lioaal I?sws. Happy New Year. Don’t forget to write 1897. 24 Pound N. O. Sugar for #1.00 at Gasteyer’s. For any thing in the Harness line call at T. M. Reed*. Mrs. L. K. Walworth went to Lin coln yesterday. Good grade* of mnchine oils sold by T. M. Reed. Miss Lulu Boner visited at Grand Island Tuesday. Tailor made clothing 12.50 per suit at A. E. Chase’s. Mrs C. L. McGrath is visiting friends at Grand Island. W. K. Brown went to Ht. Paul the fore part of the week. John Eggers of Grand Islaad is doing business here this week. Harry Cline, of Albion, is visiting hi* brother F. W. Cline. J. C. Fletcher, of Clay township was at the county *eat Tuesday. A. C. Hlnimons foreman of the U. P. liueiu en was here Haturday. .f. H. Pedler Is having his Ite house filled with Ice for summer use. Lon William* returned from Hamil ton county Hatuidav evening. Mrs. .1 B. O'Bryan has been quite 111 but, we leurii. is much better. R. Cattle, of Lincoln spent the Holi days with his parents in Loup City. Mr. Kearns of Ashton township was doing business at the hub yesterday Dr. Sumner Davis, Grand Island, Sur gical diseases and discuses of Eye and Va. Adolph Horioson, of Arcadia has been spending u few days with frlcudi at Loup City. Mr. and Mr*. Oeo. Ware are enjoy In* a visit from tbeir daughter, Mrs. Me Carty of Caro, Neb. James Hiiiigass, from Hamilton coun ty, Nebraska is visiting bis daugbtei Mrs. 8 Hancock. Abe Travis of Lincoln and his brothe Robert, of Wisconsin are visiting thei parents In this city "Heaven is not reached in a day, bot Lincoln is via Union Pacific, om fare for round trip to silver coaveutioi Jan 6th and 7th. Mr. Aaron Smith and Miss Nelli Brewer, both of Hcott township, thi connty, were on December 81,1806 on Ited in marriage, Judge Kay otllctatlng 8upt. Johnson hud made every at rangement to attend the teachers assc ciatlon at Lincoln this week, but owirij to the sudden illness of Mrs. Johnsoi be did not go. Most of the farmers in this vacinlt; who were completely hailed out twio last season replanted after the 8th o June and raised twenty bushels of cori to tho acre. Soothing, and not Irritating,strength enlng, and not weakening, smull bu effective—such are the qualities o DeWItt’s Little Early Kisers, th famous little pills.-'Odendahl Bros. "What makes Harry .leiuicr cut sue a dash with his Whitehorse and go cart we ventured to ask. "Why, hav’n you heard the news?*, asked a neighbc on the left. “He has got a bran ne baby at bis house." Came Monday. The length of life may lie increase by lessening its dangers. The mujoi Ity of people die from lung trouble; These may be averted by promptly u Ing One Minute t ough Cure. Odeuda) Bros. The musical entertainment given h Prof Auble and family at the liapth church was largely attended and pri nnuncrd by those present to be gooi Mr. Auble is a music teacher and gav the entertainment with a view to g< ting up a ol is* |>1KI>. Fred Converse died at tli home of his parent* Inet Thursda morning, Pccember 31, 1306, ufter severe sickness of several mouths di ration The fuuernl service* will t held at the M. K. church In this clt Baturday, January 2nd, at 12 oclock Mere ta the kind of obituary tin a Cleorgie editor put up for a poor urn "Poor Jltu slung hi* earthly garuien on a lliup aud swain the river yesterda lie dld'ut stand hack because the watt was cold, but plunged right m. ro* •lulling and struck right out for tb other shore Where the siigels were ws leg for him w lib a Ann suit than I had ever worn lu ht* III* Jim ••< poor hut he had hi* subscript!* lo hi* hum* paper ail paid up and I got there ta good shape.'' The elate intluatiiai *ebutd to**** •bowl by reason of the de use of the supreme court dcelaru against the tw«t sugar hewn tv ta* The school sold about >V»ti ton* ; the Mr aw* I leiand factory at |.< p< ton |f the bounty *o pant 11 p. ton if the bounty was knotted guile n wuwtber of furthers near til bow loan front #A»> to #1 t»ca. u fro tho dwotaiow the lew* »»t K« • net Sue Skates! Skates!! Skate*, and lot* of’em at Walk nson*. Eye and Kar. I)r. Davi*. Grand Island, Nebr. Freddie Hauck wa* a Grand Island Visiter this week 1 bare corn, oats and ground feed for sale T. M. Reed. A choice lot of mixed candle* for sale cheap at Gasteyer* Schuyler flour is the best you can buy; for sale at Gasteyer’a. \V II Kennedy I* enjoying a visit | from bis brother of Merrick county thl* week. A ten pound baby girl arrived at the | homo of Mr. and Mrs. John Harney last ! Monday. I Mr*. Thompion,and daughter of Mrs. ,1. S, I’edler returned to her home at Denver ia*t Saturday. ( all and look at the sample* of ready made clothing at A. K. Chase’*. Suit* from $6,00 up. Fit guaranteed. Get your choice of China Cup anil Saucers or other dish '* with 1 pound of the celebrated Dock-Chop tea at 50centi at Gasteyer'*. The reason you never see any Items of Interest from your locality In the local news papers Is because you never tell the editor about It. The Bankrupt Clothing Company of Central City will open business at the Taylor stand In this elty Jan. 9th, ]HU7. See their new add ou flr*t page A lady living at Albion, Neb. by the name of llelbu hi* credited with hav ing driven birth to live children last week. And >et some people growl j about Nebraska crop*. The Northwkbtkhn takes pleasure 1 in announcing tin* marriage of Mr , Andy Anderson to Miss Carrie M pieces against a chicken bouse m>l f. Aye iiiinutes In-tote But they say >r I stiange things will happen ami It may ► tw> that this is one of then I I tie l ill hi i'aclllc *y stem has Inau I guiate-t a thorough colonist sto-pinc ' | cal seurlve between I'tt.trtcil lllullsaml I' illaud Ibis car lease* t'o til sill « oi, a our tram No 4 daily at J 13 p m and passengers go through whltwut (hai.gr licith* in Ibis ear vau l»* set uted ht * re>iuest at ibis oitl. e In addition lolhr n above «t also run a ihiwugh voloi.t»i cat g | dally to Ban frauds. « and a perms . ' neatly (HMI din ted .otontsl car weskts i every fnday to wan htn. ise and !.•« | \ugeb>s t nit Ik formation cau be * j talnerl by writing «» calling .i b i luars to lias at lot lvsy.,sslSI« *«V*SI *0 *0 boos* Im VsWsrls salat V r a ewiai-o Ms weefelt amt »>e*ws*» hnllbs yei*aaw f ■ sat- n*r»i«wse. fcaetmm seit al low srw.n*emi sateieew y k* aairoes . sias tiamr | rag.t'UiewgB POMOLOGICAL ART. Trying to produce seedless and THORNLESS FRUIT. Blclhncla by Which I'rnlt Hcl.'«l!»t< Sne ered In Improving I'pou Nature lie •alt* Usee Shown Tbst They Are on the Right Usui* Slight succemi With Apples One of tilt) most iruportunt obj<,cts po niolngists are striving for is to prodnoe thornless and seedless fruits, und from tho results already obtained ft is not unlikely that tho end will soon ho real ized. Seeds are not relished by the con sumers of fruits, and if they could bo removed we would enjoy our grapes without experiencing a dread of appen dicitis and kindred complaints. Thorns aro not in good standing among fruit growers, because they are constantly puncturing the best fruits and, what is equally important, the skin of tho pickers. The thorns and prickles of plants and trees wpre un doubtedly intended by uuture to protect them from auimuls, but that is no rea son why they should be continued for generation after generation on the cul tivated varieties. Tho gardener bus no need for them, and, for that matter, the trees and shrubs have none either. Our domesticated peais and apples were all derived from the thorny, wild varieties, and politologists have succeed ed in ridding them of these spikes and prickles by careful culture and selec tion. Oranges and lemons have not been cultivated in this country as suc cessfully us pears und apples, and many of them are very thorny. Tho wild and sour orange trees of Florida are bris tling with thorns, ns is also the high priced king orange, one of tho best of the mandarins. Tho wild lemon trees of Florida are so thorny that growers qnes tion the advisability of grafting tho line La Franco lemon* on them. In Florida, however, the thorns of ; tho orange and lemon tree* have been | greatly reduced by selecting but!* from brunches with the fewest thorns, and j by continuing this process year after year the shurp spikes disappear. In Cal ifornia nearly all of tho orange trees are thornless—not naturally, but as tbo re sult of cultivation und selection. The thorns on blackberries, raspber ries and rosebushes give tho greatest bother to horticulturists in tho north, and there is a determined effort to get rid of them. Tho thorns give endless trouble to tho pickers, and their remov ul might save many a puncture to deli cate hands. There is un improved varie ty of raspberry placod on the market to day which is entirely thornless, hut the trouble is that quality and quantity of fruit have been sacrificed to the gain made in destroying tbo thorns. There is little doubt that perfect thornless blackberries and raspberries will soon be obtained, for there is a widespread movement among gardener* and seedsmen to accomplish this. The man who is fortunate enough to produce a variety tiiat gives perfect fruit with out the thorns will receive a pretty still price for his plants. Meeds are also unnecessary plant prod ucts in these advanced days of horticul ture, when gardeqers propagate half their stock by cuttings, grafts and slips. Nature need no longer trouble herself about the fear of losing any of her types. The modern horticulturist is suro to preserve every one of any value without gathering a seed. The California navel orange repre sent* tho best type of fruit grown with out seeds. Nature produced this orange as a freak ut first, and man has taken advantage of it to propaguto fruit of a high order. Half the oranges of Cali fornia are grafted with tho navel, and it is the most important fruit of tho Pacific coast. Nature tried to produce twins in the navel orange, and ono sur vived only as a protuberance in the blossom end, while the other expanded into a well shaped fruit without soeds. These oranges are occasionally found with BTTiiill Henris: but. ns u rnle. thev are perfectly Heedless. Several varitiesof seedless apples and pears have already been produced, but tbe quulity of the fruit is generally poor and nearly worthless. They are called “bloomlens" pears and apples and are exhibited more as curiosities than as the triumphs of pnuiologicul art. Neverthe less, they are the beginning of a new era of apple growing, and they represent the primary stock of seedless fru.ts which may produce in time the finest flavored tipples and pears, The grape industry would he benefit ed more than uuy other by the produc tion of new varieties without seeds, aud towurd this t lid scores of fruit growers ' are working, oqieriaily in Uuliforuia. The idea is to produce not only table grapes, but grajs * that will make flue raisins, hetdhes ratsius would prove such a boon to the whole civilised world that uuy other variety would be quickly ' run oal of tbe market. Tin re is a seedless grape of Oort tub, which commonly pa-** * a* a currant, | and the Mutant raisins of southeastern Kurn|*i are u!m> Seedless. Itut these fruit* are **» mii*11 that tin y can never answer the purpose, What the trade : wants is a large, ** . with ! perfect cohat and tiavof, and to get that j it is a*tvnjry to experiment It r year*. ; —Sew York Journal. the twirl** l>l**M|. The i (‘‘H iit »it.|>• n r if Awuii t* t rain i« J aph, who **v»tW the throne I lev. 4, HH lie Is uf the royal bouse of llapsbntg, whmh ha* held tin Ihn *». si in e l|af 1'w nty tis s»ot itgo* o# thl* I rouse have ruled o»«r Aus ins Hudtdph I, the nobleman win ft .undid this royal family, huitt a ca*tl* ou the llatMcht*hurg, or llawh's mown lata, whence the haute of the family , I Au author!1 v on deaf mate* aays lha< the ratio of dt if mutt* l> In at mg I >| lit Hi | to each I, h*H», »«t,ftliug It Which rueis ai * «Ii hI 4u mui »«* h p»l Sot.* tu the lulled r1 ales and alaatl I,lino.won in the world's entire pc pula turn JUST A BOY. Kanrenrc Hutton’* Itrmlnlarrnm of Dll Jnvi'tiUf Lift In Xi-w York. Ho was not a very good boy or a very bad boy or n very bright i>oy or nu un usual boy in any way. Ho was j i t a boy, and very often he forgetn that ho is not a boy now. Whatever there mny be about the boy that is connr.eud tide ho owes to his father und to his mother, and be feels thut he should not bn held responsible for it. His mother was the most generous and the most unselfish of human beings. She was always thinking of somelHsly else—always doing for others. To her it was blessed to give, and it was not very pleasant to receive. When she bought anything, tho boy’s stereotyped query was,‘‘Who is to have it?” When anything was bought for her, her own invariable remark was,“What on earth shall 1 dowithMt?” When the boy eame to her one summer morning, she looked upon him us a gift from heaven, and win n she was told that it was a boy, und not a bud looking or a bad condi tioned boy, her first words were, “What on eartli shall I do with it?” Who found plenty “to do with It” bo fore sin- got through with it, nioro than 40 years afterward, und the boy lias ev ery reason to believe that she never re gretted the gift. Indeed, she once told him, late in her life,that ho had never made her ery. What better benediction cun a boy have than that? The boy was redheaded and long nosed even from the beginning—u shy, dreaming, self conscious little boy, mude peculiarly familiar with his per sonal defects by the constant remarks to the effect that his hair was red slid that his nose was long. At school for yours he was known familiarly as “Ilufus, ” “Bedhead,” “Carrot Top” or “Nosy.” His mother, married at 10, was the «.i f r . .41_ . a .Liu. .a I lU'jnv M lllliv I/IIIIUIOU) ini'* many of tho hoy's aunts und ancles wore but u few years his senior and wore his daily and familiar companions. Ho was tho only member of his own generation for a long time, and there was a con stant fear upon the part of the elders that ho was likely to bo spoiled, and consequently ho was never praised nor petted nor coddled. Ho was always full ing down or dropping things. Ho was al ways getting into the way, und he could not learn to spell correctly nor to cipher ut all. He was never in his mother’s way, liowover, and bo was never made to feel so. But nobody except tho boy knows of the agony which the rest of the family, unconsciously and with no thought of hurting his feelings, caused him by tbo fun they poked at his nose, at his fiery locks und at his unhandiness. He fancied that pussersby pitied him as he walked or played in the streets, and he sincerely pitied himself as a youth des tined to grow up into an awkward, taot less, stupid man, at whom the world would laugh so long as his life lasted. —"A Boy I Knew,” by Laurence Hut ton, in ht. Nicholas. A TRIBUTE TO ART. The Mold of Ml tenia and the Beantlfal Venue «1« Medici. Somewhere in Washington — just where is not necessary to the main point at issue in this short article on the de velopment and uudovclopment of art in the national capital—is a mansion pre sided over by a woman of wealth and refinement. She is a most artistic wom an, too, and in her house are some un usually fino pieces of painting and stat uary. There is also a Milesian maid, by name Maggie, who knows a deal more ubont housecleaning than she does about sculpture, und Maggie has been trying for a long time to cultivate her tasto up to the point of properly appreciating the painted and carved beauty with which she daily comes in contact. Not many days ago tho mistress and the maid were going over the bouse with brush and broom, putting it in especial order for a rnusicale that was to be given . 1% . _ j s i_«_ I__1 IU U uuiniin auu iuouivuuuioB) uuu the mistress obsorved thut the maid on three several occasions passed by with cold neglect of cloth and brush a beau tiful figure of the “Venus de Medici," in an alcove just off the hall. ‘‘Here, Maggio!“ she called. "Why don' t you brush the dust off this figure ?’ ’ “Which wan, mem?" inquired Mag gie with great innocence. “The ‘Venus’ there in the alcove, of course. Hoe”—aud the lady touched it with her huger—“you have left dust all over it" “Yi«, mem,” confessed Maggie, "but I do be thinking for a long time, mem, that there uht to be something on it, | mem.” It was a delightful aud logical excuse, Jierliaps, but the lady could scarcely ao cep* it, uud Maggie’s brush removed evt-u the dusty drapery she wished It leave.—Washmgtou Star. Ill* lirswliuulhar. A geu tic man once asked Uncle Daniel, a droll character iu a New Kugltuid vil Jape, tf h* could rememU'r his grand mother. "I guess 1 caw,” said UihjU li.tiiod, "but only as 1 saw her one Roller had ton away all day. aud V h>-u Im came lioiue he found I had falleil to do M,m«tiling he e*(weird it iu«. It* caught up a rough apple Ire*- limb am walked up to me with It tiranduo■lie i appeared ou lb<> doorstep with a small, straight sink in b»r hand, and lustantlj handed It tu my father ’ll*re, Joe, •aid she, ‘lick I>aiie 1 with a tmetl Slick. * And he did Who Wouldn’t re member *wch a grandmother as that? Sww I’ttSMngh It. "Rwkage, sir," > ud the agent as Mr hbarp rame I** the d<»*r. “Thus* i» f • tpre hargeu on it “ “|te kind enough to Wall a He m- HI, • ■aid Mr. nhaip as he disappeared in uily he r* turieai “Just ai ). w w* to ihcw this X ray im that pe k •g«t, |^l«SkM' Xu * i* Mi'll# ItgM Mu k* ratvful'f U>ms tip in raw rotten and. unowned, they were fslutusd t the would ha p h> r marked “Hefused. ’ 1 •>-Hashing ton Times D. C. DOE. A. P. CULLEY, Vice-President, Cashier, FIRST BANK OF LOUP CITY. General Banking Business Transacted. Capital Stock, $60 ,000. Loans on Improved farms at If DIB pee cent. Bast Company and boat team* to be bad in tbs vast. Oounaposmnrra:—Chemical Rational Bank, Raw York City, R. Y.| Omaha Visional JBanx. Omaha. Rebaaaho. W. J. FISUER, GEO. E. BENSOHOTER, Attorney and Notary Public. Publisher Loup City Northwkstkkn FISHER & BENSCHOTER, RE At. ESTATE AUEA'TS. LOUP CITY, • • NEBRASKA. Town Lots, Wild, Cultivated and Irrigated Lands for Sale ABAIVI SCHAUPP, Will pay the highest market price for Uvnh\ McAlpine, Loup City, Shaupp, and Ashton. Also high oat prices paid for hogs and cattle at Loup City. f|* s. NIOIITIV .AI.K. LAWYER. Does i oeitrti uw iu ciiiicnoi m\m a Notary fuiiitti, •«'* Tir|Hi«rll«l tn "*»« ..*»» l> UH o» tll*l a \»>K war < rri, • • rbbhamu. W »»«»».——»A»tMH I. !■ |U l|A««l l«»l «i**At» »tl wl n ««• ‘It N«kr«*kA »■»'. »«•*»•*»«■ lit •»4m|wkm« Mawi •nt, Vlw> **M •44w»»4 •lampMl > f b« kthuMlt •*** tMag. I’ktMgU, I « \a I » t Au-baNk;', MOHSK i C ltU4 Pirntm »»• ®•<*» yy J. HMItK. Attiininij-at-Lau/. VNl) NOTky imjhlic Will l>t*k*n 1 in Foretlosurel.uk> \'.-o I>o r;KN KHAI. KK VI. Ml'ATI. Ill -INMH mum in v,»ut»K.i nnn uoiUii'M MU 1‘ ( III, • • • UlitUlMfc t »■« in k 1 »•«...• EX PH ESS *«»■ GENERAL DELIVERY LINE 4U |||I|«HM r>MM nlU»n t»rutU|Ml|r tllMM M» Wanted »nldea3~p. UtlllU Miuu llltvm «»• M«u •M M »*•*•! 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