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THE NORTHWESTERN. BENHCnoTK.K « OIIISON. K.U and Pah*. LOUP CITY. - .NEB. ffBppinssa Is about the only thing a tnan continues Lo search for after be has found it The air is so clear in Zululand that objects seven miles away can be dis tinctly seen by starlight. It is easier to preach than it is to practice, therefore It must be easier to be a clergyman than a physician. Said an Irish Judge to a prisoner: "You are to be hanged by the neck until dead—and I Lope it will prove a warning to you.” If expectations are realized, the out put of copper for 1900 will reach 32#, 000,000 pounds, valued at $42,250,000, the largest on record Henry Graham gives the following dates regarding the introduction of trees into Scotland: The lime, 1664; the laburnum, 1704; the larch, 1727. According to the views of a British sea captain, who was in the Gulf of Mexico during the Galveston tempest, the disturbance was partly volcanic. The British naval authorities are reported to be making experiments with a new submarine boat, which, it is stated, will be able successfully to encounter the largest battleship afloat. Lo. the poor Cherokee is in the lat est fall fashion. He has been defraud ed in the auditor’s office of the terri tory to the extent of about $194,000. The auditor seems to have lived up to bis somewhat limited opportunities. Monsieur Danysz of the Pasteur In stitute In Paris has discovered a mi crobe which breeds pestilence among rats. He has had cultures containing the rat-destroying bacilli tested oil farms and In warehouses with much success. In half of the cases the popu lation of rats was completely destroy ed; In other cases the uumber was greatly reduced. The people of Swarthmore, Pa., have decided to erect a monument to Benja min West, the celebrated painter. West was born In Swarthmore 162 years ago, \ and became the painter to George III. I of England and the greatest English painter of his day. He lies buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral, in London, be tween Sir Christopher Wren and Sir Joshua Reynolds. Nothing has ever been done to honor his memory In Am erica. A very popular Israelite died in the Tenth ward of New York eily last week, and a number of mourners fol lowed his remains on t,foot to Grand Street Ferry, intending to cross to Brooklyn and ride to the cemetery in the trolley cars. The gate keeper found seven thrifty gentlemen in the curtained hearse, serenely seated ou the coffin, smoking cigarettes. They had adopted this means to save their ferriage. A new needle, which must be a de light to housewives, has been invent ed in Germany. It has a prolongation behind the eye of smaller diameter than the bored part of the needle, with groovs In it to receive the thread. The object of it is to facilitate the passing of the needle through the noles in but tons, when sewing them on. The thread lies in the grooves, and hence the needle passes much more easily and rapidly. A faeetoua paragraph writer suggests that it will soon he necessary for some one to start a daily geography in order to keep up with the changes going on in the world. He might with as much justification have said that we need a daily history, or a daily text-book in natural philosophy, for the same rea son. Events now move so rapidly that any book of information gets out of date much more quickly than at any other period in the world's history. For the present, however, it will be the daily lesson in geography rather than the daily geography that will chiefly concern the rising generation. The search for convenient ways of transportation by which the products of the Sudan may reach the outer world has called attention to a re markable phenomenon of vegetable life on some of the headwaters and tributaries of the Nile. This consists of enormous growths of papyrus and other plants, completely covering the streams and forming carpets of vege tation two or three feet thick, beneath which flows the water. Navigation by small boats is, of course, entirely in terrupted by this obstruction, which is in places suplemented by vines and clinging plants which arch the streams from bank to hank. Heavy floods oc casionally sweep away the accumula tions of plants, but they are quick!* reformed. Henry Miller, the Inventor of tht steam and air brake for steam rail roads, has died at Chappaqua, N. Y. in his 80th year. He studied out his invention after the great Norwalk drawbridge accident in 1854, and it wa. patented in 1855, but notwithstanding successful trials on the New York New Haven and Hartford and Michi gan Central railroads in the two fol lowing years, it was twenty years be fore It was adopted into general use; all such brakes now in use were pat terned upon his invention. TALM AGE’S SERMON. SOME LESSONS IN CHRISTIAN WARFARE. Kmoaraclns Wurili for Tliow Engaged In lh< K>lll«* of I-lfe — lioil’f Sol diers Kever Turn IlHdiwird — Divine Premise'. (Copyright, 1SU0, 1-ouls Klopvch. N. ’/.) In tills discourse Dr. Talmuge fol lows Joshua on his triumphal march and speaks encouraging words to all who are engaged in the battle of this life; text, Joshua 1. 5, “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” Moses was dead. A beautiful tradi tion says the Lord kissed him and In that act drew forth the soul of the dy ing lawgiver. He had been buried, only one person at the funeral, the same one who kissed him. But God never takes a man away from any piace of usefulness until lie has some one ready to replace him. The Lord does not go looking around amid a great variety of candidates to find some one especially fitted for the vacated posi tion. He makes a man for that piace. Moses has passed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the platform of history so solidly that all the ages echo with the tread. He was a magnificent lighter, but he always fought on the right side, and he never fought unless God told him to fight. Me gui ms military equipment nuui God, who gave him the promise at the start, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” God fulfilled this prom ise, although Joshua's first battle was with the spring freshet, the next with a stone wall, the next leading on a regiment of whipped cowards and the next battling against darkness, wheel ing the sun and the moon into his battalion, and the last against the king of terrors, death—five great vic tories. As a rule when the general of an army starts out in a war he would like to have a small battle in order that he may get his own courage up and rally his troops and get them drilled for greater conflicts, but the first undertaking of Joshua was great er than the leveling of fort Pulaski, or the assault of Gibraltar, or the overthrow A the Bastille. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the spring freshet. The snows of Mount I^ebanon had just been melt ing. and they poured down into the valley, and the whole valley was a raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand on one bank, and th°y look across and see Joshua and the Israel ites, and they laugh and say: "Aha, they .annot disturb us until the fresh ets fall! It is impossible for them to reach us.” But after awhile they look across the water, and they see a move ment in the army of Joshua. They say: “What is the matter now? Why, there must be a panic among those troops, and they are gbing to fly, or perhaps they are going to try to march across the river Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic.” But Joshua, the chieftain, ■ looks at his army and cries, "Forward, ! march!” and they start for the bank of the Jordan. One mile ahe?.d go two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than, by an Almighty flat, Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marcel right on without getting their feet wet, over the bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and peb bles, until they get to the other bank. Then they law hold of the oleanders and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank 30 or 40 feet high, and having gained the other bank they clap their shields an 1 their cymbals and sing the praises of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank than the waters i begin to dash and roar, and with a ! terrific rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. No Going; Harkwurtl, Aa the hand of the Lord God is j taken away from the thus uplifted wa ! ters—waters perhaps unlifted half a mile—they rush down, and some of l the unbelieving Israelites siy: “Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why could not those waters have staid parted? Because perhaps we may want to go back. O Lord, we are engaged in a risky business. Those Canaanltes may eat us up. How if we want to go back? Would it not have been a mure complete miracle if the laird had parted the waters to h-t us come i through and kept them parted to let I us go back if we are defeated?” My ! friends, God makes no provision fur a Christian retreat. He clears the path all the way to Canaan. To go back is to die. The same gatekeepers that swung back the amethystine and crys talline gate of the Jordan to let Israel pass through now swung shut the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to keep the Israelites from going back. Victory ahead, but water 30 feet deep behind, surging to cie.ath and darkness and won. But you say. “Why did not these Canaanites, when they had such a splendid chance, standing on the top of the bank 30 or 40 feet high, completely demolish those poor Israelites down in the river?" I will tell you why. God had I made a promise, and ho was going to j keep it. "There sh ill not any man he ! able to stand before thee all the days : of thy life.” But this'is no place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command, “Forward, march!” In the distance there Is a long grove of trees, and at the end of the grove is a city, it is j a city with arbors, a city with wails I eeemlng to reac* to the heavens, to buttress the very sky. It Is the great metropolis that ca.urabnds the moun tain pass. It is .Jericho. That city was afterward etptured by Pompey ind once by HeroA the Great and once igain by the Mohammedans, but this campaign the Lord plans. There shall be no swords, no shields, no battering ram. There shall be only one weapon of war and that a ram’s horn. The horn of the slain ram was sometimes taken, and holes were punctured In It, and then the musician would put the instrument to his lips, and he would run his fingers over this rude musical Instrument and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind of weapon. ?even priests were to take these rude, rustle musical Instruments, and they were to go around the city every day for six days—one a day for six days — and then one the seventh day they were to go around blowing these rade musical Instruments seven times, and then at the close of the seventh blow ing of the rara’e horns on the seventh day the peroration of the whole scene was to be a shout, at which those great walls should tumble from cap stone to base. Victory Follow* Defeat* The seven priests with the rude mu sical instruments pass all around tha city walls on the first day and score a failure. No so much as a phee of plaster broke loose from the wall, not so much as a loosened rock, not so nueh as a piece of mor‘ar lest from its place. "There,” say the unbeliev ing Israelites, "did 1 not tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The mea oi going arounu ine cay wan those musical instruments and expect ing in that way to destroy it. Joshua has been spoiled. He thinks because he has overthrown and conquered the spring freshet he can overthrow the stone wall. Why, it Is not philosophic. Do you not see there is no relation between the blowing of tlmse musical instruments and the knocking down of the wall? it is not philosophic.” And I suppose there were many wise acres who stood with their brows knitted and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of the left hand arguing it all out and showing that it was not possible that such a cause could produce such an effect. And I suppose that night iu the en campment there was plenty of carica ture, and if Joshua had been nom inated for any high military position he would not have received many votes. Joshua’s stock was down. The second day the priests blowing the musical instruments go around the city and again a failure. The third day and a failure, the fourth day and a failure, fifth day and a failure, sixth day and a failure. The seventh day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua is up early in the morning and examines the troops, walks all ab.ut, looks at the city wall. The priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around one, all around twice, three times, four times, five times. Fix times, seven times, and a failure. Th re i9 only one more thing to do, ami that is to utter a great shout. I see the Is raelitish army straightening them selves up, filling their lungs for a vo ciferation such as never was heard be fore and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he cries out to his host, “Shout, for the ixird hath given you the city.” All to gether the troops shout: “Down, Jeri cho! Down Jericho!” And the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under! She falls! Crash go the wal's and temples, the towrers, the palaces, the air blackened with the dust. The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Canuanites rommingle, and Joshua, standing there in the debris of the walls, hears a voice saving, “There shall not any man he able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” lit t* R4>iur!t i/; nvrrgarr« Only one home spare;!. Who lives there? Some groat king? No. Some woman distinguished for great kindly deeds? No. She bad been conspicu ous for her crimes, it ia the house of Rahab. Why was her house spared? Because she had been a great sinner? No, but because she repented, demon strating to all the ages that there is mercy for the chief of sinners. The red cord of divine injunction reaching from her window to the ground, so that when the people saw the red cord they knew it was the divine indication that they should not disturb the premises, making us think of the di vine cord of a Savior’s deliverance, the red cord of a Savior's kindness, the red cord of a Savior’s mercy, the red cord of our rescue. Mercy for the chief of sinners. Rut your trust in that God, and no damage shall befall ' you. When our world shall be more terribly surrounded thau was Jericho, even by the trumpets of the Judgment 1 day and the hills and the mountains, ; the metal bones and ribs of nature shall break, they who have had Ra hab’s faith shall have Rahab’s deliv j erance. ; When wrapped in fire the realms of ether glow And heaven’s lust thunder shakes the earth below Thou, undismayed, shalt o’er the ruins smile And light thy torch at nature’s fune ral pile. Rut Joshua's troops may not halt here. The command is, “Forward, march!” There is tne city of Al. It ! must be taken. Mow shall it he taken? A scouting party comes back and says Joshua, we can do that without you. It is going to he a very easy Job. You must stay here while we go and cap j ture it.” They march with a small regiment In front of that city. The men of Ai look at them unc' give one yell, and the Israelites run like rein deer. rihe northern troops at Bull Run I dlil not make such rapid tlmo as those Israelites with the Canaanltes after them. They never cut such a sorry figure as whon they were on the re treat You who go out In the battles if God with only hair a force Instead jf your taking the men of A1 the men of Ai will take you. Look at the church of God on the retreat. The Bornesian cannibals ate up Munson, he missionary. “Fall back!” said a great many Christian people. "Fall jack, O church of God! Borneo will never be taken. Do you not tee the Bornesian cannibals have eaten up Munson, the missionary?” Tyndall de livers his lecture at the University of Glasgow, and a great many good peo ple say: “Fall back, O church of God! Do you not see that Christian philoso phy is going to he overcome by world ly philosophy? Fall back?” Geology plunges Its crowbar Into the moun tains, and there are a great many peo ple who say: “Scientific investigation Is going to over throw tho Mosaic ac count of the creation. Fall bark!” (s<»<l*ft Soldier* Mu*t Advance. But friends of God never have had any right to fall back. Joshua falls on his face In chagrin. It is the only time you ever see the back of his head. He falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says, “O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at. all brought thia people over Jordan to deliver us Into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would t) God we had been con tent and dwelt on the other aide of Jordan. For the Canaanltes and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall environ us rouud and cut off our name from the earth.” I am very glad Joshua sai 1 that. Before it seemed as if he were a supernatural being and therefore could not be an example to us, but I find he is a man, he is only a man. Just as sometimes you find a man under severe opposi tion or in a bad state of physical health, or worn out with overwork, lying down anu sighing about being defeated. I am encouraged when I hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in the dust, God comes and rouses him. How does he rouse him ? By compli mentary apostrophe? No. He says, "Get thee up. Wherefore lies; thou upon thy face?” Joshua rises, and, I warrant you, with a mortified look. But his old courage comes back. The fact was that was not his battle. If he had been in it he would have gone on to victory. He gathers his troops around him and says: "Now, let us go up and capture the city of Ai. Let us go up right away.” They march on. He puls the majority of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends comparatively small regiments up in front of the city. The men of Ai come out with a shout. The small regiments of Israelites in strata gem fall back, and fall back, and when all the men of Ai have left the city and are In pursuit of these scattered, or seemingly scattered, regiments, Joshua stands on a rock—I see lit* locks flying la the wind as he prints his spear toward the doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it is put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city march down, and the flying Israelites return, and between these two waves of Is raelitlsh prowess the men of Ai are destroyed, and the Israelites gain the victory; and while I see the curling smoko of that destroyed city on the sky, and while I hear the huzza of the Israelites and the groau of the Ca naanites, Joshua hears something louder than it all. ringing and echo ing through his soul, “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." No t’laco to Slop. But this is no place for the ho»t of Joshua to stop. "Forward, march!” cries Joshua to the troops. There is the city of Gibeon. It has put itself under the protection of Joshua. They send word: "There are five kings after us. They are going to destroy us. Send troops quick. Send us heip right away.” Joshua lias a three day's march, more than double quick. On the morning of the third day he is be fore the enemy. There are two long lines of battle. The battle opens with great slaughter, hut the Canaanites soon discover something. They say: "Tnat. Is Joshua. That is the man who conquered the spring freshet and knocked down the stone walls of Jericho ami destroyed the city of Ai. There is no use fighting." They sound a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing them over the rocks, while the catapults of the sky pour a volley of hailstones into the val ley, and all the artillery of the heav ens, with bullets of iron, pound the Cannanites against Hie ledges of Belt - horon. "Oh,” says Joshua, "this is surely a victory!” "But do you not see the sun is going down? l>ook out when a good man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua ra'ses tils face, radiant with prayer, and looks | at the descending sun over Gibeon and ( at the faint, if scent of the moon, for j you know the queen of the night | sometimes will linger around the : palaces of the day. Pointing one hand t at the descending sun and the other ; at the faint crescent of the moon, in the name of that God w ho shaped the worlds and moves the worlds he cries: "Sun. stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou. moon, in the valley of Ajalon!" They hailed. Whether It was by refraction of the sun’s rays or by the stopping of the whole planetary system 1 do nor know and do not care. I leave it to the Christian Scientists and the infidel scientists to settle that question, while I tell you 1 have seen the s inn> thing. "Wh.it?" say you. "Mat the sttn standing still?” Yes. The same miracle is performed nowa days. The wicked do not live out hall their day, and their sun sets at noon. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON IX.. DEC. 2. MATT. XIX: ie-2a. The Klrli Y<^<r Kuler—Children, H«* Hard It Is for Them That Trust In Klt'liei to Enter Into tlie Kingdom of Got! Murk, 10-4. 16. "And, behold, one came." As ho was going from the house where he had blessed the children (Matk 10: 13-17). He earns running (Mark). showing h!s earn estness. "No common reason will ever lead the Oriental to break hlH alow, se date and dignified walk Ewing. I hey that will have eternal life must run for It because the devil, the luw, sill, death, and hell follow them."—Bunyan. "And said unto him." As he kneeled before him (Mark). Hood Master (or teacher), what good thing shall I do." What act of sacrifice or heroism, what generous action, what penance or suffering He has the idea of purchasing, of deserving of inheriting eternal life "That 1 may have (Mark. ‘Inherit’) eternal life." Have It as a permanent possession. In the home of his father. 20. “All these thingv have I kept." Ob served, guarded so that they have nol been violated, and this he ha*! done from his "youth up.” He had sincerely tried to live a good moral life. He had guid ed his actions by these laws in outward form, with good success. He did not re (olleet any failure, uny special cases of disobedience. Vet lie was not satisfied, and he naked, "What lack 1 yet?" Why ami not conscious that 1 possess eternal | life? 21. "Jesus mill unto Dim. l.oos ng ;u him with a fixed arid earnest gaxe. And he loved hint (Murk). He was so noble, so earnest and sincere in his seeking, so lovable, that the soul of Jesus was drawn ottt toward him. And ail the more be cause he was not satisfied with any out ward keeping of the law. "If thou wilt (wishes) to) lie perfect." Complete, want ing nothing. Jesus saw Just what tho young man lacked and applied the rem edy. "Sell that thou bust." Not for him self, but to "give to tlie poor." To use hts wealth for Hod and humanity. Jesus here touched the center of the young man's difficulty, lie was willing to com mit t<f Uod everything except his prop erty. "And thou shall have treasure In heaven you wnt hate -ihe charai ter which belong): to heaven, and (Sod will re ward you abundantly there for all your self-denials for his sake. "And come." Come to Jesus, to his character and per son, join tl:e company of the apostles who were to carry on the kingdom of God In the world. "And follow me." To fol low Jesus (hen meant to tie n personal attendant on Ids ministry; to go about with him from place to place, as well as (o Imitate and obey hint. 22. "He went away sorrowful." Luke -ays he l-ci.-ante < xeeedlngly sorrow ful; Mark, that Ids ( ounten tin e fell, the Same word ns dial rendered "lowering" when die Savior was talking about the sky (Malt. IK: S). "The signs of a storm were on Ills face, die gloom of a heavy wrath and <11 -appointment was In his heart.” T'or he had gleet possessions." He went away reluctantly, after u great struggle, but he vent. 23. "A rich mart shall hardly (with dif ficulty) enter Into the kingdom of hea ven." Murk explains it of those "who trust In riches," to which trust the rich are specially tempted. 24. "It Is easier for n camel to go through the cyi of a needle." The camel being the largest anitn.il with which the Jews were ucpualnted, Its name became proverbial for denoting anything remark ably large; and "a camel’s passing through a needle's eye came, by conse i|iietiec, as appears from some rabbinical writings, to express a thing absolutely impossible.”—George Campbell, Oriental I’roverbs. "Just as soon will un elephant pass through the spout of a kettle.”— Holier! s. 2.1. "Who tlien ran be saved?" for the great body of people wanted riches, whether they succeeded or not. If the most favored and prominent class could not enter the kingdom, who could? And the difficulty was till the greater because prosperity was one of the promised bless ings of the Messiah's reign; and wealth was especially necessary for the king dom as they hud pictured It to their own minds. 2*i. "With men tills is impossible.”. On worldly principles, b> worldly motives, by the power of man It cannot tic done "With God all things are possible.” He ean remove these great difficulties. He ean renew the heart. He can take away the love of riches, lie can transform the Ivlndratices into steps heavenward. He can put Into a man's heart new motlSes, that will make him more diligent in busi ness than the love of riches can, that will make him full of usefulness ami help | fulness. His very riches can be made to | help on God's kingdom. Ifp Knew HI* Father** WlilflU*. The youngest son of (he late Lord Russell sailed for South Africa early in the year as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. The occasion was marked by one of those intimate touches of family affection which ex cite universal sympathy. As the great troopship swung slowly from her moorings the lord chief justice, stand ing oil the quay, failed to descry bis son among the crowd of faces that lined the bulwarks. At last he gave a shrill whistle, using his fingers in a manner well known to schoolboys, and tiie evidently familiar call quickly brought young Russell to the side of the ship to wave farewell. Secret Kept for t enturle*. Chinese porcelain was common in Kurope for 400 years before a German potter succeeded in finding out the process of making it. This Chinese pottery is scattered all over the world, and everywhere valued, but nowhere was the distribution more curious than in western Canada. lOarly in the cen tury a Chinese junk was cast uvvay on the Pacific coast of America just south of Vancouver island, and its cargo of willow pattern plates fell into the hands of the Hudson Bay Company’s officers. Still in the remotest trading posts of the fur traders a few' speci mens remain, licforin* In Yaclitlug The modern steam yacht has been a great factor in the reform of the wild young yachtsman. The accommoda tions and attractions such a vessel af fords to ladies have made the cruise one of the delights of the season, and the humanizing and civilizing influ ence of their society has had the in evitable beneficial effect. Thus there is less grog, less poker, and more true enjoyment than ever before, in the way of sport the advantages enjoyed arc wide and comprehensive. Rotated Hon»il t°r IJAnte. . The ashes of Dante. In an Iron urn. » stolen from a church In Ravenna and long secreted In the outer wall of a chapel, are about to be transported with great ceremony to the new 11 brary palaee at Florence. It seems that a sculptor named Pawl baa for years possessed this extraordinary treasure, and lias but recently handed It over to Florence, where Dante wa» born and whence he was exiled. 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