THE NORTHWESTERN.1 BKNX'IIOTKR A (HBSON. Bd»»nd Pub* LOUP CITY, - • NEB. Tuberculosis has been placed among the diseases which are subject to quar antine. The commissioner of immi gration has so decided in the case of a Japanese who arrived in San Francisco from Japan ill with lung trouble. It was decided that the patient could not land, but must return to the port from which he sailed. Archduke Otto, the future emperor of Austria, is an artist of great talent. He possesses his own studio in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and divides his time between the headquar ters of the cavalry corps which he commands and his studio. The arch duke has frequently exhibited Ills work anonymously, in order that it might stand on its merits and not be favor ably criticised because of his rank. Aeeording to a writer in the St James Gazette, a pa-t of the credit for the wonderful development of Japan in civilization is due to the Empreal Haruka. She married the emperor thirty years ago, and, like him, is a strong supporter of western ideas. The emperor is the lSlst in his line, and the first who has given his wife a seat at his table and a voice In the na tional councils. She set the example in abandoning the customs of staining the teeth and shaving the eyebrow# Diamonds have been found in con siderable numbers and of very fine quality in the interior of British Guiana, on the MazarunI River 250 miles above Its junction with the Es sequlbo. Mr. Moulton, our consul at Demerara, says that the London deal' ers to whom the stones have been foi warded consider them superior to South African diamonds and equal in quality to those of Brazil. The pres ent diggings are situated in a tropical jungle five miles from the river, an# the region is not easily reached. The matrix from which the gems have be come scattered is now the object of search. It is widely supposed that the disease called “appendicitis" was unknown to the medical profession until the la?' Varter of the present century. But | old London doctor, who writes upon I ihe subject in the Lancet, says there Is nothing new about it, except “the name and the treatment.” The disease was well described in the older medical (books, and was then called “typhlitis." 'But its real character was rarely veri fied except by post-mortem examina tion. whereas modern surgery, with its anaesthetic and antiseptic aids, if sum moned in time, is able to save nearly every patient who is not exhausted by age or otherwise depleted. Sir John Murray recently showed how remarkably the Black Sea differs from other seas and oceans. A surface •urrent flows continuously from the I ack Sea into the Mediterranean, and 6n under current from the Mediter ranean tnto the Black Sea. The lat ter current Is salt, and, being heavier than the fresh water above, it remains stagnant at the bottom. Being sat urated with sulphuretted hydrogen, this water will not maintain life, and so the Black Sea contains no living in habitants below the depth of about 100 fathoms. The deeper water when brought to the surface smells exactly like rotten eggs. One of the churches of Chester. Pa., has introduced what is a novelty there —a penny concert. These concerts are held in the church on each Friday ev ening, being chiefly designed for chil dren. The church has always bpen crowded on these occasions, both little and big people attending in great num bers. They are charged 1 cfnt admis sion to an entertainment that is worth many times more, and which Is whole some and Instructive. The smaller children are always given the center seats in front, the larger ones the side seats. It is so distinctively an affair for children that the big people who attend have to content themselves with the back seats is there are any left. A recent number of The Railway Journal contains a story of a railway ticket which took a sudden Journey on Its own account. As the north-bound train on the Colorado and Southern road passed one of the stations a pas senger in a forward car raised a win dow, and in an instant his ticket was blown from his hands out of doors. The passenger naturally gave it up for lost, and was very much surprised Mien the baggagemaster handrd it to him a little while later. It appears that when the ticket flew through the window a south-bound train was pass ing. The suction of that train, which was going at a rapid rate, drew the ticket along with it, and as it passed the rear end of the north-bound train it blew into the door of the smoking car. There it was found by the bag gagemaster. Professor Campbell of the Lick Ob servatory reports that the star calif d XI Geminorum, which has long been known as a variable, is in reality double, but its two components are so close that no telescope is able to sep arate them, and their existence is proved by the shifting lines in the spectrum. The variations in bright ness, he thinks, can only bo due to the attraction between the two stars rais ing Immense tides in their molten or vaporous globes, which, through the effects of compression or otherwise, *e«via~r network before keen appetites could r.ot be more attractive. Furthermore, a comforting word fitly spoken is a beautiful tiling. No one but God could give the inventory of sick beds and bereft homes and broken hearts. We ought not to let a day pass without a visit or a letteT or a mes sage or a prayer consolatory. You could-ca’l five minutes on your way to the factory, you could leave a half hour earlier in the afternoon and fill a mission of solace. You could brighten a sickroom with one chysanthemum. You could send your carriage and give an afternoon airing to an invalid on a neighboring street. You could loan a book with some chapters most adapted to some particular misfortune. Go home today and make out a list, of things you can do that will show sym pathetic thoughtfulness for the hardly bestead. How many dark places you might illumine! How many tears you could stop, or, if already started, you could wipe away; How much like Jesus Christ you might get to be! So sympathetic was he with beggary,, so helpful was he for the fallen, and so stirred was he at the sight of dropsy, epilepsy, paralysis and ophthalmia that whether he saw it by the roadside, er at the sea beach, or at the mineral baths of Bethesda, he offered relief. Cultivate genuine sympathy, Christllke sympathy. You cannot successfully dramatize it. False sympathy Alexan der Pope sketches in two lines; "Before her face her handkerchief she spread To hide the flood of tears she did not shed.” A Word of Warning* So also is a word of warning. A ship may sail out of harbor when the sea hits not so much as a ripple, but what a foolhardy ship company would they be that made no provision for high winds mul wrathful seas. How ever smoothly the voyage of life may begin we will get rough weather before we hartor on the other side, and we need ever and anon to have some one uttering in most decided tones the word "beware.” There are all the temptations to make this life every thing and to forget that an inch of ground is larger as compared with the whole earth than this life as com pared with our external existence. There ar£ all the temptations of the wine cup and the demijohn, which have taken down as grand men as this or any other century has heard of There are all the temptations of pride and avarice and base indulgence and ungovernable temper. There is no word we all need oftener to bear than the word "beware.” The trouble is that the warning word is apt to come too late. We allow our friends to he overcome in a fight with some evil habit before we sound an alarm. After a man is all on fire with evil habit your word of warning will have no more effect than would an ad dress to a house on fire asking It to stop burnlng.no more use than a steam tug going out to help a ship after it has sunk to the bottom of the ocean. What use in word of warning to that inebriate whose wife was dying from wounds inflicted by his own hand? As he held the hand of hi* dying wife he made this vow. ‘ Mary, I will never take another glass of strong drink un til I take it from this hand which 1 now hold.” In an awful way he kept the vow, for when the wife was in her coflln he filled a glass with brandy, put the glass into the dead hand, then took the glass out of the hand, and drank the liquid. Too late does any warning come to such an one. But many a man now high up in usefulness and honor was stopped on the wrong road by a kindly hand put upon the shoul der and a word fitly spoken. Ah. yes, fitly spoken—that is, at the right time, with the right accentuation, and the right emphasis. Speak with Patience. There must be no impatience in the warning we give others. We must realize that but for the kindness of (k>d to us we would have been in the same rapids. That man going wrong may be struggling with a tide of evil inherited from father and grandfather and great-grandfater. The present temptation may be the accumulated force of generations and centuries. “No,” you say, "his father was a good man. I knew him.” But did yon know his grandfather? Evil habit is apt to skip one generation, a fact rec ognized in the Ten Commandments, which speak of the third and fourth generations, but say nothing of the second generation. Or the man astray may have an un happy home, and that is enough to wreck any one. We often speak of men who destroy their homes, but do not say anything aliout the fact that there are thousands of wives in America who by petulance and fretting and ineon sideratlon and lack of economy and all manner of disagreeableness drive their Vcsbands Into dissipation. The reason ■fcat thousands of men spend their *v«nlngs in club houses and- taverns :s because they cannot stand it at home. I know men who are thirty year martyrs in the fact that they are awfully married. That marriage was not made In heaven. Without asking divine guidance they entered into an alliance which ought never to have been made. That is what is the mat ter with many men you and I know. They may be very brave and heroic and say nothing about it, but all the neighbors know. Now. if the man go ing wrong has such domestic misfor tune, he very lenient and excusatory in your word of warning. The difference between you and him may be that you would have gone down faster than he Is going down if you had the same kind of conjugal wretchedness. Art of Doing; Gootl. In mentioning fine arts people are apt to speak of music and painting and sculpture and architecture, but they forget to mention the finest of all the fine arts—the art of doing good, the art of helping others, the art of saving men. An art to be studied as you study music, for it is music in the fact that it drives out moral discord and substi tutes eternal harmony; an art to be studied like sculpture, for it is sculp ture in the fact that it builds a man, not in the cold statue, but in immortal shape, that will last long after all pen telican marble has crumbled; an art to be studied as you study architec ture, for it is architecture in the fact that it builds for him a house of God, eternal In the heavens, but an art that wo cannot fully learn unless God helps us. Otherwise saved by grace divine, we can go forth to save others, and with a tenderness and compassion and a pity that we could not otherwise ex ercise wo can pronounce the warning word w'itli magnificent result. The Lord said to the prophet Amos, “Amos, what secst thou?” And he answered, .“A basket of summer fruit.” But I do not think Amos saw in that basket of summer fruit anything more inviting and luscious than many a saved man has seen in the warning word of some hearty, common sense Christian ad viser. for a word fitly spoken is "like apples of gold In baskets of silver.” So also is a word of invitation po tent and beautiful. Who can describe the drawing power of that word, so small and yet so tremendous, "Come." It is a short word, but its influence is as long as eternity. Not a sesquipeda lian word, spreading its energy over many syllables, but monosyllabic. Whether calling in wrong direction or right direction, many have found it irresistible. That one word has filled all the places of dissipation and dis soluteness. It is responsible for the abominations that curse the eartn. In quire at the door of persons what brought the offender there, and at the door of almshouses what brought the pauper there, and at the door of the lost world what was the cause of the Incarceration, and if the inmates speak the truth they will say. "The word Come!’ brought us here." Come and drink. Come and gamble. Come and sin. Come and die. Pronounce that word with one kind of inflection, and you can hear in It the tolling of all the bells of conflagration and woe. The chief baker In prison in Pha raoh’s time saw in dream something quite different from apples of gold in baskets of silver, for he said to Jo seph, “I also was In a dream, and, be hold, I had three white baskets on my head, and in the uppermost basket there was all manner of baked meats for Pharaoh, and the birds did eat thorn out of the baskets upon my head.” Joseph interpreted the dream and said it meant that the chief baker should be twheadcd and the birds would eat bis flesh. So many a man has in liis own bad habits omens of evil that peck at him and foretell doom and death. But oh. the power of that word '•Come" when aright uttered' We do well when we send young men into schools and colleges and theological seminaries and by nine years of in struction and drill hope to prepare them to sound aright that sweet and enrapturing and heaven descended word "Came.” The gospel we believe In is a gospel of "Come!” That word speak all the churches. That word is now building thrones for conquerors, and burnished coronets for kings and queens. That word is to sound so I clearly and impressively and divinely ' that the day is advancing when all na tions shall respond, “We come!” "We come!" And while the upper steeps toward God and heaven will be throng ed with redeemed souls ascending there will not be one solitary traveler on the road to sin and death. The G(>»i»-1 Hell. In the Kremlin at Moscow, Russia, is what is called the "king of bells,” but it is a ruined bell, and It has rung no sound for near 200 years. It is 67 feet In circumference and in height It is more than ten times the height of the average man, and it took a score of men to swing its brazen tongue. It weighs 200 tons. On the 19th of June, 1706, in a great fire it fell and broke. It broke at the part which was weak ened by the jewels which the ladies of Moscow threw into the liquid metal at the casting. The voices of that bell are forever hushed. It will never ring again, either at wedding or obsequy or coronation. What majestic and over powering silence! Enthroned and ever lasting quietude! One walks around it full of wonder and historical reminis cence and solemnity. On it are figures in relief representing czar and em press and Christ and Mary and the evangelists. Hut as I stood before it last summer 1 bethought myself of a greater bell and one still ringing. It is the gospel bell, ages ago hung on the beam of the cross. It has vaster cir cumference and with mightier tongue sounds across seas and continents and awakens echoes amid Alpine and Him alayan and Sierra Nevadan ranges. The jewels of afTection thrown into it at its casting by ransomed souls of earth and heaven have not weakened it, but made it stronger and more glorious. Evangelists and apostles ■ rang it, and martyrs lifted their hands through the flames to give it another sounding. It will ring on until all na tions hear it and accept its invitation, "Come!* Come!” It will not fall, as did that of Moscow. No storm can stop it. No earthquake can rock it down. When the fires of the last day blaze into the heavens, amid the crash of mountains and the groan of dying seas, its clear, resounding voice wiil he heard calling to the last Inhabi tant of the burning planet, “Come! Come! ” The best creed is kindness. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON II, JAN. 13—MATTHEW, 21. 1-17. ■The Triumphal Kntry Info the City— ‘■Blessed Is lie That Cometh In the Name of the Lord Malt, —1-® The ('•tiling A u noun rein note Vs. 1-7. The events of the two days, which form tile subject of this lesson, are very dramatic in form, and are pic tured before us In a series of vivid scenes. They ail bore upon one purpose, the presentation of Jesus to the people as their Messiah, although not long be fore he had refused when they tried to make him king (John H; 15). Note many indications that point to this purpose. The llrst Is the emphasis that both Mark (10:32) and I.like (10:28) put on the fact that Jesus "went before them" on his way to Jerusalem, 'they were going into danger and death, and the true Leader stood in the forefront. "First in war, tlrst In peace, first In the hearts of his coun trymen." Sunday morning, the day after Iheir Sabbath, in the evening of which Jesus had been anointed, he left Bethany, and soon came to the neighboring village of Bethphnge. Here he sent two of his disciples to bring him an ass’s colt, which probably belonged to one of ids known friends. He designated the place by mir aculous knowledge. (Another note point ing to his Messiahship.) 6. "Tile disciples . . . did (even) as Jesus commanded them." As a King he had tile loving obedience of his sub jects. 7. "The ass, and the colt." "Whereon yet never man sat" (Luke). The untrain ed colt could he led and ridden more easily w*hen accompanied by the mother. Says Hunan Tristam. "Put on them their clothes." Outer garments. As was fre quently don? in place of a saddle. 8. "And a very great multitude." Rath er, "the most part of the multitude." for there were gome cold and scowling crit ics (Luke IS): 3D, 40). There were crowds of pilgrims from all parts of the country coming up to the Passover festival. "Spread their garments in the way." "This was a recognized act of homage to a king. So Jehu, when the officers of the army of Israel chose him as their ruler, walked upon the garments which they spread beneath his feet "Others cut down branches," The imperfect tense denotes continued action. 3. "The multitude* that wen before, and that followed." "Two vast streams of people met on that day." "Crlea, say ing. Hosanna." "Hosanna" Is a render ing Into Greek letters of the Hebrew words, "Save, we pray!” (Psa. 118: 25); not save us. but save th. king "Blessed is he that comelli In the name of the laird " Sent and approved and foretold by the I sit'd, his Messiah. "Hosanna In the highest." In the highest degree; In the highest strains; in the highest heav ens. Putting together all the records, w« see how manifold were the shuts of tri umph. 10. "Come into Jerusalem." The royal city of the Jews. "All the city was moved." Stirred, shaken as by an earth quake or a storm. "Who is this?" Is this the Messiah who comes proclaiming himself a king? 11. "This Is Jesus the prophet of (from) Nazareth.” The answer was true, but only a part of the truth. Jesus Is reveal ed In a new light to most of them. This prophet from Nazareth now stood before the nation as the Messiah. 12. “Jesus went Into the temple of God. As he had done when a boy of twelve years. “Cast out." Now at the end of Ills ministry, as he did at the be ginning iJohn 2: 13-17). "All them that sold and bought in the temple." In the court of the Gentiles was the temple mar ket, where animals, oil, wine, and other things necessary for sacrifices and tem ple worship were sold for the convenience of pilgrims who came from all parts of the world to offer sacrilices at the Pass over season, and who could not bring their offerings with them. "Tables of tile moneychangers," who were necessary because the pilgrims came from all over the civilized world, and the temple tax must he paid in Jewish money. "Sold doves" for the sacrifices. 13. "It is written." Isa. 5(5: 7; Jer. 7: 11. In their seeming worship they were de stroying the very soul of worship, and robbing God's house of Its usefulness Hence they "made It a den of thieves." They not only robbed God, hut were dis honest in their business transactions. Myilery of » f«l Ring. I was told a true lost-ring story the other day which 1 believe has never been in print, although such may be the case. A well-known society woman suddenly missed a valuable diamond ring from her finger. It was a ring she seldom removed, but all that could be remembered about it was that she had Just washed Jut hands. Fearing it had slipped off in the operation the plumber was quickly called in and all the traps opened, with the faint hope of finding the Jewel, but without avail, and sorrow reigned in the household, for the diamond was not only intrin sically ' valuable, but a dearly prized souvenir. Some time later the set bowl in the bathroom had to be replaced, and when it was removed, lo and be hold. crowded in behind the water pipes was the skeleton of a mouse, and round the skeleton's thread of a neck hung a diamond ring. Identification was immediate and the mystery quick ly cleared up by the poor little beast. He had feasted on a box of bran which milady kept to whiten her fair hands and into which she undoubtedly drop ped (he ring. Mousie, through vanity or accident, slipped it over his head, but in trying to escape with the loot he died a felon's death. One of John Brougham'* Joke*. At the close of a performance given as a benefit to .John Brougham, the actor and dramatist, one of the audi ence threw upon the stage a purse of gold. Brougham picked it up and after examining it said: “Ladies and gen tlemen, circumstances compel me to pocket the Insult, but” (looking grim) “I should like to see the man who would dare to repeat it.” ALL SORTS. The sun is 92.393,000 miles from the earth. A watch's main spring is Just two feet long. During 1899 Spain bought C7 veo sels in England. An honest Janitor is the noblest of men—in the estimation of flat-dwell ers. British fishermen catch 240,000 tons of herring and 8,000,000 cod every year. Skilled De'dlera In tlir Renal*. Among tho test debaters In the s»n ate are Chandler of New Hampshire and Spooner of Wisconsin. Chandler is the keener and more caustic of the two. Spooner has the advantage In the spectacular surprises of a running debate. Chandler 13 more feared as an opponent than any other man. He has a genius for discovering the vul nerable point in the enemy's armor, and he is merciless in sending his weapons home. Both he and Spooner are Invariably good-natured. Neither of them was ever known to lose his temper In debate. Can't Pay a fi*Ceut Pare wliti etaO. Smne time ago Ida Balk tendered a street car conductor in Toledo a $20 bill in payment of one fare.. The con ductor refused to accept the hill on the ground that he did not havn change for that amount and ejected the woman from the car. She brought suit against the company for damage* and the case was decided against her Judge Pugsley said in deciding the case that it was unreasonable to ex pect the street car conductor to carry that amount of change. To Italic (Ipnrgla Preacher* In Africa. A shipment of 100,000 young peach trees from Georgia nurseries, bound for Cape Colony and Natal, South Af rica, will be made next week. They go largely Into Natal, and a large num ber of the trees going to that country are consigned to Ladysmith. Cape Colony fruit growers get less than half of the shipment. MR. AYtRS NOT MAD. Very Much Alive unf Dodd’ Kidney ihlls, I scraped what was nearly my last half dollar, sent to '.he drug store and bought a box. I had /ery little hope of anything every doing me any good, os from what the four doctors had told me, it was now a mat ter of hours with me. 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It is not often. 1 suppose, that a man who is staring death right in the face, is permitted to live and tell of the means which saved him, and as that is my position, my heart is over whelmed with thankfulness to God for His mercy to me in permitting me to see tho advertisement of Dodd's Kidney Pills, when it seemed Diet I was beyond all earthly power to safe that I cannot express my real feelings. If anyone doubts the statement 1 have made, they may write to me, and I will try and prove to them that all I have said in this letter is true, and more than true. There are hundreds of people in Minneapolis who know all about my case and the vlay Dodd's Kidney Pills pulled mo through, when I had been given up by the four doctors of Bright’s Disease and Diabetes, and had practically lost all hope. You are at liberty to publish this testimonial which I give you from the bottom of my heart, and I sincerely wish that I could find the right words to express my feedings of gratitude to you and to Dodd's Kidney Pills, for my restora tion to life and health. (Signed) A. E. AYERS, Date of Minneapolis, now at Soldiers and Sailors’ Home, Bath, N. Y. Mr. Ayers is only one of thousands of aged gentlemen who say that their lives have lieen prolonged and their declining years made worth living by the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills.