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5 V "1 . ioux Cc'unty Journal . The VOLUME VI. HABKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1894. NUJIBE1X 13, if COMMERCIAL BANK. EOTABLISHED 1888. Harrison, Nebraska. Wl ft finwma, Pissidsat D. B. ORI8WOLD, OmIiIw. . AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $50 000. Transacts a General Banking Business. CORRESPONDENTS! BXOMXM Haiwmal Bahk, Nsw York, TJh.ran Statb National Bane, Omaha, Fnar National Bark, Chadioa, Interest Paid on Time Deposits. ITOBAm BOLD ON ALL PARTS OF EUSOTZ. THE piora J. E. PHKINEY, Proprietor. Pure Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishe3. C7ARCnr MATESLiL, . School Supplies. Proscriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. Simons; & smiley, Harrison, Nebraska, Real Estate Agents, Have a number of bargains in ehoico land in Sioux county. Forties desiring to buy or cell rcsl estate should not fail to call on them. School Lands leased, tares paid for non-reddents; txrma rented, cts. GORRESPONDEOTS SOLICITED. a r. rmacy, TALMAGE'S 8ERM0II AN INTERE8TINQ DISCOURSE THROUGH THE PRESS. B. Canm.i Tfce Steatle la taa mm SUe aabjaet Joseph aad aUs frnM Kelatlna.-A Good 4 far Celibacy A UttepN of law rrmi TmUiIa Ap. f Per. Dr. Talmage, wbo is now nea lng the antipodes on bis round th' world journey, has selected as the sul ject for his sermon through tbe pre this week '-The Rustic In til Palace," tbe text being taken trot Genesis xlv, 2fi, "I will go and see hir nerore 1 aie." j jacoo nua long since passed tbe bu dred year milestone. In those time? people were distinguished for long vlty. In the centuries afterward .per sons lived to great age. Galen, th most celebrated physician of his tinif took so little of bis own medicine ttU he lived to 140 years. A man of ui doubted veracity on the witness stag in England swore that he remember! an event JaO before. Lord Ba speaks of a countess who had cut thrf set of teeth and died at 140 years. seph Crele of Pennsylvania lived l1, years. In IW, a book was printt containing the names of ihirty-sev persons who lived 140 years and tt names of eleven persons who lived I, years. . Horn. Grand Old People. ; Among the grand old people I whom we have record was Jacob, i shepherd of the text. But he bad bad lot of boys. Tbev were jeakj and ambitious" and every way unprin pled. Joseph, however, seemed to i an exception, but he bad been gft many years, end the probability w that he was dead. As sometimes a in a bouse you will find kept at li table vacant chair, a plate, a knife fork, for some deceased member of t family, so Jacob kept in bis heart? place for bis beloved Joseph. Th sits tbe old man, tbe flock of 140 y. in their flight having alighted 1c enough to eave tbe marks of tbt claw on forehead and cheek and , t' pie. His long beard snows down or his chest. His eves are somewl dim, and he can see farther when tt are closed than when they are opt for he can see clear back into the tLr when beautiful Rachel, his wile, f living, and his children shook oriental abode with their merrlme'j The centenarian is sitting dreamla over the past when he bear a rumbling to the front door. He gJil up and goes to the door to see wbo b arrivaa, ana au toog soaeai aosa uvr& Egypt come in and announce to him that Joseph, Instead of being dead, is living in an Egyptian palace, with all the investiture of prime minister, next to tbe king in the mightiest empire of all the world! The news was too sud den and too glad for tbe old man, and his cheeks whiten, and he has a dazed look: and his staff falls out of bis hand, and he would bave dropped had not the sons caught him and led him to a lounge and put cold water on his lace and fanned him a little. In that halt delirium the old man mumbles something about his son Joseph. He says: "You don't mean Joseph, do you - my dear son, who has been dead so long? You don't mean Joseph, do you':"' But after they bad fully resuscitated him and tne news was confirmed tbe tears begin their winding way down the crossroads of the wrinkles, and tbe sunken lips of tbe old man quiver, and he brings his bent fingers together as he says: "Joseph u yet alive. I will go and see him before I die." Parental Attachment. It did not take tbe old man a great while to get ready, I warrant you. He put on the best clothes that the shep herd's wardrobe could afford. He got Into tbe wagon, and though the aged are cautious and like to ride slow the wagon did not get along fast enough for this old man, and when tbe wagon with the old man met Joseph's chariot coming down to meet him, and Joseph got out of the chariot and got Into the wagon and threw his arms aroung bis father's neck, 11 was an antithesis of royalty and rtisVlcity, of simplicity and pomp, of filial affection and paternal love, wblch leaves us so much in doubt about whether we had better laugh or cry that we do both. So Jacob kept the resolution of the text. "I will go and see him before I die." What a strong and unfailing thing is parental attachment! Was it not al most time for Jacob to forget Joseph? The hot suns of many summers had blazed on the heath; the river Nile had overflowed and 'receded, over flowed and receded again and again; the seed had been town and the har vest reaped. Stars rose and set. Years of pleojbjbnd years of famine had paase4-Vl)tit the love of Jacob for Joseph Tifhjy text is overwhelmingly dramatic. Oh, that is a chord that is not sbapped; though pulled by many decades! Though when the little child expired the parents may not have been more than 2.1 years of age, and now they are 75, vet the vision or the cradle, and the childish face, and the first utterances of the Infantile lips are fresh to-day. in spite of the passage of a half century. Joseph was Mi- fresh in Jacob's memory as ever, though at 17 years of ago the boy bad disappeared from the old homestead. 1 found in our family rec ord tbe story of an infant that had died fifty years before, and I said to m. parentis, "What is this record, and whHt does It mean '" Their chief an swer waa a long, deep sigh. It was' yet to them a very tender sorrow. What does that all meany Why, it me as our child en departed are ours yet, and that cord of attachment reach ing across the years will hold us un til It brings us toga. her ia the palaos, as .lacob and Joseph were brought to tether. This is ooe tfcl" that pakes old people die happy, laey raaliat It la reunion with those from whom they tve long been separated. A TarUMaa; VumL. I am often asked as pastor, and every pastor is asked tbe aueetion. "Will mv i children be children in Heaven and forever children-"' Well, there was M doubt a great change in Joseph from the time Jacob lost him and the time when Jacob found him between the boy l; years of age and the man in midlife, bis forehead developed with the great business of state, but Jacob was glad to get back Joseph anyhow, and it did not make much difference to the old man whether the boy looked older or younger. And it will be enough joy for that parent if he can get back that son, that daughter, at tbe gate of Heaven, whether the de parted one shall come a cherub or in full grown angelhood. There must be a change wrought by that celestial climate and by those supernal years, but It will only be from loveliness to more loveliness, and from health to more radiant health. The Agrd Parenta, Joseph, in the historical scene of the text, did not think any more of his father than you do of your parent. The probability is, before they lea', e Sour house they half spoil your chil ren with kindness. Grandfather and grandmother are more lenient and in dulgent to your children than they ever were with you. And what wond ers of revelation in the lombazine pocket of one and the sleee of the other! Blessed Is the home where Christian parents come to visit: What ever may have been the style of tho architecture when they came, it is a palace before they leave. If they visit you fifty times, the two most memora ble visits will be the first and the last. Those two pictures will hang in the hall of your memory while memory lasts, and you will remember just how they looked, and where they sat, and what they said, and at what figure of the carpet, and at what doorsill they parted with you, giving you the final good-by. Do not be embarrassed if (our father come to town and he have he manners of the shepherd, and if your mother come to town and there be in her ' hat no sign of costly millin ery. The wife of the Emperor Theo dosius said a wise thing when she said: "Husbands, remember what you lately were, and remember what you are, and be thankful." By this time you all notice what kindly provision Joseph made for his father, Jacob. Joseph did not say: "I can't have the old man around this 'place. How clumsy he would look climbing up these marble stairs, and walking over these mosaics! Then he would be putting his hands upon some of these frescoes. People would won der where that old greenhorn came Hfrom. He would shock all the Eerot- f fan court with his manners at table. Besides that he might get sick on my hands, and he might be querulous, and he might talk to me as though I were only a boy, when 1 am the second man in all the realm. Of course he must not suffer, and if there is famine in his country and I hear there is I will send him some provisions, but I can't take a man from Padanaramand introduce him into the polite Egyptian court. What a nuisance it is to have poor relations!" Joseph did not say that, but he rushed out to meet his father with perfect abandon of affection and brought him up to the palace and introduced him to the Emperor and nrovided for all the rest ot the father's days, and noth ing was too good. for the old man while living. And when he was dead, Joseph, with military escort, took his father's retrains to the family cemetery. Would God all children were as kind to their parents! - A Plea for Filial Affection. It the father have large property, and he be wise enough to keep it in his own name, he will be respected by the heirs, but how often it is when the son finds his father in famine, as Joseph tound Jacob in famine, the young peo ple make it very hard for the old man! They are so surprised he eats with a knife instead of a fork. They are cha grined at bis antediluvian habits. They are provoked because he cannot hear as well as he used to, and when be asks it over again, and the son has to repeat it, he bawls in the old man's ear, "I hope you hear that!" How long he must wear the old coat or tbe old hat oefore tbey get him a new one! How chagrined they are at his independence of the English grammar! How long he hangs on'. Seventy years and not gono yet! Seventy-five years and not gone yet! Eighty years and not gone yet! Will he ever go? They think it of no use to bave a doctor in his last sickness, and go up to the d rue store, ana gel a dose of something that makes him worse, and economize on a coffin, and beat the undertaker down to the last point, giving a note for the reduced amount, which they never nay. I bave officiated at obse quies of aged people where the family have been so inordinately resigned to Providence that I felt like taking my text from Proverbs, "The eye that mocketh at its father and refuseth to obey its mother, tbe ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the voung eagles shall eat it." In other words, such an lngrate ought to have a flock of crows for pallbearers! I congratu late you If you bave the honor of pro viding for aged parents. The bless ing ofthe Lord God of Joseph and Jacob will be on you. I rejoice to remember that, though my father lived in a plain house the most of his days, he died in a mansion provided by the filial piety of a son who bad achieved a fortune. There tbe octogenarian sat, and the servant waited on him, and there were plenty of horses, and plenty of carriages to convey him, and a bower in which to sit on long summer afternoons, dream ing over the past, and there was not a room la tbe house where he waa not welcome, and there were musical In strument of all sorts to regale him. and when Ufa had passed the neigh, bora oaaae out and expressed all honor possible, and oarrlad him to the U Htfa Maebpeiaa and mi bias down ba the Rachel with whom he had lived more than half a century. Share your success with the old people. The probability is that the principles they inculcated achieved your fortune. Give them a Christian percentage of kindly consideration. Let Joseph di vide with Jacob the pasture fields of Goshen, and tbe glories of the Egyp tian courr. A Qaod Word far La married Weeaea. And here I would like to sing the praises of the sisterhood who remain unmarried that they might administer to aged parents. The brutal world calls these self sacrificing ones pecu liar or angular, but if you had had as many annoyances as they have had .Xantippo would bave been an angel compared with you. It is easier to take care ot live rollicking, romping children. 'than of one childish old man. Among the best women are those who allowed the bloom of l'fe to paws away whiie they were caring for their par ents. Wiiile other maidens were sound asleep they were soaking the old mac's feet or tucking up the cov ers around the invalid mother. While other maidens were in the cotillion they wore dancing attendance upon rheume tisiu. and spreading plasters for the lame back of the septenarian, and beating catnip tea for insomnia. in almost every circle of our kindred there has been some oueen of self sacrifice to whom jeweled hand after jeweled hi-nd was offered in marriage, but wbo staid on the old place because of the (tense of filial obligation until the healtn was gone and "the attrac tiveness of personal presence had van ished, brutal society may call such a one by a nickname. God calls her daughter, and Heaven calls her saint, and I call her domestic martyr. A half dozen ordinary women have not as much nobility as could be found in the smallest joint of tbe little linger of her left hund. Although the world has stood ti,000 years, this is the first apotheosis of maidenhood, although in the long line of those who have de clined marriage that they might be qualified for some especial missioc are the names of Anna Koss and Margaret Breckinridge and Mary Shelton and Anna Etheridge and Georglana Will etts, the angels of the battlefields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain and Chancel lorsvi lie, and though single life has been honored bv the fact that the three grandest men of the Bible John and Paul and Christ were celi bates. Let the ungrateful world sneer at the maiden aunt, but God has a throne burnished for her arrival, and on one side ol that throne in Heaven there is a vase containing two jewels, the one brighter i han the Kohinoor of London Tower, and tbe other larger than any diamond ever found in the districts of Golconda the one jewel by the lapid ary of the palace cut with tbe words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to father,'' the other jewel by the lapidary of the pal ace cut with the words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to mother." "Over tne Hills to tbe Poor house" is the exquisite ballad of Will Carle ton, who lound an old woman who had been turned off by her prosperous sons, but I thank God I may find in my text "Over the hills to the palace." f atner and Hon. As if to disgust us with unfiiial con duct, tbe Bib.e presents us the story of Micah, who stole tbe 1,100 shekels from his mother, and the story of Ab salom, who tried to dethrone his father. But all history is beautiful witb stories of filial fidelity. Epamlnondas, the warrior, found his chief delight in reciting to his parents his victories. There goes vKneas from burning Troy, on his shoulder Anchises, his lather. Tbe Athenians punished with death any unfiiial conduct. There goes beautiful Keth escorting venerable Naomi across the desert amid the bowling of tbe wolves and the barking of the jackals. John Lawrence, burned at. the stake in Colchester, wascheered in the flames by his children, who said, "O God, strengthen thy servant and keep thy promise!" And Christ in the hour of excruciation provided for his old mother. Jacob kept his resolution, "I will go and see him be fore I die," and a little while after we find them walking the tesselated floor of the palace, Jacob and Joseph, the prime minister pro id of the shepherd. I may say in regard to the most of you that your parents have probably visited you lor tbe last time, or . will soon pay you such a visit, and I have wondered if they will ever visit you in the King's palace. "Ob," you say, "1 am in the pit of sin!" Joseph was in the pit. "Oh," you say. "I am in the prision of mine iniquity!" Joseph was once in prison. "Oh," you say, "I didn't have a fair chance. I was de nied material kindness." Joseph was denied maternal attendance. "Oh," you say, "i am far away from the land of my nativity!" Joseph was far from home. "Oh," you say, "I have been betrayed and exasperated!" Did not Joseph's brethren sell him to a pass ing IshmaeKtish caravan? Yet God brought him to that emblazoned resi dence, and If you will trust his grace In Jesus Christ you, too, will be em palaced. Oh, what a day that will be when the old folks come from an adjoining mansion in Heaven and find you amid the alabaster pillars of the throne room and living with the King! They are coming up the steps now, and the epauleted guard of the palace rushes In ana says, "Your father's coming, your mother's coming!" And when under the arches of precious stones and on tbe pavement of porphyry yu greet each other the scene will eclipse the meeting on the Goshen highway, when Joseph and Jacob fell on each other's neck and wept a good whilo. A Utowlae; rirtura. But, oh, how changed the old (oiks will be! Their cheek smoothed into the flesh of a little child. Their stooped i nature lifted Into immortal symmetry. Their foot now so feeble, then with the sprig htllness of a bound' tag roa, as they shall say to you, "A spirit paaMtfe this war from earth aa4 told as that jron war wayward and dissipated after we left the worU, bet you nave repented, our prayer kaa been answered, and you are hero. Aad as we used to visit you on earth before we died now we visit yoa In year new home after our ascension." Aad father will say, "Mother, doat you see Joseph is yet alive?" and mother will say, "Yea. father. Joseph is yet alive. And tbe a thev will talk over their earthly anxieties is regard to you, . and the midnight supplications in your behalf, and tbey will recite to e ich other the old Scripture passage with which they used to cheer their staggering faith. "I will be a God to thee and thy seed after thee." Oh, the palace, the palace! That Is what Kichard Baxter called "the saints' everlasting rest" That is what John Bunyan called tbe "Celestial City." That is Young's "Night Thoughts" turned into morning exultations. That is Gray's "Ejegy in a Churchyard" turned to resurrection spectacle. That is the "Cotter's Sat urday night" exchanged tor the cot ter's'Sabbatn morning, That is the shepherd of Salisbury plains amid tbe flocks on the hills of Heaven. That is the famine struck Padanaram turned into the rich pasture fields of Goshen. That is Jacob visiting Joseph at the emerald castle. BETTER THAN A BANK ACCOUNT A Mexican Don'. Sliver Mine, Wbleh Ha Tap Whenever Me Meads Caab. For the past twelve years Will Walker, formerly of Independence, Ma, has been a resident of Mex co. Recently he related tbe following story to another Missour.an, who, in turn, told it to a writer for the Kan sas City Journal: "A Mexican grandee, whose name . is Don Alcazar de Chilicolorow, owns a famous mine of inexhaustible riches in tbe State of Chihuahua. It con tains a high grade silver ore) and Is so rich that wh never the don or bis senora run short of money tbey sim ply direct the bead peon to gather together bis delegation of twelve or thirteen serfs and their equally pa tient and uncomplaining fellow serfs, the burros. Then the don mounts tbe bead burro and tbe procession takes the trail for the family mine, as it is called. Tbe mine has been in tbe possession ofthe don and h.s ancestors for the past four centuries. It is nothing but a rude tunnel in tbe mountain side. The en trance to tbe tunnel is sscu ely barricaded with heavy timber doors, which are securely locked with three old Spanish locks, tbe keys to which are always In the possession of the dou. Wheu the mine is reached the don unlocks the doors. He then dl- . t rects his body servant to swing his hammock beneath tbe branches of a massive tree standing at tbe en trance to the mine, which was a well grown sapling when tbe first don of the family discovered the mine 400 ears ago. "The peons are then set to work getting out the rich silver ore, which they put into baskets slung upon tbe backs of tbe burros. It is but th ; work of five or six hours to get out ore tbat will be worth several thou sands of dollars. Tbe ore is free milling ore and it is no foubie to work it While the ore U being taken out of tbe mine and put into tbe baskets tbe don Is lying In his ' hammock leisurely smoking cigar ettes, When tbe basket are full tbe uon manages to pull himself together long enough to lock uo the mine and seal tbe entrances and tbe cavalcade then starts back and goes straight to Cbibuahua. twenty miles away. As soon as tbey arrive there tbe don sells the contents of tbe baskets, lor which he receives from Sli.OOO to $1,000 id cash in Mexican money. He gives his peons a liberal tip be sides their meager wages; which tbey divide, like tbe conscientious peons they are, between the church and tbe pulque merchant and reserve a small medium to keep themselvesand their families partly clothed and fed until the don holds his next grand rally, which occurs four or five tlir.es a year. The don owns a magnificent ha cienda, has a lovely wife and two beau tt ul daughters, who havo all the I ride of the true Castllllans. The hacienda contains over 0,000 acres and is one of the principal highways leading out of Chihuahua, upon which, like most of tbe land owners of the country, be pays little or no taxes. " His Explanation. , ' The recent confinement of the Kev. Dr. Paxton In a Pittsburgh fanltarlum recalls sadly tbe time when his nimble Intellect could leap gracefully over the most difficult theological stile. It Is well known tbat be bad a great many wealthy men In his congregation. A friend once asked him to expound the doc trine tbat It Is easier for a camel to go th ough the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter tbe kingdom ot Heaven. , "My dear sir,' said tbe doctor. "1 bave always regarded tbat sa a po etic exaggeration ot the ingenuity ot the carnal." New York Advertiser. A "Hoodoo" Rabbit. A swamp rabbit, killed near Pales tine, Tens, the other day, had ferae horna on its baad each two lacfcai long. Two of the horns casst up from the sides of UMlttftd. Tta otkor was la tha mtitt. trti all over Uw under Jaw cava ttrv ore a korriUs trrttssxn, t1 aUvat ttltk tlzj r-T 0 I C l ru a us txtizi a hi t:r i I f '& '4. ' .it Vr