REY. DR. TALMAGE
The Eminent Washington Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Was the Subject
of the Minister's Discourse, and It Was
Delivered Before the Chautauqua at
Beatrice, Neb.—An Eloquent Tribute.
Text: “What wilt thou, Queen Esther?”
~Esther v., 8.
This question which was asked of a queen
thousands of years ago, all otvilized nie
Hons are this day asking of Queen Victoria,
“What wilt thou have of honor, of reward
or reverence or service, of national and in-
ternational acclamation? What wilt thou,
the queen of the nineteenth century?”
The seven miles of procession through the
streets of London will be a small part of
the congratulatory procession whose mul-
titudinous tramp will encircle the earth,
‘he ecelebrative thems that will sound
ap from Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's
sathedral in London will be less than the
vibration of one harp string as compared
with the d«
from all tions in praise to God for the
oldest queen amid many centuries,
b o'clock of the morning of 1837,
Archbishop rbury
smbarrassed and ping and almost af-
righted girl of eighteen years with the
startling words, ‘“‘your majesty," until this
sixtieth anniversary of her enthronement,
the praver « Il good people on all sides of
43, whet rayer be offered by
0 030 000 jects or the larger
of millio not
ther that prayer be golemnized in
| from great orchestras
bands from fort
when the
of
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church or rolled
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{ this queen at the
amas which
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f cause of cone
of God has
14 1 # has not been
ck at all. We hs n told over and
over again what has occurred the Victo-
rianera., Then itiest thin ‘ de
has beer ] nored, w sh
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the th
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doos Bhak
hymns of Horatio Bonar
does Byron's “Corsair.” 8h
ingly admitted into her |
man or dissolute w
guished novelists
rima donnas
recause they ware
ing centuries of cannot
advantages of having had sixty of
Christian womanhood enthrone the
palaces of England, Compare her eourt
surroundings with what were the eo
surroundings in the time of Henry VIII.
or what were the court surro
in the time of Napoleon, in the time of Louis
XV1.. in the times of mon and women whose
of he
she
she h
COM
time
ciety, Alas! for the reveiries, and the worse
than Belshazzar feasts, and the more than
Herodian dances, and the scenes from
which the weil must not be lifted. You
need, however, in order to appreciate the
purity and virtuous splendor of Victoria's
reign to contrast it somewhat with
gehennas and the pandemoniums of many
of the throne rooms of the past and some
of the thronerooms of the present, I eall
the roll of the queens of the earth, not that
I would have them come up or come back,
but that I may make them the background
of a picture in which I can better present
the present septuagenarian, 80 soon to be
an octogenarian, now on the throne of Eng-
land, her example so thoroughly on the
right side that all the scandal mongers in
ali the nations in six decades have not
been able to manufacture an evil suspicion
in regard to her that could be made to
stick; Maria of Portugal, Isabella and
Eleanor and Joanna of Spain, Catherine of
Russia, Mary of Scotland, Maria Theresa of
Gormany, Marie Antoinette of France and
all the queens of England, as Miss Strick-
land has put them before us in her charm-
ing twelve volumes, and while some queen
may surpass our modern queen in learning,
and another in attractiveness of feature,
and another in gracefulness of form, and
another in romance of history, Victoria
surpasses them all in nobility and grandeur
and thoroughness of Christian character, I
bail her, the Christian daughter, the Chris-
tian wife, the Christian mother, the Chris
tian Queen, and let the church of God and
all benign and gracious institutions the
world over ery out, as they come with
music and bannered host, and million
voiced huzza, and the benedictions of
earth and neaven, “What wiit thou,Queen
Esther?”
Another thing I call to your attention in
this {llustrious woman's career {8 that she
is a specimen of high life uncorrupted.
Would she have lived to celebrate the six.
tieth anniversary of her coronation and the
seventy-elghth anniversary of her birthday
| had she not been an example of good prin-
oiples and good habits? While there have
been bad men and women in exalted station
and humble station who have carried their
vices clear into the seventies and eighties,
and even the nineties of their lifetime, such
persons are very rare, The majority of the
vicious die in thelr thirties, and fewer reach
the forties, and they are exceedingly scarce
in the fifties. Longevity has not been the
characteristic of the most of those who
have reached high places in that or this
country. In many cases their wealth
leads them into Indulgence, or their
honors ma'e them reckless, or thelr op-
portunities of doing wrong are multi-
plied into the overwhelming, and it is
as true now as when the Bible first pre.
sented it, “The wicked live not out half
their days." Longevity is not a positive
| proof of goodness, but it is prima facie evi-
{| dence in that direction. A lo life has
{ killed hundreds of eminent Americans, #A
| loose life is now killihg hundreds of emi-
{ nent Americans and Europeans. The doe-
tors are very kind and the certifleate given
after the distinguished man of dissipation
{ is dead, says, “Died of congestion of the
| brain,” although it was delirium tremens,
lor “Died of cirrhosis of the liver,” al-
{though it was a round of lbertinisam,
jor “Died of heart failure,” although it
| was the vengeance of outraged law
{ slew him, Thanks, doctor, for you are
| right in saving the feellugs of the bereft
th by not being more
Ho
usebold spocifie,
and sde one who has been
{ temptations which wealth a
{| the secret places of palaces cou
and yet next Tuesday she wili vide al
the presence of 7,000,000 people, {f the
| got within sight of her chariot. in the vigor
{ that have surrounded her for seventy-eight
{ yoars than is the plain country woman
i come down from her mountain home
| oxcart to attend the Saturday marketing,
{| I believe more people die of improj
eating than die of strong drink, The forn
auses no delirfum or violence and w
{ more gradually, but none the less fatally
{ Quean Vietoria's habits, ssif-denyin 1
almost ascetic, under a good Provi
account for her magnificent longevity.
may be a homely le n for a sexags
{ anniversary in British palaces, bu
{ worth all the ns f
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in Great Britain.
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and Weyler,
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ts
; as proof that an may be
ally dominant and prosperity reign
he queen, whether now on the
throne in Buckingham palace some
come in American Wi
But as all
te Ho
lenied attend
anniversary yaation 1
ga
of us will be
sixtieth
ance
oo
nation, but to a coronation itself--aye, to
Brought up as we are, to |
as no other form of government that |
ia repu wn and democratic, we,
iving on this side of the sea, cannot so
which all up and down the Bible you
nd I are urgently invited, Some of you
have such morbid ideas of religion that
a dark
flagellation, when, so far from a dark oel. |
lar, it is a palace and instead of a barren
common it is a garden, atoss with the
bowed, and instead of flagellation ft is
ing one whose ¢| gtieth anniversary is now
being celebrated
It was a great uay when, about an eighth
of a mile from the gate of Jerusalem, un-
der a sky pallid with thickest darkness,
and on a mountain trammeled of earth.
quake, and thes air on fire with the bias.
phemies of a mob, a crown of spikes was
put upon the pallid and agonized brow of
our Jesus, But that particular coronation,
amid tears and blood and groans and shiv.
ing ecataciysma, made your own corona.
tion possible, Paul was not a man to lose
his equilibrium, but when that old mis-
sionary, with crooked back and in.
flamed eyes, got a glimpse of the erown
coming to him, apd coming to you, if you
will by repentance and faith accept it, he
went into ecstasles, and his poor eyes
flashed and his epooked back straightened
as he eried to Timothy, “There is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness,” and to
the Corinthians, '“These athletes run to
‘obtain a corruptible, we an incorruptible,’
crown.” nd to the Thessalonians he
speaks of “the erown of glory,” and to the
Philippians he says, "My joy and crown.”
The apostle Peter catches the inspira.
tion and cries out, “Ye shall receive a
erown of glory that fadeth not away,”
and St. John joins in the rapture and says,
“Faithful to death, and I will give thee sn
'erown of life,” and elsewhere exclaims,
“Hold fast that no man take thy crown.™
Crowns, crowns, crowns! You did not ex.
pect in coming here to-day to be invited to
a coronation. You ean scarcely believe
vour own ears, but in the name of a pare
doning God and a sacrificing Christ and an
omnipotent Holy Spirit and a triumphant
heaven I offer ench one a crown for the ask.
ing. Crowns, crowns! How to get the
erown? The way Vietorin got her crown,
on her knees, Although eight duch-
esses and marquises, all in cloth of
silver, earried her train, and the win.
dows and arches and roof of the abbey
shook with the “Te Deum” of the organ in
full diapason, she had to kneel, she had to
come down, To get the crown of pardon
and eternal life, you will have to kneel, you
will have to come down. Yea, History
says that at her coronation not only the en-
tire asssembly wept with profound emo-
tion, but Vietoria was {n tears. Bo you will
have to have your dry eyes moistened with
tears, in your case tears of repentance, tears
of joy, tears of coronation, and you will feel
like erving out with Jeremiah, “Oh, that
my head were waters and mine eyes fount-
ains of tears.”
In all the ages of time noone ever had
such a hard time as Christ while he was
on earth. Brambles for His brow, expec.
torations for His cheek, whips for His back,
spears for His side, spikes for His feet,
sontumaly for His name, and even {n our
time how many say He is no Christ at all,
and there are tens of thousands of hands
trying to push Him back and keep Him
down. But, oh, the human and satanic
impotency! Can a spider stop an albatross?
Can the hole which the toy shovel ofa
shild digas in the sand at Cape May
swallow the Atlantic? Can the breath of
| a summer fan drive back the Mediterranean
| Yes, when all the combined
} Ad hell ean keep Christ
throne of universal
vid the psalmist foresaw
yi and cried out in regard to
Messiah, “Upon Himself shall His
| crown flourish.” From the cave of black
{ basalt St. John foresaw it and cried, ‘On
| His head were many crowns.” Now do not
| miss the benuty of that figure, There is
| no room n any head for more than
| ]
crown of silver, gold or diamond,
hen what does the book’ mean when it
His head were many crowns?”
ans twisted and enwreathed
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LOST FLESH, GAINED STRENGTH,
Cavalrymen Live on Emergency Rations
for Ten Days.
| Charles Smart of the medical de.
yf the army has just returned to
nm from a trip, during which
o very successful experiments with
goeney ration. He accompanied
Captain O. J. Brown of the First Cavalry
and forty-four cavalrymen on a march of
210 miles, They left Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
May 17, subsisted on full rations two days,
and then for ten days depended solely on
the emergency ration, consisting of eight
ounces hard bread, five ounces bacon, two
ounces pea meal, one ounce coffee, one tab.
let saccharine, one-fourth ounce tobacco
and portions of sait and pepper.
The party traveled about twenty-one
miles a day, during whieh time the weather
waa pleasant, except for two days, when it
rained. At the oy. of the expedition the
men had lost on an average of three pounds
weight, but tests with the dynamometer
showed an average increase of forty pounds
in strength.
Another party of ten cavalrymen under
Lieutenant W, H. Osborne, First Cavalry,
with pack mules, traveled the same distance
in the same time by parallel liaes with full
rations. These mon Jost an average of 1 1-3
pounds per man in weight, owing to the
change from garrison life, Roads were
avoided, directions being ascertained by
compass, Colonel Smart will make an ex-
tended report of the experiments to the sur.
geon general,
he mad
the emer
AIRSHIP BURSTS OVER BERLIN,
Fired by an Explosion of Benzine and the
Occupants Killed,
Herr Woolfert, an aeronaut, accompanied
by a mechanic named Knabe, made an ex.
perimental ascent in a so-called steering
airship from the Tempelhof! Common, Ber.
lin, Germany, When the balloon, which
had been filled at the military baliconing
establishment, had reached a height of
8000 feet, a loud explosion was heard, and
the next moment the balloon was seen to
be ablaze, The car, which was also on fire
detached itself trom the burning silk and
fell with fearful rapidity to the ground,
Both of ita occupants were found to be
dead, Their bodies were horribly burned,
It appears that the benszine used in the
stouring gear motor exploded, causing the
Towa's Costly Epizootie,
of the Auditor of the State show
FARM AND GARDEN.
[tems of Interest on Agricultural
Topics.
Plowing Prevents
Cround Hogs for Food=Ventilation of
Forse Stables, Etc, Etc.
PLOWING PREVENTS DROUGHT
It will be found that while the saci
is kept loose by plowing and cultiva
tion its capacity for
holding water is much
where it is
and
and
than
every
al sorbing
greater
Thus
must be
1¢ glected
growth
scrupulously kept down, as everything
that
moisture from the soil
the upper
oil to meet
however, th
foor or mo
tation
weed surplus
drawing
If we ci
and lower moisture
the battle
HrOwWs 1s constantly
sl get
in the
If,
iger, a well J
armer of near Duvall
Ky
rer
AK
captured
through
Reporis
that hog cholera cost Iowa $23,000,000 last
year.
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the cause o
age of the
prime at fq
from hens
Ur years age, and
thant
stronger
from pullets.
of
are not too fat wi
1 5
CHICKS
The 1
duce the og
than
oultry Keeper
CLAY SOIL FOR PEARS
Sand that contains too much clay to}
profitably worked may made
profitable for growing pears if itis!
made free from surplus moisture. It
better to dig the drains deep on |
such land, at least three feet, if suffi-
cient outlet can be obtained, But as
the clay may at first be impervious to
water, the underdrains shonld be filled
with amall to within twelve or
fifteen inches of the surface. Then
the soil will be gradually deepened by
freezing, and the pear roots will go
down to the depth of the underdrain.
The result will be that these deep
rooted pear trees will be much less |
liable to the sudden changes of tem
perature which cause blight in pear
trees in shallow soil whose roots run
near the surface and are subject to
frequent alternations of temperature.
Besides, the clay soil almost always |
contains the mineral plant food that |
the pear tree requires, and which |
anderdraining makes available. Yet |
even on clay soils wherever pears are |
grown, heavy applications of potash
and phosphate are always advisable.
be he
in
stone
THE SHEEP'S FOOT.
The foot is a tender part of the!
sheep. It is different from that of any |
hoofed animal, the manner or growth |
of the horn. The crust of the hoof |
rows downwards, it is true, but it |
loes not stop at the junction of the |
ole. On the contrary, st turns under |
| the sole, thus making a receptacle
collection of
gravel and other matters th
It is i
i
the sand, mud
int
| minchief Tithe i
{
OF His
and hav
| opening between the two for
{ lection of all
says the Kansas Farmer
How would the
compelled
sub it tooth
hepher
for weeks and
unpleasant
precisely
feeding on its knees,
about in the pas
standing stupidly in
head
flies
i with Its down
pestiient
Manis are
t s prodnce
the season, and, naturally,
wants are mor
tention. Perhaps, on reflection, that
will not hh service
farther north than this, though among
Teas will fonnd much
hardier than others France re-
quires no protection neither
does Auguste Gui the alleged
are other
Haualiy
ner apt to receive at
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be
be
La
here;
some
1018s ean0
There
the most interesting and promising
one is the comparatively new Kaiserin
Augusta: ten plants which came
This variety pro-
duces an abundance of handsome white
POULTRY YARD HINTS,
Keep the premises and sur-
roundings clean and free from rub-
ing places.
Do not trust the cat where there are
young chickens. The only safe cat
around the poultry yard is a dead eat,
and even then be sure it is the cat's
ninth demise.
i
their main diot, Growing chicks
$
quire a greatly varied diet and space
LO exercise
JLINARY PHILOLOCIST,
ne Words Used in
Cining.
oom and Kitchen
orce 1m
, the first
1 1areie,
gumbo 1s
waffle
OWI AS pOrgy in New
in New ; England was
the
syllable
booker the
into a dissy ils
are the origina
have a 1
taking the
slower Knicker-
which he made
Tomato and potato
ndian names, which
: se given by the
coverers of the esen-
The old English
th-apple and
by
h
early Eng
lents mentioned
DAME" were love.
apple
Fritters from the Italian or
Spanish fritas, meaning fried things;
curry is taken from the Tamil kari, or
| the Malabar “‘kurri,” which means a
stone used for grating, Where we
employ a metal grater the Hindus nse
a strong sandstone for the same pur-
pose. On this they rnb their spices,
such as nutmeg, turmeric, cardamon
seeds, cinnamon, cloves and ginger,
which are the chief ingredients of the
| so-called enrry powder, and which are
{ the main characteristics of all dishes
| belonging to the curried class. Ta
male comes from Mexice and is
claimed to be of Aztec and also of
| Maya origin. Grill is derived from
{the old Celtic grid, which reappears
(in our familiar term, gridiron. Ash
i eake does not come from the Southern
| States, but from ancient times in
| Great Britain, when all people restrict-
| ed their bread making to baking mix-
| tures of flour or meal and water and
‘salt in the ashes upon fast days and
| days of penance,
Cal
Calne
with your young chicks if they are
! In the last ten years the municipal
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