THE NORTHWESTERS.
BEKMCUOTSB * GIBSON, Ed» and P»b»
LOUP CITY, • - NEB
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A mammoth tooth, 15 Inches broad
a foot loug and weighing 1C pounds,
has been found near Chelsea, Cal.
Women have almost a monopoly of
orange packing in California, The fruit
Is so dirty when it is first picked that
It has to be carefully dusted before it
is ready for shipment.
In a little handful of earth in the
crotch of the branches of the big elm
in front of a store at Norway, Vt„ is
a currant bush. The shrub has been
growing there for two or three years
and has attained a vigorous size. Last
year it bore fruit for the first time.
There is a noticeable falling off In
the supply of pastors for Protestant [
churches in both England and Ameri
ca. There is also a prospect of a sim
ilar deficiency in Germany, for while
10 years ago out of every 1.000 students
who entered the German universities
206 were students of theologt. in 1895
the number was 150 for each 1,000,
while this year it is only 101.
It is claimed that there are fewer
gum chewers in Washington than in
any other city of its size in America.
Any person who walks down a public
street masticating a wad of gum imme
diately becomes the subject of remarks.
On the other hand, it is asserted that
more cigarettes are smoked each day
in Washington than in any other city
of equal population except those in the
extreme southern part of the United
States.
Every year at Tunis a solemn re
ligious service is held in memory of
the ctorly Christian martyrs, Vivla,
Perpctua and Feliclta. The ceremony
was conducted this year a few weeks
ago by Mgr. Combes, archbishop of
Carthage. One of the most picturesque
incidents in the celebration was the
procession to the subterranean cham
bers attached to the ancient arena of
Carthage, the very place where, in the
third century, the two martyrs were
delivered to the wild beasts.
The acquisition of new territory has
stimulated American Interest in travel. ■
both at home and abroad. Just now ;
the ten-thousand mile trip of the pres
idential party Is having an effect in
the same direction, as will the several
congressional parties which are mak
ing preparations to go to the Philip
pines. The steady current of informa- j
tion coming from all these outlying :
islands is quickening the enthusiasm j
of American travelers and making us I
to an extent ‘familiar with the world.” ;
To render the familiarity an influence j
for good everywhere should be our
main concern.
No stranger monument ever existed j
that that which was erected at the Ho- j
tel de Ville by the inhabitants of Lune
burg, in Hanover, in honor of a pig. |
This, which took the form of a kind l
of mausoleum, contained a large glass
case in which was hermetically in
closed a fine ham cut from the ani
mal, whose memory was to be handed
down to posterity. Above was a tomb
stone slab of black marble, on which,
engraved in letters of gold, was the
following inscription in Latin: “Pass
ers-by contemplate here the mortal re
mains of the pig which acquired for it
self imperishable glory by the discov
ery of the salt springs of Luneburg.’’
The discontented worries of a mo
rose person may very likely shorten
his days and the general justice of
nature's arrangement provides that
his early departure should entail no
long regrets. On the other hand, the
man who can laugh keeps his health. ;
To the perfectly healthy laughter
comes often. Too commonly, though,
hs childhood is left behind, the habit
falls, and a half smile Is the best that ]
"isits the thought-lined mouth of a
modern man or woman. People be
come more and more burdened with
the accumulations of knowledge and
with the weighing responsibilities of
life, but they should still spare time to
laugh.
The sons of the German emperor are
being brought up in a strict school.
While the crown prince is being initi
ated into all the solemn rites and
practices of student life at Bonn his
three younger brothers, Eitel Fritz.
August Wilhelm, and Oscar, are hard
at work at Pleon, where they are sub
jected to a daily routine stricter even
than that to which they are accus
tomed at home. Every day they are
up at 5:30, have their cold tubs, then
their breakfast, and forthwith begin
work. The eldest of the brothers vis
its the first class of the cadet school,
the second attends the lower fifth, and
the third the upper third. They appear
to have made plenty of friends there
and take an active part in ail the
games. The most popular game at
present moment is tennis, while the
second place is apparently by riding
and cycling.
The earthquake waves due to the
Japanese shock of June 15, 1896, were
recorded on the seif-registering gauges
at Honolulu and at Saucelita, in the
bay of San Francisco. I>r. Charles
Davison has recently compared the
calculated velocity of the earthquake
waves with the velocity formerly cal
culated from the usual formula, fra
found that at Saucelito. for example,
the first crest of the waves reached the
tidal gauge 10 hours and 34 minutes
after the shock, having traversed in
this time the distance of 4.787 miles at
an average of 664 feet a second.
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
THK SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
THE SUBJECT.
“lo, These Are Tarts of tlve Ways"—
But 11 ow Tittle a Portion Is Beard
of Him**—Job ml, 14—Workings of
Divine Power.
(Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. T.)
Washington, June 16.—In this dis
course Dr. Talmage raises high expec
tations of the day when that which
is now only dimly seen will be fully re
vealed; text, Job xxvi, 14; ‘Lo, these
are parts of his ways. But how little
a portion is heard of him? But the
thunder of his power who call under
stand?”
The least understood b^lng in the
universe is God. Blasphemous would be
any attempt by painting or sculpture
to represent him. Egyptian hiero
glyphs tried to suggest him by putting
the figure of an eye upon a sword, im
plying that God sees and rules, but
bow imperfect the suggest'on! When
we speak of him, it is almost always
in language figurative. He is "Light
or ‘‘Dayspring From on High." or he
is a "High Tower” or the "Fountain of
Living Waters." His splendor is so
great that no man can see him and
live. When the group of great theo
logians assembled in Westminster ab
bey for the purpose of making a sys
tem of religious belief, they first of
all wanted an answer to the question.
"Who is God?” No one desired to un
dertake the answering of that over
mastering question. They finally con
cluded to give the task to the youngest
man in the assembly, who happened to
be Rev. George Gillespie. He con
sented to undertake it on the condi
tion that they would first unite with
him in prayer for divine direction. He
began his prayer by saying. "O God,
thou art a spirit infinite, infinite, eter
nal and unchangeable in thy being,
wisdom, power, holiness, justice, good
ness and truth." That first sentence
of Gillespie’s prayer was unanimously
adopted by the assembly as the best
definition of God. But, after all, it
was only a partial success, and after
everything that language can do when
put to the utmost strain and all we
can see of God in the natural world
and realize of God in the providential
world we are forced to cry out with
J6b in my text; “Lo, these are parts
of the ways. But how little a portion
is heard of him? But the thunder of
his power who can understand?"
God’a Way of Doing.
We try to satisfy ourselves with say
ing, "It is natural law that controls
things, gravitation is at work, centri
petal and centrifugal forces respond to
each other.’’ But what is natural law?
It is only God's way of doing things.
At every point in the universe it is
God’s direct and continuous power that
controls and harmonizes and sustains.
That power withdrawn one instant
would make the planetary system and
all the worlds which astronomy re
veals one universal wreck, bereft hem
ispheres, dismantled sunsets, dead con
stellations, debris of worlds. What
power it must be that keeps the in
ternal fires of our world imprisoned—
only here and there spurting from a
Cotopaxi, or a Stromboli, or from a
Vesuvius, putting Pompeii and Hercu
laneum into sepulcher* but for the
most part the internal fire3 chained in
their cages of rock, and century after
century unable to break the chain or
burst open the door! What power to
keep the component parts of the air in
right proportion, so that all around the
world the nations may breathe in
health, the frosts and the heats hin
dered from working universal demoli
tion! Power, as Isaiah says, “to take
up the isles as a very little thing,”
j Ceylon and Borneo and Hawaii as
though they were pebbles; power to
weigh the “mountains in scales” and
| the “hills in balances”—Tenerife and
l the Cordilleras. To move a rock we
must have lever and screw and great
machinery, but God moves the world
I with nothing but a word; power to
j create worlds and power to destroy
! them, as from observation again and
j again they have been seen red with
j flame, then pals > i‘.h a hes and then
I scattered.
Working* or the Divine I’owfr.
We get some little idea of the divine
power when we see how It buries the
aroudest cities ni: i nv.i.ns. Ancient
Memphis It has ground up i ntil many
; of its ruins are no larger than your
thumb nail and you can hardly find
a souvenir large enough to remind you
. of your visit. The olty of Tyre Is
under the sea which washes the shore,
on which are only a few crumbling
i vlUars left. Sodom and Gormorrah are
covered by waters so deathful that not
a fish can live in them. Babylon and
Ninevah are so blotted out of exist
ence that not one uninjured sba't of
i their ancient splendor remains. Noth
ing but omnipotence could have put
, j them down and put them under. The
i antediluvian world was able to send
• to the postdiluvian world only one ship
, with a very small passenger list. Om
. nipotence first rolled the seas over
t the land, and then told them to go
3 back to their usual channels as rivers
, and lakes and oceans At omnipotent
command the waters pouncing upon
their prey, and at mini,aunt com
» mand slinking back Into their appro
j priate places. By such reheaisil we try
i to arouse our appreciation of what om
, nipotence is, and our reverence is ex
s cited, and our adoration is intensified,
, but after all we find ourselves at the
, foot of a mountain we cannot climb,
. hovering over a depth we cannot fa
, thorn, at the rim of a circumference
we cannot compass, and we feel like
first going down on our knees and then
' like falling flat upon our faces as we
exclaim: "Lo, these are parts of his
ways. But how little a portion is
heard of him? But the thunder of his
power who can understand?”
The Uod of Ahrnliam.
A tradition says that Abraham of
the Old Testament was when an infant
hidden in a cave because of the perse
cutions of Nimrod. The first time the
child came out of the cavern it was
night, and he looked up at the star
and cried, ‘'This is my God," but the
star disappeared, and Abraham said,
"No, that cannot be my God." After
awhile the moon rose, and Abraham
said, "That is my God," but it set. and
Abraham was again disappointed. Af
ter awhile the sun rose, and he said,
"Why, truly, here is my God,” but the
sun went down, and Abraham was sad
dened. Not until the God of the Bible
appeared to Abraham was he satisfied,
and his faith was so great that he was
called "the Father of the Faithful.”
All that the theologians know of God's
wisdom, is insignificant compared with
the wiedom beyond human comprehen
sion. The human race never has had
and never will have enough brain or
heart to measure the wisdom of God.
I can think of only two authors who
have expressed the exact facts. The
one was Paul, who says, “Oh. the depth
of the riches, both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God. how unsearchable
are his judgments and his ways past
finding out." The other author was
the scientist who composed my text.
I think he wrote it during a thunder
storm, for the chapter says much about
the clouds and describes the tremor
of the earth under the reverberations.
Witty writers sometimes depreciate the
thunder and say it is the lightning
that strikes, but I am sure God thinks
well of the thunder, or he would not
make so much of it, and all up and
down the Bible he uses the thunder
to give emphasis. It was the thunder
that shook Sinai when the law was
given. It was «ith thunder that the
Lord discomfited the Philistines at
Eben-ezer. Job pictures the warhorse
as having a neck clothed with thunder.
St. John, in an apocalyptic vision,
again and again heard the thunder.
The thunder, which is now quite well
explained by the electricians, was the
overpowering mystery of the ancients,
and standing among those mysteries
Job exclaimed: "Lo, these are parts
of his ways. But how little a portion
is heard of him? But the thunder of
his power who can understand?
Tho Omnipresence of (iod.
We have all been painfully reminded
in our own experiences that we can
not be in two places at the same time.
Madler, the astronomer, went on with
his explorations until he concluded
that the star Alcyone, one of the
Pleiades, was the center of the uni
verse. and it was a fixed world, and
all the other worlds revolved around
that world, and some think that that
world is heaven and God's throne is
there, and there reside the nations of
the blest. But he is no more there
than he is here. Indeed. Alcyone has
been found to be in motion, and it also
is revolving around some great center.
But no place has yet been found where
God is not present by sustaining
power. Omnipresence! Who fuily
appreciates it? Not I. Not you.
Sometimes we hear him in a whisper.
Sometimes we hear him in the voice
of the storm that jars the Adriondacks.
But we cannot swim across this ocean.
The finite cannot measure the infinite.
We feel as Job did after finding God
in th° gold mines and the silver mines
of Asia, saying, "There is a vein for
the silver and a place for the gold
where they fine it." And after ex- ;
ploring the heavens as an astromoner
and finding God in distant worlds and
becoming acquainted with Orion and
Mazzaroth and Arcturus and noticing
the tides of the sea the inspired poet
expresses his incapacity to understand
such evidences of wisdom and power
and says: “Lo, these are parts of his
ways. But how little a portion is
heard of him? But the thunder of his
power who can understand?"
So every system of theology has at
tempted to describe and define the di
vine attribute of love. Easy enough
is it to define fatherly love, motherly
love, conjugal love, fraternal love, sis
terly love and love of country, but. the
love of God defies all vocabulary. For
many hundreds of years poets have
tried to sing it and painters have tried
to sketch It and ministers of the gospel
to preach it and martyrs in the fire and
Christians on their deathbeds have ex
tolled it. and we can tell what it is
like, but no one has yet fully told what
it is. Men speak of the love of God
as though it were first felt between
the pointing of Bethlehem star and the
pounding of the crucifixion hammer.
But no! Long before that existed the
love of God.
Seeing God Face to Face.
Only glimpses of God have we in
this world, but what an hour it will
be when we first see him, and we will
have no more fright than I feel when
I now see you. It will not be with
mortal eye that we will behold him,
but with the vision of a cleansed, for
given and perfected spirit. Of all the
quintillion ages of eternity to us the
most thrilling hour will he the first
hour when we meet him as he is.
This may account for something you
have all seen and may not have under
stood. Have you not noticed how that
after death of the old Christian looks
young again or the features resume the
look of 20 or 30 years before? The
weariness is gone out of the face; there
is something strikingly restful and
placid; there is a pleased look where
before there was a disturbed look.
What has wrought the change? I
think the dying Christian saw God.
At the moment the soul left the body
what the soul saw left Its impression
on the countenance. I think that is
what gave that old Christian face after
death the radiant and triumphant look.
The bestormed spirit has reached the
harbor; the hard battle of life is ended
in victory. The body took that look
the moment heaven began, and the
curtain was completely lifted and the
glories of Jehovah’s presence rushed
upon the soul. The departing spirit
left on the old man’s face a glad good
by, and that first look gave the pleased
curve to the dying lip and smootned
out the wrinkles and touched all the
lineaments with an indescribable radi
ance. As no one else explains that ini'
proved and gladdened post mortem
look, I try to explain it, saying: “He
saw God!” “She saw God!”
Keeping Flower* Fre«1i.
Cut flowers, though universally em
ployed, are seldom treated as they
ought to be, so here are a few hint*
for those who like to keep their blos
soms fresh as long as possible.
First of all, they should be put into
some large receptacle and sprinkled
freely with water all over. Only after
this preliminary operation it is wise to
transfer them to the several pots they
are to occupy. They ought to be taken
out every morning, sprinkled as on
the first day, the tip of the stem then
being cut off, and fresh water, flow
ing from a tap, should be allowed to
run over the stalks, holding the flow
ers head downward, says the Philadel
phia Press.
Finally, and herein lies the principal
secret of success, tbe water in the
vases may be “doctored'' in this man
ner. Mix thoroughly together a table
spoonful of finely shredded yellow
soap, enough chloride of sodium to
cover a florin, and half a pint of water.
Put in a portion of this mixture into
every receptacle and fill in the usual
way.
A pinch of borax in each one will
preserve all the coloring of the most
brilliant flowers, and by renewing the
supply of the above solution every two
or three days the flowers will last for
a couple of weeks or more. Palms and
all foliage plants must be carefully
but moderately watered, washed, put
outside daily for a bath of air and sun
shine and must not be stood in
draughty places.
Electricity at Long Range.
The street cars in Oakland, Cal., are
now operated with electricity from the
Yuba river, 140 miles distant. The wa
ter power, having been converted into
electricity, Is carried on wires six
tenths of an inch in diameter, made
of an alloy of copper and aluminum.
The electrical pressure is 40,000 volts,
and the loss in transmission is said
to 5 per cent. This is by far the long
est electrical transmission system for
power purposes in existence, and if the
loss is as small as it is stated to be,
it is the most promising indication of
the possibilities of long-distance trans
mission yet furnished. "Something
like six years ago,” says the Railway
Engineering Review, “a test of elec
tric transmission over a line between
Frankfort and Lauffen, in Germany,
a distance of 110 miles, was made for
experimental purposes, but not until
the test of the plant above referred to
has transmission for commercial pur
poses over a line of such great length
been a fact.”
tutting Down the Army.
The initial step has been taken by
the War department toward the reduc
tion of the force of regulars in the
Philippines to 40,000. Orders were ca
bled General MacArthur to send to the
United States the Fourteenth, Eigh
teenth and Twenty-third regiments of
infantry, Fourth cavalry, Twenty
ninth. Thirtieth, Thirty-second and
Thirty-third companies of coast artil
lery and the First, Eighth, Tenth,
Twelfth and Thirteenth batteries of
field artillery. The homeward move
ment of these troops can not be begun
until after the volunteers have been re
turned. At present it is believed that
40,000 men will be enough for the Phil
ippines. The manner in which the
troops shall be distributed among the
different arms of the service is as fol
lows; Cavalry, 15.S40 men; artillery,
coast and field, 18,802, and 38,529 in
fantrymen. The total enlisted strength
will be 74,504 men. The army, includ
ing officers, will aggregate about K0,UU0.
Firo Talent*.
The last man to go for a helping
hand for any new undertaking is the
man who has plenty of time on his
hands. It is the man and woman who
are doing most who are always willing
to do a little more.
The people who are tired of life are
not those who work, but those who
are too proud or too lazy to do so.
Many of the rich are morbidly rest
less, while those who have to earn
their daily bread are comparatively
contented and happy. The Bible says
that ‘ the sleep of a laboring man is
sweet, whether he eat little or much.”
(Eeel. v. 12); and the busy worker has
; health and bless-ing which the listless
Idler never knows.—Selected.
Top.r'8 Children Are Weak.
“Not infrequently, the children of
topers die of hereditary weakness, no*
only showing a pronounced tendency
toward diseases of the brain, epilepsy
and idiocy, but they are also frequent ■
ly subject to vicious inclinations and
criminal tendencies. They lack per
ception for that which is moral and
which contributes to a steady, well
ordered career. Weighted with the
| burden of hereditary mental weakness,
| they not unfrequently take to tramp
j ing, fall into crime, or become the vic
tims of drunkenness or insanity. The
tendency to drink degenerates not only
the existing race, but also the coming
generation.”
Indlvldnnl Kespouslblllty.
Francis E. Clark says: “Many re
vivals can be traced, so far as human
agency goes, directly to the prayer of
some individual Christian; sometimes
to the prayer of a helpless invalid who
could never attend a prayer meeting.
What God has done, God will do, if we
are ready for Him to work through
! us.”
The first American theater was op
; ened in 1750 in tfc* city of New York.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XIII.. JUNE 30—QUAR
TERLY REVIEW.
Golden Text: God Until lloth Italeed Up
the Lord, and Will Alin H»Ue Up U»
by Hi* Own Power—I. Cor. 0. 14—
Subject: Jesus United.
As this lesson concludes our study of
(he life of Christ, It will be well to make
two brief reviews—one of the Quarters
lessons, and the other of the life Of Christ
as a whole, the main divisions of which
should be repeated so often that they
will be impressed on the memory for all
time.
Preparation,
Jesus was born In Bethlehem, where
the wise men from the east came to wor
ship him, but when Herod the Great de
sired to kill him, Joseph and Mary took
him to Egypt for safety. After the death
of Herod they made their home In Naz
areth, taking Jesus at the age of twelve
to the Passover at Jerusalem About 30
years were thus spent in preparation for
his public ministry.
Judea.
After his baptism In the Jordan and
temptation In the wilderness, Jesus be
gan his public ministry, spending nearly
a year In Judea. Among the disciples
chosen In this period were John. Andrew,
and Peter. After Jesus had returned to
Jerusalem from a brief visit to Cana of
Galilee, where his first miracle was
wrought, Nicodemus called upon him se
cretly, and was taught concerning the
kingdom of God. Leaving Judea, on his
way to Galilee. Jesus talked with the
woman of Ha maria at Jacob's well, and
revealed to her that he was the promised
Messiah.
Eastern Galilee.
Jesus was at first received with favor
hy the people of Galileo, but was rejected
In the synagogue at Nazareth by those
among whom he had grown up. He then
chose Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee as
Ids home and the center of bis active min
istry. After several months of teaching
ami miracle-working, he formally ap
pointed the twelve apostles, Peter. An
drew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
Thomas. Matthew. James, Lebbaeus, Si
mon. Judas, and preached the sermon on
the Mount. From Capernaum as his
headquarters, he continued to make tours
or circuits among the villages of Galilee,
preaching the gospel of the kingdom of
God.
Northern Galilee.
After about sixteen months In eastern
Galilee, where there was a growing oppo
sition to him. Jesus continued his minis
try in the northern portion of Galilee
anil In other out-of-the-way places. Near
Tyre and Sldon he met the Syro-Phoent
elan woman, a Gentile, whose daughter
he healed. Farther south he wrought the
miracle of feeding the four thousand. In
this period Peter made the great confes
sion that J' sus was the Christ, the Son of
the living God. and Jesus foretold plainly
his death and resurrection. In the trans
figuration. which may have taken place
on Mt. Hermon, the disciples were given
a vision of his glory.
I.ait .Journeys.
After making two journe>s to Jerusa
lem, one to the Feast of Tabernacles in
the autumn, and 'he other to the Feast
of Dedication In the winter. Jesus raised
Lazarus from the dead. On account of
this miracle the Jewish leaders deter
mined to put Jesus to death, but he left
Jerusalem, continuing Ills ministry prin
cipally in Perea, the country east of the
Jordan, where he gave the parable of
the Prodigal Son and other teachings. On
his way to the last Passover he met the
rich young ruler, and gave sight to the
blind men near Jericho, arriving at Beth
any, near Jerusalem, a few days before
the feast.
I,ipt Passover.
During the Passover week were the fol
lowing great events:
The triumphal entry of Jesus into Je
rusalem.
The second cleansing of the temple.
Ills last great discourses,foretelling the
destruction of Jerusalem and the end of
the world.
The Institution of the I.ord's Supper.
The betrayal by Judas.
The agony and arrest In Gethsemane.
The trial before the Sanhedrim and be
fore Pilate.
The crucifixion and the burial.
The Forty Ilavs.
During this period, which covers the
time from the resurrection of Jesus on
the first day of the week to his ascension,
many appearances of the risen Savior in
Judea and Galilee are recorded:
Jesus appeared to the women who, on
the morning of the resurrection, visited
the tomb and found it empty. On the
evening of the same day he aecompanled
the two brethren on their Why to Km
mans, and appeared also to the assembled
disciples, Thomas being absent. A week
later he appeared again to the disciples,
when Thomas was present, and subse
quently to many of his followers in Gali
lee, where the great commission was
given, that they should go into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature.
The ascension* took place from the
Mount of Olives, near Bethany, where,
after blessing the disciples, Jesus was
parted from them and received up into
heaven.
After the Aicenulon.
On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spir
it descended on the waiting disciples In
fulfilment of Jesus' promise, and three
thousand wire converted and baptized.
The Christians dwelt In quietness and
peace until persecution arose, when to
Stephen, the first fhristian martyr, a
vision was given of Jesus standing at
the right hand of God. Jesus also ap
peared to Saul, the persecutor, on his
way to Damascus, and he was converted
and became J’aul, the apostle of the Gen
tiles. When John was in banishment in
the Island of Patmos he was given a
vision of Christ, and In the hook of Reve
lation. described the splendor and bit ss
edness of heaven.
Power of Typographical Krror.
A printer’s error has resulted in a
queer state of things in Homer, Mich.
At the recent election Samuel Woolley
and W. J. Webster, both Democrats,
ran for school Inspector and member
of the hoard of review, respectively.
The printer transposed the names, but
not the offices. Both gentlemen were
elected, though neither got the place
he sought.
BITS OF INFORMATION.
The value of the pictures In the Na
tional Gallery, London, is about £1,
250.000,
Many Etruscan tombs have been
found in central Italy during the last
two years.
The earliest mention of shoes la In
an Egyptian papyrus, about 2,200 years
before Christ.
Italians call locusts "little homes,"
and the German term for these pests
is ’’hay horses.”
Full Weight Counter fetter*. ^
A knld of counterfeiting that has
become popular in England of iate la
the manufacture of spurious shillings
out of genuine silver. As the same
amount of sliver contained In a still
ing Is worth only about one-half of
that sum the coiners reap excellent
profits. All of the false shillings de
tected heretofore have been cast In a
mold, but it is pointed out that were
the counterfeiters to enlist the service
of an expert engraver and die-sinker
detection would be almost impossible
and the only obvious remedy would
be to increase the size and weight of
the coins.
"MaclarenV Fun Won the “Mon.”
Rev. John Watson (“Ian Maclaren ">
and others, according to the Congre
gationalism recently dined with W. S.
Caine, member of parliament. Mr.
Caine offered to give £50 to a hos
pital fund through the man who would
make the best pun on his name with
in five minutes. Brains cogitated for
a few minutes, and then, just as the
time was about to expire, and Mr.
Caine thought he was about to escape,
John Watson said: “Don’t be in such
a hurry, Caine.”
Sad to say there is such a thing a&
alert stupidity.
A Tike County Miracle.
Velpen, Ind., June 17.—Wm. O. B.
Sullivan, a farmer of this place, and
who is a brother of ex-Representative
Sullivan of Pike and Dubois counties,
has had a remarkable experience re
cently.
Mr. Sullivan is 49 years of age, and
has been a citizen of Pike County for ^
30 years. For two years, he has suffer
ed much with kidney trouble and rheu
matism. His shoulders and side were
very sore and stiff, and his back was
so bad he could hardly straighten up
at all. He had palpitation of the
heart, and a smothering which was
very distressing. He used three boxes
of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and is as
strong and wTell as ever he was. He.
pronounces his cure a miracle. Mr.
Sullivan’s statement of his case )3
startling.
“A.month ago I was a cripple. To
day I can do a hard day’s work every
day. and have not a single ache or
pain."
Dodd's Kldne; Pills have done some
wonderful cures in Indiana, but none
more miraculous than that in the case
of Mr. Sullivan.
If you want to keep on the right
side of the average mother speak well
of her bad boy.
Are You t’ftlng Allen** Foot Eaue?
It is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s
Foot-Ease, a powder, to be shaken Into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
What some people don’t know they
are forever talking about.
WONDERFUL GEYSERS
OF YELLOWSTONE PARK.
No Other Region tn the World Abound!
In Burli n Variety of Attrarttonn.
The most wonderful scenery In the
world is in Yellowstone National Park,
the great natural curiosity shop of the
universe. Nowhere else, within equal ^
bounds, are found so many natural
wonders grouped, almost as if by de
sign, for the special convenience of
gight-seers. The wonders of the Aipe
and the Himalayas, could they be gath
ered together and compressed into an
equal s'pace, could not hope to rival In
grandeur, in variety nor in number,
the attractions of the Yellowstone.
Were all the attractions except the
geysers removed, the region would
still be famed world wide, drawing
nature lovers from all countries to
witness the exhibitions of unequalled
power of these matchless giants,
which, with a roar that may be beard
long distances, spout huge columns of
seething water high into the air, sus
taining them there for varying lengths
of time. Old Faithful, with a regular
ity that begot its name, at intervals of
G5 to 75 minutes, sends up a huge col
umn of water 150 feet into the air, re
maining active for four minutes. Giant,
with a deafening roar, spouts 250 feet
every third day for 90 minutes, whflo
Giantess, at longer intervals and with
slightly less power, maintains activity
for twelve hours at a stretch. Many
others, at intervals ranging from five
minutes to several days, spout water
to varying heights, remaining active
for periods ranging from one second to
an hour or more. In all, there are ^
thirty-three members of this inter
esting Geyser family of sufficient
importance to deserve special mention.
Twenty-eight of these are in Upper
basin, and when several of them, with
their rainbow tints, spouting at
once, the seme is indeecrioable. Other
scenes of grandeur that abound in fa
vored mountainous regions pass in
endless review before the enchanted
tourist, all sense of fleeting time being
lost in their admiration.
Travel to the park, following Im
proved transportation facilities, haa
greatly Increased In recent years.
Leaving the Oregon Short Line at
Monida, Montana, after a pleasant
ride through changing scenes from
Salt Lake City, comfortable stage
coaches run to and through the park,
making the trip at easy stages in five
days, four of which are spent among
nature’s wonders, and the other among
delightful scenery. Good hotels are
conveniently located in the park for
sight-seers, where one may stay indefi
nitely, at very reasonable cost.
When Answering Advertisements Kindly
Mention This Taper,
W.N. U—OA1AHA No. 25-1901
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