LOUP OH NORTHWESTERN
U EO. E. BEN8MCOTER, Editor and Fob.
LOUP CITY, - * NEBRASKA.
Jan Kubelik’s raven hair seems to
be a splendid re-enforcement to his
violin shading.
Gen. Weyler wants the Spanish
army reduced—probably to put the
navy in countenance.
German-built boats may do for trade
or the navy, but for himself the em
peror wants thp best.
An emergency appropriation to sup
ply our statesmen with sparring les
sons is earnestly suggested.
Prof. Herron has been in Europe
long enough to learn that America is
threatened with a revolution.
The microbe that causes gray hairs
has been discovered, but no injunction
has ben served on him as yet.
The early spring talk about the
destruction of the peach crop seems
to have been nipped in the bud.
To the average workman Increased
wages are better than new resolutions
for the beginning of a fresh year.
The Pan-American congress is al
ready bearing fruit. Washington is
importing Mexican bullsnakes to catch
her rats.
It will now be In order to watch the
Macedonlal committee and see if it be
gins spending money with easy non
chalance.
These are such surprising days that
we barely llnd time to call attention
to an Ohio judge's trial of a case by
telephone.
Montana could not get as good as
third money in Detroit. It took one
of her cashiers over three years to steal
a paltry $178,000.
There Is a 16-year-old boy In Ten
nessee who has killed three men. A
hoy of that age is almost sure to
come to a bad end.
A Kentucky farmer is dead from a
calf bite. No Kentuckian ever dies
from a snake bite. The antidote is al
ways in his pocket.
Kansas wants to know if a man can
be a Christian on $5 a week. That
would depend largely on now much
money his wife had.
Wilhelmina's Prince Henry seems to
he really trying now to live a blame
less life. A testimonial of some kind
ought to be forwarded to encourage
him.
According to a dispatch. British
newspapers are giving the American
steel trust credit for various things.
The trust doesn't need credit; it can
pay cash.
No one has succeeded in improving
upon Edward Everett’s estimate of
George Washington. "He was the
greatest of good men and the best or
great men.”
According to the census bureau the
*alue of domestic animals, fowls and
bees in the United States is $3,200,000,
000. This includes the cows that pro
duce colored butter.
It is no cause for humiliation that
the brain of a man weighs three times
that of an ape. It takes man three
times longer to prove superiority to
his own satisfaction.
The king of Siam has changed his
plans and will not visit the United
States this year, but the regular an
nual circus will come, street parade
and all, the same as usual.
Against those who deplore athletics
as demcralizing may be pitted the To
peka clergyman who declares that "it
is all right for college students to pray
to God to give them victory in a foot
ball game.”
For every excess Inch of liberty that
the "foreign devils” are now taking
with the humiliated court of China the
smiling dowager empress expects to
take a mile of bitter revenge in the red
bye and bye.
Students of an Ohio college hazed a
new man the other night by gagging
and binding him and then dropping
him twenty feet down a coal hole. Yet
(lie victim failed to see the joke. Some
people are so obtuse.
Philanthropist Keene doesn't believe
much in organized charity, for the rea
son that It demands a certificate of
character before giving aid to people
in extremity. It Is true enough that in
almost everything else, including the
pursuit of pleasure, we take long
chances on getting the worth of our
money.
That Detroit Napoleon of finance
had a motto which was, "No man
should work after he is forty.” Let
us hope, however, that he will excuse
those depositors who may find it nec
essary, because of what has happened,
to keep on toiling after passing the
allotted age.
Banker Andrews thinks he could
straighten things out If given a chance.
Those bank directors have no great
reputation for wisdom, but they will
hardly be simple enough to allow An
drews to get another go at the funds.
TALMAGES SERMON.
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' DISOOURSE THIS WEEK ON RECOL
LECTION AND FORGETFULNESS.
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Text Hebrew* VIII., 13: "Their Sin. end
Their Iniquities Will 1 llemetuber Jio
More”—Good Advice for Cbrl.tlun. of
All Denomination*.
(Copyright, 1902, Louis Klopseh. N. Y.)
Washington, March 9.—From the
letter to the Hebrews Dr. Talmage
takes a text and Illustrates how all
offenders may be emancipated; text,
Hebrews viii, 12, "Their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more."
The national flower of the Egyptians
is the heliotrope, of the Assyrians is
the water lily, of the Hindoos is the
marigold, of the Chinese is the chrys
anthemum. Wre have no national flow
er, but there is hardly anj flower
more suggestive to many of us than
the forget-me-not. We all like to be
remembered, and one of our misfor
tunes is that there are so many things
we cannot remember.
With the art of recollection, which I
cannot too highly eulogize, is one
quite as important, and yet I never
heard it applauded. I mean the art of
forgetting. There is a splendid facul
ty in that direction that we all need
to cultivate. We might through that
process be ten times happier and more
useful than we now are. We have
been told that forgetfulness is a weak
ness and ought to be avoided an
possible means. So far from a weak
ness. my text ascribes it to God. It
is the very top of omnipotence that
God is able to obliterate a part of his
own memory. If we repent of sin
and rightly seek the divine forgive
ness, the record of the misbehavior is
not only crossed off the hooks, but God
actually lets it pass out of memory.
"Their sins and their iniquities will
I remember no more.” To remember
no more is to forget, and you cannot
make anything else out of it. God's
power of forgetting is so great that i.
two men appeal to him and the one
man. after a life all right, gets the sins
of his heart pardoned and the
other man, after a life of abomination,
gets pardoned. God remembers no
more against one than against the
other. The entire past of both the
moralist, with his imperfections, and
the profligate, with his debaucheries,
is as much obliterated in the one case
as in the other. Forgotten forever
and forever. "Their sins and their in
iquities will I remember r.o more.”
This sublime attribute of forgetful
ness on the part of God you and I
need, in our Unite way, to imitate.
You will do well to cast out of your
recollection all wrongs done you. Dur
ing the course of one’s life he is sure
to be misrepresented, to be lied about,
to be injured. 1 here are those who
keep these things fresh by frequent
rehearsal. Keep nothing in your pos
session that is disagreeable. Tear up
the falsehoods and the slanders and
the hypercriticisms.
Imitate the Lord in my text and
forget, actually forget, sublimely for
get. There is no happiness for you in
any other plan or procedure. You see
all around you in the church and out
of the church dispositions acerb,
malign, cynical, pessimistic. Do you
know how these men and women got
that disposition? It was by the em
balmment of things pantherine and
viperous. Their soul is a cage of vul
tures. Everything in them is sour or
embittered. The milk of human kind
ness has been curdled. They do not
believe in anybody or anything.
Where there is one sweet pippin in
their orchard there are fifty crab
apples. They have never been able to
forget. They do not want to forget.
They never will forget. Their wretch
edness is supreme, for no one can be
happy if he carries perpetually in
mind the mean things that have been
done him. On the other hand, you
can find here and there a man or wo
man (for there are not many of them)
whose disposition is genial and sum
mery. Why? Have they always been
treated well? Oh, no. Hard things
have been said against them. They
have been charged with officlousness.
and their generosities have been set
down to a desire for display, and they
have many a time been the subject of
tittle tattle, and they have had enough
small assaults like gnats and enough
great attacks like lions to have made
them perpetually miserable if they
would have consented to be miserable.
But they have had enough divine phil
osophy to east off the annoyances, and
they have kept themselves in the sun
light of God's favor and have realized
that these oppositions and hindrances
are a part of a mighty discipline by
which they are to be prepared for use
fulness and heaven.
Another practical thought : When our
faults are repented of let them go out
of mind. If God forgets them we have
a right to forget them. Having once
repented of our infelicities and misde
meanors, there is no need of our re
penting of them again. While it is
right that Christians repent of new
sins and of recent sins, what is the use
of botneriug yourself and insulting
God by asking him to forgive sins
that long ago were forgiven? God
has forgotten them. Why do you not
forget them? No; you drag the load
on with you, and 365 times a year, if
you pray every day, you ask God to
recall occurrences which he has not
only forgiven, but forgotten.
Quit this folly. I do not ask you
less to realize the turpitude of sin, but
I ask you to have a higher faith in
the promise of God and the full deliv
erance of his mercy. He does not give
a receipt for part payment or so much
received cn account, but receipt in full.
God having for Christ’s sake decreed
"your sins and your iniquities will I
remember no more.” As far as possi
ble let disagreeables of life drop.
We have rnough things in the present,
and there will ba enough in the future,
to disturb us without running a special
train into the great Qom by to fetch us
as special freight things left behind.
Iiet the train of your thoughts throw
off the worse than useless freight of a
corrupt and destroyed past and load
up with gratitude and faith and holy
determination. We do not please God
by the cultivation of the miserable.
He would rather see us happy thau to
see us depressed. You would rather see
your children laugh than to see them
cry. and your Heavenly Father has no
fondness for hysterics.
Not only forget your pardoned trans
gressions. but allow others to forget
them. Toe chief stock on hand of
some people is to recount in prayer
meetings and pulpits what big scoun
drels they once were. They not only
will not forget their forgiven deficits,
but they seem to be determined that
the church and the world shall not for
get them. If you want to declare that
you have been the chief of sinners and
extol the grace that could save such a
wretch as you were, do so. but do not
go into particulars. If you have any
scars got in honorable warfare, show
them, but if you have scars got in igno
ble warfare do not display them. I
know you will quote the Bible rerer
enee to the horrible pit from which
you were digged. Yes. be thankful for
chat rescue, but do not make displays
of the mud of that horrible pit or
splash it over other people. Some
times I have felt In Christian meetings
discomfited and unfit for Christian
service because I had done none of
those things which seemed to be, in
the estimation of many, neeessary for
Christian usefulness, for I never swot#
a word or ever got drunk or went to
compromising places or was guilty of
assault and battery or ever uttered a
slanderous W’ord or ever did any one a
hurt, although 1 knew my heart was
sinful enough, and 1 said to myself,
“There Is no use of my trying to do
any good, for 1 never went through
those depraved experiences." But
afterward I saw consolation in the
thought that no one gained any ordi
nation by the laying on of the hands
of dissoluteness and infamy.
And though an ordinary moral life,
ending in a Christian life, may not be
as dramatic a story to tell about, let us
be grateful to God rather than worry
about it If we have never plunged into
outward abominations. It may be ap
propriate in a meeting of reformed
drunkards or reformed debauchees to
quote for those not reformed how des
perate and nasty you once were, but do
not drive a scavenger's cart into as
semblages of people the most of whom
have always been decent and respect
able. But 1 have been sometimes in
great evangelical meetings where peo
ple went into particulars about the sins
that they once committed, so much so
that I felt like putting my hand on my
pocketbook or calling for the police
lest these reformed men might fall
from grace and go at their old business
of theft or drunkenness or cut-throat
ery. If your sins have been forgiven
and your life purified, forget the way
wardness of the past and allow others
to forget it.
But what I most want In the light of
this text to impress is that we have a
sin-forgetting God. Suppose that on
the last day—called the last day be
cause the sun will never again rise up
on oirr earth, the earth itself being
flung into fiery demolition—supposing
that on that last day a group of in
fernal spirits should somehow get near
enough the gate of heaven and chal
lenge our entrance and say: “How
canst thou, the just lxird, let those
souls into the realm of supernal glad
ness? Why, they said a great many
things they never ought to have said,
and they did a great many things they
ought never to have done. Sinners
are they—sinners all.”
And suppose God should deign to an
swer. He might say: "Yes. but did not
my only Son die for their ransom? Did
he not pay the price? Not one drop of
blood was retained in his arteries;
not one nerve of his that was not
wrung in the torture. He took in his
own body and soul all the suffering
that those sinners deserve. They plead
ed that sacrifice; they took the full
pardon that I promised to ail who,
through my Son. earnestly applied for
it. end it passed out Of my mind that
they were offenders. 1 forgot all tbout
it. Yes. 1 forgot all about It. ‘Their
sins and their iniquities do I remem
ber no more.’” A sin-forgetting God!
That Is clear beyond and far above a
sin-pardoning God. How often we
hear it said, l can forgive, but I can
not forget.” That is equal to saying,
“I verbally admit it is all rigiit, but 1
will keep the old grudge good.” There
is something in the demeanor that
seems to say: "I would not do you
harm. Indeed I wish you well, but
that unfortunate affair can never pass
out of my mind.” There may no hard
words pass between them, but until
death breaks in the same coolness re
mains. But God lets our pardoned of
fenses go into oblivion. He never
throws them up to us again. He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had
been spotless and positively aDgelic all
along.
Many years ago a family consisting
of the husband and wife and little girl
of two years lived far out in a caDln
on a western prairie. The husband took
a few cattle to market. Before he
started his little child asked him to
buy for her a doll, and he promised.
He could after the sale of the cattle
purchase household necessities and cer
tainly would not forget the doll he had
promised. In the village to which he
went he sold the cattle and obtained
the groceries for his household and the
doll for his little darling. He started
home alcng the dismal road at night
• fall. As he went along on horseback
I a thunderstorm broke, and in the most
| lonely part of the road and in the
i heaviest part of the storm he heard a
child's cry. Robbers bad been known
to do some bad work along that road,
and It was known that this herdsman
hail money with him, the price of the
< attle sold. The herdsman first thought
it was a stratagem to have him halt
and be despoiled of his treasures, but
the child's cry became more keen and
rending, and so he dismounted and felt
around in the darkness and all in vain
until he thought of a hollow that be
remembered near the road where the
child might be. and for that he started
and. sure enough, found a little one
fagged out and drenched of the storm
and almost dead. He wrapped It up as
well as he could and mounted his horse
and resumed his journey home. Com
ing in sight of his cabin, he saw it all
lighted up and supposed his wife had
kindled all these lights so as to guide
her husband through tfle darkness.
But no. The house was full of excite
ment, and the neighbors were gathered
ami stood around the wife of the house,
who was insensible as from some great
calamity. On inquiry the returned hus
band found that the little child of that
cabin was gone. She had wandered
out to meet her father and get the
present he had promised and the child
was lost. Then the father unrolled from
the blanket the child ha had found in
the fields, and, lo, It w,os his own child
and the lost one of the prairie home
and the cabin quaked with the shout
over the lost one found! How sugges
tive of the fact that once we were lost
in the open fields or umong the moun
tain crags, God's wandering children,
and he found us, dying in the tempest,
and wrapped us in the mantle of his
love and fetched us home, gladness and
congratulation bidding us welcome.
The fact is that the world does not
know God or they would all flock to
him.
There are certain names so magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills all who
hear them. Such is the name of the
Italian soldier and liberator. Garibaldi.
Marching with his troops, he met a
shepherd who was In great distress be
cause he had lost a lamb. Garibaldi
said to his troops, “Let us help this
poor shepherd find his iamb.” And so.
with lanterns and torches, they ex
plored the mountains, but did not find
the lamb, and after an unsuccessful
search late at night they went to their
encampment. The next morning Gari
baldi was found asleep far on into the I
day, and they wakened him for some
purpose and found that he had not j
given up the search when the soldiers
did, but had kept on still further into
the night and had found it, and he
pullfd dowui the hlankets from his
couch, and there iay the lamb, which
Garibaldi ordered immediately taken
to its owner. So the commander of
ell the hosts of heaven turned aside
from his glorious and victorious march
through (he centuries of heaven and
said, “I will go and recover that lost
world and that race of whom Adam
was the progenitor and let all who will
accompany me.” And through the
night they came, but I do not see that
the angelic escort came any farther
than the clouds, but their most illus
trious leader came all the way down,
and by the time his errand is done our
little world, our wandering and lost
world, our world fleecy with the light,
will be found in the bosom of the Great,
Shepherd, and then all heaven will
take up the cantata and sing, "The
lost sheep found!”
So 1 set open the wide gate of my
text, inviting you all to come into the
mercy and pardon of Goa—yea, still
further, into the ruins of the place
where once was kept the knowledge of
your iniquities. The place has been
torn down and the records destroyed,
and you will find the ruins more di
lapidated and broken and prostrate
than the ruins of Melrose or Kenil
worth. for from these last ruins you
can pick up some fragment of a sculp
tured stane or you can see the curve
of some broken arch, but after your
repentance and your forgiveness you
cannot find in all the memory of God
a fragment of your pardoned sins so
large as a needle’s point. "Their sins
and their iniquities will I remember
no more.”
bix different kinds of sounds were
heard on that night which was inter
jected into the daylight of Christ's as
sassination. The neighing of the war
horses—for some of the soldiers were
in the saddle—was one sound, the
bang of the hammers was a second
sound, the jeer of malignants was a
third sound, the weeping of friends
end followers was a fourth sound, the
splash of blood on the rocks was a
fifth sound, and the groan of the ex
piring Lord was a sixth sound. And
they all commingled into one sadness.
Over a place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing a load of travelers and
to save them a servant sprang from
the sled into the mouths of the wild
beasts and was devoured and thereby
the other lives were saved are in
scribed the words, "Greater love hath
no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friend.” Many a
surgeon in our own time has in
tracheotomy with his own lips drawn
from the windpipe of a diphtheritic
patient that which cured the patient
and slew the surgeon, and all have
honored the self-sacrifice. But all
other scenes of sacrifice pale before
this most illustrious martyr of all
time and all eternity. After that ago
nizing spectacle in behalf of our
fallen race nothing about the sin for
getting God is too stupendous for my
faith, and I accept the promise, and
will you not all accept it? "Their sins
and their iniquities will I remember
no more.”
A seat on the New York stock ex
change Is worth $75000 which makes it
rather an expensive place for the
owner to go back and sit dowrn.
After a woman gets married and has
children, she is lucky if she gets time
to read any other than the doctor
book.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON XII. MARCH 23; EPHESIANS
5:1 1-21-TEMPERANCE LESSON.
Golden Text—"II® Not Brunk with
Wine, Wln-rcin In Eirew"—Ephesians
5:1 8—Two Great Moral K ingdoius Con
tending for Supremacy In Our Heart*.
“Foolish talking.i'his means more
than mere random talk; it Is that talk
of fools which is folly and sin together."
—Alford. "Jesting.” Profligate, unclean
jokes, which bring a Mush to the cheek
of innocence. "Foolish talking is the
coarse talk of fools; Jesting, the more re
fined half-suggestion of vice or profanity
In the conversation or writing of a witty
man of the world."—Cook.
“Fnfrultful works of darkness." "Vices
finish with themselves and perish; vir
tues put forth fruit and abound."—Jer
ome. Uood fruit cannot grow in dark
ness. Hut that which should bring fortli
good fruit in the light, when placed in
darkness brings forth corruption, poisons,
insects, death, "Reprove them” by word
at.il by example.
“Walk circumspectly.** With accuracy,
strictness, looking on every side to see
that the right path is taken. "Not as
tools." Who go carelessiy through life,
running into temptations and dangers,
visiting saloons and places of evil, going
with bad companions, not Intending to go
far astray, but just to sail into the edge
of the maelstrom of sin, to see how it
looks. Such are fools. "But as wise."
Keeping in the right way; avoiding temp
tations: looking carefully for the ways
that lead to the right ends.
"Redeeming the time." Redeem means
to buy up, to get possession of; time hero
means opportunity, the right or fitting
time. The words therefore m<>an, Improve
every opportunity; use your time to tho
l>est advantage; make every opportunity
yield its utmost of good. "Because the
days am evil." Because there are many
temptations and dangers, hidden currents,
secret pitfalls, enemies on every side.
These "evil day * arc largely connected
with intemperance and its accompani
ments.
'Submitting yourselves one to another."
Not seeking to rule, bill to help each
other. We must lose our own life In the
larger life of the church, the society, the
organization. Still it must be in the
"fear of God," only in those things
which are right.
"And lie not drunk with wine, wherein
is excess; but be tilled with the Spirit."
First: The Kingdom of Intemperance.
The adverb is used in Luke 15:13, where
the prodigal is described as wasting tils
substance in riotous living. The nature
of all intoxicating drinks is to lead to ex
cess: the appetite for wine increases; it
excites all passions, all the bad feelings,
and leads to actions which would not
otherwise be performed. Riot, dissolute
ness, anger, bate, intemperance, vice,
murder, all lie in tin1 bottom of the wine
cup.
Illustration. “A story is current in the
Orient of a wise old sheik, who gave to a
young Arab prince, from whom he was
about to part, a list of c rimes, and bade
him choose the one which seemed least
harmful. The young prince turned in
horror from murder, theft, and loss of
virtue, and told thcc patriarch he would
choose intemperance. ‘You have chosen
that,' said the wise old man, 'which will
bring you all.' ”
The Waste ef Wealth. In the Strand
Magazine is a series of illustrations, the
object of which is to show in a most vivid
and surprising way the waste of wealth
in the United Kingdom during a period
of sixty-three years from last dune, from
Intoxicating drinks. The same, practical
ly, would he true of the United States.
If the national drink bill had remained
unpaid during that time, and assuming
that no interest was charged on the un
paid millions, the drinkers of the United
Kingdom would to-day find themselves
face to face* with a liability of ,Ct».'Jll,000,
000 or 433,200,000,000. "Tills would absorb
one-tenth of the whole world's wealth.
In fac t, it would practically bo necessary
to mortgage the United Kingdom itself to
pay the bill." And all gold current in
the whole world would pay only one
ninth of the bill. All gold and silver to
gether would pay only one-third. It
would lake the output of all the gold and
silver mines in the world ninety-five
years, at the average of the last ten
years, to pay the rest of the bill.
The latest suspension bridge- over Niag
ara, 800 feet long, is entirely built of
steel, of which 3,068 1-3 cubic feet were
used. If a bridge was erected on strnilar
lines out of the precious metal provided
by our "drink gold," before the last
ounce was used the bridge would be
spanning an abyss 22,072 feet wide. The
Niagara bridge weighed a ton for each
foot of its span;'therefore, to balance our
54,558 tons of gold, a steel bridge on the
same plan would have to be constructed,
having a length of almost eleven miles;
that is In say, if one end tested on the
heights of Hlghgate, one could promenade
right across London and not leave the
bridge until one arrived at the gates of
the Crystal Palace.
Second: The Way of Kscape—Be Filled
with the Spirit. The Holy Spirit of God,
end thus with all the pure and holy feel
ings, ac ts, tastes, and love that belong to
the kingdom of God.
1. If one is filled with tlu* Spirit, there
will not be room for the spirit of evil.
2. He* will have no taste for the things
that tind their Inspiration in Intemper
ance. He will be opposed to them as con
trary to his nature.
Religious life, expressed in religious
worship, is one of the greatest of all aids
to a temperate life. I.ft tills fill the life
before intemperance lias a chance to as
sail it. Social religious life guards
against th ■ social temptations of strong
drink. So thankfulness to God for the
good will strengthen us against the in
gratitude of doing what he hates and for
bids.
Learn by Heart. Each scholar should
l.-uin by heart some texts of Scripture
on the subject of temperance. Each one
should sign ihe temperance pledge.
Sometimes people object to having boys
sign a temperance pledge or promise not
to use intoxicating beverages. Mr. John
R. Gough, the popular temperance lec
turer, who had been Intemperate, but
afterward reformed, said: “If the pledge
had been offered me when I was a boy in
Sabbath school 1 should have been spared
those seven dreadful years."
Aim of Musical Instruction.
Frank Damrosch, superintendent of
music in New York’s public schools,
says the aim of the schools should be
to make the children not musicians,
but simply lovers of music.
Whaling Fleet Decreasing.
Since 1890 the number of ships in
the American whaling fleet has de
creased from ninety-seven to forty.
There is n steady falling off in the pro
duction of both sperm oil and whale
bone.
Thought Inspired by a Kiss.
“Well, how does It seem to be en
gaged to such a wealthy girl?” “Fine!
Every time I kiss her I feel as if 1
were taking the coupon off a govern
ernment bond.”—Life.
1,213 BUS. ONIONS PER ACRE.
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It possible logrow l,aoo and more bun per sure.
S\ There Is no vegetable
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Solzers annual..y dis
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etgbttk of a nil lion
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Beilin^ same at (ice.
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Notice
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with ISO kinds ot flower and vegetable seeds.
Market gardeners' list, 2c postage. tv. N. u.
A Slam at Oklahoma.
Representative Fitzgerald, of Brook
lyn, tells of a poker game he saw m
Oklamoha. “I’ll he blamed if I play in
any game like this!” shouted one of
the players, jumping to his feet and
throwing down his cards. "What’s
the matter?” asked the other four
players. "Somebody's stolen a Jack
of hearts off my knee.” “An examina
tion of the player’s cards.’’ added Mr.
Fitzgerald, “showed that he had jacks
up, and the odd jack would have given
him a full house.”
Safety Mirrors at Road Crossings.
The Woodbridge (England) district
council has resorted to novel means to
prevent accidents at dangerous street
corners. These roads in the district
meet at awkward angles, and collis
ions between vehicles have been rath
er common. Widening by demolition
of house property being impossible,
the surveyor recommended tlie erec
tion of mirrors. By this means driv
ers can see through brick walls, so to
speak, and the experiment has proved
successful.
Many School C hildren Ar« Sickly.
Mother (i ray's Sweet Powders for (Jh i 1
dren, used by Mother dray, a nurse in
Children's Home, New York, cure Fever
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Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms.
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All Qualified.
In the course of a speech In the sen
ate last week Mr. Hoar of Massachu
setts took a fling at the Oreen Moun
tain state by saying: "No man In Ver
mont is allowed to vote until he has
made $5,000 trading horses with Mas
sachusetts people.” A ripple of laugh
ter caused by this remark was chang
ed to a roar when Senator Proctor
of Vermont said in his deep bass:
"Yes, and we all vote.”
Wants Women as Jurors.
A French deputy has announced his
Intention to bring in a hill during the
present session of parliament making
It not only admissible but legally obli
gatory for women to sit as jurors. Ho
proposes that all juries shall be re
quired to consist of six good men and
six women similarly qualified.
Rosebery a Feudal Lord.
Lord Rosebery, according to T. P
O’Conner, lives the life of a great
feudal lord on his estates. He has a
host of retainers, splendid equipages,
and everywhere his coronet is in evi
dence. He travels from one of his
great houses to another with postilions
as if railways had not been Invented.
The liberal leader is a great noble,
and the people like him all the better
for being apart from them in the
pomp and circumstances of his pri
vate life.
Grandfather of Congress.
Dr. W. H. Milburn, the blind chap
lain of the senate, thinks he may fair
ly lay claim to the title of “grand
father of the house.” He entered the
service of that body ten years before
John Sherman of Ohio and Justin S.
Morrill of Vermont, who were termed
"fathers of the house.” Mr. Milburn
was first elected chaplain of congress
in 1845, being then a resfdent of Illi
nois and hailing from the congression
al district represented by Lincoln.
Scripture For and Against.
A New Englander about 70 years
old, having learned that Dr. Henry
Van Dyke made occasional expeditions
to Canada and elsewhere in search of
big game, recently sent to him a pen
drawing made by himself of a stag,
and underneath placed this motto in
large letters: "Thou Shalt Not Kill.”
Dr. Van Dyke, in acknowledging re
ceipt of the drawing, thanked his
friend for his kindness and suggested
that under certain conditions a more
appropriate text would he Acts x:13:
"Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
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