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British Columbia|| | ONE WAY | I FROM PRINCIPAL NEBRASKA TOWNS J M September 25 to October JO, 1913 fi $ THROUGH TOURIST SLEEPERS TO THE COAST f I Via Salt Lake Route, Scenic Colorado, every day; peasonally conduct* R ed Wednesdays and Saturdays. g| ^ Via Western Pacific. Scenic Colorado, Feather River Canyon; per-R sonally conducted Wednesdays and Fridays. ^ R Via Southern Pacific. Scenic Colorado, Salt Lake, every day; person- R |jj ally conducted Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. w I^ Via Northern Pacific, every day, through the Northwest, to Spokane E Seattle R Via Great Northern, every day, through the Northwest, to Spokane, w _ Seattle. IJ. A. Danielson, Agent Loup City, Nebr. R L. W. Wakeley, Gen. Pass. Agt. Omaha, Neb. ^ THE NORTHWESTERN Entered at the Loop City Postoffiee for trana mission through the malls as second _class matter._ Office Phone, - Red 21 Residence, - Black 21 J. W. BURLEIGH, Editor and Pn J. R. GARDINER Manager. Among the many Booster Edi tions coming to this office, one of the nicest, in every way was the Ravenna News, which was printed on the very best of book paper, evidently with most excellent job ink, and every printed word, and every cut used, gave evidence of skill in that the typographical work was faultless. What a con trast to one of the Booster Edi tions gotten out, which has come to our attention, in which the cuts were muddy, the reading matter blurred and a large per cent either daubbed with lamp black or the cuts too high to allow the proper impression, hence the entire edi tion a burlesque on the art perser vation of arts. It is not necessary for the Northwestern to. specialize which Booster Edition we refer to as our brothers of the craft will readily understand. Mrs. Weekes, editor of the Nor folk Press, has been advised by the democratic department that the postoffice job to which she aspires is a man’s job and she ought to be at home darning her husband’s socks, etc. She says democracy accepts her newspaper advocacy of the party’s divinity and has accepted her good words in support of its candidates and cannot consistently raise the ques tion of her sex to keep her out of the job. That’s where she gets fooled. Democracy can do any thing it likes. It can make a rul ing that when a man accepts a postoffice job he has to give up all other business, and then it can throw that decision over the tran som and allow the selected post master to continue his business just the same as before, as was the case of the Loup City postoffice, where the postmaster still con tinues to own, write for, control and pay the bills of his paper, which he acknowledges he has not leased to his figurehead editor and to whom he claims he pays a weekly stipend. One of the best articles telling the unbiased truth of Secretary of State Bryan’s desertions of his public office to eke out an exist ence on the chautauqua plat form is to be found iirthe follow ing taken from the last issue of Collier’s: “President Wilson isn’t worry ing about what is said by people who don’t mind their own busi ness” is the way newspapers re port the White House on criticism of Mr. Bryan. Yet Mr. Bryan was hired to help Mr. Wilson at tend to the business of the United States—and the way he carries out his duties is everybody’s busi ness. Each of us has a right to like or dislik^the way state affairs are transacted—or aren’t; and each of us has an equal right to express their opinion. Now, Mr. I Bryan seems to place his profes sional lecturing first and his state department responsibilities sec ond. Reports of the disorganiza tion of the state department are persistent, and no one is proud of all the administration’s diplo matic appointments, or pretends that the Mexican and Japanese ' problems have been settled. Mr. Wilson is handicapped by the fact that he has no efficient secretary of state—no right-hand man of anything like John Hay’s value or 1 Elihu Root’s shrewdness. This may be the president’s own fault, but the graceful act upon Mr. Bryan’s part, months ago, would | Jeave been the cancellation of his remaining lecture dates—if only out of deference to general opin ion. We regarded his cnautauqua | addresses then as a mere violation of good taste, but time passes and conditions shift. Can’t Mr Bryan see that appearances often count j more than facts do? The facts ’ are that Mr. Bryan works harder than some of his predecessors, and that in lecturing at chautauquas he disseminates moral and civic truths while eking out an insuffi cient salary. But the appearance is that he capitalizes his office at $250 a performance—bowing from the same platform as the ”‘Nea politan Troubadours,” Lorenzo ; Zwickey, Ed. Amhurst Ott, and ; Sears, and Taffy man. Such ap pearances cheapen a foreign min ister’s prestige in countries over sea which now hear of the Chau tauqua for the first time and know nothing of its educational service in the past. We may pretend that we don’t care anything about foreign opinion; but what use is a i secretary of state without prestige i abroad as well as at home! Mystery of Mary had started Sad failed anT'leff'Wm with debts. If he had only a few hun dred dollars, he could go on with it and pay off everything. He said I had inherited all that would have been his if he had done right, and he recog nized the justice of it, but begged that 1 would lend him a small sum until he could get on his feet, when he would repay me. *1 had little faith in his reformation, but felt as if I could not refuse him when I was enjoying what might have been his, so r sent him all the money I had at hand. As I was not yet of age, I could not control all the prop erty, but my allowance was liberal. Richard continued to send me volum inous letters, telling of his changed life, and finally asked me to marry him. I declined emphatically, but he continued to write for money, always ending with a statement of his undy ing affection. In disgust, I at last ouereu to sena mm a certain Bum or money regularly if he would stop writing to me on this subject, and fin ally succeeded in reducing our corre spondence to a check account. This has been going on for three years, ex cept that he has been constantly ask ing for larger sums, and whenever I would say that I could not spare more just then he would begin telling me how much he cared for me, and how hard it was for him to be separat ed from me. I began to feel desperate about him, and made up my mind that when I received the inheritance I should ask the lawyers to make some arrangement with him by which I should no longer be annoyed. “It was necessary for me to return to America when I came of age, in order to gign certain papers and take full charge of the property. Richard knew this. He seems to have had some way of finding out everything my Uncle did. "He wrote telling me of a dear friend of his mother, who was soon to pass through Vienna, and who by some misfortune had been deprived of a position as companion and chaperon to a young girl who was traveling. He said it had occurred to him that per haps he could serve us both by sug gesting to me that she be my traveling companion on the voyage. He knew I would not want to travel alone, and he sent her address and all sorts of credentials, with a message from his mother that she would feel perfectly safe about me if I went in this wom an’s guardianship. “I really did need a traveling com panion, of course, having failed to get my dear old lady to undertake the voyage, bo I thought it eould do no I Found Out That He Was a Physician. barm. I went to see her, and found her pretty and frail and sad. She made i piteous appeal tp me, and though I as not greatly taken with her, I de cided she would do as well as any one for a companion. "She did not bother me during the voyage, but fluttered about and was ■luitc popular on board, especially with a tall, disagreeable man with a cruel jaw and small eyes, who always made uia feel as if he would gloat over any one in his power. I found out that he was a physician, a specialist in mental diseases, so Mrs. Chambray told me, and she talked a great deal about his skill and insight into such maladies. “At New York my cousin Richard met us end literally took possession of us. Without my knowledge, the cruel-looking doctor was included In '-he party. I did not discover it until <ve were on the train, bound, as I sup posed, for my old home just beyond Buffalo. It was some time since 1 had been la New York, and I naturally Rd not notice much which way we were going. The fact was, every plan was anticipated, and I was told that all arrangements had been made. Mrs. Chambray began to treat me like a little child and say: ‘You see, wo are going to take good care of you, dear, so don’t worry about a thing.” “I had taken the drawing-room com partment, not so much because I had a headache, as I told them, as because I wanted to get away from their so ciety. My cousin’s marked devotion became painful to me. Then. tqo. the attentions and constant watchfulness of the disagreeable doctor became most distasteful. “We had been, sitting on the ob servation platform, and it was late in the afternoon, when l said I was going, to lie down, and the two men got up to go into the smoker, fn spite of my protests. Mrs. Chambray' insisted upon following me In* to *£* tfcat I fectir comfortable. Lie fussed srouct me, covering me up and offering smell ing salts and eau de cologne for mj head. I let her fuss, thinking that was the quickest way to get rid of her. 1 closed my eyes, and she said she would go out to the observation plat form. I lay still for awhile, thinking about her and how much 1 wanted to get rid of her. She acted as if she had been engaged to stay with me for ever, and it suddenly became very plain to me that I ought to have a talk w ith her and tell her that I should need her services no longer after this journey was over. It might make a difference to her if she knew it at once, and perhaps now would be as good a time to talk as any, for she was probably alone out on the platform. I got up and made a few little changes a my dresfc, for it would soon be time to go into the dining car. Then I went cut to the observation platform, but the was not there. The chairs were . 11 empty, so 1 chose the one next tc the railing, away from the car door, and sat down to wait for her, think ing we would soon be back. ‘ We were going so fast, througn a pretty bit of country. It was dusky and restful out there, so I leaned back and closed my eyes. Presently I heard voices approaching, above the rumble of the train, and, peeping around the doorway, I saw Mrs. Cham bray, Richard, and the doctor coming from the other car. I kept quiet, hop ing they would not come out, and they did not. They settled down near the door, and ordered the porter to put up a table for them to play cards. "The train began to slow down, and finally came to halt for a longer time on a sidetrack, waiting for anotke train to pass. I heard Richard ask where I was. Mrs. Chambray said laughingly that I was safely asleep. Then, before I realized it, they begar to talk about me. It happened then were no other passengers in the car Richard asked Mrs. Chambray if shi thought I had any suspicion that I wa not on the right train, and she sai. ‘Not the slightest,’ and then by di grees there floated to me through th open door the most diabolical plot ! had ever heard of. I gathered from it that we were on the way to Philadel phia, would reach there in a little while, and would then proceed to a place near Washington, where the doc tor had a private insane asylum, and where I was to be shut up. They were going to administer some drug tnat would make me unconscious when I was taken off the train. If they could not get me to take it for the headache I had talked about, Mrs. Chambray was to manage to get it into my food or give it to me'when asleep. Mrs. Chambray, it seems, had not known the entire plot before leaving Europe, and this was their first chance of tell ing her. They thought I was safely in my compartment, asleep, and she had gone into the other car to give the sig nal as socn as she thought she had me where I would not get up again for a while. They had arranged every detail. Richard had been using as models the letters I had written him for the last three years, and had constructed a set of love letters from me to him, in per feet imitation of my handwriting. They compared the letters and read snatches of the sentences aloud. The letters referred constantly to our be ing married as soon as I should return from abroad, and some of them spoke of the money as belonging to us both, and that now it would come to its own without any further trouble. “They even exhibited a marriage certificate, which, from what they said, must have been made out with out names, and Mrs. Chambray and the doctor signed their names as witness es. As nearly as I could make out, they were going to use this as evi dence Ahat Richard was my husband that he had the right to administer my estate during the time that I was Incapable. They had even arranged that a young woman who was hope lessly insane should take my place when the executors of the estate came to see me, if they took the trouble to do that. As it was some years since either of them had seen me, they could easily have been deceived. And for their help Mrs. Chambray and the doc tor were to receive a handsome sum "I could scarcely believe^ my ears at first. It seemed to me that I must be mistaken, that they could not be talk ing about me. But my name was men tioned again and again, and as each link in the horrible plot was made plain to me, my terror grew so great that I was on the verge of rushing into the car and calling for the con ductor and porter to help me. But something held me still, and I beard ti:hard say that he had just inform ed the trainmeu that I was insane, and tnai they need not be surprised if i had to be restrained. He had told them that i was comparatively harm less, but he had no doubt that the conductor had whispered it to our fel iow-passengerfc in the ear, which ex plained their prclonged absence in the smoker. Then they all laughed, and it seemed to me that the cover of the bottomless pit was open and that I was falling in. “I sat still, hardly daring to breathe. Then I began to go over the story bit by bit, and to put together little things that had happened since we landed, and even before I had left Vienna; and I saw that I was caught in a trap. It would be no use to ap peal to any one, for no one Would be lieve me. I looked wildly out at the ground and had desperate thoughts of climbing over the rail and jumping from the train. Death would be better than what I Should soon have to face. My prosecutors had even told how they had deceived my friends at home by Bending telegrams of my mental condition, and of the necessity for put ting me into an asylum. There would be no hope of appealing to them for help. The only witnesses to my sani ty were far away in Vienna, aad how could I reach them If I were In Rich ard's powerT "I watched the names of the stations as they flew by, but it gradually grew dark, and I could hardly make them out I thought one looked like the name of a Philadelphia suburb, but I could not be sure. “I was freezing with horror and with cold, hut did not dare to move, left I attract their attention. "We began to rush past rows of houses,.and IJcnew we were approach (To b» C atlnaed) mmniwummi—w—wi—— iwiiiiwwiiiiiiiiiiibiii—»»«miiiinnnn-rr nr irn nri i irm oopeBpt.-oooonc- / I CHI-RO-PRACTIC | Stop treating those ef Iiects. Get the cause adjusted. Whatischiro Ipractic? It is a philos ophy, science and art of [knowing and under standing how to locate any trunk or spinal nerve that is impigned, I which is the cause of I any abnormality the I human system is subject I to. The cause of the pressure is reduced to normal by the skilled hands of the chiro-prac* tor. 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