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YOUR FRIEND TODAY Elizabeth and Martha were friends. Elizabeth said the word should al ways be written with a capital F. Martha declared that every letter that went into the making of so precious a name should be a capital, whereupon Elizabeth kissed her affectionately, and they both declared that no matter what the years might bring them they would keep their tie of friendship pure, and true, and lofty. “And,” said Martha, who was the more ardent and imaginative of the two, “there are to be no secrets be tween us; not even thought secrets.” To which Elizabeth agreed in an ab straetec manner which did not quite satisfy her friend. So Martha suggested that they draw up an agreement of eternal love and loyalty to be solemnly signed by each of them, and when Elizabeth said she didn't see the use of such a thing, her friend burst into a storm of grief that quite took the less intense girl off her feet. “Why, you darling Martha,” com forted Elizabeth. "Of course, we'll write the vow, and sign it. tI only meant that all the vows in the world couldn’t make me truer to our friend ship, or more certain that I shall al ways love you just as I do now.” Whereupon Martha dried her tears, and spent many weeks in the compo sition of a vow of friendship which Martha listened as one might listen to treason. Then, remembering Elizabeth, she abruptly left the room. ‘‘She is young,” remarked The Wise Woman. ‘‘She will learn.” It came to pass that the personal interests of the friends conflicted for the first time since, in that far away yesterday, they each signed the vow of eternal love and loyalty. They fell in love with the same man. For a time The Man, knowing the closeness of the tie which bound the two young women, was very nice to both of them. Then it became apparent that he was more interested in Martha, and after a little he asked her hand in marriage. And for the first time in her life the girl, Martha, found it difficult to open the deepest chamber in her heart to her friend. Instinctively, she hugged her secret. It was so precious a thing—this matter of loving and be ing loved—that she did so want to cherish it for just a little while against the knowledge of all the world. But she remembered the vow, the letter of which she had kept for years, so shyly she told Elizabeth that she and The Man were to be married. “And you have the audacity to tell me this, you sly minx!" hissed the life time friend of the girl, Martha. “You're a perfect little sneak, that's "3ut He Doesn’t Know You as I Do. He Doesn’t Know You.” Would htve seemed more like a con tract of the relinquishment of all per sonal liberty than a promise of undy ing love to an outsider. But the docu ment quite satisfied the friends, who considered it a masterpiece in its own way. In the weeks and months that fol lowed confidences became almost an obsession with the girl, Martha. An overconscious little soul, she spent a deal of her time in self-examination for fear that she would depart from the letter of her promise and hold back the admission of some thought or action from Elizabeth. The vow was taken less seriously by Elizabeth, upon whom friendship sat with lighter meaning.- Not that she did not love the girl, Martha, or was ever found lagging in her defense of the other girl whenever occasion demanded. Martha, in her frank and girlish ar dor, would have called her friend a traitor, had shfe known that she did r.ot share the deeper life of Elizabeth. Elizabeth would have said that she merely protected a God-given right, and that the matter of the vow was a silly thing, to which she had agreed merely to humor her friend. So the years went by, and the friends became women grown. Their companionship had been very close. and their affection for each oth er was a matter for admiration among their associates. People said that they had never seen such remarkable confidence be tween two young women. So far as Martha was concerned this was true. She shared her every thought of consequence with Eliza beth. She unveiled her weaknesses as well as her strength to the elder girl, nor did she notice that every year had brought Elizabeth more reserve, so great was her absorption In her own confidences. One day The Wise Woman, who had heard much of Martha and Elizabeth, sat quietly by while the former ex pressed it as her belief that friendship is the greatest thing in the world. "The sort that will stand the test of actual self-denial is very rare,’' said The Wise Woman. "YOUR FRIEND TODAY IS OFTEN YOUR ENEMY TOMORROW. THERE FORE, NEVER TELL YOUR FRIEND WHAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT YOUR ENEMY TO KNOW.” what you are! You've enticed him into this with your confiding littie ways. But he doesn't know you as 1 do! He doesn't know you!’’ she cried, beside herself with rage and disap pointment, for the girl, Elizabeth, also loved The Man and wanted to be his wife more than she wanted anything else in all the world. Because of the vow which Martha had always kept to the letter, and which the wiser girl had always set aside as a mighty foolish sort of thing, Elizabeth was as familiar with the weaknesses of her friend as she was with her own. She knew her as she tnew herself, for in her interpreta tion of the word friendship Martha had always uncovered her very soul for the other girl’s inspection. And, so it was that the confidences which the girl, Martha, had given in the sacred name of friendship were made the property of all who cared to hear them, and bounded back like boomerangs to hurt her a thousand times with a hurt so poignant that sometimes the injuries done her seemed more than she could bear. And The Wise Woman shook her head gravely and remarked again that, so long as human nature is human na ture, it will never be safe to tell your dearest friend anything that you would not want your bitterest enemy to know. In Mexican Houses. There are rarely fireplaces or stoves in Mexican housas. Of Course, in the tropics these are not required, but in the cities of the uplands it is often bitterly cold. There is a popular be lief that warming the air of a room by artificial heat in the rarefied air of the uplands induces pneumonia, but it is doubtful if this has any real foun dation. And the Mexican prefers to shiver under cover of a poncho rather than to sit in comfort and warmth aft er the European or American fashion. Testing Water. Following is a simple way to test the purity of water: Put half a pint in a perfectly clean bottle and add a few grams of lump or loaf sugar. Make tight—a glass stopper pre ferred. Place the bottle in a warm, well lighted room. If it remains clear after an exposure of eight or ten days it is safe to use, but if it becomes tur bid it is certainly impure and unsafe to drink. WWWWWW.WAV.V.W.V.W.V, HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS By" A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS J V\VrV///.WWJ,AS*AW.V.V.V.VA%W,V.W.VWAWAW (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.) A HOMEMADE PUSHMOBILE. In building a pushraobile, the wheels are of first importance. Fig. 3 shows the body framework. The side nlljs A should be 2 by 2's or 2 by 4's. Cut them to whatever length you wish. Upon these rails are mounted two grocery boxes, a long box on the bow end, and a box aa long as this one is wide, on the stern end. Fasten the rails to the bottom of these hexes (Fig 3). The crosspieces B and D, provide for the mounting of the wheels. Nail one to rails A at the bow end, and the other so it will come under the center of the stern box. Crosspiece F forms a foot-bar. The front iron axle must be at tached to a pivotal wooden axle (E, Figs. 4 and 5). This must have a hole bored through the center of its length for a ®*-inch carriage bolt. Screw a pair of screw-eyes into one edge (G, Fig. 6). Fasten the iron axle to the wcoden axle with !ron staples, or with bent-over nails. Bore a hole through the center of cross piece D (Figs. 3 and 7) for the car riage bolt :o run through. Then, in mounting the axles upon the frame work, slip spi iron washer over the car riage bolt so it will come between axle E and crosspiece D. The rear axle must be fastened to a similar wooden axle (C, Fig. 4). Nail this wooden axle to crosspiece B. The steering-gear should be made next. A sewing machine wheel is best for the steering-wheel, but a wagon-wheel will do. Cut a broom handle for the shaft (I, Fig. C). and mount the wheel on one end. Then cut a crosspiece (J), and a square block (K), bore a hole of the diameter of the broom handle through the cen ter of each, and nail K to J. Slip this crosspiece over the end of the shaft, and fasten i* 12 inches above the end with screws driven through the edges of .1 and K. as shown. Cut a hole r through the bottom of the bow bos for the end oi the shaft to run through, and another hole one-half inch deep in the center of the edge of the crosspiece D (Fig. 7) for a socket for it to tur~ in. Screw a screw-eye in to the end of crosspiece J (L, Fig. 6), and one into the under side of each side rail A (H, Figs. 4 and 6); then tie a four-foot length of rope at its cen ter to screw-eye L, and run the ends through screw-eyes H, and tie to screw-eyes G in axle E (Figs. 4 and 5). Figs. 1 and 2 show how the hood of .he pushmoblle is completed by fas tening a pair of triangular pieces upon the top of the bow box, nailing boards across them, and tacking screen wire ever the iront. of the box for the rar diator front; also how the seat is made. , ' The “Wonder Tree." California growers of the “wonder tree," the eucalyptus, which while growing ten times as fast as hickory, oak or mahogany, yields lumber hard er ud better than these native trees, mat in convention in the Lumbermen’s Building or House of Hoo-Hoo at the Panama-Pacific International exposi tion. Officials and members of the Euca lyptus Hardwood Association of Cali fornia—representing the cultivators of about 25.000,000 of these trees, took THE GAMES OF JACK-STICKS AND RING-TOSS. No doubt you are familiar with the game of jack-straws, in which a pile of tiny sticks in the forms of ham mers, saws, shovels, picks, etc., are placed in the center of a table, and then in turn each player tries to re move by means of a small hooked stick as many of the ‘‘straws” as pos sible, without disturbing any other -‘straw§” in the pile. The only difference between the "straw'' game and dur ‘‘stick" game is in the substitution of real hammers, saws, etc., for the small ones. Fig ure 1 shows the large assortment of articles that may be U3ed—brooms, umbrellas, coat hangers, pans, pot covers, pails, dustpans, etc. Throw these articles in a heap, crossed and recrossed as in the illustration. For the hooked stick for removing the articles from the pile take a broom handle and drive a long nail into it near one end, as shown in Fig. 2. Taking turns, each player should try to remove, one at a time, as many “sticks” from the pile as she can without disturbing anything else. The turn passes to the next player the instant she disturbs other than the article she is trying to re move. The player securing the larg est number of articles is winner. The game of ring-toss requires an c-a6ily made target (Fig. 3). The tar get requires a grocery box, two stick uprights to support the box, nine thread spools for pins, and nine nails. The spool pins should be placed 4 or 4i£ inches apart. The heads of the nails for fastening them will likely be smaller than the holes in the spools, and in that case, in order tr make thf cat's hold, it will be necessary to cut small squares of cardboard and run tnese over the nails as far as the heads (Figs. 3 and 4). After nailing the spools in their proper positions, number them with black paint, ink or pencil, as indicated in Fig. 3. Each numoer represents the score of the spool pin above it. The tossing rings have a hole through their centers, and are filled with beans, like ceanbags (Fig. 5). L'ut two pieces of cloth eight or nine inches square for each (Fig. 6). Fold each piece in half diagonally, so as to bring corners A together (Figs. 6 and 7); then fold corner B over on to corner B (Figs. 7 and 8), and fold corner C over on to corner C (Figs. 8 and 9). Cut off corners C and D as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 9 (Fig. 10), and, unfolded, the piece will have the form shown in Fig. 11. Sew the pair of cloth rings together, both around the outer and inner edges, leaving but a small opening between the outer edges. Fill the bag solid with beans, through the opening, then sew up the opening. There should be three rings, so each player may have three tosses each turn. The distance from which the rings are tossed may be ten, fifteen or twenty feet away from the target this means of educating the public and lumbermen in the value and hundred or more of uses of the eucalyptus of which there are 200 varieties. Some 10,000 eucalyptus trees grew on the exposition grounds. Restful Travel. “Been all over the country, eh?” "Everywhere the trains run." "1 guess you can sleep as well In a Pullman berth as you can in your bed at home." "Better, in fact My wife snores." SERIOUS DISEASE OF CALVES Dipntheria Is Due to Specific Infection and May Appear in Animals Only Tew Days Old. (By DR. M. H. REYNOLDS. Minnesota Experiment Station.) Calf diphtheria is due to a specific Infection, and is always a serious mat ter. The trouble may appear with calves from three to five days old. Such calves refuse to drink milk or suck. They show more or less dis charge of saliva from the mouth and Inflamed patches inside the mouth. These patches gradually develop into ulcers covered with a dead, granular, Dr cheesy mass, which does not peel easily from the raw surface under neath. There is considerable rise of temperature and an offensive odor from the mouth. The trouble may easily extend to neighboring parts, to the lining membrane of the nose, and then there appears a yellowish discharge. In some cases the lining membrane of the digestive tract is similarly affected and then there is tendency to diarrhea. Little pigs show similar symptoms. So far as now known the germ is a normal inhabitant of the intestines of healthy hegs and cattle and prob Healthy Calf. ably always virulent. When the dis ease is prevalent, the virus is, of course, scattered everywhere. Very young animals are most easily and most seriously affected, but cases have been reported in oalves and pigs six or eight months old, and even oc casionally in adult cattle and adult hogs. The sores may be cleaned with two per cent creoiin in wa/m water, and then treated with Lugol s solution, ap plied twice a day to the ulcers. Per manganate of potash may also be used, two ounces to each gallon of water; make co fresh each time, as the mixture cannot be kept from day to day. Either treatment should be given to valuable animals about twice a day for from four to six days. Frequent and thorough disinfection of calf pens and calf yards is one of tne first essentials in management DATA ON BREEDING FOR SEX Expert of Maine Experiment Station Gives Result of Investigations He Has Made. For ages untold the subject of the control of sex ha3 been discussed and studied over, with very little progress except to discover that many theories do not work. At that, knowing what not to expect is a great deal. The most promising theory now relates tc the influence on sex of the time of breeding. Of that Hr. Raymond Pearl of the Maine experiment station writes in a private letter which Hoard's Dairyman quotes: "My own investigations on the re lation of the time of service in the heat period itself, that- Is whether early or late, shows that it does have an effective influence cn the control of sex. We are collecting extensive statistics on the matter by means of co-operation with breeders all over the country and the more data wm get, the more clear does it become that in this matter, time of service related to the heat period is a sig nificant factor.” FEED FOR MILK PRODUCTION Common Cows Frequently Capable of Returning Larger Yield Than That Secured by Feeder*. (By T. L. HAECKER. Minnesota Ex periment Station.) Common cows are frequently capa ble of producing a much larger milk yield than the average feeder se cures from the average common cow. For ten years back we have always had a number of cows with no dairy heredity in the dairy herd at the uni versity farm. The average of 23 year ly records of these cows is 5,000 pounds of milk and 222 pounds of but ter. The value of 222 pounds of butter at 17 cents a pound is equal in round numbers to $60. The average com mon cow of this state produces a re turn yearly of but $46. She is, there fore yielding $14 a year less than if given the same care and feed that the sows in the university herd received. Lends Zest to Game. The man who keeps accurate track of his cows’ production always has a record to beat, and beating a former record lends zest to any game. Don’t Overlook Ice Cream. Dairymen who are sc situated that they can produce a high grade of cream should not overlook the possi bilities of the ice cream trade. Fly Swatting Campaign. Keeping the barn and surround ings free from manure is a gocd lick in the annual fly swatting campaign. Keep Calf Growing. There should be no marking time while the dairy calf is growing to ma turity. VALUABLE AID. Bronson—L>j you help your wife clean house? Woodson—Well, sometimes I knock the soot out of the stovepipe hat. Judging Kim. It isn't the way my brother lives. It isn't the foolish words he speaks. Nor the foes he makes and his wild mis takes. But the goal In life my brother seeks Optimistical. The footpad grinned as he ran sacked the pockets of the lone pedes trian. "What are you grinning at?” queried the victim. "Oh, nothing in particular,” an swered the footpad. “You see I'm one , of those chaps who afe unable to take things seriously.” In Old Kentucky. The Coroner—But why are you so positive the deceased was accidentally killed, colonel? Perhaps it was a 1 case of suicide. The Colonel—Youh seem to have i ovahlooked the fact, suh, that a quaht j bottle full of liquor—full, I repeat. | suh—was found in his ovaheoat pock et, suh. The Rara Avis. “Blinks is a most remarkable man.” "In what way?” “Moved into the country and hasn't said even once that he had to sleep under blankets.” No Loss. Mrs. Rosenbaum—Oh. Jacob, little Ikey has swallowed a dime. Rosenbaum—Send him to bed wid out his supper. Dot vill make it aboudt efen.” Quite a Few. "I have just been reading the consti tution of the United fitates.” "Well?” “And I was surprised to find out how many rights a fetlow really has.” Business Advice. "Every employer v.ar-ts a square peg, my boy.” “Yes, dad.” “In other words, theri* is no place for the rounder.”—Judge. Has Other Does. “The human forelirad is the seat of reason.” "That’s the popular conception. Sometimes it is merely used as a prop for a whim of fashion.” Spoiled Her P;e-isure. Trott—Well, my dear, did you en joy your shopping trip today? Mrs. Trott—N’o. ! didn't. I found exactly what l wanted' in the very first store l entered. A FULL HEAD. Clivef Harolu—i have an idea. Hattie—You seem to have a rush of thoughts to the head. Service. The jrrafter Is a creature queer. A most suspicious elf. Who says he serves the public dear. But simply helps himself. A Bird of a Family. He—Doctor Quack's daughter has a swanlike neck, hasn’t she? She—Yes; and his wife has about as much sense as a goose. He—And the doctor has a bill like a pelican. A Common Occurrence. “Brutus certainly did one of the most contemptible things a man can do." “What was that?” “Cutting an old friend dead.” Paw Knew the Brand. Little Lemuel—Say, paw, this paper has an article headed, “A Woman With a Mission.” What does that mean? Paw—It probably means, son, that her husband is a dyspeptic and has holes in his socks. Don’t Do It. "They say that human beings have jgany of the characteristics of the brute creation.” “That may be true. But I don’t see why any man should wish to imper sonate a crab.” A RECKLESS SENTIMENT. "Here is a book that ought to be ra every home," said the persuasive* agent. "What’s it about?” inquired Farm-; er Corntossel. I "Political economy.” "It oughtn’t to be encouraged. They’ve been slightin' appropriations! so much that it doesn't look like we'd: get any chance at government money' out this way. What I want to see i*< somethin’ that'll whoop it up fet (dd-i fashioned political extravagance." Safety First. “My wife told me to drop in and get her a new flatiron." “Here is the latest thing in flatironaj It is called ’The Husband's Favorite.’”• : “What’s the reason for the name?” "The shape of the handle makes it' absolutely unthrowable.” Way of the World. Old Singleton—Wheir 1 was a young man, I felt that I didn’t have enough, money to get married. Flubdub—But you surely have enough now. Old Singleton—Yes; but now I hava other uses for it.—Judge. Another Face on It. “We ran across an old frfend of yours the other day.” “Who was ft and where did yoa meet him?” • “It was Mr. Toddler, and we didn't exactly meet nim—he wouldn't get out of the way.” THE REASON. Mrs. Askitt—Mrs. Bjones says she ( Dly dresses for sense and eomfort, Mrs. Wise—That’s a bluff. Her bus lfp.nd only gets ?15 a week salary. Two Of a Kind. I know a brave one-legged man. And he is hard to beat: He always does the best he can To get there with both feet. The Path of Charity. “He was a very charitable person, wasn't he?” "Very. After he died each of his rel atives had to hire a lawyer to break Ha will.”—Detroit Free Press. Something Wrong. “Is this a studied insult, or what?“ "How now, girlie?” “This fellow writes on his card Sweets to the sweet' ant) sends me n package of lemon drops." Th.ee-Act Monologue. “It’s a wander nobody has ever dramatized 'Robinson Crusoe.' ” "You're right. A three-act play like that ought to be Just the thing for * popular star. The Real Toil. “I used to practice five hours a dajr on the piano,” said the musician. “You are through with that drudg ery now.” “Drudgery? Those were times of restful leisure. Now I have to work fourteen hours a day giving lessons.’' Expensive Eating. 'Your husband is very fond of Ins urious eating, isn’t he,” said ona woman. "Yes," replied the other. “I? them is such a thing as reincarnation, [ fancy be will turn Into a moth." Distinction of Term*. "Of course you favor the uplift7" “I don’t know," replied the busy man. “I m a plain, practical person. Sometimes I think the uplift depend* too much on literature and ncieDca. What I favor is the boost.” His Guess. Church—Did you ever notice when frogs jump how quietly they land o* their feet? Gotham—Perhaps they wear rubber heels. Close Figuring. Postal Clerk—Your letter just bal ances, miss; if it weighed any roore^ you would have to put on another stamp. Pretty Blonde—Gracious! Pr glad I didn’t sign my middle name!—Judge Educating Our Girls. "Don’t you think every girl ought t» be able to cook?” “I think every girl ought to be able to talk intelligently on the sub ject, anyhow,” said the society lady addressed. Not Much. Church—It is said the telephone voice travels at the rate of 56.00* miles per second. Gotham—Oh, well, in that case It doesn't make much difference if a fel low does stutter. Newly Married. Bllton—What Is the reason ror Jinks’ sudden pseudo-pompous, digni Hed manner? Tilton—He recently married, an* he’s trying to live up to his wife’s onla-i ion of him.—Judge.