THE NORTHWESTERN. BEXHCHOTEB • GIBSON, Ed* **4 r»B LOUP CITY, - « SEB. The Belgian pigeon which woo the great race from Burgos, in Spain, to Brussels, did the 700 miles in fourteen hours. Timber is seasoned by the evapora* tion of the water, the extraction of the vegetable juices and the solidification of the woody tissue. The King of Siam has a bodyguard of 400 female warriors. They are chosen from the handsomest and most robust women in his kingdom. Almost exactly half the coal ex ported from Great Britain in the last six months went to the four countries, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. King Edward VIII., that may be, has completed his seventh year and re ceived as a birthday present from his grandfather, King Edward VII., a bi cycle. The Congo is one of the widest waterways on the globe, if not the finest. In some parts it is so wide that vessels may pass each other and yet be out of sight. The municipal council of St. Peters burg is to send an electrical expert tc the United States in order that he may study the telephone system of this country with a view to reorganizing the one in use In St. Petersburg. Recent discovery in Jerusalem proves that the ancient aqueduct which brought water from Bethlehem through the Hinnah valley, thought to be the work of Herod, was built by the Emperor Severus. 195 A. D. In scriptions to that effect have been found. Mrs. Lucinda Washington, who is said to be 121 years old, fell down stairs at the poor house at Kokomo, Ind., and suffered a broken arm, but she will recover. She was born a slave in South Carolina in 1779, and remained in one family until her emancipation in 1863. In a few weeks the women of Nor way will be ready to take part in elec tions as full-fledged voters. A bill conferring the municipal franchise upon women has passed both houses of the Norwegian parliament (Storth ing) and will become a law at the end of the present session. The Japanese Emperor has an allow ance of $2,000,000 a year to maintain the dignity of his office and have a good time. This is equal to $5,479 a day. At the close of the Chinese-Jap anese war Parliament awarded him 20,000,000 yen ($10,000,000) in gratitude for the able manner in which he di rected military and naval operations. A few years ago Phoenix, Ariz,, the center of the Salt River Valley, was a sagebrush desert. It now has 25,000 inhabitants, with an assessed property valuation of $10,000,000, says the tfew York Tribune. All this is due to the introduction of water, which, brought in canals from distant streams, has turned the desert into a fertile valley, covered with ranches and dotted with small tow ns. Captain E. H. Smeed, of East Provi dence, R. I., has just received a gov ernment medal which was awarded him seventeen years ago for heroism in helping to rescue the crew of a shipwrecked schooner in the harbor of New Haven. The medal was mislaid in a secret drawer in a desk in the collector’s office at the Custom House of New Haven, and was found only a few days ago. There is a new patient at Bellevue Hospital, New York, the only patient of its kind ever treated there. On the card appears the name of “Bum,” a kitten, suffering from dislocation of the spine. A little girl pleaded so hard with one of the doctors to cure her kitty that it was finally taken charge of. Now the doctors are inter ested in the case, and will do all in their power to save "Bum's" life. The apportionment by lot of thirteen thousand homestead claims in the Klo way-Comanche reservation last month was a vast improvement in good sense, order and fairness over the methods by which government land has usually been opened to settlement. Of course there were many disappointed home seekers—there must be when one hun dred and seventy thousand applica tions are tiled for tnirteen thousand claims—but there was no wild rush for choice sections, no trampling on the rights of the weak by the strong, no fighting and no disputes over priority. The distribution was conducted rapid ly and in good order, through several days, until the lots were apportioned; and through it all a crowd of twenty thousand people cheered and congrat ulated every winner as heartily as if each member of the throng had been himself the winner he hoped to be. In England the automobile comps into favor less rapidly than on the continent. A London writer calls it "a fad, and an extremely dirty, duc/ty, uncomfortable fad,” and a nuisance on the public ways. He thinks it will ibe many years before "these crude, im practicable machines” displace in the Englishman’s affections “a fine trot ting horse and a smart trap.” No doubt the horse is here to stay, and no doubt the automobile is still in its clumsy beginning; but Just wait a little, till the problem of a light and cheap storage-battery has been solved. ,* TALM AGE’S SERMON. K TALK FULL OF THE SUMMER SPIRIT. “Go Forth I'nto the Mount and Fetch Olive Brunches und Fine Brunches end Myrtle Brunches und Fslm Brunches * * • * to Make Booths."—Neh. 8: III. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. Y.] Washington, Sept. 1—This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full of the breath of the hills and fields and Is a summer sermon; text, Nehemiah vlli, 15, “Go forth unto the mount and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths.” It seems as if Mount Olivet were un moored. The people have gone into the mountain and have cut off tree branches and put them on their shoul ders. and they come forth now into the streets of Jerusalem and on the house tops, and they twist these tree branches into arbors or booths. Then the people come forth from their com fortable homes and dwell for seven days in these booths or arbors. Why do they do that? Well, it is a great festal time. It is the feast of taber nacles. and these people are going to celebrate the desert travel of their fathers and their deliverance from their troubles, the experience of their fathers when, traveling in the desert, they lived In booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths also became highly suggestive < —I will not say they are necessarily typital, but highly suggestive—of our march toward heaven and of the fact that we are only living temporarily here as it were, in booths or arbors, on our way to the Canaan of eternal rest. And what was said to the Jews literally may be said figuratively to all this audience. Go forth unto the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine banches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths. We Need Olive Biuncheii. Now, if we are today going to suc ceed in building this gospel arbor we must go into the mount of God s blessing and fetch the olive branches, and whatever else we must have we must have at least two olive branches, peace with God and peace with man. When I say peace with God, I do not mean to represent God as an angry chieftain, having a grudge against us, but I do mean to affirm that there is no more antagonism between a hound and a hare, between a hawk and a pullet, between elephant and swine, than there is hostility between holi ness and 6in. And if God is all holi ness and we are all sin there must be a treaty, there must be a stretching forth of olive branches. There is a great lawsuit going on now, and it is a lawsuit which man is bringing against his Maker. That law suit is now on the calendar. It is the human versus the divine, it is iniquity versus the imaculate, it is weakness versus omnipotence. Man began it. God did not begin the lawsuit. We be gan it. We assaulted our Maker, and the sooner we end this part of the struggle, in which the finite attempts to overthrow the infinite and omnipo tent—the sooner we end it the better. Travelers tell us there is no such place as Mount Calvary, that it is only a hill, only an insignificant hill, but I persist in calling it the mount of God’s divine mercy and love far grander than any other place on earth, grander than the Alps or the Himalayas, and there are no other hills as compared with it, and 1 have noticed in every sect where the cross of Christ is set forth it is planted with olive branches. And all we have to do is to get rid of this war between God and ourselves, of which we are all tired. We want to back out of the war, we want to get rid of this hostility. All we have to do is just to get up on the mount of God's blessing and pluck these olive branches and wave them before the throne. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ! Health for Mind and Soul. But my text goes further. It says, ‘‘Go up into the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches.” Now, what is suggested by the pine branch? The pine tree Is healthy, it is aromatic, it is evergreen. How often the physician says to his invalid patients: “Go and have a breath of the pines. That will invigorate you." Why do such thousands of people go south every year? It is not merely to go to a warmer climate, but to get the influence of the pine. There is health in it, and this pine branch of the text suggests the helpfulness of our holy religion. It is full of health—health for all, health for the mind, health for the soul. I knew an aged man who had no capital of physical health. He had had all the diseases you could Im agine. He did not eat enough to keep a child alive. He lived on a beverage of hosannas. He lived high, for he dined every day with the King. He was kept alive simply by the force of our holy religion. It is a healthy re ligion-healthy for the eye. healthy for the hands, healthy for the feet. healthy for the heart, healthy for the liver, healthy for the spleen, healthy for the whole man. It gives a man such peace, such quiet ness, such independence of circum stances, such holy equipoise. Oh, that we all possessed it, that we possessed it now! I mean it is healthy if a man gets enough of it. Now, there are some people who get just enough re ligion to bother them, just enough re ligion to make them sick, but if a man takes a full, deep, round inhala tion of these pine branches of the gos pel arbor he will find it buoyant, ex uberant, undying, immortal health. But this evergreen of my text also suggest? the simple fact that religion is evergreen. What does the pine branch care for the snow on its brow? It is only a crown of glory. The win ter cannot freexc it out. This ever green tree branch is as beautiful in winter as it is in the summer. And that is the characteristic of our holy religion In the sharpest, coldest win ter of misfortune and disaster It is as good a religion as it is in the bright summer sunshine. Well, now, that is a practical truth. For suppose if I should go up and down these aisles I would not find In this house fifty people who had had no trouble. But there are some of you who have es pecial trouble. God only knows what you go through with. Oh, how many bereavements, how’ many poverties, how many persecutions, how many misrepresentations! And now, my brother, you have tried everything else, why do you not try this ever green religion? It is just as good for you now as it was In the day of pros perity. It is better for you. Perhaps some of you feel almost like Muckle Backie, the fisherman, who was chided one day because he kept on working, although that very day he burled his child. They came to him and said, "It is indecent for you to be mending that boat when this afternoon you buried your child.” And the fisherman looked up and said. "Sir, it is very easy for you gentlefolks to stay in th? house with your handkerchief to your eyes in grief: but, sir, ought I to let the other five children starve because one of them is drowned? No, sir. We maun work, we maun work, though our hearts beat like this hammer.” Thr Nlgiilf1«‘»n<‘« of the Piilin. But my text takes a step further, and it says. Go into the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and palm branches. Now, the palm tree was very much honored by the ancients. It had 360 different uses. The fruit was conserved, the sap was a beverage, the stems were ground up for food for camels. The base of the leaves was turned into hats and mats and baskets, and from the root to the top of the highest leaf there was use fulness. The tree grew 85 feet in height sometimes, and it spread leaves four and five feet long. It meant use fulness, and it meant victory—useful ness for what it produced and victory because it was brought into celebra tions of triumph. And oh, how much we want the palm branches in the churches of Jesus Christ at this time! A great many Christians do not amount to anything. You have to shove them off the track to let the Lord’s chariots come along. I know the old plan was, the plan now is. in regard to worldly invest ments—you hear it. merchants tell you — do not put everything into one thing, do not put all your eggs into one basket. But I have to tell you in this matter of religion you had better give your all to God and then get in your self. Oh, says some one, “My busi ness Is to sell silks and cloths." Well, then, my brother, sell silks and cloths to the glory of God. And some one says, “My business is to raise corn and carrots.” Then, my brother, raise corn and carrots to the glory of God. And some one says, "My business is to manufacture horseshoe nails.” Then manufacture horseshoe nails to the glory of God. There is nothing for you to do that you ought to do but for the glory of God. Tli* Victory Over Satmi. But the palm branch also meant vic tory. You all know that. In all ages, in all lands, the palm branch means victory. Well, now', we are by nature the servants of satan. He stole us, he has his eye on us, he wants to keep us. But word comes from our Father that if we will try to break loose from this doing of wrong our Father will help us, and some day we rouse up, and we look the black tyrant in the face, and we fly at him, and we wrestle him down, and we put our heel on his neck, and we grind him in the dust, and we say, "Victory, victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ!” Oh what a grand thing it is to have sin under foot and a wasted life behind our backs. “Blessed Is he whose trans gression is forgiven and v/hose sin is covered." Some one says “How about the in ture?” What, says the man, I feel so sick and worn out with the ailments of life. You are going to be more than conqueror. But, says the man, I am so tempted, I am so pursued in lite. You are going to be more than conqueror. I, who have so many ail ments and heartaches, going to be more than conqueror? Yes, unless you are so self conceited that you want to manage all the affairs of your life yourself instead of letting God manage them. Do you want to drive and have Goil take a back seat? “Oh no,” you say, “I want God to he my leader.” Well, then, you will be more than conqueror. Your last sickness will come, and the physicians in the next room will be talking about what i they will do for you. What difference will it make what they do for you? You are going to be well, everlastingly well. And when the spirit has fled the body, your friends will be talking as to where they shall bury you. What difference does it make to you where they bury you? The angel of the resurrection can pick you out of the dust anywhere, and all the ceme teries of the earth are in God’s care. Oh, you are going to be more than conqueror. Fiiitfthlng the Arbor. My text brings us one step further, it says, “Go forth into the mount and feUh olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees.” Now, you know very well—I make this remark under the head of branches of thick trees—that a booth or arbor made of slight branches would not stand. The first blast of the tempest would prostrate it. So then the booth or arbor must have four stout poles to hold up the arbor or booth, and hence for the building of the arbor for this world we must have stout branches of thick trees. And so it is in the gos pel arbor. Blessed be God that we have a brawny Christianity, not one easily upset. The storms of life will come upon us. and we want strong doctrine; not only love, but Justice; not only Invitatio" but warning It is a mighty B AND THB fa. FALLS. J Atnp*over. (tven I at both point* on l> all Uefcat*. | H W 0*#«rtptlr« Matter, Hum, elc„f»IWu mum) K H , . 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