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K The Sioux County Journal, VOLUJiE VIL HARKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APKIL 1, 1895. NU3IBEK 32. Of- 'favore Wide Tlrea oa Wion Wheels. Th Agricultural Department baa 1 tued a bulletin compiled by Roy Stone, ipeclal agent In charge of road Inquiry, containing Information concerning the oae of wide tlrea on wagon wheels. Mr. ' Rtone regard It of special Importance in the maintenance of public highways that Uie veli Idea uaed on them shall bare tlrea of greater width than are aow In general use. Extract from the Bute law respecting the width of tire to be used on vehicles are given, some of which offer a rebate of a portion of toe highway tax on wagons with rims or tire not leas than three and three and a half Inches In width. The result of ex perl menu with wide tires In vari ous States are also given. The bulletin til concluding print extracts from the Consular reports concerning the width Of tlrea prescribed In various foreign countries. In France every freighting cart la said to be a roadmaker. Their tlrea are from three to ten Inches In width, usually from four to lx. The German law prescribes that wagons for heavy loads, such as coal, brick, earth, and stone, must have a width of tire of at least four Inchea. Oood Koada and Prosperity. Roads are the connecting links that bind communities together In bonds of love and In unity of spirit Roads be long to all time. They are the ways by which nien have advanced and will ever advance, and we who wish to leave some worthy memorial to posterity, something which shall endure when our lives are but a memory, can bequeath nothing that will be more beneficial than good roads. Colonel A. A. Tope. An Innovation la Road-Making. The Massachusetts Highway Com missioners are trying an Interesting ex periment The board has found In building macadamized roads, that upon loose, sandy soils much stone Is being driven Into the sand. In such cases gravel, when acce-islble.has been placed upon the sand to a depth of three or Tour Inchea, and on tbla Is laid the stone. By so doing the cost Is greatly reduced There being no gravel at Martha s Vine yard, cheap cotton cloth has but a short Hm ago been spread upon the sand, and over that the stone. It has been found that the sand does not work up through the stone so much less stone Is required. layers of tarred paper were tried, but without success, as the stone pressed through them. This In prob ably the first experiment over made with cloth, and while the stretch on which It Is lined Is not long, the showing Will be none the less valuable. Ml on-Ooul Hoods. It Is the opinion of well-Informed Frenchmen who huve made a study of cououilc problems that the superb roods of France have been one of the most steady and potent contributions to the material development and mar velous financial elasticity of the coun try. The farreachlng and splendidly maintained road system bas distinctly favored the success of the small landed proprietors, and In their prosperity and the ensuing distribution of wealth lies the key to the secret of the wonderful Itallty and solid prosperity of the Trench nation. Selected. THE WIFE OF THE FUTURE. Or Jnat What Man Fanclee the New Woman Will Come To. lie stood In the dark at the bottom of the stairs. Ills coat was over hi arm, his shoes were In his hand, bis collar was unbuttoned, bis hair dis heveled, and his breath would have put the strength of Hercules to blush, lie was musing. What was he to say to her Oil time? That he bad been with a sick friend? Bah! Uiat chest nut dates with Noah when be got back from his first night out of the ark. Lodge? Political caucus? Pooh! a soon might tell her that there are June bugs In January. Why not tell her that be had been dallying the chip at tlio club and then pass over a hun dred of his winnings for herself by way of reparation? All right In the ory, but where was the hundred? He had lost Just a cool hundred and fifty to Col. Keenwun, and the Lord know It would ' take a month of severest economies to maks that up. "Well, I might a well go and face the music," fa said, despairingly, at last a fa eoftly mounted ths stair Ilka a wraith t bygone. . . V " ' One In bl room b disrobed with lafltUte caution, drank a pitcher of (hajidjfo 0f cot, and wm vtwmp m pwr, pitch. MM M BM l iilXf TIT i SBMB Ha, mother? Had she eloped with that that scoundrel of a French marquis who was so excessively polite to her of late? Oh. no! that thought was madness. He approached the bed. No, she had not even been there. The sweat was ooalog from every pore. He made his way to the bureau and drew forth a revolver. "Blood r be muttered. "Blood mine, his, any body's, but blood!" There is no telling what ha might have done had not at that instant a rattle at the keyhole below startled him. He struggled to the banister and looked over. There was the wife of his heart taking her shoe off at the bottom of the stairs and trying to haug her hat on several Imaginary pegs. Slyly h crept back and leaped Into bed, feigning aleep. She entered. Her faca was a Httl flushed, her eyas somewhat bleary, but she had the vary air of bar own husband when be had got his story down pat Instantly the outraged sleeper awoke with a start "Madam, what doe tbla mean?" he demanded, rubbing his eye. "Here It Is nearly daylight and you you, the wlfa of my heart, th mother of my cbl hll dran Jut come In at this disgraceful hour from God only knows where. Give an account of yourself. Where have you be-hen oh, wh-here?" i But the calm wife only faced him cynically. "I will not work off any of your own stale old canned goods about 'lodges,' 'sick friends,' and 'caucus es,' " she begsn a trifle thickly, "but I'll come right to the point and the truth. I spent the evening at the Dor cas Advanced Woman' League, where we had a little quiet game. Here, my dear," she followed, tossing a roll of bills upon the bed, "take thl and buy yourself a sealskin overcoat or a diamond ring. Suit yourself. I won $250 from Mrs. Keenwun, the Colonel's wife!" Then the foxy old duffer drew a long sigh, grabed the roll as a ship wrecked sailor clutches a spar, and buried his nose In his pillow. "For given!" he murmured a moment later when he caught his breath from the sweet shock, and lay awake a whole hour winking at the clean hundred the two of them were ahead of the Keen wuns. New York World. ANCIENT HINDOO DnAMA. Modern Performance of a Play Written Thonsnnds of Years Ago, At the Irving Place Theater, New Tork. was recently given a performance, of "Vasantasena," a drama written thousands of years ago by Sudraka, the king of a small Hindoo sovereignty It was the first performance ever given In this country, although It has been performed several times In Europe with great grandeur. The dm ma Is very Interesting and noteworthy, principally because first it enlightens us about Hindoo life, cul ture, and customs of the time, boUl In court circles and In the homes of tho people. There Is a great similarity to Shakspeare, which Is surprisingly evi dent In the gradual working up of dramatic situations and the stupendous climaxes of this drama of human pas sions. Sudraka renders the dramatic action In noble rhymes, which are Interspers ed by characteristic scenes in prose, Introducing the people as they are true to nature. lie offers us an excellent example of the humorous originality and innate wit of our Aryan forefath ers, which through all these centuries have paused from generation to genera' tlon and found their best exponent In the masterly work of Shakspeare. Originally the drama wus of seventy three acts! To adapt it for the modem stage It was shortened, but, of course, at tho expense of tho tmpresalveness of the original. Sudraka, the author, reigned successfully for many years and then retired Into solitude and died a hermit over 100 years old. New York Types. Dudes we have, but not In such amusing numbers as London, nor near ly so large a proportion of those elder Mies of the pavement whose scientific name Is "men-about-town," all bloom lug precisely alike from the curve of their boot-tips to the minutest shaping of their collars and the tenor of their speech; and the beautifully attired, beautifully self-satisfied, beautifully vacuous-looking old gentlemen who decorate the club window and the parkway of London are present with us, only In raro examples. Again, cler ical types make default almost as whol ly as do military types; and with all oar variety In feminine type, the dow ager hardly lives among us. To be a true dowager, not only age and social experience are needed, but social de voutnens and an Ingrained One assump tion of great social power; ao for thl type we shall have to wait nntll th generation now entering middle life sees It grandchildren growing Into manhood. Century. ' Oood Deal of Deviltry In It. Ibsen ha finished bl new work a three-act drama which he ha mention ed aa having few persona but mnch "deviltry" In a It to ba brought ont la Norwegian and German J oat before Oartetjnaa. The eureet way to ba mm la te be a bachelor. ., 1IM ,(..,, llt) WHAT WOMEN WEAR. STYLES FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LOOK PRETTY. Dreaaes to Be Low-Necked and Sleeve to Ba Short with a Tendency Toward Puffs That Reach the Elbow-Bloaaa Btfect in the New Bodice'. The Beaton's Stjlea. Vew Tors correspondence: UTTING a sugges tion of blouse ef fect Into the nw or made-over bod Ice la the surest way to make It seam .freshly, styl ish, for nearly all new bodice uodeia have this a a con spicuous feature. It Is seen even In tailor-made dreaa es. where It Is ac complished by tha presence of fi-oop-lng straps that are draped over the shoulders and down the front of the bodice. If the drees la to be called new, the simplest way to effect It Is to have something droop ing In the bodice's front A banging bit of drapery set In and flanked on tha sides by dangling straps of passement erie is, perhaps, as easy a way as any. Another favored trick Is to have a box pleat down the front the bodice being bloused at each side of the front and tight fitting In the back. This effect la so much worn that It Is seen In many varieties. One of them Is shown In the first small picture, the pleat being smaller than those usually . made. Cream-white corded silk Is used for this garment and It la trimmed with a flchn of the same, forming a round collar In back, with sashes on the boulders and then coming to the waist In front to fasten with rhlnestone but- II.KKVES DKSERVISQ OF SHAPELY ARMS. tons. This fichu Is edged with cream guipure. It Is still as desirable to have some thing approaching newness In the sleeves of the new bodice, as It was In mld-wlnter. It Is noticeable that the universal tendency Is toward puffs that reach the elbow. The shoulder strap unelaborated Is never seen, but ela I to rated shoulder straps serve as a foundation for softly falling clouds of draped material that except on close examination, look like puff sleeves. It' a new and very pretty sleeve In the next Illustration, and one that will make an excellent setting for a hand some arm. For the rest the blouse 1 alike buck and front being made of pale rose pink bengallne and banded with black lace Insertion. The draped sleeves are edged with lace and looped up with pink satin bows, and the same ribbon gives collar and belt which are ornamented by sprays and bunches of flower. A fitted lining of piuk silk book at the side. There I no accessory devised as yet to make acceptable for any but hand some shoulders tho style of sleeves shown In the next Illustration. It is, perhaps their being so exacting that make the stylo so slow In It progress toward favor, for slow It Is, though ths cut ha thorough novelty to recommend mm tbut aa axAcriao. 4L Baatdea that It la Men a rat only on nnqneetloaably correct gowns. Tha tactT vaat ec wfaKe crepe da thine la raker proof of tbla ganaeofs new- neaa, aad tha conMaatnw of jacket aad blouse effects Is very unusual. The Jacket forms a circular basque In back that is considerably shorter than the fronts, and the edges all around are finished with Jet galloon, the fronts hav ing pendant fringes. Silver gray satin duchesse was the material as sketched, and the gown was planned for the cele bration of Oliver wedding. Round bodice are now seen cut Just below the hips, and the edges are wired to stand out free from the skirt A lit tle while ago unlesa the edge of the bodice fitted snugly to the hip the un fortunate maker was a hopeless mis fitter. The bodice of the fourth sketch la not of thl aort, because It haa that other stamp of newneaa, a slightly full front the remainder fitting tightly. Coming over the skirt It la ornamented front and back by a large rosette of bluet aatln ribbon, th dress stuff being bluet cheviot A deep yoked collar of rCFFED STTLISHI.V. ecru lace fall prettily over shoulders, back and front and the sleeves have drooping untrlmmed puffs Thlsls really the most popular sleeve at present, a great soft puff that reaches well below the elbow on the outer side of the arm and that Is not nearly so long on the In side being the desired shape. Some are the slxe of great pumpkins, and some times they look a little like them, too. Unless one can elaborate a gown a great deal, It Is better to keep to entire simplicity. In the midst of all the cur rent gorgeousne, a gown made of soft fine cloth with a bodice fitting closely, save for the little baggy place in front Its skirt cut Just right and a pair of huge sleeves, will give an ef fect that Is likely to make the richer neighbor miserable, In spite of her elaborations. But highly wrought ef fects have their place and are tasteful ly managed on the final pictured gown, which Is composed of rich ivory-white satin brocaded with old gold for the wide godet skirt, and of old gold ve lours for puff sleeves and bodice. The latter has a pleated vest of Ivory-white mousseline de sole ornamented with a big bow of white satin and two rhlnestone buckles. The points of the bodice are embroidered with gold and a bertha of filmy tulle lace completes the garniture. In such elaborate gowns as this a dressy effect Is sometimes at tained by having skirt and sleeves to AOAlIf, TIIK ARMS match, and the remainder of the bo dice need not be of a material that even harmonizes. Velvet skirts are so com pletely out of vogue, however, that It ha not been selected for such com binations for some time pust With summer reached, the bodice will shift In large measure to shirt waists. These are now made to order for women at swell men's furnishing places, and such garments have a fault less set about the collar and cuffs thut explains the price, even though the matcrlnl be the simplest cheviot Ex cept In very dressy shirt waists, but ton are set down the front covered by a boxpleat because women have discovered that with their bangs to keep parted, nails to manicure and aide comb to keep In place, life Is too short to try and attend to studs. In deed, a collar button la bad enough, Copyright 180B. Alexander Pope waa tnerclleaaly nick named by hi contetnporarlea because. In hi writing, be lampooned all hla anemtea with no little rigor. ' He waa called tha Waap of Twickenham, tha Bard of Twickenham, aa tapt? Flaak, a Little Nightingale, root Pug, Paper Bpaiteg Peea, PorteatDoa Ouh, , aad maw other Itsntfiisw.naWMfri t .. i . SHOULD BE PKETTT. TALMAGE'S SERMON. THE PREACHER DRAWS A LESSON FROM THE ARK. Gift of Salvation Through Christ-A Bare Defense in Time of Trouble Loadstone of a God-Fearing Life The Door Swings Both Wave. ' On the Gospel Ship. Although his oratory is at all times magnetic and eloquent there is one theme with which, whenever he makes it the groundwork of his sermon. Dr. Tslmage never fails to communicate to bis auditor the enthusiasm he himself feels. That theme is the gospel invita tion, aad when, Sunday afternoon, he took for his subject "The Gospel Ship" the great aadience that crowded the New York Academy was in full sympathy. The text selected was Genesis vl., 18, "Thou halt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wive with thee." In this day of the steamships Lucania nod Majestic and the Paris I will show you a ship that in some respects eclipsed tht-m all and which sailed out, an ocean underneath and another ocean falling up on it. Infidel scientists ask us to believe that in the formation of the earth there have been a half dosen deluges, and yet they are not willing to believe the Bible story of one deluge. In what way the catastrophe came we kuow not whether by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning, chang ing the air Into water, or by a stroke of the hand of God, like the stroke of the ax between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catastrophe God ordered a great ship built. It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was to be without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three modern stesmers. It was the Great Eastern of olden time. The ship is done. The door is open. The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk In. The grasshoppers hop In. The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Just one human family embark on the strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm sweeps along the hills and bends the cedars until all the branches snap in the gale. There is moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The blackness of the heavens is shattered by the flare of the lightnings that look down into the waters and throw a ghastllness on the face of the mountains. How strange it looks! How suffocating the air seems! The big drops of rain begin to plash upon the up turned faces of those who are watching the tempest. Crash go the rocks in con vulsion! Boom go the bursting heavens! 1 he inhabitants of the earth, instead of flying to housetop and mountain top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die, for when God grinds mountains to pieces and lets the ocean slip its cable there is no place for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tumble In the surf, while from its windows the passengers look out upon the shipwreck of a race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe to the sea. A Storm Coming. I am no alarmist. When, on the 20th of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the north east, you prophesy that the equinoctial storm is coming, you simply state a fact not to he disputed. Neither am I an alarmist when I say that a storm is com ing compared with which Noah's deluge wag but an April shower, and that it is wisest and safest for you and me to get safely housed for eternity. The invita tion that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Well, how did Noah and his family come Into the ark? Did they climb in nt , the window, or come down the roof? No. J liey went through the door. And Just so, if we get Into the ark of God's mercy, It will he through Christ, the door. The entrance to the ark of old must have been a very large entrance. We know that it was from the fact that there were mon ster animals in the earlier ages, and in order to get them Into the ark two and two, according to the Bible statement, the door must have been very wide and very high. So the door into the mercy of God is a large door. We go in, not two nnd two, but by hundreds, and by thou sands and by millions. Yea, all the na tions of the earth may go in 10,000,000 abreast. Christ the Door. The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now It is through the side of Christ the pierced side, the wide open side, the heart side that we enter. Aha, the Itoinan soldier, thrusting his spear into the Savior's side, expected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in. Oh, what a broad Gospel to preach! If a man is about to give an entertainment, he issues 200 or 800 invitations carefully put up and di rected to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. But God, our Father, milks a banquet, and goes out to the front door of heaven, aud stretches out Vliis hands over land and sea, and with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo Jungle, and the (irecnlnml ice castle, and Brazil Ian grove, and Kngllsh factory, and Amer ican home cries out, "Come, for all things ore now ready!" It is a wide door. The old cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the dooriosts so fur apart that all the world can come in. Kings scatter treasures on days of great rejoicing. So Christ, our King, conies snd scatters the jewels of heaven, liowland Hill said that he hoped to get into heaven through ths crevices of the door. But he was not obliged thus to go In. After having preached the gospel In Surrey chapel, going up toward heaven, the gatekeeper cried, "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let thl man come In!" Th dying thief went In. Rich ard Baxter and Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia, Africa, North aad South America may yet ao through thl wide door without cvewdlag. Ho, every one- all conditions, all ranks, all people! Lu ther said that this truth was worth carry ing on one's knees from Home to Jerusa lem, but I think it worth carrying all arouud the globe and all around the heav ens that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son; that who soever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Whosoever will, let him come through the large door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever, and then he said thst he could move the world. Calvary is the fulcrum, and the cross of Christ Is the lever, und by that power all nations shall yet be lifted. Swings Both Ways. Further, it is a door that swing both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark wss lifted or rolled on hinges, but this door of Christ open both ways. It swings out toward all our woe. It swings in toward the rapture f heav en It swings in to let us in. It swings out to let bur ministering enea eeme out. All are one in Christ Christiana on earth and saints in heaven. "One army of the living God, At his command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood. And part are crossing now." Swing in, O blessed door, until all the earth shall go in and live. Swing out un til all the heavens come forth to celebrate the victory. But further, it is a door with fasten ings. The Bible says of Noah, "The Lord shut him in." A vessel without bulwark or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were very glad. Unless those doors were fas tened, the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed them, and they might as well have perished outside the ark as inside the ark. "The Lord shut him In." Oh. the perfect safety of the ark! 't he surf of the sea and the light nings of the sky may be twisted Into a garland of snow and fire deep to deep, storm to storm, darkness to darkness but once in the ark all is well. "God shut him in." , There comes upon the good man a del uge of financial trouble. He had bis thou sands to lend. Now he cannot borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York and had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned four horses and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach phaeton, carriage and curricle. Now he has hard work to get shoes in which to walk. The great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, and fore and aft and across the hur ricane deck the waves struck him. "The Lord Shut Him In." But he was safely sheltered from the storm. "The Lord shut him in." A flood of domestic troubles fell on him. Sick ness and bereavement came. The rain pelted. The winds blew. The heavens are aflame. All the gardens of earthly de light are washed away. The mountains of joy are buried 15 cubits deep. But standing by the empty crib, and in the desolated nursery, and in the doleful hall, once a-ring with merry voices, now silent forever, he cried: "The Lord gave; the Ijrd hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." "The Lord shut him in." All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. The broken vows, the dis honored Sabbaths, the outrageous pro fanities, the misdemeanors of twenty years, reached up their hands to the door of the ark to pull him out. The boundless ocean of his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a simoon, raving like an euroclydon. But, looking out of the win dow, he saw his Bins sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of heav en brought an olive branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow only pushed him toward heaven. "The Lord shut him in." The same door fastenings that kept Noah in keep the troubles out I am glad to know that when a man reaches heaven nil earthly troubles are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family. There he will never hunger any more. Here he may have wept bitterly. There "the lamb that is in the midst of the throne will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from his eyes." Here he may have hard work to get a house, but in my Father's house are many man sions, and rent day never comes. Here there are deathbeds and coffins and graves. There no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no consum ing fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come and knock at the door, but no ad mittance. The perplexities of life shall come and knock on the door, but no ad mittance. Safe forever! All the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarks of the ship of celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage, ye seas! The Lord "the Lord shut him in." Fastenings Secure. Oh, what a grand old door! So' wide, so easily swung both ways aud with such sure fastenings. No burglar's key can pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell can shove hack that bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask yon to come aboard a crazy craft, with leaking hulk and broken helm nnd unfastened door, but an ark 50 cubits wide, and 300 cubits long, and a door so lurge that the round earth without graz ing the post might be bowled in. Now, If the ark of Christ is so grand a place In which to live and die and tri umph, come into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah In shut oth ers out, and though, when the pitiless storm came pelting on their heads, they beat upon the door, saying, "Let me inl Let me In!" the door did not open. For 120 years they were invited. They ex pected to come in, but the antediluvian said; "We must cultivate these fields. We must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of cattle. We will wait until we get a little older. , We will enjoy our old farm a little longer." But meanwhile the storm was brewing. The fountain of heaven were filling up. ' The pry wn being placed the foundation of the great deep. The last year bad cotoe, the last month, the last week, the laat day, the last hour, th laat moment In an awfut dash aa ocean dropped from the any, and another rolled np from hmistk, aad Ood rolled the earth aad sky hto aa waa of ualTeraal aeatnctioa, , . 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