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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1891)
-,- yv. ' .? ' st. Wtpz " 5j j- . ff j;t.- jc - ,. -.v --iMr -.1 ; ir-MxT.- ?a s : rtt 5 rfr" ,T . X. - jiv . r -s -. - -? - sr" Jf?- J" HIMDIIUM RELIGION. br. Talmago Discourses on Noodod Pulpit Reforms. Significance or tlio Wisdom nnd Splendor or Solomon Too Much Humdrum In Ckurchca True Keltclnn Ncrcr Gloomy More Spice Needed. Tn a recent jsermon at Brooklyn Rev. T. P, Vitt Talmagc took for his sub ject' .lunulrtiin Abolished," and his text was from II. Chronicles, ix. 0: "Of spices great abundance; neither was tliere any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." Dr. Tal ma ge said: What is that building out yonder glistening' in the sun? Have you not heard? It is the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has just taken to it his bride, the princess of Egypt. Vrm see the pillows of the portico, and a groat tower, adorned with 1,000 shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower r.QO of the shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's order, 500 were capturned by David, his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonda3 sun! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne, between twelve lions in statuary, and sits down on the back of the golden bull, tho head of the bronze beast turned toward the people. The family and attendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the palace have to provide every day 100 sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and pawing of -1,000 line horses in the royal stables. There were important oflieials who had charge of tho work of gathering the straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak; and when, in his white apparel, behind the swift est horses of all the realm, and fol lowed by mounted archers in purple, the cavalcade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem, I suppose it was something worth getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to look at Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day crowned im boeility. All the splendor of his palnee and retinue were eclipsed by his intel lectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. lie was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. IVacocks from India strutted the ba saltic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, ami deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign fish, and aviaries with foreign birds; and tradition sajs these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great repu tation for the conundrums and riddles that he made und guessed. lie and King Hiram, bin neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask riddles, each one paying in money If he could not answer or guess the riddle. The Solomonic navy visited all the World and the sail ors of eourse talked about the wealth of their king, and about the riddles and enigmas he made and solved; and the news spread until Queen Italkis, away oil south, heard of it, and sent mes sengers with a few riddles she would like to have Solomon solve, and a few puzzles which she would like to have him find out She sent among other things to King Solomon a diamond with a hole so small that a needle could not penetraty it, asking him to thread that diamond. And Solomon took a worm and put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the dia mond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to fill it with water that did not How from the sky, and that did not rush out from the earth; and immediately Solomon put a slave on the back of a swift hore and galloped him around the park until the horse was nigh exhausted, and from the perspiration of the horse the goblet wa-s tilled. She also sent King Solomon five hundred boys in girls' dress, and five hundred girls in boys' dress, won dering if he would be cute enough to lind out the deception. Immediately , Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from the way they applied the water that it was all a cheat Queen lialkis was m pleased with the aeifteness of Solomon, that she said: "I'll just go and see him for myself." Yonder it comes the cavalcade horses and dromedaries, chariots and chariot eers, jingling harness and clattering hoofs and blazing shields, and flying ensigns, and clapping cymbals. The place is saturated with tho perfume. She brings cinnamon, and saffron, and calamus, and frankincense, and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue stieeps through the gate the armed guard inhale the aroma. "Halt!" cry the charioteer.-, as the wheels grind tho gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Italkis alights in an atmosphere bewitched with perfume As the dromedaries are driven up to the king's storehouses, and the bundles of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon, and tho boxes of spices are opened, the purveyors of the palace dis cover what my text announces: "Of spices great abundance; neither was there any such spices as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Well, my friends, you know that all theologians agree in making Solomon a t pe of Christ, and making the queen of Sheba a typo of every truthseeker, and I shall take the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankincense which the queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon am mightily suggestive of the s"wcet spices. of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular facts and chronological tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense and to cas bia, but never to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of holy light It is a sparkle of cool fountains. It is au opening of opaline gates. It is a collection oi apices. uuum uou that wc were wise in taking spices to our Divine King as Queen Ilalkis was wise in taking spices to the earthly Solomon! What many of us most need is to have the humdrum driven out of our life and the humdrum out of our religion. The American and English and Scottish church will dio of hum drum unless there be a change. An editor from San Francisco a few weeks ago wrotcme saying he was get ting up for his paper a symposium from many clergymen, discussing among other Ihings "Why do not people go to church?" and he wanted my opinion and I gave it in one sentence: Teople do not go to church, because they can not stand the humdrum. The fact is that most people have so much hum drum iu their worldly calling that they do not want to have added the humdrum of religion- We need in all our ser mons and exhortations and songs and prayers more of what Queem Balkis brought to Solomon, namely, more spice. The fact is that the duties and cares oi tnis me, coming to usxrom time to time, are stupid often, and inane, and intolerable. Here are men who hare been bar tering, and negotiating, climbing, pounding, liammering for twenty years, forty years, fifty years. One great long i drudgery has their life been. Their Ifaces anxious, their feelings benumbed, their days monotonous. W hat is nec- sary to brighten up that man s life, and to sweeten that acid disposition, and to put sparkle into that man's spirits? The spicery of ouf holy re ligion. Why, if between the losses of life there dashed a gleam pf an eternal gain; if between the betrayals of life there came the gleam of the undying friendship of Christ; if in dull times in business wc found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our office, and store, nnd shop, evcry-day life, instead of be ing a stupid monotone, would be a glo rious inspiration, penduluming be tween calm satisfaction and high rap ture. How any woman keeps house with out the religion of Girist to. help her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the greater part of one's -life, as many women do, in planning for the meals, in stitching garments that will soon be rent again, and deploring breakages and supervising tardy subordinates, and driving off dust that soon again will settle, and doing the same tiling day in and day out and year in and year out, until their hair silvers and the back stoops nnd the spectacles crawl to the eyes, and the grave breaks open under the thin sole of the shoe O, it is a long monotony! lint when Christ comes to tho draw ing room, and comes to the kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and comes to the dwelling, then how cheery becomes all womanly duties She is never alone now. Martha gets through fretting and joins Mary at tho feet of Jesus. All day long Deborah is happy becanse she can help Lapidoth; Hannah, be cause she can make a coat for young Samuel; Miriam, because sho csn watch her infant brother; Rachel, because she can help her father water the stock; the widow of Sareptn, because the crime of oil is being replenished 0, woman, having in your pantry a nest of boxes containing all kinds of condiments why have you not tried in your heart and life the spicery of our holy religion? "Martha! Martha! thou art careful and troubled aliont many things; but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken awa3 from her." I must confess that a great deal of the religion of this day is utterly In sipid. There is nothing piquant or ele vating about it Men and women go around humming psalms in a minor key, and culturing melancholy, nnd their worship has in it more siglis than rapture. We do not doubt their piety. O, no. Hut they are sitting at a feast where the cook has forgotten to season the food. Everything is lint in their experience and in their conversation. Emancipated from sin, and death, nnd hell, and on their way to a magnificent Heaven, they act as though they were trudging on toward an everlasting Botany Bay. Religion does not seem to agree with them. It seems to catch in tho wind-pipe nnd become a tight strangulation instead of an exhilara tion. All the infidel books that have been written, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spencer, have not done so much damage to our Christian ity as our lugubrious Christians Who wants a religion woven out of the shadows of the night? Why go growl ing on your way to celestial enthrone ment? Come out of that cave and sit down in the warm light of the sun of righteousness Away with your odes to melancholy and Hervey's "Medita tions Among the Tombs" Then let our Honys abound, And otcry tear !o dry; Wu'ro uitirrliiiiK through Emmanuel's ground To falror worlds on lilgli. I have to say, also, that we need to put more spice nnd enlivenment in our religious teaching; whether it be in the prayer meeting, or in the Sabbath school, or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs und our heart and our hend. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so little, vivacity in the pulpit and in the pew? We want, liko tho Lord, to plant in our sermons and exhortations more lilies of the field. Wo want fewer rhetorical elaborations nnd fewer ses quipedalian words; and when we talk about shadows, wc do not want to say adumbration; and when wc mean queerness we do not want to talk about idiosyncracies; or if a stitch in the back wo do not want to talk of lumbago: but, in the plain vernacular preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest victorious and free. In other words we want moro cinnamon and less gristle. More than that wc want more life and spice in our Christian work. The poor do not wantso much to be groaned over as sung to. W.th the bread and medicines and the garments yon give them let there be an accompaniment of smiles and brik encouragement Do not stand and talk to them about tho wretchedness of their alode and the hunger of their looks and the hardness of their lot Ah! they know it better than you can tell them. Show them the bright side of the thing, if there be any bright side. Tell them good times will coma Tell them thnt for the children of God there is immortal res cue. Wake them up out of their sto lidity by an inspiring laugh, and while you send in help, liko the Queen of Sheba also send in the spices We need more spice and enlivenment in our church music Churches sit dis cussing whether they shall have choirs or precentors or organs or bass-viols or cornets; I say, take that which will bring out the most inspiring music. If we had half as much zeal and spirit in our churches as we have in the songs of our Sabbath schools it would not be long before the whole earth would quake with the coming God. Why, in most churches nine-tenths of tho peo ple do not sing; or they sing so feebly that the people at their elbows do not know that they are singing. I promise a h'gh spiritual blessing to any one who will sing so heartily that the people all around can not help but sing Wake up! all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco, and across Christendom. It is not a matter of preference: it is a matter of religious duty. Soft, long drawn out music, is appropriate for the concert; but St John gives an idea of tho sonorous and resonate congregational singing appro priate for churches when, in listening to the temple service of Heaven, he says: "I heard a great voice as the Toee of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings. Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Join with me in a crusade, giving me not only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting of your voices and I believe we can, tnrough Christ s grace, sing fifty thousand souls into the kingdom of Christ Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spiee-laden drome daries into our church music. "Xeithar was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." .Now I want to impress this audience with the fact that religion is sweetness and perfume, and spikenard, and saf fron, and cinnamon, and cassia and frankincense and aU sweet spices to gether. The religion of Christ is a present and everlasting redolence. It counteracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the-cup of bitter medicine and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned lattice. It is a balm for the aching side and a soft bandage for the "temple staatr with .. 0 1. - . pain. It is good xor rtieusiatlsai, and for neuralgia, and fcr low spirits, and I for consumption; it is the catholicon for all disorder. Yes, it will heal all yemr sorrows. Why did you look so sad to-day whe you came in? Alas! for the loneliaeat and the heartbreak, and the load that is never lifted from your souL Some of you go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote: "If I had another month of such days as I bare been spending, I would be impatient to get down into my little Harrow crib in tho ground like a weary factory child. And there hare been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this life. I see all around about me widownood, and orphanage, and child lessness sadness, disappointment, per plexity. If I could ask alt those to rise in this aadience who hare felt no sor row, and been buffeted by no disap pointment if I conld ask all such to rise, how many would risi? Not one. A widowed mother with her little child, went west, hoping to get better wages there; and she was taken sick and died. The overseer of the poor got her body and put it in a box, and put It in a wagon, and started down the street toward the cemetery at full trot The little child the only child ran after it through the streets bareheaded crying: "Bring me back ray mother! bring mo back my mother!" And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the box in the wagon all she loved on earth it is said the whole village was in tars And that is what a greiit many of you are doing chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeavj ment for all this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the thought of resur rection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes" Across the conches of your sick and across the graves of your dead I fling this shower of sweet spices Queen Italkis, driving up to tho pillared por tico to tho house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as exhales p-day from the Lord's garden. It is peace, it is sweetness it is comiort It is infinite satisfaction, this gospel I commend to you. Some one could not understand why an old German Christian scholar used Jo be always so calm and happy and hopeful, when he had so many trials and sicknesses and ailments A man secreted himself in the house. He said: "I mean to watch, this old scholar nnd Christian;" and ho saw the old Christian man o to his room and sit down on the chair beside the stand and open the Biblo and begin to read. He read on and on, chapter after chapter, honr Hf ter hour, until his face is all aglow with tho tidings from Heaven, and when the clock struck 12 he arose and shut his Bible and said: "Blessed Lord, we nro on the same old terms yet Good-night, good-night" Oh, you Bin-parched and j'ou trouble-pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfaction. Will you come and get it? I cannot tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter so woll as I can tell you now. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." . Have you read of tho Taj Mahal in India, in some respects the most ma jestic building on earth? Twenty thou sand men were twenty years in build ing it It cost about SIO.000,000. Tho walls arc of marble, inlaid with cornel ian from Bagdad, and turquoise from Thibet, and jasper from tho l'unjaub, and amethyst from Persia, and all manner of precious stones. A traveler says that it seems to him like the shin ing of an enchanted castle of burnished silver. The walls are 215 feet high, and from the top of these springs a dome thirty more feet high, thnt dome containing the most won derful echo the world has ever known, so thnt ever and anon travelers standing below with flutes,, nnd drums and harps, are test ing that echo, and tho sounds, from be low strike up nnd then come down as il were the voices of angels nil around about the building. There is around it a garden of tamarind, and banyan, and palm, and all the floral glories of the ransacked earth. But that is only a tomb of a dead empress and it is tame compared with the grandeurs which God has bnilded for your living and immortal spirit O, home of the blessed! Foundations of gold! Arches of victory! Capstones of praise! And a dome in which there are echoing and re-echoing the hallelujahs of the ages And around about that mansion is a garden the garden of God and all the springing fountains are the bot tled tears of the church in the wilder ness and all the crimson of the flowers is the deep hue that was caught up from the carnage of earthly martyr doms and the fragrance Is the praver of all the saints and the aroma puts in to utter forgetfulncss the cassia and the spikenard, and the frankincense, and the world renowned spices which the Queen Balkis of Abyssinia, flung at the feet of King Solomon. When shall thoso eyes thy heaven built W.lll And pearly ffntet behold. Thy bulwarks with ileal ion strong, And streets of shining gold? Through obduracy on our part and through the rejection of that Christ who makes Heaven possible, I wonder if any of us will miss that spectacle? I fear! I fear! The queen of the south will rise up in judgment against this generation and condemn it because she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is herel May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that religious ways are w ays of pleas antness and that all her paths arc paths of peace; that it is pcrfnmo now and perfume forever. And there was an abundance of spice; "neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Koeelpts or Pmllwaa Car Porter. "I run between Jersey City and Chi cago," said a Pullman car porter, "and how much do you suppose I made last month? Seventeen dollars and a half. Of course. I didn't get in quite a f ult month, but was on the road over half the time, just the same. A porter, when he runs a full month, can sometimes make as much as thirty or thirtr-fira dollars. If he makes any more it is be cause lots of people are traveling on passes or because he is lucky at policy. Men who travel on passes are the most liberal. There was a time when a porter could make seventy-flra. dollars, and I used to know a porter who made one hundred and sixty dollars? in a month. That's the highest I ever heard of a porter making: In the east a porter seldom gets more than a quarter frost a passenger, bo nutter how far he runs or how much work he does. Porters ia the west make the most mosey, nnd especially those on emigi-aat ears, which west of Omaha arepatroaised by a good class of people. There's nothing in being a porter in the east any more." X. Y. Tribune. Imported Flunky "Your TVorsaip, the carriage waits withoat" Hogfare Xewrich (testily) "Without? With- ont whtf iBiiakHAd Vtm,V 1. r. ...tj (uuk- quiousiyj "V ltfeout occupaats, sir." Toronto Mail. IN OREGON. aWfal aVfreaila mt TV lat Harris a OfegM-feJ talk tm ta Tmm la PoxrLAsh, Ore., May . The visit to Salem wss the principal event of the forenoon. The president and party at rived there at 9 o'clock and remained a little orer one hoar. It rained nearly all the time and Interfered somewhat with the programme so far as the demonstration on tho part of the school children was concerned. The local militia, G. A. R. post and the people generally were out in full force and gave the distinguished visitors a royal reception. The mayor of the city welcomed the president to Oregon. The 'president thanked him and said be wo pleased to make bis acquaintance. The party was then taken to carriages to visit the state house, the Second battalion of infantry, of Oregon, and Sedgwick post, G. A. IL The governor and mayor rode in the carriage with the president and Mrs. Harrison. Mayor Darccy de livered an address of welcome in be half of the city and Gor. I'ennoyer in behalf of the state. Gov. I'ennoyer ex tended a cordial welcome to the presi dent in a brief speech, voicing the people's unfeigned pleasure at the visit of the nation's chief magistrate and ex tending the freedom of the state. The president responded as follows? Cor. I'ennoyer. Mr. Mayor and Fellow Citizens: It Is very plraaut to b nssiirtvl by these kindly word whlrh have len spoken by the governor of thin state and by tbo chief offlcrr of thl munlr pility wr are welcome to tho state of Oregon ami the rliy of Salrm. Wc have found cliswliere that theso cordial word of welcome aro repeated with Increased emphasi by thn kindly face of those who assemble to greet uv I am glad that hire, as elsewhere, we look Into the fices of happy and prosperous con tented, liberty-loving, patriotic American citizens Applause. Our birthright, the wlc anticipation of thoso who framed our government. U this wholesome. Just division vt power bctwieii the three great co-ordinate branch ot guv em ment, the executive, the legislative and the Judicial, and they havo already demon strated that what seems to the nations of Kuropo to bo a complicated and Jvngllng system produces. In fact, the inot power ful, most complete and iiumI satUfuctory or ganlzttlon for roclal order and for national strength. Wo stand hero In one of thio halls set apart to the law making body of your state. Those who assembled hero aro chosen by your suffruxes and we. hope It may be always true of Oregon th.it your legislative body Is a repreneutatlvo body; Its service consecrated to the people and the purpose of Its cruallon attained by giving to the well ordered and well ills, posed, the large-it liberty, curbing by w hole some laws the llt-dlrccted and lawlcni. pro viding bv economic method for the public need. The Judiciary th.it comes nest In our system to Interpret and apply the public statutes has been In our country a x.ife refuge for all that are oppressed The duty of the executive Is to administer the law. Ho does not frame statutes, though In most states and under iMt.onal government a veto power Is lodged In him with n view to secur ing reconsideration of any particular meas ure. Hut a public cxecutlro ollleer has one plain duty. It Is to enforce the lau with lclnduo s and forbearance, but with prompt ness and Inexorable decision. (Cheers.) We have but one king. It Is law, and to that king all men must bow. I have but one message to tho north and south, for the eat and the west, on my Journey through this laud. It Is to uphold the law. Von arc Just y proud of your great state. Its capabilities are enor mous. Its adaptations to comfortable life aro peculiar and flue. The years will lirlrm you Increased populat on and IncrvaHid wealth. I hopu they will bring fvfttli It, marching In this state'y prog ress of material tlilnan, those flmr things, piety, pure homes nnd orderly com munities. Applause Hut above all this state prldo, overall our rejoicings in the ad vantages which aro alxmt us in our respect ive stat-s, we looV with greater pride to that gront arch of government that untied these statu and makes them all one grest union Cheers. Just before leaving Salem a citizens' committee from Portland waited on the president and volunteered to escort him to Portlund. A short stop was made at Chcmnwa. The presidential party nrrived at Port land at noon, promptly on schedule time. Twenty thousand jK'ople were in waiting and the president acknowl edged their plaudits by riding bare headed through the streets and bowing right and left BOYD OUSTED. The Hnpreme Court of Nebraska Peebles Gov. Hoyd Inelllglble anil Awards the Office- to Thayer. Lincoln, Neb., May . Just before the adjournment of the supreme court yesterday afternoon a decision was handed down in tho Thayer-Boyd gubernatorial quo warranto case, a judgment of ouster being rendered against Gor. Boyd in favor of cx-Gov. Thayer. The opinion was written by Judge Norval, Judge Cobb concurring but Judge Maxwell dissenting. Council for Gov. Boyd announced that they would at once apply for a super sedeas for the purpose of taking the case on a writ of error to the I'nited States supreme court They claim that tho question of naturalization is a fed eral one, and they arc confident of suc cess in the court of last resort The writ of ouster was served on Got. Boyd about 5 o'clock. He received it calmly and said: "I am ready to turn over tho oflice now." Got. Boyd's attorney, John I). Howe, of Omaha, who had just arrived, re quested him to wait a moment till he went to the court room to tile a motion for a stay, but as the judgment had al ready been entered and the writ served it was too late. Gor. Boyd accordingly turned orer the office to Gov. Thayer, who had in the meantime taken the oath of office and filed his bond. The decision on the whole may be said to be a surprise, as the opinion was that in event of the ousting of Gov. Boyd Licut-Gov. Majors would be named as the successor. The Coke Strike. ScoTTDAtE, Pa., May a. The case of John Mahan, the striker killed at Leisenring Sunday evening, will be made the cause for a general mass meeting of strikers The forces of deputies arc being largely increased at several plants, particularly at Ijclsen ring No. 3. Seventy Italian workmen quit at Whitney's last night and left the region. The sheriff's posse is at Bradford con tinuing the work of evicting the fam ilies of strikers. Twenty-five Hungarian workmen who were- taken to Leisenring No. S refused to go to work. Om laUtaa Coaapaar. Chicago, May 6. Capt Uiggins, in charge of army headquarters here in the absence of Gen. Miles received a dispatch from Fort Washakie, Wya, that company I of the Eighth infantry had just been organized as aa Indian company. The company is composed of twenty-eight Shoshoaes and twenty eight Apaches. Om Bt HALirAi, J. &, Mj . A report wa Mteat here last night tkattfce British wanlup Felkaa, bow ia Kewfoaadlaad waters, ha bcea fred pon by the New- fovadlaaal bait mtchenia rortaaK Bay. Waatraar. Kxw Yo&x. Mar . Saow Jell re. terday Morsia&r at Aifcaay aad Aabarav There was freasiaff w-uW mt Xediaa, N. Yaa4 it Sa feared the fraitcroaia mch daaaagad. Saow alao fell at North Troy aa4 BiekSeld,VL A rajstHaa Fatal FraarripUaav Little Rocjc, Ark, May Twa children of CoL Thomas Tanner, aed 9 asd 5 respectively, were fatally BOatoaed last night at Riaoa. Ark.. stoat talriag Terctifmge which was m arihtd by Dr. 8. X. Xcelias. A NOVEL EXPERIMENT. The MoraaafM IHaatnJ f a rkrilfbal TWory f MyUaaa. "Did yoa ever notice the fact that when a person's salad is concentrated apod a certain subject that the person will usually, unintentionally ami an kuowinglr, imitate the actions of oth err This curioasquejtkm was propounded by a well known phydcian who ha made a special study of hypnotism and kindred subjects, while he and I wcw awaiting the arrival of a boat at Cort laadl ferry several days ago. I replied in the negative, and further asserted that 1 woald not believe his theory or statement until 1 had wit nessed a practical illustration. Well," continued the physician, "the statement is true, and if you will watch my actions and those of the -other Iersons present you will be somewhat surprised. You see they are all in con versation, reading p.-qwrs or thcit thoughts are concentrated upon some subjects Now I propose to start every one of them walking around the build ing, and I will do it before five minute have elapsed." There were about ten or a dozen be lated clerks and business men in tht ferry house, all with the same purpose as ourselves. Some were perusing the ercning newspapers, others were eon versing among themselves and several of them were leaning carelessly against the wall, their hands in their pockets, smoking cigars, whil their faces that peculiar, vacant expression as sumed generally when a erMn thoughts are on some incident of the day or business transaction of the mor row. The physician clasped his hands le hind his back, and with his head tx'iit forward as though iu deep thought, be legan with a slow step to pace up and down the room. No attention, what ever, at first, was apparently paid to his actions on the part of the persons pres ent for several minutes. Then a pale, sickly-looking young clerk left his seat, and without even looking in the direc tion of the physician begun a walking match of his own. A florid man about fort y years old, who had leen engaged in smoking a fragrant cigar while lean ing against the ferry railing, unbut toned his coat and followed the clerk. Two men who had licen conversing near the gangway turned and U'gan pacing the floor, at the same time continuing their talk. Four others had Wen reading and these one by one left their seats and followed the example sej. by the phy sician. Kvery inrin present had begun to walk tin and down the nom. I looked at the clock and found that the phy sician had accomplished his task, und that he did it in four minutes. "You are satisfied now, I presume?" "Yes." "Well, wait a moment, nnd I will stop them." The physician strolled out into the center of the room, coughed loudly, and then walked over to one of the seats and sat down. The clerk, who appeared to U one of those young men who grasp at an idea as a drowning man grasps at a straw, immediately followed stilt, and in trVe'miiiutes more every man had re sumed The position he occupied Iveforo the physician began his extraordinary experiment Then; happened to Iks one young woman present who regarded the phy sician attentively, but failed to leave her scat or to have apparently noticed what had hapjnMied. When tho loat arrived I inquired of the physician how it hapiened that he failed to control her as he had the men. "In the first place," said ho, "women lack power of concentration aud con tinuity of thought as a general rule, anil for tins reason mey are more or Jess conscious of their surroundings. A woman is self-conscious, and lndieves herself to Im-, whether she is or not, the person most observed in the room. Con sequently she seldom gets into what is known commonly as a 'brown study' when in public places. A man, on the contrary, when alone, is usually plan ning something, and Is unconscious of his surroundings. Then, unless there is some strong reason to prevent it ho will, to a certain extent imitate tho action of others." """ I havo trietl the experiment ainco with success. Try it yourself. N. Y. Herald. Wooden Itreail. A substitute for barytes in the matter of adulterated flour has been invented iu Delaware. It is simply pulverized wood. Think of eating wooden bread! But it is not at all improbable that ere long wc shall unconsciously le eating sawdust lute beech trees are used. The wood has no flavor or-color and is hard and dry. The bark is peeled off, and the logs put on a carriage, which forces them against a cutting machine shaped like a pencil sharpener, except that it has five or six knives instead of on The knives revolve at the rate of from "00 to SOO revolutions a minute, and the log is soon cut into fine shav ings. After these are thoroughly dried they are put into a hopper and ground the same as wheat or corn. The flour comes out as fine and fragrant as from fine wheat and is put in bags without any marking on. except a tag with the address, and sent to New York. The Bakers' Helper. Kara Sign. Plunkett Dr. Seelye. the college president, isn't married. I guess. Mrs. P. Why, John? Plunkett Because he says that by the end of the cssntury the women will know more than the men. If he were married he'd know that they know it all now. Chicago Times. THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS CITY. May IL CATTI.K Shlpptn 9trr .. f I JTO ISutelicrV ulcers. I to m IK Natlvr cows . .... 349 4 4 71 1IO;w41k.J to choice henry I ;C 4 75 W1IKAT No. 2 rrl SI i No.I harl ... ...... S3 CORV-No.3 ZH m iM O.VTK-Xo.2 5 RVIv-Xo.2 .... . ... 73 aT 79 rijOUH-I'atcnts, per ack .. J 15 J 35 nrr 3 11 215 IIAT IUil . . toon 1590 UUTTEU-Cliolee crcamcrr . ! 31 (.'HKhSK-rtiU cream .. 5, ta niGS ehnice....... !! II "BACVN Hams KS U Mouhlcr.. .......... Cm 7 iics 9 :j rOTATUL. .-... 1OT 139 ST. IJDVIS. CATTLE Shipping tc-n ... 4 271 l:utcicr3tccrs. .. aao m J IIOCS rcklnc 45l tV MIKKt Fair to choice ... 113 535 rfUR Cbolec 4J 5 59 WIIK.tT-.Vfl 1 ml Hit lMt coux Xo.3. cit$ a a O.VT So. 3 . .... Um il XVK Nn.3. ......-.. ft. 5 tUTTEE Creaertsy 23 25 rOSK ..-.. .... II3 o cnuHK CATTLE hr-plS Htrrv... 5 S1 HOGS rackJnsaaJjhlpnfn; 5 5 9B SHEKr fair to eUoJce .... 175 6 FLOOKWIat-T wfeeat. . - . . 4 i WHEAT So. 2 red .. iae IBS COaX Xo-3 ... SHs a OATS Ktx 1. ..... .. . &a Sat mYK-N-vZ. W JR BrjTTEB-CreaarMjr. .... 3a t 25 l-OKiC...... ... ....... li5 s Hs NEW TOCK. CATTL5-Cowas to vr-.avc 'A Sa9 HOC; Gol to choice 475 SM rLOVK-tiowl te ctMpc . 55 wnr.iT xn. 2. rea .... in in COCX Xa.2 . -. ...-. il 8 OATS Western B.Iol........ 57 Q BITTEE Cnnuay......... 31 m 37 nUL. ..... u m u: A Weatwa llt Road Agent Hold ap rer hands gcat! Thankee, thankee. Much obliged for this watch. Been wantln ooe like that fcr some time, THrr othcr watches Is beaatie. Unx. Now ycr pockctbook, if yrr plcav Thankee, thankee. Sorry. 1 had to In tcrrupt ycr joarncj, but that ring. pleas-. Thaakee. I mm t detain yrr any longer. Hope yl find th folk all well at home. Good-bye! Pleasant tritv Hone r'l coroc UiU way agin soon. I feel greatly honored at bavin' had ycr company for th few minutes ye tarried here. Good-by, gent. gooU-by. First Drummer (after the stage moves xu) I wonder where that villain stud ied politeness. Second Drummer I think he tawst have been a ftatnaser botelkts-per N. Y. Weekly. - j To IMspel Cldv " Hclch-s aad Kcvers, to cWovj th y tm ... tnrvll rt rutttlv. vvben iiuve ur bilious, or when th ulod Is Impure or sluggish, to l ctuaneoUy cum LabUual coil slJjwUon, to awaken tbe kKloova iu uvcr j to a branny acuvnr, wtuwuv irrivaucg or weakculug Uicju, uac Hj rup of C- Srstso Is the ord lima, who Is still wearing his riolhes It It also tbo socO Express. To tbo fellow Ul winter's time buffalo Summer Turll Take th Chlraco. St. Ianl K Katstas City lUlhvay, thi (Hjpular rvHitetoall ptiuits J oi interest iu thn sc-inc rurtuwei nun uio PupctJsound region Connects with tru cuiiUuvntal train for all rvort isr to thw Ix-art vt ile.ure xx-kem. V IL lkii, funeral Puoii-er aud Ticket Afieul, Phoenix UmldiUcC, Cuic-ujo, 111. TtlE pussy willow forces th s-on, but po s prudent: sbenhrajs wears tier furs. Ulnghamton ltrpubllcju. The complexion hortimc rlmr, the k!n free- from erupti tendencies, the anpetiU) nnd dincst'on Improve!, tu-len ami i-in cea.M thu Ksly grows stronger, sound sleep ul night a nnttit, aud tho gvnerul health every way better when Dr. John Hull's tar KjparllU Is ui4lo uvi of. A man naturally dud It uoccary lo havo rrcourM to hts "undo" ufler "auMtied" too much lllughaiutou ho I) AS l.culcr (Jfs. A. DfiKiis, a well known resident of HL Lout, vats: I havo ustsl several bot tles of Prickly Ash llittors for biliousness and malarial troubles, so prevalent m this clltuat'. and heartily rofommend It t- all uftllrteti hi n like manner. Il Is tho boat remedy 1 ever used." At tho present rate of legal fee none but a wealthy man an "keep hisovrn couiioL'" ltostou Courier. Downs-' Klevtrle H.jp ilir not eh.p th hands, Iwltu; frftctty imrr Many ioopto uQliettsl with S.ilt Hhcutu have Uvn ennsl bv It uso. I,ns4,rvt" and whitens clothes. Havo i our grocer order It und try it huw This Is tbo svumui 7 tho tear wtion put ted pluuU want tho cirth Washington titar. - IS iS&O "Jviril' HrvneSUU Tnxh" Wen liilroducisl. and thoir success as n cure for Colds, Coughs, Asthma uud Bronchitis ha Ikx.ii unparalleled. Ilrmio: plunging Into houMvIcanlng con sidcr well the point ol u tack. lliuguatuton Ib-publlran. . A i.i. eases of weak or lanio luwk, backache, rheumatism, will llnd roliuf by weiring one of Carter s Smart W c-d ami Ib-lUdonnu Dackaclio l'laMcrs. Price tr cents. Trj tliem. Tiir. little bnrltcr Is none the ! n strap ping follow. ('.lens Kails Republican. How cm rt. to force children to take nasty worm medicines. Dr. Hull s Worm I to ft rovers nro always turu und tat to like dainty Utile candles. Ax owner of a butting proiert burbati resident who keep n goat. tho su Tiik (Jrlpof Pneumonia may N warde.1 off with Halo's Honey of Horchounii and Tar. lilten Toothache Drops Cure in ouc minute. Indication of a strike-when onomnn tells mint hor ho Is n liar -Huston llull.-tln An imitation of Nature that's the result you want to reach. With Dr. Pierced Pleasant Pellets, you have it. They cleanse and renovate the whole system naturally. That means that they do it thor oughly, but mildly. They're the smallest in size, hut the most effective sugar-coated, easiest to take. Sick Head ache, Bilious-Headachc, Con stipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels are prevented, relieved, and cured. Purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, and gently laxative, or an active cathar tic, according to size of dose. As a Liver Pill, they've been imitated, but never equaled. The Turning Point MaaMaraaiaaM)araBatrtllart.l a aws miiiwiiiimmhilj rnra t irr . I. n. n ri-T 1 tan Wra tit aaarti ma aiaf acaml mt fsr n. f. H. to aatwal ft whrrrtvr ft aa tmm Wfa tUtn k ! ana s. s. s. t-; c CLCxaaAVd Mr It, SWIFT IPICIJIC CO., j BURTIR8 rtmmM& -ASK ACt. 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