Tbe Loop City Northwestern J. W STRUNG 1L Publisher LOUP Cmr, • - NEBRASKA The cold **»« wig »aased :u at Wlsj Uni tin* man "higher up?" Isn't be really lover down? Oo» ran. wten one la hunting for ■Nocks. ted Ihra almrtl any»hero. Ttia would tac a better and happlei world to lit* ti> did rrrrj one try *r ■take it so. Tbe actors of the ruanirf are n to erect a ponuneot to lhr to In*rated tbe free lunch. A fat man's clot ait raided recently ta a Virginia town Naturally, the raiding party espected a stout resiat Paris restaurants are serving roast camel aa a delicacy, but there U nc recipe for cooking a camel In a pa per bag Baseball ta now to take its place among the polite arts, since It bat acquired tbe grateful possession of s lady magnate Tbe In*: er ot tbe former s* ah. » bc demands l‘'l.(d» of tbe Persian ' reaa cry. Is earned Salan Are there nc TV la Persian A wife with a gun came io tbe re» *Te of her husband treed by a bear Aad it uaa tbe bear that »s shot too. aad no* tbe husband A Pennsylvania physician claims tc bate educated tuo African cbitspsa sees to reason After this there ought to be hope tor some humans •dentists dedare that tbe world i* O’er 5*- , has decided that the toung mm ea who preside at the checking rooms la hotels sad other places s here be baa bought tbe "Up" privileges must wear pocket lees dresses so that they sill have so chance to bide tbe change which is to them Why doesn't bo iitmaiial them ta base their hands I-X --XX- V-» Beauty and the Doctor * * * By CATHERINE COOPE (Copyright. 1911. by Associated Literary Pies&J The ycung doctor drew tn a great breath of country air. The garden at the rear of the old home in which he was to spend his vacation was a mass of scented flowers. Roses, zenias dahlias all clustered about like little Joyous souls roving in the moonlight. A refreshing rain had cooled the air. and because the night was beau tiful. and the doctor young, his thoughts turned toward the girl to whom his heart had lately responded Because his mind was in a chaotic condition regarding the depth of his feeling toward Rose Langdon, Dr. Emery had come to the solitude of the old manor house on Long Island. His thoughis. for the moment bent chiefly on the beauty of the night, were easily interrupted. He paused and listened. In the walled garden next door a soft swishing sound made regular har mony to his car. He drew nearer the wall and looked over through a clump of bushes. His eyes opened wide and he leaned cautiously away from the moon rays. Was she a wraith or a blood and bone girl who trailed back and forth over the rain-soaked grass? Dr. Emery, so comp! tely startled out of his every-day, humdrum city life, could not definitely answer the question. He watched with fascinated attention. the girls attire was white and clingy and traily, and as she moved across the long grass her bare feet peeped forth. Those little feet found a pool of water left by the recent rain, and a gleeful chuckle fell from the girl’s lips. ’Insane!" muttered the young doc tor. "By Jove! What a pity—she is as beautiful as the lilies. "They toil not. neither do they spin.” thought the doctor, and the pity dropped out of his thoughts, the girl seemed so absolutely happy, so evidently joyous in this condition of the mind. After humming a few notes of lilting melody the girl tripped I The s'.' ' sii;re tv&s white BS ancTchnyy and Ira dy H qmcKly toward the house and disap peared. Ur. Emery frowned, partly because : the garden seemed less beautiful and partly because he had been inter- i rupud in bis attempt to diagnose this i peculiar form of brain malady. At an early hour of the morning j there came to the doctor's ears that same tinkling laugh. He jumped hur riedly from his bed and looked out of the window. The sun was a great ball in the eastern sky. and it cast its dawning color over the girl in the next garden, i "This is assuredly a peculiar case,” muttered the doctor, while be kept fascinated eyes upon the girl. She was in the front garden now and a blue kimono enveloped her; her head was bound closely in a turban effect of the same shade, and she was trip ping quickly about among the great hydrangea bushes. From time to time she would select a blossom and hold it in two caressing hands, then suddenly bury her face in its soft depths. It was at such moments that the little laugh rang out. The doctor watched her fuss over the tiny white petals that clung to her eyes and lips and nose. ■'She is just plum dippy!” ejaculated Dr Emery, with a tinge of irritation. The girl then went down into the back garden and selected an ear of com from the stocks, which she ate, nibbling it with apparent relish. Then she sampled peas, carrots and beets. "Mud and all! Most extraordinary!” For the first time in his career Dr. Emery regretted that he was not an insanity expert. “She seems to thrive on it—never saw such a beauty in all my life,” was the doctor’s thought as he crept back into bed after the girl had returned to the house. He lay a long time wondering how he could ar range to talk to the girl without arous ing her suspicion. During the day he watched for vari ous moods of the case. When the sun was high the girl came out with her glorious red-gold hair hanging, and proceeded to sway backward and for ward, swishing It to the wind in the air, after which she brushed li tigor ously. “Now she thinks she is an Italian wood carrier." The doctor watched her put a book on the crown of her head and walk slowly around and around the house. “I’ll bet there is a specialist in that house watching her every minute!” In ihe evening when the moon wai high the girl came again into the back garden. Dr. Emery was well hidden behind a clump of bushes. "Great Scott! She has on her bath ing suit! And she is rolling in this soakiug grass! She'll have something tomorrow that will need a doctor aa sure as my name’s Emery!" After rolling over and over in the wet grass and then lying full length on her back for a long moment, the girl pulled a bathing cap well over her head and turned on the hose. With laughter falling from her lips she ran in and out. squealing with the cold and exhilaration of her hose bath. A door opened in his own house. "Oh, Dr. Emery! Here is a tele gram for you," the voice from the house called. With a lingering look at the hose nymph Dr. Emery went for his tele gram. He was summoned back to town. A patient needed him and Emery took the late train out that night. He went, determined to return as quickly as possible. Pity being akin to love, the young doctor felt the diagnosis of his own case was easily made Weeks wore on and still Dr. Emery was harnessed to the grind in town. He felt, however, that since the snow was upon the ground the girl would not be permitted to carry on her in sane wanderings in the garden. Rose Langdon had drifted entirely out of his thoughts and only the girl of the garden lingered. It was at a big New Year dinner, his first social moment of the past months, that Dr. Emery glanced up to meet his partner for dinner. The most radiantly beautiful girl he had ever looked upon had laid a hand on his arm and was walking be side him into the dining-room. , "Then you are not insane!” he asked. The girl turned wide, violet eyes upon him. Then she laughed that same tinkling laugh that he had heard in the garden. "Not that I know of, Dr. Emery. Is there something in my appearance that suggests—" “Nothing but—beauty," the doctor said, beause it had been in his heart so long. “But last summer—’’ The girl turned quickly toward him and a bright blush crimsoned her cheeks. "Where were you?" she asked. “In the garden—next door.” Violet looked into Dr. Emery’s eyes and seemed fascinated by the multi tude of questions she saw there. “But why did you wiggle your toes about in the oozy mud—and why did you lie down in soaking grass that might have had copperheads and black beetles in it—and why did you come out at dawn and bob into the hydrangeas?” The dotor’s look was so serious with Its mixture of adoration that Violet laughed aloud. “You are forgetting the corn and carrots and peas?" she smiled and tried to recall just how far her experi ment had taken her. "You see, D|j^ Emery—you are not a beauty special ist, or you would know there is noth ing like early morning dew for the complexion. The hydrangeas gave me that. From the oozy mud, as you call it, and the grass. I was absorbing elec tricity and nerve force." The doctor was beginning to un derstand. “But the boolffn your head and the green vegetables that no doubt had lots of little green—” Violet stopped both ears and turned slightly away. “I refuse to listen. You are trying to disparage my quest for beauty and I think it very com mendable.” “It might be In some cases," said the doctor, and when he smiled straight into her eyes Violet had the grace to blush. Vanishing Delicacy The United States government will nave tne aid of the tlsherv experts ot practically all the countries ot northern Europe in tracking down the mackerel schools which used to fre quent American waters. In 1886. after several years of unusual friendliness, 1 the mackerel seemed to take an aver sion to their ancient habitat off the \>w England coast, and the catch has been dwindling ever since- In 1885 500,000 barrels were salted (or consumption in this country, leaving out of account the supply eaten fresh. In 1010 the entire catch was only - 2.710 barrels. The mackerel Is one of the best food fishes. The Spanish mackerel m particular is a delectable morsel, and Its progressive disappearance 1 irom tne market has been a calamity. As the cost of meat and game has nsen the range of table delicacies oas been sadly circumscribed, and ite mackerel's perversity in taking to u w cruisirg grounds has been all the more heartless *nd Inopportune. It Is to be hoped that the Permanent in ternational Council lor the Explora tion of the Sea will hunt him down and instil Into him a new sense ot duty to suffering humanity. Beyond His Ken. A teacher writes that she had a new pupil fill in a reference card last week. One blank asked for “Nationality of Parents." This had to be explained to the child. Then she wrote down: "Papa 1b Irish and mamma is German. But I don't know what they were before they were married.” Try Scissors Next Time. "She meant to chop off the chick en's head with a hatchet.” says a Mis souri editor, “hut only succeeded in cutting off her forefinger. The next time she has designs against the life of a chicken we recommend the use of a pair of scissors.”—Atlanta Con stitution. CHECK THAT CAPTURED THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HERE Is a photograph of the check for $100,000 which secured the Democratic national convention for the city of Baltimore. It Is reported that Herman Rldder, treasurer of the committee, when told the Baltimore dele gation had the check, said: “Lead me to them.” CITY ON THE NEVA _* Characteristics of St. Peters burg Noted by English Tourist. Officers Among the Finest Specimens of Their Kind in the World— Furs More Costly Than in United States. St. Petersburg.—Peter the Great must have been a bold man when, in order that he might have a “window out of which he could look on Eu rope.” he built the city on the Neva. Indeed, Judging from the strong sim plicity of his face in a celebrated pic ture. in which he is seen lecturing his feeble looking son, aesthetics could not at any time have influenced his choice of cities or otherwise. It was Lady Craven who regarded a city built amid such surroundings as certain to fall, though, as she admitted, the em press did all she could to "Invite po liteness. science and comforts to cheer this region of ice.” F. G. Aflialo writes in the London Pall Mall Gazette. “All this is very well; yet today, as one walks down the crowded Nevski Pros pekt or along the Morskaia, as one drives over the bridges to the islands, or stands within the cathedral or the opera house, it Is difficult, indeed, to realize that, little more than two cen turies ago all this was desolate morass of the kind seen from the Nord ex press between the city and the fron tier. It Is a city of great spaces and de serted squares. Its population must exceed 2.000.000, yet the tourist will find immense emptiness between crowded quarters. Although, more over, the city straggles along the Neva, it cannot be said to have resi dential suburbs along the railway, for the train seems to.come suddenly on its slums from the open plain. Its vast unused spaces doubtless have owners, but these seem unable or un willing to turn their property to ac count. and one is irresistibly reminded of Tolstoy’s story of the victim of his own greed, who. having been promised the freehold of as much land as he could walk around In a day. fell dead just as he had completed the circuit. The officers are among the finest specimens of their kind anywhere in the world, and here let me say that they compare very favorably indeed with those of another continental power for politeness and affability. As a case in point, I was buying some typical photographs of horses. Includ ing cavalry, in a large shop, and the man behind the counter was quite un able to tell me the different regiments represented. A tall officer happened to be making purchases at the same counter, and he most kindly came to the rescue, speaking excellent French, and gave mo all the Information I re quired. In the other country he would have clanked his sword and given me a look that froze, or tried to. Up to Christmas the snow does not take itself seriously. In November I saw it thick in the streets one day and gone tho next. The canals are useful rather than ornamental. They are said to smell when the Ice is breaking up, and I can bear witness that they do so when it is net; so they are active all the year round The best shops are about as expensive as those in Bond street and the window dressing is artistic, but any one ex pecting to get furs for a song out here will be disappointed. At any rate, the song would have to be sung by Melba or Caruso. Indeed, they are dearer than elsewhere, for the simple reason that furriers have not the art of dressing the skins in Rus sia. which means that these must be reimported after paying duty. This is but a tourist's glimpse of the streets of this curiously attractive city, the farthest north of my rambles for pleasure. Indeed, any holiday more hyperborean would exceed my wildest ambitions. ASKED TO BUY A BREWERY Cleveland Men Want Rockefeller to Take Over Property and Convert It Into Park Site. Cleveland, O.—William B. Woods, city councilman, and others, have laid before John D. Rockefeller a big park improvement project which calls for the removal of a group of brewery buildings at the end of Hough avenue. The property on which the red brick structures with their tall chimneys are located would become a part of the park bearing the oil man’s name if he decides to co-operate with the city in pushing forward the plan. The plan shows an imposing circle at the Hough avenue approach to Rockefel ler and Wade parks. It would take $250,000 to remove the buildings, according to the estimate of Mr. Woods. High Prices Cause Act. Brockton, Mass.—"Even a minister of the gospel has to eat and wear clothes. 1 can’t work without money,” was the declaration of Rev. Clarence H. Wneeler, pastor of the Baptist church, when he read his resignation from the pulpit. The combination of Increasing cost of living and decreas :ng salary was too much for him, he said. Would Classify All People W. M. Hays Says International Census Would Solve an Important Problem for the World. Washington.—The classification of all the peoples of the world in a great international census, giving each per son a number in a single world series, to the end that the human race may be improved by scientific marriage, was the plan advocated by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Hays in an address here before the Amer ican Breeders’ association, one of the organizations making up the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Science. As a means of improving the heredity of the human family Mr. Hays proposed a classification of all human beings, both as to mental apti tude and generic efficiency. Based on such knowledge as this census would give, he said, a "racial religion” wouid develop requiring the more efficient to produce families larger than the average, and those less efficient to produce families smaller than the average. The world numbers, said Mr. Hays, would serve to join genealogies into one numerical system, so that ali re lationship could be traced. Each per son would have a number or percent age that could easily be averaged so as to give the genetic or family val ues of each person. "Modern science and charity works against the law of the survival of the fittest.” he declar ed. “by keeping alive many persons who inherit weaknesses such as fee ble-mindedness or insanity. By paying attention to genetic efficiency a race may make itself stronger for the eco nomic contests among the races of the world." LEAD PENCIL IS LIFE SAVEF Stops Dirk Thrown at Trolley Con ductor by Negro in Atlantic City, N. J. Atlantic City. X. J.—A large dirk fly ing through the air flashed before 1 women about to board a street car at Michigan and Atlantic avenues, and a3 it struck Charles W. Wade, the con ductor. with the blade apparently im bedded in his heart, a gasp of horror arose. The women and the passengers were reassured when Wade leaped to the street and gave chase to a negro, who. having been ejected from the car for insolence, retaliated by hurling the knife. Instead of penetrating Wade's heart, the blade became imbedded in a lead pencil in his vest pocket, cutting the pencil amost in half. Wade reported the matter to the police and furnished a good description of the negro, yrho escaped him. Ivory Supply Is Short Search for Tusks Has Cost More Lives Than War. Savage* Know Values—Big Stock on Hand in Interior Africa, but Chiefs Guard Treasure* Jealously. London.—The ivory market of the world is to be found in London—in Mincing lane, in fact—and there you will find stored all the ivory that enters the London docks from time to time. Sales are held periodically, and prior to a sale the ivory is placed on view for the benefit of prospec tive buyers. The elephant, for the most part, sup plies our ivory, and each year, it is stated, some 50,000 elephants have to be secured. The fact is, however, that a great Quantity of ivory is taken from dead elephants—animals that have died naturally and have not fall en before the hunter’s gun. When large herds of elephants roam a district you may be quite sure that an elephants' cemetery is to be found somewhere in the locality. To this cemetery all ailing elephants re pair and very often there they die. At the present time there is a great ehortago of ivory all over the world: the demand is always greater than the supply. But there are big stores of ivory in the universe for all that. In several parts of Africa the chief tains of s age races have big stocks on hand, but these chiefs quite under stand the commercial vaiue of ivory, and never at any time do they put a large quantity on the market; it is doled out in small parcels, so to speak: so evidently these chiefs have a good idea of what a "corner" means in the commercial tense. Ivory at the present time costs from $760 to $1,000 per hurdredweight, but certain qualities run much higher In price. Thus, there is an ivory that comes from Zanzibar, known as "soft tooth" quality, that is very costly. It is the ibe finest ivory known to com merce. but the supply is limited. A single tusk of ivory weighs, on an av erage. about ninety pounds, but you can get a tusk weighing twenty pounds or ISO pounds, they differ so greatly. Billiard balls are always cut from the finest ivory, but usually they are not cut from the largest size of tusks —the moderately small tusk yields the best results so far as billiard balls are concerned. The ivory reaches the billiard ball make.' in the form of small blocks or squares. Ivory is white in color, but its his tory is red—It has an evil past, most particularly the ivory that emanates from the storehouse of savage chief tains. These chiefs have often come by their ivory in no recognized com mercial way—usually each piece of Ivory added to the store means the loss of human life. These chiefs will commit murder in cold blood in or der to secure a tusk! Those in the ivory trade will tell you that ivory, or rather the gaining of ivory, has cost more human lives than war, and that is saying a good deal. NEW USE FOR HOUSE CATS Kansas Woman Submits Samples of Milk to Tabby for Expert Judg ment on Richness. Cottonwood Falls. Kan.—An enter prising Cottonwood Falls housewife has found a new’ use for the common house cat. As the purchaser of pro visions for a large family, so the story goes, this wide-awake woman finds it necessary to buy considerable fresh milk, and this is where the ramily cat —a sedate, ladylike tabby—comes in. To decide which of her milk dealers sells the richest milk is not always an easy task when there is no means at hand to test the amount of butter fat, so the business is turned over to tabby, who is the Judge. Two small saucers of fresh milk from different dealers are set before the cat. She tries one and then the other. The saucer which pleases her taste best, which Is the richest milk, is eagerly lapped np. while the other sauces comes last or goes begging al together. I The scheme Is said to work per fectly. We’re Drifting Into War America Apt to Act the Bully, Top, Professor Says—Bases Opinion on Lew of Succession of Events. New York —In spite of the move ment for universal peace, the United States probably will find Itself en gaged in another war about 1930, ac cording to Prof. Brander Matthews, head of the department of dramatic literature at Columbia. Professor Matthews makes this assertion in a discussion of American literature pre pared for Columbia students. Professor Matthews is an av.**nt supporter of the arbitration move ment, and he declares his Influence in its behalf, but he says the law of a succession of events will count more than all of the arbitration movements put together, and for that reason be lieves the country naturally will And Itself at war at the time he predicta Professor Matthews believes that If such a war comes the United States is apt to be in the wrong. “With the rapid Increase of wealth and population.” be says, “our nation is likely to take the part of the bully. The people, in recognition of their strength, may display a public opinion in fayor of war, and unless the work of the arbitrators ls'effectire unneces sary slaughter will result." Marriage cn a Cash Basis. Los Angeles.—As a result of charges made by Elsie Navajoff, a 17-yearold Russian girl, that her parents had tried to sell her in marriage to a man whom she had never seen, for $500. it was announced that all members of the Molakane colony had indicated a will, ingness to have marriage ceremonies performed over again wherever the law bad been violated. Mme. J. von Wagner of the city housing committee, said that at least one illegal marriage a week was per formed in the Molokane colony. Let me make the superstitions of a nation and 1 care not who makes its laws or its songs, either. NOT ALTOGETHER HIS FAULT Verdict Brought in by Jury Certainly Was Not Flattering to the Accused. A Wheeling (W. Va.) lawyer says that he has heard many queer ver dicts in his time, but the quaintest of these was that brought in not long ago by a jury of mountaineers in a sparsely settled part of that state. This was the first case for the ma jority of the jury, and they sat for hours arguing and disputing over it in the bare little room at the rear of the court room. At last they straggled back to their places, and the foreman, a lean, gaunt fellow, with a superlar tively solemn expression, voiced the general opinion: “The jury don’t think that he done it, for we allow he wa'n’t there, but we think he would have done it ef he'd had the chanst.”—Harper’s Mag azine. Man of the Present. “A man has to be up-to-date to do anything nowadays.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax “When I talk to an investigating com mittee I find it desirable not to dwell needlessly on the past.” And He Was the Man. Mrs. Benham—My new dress is a poem. Benham—The man who has to pay for it loses his love for literature. 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