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For thirty years it has been the stand ard remedy for female ills, and has re stored the health of thousands of women who have been troubled with such ail ments as displacements, inflammation, Ulceration, tumors, irregularities, etc. If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med icine Co., (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure CARTER S LITTLE LIVER PILLS never fail. Purely vegeta ble — act surely but gently on the liver. Stop after dinner dis tress-cure 1 CARTER'S ITTLE IVER PILLS. uiviigcrsLiuii, ^ improve the complexion, brighten the eyes. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SM ALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature f why WOT TRY POPHAM’s] :ASTHMA MEDICINE! ♦ Gives Prompt and Positive Relief in Evei*y J f Case. Sold by Druggists. Price $1.00. I 'l Trial Package by Mail 10c. { WILLIAMS MFG. CO.. Props.. Cleveland. 0. | i ' PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation of merit. Helps to eradicate dandruff. For Restoring Color and Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair. 60c. and Slop at I>rucgi8ts. He Couldn’t Retract. The late Herr Gotthilf Weistein, the famous German book collector, had a very bad impediment in his speech. One day he got into an argument with a man to whom he had taken a great dislike. The dispute became hotter and hotter until Weistein completely lost his temper. “You're an n-n-n-n-n-id-id-id-id-iot!” he shouted furiously. “Herr Weistein,” replied his oppo nent coldly, "you must retract that at once!” "Never!” retorted Weistein. “I'm only too j-j-j-j-jolly glad to g-g-get it out!" IS CHILD CROSS, FEVERISH, SICK Look, Mother! If tongue is coated, give “California Syrup of Figs.” Children love this "fruit laxative,” and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely. A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result is they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, don’t eat. sleep or act naturally, breath is bad, system full of cold, has sore throat, stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen, Mother! See if tongue is coated, then give a teaspoonful of “California Syrup of Figs,” and in a few’ hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the sys tem, and you have a well child again. Millions of mothers give “California Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly harmless; children love it, and it nev er fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. 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. Most of us who attempt to wear the mantle of greatness are disappointed in the fit. Let's remember the kind acts of oth ers, but forget our own! For the treatment of colds, sore throat, etc.. Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops give ture relief-5c at all good Druggists. The average man likes to work—his wife’s relations. Granulated Eyelids, Eyes inflamed by expo " 1 Wind Sore sure to Son, Dust and V juickly relieved by Murine EyeRemedy. No Smarting, just Bye Comfort At Your Druggist's 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye SalveiaTubes25c.ForBoekeltheEyeFreeask Druggists or Murine Eye Remedy Co., Cbicage GOOD ROADS PROBLEMS IN MANY STATES Farmer Is Interested Only in General Improvement of Every Foot of Public Thoroughfares. There are complex problems to be solved *.n many states before the most efficient expenditure of money by states and communities for roads can be secured. It seems that politicians and the business men of the cities are unanimously in favor of putting up highways across the state, or partici pating in the ocean-to-ocean highway movement, when getting up schemes for road improvement. They display a great lack of knowledge on their part for the needs of a busy farmer. It's not a transcontinental highway, nor u state highway, nor a rock road across the local county that we are sorely in deed of, but a general im provement of every foot of public high way of the different counties. It is estimated that $7,000,000 are spent on the roads of Illinois every year, and of this amount surely half is wasted. The trouble begins with the election of the road commissioners, who get their offices politically, and sometimes without regard to their fit ness for the respective office they seek, writes Henry H. Smith of McLean county, Illinois, in Farmer’s Review. Then there is the defective work turned out by the road laborers. How many times have we seen bridges that represented the people's hard-earned money, swung down the stream by overflows? The state realizes a serious loss from this condition of affairs wnen a good mixture of concrete and steel work, planned by a competent en gineer, would have made a structure to withstand the storms for many years to come. The road itself must be worked in the right way, or the same task will necessitate more labor with additional expense the following season. Also, there is another leak in the road tax money, yet it is hardly a reason in itself, as it always de pends upon the character and capa bilities of the road commissioner. One writer has suggested that if the county should buy several carloads of gravel, broken rock, cinders, etc., tax I ing each man to haul one load per year, judiciously distributing it upon the highways, that in a few years our roads would all be rock roads. The practicability of this scheme is yet to be looked into. However, we know that if the highways were graded and | worked up properly, and the gravel applied, the farmers of the vicinities could haul heavy loads of corn and ! hay to market in midwinter without | experiencing the fear of being stuck. Spring is the best time to work I roads. Ours are worked when the soil | is damp, in order that the soil will i bake as it dries out, thus making the ! road hard and compact, hut there are always a few hours' work needed here j and there on the average highway, | culverts to be repaired, mud holes filled up. etc. ; The pleasure of driving over good j roads should in itself be a compensa tion to the farmer for his efforts in making them so, not to speak of the i-—-i Good Road In Mississippi. vajue It adds on to the price of his land. High-priced farms will make good counties; good counties make flourishing states, and flourishing states make an independent nation. Autos and Roads. One of the great benefits of the au tomobile to the farmer is the fact that where there are many automo biles the roads will be improved. The best roads throughout many states of the corn belt have proved this in the last few years since the farmers have been buying cars so freely. Culverts of Cement. The culvert made of cement is more often seen now than in years past. The good road with good drainage and good culverts is a joy in every season. Both Benefited. If good roads from the producer to the consumer were general the bene fits to both would be considerable. Alabama’s Good Roads. Alabama in three years has built 1,992 miles of good roads. Producing Clean Milk. The production of clean, safe milk is not a hard thing to master nor an expensive line of work to follow. It simply means clean cows, a clean sta ble. clean utensils, clean habitB of milking and good common sense in the application of all of these. Fattening Turkeys. It does not take long to fatten up turkeys for the market on thick boiled oatmeal or cornmeal, to which add some suet. Geese fatten on corn meal, bran and a little auet or meat. WASHINGTON God wills no man a slave. The man most meek, Who saw him lace to face on Horeb's peak, Had slain a tyrant for a bondman's wrong, And met his Lord with sinless soul and strong, P-ut when, years after, overfraught with care, His feet once trod doubt's pathway to despair. For that one treason lapse, the guiding hand That led so far now barred the promised land. God makes no man a slave, no doubter free; Abiding faith alone wins liberty. No angel led our Chieftain's steps aright; No pilot cloud by day, no flame by night; No plague nor portent spake to foe or friend; No doubt assailed him, faithful to the end. Weaklings there were, as in the tribes of old. Who craved for fleshpots, worshiped calves of gold. Murmured that right would harder be than wrong. And freedom's narrow road so steep and long; But he who ne'er on Sinai's summit trod. Still walked the highest heights and spake with God; Saw with anointed eves no promised land L’v petty bounds or pettier cycles spanned, Its people curbed and broken to the ring. Packed with a caste and saddled with a king— Put freedom's heritage and training school, Where men unruled should Itaru to wisely rule. Till sun and moon should see at Ajalon King's heads in dust and freemen's feet thereon. His work well done, the leader stepped aside, Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride, Content to wear the higher crown of worth. While time endures, First Citizen of earth. —James Jeffrey Roche WORDS THAT BURN j Washington's Address to Troops at Long Island a Marvel of Eloquence. j From an address delivered before the bat tle of Long island. 1776. i nine uuw near at hand tv hich must prob a b4 y determine whether Ameri cans are to be freemen or slaves; it whether they are flf to have any prop ' erty they can call their own; whether their houses and farms ^ — w are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, un der God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unre lenting enemy leaves us only the choice of a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or to die. Our own, our country’s honor, calls upon us for a vigorous and manly ex ertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become iniamous to the whole world. Let us, then, rely on the goodness of our cause, and the aid of the supreme being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions. The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us; and we shall have their bles sings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them. Let us, therefore, animate and encour age each other, and show the whole world that a freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. Liberty, property, life and honor are all at stake. Upon your courage and conduct rest the hopes of our bleeding and insulted country. Our wives, children and parents expect safety from us only; and they have every reason to believe that heaven will crown with success so just a cause. The enemy will endeavor to intimidate by show7 and appearance; but remember they have been repulsed on various occasions by a few brave Americans. Their cause is bad—their men-are conscious of it; and, if op posed with firmness and coolness on their first onset, with our advantage of works, and knowledge of the ground, the victory is most assuredly ours. Glory in Martyrdom. Never shrink from deep devotion, because you fear its trials or its sac rifices. Paul, in martyrdom, was un speakably happier than God’s half hearted servants.—W. R. Huntington. SOLD RELICS OF WASHING TON Two Authenticated Pistols and a Med icine Chest of His Auctioned in New York. Two pistols which George Washing ton carried through the Revolution, a medicine chest which belonged to him and "Light Horse Harry" lice's flag were sold at auction at New York dur ing the past year. There are no Washington pistols in Mount Vernon or in the National museum at Wash ington. The genuineness of the offerings was attested by a documentary rec ord of their sale in 1804, in Alexandria, Va., at the disposal of the effects of Washington’s secretary, Bartholomew Dandridge, to whom the general pre sented the weapons. Their presence in 1893 at the partition of the Marstel ler estate is attested. Col. Philip G. Marsteller, one of Washington's pall bearers, bought them at the Oandridge sale for £6:3s. The pistols are of the flintlock type. They were made by Hawkins of Lon don and bear the gunmaker’n guild proof mark "G. P.” Silver bands across the butts are engraved "General George Washington.” The medicine chest is of mahogany and walnut, about one foot square, with brass handles. Lee's flag is about two feet square. It had fallen apart from age, but the pieces were saved and are held in place by thin netting. Another Story of Washington. The senate’s function of compelling deliberation has been illustrated in many wavs, but in none better than by one of the apocryphal stories of George Washington on which an earlier generation was brought up. He was said to have been asked at a friend's table, why we had aped the feudal institutions of Great Britain to the extent of having a select as well as a popular house in our congress. His hostess had just helped him to a cup of tea, so hot that it was sending forth a cloud of steam. He poured a part of the tea into his saucer, and let it stand long enough to cool before drinking. "This cup,” said he, “is the house of representatives. Its contents have come directly from the people, who may be in a state of great excite ment. This saucer is the senate, in which I can hold the scalding liquid till its heat has subsided enough to make it safe to drink.”—Francis E. Leupp, in Atlantic. Washington the Man. Washington occupies a unique place, not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of the world. No man of such recent years enjoys such a splendid perspective. America views him, not as a man but as a demigod. He looms vast, a hero with the awesome, inspiring splendor that invests the deities of Greek mytholo gy. And yet, Washington the man is very real to us. May his memory be cherished for ever. So to Say. “It must be awfully cold outdoors, ’cause Arthur says it is." "Arthur?” "Arthurmometer.”—U. of I. Siren. important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle ot CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy foi infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For C.«=. w *«=«».>>. Childxen Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Marker for a Funeral. Matt Hogan was taking up a collec tion to meet funeral expenses for one of the fraternity who had died sud denly and penniless. He asked five dollars from each contributor, a typi cal “tinhorn'' came along and said, ''Put me down for five.” “Where's the money?” asked Matt. “I'll give it to you later.” "What are you trying to do,” de manded Hogan sharply, “put in a marker to help bury a dead man?” SAGE TEA DARKENS GRAY HAIR TO ANY SHADE. TRY IT! | Keep Your Locks Youthful, Dark, Glossy and Thick With Garden Sage and Sulphur. When you darken your hair with Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, because it's done so naturally, so evenly. Preparing this mixture, though, at home is mussy and trouble some. For 50 cents you can buy at any drug store the ready-to-use tonic called “Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy.” You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. By morn ing all gray hair disappears, and, after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully darkened, glossy and luxuriant. You will aiso dis cover dandruff is gone and hair has stopped falling. Gray, faded hair, though no dis- j grace, is a sign of old age, and as we | all desire a youthful and attractive ap pearance, get busy at once with Wy eth’s Sage and Sulphur and look years younger. Adv. No Reason Why. Beniamin String, Jr., governor of New York's federal reserve bank, said at a recent luncheon: "Those who object to the new sys tem of federal banks must be of an incidious disposition. They must mis understand purposely the logic of the system. Like the girl you know. “One girl said to another: " ‘I always feel safe when there is a man in the house.’ “The second girl with a nasty laugh, replied: “T don t see—ha, ha, ha!—I don't see any reason why you shouldn't.' ” He Was She. In a college for women, where the faculty consisted chiefly of the gentler sex, a meeting of the academic coun cil w as in progress. Here and there a lone man sat surrounded by learned ladies. An amendment had just been proposed. “Where is the person who offers this amendment?" inquired the presi dent. “Who is she?” “Whereupon Mr. Skeets, the popular young professor of a favorite subject, rose and replied, deprecatingly, “I am she.” Her Destiny. "Professor,'’ said Miss Skylight, “1 want you to suggest a course in life for me. 1 have thought of journal ism—” "What are your own inclinations?” "Oh, my soul yearns and throbs apd pulsates with an ambition to give the world a life work that shall be mar ( velous in its scope and weirdly en trancing in the vastness of its struc tural beauty!” “Woman, you're born to be a mil liner.” The devil may have his faults, but iie never puts off till tomorrow what he can do today. Few men are envied because of their wisdom; many because of their wealth. That Man of Much Experience Should Hunt Job. It Was So, However, and Manager to Whom He Applied Finally Was Driven to Necessity of “Help ing Him Out.” The manager looked up suddenly from his desk as a rather intelligent but seedy-looking individual closed the door softly behind him. “Good morning,’’ the stranger nod ded. “If you are needing help of any kind, sir, I respectfully submit myself for your consideration 1 have had ex perience in many lines, particularly in the office, sir. 1 have a comprehensive knowledge of the keeping of books, from that of the most simple stage entry form to the books of a large cor poration. I can also operate the type writer, if necessary. In fact, 1 won several pmes in contests of speed, in connection with this I might say that I take shorthand dictation accurately, having long experience as a court re porter.” “I am not needing any office help now,” said the manager severely; but the stranger held up his hand for si lence. "Then an outside position sir. Per haps as salesman. I have sold auto mobiles in New York, stocks and bonds in Chicago. In New Orleans 1 in trodueed ‘ice-ine.’ tte only perfect sum mer drink, wherfe cur rales reached the million mark in three weeks. T'rom Denver to Frisco I carried and sold the line of one of the biggest jobbers in the country; and during the 1908 season 1 was one of the barkers for a circus. As the salts manager of the—’’ "I'm sorry, sir, but I do not need a salesman,” cut in the manager, somewhat nettled. “Then anything else, sir? I am well educated, broad-minded and I could adapt myself to anything. I have been press agent, newspaper reporter, drug clerk, chauffeur, steeple-jack, in turn I have hunted llamas in South Amer ica, and suppressed International dis turbances over in Europe. I had full charge of a South African diamond mine. In Siberia I just escaped from exile by assuming a disguise and through the kind aid of the Archduke Basil, I dined with the shr.h of Persia as the Blue mosque, and was kicked out of a Honolulu literary society. "I edited an encyclopedia, sir, and wrote the words and music, to the na tional air of the new Chinese republic. Surely you have some need for me, sir. I have been everything from printer's devil to a director of a railroad. In the year 1911 1 was official weather prophet for Patoona, and the city of Memphis sent for me to stop a leak in one of the Mississippi levees. “As official government chemist, 1 did much to exterminate the boll weevil, and as consulting engineer I successfully superintended the erec tion of the municipal bridge that spans the Dcsplaines river. I bave an intimate knowledge of electricity, and Edison once said to me that If—” Here the manager broke in. "Please, I’m a busy man. I really don't need anyone today.” The stranger looked rather crestfall en. He shifted from one foot to the other. "Very well, sir,” he said finally. "But, could you—could you help me out with a dime?” The manager helped him out But it wasn't with a dime.—Chicago Her ald. Misfit. Knick—Doesn't Jones fit in any where? Bock—Xo; that man would he a square peg in a doughnut.—Judge. Doubtless it is the unexpected that happens because one can never tell what a woman will do. If woman had her way man wouldn't have his. Industry is the mother of success Luck is merely a distant relation. I A STRONG DEFENSE against general weak ness can only be estab lished and maintained by keeping the diges tion good and liver and bowels active. HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS will help wonderfully in restoring the “inner man” to a strong and normal condition. TIME TO WIND UP AND QUIT Aunt Phenie Had Eased Her Mind. So There Was Only Ore Thing Left to Say. Old Aunt Phenie was the colored cook in a Boston family. Her husband was cook ua a boat and sometimes he was away frora Phenie for many months. At one time when he had been gone seven or eight months. Aunt Phenie, who could neither read nor write, asked her mistress to write a letter to her husband. “Now, what do you want me to write, Phenie?” said the mistress Pheni.'s eyes had n dargerous light in them as she said "Fust off I wants yo’ to gib him j .Jesse fo' not writin' to m?! Tell im f says he is a good-fer-nothin'. triflin’, l;am-foot niggah what ain't tit fo me to wipe my feet on! Write jess laik dat! Den yo' sail in en call him a { piriit or a chicken thief fo' not sendin' me mo money! He's got a right to send me money even if 1 is aimin' wages! Tell 'im I is 'bout to 'ply fo' I divorcement papers! Call im any kind j of a bad name yo' can t ink of—de j mizzable niggah!” There was much more of the worst of abuse and dire threats anti then her mist)ess asked: "Whrit else. Phenie?" “Well, I guess yo' bettah send im my love en quit!”—The Sunday Maga zine. “Stonewall" Jackscn. The mas Jonathan Jackscn was bom January 21, 1824, at Clarksburg, Ya., now West Virginia. His baptismal names have been almost forgotten Id the greater fame of the name he won i by his stout defense of a position at the tilst battle of Bull Run— “Stone wall." He was a graduate o' West Point and served in the Mexu-.n war of 1846, returning home as a major. In February, 1852, he resigned from the army and became professor in Lex | ingten (Va.) Military inslit itr Al j though at first opposing secession he was a champion of the Southern state a rights theory and in 1861 became col onel in the army of Virginia and sub sequently was promoted to be major 1 general in the Confederate at my. Hia record in the war is familiar, as is his death through the error of bis own j men while making a reconnassauee j May 2. 1863. — Frank Statement. "Are you one of those reformers who is willin’ to stand by the decision j of the majority?” a mjlitant prohibi tionist was asked. "Certainly not,” answered the mili tant one, with great dignity. * if I j didn't think I knew batter than the | majority what is good for them I i would not be in the reforming busi« ; ness.” — Still a Nomad. “Why did your wife leave you?” "Force of habit, I guess She was a cook before I married her.” A woman isn't necessarily a jewel because she is set in ufcr ways. More Nourishment Weight for Weight —in a package of Grape-Nuts than in a roast of beef. Grape-Nuts is meat—the meat of wheat and barley—a rich, sweet, appetizing food, ready to eat direct from the package with cream or milk. All the bone-making, blood-making, muscle-making values of choicest wheat combined with malted barley are afforded in this famous pure food. Grape-Nuts being partially pre-digested by long baking, gives quickly a wonderful power to “do,” in return for the small energy required to digest it. Better and more complete nourishment than Grape-Nuts and cream is difficult to find; and with the price of meat way up there’s true economy, too. This sturdy food is sold by Grocers everywhere, in wax-sealed packages. Thousands make it a part of their daily breakfasts. “There’s a Season” for Grape-Nuts