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Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-18
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Crochet Spreads at 4sc. 55c, $50 and 800.
Marseilles Spreads at s1.49, S2.25 and
$500.
q Fringed Spreads a t$1.eo, $3.50. $3.50 and
$500.
Tapestry Table Covers at 46c, 75c. $1.OO.
$3.50 up to $500.
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The Newtown bee., 1898-02-18
tation of that chapter means anything, it

tation Of that chapter mesps anything, it
means to
TEACH HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY
for sin. 1t Is your sin and it lie mine.
We cannot charge it upon Adam. There
Is strong tendency to sin inherent in
the human race, but Adam wss not the
guil,iess man yet born. We csnnot
charge it upon the body. The body is
the theatre for sims operation, but it
does not cause sin. We are always to
have some scrt of body, and we shs Il be
free from ain some day. We cannot
charge it upon evolution. 1t is not nee
essary part of our moral infancy, nor
can it be fibered into the development OF
the race. We cannot charge it upon en-
vironment. Institutions are what men
make them; environment depends upon
the character of the men who live around
you.
Sln Is individual. You are responsible
for yours, sid sun responsible for mine.
And did not preach, as believe, that
mother, patient, loving, noble though
she is, devoted to her family, lie yet, il
unpsrdoned for her sin, in danger of tie
Judgment, and father, the very emblem
Of honor though he is, working early and
late for those he loves, is yet, il uupar-
doned for his sin, in danger of the judg-
ment, ought to quit this place. Sin
invites destruction. Sin makes a cripple.
Sin defiss and dishonors God. Sin is a
liar. Sin is murderer. Kill it, or it
VII kill you.
The Newtown bee., 1898-02-18
The Home Circle.
A QUIET MIED.

have treasure which prize
It's like cannot find;
There's nothing like it on the earth;
"Tis thls-a quiet mind.
But tits not that I'm stupehed,
Or senseless, dull or blind;
IT'S Gods own peace within my heart,
Which forms my quiet mind.
found this treasure at the Gloss,
And there, to every Kind
OF weary, heavy laden souls,
en- rlst gives quiet mind.
MY saviour's death and risen life,
To give it were designed;
HI love, the never. failing spring
OF this. my quiet mind.
The love OF God within my breast,
My heart to him doth bind;
This Is tho peace OF h aven on earth
This is my quiet mind.
I've many a cross to take up now,
And many left behind;
But present troubles move me not,
Nor shake my quiet mind.
And what may be to-mOrrow's cross,
never seek to find;
M Saviour says, Leave that to me.
And keen a quiet mind"
Ard well know the Lord hath said,
To make my heart resigned,
That mercy still shall follow those
Who have this quiet mind.
meet with pride of wit and wealth,
And scorn, and looks unBi ind;
II nRtters not-I envy none,
While I've quiet mind.
I'm waiting now to see my Lord,
So pRtie't and 80 kind;
want to thank Him face to face,
For this my quiet mind.-[selected.
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WtoAS anu WEonk rikut. ON W0alo
make RIGHTEOUSNESS rightful enjoyment,
larceny Admirable behavior, and would
give murder the sanction of ali.
''sIN IS MORAL SUICIDE;
sin is moral frstricide; sin 10 moral
regicide." Sin conld not accomplish its
perfect work until God was overthrown.
And by sin do not alone mean open
handed villainy ,Istartling crime, sutra-
geous wrong. 1 mean sin, every sin, the
small sins that creep into polite society,
''the little foxes that spoil the vines, 'the
trihing sins Of word and look and
thought, the sins that you and ] are
guilty of from week to week, and which
should lead as to come into Gods house
on the Sabbath day and humbly cry to
God for pardon. Calling 8 thing by va
rious names does not alter It's nature.
The essence Of all sin is the same; it is
selfishness.
Sin inflicts injury upon others. Some
times would to God that it were not !;
but "no man liveth unto himself, and no
man dieth INTO himself here. Society
is complex affair; when ne suff rs, all
suffer. The boy gets tired of "being
tied to his mothers apror-strings; he
chafes under the restraints of home. He
wants the steering of his own career; he
wants the mapping out of his own ways.
He wants to 60 from home, and he goes.
He falls into bad company. He aquan-
ders the little patrimony that was given
him. He drinks the cup of dissipation
until he gets down to the very dregs.
He eats the corn Of plenty until the bare
husks are in his hands. Then he comes
to himself. He recognizes that he is q
fool. He starts for home. Behold, the
parable of the Prodigsl Son Illustrated
for the thouss nd-thousandth time. Re-
turning home, he is forgiven-of course.
He 10 met with the kiss OF love. The
feast and the song md the robe and the
shoes and the ring are there. But,
through grief for the Maynard boy, the
fathers form is bent. Can the return of
the son make the father the proud man
he used to be? But, through grief for
the maynard boy, the mother long since
went to her grave. Who shall call her
back to lief Sin infiicts injury upon
others. Witness, ye sobs CHAT break the
stiffness Of the night. Witness, bleed
ing heart.
Sin, we speak OF 1t so lightly to-day
that it might be thought it hardly had
any reality at all; but the Bible plainly
shows that holiness Ia Gods greatest
desire for men. The revelation of Him
self to Abraham, as assurance that His
piouisC VA oiCsehS ~ooA0 uCs A1ihtACos
was the name, 81 am the Almigh y"
The revelation of Himself to Moses, that
the people might know that God had
sent him to lead them, was the name, 81
am" But the higher revelation OF God
came through the prophets, who, over
and over again, speak OF Rim as ssthe
holy One of Israel" When Christ swept
the cobwebs away from the Mosaic law
to divulge it's true meaning, He showed
that heart religion was the create st thing.
Only the pure In heart are to see God.
Sin Ia as universal as the human race,
and yet it is an individual thing. have
read the third chapter Of Genesis to you
this morning. II the pictorial represen-
The Newtown bee., 1898-02-18
WITNESS THE sOT.

Witness the debauchee. The third
of these three words means ssto
break or crush,'' and that IL
just what the sinner docs through sin.
The sinner Ia his own enemy. He In
vites destruction. He digs his OWE
grave. He destroys his own soul. He
breaks and crushes the fair thing, the
soul, just as the beautiful vase Ia broken
and crushed by the hammers blow.
Talk about the responsibility of the
captain Of the vessel, the responsibility
Of the iagman at the switch, entrusted,
as they are, with the charge OF precious
lives. Their responsibility. great IS it
is, Is hardly to be compared with yours
and mine. Into our keeping is given the
care OF time, the minutes, each golden
minute the mears fer blessing or for
woe, flying 30 swiftly by, like bubble
bursting in the touching, waiting not
for us to use il, halting not that our
dormant powers may waken. Into or
keeping 10 given the care OF the sum OF
all the moments, life. one life only to
live, the preparatory school there OF the
real, true life, life that il thrown
away all il forever lost, . life
that Il well spent all ID forever
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ago the pride Of its promoters; 1t has
now almost become their shame. The
placing Of such enormous powers In the
hands of Tammany not long ago caused
many to shudder at the thought of it :;
the thing accomplished is now regarded
as good joke. Well may Mr. Bryce
have said in his American Common
wealth" that the government of our
great cities was the greatest danger our
institutions had to face. What is our
United States Senate to-day? Is it not
far too largely the plaything in the hands
of millioDairea, the door through which
they buy their way TO fameP Goo
knows / ana not 8 pes simist. I sin
cerely believe that slowly and
surely the world, under Gods
guidance, is moving on to the COM
plete triumph of the everlasting.right. 1
believe that under Christ's feet all His
enemies are to be put and the diadems of
all lands are to form the coronal of His
glory. But yet / feel that the note of
warning we ministers should emphatical-
~ preach to-day, because of the signs of
the times, is the real nature Of sin and
its awful conse quences to institutions,
to nations, to men.
The Bible is not silent on the subject of
sin. Twelve words in the Old Testament
describe its character, and three in the
New. All these words may be grouped
into two divisions; what have chosen
as my text shows what these two divi-
sions are, the injury one. infiicts upon
others and the injury one inficts upon
himself. Or the twelve words in the
Old Testament relating to sin, three de-
scribe the injury which, through sin, or e
iDfiicts upon himself. The first of these
three words means "to mics the mark',
and that is what the sinner does through
sin. He fails to become what he ought
to be and should be. God has set high
ideal for man; it is even "the measure
of the stature of the fulness of Christ. .,
God has made man in His own lima ge
and likent IS. God has planned for man
things which eye hath not seen andsear
hath not heard. God has willed that man
be saint and seraph and child of God and
priest and king, and that on his forehead
be engraved the name of the Highest.
But, through sin, man comes short of all
this, falls wide of the mark. The second
of these three words means $50 twist or
make crooked and that just what the
sinner does through sin. God designs
that man shall be straight and upright,
a fair specimen of growth in grace. But
through sin man twists and makes crook
ed his growth. When he should walk
erect morally, he goes limping along,
cripple indeed.
The Newtown bee., 1898-02-18

l seldom 60 to the newspapers to fur
nish theme for our Sunday discourse.
The dark side of life is given such prom
inence there, Ia displayed with such bold
headlines and Is published in such dis
proportion to les value as news, that the
daily press can hardly be said to be much
Of a fountain Of inspiration for holy
thought and for lnoble suggestion. In
deed, IL seems to me that 1t Is becoming
more and more Of problem with the
earnest mind, whether one shouldltry to
read the daily newspaper at all, or, IL Ihe
does, how he can do it so as to get hold
Of that which he wishes TO preserve and
rememb Der, and not that which he ia only
too glad to be relieved OF and to throw
away.
I sav IL Ia seldom that we make quest
in the daily newspapers for the theme of
oar Sunday discourse; but now and then
some case comes mp which interests ev-
cry one, about which everybody gets
talking, and which has so obvious les
son that belongs to the sphere Of the pull
pit, that we can scarcely escape It's treat
ment from the sacred desk. or course
you have All read In the daily press OF
this past week the case of William j.
Qulnlan, cashier OF the Chemical Nation
The Newtown bee., 1898-02-18
Sin Is a Murderer.

THE SERMON PREACHED IN THE NEW
TOWN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SUN
DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1898, BY
THE PASTOR, REV OTIS W. BARKER
GOING TO THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS FOR
A THEME.-THE CASE OF WILLIAM j.
oUINLAN, CASHIER OF THE CHEMICAL
NATIONAL BANK, NEW YoRK.-wHERE
THE CONDENSATION SHOULD FALL.-A
LETrlNG DOWN OF THE BARs.-soUND
NOTE OF wARNNG.-sIN DIGS ITS
OWN GRAyE.-A FEARFUL REEPoNsI,
BILTTY.-THE SCAR OF sIN.-sN Is AN
ANARCHIsT.-''THE LITTLE FOXES
THAT SPOIL THE VINES. THE SINNER
DOES NOT SUFFER- ALoNE.-HoLINEss
cons GREATEST GLoRY.-oHARGE SIN
UPON NO ONE BUT THYsELF.-KILL TIT
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Text, Proverbs $50. "He that sinnetl
against me wrongeth his own soul"
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25
SINGULAR CELEBRATIONS
 AMONG PUEBLO NDAN6$ 0IRAN(lE (7R0 r\A0 (U0IU IUF0 ;
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their calves and beaded moccasins, gen. orally the heirlooms of the family for generations, are on their feet Behind each kilt dangles the skin of a wildcat or a fox. Some of these decorations have been used in these dances for fully century-a few for longer periods. Each male dancer holds a sacred gourd filled with pebbles, like rattle. in one hand and bunch of long eagle feath- CTS in the other.
 The dressing of the women dancers Is more gaudy and generous. Each wears bright red or blue overgown (the manta) reaching from her shoulders to her knees. It is the product. of weeks of labor and planningy with all it's variegated embroidery. From the knees to the ankles are white buck skin affairs like beotlegs, and on the feet are red moccasins embroidered with serpents' heads. A bunch of feath- CTS dyed in red and blue are in one hand and a showy silk handkerchief is in the other. Heavy earrings, a score of bracelets and a row of turquoise and shell necklaces complete the toilet
 The male dancers face the females. thump on the drum and the dancing begins. The chorus by the choir starts in low slow guttural. The feet of all
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

observed in the quaint and very old village of Laguna.
 A town or permanent abode of In- dians is known among them by the Spanish name, pueblo. The pueblo La euna is on the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, in Western New Mexico, seventy-five miles southwest from Albuquerque. The blase globe trotter who sails seas, and travels abroad to live amid unique phases of life. or to study the extraordinary so cial conditions, will find more than enough to interest him out among these sunbaked mesas, homes of cliff dwell ers-ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and towering mountains of granite of the Southwestern Territories. Laguna has A history dating back at least century before CorteZ. Isleta and La gl1na were old towns when Coronado made his march to conquest In the Southwest in 1540. Several stone houses in the pueblo have been occupied by the descendants of thH' came 'F4milv Cor about 250 yecrs-poss.5ly even . ccz- tury longer.
 The Indians of Laguna know noth- ing of the fat Santa Claus and his pack of reindeers, and the red-skinned boys and girls will never have their holiday saint laid low by iconoclastic intelli- eence. as their civilized and white cou- sins have had No resident of Laguna ever tasted of succulent turkey and cranberry sauce, or smacked his lips at Juicy mince pie and savory plum pud- ding. But just the same, the grand thought of Christmas time-peace and
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there in chaparrejos and great, heavy boots, from which monster spurs clank, and, besides, a few Navajo Indians, with gaudy serapes of wool across their big, square shoulders. Not a word is spoken while the assemblage gathers, and the faces of all but the children are impressively stolid.
 An old man with white hair a foot long rises and in the native tongue or ders a space made down the center of the church for the ceremonies. While several young men force the spectators back and out of the building to make room the orchestra and singers start up. There Is a hoarse drum, made of dry sheepSkin stretched over a half barrel. A squaw beats on that. Four young men have stringed affairs made of mesquite wood. similar to very crude violins. These are scraped back and forth in the sole effort to make 8 noise a space ten feet wide has been forced by the officious and gesticulating men at a signal the dancers come trooping from out of doors into the open space. That is always a grave moment No bridal party was ever more stared at and envied than those twenty young men and women, all gorgeously decked for this occasion.
 The men are bare to the waist. Their chests and backs are painted in a half dozen startling colors; huge bracelets of silver and brass encircle their upper arms; their heavy shocks of hair hang to the shoulders and their faces are ghastly white. At the waist they wear embroidered kits of red, yellowish leg gins (colzoncillos) are fastened about
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25
THE CHRISTMAS DANCE IN LaouhA.

dries on the line day by day in the warm sunshine AS the great day ap- breaches the red women and girls get out and unwrap their ancestral shawls and serapes of gaudy colors, polish their wealth. of agate and turquoise necklaces and their silver bracelets. Then they mend their moccasins and make sure that all the ancestral finery shall play its particular part in the festivity of the holiday week.
 At last Christmas eve has arrived. The aborigines at Laguna call it la Buena Noche, and they go about the stone village with the musical greet ings on their tongues as the pale faces do on Christmas morning. A pueblo custom centuries old has it that the first celebration of the gladstone time shall be a dance in the quaint old mission church from early evening un- til midnight and that then the mass, prescribed by the church authorities. appropriate to the birth of the Lord, shall follow. For untold generations the Governor, or chief of the pueblo, has each year appointed two score of men and women-the most vivacious, athletic and handsome of the young In dians-to perform the dance. It is a distinguished honor to be chosen for the la Noche Buena, and the Indians exercise many a bit of graceful diplo- macy for recognition, not unworthy a pale face in society. while the chief is making his selection. A dozen or more semi-weekly rehearsals take place, while the whole pueblo ardently awaits the gayest time of all.
 During the week prior to Christmas day there are daily masses. The string
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the dancers move slowly in unison with the music. Arms and hands bearing the feathers wave aloft to the move ment of the feet. Gradually the chorus rises, the feet move faster and the hands, full of feathers. wave more swift ly; the spectators, n " animated by the weird music and the scene. start strange ululations that wax sharper and shriller each moment. The chorus becomes a wild allegro. The male dancers are gyrating so fast that one can scarcely distinguish their features. while their black hair stands out tan gent to their heads. The women's feet are moving so fast that one wonders if they will ever stop. The onlookers' cries grow louder and more rapid and the music is drowned.
 Thus the gayety proceeds. It reaches the continuation on New Years day. Then there is a grand feast in every domicile, for which ample preparation has been made. The next day comes the reaction. The holidays are over and Laguna takes on it's customary air of quiet and rest, to be broken only by the advent of Easter and it's at tendant ceremonies. The men of the pueblo each day seek the sunniest spots outside of their little homes. and bask- ing in the genial dry sunshine. slowly roll their corn-hus' cigarettes and dream the days away. The good house wives put away their inery and go about performing all their household duties, and whole lot more. and the pueblo sleepily awaits the coming of sl ring, when there Is work for all in planning the years harvest.
 HENRY G. TINSLEY.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25


 ~ NE of the Queerest of Christmas
 obServanceS Is that in vogue among the natives of Andros
 Island in the Bahama group"
 says George Reno, who served throughout the Cuban war as special messenger between the island and the United States "To an American the celebration and all it's surroundings are as unlike his home Christmas as anything could we'll be. It was my for, tune to spend the Christmas of 1897 with the wreckers and conch divers of An dros and to witness their strange Christmas ceremony.
 Tn company with General Joaquin Costillo I had set out from Cuba with the intention of spending Christmas in New York city, but fate, in the shape of wind and weather, and incidentally Spanish gunboats, prevented our de- parture from the Cuban coast at the time appointed, so that Christmas found us at one of the least known and most out of the way spots in the world. Little Golden Cay. a densely wooded coral rock. standing in the entrance of Middle Eight, Andros Island. The great festival of the year was We set to work to make the best of it, and each lent hand in preparing the Christmas dinner. For many weeks we had had nothing to eat but the tough boiled beef and green plantains Of the lnsurgent army, and our limited amount of cash was invested at John Bodies store on Andros in the materi- a m chicken, sweet potatoes, cocoanuts, sugar cane, rice, platinas and coffee.
 Alter dinner, while the party sat aDout under the clear tropical sky and listened to the soft sound of the waves tapping the beach, there came from Andros Island, three miles across the water, the sound of many voices chant ing. sam, the old Bahama pilot, relic or the ten years war, at once imparted the information that this was the mu- sic Of the fallers,' who would have a great Christmas night jollificatfon.
 In lieu or Santa Claus and the tradi tional Christmas tree the fallers seemed to offer some entertainment, and the party was TO- ed over to the scene of the selnl-oarnarlc and altogether gro- tesque Christia celebration.
 Long processions of men and vo- men, singing and chanting weirdlv were already winding their way alone the beach to the meeting house where the 1all1n was tC take place. The parson stood on raised platform at the end of a room about forty feet long. In front of the platform was a tapie supporting contribution box. Each gaily bedecked buck selected his partner from the gorgeously gotten m women, and then the 'rushin'' com menced.
 Arm in arm the perspiring. sway. ing, singing crowd swung around the room, leaving the center clear. As each couple passed the contribrtion box a small coin was dropped in tba 'rushers loudly chanting in weird tones and with rhythmic cadence to the mn. sic indicated here:
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good willis as potent in the pueblo as in any up-to-date Christian com munity.
 For weeks and months the red peo- pie get ready by degrees for the Christmas week. There is foresight that the store of grain and vegetables is sample, that the boys know where the .1uiciest antelope range. that wild pig cons and ducks may be counted on. The children are frequently shampooed and the little stone houses are swept and made ready for a whole week of nothing but fun. The fat sheep are driven from the range and kept ready for the roasting, while jerked beef
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of little cracked bells that answer for. 8 chime is tangled several times a day, and the women and some of the men go to worship every time the weather beaten, cracked old doors of the church are opened When Christmas eve comes
 at last the bells are tangled harder than ever, and every human being who can possibly get there goes promptly. A stranger assemblage and more pie turesQue scene could hardly be looked upon. Except about the altar the queer old adobe building is packed with peo- pie. A few curious Americans have come in from the cattle ranches miles away; sprinkling of cowboys are