r*--. 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,: 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 : 7). 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