THE NORTHWESTERN, BENhClIOTER < GIIISON, Edn and P»(* LOUP CITY, - • NEB. i_—rttj-!—i J. Pierpont Morgan did not have quite everything bought in this country before he crossed the sea. but he left a man in charge on tills side to pick up what few trifles he had happened to overlook. ~ . The recent reference in Youth's Com panion to San Bernardino county. Cal ifornia, aa the largest in the United States, has brought out the fact that there is one even larger—Custer coun ty. in Montana. The one contains 19, 947 square miles, the other 20,490. In the interest of accuracy, therefore, the palm must be transferred from Cali fornia to Montana. The Geneva correspondent of the McKinley has Informed President Kruger of the Transvaal that he can not receive him, either officially or un officially. No doubt that story will give comfort in London, and it can do no harm anywhere else. We may be very sure that if President Kruger vis its Washington he will be received with all the honors befitting his rank. Liquor dealers in Abingdon. Mass., by way of a joke nominated Rev. W. H. Wyman for constable, hut they have about come to the conclusion that the joke is on them instead of on the reverend gentleman. They thought the proffer of such an honor wrould an ger Mr. Wyman, hut he enlisted the aid of local church people, was trium phantly elected and now declares that the Sunday and midnight closing or dinances must he rigidly observed. A film of kerosene on the surface of standing water is fatal both to the larvae and to the adult female mosquitoes which alight there to lay their eggs. A small quantity is suf ficient, one ounce being enough for a space of fifteen square feet. Tem * porary pools which result from heavy rains, and even the water in hollow stumps and discarded tin cans may furnish a generation of mosquitoes. You may talk of the selfish men who succeed, but when we talk of suc cess we don’t mean tumblehugs who roll their treasure home, pigs who suc ceed in finding acorns, hankers who pile up dollars, trust organizers who rob, or gamblers who successfully swindle. When we mention success ful men, we mean men really success ful—those whose lives have added something to the dignity and decency of the human race. The dinner given by the survivors of the defenders of Belfort in the Franco Gcrman war, on the anniversary of the siege, was especially memorable be cause of the one woman present, who provided one of the most popular toasts. This was Mme. Belfort, a lieutenant of the Franes-Tireurs, who, then but a girl just out of her teens, was enrolled as a trooper in that corps, as she was a capital rider and shot. In this campaign she won both her commission and the military cross. When digging in the gravel beds of South Kensington for the foundations of the Victoria and Albert museum in London great quantities of the bones of extinct animals were found, crea tures which lived in the London basin at the time that the river's drift and brick earth were being deposited. These were the hones of the great stags then common, of the elephant and of the primeval horse, creatures which lived there before the channel was cut between England and France, though not perhaps before man had appeared in what is now the Thames valley. A scientist, to whom some of the remains were taken said that they reminded him of the great discovery of similar remains in the brick earth at Ilford, in Essex, England, thirty seven years ago, when he personally saw dug from the brick fields of that parish the head and tusks of one of the largtst mammoth elephants in the world. wunin tne next two months the government will close out its busi ness of educating Indians by contract, and thenceforth will retain practical ly the whole control and conduct of the matter. The change from the old system to the new began in 1895, when Congress passed a law providing for sectarian schools, the decrease being twenty per cent eacli year. Mean time, as the cutting off of this aid de prived Indian boys and girls of the privileges which they had enjoyed for them in government schools, the attendance in which has increased from fourteen to twenty-two thous and, and is still growing at the rate of a thousand a year. The next step contemplated by the government is a measure of compulsory education for young Indians. It is a pleasure to note that Hampton Institute, being en tirely non-sectarian and performing a service which would be hard to duplicate will still receive a certain measure of government assistance. An interesting and unusual cere mony will take place in Quebec next month, when a suitably inscribed bronze tablet will be placed by the Sons of the American-Revolution upon the spot where the brave Gen. Mont gomery fell, on December 31, 1775, in - his Ill-fated attempt to capture the citadel. The ceremony of unveiling the tablet to the American general will be followed by an international ex change of courtesiesami a banquet;and It Is safe to predict that, although the city held out successfully against the fathers, it wil.f capitulate to the sons. TALM AGE'S SERMON. AMUSEMENTS THE SUBJECT ON LAST SUNDAY. “Let the A mine Men Now Artie and PI»y Hr fore I *** Second Samuel Chapter II. Verie 14—Sport* m a Menu* to iaa Kui—The Home Life* (Copyright, IMI. by Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, May 1U.—This discourse of Dr. Taimage is in accord with all Innocent hilarities, while it repre hends amusements that belittle or de prave; text, II Samuel ii, 14, “Lot the young men now arise and play be fore us.’’ There are two armies encamped by the pool of Gibe-on. The time hangs heavily on their hands. One army pro poses a game of sword fencing. Noth ing could be more healthful and inno cent. The other army accepts the chal lenge. Twelve men against 12 men, the sport open. But something went adversely. Perhaps one of the swords men got an unlucky clip or in some way had his ire aroused and that which opened in sportfulness ended in vio lence, each one taking his contestant by the hair and with the sword thrust ing him in the side, so that that which opened in innocent fun ended in the massacre of all the 24 sportsmen. Was there ever a better illustration of what was true then and is true now—that that which is innocent may be made destructive? v\ nat oi a worldly nature is more important anil strengthening and in nocent than amusement, and yet what has counted more victims? 1 have no sympathy with a straightjacket relig ion. This is a very bright world to me, and I propose to do all 1 can to make it bright for others. I never could keep step to a dead march. A book years ago Issued says that a Christian man has a right to some amusements. For instance, if he comes home at night weary from his work and, feeling the need of recreation, puts on his slippers and goes into his garret and walks lively round the floor several times there can be no harm in it. I believe the church of God made a great mis take iu trying to suppress tlie sport fulness of youth and drive out from men their love of amusement. If God ever implanted anything in us. he im planted this desire. But instead of pro viding this demand of our nature the church of God has for the main part ignored it. As In a riot the mayor plants a battery at the end of the street and has it fired off. so that every thing is cut down that happens to stand in the range, the good as well as the bad, so there are men iu the church who plant their batteries of condemnation and fire away indiscrim inately. Everything is condemned. But Paul the apostle commends those who use the world without abusing it, and in the natural world God has done everything to please and amuse us. In poetic figure we sometimes spt ak of natural objects as bping in pain, but It is a mere fancy. Poets say the clouds weep, but they never yet shed a tear, anil that winds sigh, hut they never did have trouble, and that the storm howls, but it never lost its tem per. The world is a rose and the uni verse a garland. Find Out for Yourselves. I project certain principles by which you may judge in regard to any amuse ment or recreation, finding out for yourself whether it is right or wrong. I remark, in the first place, that you can judge of the moral character of any amusement by its healthful re sult or by its baleful reaction. There are people who seem made up of hard facts. They are a combination of mul tiplication tables and statistics. If you show them an exquisite picture they will begin to discuss the pigments in volved in the coloring. If you show' them a beautiful rose they will submit It to a botanical analysis, which is only the post mortem examination of a flow er. They have no rebound in their nature. They never do anything more than smile. There are no great tides of feeling surging up from the depths of their soul in billow after billow of reverberating laughter. They seem as if nature had built them by contract and made a bungling job out of it. But, blessed be God, there are people in the world who have bright faces and whose life is a song, an anthem, a pean of wuiuij. nvru uieir iruuuK's are llKe the vines that crawl up the side of a great tower on the top of which the sunlight sits and the soft airs of sum mer hold perpetual carnival. They are the people you like to have come to your house; they are the people I like to have come to my house. If you but touch the hem of their garments you arc healed. Now, it 1st these pxhllarant and sym pathetic and warm hearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amuse ments. In proportion as a ship is swift it wants a strong helmsman, in proportion as a horse is gay it wants a stout driver, and these people of ex uberant nature will do well to look at the reaction of all their amusements. If an amusement sends you home at night nervous, so that you cannot sleep, and you rise up in the morning not because you are slept out, but be cause your duty drags you from your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are amusements that send a man next day to his work with his eyes bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong kinds of amusement. They are entertainments that give a man disgust with the drudgery of life, with tools because they are not swords, with working aprons because they are not robes, witli cattle because they are not infuriated buns of the arena. If any amusement sends you home longing for a life of romance and thrilling ad venture, love that takes poison and shoots itself, moonlight adventures and hair-breadth escapes, you may depend upon it that you are in the sacrificed victim of unsanctified i«+easure. Our recreations are intended to build us up and if they pull us down as to our moral as well as to our physical strength you may come to the conclu sion that they are obnoxious. t.lve Within Your Meant Still further, those amusements are wrong which lead you into expenditure beyond your menus. Money spent in recreation is not thrown away. It is all folly for tis to come from a place of amusement feeling that we have wast ed our money and time. You may by It have made an investment worth more than the transaction that yield ed you hundreds of thousands of dol lars. But how many properties have been riddled by costly amusements. The first time I ever saw the city— it was the city of Philadelphia—I was a mere lad. I stopped at a hotel, and 1 remember in the eventide one of these men plied me with his infernal art. He saw I was green. He wanted to show me the sights of the town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like emerald, but I was afraid of him. I shoved back from the basilisk—I made up my mind he was a basilisk. I remember how he wheeled his chair round in front of me and, with a con centered and diabolical effort at tempted to destroy my soul, but there were good angels in the air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all encompassing grace or a good God that delivered me. Be ware, beware. O young man! "There Is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the eud thereof is death. The table has been robbed to pay the club. The champagne has cheated the children’s wardrobe. The carous ing party hasburned up the boy's prim er. The tablecloth of the corner sa loon is in debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in a day make a tour around a whole month's wages ladies whose lifetime business it is to "go shopping,” large bets on horses, have their counterparts in uneducated children, bankruptcies that shock the money market and appall the church and that send drunkenness staggering acrosss the richly figured carpet of the mansion and dashing into the mirror and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of bloated sons come home to break their old mother’s heart. I-ook Out for tlie Merchant, is there a disarrangement in your accounts? Is there a leakage in your money drawer? Did the cash ac count come out. right last night? I will tell you. There is a young man in your store wandering off into bad amusements. The salary you give him may meet lawful expenditures, but not the sinful Indulgences in which he has entered, and he takes by theft that which you do not give him in lawful salary. How brightly the path of unre strained amusement opens! The young man says: "Now I am off for a good time. Never mind economy. I'll get money somehow. What a fine road! What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack tne whip, and over the turnpike! Come, boys, fill high your glasses. Drink! Bong life, health, plenty of rides just like this!” Hardworking men here the clatter of the hoofs and look up and say: "Why, 1 wonder where those fel lows get their money from. We have to toil and drudge. They do nothing.” To these gay men life is a thrill and excitement. They stare at other peo ple and in turn are stared at. The watch chain jingles. The cup foams. The checks flush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. They swagger. They jostle decent men off the sidewalk. They take the name of God in vain. They parody the hymn they learned at their mother’s knee, and to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out, "Who cares!” and to the counsel of some Christian friend, Who are you?” Passing along the street some night you hear a shiek in a grogshop, the rattle of the watchman's club, the rush of the police. What Is the matter now? Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grogshop fight. Carry him home to his father's house. Parents will come down and wash his wounds and close his eyes in death. They for give him all he ever did. although he cannot in his silence ask it. The prod igal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers and twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy and push hark from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with the agony. ’1 ue great dram atist says, “How sharper than a <-,er pent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child." Sport* a Mean* to an Enrt. Your sports are merely means to an end. They are alleviations and helps. The arm of toi! is the only arm strong enough to bring up the bucket out of the deep well of pleasure. Amusement is only the bower where business and philanthropy rest while on their way to stirring achievements. Amusements are merely the vines that grow about the anvil of toil and the blossoming of the hammers. Alas for the man who spends his life in laboriously doing nothing, his days in hunting up loung ing places and loungers, his nights in seeking out some gaslight foolery! The man who always has on his sporting jacket, ready to hunt for game in the mountain or fish in the brook, with no time to pray or work or read, is not so well off as the greyhound that runs by his side or the fly bait with which he whips the stream. A man who dor!est of good things to come, by a greater nnd more perfect tabernacle, not madfc with hands, tliat is to say, not of this building. 12. Neither by the blood of goats nnd calves, but by his own blood lie entered In once into the holy place, having ob tained eternal redemption for us. 13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprink ling the unclean, sanettfieth to the purify ing of the flesh 14. How much more shall the hlood of t'hrist, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to tlod, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 24. For Christ is not entered Into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true: but into heaven Itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. 2.7. Nor yet that lie should offer him self often, as the high priest entereth Into I he holy place ( very year with hlood of others. 28. For then must he often have suf fered since the foundation of the world; but now once In the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27. And as It appointed unto men once to dir. but after this the Judgment. 28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. i presume mat trie reason me tional Committee put this lesson In this place was to show us that Jest... who has ascended to heaven, and has sent his Holy Spirit upon us, is an ever-living Saviour, still working and earing for us. Ills mission Is not ended. Jesus is not idle in the heavens. We still have a Saviour who is a present Redeemer and mediator between our souls and God, the bridge as it were, or the realization of the stairway of Jacob's dream, between earth and heaven. The subject therefore is that Jesus is our high priest, our mediator, an eternal, living Saviour, representing us before God, and God lo us, and removing those things which separate the soul front God our Heavenly Father. The letter to the Hebrews "is intended for those who felt as though under the new dispensation they had lost all that was most dear to them. Judaism, with its splendid ritual and elaborate priest hood, was stricken root and branch, and was passing away. The writer of this letter teaches the fact that it is only the external elements of Judaism that are going, and that something Infinitely better is taking its place—something that contains all that was essential and eter nal in the old system."—G. Campbell Morgan. If we understand the mission and duties of tlie high priest in the Jewish economy, we will be better able to realize what Jesus does for us ns a high priest. The basis of ail his duties was mediutorship between God and man. "The whole char acteristics and the functions of the priesthood centered in the person of the high priest.”—Kdersheim. 1. He was ap potnted by God. 2. He was the mediator, the connection between God and man. 3. lie was the representative of the people before God. presenting their prayers and offerings. "The crown and glory of the l.evitlcal dispensation was in its priest hood. Its most sacred and solemn service was that of the high priest on the day of atonement. Illustration. We can know God only tlirouRh material manifestations, ns we know men through our bodily powers and their bodily manifestations. So we know the sun only through the material ob jects through which or hv which it is manifested. One minute "f full direct vision of the sun would blind us. We see the light itself as reflected from objects; the colors, tti*' chemical and life rays, the power that takes pictures, the heat rays, all only through some physical objects. Illustration. "You remember how Dio genes, the philosoppher who dwelt in a tub, received Alexander the Conqueror. When Alexander came lo hirn, and stood in the entrance to that hovel in which lie lived, and asked, ‘Diogenes, is there anything which Ah xander, the king, can do for you?’ The philosopher replied, 'Yes, there is one tiling you can do for me—stand out of my sunlight.' That is my attitude towards any man wtio seeks to play the part of priest between my soul arid God. ... I say, 'Get out of my sunlight! Don't come between me and God!’ 1 come to God through Jesus Christ, and through no other person. I do not question tin* right of any person to Intervene between me and God be cause I do not need a mediator, but be cause I have a great high priest who ever livetli to make Intercession for me.” —G. Campbell Morgan. Increasing’ a Golf Outfit* She was a Boston girl, not given to sudden crazes and ill-considered pleas ures, but last summer and in the early fall she fell a victim to the golf habit and from that time her thoughts, sleeping or waking, ran on brossles and mashles and cleeks and other imple ments of the peace-destroying sport. So, as Christmas approached, and she had every reason to believe that her aunt would remember her as usual, she went to her and diplomatically suggested that the present this time should be in a direct way associated with golf. A day or two before Christ mas the expected bundle arrived from the aunt, accompanied by a note in which the elderly lady apologized for her ignorance concerning golf, assert ing that, all golf terms wi re alike to her, and she didn’t know a brassie from a stymie. ‘‘But, my dear," she went on, "I have done the last 1 could, and I hope this little present, which is certainly associated with golf, will he acceptable and useful." The expectant athlete, somewhat dashed by the smallness of the parcel, untied the string, unrolled the paper, opened the box, and took out—a golf pin! — Youth's Companion. PHI M in Outwit* A atliorlt!**. Postal authorities in Washington are worrying over the case of a man who advertises to cure deafness with out fail for a certain sum. To those who rend the required amount the ad vertiser sends 2,000 pills, with direc tions to take not more than one a day, guaranteeing a cure when all the pills have been used. As the truth or other wise of this claim cannot be determin ed for about live and a half years, tho authorities do not know what course to take. The Spartan Jap*. Tlio Japanese are a Spartan race. Many things besides their resistance to cold prove it. The most of them live in simplicity. They can go a long time without food. The coolies per form marvelous feats of strength and endurance; they draw a "jinrikisha'’ all day or carry travelers over the steepest mountains. Every summer a colony of foreigners go to Mount Hei Eizan, near Kioto. Their camp is sev eral miles up the steep mountain side, but early each morning the Japanese bring up the mail, fresli vegetables and milk, and women often carry trunks to the summit on their heads. A ficliubret Mixntmcript round. An interesting original manuscript work by Kranz Schubert was discov ered recently in Vienna among the property of a rich and eccentric mart named Wyssiak, an official of the court of justice, who died recently, it is the Iong-sought-for composition in I) flat for two violins, viola and violincello. This work is dated in March, 1841, and was recognized as genuine some years ago by Schubert’s step-brother. Today the same verdict is given by several specialists well acquainted with Schu bert's music. The discovery has caused a great sensation in Viennese musical circles. An "M. !>'»" Open Letter. Renton, 111., May 20—R. II. Dunaway. M. D., of this place, in an open letter, makes tho following startling state ment: “I had Diabetes with all its worst symptoms. I applied every remedy known to the profession, as well as every prescription suggested in our books. In spito of all, I was dying, and 1 knew it. “As a last resort, and with scarce ly any faith whatever, I commenced taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills. In ono week I saw a great Improvement. After I had taken five boxes, I was sound and well. This is ten months ago, and I have not taken any medicine of any kind since, and am convinced that my cure is a permanent one. “As a practicing physician with years of experience, I most positively assert that Dodd's Kidney Pills are tho best medicine in the world today, for Diabetes or any other Kidney Disease. Since using them myself, I have used them in many eases in my practice, and they have never failed. “I am making this statement as a professional man, after having made a most thorough test of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and because I feel it my duty to the public and to my professional brethren. 1 he truth can never hurt anyone, and what 1 have said is the absolute truth.” R. H. DUNAWAY, M. D. It Is no wonder that the public are enthusiastic over this new medicine, when our leading physicians them selves, are being won over to its use. C’ity Funds Kept in a ( liimro’'. The city of South Norwalk, Conn., keeps a part of its record in a chimney. This unique “safe” is found at the mu nicipal electric lighting plant. The space usually utilized as a soot pit in the base of the 500 foot brick smoke stack has been utilized for keeping the records and books of tlie plants. A FAMOUS OLD HOUSE. The house of Walter Raker & Co., whose manufactures of cocoa and chocolate have become familiar in tho mouth as household words, was estab lished one hundred and twenty-one years ago (1780) on the Neponset river in the old town of Dorchester, a suburb of Boston. From the little wooden mill, “by the rude bridge that arched the flood,” where the enterprise was first started, there has grown up tho largest industrial establishment of the kind in tho world. It might ho said that, while other manufacturers come and go, Walter Baker & Co., go on for ever. What is the secret of their great suc cess? It is a very simple one. They have won and held the confidence of the great and constantly increasing body of consumers by always main taining the highest standard in the quality of their cocoa and chocolate preparations, and selling them at the lowest price for which unadulterated articles of good quality can be put upon the market. They welcome hon est competition; but they feel justified In denouncing in the strongest terms tne rrauauient metnoas Dy wmcn in ferior preparations are palmed off on customers who ask for and suppose they are getting the genuine articles. The best grocers refuse to handle such goods, not alone for tho reason that, In the long run, It doesn’t pay to do it, but because their sense of fair dealing will not permit them to aid in the sala of goods that defraud their customers and Injure honest manufacturers. Every package of the goods made by the Walter Baker Company bears tho w-ellknown trade mark “La Belle Chocolatiere,” and their place of manu facture “Dorchester, Mass.” House keepers are advised to examine their purchases, and make sure that other goods have not been substituted. An attractive little book of "Choice Recipes” will be mailed free to any housekeeper who sends her name and address to Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., 168 State Street, Boston, Mass. . When a soldier becomes insane there Is something wrong at headquarters. It isn’t at all pleasant to pay tho laundryman stiff prices for slimsy work. What Hu the Clillilrrn DrlnkT Don t givo them ten or coffee. Hivoyoti tried tho new food drink called GLAIN-Of It is delicious and nourishing, and takes tho place of coffee. Tho more Gmin-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain O is made of pure grains, mid when properly prepared tastes llko tho choice grades of coffee, but | costs about >4 as much. All grocer* tell it. 15c und U5c. Many a man has married a piece of real estate, with a woman in the title deed. t