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CKPITHL CITV COURIER. 3 GOD AMONG THE BIRDS DR. TALMAQE DRAWS MANY LES SONS FROM THE FOWLS. Surprising Fr'iiirnrjr of Allusion to lllriU In the Scrip turn) itnil Always to Tench nu Iniiiirtuut Lemon Orulttiol iBjr I Hureljr it Divine Hclonce. MtooKLYN, Jnn. 8. I)r. Tnlmngo this morning continued tho course of sermons begun fuw Snbbnths ngo. Having preached nbout the "Astronomy of tho Ull)le; or, God Among tho Stars," and the "Chronology of the Hlhle; or, God Among tho Centuries," this morning ho discoursed on the "Ornithology of tho niblc; or, Cod Among the Illrds." Tho text was Mat tliow vl, 20, "Hehold tho fowls of tho ulrl" There lsllenco now In all our January (omits, except nH tho winds whlstlo through tho baro branches. Our northern woods ro deHerted concert halls. Tho organ lofts In the temple of naturo aro hymnlcs. Trciu which went full of carol and chirp and clmnt aro now waiting for tho coming back of rich plumes and warbling voices, solos, duets, quartets, cantatas and To Deums. Hut the Ulblo Ih full of birds at all season, and prophets and patriarchs and apostlui and evangelists and Christ himself cmplo;r them for moral and religious purpose. My text Is an extract from tho sermon on tho mount, and perhaps It was at a moment when a llock of birds lluw past that Christ waved his hand toward them and said, "Heboid tho fowls of tho alrl" And so, in this course of ftcrmous on God everywhere, 1 preach to you this third sermon concern ing the Ornithology of the Hlble; or, God Among the Hlrds. OUNITIIOUK1V 13 DIVIXK. Most of tho other sciences you mny study or not study as you please. Use your own judgment; exercise your own tasto. Hut about this science of ornithology wo have no option. The divine couunaud is posi tive when it says in my text, "Heboid tho (owls of tho alrl" That Is, study their hath bit. Kxamlno their colors. Notice their peed. Sou tho hand of God In their con struction. It Is easy for mo to obey tho command of tho text, for I was brought up among this race of wings and from boyhood heard their matins at sunrise and their ves pers at sunset. Their nests have been to mo a fascina tion, and my satisfaction Is that I never robbed ono of them, any more than I would steal a child from a cradlo, for a bird is child of the sky, and Its nest Is the cradle. They arc almost human, for they have their loves and hates, aflluitics and antipa thies, understand Joy and grief, have conju gal and maternal instinct, wage wars and entertain Jialousles, have a language of tbelrowu and powersof association. Thank God frfr birds and skies full of them. It Is useless to expect to understand tho Hlblc unless wo study natural history. Five hundred and nincty-thrco times does tho Uiblu allude to the facts of natural his tory, and I do not wonder that it makes so many allusions ornithological. Tho skies and tho caverns of Palestine aro friendly to tho winged creatures, and so many fly and roost and nest and hatch in that region that Inspired writers do not havo far to go to get ornithological illustration of divine truth. There are over forty species of birds recognized in tho Scriptures. Oh. what a variety of wings in 1'nlestlnel Tho dove, the robin, tho eagle, tho cor morant, or plunging bird, hurling itself from sky to wave and with long beak clutching Its prey; tho thrush, which espe dally dislikes a crowd; tho partridge; tho hawk, bold and ruthless, hovering head to windward while watching for prey; the wan, at homo among the mnrshes and with feet so constructed It can widk on the leaves of water plants; the raven, the lap wing, malodorous, and in the Hible de nounced as Inedible, though it has extraor dinary headdress; the stork, the ossifrage, that always had a habit of dropping on a atone the turtle it had lifted and so killing it for food, and on ono occasion mistook the bald head of iKchylus, tho Greek poet, for a white stone and dropped a turtle upon it, killing tho famous Greek; tho cuckoo, with crested head and crimson throat and wings snow tipped, but too lazy to build its own nest and so having tho habit of depositing Its eggs in nests belong ing to other birds; tho blue Jay, the grouse, the plover, the magpie, tho kingfisher; the pelican, which is the caricature of all the leathered creation; the owl, tho goldfinch, the bittern, the harrier, the bulbul, the osprey; the vulture, that king of scav engers, with nuck covered with repul sive down Instead of attractive feath ers; the quarrelsome starling, the swal low, flying a mile a minute and somo- times ten hours in succession; t lie heron, the quail, the peacock, the ostrich, the lark, tho crow, tho kite, the bat, the blackbird and many others, with nil colors, nil sounds,, all styles of flight, nil habits, all architecture of nests, leaving nothing wanting in suggestlveness. They were at the creation placed all around on the rocks and in the trees and on the ground to serenade Adam's arrival. They took their places on Friday, as the first man was made on Saturday. Whatever else ho had or did not have, be should have music. The first sound that struck tho human ear was a bird's voice. TIIEIIR IS A CIIItlBTIA.N OEOUIOV. Yea, Christian geology for you know there Is a Christian geology as well as an infidel geology Christian geology comes in ami helps tho Hlble show what we ow to the bird creation. Ilcfore the human race came Into this world the world was occupied by reptiles and by all styles of destructive monsters millions of creatures loathsome and hideous. God sent huge birds to clear the earth of these creatures before Adam and Kve were created. The remains of these birds have been found I in 4cddcd In the rocks. The skeleton of one eagle has been found twenty feet in height and fifty feet from tip of wing to tip of wing. Many armies of beaks and clans were necessary to clear the earth of crea ture that would have destroyed the humau face with one clip. I like to find this har mony of revelation and science and to iiave demonstrated that the God who made the world made the Hlble. Moses, the greatest lawyer of all time and a great man for facts, had enough sent! iiient and poetry and musical taste to wel come the illumined wings and the voices divinely drilled into the first chapter of Genesis How should Noah, the old ship carpenter, tidO years of age, find out when the world was lit again for human resilience g.after the universal freshet I1 A bird will tell, ami nothing else can. No man can come down trnni the mountain to invite Noah and his family out to terra lirma, for the mountains were submerged. As a blnl first heralded the human race into tin.' world, now a bird will help the human la e back to the world that had shipped a sen that whelmed everything. Noah stands on Sunday morning at the window of the ark, in his hand a eo iny dove, so gentle, wi Innocent, sonHVetliinnte, and he wild, "Now, my little dove, fly away liver these waters, e.pluie and come b . !; ( I tell us whether it Is Mife to land" Alui Ionic flight It rt'turnot hungry and weary and wet, and by Its looks and manners said I to Noah and his family, "The world Is not I fit for you to disembark." Noah waited a week, and next Sunday morning lie let the ilovo lly again for it scrotal exploration, and Sunday evening it ramo back with a leaf that had tho sign of Just having been ; plucked from a living fruit tree, and the bird reported tho world would do tolerably I well for a bird to live in, but not yet sulll i clently recovered for human residence, Nlmh waited another week, and next Sunday morning he sent out the dovo on I tho third exploration, but It returned not, for it found the world so attractive now it did not want to Ihj caged again, and then ' tho emigrants from the antediluvian world I landed. It wan a bird that told tbein when I to take M)ssesslon of tho resuscitated planet. , So the human raco were saved by a bird's wing tor, attempting to laud toosoon.they would havo perished. ISAIAH ON Till: IKIVF.S. Aye, hero comes a whole flock of doves rock doves, ring doves, stock doves and they make Isaiah think of great revivals nnd great nwakeulngs when souls fly for shelter like a flock of pigeons swooping to tho openings of a pigeon coop, and crlo-t out, "Who aro these that lly as dove to their windows?" David, with Saul after him and flying from cavern to cavern, compares himself to a desert partridge, a bird which especially haunts rocky places, nnd boys and hunters to this day takoafttr It with sticks, for tho partridge runs rather than files. Uavld, chased and clubbed and harried of pursuers, says, "I am hunted as a par fridge on the mountains." Speaking of his forlorn condition, ho says, "I am like a pelican of the wilderness." Describing his loneliness, ho says, "I am a swallow alone on a housetop." Ilczeklnh, in tho emacl atlon of his sickness, compares himself ton crane, thlu and wasted, .lob had so much trouble ho could not sleep nights, nnd lie describes Ids Insomnia by saying, "I am a companion to owls." Isaiah compares the desolations of banished Israel to an owl nnd bittern and cormorant among a city's ruins. Jeremiah, describing tho cruelty of par cnts toward children, compares them to tho ostrich, who leaves its eggs In tho sand uncared for, crying, "The daughter of my people Is become like the ostriches of the wlldncrnefts." Among the provisions piled on Solomon's bountiful table tho Hible speaks of "fatted fowl." Tho Israelites In tho desert got tired of manna nnd they had quails quails for breakfast, quails for din tier, quails for supper, and they died of quails. Tho Illblo refers to the migratory habits of tho birds and says, "The stork knnweth her appointed time, and thoturtle, nnd tho crane, and tho swallow the time i f their going, but my peoplo know not the Judgments of tho Lord." Would the prophet illustrate the fate of tho fraud, he points to a failure at iiicu bat Ion and says, "As a partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcbeth them not, so lie that gettcth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in tho midst of Ids days and at his end shall be a fool." Tho partridge, the most careless of all birds In choice of its place of nest, building it on the ground and often near a frequented road, or In n slight depression of ground, without refer euco to safety, and soon a hoof or a scythe or a cart wheel ends all. So says the prophet, a man who gathers under him dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no peace, no satisfaction, no happiness, no se curity. What a vivid similitude! The quickest way to amass a fortune is by iniquity, but tho trouble Is about keeping it. Kvery hour of every day some such partridge is driven off the nest. Panics aro only a flutter of partridges. It is too tedious work to be come rich In the old fashioned way, and if a man can by one falsehood make as much a by ten years of hard labor, why not tell It? And if one counterfeit check will bring the dollars as easily as a genuine issue, why not mako It? One year's fraud will be equal to half a lifetime's sweat. Why not live solely by one's wits? A fortune thus built will bo firm and everlasting. Will It? Hal build your houso ou a volcano's crater: go to sleep on the bosom of an avalanche. Tliu volcano will blaze and the avalanche will thunder. There are estates which have baeu eomlng together from age to age. Many years ago that estate started in a husband's industry nnd a wifo's economy. It grew from generation to generation by good habits hud high miudotl enterprise. Old fashioned industry was the mine from which that gold was dug, and God will keen the deeds of such an estate in his buckler. Foreclose yeur mortgage, spring your snap judgments, plot with acutest in trigue against a family property llko that, and you cannot do it a permanent damage. Hetter than warrantee deed nnd better than (Ire insurance is the defense which God's own hand will give it. TIIK EVIL WILL CO.MK TO I.IOIIT. Hut here is a man today as poor as Job after he was robbed by satan of everything but his boils, yet suddenly tomorrow ho is a rich man, There is no accounting for his sudden afllueuce. He has not yet failed often enough to become wealthy. No one pretends to account for his princely ward robe, or the chased silver, or the full curbvd steeds that rear and neigh like Hucephalu in the grasp of his coachman. Did lie coair to a sudden Inheritance? No. Did hemake afortuiR'on purcluusuand sale? No. Kvery body asks, Wheiv did that partridgo hatch? The devil suddenly threw him up and tin devil will suddenly let him come down. That hidden scheme God saw from the first conception of the plot. That partridge, swift disaster will shoot it down, and the higher it flies the harder it falls. The prophet saw, as you and I have often seen, the awful mistake of partridges. Hut from the top of a Hible tlr tree I hear the shrill cry of the stork. Job, K.cklcl. Jeremiah, speak of It. David cries out, "As for the stork, the llr tree Is her house." This large white Hible bird Is supposed without alighting sometimes to wing its way from the region of tho Rhine to Africa. As winter comes all the storks lly to warm er climes, and the last one of their uitmbur that arrives at the spot to which they ml grate is killed by tbein. What havoc il would make in our species If those men were killed who are always behind! In oriental cities the stork is domesticated, nnd walks about on the street and will fol low its keeper. In the city of Kphestis I saw a long row f pillars, on the top of each pillar a stork's nest. Hut the word "stork" ordinarily means mercy and affection, from the fact that this bird was distinguished for Its grVat love for Its parents. It never for.ake them, and even after they become feeble protects and provides for them. In mi grating, the old storks lean their necks on the young storks, and when the old ones give out the young ones carry them on their Imck. Gisl forbid that a dumb stork should have more heart than we. Hleul is that table at which an old father ami mother sit; blessed that altar at which an old father and mother kneel, What it Is to haven mother they know best who have lost her. (tod only knows the ugony she sulfered for us, the times sin wept over our cradle aril the anxious sighs her bosom heaved as we lay upon it, tuv Ick nights when she wattiied so long nflet every out wna tired out but God and her self. Ihr llfeblood beats In our heart and her Image lives In our face. That man li graceless as a cannibal who III treats his par ents, and he who begrudges them dally bread and clothes them but shabbily tuny God have patience with him; I cannot. I heard a man once say, "I now have my oh mother ou my hands." Yo storks on your way with food to your aged parents, shame lilml TDK TOItMKNTCt) lllltll. Hut yonder In this Illblo sky files n bird that Is speckled, The prophet descrlbln . the church cries out, "Mlnu heritage Is unto me osaspeckled bird; tho birds round about nre against her." So It was then; so it is now. Holiness picked at. Consecration picked at. Hcnovolcnro picked at, Usefulness nicked at, A speckled bird Is a peculiar bird, and that arouses tho antipathy of all the beaks of the forest. The church of God Is a peculiar Institution, and that Isenough to evoke attack of the world, for II Is a speckled bird to be picked at. The Incon slsteticles of Christians aro a banquet on which multitudes get fat. They tiM-rlbc everything you do to wrong motives. Put a dollar in the poor box, and they will say that you dropped It them only that you might hear It ring. Invito them to Christ, mid thuy will call you n fanatic. Let there be contention among Chris tians, and they will sayt "Hurrah! Tim church Is tu decadence." Christ Intended that his church should always remain a speckled bird. Let blrdsof another featlur pick at her, but they rnniint rob her of a single plume, hike the albatross, sho can sleep on tho Imsoiii of a tempest. Sho him gone through the llres of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace and not got burned, through tint waters of the Red sea and not been drowned, through the shipwreck on the breakers of Melita and not been foundered. Let all earth and bell try to hunt down this spec kled bird, but far above human scorn and Infernal assault it shall sing over every mountain top and fly over every nation, and her triumphant songshall be: "Tim church of God I The pillar and ground of t lit) truth, The gates of hell shall not prevail against her." Hut we cannot stop hero. From a tall cllir, hanging over the sea, I hear tho raglo calling unto tho tempest and lifting Hi wing to smite the whirlwind. Moses, Jere miah, Hosen and Habakkuk at times In their writings take their pen from the eaglo's wing. It Is a bird with fierceness In its eye, Its feet armed with claws of Iron, and Its head with a dreadful leak. Two or three of them can fill the heavens with clangor. Hut generally this monster of tho air Is alone and unaccompanied, for tho reason that Its habits aro so predaceous it requires live or ten miles of aerial or earth ly dominion all for itself. The black brown of its back, and th white of Its lower feathers, and tho llrool Its eye, and the long flap of its wing make one glimpse of It as It swings down Into thu valley to pick up a rabbit, or a lamb, or a child and then swings back to Its throne on the rock something never to be forgotten. Scntten-d ulxiut Its ejrle of idtltuillnuu solitude are the bones of its conquests. Hut while the beak and the claws of the eaglo are the terror of all the travelers of the nlr, the mother eagle Is most kind and gentle to her young. God compares his treatment of Ids pcoplf to the eagle's care of the eaglets. Deuter onomy xxxll, 11, "Asaneaglestlrreth up her nest, lluttereth over her young, spread Ing abroad her wings, taketli them, bearetb them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead." The old eagle first shoves the young one out of the nest in order to make it lly, and then ta..es It on her back and flies with it, and shakes it off in the air, and if it seems llko falling quickly Mies under it and takes it on her wing again. So God does with us. Disaster, failure in business, dis appointment, bereavement, is only God's way of shaking us out of our comfortable nests in order that we may learn how to fly. You who are complaining that you have no faith or courage or Christian zeal have had it too easy. You never will learn to fly in that comfortable nest, hike ail eagle, Christ has carried usou his back. At timet we have been shaken olf, and when we were about to fall he came under tis again and brought us out of the gloomy valley to the sunny mountain. Never an eaglo brooded with such love and aire over her young as God's wings have been over us. A cms whit oceans of trouble, wo have gone In safety upon the Almighty wings! From what moiiiitalusof sin wo have been carried and at times have been borne up far above the gunshot of the world and the arrow ol the devil I When our time on earth is closed, on these great wlngH of God wo shall speed with infinite quickness from earth's moun tains to heaven's hills, and as from the eagle's circuit under the sun men on the ground seem small and insignificant a lizards on a rock, so all earthly things shall dwindle Into a speck, and the raging rivet of death so far beneath will seem smooth nud glassy as a Swiss lake. tlOL'NTINO AS TIIK EAOLK8. It was thought In ancient times that an eagle could not only molt Its feathers In old age, but that after arriving atgreatagt It would renew its strength and become entirely young again. To this Isaiah ul hides when he says, "They that wait on the lArd shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings of eagles." Kven no the Christian in old age will renew lilt spiritual strength. He shall be young In ardor and enthusiasm for Christ, mid us the body falls the soul will grow in elas ticity till at death It will spring up like a gladdened child Into the bosom of God. Yea. In this ornithological study I see thnt Job says, "His days (ly as an eagle that hasteth to its prey." The speed of a hungry eagle when it saw its prey a score of miles distant was unim aginable. It went like a thunderbolt for speed and power. So fly our days. Sixty minutes, each wortli a heaven, since wo on sun bled In this place, have shot like light nlng Into eternity. The old earth is rent mid cracked under the swift rush of days mid inunths and years and ages. "Swift ns an eagle that hastelh to Its prey." Heboid the fowls of the air! llavevou considered that they have, as you and I have not, the power to change their eyes so that one min ute they may be telescopic and the next microscopic? Now seeing something a mile away, and by telescopic eyesight, and then dropping to its food on the ground, able to see it close by, and with microscopic eye sight. Hut what a senseless passage of Scripture that is until you knowthefact. which sajh, "The sparrow hath found a house and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, () Ixml of hosts, my king mid my God." What has the swallow to do with the altars of the temple at Jerusalem? Ah. jou know that swallows are all the world over very tame, and In summer time used to lly Into the windows and doors of the temple at Jeru salem and build a nfst on the altar whore the priests weieoflcritig sacrifices. These swallows brought leaves ami Hicks and fashioned tuvts ou the altars of the temple and hutched the young sparrows in those nests, and David had set u the young birds picking their way out of the shel" while tin oil swallsws watched, nnd no one In the tmplu was cruel enough to dis turb either '.lie old swallows or the young swallows, and David bursts out in rhap sody, saying, "Tho swallow hath found u nest for herself, where sho may lay her young, even thlun altars, () Lord of hosts, my king and my GimP" Yes, In this ornithology of the Illblo I find that Gk1 Is determined to Impress Upon us the architecture of a bird's nest nnd tho anatomy of a bird's wing. Twenty times does I he Illblo refer to a bird's neMi "Where the birds make their nest," "An a bird that wandereth from her nest" "Though thou -ct thenestniiioiigthoHtais," "Thu birds of the nlr have their nests," and so on, Nests in the trees, nests on the rocks, nests ou the altars. Why does God call Us so frequently to consider tho bird's nest? Hecausoll Is one of tho most won drotts of all styles of architecture and a lesson of providential care, which It the most Important lesson that Christ In my text conveys. Why, Just look at the bird's nest and s what Is thu prospect that God Is going to tnkocareof you. Hero Is the blueblrd'i nest under thu eaves of the houso. Here In tho brown thrasher's nest In u bush. Here is thu bluejay's nest In the orchard. Here Is tho grosbeak's nest ou a treo branch hanging over thu water, so ns to be free from attack. Chickadee's nest In the stump of an old treu. Oh, thu goodness of God In showing the birds how to build their neMul What carpenters, what masons, what weavers, what spinners thu birds are! Out of what small resources thoy maku sn exquisite a home, curved, pillared, wreathed. Out of mosses, out of sticks, out of lichens, out of horsehair, out ol spiders' web, out of threads swept from the door by the housewife, out of tho wool ol thu sheep In tho pasture Held. Uphol Htcrcd by leaves actually sewed together by Its own sharp bill. Cushioned with feath crs from Its own breast. Mortared to gether with I hu gum of trees and thosallvn of Its own t Iny bill. Such symmetry, such adaptation, such convenience, such geome try of structure, TIIK lllVINK 1'I.AN IN NATUIIK. Surely these nests were built by some plan. They did not Just happen so. Who drafted the plan for tho bird's nest? Gisll And do you not think that If ho plain such a house for a chaniuch, for mi ori ole, for a bobolink, for a sparrow, ho will see to It that you always have a homul "Yo are of more value than many spur rows." Whatever elso surrounds you, you can have what tho Hlble calls "tho feather of thu Almighty." Just think of a ncM like that, the warmth of It, thu softness of It, tho safety of It "the feathers of tho Al mighty." No flamingo outflashlug thu tropical sun set ever had such brilliancy of pinion; no robin redbreast ever had plumage dashed with such crimson and purple ami orange and gold "the feathers of the Almighty." Do you not feel the touch of them now on forehead and cheek and spirit, and win there ever such tenderness tif brooding "thu feathers of the Almighty?" So also In this ornithology of thu Hible Gist keep Impressing us with the anatomy of a bird' wing. Over fifty times doc the old Hook alludu to the wing "Wings of a tlovo," "Wliigi of the morning," "Wings of the wind," "Sun of righteousness with healing in hit wings," "Wings of tho Almighty," "All fowl of every whig." What does It all mean? It suggests uplifting. It tells you of flight upward. It means to remind that you yourself have wings. David cried out. ''Oh, that I had wings like a dovo thnt I might lly away and la at rest!" Thank God that you have better wings than any dovo of longest or swiftest flight. Caged now in bars of flesh aro those wings, but thu day comes when they will bo liberated. Get ready for ascension! Take tho words of the old hymn and to thetuuo unto which that hymn Is married sing: Itlsr, in mini, anil st retell thy whin: Thy liotter (Kirilnii inuo, Up out of these lowlands Into tho heavens of higher experience and wider prospect. Hut how shall we rise? Only as God's holy spirit i.lves us strength. Hut that Is coining now Not as a condor from a Chlmhornmi peak, swooping upon the af frighted valley, but as a dovo like that which put Its soft brown wings over tin wel locks of Christ at the baptism in the Jordan. Dove of gentleness! Dove of peace! Come, holy spirit, heavenly (line, With all thy qtilckciihiK nowcm; Coiuu slieil nlimiul a Saviour' love. Ami that xhull kindle oura. ItupulrliiK Cable. The cables of a suspension bridge art subjected to great strains, anil are therefore (Irmly anchored at each shore end to heavy masses of masonry, generally by means ol long bars of Iron or steel having holes at each cud by which they are bolted or pinned together. In examining the anchorage ol ono end of the smaller suspension bridge at Niagara one of thesu bars was found to be broken, nud the problem of replacing It wits quite dlflleult, since the wires at Inched to it had to have the same tension when It win. in place us they hud when thu old liar wan Intact. Tho new bar was formed of a piece of steel 20 feet long, 0 Inches wide and thrco quarters of an inch thick, with a hole In one end and provided at tho other with a baud bolted to it. This band was designed to pans around an Iron bar In tho abutment mid resist the null of tho wires. When the band had been placed aliout this pin in the masonry and (totted to its bar the latter was careful ly heated by u wooden fire In a trough Isv low it until it hud expanded siifllcieutly to allow tho end of the wire cable to bo con netted with it. As it cooled down it con tracted more and more until at thu norms I temperature the wires attached to It wen strained to thu same amount as the otliern, mid in this way a dillicult problem was easily and cheaply bolved. St. louls Globo Dciuocrnt. Klpllni; n u n Indian Jnurimll.t. In Thu Idler Mr. Rudyard Kipling gives some amusing particulars of his early jour nallstlc experiences. Mr. Kipling, as every body knows, began his literary career Inn humble wayou thostalfof an Indian paper. He tells how at this period he was painfully shocked at the discovery that a subeditor was paid to subedit und not hired to write verses. loiter on, however, hu became an editor nnd bad a subeditor who was "saturated with Klin," and wrote very pretty essays in tlie manner of Charles Iimb, when ho ought to havo been subediting. Then It was that Mr. KipUng understood what his editor must have sulfered ou hu account. Now, however, Mr. Kipling's verse was in demand at least In one quarter. Rukn Din, the foreman "of our side," approved of them, we are told, Immensely. He was a Moslem of culture, lie would say, "Your potery very good, sir; Just com ing proper length today. You giving more noon? One-third column Just proper. Al ways tan take on third psgo." Thu poet was in very good company for, as hu says, "There Is always an undercut rent of song a little bitter for the most part running through the Indian papers." Sanitary 1308 O $50,000.00 TO LOAN At six per cent, per annum and a cash commission or at eight per cent, no commission, for periods of three or live years on well located improved real es tate in Lincoln or Lancaster county, INTEKIJST ALLOWED ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS DEPOSITORS IIAVE AHSOLUTE SECURITY. Union Savings Bank, 1 1 1 South Tenth Street. Industrial SavingsBank Eleventh and N Streets. Capital Stock, $250,000. Liability of Stockholders, $500,000 INTEREST PAH) ON DEPOTS, Wm. Stull, Pres. J. E. Hill, VicePrei, Louis Stull, Cashier. Directors. D E Thompson, C E Montgomery, Geo H. Hastings, II II Shabcrg, W II McCrcery, J C Allen, T E Snn. dcrs, J E Hill, Wm Stull, Louis Stull, Geo A Mohrenstecher. HRTISTIC BESUTY In Penmanship 1 admired by cveiyone. There I no penmanship sent out that presents a more artistic dash than that sent out hy the Lincoln BuslncsB College, which has won an envied position In the realm of pen art. Uclng dcfclrous of Introducing the written cards ol to the Lincoln public, we make the following announcement: They r pronounced by the most competent judges to be the finest ever sent out In this westrtn country. Knch card Is a rare gem of artl.tlc pen work In Itkclf ; the work is but to be seen to be appreciated. A trial order will convince any perton that the symmetry of form and extreme delicacy oi touch cannot be excelled. Orders for caidn and other styles of pen work may be left at the LINCOLN BUSINESS COLLEGE, LINCOLN, NEBRHSKR, --- Where It will be promptly filled. $gBfim$$g 'II " '"WM ' ' ' ' LtssV I ' ' US? A 'wm .', Lincoln, Neb. An Old School in a New Location Ninth Year. 25 Departments. 30 Teachers Beautiful, bealtbv locntlo., mne.idficent buihllne, fine equipment., superior accom inodatlon., ftroii); faculty, comprehemdye curriculum, thorough woik, high moral and chiiMian influences and low expenses make this The SCHOOL FOR THE MASSES A practical education without necdlen. snMe of time or moiuM Is furnished by the Western Normal College You can Enter any Time and Choose Tour Studies This great school is located in Hawthorne, three miles southwest of the post office an w II In connected by electric street car line, YOL'K CAR FAHK I'AID. In order that nil mny sec our mnny advantages In the way ol buildings, equipments faculty,etc. we will pay jour ear fare from your home to Lincoln provided you arc present on the opening day of the fall term, Sept. i8yj Write for particulars, N-iiil niime nnd Hililresses of if, )onnlr people mnl wu will semi you choice of fine 15-lnch WESTERH NORMAL COLLEGE, Lincoln, Keb. ' " and Treasurer. - Heater. the Howe Ventilator. (lest mid only Pure Air Under Mmln. "Splendid" Oil Heaters. Steel Ranges. Furnaces Kitchen Utensils H. J. HALL & BR0 STRSeT. .22t. JS -' i c? Z
