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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1894)
Y The Sioux HARKI80N, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1894. NUMBER 11. VOLUME VIL County OURNAL. THE COMMERCIAL BANK. ESTABLISHED 1888. Harrison, President D. H. ORISWOLD, Cehier. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $50 000. Transacts a General Banking Business. CORRESPONDENTS! ExoHi -ai National Bank, New York, Ut- tmd Statb National Bank. Orah, First National Bank, Chadrotv Interest Paid on Time Deposits. lyDRJLFTS SOLD ON ALL PARTS OF EUROPK. THE PIONEER harmacy, J. E. PHINNEY, Proprietor. P Pure Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. "A1TIST8' MATERIAL. School Supplies. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. SIMMS & SMILEY, Harrison, Nebraska, 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, eta CORRESPONDENTS SOLICITED. Nebraska. a r. Cam ViM-l gafBBUBEES Kstate Agents, in TALM AGE'S SERMON. THE GREAT PREACHER WRITES OF THE HEAVENLY CITY, A Vivid Word PIctura of tba Jar of Im mortality t annotation for tba Waary and Ourrowrul TUa Paliu of Living Md Jojri of Heiwn. - Xle.orf Over Pain, Key. Dr. Talma'', wbo is now near fng the dose of his globe circling- tour and will (shortly rea h Anierb an shorts, selected as the sub ect of this week's acrition through the press 'Victory Over t ain,'' tua Usxt chosen being Lev elation xxi, 4, "A either shall there be tiny more pain." 'I'ho first . uestions that you ask when about to change your residence to any city is: "What i the health of the plaeo? Is it shaken of ternb.e dUor ders? What are the bi'.lsof n ortality? What is the death rate' Uow high rises the thermometer.''- And am I not reasonable in abking, Whatura tho sanitary conditions 01 the heavenly city intohwhieh we till hoj.e to move My text auswers it by saying, ".Neither shall there be any more pain." Fin-t, I reiimrk. there will Iks nop..in of di.iaiijiointi.ient in Heaven. if I couiu put the jii lure of w hat you an ticipated ol li.e when you besr..n it be side the picture o. what you have reali.ed, 1 wo Id hid a eroat diiier n e. i on have stumbled upon greut d.sanpointmenls. Ivrhaps you ex 1 ected nolle.-,, and you have worked bar. j enough to gain the . 1 ou hvo planned ami worried and peroh-.ted unul your bauds were worn and yo ;r brain was racked and your heart tainted, an 1 at. tiie end oi this long strife with mis. ortune yo.i find .hut if you have iiot been positt.ely doleatfid it has been a divwn oattle. it is still tug and tussie, th.a year lodng what you gained last, i.uancial uncertainties pulling dowa fasuir than you build, for i-orhaps twenty or thirty years you have been running your craft straight Into the teeth ol the wind. Perhaps you have had domestic dis apjioiutment. i our children, upon whose education you lavished your hard earned dollars, have not turned out as expected. Notwithstanding all your counsels and praye rs and j.aiiis talring they wi.l not do right. M ny a good father has had a bad boy. Absalom trod on David's heart. That mother never imagined all this as twenty or thirty years ago she sat by that child's craule. ho Moro lilunted Hope. Vour life has been a chapter of &- appointments-, out come with me, and J will show you a (liferent scone. By God's grace, entering tt.o other city you will never again have a planted hope. The most jubilant o. o.o ta tionswill not reach the realisation. Coining to the top of one hill of oy, there will bo other heights rising up on tho vision. This song of transport will but ait you to higher anthems, the s.O-itest choral but a prelude to moro tremendous harmony, nil things bettor ttn.n you had anticipated the robe richer, the crown brighter, tiie temple gran ier the throng mighter. Further, 1 remark, there wi'l no no pain of weariness. Jt may lie many hours since you quit worn, but many of you are univrlcd. some from overwork, and some from dullness of tialo, tiie :utter more exhausting tiian the former. Vour ankles a. -lie; your spirits i'.ag; you want rest. Are t lic.o w.,eels to l .rn. theso shuU.es to fly, t!ie- a es to hew, ue.is shovels to uei.e, tii'jRO ens to liy, t bests looks to bo posted, these goods to ! 0 Hold? All, the great ho.iday iipproa lies! No moro uicse of taskmasters, no more stooping until the ba k aches no more calciilat ou until tlio brain is bewil- dered, no more pain, no more carpeti- i try, for the mansions are all built, no ! more masonry, lor the walls are all ! reared; no more diamond cuttintr, lor j the gems are all set no more gold ' beating, lor the crowns are ail com- j heled. no more agriculture, for the ! harvests are spontaneous. I Further, there will no no more pain or poverty. Jt is a hard thing to be j really jioor, to have your coat we.ir . out and no money to get another, ;o have your 1'our barrel empty and nothing to buy bread with for your children, to live in an unhealthy row, and no mean-, to change your halnta t.on, to have your child sick with some mysterious disease and not be able to so'eure eminent medical ability, to have son or daughter begin the world and you not have anything to help them m starting, with a mind capable of re search and high contemplation to be perpetually li od on questions ot mere livelihood. I octs try to throw a romance about the poor man's cot, but there is no romance alxiut it. l'overty Is hard, cruel, unrelenting. But Lazarus waked up without his rajfs and his diseases, and so all of CJhr.st's poor wake up at last without any oi their diadi aritages no almshouses, for they are all jiriiieos; no rents to ) ay, for tho resi dence is gratuitous, no garments to buy, for tho rob -H are divinely fash ioned no soatsin churvh for Jioor folks, but equality among tomple worshl. ers; no hovels no hard crusts no insu tl c ent apparel. "They shall hunger no more, neither thlrBt any moro, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat." No moro jiain. Mo i"iiruw!t. Further, there will bo no jiain o! jiarting. All these associations must some time break i p. We eiasp hands and wills together and talk and lauph and weep together, out wo must after awhile separate. Your grave will be in one piaco, mine in another. We look each other lull in tho face for the laat time. We will bo Bitting together some evening or walking together some dy, and nothing will be unusual lit our appearance or our conversation, b it God known that it in the laat time, and messenger from eternity on their errand to take on away know it ! the aat tln.e. fttid in Heaven, where they make ready for our departing spirits, . they know it is the last time. Oh, the long agony of earthly sepa ration! It is awful to stand in your nursery fighting death back from the ; couch of your child and try to hold faut I the little one and see a'l the time that j he is gett ng weaker and the breath i is shorter, and make ou'ery to God to help us and to the doctors to save him and see it is of no avai', and then to i know that his spirit is gone, and that you have nothing left out the casket that held the jewel, and that in two or thi'ne rijivs von must even out that ; away and walk around about the house and lmd it desolate, sometimes iceim rebellious, and then to resolve to feel diffe.ently, and to resolve on self con trol, and just as you have come to what you think is perfect self co .trol to sud denly con e uion some little coat or picture or shoe half worn out. and how all the floods of the soul burst in one wild wail of agonv! Oh, my God, how hard it is to part, to close the eyes that never can look merry at our coming, to kiss the hand that will never again do us a kindness! I know religion gives great consolation in sucn an hour, and we ought to be comforted, but any how and anyway you make it, it is aw ful. On stearaljoat wharf and at rail car window we may smile .when we say j iarewell, but these good by 8 at the i deatn bed, they just taue hold of the1 heart with iron pinchers and tear it out by the roots until alt tne fibers quiver und curl in the torture and drop thick blood. These separations are wine presses into whi h our hearts, like red clusters, are thrown and then trouble turns the windlass round and round ntii we are utterly crushed and have no more capacity to suiter, and we stop crying because wo ba.e wept all our tears. On every street, at every doorstep, by every couch, thero have been jiart ings. But once past tho Heavenly por ta, s, and you are through with such scenes .orever. in that land there are many hand claspings and embracings, but only in recognition. Th t great homo circle never breakB. Once find your comra ics there, and you have . them forever. No crape floats from the door of that blissful residence. No cleft hillside where the dead sleep. All awake, wide uwake, and forever. No pushing out of emigrant ship for fore ign shore. No to ling of bell as the lunoral passes. Whole generations in glory. Hand to hand, heart to heart, joy to joy. No creeping up the limbs of the death chill, the feet cold until hot llannels cannot warm them. No rattle of sepulchral gates. No parting, no pain. Tiinr. I No Pin la Heaven. Further Se hea':omy city will have tso pain of iiody. The race Is pierced with sharp distresses. The surgeon's knife must cut. The dentist's pinchers must pull. I'ain is fought with pain. The world is a hospital, i-icorcs of dis eases, like vultures contending for a carcass, struggles as to which shall havo it. Our natures are infinitely sus ceptible to suffering. The eye, tho foot, the hand, with immense capat-ity . of anguish. I The little child meets at the en 1 trance of life manifold disease. You hear the shrill cry of inf.in-'y as the lancet sirikes into the swollen gum. ! i ou koo its head toss in cons lining i fevers that take moro than half of them , into the dust. ' id age pins s, diz y, i arid weak, an I i-hort breathe 1. and dim ' sigh'ed on every northeast w nd I eo , o down pleurisies rnd pneumonias. ! War lilts its sword and ha ks away the ; life of wholo generations, Tho. liospi- tals of tiie earth groan into tho ear of ; God their complaint. siat e choieras, ! and ship fevers, and typhoids, and 1 .o;i- don pingues mako the world's knees 1 knock together. i uin has gone through every street i and up every ladder and down every i sha't. It is on the wave, on tho must, 'on tho beach Wounds Iron clip of I eleliliunt 8 tusk arid adder's sting and ; cro. odite's tooth and horse's hoof ttml wheel s revolution. We gather up tho iuiirmities of our parents and transmit to o r children tho inheritance aug mented by our own sicknesses, and they add to them their own , isorders, to pass the inheritan-e to other gen erations. In A. I). the plague in liomo smote into tho dust.j.uOil cit.zens daily. In ."iO, in Constantinople, l,0UU gravediggers were not enough to bury tho dead. In 1 'hi ophtlia.mia seL.eil tho whole 1'russian army. At times the earth has sweltered with su .ering. Count uo tho pains of AusterliU, where :jo,(M0 fell o Fontenoy, where 10;i,(.()il fell; of Chalons, where iOO.O 0 fell, of Marius' light, in which 2ll(i,0()U fell; of the tragedy at Herat,; where Gonirhis K ban massacred l,'iU(l.l;tO mon, and of Nishar. wheie heslcw 1,7-17, (Ml people; of tho 1h,ikhi, 000 this monster sacri. ced in fourteen years, as he went forth to do, as ho do lared, to exter minate tho entire Chinese nation and make tho empire a past re for cattle. Think of the death throes of tho ,XKi, (K)j man sa rificed in one eampuign of Xerxos. Think of tho lUo.ouu that per ished in tho siego of Ostond, of .'(0.), 0 0 dead at Acre, of l,10(l,0U,J dead in the siego of ..orusalem, of l,Mt,000 of the dead at Troy, and then complete tho review by considering tho stu jienduous estimate of I'.dn und. Burke that, the loss by war had Veen thirty five times the entire then present pop ulation of tho globo. Tttin f ti iinuin.'i. Go through and examino tho lacera tion, tho gunshot fractures, tho saber wound", the gashos of the battloax. tho slain of bomlmhell and exploded mini) and falling wall, and those de stroyed under the guncarriago and the boo of the cuvalry horso, the burning thitBts, the camp fevers, tho frosts that snivered, the tropical suns that smote. Add it up, and gather it into one line, compress it into one word, spell It in one syllable, clank it in one chain, pour It out in one groan, distill It into one tear. Ay e, the world has writhed In fi.OOO years of surtering. Why doubt the poMibiiity of a future world of suffer ing when we teethe torture that have been indicted in tint? A deserter from Sevastopol coming over to the army of the allies pointed back to the fortress and said, ' That place is a per fect helL" Our lexicographers, aware of the im mense necessity ol having plenty of words to express the different shade? ol trouble, have strewn over their pages such words as 'annoyance," "distress," "grief," 'bitterness," "heartache," "misery." "twinge," "jang," "torture.' "aSliction." "an guish, ""tribulation, ''"wretchedness." "woe." But 1 have a e'.ad sound for every hospital, for every sickroom, for every lifelong invalid, foreverv broken heart. "There shall be no more pain." Thank God! Thank God! No mala ias float in the air. Nobruised foot treats that street. No weary arm. No pain ful respiration. No hectic flush. No one can drink of that healthy fountain and keep faint hearte i or faint headed. He whose foot touches that pavement becometh an athlete. The first kiss of that summer air will take the wrinkles ' trom the old man s cheek. Amid the multitude of songsters not one diseased throat. The lirst liash of the throne , will scatter the darkness of those who i were born blind. See. the lame man i leaps as a hart and the dumb sin.r. ! From that l ath ol infinite delight we shall step forth, our wear.ness for trotteu. Who are those ta iant ones.' j Why, that one had his jaw shot oil at i tredericksburg that one lost his eyes in a jiowder nlasf, that one had his back broken by a fall from the ship s , halyaros: that "one died of gangrene in i the hospital. No more pain, j Sure enough, here is ltobert Hall who never before saw a well day, and , Edward Payson, whose body was ever born of distre-s, and Kichard Baxter, i who jiassed through untold physical '. torture. All well." No more pain. Here, too, are the Theban legion, a great host of ii,'ii put to the sword for Christ's sake. No distortion on their countenance. No lires to hurt them, or Hoods to drown them, or racks to tear them. AH well. Hero are the Scotch Covenanters, none to hunt them now. Tho dark cave and imprecations of Lord Cla erhouso exchanged for temple service, and the presence of him who helped Hugh Latimer out of the tire. All well. No more pain. Sweet Waters. I set upon the door of Heaven until there blows on you this refreshing breeze. The fountai s of God have made it cool, and the gardens have made it sweet, i do not know that Solomon ever heard on a hot day the ice click in in ice pit her, but he wrote as If he did "hen he said. , "As cold waters to ( thirsty tou, so is good news from a far country.'' Clambering among the Green Moun tains I was tired and hot and thirsty, and I shall not forget how refi hln; it was when after aw his I heart the mountain brook tumbling over tho rocks. I had no cup. no chali'-e, so I gotdowtion my k..oes and !a. e to drink. Oh, ye climbers on the .our ney, with cut ieet and parched tongue and fevered temples, lis..un to the rumbling o;' sapphire brooks, ami tiowered banks, over jrolden shelving.;! Listen! "The lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them unto living fountains of water." I do no i offer it to you in a chalice. To take this yo.i must bond Getdown on your ki.ees and on y our fa e and drink out of this great fountain of God's con solation. "And, lo, 1 heard a voice from Heaven, as the voice of many waters." bar Makes Hailstones? The formation of hail through electrical action, according to the new theory of .signor Minatitairii, Is a very interesting, and even "wonderful, p ocess. The wind draws out a. cloud tnti) a long, narrow strip. In that form, owing to the great amount of surface exposed to the air, the cloud evaporates very vapidly, and rapid evaporation produ es intense cold. 1 rv particies of snow are then ! formed, and the.-e, by friction with the water-drops, quickiy become charged with negative electricity. But the water drops themselves carry positive electricity, and since nega tive attracts positive, a lllm of water is fo med upo i each snow-iutrtu le and is instantly fro en into a layer of ice. At this thickness its outer surface remains moist, th ' water not freezing so rapidly t ere, whereupon the elec trical cliartre changes from negative to positive, and the particle is re Iicllcd by the waterdrojw and driv n to the outer parts of the c oud. Here the increased cold covers It with snow again, and friction charges it anew with neiratlve electricity. Impulsion is now once more changed for attraction, and the particle rushes hack Into the cloud, receiving upon its urface another 111 in of water is turned into a second ice-layer. Thus the growing hailstone dar'.s zigng through the cloud, piling up its alternate layers of snow and lee until gravitation gains control and sends it, with a jingling crowd of its fellows, siiinnlng to the ground. - Tiie Deep, Deep Sea. It is a remarkable fact that the deepest i arts of the sea are in all (ases ery near the land. The deep est sounding known, 4,005 fathoms, or t, , 0 feet, was obtained 1 10 miles fiom the kurile Islands; the next deepest, 4, Mil tathoms, was found se enty miles north of Porto Hlco. With a few exceptions like these the depth of tho ocean as tar as now known does not reach ,0' 0 fathoms, or four sea miles. The North la cillc has a mean depth of 2,5oo fath oms, the South Pacific of 2,4! 0, tne Indian Ocean of 2,1.00, and tho At lantic, by far the best Investigated ocean, has a mean depth of 2,200 fathoms. i" HvrjooniTB8 are the coinage of mankind. counterfeit FORGOT lO BUY THE DOOR. Sc th rareha r Had ta Pat Up Hon to CompU f th. tula. "It is not often that a man ne fleci.s to buy , the front entrance when he bu.i himself a home." said ex Judiie iilttenhoeferto a e.w York reporter, "but this is precisely what a friend of mine did ind he paid dearly for that front door when he did acqu re it. I was in my office one afternoon, when my friend B. came in, and after the exchange ot the compliments of the day he remarked: 'Judge, I've bought me a new home out on West One Hundred and Twenty-third street ' " 'That's good,' I replied. 'Did you get a bargain?' " 'Ob, pretty fair! At least I thought I had; but I'm not so sure now. I can't get in the iront door.' ' 'What do you mean?' " The man 1 bought I ora refuses to give me the key to the front door, and I can get in and out only by the pavk way.' " -What reason does he give for acting in that manner?' 'lie says I didn't buy the front of the house, and he is going to let me in that way.' " 'Have you got your deed all right?' 1 asked. " Oh, yes! Th:;t's all right' "Well, you bring it down tomor row and let uie look it over.' "The next morning B. appeared with the deed which to a casual glance appeared to be in correct form. I'.ut on examiu.ng the de scription of the projierty by nieies and bounds I discovered a curious omission. The j.oiot of beginning was at the juncture of the street line and westerly boundary line, running thence to the north boundary and then to the street, and stopped there, hence the frontage, or case ment, not being described, was not conveyed. And thus, while B. was the legal owner of the rest of tne house, the frontage was technically the property of the other fellow, and he had a right to carry the latch key, smoke his pijie on the front stoop and put on all the airs of mas ter of the house, while B. could only sneak in through the back door. Whether the omission was inten- t'onal or not was Impossible to find out But it was quickly tua:e piain that the owner of the front stoop meant to"jrou t oy me ac. lueFit, If" ac ideDt it was. On Interviewing him he calmly remarked that tho frontage was his and he nidnt to ch'im ;t. Being threatened wtb a su.t and ths assu ante that a court of equity would compel the correction of the deed, he replied, 'Fire away!' Finally, rather than to have the property tied up in the courts pos s. bly for two years, 1 advi.-ed B. to compromise the matt r if he could, and by the payment of $500 he ac quired undoubted right to the latch key of his own front door." 1 he Muling Passion. The ruling passion gets away with woman every time. At a t heatre the other night a lady appeared si ddenly at the bo . otllce and asked the man ager for an admlssioD ticket. "Don't you wish a seat.-" the ticket seller asked. "We have a few good seats in the balcony." T haven't tnu.: to sit clown," said the lady. "My husband is waiting lor uin outside, and be.-i .es 1 have seen the play already." The ticket seller didn't know what to say to this. "1 only want to go in for a few minutes," the fair visitor continued. T saw a lady pass in a moment ago, ami i-be was so elegantly dressed that 1 want to have a good look at her and see exactly what she has on. That's all. The manager, to whom this ex- planation was made, escorted the dress-fascinated woman into the auditorium, and she went around to a side aisle and made a thorough ob servation of what the ultra-fashionable daine "had on." "O, it was perlectly lovely!" she exclaimed as she joined her husband at the door. Mr. Choate's One Letter. Joseph II. Choate is a man of im posing mien and authoritative dis course. Some years ago a young kinsman of Mr. Choate arrived ic New Vork, armed with a letter of Introduction to the eminent lawyer. After reading the letter Mr. Choate turned to the young man and said: "Well, s r! What other letters have you?" The young man named half a dozen men of more or less standing to whom be brought introductions. "Ah, young man," said the lawyer, with a reminiscent look in his eyes, 'you a e far better p ovided with recommendations than I was when I came to ew York, at your age, to seek my fortune. " "Yes?" said the young man inquir ingly. "Yes! I had only one letter to introduce me into the great me tropoha." . "May 1 wk from whom It was?" queried tae yeung relative diffident "ProBi Rnfw Choete to William M Krarta," answered Mr. Choate New York Bet aid. L 1 J J L i5.A M. 1 I'lt.