Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURUCIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY . NEBRASKA
EATING IN THE OLD DAYS
Then Guests at Banquets Used Their
Own Knives and
Forks.
Even at so late a period as the res
toration, in 1000, the London Chronicle
says, it was the custom for guests to
take their own knives and forks to an
English banquet. Pepys records that
he did this when he went to the lord
mayor's feast in the Guildhall. In the
previous reign the lord chamberlain
had found it necessary to issue regu
lations for the benefit of officers in
vited to dine at the royal table. They^
were required to wear clean boots,
not to drink more than one goblet to
every two dishes, not to throw the
bones under the table nor io lick
their fingers. x
The Stuarts undoubtedly did much
to refine English table manners, for it
was one of the points admired in
Mary Queen of Scots that the customs
she> introduced from France made her
court and royal banquets more ex
quisite and genteel than those of her
rival. Queen Elizabeth. As forks came
.into use the old-time importance of
the table napkin began to wane. From
being a necessity it became a luxury,
on the fastidious use of which eti
quette has at various times placed
strange values.
f.’nder the third empire in France
St. lieuve brought disgrace upon him
self because at breakfast at the
Tuileries he carelessly opened his
napkin and placed it over his two
knees. To this he added the crime of
cutting his egg in two at the middle.
Court etiquette prescribed that the
half folded napkin should lie on the
left knee and the top of the egg was
to be merely broken with the edge of
the spoon and drained with the tip of
the spoon.
For his failings in these respects St.
Beuve's name was struck off the im
perial visiting list.
BILLBOARD AN ANACHRONISM
What the District of Co!i:mbis Is Do
mg to Abolish the
Eyesore.
The district commissioner.- ere to
be congratulated upon their firm stand
in connection with the billboard nui
sance, the Washington Post says. The
advanced position taken reaches the
hearty indorsement of practically all
residents of Washington and the abo
lition of the billboard eyesores may be
the happy consummation of the not
distant future. The decision to carry
the matter to the courts is to be wel
comed as clearing the ground for ulti
mate action in the case. The ruling
of the court in this matter will show
in what respects, if any, present laws
.need to be amended in order that the
nuisance can be legally abolished;
and in order to do this the case, when
it goc-s to the courts for adjudication,
should be made to cover every pos
sible feature of the controversy. If
the present law is nor sufficient to
remedy the abate < a tigress can be de
pended upon to make it broad enough
to cover iviiv emergency.
The development of aesthetic ideas
in recent years in America, par
ticularly in connection with the beauti
fication of titles has made the bill
beard an anachronism, as Comniis
‘sioiier Juarfarlaud declares. While
nearly everything else has felt the up
lift, the billboard keeps last to i:s
pristine hideousness.
Net only is the day of the billboard
passing in the cities, but there is evi
dence that the smaller towns and the
countryside are awakening to the
necessity of action in the way of either
abolition »,r strict regulation. Kail
roads are refusing permission for the
erection of billboards upon their right
of way and when the thrifty Jersey
farmers are better educated perhaps a
trip from Philadelphia to New York
will less rese mble a journey through a
tunnel c.f horrors.
The Bishop's Choice.
A celebrated .Anglican divine, the
late bishop of Rochester. who had
be cii ailing for some time, decided to
consult Sir Frederick Treves, the not
ed surgeon. After a careful examina
tion Sir Frederick pronounced his ver
dict, ar.d added: "Your lordship must
go to Algiers or some winter resort
on the Riviera.”
"Impossible,” replied the bishop. “1
have too much work to get through.”
"Well.” said the doctor, “you must
B.ske your choice. It is either Algiers
or heaven.”
“Dear me,” exclaimed the bishop,
with a sigh, “then 1 suppose it must
be Algiers.”—Los Angeles Herald.
Sure to Hit Somebody.
: An armed woman, other things be
•ing equal, should, if anything, be ac
corded more severe penalties than
those imposed upon men found carry
ing concealed weapons.
Sunflower Philosophy.
How rarely your favorite barber is
idle!
The eternal feminine question:
“How much is it a yard?”
incidentally there are a number of
voices that could be revised down
ward to advantage.
We almost bate to meet a stranger
in August; we so hate to shake his
hot hand.
You women have an idea that we
men can't get along unless we have a
'woman to watch us.—Atchison, Kan.,
Globe.
, Going the Limit.
l “Jiggers, must be leading a fast
life in Paris.”
“What makes you think so?”
“He writes on a souvenir postcard
■that he is learning how to eat snails.”
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
A High Regard.
“He has a high regard for the
truth.”
“Yes, indeed. He never thinks ol
using it when something else will suit
,his purpose just as well or better,”—
Detroit Free Press.
President Taft’s
tf 13,000 Mile Tour
Z//7fi£ Foie or
ENG/NCt/i.
RESIDENT WILLIAM
HOWARD TAFT, backed
up by "26 pounds of joy
ful smiles is to-day speed
ing westward on a 13,000
mile tour of the United
States.
The trip is over two
months in duration, start
ing September 15 from
Boston and ending with
the president’s arrival in
Washington for the winter, on No
vember 21.
It is the longest journey through
the length and breadth of the United
States ever undertaken by an Amer
ican executive while in oHice, and the
trip is notable in presidential annals.
While es-President Theodore Roose
velt is smashing precedents and set
ting new ones in Africa by riding on
the cowcatchers of engines, etc., his
successor is getting close to the soil
in his own environment. -
Hiding witn tne eu
gineer, getting his
picture taken leaning
from the cab of the
engine almost in the
act of swabbing the
grease from the num
bers on the side of
the vehicle, stretch
ing over the observa
tion platform t o
shake hands with
countrymen at towns
where two-minute
stops are billed, shout
ing a cheery 'howdy"
as the special train
pulls out of the small
! town station, "Big
liili" Taft is racing
from coast to coast
and bar',; ijgain.
lie w scheduled
to touch the extreme
northern boundary of
the country and upon
the occasion, October
1C, win u it was pre
arranged that he
| should sliak ■ hands
with President Diaz
of Mexico, and there
: by cement relations
between these nation
al neighbors, he was
| slated to set foot on
i the south boundary.
He started from
; Beverly, Mass., which
is on the east coast of
the United States and
his program called for
a visit of several days
! at Seattle and other
/v VEM/rtUTFS FO/Z
a Rtct pnon .
//
points on thi? Pacino coast wnicn is
the west boundary of the union. Thus
it was predestined that the executive
should set foot on the four extreme
lines which enclose the domain
j which selected him as its head.
The personnel of the president's
traveling party besides the president,
consists of John Hays Hammond,
president of the League of Republi
can Clubs; (’apt. Archibald W. Butt,
military aide; Wendell W. Mischler.
] assistant secretary; Dr. J. J. Richard
son of Washington, D. C.; Jaraes
1 Sloan, Jr., and L. C. Wheeler Of the
secret service and Maj. Arthur
Brooks, the president’s confidential
messenger. Six newspaper men ac
company the president throughout
the entire trip. The party travels in
two private cars attached for the
N§B
ro the
Meet/no Pi~A ce>
I trains. Besides the regular executive affairs,
President Taft is preparing his message to con
gress and a small part of each day is spent' in
either making memoranda or mertal notes on
points upon which he will elucidate in the regular
communication due in December.
Secretary Carpenter, the man who handles
much of the president's business of national im
portance, has packed away in his grips severa'
hundred pounds of programs which are to be car
ried out at the various points at which the presi
! dent is scheduled to stop and make a few re
marks.
There is scarcely a state in the union through
which the president does not pass. Every big
city in the country with only a few exceptions,
will be invaded in accordance with the presiden
tial program.
Leaving Boston, after motoring into the city of
highbrows, Mr. Taft and his two special trains de
parted westward for Chicago, arriving in the
windy city the following day. Party chiefs there
received him with the sort of glad hand that Chi
cago knows how to extend. Taft's palm turned up
( ward in response to the cordial greeting, after
Jjry Wutfm W (Mpjpisojv
Key Numbers Shore President's Course:
l.raicn—Beverly. >laKM. . . Sept.
1— Hnwfon. Mu**.Sept.
2— 1 liicuxo. Ill.Sept.
.*1—Madikon, Milnnukf4*.. . . .
. . . . 1'itrla^r. WIm. .Sept
Minn
(ol
I—\> ioooa. Minn ...
5— Miuneapoll* and
Paul,
t»—Dr* Moiarix,
7—Oumlin. Neb. . .
**—Denver, Pul..
SI—\\ ol burnt. Pol.
|(>—Pueblo. Col. ..
I I—•(ilcuuuod SpK.1,
—Montrose. Col.
II!—Suit Luke Pity. I tab
i:;—Poeatello. Idaho. . .
14—llutte, Mont .
I"—Helena, Mont.
HI—Spokane. \\ u*li.Sept.
i7—North \ aklma
Iv—Seattle. Sept. 20-20
111—Purtlaud. Ore.
21?—Saeramento. Pal. . .
-1—Oakland, Pal.
— Ilerkeley. Pal. .....
111!—San FranriKco.
22—- Yo.se ini te \ alley.
—Crejtno, Pal. . . .
21—Po* Aneele*. Pal
1T5—tirand Canyon. .
-<*—\ IhiKiuerqiie, N.
117—Kl I'aKO. Tc\ ....
HI
i;
22
22
22
26
126
...Sept
St.
Sept. IS-111
. . . Sept. 20
...Sept. 20
. . . Sept.
Sept.
. . .Sept,
. . . Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept. 27
Sept. 27
2S
Sept. 211
and Oet I
. . . Oet. 2-2
.Oet. 4
.©et. r.
.Oet. r»
. Oet. r.
.Oet. 0-7-S-ll
.Oet. 10
. . Oet. I 1-12
.Oet. 14
Mm . . Oet. 15
.Oet. l«
Meet* President Diaz, of Meiieo at
SS—*»nn \nfunio, Te.v .
—Fort Sam IfoiiMtou.
CorpuK t’liriMl. . . .
_O ct. I«
. . . Oct. 17
Tex Oct. is
.Oct. IS
—Ilrotlicr’nt much :ir Ccrpiu
thrift!.Oct. 10-20-21-22
SO—i fount mi. Tex .Oct.
<1 — Dalian. Tex.Oct. 23
—St. I.ouIm. no.Oct.
—F.aNt St. I.ouin, III.Oct.
—t ape Oirnrdenu, Mo.. Oct.
33— t alro. Ill.Oct.
34— Hickman, hy.Ort.
ST.— Memphis. Trim .Oct.
36— Helena. Ark.Oct.
37— VickMbarK. Mi»n.Oct.
— Katun House, l.n.Oct.
ItS—\en Orleans. l.n.
.Oct. 30-31— Vox.
2D
:«f—Jackson. MU» . .
—t'oluinliiiM, ni«w
40—Kirinin*;han>. % In
41 — Macon, (ia.
42—Saxunnnh. On
4lt—('harlexton, s. C..
44—r A iisuntn. tin
4T»—4'oliimbin. S.
46— \Mlminstnu. V.
47— Itlchniond, \a
— UaMliinston, I).
— Mitldlcton n. Conn
— Norfolk, A u.
—Kniuptou. Vu.
—UaxbiDKtun, I), t*
C. .
C.
Nov. 1
Nov. 2
..Nov. 24
. Vox . 1
. . . \or. 4
Nov. .%
N ov. 6-7
. Nov. S
. . . Nov.
Nov.
. . . Nov.
, . . Nov.
. . Nov.
. Nov.
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ID
II
ID
20
21
which he was down on the bookings to ' do" Mad
ison. Portage and Milwaukee, Wis., in a single day
on his way to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.
Thence the program called for a southern trip
to Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., with a
long jump to Denver, Cok, which eity a little over
a year ago wasn't big enough to hold all the Dem
ocrats who wanted William Jennings Bryan for
the job Mr. Taft now has.
Thence to Wolhurst, Pueblo, Glenwood Springs _
and Montrose, Col. From there the president was
routed to Salt Lake City, Utah, Pocatello, Idaho,
Butte and Helena. .Mont., Spokane, North Yakima
and Seattle, Wash.
The line of travel from Spokane extends south
ward along the Pacific coast, the southern stares
being next to receive the president. At El Paso,
Texas, one of the most notable events of the tour
will occur when on the sixteenth day of October
President Diaz of Mexico and President Taft of
the United States, will shake hands in a mutual
harmony carnival.
Along the northern line of travel "Oh, you Bill
Taft!" became a slogan, and "Howdy Bill" was
another favorite expression of the multitude dur
ing the fivst days of the
tour. That great big 326
pound Taft smile, which is
the only one of its kind in
captivity, was the greet
ing which met the saluta
tions from close to the
soil.
Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger will accompany
the president through the
Pacific northwest. Secretary ot War
Dickinson will join the party at El
Paso. Texas, and make the remaining
trip back to Washington. Secretary
Nagel of the department of commerce
and labor will be a member of the
party on the trip down the Mississip
pi river. During his stay in certain
of the states the president probably
will have as guests on his train the
senators of those commonwealths.
He expected to meet Senator Cum
mins who has been reported of late
as being boomed for the presidency
in 193 2, at Des Moines. Senator Dol
liver also was to be at Des Moines.
San Antonio, Texas will add its wel
come to President Diaz at El Paso in
the meeting of the president of the
Latin republic with President Talt, on
October 16, through a committee of
106 citizens and members of the In
ternational club. If President Diaz
decides to return to Mexico City via
San Antonio, a special train will be
placed at his disposal and lie and his
stuff will be given possession of the
International club’s home. A special
committee of 25 conveyed this wel
come and invitation to President Diaz
in Mexico City. President Taft was
"Howdy, Bill!' >
Pkesjoeftt D/az
of Mex/cOj isv/tcrt
Taft las/ll Meet
f
Cl/MBfrtG THE Cab
made honorary
p resident and
member for life
of the club, as
are President Di
az and former
President Roose
velt. and a special
committee will
present engrossed
certificates o f
election to him
before his visit.
Arriving at St.
Louis from Texas
at T: 27 a. m.,
Monday. October
25, President Taft
will be enter
tained at break
fast at 8:30
o’clock bv the Commercial club at the bt. bouts ho
tel. At 11 a. m. he will make an address in the
Coliseum, which holds 15,000 people.
At 2 p. m. the president will be the guest of
Business Men’s League at luncheon, in the .leffer
son hotel. He will not speak at this function, but
will hurry to East St. Louis (111.), to attend the ded
ication of a government building there at 4 p. m.
The president will return to St. Louis in time to
sail lor New Orleans on the steamboat Mississippi
at a p. m. Arriving at Cape Girardeau, Mo., at 0
a. m„ October 26, the president will be routed out
of bed to make an address from the upper deck of
the seamboat to the people gathered on the wharf.
Leading Cape Girardeau at 7 a. m.. there will be
a five-hour run to Cairo, 111. where at noon Mr.
Taft will make a second address from the boat.
Leaving Cairo at 1 o’clock the next stop is sched
uled at Hickman, Ky., at 4 p. in., where the third
address iroin the deck of the Mississippi will be
made. Leaving Hickman at 5 p. m. an all-night run
will bring the party to Memphis, Tenn.. at S o'clock
on the morning of Wednesday, October 27.
At Memphis the president will leave the steamer
and be entertained in the city for four hours, ma
king an address while there. Helena. Ark., will be
reached at 6 p. m. on the 27th. and an address from
the boat is scheduled. On Thursday, October 28,
the only stop is scheduled at Vicksburg, where the
president’s party arrives at 6 p. jn.
The Art of Saving
I believe that if somebody could in
vent unique ways of saving money the
public would have an assured future.
Men, women and children would re
i gard saving as a game and play it
with all their heart. There are penny
t savings banks where newsboys and
j bootblacks carry their tiny savings.
| but other children regard their penny
i bank at home with unfriendly eyes.
There are working girls who put away
their five-cent pieces and fatten their
small bank accounts- by walking in
stead of riding, and making other
petty sacrifices. But the majority of
working girls spend as fast as they
can earn, and declare that they can
not help it.
One reads of a man who began his
career by regarding every dollar as a
worker and getting all the profit he
could. With that quaint conceit in his
head saving became a pleasure, and
he won riches without realizing that it
was a struggle. 1 Know of more than
one woman who receives each night
from her husband every dime he has
received in change through the day,
for he is careful to avoid spending
such a piece of money. These, with
her own savings in the same direction,
make a respectable weekly showing.—
Kansas City Journal.
Women make alliances with one:
another, not friendships. ^
Bolivia’s Mineral Wealth.
Bolivia is famous for its silver, but
also possesses considerable quantities
of gold, which, however, cannot be ex
tracted without great expense. In
the seventeenth century an Indian
near the town of La Paz found a mass
of gold, supposed to have been de
tached from the neighboring moun
tain by lightning. Bolivia is, on the
whole, in a backward condition, politi
cal changes and internal conflicts hav
ing hindered the development of its
natural wealth.
A TEXAS CLERGYMAN
Speak* Out for the Benefit of Suffer
ing Thousands.
Rot. G. M, Gray, Baptist clergy
man, of Whitesboro, Tex., says:
“Fonr years ago I
suffered misery with
lumbago. Every
movement was one
of pain. Doan’s Kid
ney Pills reraoved
the whole difficulty
after only a short
time. Although 1 do
not like to have ray
name used publicly,
I make an exception
In this case, so that other sufferers
from kidney trouble may profit by my
experience.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bca.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. F.
SIX MONTHS.
Mrs. Bill—Nov;, tell me at once—
; where have you been all this time?
Bill — Why, dear, it hasn’t been
1 long.
Mrs. Bill—How dare you tr-!l me
! that? You have been out all night.
CUTICURA CURED HIM.
Eczema Came on Legs and Ankles—
Could Not Wear Shoes Because
Of Bad Scaling and Itching.
“I have been successfully cured of
dry eczema. I was inspecting ihe re
; moval of noxious weeds from the edge
of a river and was constantly in the
i dust from the weeds. At night I
I cleansed my limbs but felt a prickly
sensation. I paid no attention to it
for two years but I noticed a scum
on my legs like fish scales. 1 did not
attend to it until it came to be too
! itchy and sore and began getting two
running sores. My ankles were all
i sore and scabby and I could not wear
shoes. I had to use carpet and felt
! slippers for weeks. I got a cake of |
i the Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. In less than ten days I
! could put on my boots and in less than
! three weeks I was free from the eon- •
founded itching. Capt. George P. Bliss,
Chief of Police, Morris, Manitoba, Mar.
20. 1907, and Sept. 24, 1908.”
Putter Drug & Cheat. Corp., Sol® Props., Bolton.
Anything But That.
I.ittle John is the youngest of it
family of five boys, says the Deline
ator. One day his mother said to
lorn: "O, John, isn't it too bad 1 have- |
n't one little girl? I could curl her ,
hair and make such pretty little i
dresses for her. Don’t you wish you I
were a little girl?”
"Why. mother,” he said, ' I'd rather
be most any other kind of animal you !
could mention than a girl.”
Tt’« the judgment of many smokers that
Lewis' Single Binder 5c- cigar equals in
quality most 10c cigwrs .
In Madagascar everyone wears silk, j
which is cheaper than linen.
('onstipatioB ran*- - and ajjjrrnvnw** n ;iny •w'rTrm*
<r-s« ;is4-If is ihttmiiK^y «ur«*tl 1> l r I*;«■ r « s
I’kasant IV»!« t>. Tint favorite? fum y iasativc.
Woman thinks she will be man's su
perior when she gets her rights.
j LOW COLONIST FARES TO THE
WEST AND N0RTHWE8T.
Union Pacific Passenger Depart
nient announces that Colonist Fare*
• ill be in effect from Sept. 15 to Oct.
15, 1909, to all points in the West and
Northwest.
This year the West looks more
i promising than ever. Now is the time
4o secure land at low prices, and. at
the same time, to visit the many inter
esting points in the West and North
west, at which liberal stopovor ar
rangements may be made.
A better estimate of raw lands can
be made now than formerly, because
these lands are in proximity to new
farms that are producing wonderful
crops.
For descriptive literature, write
to K. L. Lomax, G. P. A., U. P. R. R .
Omaha. Neb.
Women in Postal Service.
The distinction of first appointing h
woman postmaster does not belong to
America, nor is the employment of
women in the postal service a new
idea. As early as 154b a woman post
master was appointed to look after
the mails of Braine le Comte, an im
portant town of France. In the try
ing times of the Thirty Years' war.
the principal office in the postal sorv
ice of Europe, was held by a woman.
Alexandrine de Rue. From 1G2.S to
1G4G she was in charge of the mails
of tiie German empire, the Nether
lands, Burgundy and Lorraine. She
was known as a master general of tli~
mails. In America, Elizabeth Karvtv
was the first to hold a place in the
postal department. She had charge
of the letters in Portsmouth, N H., in
the beginning of the seventeenth cen
tury. A half century afterward Lydia
ilill was placed in charge of the pns‘
office in Salem, Mass.
Why W* Are Stronger,
The old Greeks and Romans were
great admirers of health and strength;
their pictures and statuary made the
muscles of the men stand out like
cords.
As a matter of fact we have ath
letes and strong men—men fed on
fine strength making food such as
Quaker Oats—that would win in any
contest with the old Roman or Greek
champions.
It's a matter of food. The finest food
for making strength of bone, muscle
and nerve is fine oatmeal. Quaker
Oats is the best because it is pure, no
husks or stems or black specks Farm
ers’ wives are finding that by feeding
the farm hands plentifully on Quaker
Oats they get the best results in work
and economy. If you are convenient
to the store, buy the regular size pack
ages; if not near the store buy the
large size family package. 2
An Arbitrary Classification.
"So you think every patriot has a
more or less clearly defined ambition
to hold public office?”
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum.
"As a rule, patriots may be divided
into two classes—the appointed and
the disappointed."
“ Do you know of any woman who ever receKed anv
benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound ? ”
If any woman who is suffering with any ailment peculiar
to her sex will ask her neighbors this question, she will be
surprised at the result. There is hardly a community in
this country where women cannot be found who have been
restored to health by this famous old remedy, made
exclusively from a simple formula of roots and herbs.
During the past 30 years we have published thousands
of letters from these grateful women who have been cur 'd
by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and never
m all that time have we published a testimonial without
the writer’s special permission. Never have we knowingiy
published a testimonial that was not truthful and genuine.
Here is one just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts
that this is a true and honest statement of a woman’s experi
ence with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound write
and ask her.
Houston, Texas.—“When I first be-an taking T.ydia F PinV
ham’s Vegetable Compound I was a total wreck. I l!ad
sick for three years with female troubles, chronic dvsoensia
ami a liver trouble. I had tried several doctor’s meditjnes i»,Yt
nothin? did me any good. ’ ul
“For three years I lived on medicines and thought, I would
never get well, when I read an advertisment of Lvdia F 1
ham’s Vegetable Compound, and was advised to try it ’
“My husband got me one bottle of the Compound, and it did
me so much good I continued its use. I am now a well
and enjoy the best of health. a "e11 womua
“I advise all women suffering from such troubles to
I»du> E. Pinbliam's VogMable Compound . fiejNJSn
regret it, for it will surely cure yon.”— Mrs. Bessie 1 '
819 Cleveland St., Houston. ncssie C.
Hicks,
Any woman who is sick and suffering- is foolish surely
not to give such a medicine as this a trial. Why should iV
not do ner as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks. Y * d *