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The Sioux County Journal HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1894. NUMBER 9. VOLUME VII. THE COMMERCIAL BANK. ESTABLISHED 1688.1 Harrison, President D. H. ORLSWOLD, Cashisr. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $30000. Transacts a General Banking Business. CORRESPONDENTS. Exoru ai National Bank, New York, U; rio States National Bank. Omaha, Fictar National Bank, Cbadroe. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. W-DRAFTS SOLD ON ALL PARTS OF EUROPE. THE PIONEER RHa J. E. PHINNEY, Proprietor. Pure Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. mST? MATERIAL. School Supplies. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. nris Harrison, Real Have a number of bargains choice land in Sioux county. parties desiring to buy or sell real estate should not fail to call on them. School Lands leased, taxes paid for non-residents; farms rented. CORRESPONDENTS SOLICKTED. Nebraska. & r. Cora, ViM-1 & $m!ley, Nebraska, rmacy, Estate Agents, in eta T A I A P V'i ZVTl ($ lAJJJJAUri O OXjlt JIUil. HE FINDS A LESSON IN THE Ml GRANT BIRDS feremlah Compared the Wlidom of the Bird With the Fooll.hnea or Ht People Thfi Chrnrmn Should btrl.e for Loft ier flight In Grace. Autumn Thought. JRev. Dr. Talmage, who has left India and is now on his homeward jour tey, selected as the subject cf his ser non through the press this week. "October Thoughts," his text being feremiah viii, i, "The stork In the (leaven knoweth her appointed times, ind the turtle and the crane, and the wallow oiwerve the time of their com ing, but my people know not the juug Bent of the Ixird." When God would set fast a beautiful thought, he plants it in a tree. When He would put it afloat, He fashions it uto a tibh. When He would have it rlide the air, lie moulds it into a bird, liy text speaks of four birds of beautt Ui instinct - the stork, of such strong fiO' tion that it is allowed familiarly lo come in Holland and Germany and build its nests over the doorway; the iweet dispositioned turtledove, rning ing in color white and black and Drown and ashen and chestnut', the Srana, Willi voice like the clang of a irumpot: the swallow, swift as a dart ihot out of the bow of Heaven, falling, nounting. skimming, sailing - four birds started b,' the prophet twenty- lve centuries apo, yet Hying on through the ages with rousing truth lnder g os:,y wing and in the clutch of Itout claw. 1 i upjxjs-e it may have been his very season of the year- autumn - and the t rophct out of doors, think jag of the Impenitence of the eo. le of iis day, hears a great, cry overhead. The Mee:it;r. of thi Ah". Now, you know it is no easy thing for )ne with ordinary deli ae.y of eyesight io Iook Into i he deep blue of uoonuay leaven, hut tho prophet looks up, and iheru are lio ks of storks and turtiu 3o.es and cranes and swallows drawn, tut in long lines for flight southward. As is their hahit. tho mines had ar ranged theuisol es in two lines, .mak ing an angle, a weilge, splitting wie : tir, with will velocity, the old crane, -l With co : madding cull, bidding them j inward, while the towns, and .tho-j iities, and the continent slid tinder; j Ureui The prophet, almost blinded !rom looking mlo the da.'hng ueaeq,nv itoons down and begins to think hiw much superiorthe birds are in sagacity about their safety than men about theirs, and he puts his hand upon the pen and begins to write, ' The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed limes, and the turtie, and the crane. nd the swallow observe the time of Iheir coming, hut my people know not the .udgmi'iit of tho Lord.' lf'you wero n the field to-day, in the clump of trees at the corner of the field you would i-ee a convention of birds, noij-v as the American congress the hint night boTore ad o.irnment r as the i-irlt:bh parliament when lomo unfortunate member prooses more economy in the i jueen's house hold a convention of birds al i talking it once, moving and passing reso u tiouB on the sub ectof migration, some proposing to go to-morrow, some mov ing mat they go to-day, but all unani mous in the fact that they must go loon, for thev have marching orders from tho Lord written on tho first irhite sheet of the frost and in the pic torial of the c anjiin? leaves. There is not a belted kingfisher, or k chaffinch, or a lire crested wren, or a plover, or a rod legged partridge, but kxpects to spend the winter at tiie louth, (or the apartments have already been ordered lor them in South Amer- Icaorin Africa, and after thousands If miles of llight they will stop in tae frery tree where they spent last Junu ry. Farewell, bright plumage! Until Ipring weather, away! Fly on, great land of heavenly mufl clansl btrew the continent with music, and whether jrom Ceylon isle or Carolinian swamps r Brazilian groves men see your wings r hear your voice may they yet be think themselves of the solemn words f the text, ' The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow ibserve the time of their coming, but fiy people know not the judgment of he Lord." I propose, so far as God may help mo. to this sermon, carrying out the idea f tho text, to show that the birds of the air have more sagacity than men. And 1 begin by particularizing and keying that they mingle music with kh'eir work. The most serious under taking of a bird's life is this annual light southward. Naturalists tell us that they arrive thin and weary and plumage milled, and yet they go sing ing all the way - the ground tho lower fine of the music, tho sky the upper line of the music, themselves the otei scattered up and down between, t suppose their song gives elasticity to their wing and helps on with ti e lourney, dwindling 1,01)0. miles into 400. Would God that we were aa wise M they in mingling Christii.n song With our every cay work! I believe there is euch a thing as taking the pitch ot Christian devotion in the doming and keeping it all the day. I think we might take some of the dull est, heaviest, most disagreeable work If our life and set it to the tune of "Antioch" or "Mount PUgah." Hlngini a. They (Jo. It li a good s'gn when you hear a workman whistle. It is butter sign when you hear him hum a roundelay, (t it a still better sign when you hear Olio sing the words of Isaao Watts or Charles Wesley. A violin ohordedaad itrnog, lfsoniethlng accidentally strike It, makes music, and I suppote there la luch a thing m having our haarta so ftttuaed by dlrlne grace that even the rough collisions of Ufa will make a hwealy Tlbmlon. I do not believe "bat the power of Christian oaf aa at baanTulljf triad, . I ballaa that II yo could roll the "Old Hundred'' doxology through the street it would put an end to any panic. I believe that the discords, and the sorrows, and the sins o' the world are to i swept out by heaven bom halleluiahs. Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated mu sician, why he always compound such cheerful rnubie. -Why," he said "I can't do otherwise. When I think of God, my soul is bo full of joy that the note leap and dance fro a my pen." I wish we might all exult melodiouBly before the Lord. VVith God for our Father and Christ for our Saviour and Heaven for our home and angels for future companion and eternity for a lifetime, we should strike all the notes of jov. Going through the wilderness of thh world let ua remember that we i are on the way to the summery clime of Heaven and from the migratory i populations flying through t'ds au- tamnal air learn always to keep sing ing: Children of the heavenly king, Ah ve jourut-y tueetlv .i g. hiug your SHVlour'a wortliy praiie, f Glorious in hi. work, and ways, , Ye re traveling home to Gd -; Jn the way your f&i hers iro , Ti.ey ar hap iy now, and we f boon the r happina.-s shall ic e. The Church of God never 'frill be a ' triumphant church until it becomes a singing church. j The II lrlmr Christian 1.1 fe. I i go further and say that the birds of the air are wUerthan we in the fact that '. in fheir migration they liy very high. ! Luring the summer when they are rn ' the fields thev often come within i reach of the irun, but who i thoy st-irt 1 for the anneal tilght southward they take their p'aces midheaven an i go Straight as a murk. The longest rille that was ever brought to shoulder cannot roah them. Wo Id to God that we were as wise as the .stork and ; crane in our tilght heavenward. We I fly so low that wo are within easy range of the world, the flesh and the j d,mi.. We are brought down by temptations that fught not to corao , withm a mile of reaching us. Oh. for 1 some ot tho'faith oi' Ceorgo Mailer of . Kiigiand and Alfred Cook . an, once of the . hui'ch militant, now of the church j triumphant! So poor is the ty, o of ! Dictv in tho church of Cod now that nicn actua ly aricatnre the idea that there is any such thing as a higher life. .Mo.es no cr am oe lie-, e in eagles, But, my brethren, bo ause we have not' reached these heights ourso ves, sull we deride the fa-.-t that there are such heights? A man was once la; k- log to Krunel, the famous engineer, about, the length of t he railroad from London to 1,'rtstol. The engineer said: 'It s r.ot very great. We shall have aft !f a vhil' a steamer running from -ZiiQM N e w.York." -They iaugbatL him to scorn, but we have go e so far now that we have censed to augh at anything ns impossible for human achievement. Tnen, I ak, Is any thing Imposrsble for the Lord' I do not bellevo that God exhausted ail his grace in i'uul and Latimer and Kd wa:d i'avson. I believe there are higher points of Christian attainments to bo reached in the fut.ire ages of tho ( hristiiin world. You toll me that Paul went up to tho tiptop of the Alps of Cbri tian attainments. Then I te'l you that the stork and crane have found above the. Alps plenty of room for free I'ying. H'slnS Above Temptation. We go out, and we conquer our temptations by the grai e of God and lie down. On the morrow these temp tations rally themselves and attacK us. and by the grace of God wo defeat them again, but staying ail the time in the old encampment we hav e the same old battles to light over. Why not whip out our temptations and then forward march, making one raid through the enemy's country, stopping not until we break ranks after the last victory. Do, my brethren, let us have some novelty of combat at any rate by changing, by going on, by making ad vancement, trading off our stale prayers about sins we ought to have quit long ago, going on toward a h'gher state of Christian character androi.it- inff out sinsthat we have neverthought of vet. The fact is il the church of God; if we as Individuals made rapid advan'oeuaenl fn the Christian life, these stereotyped prayers we have been making for ten or fifteen years would bo as inappropriate to us as the shoos, and the hats, and the coats we wore ten or fifteen years ago. Oh, Tor a higher Uight in the Christian life, tho stork and the crane in their migra tion teach us tho lesson! Eeir Lord, and hll we ever live, At thli ior dying ra e Our Io e faint, bo cold to tho., And thine to u so gre-ilf Dauger. of Unlay, Again I remark that the birds of the air are wiser than we, because they know when to start. If you should go out now and shout, "Stop, storks and cranes, don't be in a hurry!" tney would say: "No. we cannot stop. Last night we heard the roaring in the woods bidding us away, and the shrill flute of the north wind bus sounded the retreat. We must go. We must go." So they gather themsolves into com panies, and turning not aside for storm or mountain top or shock of musketry, over land, sea, straight as an arrow to the mark, they go. And if you come out this morning with a sack of corn and throw it in the fields and try to get them to stop they are - so- far - up they would hardly see it. - Thev are on their way south. You could not stop them. Oh, that we were as wise about the best time to start for God and Heaven. We say: ''Wait until It Is a little later in the season of mercy. Wait until some of these green leaves of hope are dried up and 1 have been scattered. Walt until next year." After awhile we start, and It Is too late, and wa perish in the way when God's wrath is kindled but a little. There are. you know, exceptional cases, where birds have started too lata, and In the morn ing you have found them dead in the aaow. Asd there are tboaa who have perished ball war between the, world ud CbrlaV They waited until the last s:ckne-88, when tie mini was gone, or they were on the cx-.ress tram going at forty miles an bo! . and they came to the'bridge, and the "draw was up," and they went down. How long to re pent and pray" Two seconds! To do the work of a lifetime and to prepare for the vast eternity in two seconds! I was reading 0: an entertainment given in a king's court, and there were musicians there, with ela; orate pieces Of music. Aisr awhile Mo. art came and began to jjlay, and he had a blank piece ol psaxf" before him. and tne King familiarly looked over his shoul der and said: "What are you playing? I see no music belore you." And Moart put his hand on his brow, as much as to say, "1 am improvising." It was very well for him; but, oh, my friends, we cannot extemporize Heav en. If we do not get prepared in this world, we will never take part in the on hest-al harmoniesof the saved. Oh, that we were as wise as the crane and the stork, flying away, Hying away from the te . pest! borrow, of the Sinful. Some of you have felt the pinching frost of sin You feel it to-dav. You are not happy. I look into your faces, and l kn ;w you are not happy. There are voices within yo ,r so I that will not be silenced, telling you that you are sinners and that without the par don of God you are undone forever. What are you going to oo, my Iriemls, with the a cumulated transgressions of this lifetime? Wrill you standstill and let the avalanche tumble over you? Oh. that you would go away into ttie warm heart of God's mercy. The southern grove, redolent with mag nolia and cactus, never waited for northe. n tlocks an God has waited tor you raying "1 have loved thee with an ever asting love. Come unto me, all ye who aro weary and heavy laden, and i will gi e you rest. ' Another front is bidding you away -it is the frost of sorrow. Where uo you live now? "Oh," you say, "'i have iio.ed.'' Why did you move? Vou say. "i don't wantas large a house now as formerly." Why do vou not want as large a house? on say, ''.My fam ily is not so large." Where have they gone to l.ternity! Yd. r mind goes ba k throu h that last sickness and throu .h the a'most supernatural effort to Keep life, and through those prayers that see.ued unavailing. and through tic. t kiss wh.cn received no response Localise the lips were lil'oless, and , hear the bells tollimr and I hear tho he .rts breaking while 1 speak 1 hoar them break. A heart! Another heart! Alone, alone, alone! Tuis world, which inyour girlhood and boy hood was sunshine, is cold now, and, oh, weary dove you fly around this world as though you wouid like to Btay, when the wind, and the front, and the bltickMiingefo ds would bid you away into the heart ol an all comiOrtmg God, Oh, 1 have noticed again and again what a bo. eh this world makes o it when it tries to con fort a soul in trouble! It says, "Don't cry." How can we help crying when the heart treasures are scattered, and laltfer is gone, and mother is gone, and companions are gone, and the child is gone, and everything seems gone? 15 is no eonrort to te 1 a man not to 07. The wor d comes up and says, ' uh, it is only the body of your loved one that you have pu.. in the ground." But there is no comfort in that. That body is precious. Shall we never put our hand in that hand again, and shall we never see that swerft fa:e again? Away with your heartlessness, O world! But come, Je..us, and tell ua that when the tears fall they fall into God's bottle; that tho dear bodies of our loved one shall rise radiant in the resurrection, and all the breakings down here shall be liftings up there, and "they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the lamb which is in the midst of tho throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and Cod snail wipe all tears from the.r eyes." Call on All to Oo. You may have noticed that when the challinch, or the stork, or the crane starts on its migration it calls all those of its kind to come too. The tree tops aro lull of chirp and whistle and carol and the long roll call. The bird does not start off iifone. It gathers all of its kind. Oh, that you might be as wise in this migration to Heaven and that you might gather all your families and your friends with you! I would tnat Hannah might take Samuel by the hand, and Abraham might take Isaac, and Hagar might take ishmael. i ask you it thote who sat at your breakfast table this morning will sit with you in Heaven! 1 ask you what influences you aro trying to bring upon them what example you are setting them. Are you calling them to go with you? Aye, aye, have you started yourself? Sturt for heaven and take your chil dren with vou. Come thouana all thy house into the ark. Tell your little ones that there are realms of balm and sweotnoss for all those wholly in the right direction. Swifter than eagle's stroke put out for heaven. Like the crane or the stork, stop not night not day until you find the right place for stopping. Sea.ed to day in Christian service." will you be seated in the same glorious service when the heavens have pas ed away with a great noise, and the elements have melted with fervent heat, and the redeemed are gathered around the throne of Jesus? , 'ihe ravlour calls. Ye wnndurei . com.. Oh, ye benlfih.ed ouli Why lonri' roam t n huirll c.ll- to-uay. ' Yield to hi h 1 ower. 1 , ..1 Ofa. gr.ev. blm not away, , murcy . hour. Nearly everr liar out Wont has promised to send us a mess of youog prairie chlckeus. - No wt mam deservts a new cloak wbo didn't pat up a laast two Kallona of (rait - ,,. - --- ' u n- : . ! Did aoy ' peraon , , thorough' T "undarstand" aaotbar? , CHINESE: SLAVERY. Many Children Molen Vearly by Pirate. ' arid fMild. Slavery exists in China to-day as It has done from the leginning of his tory. Children have their regulai market price, which varies accordion to the prosperity or adversity of tn times. In general, a small boy be 1 w the aire of 10 w 11 bring from $5 to tio, while a little girl of the same age will command from $10 to 4100. In warm climates little folks dc much of iheir playing aft r the sun has gone down and the intense heat of the day is over. Then is the tim for the pirate child st alcr. The trade nourishes chiefly ou the larger, streams and rivers where the children are stolen, and la the great cities, where they are sohL The fate of these poor little cap tives is not so bad as might be sup pose 1. Mot of the boys are bought for adoDtiou by Chinese families who have no son, and who, in adopting them, give thum all the rights which a natural son would have Others are sold as man servants, who, in the main, are very well treated. The female children do not have as happy a lot. One third are s Id to be come ladies' maids and house slaves, one-third to be brought u,i as concu bines, and one-third for the most im moral purposes. There is hardly an abandoned woman in all of China but what owus one or more of these so called "pocket daughters," The penalty for child stealing is decapitation, but it Is very seldom in ilicted. The pirates who are arrested generally get oui, upon the plea that the chi d was lost or sold to them by some impo erished parent. This, with the addition of a handsome sura paid to the niagistiate, together with the hick of po Hive proof on the part of the prosecution, mitally insures t':eir uc .u ttal and honorable dis ( harge. Jow and then they run across an upright .(Ud'e wbo cannot be cor rupted nor intimidated, and then it tares hard with them. One of this sort is the present Ia'-.'ang-tin of . Anioy c t.y who on one occasion be headed five pirates found guilty of child stealing, notwithstanding they were men of considerable Influence and weal ill. After they were be headed their features were e p -serl to 5 uhlic view on the city gate, across one of the great thoroughfaies of the place, with the simple statement be ne;. Ui, oa a red placard,, reciting t eir- names and o.iense. Another inexorable judge was the lute Admiral Fung of fcwatow Fu kien. (in one occasion his men raid ed an establishment in which there wero thirty inmates, u.en and wo men, and twelve or fifteen little chil dren. The Admiral tried the case with unusual cderity, and the mo ment that the testimony 1'or the pros- : ecution was iu he turned to the cap tain of his guard and said: "Take all these people out in the hack yard and chop their heads off. 1 see they all want to talk to me but mv time is so important to the State that 1 can not afford to waste any of it iu listen ing to their remarks. " j ' Afl'eotion of Animals. At Beyrouth was noticed for some time that two goat. always kept close together, one being especially watched and guarded by the ether. Od in spection it was shown that one goat was blind, ana its companion, evi dently knowing this, attached Itself to its poor, a fiicted friend and acted as Its guide, showing untiring watch fulness and care If any difficulties had lo be overcome or any precipices to be avoided, the faithful friend was certain to be seen at the side of the blind goat, tenderly guiding it. i This went on for several months, i But one day it was noticed that the blind goat was left to its own devices and quite forsaken by its former compan ion. How was tlvs? Had the faith ful friend in a l.iction grown weary ol its self-imposed charge? ISo, the blind goat had recovered Its sight, and therefore aid was unnecessary. , In the same neighborhood trout were reared, and they were trans ferred, acc rding to their age, from 3nialler reservoirs refreshed by a run ning stream. A naturalist took great interest in these fish and fed them from a long handled spoon, h'oon all the trout regularly - wa ted his arrival and stormed the eacerly-lookcd-for spoon. But there was one poor fish wh ch was either pushed aside or ruis-ed its wiy to the point ot attraction. It was blind. At last one of its companions took pity on It, led It up to the ladle, and saw that it ohtained a share. of the feast. Great Thoughts. , . MKht Wood. Light wood Is one of the most use ful .Southern products, especially in Florida, where it Is used by all sorts of country folk, and particularly by the hunters, A cordwond stick car ried into the wilderness will cut up Into fragments with which a dozen meals may be cooked. The rich, resinous pine maicos a quictc not ore, especially suited to open air cooking. A new scrubbing machine . la whirled over the floor like a lawn mower. It soaps, wets,' rubs, and dries the floor, and two or tbraa movements of tha machine make the ": Th best way to convert t prodi gal too te to give htm levte to ft-: ;
