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THE NORTHWESTERN. BENSf IIOTER * OIHSON, Ed* and Pubs. LOUP CITY, - - NEB. Cincinnati girls are marrying dukes, counts, and things, and one Cincin nati belle, so the dispatches tell tie, has just knocked down a Cincinnati beau, but Cincinnati need not think she can hog the society swelldom of this re gion. Louisville, hereafter, is to pull off her prize fights in evening dress. The presentation shield intended for Gen. Baden-Powell, and which has been wrought from 200 Kruger aov erelgns. has been completed. Owing to the indisposition of the gallant officer, however, the date of its presentation has been deferred. He is expected to visit Durban soon, when the ceremony will take place. A steady advance in prosperity has marked the career of Charles M. Hays, of St. Louis. At the age of nineteen he was a clerk in that city at the office of the Southern Pacific Railroad. His salary was then $10 a month. At the age of forty-two he has just be-»n elect ed president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with a salary of $55,000 a year. A persevering gentleman in St. John, Kansas, has been convicted of violating the prohibitory law by sell ing whisky. There were forty-nine dis tinct violations of the law, and he has been sentenced to forty-nine months in jail, as well as a fine of $100 for each offense. As he cannot pay the $4,900 he must spend a day in jail for each half-dollar of the fine—over thirty years altogether. The Sober Scot Society has changed its name to the Scottish Self-Control Society, and has revised its constitu tion. The terms of membership are: 1. Not to drink anything before 12 noon, and not at any time treat any body, or to take a treat from anybody. 2. Not to give or take a drink as re muneration for anything in the way of service. The Duke of Sutherland is the president of the society, and imany high personages are members of it One day in the spring of 1884 Mrs. Frederick White of Coventry, N. Y., asked her husband to bring her a sack of flour from a near-by store. He •started to do so and that was the last she saw of him until one day last week, when he walked into the house with a sack of flour on his shoulder, saying as he set it down that he had not forgotten his errand. He has been in the far west, has accumulated a good deal of money and will take Mrs. White to his western home. The operations of the Walian mili tary to destroy or capture the notor ious brigand and murderer, Musso lino, have assumed the dimensions of a small campaign. The robber is hid ing in a cave on Mount Aspromonte, under the shadow of a great rock which is only accessible to the eagle. Some 650 troops and police form a cordon round the mountain. Musso lino's hiding place cannot even be reached by artillery, and it was there fore decided to blow up the rock with dynamite. Preparations to this end are now proceeding, and it is intend ed to displace a mass of rock 10,000 cubic metres in extent. The Archivist of Hanover has just come across a curious relic of the Seven Years’ War. It is a receipt given to a Hanoverian captain by a canon of Duisburg. The captain had learned that this ecclesiastic had been mak ing in public reflections on the Han overian army and the patriotic officer determined to punish the offence in the most expeditious manner—viz., by sending an adjutant forthwith to ad minister to the canon fifty blows with a stick. The officer faithfully carried out his instructions, and the document which the Archivist of Hanover has just unearthed is a receipt duly drawn up and signed by the canon admitting that he had received the fifty strokes from a stick an inch thick for his ■’stupid and frivolous calumnies against the regiment of Chasseurs.” Sir Thomas Drew's appointment as president of the Royal Hibernian Academy has awakened again the talk about the neglect of art In Ireland. Like everything el3e, are must be pecuniarily supported, or It dies a natural death. Art in Ireland is not countenanced either by government or by the wealthy, with the result that an artist finds it hard to moke out a liv ing. If an Irish artist wishes to live a little better than a peasant, he has to transfer his quarters to London, where patrons abound, if they are not always to be caught. Architects are in much the same position, likewise sculptors. Calculating the muses on a few potatoes is picturesque, but not paying. Scotland is not in a much bet ter position than Ireland, as in both countries genius and talent are starved Into mediocrity. It has been said that If General Washington should return to earth and make a trip from Mount Vernon to Boston over the old route, the only place he would lecognlze would he Annapolis. If this be true of the quaint old city which is the seat of the Vnited States Naval Academy, it is efrtainly not to be regretted. In re visiting any old home place It Is stim ulating to see the march of improve ments that has taken place; yet It is also a delight to go back and find some old scenes that still look familtar. TALMAGE’S skkmon FOR THE WORLD’S DISEN THRALL mlnt. A grrraon Bipedal)? Appropriate for the Chrlitma* Season — The Mhilon of the Nartonr of the World—1'roof That Uod I» Love. (Copyright, 1000, Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, Dec. 23.—In this dis course Dr. Talmage describes in a new way the sacrifices made for the world's disenthralment and deliverance. His text is r. John iv„ 16, ‘ God is love.” Perilous undertaking would it be to attempt a comparison between the at tributes of God. They are not like a mountain range, with here and there a higher peak, nor like the ocean, with here and there a profounder depth. We cannot measure Infinities. We would not dare to say whether his omnipo tence, or omniscience, or omnipresence, or Immutability, or wisdom, or justice, or love is the greater attribute, but th« one mentioned in my text makes deeper impression upon us than any other. It was evidently a very old man who wrote the chapter from which I take the text. John was not In his dotage, as Prof. Eichhorn assert ed, but you can tell by the repetitions in the epistle and the rambling style and that he called grown people "littlo children” that the author was probably an octogenarian. Yet Paul, in mid life mastering an audience of Athenian critics on Mars hill, said nothing stronger or more important than did the venerable John when he wrote the three words of my text, “God is love.” Indeed the older one gets the more he appreciates this attribute. The harshness and the combativeness and the severity have gone out of the old man, and he is more lenient and aware of his own faults, is more disposed to make excuses for the faults of others, and he frequently ejaculates. “Poor human nature!” The young minister preached three sermons on the justice of God and one on the love of God, but when he got old he preached three ! sermons on the love of God and one oa the justice of God. Christ** I>o*r«*nt tr> Earth. If high intelligences looked down and saw what was going on,they must have prophesied extermination, complete ex termination, of these offenders of Jeho vah. But no! Who is that coming out of the throne room of heaven? Who is that coming out of the palaces of the eternal? it is the Son of the Emperor of the universe. Down the stairs of the high heavens he comes till he reaches the cold air of a Decem ber night in Palestine and amid the bleatings of sheep and the lowing of cattle and the moaning of camels and the banter of the herdsmen takes his first sleep on earth and for 33 years invites the wandering race to return to God and happiness and heaven. They were the longest 33 years ever known in heaven. Among many high intelligences, what impatience to get him back' The Infinite Father looked down and saw his Son slapped and spit on and supperless and homeless, and then, amid horrors that made the i noonday heavens turn black in the face, his body and sou! parted. An 1 all for what? Why allow the Crown Prince to come on such an errand and endure such sorrows and die such a death? It was to invite the human race to put down its antipathies and resistance. It was because "God is love." Now, there is nothing beautiful in a shipwreck. We go down to look at the battered and split hulk of an old ship on Long Island or New Jersey coast. It excites our interest. We wonder when and how it came ashore and whether it was the recklessness of a pilot or a storm before which nothing could bear up. Human nature wrecked may interest the inhabitants of other worlds as a curiosity, but there is nothing lovely in that which has foundered on the rocks of sin and sorrow. Yet it was in that condition of moral break up that heaven moved to the rescue. It was loveliness hover ing over deformity. It W'as the life boat putting out into the surf that at tempted its demolition. It was har mony pitying discord. It was a living God putting his arms around a re creant world. Our World's Wickedness. But for this divine feeling I think our world would long ago have been demolished. Just think of the organ ized wickedness of the nations! See the abominations continental! Behold the false religions that hoist Moham med and Buddha and Confucius! Look at the Koran and the Shastra and the Zend-Avesta that would crowd out of the world the Holy Scriptures! Look at war, digging its trenches for the ' dead across the hemispheres! See the great cities, with their holocaust of destroyed manhood and womanhood! What blasphemies assail the heavens! What butcheries sicken the centuries! • What processions of crime and atrocity I and wm encircle the globe! If Justice ] had spoken, it would have said, “The . world deserves annihilation, and let | annihilation come.” If immutability had spoken, it would have said: “I have always been opposed to wicked ness and always will be opposed to it. The world is to me an affront infinite, and away with it.” If omniscience had spoken, it would have said: “I have watched that planet with minute and all comprehensive inspection, and I cannot have the offense longer con tinued.” If truth had spoken, it would have said, “1 declare that they who offend the law must go down under the law.” But divine love took a dif ferent view of the world's obduracy and pollution. It said: "I pity all those woes of the earth. I cannot stand piare and see no assuagement of those sufferings. I wiil go down and reform the world. 1 will medicate its wounds. I will calm its frenzy. I will wash off its pollution. I will become incarnat ed. 1 will take on my shoulders and upon my brow and into my heart the consequences of that world’s misbe havior. I start now, and between my arrival at Bethlehem and my ascent from Olivet I will weep their tears and suffer their griefs and die their death. Farewell, my throne, my crown, my scepter, my angelic environment, my heaven, till I have finished the work and come back!” God was never con quered but once, and that was when he was conquered by his own love. "God is love.” Christ the Comforter. If one paragraph of the creed seems to take you. like a child, out of the arms of a father, let the next para graph put you in the arms of a moth er. "As one whom his mother com forteth, so will I comfort you." Oh. what a mother we have in God! And my text is the lullaby sung to us when we are ill, or when we are maltreated, or when we are weary, or when we are trying to do better, or when we are be reft, or when we ourselves lie down to the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek of the mother against our cheek, and there sounds in it the hush of many mothers: "God is love.” This was the reason the Bible was written. The world needs no inspired page to tell it that God will chastise sin, for that is proved in the life of many an offender. You can look through the wicket of any prison and see the fact which the world under stood thousands of years before Solo mon wrote it—“The way of the trans gressor is hard.” The world needed no Bible to tell it that God is omnipo tent, for any one who has seen Mont Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean in a cyclone knows that. The world needed no Bible to tell it of God's wis dom, for everything, from a spider's web to the upholstery of a summer's sunset, from the globe of dewdrop to the rounding of a world, declares that. But there was one secret about God that was wrapped up in a scroll of parchment, and it staid there until apostollic hand unrolled that scroll, and lot out upon the world the start ling fact, which it could never have surmised, never guessed, never expect ed. that he loved our human race so ardently that he will pardon sin and subdue the offender with a divine kiss and turn foaming malefactors into worshipers before the throne. Oh, 1 am so glad that the secret is out and that it can never again be veiled! Tell it to all the sinning, suffering, lying race: tell it in song and sermon, on canvas, and in marble, on arch and pillar; tell it all around the earth— "God is love.” The Domination of Fear. Notice that the wisest men of the na tions for thousands of years did not, amid their idolatries, make something to represent this feeling, this emotion. They had a Jove, representing might: Neptune, the god of the sea; Minerva, the goddess of wisdom; Venus, the goddess of base appetite; Ceres, the goddess of corn, and an Odin, an an Osiris, and a Titan, and a Juggernaut, and whole pantheons of gods and god desses, but no shrine, no carved image, no sculptured form has suggested a god of pure love. That was beyond human brain. It took a God to think that, a God to project that, a God let down from heaven to achieve that. Fear is the dominant thought in all false religions. For that the devotees cut themselves with lances and swing on iron hooks and fall under wheels and hold up the right arm so long that they cannot take it down. Fear, brut ish fear! But love is the queen in our religion. For that we build temples. For that we kneel at our altars. For that we contribute our alms. For tb-t martyrs suffered at Brussels market place and at Lucknow and Cawnpur and Pekin. That will yet bejewel the round earth and put it an emerald on the great, warm, throbbing heart of God. Proof That God I* Love. Do you want more proof that “God is love?" Yea, disinterested love. No compensation for its bestowal. No re ward for its sacrifices. But I call that hack. The world did pay him. It paid him on Calvary, paid him with bram bles on the brow and four spikes, two for the hands and two for the feet, and one spear for the side near the heart; paid him in execration; paid him with straw pillow in a barn and a cross on a hill; paid him with a third of a cen tury of maltreatment and hardship save one year—yea, is paying him yet in rejection of his mission of mercy. Having dethroned other kings, the world would like to dethrone the King of Kings. But he knew what he was coming to when he left the portals of pearl and the land where the sun never goes down. Yes, lie knew the world, how cold it is, and knew pain, how sharp it is, and the night, how dark it is. and expiation, how excru ciating it is. Out of vast eternity he looked forward and saw Pilate's crim inal courtroom, and the rocky bluff with three crosses, and the lacerated body in mortuary surroundings, and heard the thunders toll at the funeral of heaven's favorite, and understood that the palaces of eternity would hear the sorrow of a bereft God. What do the Bible and the church liturgies mean when they say, “He de scended into hell?” They mean that -iIs soul left his sacred body for awhile r.nd went down into the poison of moral night, and swung back its great door, and lifted the chain of captivity, and felt the awful lash that would have come down on the world’s back, and wept the tears of an eternal sacrifice, and took the bolt of divine indigna tion aganst sin into himself, and, hav ing vanquished death and hell, came out and came up, having achieved an jterral rescue if we will accept It. Read It slowly, read it solemnly, read it with tears, “He descended into hell.” He knew what kind of pay he would get for exchanging celestial splendor for Bethlehem caravansary, and he dared all and came, the most illus trious example in all the ages of disin EoholnR nark Itlvlne Love. Now, the only fair thing for human hearts to do is to echo back that sov ereign love. You and I have stood in mountainous regions where, uttering one distinct word, the echoes would come back with a resonance startling and captivating, and from all our hearts there should sound unto the heavens responses glorious and long continued. Let the world change its style of payment for heavenly love. No more payment by lances, by hammers; no more payment by blows on the cheek and scourging on the back, and hooting of mobs, but payment in ar dors of soul. In true surrender of heart and love to the God that made us, and the Christ who ransomed us. and the eternal spirit who by regenerating power makes us all over again. Alexander the Great, with his host, was marching on Jerusalem to capture and plunder It. The inhabitants came out. clothed in white, led on by the high priest wearing a miter and glit tering breast plate on which was em blazoned the name of God, and Alex ander. seeing that word, bowed and halted his army, and the city was saved. And if we have the love of God written in all our hearts and on all our lives and on all our banners at the sight of it the hosts of temptation would fall back, and we would go on from victory unto victory, until we stand in Zion and before God. I>cander swam across the Hellespont guided by the light which Hero the fair held from one of her tower windows, and what Hellesponts of earthly strug gle can we not breast as long as we can see the torch of divine love held out from the tower windows of the King! Let love of God to us and our love to God clasp hands this minute. O ye dissatisfied and distressed souls, who roam the world over looking for happiness and finding none, why not try this love of God as a solace and inspiration and eternal satisfactionT When a king was crossing a desert in caravan, no water was to be found, and man and beast were perishing from thirst. Along the way were strewn the bones of caravans that had pre ceded. There were harts or reindeer in the king’s procession, and some one knew their keen scent for water and cried out. “Let loose the harts or rein deer!" It was done, and no sooner were these creatures loosened than they went scurrying in ail directions looking for water and soon found it, and the king and his caravan were saved, and the king wrote on some tablets the words which he had read some time before, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth u"' soul after thee, O God." Some have eoirpared the love of God to the ocean, but the comparison fails, for the ocean has a shore, and God’s love is boundless. But if you insist on comparing the love of God to the ocean, put on that ocean four swift sailing craft, and let one sail to the north, and one to the south, and one to the east, and one to the west, and let them sail on a thousand years, and after that let them all return and some one hail the fleet and ask them if they have found the shore of God’s love, and their four voices would respond: "No shore! N’o shore to the ocean of God's mercy!" FASTEST TRAINS. America l.rmln the World 111 the Mailer of Quick Transportation. Statistics recently published reveal some interesting facts regarding the fastest regularly scheduled railroad trains in the leading countries of the world. The United States heads the list with four trains run from Phila delphia to Atlantic City. Two of these, running on ttie Philadelphia and Head ing, attain a speed of 66.6 miles per hour for a distance of fifty-five and one-half miles, being the fastest regu lar runs in the world. The two other trains, on the Pennsylvania line, rim at the rate of 64.3 miles per hour, the distance over Its line being fifty-nine miles. The Midi of France, in a run from Morceaux to Bordeaux, a distance of sixty-seven and three-quarters miles, maintains a >peed of 61 G miles per hour. England brings up the rear with two trains, which are scheduled to make the run between Dorchester and Wareham, a distance of only fif teen miles, at the rate of 60.1 miles per hour. The fastest long-distance run is made over the Orleans and Midi railway, in France. The run is from Paris to Bayonne, a distance of 436',4 miles, and is made. Including six stops, at the rate of 54.13 miles per hour. Then follows the New York Central’s empire state express, running from New York to Buffalo, 440 miles, ini lull ing four stops, at 53.33 miles per hour, and finally again England, with a train on tb« Great Northern, running be tween London and Edinburgh, 39314 miles, at 50.77 miles per hour.- Chi cago Chronicle. American Honored by Italian lilni;. General W. F. Draper of Milford, Mass., has received from the king of Italy the grand cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazare ae a token of appreciation of the general's aerv ! ices during his mission in Italy. The grand cordon is one of the highest dec j orations conferred by that court. I xml Rosebery’s mother, the Duchess of Cleveland, is Kl years old. but in the best of health. She is one of the most active "woman politicians” of England. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON I, JANUARY 0—MATT. ‘ 20: 6-16. Jp»ti» Annotated at Bethany— “She Hath Done What She Could”- Matft 14: 8— •Jesux Defend* Mary — Two Unea of Defense fi. “Now when Jesus was in Bethany.” Bethany means "House of Hates,” or "Home of Comfort.” "In the house of Simon the leper." There were many Si mons and this one is distinguished from the others by the fact that he had been a leper. 7. "There came unto him a woman.” This woman was Mary, the sister of Mar tha and laizarus (John 12: 3>, not the woman in Luke 7, "who was a sinner." “Having an alabaster box," rather, a cruse or “tusk. "Literally, an alubaater, just as we call a drinking vessel made of glass a glass. Pliny compares these vessels to a closed rosebud."—M. R. Vin cent. Word Studies. "Of very (exci edlng ly) precious ointment.” "By the oint ment we nre to understand rathef a liquid perfume than what we commonly know us ointment.”—Bchaff. 8. "When his disciples saw it, they had indignation." John tells us that Ju das Iscariot was the leader and the mouthpiece of the indignation against Mary. "To what purpose is this waste?" This useless squandering of what could have been used to a better purpose* “Waste" is literally "perdition." So Ju lias is afterwards called "a son of per*' dltlon," a man who had utterly waste® his life. fl. "Sold for much." Three hundred! pence, silver pennies or shillings, the Ro-1 man denarrii, worth from fifteen to sev enteen cents each. See above. "And giv en to the poor." This wus the real thought of the others, but the pretense of Judas. 10. "When Jesus understood it.' - > ho R. V. is much more correct here, “But Jesus perceiving it," at the moment; he knew their thoughts at once; while the common version seems to suggest that it took him some time to learn what the grumbling was about. "She hath wrought a good work upon me." The Greek ad jective Implies something more than "good, ' a noble, an honorable work.— I’lumptre. it was the act of a noble soul expressing its noblest emotions. The form it took Is expressed in V. 12, "She did it for my burial;" It. V. "to prepare me for burial." Mark says. "She hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying." 11. "For ye have the poor always with you.” 'IV' would have plenty of oppor tunities to aiil them; and the more they iild for their Master, the more they would do for the poor, for the poor are left In his stead, and through them would be ex pressed the increased love of the Master. "But me ye have not always." The op portunity of making such expressions of love uirectly to Jesus would not occur again. <> heresoever this gospel shall lie preached," The words lien show that our Lord expected his gospel to be dif fused throughout the world. "in tin whole world." The story has bten told in every known tongue, and is now hi - ing related In more than three hundred and fifty different languages to every great nation on the earth. "For a memor ial of her." By which her deed shall be remembered; not to glorify her, but to continue her usefulness, to give immor tality to her character and influence. 11. "Then . . . Judas Iscariot." See Lesson IX.. on the betrayal of Jesus. .In dus was doubtless angry at the reproof he bad received. 11c was disappointed In his desires to gain money. He prob ably was still more disappointed in his hopes of being treasurer of a great king dom which would fail if Jesus died. His avaricious spirit was excited and repell ed by the praise of Jesus for the spirit of Mary, so opposed to his own. These feelings doubtless grew and deepened by brooding over them during the two or three days which may have elapsed be tween the anointing by Mary and this plot to betray Jesus. 15. "Covenanted with him." Rather as H. V., "weighed unto him." actually gave him the money agreed upon. Money went by weight. "Thirty pieces of silver." Sil ver shekels, each worth four denarii, usually translated pence. A shekel was therefore worth sixty-four to sixty-eight cents; in all about twenty dollars, the usual price of a slate. The Lesson: The principal lesson now to bp considered is the contrast between tile spirit of Judas und that of Mary. Against the background of his cevetous ness and the horrid, hateful brood It brought forth is seen in brighter colors the beautiful and attractive spirit of love. About the Potato. Recent experiments show that pota toes contain poison known as sola nin. New potatoes eontaHi compara tively little of this poison unless they grow above the surface of the ground and have a green skin. Gardeners should therefore be careful to thor oughly earth-up potato rows. Old po tatoes contain much more of this poi-f sonous principle solanin. .• nd many cases of serious poisoning have occur*.' red in the late summer when old pota-J toes were used. In 1N92 and 1893 there was almost wholesale poisoning among the troops of the German army, in this case it was found that in old potatoes kept in a damp place and beginning to sprout there was twenty-four times as much solanin as in new potatoes.—London Tit-Bits. ( tub of Many Nationalities. Unique among woman’s dubs, per haps. is that which was launched live years ago in Honolulu and is now re ported to be at last on a firm footing. It was starteil by an American school teacher, who was wont to invite young girls to her home once a week for In formal conversation on sonic topic. The outgrowth was a full-fledged club of thirty-four members, most of them being Hawalians, witli a mixture, how ever. of Chinese and Portuguese. The president this year is a Chinese girl, who wears her quaint national cos tume when she fills the official ( hair. on Triiln*. The "axle-light” system is to be ap plied on the trains of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad of , the United States on an extensive scale. Each car will have its own storage batteries supplied with electricity gen erated by the axles of the wheels,, and the locomotive headlights will derive their illumination from the same source. It is calculated that each full train, exclusive of the locomotive,|will develop nearly 5,«»00 candle-power I light. IPRIGHT straight and ftrong is thj Stutue u lu n the twists ami curvatures of Lumbago < I t are ctirM and atraighteucd out by st. 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