THE NORTHWESTERN
BENSCIIOTKR * GIBSON. Ed* and Pub*
LOUP CITY, • -NEB.
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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<l of the
World, Matt. xivIJI-aO.—The Great
Coinnilsslou to Preach tlie Goipi*!.
16. Then the eleven disciples went Into
Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus
had appointed them.
17. And when they saw hint, they wor
shiped him; hut some doubted.
IK. And Jesus came and spake unto
them, saying. All power is given unto me
in heaven and In earth.
IK. Go ye, therefore, and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the
lloly Ghost.
SI. Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I commanded you. and lo, I
am with you alway, even unto the end of
the world.
It Is the very nature of living Chris
tianity to want to spread the news of
salvation. Love to Christ and love to
man both compel it. "The very soul of
our religion is missionary, progressive,
world embracing, it would cease to exist
if it ceased to be missionary, if it disre
garded the parting words of ils Fournier,
'Go ye. therefore, and teach all nations,’
etc. The spirit of truth Is the life-spring
of all religion; and where il exists, it
must manifest itself, it must plead, it
must persuade, it must eonvlni c and con
vert There may tie times when silence
is gold, and speech silver; tint there ure
limes also when silence is death, and
speech is life the very life of Pentecost.
X.ook at tlie religions In which the mis
sionary spirit lias been at work, and
compare them with those In which any
attempt to convince others by argument,
lo save souls, to bear witness to the
truth, is treated with pity or scorn. The
former are alive; tin latter are dying or
dead." -Max Muller
This command Includes home missions
as well as foreign; our own neighborhood
as well as more distant places. Hut mis
sionary effort must not lie confined to the
home Held. Kverj nation needs the gos
spirit Impels to all forms of effort to
reach men. Every church should know
thoroughly Its own field. But the wider
outlook and Interest Increases the true
spirit. Nothing has done more for the
churches at home than a great and abid
ing Interest In the foreign work. The
grandeur of this work exalts the indi
vidual Christians who give and labor.
It is a great privilege to he engaged in
the missionary work < t tin* church. The
work is so arranged that • ver> 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.
Th« Grand Trunk ICallnay Synteno.
The picturesque route to ine Pan
American Exposition, will mail on re
ceipt of 2 cents in stamps, sent to its
City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 24!*
Clark Street, Chicago, the handsomest
descriptive folder of the Pan-American
Exposition yet issued.
Cheerfulness makes the feast, but
appetizing food makes the cheerful
ness.
Ask your grocer for DI3FIANCB
STARCH, the only 1C oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cenl starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
His work is nearly all up-stairs—
the astronomer.
TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK.
If you realized—as do those who
have been there—what a delightful ex
perience a month in California is, you
would not fail to take advantage of
the low rates to San Francisco which
the Burlington offers on account of
the Kpworth league meeting in that
city in .July.
The cost of reaching California will
be reduced one-half. Add to this
that the summer climate of San Fran
cisco is very nearly perfect, and it is
easy to understand why tens of thou
sands are eagerly looking forward to
what, in their opinion, will be the
holiday of a lifetime.
Beautifully illustrated folder, giving
full information about rates, scenery,
route, stop-over privileges, through
cars, etc., mailed on reoucst.
J. FRANCIS,
OenCral Passenger Agent,
Omaha. Neb.
When Answerin'] Advertisements Kiotlly
Mention This Paper.
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