Capital city courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1893, January 14, 1893, Page 3, Image 3

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

    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