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A rnuntH Dies From Fating Fungus. l-'rom London Daily News. The Countess Riccardi died on Sun day. having “fallen in a rigo;’’ on par taking of fungus, and never showing the slightest sign of consciousness dur ing the forty-eight hours that she con tinued to breathe, although her teeth were broken to feed her, and great force was otherwise applied to open her locked jaws No quiver of an eye lid gave proof of the sensation. The children of the family were pronounced out of danger on Sunday. The fungus cooked by mistake for mushrooms was of the most deadly sort that grows. A Tenacious notch Is that of dyspepsia. Kew remedies do mew than pal Irate this obstinate complaint. Trj Hostetlers Stomach Hitters, however, sut you will find that It Is conquerable, alonp with Its symptoms, heartburn, flatulence nervousness and loss of flesh and vigor Biliousness and constipation frequently ac company It. These, beside* malarial, rheu matic and kidney complaints,*arc also sub <1 uahle with the Hitters. One of the serials which St Nicholas will publish during the coming year has an unusually unique plot It is a tale of three Union soldiers, members of a signal corps, who got news that / the entire Union army hassurrendered, whereupon they decide to hold out to the end. They cut a bridge across a gorge and become soldier-Crusoes, ex iled from civi’i/.ation, und for many months they believe themselves to be the only loyal Union soldiers who have not been obliged to surrender. The author, William II. Sheldon, is a sol dier and artist as well as a writer. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoko Your Lifo Awij. If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, regain lost manhood, tie made well, strong, magnetic, lull of new life ami vigor, take No-To-Hae, the wonder worker that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten iiouud* in ten days. Over 400,Out) cured. Huy No-To-Ha • from vour druggist, who will guarantee a cure. Booklet and sample mu I ed tree. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chi cago or New York. Mr. Duncan Roar, the son of a <on (k'lerate officer, will contribute a brief iMiper to the November Century on ••Why the Confederacy Tailed.” He believes that the failure was due to three things; the excessive issue of pa per money; the policy of dispersion, the frontiers of the Confederacy being extended for many thousands of miles; and the neglect of the cavalry. Coe’s Cough Uolsam In t he nl.li'M anil braL It will bmu up a < 'ole Quick, ertbon anything else. It Is always reliable. Try IU lluln Wrought hy the Wheel. ‘•Bicycle hurts your business, too, 1 suppose?” asked the man who wanted to be funny. •'Not the bicycle, itself,” answered the living skeleton, ‘‘but some of those bloomer girls is puttin' up exhibitions that has led the public to get the idea that 1 ain't so much of u freak as they used to think.”—Cincinnati Kmjuirer. .Inst try a 10c box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. McClure’s Magazine for November will contain the first installment of a five or six part story by Kudyard Kip ling. It is Kipling’s first long story of American life, being a tale of stirring adventure among the Gloucester fish ermen on the Grand Banka It will be illustrated with drawings from life by I. W. Taber. Mrs. Win alow* i Soothing Syrup For children tom limy. softana thegums. rmturra inflaui •nation, allaja pain, coraa wind colic. 2D cant a a bottle. Almost every married woman is abused by her relatives because she don't show more “spunk.” Home people isn't be pleasant without being oily. The papers are full of deaths from Heart Failure Minium i 'lllllll '-'i touiK j • the heart fails to act | » when a man dies, ♦ • but “ Heart Failure," so called, nine 2 2 times out of ten is caused by Uric 2 • Acid in the blood which the Kidneys S • fail to remove, and which corrodes • { the heart until it becomes unable to • 2 perform its functions. J 2 Health Officers In many cities very * 2 properly refuse to accept “ Heart Fail- J ] | un," as a cause of death. It Is Ik- | ! qucntly a sign of ignorance in the 2 i physician, or may be given to cover • ; up the real cause. j | A Medicine with 20 Years of * . . Success behind it . . will remove the poisonous Uric Acid | by putting the Kidneys in a healthy • condition so that they will naturally | eliminate it. * SMSSSSSSSSSSsrSMseereerreeeerMS PATENTS, TRADE MARKS Nlin—IMI t at I > * •# l» VMsMtoMi IfcMhil Idf *t U*9 •« • rMMi • Ul4MiU4«(>« I» V. AW M AW "ft *** < *** wftsuiv I P M H f MnUidh la at It ST All TREESs'i^V. 1 A / A f} 1/ Wsso* lA/llK IV miimmw iuiiIh vhim ■ • Mk«4 H*’ . H Ui OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS Mm *• Ml Mm4 •* mmm ll*f IMHAdUO If., llUk PHKSH 0YSTKR3 PATENTS ftw tn**««i*'.> , to 4.. w . a *.» itt* fllllli aht««y •« mm> •rlOTI '«c t> a • •■hiii ••tit,# u W A V.tilUHl-U iMd Wh*s* writing to *4<wimms hmtlijf NWftlMMi (ktt |M4|MNr MY TEMPTATION. By Mrs. Bland B. Huddleston. H E fearful war times so changed the quiet, unfet tered life of our southern town that even little tots like myself went about wondering and questioning. Food and raiment gave me no concern—I was somehow pro vided for, and I had forgotten the sight and taste of luxuries before I grow old enough to dlucrlralnate between the old days of plenty and our later poverty. It was my unreplenlshed store of play things that most troubled me; It dimin ished gradually, day by day, and there was no visible source of a new supply. At my seventh birthday 1 would have given a fortune, had I boasted one, for a knife, and 1 hud never owned one. In fishing, In shooting, In countless emergencies, my one crying need was for a knife. Zeke, one of the negroes, gloated over the pomtosslon of u broken case-knife, ground sharp and pointed, and this I sometimes succeeded In bor rowing; but Zeke handled it lovingly and guarded it with a vigilant eye, so that I dared take no liberties with It. To Insure a continuance of his favors I always adhered strictly to the terms of the loan and never cut a ramrod beyond the stinulatcd number. Peace came at last and brought borne tny father, and two of the three broth ers who had gone to the war, and for a tltno 1 was fully satisfied. Soon the stores were filled with bright and pret ty things, but they were coatly and we were now poor. Thus I came to be 11 years old. with the same hunger still keen In my heart. No later happiness has ever surpassed that of the eventful day when my heart's desire came to me. and my father laid In my palm the prettiest knife I had ever seen. When next I went to school I had advanced much in my own esteem; I had my brand new knife In one pocket, nine true and tried marbles In the other and in my book sack a long elder pop-gun for shooting china-berries or hog-haws. From time Immemorial the pop-gun has been the favorite summer toy of the southern boy. and no commercial ammunition could be invented to sup ply that weapon so fittingly and so effi caciously as the berry of the china tree, everywhere so plentiful here. I was expert at making and using the weapon. Given a human target. I could Insure a blister for every berry. Alas. I soon discovered that the heart of even a boy Is rarely satisfied. Joe Cooper, a boy four years older than myself, had come by five large marbles; they were rlngmen—two "buck-eyes" and three "stripes,” and they appealed powerfully to my covetous little soul. The luster of my nine tried old friends paled beside them- their glory had de parted forever. "Joe,” 1 said, persuasively, as we sauntered along together, “what will you take for ’em?" ’’What’ll you give?" Joe answered. I named all my most cherished pos m I SUKE I HAD KILLED HIM. sessions in succession, but Jot would hear to nothing but my knife. That, however, was out of the question, so we could not trade. Mr, VVyndham, our teacher, was a mild-mannered man, but severe to cru elty If persistently crossed. He v as low In stature, had a round beardl-'ss face and was about 40 v»>ars old. We boys both loved and feared him, so Ills reign had been an uneventful one. As for myself, he had never spoken a harsh word to me. I say this to show that I had not even a secret grudge to avenge, when my cupidity led me to assist In an Intrigue against hla dignity. The languorous air ami the fervl.l tain make dull work of the southern school room during the summer months, but happily the teacher la lenient. Thus it Is that Mr. Wyndham permitted boys of Joe Cooper's age to alt outside under the wnter-onka to study, and the younger ones were al lowed to go at ridiculously short In tervais to the spring for cool aster or to bathe their soiled and sleepy faces. Houhtleea he sympathised .nor* heartily tkaa we knew I waa Mustering down the spring path, digging my bars toes >stn the hr** Mad sad watching tbs count less bl.i'k sals that swsrrn everywhere, when Joe me* me “Un you still went the marbles*' he ashed. J* I*** I ebewered eagerly, • I g give snything tor them anything hot »• knife" “You .an get tktnt far nothing, he Mid "If yon II de ate a favor ’ Joe was not a bandana** fellow at bee*. and lost now hla fee w«s ntil .tone He had ton afoot nf wrote aneg In his larnom. and had been made to star in Taka ywnr pep goa. h* cnnlmoed, and p'og 'Old Windy in iha hnsk af the neck nllh (he graenesl lardset berry yew ve get and ike tingwtan ate ynttfn. My Jaw dropped and I gazed at Joo I in utter stupefac'ioo. To my mind the | proposed assault would almost bo 1 equivalent to murder, for I was not wantonly mischievous, and Mr. Wynd ham was the man 1 loved next to my I father. Besides. 1 wat not able to asso j elate him In my mind with the idea of | indignity, and so I had the grace to j reject Joe's offer, but not so firmly or so scornfully as I ought, perhaps. Joe evidently had in him the ele ments of the politician, as he afterward showed: he bided his time, yet failed not to keep his project before me, by taking out, as often as be met me. the coveted treasures from his pocket and tantalizing me with brief glimpse* of what might be mine. He who hesitates is lost, and I fell. As time passed my refusals became less vehement, and at last I found myself thinking that I would be willing to bear any punishment that Mr. Wynd ham might inflict, If he left me with my life and the marbles. Since that hour I have been able to comprehend the love of savages for trinkets, and their sacrifice* to obtain them. In the longest, hottest days Mr. Wyndham often sat in the doorway, on the side of the schoolroom that chanced to be the cooler. As Joe and I came up from the spring he was rest ing his head wearily against the door frame, while the children drooped over their books; It was a village school, and thirty years ago—things have changed since then. "Now for It," Joe whispered, "flunk him quick," and his hand slipped Into his pocket. I tiptoed to where my popgun lay in a crack In the wall and took good aim. />l|1. WCIH lilt' imir i/t i » j its mark. Then more things happened than I had foreseen, but not the expected. The Impact of a well-thrown berry on a nerve-centre Is calculated to smart, worse and to startle one more than the uninitiated might, suppose. Besides, the country was passing through a law less stage of reconstruction, and unpro voked crimes were not uncommon. Mr. Wyndham Jumped up, startled by thoughts of a cowardly attack front he knew not whom, and, Infuriated by the pain of my slinging little missile, he lost, his balance and fell heavily on a Jagged corner of the doorstep, where he lay so long that the incipient titter from the school room wound up In a cry of terror. Blood streamed from a cut In his cheek; I was sure that I had killed him. With all an assassin's Instincts for escape, I turned and fled. By and by, as 1 crouched in a thicket, conscience stricken and too miserable for tears, I heard my name called In the voice that I always instinctively obeyed. Mr. Wyndham was not dead! When I crept out, visions of shame and punishment rose before me, but I cared not what might come, now that my friend had not perished at my hand. In the silence of the deserted school room I poured out the whole story. Perhaps Mr. Wyndham remembered some childish treasure that he had craved and failed to get, or It may be that he himself played pranks with the popgun berry; anyway, I went home comforted. Joe was closeted with Mr. Wyndham a long while the next day. I believe he played the "Joke act," and pretended to have Intended no harm; neverthe less, he was severely reprimanded. He was utterly crushed when Mr. Wynd ham made him turn the marbles over to me. from which it was evident that he had not intended to keep his contract. He might have kept them and welcome, for they had lost their attractiveness for me. A New IHhcmh* There is a new disease not down in the catalogue of the latest medical ex perts, says the Syracuse Post. Street railway conductors are the persons af fected. As far as can he learned, about a half-dozen employes of the Syracuse street railroad company have lately been afflicted more or less with a swell ing of the eyes, accompanied by partial blindness. The conductors In question, without exception, stuck to their work, hut one of them was forced to undergo medical treatment. Hr had observed front time to time that his hands grew Mark from contact with the brass rail ing of the car when h« Jumped on and j off. In windy weather he had to wipe I his eyes more or less to brush away j ihe moisture. These two (hinge he only observed after he was well along in lhe stage of the eye trouble. He consulted a physician and was treated , tor luetalllc poisoning, Anally teeovei | mg without difficulty. Then he came j io the ioneliieioii that the contact with 1 the tailing was responsible for the I trouble Mince that time he haa worn K‘t yes and has not rxprneuced the <!V * i ase Hut those condtp tore who do not j know his experience may yet suffer This man was afflicted for four weeks. Miitornien are not troubled with ih« disease as they wear glovea • Minins frown fins I atwrnn The instinct of Ihs plain people has leva tight In net calling our orieual .miter "Lee far acting out his name aa popularly pronounced this wily diplomat has In KagUnd ns well as lure, required Kagllah la he treat!*ted ta him whereas It aav appears that to* years past he hee spoil• a It fluent I) This t'hlnea* desire of a u#*JI ss interpreter Is a get* v uup one I* | sain time fur gutag answers witheui ) taws tag the 4eta> la he nutiewl. the mandarin haa the time lahaa in Iran* Ultwa fur reflection and. If farther re gentian la desired ambiguity in Inter pret alien mat he pretended and a ,r*w farm af the qweailan required And j yum men led m ihnl nethiag < aa he ! learned from Ihe t’hlneee Time ynd the llotur A aiUer seal waa captured at lh*««< I M ||, the at her day THE OTTER AND HIS PREY. How a KaMilt \Va« |>row»»««l and Than Eat aw. "I may claim some right." said Mr. M. It. Frances, in the I^mdon Fishing Curette, "to speak confidently of the otter's proceedings when in pursuit of his prey, since I was the first person to record, from the testimony of intel ligent eyewitnesses, the course of his dealing with his victims, noth by land and by water. It is unlucky that MaJ. Fisher, who writes on such sujtjeeta with the keen Interests of a sportsman, should not have seen this testimony, which would have saved him the gra tuitous error of denying that the otter seeks his prey on land as well ns in water. No doubt this error has ueen encouraged by the position of Lutra'a eyes, which look upward from above u rather fiat snout. NnturallstB at once inferred that this arrangement was for the convenience of the otter In seizing his slippery victims 'rom below. This belly; demonstrably a mistake, we are tempted to suggest that this upward gaze enables him In Ills long dives to keep In view the course of the eddies and the outline of the hank matters which closely concern him. Hut, of course, this Is mete conjecture. We know, however, that, whether on land or in water, he seizes his prey from above. Infixing In almost half a moment his four clawa and Inflicting with eager haste what Is designed to be a fatal bite. When he wnn wmnirii wiiuu nriAiun the hank of the Mole he seemed not to have bitten deep enough and dragged his victim, piteously squealing, Into the river, where he deliberately drown efl It and then ate It at hls leisure, washing (he flesh from time to lime, so as to suggest that the warm blood was over-strong foy hls digestion. The observer on this occasion, whose atten tion was first drawn by the cries of the rabbit, was fortunately himself a mas ter of otter hounds, usod to watching the stealthily maneuvers of the enemy. He had with him a sharp fox terrier, and though on the opposite side of the stream to that on which the otter vus (lining rather expected the latter to make himself scarce when the dog ap peared. Hut the marauder showed amusing coolness; he dropped Into the stream, raised hls head above the wa ter a few yards from the bank and watched the terrier's proceedings. Hav ing satisfied himself that tho dog had no taste for anything beyond dry shi kar, he returned tranquilly to hls din ner. Here we had a depredator bold as well ns running and obviously a clean feeder. Of course 1 do not as sume that the otter usually, or even frequently seeks hls prey on land. I am content to know that he is capable of doing so 'as occasion serves,' and that In such a case, at all events, he does not seize hls victim from below. "About the same date at which this curious rabbit Incident was reported to me I received from the same neigh borhood nn account, equally well au thenticated, of the otter's modus oper and! when In pursuit of the fish, which, we may safely assume, form hls prin cipal diet. A pike guessed at some seven pounds, was seen basking under an overhanging tree on the Mole. Near ly above him ran a bare bough. Along that bough an otter was seen to ereep —1 wish I could find some apter word to express the prowler’s stealthy, sin uous movement—till he was Jlose above the pike, down on whose back he dropped or slid, at once fastening ell hU claws In the fish, and, ns I fully believe, though the spectator's eye could not note the movement with (er talnty, fixing the long grip of hls Jaws just over the Junction of hls skull und spine." “I shall never marry," declared Miss Elderly In a lone meant to he firm. "Don't say that," answered her best friend, Florence. "Women older than you have had proposals." THE WHEEL. Mrs, Langtry has had her bicycle enameled In turquoise and fawn, her racing colors. If a new saddle proves too stiff for comfort, rub a few drops of oil on the underneath surface, and It will soon "set" to the rider. Tests are being made In ltidlnnH|M)lls to determine whether the creosote in wooden pa*finents Is lujtirluua to the tlres of bicycles brought tn cuti'act therewith. Hump up your tires Judiciously. Hei tor have them too hard than too soft. A soft tiro Is more easily punctured, wears out on the edge of the rim and retards speed Near Jeffersonville, lud., a eye'tst applied hie brake Just as the fore lire was punetured, sad he was hurled from the machine and had te he taken heme on a train The salvation army has begun to adopt the bicycle la its rossde agmnat •la Thla will help tn offset Its u*e by eaneburebffoers on Monday >sys the Newark advertiser It Is eel * ms led that there sre I.* eon nan bicycle* In use In various pans af the world If placed in a Uns Mid «o end ihe? would stretch more iht.t half way round tbs globe Idvsrpool has • «Hv erdtaame lor btddlnff the une uf the attests to vent rten display lag ad«ertlsosne*»» A torn* • be undertook to show an advertise •tent en n Ideyvle one hard re*sn>ty wader the law The t. mens target vbompton ma*ha man Holla llethee ts an ordeal ad mirer of the wheel let sport st er r rise and attributes mueh of bln pr >ai puod t«tu» to hte sssson's **•«■ »*• I on n hoot both. liaising Fall Strawberries. .tames Allen of Covington a member of the board of trustees of the institute for the blind, called on Coventor Mat thews tlte other morning and gave him a box of strawberries, lie said that (icorge W. Merriman, a tenant on his place, is raising hundreds of gallons of tine berries and finds a ready sale for them in the Chicago market at 91 a gallon net. The patch covers six or seven acres. When asked bow such berries can be raised for fall market, he said: “After the first crop Is picked the ground is covered with straw and then set on fire. The vines are all burned to the ground. Then, by fer tilizing the ground and irrigating it the vines come quickly and bear, not so much fruit as liefore, but Just as fine in quality and saleable at a much high er price. There are several farmers In northern Indiana who aro pursuing this mode of berry raising for the late market We have been having lierries for three weeks at my house.”—Indian a|<olis News. Ilow's This! We offer One Hundred Hollars Itcward for any ease of i nlnrrli that cannot be cured by Hull's Catarrh Cure, I'* .1 CmKNK.Va co.,Crops., Toledo,Ohio, We, the undersigned, have known I .1. 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