The Loop City Northwester! J W. BIKUSIGH. Publisher LOUP CITY. - NEBRASKA COLLEGE MEN WHO FAIL. tn every college there Is * class of Htndo-sHls generally composed of the tcu of the rich They go to col *ege lor the Hfe there, to take part In serial festivities. etc., and they care scry little about study College is to them merely an excuse for persuading betr purest* to permit them to s;>end four years la riotous laziaeuF. At some colleges three are special «ojr* eu. "'easy courses." for such pupils. The college is aot to lie blasn—d lit the inherent weakness of those tnca. although blame hoes attach to them ior permitting students to waste their sppoffuuitles and their time. The •mailer coiieges are much more care ful at the morals at those In attend ince than are the great universities. • b»r- students are s :ppc>»« d to have "each*4 the age of discretion, say* the Chariton Ness and Ceurier. llis ftpHne In the universities is largely a juestioa at surr >u: ding*. Profersarr are there to teach, act to spend their aue U ealocrtnc dis'ipHee The re mit Is hod. not because the older men tt* unable U> sstrra themselves but because so many parents .. »»t jb seod-ug mere Wys to universities Where they ought to be sent. U to the -mall ou!leg* finishing their work, if weed be at the university, when they fait had enough experience to appre -late freedom from rigid c and to k-jt>w bow to manage themselves. Ta send s boy at II to a university where the vast majority of those in attendance are grown men Is to in >lto hts ruin. It bus long been a favorite that this ate sciar-er than boys, especial V h school and college t>r. Taylor, president of Vassar explains the tea asm •Wetnea " he say s " go to col lege to learn: men do not. While a •nod many m«-o do socreed. • h«re are many mare who are interested in •port, and even those who do study do wot take aay pride in letting the 1 • hers know they are working Girls are emstitetkies; they are far mure burnt Holed hy failure than men."' lir Taylor admits ther* are physioiogical reason* why the girl is smarter than the man at the "Ouege age. wsys the Sr» Turk American Bet it is also probable that the restrictions im posed on girls ia the past Itave tended to make them -onwetrate aitentioB m their studies «.‘allege men have as many Interests as their Inclina tma* prefer, it I* usually not until after they graduate that they settle down to making a living. Meanwhile ♦hey can afford to yield th- paltn to i • heir imov lor superiority in youth fwl schatanvhip A Oevriaad man * ho has divorced ns* wife explained to the rourt that he hnd to buy gowns costing 112: each fur the iwdy. -.hut she pold from $ZZ to S'* *nch fee her hats that her tsuff se« him hock and that she Hiotaie-i on having a %Z‘Jt diamond ring Owing to the fa«t that tie need ed a few thing- ta wear fciu.s* If had to pay It* a month for a flat and k< ep a maid, nod to men'loa the necessity f putruaiging the grocer and butcher, he was unable to oontiau* the ar HMRMMMt so a salary of *1*00 a >•**■ Borne m*w seem to be such poor managers Piattewm ta taking pata* to era itottr that It la mar* valuable than •aid. Ha price bailee per up to HZ |or ma A tuarr* r of a century a«o Ha prior was prarticaUy the amt aa that ha*e personal aaeuraaces. tweeter, the* a Maker of IxmdosM-rs wfH be tb»re tor the catenate. 9 *'• nre told that a yewh in Wash melon m about to •ere a widow of V. rwara and fi.tdw.OOO Lore may laugh «* InrhamMha hat H smiles moat be hCMatly an hash r£i Thr, have Just ended the fuaerij »tar the body of the late nn, who Is 75 years old. con tinued: "The food which collects the long evltr germ is sauerkraut. The man or woman who keeps on a diet of this kind, ought to live a century or more. Sauerkraut is very nutritious and should be on the table of everybody.” , Continuing bis health talk. Mr. i j *rbrnn wound up with saying: “To bo healthy every minister must sweat ,w'c* * week. A good many mlnis ters only sweat once a month, when ' ,h*r draw their ralartes.” The Deg and the Flea. Dog fanciers realise the difficulty of separating the animals from the fleas I which often Inhabit them. Few of the ,; older methods are entirely satlsfac torT- but a Chicago electrical man Is j •“•hority tor the statement that the j|w*j“*jthe vacuum cleaner is most ef I — _ •»US» Ever Be Before U* But. were all its representations of objects, deeds and men. which are . °* **• r*t*e of our sights. obUter I *t*B. ®nit of the globe end Its aistory weald no more exist to our notorial leases than the scenery and Otalra of other planet* , ARMY OFFICERS TO LEARN SCIENCE OF FLYING v v - ^ - • »- .*?■** - •■•' .• *v ' •. >-• r^n&s&Ljzziim - v .as^i^wj c£ZH-^nl /V- cc'a?dy //v m<$ biplane- ^ ACCORDING to Brig. Gen. Janies Allen, chief of the signal Torps, the United States army is to take up avia tion in earnest, and a number of young officers will be taught how to fly. Twenty or thirty aeroplanes of American make will be purchased for this purpose. Aviator McCurdy has betrn giving the army men some most convincing demonstrations of late, and their enthusiasm has been aroused as never before. The signal corps' aerodrome at College Park, near Washington, will be open soon. BABY’S REAL VALUE Professors of Economy Differ in Their Opinions. Prof. Thomas Nixon Carter, Head of Economics at Harvard, Discovers That $20 Is Pair Estimate on Average Person. Cambridge, Mas6.—The California state board of health recently fixed the value of a baby at $4,000. a sum considered far too low by Prof. Edwin ' R. A. Seligman of Columbia univers- ! ity, who declares that a baby less 1 than a year old represents an eco- | nomic value of at least $150,000. Now comes Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver, who is at the head of the chair of j economics at Harvard, who using a hypothetical case discovers that $20 is a fair value for the average person, and that “it would be a losing invest ment to buy a baby at that price.” “How much is a baby worth?” asks Professor Carver. "Of course, the first thing to be de cided in the discussion of this kina.” he says, “is what is meant by the value of a baby. To its own parents after they have got used to it a baby is an exceedingly precious thing, but their estimate is not necessarily the same as that of their neighbors, or that of society in general. For ex ample. a certain man is reported to have said that he regarded each of his children as worth $100,000,000, but that he would not give 5 cents for an other one. Therefore, we must ex clude from consideration the value of existing babies to their parents. "One way of finding the real eco nomic value of a man is to find out how much the community would lose If he were to die or to emigrate. The community would lose the value of his labor, but it would save 'what he consumed. In case he was consuming more than he was producing by his own individual labor the community would gain by his death. In other words, such a man is worth less than nothing. “This brings out the fatal defect in a great deal of the reasoning regard ing the economic value of the man. viz.: The failure to take account of the cost of keeping him. The man who earns $600 a year and consumes exactly that sum is worth exactly nothing. How much would you give for a cow that would produce $100 worth of milk and $10 worth of veal in a year and consume $110 worth of feed while she was doing it? The man who earns $600 in a year and consumes $500 of it. using the other $100 to employ a toolmaker in mak ing tools—that is. invests it In some form of productive capital—is worth $100 a year to the community. By reason of his existence the commu nity has $200 worth of productive power or tools more than It vould otherwise have had.” The only logical conclusion is that no person is of an economic value whatever unless he is by his own in dividual efforts performing some kind of serviceable labor, and of these only those of a positive value whose serv iceable labor is worth more than the food, clothing, house room, furniture, street car seats and other consumable goods and services which they are using up. PORK AND BEANS ARE BEST Sir Hudson Maxim Praises Americar Dish and Offers to Teach Women How to Cook Them. London.—The food controversy ir London has elicited from Sir Hudson Maxim a glowing letter in praise of what he calls the American national , dish—pork and beans. Sfr Hudson closes his tribute to the "best dish Id the world" by offering to give cooking lessons at his laboratory to English housewives who do not know how tc prepare this nutritious food. His let- j ter states: "No food in existence is so benefi cial to man as pork and beans. It j has been proven scientifically that pork and beans excel cod liver oil as a stimulating food in cases of con sumption.” * ■ Find Washington's Sword. Albany. X. Y.—George Washington's sword has been recovered from the ruins of the New York state library. The weapon is little damaged. It was at first believed that the sword had been demolished by the heat and ■ flames. PLAN TO ISOLATE SNORERS _ _ Men In Different Organizations Who Make Unearthly Noises in Sleep Are to Be Grouped. Chicago.—Chicago will have a unique organization of fire fighters if ; suggestions made by Fire Marshal j Charles F. Seyferlich are carried out ; by the head of the department. The proposal Is nothing less than that all | of the confirmed snorers of the fire de partment be gathered together as members of the same company and quartered In the same firehouse. A man to qualify must prove his ability 1 to snore and snore loudly. What there is about the work of a fire fighter that fosters and encour j ages the snoring habit would.be hard ! to say, but the fact remains that among firemen are often found men | who can always shake the putty out of the windows when they once start snoring. Possibly their bronchial tubes and lungs are affected by the large quantities of smoke they inhale. The members of a fire company all sleep in one large room and when KEY TO EGYPTIAN HISTORIES i Inscriptions Which Heretofore Have Defied Savants Near Decipher ing by Recent Find. riairo.—An important discovery has been made y Professor Sayce, who | is engaged in digging on the site of ! Meroe. in the Sudan. Many ancient ; inscription in the Sudan are written J in the hieroglyphics of Egypt. But many others are in a language that has. up to now, successfully resisted all attempts at identification. This mysterious writing is known aB the Meroitic. Its pictorial characters are similar to the ancient Egyptian hiero glyphics. and is styled a “demotic al phabetic writing.” Dr. H. Brugsch and Dr. H. Schafer have tri:a to de If cipher it in vain, but Professor Sayee writes that ne has just obtained some Egyptian translations of Merotic words. Thus, ow-ing to this discovery, the unknown Merotic script may be read by Egyptian hieroglyphists for the first time, just as the'-key to the latter was obtained from the demotic and Greek translations on the Rosetta stone. Professor Sayce has also discovered the names of some new kings. Some of them call themselves kings of Egypt, and as they belong to the ob scure period of the twenty-seventh dynasty, the Inscriptions are expect ed to throw some light on Egyptian history. ever there is a member who has pecu liarly strong snoring powers the other laddies often find it difficult to get , needed rest. Cases have come up where the offending firemen found j their cots transferred to a rear room, where they were less likely to dis turb the peace of the night. Now the suggestion has been made to Marshai Seyferlich that one of two things should be done. The snorers should all be made members of the same company where they could have no excuse for grumbling if kept awake at night, or provision should be made at the firehouses for separate quar ters for snorers, so that the other members can have peace. The de velopment of the snoring habit with some of the firemen is responsible for the latest propositions and also for bringing out the fact that it is not considered a trivial subject of com plaint. though there is nothing per sonal in the matter. As a rule firemen who snore are among the bravest, j hardiest workers and most popular ; members of the department. At one engine house a string is tied to the foot of a loud srorer and the other firemen keep jerking it during the night to prevent the man going tc sleep before they do. At still another ; house the champion snorer Is forced to sleep near the pole hole, so that the man on watch in the station be low can prod him during the night to • prevent him from awakening the other members of the company. In the fire department snoring Is not considered a physical defect, for many j of the men who show the most agility , at fires are snorers who can easily scale buildings. Birds Roused the Police. The hammering of woodpeckers on a tin sign, near King's bridge. New York city, was mistaken for plstoi shots and caused two hours' activity by the police. LONG TUNNEL THROUGH ALPS Last Obstruction Pierced After Five and One-Half Years’ Work and Outlay of $20,000,000. Berne, Switzerland.—The final ob struction to the Loetschberg tunnel, through the Bhrnese Alps, was pierced by the laborers the other day, after five and a half years' work and the ex penditure of $20,000,000. The tunnel, which is the third longest in Europe, measures about nine miles. With the completion of tbe bore, which was planned to give tbe Sim plon line a direct connection with tbe rallwayb which traverse Switzerland from north to south, there will be a direct through route from Milan to ' Berne and thence to Calais and Bon tague. Might Advertise. "1 am learning to speak Esperanto, but It is slow work learning from a textbook.” “Why don't you hire some native to converse with you? They say that's the best way to learn a language.” # RUNS OVER SUNKEN FOREST Long Planned Water Way In North Carolina Reveals Prehistoric Rel ics—Cost $425,000. Kaieigh. N. C.—The long projected c-anal from Pamlico sound to Beaufort inlet. North Carolina, to connect the waters of Norfolk harbor with the Cape Fear rlrer, at Wilmington, has been completed, at a cost of $425,000. The money was provided by the rivers and harbors bill approved by congress March 2. 1907. The north end of the canal Is fresh water from the Neuse river; the lower end is salt water, and is in about four miles of Beaufort Inlet. The canal will be of the greatest use to all small craft and coasters, and yachts going south will use It this season to special advantage. It cuts off all the capes except Cape Fear, and shortens the distance more than eighty miles, as compared with the old and uncertain route. In excavating four miles of the canal through solid earth two sunken for rests were found, one below the other The work of clearing the right of way, through a dense forest of immense trees, some cypresses being ten feet in diameter, began October 1, 1908. The total length of cutting is 95,527 feet, of which 23.177 feet in Adams creek is 250 feet wide, with side slopes of three on one; 5.25S feet is 125 feet wide, with side slopes of three on one; 34,018 feet Is ninety feet The next 12,514 feet is 125 feet wide, with side slopes of three on one, and the remaining 20,560 feet, is 260 feet wide with side slopes of three on one. The total length of cutting is 95,527 feet, solid earth, at an average eleva ticn of eight feet above mean low wa ter. The remainder was in the old channels of Adams creek and Core creek and Newport river, which wer* widened and deepened to conform tc the adopted prism. To find cubic igphes in a ball mul tiply cube of diameter by .5236, ORIGIN OF MAIL GOO Railway Postal Servioe First Op erated in Missouri. William A. Davis, Before the War, Postmaster at St. Joseph, Devised System Now in Vogue for Dis tributing Mail En Route. • - - — ■■ - St. Joseph. Mo.—Progress in the carrying and distribution of United States mails has been remarkable in this country in the last fifty years. A oal? century age the first railroad west of the Mississippi river, from Hannibal to St. Joseph. Mo., was constructed, and on this road the railway mail serv ice of the country had its origin and inception. Then, only the mai'.s for the whole western country came in bulk on freight and passenger trains to be distributed in ton lots and carried to many destinations by courier, by buck board. horseback and siage lines, the only methods in those days. It remained for William A. Davis, postmaster at St. Joseph from 1855 to 18G1. to invent and inaugurate the great system now in vogue. Before this time the mails, all mixed and in bulk, were carried to some central dis tributing point. Independence, Mo., was one of these and St. Joseph later was another. When the railroad was built the task all came to the St. Jo seph office, in distributing the entire overland mail. The idea occurred to Mr. Davis that these mails could be distributed while in transit. It seemed to him in every way possible and desirable. So he wrote to the people in Washington for authority to fit up some cars on the Hannibal &. St. Joseph railroad to try out the experiment. The authority came and Mr. Davis went to the rail way headquarters at Hannibal and su ierintended the arrangement of sev eral way cars with pigeon holes, doors windows and other conveniences and William A. Davis. the initial run with a carload of mail was made from Hannibal to St. Joseph in record time, the mails properly dis tributed and ready'for the overland stages, couriers, etc. The first trial was so satisfactory that other cars were brought into re quisition and soon a most remarkable change for the better was made in the receipt and distribution of mails. The great railway mail service had been inaugurated! The problem of forwarding overland mails without delay was solved, and Mr. Davis was soon made a special agent of the department and given full charge of the branch of the service which he had originated. William A. Davis, inventor of the railway mail service, was born in Bar ren County. Kentucky, in September 1S09. In early youth he went to Vir ginia. where he entered the postal service, at Richmond and other places, and with his career in St. Joseph he had been in the postal service about fifty years. The first car for the distribution ol the mails was an old-time ‘'way” car. fitted up with pigeon holes. Extra windows were arranged and the “dis tributors" used candles to assist in lighting the cars. Mr. Davis made a trip on the first car as far as Palmyra Mo., and then left the work with an as sistant while he returned to Hannibai for the second car. There are many old railroaders yet alive who remem ber the first mail cars. GEESE ON THE STAGE REBEL Object to Understudy for Singer in Halle Performance of Humper dinck’s “Konigskinder.” Berlin.—An amusing incident oc I .urred this week at a performance of j Humperdinck s “Konigskinder” at the j Halle opera house. Live geese are employed for the ! Halle production in contrast to the papier mache variety which indulge in make believe cackles at Berlin. The ; prima donna who regularly sings the j part of the goose maid was taken ill I suddenly and it became necessary to ; obtain an understudy. When the lat ter, however, went on the stage the geese rebelled against the intrusion of a stranger. They became so enraged they threatened to do the singer bod ily injury. The conductor of the orchestra had ip stop the performance until the geese could be quelled. They refused to subside until the familiar figures of the wood chopper and the broom mak er came upon the scene. Effect of Mind on MVter. Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. When cares, heary captations, sorrows and passions superaoound they weaken the body, which, without the soul is dead, or like a horse without a driver. But when the heart Is at rest and quiet, then it takes' care of the body and rives it what pertains thereunto Therefore we ought to abandon and resist anxious thoughts by all possible means.—Luther's Table Talk. f Avcid the Cheap and "Big Can" Bak ing Powders. The cheap baking powders have but one recommendation: they certainly give the purchaser plenty of powder for his money nut it's not all taking powder; the bulk is made up of cheap materials that have no leavening power. These powders are so carelessly made from interior mate rials that they will not make light, whole some food. Further. the-e cheap baking powders have a very small percentage of leavening gas; therefore it takes from two to three times as much of such powder to raise the cake or biscuit as it does of Calu met Baking Powder. Therefore, in the long run, the actual cost to the consumer of ths cheap jiowders is more than Calumet would be. Why not buy a perfectly wholesome bak ing powder like Calumet, that is at the same time moderate in price and one which can be relied upon? Calumet gives the cook the least trouble. Xo man becomes a jailbird just for & lark. _% To keep the blood pure and the skin clear, drink Garfield Tea before retiring. The truth is that the love of dress is. next after drink and gambling, one of the curses cf our country.—Mrs. Humphrey. — Your Drujcsrist Mill Tell Yon Murine Eye Remedy Relieves Sore Eyes, Strengthens Weak Eyes. Doesn't Smart, Soothes Eye Pain. Try it in Baby's i Eyes for Scaly Eyelids and Granulation. One of the loudest of the many strange cries which fill the air today is the cry fer universal independence. ! —Mrs. H. R. Haweis. ! _ A pin scratch may cause blood poison, a ru-tv mil cut i« very apt to do so. Hamlins Wizard Oil used at once draws cut all -nfection and makes blood poison impossible. Justified. Wagge — Why did Henpeck leave 1 the church? Jaggs—Somebody told him mar riages were made in heaven.—Judge. F.D GEERS, "The grand old man.” he is called for he is so honest handling horses in races. He savs: “I have used SPOIIX'S DISTEMPER CURE for 12 years, always with best success. It is the only remedy I know to cure all forms of distemper and prevent horses in same sta ble having the disea-e.” 50c and $1 a bot ; tie. All druggists, or manuficturers. Spohn i Medical Co.. Chemists. Goshen. Ind. Close Guess. Schmidt — Ve got ** new baby py our house yesterday. Schmaltz—Yas iss; poy or girl? Schmidt—I vond dell you. You hef got to gess it. Schmaltz—Iss id a girl? Schmidt—You cho-o-ost missed it.— : Youngstown Telegram. __ Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine j wash goods when new, owe much of j their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a ■ manner to enhance their textile beau I ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, tjie first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening i the goods. Try Defiance Starch and I you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Clearing Kansas of Grasshoppers. A live grasshopper will eat a dead grasshopper. A farmer mixed paris green and bran together and let a grasshopper eat it. It died and 20 grasshoppers ate it up, and they died. Four hundred ate these 20 and they died. Eight thousand ate those 400 and they died. A hundred and sixty thousand ate those 8,000 and died, and the farmer was troubled no more.— Anthony Bulletin. Labrador's Future. According to statements made the other dsy by Dr. Grenfell of Labrador, the Cinderella of British possessions I has a brilliant future before it. Dr. Grenfell, who has lived twenty years \ in that snowy country, says that in days to come it will carry a popula tion as easily as Norway does today. It is, he says, a better country than Iceland, and to be greatly preferred to Lapland, Finland, Siberia and Northern Alaska. Open-Air Schools Increasing. Since January 1. 1907. sixty-five open air schools for children afflicted with j or predisposed to tuberculosis have been established in twenty-eight cities, according to an announcement made by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Tne first open air school in the United States was established on January 1, 1907, by the board of education of Providence, R. I., at the instance of Dr. Ellen A. Stone. The next school was established In May of the same year at Pittsburg, and the third at Boston in July. 1908. According to the reports received by the national ! association, the result of the open air i class-work has been to restore most ! of the children to normal health and s efficiency. One of these open air j schools or classes should be estab lished for each 25,000 population, es j peciallv in cities.