Nebraska Newspapers

    THE SOUTHWESTERN,
BENM IIOTKH * OlItSON, K<U and Fob*
LOUP CITY, • - NEU.
WHbUJ-X!-1--1-I'j.’-U
A word to the wise may be sufficient,
tout Is sometimes wiser who doesn’t
speak It.
A goodly portion of what the world
rails good luck Is composed of nlnety
nine parts of ambition and one part of
talent.
W. K. Vanderbilt has given Klssara
hall to the university at Nashville,
but as It Is a coeducational Institution
the boys probably had not waited for
that.
At present the greatest distance
over which electrical power Is being
transmitted by wire is eighty-five
miles, being carried from a waterfall
at Redlands, Cal,, to the elty of Los
Angeles to run a street railway, to
light the city and to furnish power
for several municipal undertakings.
The plant was set up In J*97. It has
a capacity of 4,000 horse-power and
S,300 volt*.
Ry a recent panto (dice regulation In
France, It Is decreed to he a serious
offense for a postoffice employe to read
what Is written on the hack of post
rurds—a very excellent order. Hut by
another article in the same ’’regie
merit’’ the postoffice employe Is also
prohibited from forwarding any post
card on which Is written anything
abusive or Indecent. Now what is
the postal clerk to do?
The last surviving member of the
family of llosslnl, the Illustrious com
poser of "William Tell," and of other
equally popular operas, and who was
Invested with the title of count by
Ihe last Grand Duke of Tuscany, has
Just committed suicide at Milan. There
seems to have been a aperies of mania
in the Rossini family, for the elderly
lady who hurled herself to death from
a fourth floor, the other flay, at Mi
lan, was the ninth suicide In the fam
ily.
Commenting on the late Mr. Hunt
ington'* assertion that there la greit
danger of over-educating the young,
Mr. Abram Hewitt declare*: "If 1
were to have the choice of one hun
dred million dollars or the pleasure
I had In my college days and tno
pleasure I have had us the result of
my education, I would quickly i hoo.se
the latter. Were I to eh oof* the mil
lion*, I should receive, and I should
expect to receive, the scorn of my fcl
lowmen."
N'etv Zealand lias been consulting as
to the best means of defending itself
against such enemies us muy assail
that outpost of the empire; and the
report of the defense committee rer
ommenda an expenditure of about
50,000 a year. Guns of the Iat>-ht
pattern at Auckland, Wellington an 1
other vulnerable points are, of course,
suggested, and an Imperial ro-erve,
towards the payment of which the aid
of the imperial authorities may he In
voked, Is proposed.
Eilgar Haltus In a newspaper article
refers to "the avalanches of dry goods
and groceries that cataract from the
took shelves of the department stores"
ns submerging the real novelist. This,
It must he submitted, la rough on
the real Action-producers, but con
cerning not a few of the latter a sub
mergence. even by means of dry goods
and groceries, would he h good thing
for the general public. Of course, ai
to Mr. Haltus—but we will let readers
draw their own conclusion.
A treasury warrant for 1 cent, cer
tified with all the customary solem
nity, wan isent by the auditor for the
pos to (lice department to Frank If.
Lynch an hia salary for carrying the
mails during the last fiscal year,
Lynch carries the malls from Mineral
I’olnt. Iowa county, Wls, to Dodge,
villc, dally. He drives a stage an 1
makes a fairly good living off h i
passenger and tratlle trade. He war
afraid someone would underbid him
for carrying the malls, ho h year ago
he contracted with the government to
perform this service for four yearn fur
1 cent per year.
Prof Farrington, curator of the
Field Museum, and professor of geol
ogy at the university, has lately re
turned from a tour of the Indiana
caves with SOO spe tniens of stain. tUes,
Ills most lu'eiestlng It ml was a stalac
tite biohen oft and marked by u party
of scientists in 1850, which has grown
three-fifths of sn Inch since that date.
He brought home with him a column
si* feet high and one foot in diameter,
which Is the largest specimen ever ub
talned fur » imiM-uin Figuring from
the basts of the one which was mean
ured, It required about 5,400 years fur
It to grow t^ Its present alae On ta«
same baaixd the professor thinks, be
will be able to figure out how long it
has taken lor the tit lamia limestone
to form,
Details of the defcli-e of the lega
tions in Pehia «.*e a picture of war
tu its must Imurious form The be
sieged defend, d then seises belli'. I
sand-begs made of aiik brocade ant
similar valuable slug* The r aw
munition was eked out with missile,
made of metal ftoin «andl<atu ks and
parlor wasii'oib Une gun »u< cun
•traded from two cylinders fuiming
pert of a fire e* ..i.rutsh. r ti>*t*ewh«t
iieieM history »s* r-preeent. d i*<
Crimea * guaa, from the Hu.Un I
gaitoa. Which wum have tx-en a U e
Hurt u same of the atlachera
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
AN ESPECIALLY TIMELY DIS
COURSE.
Tlio Wan Faithful t» a nil U Ilia >to»t
Puituriil to lilt Country and »<> III*
I ellon iiien—\n Kxmiipl* from (ha l.lfa
of Uxnli'l.
(Copyright, i.miis Klnpsrh, N. Y.)
This discourse of Dr. Talmagu Is ap
propriate for all seasons, but especial
ly In times of great political ngllatlon.
The text Is. Daniel vl, 16, “Then the
king commanded, and they brought
Daniel and cast hltn Into the den of
lions."
Darius was king of Babylon, and the
young man Daniel was so much a fa
vorite with him that be made him
prints minister, or secretary of state
But >o man could gatn such a high
postil m without exciting the envy and
Jcaloi^y of the people. There were
demagogues In Babylon who were so
appreciative of their own abilities that
they were affronted at the elevation of
this y mng man. Old Babylon was
afraid of young Babylon. The taller
the cejar the more apt It Is to he
riven of the lightning Three dema
gogues asked the king to make a
decree that anybody that made a
petition to anyone except the king
during a period of thirty days
should bo put to death. King
Darius, not suspecting any foul play,
makes that decree. The demagogues
have accomplished all they want, be
cause they know that no one cun k cp
Daniel from rending petitions before
God for thirty days.
So fur from being afraid, Daniel
goes on with his supplications three
times a day and is found on his houau
top making prayer, Hu Is caught in
the act. He Is condemned to be de
voured by the lit.us. Hough execu
tioners of the law seize him and hast
en him to the cavern. I hear the
growl of the wild beasts, and l scu
them pawing the dust, and as they
put their mouths to the ground the
Bond earth quakes wun mcir neuow
Inn. 1 see their eye# roll, and 1 ulmcit
hear the fiery e>-( balls snap la the
darkness. Three monsters approach
Daniel, They have un appetite keen
with hunger. With one stroke of
their paw or one snatch of their teeth
they may leave him dead at the bot
tom of the cavern. Hut what a
strange welcome Daniel receive* from
these hungry monsters! They fawn
around him; they lick his hand; they
bury his feet, In their long manes.
That night he has er.lm sleep with his
head pillowed on the warm necks of
the tamed Hons.
Hut not so well does Darius, the
king, sleep, lie lias an uttark of ler
rille Insomnia. He loves Daniel and
hates this, strategem by which he h s
been condemned. AM night long the
king walks the floor. He cannot si 1 P.
At the least sound he starts*, and h *
flesh creeps with horror. He Is Impa
tient for the dawning of the morning.
At the first streak of the daylight Da
rius hastens forth to see the fate of
Daniel. The heavy palace doors open
and clang shut long before the people
of the city waken. Darius goes to the
den of the lions. He looks In. All Is
silent. His heart stops. He feels that
the very worst has happened; but,
gathering ull his strength, he shouis
through the rifts of the rock, "U Dan
i lei Is thy God, whom thou servest con
tinually aide to deliver thee?" There
conn s rolling up from the deep dark
ness a voice which says: "O king,
live forever. My God has sent his
angels to shut the lions' mouths that
they have not hurt me." Then Daniel
Is brought out from the den. The
demagogues are burled into It, and no
sooner have they struck the bottom of
tbe den than their flesh was rent an I
their hones cracked, and their blood
spurted through the rifts In the ro«k,
and as the lions made the rocks trem
ble with their roar they announce
to all ages that while God will defend
; bis people the way of the ungodly
, shall perish.
I'lmiti’* Or#aloMf oiT(mi«p.
1 Ia-nrti from this subject that the
great* st crime you can commit in the
ejea <if many Ik the crime of iiimci
What had Daniel done that he should
I he flung to the Ilona? Me had be
come prime minuter. They could not
forgive him for that, and behold In
that a tom b of unnanctifted human
nature as seen in all ages of the
world Ho long as you are pinched In
poverty, «o long hm you are running
the gantlet between the landlord ami
! taxgathrrer, ko long as you find it
i hard work to educate your children,
Ihere are people who will say: • |*ou
man. I Hin sorry for him," 1 tut af*cr
i awhile the th|p turns in Ills favor
j That was a profitable Investment you
j made. You bought Just at the r g u
j time. Fortune become* good humor*
ed Slid smile* upon you, Now you are
I In smiu* department *uece**ful, and
I your success (bills some one Those
! PH who used to sympathise wiMi
| you stand along the street util they
! scow) at you {rum under the rim «*f
their bale. You have im< • money «*f
mors ingtit'm then ft * > Wtv< snd
, yoa ought to be scow lt d ivf from un let
13m rtfs of i ' it ? i. You .v'rh .1
1 Word nr two us )Citt p-i 1 by (hero
j *'Ptu*k up," says «*u*. "ii**t It dtsbon
! vstly," says another Will burnt
• sin ears a third (Story *uiu<* in
your Hi <v house Is ,Id iiii t h S
Your bi*rs*v ho.* Ah! , |||. y
nerves livery tun. of yo o * ,, .
baa been lo them u it. m of dDroin
pt01 e ai. I *1' *p.i. lost A# MHMi Ail IA
Aliy Nipt*I >4'H ft*# dthibf* )tiaf fm|
lull, If you ir*» Niurt tiiitiuu*, if paa
j A fa MkOf# lilt If yo M are wore IntFi
•Hllgl, you istt a shadow ou lu pr v
: pe> fa of ai be 1 s The nu<l i«» h>!»**i
And stowss I* wtr. .1 re* b <>f tts. *««
J my s guns I**!..a* »•*»*, *»t *f
dor-*, or I’ll knock you down.” "I do
not like you," says the anowfta^e to
j the snowbird. "Why don't you like
me?” said tho snowbird. “Oh,” said
tha snowflake, "you are going up and
I am coming down.” Young mer
chants. young lawyers, young doctors,
young mechanics, young artists, young
farmers, at certain times there aro
those to sympathize with you but now
that you are becoming master of your
particular occupation or profession,
how in it now, young lawyers, young
doctors, young artists, young farmers,
—how la it now? The greatest crime
that you can commit is the crime of
success,
of ( liNrnrlrr.
Again, my subject impres es me
with the value of decision of churactei
In any department. Daniel knew that
if ho continued his adherence to tho
religion of the (and he would be
hurled to the ilous; but, having set hit
compose well. In* sailed right on. For
the lack of that element of decision
of character so eminent in Daniel
many men are ruined for this world
and ruined for the world to come. A
great many at -10 years of age are not
settled In any respect, because they
have not been able to make up their
minds. Perhaps they will go west,
perhaps they will go east; perhaps
they will not; perhaps they will g>
north; perhaps they may go south;
perhaps they will go cart; perhayr
tuoy make that Investment In real es
tate or In railroads; perhaps they will
not. They are not like a mcaiiier
that should go out of N'« w Yoik har
bor, stilting' for Glasgow, and tho
next day should change for Havre
de Grace, and the next for Charleston,
-and the next for Boston, and the next
for Liverpool. These men on Use sea
of life everlastingly tacking ship and
making no headway! Or they are like
a men who starts to build a house in
the Corinthian style and changes it to
Doric, and thru completes It In the
Ionic, the curse of utl styles of archi
tecture. Young uiau, start right, and
keep on. Have decision of character,
Character is like the goldfinch of Ton
quln. It is magnificent while stand
ing firm, but loses all Its beauty In
n gill, now mill'll iieriMon in i in win -
ter In order that them- young men way
he Christian*! Their old associate*
make an astir flings at them, They
go on excursions, and they do not
Invite them. They prophesy that he
will give out. They wonder If ho la
not getting wings. As ho passes they
grimace and wink and chuckle and
say. "There goes a saint." O young
man, have decision of character' Y* u
can afford in this matter of religion
to he laughed at. What do you care
for the scoffs of these men, who are
affronted because you will not go to
luin with them? When th<* grave
cracks open under their feet, and
grim m< cengets push them Into it,
and et' rnlty conus do.vn nurd upon
their spirit, and conscience stings, and
hopelr: s ruin lifts them up to iiurl
them down, will they laugh lien?
4 lirlutlimlly fer llu»y Men.
Again I ham from this subject that
a man may take religion Into Ills poli
tics. Daniel had nil the affair* of 1
state on hand, yet a servant of Ood.
He could not have kept his elevated
position unless lie had been a thorough
politician, and yet all the thrusts of
officials and all tic danger of disgrace
did not make him yield one iota in his
high toned religious principle He
stood before that age, he stands he
fore all ages, n specimen of a godly
politician. Ho there have been In our
day ancl In tin* days of our father*
men h,i eminent In the* service of Ood
as they have bc<ui eminent in the* ser
vice of the state. Much was Benj tmin
F, Butler, attorney general of New
York In the time of your fathers. Hitch
was John Mela an of the supreme court
of the United State*. Such was George
Briggs <»f Ma .-cachusett*, Such was
Theodore Frelltighiiysc n of New Jer
sey—men faithful to the state, at the
same time faithful to God. It Is ab
surd to expect that nu n who have been
Immersed in political wickedness for
thirty car forty years shall come to
reformation, and our hopes Is in the
young mi n who arc coming up that
they have patriotic principle and
Christian principle side by side when
they come to the* ballot box and cast
their Itr.--t vote and that they swear
alb glance to the government of hea
ven as well as to the government of
the United Htat**s. We would have
Bunker Hill mean less to them than
Cavalry, and luxlngton mean le-ts to
lh*>tn than Bethlehem, hut because
thi ie an* bad men around the ballot
box is no reason why Christian nun
should retreat from the arena. The
la»t time you ought to give up your
child or forsake* your child Is when it
is irrciumlcd by a company of (i.ix.
laws, and the Inst time to surrender
Hi.* ballot box is when il la surrounded
by Impurity and dishonesty und all
scu ts of wiekmlnoa*.
It* I imi lu •**.|itt« a.
DaniH mi i qic»*t uuiHiptiUr
platform. lit* ni*ni 1 III inly, tuuufcti
tilt* itt>Uiau<*UU*a Ilf tile tin) hUni'ti u(
him unit iin* | in overthrow him \V«*
***** * i airy our leHatua Into our poli
U*'* lint lhtre ate a ureal tumiy men
who . in lu fa\or of tikl'U religion
Into uatiouwi yioliti* it, who t|o not me
the iittiMiruuie of laUim u into ally
yolltk* a i thtHigli ,t man were ItitHII*
e>nt about the welfare of l.i* n* uh*
oil <»l (>nl It4*1 no eon* ere .ihoul
l * own iiome
My * u.J« i t n'i.l Imp**- * . Hte with
t>t* hi t that l i.m 4i. >ol huit a «<h 4
fn *n ,\o man *»**r rot into wo* a
t u.np.iny Ilian Hanoi uni into wn**n
lo> »o liiruwn lulu lh- i* n \y I* it .»
mi* uu Ihtt fair yo u* mu
w ■ *i*l hate litdti lor tho hungry mail*
’* * 1 • I |* in- * l at It.-.I
; i t n h ,. flow * .i into a
.* •* * I Hit* ieat h t*| their I*- *
* (it* i- * t of ti > * ifroth They
* a * * l«t* * e i, all aiooH*l at«“it h ut,
. m h «i*t«» *** futon u at th* wall ktmwu
whistle come hounding to his feel
You need not go to Nutnidia to get
many lions. You all have them after
you—the lion of financial distress, the
lion of sickness, the lion of persecu
tion. You saw that lion of financial
panic putting Lis mouth down to the
earth, and be roared until all the
banks and all the insurance companies
quaked, With his nostril he scattered
the ashes on the domestic hearth. You
have had dial after trill, misfortune
after misfortune, Hon after Hon, and
ytt they have never hurt you. The
Persians used to think that spring
rain falling Into sea shells would
turn Into pearls, and I have to tell
you that the tears of sorrow turn Into
preelmiH gems when they drop into
(toil’s bottle. You need he afraid of
nothing, putting your trust In Ood.
Even death, that monster Hon, whose
ileu is the world's sepulcher, and who
puts Ills paw down amid thousands of
millions of the dead, cannot affright
you. When in olden times a man was
to get the honors of knighthood, he
whs compelled to go fully armed the
night before among the tombs of tho
dead, carrying a sort of spear, and
then when the day broke ho would
come forth, and, amid the sound of
cornet and great parade, he would get
the honors of knignttiood. And so It
will he with the Christian In the night
before heaven, as, fully armed w.th
spear and helmet of salvation, lie will
wait and watch through the darkness
until the morning dawns and then he
will lake the honors of heaven amid
that great throng with snowy robes,
streaming over seas of sapphire.
———
JAMAICA FROGS
Only Hi »imi of On#* llumlri <1 him! Fifty
Murvivtf s« J4 \oviik«,
Til® billing.<:ul department of the
Johns Hopkins I’nlvernlty lots a num
ber of interesting specimen* of zool
ogy, some of which will b« of value
In the higher research work of tho
department this year, says the llaltl
more Hun, The summer vacation la
usually u time for collecting queer
creatures and plants for winter In'
vcstlg.itlon, a students’ trip to .Ja
maica last summer being especlaaly
productive of such rarities. Hr. I.nw
renee 1C. UlIBn and Mr. W. (’ Coker
left lust June for Jamaica. Among
other things they collected 150 bull
frog*. They we re unable to stand tho
voyage to tlila country, and tho seven
that survived are now at. the univer
sity In mi ema lated condition. This
Jamaica product I* not u r* .1 bullfrog,
but a toad. They wei o brought to
Jamaica from Jlarbadocg under tho
Impression that they would kill rats,
'I bis was found to be a mistake, and
the toad remained and Is now qulto
common. They are of a dark brown
color, with a body the size of a large
bullfrog, but with short legs like a
toad, and are not edible. Like all
toada, they are not aquatic. A hand
some feature of the Jamaica <ollectlon
Is a set of tine tortoise shell turtles all
beautifully mounted. A crocodile skel
eton was also procured, which will
prove an object study for the minor
i la He* In osteology. The Jamaica croc
odile Is more vicious than the Florida
variety, living on fish or an occasional
native who w unwary. It Is also not
hn sluggish ft* other varieties, and 1*
peiuliar in having no sleeping time.
11 ■ ■ 1 * ■ ■■■' I
ill* la (iini|iitlgii Mnlliuil*.
Contrasting earlier campaigns with
those of more recent years, it is pos
sible u discern a decided Improvement
In the relative Import nice of what
may be called the spectacular eie
incuts. The torchlight proeestdon, the
wholesale illumination of the hoiiBcs
of partisans on the occasions of such
a procession, the organization of bo i
I' i of men clad in some fantastic girb
these thing* arc* plainly less congen
ial to uur people at the end of the
century than they were In its middle,
or even durinlg the score of years after
in.- civil war. They are essentially
childish, and the nation Is discarding
them as It grows older. Inst'-ad of
"fuss and feathers," the Influence of
various and sober-minded appeals to!
the reason is evidently growing. The
m;< -s«-h ; tIII go to "see a free show"
In fact, they go in greater numbers
than ever, us the growing facilities of
communication render the gathering
of vast crowds easier, but they regard
It oniy iu the light of a performance.
New York Kveufng Dost.
Iii Hi* <; i iiiiiiiIrh nr tin- Kniurw.
i Ik- orator stopped to take a drink
lit w Iter. Ah If llliH had been a signal
agrud upon by the toughs In the au
dience there broke out instantly ft
(iisnlltoUi of cabbages, dead cats, nnd
other political campaign {>ropertlea,
and tb» Rifted spellbinder htuolly re*
treated behind the sheet-iron curtain.
Uni) foi a moment, however, did the
>1 sotd« i ii ian supreme \ bullet
pro it phon 'graph, with steal tiicga
pbuna attachment, wa pished upon
the . t ige Its rmr of oratory Instant*
l> drowned the noise made by the ills
0 ijetly eji'in. lit that Was seekiliR to
throttle free spec. h and the meeting
pr>-*e tied to a triumph int coin litdon
etoe itoi ad oil m i it,i sen e at bad
trt H plied over the Mail (‘hit MRU
1 11 Ini lie
%•)«• ilui l lilt % klWliltW
Mayor Kle. t .vines sml County Cum
no douet tliown . f AMnnta are push
ihr a tooji t fur an in|U. .lin t ft urn tha
i oiiiitM.ii of ninth tleoigia to li.iug
w it 11 to the ii> named din Mai ta
detail to purchase a tract ot laud,
I’ 'h 't*s ■ -oa »i ii , in the mol at.un- u(
Uoito tl.uigi* at smile thii it shrtii
• Oil'.,; ale Mb .lotaSt and hMht thsca
an * IioMUoUs imnuir Ciom Ms rm
VIVlUr UU ailUldUit ot IUft.UMIt,>VV gal
luiei i n purity par day would b« built
to Atlanta and be iwiriud througu
lair- i aiim lu ini) lorn-r ot tha
*,tly
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON VII, NOV. 18 LUKE XVII:
ll-IO,
Tim Ten l.epera I leuuoed — "IS* V*
Thunk fill" Cal. 81 l»—Leprony u Type
of Mu and It* KITarM—Tho Cry for
Help The Grateful line.
11. “Ah he w rlil." A* they were going.
"Through the mid*i of." It. V. margin,
"between," on the bonier* of, In the mid
dle way between, "Pitinurla and Galilee-*'
Doing i net wind, toward tho Jordan,
which In afterward* ernaaed, und Went
•otithward, through J'erea, toward Jeiu
<ulcni
12. "Ten men that were Icpera,” Nino
probably were Jew* and one a Kama titan:
foil the eomfnunlty of defilement, nil
being nutcu*i*, broke down the barrier*
of nullnnallty. "VVhlolt Htaod ufar off."
"llelng forbidden by the law to approach
other*; If wit* a aort of quarantine to pie
vi lit tin- gprcait of tin illneaMe or the de
filement of other* lace Lev. 13; tfi; NtlA.
5: 2>.”—Clodel.
13. "And thej" (of thcmaclv**. without
waiting lo be apokeii to, a* the Greek
hIihwhI ‘‘lifted up tllelr volt;**" t»o a* lo
In- hi urd a long way) and raid, Jeatl*.
Miiater fdlng, appropriately here, the
term peculiar lo Mike, which dlgiillle*
i ulerMhlp, authority lill»*. "Have mercy
on u*,” in whui manner needed no ex
planation.
It. And win n hr raw tin in," lie turn
ed and looked when he heard their cry.
Ilo aaw their need, the r dealre, and lllelr
faith. Me aaw not only their d xeared
bodle*. blit llolr heart*. "lie Hill linlo
them." Itow iearly the Havlor ulwnyi
vsaa to gt aul Ida mighty healing piat n
wlon be *nw the falnteat dealre for ha
In-Ip, noil fnltli a* it grain of muaturd
geeill "<bi allow youraelvi* unto tie
prb ald " VVIleb a leper Wild cured, h fore
he could be re*to|. ,| to roelety, lie Wild re
quired to abov, hlniaelf to the prlrat, to
make an oiT, ring, and to hr- oillelitlly pro
nounced clean. A* they went, they
were clemmed." After they had ahdwn
tlielr fnllh by obi d enee. It wa* done unto
them according to llulr faith.
18. "And run nf tlnm 1 it nod
buck " Not III dl*ediedlcnee to Jean*, for
he would ipibklv obey, but lo ubiilb ico
to tip* hlgln-t duly of gratitude and love.
The other* went on lo their raid and
formal obedient'! , "III Idm Hie appropri
ate m idlin'nt wa* awakened, and the
light eoiultlet follow-ib Me reeognlX d
Hod u* Hn* aouree of the gre at blearing to
Idm. and made the air n rmtiid a* he r<
traced Ida HiepM with »ong* and about*
of prulae to (loil, Me would have ttery
liorly know of the divine men) tllUHlta'i I
lit Id* in*' Ann rlcun com.
Pi. "I 'i II d, w o on Id* fio-e," The ell*
lomary token of n vr t ehee and honor,
"And he w-i* a Kamiil'ltmi." Untrained In
Hie ti'ui* religion, and proluildv aeparnted
from 1h» cilu t* a* nn n n* they found
tbcrit-idvr t ■ ired Thl* man fi ll nil Up
more Up- gom it*** of Jc*u* In liettldig
him.
in. "Tliv i iiiii h,iill mu'll- Ihee whole."
Ah : i 11 hail I.* i*ii rilli-ij of III" I, proxy, thlx
Impin'J tinit tin Hiitriiii pill) f mi ml ii Ush
er riilrliiml In ulliiK. Hli'l wax llie wlml ■
In «<>ul mm w.ll hx Pfl.ly III* llrxl fu III
hud I-■ n Miiiirl.nl (iii hix 111! 11 ti «r: lilx
grateful lull" *. hnwi I Hi (I I he hi i| Ii larg
er lull It, I.y wlilili In. ri.iilil rccelva xplr*
liual blexdnip uml lie made h now man
In i In 1*1 .Ii i iix.
17 "Ami Ji- pm iiiihv. i i Ing " "fint In
any woriln ihnl l.-nl In on nitrreil, lull to
the liingiuigc nf the < lr< tim«taui ex nml
lho oci'.ixiun." Kendrick. "Ilul where are
i li«* nine?" (Ii S'. In i" Vi.i. they once?
ii) When* are 111»• v nnw? 13) Where wall
I hey ho hereafter?- Van Horen, They
hull g'im* i'll In ri.l.l an.| literal olNajlclc'i*
l.i tin i'iin.maii.1 of Je-ne, not haling hue
nr nmi111 nili■ rnnugh to X' e that they conhl
obey and rsptcxx their Inn ; ihnt true ftf
f* i*lIpii lx tlii* hlghext Obi'dlenee,
lx. "There are not found that returned
in give glory to Hod " "IngrnlHude lx
line nf the niDXt Iinlierx.il and deeply
settled nf human vlocx, and our I,old wax
perfectly familiar wlili It. Hui In thlx
liixtiinie ho w .a moved l.y thu depth of
thlx Ih.ioklexHln x. J|.; felt ax If all hix
l/e lie II11 ‘Wire falling Into dorp, illelif
gruve.' Hanilirldgi- Hlhle
Mnllnax of the At non.
It la remarkable how many educated
people sei m to have vague notion*
about the apparent mot Iona of the
moon. The able painting In which tin
arils! represented the new moon lining
in the emu contains no absurdity for
them. A little care in noting the
course of the moon throughout a
month's revolution would give them
some now Ideas. The fact that the
'noon moves i sisterly among the star*
from night to night would lx* hailed by
them u.i u new discovery should they
chance to make it themselves. Per
haps even inure hazy Ideaa exist re
garding the explanation of the phases
of the moon. The writer once met it
n ry Intelligent young woiius-i pub
lic school teacher, fu fact- who hon
estly thought that the moon's phases
were dee to the shadows of the earth'
— <1 T. II. in New York Mall.
PEHTINENT PHILOSOPHY.
A foul Ik nearly always a great
talker.
In every happy home the III bio Ih a
lot cleaner than tin cookbook.
A woman prays moat when aim lx in
love, and u map when he'x in trouble.
A woman that has no tnnn to love
h< r lx almost as ttuhnppy ux a do* that
Iiuh nobody to wash him
Generally when a woman thinks khe
looks "ui ti. tie," kite ought to la> mud <
to go uinl tomb her lour.
When a woman past to disappear.!
from xlglit for a few weeks, it is u xlgtt
she lx getting new teeth,
A woman b tit via an proud ax when
her boy voluntarily w»k* for a fork
w ilh w ln> h to eat lit • pin.
You can educate a woman alt her
UUtIII ui life, ull'l kh'* Will lievei g,(
over speaking of a dead person as "the
remains"
When a woman g* t» w.ddlns pies.
• nt fiom another woman that she sent
one to, It always make* h«r mad II it
didn't mot inure Ih in In-fa dht
|te|Mtbl|rai! orating aie nuking the
full dluuer pill the.r theme, and th*
IW’Wi.mrati, i iieli.!a' are making a
• o.niter claim that its loniontu ,IM|
muru t * i a it mi It uat the rmiutfy
nerds, 111kkr»»1111,* nt pottiira, tn gome
one to go an Ulid and iieuMiid that ih
contents he loiter rooked What t*
the iditttltyt of a *»*ll bile I dium r
path with • irt) thing spwlled |<i |g,.
auditing’
RUSSIA OF TODAY.
Tha i)«pr«mlni I'ovrrty of tu« ItuMtan
Pwplt.
Poverty ami Illiteracy naturally go
hand In band. In no other great
country of the world la poverty—mtf
vernal, monotonous, hopeless poverty
—the national characteristic of the
people. The only parallels I know arc
< lu some of tlie Balkan states. At al
most any point In rurnl Husain you
might thluk yourself lu (ho Interior of
Bervla or Bulgaria, except that even In
these countries the poor peasant Is
not quite so poor, and his bearing Is
more Independent, Ix>ng train Jour
neys In Kussiu are depressing experi
ences. Once past the limits of the
towns, every village Is the same a
wide street or two—not really streets,
of course, but deep dust or mud, ae
cording to the season, und from n
score to a couple of hundred gray, ono
story wooden houses, usually dilapi
dated, und a church, Russia Is still
first and foremost an agricultural
country; she produces Including (Po
land) two thousand million bushels of
grain, and grain products form more
than half her total exports to Europe;
therefore, at the right season, there
are great stretches of waving fields
and lalnr, the huge mounds of straw,
whence the grain has been threshed.
But It Is In her most fertile districts
that the worst famines occur, for fa
mine a little ono every year, a big
ono every seven years lias now be* „
come a regular occurrence. And the
country, as ono dies across It, leaves
tlie general Impression of Indigence.
In sharp nnd painful contrast with
western Kurope, there are virtually no
fat stackyards, no cosey farm bouse,
no chateau of the local lands owner, no
squire's hall pitiful assemblages of
men and women Just on the hither sldo
of the starvation line. And, from all
one learns, disease In rife. Whole vil
lages, l was told by men who knew
them well, are poisoned with syphilis,
uml the authorities, gravely alarmed
at this terrible state of things, hive
appointed of late, several commis
sions of Inquiry to devise remedial
measures. Drunkenness, too, Is a na
tional vice, the peasant having his
regular bout whenever he lias saved
up a small sum From "Russia of
Today,” by Henry Norman In the Oc
tober Scribner’s.
FAMILY OF DESTINY.
Visitor* to Cor*Im Ho f*» H « Napoleon'*
ftlrllip'flt «*,
Visitors to Corsica always go to soo
the tiouao where Napoleon win horn.
A sojourn In this Napoleonic mansion
hi ih tho Imagination working when
one remember* (ho children that wore
born therein. There was Joseph, tho
eldest son; Napoleon, the second; La
den, Louis, Jerome, Caroline-, Wise,
Pauline all tho children of nn oh- ^
reure notary, and In tho course of time
fund not so long, either) they wore
crown torn from the beads of kings,
wore them defiantly, too, In the sight
of the whole world, and caused them
selves to ho embraced as brother by
<mperors and kings, and great nations
fell at their feet and delivered the
land and people to a band of Corsican
adventurers, Napoleon, an emperor of
France; Joseph, king of Spain; Louis,
king of Holland; Jerome, king of
Westphalia; 1’uiillno and Kllse, I*rln
cesses of Italy; Caroline, queen ol
Naples—-all of these remarkable peo
ple were born and educated In this
modest house up a bark street by u
woman unknown to fame. Letitia
Ramollno, who at the ago of fourteen,
man led a man equally obscure. There
Is scarcely a talc In tho famed “Ara
bian Nights" that sounds more fabu
lous. There Is plenty of food for re
flection In a visit to tho Casa liuoua
parte.
A B flippy Olil A-m In lliirinnli.
When JJurmun parents are past their
primes their children pray them to
"noboHat," which means that they
should he at tho children's charge for
the remainder of their lives, as the
children had tlrst been at their
parents'. Thu turning point is not
marked by tiny formality, hut a child
approaching parents on' a solemn oc
casion adopts tho gestures of venera
tion. The aged are not Idle; they pre
serve u great elasticity of mind and
Interest In things; they study their re
ligious hook and occupy themselves
with their grandchildren. When they
uro too old to go on pilgrimages with
the others they keep tho house ami tell
their head* alone. 'Fhe old people
wear plainer clothes than tho young
and, according to old llurmeae fashion,
less of It. Tho human dignify of th.*
aged Is of a kind that apparel can not
add to. Bleeped In the spirit of llmld*
hl*m the aged never yield to auger
Wanting neither for necessities nor
honor, the pathos of tludr serene old
ago Is purely thut of yearn. A peace
ful end Is their lot. Ferrer's Book on
the Chinese,
Iha ray.,"
I'uii* C’lftnant XIV, haa la «n Ml 1*4
Ui* ‘ hub tout I'upa," tic, ,tuni> h« l»*
*ut'»l « bull in 1771 fttipitrcMlng th» or
'••T of Juanita | hit *o< My m
.uhllahiut by ImutlUft *l«- laoftlu In I Ml
to tnUhii*n the |H.w*r of I ho l‘op«v
l'(i>tiit.uita. Kitty a to I national Utah
o|>a ftar* to he rt|)HM n» rnantlca,
»n4 It l« < mo tho m at inthirnttnl ao
■ Icly in lit* tKitrvh In IKM, alien IM
*ulta nera hi tha hci«ht uf »h*lf
|atftnr, Hfta ,*l |iubl|*he<t « book ftgtltMl
>•,' ill im I Item th at t ic, III. r Hill i
tt»i» tic. lift. .I, until Franca, l*,>rt««»'
'I' 'i» t. I >•! h. r . tciult ir > of I'Uro,*
ilrnuii |v,| lh.ll tha |V|M abolish Ih*
*n4i-( » Kl> K a a* ftftftr«ai4 rntuM If
l*la- VII , In IH1
Tkft wan vhk tha ku« la mIIIM
'* * grnU alakft,