Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NORTHWESTERN.
BENSCUOTKR A GIHSOM, Ed» and fn!*
LOUP CITY, - - NEB.
While engaged in fishing off Low
Btoft recently a fisherman landed in
his net a unique piece of amber. It re
sembled a huge pebble, was oblong in
shape, weighing eleven pounds four
teen ounces, and is the finest specimen
of amber that has been discovered on
the English coast for several years. It
realized $137.50.
The cattlemen are planning a move
ment to hold an annual cattle show at
Kansas City, Kan., to be called the
"American Royal." Four breeds of
beef cattle, also hogs, sheep and An
gora goats, will be included. It is
thought that the show will win recog
nition for Kansas City as the cattle
center of the world.
An electrically lighted dock is a new
and useful device for home use. It is
placed within sight of a sleeper’s bed,
and when he wishes to learn the time
he touches a button at the bedside,
and in an instant the clock is so il
luminated that he can plainly see the
dial. A little storage battery supplies
sufficient electricity to last several
months.
.
Portugal, being in strained relations
with Holland, emerges from obscurity
long enough to get mentioned in for
eign dispatches. A plucky little king
dom! With a home population smaller
than that of Pennsylvania and an area
less than Kentucky's, she bears rule
over African and Asiatic dependencies
which contain more than nine million
people and cover nearly a million
square miles.
The British government encourages
inventors and scientists by extending
financial assistance to those whose
work is considered of sufficient value
to warrant such development. The
grants are made through the British
royal society, and range in value from
$50 to $2,500, according to the nature
of the invention to be exploited. At
the present time the society has in
hand $20,000 ready for distribution
within the month of January.
It is said that several of the Euro
pean general staffs are studying the
feasibility of organizing special corps
something after the Boer model. The
principal difficulty lies in the limited
supply of horses at the command of
the various governments, with the ex
ception of Russia. The last equine cen
sus in that country is stated to have
shown considerably more than 10,000,
000 horses lit for war purposes.
A lively spree was enjoyed a short
time ago by some hogs and geese at
the cider mills of William Smith, at
Bloomfield Center, Mich. A mass of
cherries which had been used to flavor
brandy, had been thrown where the
hogs could get it. Geese as well as
hogs stuffed themselves with the cher
ries, and soon they were staggering
and squealing, squawking and “honk
ing” in a high state of excitement, all
comically fuddled.
Queer advertisements occasionally
find their way into the Irish papers.
A recent issue of a Limerick newspaper
announces that "Michael Ryan begs to
Inform the public that he has a large
stock of cars, wagonettes, brakes,
hearses and other pleasure vehicles for
sale or hire.’’ This is the same paper
which, in a glowing description of a
funeral, declared that “Mrs. B. of G
sent a magnificent wreath of artificial
flowers in the form of a cross.”
The Christian names of the girls
registered at a certain New England
academy in 1850 were Abigail, Albina,
Clarinda, Elizabeth, Esther, Louella,
Myrtllla, Partlienia, Ruth and So
phronia. The names of a class of
girls now attending a western high
school are Fannie, Lulu, Marguerite,
Pearl, Silvia, Thyrsa and Veea. Some
of those in the earlier list sound curi
ously old-fashioned—but the people of
1950 may flud occasion to wonder and
exclaim at names that are more or less
popular in the year 1901. The one hap
py certainty is that our descendants
will be perfectly satisfied, as each suc
ceeding generation is, with the result
of their own efforts at christening chil
dren!
Heredity does not determine couragfl,
or its opposite, but the constitutional
• tendency may be clearly marked
through generations. A recent rescue
of shipwrecked persons off Grand
Manati is the subject of a report from
our consul at St. John, New Bruns
wick. During a period of more than
seventy-five years, grandfather, father
and sons of a certain family have re
peatedly saved life or piloted vessels
out of danger. It is said that the
Canadian government is to give the
rescuers suitable testimonials. The
whole world is a debtor to its heroes
of peace. To strengthen the courageous
purpose of others by brave doing or
enduring is to fulfil one purpose of
living.
The condition of general business is
pretty accurately reflected by activity
or apathy in the New York stock ex
change, so it need cause no surprise
that during December the “record”
price was paid for a seat in that body
—$50,000, exclusive of the initiation fee
of $1,000. Membership in the exchange
rarries with It life Insurance for $10,
800, so there is a limit below which
the price can hardly fall. But since
the very seat that has just sold for
$50,000 less than two years ago. no one
would dare to predict how high the
“boom” may take it.
TALMAGES SERMON.
CHRISTIAN WORK TYPIFIED BY
FISHERMEN.
The Gospel Net and How It Should Re
Kept in Repair—Clirl.t’. HUcIplen in
FUlier. of Men—Religion of Christ a
Soothing Omnipotence.
(Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopseh, N. Y )
Washington. Jan. 27.—In this dis
course Dr. Talmage describes the gos
pel net and how it is to be repaired
after being damaged; text, Matthew
4: 21, "James, the sou of Zebedee, and
John, his brother, in a ship with
Zebedee, their father, mending their
nets."
"I go a-flshing!” cried Simon Peter
to his comrades, and the most of the
apostles had hands hard from fishing
tackle. The fisheries of the world have
always attracted attention. In the
third century the queen of Egypt had
for pin money $470,000 received from
the fisheries of Lake Moeris. And,
if the time should ever come when the
immensity of the world's population
could not be fed by the vegetables and
meats of the land, the sea has an
amount of animal life that would feed
all the populations of the earth and
fatten them with a food that by its
phosphorus would make a generation
brainy and intellectual beyond any
thing that the world has ever imag
ined. My text takes us among the
Galilean fishermen. One day Walter
Scott, while hunting In an old drawer,
found among some old fishing tackle
the manuscript of his immortal book,
"Waverley.” which he had put away
there as of no worth, and who knows
but that today we may find some un
known wealth of thought while looking
at the fishing tackle in the text.
Ka*y to Get In.
The trouble with many of our nets
is that the meshes are too large. If
a fish can get his gills and half his
body through the network, he tears
and rends and works his way out, and
leaves the place through which he
squirmed a tangle of broken threads.
In our desire to make everything so
easy we relax, we loosen, we widen.
We let men after they are once in the
gospel net escape into the world, and
go into indulgences and swim all
around Galilee, from north side to
south side, and from east side to west
side, expecting that they will come
back again. We ought to make it easy
for them to get into the kingdom of
Uod, and, as rar as we can, mane it ;
impossible for them to get out. The
poor advice nowadavt to many is:
"Go and do just as you did before you
were captured for God and heaven.
The net was not Intended to be any
restraint or any hindrance. What you
did before you were a Christian do
now. Go to all styles of amusement,
read all the styles of books, engage
in all the styles of behavior as before
you were converted.” And so, through
these meshes of permission and laxity,
they wriggle out through this opening
and that opening, tearing the net as
they go, and soon all the souls that
we expected to land in heaven, before
we know it, are back in the deep sea of
the world. Oh, when we go a-gospel
fishing, let us make it as easy as possi
ble for souls to get in and as hard as
possible to get out.
Is the Bible language an unmeaning
verbiage when it talks about self-de
nial, and keeping the body under, and
about walking the narrow way and en
tering the strait gate and about carry
ing the cross? Is there to be no way
of telling whether a man is a Chris
tian except by his taking the com
munion chalice on sacramental day?
May a man be as reckless about his
thoughts, about his words, about his
temper, about his amusements, after
hi3 conversion as before? Alas, the
words of Christ are so little heeded !
when he said, "Whosoever doth not
bear his cross and come after me can
not be my disciple." The church is
fast becoming as bad as the world,
and when it gets as bad as the world
it will be worse than the world by so
much, as it will add hypocrisy af a
most appalling kind to its other de
fects.
A Soot hiiik Omnipotence.
Do you know that the world's heart
Is bursting with trouble and if you
could make that world believe that the
religion of Jesus Christ is a soothing
omnipotence, the whole world would
surrender tomorrow, yea, would sur
render this hour. The day before
James A. Garfield was inaugurated as
president I was in the cars going from
Richmond to Washington. A gentle
man seated near me in the cars knew
me, and we were soon in familiar con
versation. It wa3 just after a be
reavement, and I was speaking to him
from an overburdened heart about the
sorrow I was suffering. Looking at his
cheerful face, I said: "I guess you
have escaped all trouble. I should
judge from your countenance that you
have come through free from all mis
fortune." Then he looked at me with
a look I shall never forget, and whis
pered in my ear: “Sir, you know noth
ing about trouble. My wife has
been in an insane asylum for fifteen
years.” Ami then he turned and looked
out of the window and into the night
with a silence I was too overpowered
to break. That was another illustra
tion of the fact that no ones escapes
trouble. Why, that man seated next
to ydu in church has on his soul a
weight compared with which a moun
tain is a feather. That woman seated
next to you in church has a grief the
recital of which would make your body,
mind and soul shttdder.
; When you are mending your net for
this wide, deep sea of humanity, take
out that wire thread of criticism and
that horsehair thread of harshness ar.d
put in a soft silken thread of Christian
nympathy. Ye», when you are mend
ing your nets tt>ar out those old th! ends
of grufTness and weave in a few
threads of politeness and geniality. Tn
the house of God let all Christian faces
beam with a look that means welcome.
Say "good morning" to the stranger
as he enters your pew and at the close
shake hands with him and say. “How
did you like the music?'* Why, you
would be to that man a panel of the
door of heaven; you would be to him
a note of the doxology that seraphs
sing when a new soul enters heaven.
I have in other days entered a pew in
church, and the woman at the other
end of the pew looked at me as much
as to say: "How dare you? This is
my pew. and I pay the rent for it!”
Well, I crouched in the other corner
and made myself as small as possible
and felt as though I had been stealing
something. So there are people who
have a sharp edge to their religion, and
they act as though they thought most
people had been elected to be damned
and they were glad of it. Oh, let us
brighten up our manner and appear in
gentlemanliness or ladyhood.
Mending the Net*.
Oh, this important work of mending
our nets! It we could get our nets
right, we would accomplish more in
soul saving in the next year than we
have in the last twenty years. But
where shall we get them mended? Just
where old Zebedee and his two boys
mended their nets—where you are.
James and John had no time to go
ashore. They were not fishing for fun.
as you and I do in the summer time.
It was their livelihood and that of
their families. They mended their nets
where they were—in the ship. ‘ Oh,”
says some one, **r mean to get my net
mended, and I will go down to the
public library and I will see what the
scientists say about evolution and
about the 'survival of the fittest,’ and
I will read up what the theologians
say about 'advanced thought.’ I will
leave the ship awhile, and I will go
ashore and stay there till my net is
mended.” Do that, my brother, and
you will have no net left. Instead of
their helping you mend your net, they
will steal the pieces that remain. Bet
ter stay In the gospel boat, where you
have all the means for mending your
net. What are they? do you ask. I
answer, all you need you have where
you are—namely, a Bible and a place
to pray. The more you study evolu
tion and adopt what is called advanced
thought, the more useless you will be.
Stay in the ship and mend your net.
That is where James, the son of Zebe
dee, and John, his brother, staid. That
is where all who get their nets mended
stay.
I notice that all who leave the gospel
boat and go ashore to mend their nets
stay there. Or if they try again to
fish they do not catch anything. Get
out of the gospel boat and go up into
the world to get your net mended, and
you will live to see the day when you
will feel like the man who, having for
saken Christianity, sighed, "I would
give a thousand pounds to feel as I did
in 1820.” The time will come when
you would be willing to give a thou
sand pounds to feel as you did in 1901.
These men who have given up their
religion cannot help you a bit.
l nese dear brethren or all denomi
nations afflicted with theological fid
gets, had better go to mending nets
instead of breaking them. Before they
break up the old religion and try to
foist on us a new religion let them
go through some great sacrifice for
God that will prove them worthy for
such a work, taking the advice of Tal
leyrand to a man who wanted to up
set the religion of Jesus Christ and
start a new one when he said, "Go and
be crucified and then raise yourself
from the grave the third day!” Those
who propose to mend their nets by
secular and skeptical books are like a
man who has just one week for fish
j Ing, and six of the days he spends in
! reading Izaak Walton's “Complete An
gler" and Wliealey's "Rod and Line"
and Scott’s “Fishing in Northern
Waters” and Pullman’s “Vade Mecum
of Fly Fishing for Trout,” and then
on Saturday morning, hi3 last day out,
goes to the river to ply his art. But
that day the fish will not bite, and late
on Saturday night he goes to his home
with an empty basket. Alas, alas! if
when the Saturday night of our life
| drops on us it shall be found that wc
have spent our time in the libraries of
worldly philosophy, trying to mend
| our nets, and we have only a few souls
to report as brought to God through
our instrumentality while some humble
gospel fisherman, his library made up
of a Bible and an almanac, shall come
home laden with the results, his
trophies all the souls within fifteen
miles of his log cabin meeting house.
In the time of great disturbance in
Naples in 1649 Massaniello, a bare
footed fishing hoy, dropped his fishing
rod and by strange magnetism took
command of that city of 600,000 souls.
He took off his fishing jacket and put
on a robe of gold in the presence of
howling mobs. He put his hand on his
| lip as a signal, and they were silent.
He waved his hand away from him,
j and they retired to their homes. Ar
i nlies passed in review before him. He
I became the nation's idol. The rapid
j rise and complete supremacy of that
j young fisherman, Massaniello, has no
I parallel in all history. But something
| equal to that and better than that is
an every-day occurrence In heaven.
God takes some of those who in this
world were fishers of men and who
toiled very humbly,, but because of the
way they mended their nets and em
ployed their nets after they were mend
ed he suddenly hoists them and robes
them and scepters them and crowns
them and makes them rulers over
many cities, and he marches armies of
saved ones before them in review, Mas
saniellos unhonored on earth, but
radiated in heaven. The fisher boy of
Naples soon lost his power, but those
people of God who have kept their nets
mended and rightly swung them shall
never lose their exalted place, but shall
! reign forever and ever and ever.
Keep that reward in sight.
But do not spend your time fishing
with hook and line. Why did
not James, the son of Zebedee.
sit on the wharf at Cana, his
feet hanging over the lake, and
with a long pole and a worm
on the hook dipped into the wave wait
for some mullet to swim up and be
caught? Why did not Zebedee spend
his afternoon trying to catch one eel?
No, that work Was too slow. These
men were not mending a hook and
line; they were mending their nets.
So let the church of God not be con
tent with having here one soul and
next month another soul brought Into
the kingdom. Swreep all the seas with
nets—scoop nets, seine nets, dragnets,
all encompassing nets, and take the
treasures in by hundreds and thou
sands and millions, and nations will
be born in a day and the hemispheres
quake with the tread of a ransoming
God. Do you know what will be the
two most tremendous hours in our
heavenly existence? Among the quad
rillions of ages which shall roll on
what two occasions will be to us the
greatest? The day of our arrival there
will be to us one of the two greatest.
The second greatest. I think, will be
the day when we shall have put in
parallel lines before us what Christ
did for us and what we did for Christ,
the one so great, the other so little.
That will be the only embarrassment
In heaven. My Lord nnd my God!
What will we do and what will wo say
when on one side are placed the Sav
ior's great sacrifices for us and our
small sacrifices for him; his exile,
hiB humiliation, his agonies on one
hand and our poor, weak, insufficient
sacrifices on the other. To make the
contrast less overwhelming let us
quickly mend our nets, and, like the
Galilean fisherman, may we be divine
ly helped to cast them on the right
side of the ship.
HER SALT CELLARS.
The (iuesU Kigunled Them m Beautiful
Souvenir*.
The custom of giving souvenirs
on nearly all occasions sometimes leads
to painful mistakes and a certain Am
erican, well known in London as a
hostess, has reason to regret it was
ever heard of. She was the happy
possessor of a dozen salt cellars of
repousse silver, very beautiful and al
most the apple of her eye and she was
giving a luncheon at which covers were
laid for fourteen. In the arrangement
of the table the precious salt cellars
had been placed for the guests, another
kind being supplied for the hostess and
her daughter. The cards designating
the places had been laid upon them,
and through an oversight had re
mained there, so that the absence of
salt in them was not discovered, says
the London Onlooker. Presently a
lady took up her card, saw the empty
salt cellar, and, remarking upon its
beauty, said it was a lovely souvenir,
and slipped it into her pocket. Her
example was promptly followed by the
rest of the company with the exception
of one woman, who had no pocket. The
hostess was petrified with despair and
horror as she saw her cherished pos
sessions calmly appropriated, but in
the face of the torrent of acknowledge
ment and compliment, she had not the
moral courage to offer the necessary
explanation. After she had heard the
adieux of the last guest she sat down
and wept, and when it was discovered
that the woman without a pocket had
forgotten her prize she seized upon it
with the concentrated affection which
the parent bestows on the last of many
children. Her joy, however, was short
lived, for next morning came a polite
note from the pocketless woman, say
ing that she had forgotten her ‘‘beau
tiful souvenir,” and would Mrs. F. be
so very kind as to send it?
Government I>e*r<Mi<ta to Punning.
An amusingly put instance of gov
ernmental forethought in behalf of
its agricultural class is that credited in
a paragraph now going the rounds or
the press of Manitoba. A pest of
grasshoppers annually descending
upon the farmers of this region large
ly nullified their efforts at livelihood
gaining. To their relief came the de
partment of agriculture, which not
only devised preventive measures,
but likewise hit upon a novel method
of awakening the farmer to a realiza
tion that the grasshopper was travel
ing his way. Instead of sending out
circulars or advertising in the news
papers, recourse was had to posters
which showed a grasshopper regaling
himself in a wheat field. Underneath
the picture there stared the passing
farmer In the face, "In this wheat bye
and bye." Report is silent as to wheth
er the pun or the picture brought
about the desired result; the fact, how
ever, Is that the Manitoba farmer
gave heed to the poster warning, and
as never before he prepared to over
come the noxious activity of the grass
hopper.—Vogue.
Rcparatlng Alcohol from Water.
It is perfectly easy to separate al
cohol from water by subjecting the
rrUxture to heat; the process is called
distillation. Alcohol boils, and is
consequently converted into vapor, at
170 degrees Fahrenheit, while water re
quires 212 degrees. If the mixture,
therefore, be subjected to a tempera
ture of, say, 180 degrees, the alcohol
will pass off as vapor, leaving the wa
ter in its liquid condition. The dis
tilling apparatus is fitted with pipes
surrounded by cold water, and into
them the vapor is carried, where the
lower temperature condenses It into
alcohol again, and as such It runs out
into a vessel placed to receive it.
You cannot draw the wagon of
worldliness with the yoke of Christ. "
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON VI, FEB. lO. MATT. 25:
14-30.
Goldrn Text: "So Then Every One of
lT* Shall Give Account of Himself to
God"—Homans 14:12—I’aruble of the
Talents.
14. "For the kingdom of heaven." This
is not in the original, but Is naturally
supplied from v. 1 since the same subject
Is continued under another illustration.
"Is as a man traveling into a far coun
try," He was going abroad, and there
fore had to leave his affairs in com
petent hamis. "Who called his own ser
vants." These upper servants, or slaves,
were to a large landholder what the
under officers of a government are to the
king. "And delivered unto them his
goods." "His property, so far as it
might be available for trading purposes;
his floating capital as It were.”—Morlson.
It was In the form of money, talents.
15. "And unto one he gave five tal
ents.” A talent was 3,000 shekels. "To
every man according to his several abil
ity.” "Or capacity, in proportion as he
deemed them qualified for larger or
smaller administration." — Edershelm.
"The natural gifts are as the vessel,
which may be large or small and which
receives according to its capacity; but
which in each case is tilled.”—Trench.
"Took Ills journey Into a far country.”
The straightway of the last verse belongs
at the beginning of this—straightway lie
went. It thus teaches the great lesson
of urgency and promptitude. "And traded
with the same." Literally, worked; then
In a technical sense, engaged In business,
and so traded. "And made them live
other talents." Omit the them. He
gained live talents. In a business way
he doubled his capital. In all true bar
gains the other side gains as well.
19. "After a long time.” Long In the
history of the whole church, and long
enough In the case of Individuals, to al
low them to make good usa of the trust.
"The lord of those servants eometh.”
This refers doubtless first of all to the
second coming of Christ, when he will
judge the world In righteousness. "And
reckoneth with them: has a settlement.
30. "Behold, I have gained beside them
live talents.” He had doubled his spirit
ual capital. He was twice the man he
was before. He had twice as much of
the same things as were first entrusted
to him.
21. "Ills lord said unto him. Well done,
thou good and faithful servant." Me had
his lord's approval. Faithfulness, not
success, or the amount gained, was re
warded. Mod will say Well done only to
those who have done well. "Thou hast
been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things." In
the kingdom of glory; or, on the other
theory, during the millennium. An inti
mation that there is enlarged activity as
Well as rest in the future world.—Kev.
Com.
22. "He also that had received two
talents . . . gained two other talents."
Me was as faithful and as successful as
the one who had received live talents.
23. “Well done, good and faithful ser
vant." He hud the same rewards as the
man with live talents, for he was equally
faithful. The rewards were according to
his ability. He had all he could use or
enjoy.
is. "Rut he that had received one went
and digged in the earth.'' Hiding treas
ure In the ground was a very common
plan for safe-keeping. In a land where
there were few hanks or places of de
posit.
24. "Lord. 1 knew thee that thou art an
hard man. ’ That Is. hard-hearted; In
sensible to the feelings of others in all
matters relating lo money, and hence
close-fisted as regarded his own, and
grasping as regarded what might by
hook or crook be got from others, "lteap
ing where thou hast not sown.” Unjust
ly gathering for himself the fruits of
other men's labors. "Gathering where
thou hast not strew'ed, or "scattered.”
“The reference of the expression is, ap
parently. to the husbandman’s work on
i lie threshing-floor.
25. “And I was afraid.” To risk the
money, lest he should lose it, and Incur
his master's displeasure.
26. "Thou wicked and slothful servant.”
Whatever Ills excuses, liis real reasons
are found in this sentence. (1) His ex
cuses were vain because they were ex
cuses and not reasons. (2) "Thou knew
eat,” i. e., accepting your statement. I
wl"il judge you by your own words (Luke
lit: 22). What you plead as an excuse is
the very reason why you should have
acted differently.
27. "Thou oughtest therefore.” If you
believed I am such a man as you say.
"To have put my money." It was mine,
not yours. "To the exchangers." To tho
bankers. These were men who carried
on a business midway between modern
banking and modern pawnbroking. They
took money on deposit and loaned It out
on interest, paying interest themselves to
tile depositors.—Abbott. "Received mine
own with usury,” I. e., pay for the use
of the money. It should be "interest,”
as in R. V.. not usury.
28. "Take therefore the talent from
him.” The punishment for refusing lo
use the talent is the loss of the talent
Itself. "And give it unto him which
hath ten talents," because he Is fitted to
use It well.
'£). "For unto every one that hath:" in
the sense that the men of two and five
talents had or possessed, by the hold
which faithful use gives. That man has
capital, not who merely holds It in his
name or safe, but who knows its powers
and capabilities, and how to make it ac
complish its purposes. The man with
the one talent buried it; he did not have
it. "Shall be given, and he shall have
abundance." Tiiis Is illustrated in world
ly and intellectual affairs every day.
"From him that hath not:” has not made
true use of. and therefore does not really
possess. "Shall be taken away even that
which he hath:" which was entrusted to
him. The opportunities pass away, the
abilities diminish, the powers wane. So
it will be in the spiritual world.
30. "Fast . . . into outer darkness."
There was no other place for him. ills
nature was contrary to the light, lie had
no part In the' household of the saints,
for he was not a saint. His punishment
Is tiie natural result of his crime. "Weep
ing and gnashing of teeth:" expressing
the terrible pain and loss, which was all
the greater because he brought it on him
self.
Children Shouldn't Wear (Hasses.
A leading physician says that too
many children are wearing glasses.
His view is that time would correct
a majority of the defects if given a
chance.
ODDS AND ENDS.
A girl may lie as pretty as a picture
but she is seldom as pretty as her own
pictures.
The inbred curiosity of some people
enables others to make a good living
without work.
Sulphuric and nitric acids were
known to Goeber, the alchemist, in the
eighth century.
Fish has very high food value; in
fact, is verly nearly as nutritious as
chicken or turkey.
Seem* to B* the Right Sort, '
Young John l). Rockefeler, In hi*
address to a Bible class in Tarrytown
the other day, told his hearers that
there were a good many things
better than money in this world,
and that one of them was work.
He said he had learned this fact by
cutting wood and crushing stone aft
15 cents an hour. He recalled that
when he was in college his most in
timate companions were men who
worked their way by laundry work
or doing janitor’s duty. One of them
was taken sick and went to the hos
pital. When he came out young
Rockefeller wanted to share a part
of his heavy expenses. He declined
saying if he could not pay his own
way through college he would go
home and work till he couid,
Rudkin on the Blrjeid,
This is what John Ruskin thought
of the bicycle: “Some time since 1
put myself on record as an antagon
ist of the devils own toy, the bicycle.
I want to reiterate, with all the em
phasis of strong language, that I con
demn all manner of bi-, tri-, and 4-,
5-, 6-, or 7-, cycles. Any contrivance
or Invention intended to supersede
the use of human feet on God’s own
ground is damnable. Walking, run
ning, leaping and dancing are legiti
mate and natural joys of tfie body,
and every attempt to stride on stilts,
dangle on ropes or wiggle on wheels
is an affront to the Almighty. You
can t improve on God’s appointed
wry of walking by substituting an
improved cart wheel.”
The “Informer's" Fighting Son.
When James Carey, the notorious
“invincible” informer, found, as a
consequence of a shot from Patrick
O'Donnell’s revolver, a grave in
South Africa, he left a son who, un
der an assumed named, has been
fighting with an Irish regiment
against the Boers and who is now
recovering in London from an attack
of enteric fever.
If you have had la grippe, a few
doses of Garfield Tea will cleanse the
system of ail impurities and hasten
recovery.
Boi»rl Sage a* a Farmer.
Russell Sage on his Long Island es
tate is a typical I/ong Island farmer.
He drives about in an old straw hat
and clothes selected for comfort, not
style. His conversation is chiefly
about the crops, and he watches tho
developments of every field for miles
about his home.
Comforting
Nothing so surely breaks
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