Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NORTHWESTERN.
BENMCIIOTRR * GIIIHON, Eda and Pa be
LOUP CITY, - • NED.
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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 <alf. Some years
ago in a time of panic we learned as
never before that forgeries will not
pay, that the watering of stocks will
not pay, that the spending of *50,000
on country seals and a palatial city
residence when there are only *20,000
income will not pay,that the appropria
tion of trust funds to our own pri
vate speculation will not pay. We had
a great national tumor In the shape of
fictitious prosperity. We called it na
tional enlargement. Instead of calling
it enlargement we might better have
called It a swelling. It was a tumor,
and God cut It out, and the nation was
seut back to the principles of our
fathers and grandfathers, when twice
three made six instead of sixty and
when the apples at the bottom of the
barrel were Just as good as the apples
on the top of the barrel, and z. silk
handkerchief was not half cotton,
and a man who wore *5 coat paid for
was more honored than a man who
wore a *50 coat not paid for.
The modern golden calf, like the
one of the text, is very apt to be made
out of borrowed gold. These Israelites
of the text borrowed the earrings of
the Egyptians and then melted them
into a god. That Is the way the gold
en calf Is made nowadays. A great
many housekeepers, not paying for
the articles they get, borrow of the
grocer and the baker and the butcher
aiid the dry goods seller. Then the
retailer borrows of the wholesale deal
er. Then the wholesale dealer bor
rows of the capitalist, and we borrow
and borrow and borrow until the com
munity Is divided Into two classes,
those who borrow, and those who are
borrowed of, and after awhile the
capitalist wants his money, and he
rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and
the wholesale dealer wants his money
and he rushes upon the retailer, and
the retailer wants his money, and lie
rushes upon the customer, and we ail
go down together. There is many a
man in this day who rides in a car
riage and owes the blacksmith for the
tire and the wheelwright for the wheel
and the trimmer for the curtain and
the driver for unpaid wages and the
harness maker for the bridle and the
furrier for the robe, while from the
tip of the carriage tongue clear back
to the tip of the camel's hair .shawl
: fluttering out of the back of the ve
hicle everything is paid for by notes
that have been three times renewed.
• Mol4 Klvmollttlietj.
But, if we have made this world
our god. when we come to die we shall
see our idol demolished. How much
of this world are you going to take
with you into the next? Will you have
two pockets—one In each side of your
shroud? Will you cushion your cas
ket with Irond* and mortgages anyl cer
tificates of stock? Ah. no! The fer
ryboat that crosses this Jordan takes
no baggage nothing heavier than an
immaterial spirit. You may, perhaits,
take |500 with you two or three miles
in the shape of funeral trappings to
tiie cemetery, but you will have to
leave them there. It would not be safe
for you to lie down there with a gold
watch or a diamond ring It would he
a temptation to th« pillagers. If we
have made this world our god. we aliil
see our idol when we die ground to
pieces by our pillow aud we shall
have to drink it hi bitter regret* for
the wasted op !“>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 <h« government employed him
at a good salary, he would not accept
the pension
•OI.tr from > 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 <lhy good things), were
worldly goods and he gained them. He
had not sought salvation and eternal life,
and why should he expect lo have them'/
2*i. "And besides all this." The reason
drawn from the fit ness of things Is fol
lowed by reason drawn from the necessity
of the case Kendrick. "A great gulf
fixed." The necessary separation grow
ing out of difference of rharacter, and
embodied In different places adapted to
the different characters.
27. "Send him to my father's house."
Note the same supercilious willingness
• hat Lazarus should serve him. Doubt
less Lazarus would have been glad to
help him.
2S. "That he may testify unto them."
Hear personal witness to what he had
seen, and knew from experience of the
results of the earthly life.
2!t. "They have Moses and the proph
ets." The Old Testament revelation,
through whose teachings many hail lived
Indy lives and gone to heaven, Including
Abraham and Lazarus. They have al
ready been warned, hut have not given
heed.
3<>. "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.
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