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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1896)
TELL you, ladles,” declared handsome and cynical Wilton Robeley, the artist, “a fortune teller showed me the Im age of my wife two years before I ever saw her In the flesh and thousands of miles from the place I first mst her." j "You are the last man hi the world llbioae mind I would think obscured by the clouds of mysticism,” replied the rich Mrs. Austyn, his friend and patron. "You have never shown any patience with the charlatans who pre tended to expose and expound the se crets that a wise Providence has or dained we should not fathom. And yet you are taxing our credulity with a statement that would be marvelous. If true." "I must Insist upon my veracity In this Instance,” smiled the artist, gfe.1 "Now, don't stop to argue, mamma,” is; urged file elder of the Austyn girls. "There Is a story In this, and after Mr. * Robeley has told It you can reclaim him from the darkness of bis supersti tions and air your theories. Now do tell us all about Itf and three pretty slaters sighed their curiosity In chorus. "Just so you don't ask me to ex n,” said the artist with a quizzical "I shall give you the remarkable and leave you to wrestle with Bight years ago I was In Paris, my studies, and lived the life Bohemian from choice rather than necessity. We fellows held the of life very lightly and all human phenomena that not yield to the lest of materlal I was chief among the scoffers, found bare-faced fraud In every thing from clairvoyancy to the pierc ing of the future through the medium ot tea grounds. “Then aa now I occasionally broke tlrely away from my usual surround was one day sauntering alone Rue de Bougca. As I passed of the most pretentious houses I by a scream for help and through the open doorway to woman battling with flames that great leaps and flashes were con the white draperies of what ck me as a consecrated altar out Our combined efforts soon the Incipient conflagration, the woman anointed my hands with soothing lotion I saw that she as dark as a gypsy. Her hair rip back from her forehead in waves black, her eyes were brilliant the same deep coloring, and her even teeth suggested polished . She was an amazon In size, yet sweeping curves of beauty were as to fascinate the artist while motions were as supple and grace as those of a tiger. 'You are a gentleman, and there is : i but one way In which I can offer re turn for your services,’ she said as I ill , I 1 WOMAN BATTLING WITH THE FLAMES. IjlljiSiurned to leave. Her voice was soft 4 HI*8 the note3 °* a ,ute ani* her accent 4 i?Fave unsuspected charms to my mother ' ifetongue. ’I was born of royal blood In E India. Through study of the sacred pVedas and the pure doctrine of Karma • 1 attained the power of divination. L’Your people would classify tne among ft fortune tellers; but 1 am poles apart from the vulgar humbugs that trade upon Ignorance and superstition. L Promise you will come to-morrow, for Rjk I upset by th,B Occident. Then I MR will be 1)Oth your historian and your ■ i prophet. 1 shall count on you, tn'seur.’ K “Though I mentally sneered at the ; woman's pretensions and lay awake f half the night assuring myself that 1 Hr w^jji.i never seek her out, I was at ) ft her door ten mlnutea before the ap* Bjyt pointed time next day. She had either r' assumed her professional ulr or was I Under the spell of her supernatural JBk uuatnments. I will not describe the HKittOUcr Temple of Mysteries' to which conducted me hilt In the weird ct of Ita hangings, mtrrora, grates jg Rgue carvings and mythical symbols u ftHftghalh-ngrd ihe most hardened skeptl ft fteism Throwing the while light of a ■ gold- n lamp upon my face with a po* Vv I orful reflector she generalised upon tuy 4 ft past life as any shrewd judge of hu & ft Man nature might do Then suddenly ft:, Ikuttuug her brows Slid leaning closer Bf- Klh* •lowly Spelled out Mai via Arnold K; F “ That Is the name of the gtrl you gift, *111 marry, she announced IU a dreamy P ft voire, and there you see her.' K 'Wtth that the lights faded to the ft ft dtmnewa cf deep 'twllght end there m I (allowed the darkness of a dungeon 4 1 ©pp*>*lt* me as If In life was the tm ggft hd* of the sweet and beautiful woman 44 iron** snow as Mrs ttobelry Never be ft fuf* had I been dominated by Ihe len ft tly|t iumIsii but there I was fathoms ftfr»P In love with whal might hat* H been an enchanting illusion or a *u BKperb painting Hu deeply was I lm M^Eprotc l that after -at log In • be wild WSm Situ. Ui of doubt I •kslrhed Ihe magitl M gcsut creature s» Indsllkli Impreseed | yftoA ■) vnor >, “Blgklewn months later I teas in ; PMlhern t'alifnrntt enjoying ihe me.li j final % trtuee nf Ihe climate, and hn** * teg wkjertr in mm af tea delightful ft See nary One morning I had my eaael I at the edge of a wooded precipice over looking a charming spread of land scape. The velvet carpeting of grass and moss had failed to warn me of approaching footsteps, and when I turned it was the startled movement caused by a half-suppressed scream. There were two ladles, the elder anxi ously supporting the younger, whose faoe was blanched and whose eyes were fastened upon me as though 1 were a terrifying apparition. It was the girl the Indian sorceress had shown me In Paris; but what did she know of me? As she sank down under the weight of her emotions I hastened <o a near by spring fcr water, and when I re turned her eyes were upon me In that Rame fixed and troubled look. " 'What can b# the matter, daugh ter? You have always been so strong and so vigorous.' "'la your name Henry Morton?* asked the younger of me, without heed ing the mother's question. " 'It Is Wilton Robeley,' I responded quietly. At that Instant It flashed up on me that In a desire to conceal my Identity J had given the name of Henry Morton to the fortune teller. Then with the Inspiration of an anxious lover I added: ‘Hut I have a cousin of that name who bear* a striking re semblance to me.’ "My Immediate reward was a revival of strength and spirits on the part of the young lady. The mother Intro ouceq nerseir ns Mrs. wusen, ner daughter as Mies Gllsen, and then said: ‘Lucy, we had best get back to the hotel.' ‘"Lucy Gllsenr and yet It was her presence that had been conjured up as my bride to be. Hhe was the girl of my sketch and my dreams. The next day 1 called at the hotel to Inquire after her. I called often. We walked, drove, painted and boated together. I came to know through the Intuition of love that, she was not Indifferent to me. One evening as we drifted lazily through the water lilies she handed me a sketch of myself and asked: 'Is that a picture of Henry Morton?’ " 'It’s perfect,’ I answered though dumfounded. A shadow of anger cross ed her face, and she was about to tear the picture to pieces when I caught her hands and suddenly showed the reproduction of herself that I had made In Paris. It was her turn to be sur prised, and when I told her of my ex perience at the fortune teller’s on Rue de Rouges, giving her the date, she quickly exclaimed: “ 'Why, I was there with Marcia Ar nold. Mamma and I did Europe that reason, and we two girts visited that Indian princess just for a lark. That was where I saw Henry Morton, whom I was told fate had decreed as my fu ture husband.’ "Before we rowed home It was all explained, and the sequel of our strange experience was a happy mar riage. The dusky prophetess who had confused the name of the two girls was a cultivated fraud. It wag all a trick of the mirrors, ladles." Heliotrope l>rlonr. A delicate odor, heliotrope, Is ob tained in small quantities from the he liotrope hedges of the Riviera by the process of maceration—a quantity of very pure lard being placed In a cop per vessel with the flowers and melted over a slow Are. The flowers are then strained away, a process repeated till the fat Is sufficiently flower scented, when the liquid fat Is poured through a sieve, and the greasy flower paste subjected to hydraulic pressure. Since heliotrope blossoms must be used as soon aa they are gathered, and the melted grease carefully kept at the low est temperature that will maintain it In the liquid state, the perfumer ac cepts as a substitute hellotroplne, the white light crystalline powder obtained from the ground pepper. Even If these difficulties of manufacture were avoid ed by the nyrogene or enfleurage sys tem, pure heliotrope essence could nev er become a popular perfume. Heat In jures it. The direct action of sunlight destroys it. Artifice replaces It with a mixture of the spirituous extracts of vanilla, ambergris, rose and orange flower, to which are added a few drops of essential oil of almonds.—Chambers’ Journal. A roll*!* Girl. Tow She was a college girl of lofty ideas and superior attainments, such as col lege girls h-ve In their early (lays. When she left her family to rest In the njpuniain* for awhile, she said haugh tily: "No; I'll not take an evening gown And please don't put any of that paper (AVAPtuI lllos* upa inlit ni v triinli I have tonre philosophy to read and I don't intend lo mix with the hotel people. Nature, my work and serge frocks are enough for me." Then she departed. At the end of four daya her mother waa atartled by a telegram. It read; "Mend two party frocks a hammock and aome reliable face powder at once." Mo easily are lore of nature and luxe ef labor overcome. Exchange. * uaosiss "The voire of Ihe people," nut the man who woa aching to talh about the -'eating election "the voice of the peo ple la the voice of IM " "Hate?" said tha maa he had cor ns red "Reg pardonr* ■ Mats • eald, r a-l-a. rats, luat wall uatU you have hee* compelled la de ride a how* player aui ai third a few t.mea aad thea you will haow hue much lea Ihe eaiee of the people veto Yea," - t'laelaaalt Naguirer ltes|»tlO rssrain* llwjach U Hoag i'heag alwaye •arrtse hie roSa with htm whea ha navels. Ttsmdth What did you ear wae tha •tame at tha umpire?' New Keck World. THE FIRST ON JRECORD SHE FIRST PERSON TO RECOV ER FROM HYUrO.’HOBIA. Dnrtnrt I>on't Know Flint to Molt* of ch* Case, •« Htrowry Fm Connlilarod linpuaslbl*—Conned by tbo lilt# of o Xlod lot. MAN has had hyd rophobia, that aw ful disease which doctors say Is abso lutely Incurable, and lives to tt>ll about It—the first Instance ever known. He Is Abraham flchlesenger, a well known business mr.n of 8t. I,ouls, who was attacked by the malady while on a visit to his brother end slsttr at liock Arbor, N. J. Mr. Rchletenger, who Is a tall,well built mini of forty-stx, waa bitten one nlgbt last October by a sick cat. The wound healed quickly and nothing was thought of It further. Mr. flchlpsengi r '•ontlnued In good health until about three weeks ago, whin ho complained of n headache and a nausea about the stomach. The next day he felt no bel ter, but declared ho was not slek enough to need a physician, and so none was called. Ily the afternoon of the following day he began to feel a shooting pain from the tip of his right forefinger up his arm and Into his head. In debating on his strange symptoms his sister, I.x>ulae, thoughtfully remarked: "If It wasn't that that cat hit you In the left forefinger, Abe, I would lie In clined to think—" * Hhe did not complete the sentence uloud, but It continued In her thoughts tut she suddenly recalled that the cat had not bitten him In the left forefinger but In the right. Hhe was fearful of calling his attention to the fact. At llto si - a m it llmo It ImnrnuilPfl hl>r Hfl strongly that she sent for I)r. A. B. Kahns, the nearest physician. Dr. Kohns <II<1 not think It could be hydro phobia after such a long lapse of time. He could not diagnose the illness blood poisoning, as the outward symp toms were not apparent. Nor did the complaint of Mr. Schlesenger suggest such a diagnosis. He concluded by giv tho Invalid treatment for bis stomach and nerves, as the athletic patient ridi culed the suggestion that anything else might be the cause of the trouble. The remedies had no effect further than to stimulate Mr. Schlesenger’s nerves, and he was able to come to the supper table that night. He evinced no appe tite, however, only remarking that he would like a glass of fresh well water. His sister Louise arose and procured It for him. When the glass had set a moment beside his plate, he leisurely raised It toward his lips. Then sud denly set It down without tasting IL At the same time It was noticed that he shivered and contracted his throat, trying to swallow an imaginary mouth ful. "I guess I don’t want a drink," he simply said. An hour afterward Mr. Schlesenger grew worse. Shooting pains com menced to croee his head with increas ing activity. His brother and sister, seeing these ominous signs, could no longer refrain from comment, but their suggestions of hydrophobia only anger ed him. He declared it was neuralgia. He was force! to retire to his bed, how evt-r. and the ''o. tor v.a<i again called. At tO o'clo .i Mr. Schlcsenger's frame suddenly grew rigid. His features con tracted and his eyes stared wildly, bulging from their sockets. His arms am1 shoulders bent backward and his chest was considerably raised above normal. His veins and powerful mus cles were s’rongly outlined on his skin. There could no longer be a doubt of the natuyj of tbe dls«i°e ;yjd t^e doc tor declared it to be n>(Jropho\>la. He did not tell the patient his real thoughts, however. Schlesenger wns told that It was a severe case of neu ralgia and that It would cease at a cer tain hour that night. After that tbe patient grew easier. At the appointed hour he had grown entirely well. The cure is entirely attributed to will power. Tli« IMirourlPoui. "If there Is anything that I covet," ;a!d Mr. Splrklew' wife, "It Is a good voice. 1 know that It Is very wrong to be envious but I can't help It when I hear another woman singing." And sa Mr. ttplckle* is a notoriously mean nun nooody was surprised to bear him reply; "That W perfectly natural. If yon could sing you'd be sitting up there with the choir, where you could see what every woman In nhureh had on wr thout turning your head."—Wash ington Star. M ea ('holly Iteaily, do you thlhh Ade laide cares for me* Mildred Yea, she vsya aha preftrw your company to that of aay geoHemaa ah* knows harawaa It requires suah a email menu) effort to H.ud root era vt loo with you t’leva land Plata I'ester Me* I JeM “Aunt HIvtry Mebhe never gut up •ruai that reumatta apell »q" “Nsa, some folhs *ua I never gtt •idea bed ■ long other folks keep a feuhia lea cream to eat." Kavhaaffm -1-h.u-run-,: iryrmmo | t'euatri Marker laffakly to total rirangeri Very tiyth' weather Ihle, air Male# you Isel aa If ywu d like your tody m a paud an' your 'aad th a I public suae! I’ve a Punch WILD STEERS WRECK A BICYCLE. Raaak tattle Gift • Wyoming Doctor n Llttly Race. Men who are posted In the ways of western range cattle, and especially those of the Texas breed, know It la extremely hazardous to approach them on foot or In any unusual manner. Mounted cowboys ride through and around herds without trouble because the animals are accustomed to seeing men on horseback, but the appearance within close range of any strange ob ject arouses their curiosity and Ire. Pedestrians are a rarity on cattle ranches; likewise bicycles. Dr. A. H. Hamilton of IcSramle, Wyo., should have known better than to try to cross the range near a big bunch of steers on his bicycle, but It seems be didn't, and now the doctor Is laid up with a broken shoulder blade, his hair it blanched by fright and his new $100 wheel Is mined beyond repair. The doctor had occasion to visit u pa tient on the Little Laramie river and was within four miles of Laramie town on his way home when he ran Into n herd of Texano, It was probably the first wheelman the cattle hnd ever seen, for they pawed the ground and snorted viciously for a moment and then made a concerted churge for the doctor, who, realizing his danger, pedaled away (it the top of tils speed In an effort to es cape. There are few living things except, a race horse of high class that can out run a Texas range steer when once In full motion. Dr. Hamilton made a brave race, but the cattle gained on him at every jump and ne rouid reel tne nor breath of the leaders almost at hla side before he had covered half a mile. Jiut aa he thought one particularly vicious looking beast was about to pick him off with his horns the wheel struck a hum mock and the doctor took a header which landed him safe In a buffalo wal low, where he lay quiet while the cattle Jumped over him. The steers were un der such headway they couldn't atop, and besides It Isn’t the nature of west ern steers to stop when they have once started on a stampede until they drop from exhaustion. The bicycle did not escape. It lay directly In the path of the maddened animals and was crushed Into a worth* less wreck. UKonrli»r» on Taxation. Henry Labouchere Is always Interest ing If not original. Here Is his Idea of a sound system of taxation: Every one ought to be allowed to accumulate during his lifetime whnt be pleases, but when he dies .here ought to be a maximum that be may leave to relations or friends, all In ex cess of this maximum going to the state. Take, for Instance, Mr. Astor, It Is said that be possesses about fifty million pounda sterling. Evidently he cannot spend tho interest of this amount. In a given number of years, therefore, If this money from genera tion to generation remains In the hands of dne single Individual, It will become 500 million pounda sterling Neither the Individual nor the commu nity will benefit by this. Therefore, I would meet It by handing Into the pub lic treasury most of Mr. Astor's fifty million pounds sterling on his death. How would this harm him? He would have ceased to exist. If the state took 99 per cent of hts money on his death he would still have one-half million pounds sterling to dispose of and on this aum hla heirs or heir might rub on very comroriauty. Cycling nn<l Somtrok*. Cyclers seem to posi.et*» lu a large measure immunity from sunstroke. There was one prostration Saturday In the big cyclers’ parade In Cincin nati, but It is an exception that serves mly to prove the rule. And the rea sons for such Immunity are not hard lo And. Habitual wheeling tones up the system, brings out the perspira tion, produces what Is equivalent to a ■ yiTvstacJ breeze, and ns exeriion under ‘such conditions f*suits In Increase 1 evaporation from the surface of the biker's body, he sheds the hot rays of the sun as the oiled feathers of water fowl turn aside the pattering shots of Tkin.—Louisville Tlmrs. NQJfcftQW DAY. It has been found that nearly"«fi the rivers in wen Africa, within 1.000 mile# east and west of Ashsntoe, yield gold. A doctor says that half the deafness prevalent at the prevent time Is proba bly the result of children having their rare boxed. I'latlnum wires have been drawn ao fine that two of them twisted together could be Inserted In the hollow of a hi'niun hair. At the beginning of the century the population of Lsadoa increased yearly JO per real, II lacreased only 10 per cent from tut lo MPI. and auw the in crease i* still teoa. The must curiously made soap la use la that supplied to the eiatloaa of the Loadoa and Northwestern Hallway Company, which hi made from the tat aa grease washed out uf their m-at cloths. At uae of the university unions an orator doctored that the Hritish 1 on • aether it to roaming the deserts t>. India or climbing the fereots of Cane da will not draw la its horn* or nui into Ue eheti '• la a coroner s jury empaneled lo London the other <iey them oe«o It Smiths. mm Joses and mm Mruua 1» complete the epcU It te only heceavaty to mention that the deceaseds nerne was MuMaeoa It la s rartoM and sea Udvt.ag v.r <*umetes.e that ta a aorld sat ta an age where progteee te eae al the tews ef eautteaea the vhslta vhoatl he today aa te farm and art Mveattal details ti astly what la an# terns M yoote ago Woman's I-anglt. A woman has no natural grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water. It leaps from her heart in a clear, sparkling rill, and the heart that hears it feela as if bathed in a cool, exhilar ating spring. Have you ever pursued an unseen fugitive through the trees, led on by her fairy laugh; now here, now there — now lost, now found? Home of us have and are atilt pursuing that wandering voice. It may come to na In the mldat of care and sorrow, or irksome buslneaa, and then we turn away and listen, and hear it ringing through the room like a silver bell, with power to scare away the evil spirits of the mind. How much we owe to that sweet laugh. It turns tha prose of onr life Into poetry; It flings flowers of sunshine over our darksome wood in which w# are traveling; It touches with lightevenoursleep, which Is no more the Image of death, but gemmed with dreams that are the shadows of Immortality.—Vogue. J’lso » Cure for Consumption has been a family medicine with us since 1H06.—J. R. Madison, 'U0W 4iid Av# , Chicago, Ills. Little Heel Sympathy Among Africans. The sick man's brother is with us also, and although a good worker, is absolutely indifferent to his brother's illness. There is no sympathy for an other's pains in the soul of the African. When a chief dies there is a lot of bel lowing and assumed grief; the tears ———i— Four eggs five cups of flrir, two cups of honey, one cup of butter, on* cup of sweet milk, two tesspoonfuls at cream of tartar, one teaspoonfn) of soda, one pound of raisins one pound of currants half a pound of citron, ass teaspoonful of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Hake in a slow oven.—Sfp tember Ladies' Home Journal. i » »rf u-i vinous ^ Sarsaparilla Sense. SAny sarsaparilla It sarsapa rilla. True. So any tea Is tea. ( So any flour is flour. Ilut grade* ' differ, You want the best. i.’» i so with sarsaparilla. There are i grades. You want the best. If well as you do tea and dour it i would be easy to determine. , Hut you don't. How should 1 you ? When you arc going to | buy a commodity whose value > 1 you don’t know, you pick oat 1 an old established house to l trade with, and trust their ex perience ami reputation. Do so when buying sarsaparilla. Ayer's Sarsaparilla has !>e«s 1 | on the market jo years. Yoor 1 grandfather used Ayer's. It fc ' ! a reputable medicine. Them are many Bareaparlllaa— ( 1 ( but only one Ayer’e. It cures. ’ - --— -T~rm nre uot real, out oniy pun oi mo cere mony attending death. Upon the death of a young child the mother doc* actually feel grief most keenly, and la for mine days inconsolable, refuses meat and drink, rolls on the ground, teare her hair, and lacerates herself in her despair. - September Century. Hall's Catarrh Cars la taken in tcrnally. l’rice, 75c. Old-rashlonsri Apple IMs. Fill a deep, yellow pie-dish with pared apples sliced very thin; then cover with a substantial crust and bake; when browned to a turn, slip a knife around the Inner edge, take off the cov er and turn bottom upward on a plate; then add a generous supply of sugar, cinnamon and cloves to the apples; mash all together and apread on the inserted crust. After grating nutmeg over it the dish is served cold with eream.—Ladies’ Home Journal. B /A Good Foundation.” * jj 1IPMT' r pluow 5 Lay your foundation with fl “ Battle _ Ax*” It is the comer 9 gtffne of economy* It is the one 5 tobacco that is both BIG and B GOOD* There is no better. There B is no other 5-cent plug as large* 9 Try it and see for yourself* —.... 1 ■' ... .■ B[)ne Cup )ne Cent a cent in fact — and all Coco* — a — no chemicals. — That describe* tker & Co.’s Breakfast Cocoa. BAktiN * CO., !Um. I
