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CEMETERY C r . rn—s A COMPLETE SKELETON BURIED 'N a GRAVE with Pottery at tarkeian W NDEIi the direction of the ■teg I British School of Arch ie” aeology in Egypt a great I '81. cemetery of the first dynasty (5500 B. C.) was wg* explored last year, ac ¥ _ cording to the Sphere. ¥ and much that was im ’ W portant was accomplish f ed, both from the stand point of science and that of the acquisition of relics. The valley in which the excavations were made is situated at Tarkhan, about 40 miles south of Cairo. It was cleared this year and found to contain about 800 graves. An exact record was made of all the contents of the graves. The bones were measured, plans were made of each grave and of the entire cem etery and a complete description of all the pottery and vases that were found was set down. As the cemetery dates from the most critical point in Egyptian history, the finding of such a detailed record, the most complete ever made, is considered of much Im portance to archaeology. This points is regarded as the pre Memphite capital of Egypt, as it was the place of residence of great num bers of wealthly Egyptians before Memphis became the capital of united Egypt. It is supposed that in addi tion to the many graves that have 'i* CLtARINCj*N'<L Vv OUT AN ANU£NT'"^J TOMB NEAR GERZ.t« ^ been discovered, there are great num bers under the water. The tombs which have been opened are, many of them, in a remarkable state of preser vation, as the filling in of sand in the valley has preserved the bodies from disturbance. In the graves quantities of alabaster and pottery vases were found. Some of the vases were of the blue glazed variety. There were also slate palettes, alabaster stools such as are used to support dishes, strings of bead and ivory table implements, among which were spoons ornamented with flowers, foliage and birds in carving on the bowl. Another spoon was In the shape of two arms, with scooped palms for the bowl. The two THE MOCKING BIRD BEATS ORIGINAL IN ITS OWN SONG By L. M. BENNINGTON. The newcomer in the south is likely to be surprised some morning by hear ing a number of birds, not usually on the best of terms, confabbing com fortably together in some nearby tree top. Interested in this sudden burying of the hatchet, he will search out the friendly group, only to And it made up of a solitary individual; this one, however, as much in earnest about things in general as though he were the whole anticipated dozen. The mocking bird’s powers of imi tation have been much commented upon, but. can hardly be exaggerated. One has been observed to mimic four teen different birds in the course of half an hour, each so perfectly that it was hard to believe the medley of sounds proceeded from a single throat. The only perceptible difference in the real song and the imitation is that the mocking bird’s note is usually more full and round than the original. It is perfect in inflection, however, and r~~——————————— for that express purpose. Again and again the robin began, only to be in terrupted after the first few notes by the saucy usurper, who finished the whole song each time, ending with-a little triumphant flourish, as much as to say: “You see I can beat you at your own tune!” The annoyed red breast, astonished and resentful, at length flew a little farther away, and began again. This time, however, he brought down upon himself a torrent of musical revenge, including nearly every bird song in the catalogue, and ending up with a series of derisive cackles, like nothing so much as the cries of a disturbed sit ting hen. Thoroughly disgusted by this outpouring, Mr. Robin gave it up as a bad job and flew away. The mocking bird is one of the bold est of the feathered tribe. Even the impudent sparrow has a wholesome fear of him, and is pretty careful about building where he is in the i • *: ssBgBgggsg ^ ~ vszmmmtmm&m caamrn “Way Down South in the Land of Cotton.” even In the little "quips and turns” that characterize the mimicked tones. The bird’s own song is one of the rich est and roundest possible, and is not much improved by being interrupted, as it often is, by the unmusical squawk of the jay, or the complaining whine of the catbird. An odd little musical duel was ob served one day between a mocking bird and a robin. The robin, perched in a rose bush, had hardly begun his rich, full-throated solo when the notes were literally "taken out of his mouth” by the mocking-bird, which had alight ed in a cherry tree near by, apparently habit of making his own nest. Dur ing the brooding season he is unusu ally aggressive. A dog. which was caught sniffing about unwarily under a tree where a mocking bird’s family was being reared, was put to sudden and ignominious rout by the onslaught of the angry male bird. Prowling cats find it better to keep at a safe distance, and there are few winged depredators that would enjoy a bout with an enraged mocking bird. As a consequence the nests are found quite near the ground, the bird trusting to its own prowess for pro tection. PREDICTS NEW TYPE OF SHIP Waterplane, According to Writer, la Forerunner of Change in Marine Architecture. The waterplane, I believe, is the forerunner of an entirely new kind of ocean-going ship. At present a ship’s speed is checked by reason of the tre mendous resistance offered to her pas sage by the water. Now If we could produce a vessel that traveled on the top of the water she would only have to overcome the resistance of the air, which is not nearly so powerful as water resistance. This is the kind of vessel which, 1 fancy, the waterplane foreshadows— the ocean-going liner of the future. The ship of the future will probably be flat-bottomed, winged, and with a rudder-tail. She will sometimes rise above the waves, and at others travel along the top of the waters, but only touch them with her flat bottom. When a ship now travels at 23 knots she will in the days to come make 60 or perhaps even 70 knots, because she will skim, instead of being sunk in. I expect to see this type of vessel make her appearance during the next twenty years. And when she has actually come into being a revolution will have been effected in transit and traveling facilities in comparison to which the introduction of steamship, raUways and motor cars will seem in significant.—Exchange. A man may be a heavyweight fighter and a lightweight husband. Most Heroic Invalid. Stevenson—that most heroic of in valids—would have agreed with Dr. McWalter of Dublin that it is better to enjoy a short and merry life than to be a helpless centenarian. "To forego all the issues of living In a parlor with a regulated temperature,” he writes, scornfully, "as if that were not to die a hundred times over, and for ten years at a stretch! As if it were not to die in one’s own life time, and without even the sad im munities of death! As If it were not « to die, and yet be the patient specta tor of our own pitiable change! The permanent possibility is preserved, but the sensations carefully held at arm's length, as If one kept a photo graphic plate in a dark chamber. It is better to lose health like a spend thrift than to waste it like a miser." That Might Work. One way to kill the "turkey trot" and “tango” would be for doctors to prescribe them as a tonic for the »|«^ and infirm.—Baltimore Sun. Diet and Nationality. Among modern nations the greatest eaters are the British. Germans. French and Americans. The diet of the Spaniards and the Italians to nota bly less substantial than that of the British and Germans, just aa their bralM are less active and original. The Americans are, on the average, the greatest eaters in the world. Said Carlyle to Emerson: "The best thing I know of that country is In it a man can have meat for hto labor'*-. Family Doctor grave, or arms closely bound together formed the handle of this spoon. The residents of Tarkhan must have been extremely prosperous, according to the evidence furnished by the exca vations. They were provided abun dantly with beautiful ornaments for their households and persons, and also with innumerable useful articles of practical necessity in the kitchen, the dining hall and the boudoir. Some of the tombs are so well preserved that the whole story of Egyptian reverence for the dead and belief in immortality can be read by a glance at the tomb. In the brick wall above the grave may be seen the little slit through which the soul comes forth for its offerings. The offertory still stands, as do the piles of pottery which once bore food and drink for the departed, and which were brought to the tomb by the rela tives and friends. Many works of art of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties have been discovered by further clearing of the great'temple of Ptah, in Memphis. From some of the excavated work shops in Memphis have been procured all the utensils used in the manufac ture of stone vases and examples of the vases in all stages of construc tion. Colored stones which were brought from the desert and other rich stones which were imported into Egypt for use in making ornaments for the very wealthy have been found in these shops. A few ^niles south of Gizeh excava tions revealed some unusually large tombs of the twelfth and thirteenth dynasties. The excavations revealed that a robbery had been attempted centuries ago. The robber had en tered the tomb by a little opening, the result of a piece of excavating on his own account, and he had gathered to gether a little heap of ornaments with which he was about to make off when the top of the tomb had fallen on him and crushed him. His skeleton was found in the tomb by the excavators, and close to it a handsome gold pec | toral inlaid with colored stones, of which the poor wretch had hoped to rob the dead. History of Tea. The earliest record of tea being mentioned by an Englishman was probably that contained in a . letter from Mr. Wickham, an agent of the East India company, written from Fir ando, in Japan, on June 27, 1615. to another officer of the company, resi dent at Macao, in the south of China, asking him for "a pot of the best sort of chaw.” It was not until the middle of that century that the English began to use tea. They received their sup plies from Java until 1686, when they were driven out by the Dutch, says the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute. At first the price in England ranged from £6 to £10 per pound. In the Mercurius Politicus of September. 1658, occurs an advertisement of the “China drink called by the Chineans Telia, by other nations Tay, alias Tee.” being sold in London. Thomas Gar way, the first English tea dealer, in 1659 or 1660, offered it at prices vary ing from 15s to 50s per pound. Not until 1677 is there a record of the East Inijia company having taken any steps for its importation. Just So. "Speaking of that Gettysburg reun ion.” "Yes?" "What a lot of good feeling it did cause.” “And what at lot of bad poetry.” AGAINST SPY SYSTEM Scouting Practice of Football Coaches Called Unfair. Dr. Cal McCracken, Farmer Pennsyl vania Gridiron Star, Would Abol ish Secrecy and Declares Against Locked Gates. Dr. J, Cal McCracken, former grid iron star, in a lecture before the Uni versity of Pennsylvania students, con demned coaches and schools for the present spy system. Many schools send scouts to spy out the style of games of their opponents, he charged, and declared against this practice as unfair ar.d unsportsmanlike. “If spying out practices are justi fiable," said he, “why not pay a plav ,er to enter your opponent's institu tion, make the team and keep you fully informed?” "Such a player might secretly in stall a distograph In the room where blackboard talks are given, and so be able* to sell nightly records to all his team's opponents." “The members of the faculty of the college or university should realize that athletics are desirable and ab solutely necessary to the best devel opment of the student and stu dent life. If each tehcher were fully in sympathy with athletics and athletic contests there would be greater sympathy between teacher and student, less friction and better work done by both. Rosters would be made and examinations set on dates which would less frequently conflict with important athletic events. Athletes would feel their teachers were interested in their success on the field and this thought alone would do much toward making the students wish to conduct them selves in a manner worthy of the ap proval of their instructors. “All regularly employed coaches and athletic instructors should be re sponsible to the university and con sidered regular officers of the insti tution. This would give them greater dignity and security and consequent ly better men could be obtained to fill these positions, which are of great importance to each individual student. If so engaged, an athletic instructor’s position would not de pend more largely upon the general Influence for good or bad which such contests had exerted on the individ ual contestant. Prof. K. Taft McKenzie read be fore the National Collegiate Athletic association a paper in which he men tioned. as the most prominent, the following four evils of the present day system of athletics: “1. The standard of all perform ances is raised so high that the or dinary student, realizing that he is hopelessly outclassed, gives up play ing the game that he would otherwise enjoy, and that should be kept with in his reach. "2. The competitor is elevated and separated in a special class apart from h!s fellows requiring separate quarters, special diet and consequent privileges to make the drudgery less irksome. “3. The publicity that accompanies the contests puts them into the class of public spectacles for which spec tators pay to see. and so acquire cer tain rights over the players, who be come mere performers. Pressure is thus brought to bear on athletic au thorities and rules committees to con sider the spectator rather than the man for whom the game should be designed. “4. The winning of the game be comes more important than the ob servance of the spirit of the law and the practice of fair play. It is the professional motive, which is gain, replacing the amateur motive, which is the thrill of the contest.” Move Against Baseball Spikes. The long list of accidents to the baseball players of the Toronto Inter national league team this season has moved President McCafferty to drastic action. He will suggest that the clubs of the organization each hold a meet ing and appoint one delegate to attend a meeting in the offices of President Barrow to discuss the adoption of dif ferent spikes from those now general ly used on the shoes of the players. Mr. McCafTerty has offered to try la crosse spikes, which are of hard rub ber. Oldring Play* Anywhere. Since he joined the Athletics, Rube Oldring has played every position on the field except one of the battery places. This season he has played games in all of the outfield positions and shortstop. In past years he has played at second, third and first base. He only needs to be allowed to pitch a few balls and catch a few to have played them all for Mack. Oldring was an infielder in the first place, but he was never a regular on the infield since joining the Athletics. Order New Yacht Race. A contract baa been placed for a Herreshoff sloop by George M. Pynchon of New York ayd E. Walker Clark of Philadelphia, to compete for the honor of meeting Sir Thomas Upton's challenge for the America's cup next year. The boat Is to be de livered In May. when the Vanderbilt syndicate sloop will also be In readi ness for trial races. HUSKY CAPTAIN OF PENNSYLVANIA TEAM IjfrjHH « WWttH-i'W-i-tWWHWW-t-i-Hi-H-H-i WWWgjM** ?-f jjjjj Captain Younge of University of Pennsylvania. A regular human catapult is this husky young captain of the fooball team of the University of Pennsylvania. Young in name, young in years and young in experience as the big man. in the big team which the big Penn sylvania university turns out each year. Young as he is in expenience as a captain—this being his first appearance in that role, he looks like the kind of a football captain who can whip his team into shape, and imbue it with the spirit of "getting there." FRANK GOTCH AGAIN RETIRES World’s Champion Wrestler Will Nev er Return to Mat—No Man Can Win on Forever. F’rank Gotch, world's champion wrestler, who owns more than 2,000 acres of ground In Minnesota, says he will wrestle no more. "I have had my last turn on the mat. I’m thirty-six .years old, nearly thirty-seven, and with 15 years In the game I’ve had enough. When a man gets past thirty he’s like a house that a carpenter finishes. As soon as completely built, the house be Frank Gotch. I gins to deteriorate. I know more about wrestling now than at aj»y time In my life, but each year takes away more endurance. I’m not afraid of any man in the country now, but the people have seen me at my best and don’t want me to ‘come back.’ No man can go od and win forever.” HARVARD SEEKS NEW HONORS Crimson Preparing to Grab the Inter collegiate Track and Field Titles Next Spring. The athletic authorities at Har vard university are not letting any grass grow under their feet. The Crimson is out to grab the intercol legiate track and field title next spring that its athletics missed this year by the mere tipping over of a hurdle, and it has taken a big step in this direction by the engagement of J. Fred Powers, the former Worcester j academy track coach, to fill the place of the late Bill Quinn as adviser to the field athletes at Cambridge. Powers is one of the best develop ers of athletes in the United States, and the proof of this statement lies in the list of wonderful athletes he has turned out In late years. There's Larry Whitney, Dartmouth’s great shot putter and football player; John Johnstone, the Harvard high Jumper, who was one of the greatest school boy performers at his specialty that ever denned a track suit; W. F. Itoos, the ex-Yale weight thrower, who now | represents the New York Athletic | club; A. E. Bartlett and others too numerous to mention. Harvard now has a trio of coaches to send her track men along the right road—Powers for the field men, Alf Shrubb for the distance runners and Donovan for the short distance men. The result of Shrubb's work with the Harvard hill and dale runners is al ready apparent In the fact that the intercollegiate cross-country title reAs outside the halls of Ithaca for the first time In a decade. Baseball as a Business. Thirty million is a minimum esti mate of the fans who see baseball in a year’s time. There are 35 leagues in organized ball. All have from six to eight clubs. They average 130 games a season, with from 150,000 to 200,000 as a daily attendance. The New York Giants alone played to 750,000 last sea son; 250,000 saw the eight world’s series games last year. One New York paper estimated that it sold 100, 000 daily extras during the big series. ;i " 'V 7 ■ ■■ ■ / First-Year Stars. Two all-star teams are herewith picked from the 1913 entrants Into the big leagues: NATIONAL, Position AMERICAN Meyers, Boston lb Johnson, Clev. Viox, Pitsb'gh 2 b Baumann, Det. McDonald, Bos. 3b Maisel, N. Y. Mai anv'le, Bos. ss Chapman, Cle. Burns N. Y. If Chappell, Chi. Steijgle, Brook, cf Liebold, Cle. Cravath, Phil, rf Murphy, Phil. Fischer, Brook, c. Schang, Phil. Whaling, Bos. c. Schalk, Chi. Demaree, N. Y. p. Boehling, Wash. McCjuillen, Pit. p.Falkenburg, Cle. Pierce, Chi. p. Shawkey, Phil. Mayer, Phlla. p. Dauss, Det. James, Bos. p. Weilman, St. L. Johnson, Cin. p. Keating, N.Y. Dickson, Bos. p. Russell, Chi. Rudolph. Bos, p. Leonard, CHANGE IN FOOTBALL CODE Rule on Oncide Kick Is Revised in Conference Held in New York— Action Regarding Officials. The entire code of football rules In effect for this season's plays was dis cussed, dissected and Interpreted at a gathering of more than one hundred football coaches, team managers and officials of the game In New York re cently. It was the annual interpreta tion meeting of the intercollegiate football rules committee and the cen tral board of officials. The only rule that met objection was Rule 20, and to tills an addition was made which will be incorporated in the final version. It has to do with the privileges of players in making an onside kick. The addition will permit players behind a player making an onside kick to enjoy an equal right with men of the opposing team to go after the kicked ball. They may not interfere with players on the opposing side in their attempts to catch the ball. Dr. James A. Babbitt, chairman of the central board, announced that the list of officials for the season now completed would show an improve ment over previous seasons. Corres pondence with the leading colleges had shown, he said, that the list of twenty or thirty qfflcials each preferred largely coincided. Since this prefer ence for a limited number of officials was so generally shown and since the list of officials in recent years has become overburdened, It was the pur pose to reduce it and try to bring the officials for whom prefernce has been Indicated by the colleges in general into greater use. They Can’t Ring Him. George Bell, with St. Joe, in the Western, has a record of winning 21 straight games this year. He pitched 19 while in the Wisconsin league and was recalled by the Saints, where he added two more to his string. This gives him second place among the pitchers of all time, so far as this feat is concerned. In 1886 the records show that some twirler pitched 28 games for the win column. Hat Two More McLoughlin*. Secretary Rouss, of the Pacific Coast Lawn Tennis association, says that there are two boys on the coast who in time will take the place of pres ent champion McLoughlin. Roberts and Davis are the two youngsters, the former fifteen years old and the lat ter seventeen years of age. Begins Work on Baseball College. Ex-Manager Charles C. Carr of the Kansas City, American association, team, will soon begin the working out of his plans for the establishment of a school of baseball at San'Antonio, Tex., which he will open next spring. Cock o' Walk Wins. Cock of the Walk, Johnson's mar velous three-year-old, with an impost of 125 pounds, won the Royal Blue handicap at Harve de Grace. The bet ting odds were prohibitive, being 1 to 2 against the field. MOIHl LOOK KI If cross, feverish, constipated, give “California Syrup of Figs” A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up t^ith waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coat ed. or your child is listless, cross, fev erish, breath bad, restless, doesn’t eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, give a teaspoonful of “California Syrup of Figs,” then don't worry, because It is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thor ough “inside cleansing” is oftimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness. Beware ot counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. GO BACK TO MOTHER NATURE Scientists in The-v Discoveries Un cover Lead That May Mean Much to the Race, If the green plant in sunlight can elaborate from water and carbon diox ide one of our chief food substances, starch, there is no reason why the biological chemist should not discover the secret of this process and imitate it an a commercial scale. Starch, I believe, has never been synthetized but some sugars have been so con structed. Two years ago Stoklassa and Sdobnicky made the remarkable discovery that by the action of ultra violet light on nascent hydrogen and carbon dioxide sugar was formed. Such discoveries as this suggest the means by which we are to throw off our slavery to the green plant, and I am convinced that in time this over throw will become so complete that our staple foods wlil be the products of the biological chemist. — Popular Science Monthly. “CASCARETS”DR A BILIOUS LIR For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and constipation. Get a 10-cent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfort able you are from constipation, indiges tion, biliousness and sluggish bowels —you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don’t let your stomach, Uver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets to-night; put an end to the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your inside organs of all the bile, gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A 10-cent box means health, happi ness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and distress if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't forget the children—their little in sides need a cleansing, too. Adv. In English Politics, Too. “Well, did you discover anything in Stump's past life that we can use against him?” Detective—Not a thing. All he ever did before he came here was to sell awmings. Election Agent — Why, that’s Just what we want. We’ll say that he has been mixed up in some decidedly shady transactions.—London Tit-Bits. A CLERGYMAN’S TESTIMONY. The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wig ton, Pa., suffered from Dropsy for a year. His limbs and feet were swol len and puffed. He had heart flutter mg, was dizzy and exhausted at the least exer tion. Hands and feet were cold and he had such a dragging sensa tion across the loins that it was difficult to move. x)tt. tt , Arter using 5 Rev. E. Heslop. ^ of *odd. Kidney Pills the swelling disappear ed and he felt himself again. He shys he has been benefited and blessed by the use of Dodds Kidney Pills. Sev eral months later he wrote: I have not changed my faith in your remedy since the above statement was author ized. Correspond with Rev. E. Hes iop about this wonderful remedy. Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words) and re cipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free. Adv. Mr. Growcher says he believes that the only man who ever went Into the country for rest and quiet and actual ly found them was Rip Van Winkle. Water in bluing is adulteration. Glaas and water makes liquid blue costly. Buy Red Cross Ball Blue, makes clothes whiter thaw snow. Adv. One pretty girl will inspire more feminine envy than a dozen clever ones. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens ta*. gums, reduces lnflamm*. Mon,allays pain,cures wind college a bottleJe Anyway, the man who wants the earth gets a lot of mud thrown at him.