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Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, • - NEBRASKA. a..—. . ...8 Of course the world owes you a liv ing, but you must be your own bill collector. The man who attends to Mr. Schwab's poor health must be taking a vacation. Nations in need of an experienced arbitrator would do well to consider Ban Johnson. Tire surest way to prevent your clothes being destroyed by moths is to have only one suit. Sir Thomas is planning to launch the Shamrock the first week in April— not the first day, we trust. What the president needs is a sec retary that can hang pictures tn a way that will suit everybody. Carnegie needn’t worry. Venezuela refused to take his money; but Vene zuela isn't tho beginning and the end. Marriage licenses have fallen ofT 2, 000 in Philadelphia. Is it possible that Cupid has also gone to sleep in that city? A locomotive struck a thousand dol lar dog in Pennsylvania the other day and marked him down to less than 30 cents. Most of these people who Invest In get-rieh-quick schemes would probably laugh at a farmer who bought a gold brick. German law permits the Saxon ex crown princess to marry again pro vided she doesn’t marry the man she ought to marry. Schwab is trying to break automo bile records in France. The report that he had recovered must have been unfounded. The cake walk and coon song have j shocked Paris. Well, the French ball has shocked us, so the score may be called about even. Complaint is made in Copenhagen that big stones are found in tubs of butter imported from Siberia. Even canny Connecticut never went so far as that. With the Maine senate tied, 12 to 12, on the question of allowing women to vote. President Virgin broke the tie by voting "No.” Now, was he a wiso .Virgin? The sultan has Just filed another of his fair, sweet promises, and the powers will now go about their ordi nary affairs, trying not to notice when he breaks it. It's funny that a woman who will wear tight shoes and corsets for twelve hours at a stretch will com plain of a tight husband every time ho gets that way. According to the adjutant-general, the United States has 10,853,396 men able to bear arms, which is one rea son why most of them will never be called on to do so. It is now announced from the Bal kan ring side that the Macedonian mill will not be pulled off this year. The principals, however, will keep up a vigorous training. The saddest sight on earth is the breakfast table expression of the aver age man.—Baltimore American. Par ticularly if it is preceded by his "next morning” expression. The New York man who has con tracted a second marriage while pay ing $3,000 a year alimony to his first wife is clearly not of the number who are afraid of the expense of married life. A medical expert makes the import ant announcement that Prize Fighter Jeffries is in perfect physical condi tion. This seems to be another seri ous blow at the theory that whisky is injurious. Science now informs us that a me chanical shock will kill the germs in water. It is so much easier to throw the kettle downstairs than to keep it on the fire for twenty minutes. And it saves fuel. One-twentieth of the men in Now York city, according to Mr. Jerome, are in the habit of indulging In alco holic drinks on Sunday. There is something wrong with the numerator of that fraction. If Mr. Carnegie ttill has that $365,* 000 which he wanted to give to Vene zuela ho can undoubtedly find a grate ful recipient of bis generosity by ad dressing in strict confidence A. Hamid, Serai Hamayun, Constantinople. It seems the new lord lieutenant of Ireland doesn't know whether to kiss the debutantes presented at the Dub lin drawing rooms or not. Then he certainly doesn't deserve to be told. A spectator at the recent Oxford Cambridge football game cracked a lung yelling for the winners. This game should be made less brutal. Congressman IJttlefield says there are 800 trusts in this country. It must be the masses and not the classes who are forming trusts, after all. THE MAID of MAIDEN LANE Sequel tp “ The Bow of Orange Ribbon.” A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E. BARR (Copyright, m by Amelia E. Barr) * CHAMPTER III.—(Continued.) A short time after Cornelia came | home, Doctor Moran returned from j his professional visits. Nature had i left the impress of her nobility on ills finely formed forehead; nothing; but ' truth and kindness looked from his ' candid eyes. On entering the room, he drew his wife close to his heart and kissed her affectionately. “I have had a morning full of feel ing. There is no familiarity with Death, however often you meet him.” ‘‘And you have met Death this morning, I see that, John?” “You are right, Ava. I must now veil you that Elder Semple died this morning.” “The dear old man! He has boon Bick and sorrowful ever since his wife died. Were any of his sons present?” "None of them. The two eldest have been long away. Neil was obliged to leave New York when the Act forbidding Tory lawyers to prac tice was passed. But he was not quite alone, his old friend Joris Van Heemskirk was with him to the last moment. The love of these old men for each other was a very beautiful thing.” ‘‘There is nothing to fear in such a death.” “Nothing at all. Last week when Cornelia and I passed his house, he was leaning on the garden gate, and he spoke pleasantly to her and told her she was ‘a bonnie lassie.’ Where is Cornelia?” "In her room. John, she went to Duyckinck's this morning for me, and George Hyde met her again, and they took a walk together on the Battery.” "She told you about it?” “Oh, yes, and without inquiry.” “When Madame Hyde was Kather ine Van Heemskirk, and younger than you are, she had two lovers; one, Capt. Pick Hyde, and the other a young man called Neil Semple; and they fought a duel about her, and nearly cut each other to pieces.” “Artnta!” “Oh, it is the very truth, I assure you! And while Hyde still lay be tween life and death. Miss Van Heemskirk married him; and as soon as he was able he carried her off at midnight te England; and there they lived in a fine cdtf house until the war. Then they came back to New York and Hyde went into the Conti nental army and did great things, I suppose, l'or as we all know, he was made a general. And will you please only try to imagine it of Mrs. General Hyde! A woman so lofty! So calm! Will you imagine her as Katherine Van Heemskirk in a short, quilted peticoat, with her hair hanging in two braids down her back, running away at midnight with Gen. Hyde!” “He was her husband. She com mitted no fault.” "Cornelia, shall I tell you why you are working, so close to the window this afternoon?” “You are going to say something I would rather not hear, Arenta.” “Truth is wholesome, if not agree able; and the truth is, you expect Lieut. Hyde to pass. But he will not do so. I saw him booted and spur red. on a swift horse, going up the river road. He was bound for Hyde Manor, I am sure. Now. Cornelia, you need not move your frame; for no one will disturb you. He will uot be insinuating himself with violets and compelling you to take w-alks with him on the Battery. Oh, Cor "Cornelia shall not have anything to do with him.” “Very good. I must look after that young fellow.” But he said the words without much care, and Mrs. Moran was not satisfied. "Then you do not disapprove the meeting, John?” she asked. "Yes, I do. George Hyde has too many objectionable qualities. His father is an Englishman of the most pronounced type and this young man is quite like him. 1 want no English man in my family.” “There have been many Dutch mar riages among the Morans.” "That is a different thing. The Dutch, as a race, have every desir able quality. The English are nat ural despots. The young man's faults are racial; they are in the blood. Cornelia shall not have any thing to do with him. Why do you speak of such disagreeable things, Ava?” “It is well to look forward, John.” “No. It is time enough to meet annoyances when they arrive. As for the Hydes, fatner and son, I would prefer to hear no mere about them.” Nothing further was said on the subject, but the doctor looked more attentively at his daughter than was usual with him. He was more silent than ordinary; and as ue went out, told Cornelia she would do well not to appear in public. “The city is in mourning,” he said, “and respectable women who have no real business or duty to take them from their homes will pay the reverence of seclusion in them until after Franklin's funerai.” A couple of hours later Cornelia was sitting at her tambour-frame, passing her needle slowly through and through the delicate muslin. She was desiring no companionship, when Arenta entered with her usual little flurry and rustle. Arenta kiss ed her friend and took ofT her hat and cloak, saying, ns she did so: "I have been at Aunt Angelica's all morniog>— and we talked a great many people over—that is, Aunt Angelica talked. “Now, I can tell you something worth hearing about Gen. Hyd ?. Lis ten! nelia! you see I am not to be put out of your confidence. Why did you not toll me?” . “You have given me no opportun ity, and. as you know all, why should I say any more about it?” "Cornelia, my dear companion, let us be honest, if we die for it. And you may as well tell me of your lit tle coquetries with George Hyde, for I shall be sure to find them out. Now I am going home; for I must look after the tea table. But you will not be sorry, for it will leave you free to think of-” "Please, Aienta!” "Very well. I will hs.ve ‘considera tions.’ Good-bye!” Then the door closed and Cornelia was left alone. But the atmosphere of the room was charged with Arenta's unrest and a feeling of dis appointment was added to it. She suddenly realized that her lover’s absence from the city left a great vacancy. She had a new strange happiness, new hopes, new fears and new wishes; but they were not an unmixed delight, for she was also aware of a vague trouble, a want that nothing in her usual duties satisfied —in a word, she had crossed the threshold of womanhood and was no longer a girl. CHAPTER IV. Throwing Things Into Confusion. Prudence declares that whenever a person is In that disagreeable situa tion which compels him to ask what shall I do?” that the wisest answer is, "nothing.” Put such answer did not satisfy George Hyde. He was so much in earnest, so honestly in love, that he felt Ills doubts and anxieties could only be relieved by action. "I will go to my mother!” he thought. And this resolution satisfied him so well, that he carried it out at once. Put it was after dark when he reach ed the tall stone portals of Hyde Manor House. The great building loomed up dark and silent; there was but one light visible. It was in his mother's usual sitting room, and as soon as he sawr it he began to whistle. She heard him afar off, and was at the door to give him a welcome. “Joris, my dear one, we were talk ing of you!” she cried, as he leaped from the saddle to her arms. “So glad are we! Come in quickly! Well, [ are you? Quite well. Now, then, I i am happy. Happy as can be! Look now, Richard!” she called, as she flur.g the door open, and entered with j the handsome, smiling youth at her ; side. In his way the father was just as much pleased. "Kate, my dear heart.” he cried, “let us have some thing to eat. The boy will be hun gry as a hunter after his ride. And George, what brings you home? We were just telling each other—your mother and,I—that you were in the height of the city’s follies.” ■ ‘'Indeed, sir, there will be few fol lies for some days. Mr. Franklin is dead, and the city goes into mourn ing.” "Tis a fate that all must meet,” said the General, “but death and Franklin wrould look each other in the face as friends-He had a work to do, he did it well, and it is finished. That is all. What other news do you bring?” “It is said that Mirabeau is arrest ed somewhere for something. I did not hear the particulars. And the deputies are returning to the Prov inces drunk with wielr own import ance. Mr. Hamilton says ‘Revolution in France has gone raving mad and converted twenty-four millions of people into savages.’ ” “I hate the French'” said the Gen eral passionately. “It is a natural instinct with me. If I thought I had one drop of French blood in me, I would let it out with a dagger.” George winced a little. He remem bered that the Morans were of French extraction, and he answered: Alter ail, latner, we must judge people individually. Mere race is not much.” ‘‘George Hyde! What are you say ing? Race is everything. It is the strongest and deepest of ail human feelings. Nothing conquers its prejudices.” ‘‘Except iove. I have heard, father, that Love never asks ‘of what race art thou?’ or even *•whose son, or daughter, art thou?’” “You have heard many foolish things, George; that is one of them. Men and women marry out of their own nationality at their peril. 1 took my life in my hand for your mother’s iove.” “She was worthy of the peril.” “God knows it.” (To be continued.) -z PRIZES OF THE BRITISH BAR. High Salaries and Large Fortunes Are the Rule. The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain is second only in position to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he enjoys an income of £10,000 a year. The Lord Chief Justice of England has a salary of £8,000 a year. The Mas ter of the Rolls has a salary of £6,000 a year, and the Lords of Appeal in Or dinary have the same. The lord jus tices of the Court of Appeal and the judges of the High Court earn £5,000 a year each. The masters of the High Court are chosen either from barris ters or from solicitors, but all the other officeholders to whom we have alluded must have come from the bar. The Attorney General makes much more money than any of these digni taries. His salary is only £7,000, but he has fees as well, sometimes to a very large amount. The Solicitor Gen eral ha3 £6,000 a year besides his fees. Of course, the double work, le gal and parliamentary, which these officers have to undertake is most ar dnous, requiring an iron constitution and a mind that requires but little time for rest. The private practition ers in some few cases make larger in comes than any of the official persons at the bar. It is not, indeed, many who make salaries of five figures, but there may be always one or two lead ers who are achieving this. The lead ers who are chiefly before the public in ordinary cases do not often make more than from £5,000 to £6,000 a year. Larger fortunes are frequently made by men who specialize in pat ent cases, who are engaged in rating appeals and compensation work, or who practice their profession at the parliamentary bar.—Cornhill Maga zine. Entry by Nomination in Navy. The writer of an article in Page’s Magazine on Lord Seiborne’s new scheme for the training of British naval officers makes some pointed re marks on the present methods of en try to the navy. He states that the proposed mode of entry by nomina tion is a relic of admiralty patronage, which the board is unwilling to re linquish; but, whether the admirnls like it cr not, it must soon go the way of all such antiquated privileges. Open competition is sure to come within the next few years. The re sult of this entry by nomination will be to keep the naval service—as far as the officers are concerned—in the family circles of the admiralty and their friends; so that parents without influence inside of that charmed circle will have no chance of getting their boys into the navy, however desirable the boys themselves may be, or how ever ready the parents may be to in cur the heavy expense of educating their boys for the service of their country. Fast Railway Time Promised. Offices of the Transiberian railway will be opened shortly in Paris. Ar u—gements are nearly completed for the running of the new Russo-Euro pean express from Calais, which will enable travelers from England to rcazh Pekin in fourteen days. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON XII., MARCH 22; EPHE SIANS 2:1-10—PAUL’S MESSAGE.. Golden Text—“By Grace Are Ye Saved Through Faith”—Paul Visited Ephe sus on His Second and Third Mis sionary Journeys. I. A Wonderful Eotter.—Its Character. The Epistle to the Ephesians-, as Chrysos tom said, "overflows with lotty thoughts find doctrines." The Epistle sums up. In n wonderful way, the entire gospel of Christ. It "embraces. In Its brevity, the whole field of the Christian religion."— A. Monod. The Keynote of the Epistle Is found in the present lesson; It is the new life In Christ,—the church us the body of Christ, and therefore filled with Ills Spirit. “In Christ,” or its < qulvalents, occurs more than twenty times. II. Dead In Sins without Christ —Vs 1-3. Chapter I. closes with n picture of Christ as head of the church. Paul now passes on to show how God brought the Ephesians into his church. In painting their lost condition without Christ, the apostle paints a picture of ail sinners. He uses four dark colors in the picture. First: Denth. 1. "And you hath he quickened.” "Made alive,” the old English meaning, still seen in the phrase, "the quick and the dead." "Who were dead in trespasses" (special acts) "and sins" (all forms of sin,—a more general term). Second: Worldliness. 2. "Wherein in time past ye walked." The sinful life is here spoken of as the road in which the evil walk, as in v. 10 “good works" are named us the road in which the righteous walk. “According to the course of this world.” Third: Sutan. “According to the prince of the power of the air.” Satan, the per sonal spirit of evil. "The spirit.” That Is, Satan, or Satan and his followers. "That now worketh." 3. "Among whom also we all.” All Christians. Jew and Gentile, Paul and the most ignorant disciple, were, before con version, children of disobedience. “Had our conversation." R. V„ "lived." "In ths lusts” (i. e.. desires) “of our flesh;" in cluding all sinful desires, and not merely the sins of the body. Fourth: God's anger, the darkest color of ail. "And were by nature the children of wrath.” The phrase, the children of wrath. Is analogous to the children of dis obedience. "Even as others.” "All have sinned” (Rom. 3:23), so that all should be equally humble. The Sinner's Portrait. Thus Paul has painted, In four dark, terrible colors, the picture of sinners without Christ: 1. They are full of worldly desires. 2. Satan has possession of them. 3. They are dead to the highest power, knowledge, and joy. 4. God's awful wrath rests upon them. III. Alive with Christ.—Vs. 4-7. In this picture, also, Paul uses four colors—four radiant hues: the words “mercy,” "love," "grace,” "kindness." and repeats them, laying the colors on thick. 4. "But God." There Is always God, to set off against the dark picture of hu man sin and woe. "Who is rich in mercy." "For his great love.” God offers us sal vation in Christ, not because we deserve it, or have any right to It, but because he loves us; just because he Is rich In mer cy. This love and mercy are set off against the wrath of v. 3. 5. "Even when we were dead in sin? " Perhaps Paul was thinking of some de caying corpse, foul to the senses and least likely to inspire love. Such is the real state of an unrepentant sinner; yet God loves him with great love. "Hath quickened us." Brought us to life. “Together with Christ." "(Ity grace ye are saved.)” BettPr as in the R. V., "by grace have ye been saved." C. "And hath raised us up together.” To gether “with him" (R. V.l. I. e., Christ; being partakers through faith In the joy and power of Ills resurrection. "And made us sit together" (R. V., "with him") "In heavenly places.” the joys and achievements of the new life. "In Christ Jesus." "Resurrection, en thronement. heaven, all are in Christ.”— Marvin R. Vincent. “Through Christ Jesus.” Better, as in the R. V'., “in Christ Jesus." "The ground of this kindness shown toward us is in Christ, not in us.”—Professor Abbott. IV. How the Great Transformation Is Brought About.—Vs. 8-10. In the paren thesis of v. 5 Paul has shot forth tin* great truth that salvation comes by grace and not by desert; It is not earned, it is a gift. It is the method by which the dark picture of sin Is to be transformed Into the bright picture of eternal life. There are three steps in this transform ation. First Step: The New Life Is a Gift. 8. “For by grace are ye saved through faith." Grace is a beautiful word. It is by such beautiful and undeserved grace, sought and received by our faith, that God saves us from our sins. "And that not of yourselves.” This may refer to the salvation, the thought being repeated that It is not earned by us. Or. Paul may mean that even the faith by which we lay hold on salvation is “not of ourselves," but is God's gift to us. "It Is the gift of God,” sent us in the form of Christ, the "unspeakable gift” (2 Cor. 9:15). second step in tne rransiormaiion: mi mlllty. !). "Not of works." Salvation is not to be obtained in the Pharisee’s way, by prayers In the market-place, osten tatious gifts to the poor, and similar pa rade of good deeds The Rood deeds are to be done, but with humility; and our hope of heaven must rest, not on them, but on Christ. "Lest any man should boast." Paul oft en recurs to this lowly thought. To him as to any noble spirit, few things were more offensive than to see a man think ing "himself to be something, when he is nothing" (Gal. 0:3) and God is everything. 10. "For we are his workmanship." God formed the marvelous structure of our bodies, and tills wonderful world In which we live, and gave us souls to direct the first and use the second. "Created.” Paul likes to speak of the soul as if. in the new birth, it were for the first time cre ated. “Redemption is creation reaf firmed.”—Findlay. "In Christ Jesus.” Third Step in the Transformation: Fruit-bearing. Our lives are gardens, planted and tended by God's loving care, without which they would be barren in deed. If a garden is alive, it will bring forth fruit, and so Paul says we are cre ated "unto good works." “Which God hath before ordained.” By giving us strength and determination; by setting before us open doors of opportunity. “That we should v.'alk in them.” Follow ing, in our daily lives, the path Gols providence has marked out for us. Get Into a Loftier Region. The true way to conquer tempta tions is not to fight them in detail, but to go up into a loftier region where they cease to bo temptations. How is it there are r.o mosquitoes nor ma laria on the mountain tops? They cannot rise above the level of the swamps by the riveV. Go up to the mountain top, and neither mosquitoes nor malaria will follow you—which, being interpreted, is, live near Jesus Christ and keep your hearts and minds occupied with him and you will dwell in a region high above temptations. Passing of the Story Tellers. Two of the best story tells In the ■enate will return to private life with the passing of this congress. George Graham Vest of Missouri, whose wit and stories have enlivened the cloak rooms for the last twenty years, will end his public career, and at the same time John P. Jones of Nevada will re tire. While Senator Vest was bril liant on the floor, he was wittiest in the smoking room. When surrounded by a group of appreciative listeners, he would tell stories and make jests by tho hour. Senator Jones also has not kept his fun under a bushel. He is extremely serious and profound in debate, but in a free-and-easy discus sion in the cloak room his quaint hu mor is second to that of no member of the senate.—Atlanta Constitution. Evil Habits Spreading. The steamship Siberia, which runs between San Francisco and the Phil ippines and China, provides four opium smoking rooms for its Chinese passengers “who can't get along with out indulgence in the narcotic." Thus America not only transports its vices to semi-civilized countries and to the Islands of the sea, but it is in a fair way to cultivate the bestial habits of those very countries which it in vades.—Ram's Horn. Mother Couldn’t Object. Little Chronicle: “Does your moth er allow you to have two pieces of pie when you are at home, Willie?” asked the hostess. “No, ma’am." . “Well, do you think she would like you to have two pieces here?” “Oh, she wouldn’t care,” said Wil lie confidentially, "this isn't her pie.” Country relations would be more warmly welcomed if they didn’t al ways carry such horrible satchels. WFIKN YOUR UKOCKR SAYS he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he Is afraid to keep It until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. De fiance Starch Is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and cells for samo money as 12 oz. brands. A Tattersall Romance. The cook on one of our coasting boats sent for a 5s ticket In “Tatter sail’s” sweep on Caulfield cup. To the stewardess he said: "I’ll give you half of whatever I win.” On the ar rival of the vessel at Townsville the other day a wire was waiting for the cook, and its contents advised Him that he had drawn first prize—about G.750 pounds net. He immediately sought the stewardess and advised her of his luck, at the same time saying: “I have to give you 3,375 pounds. What do you say to taking me aud the lot?” The offer was accepted, and on the arrival of the vessel at Bris bane the pair are to be married.— Chronicle, Mackay, Queensland. TRADE MARK. How? By soothing and subduing tha pain, that's the way StJacobs Oil Cures Neuralgia Price, 25c. end 50c. BROMO SELTZER CURES ALL 10 CENTS-EVERYWHERE SOLID FACTS! ALL WEARERS OF THE ORIGINAL > i OILED CLOTHING <fc>C* 0* YtLLOWV) SAY IT 13 THE BEST .IN THE WORLD SShNir* and say it EMPHATICALLY? _ A. J TOWER CO. BOSTON. MASS.. U S A. 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