THE NORTHWESTERN. BENMCIIOTRR * GIIIHON, Eda and Pa be LOUP CITY, - • NED. ■■ - —— .. j 1 «u it It Is now proposed as a punishment to cut off Chan Chi Tung's cue Just below the collar button. A man who marries a disagreeable woman for the sake of her money swallows a bitter silver-coated pill. Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge has been promptly accepted by the New York Yacht club. Sir Thomas now knows what to do with some of that "pork corner" money. Allegany, Pa,, has an ordinance re quiring street railway companies to equip their cars with Jacks, for use In lifting cars from the bodies of pef song that have been run down. The Natal subscribers to a testimo nial to Major-General Daden-Powell, in recognition of his gallant defense of Mafeklng. have decided to present him with a shield made of Transvaal sov ereigns. Those who are privileged to act as hosts of the prince of Wales have to carefully study his likes and dislikes In the matter of food and wines, there being quite a long list of things which are "blackmailed” by him. He Is also very particular as to punctuality In the matter of meals, viewing delays with much disfavor. The relations existing between mis tress and maid In Australia are aptly illustrated In a recent Issue of a Queensland paper, In which a girl ad vertises for a situation to take sharge of a laundry or dairy. She can cook, and understands housekeeping, and adds: “None but a respectable mis tress, who wishes to leave her servant in uninterrupted discharge of her du ties, need apply." Foreign trade has picturesque fea tures which greatly relieve Its coldly commercial aspects. For example, In sending to Zanzibar a hundred thou sand dollars' worth of kerosene oil last year the United States was doubtless trying to “light up” the dark continent, American locomotives are going to Af rica in such numbers that the conti nent cannot much longer be called slow. Ivory, an undent source of Af rica's wealth, is becoming so scarce thut earnest efforts are now making to preserve the herds of elephants from wanton slaughter. What wonders modern commerce works! Ex-Governor Plllsbury of Minnesota And his wife are going to build a home for poor girls In St. Paul. The ex-governor says: “If a girl Is thrown out of employment, or for any reason loses her bread-earning power, we want her to feel that she is not with out a friend. She need never despair so long as our home stands. There she can find food and shelter, be as com fortable, so far as her surroundings are concerned, as Khe would be any where In the world.” It Is by sudt things as this that John 1. Plllsbury deserves his statue, which, the work of Daniel C. French, has Just unveiled on the campus of the University of Minnesota. The growth of population about the Great Lakes will be one of the Impor tant revelations of the present census. Six Lake cities, Buffalo, Cleveland, To ledo, Detroit. Milwaukee and Chicago, have added more than a million people since 1S90, an Increase of nearly fifty per cent. The Increase Is directly re lated to the growth of commerce of the Great Lakes, which has doubled in the last five years. The tonnage ca pacity of vessels passing through the canal at Sault Sainto Marie is now half us large again us that of alt the ves sels which enter and leave the port of New York, and two and a half times as great as the tonnage which passes through the Suez Canal. The Great T-akos certainly cannot be called "a waste of waters." They are terjning with life and usefulness. A denier In apices declares that the consumer can now buy a pound of what purports to be pepper, ground, packed In a tin box nnd labeled cheaper than the wholesaler can buy pure unground pepper by the ton. The dealer who undertakes to sell really pure pepper must therefore charge a price for hts good* which seems high when compared with the prices of his competitors, and thus adulteration be comes the general practice, it la an outrage on the consumer, yet It is the consumers continual demaud for • heapiiess that Is largely to blame. The honest dealer and the customer who Is willing to pay a fair price for pure goods will have no redress until public opinion demands government Inspec lion of all food prudint* the com pulsory labeling of such a.* are In any way adulterated und the punishment of all persons who aell adulterated for pure articles ' A revolution said a folouthinn gentleman to an Knyllsh traveler Li ly. "la our substitute tor cricket, our young men must have their game," The cricketing e-smst has begun I he fulombinn pteetdent Is la jail, the v ice president h <• a« uicct a delator Ship, and t revolution has taken plate. Meanwhile, to prove that »u> it polio al rrli kel I* a Ism nt« t ssUusal affair, t'olumtda and fuels H Pa submitted a Itlrtl of boundary dispute to the arbitration of IPs president of Ptsn-e. and piowis* In abide bv hi# recent h *ut» thereon TALM AGE’S SERMON, TELLS OF CREED’S BLIQHTINO EFFECT ON MANKIND. Dronnrtntlon of Tliise Who Worship the (luhlrn Calf of Modern Idolatry and Kacrince Thrmselves and 'Hi sir Families. (Copyright, 1900, I.ouls Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, Oct. 28.—In this dis course Dr, Talmage shows how the spirit of greed destroys when it takes possession of a man and tlu^T money got in wrong ways is a curse. Text: Uxodus, xxxii, 20, "And he took the talf which they had made and burnt It in the fire, and ground It to a pow der, and strewed It upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of It" People will have a god of some kind and they prefer one of their own making. Here come the Israelites, breaking off their golden earrings, the men as well as the women, for in those times there was musculine as well us feminine decoration. Where did they get these beautiful gold earrings, com ing up as they did, from the desert? Oh, they borrowed them of the Egyp tians when they left Egypt. These earrings are piled up into a pyramid of glittering beauty. "Any more ear rings to bring?’’ says Aaron. None. Fire Is kindled, the earrings are melt ed and poured into a mold, not of an eagle, or a war charger, but of a soilly calf. The gold cools down, the mold Is taken away, and the Idol Is set up on Its four legs. An altar is built in front of the shining calf. Then the peoplo throw up their arms and gyrate and shriek and dance vigorously and worship. Moses has been six weeks on Mount Sinai, and. lie comes back and hears the howling and sups the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and he*loses bis patience, and he takes the two plates of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments! Moses rush es in, and he takes this calf god and throws it into a hot fire until it la melted all out of shape and then pul verizes it, not by the modern appli ance of nitromurlattc arid, but by the ancient appliance of niter or by the old fashioned file. He stirs for the people a most nauseating draft. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throwrs it in the only brook which is aceeselble, and the people are compell ed to drink of that brook or uot drink at all. Modern Golden Calf. Pull aside this curtain, and you see the golden calf of modern idolatry. It is not, like other idols, made out of stacks or stone, but it has an ear so sensitive that it can hear the whis pers on Wall street, and Third street and State street, and the footfalls in the Bank of England, and the flutter of a Frenchman's heart on the Bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can sec the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat and the insect in the Maryland peach orchard and the trampled grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger. It is so mighty that it swings any way it will the world's shipping. It has its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers. It started the American civil war and, under God, It stopped it, and it decid ed the Turko Russian contest. One broker in September, 1S69, in New York, shouted, "One hundred and six ty for a million!'’ and the whole con tinent shivered. The golden calf of the text has, as far as America is con cerned, its right front foot In New York, Its left front foot In Chicago, its right back foot in Charleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, anil when it shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh, this is a mighty god—the golden calf of the world's worship. Ita Altar of SarrlHee. Further, every god must have not only It* temple, but ita alt^r of sacri fice, and this golden calf of the text Is no exception. Its altar is not made out of stone as other altars, but out of counting room desks and fireproof safes. The victims sacrificed on it are the Swartouts and the Ketchams and the Fisks and lO.OOu oLher people who are slain Irefote this golden calf What does this god care about the groans and struggles of the victims before it? With cold, metallic eye it looks on and yet lets them suffer What an altar' What a sacrifice of mind, body and soul! The physical health of a great multitude is flung on to this Kttcrtfical altar. They can not sleep and they take (Moral and morphine and intoxicant* Some of them struggle in nightmare of stocks and u! 1 o'clcs-k in the morning suddenly rise up, shouting. "A thou sand shares of New York Central I lOXty take it''' until the whole family Is affrighled. and the spec ulator* fall back on their pillows and sleep uuill they are Mwttk.tied again by a “cor ner' in Pacific Mail or a sudden "rise" j of Itu* K Island Their nerve* gone their digestion gone, tbrir brain gone they die I he gowned mv.cataatb come* in end read* the funeral service ■ lllesml are tile deed who db In the | laird* 1 Mistake, they did not "die 1 in the laird Che guiden calf khked them Ili.f Mutable l<»«« On. Hull the I. grading w«c»Mp • ■« on and thi devotees kneel Mild kiss the Iduet and count their golden lx ad* an t • nst th'NISsdtSW with the bl ast of the!, own sacrifice the must, rolls { i>n under the arcbe* P Is made of j rhnhing allvat and »link Inn gold and ' the tattling aps.te of in *ank* and j broker* shop* and lb® voices of ail , tb* *•• bangea I b« soprano «f tbs I wunship la 'arrled by lb# timid tot.*, j wf uiau abu bate Just begun lu *pa» t fate nhUa h* 4asp Ua*a i t* out from those who for ten years havs have been steeped In the seething caldron, (’horns of voices rejoicing over what they have made; chorus ol voices wailing over what they have lost. This temple of which 1 speak stands open day and night, and there Is the glittering god with his four feet on broken hearts, and there is the smoking altar of sacrifice, new vic tims every moment on It. and there are the kneeling devotees; and the j doxology of the worship rolls on, while doath stands with moldy and : skeleton arm heating time for the cho ; rue—“More, more, more!” Some people ure very much surprls ed at the actions of people in the Stock Exchange, New York. In-deed, j it la a scene sometimes that paralyzes description and is beyond the Imagi nation of any one who has never look ed in. What snapping of Anger and thumb and wild gesticulation and rav ing like hyenas and stamping like buffaloes and swaying to and fro and jostling and running one upon the other and deafening uproar, until the president of the exchange strikes with , his mallet four or Ave times, crying, j 'Order, order!” and the astonished spectator goes out into the fresh air feeling that he has escaped from pan demonium. What does it all mean? 1 will tell you what it means. The devotees of every heathen temple cut themselves to pieces and yell and gy rate. This vociferation and gyration : of the Stock Exchange is all appropri ate. This Is the worship of the gold en calf. I>!*y of JuilgmiMit Coming. But every day is a day of Judgment, and God Ih all the time grinding to pieces the golden 1 limit lea of g lifetime Soon we will la- gone Where are the mail who tried Warren Hasting* in Westminster hall'' Where are the pll Mti iiii father* who pot out for America* Where me the veterans who on the Fourth of July 17M marched from N> w York pal k to the Halt, rv and tiled e *aiute and the n mar. tied hack again* ami the fka laty of the t'tmia aati who dine.) that afternoon at Ton tine iogee li.i i*. un Wall street* and • Irani I hot.urn alio that after goon walled fifteen minute* at the foot of Maiden t an* lot the Hto Al|ii ferry beat then got m and wg* ruw<«l ac nut t*> two m*i» with wars the tile so •(tong that It was an keen an t ten ■tlRttlc • before they landed * Whet* MS (he veteran* that tired Ike salute and the area of the rim tartan MMiety who that aftsincaiR cliaah to the pair! wftr toast ' *tc<1 the ugiitsn that tow the boat and the people who were transportedT Gone! Oh, this is a fleeting world! It is a dying world. A man who had worshiped it ail his days in his dying moments described him self when he said, “Fool, fool, fool!” rnfalliiiR Secnrttle*. I want you to change temples and to give up the worship of this unsatisfy ing and cruel god for the service of the Ixird Jesus Christ. Here i3 the gold that will never crumble. Here are the securities that will never fail. Here are the banks that will never break. Here is an altar on which there has been one sacrifice that does for all, for "by one sacrifice hath Christ per fected forever them that are sancti flel.” Here is a (iod who will conn* fot you when you are in trouble and scJthe you when you are sick and safe you when you die. For he has said: “When thou passest through the ! waters. I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not ! overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be j burned, neither shall the flame kindle 1 uithn thee/’ | When your parents have breathed I their last and the old, wrinkled and | trembling hands can no more be put | upon your head for a blessing, he will i lie to you a father and mother both, ! giving you the defense of one and the comfort of the other. For have we 1 not Paul's blessed hope that as Jesus died and rose again, "even so them | ulso which sleep In Jesus shall God ; bring with him." And when your I children go away from you, the sweet j darlings, you will not kibs them and | say goodby forever. He only wants to 1 hold them for you for a little while. He will give them back to you again, and he will have them all waiting for 1 you at the gates of eternal welcome. , Oh, what a God he Is! He will allow you to come so close ihat you can put your arms around his neck, while he in response will put his arms around your neck, and all the windows of heaven will be hoisted to let the re deemed look out and see the spectacle of a rejoicing father and a returned prodigul locked In that glorious em brace. Quit worshiping the golden I calf and bow this day before him in whose presence we must all appear ; when the world lias turned to ashes. When shriveling like a parched scroll. The flaming heavens together roll, | When louder yet and yet more dread ; Swells the high trump that wakes the dead, BUG PUNCTURES. Bicycle Hu? Ilp«ralii on WliuoR at !'. vans ton. III. Kvanston, 111., is now presenting to science the latest freak in hugs—the 'bicycle bug.” This hornet-ilke In sect looks like a caricature of a New Jersey mosquito. On a body little more than an inch long it supports a pair of tentacles four Inches long, with which it works havoc with the rubber ; tires of the wheels. The bug bores j into the rubber until the escaping air frightens it away. The first wheelman to suffer was Peter Arndt. He found one of the tires tint, while on the other one was the first ‘‘bicycle bug” that has yet been captured. He took bis prize to Witt Bros.’ repair shop, where it soon drew a crowd of curious spec tators. Before the afternoon hud pass ed a mini tier of Chicago wheelmen told the same story of the strange bug Pro fessor William A. Loey, of the North western University biological labora tories, called the hug an ichneumon. It is not common In this country. Its usuul place of burying Its tentacles Is in the bark of a tree, laying eggs through them, • Professor Loey said that perhaps the bug mistook the soft rubber for the pulp on the trees. En tomological News. Ilrlrkft from (llami \Vttnk. An important discovery is said to have been made by Dr, Ormandy of St. Helens, formerly science master in the Gamble Institute. He has succeeded in producing bricks of a commercially valuable character from the waste heaps at glass-making establishments. , This refuse, of which millions of tons Itave accumulated, consists mainly of spent sand, minute particles of glass and about 3 per cent of iron from the various processes, and it has hitherto been considered that the presence of iron preventel the use of the material in the manufacture of bricks. The ex periments carried out by Dr. Ormandy have negatived this hypothesis and he has successfully established the fact that bricks can be produced out of the waste by special treatment. Veteran Return* ll.s IViulnn. Unt ie Bam lias a regular contributor to the gcnerul fund of the govern ment. Promptly the first week of ev ery quarter a check for $73 is received at the treasury department, with a re quest that it In- placed iu the miscel laneous fund of the treasury, from which it can only be withdrawn by a special act of congress. The money is from a veteran of the civil war. He la i an employe of the Philadelphia mint. He explained in hla first letter that as lung as wipernr WlilUu. Kiitie-iot WillUio Its* presented a bi rd# to lie* I' Wl»< hau pastor of ill 1‘aul's (let man l.ulberatt > hunh In Philadelphia, In re-ogultion of the vlg cth aitttttei sat* of lb- ihorh and of vlr Vt 1st it in ■ thirty years of s«r*lce in the toligl rgallott I he l. b -tot f Slits n (he Dill listsat.iit portion thirty tall page rttgfa*tags from paint ing* lit old ma-'wrs the Nee Tula nont portion la illuminated etlh If ' lim • .graving* by lUigiith It- Hmeatn. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VI. NOV. II —LUKE XVI: 19-31. The Klrli Man and Lazarus—"Lay I p for Yourselves Trnwurei In Heaven”— Matt. «: 30—The Worldly >lau at Ills Larlhly llest. 19. "A certain rich man.” Ills name Is not given, perhaps to show that In heav en's estimation It ts not worth while even to mention a man's name simply because he Is rich, though among men It Is pro claimed by it thousand trumpets. The name Dives, often given to him, Is simply the Latin for rich man, used 111 the Latin translation. "Was clothed In purple." "The imperfect, frequentative tense, de noting tils habitual attire." "And Dred sumptuously,” Better "made merry In splendor." Greek, living In mirth, gor geously. mugniricently, shlningly. "Every day." and not merely on special occa sions. 20. "A certain beggar named Lazarus." "The Greek name Lazarus comes from Eleazar (God helps) abbreviated by thu rabbins to Leazsr; lienee Lazarus.”—Go rlet. "Laid at his gate." By some kind friends or relativu s. He was too sick to care for himself. "Full of sores." St. Luke here uses a medical term, "Ulcerat ed all over.” 21. Ann desiring lo la re.i witn mo crumb*.” "The crumbs are not the trif ling fragments which would fall from one of our tables, but the soft part of the thin calces of bread In use In the East, which the wealthy, It appears, are some times accustomed lo wipe their Ungers with and throw under the table, them selves eating only the crust."—C. C. Star buck. "Moreover (yea. even) the dogs came and licked his sores.” "A distorted wreck of u rnan, that the dogs mistake for a carcass thrown out to them."—Dods, 22. "It came lo puss, thut the beggar died.” Nothing Is said of his burial, be cause probably his body "was, without honor, thrown Into a ditch," like worn out clothes, but his soul, his real self, "was carried by the angels (blessed hear ers, glorious funeral train!) Into Abra ham's bosom.” The type of paradise, where Abraham was the host of a great feast (Matt. 22: 2; ltev. Ill: 7-Sb, and "to lie In his bosom, as Hi. John In that of our Lord (John 13: 23>, was to be there as the most favored guest.” "The rhh man also died, . . . was hurled." There Is a sublime irony In this mention of his hurlul. connected as it Is with what Is Immediately to follow —Trench. 23. "And In hell.” The Invisible land. Ihe realm of the dead, including liotti Elysluin and Paradise. "Helng In tor ments." "Tormented In this flame.” not literul fire, for a spirit cannot he touched by flume, bu,t "an anguish of soul as In tolerable as the touch of earthly flume Is to the nerves of the mortal body."— Kill eott. "And seeth Abraham afar off." 8o represented, because both In condition and In character they were ns fur apart as possible. "And Lazarus In hi* bosom." Keclliiiug In honor at the banquet of bliss.—G. VV. Clark. 24. "And he cried , . . Father Abra ham." "This Is the only instance In Scripture of praying to saints.”—Jacobus. "Have mercy on me . . . send Laza rus.” Asked either In the old selfish ar rogance, wanting Lazarus for a servant, or In conquered pride, willing to lake a favor even from Lazarus. "Dip the tip of Ids Huger.” lie dares ask but the smallest favor. "Cool my longue.” "The man who had lived so luxuriously now speaks of relief for Ids tongue, which has been gratified with dainties. "Tormented In this flame." "Figures are employed In the Hlble, not because the reality Is less than the figure, hut greater. Our Lord here teaches, all the more strongly be cause Incidentally, that after death the souls of Ihe impenitent suffer as terribly as if lire were tormenting their bodies." - Kiddle. 2c "Hon How kindly Abraham speaks, showing his merciful wishes! "Remem ber." "The river of death Is no water of Lethe, bringing with It the forgetfulness of past evil." Plumptre. "Thou In thy lifetime . . tzond thinu^ I u7. arus evil tilings." Of this there are two explanations: (it It may mean that the good things, all that he regarded as good and sought for . "But If one went . . . from the dead," utnl spoke with the power ami au thority of one who knew by experience, lie was sure they would then "repent." 31. "If they hear not Moses (If they re ject the testimony they have! . . . neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead " They would re sist the new Influences, and find excuses for not repenting, lust ns they had Uuno under the old. A Military Marriage. Nothing was done nt a recent mar riage in Middletown, t’onn., to lessen the force of that trite Joke about mar riage being a preparation for battle. To the strains of a military march Lieut Oeorge Adolphus Nugent of the Fourth artillery. I’. S. A . and Miss Kmma Howard Bacon mart bed to the altar in the Church of the Holy Trio I tty. The approach oi the wedding party was preceded by the sounding 01 the reveille on the cornet. The ushers presented arms to the brides maids and the party two-stepped down the aisles to the altar Flag* deco luted the i hurt h and many soldiers were present tu full-dress uniforms with helmets In hand M II at Msso. Two iu.itIs were rmen’lv re cited at Manila cadi of whldi liimhgred over R.‘>o sack* which is Just eight times a* turtle .»- the biggest m.,n rv»r r**et«vd uadvr itpautsh reg'up and all this mass of until lustier is handled by • Itlf Atuerbatts *bd fifty.he* Fill Pinos u«t the pay roll of the patufti» d* par!Mr*Ml. Notwithstanding this great bulk of mail matter lo be dealt with complaints regarding deisrs or inis, si tied mail are fen and fsr lie tween and •»(• to sili tinted to the ab •*n<* of lull and proper qddtes—# BaT«n'i Struck llappy Medium. It has developed that the majority of motor bicycles which have proved im practicable were unsuccessful because their builders placed the motor too high. This caused a tendency to slip when rounding corners. Other build ers in an effort to overcome this very defect, have placed their motors so low that there was danger of striking the ground when going over rough places. The most bitter medicine is often the best. It is the same with experi ence. School Children'* Defective Sight. By order of the London school board teachers in all Its schools have tested the sight of the children under their care. The result is that 23.3 per cent, were found to have defective vision. These children were given notices to take to their parents announcing that they were suffering from serious de fective vision, and advised to consult an oculist without delay. lftook* Wit limit Ki»«l. Some notion of the vast quantities of books contained in the British museum may he gained from the announcement made recently that the printing of the catalogue, which was begun in 18K1— nine years ago—is still unfinished. It is also stated that in order to storo the newspapers which kppt on file there a mde of shelving has to be added at least once in fifteen years. Mm. LI ind II«*i Wardrohfl. 1,1 Hung Chang's wife, the March ioness LI, is reckoned a great beauty in China and is also one of the clever est women In that country. Though close to—or perhaps over—80 years old, she does not look a day over 35. Her wardrobe Is something tremendous, In cluding between 3,000 and 4,000 gar ments, of which 500 are of the finest fur. C'aal-Off Clothing. Three soubrettes entered a fashion able New York dry goods store wear ing gowns that attracted the attention of clerks and customers. A knowing saleswoman remarked, sotto voce: "All from Sixth avenue, near Forty-second street. House up there that deals in cast-off doming of the rich. Many wealthy women have poor relations in distant cities and in the country to whom they hand down all their dresseg and underwear, but gome of the swell est in town sell what they get tired of, thus increasing their pin money. The dresses those soubrettes have on didn't cost less than $200 apiece, and they were not worn more than twice or three times by their original owners. These girls bought them for about $12 each." Unfortunate Jsnanurheb. Pathetic in the extreme Is the dos ing chapter of Madame Janauschek’s life drama. This great tragedienne re fuses to become reconciled to her rel atives In Bohemia. In order to pay the expenses of her treatment at St. Mark's hospital. Brooklyn, $8,000 worth of old lace and $10,000 worth of her Jew- ^ els are to be sold. They are souvenir gifts. f Two Big Pains f m ► T 4 X ^ " ceem to be the heritage of the T < „ human family everywhere, vie T > - i :: . 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