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# I ■ In the San Gabriel Valley, In South ern California, lives the youngest great-grandmother in the United States. She is a handsome, vivacious woman just entering middle life. She was a mother at 15, a grandmother at 30 and a great-grandmother at 46. That in the record that has made Mrs. Jen nie Nelson the youngest, great-grand mother in the country. Mrs. Nelson was horn In San Ber nardino. Cal., in May, 1850. Her mother was a Spanish woman and her father an Englishman. Mrs. Nelson's maiden name was Jennie Fawcett. There were lees than fifty white people in the old Mexican and Indian town of San Ber nardino when she was a little girl, anil there was no settlement of whites near er than Los Angeles—ninety miles to the west. It was natural that these few white families there should be very intimate with one another. So. when Miss Jennie was 14 years old, she was married by a Methodist missionary to the son of the .Fawcett family's best friends, the Nelsons. The husbunil, George Nelson, was then 19, but he had seen so much of hardships on the bor derland of civilization in the south west that he seemed like a sedate, hard headed pioneer of 30. March 9, 1865, when the bride lacked two months of completing her fifteen years, lier first child was born It was a rrir! Tho \rr\ii t V* Pi 11 Po ni(1 o mnonrl In San Diego a year later, and there, in the course of eleven years, six more children were born. The eldest was uar.ed Isabelle. She w'as famous in the little pueblo of San Diego in those days as the prettiest girl in town. A dashing young Yankee, Earl E. Phelps, came down the Pacific Coast from San Francisco to San Diego in 1879. He had recently been graduated from Cor nell University. He fell in love with Miss Isabelle, who was then a girl in short dresses. One day young Phelps and the school girl came home from the drive married. June 12, 1880, their first child, a girl, was born in the Phelps ranch home. The mother was 15 years and 3 months old, and the grandmother. Mrs. Nelson, was 30. * T{ie grandchild, Amelia, has grown to girlhood. Last year she became en gaged to a young Orange county ranch man, Henry W. Walker, and a few ■weeks thereafter she was married. A month ago, at the ago of 16 years and 3 months, Mrs. Amelia Walker became the mother of a little boy. There are several uncommon facts in connection with these generations of youthful mothers. One is that the great-grandchild recently born is a week older than an aunt, who was horn to his grandmother on Sept. 20, «ind is but two years younger than a grand-uncle, born to his great-grand mother In 1S1M. Baby Walker’s father Is 20 years old. his grandfather has Just passed his 35th birthday, aud his great grandfather Nelson Is barely d'j. The great-grandparents have nine children, aged front 2 to 30 years; eighteen grand children. aged from 1 month to 13 years, and one great-grandchild. None of their descendants has ever died. The little Walker baby has also four great-great-grandparents, who are more than 70 years of age \ Was H|irtns. "1 believe that t'lah will one duy produce more mint rat wealth than any state in the entire country." remarked a gentleman who had at one tune made a tout of the country. "When I was In the then territory, I matte a pros fleeting trip into the t'lntah reserva tion. Mated In the northeastern War ner of the state Bunn* the trip my sslf and partner came upon one of the most temarkahls curiosities In the west n spring of mineral wav Knotigh had bubbled out upon the surface of the ground to have satisfied the demand for ten year*. It was then worth ft u pound and was used for the Insula tion ttf electric wlrew. y*» there was onowgh in sight at half tho pm a to ha VO made is iwn lick fv>l life. If we could have carried It to mark** Two things stood in tbs way the mandate of do, m- at and ih* nth. »itt> of tgpaopufting I he «»* overland some several hundred ovllea into frovo Ho* |pos« 4ot i!tt reservation will be turned lute th. puolb dunvaln and the wealth H •natalaa will into eons* Pudr'a pooh- - t* ii h wow not a m potmi’lrsl to trvH«nte a single aoe of Ira woo*. *• Well we pa*a*d on and Ml the spring with v sigh that might hn>*« hoen heard at rtM* Moor Orleans Ttm» • lumo. mt 7 I > $ PERIWINKLE FAD. Cockney SlicllHull Delicacy Drown In the Water* of the Sou ml. One of the chief dishes in tho cock ney hill of faro in England is the peri winkle, a shellfish resembling in shape the common snail, says the New York Journal. It has hitherto been practi cally unknown to American epicures and is said to be greatly inferior to the species of shellfish eaten in this coun try. Of late periwinkles have been offered for sale in a number of stores patron ized by the New York colony of cock neys. It is said that all of the peri winkbe sold in New York come from New Kochelle. An Englishman living there was in the habit of importing them for his own use. One consign ment was much larger than he ex pected or wanted, and he concluded to try an experiment and see If they could lie grown In this country. He dumped about a bushel In the sound, and. to his surprise and pleas ure, they seemed to thrive as well there as in their native English waters. They multiplied rapidly and he not only ' found it unnecessary lo import any j more but had more than he could po»- j sibly use. So he has placed them on 1 sale and la deriving a considerable revenue from Hum V Mum In Permutation*. The Yale loch manufacturer* have proved that in a patent look having • it ’ atepa," each capable of being re duced in height twenty tinea, the num ber of > hangea or combination* will lie Hti.tiHi. further, that aa the drill pin and the pipe* of the key# may be made of three different alien. the total mutt tier of change* will be j.Saj.mm In keya | of the aatalleat *Ue th« total number id changes through which lb. > can be run la ttv turn. while In th we of targe the number « *a w Ifc nued to not lean than T TTk.ikw different .bungee m, ta not an aurpitgtng *h« a «« And I on turning up an arithmetic book that | the number of ebangve that can ho rung on twenty tom belle in W.IW icimsa».taff.aff».tiM MetmteaU. "You nre asking for alma, are yw»r* a*k*tl a honovolent lndi« blunt of a crip pled beggar No. all. replied the unfurtmaat* mug * t hate my arm# all right, hot II yon conkt get me a t««d .oth leg I d ho forevet In dent to yon. ety.' Ptttahurg Ok run Me Telegraph TIPPING IN SPAIN. The Hyntcm There Han Developed Into a Punitive Corse. Extortion Is rife and the tipping sys tem has developed Into a positive curse, although for this we who tip must be held primarily re sponsible, says Chambers’ Jour nal. "My poor carabineers must live somehow', their pay is next to noth ing!’’ replied a Cadiz custom-house of ficial of position to a visitor who had complained that after his luggage had actually passed examination a carabi neer had pounced on It, insisting upon It being re-examined. By which he clearly meant that all Inconvenience and unpleasantness might have been avoided by the Judicious outlay of a peseta. The one consoling feature of the tipping plague in Spain Is that the Spaniard Is satisfied with a very little. The uniformed official, whose counterpart at home would not conde scend to accept a tip, gives a hearty muchcH graclas for a couple of reals— five-pence. The extortion to which the visitor Is exposed is principally practiced by the hotel-keepers. Some sort of excuse, perhaps, may be made for the custom among Seville landlords of doubling their rates during holy week and the annual four days’ fair, but why Granada, a long day’s Jour ney off, should follow suit, is difficult to comprehend. Hotels have much im proved in Spain outside of Madrid and Seville during the last few years, al though very much remains to be done before strangers can be Induced to re r..I.„,.h «.,urna 11 Itllt’SOH. SegOVla. Salamanca and Valladolid for an hour longer than it is absolutely necessary for the seeing of the sights there. But first-class rates are charged for what is nothing more than third-class ac commodation and often for what is very much worse. In very few cities except the great centers of business and pleasure, is there more than one hotel at which a civilized traveler can put up, and the owners of these hotels, knowing the fact, gather in their har vest. Trains in Spain usually start at unholy hours in the morning and the hotel landlords take advantage of this fact to carry out the national "to-mor row” creed with adroitness. Guests who intend to leave by the 1 or 6 a. in. train usually demand their bills overnight, but some excuse is invaria bly forthcoming which enables the landlord to present his bill the next morning when it is half dark and the departing guest is but half awake and the railway omnibus is at the door and every minute is precious, the re sult being that the victim pays just what is put down, unless he chooses to argue the case and lose his train, as often as not the only one of the day. A rule which should never be neglected is to have your agreement for prices to be paid thoroughly under stood beforehand. Generally it is ad visable to write for rooms ahead, so that an answer in black and white is received, which effectually checks the extortion which will assuredly he at tempted. Insulting » I*o I ice Olllclal. A queer cam- of insult of officials came up recently In a Beilin police court. A atone mason was ordered by u i»ollce lieuten ant to remove some stones from the highway. He answered In a loud voice that he would do so. The lieuten ant objected to the tone of the unswer, and arrested him. At the trial the man pleaded that he had used his natural voice, and the court refused to tine him, hut reprimanded him fur behaving in sultingly. Mr. Clubman My private secretary, young Nlccfellow, say* he I* an ac quaint sore of yours. Mis# Cltybells What Impudence! I never met him as ccpi at the «aside and last summer I even reflated to become engaged to Situ Again New Vurh Wes-hly. Ostt Ike *»d Nothing Muo Vt turner It Is stated, sir, that y»u berated this plaint Id. and then assailed him with a dangerous tnt«stl» Ik* leadaat (it didn’t do notin' a* (V hotnd tH called ta> a ly In' pup an' hit tin wi t a bruit IUtrt was alt t'Wt* |>ad Leader lliw NwiuI). hit* tin usual attaint trehlhuM. have you tahen a drtnh I * day ' Arch thnld N«. my dear, on honor hit* Well. ■« out and (aha two I ha** a : mitlta«i * hill fur your eansidelation — I Ktcheage j VIRTUE ITS OWN REWARD. I Here I* One Woman Wlio Firmly He* It eve* It. ‘‘I have been young anil now am old," said one of the charming middle-aged women of the period, whose looks belio the baptismal register, and who rather enjoy arrogating to themselves the wis dom and experience of age, says the New York Tribune. ‘‘And I have reached that period of life," she con tinued, “when I can look back and see results and note how seldom those who are born with silver spoons in their mouths, as the saying is, have the sil ver fork when they are grown up. When I look back and remember who were the Jeunesse doree of my youth— the men whose lives and positions above all others seemed particularly enviable and desirable—and then look about, me and see how few of those who were called men of pleasure in those days have attained an honorable and useful middle age, I feel that I can preach a sermon to my boys and their friends with object lessons that ought to make it very Impressive. Some are poor, having spent health and sub stance, like the prodigal son, in riotous living. Even those who have appar ently not suffered in purse or health are a set of discontented, blase, weary worldlings, who go over the name tread mill of fashionable existence year by year without pleasure or profit. An other thing I have noticed from my vantage ground of a lifelong experience is that, if only as a purely worldly maxim, honesty is certainly the best policy. Many a brilliant man I have seen who has destroyed his prospects by the crooked ways in which he sought to better himself financially, politically, and even socially, whereas if he walked honorably before all men he would have gained the world's good opinion, and in many instances the very things he coveted. And finally there are the yiung married couples of my youth. In nine cases out of ten those of my friends who married poor young men, and who gave up the luxuries of their homes to prove veritable helpmeets to the men of their choice, are now almost without exception prosperous, and In many cases,wealthy,while those men and girls who married for money are, as a rule, greatly In want of It. ‘Be good and you will be happy’ Is the old maxim, and certainly it seems true from a ma terialistic as well as from a religious point of view." An F,ye l» lliiHiii«*«n. "I was directed to you as the leading huckster of this county," said Mr. Storrnington Bartiee. "That’s what I am," was the reply. "An' by watching the corners closely I have built up a business In eggs and vegetables that I’m proud of." "Of course. There are varieties of greatness. Just as I am a great actor you are a great huckster. I wish to offer you an opportunity for an In vestment that is right In your line.” “ ’Tain't in a show ticket, then." “Of course not. I want to know how much you will pay me for the sweep ing-up privileges after my perform ance to-morrow night.”—Washington Star. To He ICxpected. There was recently a public sale of the effects of a deceased artist, who, though he never had any money and was always at the end of his resources, managed to accumulate a considerable amount of bric-a-brac, chiefly for use in his trade. All these things were sold for the benefit of his needy widow. Among the items on the published catalogue was the following eloquent one: "One money box, decorated, quite unused.” Old Phineas Stuart's Fishing I’arty. Phineas Stuart of Livingston county, I Mich., has just celebrted the 103d an I niversary of his birth by giving a fish ing party, at which he himself was present. JOSH B1LLINCS’ PHILOSOPHY. The man who kan get the most truth into the fewest words, lz the best fel low going. The cheapest and best eddikashun I kno ov lz to learn from the experiences ov others. We are too apt to look upon Fate az sumtiling that anticipates us. We make our own fate, and too often out ov very poor materials. We are a set ov conceited asses unity how We think we kan see right thru ennyhoddy. but don't think entryImddy kan see half un inch into us. Yung fellow, think ov this; The world won't stv yu etiuy kredtt for the mony that ytt hav squandered, but what yu make, and hang unto, they will. The more brsttes a party has got, the more eddikashun they kan stand. The richest and strongest ground wilt taka the must manure, weak noils are at up hi It. W# ate Kitting so highly eddtkalvd and civilised, that It la enrr to prove a It now days than it was the truth a huttdrad years ago Pnohs are ov alt patirra* aud all <|e grass Knot man or woman is a suob wha try* to gala Id pretenehon the n»> lisa or tfspehi which la due only ta kapadtv sad honvwtj It ihms nature la a cheerful study, tug out a spring hi the roadside. It it up with a nice bag barrel le helg the water place a an tla dipper hi tha side at |t and then see how htng u will he before the weary traveler, after stekstng bta thirst, will steal the dtp par It p hleased le have Ood’s mark upon an. #v*a ,hough li may he mid* with i th« peiht of a thuin The December Atlantic Monthly. The December number of the Allan* ' tic Monthly opens with a very clear study of the most important social problem that confronts us—“Social j Classes in the Republic," by Mr. B. L. | (iodkin, of New York, who points out ! the necessary existence of the different | classes, and the unnecessary distinc i tions that are based upon such differ I enecs. He discusses the proposed reme I dies for inequalities I’rof. 11. R Oil | dcrsleeve, of the John Hopkins Univer sity, writes an article, partly reminis cent and partly prophetic, on ‘Classi cal studies in the United .States,” in which he shows the difference in the spirit and method between studies of a half century ago and today, both in Germany and American universities. Hottest I’lace In the World. The hottest place on tiie earth's sur face is on the southwestern const of Persia, on the border of the l’ersian gulf. Bor forty consecutive days in July and August the mercury lias been known to stand above 100 degrees in the shade, night and day, and to run up as high as 130 in the middle of the afternoon. At Bahrein, in the center of the most torrid belt, as though it was nature's intention to make the place as unbearable as possible, water from wells Is something unknown, great shafts have been sunk to a depth of from 100 to A 00 feet, but always with the same result—no water. An Appeal for Assistance. The man wliols charitable to himself wIP listen to the mute appeal for assistance matin hy his stomach,or his liver, In tile shape of divers dyspeptic qualm* and uticuxy sen sations In the region*of the glands that so cretes his bile. Hosteller'* Hiomach Hitters my dear sir, or madam as the ease may he is w hat you inquire. Hasten to use If you are troubled with henrtnurn, wind In the stomach, or note that your skin or the whites of yotiroyos are taking a sallow hits ( oiiMlHnf<»r«*ut Flrf. In 1H01 a large part of Constantinople was destroyed by fire, 12,000 dwellings besides warehouses anil other stmc- . til res. going down before the flames. 1 The value of all property destroyed on this occasion could not be estimated, but was not so great as would have been by a fire of like proportions in other cities, the greater part of the dwellings and shops in that city being flimsy wooden structures. In the Christmas Century there will be hitherto unpublished pictures by Mcissonlcr, Detaille, Heroine, Mini kacsy, Menzel, Seymour 1 laden, Do mingo, Madrazo, the Eeloirs, llico, Dagnan-llouveret, llosa Honbeur, and other great artists. These were drawn or painted in the album of Samuel I’. Averry, and accompanying an article by Wm. A. Collin, entitled "Souvenirs of a Veteran Collector.” To Strengthen Your Kjrea. A simple and excellent plan to strengthen and preserve your eyes is to follow this rule: Every morning pour some cold water into a bowl, at the bottom of tlie bowl place a silver coin or some other bright object and then put your face in the water with your eyes open and move your head gently from side to side. This will make the eyes brighter and stronger. Wli«*r<» Mm Should Have lle«n. "Yes," said Jones, after an argu ment with his wife, "I’ve always said a woman’s sphere is her home. Now, if you had been at home today, instead of gadding about the streets, you would not have seen me coining from the matinee, nnd you would therefore have been very much happier at the present moment.” Harper's bazar. iMiino In Darkest Africa. An African tribe ims an instrument something like our piano, it has a key board and when the keys are pressed down and released they cause thin pieces of wood to vibrate and give forth sounds. '\ he xylopiione exists iri en tirety in some parts of Africa, hollow gourds placed under each strip of wood accentuating the sounds Mueli Iri a Name. IVhat's in a name? Everything. You can’t begin to think how much better Snawley feels, who used to be only "night watchman” at a swimming school, since somebody called him "night commander of the bath.” I Gladness Comes With a tletter uniteratandintf of tiie transient nature of tiie many pliys i ieai ills./ which vanish before primer rf> I for** - entlerfforts— pleasant efforts-— 1 rightly(directed. There is comfort in the knawledge; that so many form* at j si.-Uu.-h an* not due to any actual d is coat*, bill simply to a constipated condl I tion of Bhc system, which the pleasant family ijixativc. Syrup of lip*. prompt ly renames, That is why it is the only ! remedy lw ilh milllonsof families. and ia 1 every wBere esteemed so highly hv all who vutk‘* ifssi health. Its brnutrUl effects afr due to tlu* fu> t. that it U the I one reitS'dy wlileh promote* internal cleanlii.fr* without d.-hilitutinp the i organs ifr which i’a t*. It la therefore ail InpilMiit in order to iret it* bene tidal elfrctr, to note »li, a you pur chase, thfr1 l«tt hare the eenuine arti cle, whi* ■ *s in tiiufactuod by the t ali fi.ruia t’i« Syrup t o. only and sold hr ‘ all repot®*!® *h u*ftft ta If in tiff ea|oiMi--i»t of p»tl health, •tid Hie J1-!* *« U r* milat laxatires or nth. r rt frill** «rr then Uut needed If •tttcteil mkh any to tint I ttUr«-r, >*• mat he miu, n.i ’ hi t! HU ,st -111 (tt| pittand, But if In need of a Uiatite, one »h* ill up«c tits best, anti with < it# a .-it i. •' •" *up til fig»« ,..l*»h|hesl »tsl u ■*-I lata-* It tolt tdgitfr* PS-t item i d catwltwis-o Sami' Old Scheme. Helen—So he has proposed at last! How did it happen? Maude—I told him I was going to be j married. Helen—Why, Maude! Maude—Yes, and it aroused him in stantly. He actually raved. And so I took pity on him and we are en gaged. Helen—I5ut you told him a fib. Maude—Not at all. When I said I | was going to be married 1 meant him. — Boston Transcript. Merchants Hotel, Omaha. COKXRrt FIFTEENTH VNI> V A UN A M STS. Street cars pass the door to and from both depots; in business center of city. Headfpmrters for state and local trade. Hates 83 and 83 per day. I'AXTON & DAVENPORT, Prop’s. The Kit I Inc I’Muftlon. The choir was schrecching out the line. “We choose the better part,” and lengthened it out in this way. 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