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Loup City Northwestern
CEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. aid Pub.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Man is given a sense of humor to
compensate him as the years rob b.in
of enthusiasm.
Time was when on the announce
ment of a bank failure they used to
ask "what’s her name?"
Parisians ate 23,000 horses last year.
Here we have a field where the auto
mobile cannot hope to compete.
It is reported that a cuke wants to
marry Helen Gould. Now comes the
supreme test of Helen’s good sense.
Why doesn't some enterprising me
dium arrange an Interview with De
Lesseps on recent events In Panama?
The man who stood on tlie bridge
at midnight probably found it cheaper
tnan sitting in at bridge at the same
hour.
If it 1s true that the greatest happi
ness is in having enorgh, the man
with seven daughters should be oh.
so Joyful.
The Brooklyn Eagle thinks current
carping at Patti is due to the “acidu
lous pessimism of the supercritical
few.” Good.
Thieves have stolen one of the big
bronze gates of Central Park, New
York, bnt at last accounts the obelisk
had not been taken.
When New York society leaders fall
ont the wondering world learns that
being in the smart set doesn't dull the
edge of a lady s tongue.
A woman strike sympathizer threw
a brick at a car in Chicago the other
day. It is not related what shop
window suffered in consequence.
“People are seldom satisfied with
small favors,” remarked the philoso
pher. "What fun is there in kissing
& girl if you can't muss her hair?”
The enthusiasm which Japan and
Russia are showing for peace causes
a suspicion that there must be a
stock of damp powder in the far East.
Ail English mayor ha? handed out
his salary to be divided between the
poor and* the town bands. The bands,
presumably, are to be bribed to quit
playing.
The Toronto World hopes Uncle
Sam will “choke to death on the next
bite he takes ofT Canada.” Perhaps
he’ll try to swallow the pesky thing
whole next time.
During the last fiscal year the rail
roads of the country killed 3,553 per
sons and Injured 45,997 more. What
are Macedonian outrages compared
with this record?
The Cuban congress has voted a
gift of $50,000 to Gen. Gomez. Evi
dently the Cuban congress wants
Gomez to retire permanently from the
revolution business.
Somebody will be trying to prove
next that Cresceus never trotted a
mile in less than three minutes, and
then he was tied to an automobile
»nd timed by a sun-dial.
There are those who think that our
national patriotism is even robust
enough to survive the suppression of
the dynamite cracker and the toy pis
tol on the Fourth of July.
The hanks continue to merge. And
nobody rises to protest. In fact, every
body seems to be satisfied. The banks
enjoy a monopoly of this sort of feel
ing when it comes to merging.
Hartford Post: We have foui.d that
the most lovable women, as a rule,
are those who have no more mathe
matical ability than is requited to
keep account of the milk tickets.
The boy who writes in his copy
book. “Reach after the higher things.”
cannot understand why his backward
anatomy should be tattooed because
he gathers jam from the top shelf.
It will probably be incumbent on
the historian of the immediate future
to record that Generalissimo Rafael
Reyes of the Colombian army march
ed down a hill and then marched up
again.
The new fund for the Methodist
ministers amounts now to $40,000—
more than half of what Willard Allen
took. It is not generally known just
where Mr. Allen spent Thanks
giving.
Their fighting may not be tip to the
European standard, but the Central
American countries do not keap the
“War Is Inevitable” headline standing
for several months before they get
some kind of action.
King Peter tried to congratulate
Great Britain’s diplomatic representa
tive at Belgrade on King Edward’s
ijirthday, but got snubbed for his
pains. Peter will have to keep quiet
and make motions when he wants to
express bis thoughts.
One of the judges has decided that
a girl has no breach of promise suit
against a man who proposes ou Sun
day and fails to carry out the a^ree
jnnit. After this it may be expected
that the lights will be put out prompt
ly at 12 o’clock Saturday ;ilgbt.
J MORMONS BUY JAIL IN WHICH J
: JOSEPH SMITH WAS KILLED !
An interesting landmark, the scene
of historic tragedy, has been sold to
the Mormons. This is the old jail at
Carthage, Illinois, in which the Mor
mon prophet Joseph Smith and his
brother Hiram were killed by a mob
in June, 1844. It is built of sandstone
and is well preserved.. It was then
the sheriff s residence. It stands on
an acre of ground well Improved. The
property was sold to the Mormons for
$4,000, $1,000 under its real value.
A. H. Woodruff of Chicago negoti
ated the purchase of the building for
the Mormons. It is reported that the
building will be removed to Sail Lake
City, to be set up there as a memo
rial.
CAPT. CARTER IS RELEASEE).
Military Peculator Leaves Fort Leav
enworth Penitentiary.
Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of en
gineers, U. S. A., has left the United
States penitentiary at Fort Leaven
worth. Three years and seven months
is the actual time Carter served with
in the walls of the penitentiary. He
was sentenced to five years' impris
onment by a court-martial for alleged
frauds in connection with the Savan
nah harbor Improvements. According
to the federal statutes a government
prisoner is allowed two months off
each year for good time, ten months
in Carter's case. He was held seven
months in confinement at Governor’s
Island, N. Y.,' before he reached the
penitentiary. By the military code a
prisoner's time commences from the
day his sentence is approved, which
with Carter was Sept. 28. 1899. He
was able to keep out of the peniten
tiary until the following April 27. sev
en months, through applying for new
trials, appeals and the like.
Carter is in excellent health and
weighs twenty pounds more than
when he entered prison. He is 47
years old, bat during his confinement
aged rapidly, his hair now being near
ly white. He was first assigned to
duty as doorkeeper for the tin, shoe,
tailor and repair shop. He did this
work quickly and spent most of the
day brooding over his troubles and as
a result became extremely nervous
and was on the point of breaking
down.
The prison physician recommended
outdoor exercise and he was put in
charge of the flower garden and lawns,
where he pushed a law mower. I.ater
on he was placed in the hospital,
where he acted as a nurse and kept
the records. He soon became an effi
cient nurse and for the last year has
been teaching the new convict nurses.
Carter has never associated with
any prioner aside from Capt. Dent
ing. another army officer, who was re
leased on habeas corpus. But he has
been kind to those injured or sick. By
living at the hospital he obtained bet
ter food than that furnished to pris
oners in the construction gangs. He
Capt. Oberlin M. Carter.
has been a model prisoner from the
first and has the respect of the prison
officials, lie has talked to the officers
about his suit for the property in
escrow, and most of them believe that
he will win it.
Another civil Indictment is hanging
over Carter in connection with the
cases against Gaynor and Green, hill
he does not fear arrest on his release,
as his military trial and imprisonment
for this same offense bars any further
criminal action against him. It is said,
however, that he is willing to assist
the government against Gaynor and
Green, who, he feels, mistreated him.
During the last year Carter has been
studying mining engineering, and if
he la successful in the trial will spend
considerable of his time in Arizona
and New Mexico, where he and his
uncle, I,. D. Carter of Danville, 111,,
have extensive mining interests. Car
ter has been forwarding directions to
the employes at the Arizona mine as
to the proper manner of developing it.
The wincing of the Chicago suit, in
which $723,000 is involved, is a matter
ot supreme importance to Carter, as
in case of a favorable decision ho will
claim a vindication from first to last.
He has held that he was the victim
of prejudice on the part of several
officers who were members of the
court martial.
QUEER CAUSE OF LAMENESS.
Result of Living and Working in a
Hilly Country.
There is a hilly and indefinite local
ity on the boarderland of Poland and
Raymond known as Blackeat. Tradi
tion says that this name was bestow
ed on the locality because in prehis
toric times a wandering hunter from
the coast settlements came upon a
gigantic black wildcat and had a ter
rific battle with him somewhere in
these hills. In course of time the
country became settled, but the recol
lection of this battle clung to the hills
and so we have the name of Blackeat
to this day.
A man traveling this section a year
or two since observed that all the in
habitants were lame, or seemed to be
and even the cows had "a slouch in
their gait.” This so impressed him
that he asked a native whom he met
the cause of it. The native looked at
me stranger and then at the surround
ing hills and then answered, “Wall,
you see, ther folks have ter work on
er side hill all ther life. They begin
when they’re chil’nn and pick berries
an’ keep it up when they grow older
an’ plant taters an’ cut hoop-poles on
ther hills. Yer see one leg has ter
kinder stretch dbwn ter git er footin’,
and tother kinder shrinks up ter ’com
modate the firs* ’un’, so yer see its
nat’ral ter go one-sided.”—Portland
Advertiser.
Editorial Consolation.
{senator Culloih tells of an amusing
Incident that occurred in the editorial
office of a paper pub,:<jhed in Bloom
ington. Ill
The senator had <1 rped lr for a
friendly chat with his friend, the ed
itor, and had hardly seated himself
when there appeared a well-known
character of ths town—a type of in
dividual common to every locality, the
man.who known “how the paper ought
to be run.”
Without noticing the presence of
Mr. Cullom thi* man launched into a
complaint that the paper had not
printed certain articles he had written
for it.
“Why, ’ said If®. “I gave ’em to you
months ago! What have you done
with ’em?”
The editor smiled sadly. “I’m hold
ing them,” ha replied. “And they
serve a very good purpose, too. Now
ai d then I get to thinking that per
haps we are not offering the public
as good a paper as we ought to. At
such times I look up your articles and
sec how much worse the sheet might
be So I become real cheerful again!
Please don't take them from me!”—
Boston Post.
“Rebel Bishop's” Biography.
The family of the late Kpiscopal
Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer of
Alabama has selected Rev. W. C.
Whittaker, rector of St. Andrew’s
Kpiscopal church, Jackson, Miss., to
write his biography. Bishop Wilmer
was the only southern bishop of his
church elected and consecrated during
the civil war. Ho was long known as
the “rebel bishop” because he refused
to pray for the president of the United
States when Oen. Thomas and his
army were occupying Alabama. At
the close of the war Bishop Wilmer
said that he had no regrets and was
making no apologies and the northern
church finally agreed to accept him as
the bishop ef Alabama.
Thought Jefferson a Failure.
Not long ago Joseph Jefferson took
part ir. a benefit in aid of a New York
nospital. Ho opened the entertain
ment With a short talk, other noted
players crowding at the wings to hear
his remarks. Just then two highly
rouged girls of the song and dance
persuasion came down the winding
staircase from their dressing room.
One of them came over to the wings,
listened a moment and went back to
her companion. The latter said:
"Who’s on now?” “Some old guy
doin’ a monologue,” wras the reply,
"and, say, he’s doin’ fierce. Been on
ten minutes and ain't had a laugh yet”
LESSON XI.
Oi'Iili'fl Text 'I Xvjik glnil will'll they said
unto mi', I.rt us go into the house of the
Lord." I*s;i. 1-J,1.
1. Preparations for Building the
Temple.— First. Preparation of the
Kingdom, it was as necessary that
the people and the kingdom should be
prepared as that building materials
should he collected. The whole of
David's re'gn was a preparation.
1. The kingdom firmly established
on a basis of peace.
2. The organization of priests and
choirs and orchestras for religious ser
vices.
3. The new religious awakening of
tae people.
Second. Preparation of Material.
David had collected 108,Otto talents of
gold and 1,017,OOu talents of silver. Ac
cording to the lighter standard a tal
ent of gold weighed 379,000 grains =
I 54 pounds avoirdupois (a pound avoir
dupols = 7,000 grains) = $14.542 of
gold, making a total of $1,570,536,000.
A talent of silver weighed 336.750
grains = 4S pounds = $970, making a
total of $986,490,000.
Besides the gold and silver there
was gathered brass and iron beyond
computation (1 Chron. 22: 14). Huge
beams of cedar were sent from Mt.
T.ebanon, which had a great reputa
tion in the ancient world. Precious
stones from every source were gath
ered together to adorn the interior.
Third. The Workmen. The skilled
laborers were largely Phenicians. sup- I
plied by King Hiram of Tyre. “Over
seers were appointed, apparently 550
chiefs and 3.300 subordinates (1 Kings
5: 16; 9: 23), of whom 3.600 were
Canaan ites and 250 Israelites (2
Chron. 2: 17; 8: 10). There were 30,
090 Israelites levied to do the work
cne month and remain home two
months in turn. Besides these there
were 150,000 laborers (1 Kings 5:
17 16), probably from foreign subject
actions (1 Kings 9: 21. 22).
II. Building the Temple.—The site
was on Mt. Moriah, overlooking the
valley of the Kidron and the Mount of
Olives. The platform, according to
Josephus, was square, three-quarters
or a mile in circuit (Wars, 5: &, m
the time of Herod, but lie also says
that Herod doubled the original en
closure. “Probably, therefore, the
platform constructed by Solomon's
engineers was an area of about 12
acres, or a quadrangle of 900 feet by
€00.”—James Sime.
Its Size and Shape. “If a cubit was
18 inches, the temple proper was 90
feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet
high. The whole height was 30 cubits,
but the rooms into which tbi.> space
was divided, the Holy Place, and the
Holy of Holies, were finished only 20
cubits, or 30 feet in height (1 Kings
f: l€-20). In all its dimensions.—
length, breadth, and height.—the sanc
tuary itself was exactly double those
of the tabernacle.”—Pulpit Commen
tary. The entire length of the tem
ple given below includes the porch, 10
cibits; the Holy Place, 40; the Holy
c:\' Holies, 20; the chambers and rear
vr all, 10. The whole was situated ac
cording to the points of the compass,
i re front entrance being toward the
e ist.
The Courts. There were two courts
(I Chron. 33: 5). The outer court was
3 irroundeu by a wall partly of stone,
partly of cedar; on the eastern bor
(. ’r was a cloister or colonnade. This
court was adorned with trees, and free
t> all the people. Within this quad
rangle was a smaller court, the court
(,-f the priests, on the highest ridge of
Tie hill, enclosing the temple, and the
preat brazen altar, and brazen sea,
und the lavers.
In the inner court were the great
l*razen altar of sacrifice, 15 feet high
end 30 feet square, in sight of all the
worshipers of the outer court, and the
riolten or brazen sea supported by 12
l uge brazen oxen, each 7V2 feet high.
The outer court was for the wor
shipers, who were intended to exer
cise the feelings suggested and sym
tolitci! by the ceremonies going on
’ isibly in the court or unseen in the
temple proper.
II. The Dedication Ceremonies.—1
Kings 8. The Assembly. Vs. 1. 2, j
t*2. 6?. 1. “Solomon assembled the
ciders of Israel,” etc,, the same as in |
Jwessons IX. and X.. with the addition
of (v. 2) “the men of Israel.” "No Is
laeltto who could be present was ab
r»>nt.” The meetings lasted a week
Iv. fiC>. They were religious meetings
with (v. C3) “sacrifice of peace offer
'd gs”; that is, offerings of thanksgiv
ing and consecration, and love to God.
"he “two and twenty thousand oxen,
,'nd a hundred and twenty thousand
,4heep” were used for this purpose in
part, and for the feasting of the great
numbers gathereif in Jerusalem for a
Whole week.
The assembly met 2) “at the
f'ast" of tabernacles, the thanksgiv
ing festival, one of the three great
annual festivals of the Jews, “in the
raonth Ethanim,” also called Tlsri,
which covers portions of our Septem
ber and October.
The Services of the Week. The ded
ication was the grandest ceremony
ever performed under the Mosaic dis
pensation.
1. The Procession.—Vs. 3-5; 2 Chron.
f: 4-6. The object of the procession
was to (v. 1) “bring up the ark of the
Covenant of the Dord out of the city
r:f David,” built on Mt. Zion, the west
ern of the two principal hills on which
Jerusalem was situated. Here David
>ad placed the ark while waiting for
,bo temple to be built.
4. “And the tabernacle of the con
gregates.” Better, as in other places,
“the tent of meeting.” "And all the
holy’ vessels that were in the taber
nacle.”
5. “Were with him before the ark.”
Probably in the temple court, where
the great altar was. “Sacrificing sheep
and oxen,” as a religious service sig
nifying gratitude ami praise, the for
giveness of past sin, and consecration
to the Lord’s service as ids people.
II. Placing the Ark in the Holy of
Holies.—V's. ti-9; 2 Chron. 5: 7-10. G.
"And the priests brought in the ark
of the covenant . . . unto his”
(i. e.. ‘'its." But this word is never
found In the A. V. It has come into
use since the date of our translation)
"place” (comp. 1 Kings 6: 19) “into
the oracle of the house.” The place
where God at times made known his
will. "To the most holy place” (He
brew. holy of holies), “even under
the wings of the cherubims" (1 Kings
G: 27). The symbolic figures "repre
senting the attributes and majesty of
God.”
7. "The cherubims” (better, cher
ubim”) “covered the ark, ’ as the most
holy repository of God’s law' covered
by the mercy-seat. The law of God
and the mercy of God. ever under the
shelter of his wfngs and guarded by
his presence.
III. The chorus, accompanied by the
orchestra, sang, "For his mercy endur
eth forever,” as the priests came out
of the Holy of Holies; and the Sheki
nah, the shining cloud, filled the tem
ple (vs. 10, 11; 2 Chron. 5: 11-14).
10. “The cloud filled the house of
the Lord.” The article before cloud
denotes that it was the well-known
cloud which betokened the divine pres
ence. “The cloud was the veil that hid
<v. 11) “the glory of the Lord,” for
that glory was too bright to be seen
by mortal eyes. This was the same
as the pillar of cloud and of fire that
guided the people through the wilder
ness, which had Vested on the taber
nacle on the day it was dedicated (Ex.
40: 24). It was thus the acknowl
edged symbol of God’s presence, and
as such was a visible sign that he now
accepted the temple, as he had for
merly accepted the tabernacle, as his
shrine and dwelling-place.” Then fol
lows in the order and wording given
by Prof. Willis J. Beecher:
4. Sentences, the king facing the
sanctuary (vs. 12, 13; 2 Chron. 6: 1,
2).
5. He turns and blesses the congre
gation (v. 14; 2 Chron. 6: 3), all stand
ing.
C. Address, by Solomon (vs. 15-21;
2 Chron. 6: 4-11), standing.
7. Dedicatory prayer (vs. £3-53; 2
Chron. 6: 14-40), kneeling (v. 54; 2
Chron. 6: 13).
8. Psalm 132 (2 Chron. 6: 41, 42):
“Arise, O God." Fire 'descended, the
glory filled the house, and the people
prostrated themselves (2 Chron. 7:
13).
9. ‘‘For his mercy endureth forever."
by the congregation (2 Chron. 7: 3).
10. Closing address (1 Kings 8: 54
61), standing.
IV. Lessons for To-day.—The Tem
ple as a Lesson in Church Building.
“A true church is an echo of God,”
says Joseph Cook. And the building
should be the fittest instrument for
expressing and repeating that echo,
that men may know and feel the char
acter and the love of God. Its foun
dation must be deep, strong, and en
during. It is built (1 Cor. 3: 11) upon
.Jesus Christ. Its structure should,
with the best beauty and costliness at
ur command, be as perfectly as pos
sible adapted to accomplish the ob
ject for which it was built.
The Temple is a Type of the Indi
vidual Christian (1 Cor. 3: 10-16). (1)
Rich and costly preparations have
been made by otners. We are heirs
of all the ages. (2) The foundation is
Jesus Christ, the rock that, like the
rock under the temple, the same In
all ages, never can be moved. (3) He
has prophets with messages from God
to aid and encourage in the building,
— tne mole, the Holy Spirit, with
tearhers, pastors, and friends to bring
the message. (4) It Is possible for tis
to build a poor temple on this founda
tion. “wood, hay, stubble,” or a most
beautiful and costly temple, "gold,
silver, precious stones.” (5) The true
Christian character when complete is
beautiful and costly.
The Quarry for the Temple. This
world is a quarry where the living
stones of God's beautiful temple In
the heavens, the completed and per
fected church, are being shaped and
polished for their places in the build
ing. The heavenly temple is the solu
tion of the mysteries of Providence in
this world. The cares, burdens, sor
rows, joys, work of this life are fit
ting us for our place in that temple
where no sound of the tools shall be
heard while it is in building.
The temple, we are told, was built
without the sound of hammer or ax,
or any tool of iron, heard in the house
while it was in building (1 Kings <>:
7). The silent building of the temple
from stones prepared in distant quar
ries Is a type of the building of sout3
and of the church.
Tne greatest works of God are
wrought silently. No one sees the
process by which the greatest changes
are wrought in the spiritual world.
There will bo wondrous rejoicing in
heaven and on earth when God’s ,
spiritual temple is completed. It will |
be a blessed thing to join in the .iong |
at that dedication, to have a share .n |
that hour of triumph. (
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