THE NORTHWESTERN.
BXNSCIIOTKB X GIB»OX,I«i»»»< Pah*
LOUP CITY, • • NEB.
It U quit* evident that th* good
Boxer wry slosely resemb'.es th* g*od
Indian.
Of courae, those enthusiastically pa
triotic citiiens who are mobbing Chl
neae latindrymen would hall with de
light an opportunity to go to Chixx.
Recent studies of the ocean bottom
, near the coast line cf continents have
shown that rivers of considerable size
sometimes enter the sea beneath the
surface.
Mummies manufactured In France
•re now being shipped all over the
world. Prudent antiquarians, purchas
ing wisely, examine the mummy with
the X-rays, for thus the spurious arti
cle is readily detected.
The employment of women in the
postal service is not an American id.-a.
It was by no means uncommon In the
old days, when postmasters kept post
houses and were persons of some con
sequence. “In 1648, Leonard, of Taxis,
appointed a woman postmaster at
Braine-le-Comte, an important point in
France.”
The Delaware & Raritan Canal Com
pany Is said to be mustering its mules
out of service, and harnessing up the
automobile to do their work on the
tow-path. If this sort of thing is al
lowed to go on till the beasts of bur
den and of draft are let oil from their
present tasks, the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals will be
tempted to relax its vigilance,
Consul-General John Goodnow, the
United States representative at Shang
hai, whose dispatches to the govern
ment concerning the situation at Pek
ing have been printed in the news
papers of the country, la a Minneapolis
man. He used to own the Minneapolis
Baseball club, and at the time of his
appointment to his present post by
President McKinley be was engaged
in the coal business in Minneapolis.
Beside* being the seat of the Trans
vaal government Pretoria Is the most
beautiful town In South Africa. It
nestles In a valley. Nowhere else in
South Africa Is there such a blending
of new and old or are there so many
contrasts in the way of architecture.
There are quaint, low Dutch roofs,
sturdy English architecture and the
big government buildings completed
ten years ago at a cost of $1,000,000.
There are important distinctions be
tween India rubber and gutta percba
and in the majority of purposes for
which they are employed, one can not
replace the other. While the trees
yielding India rubber are well distrib
uted over the tropical parts of the
world and may he cultivated with more
or leas facility, tbe tree which fur
nishes gutta percha la to be found only
in Borneo, Sumatra and tbe Malay ar
chipelago generally.
A fat citisen of tbe aeacoaat town
of Lubec, Me., went down a ladder at
the side of a schooner to get a hammer
that be bad dropped overboard. He
Inserted bis body between the rungs
of tUh ladder, that he might reach
down and get the hammer f.'cm the
shoal water, and became stuck there.
Tbe tide was rising and he was rescued
three hours afterward, just in time to
save him from drowning, the water
having reached within two Inches of
his mouth.
In Abyssinia women are rulera and
men are evidently the weaker vessels.
The house and all its contents belong
to the woman, who may, If she choose,
turn her husband out of doors on the
slenderest pretext. If, upon repentance,
she consents to receive him again, be
must bring as a peace-offering a cow
or half the market price of a camel.
The right of divorce belongs exclusive
ly to the wife, and, though her bus
band must not leave her without her
consent, he is obliged to go If she de
sires to be rid of him. In fact, a
ttatv of affairs exists In Abyssinia
which might well justify a revolt of
man.
The instinct of animals In the mat
ter of self-preservation la curiously
illustrated by the fact that aeveral
doien ate found refuge during the
Ottawa Are In a wooden bouae which
although the buildings on each side
were burned down, refused to catch
Are. and remained Intact. Cats have a
peculiar gift In this direction, since,
in addition to their reputed nine Uvea,
there is a popular superstition that
they will only rat what la good for
them. Tbla may or may not be a fal
lacy; but the instinct of self preserva
tion. which la common to all animals,
except perhaps horses twho, being
very bags of nesvaa. wUI during a Are
behave with suicidal obstioancy j, hva
been proved time and again.
riutarch set a praiseworthy esam
pie In makisii dates subservient ut
lurldenl. Nevertheless, an accural#
knowledge ol historical p* lode la In
•eparahte from sound scholarship and
frequently hr litas substantial triumphs
The late Ik Hl< hard II Atom, alter
• historical address In which *<»ael
attention was given to facts and to me
time ol their oeeuriss'#, received e
hundred pound hoi wf magnthveat
Turkish daue ' Your own supply,'
rag the sevempewyteg note, must he
eihaueled * When wee h pus served
at-.ee daihlilf I
fALMAGE’S SERMON.
TALK ON ONI OP THI MISSIONS
OP CHRIST.
Ea««ey of Dlvln* Powor In H*»Un# th*
World** Wound* and Dofonaltla*—Th*
Intimate Relation* of Sur»*rjr and
Theology,
(Copyright. 1900. by Loul* Klopsch.)
In this discourse Dr. Talmsge (who
Is now traveling in Europe) puts in an
unusual light the mission of Christ
and shows how divine power will yet
make the illnesses of the world fall
back; text, Matthew xl, 6, “The blind
receive their sight, and the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed and th* deaf
hear."
“Doctor," I said to a distinguished
surgeon, “do you not get worn out
with constantly seeing so many
wounds and broken bones and distor
tions of the human body?” “Oh, no,"
he answered, “all that Is overcome by
my joy in curing them. A sublimer
and more merciful art never cam*
down from heaven than that of sur
gery. Catastrophe and disease entered
the earth so early that one of the first
wants of the world was a doctor. Our
crippled and agonized human race call
ed for surgeon and family physician
for many years before they came. The
first surgeons who answered this call
were ministers of religion—namely,
the Egyptian prleats. And what a
grand thing If all clergymen were also
doctors, all D. D.’s were M. D.’s, for
there are so many cases where body
and soul need treatment at the same
time, consolation and medicine, the
ology and therapeutics. As the first
surgeons of th* world were also minis
ters of religion, may these two profes
sions always be In full sympathy! But
under what disadvantages the early
surgeons worked, from the fact that
the dissection of the human body was
forbidden, first by the pagans, and
then by the early Christians! Apes,
being th* brutes most like the human
race, were dissected, but no human
body might be unfolded for physi
ological and anatomical exploration,
and the surgeons had to guess what
was Inside the temple by looking at
th* outside of 1L If they failed in
any surgical operation, they were per
secuted and driven out of the city, as
was Archagathus because of his bold
but unsuccessful attempt to save a pa
tient.
* The Surgeon In HUtory.
But the world from the very begin
ning, kept calling for surgeon*, and
tbelr first skill la spoken of In Genesis,
where they employed their art for the
Incisions of a sacred rite, God making
aurgery the predecessor of ^baptism,
and we see It again In II Kings, where
Ahaslah, the monarch, stepped on
tome cracked latticework in the pal
ace, and It broke, and he fell from the
upper to the lower floor, and be waa
ao hurt that he sent to the village of
Ekron for aid, and Aesculapius, who
wrought auch wonder* of aurgery, that
he was deified and temples were bulU
for hla worship at Pergamos; and Epl
daurus and Podellrius Introduced for
tb* relief of the world phlebotomy,
and Damocedes cured the dislocated
ankle of King Darius and the cancer
ot hla queen, and Hippocrates put suc
cessful hand on fractures and Intro
duced amputation, and Praxagoraa re
moved obstructions, and Herophllus
began dissection and Eraslatratus
removed tumors, and Celsua, the Ro
man surgeon, removed cataract from
the eye and used the Spanish fly; and
Heltodorus arrested disease of the
throat, and Alexander of Tralles treat
ed the eye, and Rhazas cauterised for
the prevention of hydrophobia, and
Perclval Pott came to combat diseases
of the spine, and In our century we
have had. among others, a Koux, and
a Larray In France, an Astley Cooper
and an Abernethy In Great Britain and
a Valentine Mott and Willard Parker
and Samuel D. Gross In America and
a galaxy of living surgeons as brilliant
as their predecessors. What mighty
progress In the baffling of disease since
the crippled and sick of ancient cities
were laid along the streets, that peo
ple who had ever been hurt or disor
dered in the same way might suggest
what had better be done for the pa
tients, and the priests of olden time,
who were constantly suffering from
colds, received In walking barefoot
over the temple pavements had to pre
scribe for themselves, and fractures
were considered so far beyond all hu
man cure that Instead of calling in the
surgeon the people only Invoked the
gods!
But notw.ihstandlng all the surgi
cal and medical skill In the world,
with what tenacity the old diseases
bang on to the human race, and most
of them art thousand* of years old,
and In our Bibles w* read of them -
the carbuncles of Job and Hrseklah,
the palpitation of the heart apoken of
la Ireuteronnmy, the sunstroke of a
child carried from the Held* of Hhu
nem crying. ' .4y head, my head’"
King Asa's disease of the feet, which
was nothing but gout; defection of
i teeth, that called for dental aurgery,
i the ehil of which, almost equal to any
thing modern. Is still seen In the filled
mulnre of the unrolled Kgyptinn mum
mies. the ophthalmia reused by the
| Juice of the newly ripe Ag leaving the
people blind by the roadside, epilepsy,
j ** la the case of the young man often
I falling into the fire, end oft Into the
: water, hypochondria, as of Nebmhnd
| newer who Imagined himself an os
I aad going out to the fields to pasture,
the withered hand whleh in Hlbl#
I !•••* a# now ram from the dee true -
tloa of the mum nrtery or from purely
els of the ebief nerve, the wounds of
i 'he men whom the Ihtevee left tor
Idend on the fund to Jericho nod whom
the good dumnninn nursed pouring In
all and wine etet to eienaes the
*wond nod etl u. soothe it Then* uad
for what surgery has done for the al>
levlatlon and cure of human suffering!
Switrr Without l’ulu.
But the world wanted a surgery
without pain. Drt. Parre and Hick
man and Simpson and Warner and
Jackson, with their amazing genius,
came forward, and with their anaes
thetics benumbed the patient with
narcotics and ethers as the ancients
did with hasheesh and mandrake and
quieted him for a while, but at the re
turn of consciousness distress return
ed. The world has never seen but one
surgeon who could straighten the
crooked limb, cure the blind eye or
reconstruct the drum of a soundless
ear or reduce a dropsy without any
pain at the time or any pain after, and
that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the
mightiest, grandest, gentlest and most
sympathetic surgeon the world ever
saw or ever will see, and he deserves
the confidence and love and worship
and hosanna of all the earth and hal
leluiahs of all heaven. "The blind re
ceive their sight and the lame walk;
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf
hear.”
I notice this surgeon had a fondness
for chronic cases. Many a surgeon,
when he has had a patient brought to
him, has said: "Why was not this
attended to five years ago? You bring
him to me after all power of recupera
tion is gone. You have waited until
there Is a complete contraction of the
muscles, and false ligatures are form
ed, and ossification has taken place. It
ought to have been attended to long
ago." But Christ the Surgeon seemed
to prefer inveterate cases. One was a
hemorrhage of twelve years, and he
stopped It Another was a curvature
of eighteen years, and he straightened
it. Another was a cripple of thirty
eight years and be walked out well.
The eighteen-year patient was a wo
man bent almost double. If you could
call a convention of all the surgeons of
all the centuries, their combined skill
could not cure that body so drawn out
of shape. Perhaps they might stop it
from getting worse, perhaps they
might contrive braces by which she
might be made more comfortable, but
it Is, humbly speaking, incurable. Yet
this divine surgeon put both his hands
on her, and from that doubled up pos
ture she began to rise and the em
purpled face began to take on a heal
thier hue, and the muscles began to
relax from their rigidity, and the spin
al column began to adjust Itself, and
the cords of the neck began to be the
more supple, and the eyes that could
see only the ground before, now look
ed into the face of Christ with grati
tude and up toward heaven in trans
port. Straight! After eighteen weary
and exhausting years, straight! The
poise and gracefulness, the beauty of
healthy womanhood reinstated. The
thirty-eight years’ case was a man who
lay on a mattress near the mineral
baths at Jerusalem. There were five
apartments where lame people were
brought, so that they could get the
advantage of these mineral baths. The
stone basin of the bath Is still visible,
although the waters have disappeared,
probably through some convulsion of
nature. The bath, 120 feet long, forty
feet wide and eight feet deep. Ah,
poor man, if you have been lame and
helpless thirty-eight years, that min
eral bath cannot restore you. Why,
thirty-eight years is more than the av
erage human life. Nothing but the
grave will cure you. But Christ the
Surgeon, walks along these baths and
I have no doubt passes by some pa
tients who have been only six months
disordered or a year or five years, and
comes to the mattress of the man who
had been nearly four decades helpless
and to this thirty-eight year’s Invalid
said, "Wilt thou be made whole?
ChrUt the Chief Surgeon.
The Question asked not because the
surgeon did not understand the pro
tractedness, the desperateness of the
case, but to evoke the man's pathetic
narrative. “Wilt thou be made whole?”
"Would you like to get well?” “Oh,
yes,” says the man. “That Is what I
came to these mineral baths for. 1
have tried everything. All the sur
geons have failed, and all the pre
scriptions have proved valueless, and I
got worse and worse, and I can neither
move hand nor foot nor head. Oh, If
I could only be free from this pain of
thirty-eight years!” Christ the Sur
geon could not stand that. Bending
| over the man on the mattress, and la a
1 voice tender with all sympathy, but
strong with all omnipotence, he says,
"Kise!” and the Invalid Instantly
scrambles to his knees and then puts
out his right foot, then his left foot,
and then stood upright, as though he
had never been prostrated. While he
stands looking at the doctor, with a
joy too much to hold, the doctor eaya:
j "Shoulder this mattress, for you are
not only well enough to walk, but well
enough to work, and start out from
these mineral baths Take up thy bed
: and walk!” Oh, what a surgeon for
J chronle ease* then and for chronic
1 easea now'
i his Is not applicable ao murk to
those who are only a little hurt of sin
and only for a short time, but to those
j prostrated of sin twelve years, eight
een years, thirty-eight year* Here Is
s surgeon side to give Immortal health
'Oh," you say. “I am ao completely
| overthrown and trampled down of sin
j lb*t I csnnot rise.” Are you halter
duwn than this patient at the mineral
hatha* No. Then rise In the name
af Jeeus of Naiareth. the surgeon who
you hts right hand of help, | bid
: thee rise Not cum of neute aln, hut
of chronic aln thoae who have not
prayed tor thirty eight years, those
who hsee not been to church for this
ty eight years those who have been
■amblers or libertines or thieves, or
! outlaws •# blasphemer* or lal tela,
or aethstete, or all these together, (or
thirty eight years A t'hrtsi for esi
geavirn' A Christ fur s deed lift' A
j surgeon who never tueee s rase*
In epeebtng of t artel as a surgeon I
must soustder him as aa u> uivst or Sr*
doctor, and an aurlst or ear doctor.
Was there ever such aaother oculist?
That he was particularly sorry for the
blind folks I take from the fact that
the most of his works were with the
diseased optic nerve* I have not time
to count up the number of blind peo
ple mentioned who got hie cure. Two
blind men in one house; also on# who
was born blind; so that It was not re
moval of a visual obstruction, but the
creation of the cornea and ciliary mus
cle and crystalline leas and retina and
optic nerve and tear gland; also the
bllad men of Betbsalda, cured by the
saliva which the Surgeon took from
the tip of hts own tongue and put upon
the eyelids; also two blind men who
sat by tbe wayside.
I'tlgwlif tha Barred Tonga*.
Our surgeon, having unbarred his
esr, will now unloose the shackle of
his tongue. The surgeon will use the
same liniment or salve that he used
on two occasions for the cure of blind
people—namely, the moisture of hts
own mouth. The application la made,
and lo, the rigidity of the dumb ton
gue la relaxed, and between the tongue
and teeth was born a whole vocabu
lary and words flew Into expression.
He not only beard, but be talked. One
gate of his body swung In to let sound
enter, and another gate swung out to
let sound depart. Why fa It that, while
other surgeons used knives and for
ceps and probes and stethoscopes, this
surgeon used only tbe ointment of his
own lips? To show that all the cura
tive power we ever feel comes straight
from Christ. And if he touches us not
we shall be deaf as a rock and dumb as
a tomb. Oh, thou greatest of all ar
tists, compel us to hear and help us to
speak!
But what were the surgeon's fees for
all these cures of eyea and ears and
tongues and withered hands and
crooked backs? The skill and the
painlessness of tbe operations were
worth hundreds and thousands of
dollars. Do not think that the cases
he took were all moneyless. Did be
not treat the nobleman's ton? Did be
not doctor the ruler’s dsughtsr? Did
he not affect a cure In tbe house of •
centurian of great wealth who had oul
of his own pocket built a synagogue?
They would have paid him large fees,
and there were hundreds of wealthy
people In Jerusalem and among the
merchant castles along Lake Tiberias
who would have given this surgeon
houses and lands and all they had for
such cures as he could effect. For
critical cases in our time great sur
geons have received 91,000, 96,000 and
in one case I know of 950,000, but the
surgeon of whom I speak received not
a shekel, not a penny, not a farthing.
In his whole earthly life we know of
his having had but 62Vk cents. When
his taxes were due, by his omniscience
he knew of a fish In the sea which had
swallowed a piece of silver money, as
fish are apt to swallow anything
bright, and he sent Peter with a hook
which brought up that flah, and from
Its mouth was extracted a Roman sta
ter, or 62*4 cents, the only money he
ever had, and that he paid out for
taxes. This greatest surgeon of all the
centurlee gave all his servlcea then and
offers all bla services now free of all
charge. "Without money and without
price” you may spiritually have your
blind eyea opened, and your deaf eara
unbarred, and your dumb tongues
loosened, and your wounds healed and
your soul saved. If Christian people
get hurt of body, mind or soul, let
them remember that surgery la apt
to hurt, but It cures, and you can af
ford present pain for future glory. Be
sides that, there are powerful anaes
thetics in the divine promises that
soothe and alleviate. No ether or
chloroform or cocaine ever made one
ao superior to distress as a few drops
of that magnificent anodyne: "All
things work together for good to those
who love God.” "Weeping may endure
for a night, but Joy cometh In the
morning.”
Healing the World'* Wound*.
What a grand thing for our poor
human race when this surgeon shall
have completed the treatment of the
world’s wounds! The day will come
when there will be no more hospitals,
for there will be no more sick, and no
more eye and ear infirmaries, for there
will be no more blind or deaf, and no
more deserts, for the round earth shall
be brought under arboriculture, and
no more blizzards or sunstrokes, for
the atmosphere will be expurgated of
scorch and chill, and no more war, for
the swords shall come out of the foun
dry bent into pruning books, while in
the heavenly country we shall see the
victims of accident or malformation
or hereditary Ills on earth become the
athletes in Elystan fields. Who la that
man with such brilliant eyes close be
fore the throne? Why. that Is the man
who, near Jericho, was blind, and our
surgeon cured hta ophthalmia! Who
la that erect and graceful and queenly
woman before the throne? That waa
the one whom our Burgeon found bent
almost double and could In nowlae lift
up heraelf, and he made her straight
Who Is that listening with such rap
ture to the music of heaven, solo melt
lug Into chorus, cymbal responding
to trumpet, and then himself Joining
In the anthem? Why, that Is the man
whom our surgeon found deaf aad
dumb on the beach cl Ualilee and by
two touches opened ear gate and
mouth gale Who la that around whom
the crowds are gatherlag with admir
ing looha and thanksgiving and cries
of "Oh. what he did for me' Oh what
he did fur my faintly! Oh, what he
did for the worl4*'* That Is the sur
geon of nil the ceaturtaa, the a ultst,
the aunsl the enisactpstor th» Ht
vtor No pay he took on earth, fonts,
now and let all heaven pay him with
worship that shall never end and a
love that shall aever die On hta head
be all tbe crowns ta hta haads be all
the eeeptera aad at hta feet be all the
worlds!
l*o, ag la Um p«pw and ml Austrian
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VI. AUQUST 5—MATT.
8t 1-14.
Golden Text—"gaffer the IJttle Children
to Come I nto Me, and Forbid Them
Mot; for of garh Is the Klugdom of
God—Usrk 10; 14.
1. "At the same time." At the same
gathering of the disciples In which the
above event took place, probably after the
return of Peter. "Come the dieclples un
to Jesus, saying, 'Who Is the greatest In
the kingdom of heaven?' ”
il. “Jesus called a little child unto him
(one of the household, or one playing
near;, and set him In the midst of them."
and then took him In his arms In loving
embrace, to make the lesson more Im
pressive, and to show his sympathy with
childhood and his love for children. How
many who have children In heaven have
been comforted by this loving act of
Jesus, remembering that he la the same
now In heaven as he was on earth eight
teen hundred years ago!
1. "Except ye be converted." The word
here rendered be converted means "turn
about so ae to face In the other direc
tion." “And become as little children;"
not sinless, for no-children are sinless.
They all need to be saved from being
lost, as we see a little further on (vs. 11,
14). "Shall not enter;" not only could not
be flrat, as thoy were seeking to be, but
could not even enter the kingdom, and
have any part In It.
4. "Whosoever therefore shall humble
himself (so us to bel as this little child”
Is In this company his natural, unassum
ing self. "The same Is greatest In the
kingdom of heaven,” for he has most of
the heavenly spirit. Only disinterested
love can be great. Selfishness dims the
crown and diminishes the realm of those
who would otherwise be great.
6. "Whoso shall receive.” Shall recog
nise and welcome, shall see In him the
beauty of his character, and admire the
dualities which belong to the Ideal child
character. "One such little child." The
representative of childhood. "In my
name." For my sake, because he sees In
the child the characteristics "which t’hrlst
himself approved and exhibited." "Re
celveth me." Recognlxes, loves, admires,
appreciates ine. The Christ spirit Is In
v-1
him.
According to Mark (9: 88-41), John re
lates an Incident which raises a question
about receiving Christ, which led to a
warning concerning putting stumbling
blocks In the way of (v. 6> “these little
ones which believe in (on) me.” Not only
children, but the young and Inexperienced
tn the Christian life, those who are weak
and lowly. "Offend.” Cause to stumble
into sin, to block their way to life. “It
were better for him that a millstone.” A
great millstone. “Two kinds of millstones
were tn use: the one turned by hand; the
other, and fhrger, by an ass. It was this
latter of which Jesus speaks."—Vincent.
(The smaller. In Luke 17: 85 ) "Were
hangel about the neck." to make escape
Impossible. "And that he were drowned
In the depth of the sea," which was with
in sight.
7. “Woe unto the world.” Not a wish,
but a lamentation, a warning, a state
ment of fact. “Because of offences." Be
cause there are so many stumbling blocks
in the way of men becoming good, es
pecially In the way of children. "For it
must needs be that offense* come." It Is
unavoidable In this sinful world that those
who would serve Christ should be tempt
ed. They cannot live In the world and not
meet all manner of temptations and hind
rances. "But woe to that man by whom
the offense cometh!” Who Is guilty of
this most awful of sins, the lending of
others Into sin. He that sins himself Is
weak, but he that leads others into sin
Is devilish.
8 "Wherefore.” Because If you your
self fall, you will make others stumble
over you; If you cannot gain the victory,
you discourage others from entsrlng th#
warfare against evil. “If thy hand or thy
foot offend thee (lead thee into stn) cut
them off.” The meaning Is. if objects
dear as the right eye and useful as the
right hand—honors, possessions, enjoy
ments. "Hand.” The temptation to do
what Is wrong. "Foot.” Going Into for
bidden ways. "Halt.” Or lam* from the
less of a foot. "Maimed.” From the loss
of a hand. "Eye.” Coveting, lusting.
“Better ... to enter Into life halt . . .
maimed, ... (v. 9) with one eye.” Not
that any can he literally such In heaven;
but It is better to have eternal life here,
to be a true Christian, and to enter Into
heaven “without enjoying the things that
caused us to sin than to enjoy them here
and then be lost.” (v. 8) "Cast Into (the)
everlasting Are.” That prepared for the
devil and his angels (Matt. 25: 41). Fire is
the symbol of the most terrible torment,
and nothing can put It out.
9. "Hell fire.” The hell, or Gehenna of
fire. The literal Gehenna was a valley to
the south of Jerusalem, a former scene of
Molech worship, and later the place where
the refuse of the city was burned with
perpetual fires.
10. "Take heed that ye despise not."
Look down upon as of small account, so
as to neglect thel.' Interests, or be careless
of what you do for them, or In their pres
ence. “For l say unto you." "That tn
heaven their angels.” The angels who
represent them and have them under their
care, not after death, but now, all the
time. “Do always behold the face of my
Father." Either those to whose care the
little one* are committed are the highest
and holiest angels nearest the throne, or
(hey always have ready and Immediate
access to tne Father (represented as a
king receiving messengers and ambassa
dors», to present their needs and wrongs.
11. "For the Hon of man.” etc. Omit
ted from the It. V’. Probably taken Irom
I.uke 19: 10. But the statement Is eternal
truth and shows how earnestly Jesus
seeks to help the viry one* he wunts his
followers to help.
12. "If a man have an hundred sheep.”
Thl* parable is given more fully In I.uke
1& 10 The lost sheep t* a type of the
helpless and the sinful, those who are tn
sad need of care snrt salvation.
IS "He rejolceth more." etc Because
of the unfsthomed depths of evil from
whleh It had been rescued
14. "Even SO." As the good shepherd
did so much for a lost and helpless sheep
"It la not the will of your Father which
Is In heaven.” He desires that all shill
r* pent and be saved He has done every
thing iMisaltde to wisdom and love, at the
greatest cost, to save them Ho we. like
him are to car# for (h* little ones, the
children, the lowly, the wanderers, those
farthest away Tht# Is the Joy and th*
duty of the church.
WeetarleuUm l»f»Mln|
1 te voteea tu vegetarlanlein are arid t<>
be mrraaalnc In America They rlalm
that the health of humanity la greatly
benefited by an adherent* tu aueh a
diet.
THOUGHT* AttOUT WAR.
War a*ldum enure but where wealth
allure* — I >ry den
War dUuraaataea. hut It la |u re«*t•
aanlte Kmcraun
War. Wt.e all It* e«ll*. la l>etl*r than
a (•«*• e In whb h there ta authina tu h*
•eea but ueuryathu* and lt|wll««.
Cltt
W at auatwnd* the rule* «>! mural ut*
11 C*t tun. and what I* i«»m >ua|Hnded ta
la laager <«/ beta* tutally anr gated
Pur he
THE DOLLAR.
HUtonr of m T*m Baa **•>»•
VMMvMa
Our word dollar dates back to 1786.
when a resolution was passed by eon*
gross which provided that It should
be the unit of money of the United
States. Another resolution was passed
In 1786, August 6, providing that It
should weigh 876.64 grains of pure sil
ver. The mint was established in 1792,
and then required to coin silver dollars
containing 871.25 grains of pure silver.
This was due to the influence of Alex
ander Hamilton. No dollars were
coined until 1794, and then Irregular.
They are now worth flOO each. In 1794
the coinage of regular dollars began.
Our coin was the adaptation of the
Spanish milled dollar, a coin very pop
ular wherever the Spaniards traveled.
The coin was called "piastre," meaning
a flat piece of metal; It Is synonymous
with piaster. It is supposed that the
Spanish took the German 'thaler" and
called It by the name of "piaster.’’ The
word dollar Is entered In Bailey's Eng
lish Dictionary of 1745, and was used
repeatedly by Shakespeare at the be
ginning of the seventeenth century, es
pecially in Macbeth, II; 2, 62; "TUI she
disbursed $10,000 to our general use,’*
and in "Tempest," II: 1, 17. The ques
tion where Shakespeare found the word
dollar Is answered by the fact that the
Hanseatic towns maintained a great es
tablishment called the Steel Yard in
London. The Steel Yard merchants
were mostly North Germans, who
would call the German thaler as if it
spelled "dah-lcr.’’ The same merchants 'V
originated the word sterling, an ab
breviation of the word “esterling." As
the Hanseatic trade was particularly
brisk on the Baltic and In Russia, ths
standard coins of the Hanse merchants
were called eaterllngs, and sterling
came to mean something genuine and
desirable. The world dollar Is the
English for thaler, the first of which
was coined about 1486, and corresponds
quite closely to our present American
silver dollars. The word thaler means
"coming from a dale or valley;’’ the
first dollar having been coined In a Bo
hemian valley called Foachimisthal. It
was under Charles V„ the emperor of 4
Germany, King of Spain and Lord of
Spanish America, that the German tha
ler became the coin of the world.—
Golden Thoughts.
Tiny Volcanoes In California.
Not far from Laytonville, Cal., a six
acre patch of ground has raised a crop
of little volcanoes. A few nights ago
a tremendous rumbling and roaring
drew attention to the fact that 25
spouters had broken loose on the Bids
of the mountain, each resembling a
volcano In shape, with the character
istic crater, and from each crater
gushed mud and warm vapor. Each
’’volcano" was about five feet high and
the liquid mud, steaming and sputter
ing, was thrown to a height of 25 feet
and ran down the sides of the little f
hills like streams of lava. Great
crowds of people hurried to the place,
and for hours sat on the mountain side
and watched the phenomenon.
Automobile Fatalities.
Many serious automobile accidents
have recently happened In New York.
A doctor's assistant was killed by a
head-on collision with one of the ma
chines while riding his bicycle and a
prominent citizen met his death
through his automobile running away.
It refused to answer to the controlling
lever, reached a speed of thirty miles
an hour and then struck the curb,
throwing out its occupants. The ma
chine contlnueud its erratic course
down the street and was Anally
stopped by people who threw obstruc
tions in front of it. The wheels kept
on turning just the same till the power
was exhausted. The machine was not
hurt.
Not to Marry Shop (itrla.
Factory and shop girls are rated be- ^
low par in the matrimonial market of
Kewanee, 111., according to a special
correspondent of the Chicago Journal.
According to report an organization of
mea has been formed to discourage
sweatshop work among the young wo
men. Each member is pledged not to
marry a young woman employed in
places such as mentioned. The men
argue that factory and shop work un
fit young women for household duties.
The young women who stick close to
the precepts of housekeeping are the
ones whose names are likely to ap
pear in the marriage notices hereafter.
IJHII Hang* Drink.
Editor Kennedy of the Memphis V
Commerrlal-Appeal has Invented a new
hot weather drink which he call* the
“Admiral Sampson " It must he one
of those farreachln* beveragea that get
In their work at long range,—Waahlng
ton Post.
Illrhaal I kina man In America.
Chin Tan Hun. the Han Kranclse«>
Chinese leader, la not ooly the richest
Chinaman In America, but one of the
rich men of any race or nation, having
credited to his name In hanka and
deeda to properl lee several millions of
dollars
priest n# «
The Pickett Huchaaan Chapter,
I 'an*ht*r» of the Confederacy, has erec
ted a moaumeat to the memory of the
Hey rather Abram J It van who ,u
hnowa a* the pm Driest of the sue
fed *r ary
t«e«i Men M-n4. MM“-m
H F Joae# Jy of Mttebuig who
ha« beea made the head of the Joaa# 4
l a igblla ateel me*'tfa> luring inter
eete ahteh are »*piu laee i at llu.M*,.
eua. ta 041? >• years eld