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The Sioux County Journal VOLUME VII. HARRISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1894. NUMBER 6. Pie THE COMMERCIAL BANK. ESTABLISHED IMS. Harrison, Nebraska. a r. a a. obmwold, ommm. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $50000. Tmncacta a General Banking Bufjin COlRESPONDENTSt IUwval Bun, Nsw Tara, Ut..n Stats National Bam,. Oiaiaa, National Ban, Interest Paid on Time Deposits. ODUITI BOLD ON ALL PABT8 OF EUB0TS. THE PIONEER harmacy, J. LPHMNEY. Proprietor. TALMAGE'S SERMON. DISCOURSE ON THE DANGERS OI SOCIAL DISSIPATION. P Pore Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. ABCTBT KATEBIAL, School Supplies. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. siMMOtis & smiley, Harrison, Nebraska, Real Estate Agents. Hara mm tm DsacttaT mt mm Marftar tha CmmbMuU of Uara lhitcf la Ummrmt-ttilm mt tax WmmmSnmmMm Dam (Till of Ike IMmkw. Kev. Dr. Talmage, who Is still absent - or of the human voire. Ail nation have danced. TLe ancient thought th Castor and Pollux taught the art to the lacede monians. But, whoever started it, all clime l ave adopted it. In ancient times they had the festal I dance, tbe military dance, ti e media- torial dance, the bacchanalian dance, I and queens and lords swayed to and fro i in tbe gardens, and the rough haek I woodsman with this exercise awakened tbe echoof the forest. There is some thing in tbe sound of lively music to evoke the movement of tbe hand and foot, whether cultured or uncultured. Passing down tbe street we uncon- close on thir track. Amid many of tbe flittering scenes of social life dis eases stand right and left and balance ; and chain. Tbe breath of the sep j nlcher Hosts up through the perfume, and tbe froth of death's lips bubbles : up in tbe champagne. I am told that ' in some of the cities there are parents I who have actually given up housekeep I tng and gone to boarding that they may give their time inimitably to . social dissipations. I have known such cases. 1 have known family after fam ily blasted in that way in one of the other cities where i preached, father and mother turning their back upon on his round the world tour selected as L. . I 1 .. . U..!.,!.... ' m n n through the press 'The yuick Feet," j J;"' """" tbe text chosen being Matthew xiv, : u i4,in f i i v.j u .) 1 mony. then and pleased Herod. ' It is the anniversary sciously keep step to the sound ot the ! all auiet culture and all the amenities brass band, while the Christian in i of home, leading forth their entire ith his foot beats time while rises upon some great bar While this is so in civilized of Herod's ' birthday. The palace is lighted. Tbe highways leading thereto are all , abla e with the wrap of invited guests. ! Lords, captains, merchant princes, the , mightv' men of the land, are coining to j mingle in the festivities The table is , spread with all tne luxuries that royai ' purveyors can gather. Thu guesia, i white rotted and anointed and per-! fumed, come in and sit at the table. : Music! Tbe lests provoke roars of j laughter. Kiddies are propounded, i Kepartce 1m indulged. fouMts are ; drunk." Tie irain, is he.'ogged. - Tbe , wit rolls on ln.o a roar of blasphemy. ; Tbey are not satisfied yet. Turn on more light. i'our out more wine. ' Music! round all the ti urapels. Clear) the floor for a dune, Uring in .Salome. the lieitutiful and accomplished prin- ; cess. The door ojiens. and in bounds i the dancer. Tbe lords are enchanted. Stand buck and make room (or tbe j brilliant gyrations. These men never j saw such ")oeti'y of motion." Their j soul whirls in the reel ana nounaswitn i the xunding feet. j Herod forgets crown and throne and everything but the fascinations of Sa- lone. All tbe magnificence of his I realm is at nothing compared with tho j whirls on tiptoe before their scalp dances, their green corn dances, tneir war dances. In ancient times the exercise was so utterly and com letely depraved that the church anathematized it. The old Christian fathers expressed themselves most vehemently against it. St. Chrysos tom says, "The feet were not given for dancing, but to walk mo lestly: nob to leap impudently, likecamels' One of the dogmas of tbe ancient church reads: "A dance is the devil's )os session. and he that enteretb into a dance entereth into bis posse slon. As many paces as a man makes in dancing, so many paces does he make to hell." family in the wrong direction. An nihilated, worse than annihilated for there are some things worse than an nihilat on. 1 give you the history of more than one family when I say they went on in the dissipations of social life until tha father drappei into a lower style of dissipation, and after awhile the son was tossed out into so ciety a nonenity, and after awhile the daughter eloped with a French danc ing master aud after awhile the moth er, getting on further and further in years, tries to hide tbe wrinkles, but fails in tbe attempt, trying all tbe arts ot the belle, an old flirt, a poor misera ble butterfly without any wings. If there is anything ou earth beauti ful to me, it is an aged woman, her white locks flowing back over tbe wrinkled brow locks not white with "The woman that Hintreth in the dunce ' is the princess ot the deil, and those j frost, as the poets say, hut white with that answer are her clerks, and the be-! the bloisoms of the tree of life, in her holders are his friends, and tbe muiic ' voice the tenderness or gracious mem Have a number of bargains choice land in Sioux county. in Parties desiring to buy or call real estate should not fail to call on them. School Lands leased, taxes paid for non-residents; farms rented, eta CORRESPONDENTS SOLICITED. is his bellows, ana the fiddlers are the ministers of tbe devil. For as, when bogs are strayed, if tbe hosherd call one all assemble together, so when t be devil caMeth one woman toting in the dance, o to play on some musical instruments, presently all the dan era gather together." This indiscrimin ate and universal denunciation of the exercise cume from the fact that it was utterly anl completely An KnMahtrnad 'on Ifnce. But we are not todiscussthe customs of the o den times, but customs now. We are not to take the evidence of the splendor that him. 11 in hodv swavs from idu to side. corresponding with the motions of the ancient fathers, but our own con- His sou is thri lea Wllh i jcdco, cnny uiciicu uy wo wa ui or.es, her lace a benediction. As grandmother passes through the room the grandchildren pull at her dress, and she almost falls in her weakness, but she has nothing but candy or c.ke or a kind word for the little darlings. When she gets out of the wagon in front of tbe house, tbe whole family rush out and cry, "CrunUina s come, and when she goes away from us, never depraved. ! to return, there is a shadow on tbe lauie. anu asnauuw on tue 11car1.11, aim a shadow on tbe heart. There is no more touching scene on earth than when grandmother sleeps the last slumber and tbe little clu.d is lifted sickening odor that lui'J that have iala Uriag ia ik cemeteries Light Urwar. gather it. tne room. tilaaseai though quaked by sullen thaadar. Cjk caught in tbe curtain. Bearf 4nm from the shoulder of beauty, tihitM. Lights lower. Over tbe alippar boards in dance of death gliata, jm! ousies, envies, revenges, lust, nWipahf. and death. Stench the lamfiwioluj al most extinguished. Torn garlaate will not half cover tbe ulcerated Ink. Choking damp. Chilliness. stilL Bands closed. Voice ha Kyes shut. Lights out. Ob. ho many of you have far away from God through social sipations! AM It k Mme you I For 1 remember Uiat there were vessels on the 9ea and in a story. "It was very, very dark, and the two aa sels were go ng straight for eMail other, and the captains knew it act. Hut alter awhile tbe man on the look out saw the approaching ship, aad h shouted, "Hard a-larboard!" nd frata tbe otber veasel tbe cry aeat ap, "Hard a-larboad!" aad tbe taraaA just enough to glance by and paaaai in safety to their harbors. Hovtm mt vou are in the storm of temptation, aaa vou are driving on and coming towara fearful collisions unless you chaaga. your course. Hard a larboad! Tan ye, torn ye, for "why will ye ala. house of lnraeL A Geographical Problem. A discussion is going on in Oregsa as to whether Mount Shasta, la Cali fornia, can be seen from tbe summit of Mount Hood, in tbe former Htata. One of a party which recently clii Hood Insists that be saw the peak, with whose outline ha is , fa miliar. Tha actual distance betwsaa tbe m is 2it miles. His statement was at 11 ret scouted, the camputatioai being made by one malbeniatlciaaj that .-hasta is seven miles below tha horlon line of Mount Hood. Uena. Taylor of the United States Kn giueering Corps, being appealed to, consulted tables and oflicial iuaas with tbe following results: "Ilort- enc huntress. tbe pu ation of the feet and be witched With tbe taking (tOHture and attitudes more and more ania.ing. After awhile be sits in enchanted si lence looking at the flashy, leaping, bounding beauty, and as tne dance closes, aud tbe tinkling cymlNils cease to clap, anil tbe thunder o applause that ihook the p:Uace begin to abate, the enchanted monarch swears to the princely performer: "vVbatsoever thou shalt ask of lue 1 will give it thee, tn tlm hnlf of mv kimnlnm '' Now. there i some was In orison at that time a minister ot : H the gonpal of tho. nauiu . o( .John, the Haptivt, and he had been making a great aeal of trouble bv preaching some very plain and honest sermons. He had denounced the sins of the King and bro'igbtdown uon bim the wrath of the female of the royal household. At tbe instigation of her mother, Sa lome takes advantage of the ex rava gant promise or the King and says: Bring mo tbe head of John the Bun tiiK on a d.nner plate." Dlft'lpMttoii and Murrlttr. Hark to tbe sound of feet outside the door and clatter of swords! The exe cutioners are returning from their aw ful errant. Ot en tho door. They entor, and they urescm the platter to Salome. What is on t lis platter?. A newirlas.io wine to lontinue tbe up roarious merriment? No. Something rudder and coitlier -the ghantly, bleeding bead of John the I'a ti-.t, tlje l''ut,h glare still in the eye, the lo' kn Ood, is to be the standard. Oh, bring no harsh criticism upon the young. 1 would not drive out from their soul tl: hilarities of life. I do not believe that the inhabitants of ancient Wales, when they ste ped to the sound of tbe rustic harp, went down to ruin. I be lieve Ood intended tbe young people to laugh and romp nd plav. 1 do not be lieve Ood would huve put exuberance in tbe soul and eml race in the body if he had not Intended they should in rise exercise it and demonstrate a mother join hands with her children and cross the lloor to the I sound of music, I group of friends cross anil room to the sound of piano well p. aved, I see no harm. If a company, all of whom are known to host and hostess as reputable, croan and recross the room to the sound o'. musi al Instrument. I see no harm. I tried for a lonjf while to see barn in it 1 could not see any harm in it 1 never shal see any harm in that. Our men need to be kept young - young lor many years longer than they are kept young. Never since my boyhood days have I had more sympathy with the innocent hilarltie) of life than 1 have now. What tboii(jb we have felt heavy bur dens! W bat though we have bad to endure hard kno ks! Is that any rea son why we should stand in tbe way of those who, un.siun of li e s misfor tunes, ore lull of exhilaration ami glee.' Ood blO:8 tbe young! They will have to wait many a Ion,' year cki up to the casket to give tbe last kiss, ! zoo line from Hood (II, feet high,) anu Hhe says, "uooaoy, granama j Oh, there is beauty in old age. God ! says so. ' The hoary head is a crown ! of glory." Why should people decline ; to get old? The beat things, the great est things I know of, are aged - old I mountains, old suas, old stars and old eternity, but if there is anything dis : tresbful it is to see au old woman 1 ashamed of tbe fact that she is old. What with a 1 the artificial appliances, , she is too mu, hformy gravity. 1 laugh ; even in church whenlsee her com. ng. The worst looking bird on earth is a peacock when it has lost its feathers. oui i ( 1 would not givw on lock of ay Ai a , iv... ji oivk , uriu. ii a , j. JW.K -i I ecross me ., . k a -,i uku nr. VttUUI C3 Ul UUIUMIIkl. AlUU WJH I.IC dahhled with the gore, the (eatures f01.0 tiiey bear mo gay anything that ul II dintresMod with the last agony This woman, who whirled m graie lully in the dance, ben Is o. er the aw ful burden without a shudder. She p oats over tbe bloo I, and with as 1 1 1 1 1 c It ind ticrenre as a waiting n uid mitfht take a tray of empty g assware out of the ruo a alter an entertain nienl .-ia onie carries the dissevered head of John the Baptist, while all th ban ,uetori sliOiit with la.ighter and think it a good joke that in so easy and nick a way they have got rid of iin earnest and outspoken m.nister of tne gospel. Vou will all admit, whatever you think o. that style of amusement and exercise, that irom many circles it has rrowded out all intelligent conversa tion. on will also admit thut it was made the condition of thoi-e who do not dance, either because tbey do not knew how. or because they have not tbe health to endure it, or because, through conscientious scruples they mu t neelino tbe eer. ise, very un comfortable Vou will also dm it, all ot you, that it has pa-sod in many ruses from an mnii ement to a dissipa tion, and you are eus ly able to under stand tbe bewilderment of the edu cated C hinunmn who, standing in tbe brilliant circle where there was danc ing going on four or five hours and the guests seemed exhausted, turned to tbe proprietor of the house and said, "Why don t you allow your servants to do this for you?'1 Tlix Kimrvallnit Oanra. You are also will'Jg to admit, what ever be your idea in regard to the amusement 1 am shaking of, and whatever be your u ea of the old fnshioneil eqii .re dance aud of many of the processional romps in which I can see no evil, tho ruun.i dunce is admin istrative of evil i nd ought to be driven out of all respectable circles. 1 am by naturul tomporamen t nd rel f Wius theory opposed to the posit on taken liy all ttioso who are horritiod at pi iy fulncss on the pa t cl the young, and who think that a. 1 ( uestlons are de cided - iUcstiotiH of decency and mor als by tbe position of tbe leet, while, on the other hand, I can see notbi g but ruin, temporal and eternal, for those who go Into the dissipa tions of social life, dissipations which have already despot ed thousands of young women of all that is noble ia character and useful '.n life. Dancing is the grace ul motion ot the b dy ad listed by art to the ir and vtd ne'asurei ot musical instruments would depress their ardor or cl p their wings or make them ball ;ve that life is hard and cold and repulsive. It is not. I tell them, uJginglrom my own experience, that they will lj tr. ated a great deal better than they desei ve. We have norirht to grudge the inno- j cent hilarities to tho young. i'jitt Wrttrlng Koitnrl. What are tho dissolutions of social life to-day, and what are the dissipa tions of th'j ba lroom? In some tines and in some places reaching all tho year around, in other pla es only in the summer time an t at tbe wa ering p aces. There are dissipations of social life that are cutting a very wide swath with the sickle oi deutu, and hundreds and thousands are goinr down "iidcr these in lucncos, and my subject in application 's as wide as Christendom. The whir. pool of social dissipation is drawing down some of tho brightest era t that ever sailed the sea thou anils and tons of thousands of tho bodies and so.ils tin nually consumed in the conlliigration of riblions. Social uissi pa' ion is tho alKJtter of pride, it is the-instigator of jealousy, it is tbe sacrilieial a tar of health, it is the dchler oi the soul, it is the avenue of lust, and it is the curse of every town on no'.h sides of tho sea. Social uissipa ion. it mity b.i hard to draw tbe lino and say that this is right on this one side, unit tnat is wrong ou tbe other side. It is not n -cessary tuat we do that, for Ood has put a tbrono iu eveiy man's soul, nml 1 aii eai to thut throne todny. When a man does wrong, he knows he docs wrong, and when bo does r.ght lie knows bo does right, and to th ,t throne which Al mighty Ood lifted :n the heart of every man and woman I a peal. as to the puysieul ruin wrought by the diss.pations o' social life there can bo no doubt. What may wo expect of poop o who work all d y and dunce all night A. tor awhile, tbey will lo turown on sixuety norvo.is, exha istod Imbeciles. These people who indulge In tbe suppers and the midnight revels andtlun go home in the told, un wrapped of 11m us. will after awhile be found to have been written down in Cod's ute.nal records as suicides, as much suicides as if tbey had taken their life with a pistol or a kni.o or strychnine. A rnollsh Carrnr. How many people have stepped fro-u tbe ballroom ln.o the graveyard! Con sumptions aad swift neuralgia are of a wordling, if the life of a diseiide given to the world, is tad the close of such & life is simply a tragedy. BrltttlMl Houls. Let me tell you that the dissipations of social lite are dosjsjlling the useful ness of a vast multitude oi people, What do those people care about the fact that there are whole nat.ons in sorrow and Buttering; and agony when they have for consideration the more important question about the si eo a giove or tbe tie of a cravat' Which one of them ever bound up the wo lids ot tbe hospital? Wh ch one of tbein ever weut out to caro for the poor? Which ot them do you find iu the haunts of sin, distributing tracts.' Tbey live on themselves, unci it is very poor pasture. t-.y bans was a great city, and it once sent out M horsemen in battle. They bail a minstrel who had taught the horses 01 tbe array a grund tncK. and when the old minstrol playe.l acortain tune the horses would rear and with their front the music ollunded with his country, and he went over to tho enemy, and he said to the enemy, "You givo me the ma ternhip of the army, and 1 will destroy their troops when those horsemen come from Synaris." So they gave the old minstrel the m nugement, and he taught all the other minslrols a certain tune. Then whenthe cavalry tioopcamo up the old minstrol und all the other minstrels played a certain tune, and at the most critical moment in tbe battle, when tne horsemen wanted to rush to tho conllict, the hortes reared and bent time to the music with their loro feet, und in disgrace and rout the enemv lied. Ah. mv friends, I have seen it again and again the minstrels ol pleasure, tho m nstrols of dissipa tion, tne minstrels of godless associa tion have uel'cated people in the hard est light of lifo. - Frivolity bos lost the hatt e for 1 ,iA,0folk. Oh, what a be littling procesH to the human m nd, tb s evorlasting ii.etion about dress, this discus ion oi fHsh.ouable infinitesi mals, this group looking askance at the glass, wondering with an infinity of earnestnuss how that last geranium leaf does look, this ehri .eling of a uiun s moral dignity until it is not ob servable to thTj naked eye, this, pt.nisb in uisition of a tight shoe, this bind ing up of an immortal out in a ru o, this i itching off of an immortal nature over tbe rocks when God intended it for great, and everlasting uplifting! ' l-MMt S-en or Wie. With many life is a masquerade ball, anil at such entertainments gentlemen and ladies put on tho garb of kings and queens or mountebanks or c oaiis und at thu dose put o f the disguise, so a great many pus, their whole Ufa na mask, taking oil' the musk at death. Wbi e tho masquerade ball of life goes on they trip merrily over the hoor, gemmed hand is stretched to gem i.ed hand, and gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On with tho dance! Flush, anil rustle, and laughter of Im measurable merrymaking. But after awhile the languor of death comos on the limbs and blurs tho cy. sight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with sepulchral echo. Music saddened Into a wail. Lights lower. Now the mask ers are only seen in the dim light Now tne fragrance of the l low era is Ilka the Tensile Strength or Materials. We are a customed to think of meta s as being stronger than wood, says tbe liaiiway ieview. And so ttiev are if only pieces of the same slse lie tested. But when equal weights of the two materials are compared, several varieties of wood are stronger than ordinary steel. A bar of pine just as heavy as a bar of steel an inch square will hold up J25,0t,0 pounds, the lst Jsb l 6, ( 00 pounds, and some hemlock 200,000 pounds. Wood is bulky. It o copies ten or twelve times tho space of steel. The best steel castings made tor the i nitea States avy have a tenacity of tio. 000 to f,u0 pounds to the square inch. Jly solidifying such caiin:s under great' pressure, a tcm-ite strengt h of ' Ml.OoO to i. 0,000 pounds may tw ' Obtained. The best UxA steel, from inxots, is far superior to ordinary. steel castings and forglngs in this respect and line steel wires and ribUins g ve a tcnacitr of oo.i pounds to the s,uare inch of o oss-Hcction. Ordinary aluminum is only one third as heavy as steal, anA a bar or thu former, with a cross auc tion of .three square Inches, would bold up '.e.ouO pounds, which la as much as one inch of good tteel would du Literary lbjtst s I'M miles: borion line from rhasU, (14,440 leet high,) 147 miles; total visible distance, 277 miles; actual distance between the peaks, 2. nilles; distance to pare, one mile. From this it would seem , that tbe projection of tbe horizon line froai the summit ot Hood wo .Id strike the top or Shasta were that mountain one mile fuither away than it actu ally is. l or any one who is aoV enough of a m .tbematlcian to dis pute or understand Lieut Taylor's computations, tbe fact mar be added, as bearrhi upbtt IBalieltrhrfcowtaar one mountain is visible from tbe other, that since an ascent of Mount Hood, which a scientific party made, a fortnight ago, there is reason ta believe from observations taken by them that the mountain is considera bly higher than the H.lOO feet of tha last survey Evening FosU Insects Pond of Tipple. "That drunkenness and its mis chievous consequences are not pe culiar to the buniau race alone," said l'rof. K B Siicldoo of Minneapolis, "are, in my mind, established facts. I have paid particular attention ta the avidity with which wasps attack certain truit when it is overripe, and have noticed some of tbe peculiar re sults oi their doing so. The sugar in some fru ts which are most fre quented by wasps has a tendency ta pass into a sort of aleohol n tho pro- cess of lotting. On such fruits ar ticularlv graucs and plums, you will ,eet seem to beat time to j frequently see wasps pushing aud Well, the old minstrel was fwhti,,,. With each other, endeavor- j 4ng to get at the coveted prize. After 1 they have got at it and tilled thcin I selves with the juice you will see j them get very drunk, crawl away la ' a sort of da.ed condition and repose ! in tbe grass for some time, presuma i bly until the cllect wears oil, whet j tbey invariably return and got in tbe same condition again. It is while , they are thus affected that tbey d j their worst stinging, both in the 1 virulent nature of tbe stroke and the 1 utterly unprovoked assau ts of which hey are guilty. I was stung last year by a drunken wasp, and for sev eral (.ayssuffercd sexerely from symp toms of nerve poisoning." bt Louts Globe-Dcmucrat 5 1 ( , -- :.. muii m, ..i.i .i. nf ' imaiili M.ru ....... jmj.vj-.itri)4i.-. MWitaar jTjrS i mTmmrwtim1 ' -. -. ( i '1
