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LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN Entered at the Loup City Postoffice for transmission through the malls as second class matter. CHIPMAN & HARTMAN, Publishers. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Every subscription is regarded as an "pen account. The names of subscribers will be instantly removed from our mail ing list at the expiration of time paid for, f publishers shall be notified; otherwise the subscription will remain In force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these "auditions are made a part of the con tract between publisher and subscriber. / POLITICAL GOSSIP FROM WASH INGTON. Washington, July 12. (Special cor respondence.—Democratic leaders in congress find little consolation in a review of election figures in the so called "doubtful” states. With repub licans and progressives united and working in harmony, it is little wonder they view the outlook with despair. The combined votes of these two par ties is enough to give democrats the cold shivers. For instance, in Indiana in 1912, the republicans and progres sives vote was 313,274, while the demo cratic vote was 281,890. In Illinois, 640. 011. against 405,048 democratic; in Ohio. 506.393 against 432,152 democra tic; Michigan. 369,828 against 150,751 democratic; Minnesota, 193.190 against 11*6,426 democratic; Nebraska, 127,124 against 109, 109 democratic; Iowa 281, 51*4 against 183,376 democratic; New York, 845,440 against 655,476 democrat ic; New Jersey, 234,245 against 173,289 democratic. This is what Wilson leaders are up against and they know it. The way some of the leading demo crats, most of them from the south, opposed aid to the families of soldiers who enlisted for service in Mexico, caused considerable unfavorable com ment about the capitol. The fact that men prominent in that party in the senate succeeded in defeating the proposition occasioned no end of dis cussion. Many republicans have been heard to express the view that it ia i he duty of this nation to care for the wives and children of the soldiers. They say that it is cheaper than main alning a great standing army and that the humane act is an encouragement to the volunteer to enlist. Senatoi Gallinger, of New Hamp shire, nipped in the bud a scheme lu boost the salaries of some of the at torneys, special agents and examiners in the recently organized Federal Trade Commission. Under the leader ship of Senator Hollis, a democrat, a plan was on foot to raise the pay ol these assistants from $5,000 a year tc $7,500 which would have caused the reduction of the small-salaried clerks in order to get the money to boosl these well-paid attorneys. Senatoi Gallingersaid: “If larger salaries are given to the lawyers of the commis sion, certain other employees drawing smaller salaries would of necessity bt I dismissed, because it is not proposed;i to Increase the appropriaton. It has i been the custom in this body for sena- i tors to make appeals for those draw ing small salaries and not for those i drawing large salaries, and I was i quite surprised to hear the sugges tion made by the mover of this amendment." The proposition was voted down by a vote of 43 to 28, and thus another democratic "economy" proposition fell by the way-side. Nearly every republican senator and member of congress is receiving the most encouraging reports from the people "back home” relative to tii ! outlook for party success at the com ing elections. Letters and personal j visits from constituents tell of many ! voters who supported Wilson four I years ago who will vote for Justice I Hughes this fall. Word oalso comes o: ■ the return, almost unanimously, of the i former progressives to the republican fold. I The attempt of the present adminis tration to muzzle the periodical press 'of the country by placing in the hands of the Postmaster General power to | put almost any magazine out of busi ness by sending it by freight, has been ' given its quietus in the senate, and an other un-American proposition foster ed by the present postoffice depart ment has been snuffed out by proper publicity and the showing up of the offensive provision proposed in the postoffice bill. , May, 1916. found us at the full tide of our war-order prosperity. During the eleven months ended in May our exports totaled $3,867,000,000, imports, ‘$1,951,000,000, favorable balance oi ! trade, $1,916,000,000, to which should ' be added millions of dollars formerly 1 spent by our tourists abroad who have 1 lately betrayed a cordial desire to seo “America first.” Everytime a demo cratic politician sees a laborer or a farmer with a dollar in his fist h. climbs a tree and yells “prosperity! Then he slides down and takes away one-tenth of that dollar by way of taxes. The democrats are trying to claim credit for the transitory pros perity which we receive from the Eu ropean war. Meanwhile they are dc | vising 57 varieties of taxation to make up for the deficiencies of their tar i bill as a customs revenue producer, 'and at the same time the evils result ing from ther blundering legislation and inefficient administration are laid !to the foreign fracas. The best proof of their crass stupidity is that they actually believe the people are addlo | pated enough to believe them. The war temporarily restored our prospeii ,ty. The w*ar is not to blame for demo ! cratie mismanagement. “Patriotism in democracy is net merely an instinctive affection for one’s native or adopted land, or exul tation In national power. Patriotism In democracy is devotion to the rule of the people, love of its ideals, and ; pride in those achievements wlib h realize its common aspirations aiuU‘1 lustrate the progress made possible by equality or rights. It is the pat riotism. whose ardor is kindled by the keen sense of human brotherhood, and i BRING YOUR GRAIN I TO THE I Loup City Mill & Light Co. I Furnishes all the light and power and also makes the 1 best of flour. Handled by all Merchants. ^ ■ BUY FLOUR THAT IS MADE IN LOUP CITY | HEADQUARTERS FOR I ALL KINDS OF | Hard and Soft Coal j TAYLOR’S ’ELEVATOR I LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA | SPECIAL NOTICE = PIANO BUYERS A GOOD PIANO will last a lifetime. A POOR PIANO, under very favor able circumstances, may be in condition to be used at the end of five years. WHICH IS THE CHEAPEST IN THE END? The Schmoller A Mueller Planoe and Player Pianos have an Established Reputation. „ .r« manufac.iired of the beat material, and by thoroughly .killed workmen. They ■ra model, of good mate, beautiful tone aud aniatM workmanahip and. la.t but not lea.t . art aold from factory to home, aaving you the uaual (100 to (ISO retail profit. ** We pay all freighta and our 57 year, experience ia youre if yoo give ua yonr trade inatrumentf “d ^ offer “ Tour home, the only way to teat aa n.™wn.“rnunli?i.,e<n‘U*r*"f^b,ck!d b-r °?r eo,ir« "*»«•• »f over (1,000.000 and our ea.y payment plan 3 to 5 yeara if deaired. afford, you abaolute protection and make, buying eaayT | or giv^,L,<^^;^^^,^l^7 *• * >*“ -d« I SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANO CO. Largest Retailers of Pianos In the World. OMAHA, NEB. B1® Eatahliahed 1859 *• Capital aud Reaourcca, over (1.000.000.00 NAME__ ■ 1®5 ADDRESS. hat counts as traitors all those who ake up against the State the arras >f injustice or seek to turn to selfish ises the agencies designed to pro eet the common interest. The matter >f primary importance is fidelity to lie fundamental laws of our institu ions, and the endeavor to destroy hose influences, on whatever behalf sxerted. which are hostile to free gov ernment itself. ” This lofty conception >f Americanism did not come from he lips of Woodrow' Wilson. It came rom Charles Evans Hughes. Even as i phrase-maker President Wilson has net a worthy foeman, hut there is nore than mere words to the expressed ■onvictions of Charles Evans Hughes. PREPAREDNESS BOOSTED. Preparedness has been given a big boost by the threatened war with Mexico. That effect is a certainty ■egardless of whether war is declared, doth houses of congress have loosened ip on preparedness appropriations. In die house of representatives $2*1, 100,000 was added to the army appro priation bill, bringing it up to $182, 100.000. This was in addition to a leficiency appropriation of $25,000, 100 to cover the cost of mobilizing the militia and other immediate military preparations. The army approprta ion bill has now gone to the senate where the military committee has al ready agreed upon additions totaling 575.000. 000, and it is believed that the Bill may mount as high as $275,000. 100. In the senate, the program of the general naval board has been agreed to by the naval committee and is like ly to be adopted by congress. This calls for an appropriation of $315, S36.843 in 1917, and contemplates a total expenditure of $538,180,576 'or construction in the next three years. The impetus given to preparedness is, in our opinion, one of the most un fortunate things about the whole un fortunate Mexican situation. A for eign policy about which the people have not had a word to say is shaping our domestic affairs. This shows that until the people have something to say about the foreign relations of the country they really will not have con trol of their government. —Nebraska Farmer. THIRTEEN MONTHS IN THE YEAR. ''One or the reeeut interesting-dis cussions that has been on, is the proposition to change the number of months in each year from twelve to thirteen. The plan as proposed would make each month have exactly four weeks. This would give thirteen months in the year of four weeks each and one day over; the extra day, it is proposed to assign to New e\ars' Day, not incorporating it in any month and it being a universal holiday, it would not interrupt the business lines that would be followed under the new arrangement. With thirteen months of four weeks each and the odd day se aside with out reference to any month as New Years’ Day. there would still Ve 'ett unaccounted for, the odd minutes and seconds that go to make up the com plete year. These minutes and sec onds would accumulate enough to make another day in something over four hundred years and if the new calendar were adopted, it would have to provide for leap year once in four hundred years instead of once every four years as at present. Leap year as we have it at the present time, would be wiped out and it would only be once in four centuries that the ex tra day would have to be accounted for in the calendar. The new plan is more of a scien tific plan than the present division of the year into months, and in this way, there is much force In the argu ment for the change. With thirteen months for the year, and exactly four weeks to the month, the first day of the month would always fall on the same day of the week. The first day of each month would probably be fixed on Sunday as the first day of the week. Sunday would always be the first of the month, and every month would be shortened to twenty eight days. This would, on monthly salaries, involve sore ^adjustment in business. It would involve a read justment on loans but there would be a tremendous advantage in the even time that would cover all transac tions. There would be no months with odd days or even days and there would be a multitude of complication in figur ing time that would be obviated through the even months of four weeks each. It would not be on the whole, diffi cult at all to adjust affairs of very kind and character to the thirteen months a year basis. After the ad justment was made, there would be a certain amount of satisfaction as well as larger convenience through always having equal months. While the discussion is on concern ing the setting of the clock ahead =.n hour, why not discuss the more ';n portant and more scientific project of making thirteen mouths a year in stead of twelve months? The advanc ing of time an hour a day would un doubtedly be advantageous in the long day period of the year, providing it was universally accepted. There would be no advantage in it in the short days of the year and for that reason, it would not be an tlll-the year improvement. The changing of the months to even periods of four weeks each, would be advantageous all the time. It could be universally accepted in every line of business without great disturbance and once changed, would be so much more sat isfactory that there would be no dis position to ever revert to the old fra<> tional method of days in a month that we follow now in order to have simply twelve months in the year . The difference would be entirely optional between twelve months or thirteen months making up a year, and the separation of the odd day. the setting aside of New Year's day, without reference to any month, would be no Inconvenience or interruption and at the same time it would emphasise that day and its observance as the commencement of a new yeur and thd marking c* a new period of time. —Review. A flower in your front yard looks vastly better than a weed. Speed up the flowers. I COL E. A. KEELER Real Estate Auctioneer. See me for terms and full particulars,. I am associated with some of the leading real estate auctioneers in the United States and solicit your busi ness, SELL YOUR FARM AT AUC TION, THE NEW AND QUICK WAY. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. Phone 8711. -i SALE OF SCHOOL BUILDING. The school board of district No. 2, Austin. Sherman county, Nebraska, will sell at public auction for cash, the old school building in said district, at 1:30 o’clock p. m. on Friday, July 14, 1916. By Order of School Board 240 POUND PIGS. With corn above 50 cents hogs eat their heads off very quickly. The hog that takes two or three months to get on full feed never brings you! a profit. When you are ready to put yourj shoats on feed, begin with the B. A. i Thomas Hog Medicine. Use regularly and watch your shoats round out into fat hogs in nine months—hogs going well over 200 pounds and as high as 240 pounds. Figure the av erage feeding and you wUl see why the B. A. Thomas medicine is a good investment Try feeding out your hogs on this plan and if you are not more than pleased, we will refund the cost of the medicine. —J. J. Slo minski. SOLDIERS OF THE SEA. Although the United States marine corps has no reserve, hundreds of for mer members have volunteered for service in the old corps in case of emergency, it was announced at ma rine corps headquarters today. The marine corps forms the first line of the national mobile defense, and the volunteers are likely to get quick action in case of war. as the marines are usually “first in” when ac tual hostilities commence. About 4,000 of the less than 10.000 “soldiers of the sea" are now active ly suppressing revolution and restor ing order in Hayti and Santo Domingo. My, oh my, how the democratic newspapers now hate Teddy Roose velt because through his leadership the progressive party has dissolved and the republican party stands solidly united. And three short weeks ago Roosevelt, in the estimation of these newspapers, was a real darling dear. That was when they believed, hoped and urged that he be the progressive candidate for president and thereby aid in keeping the republican party divided. Strange how a man's worth can dwindle—in the estimation of democratic newspapers—but demo cratic newspaper estimation of a re publican never amounted to much any way. When a democratic newspaper takes to praising a republican leader then it is time for Wilson to believe everything Carranza tells him.—Ex. ROADS BY UNCLE SAM. Uncle Sam is about to dip into the road-building business. His Incursion into that field depends only upon the signature of the president to the bill passed by congress appropriating $85,: 000,000 to be used in the next five years in building roads in co-operation with the states. turn in (to Uliwiliiitiiicu a uicaouic, it seems to us, us congress ever has passed. We <*an see no good reason why the federal government should have anything to do with roads In the states, aside front furnishing informa tion. The people must pay the bill—• federal aid is not a gift—and for the most part by a system of taxation that is even less equitable than the general property tax by which state 1 and local revenue are raised. Just ' at this time especially, when treasury 1 olTicials are talking about a bond is- 1 sue to replenish the national money 1 chest, it seems most inappropriate to 1 make large expenditures of federal ‘ funds for work that belongs properly ' to the states and counties. Worse than the fiscal features of federal aid to road building, however, is the centralization of road authority. Talk about centralization of road au thority ut the state capitol—that is nothing to the centralization caused by this bill. No road into which a * dollur of federal funds goes can be built until the plans have been sub- t mitted to, and approved by, the secre tary of agriculture. Think of the absurdity of nskiug the secretary of agriculture what kind of a road should j he made In some Nebraska township! j The tendency of the times to remove authority in ail matters to some point well out of the reach of the people is t one that must be resisted if we do i not wish to find ourselves in the grip (1 of a beauracratic government.—Ne- o braska Farmer. f ^" 1 " 1 ~ " ======" New Spring Rugs I The largest and finest line j . ever brought to Loup City AVe have them in almost every size and colorings to match any room decorations that you may choose. The colors are dainty and the workmanship all that is possible in first class floor cov erings. If you contemplate buying a new rug this spring you should call while the assortment is complete and make your selection. When it comes to the prices we have put on these rugs you will be delighted and surprised. Our line of linoleums is most complete and, notwithstanding tin1 general rise in price, you will find pleasing patterns at prices that are well within your means. Refrigerators We handle the Wisconsin and the Peerless The warm weather season is at hand and the refrigerator ques tion again bobs up. It does not pay to buy anything but the best cooling devices, as the health of the family, in a measure, de pends on the sanitary condition of food. AVe handle only the best refrigerators and at prices that bring them within the reach of all—and we have them in all sizes. E. P. DAILY FURNITURE S(L Your money’s worth or your money back ORDER OF HEARING AND NOTICI ON PETITION FOR SETTLE MENT OF ACCOUNT. Iii the County Court of Sherman Coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Sherman County ss. To the heirs-at-law, devisees, lega tees, creditors and all persons inter ested In the estate of Ole Molfield. de ceased. On reading the petition of Ernst H A. de la Motte praying a final settle ment and allowance of his accoun filed in this court on the 3rd day o July, 1916, and for a decree of heii ship of distribution of residue o personal property, and for settlemen and discharge of administrator of sail estate. It is hereby ordered that you am all persons interested in said matte may, and do appear at the Count; Court to be held in and for said Coun ty, on the 2nd day of August, A. D. 1916, at one o’clock P. M., to shov cause, if any there be, why the praye i)f the petitioner should not be grantei and that notice of the pendeey of sail petition and the hearing thereof b< given to all persons interested in sail matter by publishing a copy of Ihis or iler in The Loup City Northwestern x weekly newspaper printed in sail county three successive weeks prioi to day of hearing. * Witness my hand and seal this 3rt lay of July, 1916. (SEAL) E. A. SMITH. 29-3 County Judge Breathes there a man with soul sr tame, that when his home team wins t game, he doesn’t throw a fit? Whc loesn’t help to make a noise, or taki liis place among the boys who on the ileachers sit? If such there be, go set lim down as an incumbrance to the own, a break upon its wheel; for any bellow is a crime who doesn’t at the jase ball time a glow of rapture feel [f he can view unmoved the score .vhich shows us how the home team jore the foeman off the map, the soul vitkin him is decayed; our council nen should take a spade and plant hat kind of chap. For he’s the man vho always grunts when we’d put on mprovements, and pave the village itreets. who always beefs about his ax, and sticks to pennies tight as wax. md prices downward beats. He is he skate who never gives much satis action while he lives; whose worth ve can’t discern; but when at last he ashes in, the people raise a joyful lin, and costly fireworks burn.—Walt Jason. FOR SALE. My eight room house. Good barn nd outbuildings with twelve lots in herry and plum trees. Also 4% acres f land and another tract of 3% acres 11 in alfalfa and fenced chicken tight. 1 early new two seated spring wagon nd a Jersey red sow with six pigs.— .lfred Anderson. TAKEN UP. One red sow, weight about 175 ounds. Slitted in each ear.—W. J. IcLaughlin. Some folks would give anything if hey could get rid of constipation. lolli8ter’s Rocky Mountain Tea will o the work and do it quick, lake it nee a week to be regular, happy and •ee.—Graefe’s Pharmacy. - ' __ GO SOMEWHERE! ’TIS THE THING TO DO! Do not let the Summer slip by without joining the vacation . throng. With Europe out of the question, with industrial, linan eial and agricultural prosperity throughout the land, you will ■ lind large numbers of pleasure-seeking Americans wherever t you go. TO TIIE EAST: .V complete scheme of low excursion fares f arq daily in effect to all resort regions of the East,—New Env t land, Atlantic Coast, etc.; diverse routes that embrace the his 1 orical and most beautiful sections. i TO THE BLACK HILLS: Here is a Summer vacation r • gion that is increasing its patronage each year. THE YELLOWSTONE PARK: Commencing July 1st we . have through standard sleepers direct to Cody, the scenic and [ automobile gateway. No tour of the Park is complete that dot s L not include this 90-mile automobile journey. TO COLORADO: Low daily rates to Denver and Colorado Springs. Colorado is ideal for a vacation. Rates are low. T • change is complete. Beautiful Estes Park, Colorado’s typical • sort, is reached over night. We have low rate tours ever\ wliei . Tell us what you have in mind. Let us help you. J. A. DANIELSON, Ticket Agent. L. W. WAKELEY, GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT. 1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Young man, you will never reach your goal so long as you spend your time resting on the way. If you know a few things an<) know them well you are a wiser man than the fellow who knows it all. _i No matter how dark the clouds may be, there's a world of cheer on the other side. Break through. You, of course, have your own opin ion on current affairs, and believe that you are right. Your neighbor has his and is equally firm in his belief. Re spect the rights of each, and don't scrap. SCRAWNY CALVES. What makes a calf scrawny—off its feed? Germs—parasites—in the intestine?. Why not free them of this trouble? If you will give the calf some B. A. Thomas Stock Rem edy in its feed, within a week you will see it brighten up and in four or five weeks you wonW know the calf. Costs you but a few cents-and we will refund that if it doesn’t do as we say.—J. J. Slominski. i •. ■ ■ ■ . 1 .... J.—'"T- ! C. E. WATKINS f i Veterinarian Calls attended night and day. Resi- < dence Phone Black 5. Office at Wood’s livery barn. Loup City, Neb. Change of program every night at the opera house. Chase’s for fresh groceries. PRINCE ALBERT 3a Black Spanish Jack. Prince Albert is a big. black Span ish Jack, 7 years old. 16 hands hign. and weighs 1,050 ponds. He has good action and is a sure foal getter. ‘ Will stand the season of 1915 at my .arm, a quarter of a mile south of Schaupps. TERMS: $10 to insure live colt.' Persons disposing of or remo.ing nare from vicinity where bred, $10 lecomes due the same as if mare was mown to be in foal. Care will be aken to prevent accidents but wdl lot be responsible for any occuring. HARRY OBERMILLKR. Ichaupps, Neb. Owner, For Light and Heavy Hauling Call BERT FIEBIG CRAY AND TRANSFER LINE Loup City, Nebraska