TALMAUE’S SERMON.
"THE GRANDMOTHERS” LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
"Tba L'ufeluuoil Faith Tlmt In In 1li«,
Which ltwali Flnt lu Tlijr Ur»uU
•ualhar Lot*”—Fruui Meeuud lluuh of
Tlnullij. Clauptar I, Verse A
In this pastoral letter which Paul,
the old mlulater, 1* writing to Tlmo
Uiy, the young minister, the family
record Is brought out. Paul practical
ly says: "Timothy, what a good grand
mother you had! You ought to be
better than most folks, because not
only was your mother good, but your
grandmother was good also. Two pre
ceding generations of piety ought to
give you a mighty push In the right
direction." The fact was that Timothy
needed encouragement. He was In
poor health, having a weak stomach,
and was a dyspeptic, and Paul pro
scribed for him a tonic, "a little wine
for thy stomach's sake"—not much
wine, but a little wine, and only as a
medicine. And If the wine then ha 1
been as much adulterated with logwood
and strychnine us our modern wines,
he would not have prescribed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically,
Is encouraged spiritually by the recital
of grandmotherly excellence, Paul
hinting to him, as I bint this day to
you, that God sometimes gathers up as
In a reservoir, uway back of the active
generations of today, a godly Influ
ence, and then In response to prayer
lets down the power upon children an l
grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Tho world Is woefully In want of a ta
ble of statistics in regard to what Is
the protracted ness and Immensity of
Influence of one good woman lu tho
church and world. We have accounts
of bow much evil has been wrought by
a woman who lived nearly a hundred
years ago, and of how rnuny criminals
her descendants furnished for the pen
itentiary and the gallows, and how
many hundreds of thousands of dollars
they cost our country In their arraign
ment and prison support, as well as
In the property they burglarized and
destroyed. But will not some one
come out with brain comprehensive
enough, and heart warm enough, and
pen keen enough to give us the facts
In regard to some good womau of a
hundred years ago, und let us know
how many Christian men und women
and reformers and useful people have
been found among her descendants,
and how many asylums and colleges
and churches they built, and how ;nany
millions of dollars (hey contributed
for liumanltjirlnn and Christian uur
pOften?
The good women whose tombstones
were planted In the eighteenth century
are more alive for good In the nine
teenth century thau they were before,
as the good women of the nineteenth
century will bo more allvo for good In
the twentieth century than now. Mark
you, I have no Idea that the grand
mothers were any better than their
granddaughters. You cannot get very
ohl people to talk much about how
things were when they were boys and
girls. They have a reticence and a non
committalism which makes me think
they feel themselves to he the custo
dians of the reputation of tholr early
comradeH. While our dear old folks are
rehearsing the follies of the present. If
we put them oil the witness slum! ami
croftM-examlue them as to how things
were seventy years ago the silence be
comes oppressive.
The celebrated Frenchmen, Volncy,
visited this country In 1798, and be
says of woman’s diet in those times:
"If a premium was offered for a regi
men most destructive to health, none
could bo devised more efficacious for
these ends than that In use among
these people." That eclipses our lob
ster salad at midnight. Everybody
talks about tho dissipation of modern
society and how womanly health goes
down under it, but It was worse a hun
dred years ago, for the chaplain of a
French regiment In our revolutionary
war wrote In 1782, In his "Hook of
American Women,” saying: "They are
tall and well-proportioned, their fea
tures are generally regular, their cum
plexlons are generally fair and without
color. At twenty years of age the wom
en have no longer the freshness of
youth. At thirty or forty they are do
ercplt." In 1812 u foreign consul wrote
u hook entitled. "A Sketch of the Unit
ed States at the Commencement of the
ITewem Century," and he says of the
women of those times: "At the age of
thirty all their charms have disap
peared." Ou« glunce at the portraits
of the womeu a hundred years ago and
their style of dress makes us wonder
how they ever got their breath. All
this makes ms think that the express
rail train Is no more au improvement
-on the old cuual boat, or the telegraph
no more an Improvement on the old
time saddle-bags, than the women of
our day are an Improvement on the
womeu of the last century.
Hut still, not withstand lug that those
times were oo much worse than ours,
there was a glorious race of godly
women, seventy and u hundred years
ago, who held the world back from sin
and lifted It toward virtue, aud with
out their exulted and e-untitled Influ
ence before this the last good Influence
would have perished from the earth.
Indeed, all over this land there are
seated to-day — nut so much in
churches, for man> «.f them are too
feeble to coma a great many aged
graudmolbers. They sometimes feel
tbgl the world has goue past them,
and they ha'* au Idea that they are
of little account Their head some
times gcU aching from it- lacks! of
the grand- hlidreu down stairs or in the
nest room They steady ikmis-ine by
the Imnlslera aa tho g > tip and down
When they get a cold It hangs -m them
longer then It used to They cannot
hear to hava the grandchildren P‘*«
teheg evwo when they dee*rv# It, and
fcnve so related their IU»ee of family
discipline I hat they would spoil all the
youngsters of the household by too
great leniency. These old folks are the
resort when great troubles come, and
there Is a calming and soothing power
In the touch of an aged hand that is
almost supernatural. They feci they
aro almost through with the Journey of
life and read the old Hook more than
they used to, hardly knowing which
most i hey enjoy, the Old Testament or
the New, and often stop and dwell
tearfully over the family record half
way between. Wo hall them to-day,
whether In the house of Ood or at the
homestead, lllessed is that household
that has In It a grandmothor Lois.
Where she Is, angels are hovering
round and Ood Is in the room. May
her Inst days he like those lovely days
that we call Indian summer!
Is It not time that you and I do two
things swing open a picture gallery of
the wrinkled faces and stooped shoul
der*, the past, and call down from
their heavenly thrones the godly
grandmothers, to give them our thanks
and then to persuade the mothers of
today that they ore living for ail time,
and that against the sides of every
cradle Id which a child is rocked beat
the two eternities?
Here we have an untried, undls
cussed, and uueaplored subject. You
often hear about your Influence upon
your own children, I am not talking
about that. What about your influence
upon the twentieth century, upon the
thirtieth century, upon tho fortieth
century, upon the year two thousand,
upon the ycur four thousand, If tho
world lasts so long? The world stood
four thousand year* before Cbrlat
came; It Is not unreasonable to sup
pose that It may stand four thousand
years after Ills arrival. Four thousand
years the world swung off In sin, four
thousand years It may be swinging
back Into righteousness. Hy the ordi
nary rate of multiplication of the
world's population in a century, your
descendants will be over three hun
dred, and by two centurloH over fifty
thousand, ami upon every one of them,
you, the mother of today, will have an
Influence for good or evil. And If In
four centuries your descendants shall
have with their names filled a scroll
of hundreds of thousands, will some
angel from heaven, to whom Is given
the capacity to calculate the number
of the stars of heaven and tho sands
of the seashore, step down and tell us
how many descendants you will have
In the four thousandth year of the
world’s possible continuance? Do not
let tho Grandmothers any longer think
that they are retired, and sit clear back
out of sight from the world, feeling
that they have no relation to It. The
mothers of tho last century are today
in uiu ijn ,iuii ui luuii ui'iiiruuamn, iu
the SonateB, the Parliaments, the pal
uceH, the pulpits, tha banking houses,
the professional chairs, the prisons, the
ulmshouses, the company of midnight
brigands, the cellars, the ditches of
this century. Your have been thinking
about the importance of having the
right Influence upon our nursery. You
have been thinking of the importance
of getting those two little feet on the
right path. You have been thinking of
your child's destiny for the next eighty
years, if it should pass on to be an oc
togenarian. That is well, but my sub
ject sweeps u thousand years, a mil
lion years, a quadrillion of years. I
cannot stop at one cradle, l am look
ing at the cradles that reach all around
the world and acioss all time. I urn not
thinking of mother Eunice. I am talk
ing of grandmother Lois. The only
way you can tell the force of a current
is by Hailing up stream; or the force
of an ocean wave, by running tho ship
against it. Uuuning along with it we
cannot appreciate the force. In esti
mating maternal Influence we general
ly run along with It down the stream
of time, and bo we don't understand
the full force. Let us come up to it
from the eternity side, after It has
been working on for centuries, and see
all the good it has done and all tho evil
it has accomplished multiplied in mag
nificent or appalling compound inter
est. The difference between that moth
er's Influence on her children now and
the influence when it has beptt multi
plied in hundreds of thousands of lives,
is the difference between the Mississip
pi river away up at the top of the con
tinent starting fio;u the little Lake
Itasca, seven miles long and one wide,
and its mouth at tbs Gulf of Mexico,
where navies might ride, between the
birth of that river and its burial in the
sea the Missouri pours in, and the Ohio
pou^s in, and the Arkansas pours in,
and the Red and White and the Yazoo
rivers pour In, and all the States and
Territories between the Alleghany and
Rocky mountains make contributions.
Now, In order to test the power of a
mother's influence, we need to come in
off the ocean of eternity snd sail up
toward the one cradle, and we And ten
thousand tributaries of influence pour
ing in and pouring down. Hut it is aft
er uli one great river of power rolling
on ami rolling for aver. Who can fath
om It? Who can bridge It? Who can
| stop it? Had not mothers better ho
intensifying their prayers? Usd they
not better tie elevating their esample?
| Had they not hettsr be rouslug them
selves with the consideration that by
their faithfulness or neglect they are
I marling an influence which will he siu
I snduus after the last mountain of
tarth Is flat, and the last sen has dried
up. aud the last flake of the ashes of a
j consult!* I work! shall have been blown
! sway, and all the telescopes of other
worlds directed to the track around
; which our world once swung shall die*
> cover not so mui it as a cinder of the
burned-down and swept-uff planet. In
tVylon there Is a granite column thir
ty-six square feel in slse, which Is
thought by the ualivea to decide the
world’s continuance Au angel with
i robs spun from sephyra Is onre a cen
tury to descend and sweep the bent of
I that rube acruaa tbe granite, and when
by that attrition the cnluutn I* worn
sway they say time will end llut by
i that proceAs that grande column would
| tie worn out of existence before moth*
, er'e influence will begin to give way
God All the earth and the heavens
with such grandmothers; we must
some day go up and thunk these dear
old souis. Surely God will let us go
up and tell them of the results of their
influence. Among our first questions
fn Heaven will bo, “Where Is grand
mother?" They will point her out. for
we would hardly know her, even If wo
had seen her on earth, so bent over
with years once and there so straight,
so dim of eye through the blinding of
earthly tears and now her eyes as clear
as heaven, so full of aches and pains
once and now so agile with celestial
health, the wrinkles blooming into car
nation roses, and her step like the roe
on the mountains. Yes, 1 must see
her, my grandmother on my father's
side, Mary McCoy, descendant of the
Scotch. When I first spoke to an au
dience In Glasgow, Scotland, and felt
somewhat diffident, being a stranger, I
begun by ‘filling them my grandmother
wag a Scotchwoman, and then there
went up a shout of welcome which
tuude me feel as easy as 1 do here. I
must see her.
You must see those women of the
early part of the nineteenth century
and those of the eighteenth century,
the answer of whose prayers Is In your
welfare today, God bless all the aged
women up and down the land and In
all lauds! What a happy thing for
l'ompoulus Attlcus to say when mak
ing the funeral address of Ills mother:
“Though I have resided with her sixty
seven years, I was never once recon
ciled to her, because there never hap
pened the least discord between us, and
consequently there was no need of rec
onciliation.” Make It as easy for the
old folks as you can. When they are
sick, get for them the best doctors.
Give them your arm when the streets
are slippery. Bfay with them all the
time you can. Go home and see the old
folks. Find the place for them In tho
hymnbook. Never be ashamed if they
prefer styles of apparel which are a lit
tle antiquated. Never say anything
that Implies that they are In the wuy.
Make the road for the lust mile us
smooth as you can. Oh, my! how you
will miss her when she Is gone! llow
much would I give to see my mother!
I have* so muny things I would llko to
tell her, things that have happened lu
tbf thirty years since she went away.
Morultig, noon and night let us thank
God for the good Influences that have
come down from good mothers all the
way hack. Timothy, don't forget your
grandmother Lois. And hand down to
others this patrimony of blessing. 1’ass
along the coronets. Make religion un
heirloom from generation to genera
tion. Mothe rs, consecrate yourselves to
God and you will help consecrate all
the age following! Do not dwell so
much on your hardships that you tnlss
your chance by wielding uu Influence
that shall look down upon you from
the towers of an endless future. I know
Martin Luther was right when ho con
soled his wifa over the death of their
daughter by saying: “Don't take on so,
wife; remember that this Is a hard
world for girls." Yes, I go further and
say, It Is a hard world for women. Aye,
I go further nnd say, It Is a hard world
for men. But for all women and men
who trust their oodles and souls lu the
hand of Christ the shining gates will
soon swing open. Don't you see the
sickly pallor on the sky? That Is tha
pallor on the cold cheek of the dying
night. Don’t you see tho brightening
of tho clouds? That 1s the Hush on
the warm forehead of the morning.
Cheer up, you are coming within sight
of the Celestial City.
A DOG OF WAR.
A hardlooking young colored man
leaned against an awning-pole at a
street-corner in Washington, says the
Post, while a very ordinary cur sat at
his feet. A crowd of people assembled,
waiting for streetcars. Then the col
ored youth bestirred himself.
"Look a-yenh, Nero." eaid he to the
now alert and tail-wagging cur. "what
yo' gwine ter do ef a Spanyud comes
a snoopin’ down the street?”
The words were scarcely uttered be
fore the cur began to snap with a vi
ciousness that seemed to say, "What
I’d do to him would bo a heap." The
crowd laughed, and applauded the clev
erness of the plebeian-looking pup.
"Dat'a nil right, so fah," went on the
negro, again addreusing the cur, "but
what Ah wants ter fin’ out is wheuh all
o’ dese yeah Spanyuds Is a-goln' t' be
by de time we gits froo wit’ 'em."
The cur gave a mournful look out of
his big brown eyes, toppled over on his
back, and with his four legs sticking
rigidly in the air, adintruhly simulated
the Immovablenoss of death. Ho even
reused his panting In order to render
the exhibition more realistic.
The crowd gave the poor, starved
looktng cur a "hand" of surprise and
appreciation, and half a dozen or so of
the men dropped coins Into the colored
fellow s palm, admonishing him to see
that the dog had a g>n»d supper.
w# rui|«i,"
ran any one furnish the whole of
1 the poeiu beginning with "llod of our
fin get; lest we forget." This is ea*
penally ro<|iit»t d by au opl sub*
1 seriber New York Tribune. Ureal
Srtltl I'uttuot state Itelinvele nt pent »U
furnish the literaly editor of the New
1 York Tribune with a copy of Kipling’a
1 "Recessional"? It needs nothing but
that to make S«* York a great liter
ary eeuter Huston Transcript,
% •**•**•!«»#»
Weary Walk It's “If | could, I'd Ilka
to tie appointed one at them pro via
j tonal governors." Hungry Higgins—
I "WUt'l Ik Ilf** "What* In it’ Ha
: I# the guy that handles the provision*,
( ain't h#f*~- IndiauapoH* Journal.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON III, OCT. 16. 2 CHRON.
XXIV: 4-13.
Ilnl'Irn Test—“Anil the Men I>lil tin
Work »*IUifiUly“—« Citron. a«i l«—
The Trtnpla Hepalrod—Nuggestlnns to
Toon here.
The section Includes the history of half
a century, from the death of Jehosha
phat to close of the r«lgn of hie great
grandson Joash (2 i.’hron., chape. 21-24);
and the Parallel—2 Kluge, chupe. 11, 12.
Hugg«*tlniiu to Teachers—Today we
take a glance over fifty year* of Judah'■
history. Wo flret see the fruit of Je
lioeliaphat'N too cloao nlllancu with Ahab
uml Jexebel, veritable apples of Hodom,
Idolafry, crime, uml death. Then We fix
our attention upon the reform* of the
young Joash, < specially Ida maturation
of the temple. We look over the border*
and ace what la going on In the northern
kingdom, and Ita relation to Judah. Wa
need to conault both the map and tho
chart. Thia lilatory ahed* lomo raya of
light upon our path, tioth the red light
of danger and the white light of Inatruc
tlon.
Historical Hotting.—Time—During th»
flret two-third* of the reign of Joaah,
who reigned II. C, S76-H40 (rav. chron,,
*."*-786). Tho repair a were begun early In
Ida reign, but wore not completed till tile
twenty-third year (2 Kluge 12: 8). Place
—Jerusalem, the capital of the kingdom
of Judah. Prophet a The prophet Elijah
Died to write a letter to Jehorutn; and
Ktlshu wua living In Hamarla, the capital
of (ha neighboring kingdom, during tho
whole of tha reign of Joaah of Judah.
Zechurluh, the eon of Jcholada, who waa
atoned to death by Juusti for reproving
him. Secular History—Haiuel waa king
of Syria, Hhulmuueacr II.. king of Assy
rlu (to *21); Hhlahak III., of Kgypt. Mon
uments—The I union* Black Obelisk from
Nineveh, now In the British Museum,
records Assyrlpn history of this age, and
confirms the Illhlo accounts.
Place in the Hlatory—The frulte of Je
hoahaphat’a mistake, and another effort
at reformation,
4. "And It came to pass after this."
After he wa* settled on the throne and
the first works of reformation had pre
pared the way. "To repair." To restore,
Thl* was the fourth of hla reforme. Jo
ash’s cally experience of seven years In
the temple courts may have Impressed
his mind with Ihu need of restoration.
C. "And hr gathered together (In a pub
lic meeting the priests and tho Levltcs,”
who hud charge of the temple and Its
services and the rtllglous and moral edu
• atlon of the people, "flu out unto tbo
cities of Judah." The whole people were
to have their part In the work, as requir
ed by the law of Moaea. "And gather of
ull Israel." Kuril one was to go to hla
own acquaintance <2 Kings 12: f>). "Prom
)car to year,” They could thus give
much more than If required to pay the
whole sum at once. "The l.cvlles hasten
ed it not." (1) Because for a long time
not much had been done, so that tho
people were not very ready to take hold,
and tills discouraged the priests. (2) It
la quite possible that the people were not
enthusiastic In giving because they did
not trust the priests. "An Oriental offi
cial values hla cfllc o for wliut he can
make."
<). “Called for Jcholada the chief.” In
the twenty-third year of hla reign. It la
Htrangn (hat the high priest should t>e
negligent; but be wax a very old man (2
Chron. 24: 16). even If. with r.ioat critic*,
we read one hundred nml three Instead
Of one hundred and thirty year*. "Col
lection 4the tax) of Mosea." Tlie poll tax
of half a shekel (thirty-three cent*) for
Khe service cf the tabernacle tKx. *0: 11
lih. "And cf the congregation." The
/ree-wlll offering* not required by the
law cf Mr.sc*. "For the tabernaele of
witness." Which bore witness to Jeho
Vah and hi* covenant with Iarael. There
>•«.* only a tabernacle, not a tetnple,
when Monos gave theae lawn,
7. "llad broken up," etc. They had In
jured the temple. And the natural de
cay In tho one hundred and forty or one
(hundred and nfty year* since It whs built
would amount to considerable.
8. "They made a cheat," a box. It ap
pears that the chest win locked, ami had
a hole bond In It* lid only Juat large
enough to admit piece* of silver. The
content* therefore could riot he touched,
except by tho royul officer* who kept the
key.—Todd. "And set It without (the
temple proper, but) at the gate of tho
house.” The door that led from the
court of the prleat* Into tho lemple prop
er. It wuh be Hide the great brazen altar
1(2 King* 12:9), and thus In *ight of the
.contributors.
9. "And they made a proclamation." In
gtead of a great number of Irresponsible
priests going out among their acquaint
ances. an Invitation was sent all over
tho country for the people to come to
Jerusalem. und present their offering*.
10. "And all tho peoplo rejoiced, and
brought In." Joy and delight In the ob
ject make liberal giver*. There Is money
enough In the world to relieve all the
poor, and to send tho gospel »o all na
tions, If only there was Joy enough tn
giving. "L’ntll they hail made an end."
Till enough v.us given for tho purpose.
11. "The king’s scribe and the high
priest’* officer." The secretary of state
and the representative of the aged high
prlent. I’ho money wne placed In the
charge of two responsible persons, who
put the money In sealed hags (2 Kings 12:
10), after the Oriental custom, all counted
and marked, ready for payment. "It was
thus evident to all ibut the priests could
not tamper with the contribution*, and
thut whatever was dropped Into the box
would tw spent for the object for which
It was designed.”
12. "Clave It to such as did the work."
The money went directly from the treas
ury to the workmen, who were trusted
perfectly (2 Kluge 12; 18).
14. "Anti they offered burnt offering*."
They renewed (he temple services a* well
as the temple, and used all the mean*
and symbols of worship to uplift the
people.
The Modern KlpreMlod.
Grandma White I* a simple old soul,
who doe* not seek for hlddsn meanings
like the unbelieving generations of to
day. rtbe was enjoying afternoon tea
when Hilda came In, hot and tired,
after her walk. Hilda threw herself
upon a chair, w-ailly: i aball have tsa
tn my hat, grandma." she said. "Oh.
dearie’ hadn’t you better have It In a
, UpV *ald the old lady, wondering what
young girl* will do next. Sketch.
.
RAMS horns.
——
There la hope for a nation while It
ran light without aaklng. For bow
much’"
\Vi«.. may multiply Ihe flow of worda,
I t>ul It never lucrea*e» lb# purity of the
thought
| The question U not, who 1s able?
ik>d will attend to that hut. who Is
' willing?
The cry of "wolf' as often emanate#
1 trum the wolf * companion aa from the
I ihepherd
I.l lll.lt A I. CONCUMSS OF RELIGION.
To Ilo Held In Oumhw, Uej;Inning Octo
bar i Nth.
Tho fifth annual meeting of the Lib
eral Congross of Religion will be held
In Ornalm beginning Tuesday evening,
October 18, and continuing until Sat
urday evening. At this time the con
gress gives promise of being ono of the
most Interesting gatherings held dur
ing the exposition. Many eminent
divines and experts In the discussion
of social problems will be present and
take part In the discussion. Tho fol
lowing Is an outline of the program
which Is yet incomplete and which Is
subject to change:
Tuesday at 8 p. m.: Address of wel
come; response by the president, Kov.
11. W. Thomas, Chicago; opening ser
mon by Dr. E. 1). llirscb, Chicago.
Wednesday at 8 p. in.: Sociological
evening, Rev. R. A. White, Chicago,
presiding; The Ho leal Conscience, by
Prof. C. Hanford Henderson of the
Pratt Institute, llrooklyn, N. Y.; Christ
and the l-abor Problem, by Rev. Frank
Crane, Chicago; What the Employer
Might Ih> to Softie the Labor Prob
lem, by Prof. N. P. Oilman of the Mead
vllle Theological school, Mcadvllle, Pa.
Thursday, 8 p. m.: The problem of
Internationalism. Ia>»t We Forget, by
David Starr Jordan, president of the
Iceland Stanford university; The
Growth of International Sentiment, by
Rev. H, M. Simmons, Minneapolis.
Friday at 8 p. m.: Missionary. The
Greater America and Her Mission in
Asia, by Dr. John Henry Harrows, Chi
cago; America’s Mission at Home, by
Rev. Marion I). Shutter, Minneapolis.
Saturday at 8 p. m.: Social reunion
lind reception, in charge of the local
committee.
Tho forenoon sessions begin at 9:10
n. m. on Wednesday: Welcome of del
egates nnd response by the same. The
Problems of the Congress, by Jenkln
Lloyd Jones, Chicago; The Value and
e'easUtility of State Organization, by
Uev. J. H. Palmer, Cedar Rapids, la.
During the forenoon sessions of
Thursday, Friday and Saturday the
following papers will be read and dis
cussed: The Part Faith Plays In Sci
ence and Religion, by Rev. S. R. Coth
Orn, Syracuse, N. Y.; The Problem of
Authority In Religion, by Rev. John
Favllle, Appleton, Wls.; The New Tes
tament Virtue of Prudence, by Rev. H.
II. Peabody, Romo, N. Y.; The Evolu
tion of Conscience In the Nineteenth
Century, by E. P. Powell, Clinton, N.
Y.;Our Great Theological and Social
Problem, by Rev. J. W. Frizzell, Eau
Claire, Wls.; The Coming Man: Will
He Worship, by Rev. Mrs. S. L. Crum,
Webster City, la.; The Hrotherhood
and Its Choir, by Rev. Leighton Will
iams, New York city, corresponding
secretary of the Hrotherhood of the
Kingdom; A Year After the Nashville
Congress, by Rev. Isidore Lewinthal,
Nashville, Tenn.; The Education of the
Colored Race, by Prof. W. H. Connell
of tho normal school of Huntsville,
Ala.
Among others whom It Is hoped will
be present to give papers and take a
part In the discussions are Dr. Paul
Carus, editor of the Open Court; Rev.
Joseph Stolz, Chicago; Dr. Lewis G.
Junes, Cambridge, Miss.
Rirdl Foatsijfl Ntarnp.
This penny Mauritius stamp was Is*
sued, together with a twopenny of sim
ilar design in 18-17, Its extreme rarity
being due not only to the limo which
ban elapsed since its appearance, but
also to the very small number printed.
It Is the rarest stamp in the world, and
has been recently purchased by an
Englishman for over $5,000, which Is
the highest Hum ever given for a single
stump In England. Only one other
*opy on the original envelope Is known,
and that is in the Hrltish museaum.
It Is believed that nearly all these
stamps were used up on the day of
Isuue In frankUig Invitations to an offi
cial bal), and, as the envelope Is small
and suitable only for Inclosing a card
or single sheet of paper, and also as
the date of tho postmark and the hand
writing on the envelope are precisely
similar to that of the only other known
copy, a certain amount of probability
on these grounds alone Is attached to
the above theory.—Kansas City Jour
nal.
The right of the Sea.
A Dutch Investigator, Deyerlnck, has
lately made a special study of the little
organisms called photo-bactcrla, to
which, in a large degree, the phosphor
escence of tho oceun Is due. He has
been unable to discover that tho lumi
nosity of these strange creatures plays
any Important part In their vitality. It
appears to depend chiefly upon tho food
that they are able to obtain. When
they have plenty of rarbon they shine
brilliantly, and the ocean surface glows
with their mysterious light. When fed
with sugar or clyccrlne. their phos
phorescent power Is Increased,
Living Heath In n Car.
Six days and six nights without
either food or drink was the experience
of Ixnils Lyons, who was found lying
In a refrigerator cur lu the Northwest'
ern yards in Milwaukee by some train
men. He comes of a good family at
Stevens Point. Wls., and at ID years of
age started to the Klondike. At Seat
tle he was robbed of all his money. At
lloone, Iowa, he cllintied Into a refrig
erator car, which was locked and start
ed on its Journey eastward before be
awoke. Tho cruel punishment lasted
for 144 hours. Ho will recover aud be
vent home.
I^Mthlna AheaA
The following bit of seasonable non
venae comes from the Chicago Tribune:
“I think I'll take a walk," remarked
the commercial traveler, as he strolled
away from the hotel, "Which Is the
way to l>*wcy otreetV "We bsln't got
any lH>wey street," said the man on
the hotel steps. "The city council
passed an ordinance changing the
name of Olive str*et to Dewey, nil
right enough, but the mayor vetoed It.**
"Who Is your mayor?" "He's a man
named Sampson, lie said he reckoned
we'd belter watt till the war was over."
Whenever a bachelor begins to In
vesigats a girl's cooking he means
business.
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Fall Medicine
la Fully as Important and Beneficial
as Spring Medicine.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla ia Just the medicine
to keep the blood rioh and pure, create an
appetite, give good digestion and tone
and strengthen the great vital organs. It
wards off malaria, fevers and other forms
of illness so prevalent In the Fall.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is America’s tireateu Medicine.
Hood’s Pills cure Oi* l.lrrr ills. 25 cents.
Why shouldn’t a dyspeptic have
stomach troubles of his own?
So Care u<man|Mtinn Forever.
Take Ca*oar>'ta Cnnily Cathartic. 10c or 81a
JCUC. fell to cure, druggists refund tnoac>
Heavy li. A. K. Itaslness.
General Manager Hawn of the Haiti*
more and Ohio Botitb Western Hall*
way has prepared a detailed statement
of the number of people carried Into
Cincinnati on the occasion of tho tbir*
ty-second annual encampment of tho
Orand Army of the Republic Septem
ber 3rd to 12th Inclusive. According
to tho ‘.rein recordB 37,991 people were
transported, tho largest number being
on September Gth, when the total
reached 8,322. According to these sta
tistics the llaltlmorc and Ohio Houth
Western carried about 30 per ceut of
the travel.
The new light from Acetylene, mado
from Calcium Carbide (or lime, coko
and water) Is a recent discovery, and
when the gas Is made In a "Monarch"
Generator the light is us bright as tho
sun and nearly as cheap. It should
bo In every store, hotel and home In
the land. This "Mlnarch” Generator
Is sold by Schlieder M’f’g Co., Omaha,
Nebr. If you are Interested, write
them.
Probably most people think you are
an foolish as you think they are.
Breakfast j
Absolutely Pure,
Delicious,
Nutritious.
..Costs Less Tnan OKE CENT a Cup.. ^
lie eure that you get the Genuine Article, ^
made at DORCHESTER, MASS, by j
WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. \
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at special prices.
Customers visiting Omaha will
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furniture store here, and wo will
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la goods and prices.
Chas. Shiverick & Co.,
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