Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . - • NEBRASKA.
Boni has taken to absinthe, but will
hardly deteriorate.
Faint heart ne’er won fair lady nor
did much of anything else.
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Morocco would greatly oblige a fa
tigued world by backing off the map.
King Alfonso has gone to the
Canaries—possibly to build himself a
nest. Spring is here.
This year’s hat boxes are available
as steamer trunks when their original
mission has been fulfilled.
- In proof that it is becoming a truly
western nation Russia reports a few
sensational cases of bank looting.
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Unfortunately several of the re
ports of the killing of the Georgia
peach crop seem to have been true.
No, Elvira, the statement that a
man in London paid $6,000 for an
orchid is not a case of simplified
spelling.
Money is “easy” in London, as is
natural in view of the near advent of
the flood of gold-bearing American
tourists.
An eloping couple from Buffalo were
married in an undertaker’s shop. They
realized, doubtless, that marriage is a
grave matter.
Two Chicago policemen went out
after burglars and came back with a
canary bird. Most Chicago burglars
are birds, you know.
The wife of a missing man says she
does not want to see him again. Need
less to add, there is good reason for
believing he is broke.
The president of one of the Chicago
banks that failed loaned his cook $25,
000. It was probably the only way he
could get her to stay.
If the magazine poet who writes:
1 was so content with my one ewe lamb
My soul went up in a joyful psalm,
ever compiles a dictionary of rhymes
it will be a bouncer.
The indications at Craig-y-Nos are
that Patti is going io make another
farewell tour of the United States.
Why not? She’s only 63.
Do not pick up sample packages of
headache powder that may happen to
be thrown on your porch. They may
stop all your aches permanently.
Down New Orleans way a man kill
ed himself in a nightmare. Those
dripped absinthes in that town will
make a man do almost anything.
The editor who notes that Dr. Mary
Walker “refuses to tell how old she
is,” meant, of course, to say that she
declines to say how young she is.
Governor Pennypacker, they say, can
speak six languages, so that he can
give considerable variety to the ex
pression of his opinion of the newspa
pers.
When a sartorial master like Ed
ward of England turns his imagination
loose, we get results. Beside the royal
blue what becomes of the Quaket
(gray?
Olga Nethersole announces that she
will quit the stage in eight years,
■when she will be—that is to say, when
ehe will be eight years older than she
is now.
If the people who keep diaries are
wise, they never put into them the
things that would make them most in
teresting to other people in the years
to come.
When the airship, the automobile
and the wireless telegraph come at it
all at once, the North Pole may as
well surrender to the age and the in
ventions.
That declaration of principles by the
Fonetic Spelling association of Kolum
bia university looks like a page filched
from Josh Billings. But it was a joak
with him.
Jacob H. SchifT, the New York bank
er, has beeiudecorated by the emperor
of Japan witn the Order of the Rising
Sun. Japan evidently isn't through
borrowing money.
It develops that the Russian people
have been given neither a constitution
or a bill of rights, after all. The im
perial manifesto is apparently a full
brother to t»e gold brick.
If we ever should have absolutely
fonetic spelling, a good many people
would be surprised to discover that
they have never learned how to pro
nounce the English language.
Now it will be just like some mem
ber of the Association of American
Humorists to remark that the excite
ment during Bernhardt's circus ap
pearance In Texas was in tents.
A correspondent of the Boston
Transcript wants the spelling re
formers to spell pants p-a-n-c. We are
beginning to fear that this spelling
reform business may, unless It is soon
stopped, cause Boston to be engulfed
in a wave of immorality. At any rate,
l this Is the first time Boston has ever
I admitted that there are pants.
A Brooklyn man says it is nobody’s
1 business that he supports two wives.
[ Yes it Is, some of the rest of us would
t like to know how he does it.
? Two Chicago boys who amused
J themselves by shooting at lanterns
« on railway trains, thus endangering
> the lives of passengers, have been sen
n fenced not to touch firearms for two
ars This awful punishment will no
’ doubt cause all other young owners of
| revolvers to throw away their wea
| pons and resolve to lead blameless
_ lives.
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j: Has Studied Easter Customs |
in All Parts of the World |
Miss Helen Mathews Laidlaw of St.
Louis has seen Easter day celebrated
in more different countries, perhaps,
than any person on earth. In eighteen
countries she has spent Easter, nine
teen if England and Scotland be con
sidered different countries.
To reassure those who may get an
incorrect idea in regard to Miss Laid
law's age it should be stated that she
is but 31 years old, for she began her
life of travel with her father, a writer
and student since he retired from the
ministry, before she was 12 years of
age, and since then lias visited prac
tically every country on the earth.
Her Easter experiences, written at
her father’s request, to be read before
a church organization, furnish a valu
able addition to the history of that
strange, part pagan, part Christian,
part Jewish holiday.
What Easter means to Christians
everybody understands, but that the
tribes of the earth, many of whom
know little of Christianity, and more
geantry of the Roman Catholic ser
vices and processions are strangely
mixed with other customs.
"The great Easter week parade is
treated as a circus and the floats rep
resenting the epochs in the life of
Christ are surrounded by great
crowds, that come from all the coun
try round to see the procession and
participate in the wine drinking and
feasting that follow. The float repre
senting Christ, taken by the Centu
rion, brings the crowds to their knees
all along the route, and there are
storms of jeers, hisses and volleys of
stones for Judas.
“One beautiful feature of the Span
ish Easter is the choirs of children in
the processions. In the procession of
‘Our Lady of the Angels’ a hundred
little girls in white, with white feath
ers in their beautiful black hair, par
aded, singing. They were the ‘angels.’
although they looked for all the world
like our American Indian children.
“The next Easter I spent in Mexico
City—again among the Spanish—and
singers came forth and wandered In
bands from hamlet to hamlet In the
valley, singing their famous carols
until the mountains and glaciers
echoed with the Easter hymns. At
each house the singers call the people
to the door, and eggs, colored and
marked with mottoes, are passed out
to them, and wine and cake served,
while the people qf the house carol
with the singers. Everywhere the
people wear flowers, covering them
selves with them.
“Rome, of course, is the center of
the Easter celebration, and the cere
monies are more gorgeous even than
at Jerusalem—where it was my luck to
be last year. I witnessed one celebra
tion at Rome, when the blessed Pope
Leo led at mass in St. Peter’s. The
day opened with a salute of cannon
from St. Angelo at 7 o’clock, and im
media’ely the throng moved toward
St. Peter's.
“It was the most impressive sight
in the Christian world. The pope,
seated in his sedia gestatoria, in vest
I “TOUCH ME NOT!" &
that oppose Christian teachings, cele
brate the day is not so well known.
The early Celts, the Egyptians, the
Persians, the Turks, the early Aryans,
celebrated the day, and it received its
lame from Eostre, goddess of the
'lawn, the celebration being in honor
•if the dawning of spring.
The Aryan celebrated by singing,
dancing and feasting, while the Se
mite observed the day with ritual,
prayer and fasting, and from these the
Jews drew their feast of unleavened
I read and the sacrifice of the Paschal
limb, forgetting the origin of the cus
t*m in the story of the Passover. The
Ohristians saw a new meaning in the
Sacrifice when Christ was represented
ns the Paschal lamb.
This synopsis of the origin of the
•Caster celebration precedes Miss
)~aidlaw’s story of her own experi
ences.
“The Easter of 1886,” says Miss
l^aidlaw, “was my first away from
home, and I was that year in Seville
Perhaps the Easter customs in the
world are so strange a mixture of the
barbaric and the Christian as in
fpain, and the center of the celebra
tion is Seville. The pomp and pa
I saw a repetition of most of the Se
ville pageantry over again. The ped
dlers sold small effigies of Judas In
the streets, and they were hanged
everywhere. There was one Judas,
twenty feet tall, hanging from a rope
in the center of a business street, and
I was afraid it was an advert-isement.
“In Mexico the women do penance
—and the men, too. They kneel for
hours in the streets or creep on their
knees for blocks, scourging them
selves. I saw one comely girl, dress
ed in coarse clothes, with a crown of
thorns pressed upon her brow, kneel
ing in the street, surrounded by a
respectful crowd. Two men held her
hands as she walked on her knees—
strangers to her they were—and I
learned later that her father was a
wealthy man.
“The next Easter was in a glorious
land—Austrian Tyrol. We were at
Swartzenberg. only a few miles from
Lake Constance and above the valley
of the Rhine. The Easter ceremonies
are entirely religious, and every form
of worship known to the church is
observed. Later in the day, while
the bells rang wildly throughout the
beautiful valley the famous Tyrolese
ments blazing with gold and the triple
crown upon his brow, was borne into
St. Peter’s. Great fans of ostrich
feathers waved beside him and over
him a canopy, richly embroidered in
gold. The brilliant assemblage bowed
during the stately mass, while the
immense choir filled the cathedral
with inspiring music. Later the pope
was borne in his chair of state to the
balcony, and, rising, blessed the im
mense crowds, gave benediction, and
indulgences.
"In 1891 I was in Germany, and
joined in the quaint games at Ham
burg. The gifts of eggs, which the
white hare is supposed to have
brought during the night, begin early.
At dawn the bells, which have been
silent during passion week, break
forth and ring wildly all day. The
peasants say that the bells have gone
to Rome during passion week and re
turned with a message from the pope
for Easter. The gayly hued eggs are
given everywhere, and none is refus
ed. Every one must wear something
new on Easter day for good luck, sig
nifying that the beginning of Blaster
will mean many new things during
the year.”
The First Faster Dawn
"Blessed Are They That Mourn.”
Oh, deem not they are blest alone
Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep;
The Power who pities man has shown
A blessing for the eyes that weep.
The light of spiiles shall fill again
The lids that overflow with tears;
And weary hours of woe and pain
Are promises of happier years.
There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night;
And grief may bide an evening guest.
But joy shall come with early light.
And thou, who o'er thy friend's low bier
Dost shed the bitter drops like rain,
Hope that a brighter, happier sphere
Will give him to thy arms again.
Nor let the good man's trust depart.
Though life its common gifts deny,—
Though with a pierced and bleeding
heart,
And spurned of men, he goes to die.
For God hath marked each sorrowing day
And numbered every secret tear.
And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all His children suffer here.
—William Cullen Bryant.
After the Great Struggle.
"The average volunteer officer,”
said the sergeant, “captain, colonel or
general, had too much rather than too
little of the milk of human kindness.
Bluff and gruff and a rigid disciplinari
an, he might be and yet win the re
spect, if not the affection, of his sol
diers. And in all such cases the men
in the ranks won at least the respect
of their officers. The relations of such
officers and soldiers after the war
were worth study. We had in our
regiment from the first a peremptory
sort of a captain of military training.
His ambition was to beat the raw ma
terial of his company into shape, to
drill the regiment into form, and,
sternly persistent, he succeeded.
“In the last year of the war he was
promoted to colonel of one of the new
regiments and we lost sight of him.
Two years after the war I was visiting
a Western penitentiary with a legis
lative committee. When the guard
was formed for our inspection I saw
in the ranks the old drill master of
our regiment, the captain of our crack
company. I looked for some sign of
recognition, but there was none, and
I made no advances. But I went that
night to our old division general and
told him of my discovery. He thought
I must be mistaken, but he would in
vestigate.
“In two days the general sent for
the warden of the prison and asked
him if he didn't need a captain for his
guards. The warden said he did, but
added that he could not find a trust
worthy man to take charge. The gen
eral replied that he had among his
guards one of the most capable and
most trustworthy officers in the old
volunteer army. Why not appoint him
to the captaincy without explanation?
He warned the warden that the colo
nel was a proud and sensitive man,
and no questions should be asked as
to how he came to be a prison guard.
"Meantime our committee paid a
visit to the warden and made prac
tically the same recommendation. I
had told the story to all the old sol
diers in the legislature, and they went
into action. The colonel was made
captain of the guard, was later made
chief of police through the influence
of his old company, and the officers
of the division. As he told me later,
the boys did the work and he accept
ed promotion, after promotion, with
no questions asked. Some years later
I was with this officer in the city,
when we passed an old staff officer of
our division general. He shook hands
with us, saluted in his old dignified,
soldierly way, and passed on. The
colonel said to me at once: ‘The major
Is in trouble. I know the signs. We
must help him as you fellows helped
me when* luck was running against
me.’
“We discovered that the old fellow
was in absolute want and was too
proud to let any of his old army
friends know the truth. In three days
he received an unexpected offer of
lucrative employment and accepted
the position. He never admitted that
he had been close to starvation, but
when I visited him in his last sick
ness he told his family the story of
how his old boys had helped him, and
that the colonel and myself had been
leaders in the conspiracy. In the army
he was one of the most lovable men
I knew, and yet he could be as remote
as the Arctic ocean when occasion re
quired.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Commander-in-Chief’s Orders.
Commander-in-Chief James Tanner
announces In orders the following
changes in the National Council of Ad
ministration of the Grand Army of the
Republic: Comrade William J. Pat
terson of Pittsburg, Pa., vice Comrade
Thomas G. Sample, deceased, and
Comrade Oscar L. Stranahan of Hood
River, Ore., vice Comrade B. F. Pike,
resigned.
Comrade Martin V. B. Ives of Pots
dam, N. Y„ has been appointed a mem
ber of the executive committee of the
National Council of Administration,
vice Comrade Thomas G. Sample, de
ceased.
The following comrades are ap
pointed on committees and assigned
to duty as follows:
Committee on legislation for veter
ans in the public service. Ivory G.
Kimball, chairman, Washington, D.
C.; Isaac F. Mack, Sandusky, Ohio;
Leo Rassieur, St. Louis; J. P. S. Go
bin, Lebanon, Pa.; George H. Patrick,
Alabama; F. G. Butterfield, Derby
Line, Vt.; John R. King, Baltimore,
Md.
Committee on fraternal relations
with the Sons of Veterans. U. S. A.,
William H. Armstrong, chairman, In
dianapolis. Ind.; Ell Torrance, Min- ;
neapolis, Minn.; R. W. Tirrill. Man
chester, Iowa; Robert Mann Woods,
Chicago, 111.; A. G. Weissert, Milwau
kee, Wis.; Robert B. Beath, Philadel
phia, Pa.; Allan C. Bakewell, New
York city.
Committee on Bull Run battlefield
monuments, E. W. Whittaker, chair
man, Washington; James McLeer,
Brooklyn; C. A. E. Spamer, Baltimore,
Md.
Committee on Lincoln memorial,
John S. Kountz, past commander-in
chief, Toledo, Ohio; Thomas J. Stew
art, past commander-in-chief, Harris
burg, Pa.: William M. Olin, past sen
ior vice commander-in-chief, Boston,
Mass.; the Rev. Mark B. Taylor, past
chaplaln-in-chief, Brooklyn; Dana W.
King, Nashua, N. H.
The thirty-ninth national encamp
ment of the G. A. R. having created the
offices of national patriotic inspector
and department patriotic inspectors,
and amended the rules and regula
tions acordingly, the duties heretofore
devolved upon the flag committee are
hereby assigned to the national patri
otic instructor, Comrade Allan C.
Bakewell, who will communicate with
the several department patriotic in
structors and define their duties in
this respect.
Were Bitter Againct Morgan.
“If Ellsworth had lived a few
months longer,” said the Colonel, “a
good many of the Zouaves who went
into Turchin’s regiment would have
gone East. The story of the military
companies in existence in the several
states in 1860 is a curious one. But
in no state was the history of such
organizations more highly spiced with
romance than in Kentucky. During
the excitement preliminary to the out
break of hostilities in 1861 companies
in many counties were organized for
both armips. In Lexington John Mor
gan, captain of a crack company, went
into the Confederate, service. San
ders D. Bruce, captain of the Chas
seurs, another crack company of Lex
ington, went into the Union service.
Bruce was given command of the
Twentieth Kentucky, and later of a
brigade under Nelson. Morgan was
given an important cavalry command,
and made several raids in Kentucky
In 1863 he surrounded one battalion
of the Twentieth Kentucky with 6,00C
men, and after a stubborn fight cap
tured it. This gratified him exceeding
ly, but the several Kentucky cavalry
regiments galloped after him through
Kentucky and Ohio, and in turn cap
tured Morgan and his immediate com
mand.
“I saw those Kentuckians when
after their long ride, they made theii
last charge on Morgan’s men, and it
was worth remembering. In all my wai
experience I never saw' men so eagei
to make a capture as were these Ken
tuckians—some of them Morgan’s old
neighbors. They were not malevo
lent. In their own language, they ‘sim
ply wanted to take John in out ol
the wet.’ But they w'ent at it in a way
to make Morgan feel that he would
like to surrender to somebody else.”
Sheridan's Horse in Museum.
Sheridan’s horse Ls in the old mili
tary museum in Governor’s Island, N
Y., under a glass stall that occupies
the whole center of the floor, and if
the first thing you see at the top o1
the stairs, the real Winchester that
brought him down to Cedar creek that
memorable day.
With foam and with dust the blaci
charger was gray;
By the flash of his eye and the red nos
trils' play.
He seemed to the whole great army ti
say,
“I have brought you Sheridan all thr
way
From Winchester down to save the day.'
The horse looks so real that It if
almost ghostly. His coat looks sleel
and brown as if the blood were stil
warm underneath. He wears the sad
die, bridle and all the dignified trap
pings he wore through forty-seven en
gagements of the civil war.
Gen Rodenbough said, at the timf
the museum was opened, he wrote tc
Sheridan, who was then in Chicago
and had the horse with him, request
ing that when the horse died his hidt
and bones be given to the museum.
Sheridan replied that he had re
ceived the same request from many
sources—but that he could not beai
to think of the horse’s death, and al
though he was then old and disablec
—that Winchester was human to him
But when the horse died, SheridaD
sent his body to Gen. Rodenbough.
Mysterious Effect of Wounds.
“I often wondered,” said a veteran,
“at the coolness and quietness ol
wounded men, but I wondered just as
often at the excitement or distress oi
men who narrowly escaped death oi
serious wounds. A shell passing near
a man without striking him. or a spent
ball striking a man without leaving a
wound, often caused the keenest dis
tress. When the batteries were con
centrated on the left center at Stone
River, one of my men was struck by
a spent ball, which dropped into his
haversack. The boys near him
laughed at the Incident, but the man
was deathly sick.
“He came to me and said that if the
battery was ordered forward he
couldn't go with us because he never
felt worse in his life. I directed him
to lie down, believing that he would
feel better In a few minutes. But he
did not, and was miserable and list
less for two days. On the day we
went through Murfreesboro and pur
sued the enemy at a gallop, the man
who had been so severely wounded in
the haversack, as the boys put it, was
in his place, and in the excitement of
the chase the misery left him and he
was as good as new.”
Popular Officers of the W. R. C.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins Berry, na
tional press correspondent W. R. C.,
reports that Mrs. Abbie A. Adams, the
national president, during her recent
trip to the New England departments,
has greatly endeared himself to
all who have had the priv
ilege of meeting her. She im
presses everyone as possessing
a remarkable blending of executive
ability and the traits which character
ize the highest type of womanhood.
Exceptionally dignified and firm in her
bearing, she at the same time wins
all hearts by her sweetness and sym
pathy. On the various occasions upon
which she was called upon to speak
she impressed all as having unusual
ability in this line, her utterances be
ing direct and forceful, and always
clothed In well chosen language. Mrs.
Mary R. Morgan, the national secre
tary, is also a ready speaker, with a ,
stock of ideas which are fresh and al
ways to the point. j
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Great Men of Single Names.
In response to a question as to why
"everybody that amounts to anything
always has but one first name” school
marm thought is over and was sur
prised to find how much truth there
was in the child's statement. She
says that it is one of the little things
which are worth looking Into.
The Mahommedan Koran.
It is claimed by Mohammedans that
their prophet Mohammed was an in
spired man, as he asserted that the
Koran—the Mohammedan Bible—was
revealed to him by the Angel Gabriel
during a period of twenty-three years.
SAVED BABY LYON’S LIFE.
Awful sight From That Dreadful Conv
plaint, Infantile Eczema—Mother
Praises Cuticura Remedies.
“Our baby had that dreadful com
plaint, Infantile Eczema, which afflict
ed him for several months, commen
cing at the top of his head, and at last
covering his whole body. His suffer
ings were untold and constant misery,
in fact, there was nothing we would
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the Cuticura Remedies, and in about
three or four days he began to show a
brighter spirit and really laughed, for
the first time in a year. In about
ninety days he was fully recovered.
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was the most awful sight that I ever
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Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. Maebelle
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Kan., July 18, 1905."
Newspapers for Travelers.
The Japanese railways have intro
duced newspaper reading cars on some
of the passenger trains. Tall piles of
newspapers are kept at the service
of travelers so that they may read as
they ride.
Birds as Weathercocks.
All birds when perched on trees or
bushes serve as weathercocks, as they
invariably roost with their heads to
the wind.
Happiness in the Hollows.
Dar never wuz no lowgrounds er sor
row but a sunbeam found its way ter
’um en set some bird a-singin’.—At
lanta Constitution.
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will do the work quickly and pleas
Sold by all dealers at 85c. and 50c.
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