The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917, February 23, 1911, Image 6
Tto COMI of OHM PLUM ft JAMB OLIVER CIJRWOOD lairmnw <& MwnycKEiTNER. » SYNOPSIS. Gape Karkwnt*! Plata of the abmp Ty pe t* • t*4s nr tx.! OB It* *va* !*l«ct Kraacte^ of t« U.4TKW Okwdiah brtta. Xi-mic (wurini'jf. eawfraaSS him. •*Ba tim. be u nyebd. and bargains for tea or ti.L'Jlba aboard Iho si.. ft Hr Nwdi Xwr la a ».;*is3 oath to deliver a t arhage ta Fran* 1. a Iheree, preaider.: of «-’» (cited States War F»ce"a cabin Sat saes ths frightened fare af a young •aaa» trta, diaapjeara ta U» darkneas. Nawag ae .-dor 4 Kin. > It d»- •■'.ofa t'.at Nas'a via;' to th* 1» ar 1 is to demand art 1 war of tha king Strang, for tha k*»t *=« at t-ia sloop ty M-naom l*r.. e rhoara I Nat th* king's palace. and through a , adadna he a*** tie lady of tha Ula.-a. | ala Prve say a la the king'* nventh wife j Cataag at tha king • oCn Nat te warned ; by a ro-T-g >i«u that bis i-fe la in dan- . f*r etrang privfew*** Indignation trim j • hear. X*t > grtr. sure and pr. n..**w to J pt mat Ua gtuSty. Nat rrarars Xe‘!. arho I » being pt! Urly wUr jed and the alng •edera tt.e ahert* Ar*.r CtVH-t.e. to pur b» a^' . tl.e two car. Plum learns tt«l Mvrt-a. tie gtrl 1 tie l.laes. Is Ssf» *'e'-*-r The two mam pan to wsrape wa Nat . afcxtp .at take Marten and "bta ® » daughter f Ar'.r Crock*. awC aw—T'.art ? X.. Nat .l;».«*v*r» that the * • ■ p 1* g t.. Mar. n tell* him that hi* a'.tp ’ a* —e ». z*d by the M -r —mm r • - • e • . .». tethag tm t at -. 'femg .-an save h»r —_h'.r* g whom .... fi., d in mtr gy i'i-c. ht.de Pn - raving n.ad. R.~ »v ertag •* tell* Nnl that S:r«:.g •.* dH.m.d at at are.*d n.ea are d*a . ; r g et. the Nlwad Nai Warn* f.at M.r. r. i as been Sum-a - el to til* . aa * by Strang. CHAPTER VIII —Cort.nuwd. T !~ve Xinoa." she breathed softly T »t> 4 he-p you—I would help her— | tf 1 ecr_*4 Fur s euketit her pule haavttfal (sr» was filled with k light thAt Bgit ha*..- shone from the tkee — atgal -U*i job understandV •kw cun sued scarcely above a whig P«r- *1 have been Srraag's one great ■ los* Ids jiw—until Mar.tic came into his heart i have loot—you have lost. —Set mi*e Is the more bitter because Mar.« Jovca you. and Strang—“ kith a cry Xih.ii.sel »;ntj to ter *-4* Tbw candle fell from Ills hand, j apwtte.'ex m the Sour, and l«f: uiem k dark :.<-** "kvi n -ores met You say that J iUfUn. loves saeT" The autuat. s voire rase to him is a whl*l*-r filled with the SWWetheS* 4 ayn.pi tii y “She sa-d ao tonight—la this room. She Uild raw that ate loved you as ] Mm Beta.* th ugut tha’ *£;* could love . a tut 4a this world O. my Guj. U 1 that t~* a ba.ii! for your heart, if It 1 b broaea " And Strang—oiy Strang j -has I or got tea hi* love for ae:*% XaUutr.el reached oat hi* anna. ■ They found the w uman and lor a time as held her hands in his. while a grwo: * .esc* leii upon th*tn. He wwMd hear the acdtLing at her br*-ath ■d* aa her Huger* tightened about , Bw owa his heart seemed bursting wtth it* hatred at this mag who railed kkaseif a prophet of God; a hatred j hast burned furiously even as bis be ing throb!* C with the wild joys of the words be had just heard. “Where w Mark*'”' he pleaded "1 das. t know.- replied the woman, j They took her away alone. The oli •va tale gun* to the temple* -llo you think she 1* at the tem pof be tag-aired insistently. "Si One at the otter* cam* bark a tittle while ago She said that ifa nan was not there."* “Where is Strang”” This time be tdi tha woman trem -Strang—“ She drew her hands away from him There aas a strange quiver In her "Tea—where la Strang *" There rasae no reply. "T«U me—where a he?” ”1 d- a know ~ “Is be at the temple?” ”1 don t know - Me could hear her stifled breath; he coaid almost feel her trembling, as arm s reach out there in the dark a ess What a soman was this abase b<wrt the Monnue king bad broken lor a new io*«! “Listen.' he said gently. “I am gwmg te find Marton. 1 am going to take her as ay. Tomorrow you shall ksee Strang again—If he Is alive!" There was ho ansser and he moved mwwly hack to the door. He dosed *i after him as he entered the V-»n t x» in the big room be i-a i.—d for a ■ ■■■St under tbe banging lamp to (ucuu Ids pistol and tbea went out mde The grove fa which the castle stood was absolutely deserted- So far as he could see hot even a guard watched over the property of the king maww had become too accustomed •a the eurprtees of Hearer Island to wuwder at this He could see by the tear, flanag along the' harbor that (he castle was la aa isolated position and easy at attack From »bat Stra&g* wife had told him and the setdei. es at pwalc in the chamber* of Ike Barem he believed that the Mor ass king had abandoned the castle U tts Iste sad that The approaching ■sIH would center about the tern Was Marion at the temple* If so he realised that she was beyond his reach ftut the soman had said that •ha was wad these Where could she Base gone* Vby had not Strung da Sea bar with his wires? in a flash hath tatel thoight of Arbor Croc he end Obadiah—the two men uho a! •ays knew what the king was doing ts he could Cat the sheriff alone B be gwuld uaiy aursa Ohoii-.h back data sane life again' Me thrust bis pistol into its bolster. There was but asm thing for him to do and that was to return to the old councilor. It would be madness for him to go down la Be James. He bad last—-Strang bad nog. (tat h:s lore for Marion ana •■dying If be found her Strang's wife It womd make no difference to kiwi u would all be evened up when be killed the king. For Clarion loved ptm—losed him - tie turned hts face toward Oba fish a. tie heart singing the glad •art, which the woman had spoken ta bus back there la the sixth cham AmA as be was about to lake the r-f t» that long race back to the mad councilor's he beard behind him the approach of quick feet- He crouched behind a clump of bushes and waited. A shadowy form was hurrying through the grove. It passed close to him. mounted the castle steps and In the doorway turned and looked ' back for an Instant in the direction of : St. James. Nathaniel's lips quivered; the pounding of his heart half choked! him; a shriek of mad. terrible joy • was ready to leap from his lips. There in the dim glow of the great lamp stood Strang, the Mormon king. CHAPTER IX. The Hand of Fate. Like a panther Nathaniel crouched and watched the man on the steps. | His muscles Jerked, his hands were cbnched; each instant he seemed at out to spring. But he held himself back until Strang had passed through the door. Then he slipped along the l**g wall of the castle, hugging the shadows, fearing that the king might reappear and see him in time to close the door. What an opportunity fate had made for him! His fingers itched to get at Strang's thick bulllike throat. He felt no fear, no hesitation about the outcome of the struggle with this giant prophet of God. He instant he had fired and the hugs form of Arbor Croche toppled head long into the room. A roar like that of a beast came from behind him and before he could turn again Strang was upon him. In that moment he felt that all was lost. Under the weight of the Mormon king he was crushed to the floor; his pistol slipped from his grasp; two great hands choked a despairing cry from his throat. He saw the prophet's face over him, dis torted with passion, his huge neck bulging, his eyes flaming like angry garnets. He struggled to free his pinoned arms, to wrench off the death grip at his throat, but his efforts were like those of a child against a giant. In a last terrible attempt he drew up his knees inch by inch under the weight of his enemy; it was his only chance—his only hope. Even as he felt the fingers about his throat sink ing like hot iron into his flesh and the breath slipping from his body he remembered this murderous knee punch of the rough fighters of the inland seas and with all the life that remained in him he sent it crushing into the abdomen of the Mormon king. It was a moment before he knew that it had been successful, before the film cleared from his eyes and he saw Strang groveling at his feet; another moment and he hurled himself on the prophet. His fist shot out like a ham mer against Strang's jaw. Again and again he struck until the great shaggy head fell back limp. Then his fingers twined themselves like the links of a chain about the purplish throat and he choked until Strang's eyes opened wide and lifeless and his convulsions ceased. He would have held on until there was no doubt of the end, had not the king's wife—the woman whose misery he had shared that night— suddenly flung herself with a piercing cry, between him and the blackened His Fingers Twined About the Purplish Throat. did not plan to shoot, for a shot would | destroy the secret of Marion’s fate. He would choke the truth from ' Strang; rob him of life slowly, gasp, by gasp, until in the horror of death the king would reveal her hiding place —would tell what he had done with her. Then he would kill him! There was the strength of tem pered steel In his arms; his body, slender as an athlete's, quivered to hurl Itself Into action. Up the steps he crept so cautiously that he made no sound. In the intensity of his purpc .~e Nathaniel looked only ahead of him—to the door. He did not see that another figure was stealing thn :gti the gloom behind him as cau- i tlously. as quietly as himself. He ; passed through the door and stood erect. Strang had not seen him. He j had not heard him. He was standing with his huge hack toward him, facing the hall that led to the sixth cham- j her—and the woman. Nathaniel drew 1 1.1s pistol. He would not shoot, but Strang might be made to tell the truth with death leveling itself at his heart. He groped behind him, found the door, and slammed It shut. There would be no retreat for the king! And the man who turned toward him at the slamming of that door, turned slowly, coolly, and gazed into the black muzzle of his pistol looked, in deed. every inch of him a king. The muscles of his face betrayed no sur prise. no fear. His splendid nerve wras unshaken, his eyes unfaltering as they rose above the pistol to the face behind it. For fifteen seconds there was a strange terrible silence as the eyes of the two men met In that quarter of a minute Nathaniel knew * that he had not guessed rightly. Stracg was not afraid. He would not ; tell him where Marion was. The in superable courage of this man mad dened Captain Plum and unconscious ly his finger fell upon the trigger of ids pistol. He almost shrieked the words that he meant to speak calmly: “Where is Marion?” “She is safe. Captain Plum. She is i where the friends who are invading I us from the mainland will have no ! chance of finding her.” Strang spoke as quietly as though in his own office beside the temple. Suddenly he raised his voice. "She is safe. Captain Plum—safe!” His eyes wavered, and traveled be yond. As accurately as a striking ser pent Nathaniel measured that glance. It had gone to the door. He heard a movement, felt m draft of air. and in an Instant be whirled about with bin pistol pointed to the door. In another face, clutching at his hands with all her fragile strength. "My God, you are killing him—kill ing him!" she moaned. Her eyes blazed as she tore at hia fingers. \ “You are killing him—killing him!" she shrieked. “He has not destroyed Marion! You said you would take her and leave him—for me—” She struck her head against his breast, tearing the flesh of his wrists with her nails. Nathaniel loosened his grip and staggered to his feet. "For you!" he panted. "If you had only come—a little sooner—” He stumbled to his pistol and picked it up. "I am afraid he is—dead!” He did not look back. Arbor Croche barred the door. He had not moved since he had fallen. His head was twisted so that hie face was turned to the glow of the lamp and Nathaniel shuddered as he saw where his shot had struck. He had apparently died with that last cry on his lips. There was no longer a fear of the Mormons in Nathaniel. He believed the king and Arbor Croche dead, and that in the gloom and excitement of the night he could go among the peo ple of St. James undiscovered. A great load was lifted from his soul, for if he had not been in time to save Marion he had at least delivered her after a short bondage. He had now only to save Marion and she would go with him. for she loved him—and Strang was no more. He hurried through the grove toward the temple. Even before he had come near to it he could see that a great crowd had congregated there. The street which he passed was de serted. No lights shone in the houses. Even the dogs were gone. For the first time he understood what it meant. The whole town had fled to that huge log stronghold for protec tion. Buildings and trees shut out hia view seaward but he could see the flare of great fires mounting into the sky and he knew that those who were not at the temple were guarding the shore. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Preparation for Immortality. There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life, and live it as bravely and cheerfully and faithfully as we can.— Van Dyke. Locust* a Delicacy. In some parts of the world locusts are considered a delicacy. The Arabs in the kingdom of Morocco boll For Velveteen THE first design sketched is a simple coat and skirt in nut-brown velveteen, very useful and very smart; the skirt is quite plain and a good walking length; the coat has a deep collar cut off square in front; the fastening is formed by tabs in which buttonholes are worked, and bone buttons. Velveteen toque trimmed with two ostrich tips. Materials re quired: 12 yards 24 inches wide. 5 yards silk for lining coat. 4 yards sat een for skirt. In the second picture we show a plain long coat in black. Our model is lined throughout with pale blue cash mere satin. This style is also suit able to be copied in seal plush, which is now so much used for long coats. Materials required: SI* yards velve- ! teen 72 inches wide. 5 yards lining 44 inches wide. The third costume shown is in lau rel leaf green. The skirt has a panel front and back, and at sides is trimmed with a band of burnished gold and green trimming. The coat has a vest of the same trimming; a band of it is taken from each side the front and raised high in the centre ' back. Hat of folded satin trimmed with long grey wings. Materials re quired. 121- yards 24 inches wide. 4 yards trimming. 5V* yards satin for lining coat. 4 yards sateen for skirt lining, 4 buttons. WHEN MAKING A VALANCE Difficulties Not at All Insurmount able if Tfsey Are Properly Approached. The main difficulty in making a va lance is to keep it in place without putting tacks into the furniture or having it on narrow strips that pull out from under the mattress. One woman has hit upon a plan of having heavy unbleached sheeting cut just the size of the bed. or a little within the line of the sides. The sheeting is shrunk before being used. The va lance is sewed to it on each side and across the end. The cover is then spread over the springs and under the mattress, which holds it firmly in place. If the valance is of thin material, that needs frequent washing, it is a good idea to put it into a narrow band, provided with buttonholes at intervals close enough to prevent sagging. Buttons are sewed to the sheeting in places to correspond. ADORNMENT FOR HAIR. /i Fillet for the hair made of gold cloth sewn with turquoise. The aig rette is white. To Clean Felt Hats. First, all the trimming is removed and the felt given a thorough brush ing. From a hardware dealer pur chase, for a few cents, a sheet of the finest sandpaper made. Cut into piece around a convenient-sized block of wood, begin sandpapering the hat, being careful always to rub in the direction of the nap. Continue this process, using a new piece of sand paper when necessary, until the felt begins to take on a new and clean appearance. When the felt becomes clean the nap is slightly dampened and the felt pressed with a moder ately hot iron. Frills of the Day. Rich little black dresses are very often relieved 'by gay Bulgarian or oriental embroidery. A collar or little guimpe of lace and again handsome silk braid is the trimming and little gold buttons relieve the black. The all-black frock for ball and din ner wear is very much in evidence, but it Is usually brightened with jet or rich embroideries in colors. Quaint little silk hoods to cover the hair and keep the dust out are both novel and becoming. Italian silk blankets to add to th^ covers in the train stateroom come in many pretty colors and fold up very small. -*— Gardens for Table Decorations. Miniature gardens are among the novelties in table decorations. Tiny flower beds are filled with geraniums, hyacinths, heather, roses, carnations, ferns and other dainties of the horti culturists’ are. Dwarf trees from Japan fill in the gaps. Often poin settia is used for the centerpiece. Fruits, especially golden tangerines and richly-tinted apricots. DESIGNED FOR THE NURSERY Pretty Things That Will Properly Set Forth the Apartments of the Little Folks. So many charming things are made for the nursery nowadays that it Is a delight for young mothers to set out ; to furnish the apartment devoted to ! the little folks. Sets of basin and pitcher in neat , enameled stands are decorated with Kate Greenaway figures. Bassinets like large market baskets having stout handles and lined with silk and lace, are very convenient with silk and lace, and very convenient when moving the wee baby from room to room. A stand of enameled wicker has four trays for holding baby's clothes, i It is very compact when shut, but when required these may all be open ed at the same time by pushing out different ways. Small clothes-trees of white painted wood are copies in miniature of what the grown-ups use. A basket, with compartments to hold six small bowls, is handy when dressing the infant. The porcelain bowls are marked safety pins, sponge, soap, nipples, etc. Some Uses for Matting. Straw matting may be put to many uses besides the conventional one of covering floors. Table covers may be made of the fine, closely woven Japanese matting, hemmed at each end. As a finish to the lower part of a wall matting which is not too heavy serves quite as well as burlap and is a change from the more usual cover ing. Settee cushions may be made, or at least covered, with fine, pliable kind of matting, to match the strip on the porch floor. Window shades and awning to keep the sun off, which are tied back or rolled up when not in use, are also practical made of matting. They are hemmed top and bottom and hung upon rings at the top. which in turn are hung on little brass hooks screwed into the window frame or porch beam. The Newest Tea '“osies. Quite the newest tea cosies are fascinating creations heavily em broidered in an open pattern to show off a silk lining of a gay color. That the cosey may fit over any sized tea pot, even the most capacious, it has end pieces let in, and these are of plain linen, unadorned like the rest, so that here the colored lining does not show through. The seams of the cosey are covered by a handsome white cord, artistically knotted here and there to give a pretty effect. Study Figure In Mirror. Every woman who wishes to be really well dressed should study her silhouette before a full length mir ror before going out. Many so-called well-dressed women content themselves with the views they get of their frocks in a glass which shows only half of their figure or in the plate glass windows of stores as they promenade. With this scant impression and the knowledge that their gowns are firm ly made and fastened in the back, they believe themselves -perfectly gowned. The truth Is they don't know whether they are or not, not having seen their pictures in the entirety. ___ Empire Waist Line. The straight, narrow lines not over accentuated and the shortened waist line are very pretty in the one-piece trotting frocks of linen, silk, eUx, which are being made for southern wear, though the empire waist line must always be handled very pare fully in connection with a street frock if it is not to give the frock an air suitable to the boudoir rather than the street. THIS BIRD ALMOST EXTINCT The Hula la Ona of the Rarest Spe cie* That Exist Anywhere In the World. Aukland, N. Z.—Here Is a picture o! • male and female hula—one of the rarest species of birds that exist any where in the world. The hula are also the most domestic. Aa you see in the picture, the male hula Is pecking off the bark so that his wife may find her food. The male has a strong, sharp beak; the female a slender, long. Incurved beak. So the male takes upon himself the bur den of the heavy work In finding food i ' / . i The Hulas. After he has opened the way to i storehouse, his wife secure# the food and then shows her affection for her mate by feeding him first. According to the Maoris, when one of these >lrds die, the companion soon yields 0 starvation, for he la inconsolable ;nd will not eat. There are very few hulas in the rorld today. What few that are left ire in captivity. Only scattering lumbers may T5e found in New Zea and, their habitat. The bird is a nember of the starling family and is •onfined to the forests of certain countaln ranges. In size it is about a large as an American thrush, loth sexes are glossy green-black, ixceptlng a white terminal band upon he tail and large rounded wattles at he gape, which are orange red. The ilrds nest In hollow trees. MACHINE TESTS HEART BEATS <lew Device Takes Photograph of Heart's Action and Aids In Diag nosis of Disease. Baltimore. '*1.—An apparatus Is jow in use i ne medical world for neasurlng disturbances in the actlv ty of the heart. It consists of a mag let to which is attached a thin wire hrough which an electric current Is set In motion. The wire In turn is j ittacbed to a mirror which reflects an jsclllatlng beam of light by the aid ol 1 bow lamp on to sensitized photo p-aphic paper. A line is thus traced >n the paper in the same measure as :he current went out from the heart is shown In the accompanying illus tration. It is known that an Imaginary line through the body has on one side all the currents generated by one side ol the heart, and on the other side the rurrents generated by the opposite side, so that by connecting an elec trode to each side of the body, obliter ating all other currents of the body by placing them as nearly as possible at reet. the physician has the current ol the heart where he can measure and examine it. The patient Is put at rest, one eleo trode is fastened to his arm. and one mu mininim itmnuiiL Chart Showing Heart-Beats. to the opposite leg and the current generated by the movement of the heart of the patient Is conducted tc a quartz wire suspended in a magnetic field, which Is deflected according to the amount of current flowing through It. An arc light is thrown through a condensing microscope upon the mov ing wire, the shadow from which li thrown through another microscope which magnifies It 600 times and throws the shadow through a slit at right angles to the position of the wire upon a screen. Back of the screen is a camera with a rotating film, which takes a record picture of the movement on the point made by the intersection of the slit with the shadow of the wire. This picture Is cotppsc®^ with pic tures of perfectly normal heart cur rents. and by this method the physi cians are often able to determine the nature of the patient’s affliction. Size of the Oceans. New York.—An officer of a llnei once remarked that most men seemed to be as ignorafit about the size of the sea as they are of the distance be tween the heavenly planets. Here are a few facts; The Pacific covers 68, 000,000 miles; the Atlantic 30.000,000, and th*3 Indian ocean, Arctic and Antarctic 42,000,000. To stow away the contents of the Pacific It would be necessary to fill a tank one mile long, one mile wide and one mile deep every day for 440 years. Put In fig ures. the Pacific holds in weight 948, 000,000,000.000,000,000 tons. The At lantic averages a depth of not quite three miles. Its waters weigh 325,000, 000,000,000,000,000 tons, and a tank to contain It would have each of its sides 430 miles long. The figures of the other oceans are in the same start ling proportions. It would take all the sea water In the world 2,000,000 fears to flow over Niagara. Doctors Said Health Cone Suffered with Throat Trouble Mr. B. W. D. Barnes, ex - Sheriff of Warren County, Ten nessee, In a letter , from Me- A Minn ville, ■ Ten nessee, I writes: J[ “I bad| t h r o a trouble? and had* three doc tors treating me. All failed to do me any good, and pronounced m y health gone. Icon- Mr. B. W. D. Barnes. eluded to try Peruna, and after using four bot« ties can say I was entirely cured.” Unable to Work. Mr. Gustav Himmelrelch. Hochheim, Texas, writes: "For a number of years I suffered whenever I took cold, with severe at tacks of asthma, which usually yielded to the common home remedies. "Last year, however, I suffered for eight months without Interruption so that I could not do any work at alL The various medicines that were pre scribed brought me no relief. "After taking six bottles of Peruna, two of Lacupia and two of Manalin, I am free of my trouble so that I can do all my farm work again. I can heart ily recommend this medicine to any one who suffers with this annoying complaint and believe that they will obtain good results.” Love does not depend for its strength on concentration. Take Garfield Tea to arouse a sluggish iiver—all druggists sell it. Some women worry about the wor ries they have missed. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar is made to satisfy the smoker. Willie Knew the Quadrupeds. Teacher—Willie, are the§e any feathered quadrupeds? Willie—Yes, sir. Teacher—Name one. Willie—A feather bed. Simple Rather. He—You are the only woman I ever loved. She—Do you expect me to believe that? He—I do. I swear it is true. She—Then I believe you. Any man who would expect a woman to believe that cannot have been much in the company of women. Reai Courage. He was the small son of a minister and his mother was teaching him the meaning of courage. “Supposing,” she said, "there were 12 boys in one bedroom, and 11 got Into bed at once, while the other knelt down to say his prayers, that boy would show true courage.” “Oh." said the young hopeful, “I know something that would be more courageous than that. Supposing there were 12 ministers in one bedroom, and one got into bed without saying lis prayers!” Education vs. Instinct. Jacob Wendell, Jr., who plays the aart of the dog in Maeterlinck's dra na, was dining in a restaurant recent y when a man, recognizing him as the ictor, approached and said: "Pardon me, but you take the part >f the dog in 'The Blue Bird,’ do you iot?’ Of course, you don't know It, rat I can really bark lots more like l deg than you.” “Well, you see,” answered Wendell, 'I had to learn.”—Success Magazine. ALL GAY First Tramp—The doctor ’as order ed me a bath. Second Tramp—You do look pleas ed about it. 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