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rival editors quarrel in print
they lose reputation in the estimation of the public. THE
Chicago Tribune speaking IN
metonymies, succeeds as follows: "Last month Kansas liad a Trilby of rain, and the growers of Pingrees are so jubilant that they do not mind the hot Harvey from the southwest blowing through their Pefliers."
JUST
do a thing and don't talk about
it. This is the great secret of success in inl enterprises. Talk means discussion discussion means irritation irritation means oppo-ition, opposition means|J hii.drance always, whether you are right or wrong.'—Ex
WHEXth Democrat Congress piped this county to "the markets of the world," it did not make allowance for the back draft. The result is that the currents set the wrong way—our gold going abroad through the pipe meant for our goods,
foreign wares coming in by the one meant for their money—Rashville Republican.
COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR,
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JOHN W. BAKER,
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i^ replying to a toast, "Our Country," concluded with: "Our country, may she always be in the right, but our countiy, right
wrong." The old Commodore
was American through and through. It would be a good thing for Cleveland and Cabinet to get a little of the old 1776 A mericanism instilled into their hearts, Minds and actions, so that they would ot be continuously toadying to England *uid her bankers.
of the Columbia City
Commercial, has announced himself as a ..adidate for the Republican nomination Lieutenant-Governor in 1896. We link this is a mistake for two reasons. 1-i-, it is too early to actively become a adidate for any office and secondly,
Lie candidate for Lieutenant-Goveanor is generally named from the unsuccessful candidates for Governor. Mr. Baker is highly spoken of by men in his section of the State and will be royally supported.
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received,one proposition to exchange a forty acre Nebraska farm for advertising and another proposition to exchange a fine lot in Madison,N. IT.,at the foot of Chccu a Mt also for advertising in the REPUBLICAN.
These parties only want
to do this exchange advertising so that the advertisers may find it profitable, be convinced of the value of advertising and continue the same on a cash basis. We are sorry to say there are enough 'sucker" newspaper publishers over the country who accept such fake propositions that the land exchange business is kept Alive. All the land and lot schemes advertised so extensively through the papers are humbugs, pure and simple. Moral—Don't be a sucker.
Knickerbocker Trust Co. of New
York has obtained judgmefit in the U.' S. Court at Indianapolis against the Indiana Water and Light Co. of Shelbjville for $392,450. Judge Baker has made a final decree and ordered the works sold iu ten days if the judgment is not satisfied. Such cases as the above are pointed out to show that water works plants are not a paying investment. The reason is plain. The plant is put in, the stock watered, and the plant bonded for about twice or three times what it is worth and what it cost. The investors, of course, never receive an adequate per cent, on their investment because the plant is valued too high, and as the interest is defaulted the mortgagors close in on the plant and get it at about double the cost. The investors think the plant is a failure, but the men who built it and sold |v it, know they made big money. To pay a good per cent, on an investment a plant $ must not be valued above its cost.
management of the Tribune is
worrying about the city printing and are wanting the city to take bids and save the people money. Oh, yes, the Tribune management is great on reform when their party is not in control. Why does not the Tribune or the Herald, which is under the same management as the Tribuce, undertake to reform the county printing? The
REPUBLICAN
does the city
printing forty (40) par cent, cheaper than the Herald charges and receives for what legal advertising it does for the couuty. If the Tribune and Herald management are such great reformers, hy not tackle the county printing first, because then if you succeeded you could save more money for the tax payers and you would also probably have more influence with the men you helped elect than with the men you tried to defeat. When a man comes into court he should come with clean hands. Drop your price on county advertising before you get too enthusiastis for lower prices for city printing, which to now done 40 per cent lower than you charge the county.
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WINDOWS WIDE OPEN
REV. DR. TAkMAGE'S WORDS OF COMFORT AND CHEER.
Are Your Windows Open to Jerusalem? •Daniel the Lion Hearted of the Ages Not Standing, but Kneeling—The Battle and the Victory.
NEW YORE, Sept. "8.— In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage has chosen a theme overflowing with Christian cheerfulness and encouragement. The Eubject is "Open Windows," and the text selected was Daniel vi, 10, "His windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem."
The scoundrelly princes of Persia, urged on by political jealousy against Daniel, have succeeded in getting a law passed that whosoever prays to God Ehall be put under the paws and teeth of the lions who are lashing themselves in rage and hunger up end down the stone cage or putting their lower jaws on the ground, bellowing till the earth trembles. But the leonine threat did not hinder the devotions of Daniel, the Coeur de Lion of the ages. His enemies might as well have a law that the sun should not draw water, or that the south wind should not sweep across a garden of magnolias, or that God should be abolished. They could not scare liim with the redhot furnaces, and they cannot now scare him with the lions. As soon as Daniel hears of this enactment he leaves his office of secretary of state, with its upholstery of s?inason
and comes down the white marble stops and goes to his own house, fie opens his window and puts the shutters back and pulls the curtain aside so that he can look toward the sacred city of Jerusalem and then prays.
A Picture For an Artist.
I suppose the people in the street gathered under and before his window and said: "Just see that man defyiug the law. He ought to be arrested." And the constabulary of the city rush to the police headquarters and report that Daniel is on his knees at the wide open window.
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What a picture it would be for some artist! Darius in the early dusk of morning not waiting for footmen or chariot, hastening to the den, all flushed and nervous and in dishabille, and looking through the crevices of the cage to see what had become of his prime minister. "What, no sound!" he says. "Daniel is surely devoured, and the lions are sleeping after their horrid meal, the bones of the poor man scattered across the floor of the cavern.'' With trembling voice Darius calls out, "Daniel!" No answer, for the prophet is yet in profound slumber. But a lion, more easily awakened, advances, and with hot breath blown through the crevice seems angrily to demand the cause of this interruption, and then another wild beast lifts his mane from under Daniel's head, and the prophet, waking up, comes forth to report himself all unhurt and welL
But our text stands us at Daniel's window, open toward Jerusalem. Why in that direction open? Jerusalem was his native land, and all the pomp of his Babylonish successes could not make him forget it. He came there from Jerusalem at 18 years ,of age, and he never visited it, though he lived to be 85 years. Yet when he wanted to arouse the deepest emotions and grandest aspirations of his heart he had his window open toward his native Jerusalem. There are many of you today who understand that without any exposition. This is getting to be a nation of foreigners. They have come into all occupations and professions. They sit in all churches. It may be 20 years ago since you got your naturalization papers, and you may be thoroughly Americanized, but you can't forget the land of your birth, and your warmest sympathies go out toward it. Your windows are open toward Jerusalem. Your father and mother are buried there. It may. have been a very humble home in which you were born, but your memory often plays around it, and you hope some day to go and see it—the hill, the tree, the brook, the bouse, the place so sacred, the door from which you started off with parental blessing to make your own way in the yrorld—and God only knows how sometimes you have longed to s^ the familiar places of your childhood, and how in awful crises of life you would like to have caught a glimpse of the old, wrinkled faoe that bent over you as you lay on the gentle lap 20 or 40 or 50 years ago. You may have on this side of the sea risen in fortune, and like Daniel have become great and may have ooine into prosperities which you never could have reached if you had staid there, and you may have many windows to your house—bay windows and skylight windowaxmd windows of conservatory and windows on all sides— but you have at least one window open toward Jerusalem.
Life's Straggle.
When the foreign steamer comes to the wharj, you see the long line of sailors, with shouldered mailbags, coming down the planks, carrying as many letters as you might suppose to be enough for a year's correspondence, and this repeated again and again during the week. Multitudes of them are letters from home, and at all the postofflces of the land people will go to the window and anxiously ask for them, hundreds of ttynuandi of {Arson* finding that windowoffowrfgaiBaila the open window tmrdJcrcaakm.
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says the olScer of the law, dropping a heavy hand on the shoulder of the kneeling Daniel. As the constables open the door of the cavern to thrust in their prisoner they see the glaring eyes of the monsters. But Daniel becomes the first lion tamer, and they lick his hand and fawn at his feet, and that night he sleeps with the shaggy mane of a wild beast for his pillow, while the king that night, sleepless in the palace, has on him the paw and teeth of a lion he cannot tame—the lion of a remorseful conscience.
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"When are you coming home to see us? Brother has gone into the army. Sister is dead. Father and mother are getting very feeble. We are having a great struggle to get on here. Would you advise us to come to ycu, or will you come to us? All join in love and hope to meet you, if not in this world, then in a better. Goodby."
Yes, yes. In all these cities and amid the flowering western prairies and on the slopes of the Pacific and amid the Sierras and on the banks of the lagoon and on the ranches of Texas there is an uncounted multitude who this hour stand and sit and kneel with their windows open toward Jerusalem. Some of these people played on the heather of the Scottish hills 6ome of them were driven out by Irish famine some of them in early life drilled in the German army some of them were accustomed at Lyons or Marseilles or Paris to see on I the street Victor Hugo and Garubetta
some chased the chamois among the Alpine precipices some plucked the ripe clusters from Italian vineyard some lifted their faces under the midnight sun of Norway. It is no dishonor to our land that they remember the place of their nativity. Miscreants would they be if, while they have some of their windows open to take in tho free air and the sunlight of an atmosphere which no kingly despot has ever breathed, they forgot sometimes to open the window toward Jerusalem.
A Open Porthole.
No wonder that the son of the Swiss, when far away from home, hearing the national air of his country sung, the malady of homesickness comes on him so powerfully as to cause his death. You have the example of heroic Daniel of my test for keeping early memories fresh. Forget not the old folks at home. Write often, and if you have surplus of means and they are poor make practical contribution, and rejoice that America is bound to all the world by ties of sanguinity as in no other nation. Who can doubt but it is appointed for the evangelization of other lands? What a stirring, melting, gospelizing theory that all the doors of other nations are open toward us, while our windows are open toward them!
But Daniel in the test kept this porthole of his domestic fortress unclosed because Jerusalem was the capital of sacred influences. There had smoked the sacrifice. There was the holy of holies. There was the ark of the covenant. There stood the temple. We are all tempted to keep our windows open on the opposite side, toward the world, that we may see and hear and appro»priate its advantages. What does the world say? What does the world think?
What does the world do? Worshipers of the world instead of worshipers of God. Windows open toward Bablyon. Windows open toward Corinth. Windows open toward Athens.^ Windows open toward Sodom. Windows open toward the flats instead of windows open toward tho hills. Sad^o&ctake, for this world as a god is like something I saw in the museum of Strasburg, Germany •—the figure of a virgin in wood and iron. The victim in olden time was brought there, and this figure would open its arms to receive him, and once enfolded the figure closed with a hundred knives and lances upon him, and then let him drop 180 feet sheer down. So the world first embraces its idolaters, then closes upon them with many tortures, and then lets them drop forever down. The highest honor, the world could confer was to make a man Roman emperor, but out of 68 emperors it allowed only six to die peacefully in their beds.
The dominion of this world over multitudes is illustrated by the names of coins of many countries. They have their pieces of money which they call sovereigns, crowns and half crowns, Napoleons and half Napoleons, Fredericks and double Fredericks and ducats and Isabellinos, all of which names mean not so much usefulness as dominion. The most of our windows open toward the exchange, toward the salon of fashion, toward the god of this world. In olden times the length of the English yard was fixed by the length of the arm of King Henry I, and we are apt to measure things by a variable standard and by the human arm that in the great crises of life can give us no heip. We need, like Daniel, to open our windowsdoward God and religion.
Necessity For Praj$*.
But, mark you, that good lion tamer is not standing at the window, but kneeling while he looks out. Most photographs are taken of those in standing or sitting posture. I now remember but one picture of a man kneeling, and that was David Livingstone, who in the cause of God and civilization sacrificed himself, and in*the heart of Africa his servant, Majvvara, found him in the tent by the light of a candle stuck on the top of a box, his head in his hands upon the pillow and dead on his knees. But here is a great lion tamer living under the dash of the light, and his hair disheveled by the breeze, praying. The fact is that a man can Bee farther on his knees than standing on tiptoe. Jerusalem was about 550 statute miles from Babylon, and the vast Arabian desert shifted its sands between them. Yet through that open window Daniel saw Jerusalem, saw all between it, saw beyond, saw time, saw eternity, saw earth and saw heaven.
Would you like to see the way through your sins to pardon, through your troubles to comfort, through temptation to rescue, through dire sickness to immortal health, through night to day, through things terrestrial to things celestial—you will not see them till you take Daniel's posture. No cap of bone to the joints of the fingers, no cap of bone to the joints of the elbow, but cap of bone to the knees, made eo because the God of the body was the God of the soul, and especial provision for those who want to pray and physiological structure joins with spiritual necessity in bidding us pray and pray and pray.
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tate to pray for him, but all the prayers of the church universal amount to nothing unless, like Daniel, we pray for ourselves. Omen and women, bounded on *one side by Shadrach's redhot furnace and the other side by devouring lions, learn the secret of courage and deliverance by looking at that Babylonish window open toward the southwest "Oh," you say, "that is the direction of the Arabian desert." Yes, but on tho other side of the desert is God, is Christ, is Jerusalem, is heaven.
The Brussels lace is superior to all other lace, so beautiful, so multiform, so expensive—400 francs a pound. All the world seeks it. Do you know how •it is made? The spinning is done in a dark room, the only light admitted through a small aperture, and that light falling directly on the pattern. And the finest specimens of Christian character I have ever seen or ever expeot to see are those to be found in lives all of whose windows have been darkened by bereavement and misfortune save one, but under that one window of prayer the interlacing of divine workmanship went on until it was fit to deck a throne, a celestial embroidery which angels admired and God approved.
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But it is another Jerusalem toward which we now need to open our windows. The exiled evangelist of Ephesus saw it one day as the surf of the Icarian sea foamed and splashed over the bowlders at his feet, and his vision reminded me of a wedding day when the bride by sister and maid was having garlands twisted for her hair and jewels strung for her neck just before she puts her betrothed hand into the hand of her affianced. "I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a biide adorned for hor husband." Toward that bridal Jerusalem are our windows opened?
We would do well to think more of heaven. It is not a mere annex of earth. It is not a desolate outpost. As Jerusalem was the capital of Jndea, and Babylon the capital of the Babylonian monarchy, and London is the capital of Great Birtain, and Washington is the capital of our own republic, the New Jerusalem is the capital of the universe. The king lives there, and the royal family of the redeemed have their palaces there, and there is a congress of many nations and parliament of all the world. Yea, as Daniel had kindred in Jerusalem of whom he often thought, though he left homo when a very young man, perhaps father and mother and brothers and sisters still living, and was homesick to eee them, and they belonged to the high circles of royalty, Daniel himself having royal blood in his veins, so we have in the Now Jerusalem a great many kindred, and we are sometimes homesick to see them, and they are all princes and princesses, in them the blood imperial, and we do well to keep our windows open toward their eternal residence.
It is a joy for us to believe that while we are interested in them they are interested in us. Much thought of heaven makes one heavenly. The airs that blow through that open window are charged with life, and sweep up to us aromas from gardens that never wither, under skies that never cloud, in a spring tide that never terminates. Compared with it all other heavens are dead failures.
Homer's heaven was an elysium which he describes as a plain at the end of the earth or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and the sun never goes down, and Rhadamanthus, the justestof men, rules. Hesiod's heaven is what ho calls tho islands of the blessed, in the midst of the ocean, three times a year blooming with most exquisite flowers, and tho air is tinted with purple, while games and music and horseraces occupy the time. The Scandinavian's heaven was the hall of Walhalla, where the god Odin gave unending wine suppers to earthly beros and heroines. The Mohammedan's heaven passes its disciples in over the bridge Al-Sirat, which is finer than a hair and sharper than a sword, and then they are let looso into a riot of everlasting sensuality.
The American aborigines look forward to a heaven of illimitable hunting ground, partridge and deer and wild duck more than plentiful, and the hounds never off the scent, and the guns never missing fire. But the geographer has followed the earth round and found no Homer's elysium. Voyagers have traversed the deep in all directions and found no Hesiod's islands of the blessed. The Mohammedan's celestial debauchery and the Indian's eternal hunting ground for vast multitudes have no charm. But here rolls in the Bible heaven. No more sea—that is, no wide separation. No more night—that is, no insomnia. No more tears—that is, no heartbreak. No more pain—that is, dismissal of lancet and bitter draft and miasma and banishment of ueuralgias and catalepsies and consumptions. All colors iu the wall except gloomy black. All the music in tho major key because celebrative and jubilant.
River crystalline, gate crystalline and skies crystalline because everything is clear and without doubt. White robes, and that means sinlessness. Vials full of odors, and that means pure regalement of the senses? Rainbow, and that means tho storm is over. Marriage supper, and that means gladdest festivity. Twelve manner of fruits, and that means luscious .and unending variety. Harp, trumpet, grand- march, anthem, amen and halleluiah 1n the same orchestra ^Choral meeting solo, and overture meeting antiplion, and strophe joining dithyramb, 'as they roll into the ooean of dosologies. 'And you and I may have all that, and have it forever through Christ if we will let him with the blood of one wounded hand rub out our sin, and with the other wounded hand swing open the shining portals.
Think, Talk, Itawam.
Day and night keep yonr window opera toward'that Jerusalem. Sing about it. Pray about it. Think about it. Talk about it. Dream about it. Dp not be to*
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gone into it Do not worry if something in your heart indicates that you are not far off from its ecstasies. Do not think th?fc when a Christian dies he stops, for He goes on.
An ingenious man has taken the heavenly furlongs as mentioned in Revelation and has calculated that there wili be in heaven 100 rooms 18 feet square for fetch ascending soul, though this 'World should lose 100,000,000 yearly. Efcit all the rooms of heaven will be owe,' for they are family rooms, and as ng room in your house is too good for your children, so all the rooms of all the places of the heavenly Jerusalem will be free to God's children, and even the throneroom will not be denied, and you may run up the steps of the throng, and put your hand on the side of the throne, and sit down beside the King according to the promise, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne."
But you cannot go in except as oonquerors. Many years ago the Turks and Christians were in battle, and the Christians were defeated, and with their commander Stephen fled toward a fortress where the mother of this commander was staying. When she saw her son and his army in disgraceful retreat, she had, the gates of the fortress rolled shut, and then from the top of the battlement ci^ied out to her son, "You cannot entei here except as conqueror." Then Stephen rallied his forces and resumed thd battle and gained the day, 20,000 driving back 200,000. For those who are defeated in battle with sin and death and hell nothing but shame and contempt, but for those who gain the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ the gates of the new Jerusalem .will hbist, and there shall be an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Load, toward Whidh jtiu do well toinep year window
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September
Xs a splendid month in which to visit the Yellowstone Park. 55hut up your house and take your wife and family to the Park. Have .the greatest outuig you ever will liHV'e Two weeks in tbat mountain region, with snch scenery, will do more to re-invigora,te von than anything else you can do. Send Chas. S. Fee, general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific
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