one of the most remarkable ghosts of all, and for beauty and symmetry it is quite as pleasing as a wrought iron work design or a Japanese brass candle stick. "1 prefer to think of it as something that was designed by (he shades of some Japanese artist, which idea I absorbed when 1 visited some of the great temples in Japan.” said Miss Thursby. Lady Warwick says she doesn't believe in ghosts at all, but she was very much impressed by the appearance of her titled name when her ghost became a reality. “1 think I shall design a book plate out of it. That wouldn’t he a bad idea, wouid it?” the countess added as she viewed the strong, bold writing that formed her signature. Lady Cosmo Duff-Gordon was enchanted with her ghost and ghost-collecting has become such a fad with her that she has purchased a dozen of the little volumes for her friends. "I put my ghost in each one and 1 suppose I must be a woman of a number of selves, or else there are a number of warring ghosts in my ancestry, for each one of my signatures produced a ghost so totally different from the others that one would scarcely believe that they came from the same name and handwriting. But I am rather pleased with the idea, for what is more prosaic than lack of variety? 1 have made my fortune by original and diverse designs in the making of frocks.” said the titled dressmaker, "so why shouldn't my ghost signatures portray that characteristic?” When Mrs. Elinor Glym, author of "Three Weeks.” had made her ghost she thought that it bore some resemblance to a tiger and eagerly pointed out its claw-s. “The tiger is essentially one of my transmigrations, or shall I say mani festations?” remarked Mrs. Glyn. “Hence my tiger ghost. Paul would be pleased with that, wouldn’t he?” she added with a smile. Emmy Destinn, the gifted Bohemian prima donna of the Royal opera house, Berlin, who has just finished a brilliant first season in America, said that she could see in her ghost the shades of the late empress dowager of.china. That fancy may have occurred to her because when she made her ghost the news of the death of the Chinese empress had just been received. George Bernard Shaw' hasn’t time for ghosts or interviews or writer folk at all, he says, yet this most inconsistent of men generally gives his interview and sees the writer person, and here we have his ghost. Mr. Shaw generally makes it as uncomfortable as possible for the interviewer before allowing him to be admitted, but after that the genial blue-eved Irishman is Irresistible and one reddily forgives him any thing that has seemed rude. The writer sent a note asking for an interview with Mr. Shaw in his chambers just off the Embankment in Lon don last summer and in response Mr. Shaw' char acteristically wrote: My Dear Miss-: I will have ten minutes’ rest to-morrow some time between 11 and 12:BO. If you catch me during the ten minutes I will see you. If you stay longer I will throw you out of the window. GEORGE B. S. The writer went at a quarter to twelve and j4r Shaw talked and talked and talked until *jg§ v GEOMif^BcartAXD Y/ If ' • •;;• • ||| wl__fK** » ».n NTKv> or W AKVTICK | Courtress of Warwick nearly one o'clock and not a word was said about the window or the playwright’s strong right arm! For a man of his brusque threats Mr. Shaw has a very mild and diminutive-looking ghost. Hallie Erminie Rives has a ghost that might be of Oriental origin, for it resembles an antique and elaborately carved vase of Chinese design more than anything else. “Perhaps it is meant for the urn that contains my shades,” the novel ist laughingly remarked. Of course one may just care to have the ghosts of one's friends and not particularly those of people celebrated in the art, literary or politi cal worlds, and then it. will be a simple matter to fill up one's ghost book, for the making of ghosts will be found to be quita a novelty at a tea or other social affair, and taken along with one's hand luggage on an ocean voyage a ghost book will prove a source of endless amuse ment. while it will make a lasting souvenir of the trip. The ghost book itself is a small affair that can be gotten in the pocket of an overcoat or can be cairied easily in a muff or big hand bag, so that one can always take it along with out any trouble. When you ask for a ghost signature vpu prepare the page for the writing by folding it and the person whose ghost you are after writes directly on the line of t.he fold. A stub pen which holds a large amount of ink is best for this purpose, as the size and mystery of the ghost depend largely upon the ink. After the name is written the page is folded together again without blot ting and lo, tin; ghost appears. Try it and see! It is not necessary to Irave a book. One can have the signatures written on separate sheets of paper and collect them, but care must be taken to use soft paper that will absorb the ink readily. These separate sheets can then be pasted into a scrap-book, but the little ghost book itself will be found more convenient. At the top of a page in the ghost book is a small dotted line for the date and below appears another line for the writing of the name after the ghost is made, so that after all in a ghost book one gets a genuine autograph as well as the spook signature. While several ghost signatures of the same person will often show an apparent wide differ ence in conformation, owing to the shape of the pen, the flow of the ink and the amount of pres sure used, a more careful scrutiny will make it clear that, the chief char acteristics hold through out. The ghost is true to its type. Who, then, will inter pret and reveal the true meaning of our ghost au tographs? Here is a new iAOT JJufF-GofiQOM neiu tor investigation anti amuseraem. With the advent of the ghost book we have a new twist to an old, old fad. Travelers in central Europe as early as the fourteenth century used to carry their "Book of Friends.” an octavo vol ume in which names and sentiments were in scribed. On their return home they could show an interesting record of thje famous personages they had met. These are the first autograph al bums of which we hear, but the passion for col lecting manuscripts and autographs is as old as the history of cultured society and is not without its romantic side. One of the Ptolemies once paid the starv ing Athenians in wheat for the privilege of copying some treasured manuscripts of the immortal Greek dramatists. The wretch kept the originals and returned the copies. If it had been the ghost, signatures of Euripides and Sophocles that the unscrupulous ruler was after he w’ould not have found it easy to perpetrate so heartless a trick. MONEY THAT GOES ABROAD Europe is a lovely place; the grave of Shakespeare is a noble sight and it's worth money to see the hillsides that produce the wine that made the Rhine famous. But tins year it was Broadway, Bath Beacb, Kokomo or Kalamazoo for a large number of worthy American citizens whose custom it has been to spend the sultry months across the water. It's the old story of Balaklava over again—only worse. Some millions have blundered. Times are twisted up in a hard knot and we are just beginning to get the kinks out. No body know’s what is going to be the outcome of the newr tariff law. The indications are good for a poor wheat crop. Panama hats and overcoats j are selling side by sida in the open market. In short, there is no time like the present for staying at home and at tending to business. In these crucial circumstances 200,000 persons have consented to make the sacrifice. At any rate, such are the present indi cations. something to the rest of the coun try. Paying to see Europe is our an nual blood-letting operation. Millions upon millions are taken out of our national circula tion. We work hard during the winter, either at earning money or at getting it from those who have earned it. then hustle across the water to fatten up the Swiss guides and the hotel keepers. That is, about 1,200,000 of us do. The other 78,800,000 do their traveling in their sleep, so they can be back next morning in time ior worK. The rich American going abroad counts only one on the passenger list, but he must be carefully considered in any estimate . He spreads out the chart upon his desk. An exceedingly anxious-to-please agent of the steam ship company is at his side. Here is something up near the bow that is just right—so the steam ship man says. “Not for a minute,” says the man who has the last say. It is too far up in front. The motion of the boat would put him out of busi ness the first day. What else? Oh. an exquisite suite amidships. It's great The Countess de Spitzbergen never takes any thing else when she is going to or coming from America. Beautiful parlor, mahogany finish. Bed room in ivory. Bathroom in baby blue. Maid’s quarters. And the rate for two adults and one servant is only $1,700. Will the gentleman take it? Indeed he will not. The Countess of Spitzber gen may travel in the hold if she likes, but no baby blue or mahogany can lure him to a point over the engines. Why, didn't he come over once in a suite thus located? Didn't the incessant coughing, wheezing, trembling and sneezing of the machinery nearly drive him wild? Not a wink of sleep from the time he went abroad until he get home. Friends thought he had been*4 sick when he showed himself in the street. Oh. very well. Here's an equally beautiful suite far removed from the engines—back toward the stern. Occupants of these apartments often call for the captain to ask what makes the boat go. because they can hear no noise nor feel any vibration. Highly recommended by the best phy sicians to nervous patients. Price, the same. Did any one ever hear of such stupidity? Here our patient multi-millionaire has explained in de tail that he cannot travel at the bow of a ship because the motion is too great and the agent has shown him a suite near the stern. What's the difference between the bow and the stern, any way? Isn’t each end .balanced in the middle where it will go up and down like the end of a waiking-beam? Well, a steamship man who doesn't know any more than that can go back home. Mr. Multi-Millionaire will travel by some line that at least employs persons of intelligence -----. With the Air He Breathed - 4 Emigrant from the Green Isle Ab sorbed Americanism. How long it requires an Irishman to become an American is another story. The federal statutes, of course, have their own crude opinions on the sub ject; but those authorities are apt to be influenced by prosaic fact rather than by divine instinct. ft is told of two steerage passengers whose steamer entered New York on the morning of the glorious Fourth, that one of them, an Englishman, lis tened a few minutes to the tremendous cannonade and cracker firing that ushered in the dawn of Freedom. At last he turned to his companion and wondered what was the meaning of all the “blooming row.” The other smiled scornfully. “Arrah, g'wan. you foreigner! This is the day we bate yees!"—Sunday Magazine. Reading for Improvement. Any girl with an ordinary publit school education can do something to improve her mind a little every day. She can read a page of some good book—a book of travel, or a book of history, or a book of poems, or a book of eEsays—and she can think of what she has read, and by copying in a blank book a few sentences or lines which impress her, she can improve her knowledge of spelling and phras ing, so that she will acquire after a year of such practice a better educa tion than many high school graduates possess. Any librarian will advise an ambitious girl what books to read foi self-culture. To read a novel hurried ly, just for the sake of knowing "how it comes out," is only a waste of time and brain power. Good novels are worth reading, but they should leave something in the mind besides the story, or they are better left unread. Our mistakes of yesterday are re sponsible for our worries of to-day. Many who used to smoke 10c cigars are now smoking Lewis’ Single Hinder straight 5c. When a woman gets really sick she begins to wonder if she will look good in a balo. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teethlns. softenc the guru, reducer Irr flumjnaituu, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2Tc a bottle. Life's Unequal Combat. You, a river, are contending with the ocean.—I.atin. Ask Your Druggist for Allen’s Foot-Ease. ’’1 tried ALLEN S FOOT-EASE recent ly, and have just bought another supply. It has oured my corns, and the hot, burn ing and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not he without it now.—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J.” Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Practical Device. ‘‘Why don't you mend that large hole in your umbrella?” “I keep it to put my hand through to see if it is still raining."—Meggen dorfer Blaetter. Fitted for the Jcb. The general consulted the topo graphical chart. "You understand, colonel,’’ he said, “that this charge on . the enemy’s fortification necessitates i the most reckless - disregard for hu man life?” “J understand, general,” the colonel replied. “The forlorn hope that leads the movement will be com posed exclusively of amateur chauf feurs.” A Financial Epigram. “H. H. Rogers,” said a New York broker, "always advised young men to get hold of capital. He used to point out to them that without capi tal a man could do nothing, nothing He used to pack this truth into a very neat epigram. “’’Fortune.’ he used to say, ’can’t knock at the door o( a man who has no house.’ ” Severe. Samuel Gompers was talking in the smokeroom of the Baltic about a re cent newspaper attack on a rich cor- | poration. “It was a cruel attack,” Mr. Gom pers chuckled. "It was as cruel as the Jonesville Clarion's paragraph about old Deacon Hiram Ludlow. “This paragraph header ihe Clar ion’s obituary column. It said: " ’Deacon Hiram Ludlow of Frisble ! township, aged 82, passed peacefully • away on Thursday last from single blessedness to matrimonial bliss after a short hut severe attack by Maria Higgins, a blooming widow ol 37 sum mers.’”—Detroit Journal. GAVE HER AN IDEA. Cycle Dealer—Here is a cyclometer I can recommend. It is positively ac curate; not at all like sense cyclome ters, which register two miles, per- j haps, where you have only ridden one. 1 -Miss de Hyke—You haven't any of that kind, have you? THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS. Unselfishness in Life Is the One Thing That Will Transform All Things to Gold. The moment we set about the task of making every human being we come in contact with better for know ing us—more cheerful, more coura- | geous and with greater faith in the kindness of God and man—that mo ment we begin to attain the third pur pose of life—personal happiness. Would you possess the magic secret of the alchemist which transforms all j things to gold? It is unselfishness—or, to use a bet- . ter word, selflessness. lie who goes forth bent upon being , always kind, always helpful, in the lit- I tie daily events of life, will find all i skies tinted with gold, all his nights j set with stars and unexpected flowers ; of pleasure springing up in his path way. And all his tears shall turn into ■ smiles.—Brooklyn Eagle. Nebraska Directory TAFT’S D ENTALRO 0 MS 1517 Douglas St., OMAHA, NEB. Reliable Dentistry at Moderate Prices. M. Spiesberger &. Son Co. Wholesale Millinery The Best In the West OMAHA, WEB. MARSEILLES 6RAIN ELEVATORS are the best: insist on having them. 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Once a social celebrity, with a gor geous costume, as one of the lords in waiting bad only four words to say: “The queen has swooned " As he stepped forward- his friends applauded vociferously. Bowing bis thanks, he faced the king and said, in a high pitched voice: "Tbe swoon has queened.” There was a roar of laughter; but he waited patiently, and made an other attempt: “Thg sween has c-ooned.” Again the walls trembled and the stage manager said in a voice which could be heard all over the house: “Come off, you doggoced fool.” But the ambitious amateur refused to surrender, and in a rasping fal setto, as he was assisted off the stage, he screamed: “The coon has sweened.”—Success Magazine. Aid Fight Against Tuberculosis. At the recent meeting of the Na tional Association of Bill Posters, held In Atlanta, Ga.. it was decided to do nate to the campaign against tubercu losis $1,200,000 worth of publicity. The bill posters in all parts of the United States and Canada will fill the vacant spaces on their 3.500 bill boards with large posters illustrating the ways to prevent and cure con sumption. The Poster Printers' asso ciation has also granted $200,000 worth of printing and paper for this work. This entire campaign of bill board publicity will he conducted un der the direction of the National As sociation for the Study and Preven tion of Tuberculosis in co-operation with the National Bill Posters' asso ciation. They Were Good Mothers. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is quoted as saying that a woman's first duty is to develop all her powers and possibili ties, that she may better guide and serve the next generation. Mrs Stan ton raised seven uncommonly healthy and handsome children, says an ad mirer of hers, and the children of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe testify to the vir tues of the noted woman as a moth er. The eagle may be as good a mother as the hen or the goose. Self-Made. "I might say to you, young men, that I am a self-made man.” “In what respect?” asked, an im pertinent youth. "In this respect, if you must know,” replied the orator. ”1 made myself popular with men who had a pull and thus obtained my present lofty posi tion.” Her Intentions. . "Do you think your sister will mar ry me?” “If you keep cornin’.” “Have you heard her say anything ihout it?" "I heard her tell ma that if you iidn't stop cornin' here so often she'd make things unpleasant for you.” Ready Cooked. The crisp, brown flakes of Post Toasties Come to the breakfast table right, and exactly right from the package—no bother; no delay. 1 he-v have bod>’ to«: these Post Toasties are firm enough to give you a delicious substantial mouthful before they melt away. “The Taste Lingers.” Sold by Grocers. Made by POSTUM GEREAL CO., LIMITED. ' BATTLE CREEK, niCHIGAN.