Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. How many friendships are broken by one getting rich while the otbei stays poor. Spring Valley modestly calls the at tention of the world to the kind cl men it turns out. Mr. Kipling takes occasion once more to show Mr. Austin who Is really fitted to be poet-laureate. Pity the old man who puts om skates to show the youngsters how it was done when he was a boy. That change In the expression of the Sphinx may be caused by its as tonishment at the Assouan dam. It doesn’t follow that the man who boasts of his rural origin will enjoy being told that he looks like a farmer. Everybody should be taught to read and write, but something should be done to prevent all of them from writ ing. The lovelorn youth can always fig ure out that two can live as cheaply as one, but it's hard to prove it after ward. A Mississippi bootblack who has fallen heir to a million dollars expects to do nothing but shine in society hereafter. Surely it Is within the resources of science and inventive genius to devise an asbestos uniform for the amateur Santa Claus. The Humbert affair has stirred up all Paris, which means that some un savory sediment has come to the sur face, as usual. A great-grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt declares that he was stolen, but as he has no money the story is hardly probable. Russell bage was well enough again to lend a few millions yesterday. And he will get it all back again, with thousands added to it. The government has ruled that au tomobiles must not be run in the Yel lowstone park. That's right; there are enough wild things there now. New York women want street ears from which men shall be excluded. We should like to see a woman who would care to ride in one of those cars. Sixteen girls fainted in a Utica knitting mill the other day when one of them pricked her linger. The "eternal feminine” hasn’t been elimi nated yet. Dancing is said to be going out of fashion. This must be due to the fact that so many society people after play ing bridge whist have no money to pay the fiddler. Whatever else may be said of Presi dent Diaz, it must be admitted that he has been very suecesstul in keep ing his republic out of trouble with its neighbors. Lord Milner has approved the for mation of a Transvaal fishing society Looks like a scheme to grab some thing or other while the owner is off somewhere angling. Perhaps the benevolent stranger who sold to the people of Derby, Conn., as coal a lot of crushed stone coated with tar had bought some wooden nutmegs once. An Ann Arbor professor has dis covered seven new poisons. The old favorites, however, will still continue in demand, and answer all legitimate and illegitimate purposes of destruc tion. Because one kind act brought for tune to a Milwaukee bookkeeper we see no reason why the old rule, “Let not your left hand know what your right hand doeth” should not remain in force. In Minnesota the Supreme Court holds that a man may legally strike his wife, but this does not mean that he will be able to do it twice if the wife has an adequate idea of the re spect due her sex. A floating item Is to the effect that Patti still has the pair of shoes she wore when she made her d6but, forty years ago. Are we expected to be lieve that Patti has been before the public only forty years? A joint challenge has been Issued by the chess clubs of Oxford and Cam bridge to the chess clubs of Harvard. Yale, Princeton and Columbia for a cable match. It looks as if we were going to have a very quiet winter. The Mikado of Japan purposes tc use the X-rays to detect swallowed coins in the internals of employes in the imperial mint. Thus does science once more become a Sherlock Holme* in the interest of sordid commercial ism. A trolley line has been opened in Porto Rico. This thoroughly dispose* of any danger there may have been of Porto Rican revolutions. The peo pie will be too busy dodging the cars hereafter to engage in political dis turbances. ;; The Bow of Orange Ribbon i A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK | By AMELIA E. BARR. + < > Author of "Friend Ollvln.," *% Thou and the Other Or\e.**Et». ■ i Copyright, >880, by Dodd, Head and Company. X i+-H-*»»+++++«^++++++++»*+»++-f-f-t-++-fr++^-fr++dH-*+-M--fr+»»T CHAPTER VIII.—(Continued.) “Come, friends and neighbors,” said forls cheerily, “I will sing you a song; ind every one knows the tune to it, ind every one has heard their vaders ind their moeders sing it—sometimes, perhaps, on the great dikes of Vader and, and sometimes in their sweet domes that the great Hendrick Hud son found out for them. Now, then, ill, a song for MOEDKR HOLLAND. Wtt iive taken our land from the se». Its fields are all yellow with grain, (ts meadows are green on the lea— And now shall we give it to Spain? No, no, no, no! We have planted the faith that Is pure. That faith to the ond we'll maintain; For the word and the truth must endure. Shall we bow to the pope and to Spain? No, no, no, no! Dur ships are on every sed. Our honor lias never a stain, Our law und our commerce are free: Are we slaves for the tyrant of Spain? No, no, no no! Then, sons of ilatnvln. the spade— The spade and the pike and the main. And the heart and the hand and the tilade. Is there mercy for merciless Spain? No, no, no, no! By this time the enthusiasm was wonderful. The short, quick denials rame hotter and louder at every verse; and it was easy to understand how these large, slow men, once kindled to white heat, were both irre sistible and unconquerable. Every eye was turned to Joris, who stood in his massive, manly beauty a very con spicuous figure. His face was full af feeling and purpose, his large blue eyes limpid and shining; and. as the tumult of applause gradually ceased, be said; “My friends and neighbors, no poet am I; but always wrongs burns in the heart until plain prose can not utter them. Listen to me. If we wrung the Great Charter and the right of self-taxation from Mary in A. D. 1477; If In A. D. 1572 we taught Alva, by force of arms, how dear to us was aur maxim, ‘No taxation without rep resentation,’ Shall we give up our long-cherished right? Make the blood of our fathers in vain? Do we fear nny tyrant to tight? Shall we hold out our hands for the chain? No. no, no, no! Even the women had caught fire at this allusion to the injustice of the Stamp Act and Quartering Acts, then tinging over the liberties of the Prov ince; and Mrs. Gordon looked curious ly and not unkindly at the latent rebels. "England will have foemen worthy of her steel, if she turns these good friends into enemies,” she re jected. The emotion was too intense to be prolonged; and Joris instantly pushed back his chair, and said, “Now, then, friends, for the dance. Myself I think not too old to lake out the bride.” Neil Semple, who had looked like a man in a dream during the singing, went eagerly to Katherine as soon as Joris spoke of dancing. “He felt strong enough,” he said, “to tread a measure in the bride's dance, and he hoped she would so far honor him.” “No, I will not, Neil. I will not take your hands. Often I have told you that.” "Just for to-night, forgive me, Kath erine.” "I am sorry that all must end so; t cannot dance any more with you;” ind then she affected to hear her mother calling, and left him standing imong the Jocund crowd, hopeless and iistraught with grief. CHAPTER IX. Katherine’s Decision. Joanna’s wedding occurred at the beginning of the winter and the winter festivities. But amid all the dining and dancing and skating there was a political anxiety and excitement that leavened strongly every social and domestic event. The first Colonial Congress had passed the three resolu tions which proved to be the key note of resistance and of liberty. Joris had emphatically indorsed its action. The odious Stamp Act was to be met by the refusal of American merchants either to Import English goods, or to sell them upon commission, until it was repealed. Homespun became fashionable. The government kept its hand upon the sword. The people were divided Into twro parties, bitterly antagonistic to each other. The “Sons of Liberty” were keeping guard over the pole which symbolized their determination; The British soldiery were swaggering and boasting and openly Insulting patriots on the streets, and the “New York Gazette” In flaming articles was stimulating to the utmost the spirit of resistance to tyranny. Still In spite of this home trouble and In spite of the national anxiety, the winter months went with a de lightsome peace and regularity (a the Van Heemsktrk household. Neil Sem ple ceased to visit Katherine after Jo anna’s wedding. There wao no quarrel and no Interruption to the kindness that had so long existed be tween the families, but Neil never again offered her his hand; and such conversation as they had was con strained, and of the most conventional character. As Hyde grew stronger he spoat his hours in writing long letters do his wife. He told her every trivial jvent he commented on all she told him. and her letters revealed to him % soul so pure, so true, so loving, th it he vowed “he fell tn love with her ufresh •very day of bis life.” One exquisite morning in May Kath erine stood at an open window look ing over the garden and the river, and the green hills and meadows across the stream. Her heart was full of hope. Richard's recovery was so far advanced that he had taken several rides in the middle of the day. Al ways he had passed the Van Heems kirks’ house and always Katherine had been waiting to rain down upon his uplifted face the influence of her most bewitching beauty and her ten derest smiles. As she happily mused, some one called her mother from the front hall. On fine mornings it was customary to leave the door standing open; and the visitor advanced to the foot of the stairs and called once more, “Lysbet Van Heemskirk! Is there naebody in to bid me welcome?” Then Katherine knew it was Madam Semple; and Bho ran to her mother’s room and begged her to go down and receive the caller. For in these days Katherine dreaded Madam Sem ple a little. Very naturally, the moth er blamed her for Neil’s suffering and loss of time and prestige; and she found it hard to forgive also her posi tive rejection of his suit. And towards Nell, Joris had a se cret feeling of resentment. He had taken no pains to woo Katherine until some one else wanted her. It was universally conceded that he had been the first to draw his sword, and thus indulge his own temper at the expense of their child’s good name and hap piness. So, below the smiles and kind words of a long friendship, there was bitterness. If there had not been Janet Semple would hardly have paid that morning visit; for before Lysbet was half way down the stairs, Kath erine heard her call out: “Here's a bonnle come of. But it is what a’ folks expected. ‘The Daunt less' sailed the morn, and Capt. Earl wi’ a contingent for the West Indies station. And who wi’ him, guess you, but Capt. Hyde, and no less? They say he has a furlough in his pocket for a twelve-month; more like it’s a clean total dismissal. The gude ken it ought to be.” So much Katherine heard, then her mother shut the door of the sitting room. A great fear made her turn faint and sick. Were her father’s w'ords true? The suspicion once en tertained, she remembered several little things which strengthened it. Her heart failed her; she uttered a low cry of pain, and tottered to a chair like one wounded. It was then ten o’clock. She thought the noon hour would never come. Eagerly she watched for Bram and her father; for any certainty would be better than such cruel fear and suspense. And, if .Richard had really gone the fact would be known to them. Bram came first. For once she felt impatient of his political en thusiasm. How could she care about liberty poles and Impressed fishermen with such a real terror at her heart? Joris was tenderly explicit. He said to her at once: “‘The Dauntless’ sailed this morning. Oh, my little one, sorry I am for thee!” "Is he gone?” Very low and slow were the words; and Joris only an swered, “Yes.” Without any further question or re mark, she went away. They were amazed at her calmness. And for some minutes after she had locked the door of her room, she stood still In the middle of the floor, more like one that has forgotten something, and is trying to remember, than a woman who has received a blow upon her heart. No tears came to her eyes. She did not think of weeping or re proaching, or lamenting. The only questions she asked herself were: “How am I to get life over? Will such suffering kill me very soon?” About two o’clock Lysbet went to Katherine. The girl opened her door at once to her. There was nothing to be said, no hope to offer. The mother did not attempt to say one word of comfort, or hope, or excuse. She only took the child in her arms, and wept for her. i loveu nun bo mucn, moeuer. “Thou could not help it. Handsome and gallant and gay he was.” “And he did love me. A woman knows when she is loved.” "Yes, I am sure he loved thee.” “He has gone? Really gone?” “No doubt is there of it. Stay in thy room, and have thy grief out with thyself.” “No; I will come to my work. Ev ery day will not be the same. I shall look no more for any Joy; but my duty I will do.” They went, downstairs together. The clean linen, the stockings that required mending, lay upon the table. Katherine sat down to the task. Res olutely, but almost unconsciously, she put her needle through and through. Her suffering was pitiful; this little one who a few months ago would have wept for a cut finger, now silently battling with the bitterest agony that can come to a loving woman—the sense of cruel, unexpected, unmerited desertion. So for an hour, an hour of speechless sorrow, they sat. The at mosphere was becoming intolerable, like that of a nightmare; and Lysbet was feeling that she must speak and move, and so dissipate it, when there was a loud knock at the front door. Katherine trembled all over. “To f *«y I cannot bear It, mother. No on* can I see. I will go upstairs." Ere the words were finished, Mae. Gordon’s voice was audible. She came into the room laughing, with the smell of freEh violets and the feeling of the brisk wind around her. “Dear madam.” she cried, “I entreat you for a favor. I am going to take the air this afternoon; be so good as to let Katherine come with me. For I must tell you that the colonel has orders for Boston, and 1 may see my charm ing friend no more after to-day.” “Katherine, what say you? Will you go?” "Please, mljn moeder.” "Make great haste, then.” For Lysbet was pleased with the offer, and fearful that Jorls might arrive, and refuse to let his daughter accept it. She hoped that Katherine would receive some comforting message. "Stay not long,” she whispered, "for your father’s sake. There is no good, more trouble to give him.” "Well, my dear, you look like a ghost. Have you not one smile for a woman so completely in your Interest? I promised Dick this morning that I would be sure to get word to yow" “I thought Richard had gone.” "And you were breaking your heart that is easy to be seen. He has gone, but he will come hack to-night at eight o’clock. No matter what hap pens, be at the riverside. Do not fail Dick; he is taking his life in his hand to see you.” "I thought he had "one—gone, with out a word.” "Faith you are not complimentary! I flatter myself that our Dick is a gentleman. I do, indeed. And, as he is yet perfectly In his senses, you might have trusted him.” “When will Richard return?” "Indeed, I think you will have to answer for his resolves. But he will speak for himself; and. in faith, I told him that he had come to a point where I would be no longer responsible for his actions. I am thankful to own that I have some conscience left.” The ride was not a very pleasant one. Katherine could not help feeling that Mrs. Gordon was distrait and in consistent; and, towards its close, she became very silent. Yet she kissed her kindly, and drawing her closely for a last word, said, “Do not forget to wear your wadded cloak and hood. You may have to take the water; for the councillor is very suspicious, let me tell you. Remember what I say— the wadded cloak and hood; and good by, my dear." “Shall I see you soon?” “When we may meet again, I do not pretend to say; till then, I am en tirely yours; and so again good-by.” The ride had not occupied an hour; but, when Katherine got home, Lysbet was making tea. “A cup will be good for you, mijn kind.” And she smiled tenderly in the face that had been so white in its woeful anguish, but on which there was now the gleam of hope. And she perceived that Kather ine had received some message; she even divined that there might be some appointment to keep; and she deter mind not to be too wise and prudent, but to trust Katherine for this even ing with her own destiny. That night there w'as a meeting at the town hall and Joris left the house soon after his tea. For an hour or more Katherine sat in the broad light of the window, fold ing and unfolding the pieces of white linen, sewing a stitch or two here, and putting on a button or tape there. Madam passed quietly to and fro about her home duties, sometimes stopping to say a few words to her daughter. When Lysbet was ready to do so, she began to lay into the deep drawers of the presses the table linen which Katherine had so neatly and carefully examined. Over a pila of fine damask napkins she stood, with a perplexed, annoyed face; and Katherine, detecting it, at once un derstood the cause. (To be continued.) BOTH HOOKED SAME FISH. Andfthe Incident Caused Bad Feeling Between Anglers. Funny things happen in bass fish ing. Toward the close of the season William Hammeyer of Winneconne, Wis., was fishing from a boat with his friend, G. B. Hamilton of Peru, Ind. - They were on Fox Lake and fishing was not good, which made them eager. Hammeyer got a strike, fastened his fish and began to reel in strongly, determined to land his catch without less of time. Hamilton got a strike and did the same thing. They had been an hour without a bite and had no leisure or inclination to watch one another. The first fish after an hour’s casting is apt to get on the nerves. When the bass was close to the boat Hammeyer discovered that he was bringing in his friend’s line and said; “We’re tangled! Let out a little line till I get this fish in.” Hamilton discovered the tangle at the same time and said the same thing. They glared at each other and reeled furiously. With a jerk that ought to have loos ened all of its scales a pound bass came out of the water. Hammeyer’s weedless hook was fastened in one side of its jaw, Hamilton’s was fast ened in the other. They lifted the bass in and looked at one another. They agreed without words to call it a partnership fish. Both men had cast at the same in-| stant, and their baits had struck the water close together. Reeling in the! baitB had come within a couple of! inches of each other. The fish either struck both baits at once or it struck one of them, felt the pain from the. hook, slung its head to one side and got the other hook. 1 % THE FIRST WEDDING SIMPLE CEREMONY IN THE GAR. DEN OF EDEN. Bridal Outfit of the Young Lady No Tax on Adam’s Pocketbook—How Misfortunes Finally Came to the Happy Family. A great many years ago, long befor* It entered tne mind of man to con struct the Tower of Babel, or to lay out the city of Buffalo or to do many other foolish and wicked things— there resided in a distant land a gen tleman called Adam, whose surname was First Man, who became enamored of a beautiful young lady, known as Eve B. Guiled. His attentions appear to have been reciprocated by the lady, and she became convinced he was "the only man she could ever love,” if wo may judge from the following com munication which she made to John Milton, who followed the rather singu lar vocation of advertising things “Lost and Found” upon her Father's Estate. "Confirmed, then I resolved Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe; so dearly I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, with out him, live no life.” This being equivalent to the modest declaration that the lady is willing that her lover should begin to “pay her board,” arrangements were im mediately made to have the union as sured, and in the absence of an offi cial clergyman the ceremony was per formed in the most simple and unos tentatious manner, in the beautiful garden of Eden. The outfit of the groom was plain and simple, perhaps the most notice able thing about it being absence of the dress coat, prescribed for such oc casions by “our best society.” The bridal costume was marked by perfect simplicity and absence of all expensive and extravagant adornments. There must have been something very be coming in this costume, as certain ladies in fashionable life at the pres ent day, imitate it as closely as possi ble when in full dress. Dispensing with the practice now so prevalent of indulging in a wedding j tour, and not caring publicly to pro claim themselves as newly married by the occupancy of the bridal chambers in the hotels and on steamboats, the happy couple settled quietly down to the joys and cares of married life in the Garden of Eden, and were noted for their plain and unpretending man ner of living. They kept no carriage, hired no opera box, gave no costly en tertainments, but contented them selves with the simple, inexpensive and satisfactory pleasures and enjoy ments incident to the circumstances and surroundings. Adam was a good husband; he spent his evenings (and a good many of his days) at home, he had no business en gagements “down street,’ nor did he belong to a club. Undoubtedly he was an early riser and loved the "dewy morn"—as we are sure he did the “gentle Eve." Eve was doubtless a very beautiful woman. She deserved, if any of her eex ever did, the credit of caring little for the blandishments of dress. Her tastes and habits were eminently domestic, and for her, in truth, there was no place like home. Eve, so far as we know, spent littie of her time and money "shopping,” and it is not probable that she had ever heard of Stewart’s, that Mecca of American women. She never sent Adam to a restaurant for his meals Mondays, because they were washing days, nor made his life miserable by reason of semi-annual house-cleanings. She was not a heartless woman of the world, nor did she ever affilia:e with Mrs. Grundy and kindred spirits, and never troubled herself about the own ership of an extra pair of stockings dangling from her neighbor's clothes line. We regret to add that misfortunes eventually came upon this happy fam ily. Eve unfortunately became in volved in a transaction of fruit—ap ples,* principally—in which Adam was involved, and their property, including the homestead, passed out of their possession, and they were obliged to seek a residence elsewhere. From this time we know little about them ex cept that Adam, with careful attention to his diet, managed to live and reach the age of 930, and died in the prime of manhood, his days being shortened, doubtless, materially, by the loss of his property. Whether Eve survived him or deceased first, we cannot say but presume she did.—Exchange. Surprised Card Party. Three civil engineers while travel ing from Amiens to Paris began to play cards on an apparently aban doned lunch basket of large dimen sions, which had been lying on the hat rack. It appeared to be rather heavy, but they supposed it to be full of plates. The basket was placed on end and a leather portfolio placed on the top to form a table. Suddenly they were startled to hear loud cries, which came from the bs.s Uet It was opened, and a three months-old baby was found Inside. The baby was neatly dressed, and bore a card, on which was written: "To be delivered to Mme. Forsey, Creuil.” The three men did their best to keep the child quiet until the train stopped at the next station. It was Creuil, and there a respectably dressed woman came forward anil claimed to be the owner of the baby. It appears that the child had been put out to nurse near Boulogne. Not having received any pay, the nurse had adopted this way of sending the child back to its mother.—London Express. 1 ' ————— mm Ji—-T ■’ A LURKING DANGER. llic-it? IB O. UlJKlIJg danger in the aching back. The aches and pains of a bad back tell of kidneys overworked. Go to the kidneys' assistance when backache pains warn you. A kidney warning should be heeded, for dangerous diabetes quickly follows in the wake of backache. Urinary disorders are serious and u Bright's disease is near at hand. Read g how the danger can be averted. Case No. 15,741.—Rev. Jacob D. Van Doren, of 57 Sixth street, Fond du Lac, Wis., Presbyterian clergyman, says: “A man or woman who has never had kidney complaint or any of the little ills consequent upon irritated or inac tive kidneys knows very little about what prolonged suffering is. I had at tacks which kept me in the house for days at a time, unable to do anything, and to express what I suffered can hardly be adequately done in ordinary Anglo-Saxon. As time passed, compli cations set in, the particulars of which 1 will be pleased to give in a personal interview to any one who requires in formation. I used plenty of remedies, and, ever on the outlook for something that might check or benefit my condi tion, I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills. This I can conscientiously say, Doan's Kidney Pills caused a general Improvement in my health. They brought great relief by lessening the pain and correcting the action of the kidney secretions. A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine, which cured the Rev. Jacob Van Doren, will be mailed on applica tion to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. Nine eyes and three mouths were possessed by a collie puppy born re cently at Henley, England. It lived four hours. Business Chancc3. The M. K. & T. 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