Nebraska Newspapers

    The Sioux County Journal
VOLUME VI.
HAKUISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1894.
NUMBER 20.
TALMAGES SERMON.
THE BROOKLYN PREACHER ON
THE BREAD QUESTION.
Sam of ' h ' tiun W .il-h Lead to the Er
Freacot DtatraM Anions ti Working
CUaara Alcohol and lmprovldrnre A rm
'otoat Factors.
At the Tabaroaclff.
It seemed appropriate that Dr. Tal
mage should preach thin sermon aftr
hi personal contribution of 3,U)0
pounds of meat and 2,ooo loaves of
bread to the ioor who gathered shiver
ing in the cold around the bakery and
meat store of Urooklyn. where tho
food was distrihuu-d without ticket,
and no recommendation required ex
cept hunger. The text van, Matthew
xxvi, 11, "Ve have the or always
with you."
Who naid that? The Christ who
never owned anything during His
earthly stay. His cradleand His grave
were borrowed. Kvery lig he ate w as
from Bonie one elne's tree. Kvery drop
of water He drank was from some one
else's well. To pay His j ersonal tax,
which was very small, only lilt cen's.
he had to perform a miracle and make
fish pay it. All the heights and
depths and lengths and breadths of
poverty ( 'hrist measured in Hiseurthly
experience, and when He comes to
speak of destitution He always speaks
sympathetically. ami Vhut He said then
is as true now "Vo have the poor al
ways with you."
r or ti.Ot 0 years the bread question
has been the active and absorbing
question. Witness the people crowd
ing up to Joseph's storehouse in Kgj pt.
Witness the famine in Samaria and
Jerusalem. Witmss the ".'Ml hungry
lieoplo for whom f ririst multiplied t he j
loaves. Witness the uncounted mill-J
Ions of people now living, who,. I In--
lieve, have never yet had one fuu meal i
of healthful and nutritious food in all I
thoir lives. Think of the .'!.'? great
famines in Kngland. Think of the ",- I
(Hto.ooo people under the hoof of hunger i
year before hist in Uussia. The fuil- j
ure of tho Nile to overflow for seven
years in the eleventh century left j
those regions de)opulated. I 'lague of
insect in Kngland. I'lague of rats in i
Madras Presidency. i'lague of mice
in Essex. I'lague of locusts in China.
I'lague of grushpers In America.
Devastation wrought by draught, by
deluge, by front, by war, by hurricane,
by earthquake, by comets Hying too
near the earth, by change in the man
agement of national finances, by bale
ful causes innumerable. I proceed to
give vou three or four reasons why my
text fs markedly and graphically true
in tnia year 1W1.
The Tariff Hugbrar.
The first reason we have always the
poor with us is because of the perpet
ual overhauling of tho tariff question,
or, as 1 shall call it, the tarilllc contro
versy. There is a need for such a word,
and so I take the resjionsitillitv of man
ufacturing it. There are millions of
people who are expecting that the
present Congress of the I'nited States
will do something one way or theother
to end this discussion. Hut it will
never end. When l was years of age,
I remember hearing my father and his
neighbors in vehement discussion of
this very question. It was high tariff
or low tariff or no tariff at all. When
your great-giandchild dies at !) years
of age. it will probably from over
exertion In discussing the tariff. On
the day the world is destroyed, there
will be three men standing on tho post
office steps -ono a high tariff man.
another a low tariff man, and the other
a free trade man -each one red In the
face from excited argument on this
subject. Other questions may get
quieted, the Mormon . question, the
silver question, tho pension question,
the civil service question. All questions
of annexation may come to peaceful set
tlement by the annexation of
islands two weeks' voyage
away and" tho heat of their vol
canoes conveyed through pipes under
the wa made" useful in warming our
continent, or annexation of the moon,
dethroning the queen of night, who is
said to be dissolute, and bring the
lunar ) opulations under the influence
of our free institutions: yea, 'all other
questions, national and international,
may be settled but this tariffic ques
tion never. It will not only never bo
settled, but it can never bo moderately
quiet for more than three years at a
time, each party getting into jsiwer
taking ono of the four years to fix it
up, and then tho next party will lix it
down. ur finances cannot get well ls
causc of too many doctors. It Is with
sick nations as with sick individuals.
Here is a man terribly disordered as to
his body. A doctor is called in. and he
administers a febrifuge, a spoonful ev
ery hour. Hut recovery is ostMiriml.
and the anxious friends call In another
doctor, and he says: "What, this pa
tient needs is blood letting; now roll
up your sloeve!" and the lancet flashes.
Hut still recovery is iHntHined, ami a
homeopathic doctor is called in, and he
administers some small pellets and
says, "All the patient wants is rest.''
Recovery still posinontd, the family
say that such small Delicts cannot
amount to much anyhow, and an allo
pathic doctor is called in, and he says.
"What this patient wants is calomel
and jalap." Kecovcry still postponed,
a hydropathic doctor is called in, arid
he says: "What this uatient wants Is
hot and old baths ami he must have
them right away. Turn on the faucet
and get ready tho shower baths." Re
covery still positioned, an electric
doctor is called in. and he brings all
the schools to bear upon tho poor suf
ferer, and the nation-, after a bruve
struggle for life, expires. What killed
him? Too many doctors. And that Is
what is killing our national finance.
My iMsrsonal Irlonds, Cleveland and
Harrison and Carlisle and McKlnlcy
and Hhorman, as talented and lovely
and splendid men as walk the earth,
all good doctors, but their treatment
of our languishing finances Is so differ
ent that neither treatment has a full
opportunity, and under the constant
changes it is simply wonderful that the
nation still lives The tariff question
will never be Bettled because of the
fact which 1 have never heard any
ono recognize but nevertheless the
fact that high tariff is best for some
peonle and free trade is best for others.
This tariff controversy keeps business
truck through with uncertainty, and
that uncertainty results in povertv and
wretchedness for a vast multitude of
people. If the eternal gab on this sub
ject could have been fashioned into
loaves of bread, there would not lie a
hungry man or woman or child on all
the planet. To tho end of time, the
words of the text will be kept true by
the tariffic controversy " e have the
poor always with you."
Alrohol as a Source of llatrr.
Another cause of perpetual jsiverty
is the cause alcoholic. The victim
does not last long. He soon crouches
into the drunkard's grave. Hut what
aU)nt his wife ami ehildn n f She
takes in washing, when she can get
it, or goes out working on small wages,
Itecause sorrow or privation have left
her incapacitated to do a strong
woman's work. The children arc thin
biofsled snd gaunt and pale ami weak,
standing around in cold rooms. or pitch
ing pennies on the street corner, and
munching a slice of unbutlcred bread
when they can get it. sworn at by
passer-by because they do not get out
of the way, kicked onward toward
manhood or womanhood, for which
they have no preparation, except a de
praved appetite and frail constitution,
candidates for almhouse aild peniten
tiary. Whatever other cause of v
erty may fail, the saloon may Ik) de
pended on to furnish an ever-increasing
throng of paupers. On. ye grogshop
of Hrooklyn and New York and of all
the cities: ye mouths of hell, when
will ye ( -case to erauneh and devour?
There is no danger of this liquor busi
ness failing. All other style of bun
ness at times fail. Dry goods stores
go under. Hard wan-stores go under.
Harness makers fail, dniL'giits fail,
bankers fail, butchers fail, bakers fail,
confectioners fuil, but the liquor deal
ers never. It is the only secure busi
ness 1 know of. Why the permanence
of the ulcoholie trade? Hecause, in
tho first place, the men in that busi
ness, if tight up for money, only have
to Hit into largo quantities of water
more strychnine and logwood and mix
vomica and vitriol and other congen
ial coneommiuints for adulteration.
One quart of the real genuine puiule
mouiec elixir will do to mix up wijli
several gallons of milder damnation.
Hesides that, these dealers can depend
on an increaseof demand on the part of
their customers. The more of that
stuff they drink, the thirstier they are.
Hard times, which stop ot her business,
only increase that business, for men go
there t drown their troubles. They
take the spirits down to keep their
spirits up.
1 he Improvident-! of Workmi n
Another warranty that my text will
prove true in the perpetual poverty of
the world is the wicked spirit of im
providence. A vast number of people
have such small incomes that thev can
not lay by in savings Ixink or life in
surance one cent a year. It takes
every farthing they can earn to spread
the table and clothe the family and
educate the children, anil if you lilume
such people for improvidence you en
act a cruelty. On such a salary as
many clerks and employes and many
ministers of religion live, and on such
wage a-many workmen receive, they
cannot, in twenty years, lay up -O cents.
Hut you know audi know many who
have competent incomes, and could
provide somewhat for the future, who
live up to every dollar, and whe n they
die their children go to the poor house
or on the street. Hy the time, the wife
gets the husband burled, she is in debt to
the undertakerand gravedigger for that
which she can never pay. While the
man lived he had his wine parties and
fairly stunk wit h tobacco, and then ex
pired, leaving his family upon the char
ities of the world. Do not send for me
to come and conduct the olweuuies and
read over such a carcass the beautiful
liturgy, "Blessed are the dead who die
in the Iird," for, instead of that, I
will turn over the leaves of the Hible
to I. Timothy v, IK, where it says: "If
any provide not for his own, and espe
cially for those of his own house, he
hath denied the faith, and is worse
than infidel," or I will turn to Jere
miah xxii. 111. where it says. "Ho shall
be buried with the burial of an ass.
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates
of Jerusalem.''
cannot imagine any more unfair or
meaner thing than for a man to get his i
sins pardoned at tho last minute, audi
then go to J leaven, and live in a man- j
slon. and go riding alsmt in a golden i
chariot over the golden streets, while I
his wife and children, whom he might :
have provided for. are hogging for cold i
victuals at the basement door of an
earthly city. It seems to me there j
ought to be a poorhouso somewhere
on the outskirts of Heaven, where j
those guilty of such improvidence .
should lie kept for awhile on thin soup j
and gristle instead of sitting down at, j
tho King's banquet. It issald that tho
church is a divine institution, and I
believe it. .lust as certainly are the'
savings banks and the life insurance'
companies divine Institutions. As out ;
of evil good often comes so out of the
doctrine of prolmbllities, calculated by
I'rof. Hugeiis and I'rof. Pascal for;
games of chance, came tho calculation i
of the proliablllticR of human life as :
used by life insurance companies, ami no
business on earth is more stable or hon
orable, and no mightier mercy for the
human race mis Isien Ixirn since Christ
was born. Bored beyond enduratc ir
my signature to papers of aP
there is one si.yio of paper that f alwa; i
sign with a feeling of gladness and tri
umph, and that is a pa km' which the
life Insurance company requires from
the clergymen after a decease in his
congregation. In order to the payment
pf the policy to tho bereft household. I
always write my name then mo they can
read it. I cannot help but say to my
self: "Good tor that man to hnvo
looked after his wife and childrenafter
earthly dcarture. May he have one
of the best seats in Heaven!" Young
man ! The day before or the day after
you pet married, go to a life insurance
company of established reputation and
get the medical examiner to put the
sU-thosoopo to your lungs and his ear
close up to your heart with your vest
off, and "have signed, sealed, and deliv
ered to you a document that will, in
tho case of your sudden departure,
make for that lovely girl the differ
ence between a queen and a pauper.
I'k of Mrnta! Halanr.
Another fact that you may depend
upon for perjmtual poverty is the in
capacity of many to achieve a liveli
hood. You can go through any com
munity and find good people with more
than usual mental oalilwr, who never
have been able to support themselves
and their households. J hey are a
mystery to ns, and we say. 1 do not
know what is the matter of them, but
there is a screw loose somewhere."
Some of these persons have more brain
than thousands who make a splendid
success. Some are too sanguine of
temperament, and they see bargains
where there are none. A common
minnow is to them a gold fish, and a
quail a flamingo, and a blind mule on a
tow path a I meephalus. They buy
j when things are highest and sell w hen
things are lowest. Some one tells
; them of city lots out West, where
the foundation of the fust house
I has not yet been iuid. They
say. "What an opportunity!" and they
put down the hard cash for an orna- j
merited deed for ten lots under water. !
. 'fluey hear of a new silver mine opened j
j in Nevada, and they s.iy. "What a j
I chance!" and they take the little J
money t hey have In the savings bank
unit pay it out for as beautiful a certili- I
cate of mining slock as was ever j
i printed, and the only thing thev will
1 ever get out of the investment is the i
aforesaid illuminated lithograph, j
i They are always on the verge of null-I
iouairedom and are sometimes worried !
as to whom they shall hcqucuth their j
i excess of fortune. They invest in !
j aerial machines or new inventions in j
i perpetual motion, and they succeed in '
what mathematicians think impossl- j
. bio, the semiring of a circle, for they ;
1 do everything on the square and
; win the whole circle of disiq
; pointmciil. They are good holiest.
brilliant failures. They die poor, and ,
i leave nothing to their families but a I
model nl some invention that would not !
; work and whole portfolios of diagrams j
of things imMissiblc. I cannot help '
but like them, because they are so i
cheerful with great expectations. Hut j
, their children ure a bequest to tho j
; bureau of city charities. Others ad-!
minister to the crop of the world's I
misfortune by being too unsuspecting.
Honest, themselves, they believe all
! others ure honest. Tiiey are fleeced j
and scalped and vivisected by the !
i sharpers in all styles of business and 1
I cheated out of everything between
j cradle and grave, and those two execp
; tious only be-uuse they have nothing.
to do in buying either of them. Others
are ri'tained for misfortune hy inop- '
portune sickness. .lust as that lawyer ;
was to make the plea that would have
put him among the strong men of the ;
profession, neuralgia stung him. .lust
as that, physician was to prove his skill I
in an epidemic. his own sior 1
health imprisoned him. Just as
that merchant must Is- at the I
store for some decisive and int.ro- ;
din'tory bargain, he sits with a rheu- j
mat ic joint on a pillow, the room tedol- i
ent with liniment. What, an over- I
whelming stut 1st ic would be the story
of men and women and children im- j
poverished by sickness! Then the 1
Mississippi and Ohio freshets. Then
the stopping of the factories. Then j
tho curculios among the peach trees.
Then the insectile devastation of po
tato patches and whcattields. Then
the epizootics among the horses and
the hollow horn among the herds,
then the rains that drown out, every
thing and the droughts that burn up
half a continent. Then the orange
groves die under the white teeth of
the hoar frost. Then the oal strikes,
and the iron strikes. and the mechanics'
strikes, which all strike lalsir harder
than they strike capital. Then the
yellow fever at Hrunswick and Jack
sonville and Shreveport. Then the
cholera at the Narrows, threatening to
land in Now York. Then tho Charles- i
town earthquake. Then the Johnstown
Hood, Then hurricanes sweeping from j
Cariblieau Sea to Newfoundland. Then j
there are the great monopolies thai ,
gulley the earth witn their oppressions, i
Then there are the necessities of buy
ing coal byihe scuttle instead of the
ton, and flour by the pound instead of
the barrel, and go tho injustices are
multiplied. inuiewaK.0 01 an uiese
are overwh
1 u hI ,.n.j ..f ti.
truth of my text
'Ye huvo tho poor
always with you.
(er-Mtittl ItmnrHncr.
Remember u tact that no ono empha
sizes -a fuel, nevertheless, uponwhich
I wuut to put Die weight of an eternity
of tonnage - that tho best way of insur
ing yourself and yourchildren and your
grandchildren agaiust Hvrly and all
other troubles is by helping others i
am an agent of the oldest insurance
company that was ever established. It
is nearly .1.000 years old. It has the ad
vantage ol ull t he ot her plans of insur
ance whole life policy, endowment,
joint life and survivorship policies, as
cending and descending scales of pre
mium and tontine - and it pays up after
you are dead. Kvery cent .you give in
a Christian spirit to a jsnir man or
woman, every slusf you give to a bare
foot, every stick of wo(sl or lump of
coal you givetoalireless hearth, every
drop of medicine you give to a poor in
valid, every star of hope you make to
shine over unfortunate maternity,
every mitten you knit for cold fingers,
is a payment on the premium of thai
IHillcy.' I hand alsmt ;o,ooo,ooo lsili
cies to all who will go forth ami aid tho
unfortunate. There are only two or
three lines In this policy of life insur-anco-l's.
xli, 1, "Blessed is he that
considereth the poor; the Lord will de
liver him in time of trouble."
Other life insurance companies may
fall, but this celestial life insurance
company never. The Lord God Al
mighty is at the head of it, and all the
angels of Heaven are in its board of
direction, and its assets are all worlds,
and all the charitable of earth and
Heaven are the beneficiaries. "But,"
says some one, "I do not like a tontine
jxilicy so well, and that which you
offer is more like a tontine and to be
chielly paid in this life." "Blessed is
he that considereth the poor; tho Lord
will deliver him in tir?) of trouble."
Well, if you prefer th d old fashioned
policy of life insurance, which is not
paid till after death, you can be accom
modated. That will be given you
in the day of judgment and will be
handed you by the right hand, the
pierced hand of our Lord Himself, and
all you do in the right spirit for the
poor is payment on the premium of
that life insurance policy. I read you
a paragraph of that policy: "Then
shall the King say to them on His right
hand, "Come ye blest of my Father, for
I was hungered, and ye gave mo meat;
1 was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I
was a s1 ranger, and ye took me in;
naked, and ye clothed me.' "
In various colors of ink other life in
surance policies are written. This one
I hue just shown you is written in only
one kind of ink. and that red ink, the
blisid of the cross. Blessed bo God,
th;it is a paid up imjMcv. oaid for by
I the pangs of the Son ol God, and all
' we and to it in the way of our own
i good deeds will u'.igiuent the sum of
j eternal felicities. es. the time will
j come when the banks of largest capital
stock will all go down, and the tire in
I surance companies will all go down,
j and the life insurance companies will
all go down. Jn the last great earth
I quake all the cities will be prostrated,
j and us a consequence all bunks will for
i ever suspend payment. In the last
' eonlHigratton the lire insurance oom
, panics of I he earth will fail, for how
; could they make appraisement of the
I loss on u universal lire':' Then all the
' inhabitants of the round world will sur
j render their mortal existence, and how
I could life insurance companies pay for
depopulated hemispheres? But our
celestial life insurance will not be
harmed by that continental wreck, or
; that hemispheric accident, or that
! planetary catastrophe. Blow it out
like u candle the noon iay sun! Tear
it down like wornout, upholstery the
last sunset! Toss it from God's linger
like a dewdrop from the anther of a
; water lily - the ocean! Scatter them
I like a thistledown before a schoolboy's
i breath - the worlds! That will not
i disturb the omnipotence, or the com
posure, or the sympathy, or mo loveoi
that Christ who said it, onco on earth,
and will say it again in Heaven to all
those who have been helpful to the
downtrodden, and the cold, and the
huntrrv. and the houseless, and the
lost, "inasmuch as ye did it to them
ye did if to me!"
Mozart's Wife.
The wives of geniu8es are so often
not happy that it is pleasant to read
of the tender, affectionate and cheer
ful companion that;C;instanceJMozart
found In her husband, aii example
of the tone of his correspondence
with her is this gay little letter:
' If I should tell you, dear, adored
one, all that I say to your portrait
you would laugh at. my folly. When
I take It out of its case, I say, "God
bless you, dear little Constance! God
keep you, amiable rogue, little curly
liead and pointed nose, my joy and
grief!' And when 1 niu t separate
from the dearer picture, I slide it slow
ly, slowly intojthc caseandsay, 'Wait,
wait, wait!' Then when it has quite
disappeared, I say, 'Good night, dear
little rrlcnd' Sleep well!"
Ne was a most gentle nurse when
Constance was ill. At 5 o'clock he
stole out of the house on tiptoe to go
for a rido ou horseback, but never
without leaving under Constance's
pillow a little note something like
this:
"I wish you good morning, dear
little wife! I hope that you slept
well, and that nothing troubled your
rest.
"Take care not to get cold, do not
slip down, do not get tired, do not
get cross with the maid. Take care
not to trip on the sill as you go from
one room to another. Keep all your
domestic troubles until i come back,
and that will be soon."
1 1 is sister In-law, Sophie, told this
story of his dcvaiion. One day she
and Mozart were watching by Con
stance, who had fallen asleep A
sudden noNc caused Mozart to jump
..noufcklv. His chair slipped and he
! I' I r
fell driving a knife which he had
open in his hand deep into his thigh.
.Mozart wlis ordinarilyvcry nervous,
and so sensitive to pain that the
slightest prick from a pin made him
turn pale, but he did not utter a
sound, slowly and cautiously he
went away to his own room to dress
the Injury.
The wound was so severe that he
limped for several diys, but he dis
guised his sulfcring and the limp so
bravely that Constance never knew
of the accident. Youth's Com pan ion.
Weci'lnn Mis Second Nose.
K. Til tensor of Trenton, N. .1., H
the possessor ol a new one, made to
order out of flesh, l-'or two ily-llve
years he had been carrying a noe
with a nnmlcr of formations on It
j that mad It unsightly. J Ic applied
ton physician, and, on his advise.
had all the Mesh cut off and the hone
cleaned. A new nose was then made
of Mesh taken from his f-.rehcad and
his ntc. The patient suffered little
from the (iteration, although he Is
over (It) years old. --Philadelphia Lcd-
Rcr.
Tiik Prince of Wales Is opposed to
hi sons dissipating. He attends to
that for the entire family.
THE
COMMERCIAL BANK.
ESTABLISHED 1888.
Harrison,
& B. Brbwstlr,
President.
D. H. GRISWOLD, Cashier.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $50 000.
Transacts a General Banking Business,
CORRESPONDENTS:
American Exchanob National Bank, New York,
U.ted States National Bank. Omaha,
First National Bank, Chadro.
Interest Paid on
"DRAFTS SOLD ON
THE PIONEER
P harmacy,
J. E. PHINNEY, Proprietor.
Pure Drugs, Medicines, Paints,
Oils and Varnishes.
y ARTISTS' MATERIAL.
School Supplies.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded
Day or Night.
Simons & SMILEY,
Harrison, Nebraska,
Real Estate Agents,
Have a number of bargains in
choice land in Sioux county.
Parties desiring to buy or sell rea
estate should not fail to
call on them.
School Lands
leased, taxes paid for
non-residents; farms rented, eto.
CORRESPONDENTS SOLICITED.
Nebraska.
C. F. Corna,
Vic-PrniMl
Time Deposits.
ALL PARTS OF EUROPE.
tsTBRUBHKS.