Tbe L««f City Northwestern J WT KT’BLOCH. Publisher LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA WOMEN TAKE TO THE WATER N Hu Been Round. •» Wronger Thai. Sterner Sea. Soimming to tbe one outdoor exor rtoo b wblrb *aeu frequently ex cede boa Tbe oater to her heritage but only is tbe laot decode tae she Ukto pnsstoslna. say* tbe Se» York Evsmtsg World Plump little Rone PMomsf. oho covered tbe distaste be fwwes East Tvretyvlili street. Man Lattna. aad Osaey tslsad la eight hears and sexes mtauteo. Is one at s gras-tag load of graceful, facile oater By virtue of physical perfect loo aad •Luslaa Annette KeUermac. the Hthe (ounhaa girl wbo essayed tbe Rug tot < hasted, is perhaps tbe header of three Other noteworthy figures are Ebbe fieHhf tbe ponerfully built Hath beach chart psos. Eksson Seers tbe Seaport sority girl: 13*le Thiel, •laser at maty sptist*. Adeline Trapp, a Bradtlya teacher obo has ctmqoefod Hell Gate Ktbei *Yers sad Beatrice Dae of Feet Hamilton, obo bate so am tbe Narrows rad done still more bfindt feats. Evelyn Hon eft. tbe Flashing arbaoi girl: Augusta Gallop aad Clara Hurst, sur vitors la a race from Brooklyn bridge to Coney Island. Mme Claire Gat :nststt has eesspetnd on bvea terms with an Parbnaa* ta < coming tbe Setae Mrs. lest Hra:.daeburg at 8t. Lash tsia tbe fte mile* from Eads bridge to the AHeobetm just to r*rove fbat a socaaB of sixty is not as old W'by. other ibtcg* being equal, dc «san soim better fhae uses* Be rause their conform*; ion is veil adapted ter this exercise Because there ts usually more adipose tissue uader the tkit aad ibis protects tbe body from invading cold. Because as Doctor Surges? of Harvard says, “names always are aad roastiturtoa tOy «jfbt to to raxtor (tos nsrn ” Origin erf the Club. Net iafredneetiy women of writ di rect tMr (kafii against tbe dubs ec beamed wbd Irtsarcud by mukiid lb Ralph NeiOIw story of 'Loodoe iTtae" end their angle nod uers are auat emamples at vH xu&crf in tb» ■jppmn* direction. Tbe critical conception of a London risk wm a retreat to whrb West End men might betake themselves certain that tbe trouble* and worrier of tbe outside world would wet follow them mio a building which they regarded a* a temjde of dignified seclusion and re Brrkap* tbe but dew* rlptkm of a «lab a* K retried la former day*, was that given by a wtffjr bishop, wbo de fined If ns a place "where women veaaed from uosb'lac and the weary •erv at rest “ Another ajEOfiag definition war mace pirn by Uorp Augustus Fain. “A rich' said Sai*. '1* a weapon unwed by savage* to keep tbe white woman at a distar.ee ' —Tooth's Com pmt&m. • H«stary Repeated. H nas at tbe tTrcus Mniiuiu The Eapue Xtm leased forward la spite of bis embonpoint. and sorbed owe at tbe emperor's ladies is ealtixg «m tbe shoulder ~f*ardob me Aggripptta.' Le said In ei-eLett Imtin. "but would you uitd laklrg down your coiffure, sc that I can get a look in oa the arena'. There's a massacre today that I'm particularly aasamw to see." Her owl} answer was a sneer of pa Mrtaa arera Well she knew that Xrt bad come ta oa a press ticket, while ac easy Roman suitor bad paid nsJ Eco-i for her seat A blew Post erf View. A youngster bad been very rude tc bis mother, aad abe bad turned him over to bis father to be disciplined. • ben the fattening conversation was merheard "Ted did yea aay so and mo to your Tw. dad - "Weil, yon will have W settle that matter with her. becaeae she is your asetber aad not mine. But she la my wife, and I win not allow aay man. i emg or eld. te be rude to her Now yea nsr apologise to me for being rude te my wife, and then you can settle With your mo* her for being rude to her" Pftfin"! tor the Part. The terrible storm had passed and he angry nates, after eagulfitg many • gaUaat mil had subsided The n the he* sun The clock Otrwrfc one. the time to pick up his bod agnm He rone, stretched, and grnmMed: T wish I wm da id Tain nsthtn bn* wnk. wnk fruns mawnln “On Land can scan* ao )ofccs He las' taboo anything In yearaist " -g> tea l asm anything on the mush ALASKA RICH III Oil Wefls Choked With Debris to Pre vent Natural Flow. Conflicting Interests Have Lonr Sought to Control the Output of Petroleum in the R*o*i Kat alia District. Seattle. Wash.—A strange story romr* from the Katalia region, it Alaska. Oil weiis that were borei half a dozen years ago, and prom sed great returns in high grade pe .rolcum. were never allowed to be -ome producers be< ause of conflicting ntere.-u that were seeking to drive •ach other cut. Recently new own •rafc.p* have prevailed, and the foui ,-rtr.. :;>al wells near the town of Kat ilia were found to be choked wit! •crap iron. junk, cud all sorts ot lebris. When the lead was taker >ut the wells Cowed 2.100 barrels o >11 a day. For 'wo years or more the country aas been discursing the Alaska ceai jroblem. pro and con. yet scarcely efore the discovery of Mt. McKin ey. in the interior of Alaska. A cumber of the early claimants •rganized an oil company which In urn leased to a second company—a •anadian concern—and this again eared to a third company, which lnally did the well drilling But he last company was to pay a big sum of money as soon as oil was dis covered In commercial quantities. The four wells drilled produced 41. How much the outside world did lot know, because the three com nnles began their long struggle to freeze' out each other. It was not ocg ago that a fourth company came n and got possession of the "old Eng Ish" property, as it was called, and spened up the choked wells. Two ons of stuff was taken from one bore, ind the oil in Its exuberance at being eleased. carried away the top of the lerrick Then It settled down to a teady flow of 720 barrels a day. Oil 4ond In two of the other wells, but 1 *a* found that when the flow was itarted with a pump. It continued at he same rate of its own accord. Being so light and volatile, wood ontainers are useless In handling the iatalla olL Therefore iron and steel ■eceptacles and conveyors were or iered. and now are being placed in po rtion. One tank of 30.000 barrels Is lelng erected at tidewater on Con roller bay, and two others, one of :>®00 barrels and the other of 6,000 •arrels. will stand at the wells, about light miles from the big loading t»nfr rhe distance Is covered by an Iron ripe that will deliver 1,500 barrels a lay. FHIS FAMILY WITHOUT TEETH False Molars, Used In Common by In diana Couple, Broken in a Fight. Owood. Ind.—It Is soup, 'h&sb and (he like for the subsistence of Mary Myerly and her aged husband now, neither being able to eat solid food duce their one set of false teeth, ehlch they used in common, was bro ! In a fight between the two. Called before the mayor to explain | an attack on her helpmate, Mra. Myer ! ty said that her spouse was using the teeth when It came her time to eat tapper and that he refused to gir« them up to her. She ssld that she then hit him over the head with s rolling pin. The much used molan fdB from the old man’s mouth and tb« piste was broken. '-- ' First of Submarine Cables ■ ■— • - —- 7. Colonel Colt’s Invention That Ante dated That o* Samuel Morse, but Was Dropped* for Manu facture of Revolvers. Not long ag 1 I told the story of how General 7 ichary Taylor uncon sciously made the revolver popular after Its invertor, Samuel Colt, had failed to induce the army and the pub lic to look kindly upon the new weapon Colo lei Colt always gave "Old Rough and Ready” full credit for making the revolver a commercial success, and to his intimate friends •ie sometimes declared that it was General Taylor, also, who perhaps kept him from being known to fame as the Inventor of the transatlantic cable. One of the friends to whom he thus expressed himself was Mar shall Jewell, who was a fellow towns man of Colt's. In Grant’s cabinet as postmaster-general, before that minis ter to Russia and twice governor of Connecticut, and, like Colt, for many years one of the leading manufactur ers of Connecticut. “When the country was going wild over the laying of the first Atlantic cable.” said Governor Jewell, "and : over the exchange of messages be tween Queen Victoria and President Buchanan. Colt told me that a num ber of years earlier—at about the time when Profesor Morse was per fecting his telegraph system—he con ceived the idea that It would be pos- j sible to lay a telegraph line upon the bed of a river or along the coast that would be successful, and he further more was of the opinion that there was nothing in science which stood In the way of laying a telegraph line upon the ocean bed from continent to continent. "Now Sam Colt w-&s a man who. when an idea occurred to him Involv ing Invention and experiment, never let It lapse unless be had tested it and found it wanting. So he had a good many talks with Professor Morse in the latter's little laboratory on the top floor of a building facing Wash ington Square, In New York, and he learned from Morse that the great ob stacle that stood In the way of a submarine telegraph line was inabil- I ity to secure an insulating medium. "That statement was sufficient to ! set Sam Colt at work experimenting ! to see whether or not he could find some inexpensive material which | would serve as an Insulator to a ; telegraph wire under water. He made a good many experiments. Rubber was out of the question; It was too costly. But It occurred to him that cotton yarn was cheap and that if he soaked i the yarn in beeswax, which is a non- 1 conductor, and put it around a wire, protecting the whole with asphaltum. and then carried the wire thus Insul ated through a lead pipe, he would overcome the difficulty. "This scheme -of Insulation worked perfectly in the laboratory; and Colt procuring a wire long enough to stretch from Fire Island to what is now Coney Island. N. Y„ insulated it with his mixture, encased the whole in a lead pipe and sunk it beneath the waves. This was the first submarine telegraph cable laid; so far as trans mission of electric signals was con cerned it was successful, and Colt, after the Morse telegraph had been proved a commercial success a year or two later, determined to develop the submarine cable commercially, first by laying short ocean cables, and then a transatlantic one. "But, ’curiously enough.’ as Sam Colt used to put it to me. Just when he was all but over the preliminary work. General Zachary Taylor, then fighting the Mexicans, sent in to him an order for a thousand revolvers— which Colt had ceased to make a num ber of years before because no one would buy the weapon—and Colt, seeing a splendid business chance in Taylor's order, at once set to work to fill it. the result being that a large demand soon grew up for the revol ver. The meeting of this demand oc cupied all of Colonel Colt’s time and energy, and as he saw a fortune rap idly growing out of the manufacture and sale of the weapon, he thought less and less of the submarine cable, finally dropping from bis mind all hla old plans in connection with It "Perhaps, bad be held to those plans, they might have been success ful. Sam Colt to the day of his death always held that they would have been successful; and be likewise al ways believed that Cyrus W. Field got his first Idea of submarine telegraphy from the little cable that was laid by Colt in New York harbor back in 18-13." (Copyright. 1311. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Story of a $50 Bill. A most charming Philadelphia wom an came to New York for the day and her husband handed her a flfty-dollar bill for tips and small change, relates the New York Telegraph. At the station in Philadelphia she left the Pullman to buy a periodical, leaving her bag carelessly on the seat. There was another woman oc cupying the adjacent chair. Upon her return the Philadelphia woman opened her bag and found no flfty-dollar biH She made no accusation, but when the other woman fell asleep she quiet ly opened her bag and abstracted the bill. in New York they bowed amicably and parted. When the Philadelphian returned home her husband asked her if she had enjoyed the trip. "Y'es, but I spent all the money.” she replied. “All the money." said the husband. “Why, I was worrying over the fact that you left vour flfty-dollar bill on your dressing table." Chance Meeting of Enemies How Isaiah Rhynders, Rabid Pro-Slav ery Advocate, and William Lloyd Garrison, Leader of Abolition ists, Became Acquainted. The present generation has forgot ten Isaiah Rhynders. Yet in the ante bellum days his name was a familiar one. It symbolized northern pro-siav ery sentiment Its bearer was regard ed by the abolitionists as a sort of ogre, a man dominated by ferocity of political sentiment. He was, indeed, one of the most rabid of all the pro slavery Democrats of the north, and as United States marshal for the southern district of New York, to which office he'was appointed first by President Pierce, be bent his ener gies to running down fugitive slaves and returning them to their masters. i met Marshal Rhynders in 1S75. To my surprise. I saw a man of slender build, a man of most gentle demeanor. Fate and a Noted Irish Actor .v John Brougham's Reminiscences of the Way Fame and Fortune Missed Him and Fell to Others. "What queer pranks destiny plays us!" said John Brougham one autumn evening in 1877. We were sitting in the New York study of the Irish actor and playwright whose name was wide ly known in England and America in connection with matters theatrical from 1840 until his death in 18C0. “I was thinking." Mr. Brougham continued, "how queerly the fates have allotted their gifts so far as 1 am concerned. There is the case of 'Lon don Assurance.' for Instance, which has been a favorite with English and American playgoers ever since its first production in Covent Garden In 1841 by Dion Boucicault. In the writ ing of that comedy I colaborated with Dion Boucicault, yet almost all of the money which came from Its production went to Dion, and the play made his reputation as a playwright, while John Brougham remained Insig nificant all the time that it was being compared favorably with Sheridan's 'The Rivals.' “Ah. yes', there Is such a thing as luck In the world of the drama as well aa In the world of business, and a later experience, and an even more striking one than this with ‘London Assurance,' will serve to illustrate the point “ \ot long after my return to the United States after the close of the Civil war I was reading over for the fourth or fifth time Charles Dickens' 'Old Curiosity Shop*—a great favorite of mine—when the Idea suddenly oc curred to me that If Just the right act ress could be found it would be possl ble to write a play based on the novel in which the characters of Little Nell and the Marchioness could be taken by the same person. 1 realized that It would require a great deal of dramatic ability, a wonderful versatility, for any one to play Little Nell In one act and the Marchioness in another; but I kept the idea in mind, and later was told that a young girl who had not been in New York many years from California, where she had appeared on the stage as a mere child, would just fit the dual role both in physlqu: and dramatic ability. It war pro posed that 1 write a play for this young girl, Jn which she would appear alternately as Little I.' " and the Marchioness, certain terms were men tioned to me. and I accepted the proposition and went to work. "Well, in due time I fixed up the play, and when it was produced in 1S67 it made one of the greatest suc cesses of the American stage It m?de the fame of Charlotte Crabtree, better known as Lott a It W'as the basts of the fortune she now possesses —and she deserves every penny of It, dear girl. But again John Brougham was obscure; nor had he more than a paltry return of money for his work. Would you have known, if 1 had not told you just now, thai It was I who dramatized Little Nell and the Marchioness?” The Irish actor-playwright Bmiled philosophically. "Ah, me.” he said. ‘T am not com plaining. It Is all fate, and I presume this will be my fate until the end.” Three years later, at the age of 70. Brougham died, leaving the manu script of a play upon which be had based great hopes, but which, by rea son of his death, was never produced. (Copyricht, 1(11, by E. J. Edwards. All Rlshts Reserved.) I with a bright and kindly expression in his eye, and a smile that told of his fondness for humor. Could this be the man who had been painted as a demon in human form not so very many years before? As we sat talking reminiscently ot the days when Rhynders was in the i thick of events political, the door of the room of the postmaster of New I York opened and there entered a gen j tleman whose manner and features be j tokened the scholar, the man of custi j vation and refinement. His height | must have been something more than ' six feet. His dress was that of a i man who knows how to dress well but ; not conspicuously. I saw at once that the postmaster | was in some embarrassment. He look ed furtively at Marshal Rhynders. ; then again at the newcomer, and then. | evidently mustering his courage, he said: “1 am very glad of this opportunity | to bring into acquaintance two men ' who have been known for many years to each other by name, but who. I pre sume. have never met personally. Marshal Rhynders. I take great pleas ' ure in introducing you to my personal friend. William Lloyd Garrison.” Mr. Garrison, the great leader of the Abolitionists, the first in all the north to agitate against slavery, and I to teach opposition to the fugitive slave law. and Marshal Rhynders. typi fying In his career and symbolizing in his name the more rabid pro-slavery party of the decade before the Civil war. stood facing one another for an instant. Mr. Garrison was penetrating the ex United States marshal with his glance, while Rhynders. on the other hand, was studying the personality of the great anti-slavery leader. In a moment, however, they seemed to realize fully that the issues which had given them fame were of the past. Each extended his hand, they took seats side by side and a moment or two later the postmaster and 1 went out of the room unobserved, for those two men were engaged in Intimate conversation. Perhaps half an hour later William Lloyd Garrison came from the post master's room through the anteroom where he met us. His face was beam ing. "I found Marshal Rhynders a most interesting and entertaining man." he caid. "I atn glad to have had the opportunity to meet and chat with him.” Then he went away, and as he did so Marshal Rhynders stepped Into the anteroom. “Garrison is a great man and a good man." he said, earnestly, sincere ly. “We became friends. I shall al ways remember the conversation 1 have just had with him, and I am glad to think that he may have obtained a different impression of me than he had In the days when slavery was a great Issue.” (Copyright. MU. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) “The world's Mins Oyster.** • Professor Deland had been favored with tbe acquaintance of most of tbe members of his son's class, and when the time of graduation from the high school approached, William and a delegation from tbe class asked tbe professor’s advice as to a suitable de sign for the medallion. “We want something to be mounted on a pin.” said one of the boys, “and we thought a design that had a boy’s figure and a globe would be about right, to show that the whole world is before us. you know." “Of course the boy’s figure would be tbe important thing," said William, hastily. “We thought perhaps the globe might be st tbe boy's fset. How does the idea strike you. father?" "It la not wholly unfamiliar to me," said the professor. “But why have the globe at the hoy’s feet, William? Why not have It lying in the palm of of bit hand?”—Tooth's Companion. . “Wo are turning a lot of young law yers out." “Don't worry. They 11 get bsrk si us by taking us in.” The Last Hope When Lemuel Gregg died, a cousin from a distant town appeared, saying he had come to settle the estate and take the residue, as Lemuel's only kinsman. He had a jaunty air at first, but at the end of a week he had ac quired a watchful and anxious expres sion. When he stepped Into the of fice of Lawyer Mears. on Saturday afternoon, he seemed to be extremely nervous. "Well, how are you coming out?" asked the lawyer. "1 suppose it's all clear sailing, lan't It?” "Clear sailing!" echoed the executor. "Do you suppose I'd be here with a fee to pay if 'twas dear sailing? I'm desperate, I tell you! "There Isn’t a thing left of Cousin Lem’s estate excepting a two-do liar bill and three pewter plates. I want to know If there's any way that I can oblige the town to accept those plates for the tax hill that sprung up on me after I thought I’d got every thing paid? If there is. I’ll give yon • dollar, and use the other half o’ that two-dollar bill to get hack to where I came from, this very night.’*—Youth’* Companion. Their Lost Darting. “Oh. our darling is lost again!" she cried, as soon as he got Into the house. “What little darling r "You unfeeling m os ter! Our little darling.’ “Oh. the acroot?” “Yes, if you must talk like a brute, the sc root—the mutt—anything you wish. And I want you to advertise for him." He promised to do It, and this la the ad., aa it appeared: “Lost—A sausage shaped dog. an swering. when hungry, to the name of Baby. A reward will be paid for bla return to M Dash avenue, dead or alive." WONDERS OF LONG LIFETIME Michigan Nonogsnarlan Who Hat Lived Through Ninety-one Moet Marvelous Years. I'lalnweil, Mich k'rom the slow plodding of the ssddlo horse and the groaning ponderosity of the ancient •tage coach to the rapid rush of the great locomotive; from the lingering postman to the wireless message; from Hi*- crude sailing vessel to the airship of the present day these are