THE NORTHWESTERN BENSCIIOTKR * GIBSON. Ed* and Pub* LOUP CITY, • -NEB. —■_n _l . a—i'-" The jewels which the duchess of Cornwall takes with her to Australia are Insured against all risks for £75, 000. Those of the duke are insured for £2,000. Nazareth has now its telegraph of fice. where an Armenian operator, in ordinary European dress, keeps tho village community in touch with the great world. A Roman chariot has been found near Philippopolis, Bulgaria, in a tu mulus. All the metal parts of the chariot and the harness were found, as well as arms and human remains. The largest tree in the state of New Jersey is a white oak. situated three miles north of Miekelton, Gloucester county. Its dimensions are: Height. 05 feet; diameter of trunk, three feet above the ground. 7 feet 10 inches, ard spread of branches, 118 feet. This tree antedates the settlement of the colony. Since the supply of brains is not equal to tho demand, the price of brains has gone up. The president of the new steel corporation is reporte 1 to receive a million-dollar salary. Twenty years ago he began work for Mr. Carnegie at thirty dollars a month. Today, at the age of 39, he has out stripped every other wage-worker in the world. Material from the excavations at Co pan, in Honduras, is steadily accumu lating at the Peabody museum. Cam bridge, Mass. The museum has been nble to complete in this prehistoric city its investigations of the great hie roglyphic stairway on the face of the pyramid. Molds have been made of all of the steps, with their carvings and inscriptions. The German papers state that dur ing the last year the exports from the United States to the Argetine Repub lic have increased 119 per cent, as com pared with the figures of the preceding year. This gives America second place among the countries which do export 'business into Argentine, while the German Empire has passed down to the fourth place. England stands first. Cremation is becoming increasingly popular in Paris, and the crematorium erected at the cemetery of Pere La Chaise has already be-n found to be too small. Additions are being made, and a third furnace, a large hall, and a columbarium will soon be ready for use. The last-named will contain 10, 000 receptacles for ashes. These niches are closed with slabs of marble, on which inscriptions may be cut. It is said that a telephone system, using common barbwire fences as a conductor of the voice of its patrons, has been placed in use in Pullman. Wash., conversation being held over this as easily as any long-distance tele phone line. The line runs from a ho tel in Pullman to a farm nine miles south of the town and it was placed in operation by several farmers for their private use. The entire line, nine miles in length, with four telephones, cost less than $100. The forestry division of the agricul tural department is engaged in draft ing a working plan looking to the con servation of the timber on a tract of liOO.OOO acres in the neighborhood of Millinoeket, Me., belonging to a pri vate paper corporation. It is a part of a general policy to be inaugurated by the department for tiie conservation of timber land throughout the United States to secure a perpetual crop of timber in the various areas under con sideration. Tiie private concern will pay all expenses of the work save the salaries of the government experts, who are directed by Prof. Gifford Pin chot, chief of the division. An incident which inflects great credit on the labor organization of the country occurred at the late convention nf the American Federation of I^abor in Louisville, Ky. The National Liquor Dealers’ association came be fore the convention with a formal pro posal that the two bodies form an of fensive and defensive alliance. The liquor dealers were ready to agree, in the event of this coalition, to employ only union bartenders and waiters, and to sell union-made beer. For a time it looked as if they might persuade the labor men, but a delegate from Illinois arose, and in a stirring speech recalled the influence of Miss Frances E. Wil lard on behalf of organized labor, and urged the convention in her name to reject the proposition. When the vote was taken Us was almost unanimously against the alliance. The Knights of Labor have also taken the same ground —a course which will add more strength to the organization than would be a million dollars in its treas ury. To abate the advertising nuisance - advertisements which are in them selves obnoxious or which are dis played in unsuitable places—legislation is not* always necessary. Such action as that recently taken by the Hill Posters’ association of England is quite as effective. A theatrical man ager perpetrated a sensational and vulgar poster. The bill-posters refused to put it up. Here is foundation for the hope that one day all public- spir ited citizens will decline to use paint pot and brush to disfigure the beauties of nature. TALMAUE’S SERMON. "SEEKERS FOR WISDOM” THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY. On to ih« Ant, Thon Sluggard, Consider H«r Way* and Me Wise, II a vine Guide. U»erse»r or Rulnc, Sha J’roTld •th Her Meet * * * — Pro*. 8; 8-8. (Copyright, 1901, by I.oulu Klopr,ch. N. T.) Washington, April 28.—In this dis course Dr. Talmage draws his illustra tions from a realm seldom utilized for moral and religious purposes; text, Proverbs, vl., 6-8, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and ba wise, which, having no guide, overseer or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food In the harvest.” The most of Solomon’s writings have perished. They have gone out of exist ence as thoroughly as the 20 books of Pliny and most of the books of Aes chylus and Euripides and Varro and Quintilian. Solomon’s Song and Ec clesiastes and Proverbs, preserved by inspiration, are a small part of his voluminous productions. Ho was a great scientist. One verse in the Bible suggests that he was a botanist, a zoo logist, an ornithologist, an ichthyolo gist, and knew all about reptilia. I. Kings, iv„ 33, “He spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and of fishes.” Besides all these scientific works, he composed 3,000 proverbs i and 1,005 songs. Although Solomon lived long before the microscope was constructed, he was also an inseetologist and watched and described the spider build its sus- ; pension bridge of silk from tree to ; tree, calling it the spider's web, and he notices its skillful foothold In climbing the smooth wall of the throne room in Jerusalem, saying, "The spi der taketh hold with her hands and is in kings’ palaces.” But he is espe cially interested in the ant and recom mends its habits as worthy of study and imitation, saying, “Go to the ant, J thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, over- j seer or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in ; the harvest.” Not Altogether Commendable. But Solomon would not commend all the habits of the ant, for some of them are as bad as some of the habits of the human race. Some of these small crea tures are desperadoes and murderers. Now and then they marshal themselves into hosts and march in straight line and come upon an encampment of their own race and destroy its occupants, ex cept the young, whom they carry into captivity, and If the army como bark without any such captives they are not permitted to enter, but are sent forth to make more successful conquest. Sol omon gives no commendation to such sanguinary behavior among insects, any more than he would have com mended sanguinary behavior among men. These little creatures have some times wrought fearful damage, and they have undermined a town in New Granada, which in time may drop into the abyss they have dug for it. But what are the habits which Solo mon would enjoin when he says, “Con sider her ways and be wise.” First of all, providence, forethought, anticipa tion of coming necessities. I am sorry to say these qualities are not charac teristic of all the ants. These crea tures of God are divided Into graniv orous and carnivorous. The latter are not frugal, but the former are frugal. While the air is warm and moving about is not hindered by ice or snow bank they import their cargoes of food. They bring in their caravan of provi sions; they haul in their long train of wheat or corn or oats. The farmers are not more busy tn July and August in reaping their harvest than are the ants busy in July and August reaping their harvest. They stack them away; they pile them up. They question when they have enough. They aggregate a sufficient amount to last them until the next warm season. When winter opens they are ready. Blow, ye wintry blasts! Hang your icicles from the tree branches! Imbed all the highways tin der snowdrifts! Enough for all the denizens of the hills. Hunger shut out and plenty sits within. God, who feed eth every living tiling, has blessed the ant hill. »» rerKPu ny There are women who at the first increase of their husband's resources wreck all on an extravagant wardrobe. There are men who at the prospect of larger prosperity build houses they will never be able to pay for. There are people with $4,000 a year income who have not one dollar laid up for a rainy day. It is a ghastly dishonesty practiced on the next generation. Such men deserre bankruptcy and impover ishment. In almost every man's life ^here comes a winter of cold misfor tune. Prepare for It while you may. Whose thermometer has not sometimes stood below’ zero? What ship has never been caught in a storm? What regiment at the front never got into a battle? Have at least as much fore sight as the insectile world. Examine the pantries of the ant hills in this April weather, and you will find that last summer's supply is not yet ex hausted. Examine them next July.and you will find them being replenished, "do to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, overseer or ruler, provided) her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest.” This is no argument for miserliness. Avarice and penuriousness destroy a mnn about as soon us any of the o.lior ,vices. We have heard of those who entered their iron money vault for business purposes and the door acci dentally shut and they were suffocated, their corpse not discovered until the next day. But every day and all up and down the streets of our cities there are men. body, mind and soul, forever fast in their own money vaults. Ac cumulation of bonds, mortgages and government securities and town lots and big farms just for the pleasure of accumulation is despicable,hut the put ting aside of a surplus for your self defense when your brain has halted or your right hand has forgotten its cunning or your old age needs a man servant or for the support of others when you can no more be a breadwin ner for your household—that is right, that is beautiful, that is Christian, that is divinely approved. That shows that you have taken Solomon's ant hill for an object lesson. I)oah Nut Ofrtln« Work Furthermore, go to the ant and con sider that it does not decline work because it is insignificant. The frag ment of seed it hauls into its habita tion may be so small that the unaided eye cannot see it, but the insectile work goes r>n, the carpenter ant at work above ground, the ma son ant at work under ground. Some of these creatures mix the leaves of the fir and the cat kins of the pine for the roof or wall of their tiny abode, and others go out as hunters looking for food, while others in domestic duties stay at home. Twenty specks of the food they are moving toward their granary put upon a balance would hardly make the scales quiver. All of it work on a small scale. There is no use in our refusing a mission because it is insig nificant. Anything that God in his providence puts before us to do is important. The needle has its office as certainly as the telescope and the spade as a parliamentarian scroll. You know what became of the man in the parable of the talents who buried the one talent instead of putting it to prac tical and accumulative use. His apol ogy was of no avail. I here is no need or our wasting time and energy in longing for some other sphere. There are plenty of people to do the big and resounding work of the church and the world. No lack of brigadier generals or master builders or engineers for bridging Niagaras or tunneling Rocky mountains. For every big enterprise of the world a dozen candidates. What we want is private soldiers in the common ranks, masons not ashamed to wield a trowel, candi dates for ordinary work to be done in ordinary ways in ordinary places. Right where we are there is something that God would have us do. Ret us do it, though it may seem to be as unimportant as the rolling of a grain of corn into an ant hill. Furthermore, go to the ant and con sider its indefatigableness. If by the accidental stroke of vour foot or the removal of a timber the cities of the inseetile world are destroyed, instantly they go to rebuilding. They do not sit around moping. At it again in a sec ond. Their fright immediately gives way to their industry. And if our schemes of usefulness and our plans of work fail, why sit down in discour agement? As large ant hills as have ever been constructed will be con structed again. Put your trust in God and do your duty, and your best days are yet to come. You have never heard such songs as you will yet hear, nor have you ever lived in such grand abode as you will yet occupy, and all the worldly treasures you have lost are nothing compared with the opu lence that you will yet own. IT you love and trust the Lord, Paul looks you in the face and then waves his hand toward a heaven full of palaces and thrones, saying. “All are yours!” So that what you fail to get in this present, life you will get in the coining life. Go to work right away and re build as Well as you can, knowing that what the trowels of earthly in dustry fail to rear the scepters of heavenly reward will inoro than make up. Persistence is the lesson of every ant hill. Waste not a moment in use less regrets or unhealthy repining. Impart* userut treasons. Furthermore, go to the ant and con sider that il God honors an insect by making it our instructor in important lessons we ought not to abuse the lower orders of creation. It has been found by scientists that insects trans fixed in the case of a museum have been alive and in torture for years. How much the insect and the fowl and the brute may be rightly called to suf fer for the advancement of human knowledge and the betterment of the condition of ttie human race I do not now stop to discuss, but he who use lessly harms any of God's living crea tion insults the Creator. Alas, for the horrors of vivisection! I have no con fidence in the morality of a man or woman who would harm a horse or dog or a cat or a pigeon. Such men and women, under affront, if tney dared would take the life of a human being. You cannot make me believe that God looks down indifferently upon the galled neck of the ox or the cruel ly curbed bit of the horse or the un sheltered cattle in the snowstorm or the cockpit or the bear baiting or the pigeon shooting or the laceration of fish that are not used. Go to the ant, thou miscreant, and see how God honors it. In the great college of the universe it has been appointed your professor. Ail over the land and all over the world there are over-driven horses that ought to be unharnessed, caged birds that ought to be put on their wings in the free air of heaven, I droves of cattle agonized of thirst on I the freight trains where they ought i to be watered and Crustacea being broiled alivo that ought to he lifted out of the fire. Christ chose twelve apostles for Cue human rare in the first century, and you know their : names, but in the nineteenth century | he chose his thirteenth apostle, who wrought for the rolls' of the brute cre ation, and his name was Henry Hergh. In my text tho ant is not impaled, is not dead, but alive, and in the warm Helds providing her meat in tho sum mer and gathering her food in the har vest. Furthermore, go to the ant and learn the lesson of God appointed or der. The being who taught the insect how to build was geometer as well as architect. The paths inside that Jit tie home radiate from the door with as complete arrangement as ever the boulevards of a city radiated from a triumphal arch or a flowered circle. And wBen they march they keep per fect order, moving in straight lines, turning out for nothing, if a timber lie in Uie way, they climb over it. If there to a house or barn In the way, they march through it. Order in ar chitectural structure, order in gov ernment, order of movement, order of expeuition. So let us all observe this God appointed rule and take satis faction in the fact that things are not at loose ends in this world. It there is a divine regulation in a colony or republic of insects, is there not a divine regulation in the lives of im mortal men and women? If God cares for the least of his creatures aud shows them how to provide their meat In the summer and gather their food in the harvest, will he not be interested in matters of human livelihood and in the guidance of human affairs? 1 preach the doctrine of a particular providence. “Are not two sparrows sold for a fai-tung, and yet not one of them is forgotten before God? Are ye not of more value than many spar rows?” Let there be order in our in dividual lives, order in the family, or der in the church, order in the state. (aod't (arf of Snail Thing*. After what Linnaeus and Pierre Huber have told us concerning these living mites of the natural world, are we not ready to believe that the God who turns the wheel of the solar sys I tem and the vaster wheel ol [ the universe regulates the beehive and the ant hill and that all the affairs of our mortal lives are under divine man agement? When some one asked a hermit on the top of a mountain in Italy if he did not feel it dangerous to live so many miles from human habitation, ue replied: “No. Provi dence is my very next door neighbor.” He who became Sir Thomas Gres ham and built the Royal Exchange in Ixmdon when an infant was abandoned by his mother in the fields. Did it just happen so that the chirping of a grasshopper brought a boy to the spot where the babe lay and his life was saved? Not so, thought Sir Thomas Gresham, who, bavin® arrived at great wealth and power, chose a grasshop per for his crest and had the flguro of a grasshopper im pressed on the wall of the Royal Exchange and had at the top a weather vane in the figure of a grasshopper. The Waldensian Christians in the sev enteenth century were expelled from the valleys, and on their way 800 of them were starving to death. Did it just happen so that one night the deep snow' suddenly thawed and showed a large amount of wheat which had been covered by the untimely snow and was suddenly uncovered so that the hun ger was satisfied and the S00 lives were saved? Did it just happen so? Near Port Royal, Jamaica, is a tomb with this inscription: “Here licth the body of Louis Caldy, Esq., a native of Mont pellier, in France, which country he left on account of the revocations. He was swallowed up by the earthquake, which occurred at this place in 1G92, but, by the great providence of God, was by a second shock flung into the sea, where IV continued swimming till rescued by a boat and liven forty years afterward.’’ Was the release of that man from the jaws of* the earthquake a "just happen so?" When during the plague in London, at the risk of his life and under the protest of his friends, Rev. Thomas Vincent spent his time preaching the gospel to the suf ferers and 68,596 people perished, seven fatalities in the house where he lived, did it just happen so that he came through unhurt? We live in times when there are so many flashings. There seems almost | universal unrest. Large fortunes swal low up small fortunes. Civilized na ! tions trying to gobble up barbaric na ! tions. Upheaval of creeds and people ! who once believed everything now be lieving nothing. The old book that j Moses began and St John ended bom ' barded from scientific observatories and college classrooms. Amid all this i disturbance and uncertainty that ! which many good people need is not a | stimulus, but a sedative, and in my text 1 find it—divine observation and guid ance of minutest affairs. And nothing is to God large or small—planet or ant hill the God who easily made the worlds employing his infinity in the wondrous construction of a spider's foot. Before we leave this subject let us thank God for those who were willing to endure the fatigues and self-sacri fices necessary to make revelation of the natural world, so re-enforcing the Scriptures. If the microscope could ’ speak, what a story it could tell of ! hardship and poverty and suffering and perseverance on the part of those who employed it for important discovery! It would tell of the blinded eyes of M Strauss, of the Hubers and of scores of those who, after inspecting the minute objects of God's creation, stag gered out from their cabinetr with vision destroyed. This hour in many a professor's st’.dy the work of put ting eyesight on the altar of science ! Is going on. And what greater loss can one suffer than the loss of eye | sight, unless it be loss of reason'! While the telescope is reaching farther \ up and the microscope is reaching far ther down, both are exclaiming: “There Is a God. and lie is infinitely wise and infinitely good! Worshij I him and worship him forever!" I THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON VI. MAY 12. MATT. XXVIII:16-20. Golden T»Jt: I.o I Am with Ye Always Even Unto the En one, even tin* poorest, can have some part in it. The work is like a stock company, and every person ran have some of the shares. The church is not a club for its mcm • bers only, hut is an army, an organized I industry. The church that lives for itself | dies, and it ought to die. The englin that i has force enough inereij to move itself, ! and can draw no freight or passenger j cars, is left on u side track to rust out its ! existence. Men gain spiritual life by imparting it. | They gain clearer views ol truth by j teaching others. They grow richer in ail ! that is best in life by giving l.vdy of the ! money God gives them. The fountain that gives what it re ceives is fresh and char am. beautiful. ! The bog that receives and does not give j malarious, foul, reptile-haunted. “Love | exhausts not itself by losing, but. after I sill its outgoings upon others, abides itself i far richer than it would have done but ! for the multiplying which tip re ».v*-r i< in i a true disp* rising. ' Trench A city grows rich by receiving and giv ing forth. It is a focus of comgterce. A desert neither receives nor gives, and it always remains barren and poor. Every | heart that receives and gives forth grows j rich In holiness and love and everything I that belongs to its commerce. "Lo, l am with you alway. Note, it is I am. not i will be. Jesus, with his love, with Ids power, with his wisdom, with his willingness to help; Jesus the Saviour, tin Guide, the Inspirer. the King, the Teacher; Jesus the Omniscient, the Om nipresent, the Omnipotent, is with us everywhere, all the days Aiu.iy: literal ly. all the days. It is a daily presence which is promts* d. not a fitful coming and going, but an abiding presence (John 1 a presence, loo, in all days, and never, even in the darkest, to be forgot ten. I'nto tlie end of the world. Literal ly. the consummation of the age. tip* rnu of the gospel dispensation, when the king dom shall have fully come. He is with them.* lb* comes again and abides with, them, till bis final manifestation and rev elation in tip new kingdom. A Rising or a Setting San. John Fiskc. in relating the story of the federal con vention for the forming of the fonstitu tlon of ill*' I Tilted States of I78fi, a work of the greatest diffh ulty and importance, nays that, on the back of the president’s • plaint, black armchair then* was em blazoned a half sun. brilliant with gilded rays. At the (lose of the session of sev eral months, during which the ('onstitu* tion was adopted, as the meeting was breaking up, and Washington arose, Franklin pointed to the chair and made it the text for a prophecy. “As I have been sitting here all these weeks," lie said. “I have often wondered whether yonder sun was rising or setting. But now I know that It is a rising sun." The sun of Christianity is a rising sun, and Is rapidly moving on to the perfect day. Ufc-SavIng Poll tone***. Patriotism anti politeness are great i virtues, ami a Japanese physician, l)r Aoyatna, owes his life to the fact that he possessed them both in high degree. He hail caught the plague, and was dying for need of the food which, in liis delerium, lie refused to take. His | nurse was in despair, but finally eon ceived the idea of playing upon his patriotism by filling a glass with liq uid nourishment and then offering to drink to the health of the mikado. This was repeated until, ardent patriot as tie was, tile doctor felt that he had honored his sovereign enough. Then his politeness was appealed to. the nurse proposing a toast and reproach ing the sick man for not joining in it. In this way the patient s strength was maintained until the delerium subsided and he became convalescent. — Vouth's Companion. I'rnlte In Prayerful Spirit. Ira D. San key says: "The whole question of how; best to conduct the service of praise in the church will never be settled to the satisfaction of 1 every one. The t istes of good men differ as to what should be sung and how it should be sung. This differ 1 enee will continue to the end of time; ; but of one thing we are quite sure, that only when our service of prais* is offered in the spirit of prayer can j it reach the ear of the Almighty, and i bring down a blessing upon our souls/' ('opfiiliAS*n,i Jublli*' Copenhagen has just celebrated ■ sort of jubilee, the 700th anniverearv cf the death of her founder, Bishop Absalon. Where 700 years ago tueif only existed some poor fishermen s huts, the Danish capital at that time being Itoskilde, there is now situated a modern capital city, with about oOO in habitants. During many centuries Copenhagen increased slowly, and iu years ago It had only 100,000 Inhabit ants; but the growth of the last thin.' years has been enormous. A £r‘*ai monument in copper of Absalon, raised by public subscription, and placed m front of the new town hall, lias been unveiled. .lulixii Kalpb’a Theory. Julian Ralph explains the philoso phy of the latest gorgeous pageant in London by remarking that ttie English people are so suffocated and chilled by fogs and depressing climatic condi tions that they hunger for relief in color and merriment. That is why they have the most gorgeous army in Europe; that is why they drink more than any two nations on earth; that is why they wear more red on the stro-d - and keep up their medieval pageants longer thin their neighbors, and are the greatest patrons of the theater, the most ardent lovers of pantomime and ballet on earth. FROM DEATH'S DOOR. Hillsdale. 111.7 April 29th.—Much In terest has been aroused here over tho case of William Marks, who has been In a dying condition for several months with an apparently incurable Kidney Disease. The leading physicians of this plac<* had pronounced his case a hopeless one, and others from Port llyron, Oeneseo, and Davenport, la., had at tended him, and in a consultation de cided that he could not live. In desperation, his nephew inquired of Mr. L. F. Giles, a local druggist, as to a last resort. Mr. Giles suggested •Dodd's Kidney Pills, a remedy which had just been introduced here. The results were marvelous. Mr. Marks Immediately began to improve, and within a few weeks was able ti» be up and about, completely cured. His cure is tlie talk of the neighbor hood, and is considered nothing short of a miracle. There appears to bo no douut mat. this new remedy, Dodd’s Kidney I’ills, will cure any case of Kidney Disease, for the more malignant forms, such as Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, and Drop sy, yield readily to its remarkable in fluence. These forms of Chronic Kid ney Disease have hitherto been consid ered incurabar?, and have baffled all medical skill, and yet, this new rem edy has cured every single case ill which it has been used, in this neigh borhood. The doctors themselves ar> amazed at the wonderful work Dodd's Kidney Pills are accomplishing in Rock Island County. The hireling has his hire, but the The telescope of love lias the longest range for celestial vision. What r>n the Children TlrtnUT Don't give them tea or i iffeo. Have yon tried ttio now food drink called (iU AlN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more drain O you gi\ e the children the more health you distribute through their systems. (Jrnin i > is made of pure genius, mid when properly prepared tastes like ttie choice grades of coffee, but costs about >4 tu> much. Ail grocers sell it. loo and iioc. Praising your rival may tie good, Christianity, but it's poor politics. People puppet much from Garfield Tea and they are never disappointed; It purities the blood and cures stom ach, liver, kidney and bowel disorders. Any act is meritorious that is not a misfit. We refund ion for every package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYES that fails to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co., Uuionville, Mo. The red herring ought to he served along with the white and bluefish. 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