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loop City Northwesters J- V. BURLEIGH. Publisher. Coup city I • I Nebraska The Cjisf dust wo have with tie. always. Temper and a pttol make s bad combination It le popular to have "the brain at*»ra»~ alter you set caught. •V« oak 1 r. ■ - Vi • is eomnstt ted suicide So one will blame it Owe of the beet things about the Joy ride t* that it m p'vu turn* out to be It* owa ptitiishmeut It far feared that all the rontirti In the various penitentiaries will at care becin srttic* poetry. It la queer Low There people who ere t ag to be probed Inalat on a thorough eumtnstkm of everything. South American republics manage to have n scrap often enough to keep the limelight trained in that direction Another youth has r<-ne wrong tin der the tnBuenre of dime novels. A 1" e readies is *t!!i a dangerous thing "At this time at the year green H the t nrivaled color." ays the Boston Herald. hrdnMy if it u long green The erd-eeat by tc now fortifed bt a Judicial decision, and he will nc doubt hold feraooosly tc nil the seats he Brat gets One cannot at pr«sent secure a di vorce at Reno. Xev. by telephone, bat possibly Reno's thrlWSea will be en Urged and broadened A sew*paper story says that the bunco m&et la Mexico are the great est la the world Can the author hare overlook'd our ov« dear Wall street? A bandit It Fprlutfell. Mas*.. says that he committed his rriaes be cause (here was something (he mat t~T with hia head There generally 1* A Cincinnati man failed with llabffl «« of 11.29* 099 and assets of $«.». Xo Wall street financier would look open such an accomplishment as that aa a failure Some eastern New York farmers ar»- ae!;,eg *h»ir rows aad replacing them with Angora goats, ft might be asked if this is a rase of butting in or hat tin 'em oat. A large majority of the schoolboys of this country are earnestly hoping aomething dreadful may happen to MTilham S>dis of Boston because of hi* unsportsmanlike propensity to ac quire knowledge Announcement cones from fashion sources that "women's bata are larger " Of course this is a matter on which man has no vote, and what he may any or thlrk does not count But really ta K necessary? If eonscripTioa for army service in China wen- taeed upon the German plan an army of 22.9*9099 soldiers could be pot is the field, says the Philadelphia Record. Also, by the uot plan, this nation would have aa army of Sj&io.m* But there is no Sign that either the Chinese people or those </ the Tnlied States would ac cept the plan The deaths from bubonic plague of two toast women, daughters of the postmaster at Haakua. Hawaii offer convincing evidence that the germs of the plague linger cm the Island*, where the sanitary officials should toil unceasingly in order to suppress them. The same danger undoubtedly exists oa the southern Pacific slope, where the rata should be made objects of an repeating warfare That young Cambridge mathema tlcal prodigy says in the fullness of hia youthful wisdom that be is quite convinced be could construct a flying machine with which he could reach Venus in twenty minutes He would use radium as a motive power. But It is noted that he has not said bow much radium he would need or bow much it would coat. Tbtre are other brilliant persons w ho could tell of the many wonderful things they might dc if they could get the stuff to do it with. And so long as It cannot be disproved, the proponent is safe in stating bis belief Rear Admiral Huron of the British •»*» advorates the fonstruction of larger battleships because In his opinion, with proper subdivision of the ball, they are not as likely to be sunk as a result of torpedo attack as the smaller ship. There is something in this, as the weight of armament car ried by a large ship is not proper t Innately as large as that cn the smaller ship But it mast not be over looked that the torpedo is becoming more powerful under the develop of la vent or*, and the damage they in flict may be beyond the ability of even the best of compartmented hulls to withstand A wild deer In the vicinity of Three Lakes. Wash, locked horns with a stuffed specimen and was shot Both of them must have been dummies. The latest and one of the biggest of the British battleships of the Dreadnought type is built largely after Atrrirm plans, particularly as re gards the construction and operation of tbe turrets Whether or not "blood Is thicker than water." it is becoming evident that tbe greatest naval power la tbe world finds "Yankee" ideas worth adopting "Too brilliant headlights are bad things to *« by." says a professor. We bare noted tbe phenomenon about per sons as well as about locomotives. "From now oa." says an esteemed contemporary, "all British veterin arians mast give immediate notifies lion of all cases of cattle plague and other contagious diseases to which domestic animals are liable." Seems like a good idea. Presume the cus tom heretofore has been to keep all sack things secret—sort of a family affair. LOWELL ON THE PILGRIMS | President Lowell of Harvard university, with a single blow, has shivered and shattered the tra ditions of Plymouth rock, upon whose barren sur face. we have long been led to believe, were scat tered the seeds which later sprang up and sprouted into American family trees. Every boy and girl in the United States knows before he or she has attended school many weeks the story of the Pilgrim fathers and their landing at Plymouth rock, so It was rather a rude shock that the eminent head of the great educational Institution delivered when he declared the story a myth. Dear old Plymouth rock, after which those big spotted chickens are named, of course can’t real ize how hard it has been hit by the Harvard ham mer. but scboi.l "eachers and story book writers. to say nothing of the historians of the eouiury. certainly will be wanting to 1 know why President Lowell comes along and "knocks” the pretty tale that I has long been accepted as true in this and ether countries. President I-owell Is the head of the educational institution which stands more than anything else for the aristocracy of New England, but his words cast doubt *_von the existence of the 6acred landing place of the Pilgrim fathers. President Lowell also expressed doubt that the Washington elm. long tc id of in legends as shading the spot where the general received the com mandership of the Continental army, ever existed. The aspersions cast upon the totems of New England have added the last riraw to ’ue load of historical "knocking” borne by classic Boston. Recently Paul Revere s ride was declared to have taken place largely in the imagina tion of the poet Longfellow, but never before has anyone dared to deal a blow at Plymouth rock or the Washington elm. President Lowell was addressing a mass meeting of 3,000 teachers who ! had gathered to discuss plans for the reception of President Taft when he ! froes to Harvard to address the National Educational association from the ttadium I e I MARRIES BRYAN’S DAUGHTER Lieut. Reginald A. Owen, of the Royal engi- : neers, British army. Is William J. Bryan's new i son in-law. So far as is known, the "leftenant" ! had never done anything to distinguish himself until he met and wooed the beautiful and accom- j plished daughter of the great American com moner. Careful perusal of the big newspapers that are ‘ accustomed to print biographies of persons who get themselves into the limelight fails to show that Lieutenant Owen is anything more than the 26-year-old son of a London business man and is detailed with the Royal engineers stationed in Ja maica. where he has taken his bride. Great Britain has many officers who have never had an opportunity for distinguishing them- | selves, but are aching for the chance. Owen is among them. No doubt he will prove a credit to Colonel Bryan, should the opportunity come. The wedding of the British officer and Mrs. Leavitt was a quiet affair with the exception of the muss the bride's former husband attempted to kick up. The former husband is an artist and met Ruth Bryan when he went to her father's bouse to paint the Democratic leader's picture. Colonel Bryan j didn't want his daughter to mam-, but she was a little headstrong. like her father, so the parental objection was withdrawn. It wasn't a happy marriage, as is quite well known in this country, and the divorce court was called upon to fever the marital ties. Mrs. Leavitt went to Europe and met Lieutenant Owen. He was smitten by her charms and their engagement followed. It was not until a few days before the marriage ceremony took place at Fairview, the Bryan home at Lincoln. Neb., that anyone but members of the family knew of the intention of Mrs Leavitt to wed again. Lieutenant Owen is a fine-looking officer and those who have met him have been favorably impressed. I'nder the rules of his government he will have to serve in Jamaica three years and then he will return to London with his wife. i ' —----. HEADS BRIBE PROBE JURY William H. Lake is foreman of the special Cook county grand Jury which has been investiga ting the charges of bribery in the Illinois legisla ture. Under the guidance of State's Attorney Wayman it did not take Mr. Lake long to get his Jury to work on the cases and the developments which followed have caused a sensation that has reached beyond the borders of the state. When Representative Charles A. White of O'Fallon. 111., in a signed story in a Chicago news paper. confessed that he had received $1,000 for voting for William Lorimer as United States sena tor and that $900 had been paid to him from a “Jack pot” made up for “the boys” by persons who got the kind of legislation they wanted or had killed some that they didn't want, there came a cry at once for action by the grand Jury. State a Attorney Wayman Immediately bad the court impanel a special Jury and Mr. Lake was chosen as foreman. Mr. Lake has been engaged In the commission business in Chicago for more than 30 years. He is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, the New York Produce exchange, the Mlnne- 1 apolis Chamber of Commerce, the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce and the St. Louis Merchants' exchange. Being foreman of the grand Jury in case of such important investigations Is no mean task and requires ability above the ordinary. This, say bis friends. Mr Lake has in abundance, and when the Jury got down to work it was con ducted with the dispatch of a great business organization. CLAPP GRILLS WICKERSHAM j There seems to have been some misapprehen- i slon or a crossing of wires in Washington re cently when it was announced that Senator Dol llver would be the gunner who would fire a 13 Inch shell in answer to Attorney General Wick ersham's smash at the insurgents. Senator Dolilver fired only a 10-inch gun. The manipulation of a 13-incher was left to Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota. The echo of that shot is still heard around the country and it will take a national election before it is stilled. Senator Clapp used to be an attorney general himself in his home state and he knows some thing about the proper things for an A. G. to do. He didn't think it was proper for Mr. Wlckersham to read anybody out of the Republican party and he said so in words something like this: “Who commissioned the attorney general to read men out of the party because they would not follow blindly the things 1 have pointed out in this proposed legislation of his—the railroad bill? “Who ever beard of him as a Republican until he entered the president's cabinet? And who are the men that he would read out of the party? They are men who for 25 years have borne the brunt of the battle. “It took no courage to talk protective tariff at Delmonlco's. where the first fruits of such policy were on display, but It did take courage to talk it to the men living In huts in the far west. And because some of us did not accept the dictum of this man we are called free traders and are told that we must get out of the party organization. “I would like to see the warrant for this reading out authority. There is only one way for this little minority that he represents to read us out of their party and that is for them to get out themselves. There are a few of us who wont get out. and I predict that the attorney general never will attempt his experiment again." Senator Clapp is a native of Indiana, having been born in 1861 at Delphi. He is a lawyer and was elected to the senate first in 1901 and again in 1905 HU term will expire next year and he intends to run for the office again Average Weight of Humanity. The average weight of a man five feet six inches in height at the age of ihirty-five to forty years is 147 pounds. The feminine average U five pounds fees. English Letter Writers Lead. Of 12,000,000,000 letters written in a year by the world at large, 8.000.000. 000 are in English. L200.000.000 in German and only 1.000.000,000 in French. PRESIDENT TAFTS HORSES HAVE A REST 4 ' •••• - :• _ ' ~ ^ ~ j —_ Washington —While President Taft was making a little trip through the middle west, his saddle horses were getting a good rest. The grooms of the presidential stable say the steeds needed the vacation, for Mr. Taft is very fond of riding, and, as everyone knows, he is not a light-weight. The chief executive's three favorite saddle horses are strong, steady fellows, oi gentle disposition though not remarkable for their speed qualities. ASK FOR FREE EGGS Offer of Kansas College Brings a Deluge of Requests. “Somethlng-for-Nothing*’ Spirit la Awakened by Effort of Agricul tural College to Improve Grade of Poultry of State. Manhattan. Kan.—When the poultry department of the Kansas State Agri cultural college made the offer of free settings of eggs to the farmers of Kansas it never dreamed of the conse quences that this offer has brought. The ofTer was made by a little no tice in the newspapers to the effect that “the poultry department of the agricultural college is desirous of sending out over the 6tate eggs from pure bred poultry free of charge. Any one wishing to take advantage of this opportunity to add some pure bred stock to his present flock should ad dress the poultry department. Kansas State Agricultural college." Now, that little notice appeared In the newspapers about the time the price of eggs was soaring around the highest pinnacle, and consequently It was read by every one who reads newspapers, especially as the editors made it conspicuous by placing it un der headlines like “What! Eggs Free of Charge?" or "K. S. A. C. Giving Away Eggs," etc. The ink of the press notices was hardly dry before the inquiries began pouring in to the poultry department concerning those "free eggs." From all over the state at first the letters arrived, and later this on- 1 slaught of questioning missives from Kansas was added to from Oklahoma. Texas, Missouri, Colorado and other states. It became a national affair. The letters arrived at the rate of about 500 a day. Finally, as the num ber of Inquiries rapidly approached the 4.000 mark, and as hundreds were arriving every day. the philanthropic department, realizing that I. would be almost impossible to even answer so 1 many letters and certainly impossible to supply so many farmers with eggs, hurried off dispatches to the news papers, stating that the department was swamped with requests for free ' settings and requesting that no more ' inquiries be sent in. j The object of the department In making this offer was threefold: First, to give the farmers a chance to get a start with pure-bred chickens; sec ond. to enlarge the college flock, and i third, to get the names of the farmers ! who are Interested in poultry raising. The desire to get a list of farmers Interested in poultry raising certainly has been satisfied, and the prospects for the realization of the other ob-! jects are bright Six stenographers attacked the pile j of letters and postal cards, and for several days were busy with these In- ! terrogations. The universal question was, “How can we get them?" and the i department answered this by sending | out 2,500 replies stating the conditions under which the free eggs would be , sent out It was Impossible to answer more ! queries except by postal cards telling • them that their requests had been re-1 ceived too late. Farmers who already j have good pure stock will not be sup plied. Here are the conditions that the farmer must agree to before the eggs will be sent to him: The farmer must agree to keep a record of the fertility and hatehabilitv of the eggs, and give one chicken out of every four raised to September 1 to the college. The majority ot the letters received were from farmers who wanted to get free eggs for the purpose of improving the stock of their flock, but many of those who wrote were merely curious and showed a “something for nothing” spirit. Swift and ‘Hurry. New York—Lawrence Swift and Elizabeth Hurry got their license to marry the other day in just two min utes by Mr. Swift's chronometer. The bride's father is a member of the law firm of Hurry & Galloup. HORSELESS FUNERAL _ A?___ Big Automobile Serves as Hearse and Coach for Mourners. So Unusual Was Scene That Every body Gave It Some Attention— Fits Nicely In Case of Long Distance Funeral Affairs. New York.—There was a horseless funeral at the Grand Central station the other day. So unusual was the scene that almost everybody seemed to give it some attention, and even the horses sniffed at the strange look ing vehicle, perhaps with feelings of jealousy at this latest evidence of the passing of their usefulness. The center of Interest was the fu neral car, a big black automobile built somewhat on the lines of a Fifth ave nue motor bus. It was an immense machine, and as it drew up silently at a -side entrance other traffic had to hit The solemn black of Its big limousine body proclaimed its purpose in a way, but except for the fact that < the driver's seat was unusually high it might have passed for an extraor dinarily large limousine car. As soon as the car had reached the curb the driver alighted and stood deferentially at the front end of the machine. A moment later there ap peared the funeral party, led by the undertaker and his men bearing the coffin. The mourners, a party of ten. took their seats in the car, these seats be ing Individual chairs of black leather. Then the front of the machine under neath the driver's seat was opened, the coffin was lifted up and slid in. Next some flowers were put In the hearse part of the car and the front doors closed. Then the driver and the undertaker mounted the front seat, there was the sharp ring of a warning bell, and as traffic halted again the big funeral car quietly swung around and into Forty second street. This funeral car had seats for 12 mourners in its limousine part and could carry three on the driver's seat. 1 Hence It takes the place of a hearse and three carriages. “We haven't had this very long.” said the driver just before the funeral party appeared, "but we're already kept busy with it about all the time. Only this morning, for example, we took a funeral to Elisabeth and now this afternoon we are bound for Green wood. “You see it fits in pretty nicely In the case of long-distance funerals. Take the case of a funeral at Kensico, up in Westchester, or even Woodlawn. Pefore it used to be necessary to take a train, which meant a hearse and car riages at both ends, to say nothing of the publicity of riding in a railroad car, that Is, unless the party was large enough and could afford the special funeral car the railroad operates. Now we take the entire funeral, casket and all. from the house or church to Ken sico in less than three hours. "Take the case of a person dying in some other city and being buried here. Only the family come with the body and they want to be taken quickly and quietly to the cemetery. We can make Greenwood in less than an hour. In two hours they can be on the train going home again. “Of course there are still some per sons who fid it hard to accept it in place of the old way they have known so long. One man recently com plained that it didn't seem solemn enough and seemed like taking liber ties with the dead; but to one such complaint we've had any number of congratulations on the new method from the people who have said that it has done away with the most trying features of what has always been such an ordeal, namely an out-of-town fu neral. “Before long the hearses w-.ll begin to go Just like the hansom cabs, though for big local funerals 1 suppose hearses will be used for a long time yet.“ Paradoxical Signs. "Odd, isn't It?” “What is?” “That a man generally looks so va cant whenever he is full.” ! GIRLS’ MATRIMONY SCHOOL i I Prime Essentials of Wedded Happi ness Taught in Modern Boston Training institution. ’ ! Boston.—A school of matrimony In ' which the prime essentials of wedded happiness are now being taught Is the latest innovation among Hostcn’s most modern training institutions. In this school a group of girls, !n I eluding those from many of the best families in society, are being trained five days a week in the arts which will equip them to become ideal wives, mothers and home-makers. The matrimonial course includes the following subjects, with which the student must be entirely familiar be fore she Is accredited competent to be a home-maker: Literature. ethics, child study, household arts, house building, textiles and sewing, hand work and design, music in the home, literature for children, home econom ics, chemistry, biology, social econom ics. hygiene, dental hygiene, home nursing and the care of delinquent children. Fortune in Swimming Hole\ _ ^ i California Lawyer Buys Property for Sentimental Reasons and It In creases in Value. San Francisco.—George A. Knight, attorney and political orator, is ahead Just $45,000 through a romance cher ished since his boyhood days. When a little boy. Mr. Knight learned to swim at a dock on the Em reka water tronL As he grew up. became an attorney and moved to San Francisco he often thought of the spot and wondered it he would ever be successful enough to own iL About five years ago his am bitions were realised. The property at that time was owned by the well known capitalist of Eureka. Thomas Baer._ Mr. Knight one day approached Baer and asked if he would sell the prop erty. Baer replied he would sell it for $27,000, to which price Knight agreed. Within a month from that, time the attorney was owner of the wharf and water front site, 32x200 feet In slxe. Eureka property Increased rapidly In value, and a representative of the Salem Flour Milling company of Ore gon called on Mr. Knight and ottered elm 172,000 for the property. “I thought If the property was worth that now.” said Mr. Knight, it would be worth a great deal more when the railroad is completed, and I hare turned down the otter. Yet I feel pret ty proud of my Investment and never would have thought of buying the property unless I had learned to swim on the site. The Bearer of Treasure. “1 understand.” said Miss Miami Brown, "dat you has a position of great trust and responsibility.” “Yes.” replied Mr. Erastus Pinkly. "dey lets me carry de po'terhouse •teaks all de way fua de kitchen to de dinin' room.” BROOM GOES WITH THE CHILC Clever Idea of New York Mother Saves Clothes of Passengers on Street Cars. New York —A young woman leadinj a small boy entered a well-filled cat and as the child climbed ic his seat and got on his feet left dusty marks on the dress of the woman In the next seat who promptly looked daggers at the newcomer. "So sorry." said the mother politely ; "use this.” She opened her handbaa and offered a small whisk broom. "What a clever Idea," said the first woman, completely appeased, as she whisked off the dust "It goes with the child,” calmly ax plained the mother. Valuable Violin for Sale. It Is announced that the "Emperor' violin which Is part of the Haddock collection in London will soon be sold. Its value la estimated at $50,000. It is claimed to be the best specimen of the work of Antonio Stradivari 0849-1737). Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cures all blood humors, all eruptions, clears the complex ion, creates an appetite, aids digestion, relieves that tired feeling, gives vigor and vim. Get It today. In usual liquid f.-vrm or tablets called Sarsatabs. 100 Doses $1. DROVE HUSBAND FROM HOME Act of Militant Suffragette That Was Too Arbitrary to Be Upheld by the Court. The results that niav ensue from being married to a suffragette were ' revealed the other day in a London j (Kng.) suburban police court. Mrs. : Tunnicliffe took up the cause and was not able to spend much time at home, j When the husband remonstrated she • simaly commanded her daughter to j pack her father’s gripsack and there and then ordered him out of the house. He went and then the lady sat'd him for desertion and demanded alimony "Rut surely you did not take It so feebly*" asked the magistrate of the husband. “It was no use objecting." was the answer. "She wanted to be master and said that if I annoyed her she would lock up. I was only too anxious to go back home, but she would not let me.” The case was dismissed. PROMINENT FARMER SET FREE United Doctors Release Mr. Pftug From Disease After Five Years of Suffering, » _ _ Jacob Pflug. one of the most pros perous and influential farmers of east ern Nebraska, makes a statement m regard to the United Doctors, those expert medical specialists who have their Omaha institute at 232 Neville block, that is worth the attention of every sick person. Anyone who is in doubt about this matter should write to Mr. Pflug. or to the bank at Papil lion. to ask about Mr. Pflug"s standing and reliability. Here is his state ment: > Papillion, Neb., July 20. ISO?. I want to say to sick people that fcr fifty years I was a farmer living near Sarpy Mills. Five years ago I be gan to run down, got rheumatism, and it got so bad I couldn't walk. My stomach would not digest the food I ate. I was bloated all the time; my liver would not do its work properly, and I was dizzy and sick to my stom ach. I was so nervous that I could not sleep nights. The muscles all over tay body would jerk, and finally 1 became so bad that I was unable to attend to any of my business. I had taken treatment during all this time from the best physicians 1 could find in Omaha and the towns surrounding my home, all of whom did me no good and I continued to get worse until finally my wife helped me to the office of the United Doctors in the Neville block, corner Sixteenth and Harney streets. This was on the eighteenth day of April. The doctor gave me a thorough examination and told me he could not make me a boy again, but would make me lots better I commenced treatment at once. Within four weeks I had begun to im prove, and now, at the end of three months, I am feeling well In erery respect and do all the work about the farm. Yesterday I dug potatoes and painted six rods of fence in half a day. and my wife and I put up twc tons of alfalfa by ourselves. I cannot say enough in praise of the United Doctors and what they have done for me. Jacob Pflug. A REDUCTION. The Critic—That picture look* like 30 cents. Poor Artist—I'll take a quarter cash for it. ___ HELP FOR THE AGED. No Need to Longer Suffer from K>dne> Trouble. Mrs. Catherine Sullivan. 1711 Mot fatt St.. Joplin. Mo., says: "Like most elderly people, I suffered front kidney trouble for years. My back ached tn tensely ana mere was a feeling of numbness in my spine. My hands cramped and the urinary passages b were profuse. Doc* ■ tors prescribed for me but I was not benefited. At last l pejtsn isaing twin s money ruts They drove my troubles away, and l now enjoy excellent health.” Remember the name—Doan's nor sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Fostei^Milburn Co, Buffalo. N. T. His Future. Ella—What did your aged suitor say when he proposed to you? Stella—Will you be my widow? 1'jrRRY IkAVIS’ »'VINKII I FK Ik* e*Ik k»hl initaKrai.'c frvai e«n ‘ksyyk kka Sxuk»> tau allays ike »«;K| .Whin* uf k irv Ik- aaj Me *•*.««. There may be people who think they always get thetr money's worth, but we never met any of them. re Plysryy r>»«»n« tVtWu* mtsiy wad m«y MoaMk. iiyrr ill bowy’.s iaj.*r»autov»»..j total*. u>ao,«nr*. It is the aim of the man behind the gun to make his mark. Fmoker* like Lewis' Single Binder -igar for its rich, mellow quality. Is shat you are worrying about really worth white?