CKO E. MKNKIICOTKR. Editor »»d l*ul>. LAJUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. To win a bet a Kansas man ate a box of axle grease. Now his wheels are greased. Cecil Rhodes did pretty well with his $30,000,000, but wait till Russel Sage’s will is read. King Edward is going to work th" press by knighting a lot of newspaper men at the coronation. Boston papers, forgetful of John L. Sullivan, are now alluding to Dr. Hale as "Boston’s Grand Old Man.'’ The New York man who prayed for strength to beat his wife evidently did not believe in faith without works. If the meat trust shall succeed in getting control of the henneries and truck patches, the country will be done for. Emperor William has written a play. Not only this, but he has compelled the public to applaud and the critics to praise it. It is doubtful, if under the law. ade quate punishment can be given the man who spends his Sunday shooting song birds. Susan B. Anthony is doubtless of opinion that the tour of Kubelik in this country has done the cause of fe male suffrage no good. A San Francisco man named Dennis swallowed carbolic acid, '’’here were no doubts as to the man’s name by the time a doctor arrived. The czar will probably be obliged to recall some of nis troops from China to assist In subjugating the ob streperous Russian students. Santos-Dumont enthusiastically says America is the greatest country on earth. Can he be foolish enough to believe that this is news to us? To the Berlin charge about the paste diamonds worn at Prince Henry’s ball at Chicago the Windy City retorts that, anyway, they were not Rhine stones. It was the same old Fort Sumter that frowned down upon President Roosevelt at Charleston, but the times have changed since the days of the siege. The czar has massed 10,000 fresh troops in China. The force will be inadequate, however, unless one Rus sian is equal to a full regiment of Chinamen. The great powers of the world are not so much concerned for the terri torial integrity of China as they are about the prompt payment of indem nity claims. If the packing interests of the coun try continue to advance prices, the genius of man will have to be called upon to invent a substitute for sirloin and porterhouse. While there is room for improve ment in modern burial customs, the evening funeral is not likely to become what the society reporters would call “deservedly popular.” Future reception committees for royal visitors will do well to remem ber that after Prince Henry hoarded the Deutschland, he slept almost con tinuously for forty-eight hours. The press is an educator whose claims are beginning to be recognized. The superintendent of the public schools of Evanston, 111., has advised children to read the newspapers. If the charmed shirts that the Fili pinos are wearing can go through an American steam laundry without fad ing or ripping it is high time Uncle Sam imported a lot for home use. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney says she finds that New York high society is silly. Mrs. Whitney is a young woman who doesn’t regard the biggest string of pearls as the greatest thing on earth. The New York World agrees that it is not a bad precedent that Boston sets for letting a good man know how warmly hla work has been appreciat ed while he Is still living to enjoy the compliment. King Edward, it is announced, will give a dinner to half a million poor persons in London as a feature of the celebration following his coronation. After the pageant and the rejoicings are over it might be well for the king to give serious consideration, if he is capable of it. to the question why there are 500,000 persons in London so poor as to be glad of a dinner from the royal bounty. After all, there may have been a little affectation in Dr. English’^ "strenuous objection to being called the author of ‘Ben Bolt.' ” The poet Gray professed to think lightly of his immortal "Elegy;” but Gen. Wolfe said, just before he fell on the Plains of Abraham, “I would rather have written that poem than taken Quebec.’’ King Alfonso is reported to be Jealous of King Edward. Yet the lat ter would doubtless be glad to give half of bis years and half of his weight to Alf if it were possible. Barton, Sailor || By Frank H. Sweet. i (Copyright, 1902, by Dal'y Story Pub. Cat |C The great vessel was moving for ward at quarter speed, the bows only breaking the water into small rip ples which gurgled along her sides and quickly smoothed out astern. All around was darkness, thick. Impene trable, oppressive, not even the faint twinkle of a star relieving its envel oping sameness. On the upper deck stood the cap tain with several of his officers. Near them a sailor was winding the frayed end of a halyard. The captain held a night glass, and from time to time raised it to his eyes, but only to lower it quickly and im patiently. In that darkness the glass was of little use. For an hour they had been running at slow speed, cautiously, and with eyes and ears strained, as though waiting for something to slip out of the darkness or for some signal or sign. But still there wrere only sea and the black wall of silence; as far as appearances went they might have been a thousand miles from land. Another ten minutes, and the strain grew more tense. All over the ship | were eyes watching and ears listen ing, on the lower decks, through the ports, the pilot's window, from the shrouds even. The secret was an open one, and all the ship knew that close on the starboard here, almost touch ing them perhaps, wras a low. hostile shore, w'here were eyes as vigilant and keen as their own, and that, were their presence known or suspected, the mission of the ship would be frus trated. “If only they would show a light.or do something to indicate their where abouts,’’ the captain muttered for the twentieth time. “But they don't know we’re here, sir,’’ observed one of the younger of ficers. ‘‘Oh, I know they don’t, of course,’’ testily. “If they did, they would. But what are we to do? We’ve got to get away from here before daylight.” “Maybe a boat-” began another officer; but the captain cut him short. “Wouldn’t do at all under the cir cumstances,’’ he declared, “the shore may be ten rods away, and it may be two miles, and we don't know the ene my's position. A boat would make more or less noise, and in a haphaz ard search for a landing would be sure to be heard. Captain Bixby is of course at his old camp on the other side of the river, a mile in the inter ior. If he could show a light for an instant, we could make directly for it, some one slip from the boat near the shore and steal through the under growth to the camp, A few seconds would acquaint Bixby with the fact that Gen. Clay is fifty miles up the coast, marching toward him, and be fore morning he could have his men and the women and children well on the way toward safety. So far the enemy have counted on starvation as an easy and effectual means of sub jugation. Neither they nor Bixby suspect the General is even in the country. But by to-morrow night the enemy's scouts will discover his pres ence. and then-well, it will be a quick rush and anotiier day of horror for the people who read the news papers. This sort of foe doesn't know the meaning of civilized warfare.” The sailor looked up from the hal yard he was winding. “I’m a good swimmer, sir,” he said, significantly. The captain regarded him keenly for a moment, then shook his head. “You don’t understand these South ern waters,” he answmred. "They are full of sharks. You wouldn’t live to get a boat’s length from the ship.” “But there are many lives in dan ger over yonder,” the sailor urged, “and some of them are women and children. I’m only one. Perhaps I might get through. If I did. I’d show a light for one instant to let you know that everything was all right and that you could put on steam to join Gen. Clay and hurry to meet us.” But the captain again shook his head decisively. “There's isn’t a .. . l . e ' *>"”1 .! ! 'AiSumi "I'm a good swimmer, sir,” he said significantly. chance of succeeding," he said; “if there were, you should go. But I don't feel that I have the right to sacrifice a life uselessly. No, we will cruise back and forth until two hours before daylight; then, if no means have been found to communicate with Blxby, we will put on full steam to join Gen. Clay. If we can get a re cuforcement of a few hundred men, wa will hasten back and effect a landing. We may be In time to help Btxby that way, either by driving the enemy back or holding them in check until the General arrives.” The sailor did not answer. And ap parently he thought the halyard suf ficiently wound, for as the captain ceased speaking he walked aft. But he did not seek other work; instead, he slipped down to the lower deck and continued aft until he found a place near the rail where he was alone. It took but a moment to fasten the end of a rope into one of the rail rings, test it. and drop the other end overboard. It was not long enough to reach the water, he knew; but he had no time to seek another. However, it was even shorter than he supposed, t When he rose he was far from the j vessel. for when he reached the end of it, op posite a circle of light which came from one of the ship's port holes, he found the water many feet below. But he was too expert a diver and swimmer not to know how to enter the water from that distance without making a splash. Letting himself hang rigidly at full length, with his toes bent downward and close together, to form a point, he released the rope and shot into the water like a wedge, leaving scarcely a ripple upon the surface. When he rose he was twenty yards from the vessel. Presently he glanced over his shoul der at the few lights about the ship’3 decks, and the two or three that showed through her ports, wondering if they would be significant to the enemy. But he decided that they would not. Most of the ship’s lights had been extinguished, and the few re maining would doubtless be thought lights of their own boats or of some wandering fisher or sponger. An hour later the captain and hia officers were at the same place on deck, still anxious and undecided. Suddenly one of them uttered a low exclama tion and pointed into the darkness. “Look yonder at that light,’’ he cried, “waving as though it might be a sig nal. I wonder what it can be not Captain Bixby.” “No,” said the captain with puz zled speculation in his voice. "It's not far enough away. There, it has disappeared.” Then a sudden, com prehending, exultant ring came into his voice as he demanded: “Where's that sailor. Barton? Some of you go and find him. quick!” Two of the officers hurried away. Ten minutes later they returned. “We have had the entire vessel searched, sir,” one of them reported, “but Bar ton is not to be found anywhere. He must have fallen overboard.” “Dropped overboard, you mean,” said the captain dryly. “He’s slip ping through the underbrush toward Bixby's camp by this time. Go tell the engineer to put on all steam. We’ll get to Gen. Clay as quick as we can now.” “THE WHITE MANS BURDEN." Colored Trooper in the Philippines Credited with TVlity Itemnrk. Peter MacQueen, the Boston lectur er, whose fund of anecdotes appears to be as limitless as his travels and experiences, tells the following story of a bit of humor which flashed out on the firing line in the Philippines. “A colored trooper, whose horse had been shot under him in one of the skirmishes near Manila, passed me on his way to the rear. He was car rying his saddle and the entire outfit, including his rifle, on his back, and was perspiring heavily in the hot sun. “ 'That’s quite a load you've got there,' said I as he reached me. *' 'Dat's wot it are, boss,’ said he, grinning. ‘I tell you, wot, boss, this yar carrying of the “white man’s bur den" ain't no easy job.’ ’’—New York Tribune. Memorial Window Olebrltlen. George K. Sims, the English play wright and novelist, published a pro test against depicting the features of Dr. Johnson in a memorial window. Mr. Sims wants to know where the line is to be drawn in regard to such use of modern celebrities in church windows. “We might ere long,’’ he says, “have a pro-Boer philanthropist presenting his particular church with a stained glass window in which Judas Iscariot w ill be presented with the 'ea tures (and the eyeglass) of Joseph Chamberlain.’’ It is vain giving men their rights unless you give them righteousness. The soundest fruit will be on the tempest-torn tree. SAYS FRENCHMEN ARE NOT LATINS In O.'lsln They Ar< Marh l.lkn Amtrl cans, Uaoluei M. I.e Roil. M. Hughes Le Roux, the celebrated French author, journalist, dramatist and orator, lectured on a recent after noon In the Auditorium of Houston Hall before the Cercle Francals of the University of Pennsylvania. His sub ject was "Les fils de France, que fer ont Us?” "The people of France, said M. Le Roux, "are not a Latinized people as some have declared. In traveling through Normandy. Brittany and va rious other provinces of France I fend no strict distinguishing characteris tics or customs which would Indicate I^atin origin, with the possible excep tion of Avergine, where the women wear the same kind of jewels as the Romans did. France is similar to America or any other nation in its or igin. Just as in chemistry various elements are mixed and heated to gether In a crucible until a residue of a shining golden amalgamation is pre cipitated. so France and other nations are amalgamated from various for eign elements and peoples. “Along with its similarities to Am erica in origin there can be noticed a striking difference in the character of the two peoples. Americans have more strength of will. Frenchmen more sensibility and refinement. To illustrate this he gave as an example a race at the last Olympian games in Athens, where he said: "A Frenchman outran by his heart a German and an American both run ning by their legs.” NOT A BADGE OF A POLICEMAN. Officer's I.oug Hair Mystified an Intoxi cated Woman. George Innes, Jr., the son of the great landscape painter, tells a story on himself with great delight. Like Peter Newell, he has been connected with town government in New Jersey. He served on the town council in Montclair—in fact, he was the head of the police commission—the chief of police. “In this capacity,” he says. “I had about six policemen under me, whom I sent forth to do their duty. I used also to go about myself in search of wrongs to be righted and nuisances to be abolished. One day I saw coming up the main street a woman very much the worse for drink. 1 said to her: 'My good woman, have you no place to hide yourself in. no home where you can conceal your shame?’ “ ’Share—and who the divll may you be?’ was her retort. “ ‘Never mind who I am.’ I answer ed. You will obey me and go home, or I will arrest you.’ “‘You arrist me!’ she cried in as tonishment. ‘How kin you arrest me whin you ain't no perliceraon?’ “‘But I am a policeman,' said I, with dignity. “She looked at me a moment in as tonished silence. Then she said: 'Thin, if you are a perlicemon, fur hivin's sake go home and git yer hair cut!”—New York Tribune. Not So Anxioni to Go. “1’ncle Sambo," when alone in his cabin, often prayeo to be delivered from all his earthly sorrows, asking God “to send the angel Gab’ei down to take poo’ ole Sambo out'n all his troubles, right up to heb’n.” Some boys “on mischief bent” heard the old man’s prayer one night, and, after waiting until he was ready for bed. knocked at the door. “Who dar?” asked Uncle Sambo, in a startled voice. "It’s the Angel Gabriel," was the answer. "Who dar. I say?” repeated Sambo, hustling around inside the cabin. “The Angel Gabriel, whom the Lord has sent down in his chariot to take poor Uncle Sambo up to heaven, where he ’ll see no more trouble.” "W-e-11, boss, you jes’ tell Massa God ;at Sambo ain’t been heah in tree weeks!” and crawling under his rude bed, he lay there fearing and trembling, while the boys kept knock ing and urging him to get ready for his ascension at once. But he kept silent. He was not so anxious to go, afwr all. I.arge British Families. Mrs. Mary Lancaster, who was bur led recently at Lancaster, In England, left 110 grandchildren and fifty great grandchildren. Around her grave were 100 descendants, relates the lyondon Chronicle. But a still more remarkable case is recorded by Lord George Lyttleton in his “Miscella neous Works," in an account of a tour in Wales. He mentions the death of a Welsh farmer near Festiniog at the ripe age of 105. The Welshman had married three times. By his first wife he had thirty children. Not deterred by this family, he married again, and had ten by his second. By his third wife he brought the children to forty-four, the last child being eighty-one years younger than the eldest. At the farmer’s funerjd there was an attendance of 800 deseeijiants. A few families like that and Canada would probably no longer call for settlers. The Ceremony of Knighthood. At the beginning of the eleventh century when a man. for some noble deed, was dubbed a knight, the cere mony of knighting him began by giv ing him a pair of spurs. The overlord In conferring the title attached the spurs himself to the heels of the new ly created noble and then gave him his helmet, his horse, his sword and hit lance. One way a woman has of confessing her age without meaning it is being extremely deferential to old women. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V.. MAY 4; ACTS 11:19-30— THE CHURCH AT ANTIOCH. Golden Text—“The Hand of the Lord Was With Them: and a Great Numbs: Believed and Turned Unto the Lord” Acte 11:31—The First Gentile Church. I. The First Oentile Chureh.-Vs. 19-21. Antioch whs so named by Seleucus Nlk ator, Alexander's greatest general, who built the city, 300 B. C., in memory of his father Antlochus. It was situated in west ern Syria on the river Orontes. sixteen miles from its mouth, as London is sit uated on the Thames. It was near the northeastern angle of the Mediterranean, and about three hundred miles north of Jerusalem. It was the capital of Syria at this time, the seaport rival of Damascus on the desert. Gibbon estimates its population at this time at live hundred thousand, making it the third city in the Roman Knipire. only Rome and Alexandria be ing greater. Four or live miles from the Cuy were the famous pleasure grounds of Daphne, known all over the world, where was a temple to Apollo and his colossal statue, "where, under the climate of Syria and the wealthy patronage of Rome, all that was beautiful In nature and art had created a sanctuary for a perpetual festival of vice.”—Conybeare and Howson. Formation of the Church at Antioch 19. "How they which were scattered abroad." The thread of the narrative re turns to the persecution described in Acts S: 1-4, in order to show a new line of influence proceeding from that event. The authorities tried to blow out the gos pel lire kindled by the Holy Spirit, but it only made it burn the brighter. They iHshed the fire, but it only sent the sparks over the world. "Preaching the word to . . Jews only.’’ According to the practice and feelings of the Jew ish Christians when they left Jerusa lem. The new impulses broadening the church had not yet reached them (Acts 1:8). They began at Jerusalem, but had not yet begun to practice the rest of Christ's command. 20. The hand (the symbol oi powei and of work of the Lord." The head of the church. Thus "a great number be lieved. The Lord proved by his power In touching their hearts and renewing their lives that he wanted these people in his church. They were received ap parently without contention or opposi tion, as the logical result of their be lieving and the divine favor of the plan. Thus was founded the tlrst Gentile ctiurch. The broadening of the chureh for which previous events had been pre paring had now actually begun. The church grew to be a center of religious power and influence next to Jerusalem, and in some respects far greater. Why This Church Grew. It was found ed by strong, earnest, tested, devoted, large-hearted, energetic men,—men who had endured persecution for their Mas ter's sake, who had resisted temptation, who had felt the power of tne Holy Spir it. Such founders exert a mighty and enduring influence upon the community they found. i. The Fellowship of the Churches — Vs. 22-24. 21. "Then tidings (the report concerning) these things came unto . . . Jerusalem.” They were doubt less received with Joy mingled with fears as to what the outcome might be. Some would be prepared .or the new regime by the conversion of Cornelius and Peter’s vision: others would see In it Impending disaster, and the ruin of the new relig ion. A Wise Movement, men me enun-n .<< Jerusalem *IUI a very wise and right thing: "they sent forth Barnabas' <1> to learn the exact truth about the reports. (2) To prevent any abuses or discord from arising between the Jewish and Gentile converts, of which the sequel shows the reel danger (Acts 15: 1. 25). The difficult question of eating together could not but arise. (3) To encourage the new disciples in everything that was good. i4) To warn them against error, if error there was. "As far as Antioch.” Implying that he visited other churches on the way. This wise action of the early churen Is peculiarly needed in these changing times, when new departures are being made, new forms of truth are being investi gated. What lie Saw. 22. "When he came, and had seen the grace of God,” as shown in the converts, their changed character, their numbers, their good deeds. There were doubtless many Imperfections In these disciples, but which shone bright est and was seen first was that the grace of God had wrought in them. Mow He Felt. "Was glad." One test of character is what a person rejoices In. There is nothing worthier of great joy than the conversion of men: (1) joy at their deliverance from sin: (2) at their escape from the awful punishment of sin: (3l joy for the great blessings to which they are saved; (4) Joy for the good in fluences they may exert; (5) joy for the new stars in the crown of our Redeemer. What He Did. "Kxhorted them all.” The word is the same as that from whloh the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, Is named. It means much more than exhort or com fort. He strengthened. encouraged, stimulated them by Ills gift of eloquence. ‘ And much people was added unto the Lord.” Through the labors ot such a good man. All his exhortations had the pow er of a good man behind them. III. Paul comes to the Assistance of the Antioch Church.—Vs. 25, 26. 24. "Then departed Barnabas.” The great success of itarnabas brought more work than he could do alone, more open doors than he could enter, more opportunities than he could use. The fields were white to the harvest, and the laborers were few. There was need of another element, of instruction and training In doctrine, than Barnabas' special talents would provide. And Barnabas was wise enough to see this, and good enough to provide for it." “To Tarsus, for to seek Saul.” Christians. "The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” Not by the Jews who would not recognize Jesus as Christ, that -Is, Messiah, but by the peo ple outside the disciples. ”lt belongs to popular slang.” Ramsay. ‘‘To the keen witted populace of Antioch already fa mous for their bestowal of nicknames.”— Knowllng. So “Methodist” and "Puritan” were names first given in ridicule, and then transfigured by those who bore them. Practical. Let us keen Christ's name, disciples, learners, and the new name Christian to show that a Christian is always a learner. IV. The Famine and the Relief Fund. —Vs. 27-30. 25. In these days.” While the church was heint; founded in An tioch. “Cam. propnets.” Those speak ing forth God's message. Fait Merchants Ship* Scarce. It. appears that there are only 1,109 merchant steamships in the world of over 2,000 tons ami capable of making twelve knots or over an hour. Of these 597 are British, 110 French, 106 Ger man, ninety-four American, forty-one Japanese, thirty-four Italian, twenty nine Dutch and twenty-one Russian. Great Britain leads all at speed, even in the fast ships of twenty knots or over, the number in this class being: British, seven; German, five; Ameri can. four; French, two; Russian, one. impure baking powder seized y The New York Board of Henl’to Kind It Contain* Alum and Itn> [mill, cure* wind colic, li&c a bottle. The worst cares to take care of are those we borrow or steal. THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED IT will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal In Quantity or Qual ity—16 oz. for 10 cents. Ollier brands contain only 12 oz. It Is easier to recover from a noble failure than from an ignoble success. Piso's Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible medicine for cough* and colds.—N. W. boauzu Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17. 1900. When God would honor his servants he gives them greater work to do. 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