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W. F. MASON, President L. NANSEN, Cashier OPPORTUNITIES Opportunities for men of character are not hard to find. A bank account is an evidence of character and a bank book showing regular de posits is the passport to opportunity and the key to success. Enroll yourself as a depositor and be come a member of the “Opportunity Club.” Don’t forget that the bank account is the first step to ward success and fortune; protects your family in emergincies; educates your children; makes you independent; irives you a standing in the commu nity ; is a valuable aid in any enterprise under taken anywhere by anybody, under any conditions. One dollar will start a bank account with us. Why not begin today and have at least one of your idle dollars drawing interest and at work while you sleep. First National Bank Loup City, Nebraska. We Pay 5 per cent on Time Deposits. 7. S. John Auctioneer LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA All Auctioneering business attended to promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Give me a trial. Phone 7304. Use Ungles Dry Dip Can Be Used In All Kinds of Weather. Easy to use Simply sow it over the stock like grass seed. It works by evopo ra ti on and need not be on the ani mal. I Is the ver min exter minator,dis l infectant & cleanser which you have been (looking for. O r der to day. Immediately stops the loss incurred in feeding stock which are pestered with vermin and itch ing, Cleanliness means profit. Is cheap, 25 lbs. $2.50. 50 lbs. $4.50.100 lbs $8.00 All put up in tight wood packages. MILO GILBERT Agent Phone 9611, or purchase at Hayhurst-Cxallaway’s Hardware Store Compare our Job Work with others a word to the wise is sufficient. Notice THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW At the New Opera House Will Run Every Night in The Week Hereafter ' A 4-Reel Show Every Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday Change of Program Nothing but the best pictures will be shown here. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. THOMAS DADDOW Let the Northwestern visit your home duriig 1915. You will like it. Effective Punishments. One ol the first judges—real judges —of Deadwood put in operation many odd ideas of corrective punishment If a man was brought before him charged with shooting up a peaceful place without provocation this judge used to delight in tolling off half a dozen good 6hots, whose business It was to fire all around the accused, who was made to stand up against a wall. The closer the shots and the more scared the accused the better the judge liked It. If the accused demurred against this little tit-for-tat punishment he v as formally ordered to stand up and the maximum sen tence under the code was meted out to him. In the case of a prisoner who might not be impressed with the tar get practice sentence there were oth er penalties, such as a five mile gallop on a frisky horse, with the legs of the accused tied under the horses belly and a saddle made of fair sized stones wrapped in a blanket for his seat. Pro test against this meant again the ex treme code punishment. "Madame” Fitted Him. The friends of a certain senator say that, although it is admitted that some one used senate stationery to promote a mining scheme, it is very unjust to make any charge of dishonesty against the kindly old man. To illustrate his character, they tell this story: He was one of the funeral party that ac companied the body of a distinguished senator <o its burial place. On the return trip he went early to bed. The next morning his round, red face, de void of hair, gentle of expression and wrinkled, was thrust out of his berth as the Pullman conductor passed by. ‘‘Are we on time, captain?" called out the senator in his thin piping voice. “Just on time, madame,” said the con ductor, as he lifted his hat and passed on. Gov McLane and ibr Bible. Gov. John Mci ane of Hamp j shire, like ail Sot *ch people is very re.igions. On n recent Sundsy after noon. while the fa "ly—the governor. Mrs. MeLane, a s.j about 12 years old ano Mrs. McLane’s "lother—were eating dinner, there was a very ani mated debate in regard to religion. Gov. MeLane is very liberal in his theological views, while his ir other-in law is veiy or.hod x. After a sharp retort from hr- as ‘o his interpreta tion of ‘-foik. dogma, the governor said: “t-..other, you know on., side of the Bible only; but 1 pride myself on knowing hot:: sides of it." At this statement the governor’s young son brought 'he discussion to an abrupt close, 'Then he swVt up: "That a »o. but i s the ‘outside’ pa knows best!" Rare Books Fetch High Price*. Ben Jonson's works were in favor when the sale of the fourth portion cf the Huth library' commenced at Sothe by's In London. The only copy known on large paper of "The Fall of Se Janus” realized $4,500. It was in creased in value by being an auto graph copy, containing in Ben Jon son's writing the dedication: "To my perfect friend. Mr. Francis Crane. I erect this pillar of friendship, and leave it as the eternal witness of my love.—Ben Jonson.” The fourth book printed with a date, Balbu’s Cathol Icon," fetched $3,800, and the second of the original unauthentic quarto edi tions of ’‘John, Iving of England,” a play used by Shakespeare, realized $850. Beer Always on Tap. Bavaria has the world's record for beer drinking. Perhaps that accounts for a certain push button In the city of Nuremberg. On one of the many interesting little streets cf that quaint old town there is a large, plain-look' ing building which serves as the down town office and warehouse of a cer tain large brewery. In the wall near the door of this wholesale establish ment there is a push button that evi dently connects with an electric bell Bomewhere. Over it is a sign reading "Bierglocke," which translated literal ly into English means “Beer Bell"— evidently an arrangement for sum* moning more beer in case of emer gency. Bull-Fight Tragedies. Bull fights as Madrid have been marked by two tragedies recently, one of them of a very unusual character. During an exhibition by amateurs a bull which had been severely wounded by a toreador was writhing in agony when a matador approached to attack it with a short sword. In his strug gles the wou-ided animal knocked the sword out of the matador's hand and sent it flying over into the public en closure, where it struck a spectator in the chest, killing him on the spot. The victim of the second tragedy was Miguel Freg, the Mexican toreador, who was overtaken in the ring and gored by a bull. He died in the hos pital shortly afterward. Jam, From “Jamaica." Jam seems to take its name from Jamaica, and is comparatively a mod ern luxury. Galt, in his “Annals of the Parish." states that the fashion of jam making was introduced into Scotland about 1760, when berry bushes were planted by “some of our young men that had been sailors com ing from Jamaica,” and the condiment was valued in the first place chiefly as “an excellent medicine for a sore throat.” A writer in Hone's “Every day Book,” in 1826, deplored the fact that jam could not be “purchased at the shops as other articles of con sumption are.” Hasty Sightseeing. Europeans are wont to talk of Amer icans who rush through Europe with a guide bock in one hand and a rail road timetable in the other, but an Englishman overheard on a New York bus the other day was in a class by himself for speed. “I’ve been up to the Metropolitan museum,” he volun teered to a seatmate. “Bally flna place, but big. Took me an hour to see everything in 1C" A Preacher's Partisan Prayer. It is difficult for the fervent partisan to avoid politics, even in the pulpit There are those, too, who never try. Among them was Father Taylor, the Boston sailor-preacher. He was once conducting a Sunday morning service a few days before the state elections, and he took the opportunity of offer ing up a fervent prayer that a man might be chosen for governor who would rule in the fear of God, who would never be afraid of the face of day, who would defeat the ringlead ers of corruption, who would defy his own party if it yielded to wire pullers, who— Suddenly Father Taylor paused. Then he brought his prayer to an abrupt conclusion. “O, Lord,” he exclaimed, "what's the use of box ing the compass in this way? Give us George N. Briggs for governor. Amen! ” Recovering Rapidly. When the doctor came down from seeing her husband he told her that’ her good man would shortly be on the road to convalescence. 'What's that?" she asked. ‘‘I mean he will be get ting better," said the doctor. “You will know because he will get irritable —extremely so.” When he called the next day the doctor found the devoted woman as happy as a sandboy, smiling and singing to herself. “And how are we today?" he asked. “Oh, he's get ting better all right.’ she answered. “He came down to the kitchen this morning and threw a coffeepot at the cook, and shot our old house dog be cause it wouldn't say Please!’ So I cooked him a dish of tripe and onions and he has gone hack to work, it's wonderful how you doctors know things!" Commercial Spies. Spying is as prevalent in the com mercial world as in the political world, though the existence of these com mercial spies is not nearly so well known. There are certain classes of manufacturers, however, v. ho habitu ally employ a regiment of spies—com petent men, whose business it is- to go to other lands and spy out the new en terprises and inventions being made by the various traders. Individual methods vary very greatly, and are often so subtle as to make it difficult to tackle them. “Israfel" Angel of Music. Israfel or Israfil, in Mohammedan mythology, was the angel of music, who puossesses the most melodious voice of all God's creatures. This is the angel who is to sound the resur rection trump and will ravish the ears of the saints in Paradise, Israfel, Ga briel and Michael, were the three an gels that warned Abraham of Sodom's destruction. In the Koran we read: ‘and the angel Israfel. whose heart strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures." Appreciative Spectator! Lawyers are not the only clast In which a sense of the pecuniary value of their attentions is well developed. It is recorded of a famous actor that in the course of a tour he rewarded the politeness of a waiter at his hotel with a pass for the theater to which all the town was crowding to see the stage favorite in a great play. The next day the actor asked the man hotv he had enjoyed the visit to the theater. "Oh, it wae very nice, I en joyed it very well, indeed—but—er— who is to pay me for my time?’ was the disconcerting reply. Thought Gorilla a Myth. It is a strange fact of natural h!» torv that the gorilla was unknown to science until the middle of the last century, when there was a migration of the animals from the interior of Africa towards the coast, probably in quest of food. Tile first scientific in vestigation of the great ape was made by an American missionary, Rev. Leighton Wilson. He was met with jeers that ' there ain’t no such animal,” until, towards the close of 1846, he ob tained a skull and sent it to the Bos ton Museum of Natural History. Encourage Children to Play. Play gives joy, freedom, content ment and occupation. A child who plays thoroughly, with perseverance and determination, will be thorough and persevering in life. Children are full of imagination, which findB expression in their games and play. A child's world is very real. Blocks, balls, water colors, scrap books, sands, spools or garden tools have a significance for him. K!s Time Had C:-e. Again that ringing in 1.1; ears! It Teas the warning he had dreaded. He knew his time had ccme. Yet, al though he had started at the Bound, he seemed half-dazed and wholly careless of the conseouences. Put etlll the ringing in his ears! “Drat it!” he finally said, and springing from bed the careworn commuter shut off the alarm clock and proceeded to dress for the 7:10 train.—Puck. Altogether Out of Place. James Payn once told the story of a visiting parson who was starting the prayer for rain when the clerk pulled his coat tails. “You musn’t read that, air,” he said. “But it’s a prayer for a good harvest, my man,” expostulated the preacher. “That’s Just it, sir,” ex plained the clerk; "the visitors are our harvest, and we want none of your rain.” Really Not Her Fault. Little Jane is impish, lovable I vary ingenious in the matter of ex cuses for her frequent wrongdoing. Reproached, the other evening, for an Ul-spent day, she waxed gently de fiant. "Yes, I ke~w I’ve been naughty, but, really, l couldn’t help it. 1 specially asked God to make me good today, but he didn’t choose tg «o it ” Java Surpasses Egypt. Java possesses ruins of temples of p vanished religion that in vast wealth pf sculpture surpass anything Egypt Atavism In Doga. DogH, probably the earliest of do mesticated animals, when transferred to a tropical country, such as central Africa, lose in a few generations most of the characteristics they have ac quired in Europe, and revert more and more to the type of the jackal and the wolf. Then their ears, whatever their breed, tend to become pointed, their coats turn sandy or rufous and their bark becomes a howl. Some attempt has been made to show that this is the result of disease and resembles the effect of malaria on the human consti tution. Yet the Egyptian dog of Phar aonic times possessed, as is seen by the monuments, these very character istics: and as he was certainly domes ticated before the European animal, it is probable that these are original features of the race. English Prejudice Against Corn. Maize haa long been grown in Eng land at a, foraga crop for cattle and horses—but this is not sugar corn— and the average Britisher has not yet overcome his prejudice against eating horse feed. Yet English cattle and English horses have an enviable repu tation in parts of the world outside of England, and it may be that the Eng lishman will take a leaf out of hia horse book. Ideal Land fop Coffee. The coffee plant flourishes best In well-watered region, in a tropical cli mate at an elevation of 1,500 to 5,000 feet, and in a rich soil. All these ele ments are found to perfection in Hra zil, especially in the four states of Sao Paulo, fclo de Janeiro, Espirito Santo and Minas Geraes, whose combined areas cover about one-eighth of the vast dcmaiu of the republic. This sec tion produces about four-fifths of the world’s supply of coffee. Seemed to Him Wasteful. A eoung Frenchman was being l.how n about Calderstones park by an English friend. “What a fine place this would make for shooting. Look at the birds flying about,” said the Frenchman. The Englishman replied to the effect that, with certain excep tions, It was the spirit of the country to encourage bird life. The son of Gaul shook his head and observed half-sorrowfully. “It does seem a pity that all this food should be flying Uround and no use made of it.” Putting the Matter Plainly. He was an old-fashioned father which explains why he said to the young man: “Are you sure you're able to give my daughter the com forts and luxuries to which she is ac customed at home?” To which the young man promptly replied: "As your daughter's salary has paid the rent and bougnt most of the clothes and food for your family, I think wt 'an worry along.” Near-Laurels A certain major in the Philippines, who seemed to be favored with the good-will of the powers, managed in some wav always to get leave just before trouble with the natives was due. His coloael suspected him ot having no stomach for fighting. “Some day,” remarked the colonel, “they'll want to give that fellow a decoration, and I'll suggest one. It will be a wreath of leaves of ab sence.” Some Famous Italians. Volta and Galvani made great con tributions to the selence of electricity, but Garibaldi was not a scientist. His energies all ran in the direction of bat tle for the social and political eman cipation of humanity, especially of his pwn countrymen. If you have not al ready done so you should read the life of Garibaldi—the most popular name In the history of modern Italy.—Chi cago Examiner. Marjorie's Gv/od Wishes. Marjorie’s father was away on s Journey, and Marjorie deemed it her duty to send him a bulletin as to home affairs. After the expenditure of much labor and Ink she produced the fol lowing paragraph: “My Dear Daddy —Mother Is well. I am very well. The baby is very well, and has a lot mors sense now. Hoping you are the same.” What Astonished Legal Expert. “The Declaration of independence Is a wonderful document,” said the patri otic citizen. "Yes,'' replied the legal expert;- “It's one of the ablest docu ments I ever saw. And the most re markable thing is that with all the ability it represents, nobody appears to have received a cent for drawing U up.’ Fortunate People. It has been rightly said that “the fortunate people—the truly fortunate —are not so much those who succeed in life as those who succeed in living.” Right living is a beautiful art, made up of courage and kindness and hard work and true religion; and it is open to everybody.—Selected. Trees Many Centuries Old. Probably the oldest treeB in Eng land are yews. There Is, for instance, one in the churchyard at Burrington Coombe, where the famous hymn, “Rock of Ages,” is said to have been written,-which is estimated to be at least sixteen hundred years old, and there is also a very ancient one in the churchyard at Stoke Poges, where Gray wrote his “Elegy.” Beautiful Name*. “We must have a beautiful name for the baby.” said the fond mother. “Something that sounds like poetry and is not at all commonplace.” “Well,” replied the fond father. “I’m doing my best to help you make a se lection. Here’s a list of the names of all the apartment houses in town.”— Washington Star. Not Much on Him. “Oh, I know a few things,” said the haughty senior. “Well, you’ve got nothing on me,” retorted the fresh man. “Guess I knew as few things me anybody.” Royal Reception Week AT THE HUB CLOTHING STORE Commencing March 6th, Ending Match 13th Every man is urged to attend Re ception week-but no man is urged to buy. For this is a demonstration week. Half a Thousand of the newest woolen weaves are waiting your unhampered inspection. Come and See Them THE BEST CLOTHING STORE Victor Vicner, proprietor. WHEN LOOKING FOR A SQUARE MEAL DROP IN AT THE Ideal Bakery & Restaurant SOUTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE Meals, Lunches and Short Orders at all Hours We Also Carry a Full Line of Bakery Goods. Careful Attention Given all Special Orders. Cream Puffs and Boston Brown Bread every Saturday after noon. Put in your order early. LOUP CITY FLOUR Why buy Flour shipped here by outside mills . when you can get Loup City White Satin Flour for less money, and every sack guaranteed. All dealer.-, handle our flour. LOUP CITY R51LL &LIGHT CO. O. E. SGHLOTE , Auctioneer I Loup City, Nebraska. All Auctioneering Business Attended to ! promptly. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Give < me a trial. ! See my price and make your dates at the First National Bunk j CIRCLE TOURS TO THE PACIFIC COAST In planning “The Perfect Coast Tour” or the “See America Tour,” Scenic Colorado is of first im portance. No coast tourist could afford to say that he had not included ‘Scenic Colorado” either one way or the other in this world's greatest rail journey. Go one way via Seattle, Portland, and during the season visit either Glacier or Yellow stone National Park. Link together these scenic routes with the Ocean Coast voyage between f an Francisco and Portland. Through the season, various publications, special folders and the like will be available,des criptive of the Burlington circuit rates and through service routes. Burlington Route J. A. DANIELSEN, Agent L. W. WEEKLY, General Passenger Agent 1004 Farnum Street, Omaha. WHY Not join the pro cession and be come a North western reader? Everybody’s is doing it.