Professional Cards A. P. CULLEY, Mtorney&CoiseloMt-Law (Office: First National Bank) Loup City, Nebr. ROBT. P. S TARR Attorney-at-Law, LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA. R. J. NIGHTINGALE ittomj aid Cmlcr'it'lif LOUP SITY. NEB AAEON WALL Lawyer Practices in all Courts Loup City, ’ Neb. R. H. MATHEW, Attorney-at-Law, And Bonded Abstractor, Loup City, Nebraska O. E. LONGACRE PHYSICIAN ill SURGEON Office, Over New Bank. TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39 A. J. KEARNS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone, 30. OHIce at Residence Two Doors East of Telephone Central Lnnp EiiH, - NEhraska S. A. ALLEN, DEJYTIST, LOUP CITY, • - NEB. Office up stairs in the new State Bank building. w. L. MARCY. DENTIST, LOUP GITY, NEE OFFICE: East Side Public Sauaie. Phone, 10 on 36 ROBERT P. STARR (Successor to M. H. Mead) Bonded Abstracter Loup City, - Nebraska. Only set of Abstract books in countj Try the F. f. F- t>ray F. F. Foster, Prop. Office; Foster’s Barber Shop I Cure Nerve-Vital Debility, Weak ness. 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It’s your money you are going to spend, you should insist on having the best. The Great Wilton ia the world’s best. Write just these words in a letter:—“Send me •Thrift Talks. ’ by a farmer, and your book No. arbich tells all about the breeds, dairying, the care of milk, etc." They are free. Write now NOTH MF8. C0„1M HarrltM St„ Chicago, 10. For Sale by T. UVE- "Reed. MAZURKA DUKE (No. 221330.) My excellent Shorthorn Herd Bull, for sale, also some young high-grade Bulls, showing both breeding and quality. A choice lot of Barred Plymouth Rock Cockerels that will please you. Call and see what I have at Wild Rose Stock Farm One mile east of Loup City, Phone, 2 on 12. ^ SOUTH. THE NORTHWESTERN TGKMS:—*1.00 P*K TIAH. IT PAID III ADVAKCi Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for trant mission through the malls as second class matter. Office’Phone, - - - 6 on 108 Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108 J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pub. Lincoln As A Sympathizer. [The following paper was read by Ira E. Williams at the Brotherhood meeting at the Presbyterian church, Sunday afternoon, Feb. 21, 1909.—Ed.] At first thought, it occurred to me that to occupy the entire five minutes allotted me to deliver this item of your program I should have to say about all there was to be said touching the sympathetic side of this great and good man. I have never read consecutively, the biography of Abraham Lincoln and feel somewhat at a loss in this respect, but have read many articles concerning him in the daily papers during the past, week, that I now feel crowded for time in which to say but a small part of all that might be said concerning his sympathies. Since the days of Christ's ministry in human form, i doubt if a more sympathetic man than Abraham Lincoln ever lived. Although not a member of a visible church, he seems to have been a man after God’s own heart and with open confession on many occasions, acknowledged his faith in God and dependence upon His guidance. When we consider the noble achiev ments of this typical American from boyhood to presidency in the face of so many obstacles, we observe more vividly how much his true greatness was vested in generosity and kind heartedness. Unlike Napolean as a politician and military leader, his eminence was not gained by vigorous discipline and aggressive warfare, but by statesmanship and brotherly con sideration for those who opposed him. If ever a human being of modern time approached the ideal of brother ly kindness expounded by Christ in his sermon on the Mount, we think our martyred president the most exalted. Destitute of physical comeliness, poor, an ignorant father and most meagre facilities for obtaining an education, this illustrious man lives today in the hearts of his country men by virtue of his spotless char acter, no jewel thereof more luminous than his forgiving spirit, his unselfish devotion to duty and his great loving heart for the poor and oppressed, the weak and helpless. Two conditions are essential to a full appreciation of the value of human sympathy. The first may be expressed by an evidence of the fact that human beings are in distress through sickness, death, poverty, cold, hunger, hopeless, discouraged, slan dered, misunderstood, blind, lame, disgraced, drunken, immoral, heredi tary taint and kindred offspring of sin, to all of which the human family is heir and the victims thereof are frightfully common. The second condition is evidenced by the fact that implanted within the human heart is an almost uni versal demand for sympathy and to a greater or less degree, a responsive in clination to help, aid and assist the unfortunate. The truth ofthissecond condition has been illustrated on a large scale very recently in Italy and Sicily. The earthquake victims were in sore need. Hasty and bountiful relief was imperative, but thank God, the response was timely and exceed ingly generous. Abraham Lincoln saw thousands of black fellow beings deprived of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He saw the cost of their freedom in peril to the Union, in immense destruction of property and frightful shedding of blood. With superhuman tact he sought to avoid the cost, to reason with frenzied minds and selfish in terests. His devotion to duty was perfect, his condescension unparal leled, his simplicity childlike, his courage dauntless, his faith never wavered but his greatest triumph was in sympathy and the forgiving spirit for those who dared dishonor the flag, in the hour of their deepest humiliation when right had conquered wrong. The readiness of his tender heart to pardon deserters is well known. “There are widows enough in the United States. I)o not ask me to make more.” A pathetic story is told of a young man so pardoned who fell on the field of Fredricksburg, the president’s photograph over his heart on which was writeen. “God bless President Lincoln,” bearing evidence of his appreciation of the man who had shown mercy. On the other hand, he was known to refuse pardon to slave dealers and other offenders who had no excnse for breaking the law. His sympathy with the soldiers in their terrible sufferings was so'ex treme that his body seemed actually to waste away with tne waste of his armies and his heart to be pierced by all their wounds. It was his tender ness and loving pity which shattered his nerves at last, so that toward the end he lost much of his earthly cheer and bouyancy, and became strangely sad and almost irritable at times. More than any other president we have ever had, or any other public man, Abraham Lincoln was the lov ing, compassionate, gentle father of his people and for that kindness we do him honor today. He was riding circuit once, in his Hwyer's days, and passed a pis wallowing desperately in a swamp, and almost ready to succumb to his fate. Mr. Lincoln was wearing his best clothes, and best clothes were hard to replace, so he rode on. But the thought of that distressed pig so harassed him that his tender heart could stand it no longer. He rode back some two miles and extricated the unlucky pig, though with con siderable damage to his Sunday clothes. Standing secure among the great, his name shines with a lustre which the coming years can never dim. lie was acquainted with tears and laugh tergrew more mirthful when he came: but his true glory, well secured from blame, comes from a character in which appears such strength and beauty that few are his peers in history's most select Hall of Fame. He broke the fetters of four million slaves: “One flag, one country,” was his ardent hope: hissorrows sanctified our soldier's graves, his fame gives promise to our horoscope, for shall not this great heart, this golden mouth, be claimed alike as our's, by North and South?” The Sea and the Lighthouse There stands the lighthouse grand, Towering up to the sky, On a small neck of land. Hailing every ship that goes by. It sends forth light From it's lofty tower. Piercing the dark night, In every lonely hour. Often the sea is rough, The lighthouse guides each ship: The wins howl loud and gruff, And from the ships their masts rip. I love to look out across The sea from the lighthouse window, And see the large waves toss, And listen to the wind blow. When the day fades away, Then the lighthouse shines bright' Over the little bay, In the lonely dark night. When the sun doth rise Over the little bay, That so peacefully lies, In the sun's warm ray, The lighthouse ceases to shine Forth it's radiant light; For the sun appears over the line. And it is day now, and not night. The lighthouse is getting old, But its bright faithful light Still shines out bold. In the darkest, stormiest night. —By Hal Jknnkk, 7th Grade. “The Deacon.” The second presentation of “The j Deacon” last Friday evening at the opera house by our home talent people, was witnessed by a goodly number and the drama was carried out in tine shape. We say without fear of successful contradiction that the play was given as nicely and with as good realism as the best of com panies that have visited our city in the past, and much better than by a majority of combinations that have been here. Deacon Thorton as por trayed by J. W. Conger was very true to life, the different phases of his bibulous, Adonis-like and erratic tem permental nature highly pleasing to all. L'Banks Hale as the wrongly accused nephew, gave a dignitied and well-wrought action to the character. Newton Vance as the accomplished villian was found lacking in nothing to make the play most interesting in his hardest character of all to por tray. Ken Pageler acted the typical parson as well as his other character of close friend of Vance’s villianous charcterization. Norton Lambert made a decided hit as the Deacon's simple son, Billy, as well as a good dago. Bob Jenner gave amusing zest to the drama as the Buttinsky colored individual who could never, even in the most trying moments, be entirely squelched. Amy Conger’s delineation of the character of Mrs. Thornton, around whose home clustered all the events of the drama, carried her part in a manner to attest her correct idea of her trying positions. Hattie Pageler as the daughter of Mrs. Thornton on whom the villian lavished his attentions, gave that comely char acter a good presentation, while Druzilla Pedler as Sister Amelia, whose fascinations have ensnared the Deacon, was just what could be ex pected from her, and gave warmest color to the funny bone of all present. Jessie Vance as the abandoned wife of the viilain, gave the greatest dramatic color to the play and her tragic street scene with the scoundrel ly husband was by far the best scene of the entire evening. Edna Lambert as Nellie, the little daughter of the deserted wife, dressed and acted the kid to a nicety and Carrie Hale carried off the honors as the correct servant of the household. The spec ialties between each act are well worthy of mention. Amy Conger's reading was most interesting; the duet by Jessie Vance and Hattie Pageler received an insistent recall and was most pleasing, while Newton Vance’s juggling and his artistic club swinging was constantly encored and just fine. The drama was nicely cos tumed throughout and the identity of the cast was often in doubt, even the editor, who personaliy knew each member, being at times puzzled to pick out the personality of each. If you were not present at either pres entation of the play, you lost out, for a certainty. Carden Seeds D. C. Grow, P. M., has received word from Hon. M. P. Kinkaid that he will send a package of garden seed to anyone sending their name to him at Washington, D. C. John W. Long is prepared to make all Real Estate Loans on short notice at lowest rates. Ashton News. Some more weather Tuesday. A. N. Conklin of St. Paul was here Monday. A. B. Outhonse was a business visitor here Thursday. Mrs. Clyde Wilson and Clarice Hedglin took in the sights at St. Paul Saturday. The Misses Helen and Iiosa Jamrog have been visiting at St. Paul for a few days the past week. Dr. J. Dale Woods of St. Paui was here on professional business Sunday. Office at the Ashton pharmacy. Adolpli Rischer was a Loup City visitor again Sunday. We wonder what the attraction might be. Mr. and Mrs Frank Graczyk went to St. Libory Saturday for a few days’ visit with Mrs. Graczyk’s folks. Several of the young folks attended the Woznick-Janulewicz wedding and dance at Loup City Monday evening. They report a good time. Sophus Olsen of Rockville was here attending the Lorenz-Headler wed ding dance Sunday evening. Sophus is still with the Omaha Elevator Co., which position lie has held for a number of years. Thos. Jamrog and Isaac Sandberg returned from Omaha Saturday night, where they had been in attendance to the Hardware Dealers’ Convention. Outside of that awful snoring, they report a very pleasant time. Mrs. P. Hanson of Laramie, Wyo., and Miss Rose Meierof Oak Park, 111., arrived here Monday to attend the funeral of their father and uncle, J. F. Newman. Bennett Maschka, Theodore and Will Dethlefs and Mrs. Anna Safarik were passengers for Omaha Monday. Can it he possible that Bennett is off l for his—Oh well, we won’t say any more. Guess. Frank Murray of Arcadia was a was a guest over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton, going to Omaha and other eastern points Monday. Mrs. Wm. Ladd of Havelock. Neb., wtio has been visiting her sisters. Mrs. Emil Hold and Mrs. W. Dietrich, returned to her home Friday morn ing, after spending several days in our midst. P>. P. Howard, a brother of our townsman, O. O. Howard, came up from York last week Thursday to take charge of the mill, while Ollie made a trip to the Pacific Coast. Since then Ollie was taken sick with a severe cold and was unable to make the trip. Edward and Floyd Janulewicz were at Loup City Monday attending the marriage of their sister, Nellie, that day to Mr. Tony Woznick. returning the following morning. Although the day was very stormy they report a good time. While O. Blunter was loading hSf dray wagon with coal last Saturday from a car on the side track, his team became frightened in some manner and took a spin around town. Out side of spilling most of the coal along Main street no damage was done. J. F. Newman, an old resident of this community, died very suddenly last Saturday forenoon. Mr. Newman had been ailing for some time, but no one thought the end was so near and he had just sat down to eat his break fast when he suddenly fell over dead. The remains were laid to rest Tues day afternoon in the German Luther an cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Dilla came up from Farwell last Thursday and on Friday shipped a car of furniture and other household necessities to Far well, where he has a position. Julius says this is his first experience, but thinks he will like the idea of getting up to build the tire. We’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that he will change his mind before long. On Sunday, Feb. 21. at 11am, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Poch, and in the presence of a large number of invited guests, occurred the marriage of Miss Dora Headier to Mr. Arthur E. Lorenz, the Rev. H. Rahmeir of Hampton officiating. After the cere mony a sumptuous dinner was served. In the evening the happy couple and most of the guests came to town where a free dance was given to all who wished to attend. Along R. R. No. I. II. E. Dale is still busy moving to the farm. Max Leschinsky is on the sick list this week. A. F. Kuhn shingled his granary Saturday. Gilbert Emery was trading at Loup City last week. Sam Foss was helping J. A. Arnett shell corn Friday. L. Johnson attended the sale at Shipley’s Thursday. Sam Foss gave the carrier a piece of fresh pork last week. Mrs. Ira Coppersmith put up a new windmill Wednesday. Frank Zwink attended the show at Loup City Friday night. Frank Kuhn put up a new Demp ster windmill last Friday. Bert German came home Saturday from his visit to Missouri. Geo. McFadden shipped several ears of cattle to Omaha Monday. The carriers out of Litchfield failed to make their trip Tuesday. W. O. Brown purchased a wagon box manure spreader Friday. A. L. Fagan and Miss Dessie Cass were at Loup City Saturday Porter Curry’s family has had a tussle with the mumps lately. Ray McFadden shipped his cattle Monday along with his father’s. Miss Anna Leschinsky visited at Loup City several days last week. All the mail carriers were having a time again with the snow Tuesday. Mr. Henderson has moved on the place recently bought of H. S. Conger. A. J. Shipley’s sale Thursday was I The Season is at Hand for the Purchase of Harness for Spring Work. Our Stock is More Complete in Every Department than ever before. The Prices are as Low as Good Quality will permit, and will range From $6.00 Upwards for Single Driving Harness -AND From $20.00 Upwards for Double Team Harness We will be pleased to show you through the stock at any time you may find it convenient to call. Respectfully Yours, Hayhurst-Gailaway Hdw. Co. ■ well attended and everything went , high. Miss Cora Fross commenced scliool i again this week. Jake and Fred Zwink went to Omaha tliis week. Romeo Conger marketed hogs at Loup City Wednesday. Will Weedin came up from Aurora Saturday to visit Lings' and Johnson's Carrier and wife attended the pie social in the Apple district Saturday | night. W. H. Creery moved to his new | home in the North Platte Valley this week. A surprise party w as given Tuesday on Mr. and Mrs. McCall on Clear Creek. Buy your stamped envelopes from the carrier—" for 15c, 12 for 2tic, or 25 for 54c. Chris Zwink shipped two cars of cattle and one of hogs to Omaha Wednesday. The Kowalewski family attended | the pie social in the Apple district Saturday night. Mrs. Mulvaney returned from the hospital at Omaha last week, much improved in health. Tom Driskell sold his farm on Clear Creek Saturday to a man near Lin coln, for some $4,000. Geo. Zahn and Miss May Adams were at the pie social in the Apple district Saturday night. A. L. Fagan and Miss Dessie Cass atrended the pie social in the Zwink district Saturday night. Miss Edith Day closes her school this week and she will leave for her home at Aurora Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Fross and daugh ter are home after a weeks' visit with relatives and friends near Aurora. Winnie Parsley was the only pupil who attended school in her district Tuesday on account of the blizzard. Prairie Gem school house was plastered last week. The district received $215 insurance for their loss. Clarence Johnson came in Friday night with his mother's car of house hold goods. They will be patrons on Route No. 1. The mail carriers were forcing through drifts of snow the first of last week and ever since have been fording rivers. Carl Me Minnie has been quite sick with acute indigestion at the home of D. C. Leach the past week, but is better at this writing. John Douglas was a la grippe suf ferer last week. John takes the grippe every time it comes around. Most people are content to have it once. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson came up from Aurora Saturday with their car of goods and started to unload but got storm stayed at J. A. Mellravy's. Mrs. F. A. Pinckney and sons took the train for York last Thursday to consult a doctor about the youngest son, and a successful operation was performed on his throat. Jake and Fred Zwink last Saturday were over to E. Pickrel’s and bought Everett’s black stallion. Tha iwys will stand him at their home and at Pickrel’s the coming summer. Aug. Johnson, Ffed Weedin, Elmer Fry, Clarence Sinner, Henry Appel, Art Kowalewski, Frank Hendrickson, Oscar Johnson and Frank Wheeler helped Chris Zwink haul his hogs. Supt. Hendrickson attended the pie social and entertainment in the Zwink school house Saturday night. Rol gave them a short talk about what to expect in the future in attending school. Grandma Gilbert says she talked several minutes with Editor Burleigh of the Northwestern, before she rec ognized him. Now it was not the fault of Grandma’s eyes, as she was to see -‘The Deacon” last week, but thinks liis smile must have been caused by that new boy of his. are in 9 cases out of 10 the- result of Eye-Strain, which if relieved by glasses in early life would never cause crossed eyes. Preliminary symptoms of Eye troubles that cause crossed eyes are: Pain in back of eyes; pain in temples, sometimes running over ears: print jumps after reading for a time. These are strong symptoms that the eyes will soon cross un less the eye-strain is removed. It will pay you to see me at the St. Elmo hotel. I do not go out of the hotel to work. Not a drop of medicine used. PARKINS, the EYE MAN Tiiink About Your Boy! MR FARMER:—By the time your boy grows up and be comes old enough to take up in his own name one of the new Government Irrigated farms in the Big Horn Basin it will be too late for him to get one. Will you let his chance go by? Is this fair to the boy? What will he think of your foresight when he seeks for land and finds out that you reflected to take in 1909. almost as a gift, an Uncle Sam irrigated Farm that in 1919 will cost him $150 per acre? Of course, if he has the price, all right, but what if he has not? Only $27.50 Round Trip After March 1st Personally conducted excursions first and third Tuesdays of each month. Write I). Clem Deaver, General Agent hand seekers’ Information Bureau, 1004 Farnum St., Omaha, about these exeusions. J. A. DANIELSON, Ticket Agent. Loup City. Nebr.. L. Wr. WAKELEY, G. P. A., Omaiia. Austin Happeriin's. Wm. Coubon is on the sick list. Mrs. A. It. Jack spent Friday with Mrs. J. Greeg. Fred Jack bought a horse from Wm. Couton Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hartwelljspent Sunday with Dan McDonald’s. News is rather scarse. Austin has been quite dead the past week. Will Engle was taken to Loup City last Thursday, for a visit, returning Saturday. L. Daddow and family and Parke Paige and family took dinner with Talbot’s Sunday. Mrs. E. Ogle went up to Wm. Han cock's Wednesday to help them a few days during their siege of whooping cough. We omitted to mention last week that Pete Ogle and family and Ilomer Ogle returned from their trip to Kansas. Willie Stott had a narrow escape last Friday when he fell from the top af Dr. Talbot’s new house down on to i scaffold where he was caught by Mr. Jack, just in time to save him from falling to the ground. While Mrs. A. It. Jack was driving -.o Austin with cream Monday, part af the harness broke and frightened t,he horse, which became unmanage able when Mrs. Jack jumped from jhe buggy and badly sprained her ankle. No other damage unless the cream was spilled. Four suspicious looking guys were i prowling around the neighborhood ] Friday night and caused