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VOL, 34.
OKOLONA, MISS., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22, 1906.
NO. 31.
THE NEBRASKA LION."
Written for this paper by Col. J. S. Felter, of Springfield, Illinois.
ND be shall come up as a lion oat
of the swelling of Jordan. And
behold the lion ie here. Bat the
people have seen the lion rise' to
the surface on two -former occa
sions, and also disappear to rise
again. The last rise was to be a
flying roll and shoot around the
world to dazzles the gaze of the
waiting expectations of the sanctified a rehabilita
tion and animation to the -glorification of the de
spondent spirits of a decayed appetite.
Nebraska fusionist, Kansas confusioniat and
Cleveland ohtruaioniat should unite as one, and
stand in the last days before the meteor and wor
ship the lion at the cross of a dead Demoeracy.
Selah! ' v
The lion heard the whelps' cry and roared, and
the whelps knew his voice, and straightway, sought
oat his coming and going and planned a feast. They
hope to meet again.' Bat this time tbey (the
whelps) passed by the cross with its silver lining;
for they had traveled that way before, and their feet
were sore from the thistles and cacti on the plains
of the West. Moreover, tbey bad lost their way
and went toward the desert, and so they (the
whelps) took council among themselves and resolved
to take a batb, and meet the flying roll and cage
the lion as it arose to the surface of the waters of
regeneration. Selah 1
Tbey (the whelps) are filled with hot air. Their
stomachs have been empty for a long time, and the
hope of a square meal makes the feast essential to
their being, for there is no other lion they (the
whelps) do believe.
Now, in the last days of the prophecy, one who
opened the roll thought he understood the sayings
written therein, and straightway assembled the en
ter rifled saints that he might make known to all the
Bare fulfillment; and when they bad assembled, and
order was restored, arose and stretched forth his
hand, and spake unto them, saying: "Behold! the
child of destiny ie here, elad in the shining gar
ments of victory, to lead the onterrified sons of the
sonny Sooth from the worship of the golden calf."
He has passed from the Jordan, whose banks
were of silver and gold, and left behind him the
money craze. He lias winged around the world,
and broadened his mental horizon and enlarged his
statesmanship. He has become Bate and sane. He
Is absolutely free from former Popolistic tendencies,
and the mosey monopolist will contribute to do him
honor. Now, therefore, brethren, let us hasten to
seize the hem of bis garment that we may be filled.
But where the sons of God meet there the devil
1b also. And there rose one among them, saying:
"How can these things be written in the rollt for is
It not' written, 'His servants ye are whom ye obey;'
and if the money monopoly contribute to the lion'
victory, how can one lion be greater tban a Mot.
owned and trained by the same master to do his will! "
Now it was that a division was likely to arise,
and the chairman declared the speaker ont of order,
the chairman saying it was not a time to quibble
over money matters, for the time bad come for prac
tical work. Our faith has been of long standing
and our wants many; onr hearts are faint and oar
stomach empty, and we mast have office at any
price, or we perish; and the conference committee
Hhooted, "You bet!" Selah 1
And straightway an order went forth calling the
hopefuls from Oyster Bay to Buzzard's Roost to
assemble at the river and behold atsd honor the Ne
braska liooi ; Tom Want Something,
Chairman Committee on Necessities.
gese, or, in fact, any language, are those who are
most directly in touch with English the merchants,
shippers, teachers, clergymen, travelers and mem
bers of the diplomatic corps. 'Many of these have a
fair knowledge of English, and that language is in
most instances the medium of commercial relations.
Its adaptability to the needs of commerce and sci
ence, its elasticity, virility and directness, aa com
pared with Spanish, makes English the language of
the trader. -
Two hundred yearn ago English was spoken by
hardly anyone outside of the British islands and a
comparatively small area in North America. In
1895 it was estimated that it was spokeu by 124,-
130,000 persons, or nearly one-tenth of the earth's
inhabitants. "
Despite the Mexican laws requiring that the ac
counts and records of corporations be kept in Span
ish, and that railway employes be able to speak that
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
Written for this paper by Edward S- Wilson, of Springfield, Ills
Have a time and place to pray,
And read the Bible every day.
HE Bible, first and last. The Bible
the end of the controversy. The
Bible in the hands of superintend
ent, teachers and scholars, Fre
empt the early morning hours for
God. as vou read and meditate
upon the holy Scriptures.
Promptness in your attendance and in your serv
ice for the Lord in the Sunday-school indicates
nrenaration. Plan dan for the Lord's work as
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"en do yoar own.
Rnndav arhool saDerintendent. teacher, be at
ieaet as finished in your preparation to superintend
or to teach as you would be in the preparation of an
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THE PAN-AMERICAN LANGUAGE.
In naming a suburban station near Bio de Janeiro
in honor of Secretary Boot, Brazil gives further evi
dence of the' rapid expansion of the EDglish lan
guage. It is likely that the native pronunciation of
Mr. Boot's name will wholly conceal its origin, bat
it will remain as a sort of milestone on the road
which English is traveling Southward.
In the Latin-American countries beyond the
Bio Grande are fully 50,000,000 persons whose offi
cial language, at least, is either Spanish or Portu
gese, though the actual number speaking these
tongues is ptobably not greater tban one-half the
population. . -
Those who read and write Spanish and Porta-
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See America First.
There's a newer game been tarted
Than the newest game you know;
It will change all routes of travel ,
And will stop the outward flow
Of our money, df pur dollars;
It's a game thatjBhould be nursed,
And the people interested
Call it "See your country first."
You sigh f,or soft Italian skies?
This country has as fair.
You sigh for Alpine summits?
Alpine summits can't compare
With the grand peaks of the Rockies,
Whose grand summits rise and burst
On your senses like a vision!
. You should see your country first.
Have you been to Colorado?
Have you done a giant swing
Through the canyons, up the mountains?
Have you ever seen a thing
To compare with our own montains?
Why, when they, are at their worst
They beat any place in Europe!
You should see your country first.
And our Colorado canOn
Tourists certainly are blind
When they rush away to Europe
Leaving that, unseen, behind.
Farther west are the Sierras,
With their golden treasure pursed;
Show good sense, be patriotic, '
Wait and see your country first.
We have taller, grander mountains,
We bavH deeper canyons, too;
We have girls whose wondrods beauty
Will far more appeal to you
Than the girls of any country:
Irish Nora? French Elise?
Nay, beside our laughing2 maidens
What to you are all of these?
J. M. Lewis in Houston (Tex.) Post.
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language, English has made rapid advances in our
nearest southern neighbor. There, are English
newspapers and clubs and rborches and schools in
Mexico. Mexicans themselves are preferring Eng
lish to other foreign languages. The Panama strip
is a sort of kindergarten among the Central' Ameri
can countries to enable their people to learn Eng
lish. From Panama, it may be taken for granl3l
English will spread north and south until both u.v
tinents are leavened with ja knowledge of it. Wlia.
ever we find trade we will speak English; 'and wo
are finding trade everywhere in South and Cent..;
America.
Americans and Englishmen are not linguists.
Tbey do not generally learn another nation's lan
guage. We mispronounce the Spanish names
shorten them, translate them and corrupt them Into
fair English. We are doing that in South and Cen
tral America and Mexico. It won't be long until
we shall force the natives to speak our tor-rue in
sheer self-defense; for English thrives in t!l lati
tudes and under any sky.
Grecian sculpture for a worldly reading
essay on
circle.
If you can compass sea and land to famish pab
ulum for a worldly gathering, and can find no time
and have so inclination to search the Scriptures and
fi voursell to teach the Word of God to the neglect
( .. children in your neighborhood, call op yoar in
consistency when next you break b'read in memory
c! your dying Lord. ' .
On time for the railroad train, on time for the
lecture, on time to the minute for a swell supper, on
time for the show or the concert, and a constitution
al laggard in the, Lord's work at the Sunday-school
on the Lord's day, suggests a heart out of harmony
with God, your Christianity a mere gauzy profes
sion, which will not stand in the great day Take
heed that you prefer not the praise of men, lest al
ready you be found onder the condemnation of the
devil. '
Did you ever think that yon mast meet the results
of your neglected opportunities in etcrhity--per-haps
in timet Think of the contamination of that
sweet boy or girl of yours, superinduced and made
possible by your very neglect; your failure with
your own neighbors and their neglected ones neg
lected while you esteem yourself safe and absolute
ly secure; neglected while you visit; neglected
while you sleep; neglected while you read trashy
novels; neglected while yon seek your own pleasure;;
and think of your neglect breeding a very cesspool
at your own door to fester and pollute, and which
may engulf the children of your neighl Mi together
with your own.
The home department of the Sundt-iMhool se
cures a channel and famishes an incentive for the
study of the Word of God to the sbut-ina and the
shut-outs, beeps them in touch with the Sunday
school as a multiplied source of blessing, brings a
knowledge of the Word to thousands of fathers and
mothers who totally neglect the only book worth
studying, besides securing tbe enrollment of many
names upon tbe roll, together with their attendance
upon the Sunday-school proper, otherwise apparent
ly beyond reach, resulting finally and blessedly ln
the salvation of many.
Systematic and persistent daily study of the
Word of God, to the exclusion of much of the trashy
literature, is he principal safeguard against world- a
ly-mindedness and error in all forma. Searching,,
reading and meditating upon the Scriptures is of
more value than prayer, for the reason that God
speaking to man is of more valae than man speak
ing to God. This is a sufficient incentive to be
much with the word; with it in the early morning:
hoar; with it in starting the day; with it as the
man of yoar counsel for all the day; with it as an
anchor to the soul in the midst of a turbulent sea of
doubt and uncertainty, in tbe midst of winds and
waves of error which beat upon the head, otherwise'
unsheltered and unprotected.
Giving (scriptural giving) needs to be taught
and exemplified by the teacher In the Sunday-Bchool.
It needs to be inwrought into tbe very innermost
fiber of the child. The rale finds the ordinary influ
ence of the home against better giving; the home
not dominated by the Bible has no principle which
commends itself to a Bible taught man or woman on
tbe question of giving. .
Tbe riBing generation, the boys and girls of to
day, must employ a better gaoge if tbey want to
take a place in advance of their fathers and moth-
ers; ana unless iney ao tnis, maca 01 Diessing is-
6st to them. The example in many Christian
homes on tbe question of giving to tbe Lord is un
qualifiedly bad.
Two eyes and two ears and yet it is said than
eighty, per cent, of impreBsion made is through the
eye-gate. Sometimes the ear is dull, the eye rarely.
Use in yoar teaching that which will catch the eye.
Yon cannot always tell the effect on the face by what
s received throngh the ear-gate, but the face often
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expresses wnat tne eye catcnes, ana ine xessonv
earned is more readily seen. Use tbe eye when-
ever you can as tne most potent coannei 10 iao
brain and to Impressibility.
Springfleld, III., Aug. 18, 1908.
As a matter of courtesy there would have beem
no objection to Spain acting as a peacemaker do
tween Guatemala and Salvador, but she wasn't onr
hand in time with ber archives. When it somes to-
keeping tbe peace, or making it, among bis neigh
bors in this hemisphere, Uncle Sam has found his
neutrhl warships quite effective, and vastly more
expeditions than archives. The peace negotiated
by our little neighbors of Central America on an.
American gun carriage will prove just s lasting as
if it. bad been settled' by pourparler -Spanish
palace. .
Two eons of M. Hyasbi, a wealthy t' of Tokicr,'
are in the United 8tates to study our methods of
breeding fast horseB so tbat their father may estab
lish a fine stud at borne. They want to improve tbev
Oriental races, no doobt.
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, Mr. Rockefeller's home-coming doubtless will be
gladdened by tbe announcement that the Mexican
Central railroad has decided to fire its 400 engines
with petroleum.
Never hitamanwhen.be is down. Give hlnx
your best licks when yon down him.