THE NORTHWESTERN. BENSClIOTEIt * GIIISON, Eds and l'ul» LOUP CITY. • - NEa Some girls ere tailor-made, bat the one who seeks an offer of marriage Is ready-mald. The new pension legislation will add 20.000 pensioners to the rolls, and in volves an expense of $2,500,000, accord ing to the estimates of the pension icommissloner. A church bell cracked In ringing at the village of Schieithein, near Bchaff hausen, Germany, a few days ago. When taken down it was found to be of the year 1452. Consular officers are expressly for bidden by regulations to report to pri vate inquirers concerning the financial standing or commercial repute of busi ness men or houses In their districts. The rifle club movement Is being taken up with great enthusiasm In Australia. In Victoria alone, accord ing to the acting adjutant, between January 1, and March 31, 10,000 appli cation forms were issued to prospec tive riflemen, and a large proportion of these were returned to headquar ters filled up by men desirous of join ing dubs. Paris hotelkeepers are waxing fat over the exhibition. As an idea of the rush for apartments, one wealthy lady pays 300 francs a day for a small suite near the Arc de Triomphe; and a rich brewer has engaged a more pretentious suite In an hotel for 1,500 francs a day. The cost of seeing all the at tractions within the exhibition grounds is €00 francs. Henry Smith, aged 94 years and 7 months, died at South Deerfield recent ly of old age. Mr Smith was born In Palmer, Oct. 12. 1805. The family went to South Deerfield In 1819 and located Ik Mill River on a farm. Mr. Smith was married Jan. 1, 1828, to Pattle Clapp, who was killed by a fall from a wagon In August, 1880. He leaves, be sides nino sons and daughters, 32 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren, und two great-great-grandchildren. A Sicilian woman, Madame Granata, has just given birth to five little girls, thus Increasing her family to the ex traordinary figure of forty-two child ren. Madame Granata, w ho Is quite a young woman, was married at the age of sixteen, and In the first year of her marriage became the mother of a fine girl. This she followed up In e space of ten months by presenting her husband with five boys at a birth, and she has gone on Increasing her family by threea and fours up to the present time. The recently published diary of the Duchess of Fife contains this remark able quotation from Queen Victoria, a signal-flag for young and old: "God has been so good to me that now, in my old age, I want to confess that I have not any dislikes.” One of the greatest generals of Victoria's whole reign, Charles Napier, once made a similar statement: "I never feel an gry at any one—beyond wishing to break their bones wdth a broomstick!” Then, as if repenting of even his laugh ing exception, Napier added: "That was not my mind that spoke. I am a child in the hands of God.” _ “I named my son for Colonel Blank," said a father one day, “before certain chapters !u his history were written, or I should not have done so." His was not an unusual experience. Not only is a man's record constantly changing while he lives, but the opin ion of him in the early years after his death may vary much from the world's final estimate Senator Hoar doubt less had this idea in mind when he said, on the occasion of the presenta tion of a statue for Statuary Hall, that the state giving It hud done well to wait until its subject had been dead for fifty years. He wished It might be the rule with every state in selecting from among its distinguished son.j those whom it w ould honor iu this way. Real worth lasts. One of the m ist romantic marriages that has occurred In How-ling Green. Ohio, for some time took place a few days ago. when Harrison Cheney, who is about *0 years of age, was married to Miss Agnes May, aged is years. The marriage was in tin* way of the fulfi*.itn> nt of a promise made many years ago. Cheney, wh «n a young man. living in a Pennsylvania town and was a lover of one who mirrlel another. She took si. k afterward, and upon her deathbed asked Cheney to look after u little duught' r. This he did. and she in time grew up and was married She was taken sick with consumption, and too, p.t-sed away, but not before she had pU iged Cheney to look after her little girl, then 2 years oW. tits devotion to the little rtilKt culminated lit the event above reached. A curious c: - has Just been d< • Ided by the sup reins court of New Mouth Wales. A prW yrd, through the bursting of the water g,» ige glass of a steam engine in the goal. Ou his release he brought an ac tion against the Minister of l‘ul>l|<3 works. claiming itoov damage# t>a appeal Ike full court has held that ill grounds of public polity lha action was maintainable Hut It Is >|ui|s g. war tie that aa appeal to lb# frlvy Cow ml i would reverse ibis decision. TALMAGES SEKMON. "THE MARRIAGE FEAST," LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. The (hrlNir.'tn Religion, When Properly Practiced, the Refuge tut the Forlorn — The World Incited to n Feast of lioly Joy. (Copyright. 1900. by Lou!* Klop*ch.) A remarkable illustration of the ubi quity of English speaking people ia furnished by the requests that have reached Dr. Talmage In northern Eu rope for a sermon in and out of the way places where he did not expect to find a single person who could under stand him. There, as here, he pre sents religion as a festivity and Invites all the world to come as guests and join in its holy merriment; text. John il, 10, "Thou hast kept the good wine until now." This chapter invites us to a mar riage celebration. It is a wedding In common life, two plain people having pledged each other, hand and heart, and their friends having come in for congratulation. The Joy is not the less because there is no pretension. In each other they find all the future they want. The daisy in the cup on the table may mean as much as a score of artistic garlands fresh from the hothouse. When a daughter goes off from home with nothing but a plain father’s blessing and a plain mother's love, she is missed as much as though she were a princess. It seems hard after the parents have sheltered her for eighteen years, that in a few short months her affections should have been carried off by anoth er, hut mother remembers how it was in her own case when she was young, and so she braces up until the wed ding 1ms passed and the banqueters are gone, and she has a cry all alone. Well, we are today at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus and his j mother have been Invited. It is evi dent that there are more people there than were expected. Either some peo ple have come who were not invited or more invitations have been sent out than it was supposed would be ac- | cepted. Of course there is not a suf fldent supply of wine. You know that i there is nothing more embarrassing to a housekeeper than a scant supply. Jesus sees the embarrassment, and he j comes up immediately to relieve it. He j sees standing six water pots. He or ders the servants to fill them with water, then he waves his hand over the water, and immediately it is wine —real wine. Taste of It and see for yourselves. No logwood In It. no strychnine in it, but first rate wine, i will not now be diverted to the question so often discussed in my own country whether it is right to drink wine. I am describing the scene as it was. When God makes wine he makes the very best wine, and 130 gallons of it standing around iu these i water pots—wine so good that the j ruler of the feast tastes it and says: "Why, this is really better than any- j thing we have had. Thou hast kept the good wine until now.” Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who should write the best es say about the miracle in Cana. Long manuscripts were presented in the competition, hut a poet won the prize by just this one line descriptive of the miracle; "The conscious water saw Its God and blushed.” Iliile* Ills Own Orient. Jesus does not bhudow the Joys of others with his own griefs. He might have sat down in that wedding and said: "I have so much trouble, so much poverty, so much persecution, and the cross is coming. 1 shall not rejoice, and the gloom of ray face and of my sorrows shall be cast over all this group.” So said not Jesus. He said to himself: “Here are two per sons starting out in married life. Iu?t it be a joyful occasion. I will hide my own griefs. I will kindle their joy.” There are many not so w ise as that. I know a household where there are many little children, where for two years the musical instrument has been kept shut because there has been trouble in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying: "We will have no Christmas tree this coming holiday because there has been trou ble in the house. Hush that laughing up stairs! How can there be any joy when there has been so much trou ble?” And so they make everything consistently doleful and send their sons and daughters to ruin with the gloom they throw around them. Oh, my dear friends, do you not know those children will have trouble enough of their own after awhile? He glad they cannot appreciate all yours. Keep bui k the cup of bitterness from your daughter’s lips. When your head is down in the grass of ihe tomb, poverty may rum* to her. la-trayal to her. bereavement to her. Keep back the sorrow* as lottg a* you cun. Ho you not know that that son may after awhile have his heart broken’* Stand bet wen him mid ait harm You may tie., tight his battles long Fight them »M.e you may Throw not the chill of your own d<-pundetii y over his soul IUth-r lip like* J•***)«. vko came to th* wedding hiding ,i',i own grtef and kit dltng the )<>>* >t others So | have seen the sun on n dark day. struggling amidst eh tula. Ida* k rig ged and portentous out after awhile the sun with golden |>rv heaved back * he blu< kit'»» And the sun laughed to the lake and the lake laughed to ih< sun ait I from fa> tot. t* to tun n o oilier th>' saffron sky the water to all turned Into wine the MtgM i . (h I think the children **f i.od g.e. acf* right to la sh thatt an* other people, and to tiap I hair hands as loudly There la Wot a Single hi* ,te • lad them that la gt*»« to any other I people. Christianity does not clip the wings Of the soul. Religion dots not frost the flowers. What is Christian ity? I take it to be simply a proc lamation from the throne of God of emancipation for all the enslaved, and if a man accepts the terms of that proclamation and becomes free has he not a right to be merry? Suppose a father has an elegant mansion and large grounds. To whom will he give the first privilege of these grounds? Will he say: “My children, you must not walk through these paths, or sit down under these trees or pluck this fruit. These are for outsiders. They may walk In them." No father would say anything like that. He would say, "The first privileges in all the grounds and all of my house shall be for my own children.' And yet men try to make us believe that God's children are on the limits and the chief re freshments and enjoyments of life are for outsiders and not for his own children. It is stark atheism. There is no innocent beverage too rich for God's child to drink, there is no robe too costly for him to wear, there is no hilarity too great for him to indulge in and no house too splendid for him to live in. He haa a right to the joys of earth; he shall have a right to the Joys of heaven. Though tribulation and trial and hardship may come to him, let him rejoice. "Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and again I say rejoice." I remark again that Christ comes to us in the hour of our extremity. He knew the wine was giving out before there was any embarrassment or mor tification. Why did lie not perform the miracle sooner? Why wait until it was all gone, and no help could come from any source, and then come in and perform the miracle? This is Christ's way, and when he did come in, at the hour of extremity, lie made first rate wine, so that they cried out. “Thou hast kept the good wine until now.” Jesus in the hour of extrem ity! He seems to prefer that hour. In a Christian home in Poland great poverty had come, and on the week day the man was obliged to move out of the house with his whole family. That night lie knelt with his family and prayed to God. While they were kneeling in prayer there was a tap on the window pane. They opened the window, and there was a raven that the family had fed and trained, and it’ had in its bill a ring all set with pre cious stones, which was found out to be a ring belonging to the royal fam ily. It was taken up to the king’s residence, and for the honesty of the man in bringing it back he had a house given to him and a garden and a farm. Who was it that sent the raven tapping on the window? The same God that sent the raven to feed Elijah by the brook Chrrith. Christ in the hour of extremity! A (•nmiler Wedding* The wedding scene is gone now. The wedding ring has been lost, the tank ards have been broken, the house i3 down, but Jesus invites us to a grand er wedding. You know the Bible says that the church is the Lamb’s wife, and the Lord will after awhile come t<» fetch her home. There will be gleaming of torches in the sky, and the trumpets of God will ravish the air with their music, and Jesus will stretch out his hand, and the church, robed in white, will put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord, the King and the Bridegroom will say to the bride: "Thou hast been faith ful through ali these years! The man sion is ready! Come home! Thou art fair, my love.’’ And then he will put upon her brow the crown of do minion, and the table will be spread, and it will reach across the skies, and the mighty ones of heaven will come in, garlanded with beauty and striking their cymbals, and the Bridegroom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the banqueters, looking up. will wonder end admire and say: “That is Jesus, the Bridegroom! But the scar on his brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in his side is covered with a robe!” And "That is the bride! The weariness of her earthly woe lost in the flush of this wedding triumph!” There will be wine enough at that wedding; not coming up from the poi soned vats of earth, but the vineyards of God will press their ripest clusters and the cups and the tankards will blush to the brim with the heavenly vintage, und then all the banqueters ; will drink standing. Ksther, having I come up from the bacchanalian rev elry of Ahasturus, where a thousand lords feasted, will be there. And the queen of Sheba, from the banquet of Solomon, will lie there. And the mother of Jesus, from the wedding in . ('ana, will be there. And they ull will I agree*that the earthly feasting was : poor compared with that. Then, llft I log their chalices in that light they shall cry to the Lord of the feast, "Thou hast kept the good wine until now,” — Tl>«* It#*««••» M»# U«# «*ft« im|#‘<|. "I shall never speak to tutu again.'' i she declared. Why not’" her ihniii I asked Win'll we were at that con cert the other night I told him If he ; didn't fake me out of the crowd 1 would faint, an I he would have to I i arty me away, "Yes'" Well, you d have thought hie life dejH-nded ou yetting itte out of there In a burry''* Jh'ilia lots for Vtu4i|u|, fieveral hi ilof VV. le. are twoug used I lit ituiilH \ffli a for patrol and stout* l lug work lie h I* capatih- of going jo mile* an hour and *v the 1 ransvaal veldt Is >|m" tally suitable for rapid I motor travvling good work is t.,iug j *ivompllshrd with the aid of these ■ M< hikes The Japanese tfv erto ting asplsn 414 monument tu the horses hilled la the Japan t’hiu* war THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.] LESSION III. JULY 15— MARK 7: 24-30. "Lord Help Me’—Matt. 115! 2B—How Faith Triumph* (lor tireat Obstacle* —A Mother's ntlfui l’lea for Child— The bating of Soul*. II. "And from thence." from Galilee, anil probably from Capernaum. "He arose, aiul went.” Ills reason for leaving Capernaum arise from the increasing op position of the Pharisees, as described In the earlier part of this chapter, and in John li: 41-6t>. Jesus went away not only to avoid open conflict, but to gain rest i from opposition and from overburdening work, for he "would have no man know It." This year of Ills ministry “was marked by the intense and exacerbated opposition of the scribes and Pharisees. "Went Into the borders of Tyre and Fi don.” Two flourishing seaports, and cap itals of Phoenicia, a narrow, level dis trict nlong the shores of the Mediter ranean. tSldon was twenty miles north of Tyre. 25. ‘‘For a certain woman," She w.is iv. 26) "u Greek," that Is, "a Greek speaking Gentile," under the Inlluetiee of Greek manners and customs "like the Hi lb tildes mentioned In Acts 17; 12. 'A woman of Canaan' describes her re ligion."—Cambridge Bible. Canaan was the older title of the country, "A Hyro phenlelan by nation." rather by race. She was a Syrian Phoenician In distinc tion from the Carthagi nian Phoenicians. Thus she represented the descendants of Shein and II,im by descent, and of Japhetli by language and civilisation, and thus was "a representative of the vast multitude of pagans." "Heard <>f him." Not merely of his presence, but of his works. Some knowledge of the new prophet must have extended beyond the borders of Galilee. Then, too, as Farrar suggests, "among the multitudes who had resorted to his teaching In the h.ip arly days of his Sermon on the Mount were 'they about Tyre and Sfdon' (Mark 3: S), Among them may have been this poor Syrophoenlelan woman." "Whose young daughter had an unclean spirit." Matthew says she was griev ously vexed wdth It devil, or rather a demon. It was called an unclean spirit because it produced uncleaniiness of body and soul. 26. "She besought him." "She cried unto him, saying, 'Have mercy on me, <• Ford, thou son of David,.Ford, help me." (Matthew.) "Crying is a large share of woman's occupation In the Fast. Women are employed as public mourners at a funeral, when they attend to what ever demonstrations are to be made, often crying aloud, shrieking, and tear ing their hair. They go before army of fleers to plead for the release of con scripted recruits. They cry for mercy und kind treatment for prisoners. 27. "Fet the children." The Jews, who were the chosen family of God, who had been taught and trained so that they could be persuaded to belong to the king dom of God. "First be tilled." They had the llrst claim, and through them, tilled with the principles of the heavenly king dom. all the rest could best receive the bread of life. "It Is not meet (fitting, fair, reasonable) to lake tile children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs." "The Jews in general, the Pharisees with special scorn, used to speak of all Gen tiles as ‘dogs,’ and ‘dog’ In the Fast is the one expression which conveys the deepest contempt and hatred." 2H. "And she answered." Grasping at the hope Implied In Jesus' words, and probably even more In the tones of his voice. “Vet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.” "The word for crumbs only occurs elsewhere in the parable of Fazarus (Luke 16: 2D. The crumbs are not only accidental frag ments, but also the pieces of bread on which the guests. In the absence of nap kins, wl|ied their hands, and then threw them to the dogs to eat."—Farrar. “The little dogs are not outside. They, too, have a place In the family. If Christ puts it so, then she and her people have a place, though a humble one, In the house of the Master of all. The children may be fed llrst; but they, too, are to be remembered and blessed."—R. W. Dale. So let rne have the crumbs, what Is left ever after you have done all you plan for the Jews. It will not take anything away from them If you help me. If I am a dog, I can fitly ask to he treated as a dog. Jesus replied to this, “O wonSan, great Is thy faith." 29. "For this saying." Because It proved the greatness of her faith. "The devil is gone out of thy daughter." Je sus (lid not prolong the agony of her sus pense. Her faith had triumphed. From that hour, says Matthew, her daughter was healed. She proved the reality and greatness of her faith by ceasing from her cries and going back to her house, where tv. 3n "she found the devil gone out. and her daughter laid upon the bed." "Fit., thrown. She had probably experi enced some fearful convulsion when the demon departed. Compare Mark 9: 22, of the demon which possessed the hoy, 'It hath cast him,' etc, (the same word In Greek). See also Mark 1; 26 , 9 : 26." C leanlliH'KH Cost III* Sight. Occasionally a man. if he is extreme ly careless and awkward, will jab his* Anger Into his eye when lie is washing his face, but one has to go a long way to And a man who, having lost one eye by such clumsiness, pushes in the other. A grocer s assistant in London 41 years old. while washing his face put his Anger into his right eye. The eyeball became Inflamed and was taken out. Four years later he ran a finger nail Into the other eye In the same manner, causing an even more serious wound. The surgeons, who seemed to have no hesitation about taking out the other eye. wanted to save tilth one If possible, and so they postponed the operation to see If sight even In a small degree couldn’t be retained. There was an element of luck In the matter for the grocer, for he was In sured in an accident company and the corporation ugreed lo pay the i Uitn at cnee without waiting to see* if the eye eventually could be saved Ne w \ork Press, -Irociioi Wait lie chicswn • M id h Ik. witt Pltnton Mpngue, a veteran of the I t i t New York Voluntee r regi ment who died recently at his hotn<* in Purkville. dulllvan county, N Y at th** ag** of cett hail live* reputation of ! itaing the strongest uiaa in ffherman a arrnv on Ihe f*tit• c March to Itis ■veil " Imrlnt this memorable march i Mprague nod I ha strong men of many different reg menta from huth the east and west anti always was victorious In ilkkMIr fifUteata tie was a splendidly hum man t feet t in he* tall, and u.*«• Wind it In he* nraibd the • best WISE WORDS FROM MANDERSON. (■prtki on "lMtngers of MilltarUia” to Went Point C.tileln. At the closing t*crcises of the West Point Military Academy. General Charles V\ Mandsrson, was selected to make the address to the class. General Mandcrscn proceeded in his open and frank style and in the course of ills ad dress made the following utterances on militarise «*.nd the dangers of a stand ing army. “When war comes it is usually the unexpected that happens. That wise and close observer, Do Toequeville, said: 'War is an occurrence to which all nations arc Rubjcet, democratic na tions as well as all others, whatever taste they may have for peace,’ And I might accumulate quotations to an ex t< nt to produce satiety on the propo sition that a wise nation will In peace prepare for war. Yet we have those possessed of more timidity than wls-• dom, and others with more wisdom, but with political ambitions leading to attempted deception, who cry out. 'Beware of militarism,’ and fenr a standing army. In this republic where military service is voluntary, not com pulsory, what is the number that would make a standing army bti flic lent to af fright even a timid soul and make It fear for the liberties oi the people and bewail the coming of militarism? Would one soldier to the thousand pop ulation tie dangerous? Yet that would mean 75,000 to 80.000 of a regular ar my. Would one man in every square mile cf continental area he a thing to fear? Yet that would mean an army of 3,002,884, and one to each live square miles would he 720,570 men, about eight times our present army, regular and volunteer. "I have prepared three tallies enow 'ng the population and area of the great nations, the number « at ii \|r. I.owi was getting along *wtnmiti.giv, when vudd nly ha m >pp-d and r uI ihI with « tinlia. l.atln may iimri from Ihv toad ba| Cugitsh fr, in ii,• h» • ' «■ I wifi mu far this hobs «ry usgita from u.y Mori A Literary Fighter. 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