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
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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.
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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.
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TROUBLE IN ROYAL PALACE.
Tidings Borne by Amateur Actor Suf
ficient to Lead Hearers to Ex
pect the Worst.
The Shakespeare club of New Or
leans used to give amateur theatrical
performances that were distinguished
for the local prominence of the actors.
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.”
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