LITCHFIELD EVENTS. Sam Eatabrook shipped a h shipped a load of tigs to Sooth Omaha on Wednesday harles Duncan went down with then. 41 Bacfcu* and C E. A 40 Tuesday, to bring home her boy who has been in the hospital for - me time He was greatly benefited George Dickerson and Henry Dun • an shipped a load of hogs, also Thus. Haller Wednesday. George Dickerson and Henry Dun an accompanied them Dr Chase and wife drove over from lamp City. Tuesday afternoon. They brought over Mr and Mrs Rollie Shot tier, who will take the train for Hem lngford. Mrs. Lillie King, mother of Mrs. F. G. Prcell, came down from Broken Bow with Miss Labert Dvrast on No. 4". for a days' visit, returning on No. 39. Wednesday. , George Kensler had the misfortune to break the radius rod In his car and lost control of it and it turned over breaking the top and the windshield and bending the front axel. The old lady Mrs. Theodore Mc Oosh. passed away about 6 o'clock on Monday evening. Her husband died a year ago She has been sick for some time ' understand the funeral will be Wednesday afternoon. It has been said by a few knockers, that Lit' hfield was the poorest market in the country. How is this; Last Fri day. Chris Peterson of Hazard brought up seven loads of wheat to the Litch field elevators that brought him near ly 1100 per load. Henry Bichel was in town doing ‘ us.ness. Friday afternoon. He in forms me that his father, Fritz, is h'.me from an extended stay at the Fx< elsior Springs resort. Mo., and that the rheumatism has left him for a time ai d that he is as nimble as a kid. Harve Chapman went to Broken Row on No. 39. Monday evening to meet his daughter. Ruth. (Mrs. Paul Workman.! They are moving down from Bayard to farm Harve's place Paul Workman arrived her on No. 44 Monday evening. His car of emigrant goods arrived in the night. Two cars of emigrant goods and -to. k camp in on No 109. Tuesdiv evening Charles Helrod. S. E and Otto Helrod shipped in Charles Helrod goe on to the Frierson place lately occu pi-d by Foreberger S. E. Helrod goe on to the Eps place occupied by A. C Wall, and Otto goes on to the Frank Fener place. Bert Gates ami sort of Broken Bow. ante down on No. 40. Tuesday to buy <>ne or two white faced hulls. They went out to the Bichel ranches and -aid they saw some very fine cattle •>ut were all sold out of the kind thev wanted wept three that Fritz wa ■ ■ ding for the Herford sale to be held | at Grand Island. Miss Marie Duncan came home front a forma to he near her brother who R down sick with th typhoid fever darie left here semiparalized. but er few weeks residence on the coast did for her what the doctors at thr 1 ospitals could not do here. She is now better than she has been for • irs I understand solely on climate ■ 1 w.thout any medical assistance. WILL EUROPE LEGALIZE POLY GAMY? The enormous slaughter of men has smarted the sociologsts to debating tb“ question of whether or not. at the lose of hostilities. Europe will be i forced to legalize polygamy, or resor to some other such expedient to pro vide mates for its millions of unmar ried women. Although perhaps not generallv known, precisely such a condition was faced in Europe at the end of the rhirtv ears war. and it was met bv legalizing polygamy until a relative 1 slam e of the sexes was again estab 1 sh. d. when the laws were repealed. It is estimated that should the war continue for two years longer there w ill t>e in the countries involved not less than twelve million females in ex ..mmiimmnmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ = Monarch Sootless Lump i 5 Radiant Long Burning Lump I And the old reliables = | CANON CITY AND NIGGERAEAD 1 Lump Nut and Pea Coals | | USE COKE IN YOUR BASEBURNER l Ideal fuel, cleaner and hotter | than hard coal i | LET US FIGURE YOUR LUMBER BILLS | Lumber for every purpose | | HANSEN LUMBER CO. § Fence Paints Roofing naiiiiHiiiiiuiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiif — — cess of males. Hence it can be plainly seen that the problem confronting those countries is serious indeed. Europe, aside from the purely ma terial losses which she is sustaining, and which are almost beyond concep tion or computation, is facing a cer tain and serious check to civilization. Possibly no other condition would so retard the march of progress as a re turn, either by choice or necessity, to this degrading practice. The twentieth century mind re volts at the idea of polygamy. Not j only is this true of Americans, but oi Europeans as well. This being true, j what effect would it have upon the peo-1 pie should such a practice be revived .’ To a race familiar with and accus tomed to the practice it may appear justifiable and right. But to a people who for centuries have been taught to regard it as contrary to the laws of nature the effect is certain to be de moralizing to character. Even those who would be constrained to practice polygamy would by force of their pre vious training be compelled to rega’d themselves as living in adultery. How truly should every American thank his God that our land has been spared the horrors that face our cou sins across the water, and how firmly ea h should determine that, come, what may. we will never be dragged into that conflict and participate in that slaughter except in actual de fense of our own shores. America today is the white hope of civilization. The destiny of the race lies in the American hand to shape as it will. That we may be true to our j highest ideals is the earnest prayer of every intelligent soul within our borders. Polygamy could never even be con sidered in this country. _ A PLEA FOR THE GRAMMAR GRADE BOY. Do we dominate or domineer the : grammar grade boy? I fear very often j it is the latter. The reason for this probably Is j that we. as grammar grade teachers. have failed to make a comprehensive i study of the boy. A teacher must realize the boy's ; physical needs, know his individual | traits, understand his nervous temper ament, and discover his physical de fects, or run the risk of inflicting up on him untold inquiry. Above all. the ] teacher who studies his boys carefully j will avoid the mistake of thinking that they can be easily deceived. Our attitude toward our boys should be one of frankness and sincere sym pathy. Encourage your boy’s confi dence, but never betray it nor hold it lightly. Do but gain a boy's trust; convince him by your behavior that you have his happiness at heart; let him discover that you are the wiser of the two and let him experience the benefits of following your advice, and the evils that result from disregarding it. and fear not you will readily enough guide him. Make some allowance for childish ignorance, faults, failings, and thot lessness, for all these are quite char acteristic of many grown up folk. Many teachers feel that a boy must be crushed into obedience by their power, but such obedience is really disorder. Our chief work is not to punish but to train; not to govern, but to teach. We must believe that boys are living feeling flesh and blood, they have minds to learn and expand, hearts to love or hate, and souls to aspire. Thev are quick to respond, they greet con fidence with confidence, and they measure out love for love.—Nebraska Teacher. CARE OF ENGINE. At this time of year much damage is done to automobile engines (and other engines as well) due to pistons seizing the cylinder, is the word that comes from the agricultuarl engineer ing department at the state university farm. This causes the cylinder walls to be scored, and in many cases they are practically ruined. The reason for this is that in cold weather cylinders and water jackets warm slowly, while pis tons and rings get hot and expand with the first few explosions. There fore. if the engine is allowed to run at a high rate of speed before the whole engine is warmed up. damage is apt to occur, especially with com paratively new cases which have pis tons fitted very tightly. This condition is aggravated because oil does not run freely. There is noth ing to be gained by allowing the en gine to race, while there is consider able to lose. There is no harm in allowing it to run idle at a fair rate of speed until it is warmed. In fact, this may be advisable. Subscribe tor The Northwestern. u NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS COOD. Purchase the “NEW HOME” and v u aril! have ! a life SL>>et at the price you pay. The elimination i f repair expense by superior wcrkmanship and be>t ^ua.;ty of material insures l-.fe-ic nr service at mini mum cost. Insist on having the “NEW HOME". WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Haem's the w.>rld over for superior sewiuc qualities. Nor sold under ar.y other came. THE HEW HOME SEWiNu MiCHINE RANGE, MASS. ron sacs bt E. P. DAILY. FURNITURE CO. It will soon be time to “clean up and paint up." And while we are about it let’s clean up. paint up. and stay up. To spend a few hours and a few dol lars on your yard and property this spring and then forget all about it for the next five years to come is the poorest kind of economy. It is even a first-class extravagance, for the m<> ment a piece of property becomes "rusty” deterioration rapidly sets in and rushes right on to destruction. A few dollars and a little labor in per iodical improvements is the best in terest you can get on your investment. And what is good for you is equally good for the town, the county, and the state. Give vour child a nickel occasional ly. It won’t break you. and it will give the child its first lessons in the art of handling money. But most import ant of all. teach it to save two cents of every nickel you give it. That will teach it thrift and the art of saving. Let it take its pennies out and count them over. Every time it counts them it will want to add a few more to the pile. That will inculcate the art of accumulation. But dont let it depend on what you give it. It should be taught to earn money, and the first lesson should go with the first nickel. That will demonstrate the necessity and increase its capacity for work. And in after years, when success has crowned its efforts, it will look back over the lapse of time and tell others that it had the best father and mother that God ever pe-mitted to live. 1 ASLEEP AT THE COAL BIN. To most Americans it will come as a shock to learn that our own trade with the Phillippines is largely de pendent upon British coaling stations. Now that England needs all its own fuel, it has decreed that independent shipping will hereafter get none. Here is another example of the shiftness work of our government. Congress haggles for months over pork-barrel appropriations and neglects a primary business proposition such as coaling stations for our own ships. What would be said of a railroad that for ever kept its fuel supply in the hands of a competitor who might stop the supply any day it saw fit to do so? But our government affairs, being con ducted primarily on a partisan politi cal basis, are left in a slovenly condi tion. Since the United States mines far more coal than any other nation, it would appear to be elemental that it should furnish all the coaling sta tion facilities which could be needed for our own use.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. "DO UNTO OTHERS.” Friend, have you ever asked yourself the question? “Is my neighborho J anv the better for my presence in it?” Has your community life been such that were you to remove to some other 1 -> cality you would be really missed, and missed with regret? We believe that many of us who con sider ourselves good citizens and good neighbors, if we were to seriously con sider this question, would be somewhat puzzled to find the correct answer. We all know people of our communi ty of whom it were idle to ask this question that they are a real asset to any community that is so fortunate as to claim them. Let us. then, in the light of their lives, truthfully and im partially judge our own lives, and let us profit by that judgment. All of us know that good angel of the neighborhood. Frequen*tv she is a frail little mite of womanhood, quiet and unassuring, with the most humble appreciation of her own virtues. Yet whenever sickness or sorrow develop in the countryside we instinctively look to find her in attendance, ready to efface herself in her ministrations to others; giving of the faith of her own large heart to sustain the failing courage of those in need. And who does not know the handy man of the community? He is always busy, yet never so busy that he can not grant a favor to a neighbor. He is the man who, when he starts to town, is hailed by every housewife on his route and loaded down with commissions and orders to be filled, until frequently when returning home his neighbors get most of his load. He is also the man you send for if you have a sick horse or cow; if your crops do not turn out to suit you. you consult him. You call on him. if a subscription is to be circulated, and he is always ready to not only chip in. but he cheerfully takes the paper from house to house and from man to man until the object is attained. In fact, when we contem plate the number of “thankeye” jobs he gets through with in the run of a year we often wonder how on earth he has found time to attend to his own affairs. But he has. and he has at tended to them well. The truth is that we all waste many valuable hours and days that might better be given to these kindly ministrations to others’ comfort and pleasure. We wonder our own cares and perplexities, burdens and sorrows, until they loom as mountains in our pathway, obscuring our neighbors and their affairs, until we frequently for get that they too, have cares and sor rows. many times more grievious than pur own. It would be of real benefit to us if ve could at times forget self, and enter into the joys and sorrows of others. Try it, friend, and you will be sure prised to realize how soon the care ind sorrow have flown from your own ife and left naught but joy and peace n their stead. ’LEA OF UNORGANIZED RAILWAY LABOR. A petition signed by 300.000 rsil vav men who do not belong to any abor union, asking congress for con lideration of their case as well as that >f the brotherhoods, has been intro luced into congress and seems to have ►een treated with scant courtesy. One >f the union railway heads says it is lothing more than a trick of the roads o befog the r.ituation and to give ad vertising to unorganized labor. We do lot know whether or no such is the ase. We have not the slightest rea on to suppose that it is. but that eallv has no bearing on the situation, f one class of railway employees is o have its wages regulated by con fess there is no doubt that idl de serve the same treatment. What has displeased American sen timent in the last few weeks is the ar- , rogance of the four brotherhoods, who £ seem to assume that they control con- £ gress. the administration and the coun- j try at large. They have been obliged j to give up the threat of a strike if lit igation over the Adamson law contin ues, but that is all which they will concede. Apparently they have no use for the great mass of workers on the ] railways which are unorganized. They ( even have gone so far as to make it , plain that they never will consent to j the President's plan of an anti-strike and arbitration law in connection with ( our railways, similar to the Canadian ( law. President Wilson is entirely right In demanding some such law, because we ought not to live under the men ace of a universal strike on transpor tation systems. No one supposes that if the Adamson law is upheld that it will be a finality. It is only a begin ning. We need laws which will put the public interest superior to that of any private organization of employees. If the President fails to get such a law through congress it will be the great est failure of his administration.— Philadelphia Inquirer. FARM BORROWERS READY FOR BUSINESS. The troubles of the Federal Farm Loan Board are about to begin. It is officially made known that more than fifty thousand farmers have applied for mortgage loans under the Farm Loan act, to an aggregate amount of one hundred and fifty million dollars. The rural credits legislation was widely advertised during the campaign by democratic spellbinders, the Ad ministration claiming credit for the benevolent arrangement was favored by an overwhelming vote in most of the agricultural States. West and South, and now. quite naturally, the voters are ready for the promised money. They will not get it right away. The government land banks, the money sieves, have not been set up yet. Some of the fifty thousand—and there may be fifty thousand more in a short time, will never get it. The government, in the role of Lady Bountiful, will not be so "easy” as the stump speech as surances have suggested. And there must be certain preliminaries—be cause of the government way of doing business, the preliminaries are apt to resemble red tape. The Farm Loan act does not omit to provide plenty of it. The eager applicant will not walk into his nearest Federal bank, ask for the money and get it with the ease and grace with which he would negotiate the purchase of a sack of chicken feed. Some of the fifty thousand, very likely, who have applied thus early have a feeling that a postal card, or a e!enhc->e rr.!1. will bring the wanted ! :'unu: They wiil be disillusioned. Fifty thousand *ouid-be borrowers already—one hundred and fifty mil lions wanted right away—an average of three thousand dollars to each one. a more trifle for government to hand out. Unfortunately, the authorized capital of each of the Federal Land Banks, when ready for business, will be only $750,000—nine millions for the twelve institutions provided by the act. The applications for loans, before the doors are open, thus aggregate seventeen times the loaning fund.— Providence Journal. It's only a poor sort that crows after he has won. Dont cuss the weeds this spring. Pull 'em up instead. Glory! Hooray! Bully! We can write | it 1917 without a hitch. ----- Tom Lawson has been urging con gress to investigate the New York stock exchange. But not a word about investigating Tom. TO VOTE ON DRY QUESTION. Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan .15.—The Wyo aing senate today passed a bill sub aitting prohibition, as a constitutional mendment, to the people of the state n 1918. The bill now goes to the louse. ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES The following is the estimate of the ■xpeuses for Sherman county, Neb •aska. for the year 1917, as fixed by he Board of County Supervisors: Emergency bridge .$ 4.000.00 Bridge Fund . 18.000.00 itoad fund . 2.000.00 leneral fund . 22.000.0t) lourt house . 18.000.00 'air association . 776.40 Dated this 9th day of January, 1917. i-3 L. B. POLSKI, Co. Clerk. PREPAREDNESS WITH A PUNCH. Much has been said and written dur ;ng the past two years as to national preparedness from present indications ;t would appear to be the policy of the country to bring defensive prepared ness to the point where we will feel secure should the unforseen occur, rhis policy is resulting in the building nf larger and more modern battleships, more efficient coast defences, the strenghhening of the army and such like precautions. This is good as a present precaution ary policy, but something more than these measures are needed if we are to be a thoroughly prepared nation. As to the advisability of reasonable preparedness, there seems to be little doubt that it is needed, at least for some time to come. Europe is war mad. Mexico is a hotbed of insurrection-. Unrest and a lust for blood prevails throughout the globe, and at any time we may be forced into a war not of our seeking. Hence if we are compelled to fight, we should by all means be prepared to fight. And this brings us to the question of soldiers. Without them, of what avail is armament? When the call for the mobilization of all state troops came from Washington, how many re sponded? Hqw long would such a piti fully small army last in such a conflict as now rages in Europe? The truth is. we need to educate more soldiers. Not more professional soldiers, but more emergency soldiers. We need to teach our boys and young men not only patriotism, but effective patriotism, for patriotism minus effi ciency is a mighty weak article. It must be backed up with a punch. Why not, then, along with a love of country, teach our young men to de fend the country they are taught to love? The simple truth is, every school in the land should be a miniature military ‘raining camp. Young men should bo taught military tactics and trained In the manual of arms as thoroughly as they are drilled in the arts, sciences and classics. No able-bodied young man should be permitted to graduate from a high school, college or university until le is capable of stepping into tl. _ ranks as an efficient soldier. Not as a matter of arousing a military spirit.bat as a matter of practical defensive pa - riotism. Your neighbor may loudly "reclaim his love for his family, but if he is u, - able or unwilling to protect them when danger threatens you are forced to conclude that his love is a very weak article. Just so with a love of country. It must have a Punch behind it. The only way to put the punch in‘o the man is to train it there in the boy. and the logical time is right aloi g with his other training. There is always a better way, but there are so many crooks and turns one often gets off the path. There is one sure way to make a success of anything you undertake. Simply go ahead and make it. ■■i——I——— Good Lumber — = at -—-- - Lowest Prices KEYSTONE LUMBER CO. \ ards at Loup City, Asliton. 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