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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, MAY 21, iSy: "THE DUMB DEVIL." DR. TALMAQE'S ABLE SERMON AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Tlix Kluciicttt lilt Inn rrvNrliMi friini th Trt, Murk Ix, 'Jft. "Thou llmnli iiikI Draf Hplrlt, I (MinrRti Thee, Cnmo Oul of 111m." Tim Spirit Still Ahmad. Hikmiki.vs, May 15. In hi ncrmon to day Rev. Dr. TalinnKc illuotrnteil, in jmv tent iimi convlneliiK hitiKUUKe, tliu duty incumbent unuii Christian of einbruchiK every opportunity tlmt offers In this) llfu to do good nud to advance the cause of the kingdom of Christ by n bold ucktumlcdu tucnt of their principles before ini-tt. The text delected was Mark lx,!tt, "Thou diimli and draf spirit, I uliargc tlit'u, come out of him." Hero wan a en mi of great domeiitlu an gulidi. The son of tfie household was pin BCMod of an evil uplrlt which, among other things, paralyzed his tongue anil made him speechless. When the Influence wax on the patient, he could not say u word articulation was Impossible. The Hplrlt that captured thin member of the house hold was a dumb Hplrlt ho called by Christ a Hplrlt abroad today and as lively and potent as In New Tcittiitiietit times. Yet In all the realms of ernionology, 1 cannot Hud a discourse concerning this , dumb devil which Christ chargeil upon my text, saying, "Come out of him." There has been much destructive super stition abroad in the world concerning j session by evil spirits. Under the form of belief in witchcraft tills delusion swept the continents. Persons were supposed to be possessed with some evil spirit which made them able to destroy others. In the Sixteenth century, in Geneva, 1,500 persons were burned to death as witches. Under one judge in Lorraine 000 persons were burned to death as witches. In one neigh horhood of France 1,000 persons were burned. In two centuries VJOO.000 persons were slnln as witches. So mighty was the delusion that it in eluded lunong Its victims some of the greatest IntellectHof all time, such as Chief Justice Matthew Hale and Sir Kdwurd Coke, and such renowned ministers of re ligion as Cotton Mather, one of whosu books Benjamin Franklin said shaped his life, and 'itlchard Haxteraud Archbishop Cranntcr and Martin Luther, and among writers nud philosophers, Lord Uacon. That belief, which has become the laugh ing stock of nil sensible people, counted its disciples among the wisest and best people of Sweden, Germany, England, France, Spain and New England. Hut while we reject witchcraft, any man who believes the Bible must believe that there are tliu boll en 1 agencies abroad in the world While there aro ministering spirits to bless. there are infernal spirits to hinder, to poi eon and to destroy Christ was spenkiug ton spiritual existence, when standing be fore thealllicted one of the text, hu said, "Thou dumb and det.f spirit, come out of him." A TIMKI.V WAItXINO. Against this dumb devil of the text I put you on your guard. Do not think that this agent of evil has put his blight on those who by omission of the vocal organs have had the golden gates of speech bolted and barred. Among those who have never spoken a word are the most gracious and lovely nml talented souls that were ever incarnated. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tell you enchanting stories of those, who never called the name of father or mother or child, and many of the most devout and prayerful souls will never in this world speak tliu name of God or Christ. .Many a deaf mute have I seen with thu angel of intelligence seated at the window of the eye who never came foith from the door of the mouth. What a miracle of loveliness and knowl edge was Laura Hridgman, of New Hump shire! Not only without faculty of speech. but without hearing and without sight, all these faculties removed by sickness when two years of age, yet becoming a wonder at needlework, at the piano, at the sewing tuachiuu and an intelligent student Qf the Scriptures, and confounding phllos pliers, who came from all parts of the ,orld to study the phenomenon. Thmilcs to Christianity for what It has done for the amelioration of thu condition of the deaf and thedumb. Back in thu ages they were put to death as having no right with such paucity of equipment to live, and for cen turies they were classed among the Idiotic and unsafe. But in the Sixteenth century came Pedro Ponce, the Spanish monk; and in the Seventeenth century came ,luan Publu Bonet. another Spanish monk, with dac tylology or thu linger alphabet; and in our own century we have had .John Dniidwood and Drs. Mitchell and Ackerly and Peet and Unllaudct, who have given to un counted thousands of those whose tongues were forever silent the power to spell nut on the air by a manual alphabet their thoughts iibout this world and their hopes for the next. We rejoice In tliu brilliant inventions in behalf of those who were born dumb. One of the most impressive audiences I ever addressed was in thu far west two or three years ago an audience of about IS00 persons, who had never heard a sound or poken a word, an interpreter standing be side me while 1 addressed them. I con gratulated that audience on two advan tages they had over the most of us thu one that they escaped hearing n great many disagreeable things, and on the other fact that they escaped saying things they wero sorry for afterward. Yet after all the alleviations u shackled tongue is an ap palling limitation. But we are not this morning speaking of congenital mutes. We menu those who are !orn with all the faculties of vocalization and yet have been struck by the evil ouu mentioned in the text tliu dumb devil to whom Christ called when he said, "Thou duiubanddeaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him." SII.KNCT. MAY III: A CIIIMK. There has been npotheosi.atiou of silence. Some one has said silence Is golden, and sometimes thu greatest triumph Is to keep your mouth shut. But sometimes silence 1 .. 1 1 !... .It-.... - I. .1... IB ll crime, mm niv uiiirui ii-miii m uu- baleful inllueucu of the dumb devil of our .. ti...... ti.ii.. .. -.... i ICAtt HV.I fc. I Mlllll IJ ! tllltll Ul V1IIII1 HI this house today who has not been pre ent on some occasion when the Christian religion became it target for raillery Per haps it was over in the store someday when there was not much going on, and the clerks were In a group; or It wan In the factory at thu noon spoil; or it Was out on the farm under the trees while you were resting; or it was in thu clubroom; or it was in a social circle; or it was In the street on the way home from business; or it was on some occasion which you mucin ber without my describing It, Some one got thu laugh on the Biblu and caricatured the profession of religion u hypocrisy, or made a pun out of soniuthlnu that Christ said. The laugh started mil you olned In, and not one word of protest did you utter. What kept you sllent Mnd"'Mv Mo. Incapacity toanswerf N Lack of npiHirtunlt) t No. It was it blow on lioth jour lips by the vt lug of thedumb duvll. If some one should malign join father or mother or wife or husband or child you would Hush up quick, and either with an Indignant word or doubled up list make response. And yet here Is our Christian religion, which 1. as done so much for you and sn much for the world that It will take nil eternity to telebrute It, and jet, when It was attacked, jotl did not so much as say "I differ, I object, I nm sorry to hear you say that. There is another side to this." You Christian people ought In such time as these to go untied, not with earthly weapons, but with the sword of thu spirit You ought to have four or live question, with which ) on could confound any man who attacks Chtjst built y. A BCOrKKII ItOUTKU. A mall ninety years old was telling me a few days ago how he put to Might a scotl er. My ngisl friend said to the skeptic, "Did j mi ever lead the history of Joseph in the Bible?" "Yes," said thu man; "It Is a line story, ami as luteiestlug a story as I ever read." "Well, now," said my old friend, "suppose that account of Joseph stoppisl half way?" "Oh," said thu man, "then It would not be entertaining." "Well, now," said my friend, "we have In this world only half of everything, and do you not think that when wu hear the last half things may be consistent, and that then we may find that God was right?" Oh, friends, letter load up with n few In terrogation points. You cannot alTord to bu silent when God and the Blblu and the things of eternity are assailed. Your si lence gives consent to the iKiiubardmeut of jour father's house. You allow a slur to be cast on your mother's dying pillow. In behalf of the Christ, who for you went through the agonies of assassination on the rocky lilull'lmck of Jerusalem, you dared not face a sickly joke. Better load up with a few iin-stions so that next time you will be ready Say to the scoffer: "My dear sir, will you tell me what makes the difference between the condition of woman in China and the United States? What do you think of the sermon on thu mount? How do you like tliu golden rule laid down In the Scriptures? Aro you In favorof the ten commandments? In jour large and extensive reading have you cotnu across a lovelier character than Jesus Christ? 111 j'ou please to name the triumphant death beds of Intldels and atheists? "How do you account for the fact that among the out and out believers in Chris tlauity were itch persons as Benjamin Franklin, John Itusklu, Thomas Carlyle. Bablugton Machulcy, Wllllnm Penn, Wal ter Scott, Charles Klngsley, Horace Bush nell, James A Garfield, Robert K. Lee. Stonewall Jackson, Admiral Footc, Ad iiilral Farragut, Ulysses S. Grant, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Chief Jus tice Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Welv ster, George Washington? How do you account for their fondness for the Chris tlau religion)' Among the Innumerable colleges nud universities of the earth will you name me three started by inlldels and now supported by Inlldels? Down In your heart nre you really happy in thu position you occupy antagonistic to the Christian religion? When do you have the most rap ttirous views of thu next world?" Go at him with a few such (tlestions and he will get so red in the face as to suggest apoplexy, and he will look at his watch and say bu hits an engagement and must go. You will put him In a sweat that will beat n Turkish bath. You will put him on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Hun made no time at all. Arm your self, not with arguments but Interrogation points, and I promise you victory. Shall such n man as you, shall such a woman as j'ou surrender to one of thu meanest spit Its that ever smoked up from the pit the dumb devil spoken of in thu text? A 1'l.KA KOIt CIIUUCII SINOIKO. But then there nre occasions when this particular spirit that Christ exercised when he said, "I charge thee to tome out of him," tnkas people by thu wholesale. In thu most responsive religious aui'leiice have you noticed how many people never slug at all? They have a liook, and they have a voice, and they know how to rend. They know many of the tunes, and j'et are silent while the great raptures of mil sic pass by. Among those, who slug not one out of a hundred slugs loud enough to hear his own voice. They hum It. They give n sort of religious grunt. They make the lips go, but it is Inaudible. With a voice strong enough to stop a street car one block iiwaj', all they can afford in the praise of God is about half a whisper. With enough sopranos, enough altos, enough basses to make a small heaven between the four walls they let the opportunity go by unimproved. The volume of voice that ascends from the largest audience that ever assembled ought to bu multiplied about two thousand fold. But thu minister rises and gives out thu hymn; thu organ begins; the choir or precentor leads; the audience are standing so that thu lungs may have full expansion, and a mighty harmony is about to ascend, when thu evil spirit spoken of in my text the dumb devil spreads Ids two wings, one over the lips of one-half the audience and the other wing over thu lips of the other half of the audience, and the voices roll back into the throats from which they started, and only here and there anything is heard, and nine-tenths of the holy power Is destroyed; and the dumb duvll, its he Hies nwiiy, says, "I could not keep Isaac Watts from writing that hymn, and I could not keep Lowell Mason from com posing the tune to which it is set, but 1 smoto into silence or half silence the lips from which it would have spread abroad to bless neighborhoods and cities, and then mount tliu wide open heavens." Glvu the long meter duxology the full support of Christendom and those four Hues would taku the whole earth for God. During the cotton famine in Lancashire, Kugland, when the sulTerlug was some thing terrific, as the first wagon load of cotton rolled in the starving people un hooked the horses and drew the load them selves, singing until nil Lancashire joined lit with triumphant voices, their cheeks sopping with tears, "Praise God, from whom all blessings How " When Commo doru Perry, with his warship, the Missis i , . , - r .. . - , - ... . j jW- "I '"i $,u -f III , battled the shoies with "Old Hun bom ndred" nlitjcd by the iiiaiiue bund. Glorious "Old Hundred." composed by William Franc, of Germany, In a war prison, at 10 o'clock at night, tho poor fellows far from home and wound ed and sick and dying, one prisoner started the "Old Hundred DoNology." and then a score of voices joined, then all the prison ers on all the floors took up the acclaim until the building, from foundation to top stone, fairly quaked with the melodious ascription. A British man-of-war, Ijlng off n foreign coast, heard a voice, singing M iloxology, and Immediately e;ucsMil. and guessed aright, thiitthcrVw'asan ring lishmnn Incaptlvlty tothu Mohammedans, and In the small boats thu sailors timid to shore and burst into a guardhouse and set the captive free. I don't know what tune thu trumiets of resurrection shall play, but it may lie the iloxology which Is now sounding cicms Christendom, How much moru hearty we would Ih In our songs, and how easily wu could dilvo back the dumb devil from ,l our worshiping assemblages, If we could realUe that nearly all our hymns have a stirring history. That glorious1 hjmn, "Stand Up for Jesus," was wig gested by the last words of Dudley Tyng, who was djltig from having his right arm torn olT by a thrashing machine, That hymn, "What a Friend Wu Have In Jesus," heard through n telephone, cou verted an nlsitirntc soul. "Shall Wo Oath it ut the Hlver?" was a hymn first sung in our llrookljn Prospect park, at thu children's . May annlversarj', and then started to encircle the world. "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight ?" Is a song that has saved hundreds of dss tiated young men, Tom, thu drummer boy In the army, wits found crying and un oftlcer asked him what was the limited "Oh," he said, "I had a dream last night My sister died ten years ago, and my moth er nuver was herseir again anil sue (lied soon after. Utst night I dreamed 1 was killed In battle, and that mother and sis ter came down to meet me." After the next battle was oxer, some ouu crossing thu field heard n voice that he rccognl.cd ns tho voice of Tom, thedruminer boy, slug lug "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." Butitt the end of the first verse the voice became very feeble, and at the end of the second verse It stoppisl, and they went up nud found Tom, the drummer boj', leaning against n stump and dead. "Oil, KOIt A IIIOCHANII TOSOUKB." Thnthymii, "Oh, for ii Thousand Tongues to Sing," was suggested to Charles Wes ley by Peter Holder, who, after his conver hIoii, said, "I hud better keep silent about It." "No." said Wesley, "If you had tell thousand tongues you hail better use them for Christ." And then that angel of hyiuuology penned thu words Oh, for n thousand (oiikucs to slug My dear Hedcc liter's praise, Thu glories of my (Joil and klmr, The triumphs of his griteu. Jesus, thu inline that culms our fears, That bids our sot rows cense: Tin music In tliu sinner's ears, 'Tis llfu and health nud pence. While much of thu modern music Is a religious doggerel, n consecrated nonsense, n sacred tomfoolery, I would like to see some great musician of our time lift the baton and marshal Luther's Judgment Hymn, Yarmouth, Dundee, Ariel, Brattle Street, Uxbrldge. Pleyel's Hymn, Harwell. Antlocli, Mount Pisgalt and Coronation, with few regiments of mighty tunes initde in our own time, and storm Asia, Africa and America for thu kingdom of God. But the first thing to do is to drive out the dumb devil of the text from all our churches. Do not, however, let us losu ourselves In generalities Not one of us but has had our lives sometimes touched by the evil spirit of the text this awful dumb devil Wu had Just ouu opportunity of saying it Christian word that might have led n man or woman Into a Christian life. The op portunlty was fairly put before us The word of Invitation or consolation or warn lug came to the Inside gate of the mouth, but there It halted. Some hindering power locked the Jaws together so that they did not open. The tongue lay Hat and still In the bottom of the mouth as though struck with paralysis. Wu weru mutu. Though God had given usthuphj'slolngl cnl apparatus for speech, and our lung were filled with air which, by the coin miiiid of our will, could have made the laryngeal muscles move and thu vocal or guns vibrate, we were wickedly and fatally 1 silent. For all time nud eternity we missed our chance. Or It was a prayer meeting, and thuHcrvlcu was thrown open for prayer and remarks, and there was n dead halt everything tlleutas a graveyard at mid night. Indeed It was n graveyard and midnight. An embarrassing pause took place that put a wet blanket on nil the meeting. Men, bold enough on business exchange or In worldly circles, shut their eyes as though they weru praying In si lence, but they were not praying at all. They were busy hoping somebody else would do lilsdutj'. The women flushed under thu awful pnusu and made their fans more rapidly flutter. Some brother with no cold toughed, by that sound trying to fill up the time, and the meeting was slain. But what killed It? The dumb duvll. This Is the way I account for the fact that the stupidest places on earth itru some prayer meetings. I do not see how a man keeps any grace It hu regularly attends them They aru spiritual refrigerators. Itellgion kept on Ice. How many of us have lost oc ciislous of usefulness! In a sculptor's studio stood a figure of the god Opportunity. Thu sculptor had made the hair fall down over the face of thu statuu so us to completely cover it, and there were wings to thu feet. When asked why he so represented Opportunity, il sculptor answered, "The face of tlr statu is thus covered up U'cntise we do not rec ognlze Opportunity when It comes, and the wings to the feet show that Opportunity Is swiftly rone." TDK IIUMII DK.VII. IN POLITICS. But do not let the world deride the church U'cause of all this, for thu dumb duvll is just as conspicuous In the world. The two great political parties will soon assemble to build platforms for thu presl dential candidates to stand mi. A commit tee of cacIi party will 1m.- appointed to make the platform. After proper deliberation the committees will come in with a ring ing report, "Whereas" and "Whereas" and "Whereas." Prnnunclnmeiitocsall shaped with thu ouu idea of getting thu most votes. All expression In regard to tho great moral evils of the country Ignored. No ex pression about the liquor traffic, for that would losu the runt vote. No expression in regard to the universal attempt at the demolition of the Lord's daj No recogni tlou of God in the history of this nation, for that would lose the vote of the atheists. But "Whereas" and "Whereas" and "Whereas." Nine cheers will be given for the platform. The dumb devil of the text will put one wing over the Republican platform and the other wing over the Dcmocintic platform. There Is nothing Involved III the next election except offices. The great conventions will be opened with praj'er by their chaplains. If they moid platitudes and tell the honest truth in their prayers, they will say "O Lord, we want to hu postmasters and consuls and foreign ministers and United States district attorneys, For that we nre here, and for that we will strive till the election next No ember. (Jive us of lice, or we die, forever and ever. Amen" The world, to say the least, is no bettei than the church on this subject of sllciuc at t lie wrong time. In other words, Is It not time for Christianity to become pi o uouueed and aggressive us never U-fou Take sides for God and sobriety and righi eousucsH. "If the Lord be Vua, follow him; If BhiiI, then follow him," Havi you opportunity of rebuking a sin? Be bllkf it. Have you n chance to cheer ' disheartened soul? Cheer It. Hate you i Useful word to speak? Speak It, Be out and out, up and down for right oustics. If join ,ilp Is afloat on tin Pnclllo ocean of God's mercy, hang tun your colors from tuastlii-ud, Show you passport If J on have one. Do not siuugg' jour soul lutnthe hnrlsirof heaven, Speu out for dixit This morning close up lit rhnpter of lost opportunities, and pitch I Into thu Must river, and open n new (Imp ter, Befote jotl get to the, door on join way out this morning shake hands with some ouu and ask hint to join jotiouilii road to hcucn. Do not drive up to heaven lit a two wheeled "sulky," with rtsitn onlj for one, and that jotirself, but get thu bl-j gest Gospel wagon jolt citullltil.nnd pile It full of Mends and tielghlNirs, and shoul till they hear urn all up and down the skies, "Come with us, and wu will do yon good, for the Lord hath promised good concerning Israel," The oppoit unity for good which jou may consider liislgnillcnut may bo tremendous for results, as when on the sen Captain Iloldnnc swmc tit the ship's crew with an oath that wished them all III perdition, nml a Seolch sailor touched his cap and said "Captain, God hears prayer and we won! I bo badly olT If jour wish went answered Captain Holdanu wits convlctisl by the sailor's rcmitt k nud converted, and became the means of the salvation of his brother ltoliert, who had been an lulldel, and then Hobeit Untitle ll minister of thu dispel, and under his ministry thu godless I'eilx Nell1 became thu world renowned mission (try of thu Cross, and thu worldly Merle L'Auhlguc became thu author of "The History of the Iteformiitlou," mid will be thu glory of thu church for all ages. Perhaps jou may do as much as I he Scotch sailor who Just tipped his cap and used one broken sentence, by which the earth and the heavens ate still resouudliv' with potent Influences. Do something fin God, and do It light away, or you wl.i nuver do It at all. Time Mies away fust, The while wu inner remember; Bow soon our llfu hero Grows old with thu )cur That i lies with tliu next Decutalier. The Wife of fttiinley. Mrs. Stanley is an artist, Is delighted with the grand and varied scenery which thu colony nlTords, and colonial society Is delighted with her fascinating powers of conversation When in Christ Church Mrs. Stanley was prevailed upon to sub nilt to the ordeal of being Interviewed. As many people aru aware, Mrs. Stanley Is it descendant of Oliver Cromwell. The protector had a (laughter, Doitithj Lady Bice, and there has always been it Dorothy in the family Mrs. Teimant Is the seventh and Mrs. Stanley Is the eighth of that name. Some time ago u skull, sup posed to be that of Oliver Cromwell, was found, and It was brought to Mrs. Ten mint, who, having no place in which to keep such a telle, was obliged to decline It. whereupon It was placed with other from wellluu idles In thu old hull known us the Chequers. In her travels through Australia and New .calami Mrs. Stanley found thetu weru no street oralis for her to exercise her pencil upon. "No," she said, "I have not seen since I have been in thu colonies any ragged waifs such as I depict in my pic turu of 'Heads orTalls.' In Auckland I saw home chllilicli with their little brown legs and without shoes or stockings, but it seemed to me to be more n matter of cou veltlelice than iiecessilj. "Thu street bojs I havu seen do not lire sent that wan, pinched hwk wu see in Kug land. They moru closely resemble Italians, with their brilliant dark ej'es. I never saw such sturdj', rosy cheeked little fel lows; I cannot help stopping them In the street to look at them. Mrs. Stanley, however, expresses the hope that she -inii Mr. Stanley inajbe able to visit Australasia again "unofficially," and In thu m aiitimu shu Is collecting specimens of such plants and seeds as may bu likely to grow in the Kngllsli cllmntu to plant In her garden In South Wales as mementos of her visit. Christ Church Cor. Loudon Queen. Thu S Utilities ut Clillilrmi. People as n rule very much underrate the keen sensibilities of the little ones. Children really hear much more than they appear to, their seeming unconsciousness while at play being very misleading. Moreover, they often dwell upon any con versation they may have overheard, and magnify petty annoyances into real trouble. "I can well remember," said n lady the other day, in sH-nklug of children's pectili arities, "thu agony of mind 1 endured bu cause my father, who at that timu was somewhat straitened In money all airs grumbled a good deal over the household bills. I felt that wu were on thu brink of something terrible, and compared myself mentally to every ragged little waif that I saw In the streets, quite believing that that was my ultlmatu destination. "Just at that time an aunt of inliiu sent uiu a ten dollar bill to buy a present for myself, and ns the Inst complaint of the head of the house had U-eii about the un commonly high price of Hour as ho looked over the monthly bill from tho grocer, 1 felt a thrill of joy that I could help the family in their straits, and then and there 1 ordend a barrel of meal, which 1 pre sented to my astonished parent. He wan the kindest and liest of men, and after he had by u few questions discovered my trouble, I well reluemU-r how he re proached himself for allowing mu to form such an uxaggerated idea of the family difficulties. 'This child has really suf fered,' I heard him say to my mother 'It is a good lesson to me not to fret ut home over business worries.' "It is needless to add, 1 suppose, that I received my ten dollars, which I H(cnt ac cording to my fancy with a light heart: but my own experience has made me euro ful not to bring unnecessary worry Into tho children's lives." New York Tribune. Art leli;ii on hcliniilrooiii WulU. Mix I'lnuree read at thu meetlnu of the school board a communication to her from Mrs. Kll.abeth F. Parker, chairman of the Doston Art Students' association, asking for un opportunity to do somethiiiK for the embellishment of the public hcliools in the city similar to what has Ih-cu accomplished by Mr. Turner In the .Salem schools. Mrs. I'arkcriisks permission of the school board to hcKiii the experiment in one or possibly two rooms of one of tho Kiainmar cliools, hiiKKcstlnnthe Howdolu,ou Myrtle street, as a K"1 ouu for the purpose, tak Iiilc a room on the llrst lloor. where the younger ulrUure. "As the photograph and casts which we should put into it," Mrs. Parker nny, "oiiK'hl to have a proper background, and ih our design would be to make as harmo nious a room as possible, I want to ask whether the school board would have the room tinted for us, allow inu me the choice of color "HellevliiK that this means may lead to valuable results, lxith In triiinliiK the children unconsciously to appreciation of form, In assisting their hlstoiicnl interest and lutlucncim; them toward imprniui tluir home biirrou ml liiKs, I vcntuie tousl; your interest lit favor of our 11I1111," etc. The letter was referred to the committer on school1. Huston Herald. CUT? THIB OUT 1 lnc just unloaded a carload of Leonard : Refrigerators Prices lower than ever. Come and see us. Ruclge & VK MAKK IT A Feature to Fit the Feet! And just now our line of Spring and Summer Footwear is the largest and most attractive in the eitv. Our stock of OXFORDS and all low shoes makes pale in see our comparison, nobby goods. You S. B. IBiS, Progressive Shoer, 1015 O STREET. ,$Mmmii;teDlwp w 1 v ft"""". ? '0 rstf Lincoln, Neb An Old School in a New Location Ninth Year. 25 Departments. 30 Teachers llentitlful, health v location, magnificent building, line equipment, superior nc.com modntious, tioug tnctdti, comprehensive curriculum, thorough work, high moral and cliiintiiin intlucnces and low expenses make thU The SCHOOL FOR THE MASSES A practical education without needle waste of time or money Is furnished by the Western Noitnnl College You can Enter any Time and Choose Your Studies ThU great sci.ool Is located In llnwthoiue, three miles southwest of the post office and will be connected by electric Mrcct car line, YOUR CAR FARK 1'AII). 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