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    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~<i the spectral lines,
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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
POINTS THE WAY TO LIFE OF
USEFULNESS.
Dentin? May IS* Clinngetl by » Fitly
Spoken Sentence—Sympathy for the
Troubled Like Apple* of Uoltl In Has
ki t* of Silver.
(Copyright, 1300, by Louis Klopsch, N. T.)
In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows
an open door for any one who desires
to be useful and illustrates how a lit
tle thing may decide one’s destiny. The
text is Proverbs xxv.. 11 (revised ver
sion), “A word fitly spoken is like ap
ples of gold In baskets of silver.’’
A filigree basket loaded with fruit is
put before us in the text. What Is or
dinarily translated “pictures” ought to
be "baskets.” Here is a silver network
basket containing ripe and golden ap
ples, pippins or rennets. You know
how such apples glow through the
openings of a basket of silver network.
You have seen such a basket of fruit
on many a table. It whets the appe1
tite as well as regales the vision. Solo
mon was evidently fond of apples, be
cause he so often speaks of them.
While he writes in glowing terms of
pomegranates and figs and grapes and
mandrakes, he seems to find solace as
well as lusciousness In apples, calling
out for a supply of them when he says
In another place, "Comfort me with ap
ples." Now you see the meaning of
my text, "A word fitly spoken Is like
apples of gold in baskets of silver."
You see the wise man eulogizes just
one word. Plenty of recognition has
there been for great orations. Cicero’s
Arraignment of Cataline, the philippics
of Demosthenes, the five days’ argu
ment of Edmund Burke against War
ren Hastings, Edward Irving's dis
courses on the Bible, and libraries full
of prolonged utterance, but my text
extols the power of one word when it
refers to "a word fitly spoken.”
This may mean a single word or a
small collection of words—something
you can utter In one breath, something
that you can compact into one sen
tence. "A word fitly spoken”—an en
couraging word, a kind word, a timely
word, a sympathetic word, an appro
priate word. I can pas3 right down
the aisle of any church and find be
tween pulpit and front door men whose
temporal and eternal destinies have
been decided by a word.
Chooulnf an Occupation
I tell you what Is a great crisis In
every man’s history. It is the time
when he is entering an occupation or
profession. He is opposed by men in
middle life, because they do not want
any more rivals, and by some of the
aged, because they fear being crowded
off and their places being taken by
younger men. Hear the often severe
and unfair examinations of young law
yers by old lawyers, of young doctors
by old doctors, of youi.g ministers by
old ministers. Hear some of the old
merchants talk about the young mer
chants. Trowels and hammers and
scales often are Jealous of new trowels
and new hammers and new scales.
Then it is so difficult t» get introduced.
How long a time has many a physician
had his sign out before he got a call
for his services, and the attorney be
fore he got a case! Who wants to risk
the life of his family to a young physi
cian who got his diploma only last
spring and who may not know measles
from scarlatina, or to risk the obtain
ing of a verdict for $20,000 to an at
torney who only three years ago read
the first page of Blackstone?
The Need of Courage.
There are so many men who have all
the elements of usefulness and power
except one—courage. If you can only
under God give them that you give
them everything. In illustrating that
one word show them that every man
that ever amounted to anything had
terrific struggle. Show him what ships
Decatur had to fight, and what a moun
tain Hannibal had to climb, and what
a lame foot Walter Scott had to walk
on, and tnat tne greatest poet who
ever lived—Milton—was blind, that
one of the grandest musicians of all the
ages—Beethoven—was deaf, and that
Stewart, in some respects the greatest
merchant that America ever saw, be
gan in his small store, dining on bread
and cheese behind the counter in a
snatched interregnum between custom
ers, he opening the store and closing
It, sweeping it out with his own broom
and being his own errand boy. Show
them that within ten minutes’ walk
there are stores, shops, and factories,
and homes where as brave deeds have
been done as those of Leonidas at
Thermopylae, as those of Horatius at
the bridge, as that of Colin Campbell
at Balakiava. Tell them what Napo
leon said to his staff officer when that
officer declared a certain military at
tempt to be impossible. “Impossible!”
said the great commander, "impossi
ble is the adjective of fools,”
Show them also that what is true in
worldly directions is more true in spir
itual directions. Call the roll of proph
ets, apostles and martyrs and private
Christian from the time tlj* world be
gan and ask them to mentten one man
or woman greatly good or useful who
was not depreciated and flailed and
made a laughing stock. Racks and
prisons and whips and shipwrecks and
axes of behrudment did their worst,
yet the heroes were more than con
querors. With such things you will
illustrate that w'ord “courage,” and
they will go out from your presence to
start anew and right, challenging all
earth and hell to the combat.
Word* tif Comfort.
That word "courage” fitly spoken
with compressed lips and stout grip of
the hand and an intelligent flash of
the eye—well, the finest apples that
ever thumped on the ground in an au
tumnal orchard and were placed in the
moat beautiful basket of silt f>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 un<l Oat With a Letter
Telling: How He Wm Saved.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 29.—(Spe
cial.)—Few who knew how ill Mr. A.
E. Ayers of this city had been with
Bright’s Disease and Diabetes ever ex
pected ho could live. Four doctors gave
him but three or four days to live. He
recovered through the prompt and con
tinued use of a well-known remedy,
and hlas given the following letter for
publication. It is dated at Bath, N. Y.,
where Mr. Ayers now resides.
Soldiers and Sailors’ Home,
Bath, N. Y.
Dodds Medicine Oo., Buffalo, N. Y.:
Dear Sirs—I wist to tell you what
Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for me.
As far as I am concerned they are the
nest in the world, for they not only
saved my life, hut they have given me
new life and hope. I lived in Minne
apolis for forty-nine years, and am
well known there by many people. I
suffered severely with Bright's Disease
and Diabetes. Four well-known physi
cians gave me up to dip. In fact they
gave me only three or four days at the
longest to live. I had spent nearly
everything I had in the effort to save
my life, but seeing an advertisement
>f 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. I commenced to
lake the Pills, and from the very first
they helped me. 1 took in all about
forty boxes. I doubtless did not need
»o many, but I wanted to make sure,
and after all. $20 is a small amount of
money to remove the sentence of death
and save one’s life.
I have since recommended Dodd’s
Kidney Pills to hundreds of people,
and I have yet to hear of the first one
that did not find them all that you
claim for them. I can remember of two
people to whom I hknl recommended
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and who after
wards said to me that they received no
benefit. I asked to see their Pill boxes,
and behold, instead of Dodd's Kidney
Pills, it was -’s Kidney Mils, an
imitation of the genuine Dodd's, and
not the real thing at all that they had
been using. 1 gave each of them an
empty pill box that IXnid’s Kidney
Pills had been put up 1n, so that they
could make no more mistakes, and
they afterwards came to me and told
me that they had bought and used the
genuine Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and were
lured.
I still continue to use the Pills off
ind on, and would not be without them
If they were 550 a box. I think that
svery old gentleman in the world
would be healthier and better If ha
would take one after each meal.
I wish I could think of words strong
enough to express to you my gratitude
for what your Medicine has done for
me. 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.