THE NORTHWESTERS. BENSCIIOTER A OIUMON, Ed*and I*oS>a LOUP CITY, • • NEB. The inhabitants of the province of Ontario write more letters than those of all the rest of Canada. The Jersey mosquitoes are playful, compared with those of North Caro lina. A minister of that state, while traveling with *• ahild in Hyde Coun ty, found the mosquitoes so rapacious that he had to put the child's head in a paper sack to keep the insects from devouring it alive. Can a man live without his stom ach? This question has been decided affirmatively by Karl Kruger, a Chi cago gardener. Four months ago, be cause of cancer, his stomach was re moved by an expert surgeon. Then he weighed 96 pounds; now he weighs 160, and is still taking on flesh. Charles Ball, of Albion. Mich., be lieved that he could take poison with V out serious effect. He swallowed / twenty-five grains of morphine, and m a little while he vomited it. This demonstration so pleased him that he thought even a pistol shot would not harm him. Aiming a revolver at his temple he fired. That was Mr. Bell's last mistake in this life. A pair of Kansas lovers the other day went to Iowa to escape the law which forbids the marriage of first cousins. The same day in a Kansas town a couple from Colorado took ad vantage of a Kansas law which per mits a divorced person to marry after the lapse of six months. These cases led the Kansas City Journal to sug gest that the states send ambassadors to each other,with power to negotiate treaties through which uniformity in marriage laws might be secured. The Engineering and Mining Journal calls attention to the fact that the United States treasury now holds in round figures $510,000,000 in gold, which is the largest accumulation of the yellow metal anywhere in the world at present. Not all of this, how ever. is actually at the disposal of the treasury, only $64,000,000 being includ ed in its current cash assets. The sum of $150,000,000 is by the present law held in the redemption fund, which the treasury must hold against the outstanding greenbacks and United States notes, while the balance of $296,000,000 is on deposit only, and is represented by gold certificates in cir culation. Old Home Week is not confined to New England. Nevertheless the re cent gathering of "old settlers" to commemorate Colorado's silver wed ding to the Union had novel features. Three months’ sojourn in Colorado, for instance, entitled ope to become a pioneer. During the celebration a co ossal statute of Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was unveiled at Colorado Springs. Dressed In the military costume ol 1806, he is represented standing on Cheyenne Mountain looking away to ward the greater mountain which bears his name. Is he wondaring, per chance, as he watches frequent train# lifting passengers up the once in ac cessible slopes, how “Pike’s Peak or Bust!" was ever synonymous with su preme courage and endurance? Among the curios in the postoflice department exhibit at Buffalo are the postoflice ledger of Benjamin Frank lin; the report of the committee of United States senate on the transpor tation of mails on Sunday; a postal card which traveled around the world in 120 days; history of the travels of a registered letter In this and othei countries, some old books printed In the seventeenth century and obtained through the medium of the dead letter office; framed statistics of the postal service from 1775 to date; the magni tude of the postal service of the Unit ed States as compared with France, Germany and Great Britain; some old mail bags which have been cut open and robbed, in one Instance the bag being stained by the blood of the murdered carrier r ,- -- The great Apartment stores ha70 been a serious problem to small trad ers all over the country, and in several states unsuccessful .attempts have been made to regulate their growth by legislation. A new' plan is now to be tried in Chicago in the form of a co operative department store to which a number of small dealers arc to contrib ute their capital and their work. The whole investment will be five hundred thousand dollars, and it is planned to sell everything from ice cream to a coal hod. Each department will be In charge of a skillful merchant, fa miliar with that particular branch and himself a stock-holder. As the rent of a single department will be less than the rent of a separate store, and as each man hopes to carry h!s old customers with him, the enterprise starts with rosy hopes. In Corea the Gentlemen of the Court are making handsome profits out of the illicit manufacture of false money. They can buy for 10 dollars enough sti ver to make 400 dollars' worth of coin, and as they are on good terms with the King, the police dare not interfere. A few days after shooting a neigh bor’s cat, David Bell, of Marietta, O., •discovered that somebody had thrown several pounds of arsenic in his well.) Fortunately the discovery was made before any one had used the poisoned water. T ALAI AGE'S SEKjION. THE SPIRIT OF AMITY" LAST SUN DAY'S SUBJECT. "The Rsrlisrons People Showed l'» No I.lttle Kindness" — Arts xsvlli: S Kindness In Action the Greatest of Virtues. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, S. Y] Washington, Sept. 22.—In this dis course Hr. Talmage commends the spirit of amity and good feeling and mentions illustrious examples of that spirit; text. Acts xxviii, 2, “The bar barous people showed us no little kindness.” Here we are on the island of Malta, another name for Melita. This island, which has always been an important commercial center, belonging at dif ferent times to Phoenicia, to Greece, to Rome, to Arabia, to Spain, to France, now belongs to England. The area of the island is about 100 square miles. It is in the Mediterranean sea and of such clarity of atmosphere that Mount Aetna, 130 miles away, can be distinctly seen. The island is glori ously memorable because the Knights of Malta for a long while ruled there, but mose famous because of the apos tolic shipwreck. The bestormed ves sel on which Paul sailed had “laid to" on the starboard tack, and the wind was blowing east-northeast, and. the vessel drifting probably a mile and a half an hour, she struck at what Is now called St. Paul's bay. Practical sailors have taken up the Bible ac count and decided beyond controversy the place of the shipwreck. But the island, which has so rough a coast, is for the most part a garden. Richest fruits and a profusion of honey char acterized it in Paul's time as well as now. The finest oranges, figs and olives grow there. When Paul and his comrades crawl ed up on the beach, saturated and hungry from long abstinence from food and chilled to the bone, the isl anders, though called barbarians be cause they could not speak Greek, opened their doors to the shipwrecked unfortunates. Everything had gone to the bottom of the deep, and the barefooted, bareheaded apostle and ship’s crew were in a condition to ap preciate hospitality. About twenty five such men a few years ago I found in the life station near East Hampton, Long Island. They had got ashore in the night from the sea, and not a hat or shoe had they left. They found out, as Paul and his fellow voyagers found out, that the sea is the roughest of all robbers. My text finds the ship's crew ashore on Malta and around a hot fire drying themselves and with the best provision the islanders can offer them. And they go into govern ment quarters for three days to recu perate, Publius, the ruler, inviting them, although he had severe sickness in the house at that time, his father down with a dangerous illness. Yea, for three months they staid on the island watching for a ship and putting the hospitalities of the islanders to a severe test. But it endured the test satisfactorily.and it is recorded for all the ages of time and eternity to read and hear in regard to the inhabitants of Malta, “The barbarous people showed us no little kindness." A Magnificent Word. Kindness! What a great word that is! It would take a reed as long as that which the apocalpytic angel used to measure heaven to tell the length, the breadth, the height of that munificent word. It is a favorite Bible word, and it is early launched in the book of Genesis, caught up in the book of Joshua, embraced in the book of Ruth, sworn by in the book of Samuel, crowned in the book of Psalms and enthroned in many places in the New Testament. Kindness! A word no more gentle than mighty. I expect it will wrestle me down before r get through with it. It is strong enough to throw an archangel. But It will be well for us to stand around it and warm ourselves by its glow as Paul and his fellow voyagers stood around the fire on the island of Malta, where the Maltese made themselves Immortal in my text by the way they treated their victims of the soa. "The barbarous people showed us no little kindness.” Kindness! All definitions of that multipotent word break down half way. You say it is clemency, be nignity. generosity; it is made up of good wishes; it is an expression of beneficence; it is a contribution to the happiness of others. Some one else says. "Why, I can give you a defini tion of kindness; it is sunshine <>f the :.oul; it is affection perennial; it is a climacteric grace; it is the combination of all graces; it is compassion; it is the perfection of gentle manliness and womanliness.” Are you a i through? You have made a dead failure in your definition. It cannot be defined, but we all know what it is, for we have all felt its power. Some of you may have felt it as Paul felt it. on some coast of rock as the ship went to pieces, but more of us have again and again in some awful stress of life had either from earth or heaven hands stretched out which "showed us no little kindness.” The (irucp of Forgiveneiis. But are you waiting and hoping for •ome one to be bankrupted or exposed or discomfited or in some way over thrown then kindness has not taken possession of your nature. You are wrecked on a Malta where there are no oranges. You are entertaining a guest so unlike kindness that kind ness will not come and dwell under the same roof. The most exhausting ' and unhealthy and ruimrj* spirit on earth Is a revengeful spirit or retaliat ing spirit. as l know by experience, for I have tried it for five or ten min utes at a time. When some mean thing has been done mo or said about me, I have felt: "I will pay him in his own coin. I will show him up. The Ingrate! The traitor! The liar! The villain!” But five or ten min utes of the feeling has been so un nerving and exhausting I have aban doned it. and I cannot understand how people can go about torturing them selves five or ten or twenty years, trying to get even with somebody. The only way you will ever triumph over your enemies is by forgiving them and wishing them all good and no evil. As malevolence is the most uneasy and profitless and dangerous feeling, kindness is the most health ful and delightful. And this Is not an abstraction. As I have tried a little of the retaliatory feeling, so I have tried a little of the forgiving. I do not want to leave this world until T have taken vengeance upon every man that ever did me a wrong by doing him a kindness. In most of such cases I have already succeeded, but there are a few malignants whom I am yet pur suing. and I shall not be content until I have In some wise helped them or benefited them or blessed them. R»rr Flower from Rojul CJarden. The king of Prussia had presented to him by the empress of Russia the root of a rare flower, and it was put in the royal gardens on an island, and the head gardener. Herr Fintleman, was told to watch It. And one day it put forth its glory. Three days of every week the people were admitted to these gardens, and a young man, probably not realizing what a wrong thing he was doing, plucked this flow er and put it in his buttonhole, and the gardener arrested him as he was crossing at the ferry and asked the king to throw open no more his gar dens to the public. The king replied: “Shall I deny to the thousands of good people of my country the privi lege of seeing this garden because one visitor has done wrong? No; let them come and see the beautiful grounds.’’ And when the gardener wished to give the king the name of the offender who had taken the royal flower he said. “No. my memory is very tena cious, and I do not want to have in my mind the name of the offender lest it should hinder me granting him a favor some other time.” Now. r want you to know that kindness is a royal flower, and blessed be God, the king of mercy and grace, that by a divine gift, and not by purloining, we may pluck this royal flower and not wear it on the outside of our nature,' but wear it on our soul and wear it for ever, its radiance and aroma not more wonderful for time than wonderful for eternity. Uopefol and Cordial Words. Oh, say the cordial thing! Say the useful thing. Say the hospitable thing. Say the helpful thing. Say the Christ like thing. Say the kind thing. I ad mit that it is easier for some tempera ments than for others. Some are born pessimists, and some are born optim ists, and that demonstrates itself all through everything. It is a cloudy morning. You meet a pessimist and you say, “What weather today?” He answers, “It's going to storm,” and umbrella under arm and waterproof coat show that he is honest in that utterance. On the same block, a min ute after, you meet an optimist, and you say, "What do you think of the commercial prospects?” and he says, “Glorious. Crops not so good as usual, but foreign demand will make big prices. We are going to have such an autumn and winter of prosperity as we have never seen.” On your way back to your store you meet a pessimist merchant. “What do >ou think of the commercial prospects?” you ask, and he answers, “Well, I don’t know. Wheat and corn crop blasted in Kan sas and Missouri, and the grain gam blers will get their fist in. and the hay crop is snort in some places, and in the southern part of Wisconsin they had a hailstorm and our business is as dull as it ever was.” You will find the i same difference in judgment of charac ter. A man of good reputation is as sailed and charged with some evil deed. At the first story the pessimist will believe in guilt. "The papers said so, and that's enough. Down with him!” The optimist will say: “I don’t believe a word of it. I don’t think that a man that has been as useful and seemingly honest for twenty years, could have got o(T track like that. There are two sides to this story, and I will wait to hear the other side be fore I condemn him.” My hearer, if you are by nature a pessimist, make a j special effort by the grace of God to 1 extirpate the dolorous and the hyper i critical from your disposition. Ile I lieve nothing against anybody until I the wrong is established by at least two witne-ses of integrity. And, if ! guilt is proved, find out the extenuat i ing circumstances, if there are any. 1 Kindness! I>et us, morning, noon and I night, pray for it until we get it. K iimI ih’hh of Action. Furthermore, there is kindness of ae ] tion. That is what Joseph showed to his outrageous brothers. That is what I David showed to Mephlbosheth for his father Jonathan's sake. That is what I Onesiphorus showed to Haul in the Roman penitentiary. That is what • William Cowper recognized when he ! said he would not trust a man who ! would with his foot needlessly crush } a worm. That is what our assassinat ed President Lincoln demonstrated when his private secretary found him I in the capitol grounds trying to get a | bird back to the nest from which it ! had fallen, and which quality the illus | trious man exhibited years before i when, having with some lawyers in the carriage on the way to court passed j on the road a swine fast In the mire, 1 after awhile cried to hi* horses, “Ho** I and said lo the gentlemen, “l must go j back and help that hog out of (he mire." And he did go back and put on solid ground that most uninterest ing quadruped. That was the spirit that was manifested by my departed friend. Hon. Alexander H. Stephen* of Georgia—and lovelier man never ex changed earth for heaven—when at Washington. A senator’s wife, who told us of the circumstances, said to him, "Mr. Stephens, come and see my dead canary bird." And he answered, "No; I could not look at the poor thing without crying." That is the spirit which last night ten thousand mothers showed to their sick children coming to give the drink at the tenth call as cheerfully and as tenderly as at the first call. Suppose all this assemblage and all to whom these words shall come by printer’s type should resolve to make kindness an overarching, undergirding and all-pervading principle of their life and then carry out the resolution. Why in six months the whole earth would feel it. People would say. "What Is the matter? It seems to me that the world Is getting to be a better place to live in. Why, life after all is worth living. Why, there is Shylock, my neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclos ure against that inan, and because he has had so much sickness in his family he is going to have the house for one year rent free. There is an old lawyer in that young lawyer’s office, and do yon know what he has gone in there for? Why, he is helping to fix up a case which is too big for the young man to handle, and the white-haired attorney is hunting up previous de cisions and making out a brief for the boy. Do you know that a strange thing has taken place in the pulpit, and all the old ministers are helping the young ministers, and all the old doctors are helping the young doctors, and the farmers are assisting each other in gathering the harvest, and for that farmer who is sick the neigh bors have made a ’bee.’ as they call it. and they have all turned in to help him get his crops into the garner? And they tell me that the older and more skillful reporters who have permanent positions on papers are helping the young fellows who are just beginning to try and do not know exactly how to do it. And after a few erasures and interpolations on the reporter’s pad they say, ’Now’, here is a readable ac count of the tragedy; hand It In, and I am sure the managing editor will take It* *' •New UUpcii.nitlou of Geniality. My hearers, you know and I know we are far from that state of things. But w-hy not inaugurate a new dispen sation of geniality. If we cannot have a millennium on a large scale, let us have It on a small scale and under our own vestments. Kindness! If this world is ever brought to God. that is the thing that will do it. You cannot fret the world up, although you may fret the world down. You cannot scold it into excellence or reformation or godliness. The east wind and the west wind were one day talking with each other, and the east wind said to the west wind: "Don’t you wish you had my power? Why, when I start they hail me. by storm signals all along the coast. 1 can twist off a ship's mast as easily as a cow’s hoof cracks an alder. With one sweep of my wing I have strewn the coast from Newfound land to Key West with parted shiri timber. 1 can lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean. I am the terror of all invalidism, and to fight me back for ests must be cut down for fires, and tho mines of continents are called on to feed the furnaces. Under my breath the nations crouch into sepulchers. Don’t you wish you had my power?” said the east wind. The west wind made no answer, but started on its mission, coming somewhere out of the rosy bowers of the sky, and all the livers and lakes and seas smiled at its coming. The gardens bloomed, and the orchards ripened, and the wheatfields turned their silver into gold, and health clapped its hands, and joy shouted from the hilltops, and the na tions lifted their foreheads into the light, and the earth had a doxology for the sky, and the sky an anthem for the earth, and the warmth and sparkle and the gladness, and the foliage, and the flowers, and the fruits, and the beauty, and the life were the only an swer the west wind made to the in solence of the east wind’s interroga tion. And while we take this matchless kindness from God may it be found that we have uttered our last bitter word, written our last cutting para graph, done our last retaliatory action, felt our last revengeful heart throb. And it would not be a bad epitaph for any of us if, by the grace of God, from this time forth we lived such benefi cent lives that the tombstone’s chisel could appropriately cut upon the plain slab that marks our grave a sugges tion from the text, "He showed us no little kindness.” iiut not until the last child of God has got ashore from the earthly storms that drove him on the rocks like Mediterranean Kuroclydons, not until all the thrones of heaven are mounted, and all the conquerors crowned, and all the harps and trum pets and organs of heaven are thrum med or blown or sounded and the ran somed of all climes and ages are in full chorus under the jubilant swing of angelic baton, and we shall for thou sands of years have seen the river from under the throne rolling into the "sea of glass mingled with fire,” and this world we now inhabit shall be so far In the past that only a stretch of celestial memory can recall thut it ever existed at all. not until then will we understand what Nehcmiah calls "the great kindness,” and David calls “the marvelous kindness,” and Isaiah calls “the everlasting kindness” of God. 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