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Sioux County VOLUME VII. HAKKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1894. NUMBER 7. J OURN AC'' mm? JL JULJ THE COMMERCIAL BANK. ESTABLISHED 1SSS.1 Harrison, a S. (MUBWOU). AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $50000. Transacts a General CORRIS PON DENTS NAWataX Bin, U.vtf Statbi National Bam, . Interest Paid on Time Deposits. CTDSAm BOLD ON ALL PABTS OF EUSOTS. THE PIONEER harmacy, J. E. PHINNEY, Proprietor. P Pure Drugs, Medicines, Painto, Oils and Varnishes. CTABT91V KATEXIAU School Supplies. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. siixmjs & smiley, Harrison, Nebraska, Real Estate Agents, Have a number of barffaina choice land in Sioux Parties desiring to estate should call on School Lands leased, taxes paid for non-residents; farms rented, eta CORRESPONDENTS SOLICITED, Nebraska. a t. Banking Busim New Tort, Nauoral Bavk, U ULUULS in county. buy or coll real not fail to them. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SERMONS FOUND IN THE EX AMPLE OF THE JEWESS. H.r ImI Nam Wm HHiw a. Watch Maaaa "Njrtla" aka Was Eqaally Uaod Tra. la rraaaarltv asd A 4 van I tj Tae Vila voort at abaaaaraa. KstuM- tba Urpaaa. He v. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent od his round the world tour, select ed as the subject of last Sunday's sir moo tbrougn the press "Hadassah," the text chosen being Esther ii," 7, "And he brought up Hadaasah." A beautiful child was born in the capital of Persia. She was an orphan and a captive, bor parents having' been stolen from their Jsrueiitish home and carried to Shushan and died, leaving their daughter poor and in a strange land. Hut an Israelite who had been carried into the same captivity was at tracted by the case of the orphan. He educated bur in his holy religion, and under the root of that good man this adopted child began to develop a sweetness and excellency of character, if ever equaled, certainly ne.er sur ssed. beautiful Hadassah. Could that adopted father ever spare her from his household? Her artlussness, bor girlish sports, her innocence, her orphanage, bad wound themselves thoroughly around his heart, just as aronn l each parent 8 heart among us there are tendrils climbing and fasten ing ami blossoming and growing stronger. I exjieei he was like others who have loved onesathomo wonder ing sometimes if sickness will coma and death and bereavement Alas, worse than anything the father expects happens to bis adopted child. Aha suerus, a princely scoundrel, demands that Hadassah, the laircst one in all the kingdom, become his wite. Worse than death was marriage to such a monster of Iniquity. How great the change when this young woman left the homo where Cod was worshiped and religion honored to enter a palace devoted to pride, idolatry, and sensu ality! "Asalainbto the slaughter." The Oppramail Jew, Ahasucrus knew not that his wite was a Jewess. At the instigation of the infamous prime minister the King decreed that all the Jews in tne land should bo s ain. Hahassah pleads the cause ot her people, breaking through the rules of the c6uH and "Presenting herself in the very face of death, cry ing, -ii l pensn, l perisn. ' uri, i was a sad time among that enslj, ponte V .The,, Lad ail heard ine do creo concerning thoir death. Sorrow, gaunt and ghastly, sat in thousands of households, and mothers wildly pressed their intants to their breasts as the days of massacre hastened on. praying that the same sword stroke which slew the mother might also slay the child, rosebud and bud perishing in the same blast. Hut Hadassah is busy at court. The hard heart of the King is touched by her story, and although he could not reverse the decree for the slaying of the Jews he sent forth an or..er that they should arm themselves for do fense. On horseback, on mules, on dromedaries, messengers sped through the land, bearing the King's dis patcher, and a shout of joy went up from that enslaved people at the faint hope of success. I doubt not many a rusty blade wm, taken down und sharp enoil. Unbearded youths grew stout as giants at the thought of defending mothers and sisters. Desperation strung up cowards into heroes, and fragile women, grasping their weapons, swung tnem aiiout the cradles, lrooa- tiont for the time to strike the blow in behalf of household and country. The day of execution dawned. Gov ernment officials, armed una drilled. cowed before the battle shout of tho oppressed people. The cry of defeat ang buck lo the palaces, but above he mountains of doud. above 7,'j.OUO crushed and mangled corpses, sounded the triumph of the delivered .lews, and their enthusiasm was as wlieu the Highlanders came to the relief, of Lucknow, and the Knglish army, which stood in the verv inwa tit titui U ut thn ' sudden hoiw of assistance und rescue lifted the shout above belching cannon ana tne death groan or hosts, crying: we are saveai we ate saved. ' Chrlatlan lmvrrncr. My subject affords me opportunity of illustrating what Christian character may be under the greatest disadvanta ges. There is no Christian now ex actly what ho wants lo ho. Your standard is much higher than anything you have attained unto. If there bo a man so pulled up as to be thoroughly satisfied with the amount of excel lency he has already attained, have nothing to say to such a one. Hut to those who are dissatisfied with past at tainments, who are toiling under dis advantages which ure keeping them 'rom what they ought to be, 1 have a message from Cod. You eat h of you labor uncor dilticulties. There Is.-ome-thing in your temperament, in your worldly circumstances, in yourcaliing, that acts powerfully ugaiust you. Ad mitting ail this, I introduce to you Ha dassnh of the text, a noble Christian, notwithstanding tho most gigantic difficulties. bho whom vou might have expected to be one ol the worst of women is one of the best. In the first place, our subject is an illustration of what Christian char acter may be under orphanage. This Hi bio 1 no tells a long story about Hadassah. "She had neither father nor n other." A nobleman bad become her guardian, but there is no one who can take the place of a parent. Who so able at night to hear a child's prayer or at twilight to chide youthful wandering! or to soothe youthful sor rows? An individual will go through life bearing the marks, of orphanage. It will require more .strength, more persistence, more grace, to make such a one the right kind of a Christian. He who at forty years loses a parent must reel under the blow. Even down o ol 1 age men are accustomed to rely upon the counsel or be powerfully in fluenced by the advice of parent If they are still alive. Hut bow much greater the bereavement wheu it comes in early life before the character is self reliant and when naturally the heart is unsophisticated and easily tempted! The Triumph of (inm. And yet behold what a nobility of disposition . Hadassah exhibited. Though father aud mother were gone, i grace ha 1 triumphed over all disad vantages. Her willingness to self I sacrifice, her control over the King, . her humility, her faithful worship of Cod, show her to have been one of the best of the world s Christians. There are those who did not enjoy . remarKaoie early privileges. Perhaps, like the beautiful captivt. of the text, you were an orphan. Yen bad huge sorrows in yourlittle heart. You some- i times wept in the night when you knew not what was the matter. Vou felt ad sometimes even on the play ground. Your father or mother did not stand in the door to welcome you : when you came home from a long jour ney. You still feel the effect of early disadvantages, and you have some times offered them as a reason for your not being as thoroughly religious as ' you would like to ho. Hut these ex- i cuses are not sufficient. Cod's grace will triumph if you seek it. He knows I what obstacles you have fought air a ins, and the more trial the more help. After all there are no orphans in the world, for the great God is the 1 Father of us all. j Again our subject is an illustration .of what religiou may bo under tho I pressure o. poverty. The captivity and ' crushed condition of tl.is orphan girl ! and of the kind man who aaopted her j suggorted a condition of po.erty. Y et from tho very first acquaintance we had with Hadassah we find her the same happy nnd contented Christian. It was only by compulsion she was afterward taken into a sphere of honor and a i uence. In the humble home of Mordecai, her adopted father, she was a light that illumined evory privation. In some period in a most every man's life there comes a seasen of straitened circumstances, when tho severest cal culation and most scraping economy are necessary in or ier to subsistence and respectability. Trial, of the I'oor. Christians in satin slipK-rs, with their feet on damask ottoman, may scout at such a class of temptations, butoewjbo themselves have, been in the struggle and grip ot hard mis fortune can Armr-Aclftt.o thA i nwnr nt Vse evils to dissuade the soul away , .ir-wi'Igieua duties We admit the strength of the temptation, but tben we point to Hadassah, her poverty equaled by her piety. Courage, down there in the battle! Hurl away your disappointment. Men of half your heart havo through Christ been more than conquerous. In the name of Cod, come out of that! The religion of . hrist is just what you want out there among the empty flour barrels and be side the cold hearths. You have never told any one of what a hard time you have had, but (od knows it as well as you Know it. Your easy times will come after awhilo. Do not let your spirits break down mid life. What if your coat is thin ' Hun fast enough to keop warm. What if you have no luxuries on your table? uign expectations will make your Dioou tingle better than tho heat Ma deira. If ycu cannot afford to smoke, you can afford to whistle. Hut merely animal spirits are not sufficient the power of the eopel - that is what you want to wrench despair out of tho so.il and put you forward into the front of the hosts incased in impenetrable ar mor. Again, our sub ect illustrates what religion may be under the temptation of personal attractiveness. Tho in spired record says of the heroine of my text, ''She was fair and beautiful." Her very name s gnified "a myrtle.-' Yet tho admiration and praise and flattery of the world did not blight her humility. The simplicity of her manners and behavior equaled extra ordinary attractions. It is the same divine goodness which puts the Tinc on tho rose'schcek, and sparkle in the eye, and ma eaty in tho forehead, and symmetrey into the form, and. grace fulness into the gait. Hut many through tho very charm of their per sonal appoarance have iieen destroyed. What simperings and affectations "and imi ortinences have often been the re sult of that which Cod sent as a bless ing! JaMnics, anemones and helio tropes never swagger at the beauty Con planted in their very leaf, sepal, axil, and stamen. There are many flowers that bow down so modestly you cannot see tho color in their cheek un til you 1 ft up thoir head, putting your hand under their round chin, indeed any kind of personal attractions, whethor they be those of the Iwdy, tho mind or the heart, may became temp tations to pride and arbitrariness and foolish assumption. Thn mythological Blory of a man who, seeing himself in a stream, bo came so enamored of his appearance that ho died of tho ejects Illustrates tho fatalities under which thousands of both sexes have lallcn by the view of their own superiority. Kxtraordi- nary capacities cause extraordinary temptations. Men who have good moral health down in the valley, on the top o; the mountain are seized of consumption. Monimia, tho wl c of Mithrldutes, was strangled w th her own diadem. While tne most of us will not have the same kind ol tempta tion which Hadassah must have elt from her attractiveness of porsonal ap pearance, there may be ome to whom It will be an advantage to bold up the character of the beautiful captive who sacrificed not her humility and earnest ness of disposition to the world's ad miral on and flattery. The chief se cret of the beauty of the violet is that away down in the grass from one week's end to another it never mis trusts that it la a violet. UomMtle 1'rialn. Again, our subject exhibit what religion may be under bad domestic influ;cct. Hadassah was snatched from nie godly home into which she had been adopted and introduced into the abominable associations of which I wicked Ahasucrus was tho center- What a whirl ol blasphemy and drunkenness and licentiousness! No altar, no prayer, no Sabbath, no Cod! If this captive girl can be a Christian there, then it is possible to be. a Chris tian anywhere. There are many of the best people of the world who are obliged to co itend with the most ad verso domestic iniluences, children who have grown up into Mie love of Cod under the frown of pa-ents and under tho discouragement of bad ex- ample. Some sister of the family hav ing professed tho faith of Jesus is the subject of unlKiunded satire inflicted by brothers and sisters. Yea, Hadas sah was not the on y Christian who had a queer h sound. It is no easy matter to maintain cor rect Christian principles when there hi a companion disposed to scoff atthein and to ascribe every imperfection of character to hypocrisy. What a hard thing for one memlier of tne family to rightly Keep tne Sabbath when others are disposed to make it a day of revelry, or to inculcate ropriety ot speech in the minds of cliil .ren when there aro others to offset the instructions by loose and profane utterances, or to bo regu larly in attendant o upon church when thoro is more household work de manded for the Lord s day than for any secular day. J)o 1 speak to any labor ing under these blighting disadvant ages.' My subject is full of encourage ment. Vast responsibilities rest uoou you. He faith fui, though you stand as much alone as did Lot in Sodom, or .leremiah in Jerusalem, or Jonah iu Nineveh, o;' Hadassah in the court of Ahasucrus. There are trees which grow the liest when their roots clutch among the agged rocks, and you verily havo but poor soil in which to develop, b it grace is a thorough husbandman and can raise a crop anywhere. Class ware is mo:ded over the liro, and in the same way you are to lie fitted as a vessel of mercy. The best timber must have on it saw and gouge and beetle. The foundation stone of yours and every other houso came out only under crowbar and blast. Files and wrenches Hid hammers belong to tho church. Tho Christian victory will be bright just in proportion as the battle is hot. Never despair being a thor ough Christian in any household which is not worse than the court ot Ahatj-. uerus, Rrllelon lii Hitch I'lai'CH. Finally our subject Mlust rates what religion may be in high wordly wsi tiori. The last wo see in tho Hiblo of Iladansah is that she has become the t,ueen of 1 ersia. Prepare now to see the departure of her humility and self sacrifice and religious jrinciple. As sho goes up you may expect grace to go down, itisesierto lie bumble in the oh.-cure house of her adopted father than on a throne of dominion. Hut you misjudge this noble woman. What sho was before she is now the myrtle. Applauded for her beauty and her crown, she forgets not the causeof ber suffering people, and with all sim plicity of heart still remains a wor shiper of the God of Heaven. . Noble example, followed only by a very few. I address some who,through the goodness of God, have risen to posi tions of influence in the community whore you life. In law, in merchan dise, in medicine, in mechanics and in other uspful occupations and profes sions you hold, an inlluence for good or for evil. Let us see whether, like Had assah, yo i can stan t elevation. Have yo:i as much simplicity of character as once you evi enced? Do you feel as much dependence upon Cod, as much your own weakness, as much your ac countability for talents intrusted? Or are you proud and overdemanding and ungrateful and unsympathetic and worldly and eensual and devilish? Then vou have been spoiled by your success, and yo.i shall not sit on this thror.o with the heroine of my text. In the day when Hadassah shali come to the grander coronation in the pres .enco of Christ ana tho bannered hosts of the rcdoemed you will bo poor in deed. Oh, there are thousands of men who can easily endure to be knocked down of mislort ,ne, who are utterly destroyed if lifted up of success. Satan takes them to the top of the pinnacle of tho temple and shoves them off, Their head begins to whirl, and they lose tneir oaiance, and down tney go. Oautft'rH of I'rhlu. While last autumn all through the forests there were luxuriant trees with moderate outbraneh and moderate height, pretending but little, there were foliage plants that shot far up, looking down with contempt on the whole forest, clapping thoir hands in the breeze and shouting, "Aha, do you not wish you wore as high up as we are?" Hut last week, a blast let loose from the north came rushing along, and grasping the boasting oaks hurled them to the ground, and as they went down an old tree that hud been singing psalms with the thunder a hundred summers crio I out, "l'ride goeth ho fore destruction and a haughtv spirit before a fall" The humble hickory and pine and chestnut that had never said their prayers before Ixiwod their heads as much as to say, "Amen." My friends, "(.io-,1 resisteth thooroud. but glveth grace to hur.ble." Take from my subject encouragement. At tempt the service of God whatever rour disadvantages, and whatever our Tot let us seek that grace whl h o it shone nil ihe splendors of tho palace of Shushan. A ftp ii a woman has kept a cow a row years, her troubles are so great that sho is ready for rellgloa Ik a man's natural disposition to do a thing Is strong enough, principle will not keop him from it. vVhen a doctor advises a patient that he needs relaxation, why doesn't he prescribe laxative? M'LAUCHLIN THREW THE BULL ffkaVaiiiaua WrrollerOaw-lkiUaahctl Iha Brute aad 8at an It Baa. 1 A Seattle correspondent writes: Col. J. II. McLaughlin, onoe tba champion collar-und-elbow wrestler of the world, has just come off the victor in a struggle for life with a bull. Recently he had an oppor tunity to show that he had not , lost his former skill. He was crossing a ten-acre lot, tilled with brush, stumps and fallen timber. He was In the center of the lot, when he saw a big, red bull coming toward him. Sup posing the bull to lie of ieace ful disisition, Col. McLauuhliu walked leisurely along until, warned by an angry bellowing, he turned and saw the bull within ten feet of him. There was no mistaking the animal's intentions for it head was down, tail erect, and feet pawing the earth. The Colonel knew he was in for a struggle, but Usforo he could move the infuriated beast had him on his horns. The wrestler's presence of mind did not desert him. Juick as a flash he seized the horns, and after the II ist toss-up he found himself on the back of the animal, but still cling ing to the horns. An instant later the bull bucked, and McLaughlin waa lying in a brush heap ten or fifteen feet a way. The man picked himself up Jnt; in time to receive a fresh onslaught. By a dexterous feint hcavoided the rush, and with his right hand seized the left born of the bull, and with his left hand the nose ring. The contest then iieciune one of brute strength against human skill and intelligence combined with unusual force and en durance i'or a time the bull seemed to be getting the best of the bout and the battle. The beast would toss his head iu the air, hurling the wrestler a 'oft, and biinging him to earth again with a crash among the bushes and brambles. The athlete held his grip, however, and avoided being thrown under tho feet of his adver sary. With his clothes torn from his body, and bleeding from many scratches and bruises, Col. McLaugh lin had about made up his mind that T- .n."T. Tf r ... u- u ciiaiupionsmp ocu oi uio worm for collar-and-elbow wrestling, which hangs injiis house, must go t th" bulX WbcTi he thought 'of nT'expedi? onl. Without loosening his hold he sprang to one side, placed hjs hip against the bull's shoulder, und exert- ' ing all his strength succeeded in cross-buttocking the animal. The bull went heavily down, head under, and one horn driven deep into the ground. The man had won the match. Then he was in the plight of the hunter wt the bear by the tall. He could hold the bull, but he did not dare to let it go. He sat on the beast's head and rested. Finally he drew his knite, and was opening it with his teeth, to put an end to the bull's life, when some men, who had seen the combat from a distance, came lo the rescue and secured the bull. Col. McLaughlin's clothes hung in tatters and ho was badly bruised and scratched, but he still held the championship belt. Valuable Advifte. A gentleman who believed that to an importantextentclothes make the man, even when the man is a royal personage, visited tho Comte do Cliatnbord at Frohsdoi'f a few years ago. l'crhaps some of our readers do not know that the Comtc de Chambord was the grandson of Charles X., the last Jiourboti king of France, and that the French Royalists call him Henry V., and hoped, until his death, in 1 88,1, to restore him to the throne. The marquis of whom this story is told was a Parisian, a man of fash ion, and an ardent Royalist, The Comtc de Chamlxird was glad of an opiKirf unity to talk over political af fairs with a man who must know what was going on in Paris, so after a few minutes' chat he said, "Marquis, it is not often that I have a chance to talk with any one so well Informed on tho signs of the times in Paris. What would yon ad vise nic to do?" He waited for a bit of profound po litical philosophy. The marquis looked at "Henri V.," and hesitated. Should he venture on a great liberty? Hut his advice had been asked; as a royal subject he would give it frankly. "Sire inon seigneur," he stammered, "I think vou had better give up your German tailor, and not employ one at Vienna cither, but have your trousers made in Paris." "My trousers?" "Yes, sire, pardon me; your trous ers arc out of fashion." liiillana and Pork. Tho anti-pork people say that the eating of pork is the fruitful cause of scrofulous diseases, not to speak of the deadly trichina. But an eminent physician declares that of all the raoee in the world, the North American In dians aro the most afflicted with scrofula, though they eat very little pork. ; Kaaaattoa for Farg.ry. The last execution for forjraiT la England took place at tho Old Baile Dec. 31, 182A. The name of the com vlct was Thomas Manard. '1
