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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WELLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1870.
VOL HI. NO. 18.
TIMELY TOPICS. LATEST NEWS.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
will not allow nogro children to attend
their schools.
Colk YoUNonn, one of tho rufliuns
of the bank robbing gang who lecently
came to grief in Minnesota, has written
a letter, in which he says: “ I am proud
to say we were raised by religions pa
rents and attended Sunday school regular
in our boyhood, and, too, bad charge of
a bible-cl&ss while in Texas, at Seyuo,
Dallas county. I have ever respected
Christianity. I have known the right,
and indorse it. I condemn the wrong,
but yet the wrong pursued me.”
Tin: excess of unmarried women should
l*e diminished, if philanthropy and
sound political economy are capable of
grappling with the evil. There aio two
ways of solving the difficulty. One is
an c<|ualir.ation of tho sexes by means of
(be aiiled emigration of surplus women
to now settlements. Gov. Slade's down
cast school mistresses married so rapidly
after going west that their successors
were put under two thousand dollar
1 wilds to remain single for three years.
In many cases this proved no obstacle to
impotuous wooers, who paid tho pecu
niary forfeit that they might l*e united
to the object of their affection. The
same thing is going on every day in New
Zealand.
I UK problem of feeding the young and
p.or physiologically is not easy, but is
simple if considered from the scientific
P°*nt of view. That the bulk of the
food of the i>ooior classes must always
Ih> bread is unquestionable. l»ens, lieaua
and other like leguminous plants, how-
i alhi
ed to
"dully compote with
bread : first, l*ecause they require steep
ing in water and boiling for hours--next,
they become hard so easily, and then are
indigestible, while at all times they are
not so easy to l*e digested as bread. Hut
bread ianot so good a food as meat—and
here chemistry comes in, and shows that
bread soaked in broth made from extract
of meat is as good food nM the tost meat
diet. Indeed, the most eminent chem
ists and physiologists arc now agreed in
the opinion that, when people will use
more of such simple vitalising extract,
and a litib* less ton, for their strength
end health, they will bo willing todis-
rise with the present artifices of cook
ery as numberless ns they are useless.
Thk centennial exhibition will, judg
ing from present indications, prove to bo
ihe most successful of any international
exhibition. Last Saturday was the one
hundred and fifteenth clay. At that
time -1.071 ;*tlit paying visitors Imd been
present. The Vienna exhibition was
ojMjn one hundred and eighty-six days
ami the totnl number ol paying visitors
only reached 3,492,622. The Vienna pro
ceeds at the gate were $1)1)4,02ft.25 while
ut Philadelphia on Saturday, $1,884,584
had already lieen received—a sum nearly
douhlo the Vienna Income. The non-
paying visitors nt the centennial exhibi
tion down to Friday last numbered
1 8,509, making a total attendance of
5,139,822 in the one hundred and fifteen
days. At London in 1850 there were
0,039,195 visitors in one hundred and
forty-one days; in 1802, 0,211,103 inonc
hundred and seventy-one days, and at
Paris in 1807, 8,805,069 in two hundred
and seventeen days. The receipts at
Paris were *2 203,075. The recepts at
Philadelphia already approximate this
min, and there still remains thirty-one
exhibition days.—N. Y. Tribune.
Fell o we ra II 's Four-Mile.
Beaten.
Her
MOUTH ANII WMT.
James Lick, the San Francisco million
aire, died, lie hnd become famous for his
magnificent public donations and his eccen
tric revocations of bis various trust deeds
and changes of trustees to carry out his be
quests, which amounted to five or six mil
lions of dollars.
A bale of seed cotton has been shipped
to Liverpool from New (•Means. It neighs
nine hundred and fifty-five pounds, but is
pressed to Ihe sixo of an ordinary bale. It
was put up at Natohcx, and the Democrat of
that place presumes tlmt “the objeet of the
experiment is to obtain for the shipper the
advantage of the great difference in the
market value of tho seed in England and
here. If the experiment proves to bn profit
able, we may expect to sec n>large increase
in the tonnage from New Orleans, and, as
planters will persist in soiling their seftl in
stead of using it at home, their profits on
this part of their crop will probably he con
siderably Increased.”
rUHKIUM,
M. A. Houilet, tho French ]Nililical
economist, has made calculations as to the
increase of population in European countries
from I860 to 1870, and finds that Nervin
conics first, after which follows Russia, Sw.tz
crlatid, Norway, 1'rusain, Great Britain,
Denmark, Saxony, Holland,Baden, Wurtem-
burg, Austiia ami Hungary, Belgium, Greece,
Spain, Italy, Bavaria, Boumania, Portugal,
and Inst of all France.
The admiralty hnx a letter from Allan
Young, commander of the steamer Pandora,
making a voyage to South Sound to bring to
England dispatches deposited there by tho
Arctic expedition under Cnpt. Nitres. It an
nonnccs his arrival nt Upper Narim on the
18th of July, lie reports all well on hoard,
and miys he would proceed northward on
July 19. The winds during the sunnier had
outhw
id we
> then
Wednesday^.Sept. 27, will long 1h>
memorable in the annals of the Amer
ican turf, ns the day on which the
renowned racehorse Ten Broeck achieved
his great performance of beating Fellow- i
craft’s four mile record of 7:194, which
was the fastest time that distance had ever I
been run in. The l/iuisvillr> Jockey
club had offered a special purse of $1,000
frtr any horn* l>eating that record, and
two hornes, Mr. F. It. Harper’s Ten
Broeck, four years old, by imt>. Phaeton,
dam Fanny Holton, and Mr. D. .1.
('rouse' • Add, lour year old,by Revolver,
dam .Skylight, each carrying one hun
dred and four pounds, started. How
Ten Broeck successfully accomplished
the great feat, wiping out Fellowcraft’s
record of 7:194, and installing in i*s
place bis own imperishable record of
7:15}, is fully described in another
column. Twenty-one years before Mr.
Ten Broeck had matched the world-re
nowned Islington, for twenty thousand
dollars, to beat Ix*comptc’s four-mile
time of 7:2»i, and on the Metaire
course, at New Orleans, the great sou of
Boston inscribed 7:19} on the record.
For a period of nineteen years this time
, stood unequaled on the record, when
Fellowcraft, his own grandson, eclipsed
it at Saratoga, by running four mile* in
7:19$. It must nave been a source of in
tense gratification to that veteran
sportsman, Mr. Ten Broeck, who years
ago figured so prominently on the Amer-
can turf, to see a horae named in compli
ment of himself, and aired by n stallion
he himself imported, achieve this won
derful perfornfflncc. Ten Broeck and
his rider, Walker, have covered them-
• selves with undying honor by this
achievement; nor must Ten Broeck’s
rival and companion, Add, be forgotten,
ahhoueh he failed to accomplish the
task which Ten Broeck so sucre a* fully
performed.
fore not calculated to clear Ihe ice from
Melville hay, but ns far u* visible from Up.
per. Nnvik the sen was clear. There was no
news of the Arotlc expedition.
The statistics presented by Prof. Vir
chow, of Berlin, at the recent anthropologi
cal congress in .Iona, upset the popular no
tion thnt a majority of the German people
arc blondes. < lie showed tlmt in the central
regions of North Germany about one-third of
the school children are blonde, in Prussia
thirty-five per cant, and in Bavaria only
twenty per cent. The population grows
darker southward. Of the (icrumii Jews
MISH'VSI.LANKOVN.
The comptroller of the currency has
called for reports from the National banka
showing their condition at the close of bus
iness on Monday, the 2d inst.
Orders havo been issued-by the post-
ollicc department to-day for weighing the
mails dully for thirty working days, from
November B on tho Eiie, New York Central,
and the Luke Shore and Michigan southern
railroads, with a view to the readjustment of
their pay under the Inst appropriation act,
and to ascertain precisely what changes in
their respective services linve been caused
liy the discontinuance of the fast mail
system.
The comptroller of the curioncy haw
decli red a dividend of ten per cent in favor
of the creditors of the First National bank
of Mansfield, Ohio, and a dividend of the
same amount in favor of the creditors of the
First National hank of Anderson, Ind. This
dividend makes a total of forty-five per cent,
to the creditors of the Mnnslkdd hank, and
twenty-five percent, to those of the Ander
son bank.
The totul coinage at the mints during
.September was $7,000,000, including $4,500,-
000 in gold coin, $500,000 in trade dollars,
and $2,000,000 in subsidiary silver.
The Canadian yacht, Countess of l)uf-
11*riii, has been libelled in New York for va
rious small debts, amounting in all to nhoiit
seventeen hundred dollars. Her owners in
tended, after winning the enp from the Ma
deline, to sell her for a large sum, ns was
done with the (jtniuliiin ynrht, Inn, in Chi
cago. Failing in this, they lire likely to let
her go for half the estimated value in order
to pay off the debts.
Tho erection of the tnuch-lulkcd-of
statue of Liberty in the harbor, at Bedloe’a
inland, seems likely to be referred. After
raising, by individual effort and without any
government nid, over two hundred thousand
francs, with which the cost of a great part of
the work has been defrayed, the French peo-
proposc to do toward aiding the project, and
meanwhile the work is temnorarily sus
pended.
General Newton did his work on Hell
Gate thoroughly. An examination of it by
divers reveals the fact thnt the reef was
thoroughly broken up, and that there aro no
rocks that can not readily he removed. All
New York is delighted with the job, nml it is
proponed by influential gentlemen to give
the great engineer a complimentary recep
tion at Gilmore's garden.
Prof. Newcombc, ol the national ol>-
gaged all day in watching for the transit of
Vulcan, which, according to the theory of
Leverier, was to have occurred to-day. The
atmospheric conditions were favorable for
the most successful observations. A most
careful watch was kept during even* instant
of sunlight, and the result was nothing.
There was no transit of Vulcan observed
here, and Prof. Neweombe is more than
ever confirmed In his belief tlmt the theory
that such a transit is possible is utterly base
less.— Washington special {Oil. 2.)
Too Mini for Endurance.—An
English visitor to the centennial, says tho
New York Herald, wandered into a cheap
restaurant in Shanty Town and ordered
a steak. After desperate efforts to over
come its toughness ho next called for a
napkin. The landlord came out from
the kitchen in his shirt sleeves and ad
dressed the astonished gm-f-f in indignant
terms: “Sa-ay young feller, this ain’t
no centennial. The next thing you’ll lx*
wanting, I suppoee, is a grand planer. ’
A TltAPl’KH'ft ST(M(V.
T'Vts n moonlight night,•• tho trapper hug
As wo Uy by tho bright camp lire—
Come, fill up your pipes nml ptlcou tho hr
Anil draw a littlp Higher.
ml plenty of hunting and dapping l<> do.
of a sudden pricked u
iidddowuto'trualt
Ami tho woods ro-echocd their hideous
' A Vhov holder ah) wand SKduJS.-
8<* '“Id Pill-Driver • I brought’to bear,'''
And g»TO tho loader a leaden dose.
' Now you must know, l( you draw the him
' This guv'
ad my gui
Though Hot was doing nor level heat.
' 1 began in think it was siting hot;
Talk' 1 , . >r,ver ’(T b ‘ will never,
' Well, li
mm h
a left ;
d lollowrd tho nat'ral
m l. olh. rni. fast a* th
nd.-nf.nd in his spac'oi
SCIENTISTS ON SP1 RITUALISM,
The Miihject in-loirdic llrllUli
At Glasgow, on the twelfth, in the
anthropological section, Prof. Burrott
rend a panel- on some phenomena associ
ated with the abnormal conditions of
mind. The subject was one, however, fn
regard to which there had been a great
change of opinion, and no bqtter instance
could be. given of this change of front
tlmu tlmt afforded' by Dr. Carpenter.
Prof. Barrett on one occasion took a card
and put it in a l>ook. and gave the closed
voluino to a girl. She held it close to
her head a little behind tho car, and
then said, “ I boo something inside the
ltook with red spots on it.*' He then
asked her to count the spots, nml she re
plied that there were five, which proved
to bo quite correct, for the card was the
five of diamonds, and yet he was Vlioonly
person in the room who could possibly
have known what it was. This appeared
to him to he a clear case of clairvoyance,
and tho important point was that ovory
care had,been taken to prevent any un
conscious muscular action giving niiy In
dication to the subject ol what she was
being asked about. In another case
there was a lady who was in the habit of
telling tho lime on n hunting watch after
the hands had been turned about in all
sorts of directions. On one occasion
they found, as they thought, that she
was wrong. Returning the watch to her
they told Iter ho. She persisted,however,
that she was right,and on examining tho
watch they found that such was really
the case,-and it was they themselves who
had made a mistake. In that case the
thoughts of the mesmerist were against
those of his subject. He had asked M
Mnnkclyno, one of the cleverest conju
rors ol the day, and a gentleman who
was encaged in an attempt to disprove
the reality of spiritualism, to sec some of
these phenomena with him, and he hnd
si nee received a loiter from Mr. Muskc-
liue’s manager in which he said : " In
matters of this kind your best men of
science are more easily deceived than
the men of ordinary talent.”
Mr. Crookes, speaking as a spiritualist,
contended against tho theory that people
wero deluded into tho belief that they
saw manifestations which nover occureu.
He maintained that h trained ficiontlfio*
inquirer was much more, than a match
for any conjuror, and that if it were
a mere matter of hallucination tho
trickery would have been found out long
ago.
Dr. Carpenter said that there’ wore
somo pet pie who had a curious power of
thought-reading. Detective policemen,
lie believed, bad this power in a wonder
ful degree, and lie referred to tho Con
stant's Kent case and others to show that
the officers hit upon the truth By intui
tion. As to Dr. Blade, he frankly con
fessed that that gentleman hnd done
things which hnd astonished him, and
just before leaving London he had chal
lenged him to refloat them in his own
house, in the company of hisown friends,
and with nothing but his own furniture
in the room. Dr. Blade bad agreed to do
so, ami therefore lie considered him on
his trial and refrained from saying more
of him at present.}.
Mr. I’arke Harrison referred to an
American case in which a woman bad
confessed that she had l>een paid to pre
tend that she was a medium.
The president said that this woman
was afterwards proved to have been tell
ing falsehoods when she had made the
pretended confession.
Prof. Barrett, in replying pn the dis
cussion, charged Dr. Carpenter with
changing his jtosition.
Dr. Carpenter denied that he hud
done so, and in regard to what had
heed said about clairvoyants referred
to the instance in which Bir James
Simpson had put a £500 note in a ease,
and Haiti he would give it to any one
who would tell its number, the result be
ing that it lay unclaimed for months.
During this exciting incident, Rev.
Kohl. Thompson was seen ct the back of
the platform flourishing a bank note,
and apparently offering to submit it
to the test, but no attention was paid to
him.
A Son Dives Three Times for Ills
Drowning Mother, niitl Rescues
Her.
On Thursday, tho !Mth ultimo., Fred,
Berryman, aged twelve years, rowed bis
mother, Mrs. Berryman, and two of ids
sisters, both younger than himself,
across the St. Croix, in New Brunswick,
to Calais, in a small Ixmt. When they
reached their destination, Fred, helped
one of the little girls to clumber uj> the
wharf, and took her to a place or safe
ty. When he returned for the other, lie
found her running about tho .bout,
screaming: '‘Where is my mamma?”
Fred, rightly conjectured that his moth
er had fallen overboard, and being a
capital swimmer, though so young,
lived immediately into the water,* where
he saw hubbies arising, and lmd the
good fortune to aid in bringing her to
the surface, but could not do more, and
Mrs. Berryman, like every other person
In danger of being drowned, kept hold
ing on to him. while both were sinking
again; whereupon Fred, cried out:
•‘Oh, mother, don’t drown mol” on
which, still retaining her senses, Mrs.
Berryman drooped her hold on him, nml
pushed him from her, nml then sank
the second time. Fred., in an agony of
grief, alved and pulled her to the sur
face again. Again she sank. Happily
there was no current nt the time, anti,
when the noble little fellow helped het-
up the third time, ho succeeded by a
superhuman effort in placing her right
hand, which was open, on the stern ol
the boat, and (hero Mrs. Berryman,
though by that timoutterly unconscious,
look lioltl and held on till Fred.mounted
the wharf anti brought some men at
work near by to her: assistance.—SI.
Strjthru Journal.
GREAT LONDON BREACHERS.
lsunlon ('orrnqmndtncn ol tho New York Trihuno.
Having hnd exCMlent opportunities for
hearing the greatest preachers of London,
I will give my impressions regarding
thorn. It is strange that with the rare
advantages possessed by the established
church, in its universities, the greatest
and most popular preacher In the city
should lie a non-conformist, who has had
no collegiate training. Mr. Spurgeon, to
whom I refer, has been over twenty
vonra in London. There is nothing in
Ids manner that ordinarily gives a preach
er popularity. He Is not sensational,and
has lew eccentricities. Ho is uovor
coarse, vulgar or profane. There is no
trifling or levity in tho discourse,though
there is sometime trenchant wit. There
is, however, a thorough and careful ex
position of the truths of the Scriptures
as lie understands them, llis Hormons
are constructed simply, and clothed in
language of common everyday life. They
are lighted up with brilliant 'metaphors,
and impressed on tho mind with strong
illustrations drawn from various sources,
but mainly from the Bible. Tho seven
thousand people who go to tho tabor-
nnclo every Sunday nrfc held faco to face
with God. They nre placed beneath
Ids law, and are pointed to the eternal
judgment which nwnits them. All this
is not calculated, ordinary, to make tho
preacher potmlar. Bnt, after all these
years, Mr. .Spurgeon frits a stronger hold
on the public thuu Wfer- it may well be
asked how he (rtrofrtfNd In -mhtatafinng
and strengthening it. The answer is
near nt hand. IIo Jras been .ttiAiiOHt labo
rious student • of oyorytliblg connected
with the Scriptures.- He is. thoroughly
in eurnegt! ' No one questions Ids sincer
ity. Hi# Jifin 1ms beefi above reproach.
Beside, be has beotiJglftcd with great
common: sense amiiojmarvelous voice.
His labors uro ulmoijMncrcdiblc. More
than sixty Of Ids (rfnjons aro published
every'year, and timy-JJire of such merit
that they are Cfltp'Wgprlnted and read
by the inhabitants «»flhn two continents.
His-leAUijos and pi&jdlilng, and the pas-
torinF wqrk ampne; nie sludonts in his
trainbrg. college fW* iiijmchers, uro unsur-
pftssorlv His expo,-ai'lii of flic Psalms of
David 1 lias irrowii already to four largo
volume* find to nidinravledger! to bo tho
best‘Over‘feivnl to I ha world, being read
by all, ritualists, big# and low church
men nmt dissentelv.; y
A very-'dlffift’itiL preacher is Dean
Stanley. Hi# "paru.liH arc polished in
theirstylo gs hiiflettietch on tho Jewish
or Lhf»cafttarh .4'lnlVclj. They aro broad
cnpi$li for ill6 mqpt liberal.
sermon which ho preached in Westmin
ster Abbey, in concluding a course deliv
ered by various clergymen recently from
tho text, “Gather Up the fragments,”
the Dean said they should “gather up tho
fragments” of truth Contained in hymns
like one which he Quoted from Dod
dridge, and then he ltd lowed tho hymn
with a glowing eulogy upon thin “great
nonconformist of the last century.”
“Gather up the fragments,” he said
again, “of truth found in the Zend a
Vesta,” and in the scientific teachings
of the time. The Dean, l<n», is very
popular, ns might be judged from hun
dreds beingiuimble to get admission to
the ubboy on this occasion.
Cunon Liddon, of St. Paul’s, is a
preacher of a different order. His style
of sermons might bo deemed almost
fiRiltlesi'. His style and form of exp res
sionnreunexcelled. Although bis voice is
nutover strong, no one of the 5,000 people
who sat under the great dome last Sun
day afternoon need have lost a word of
his discourse. Unlike Dean Stanley,
Canon Liddon leans towards the ritual
ists. This party is now giving the es
tablishment a great deal of trouble. The
Arches court is busy dealing with accu
sations of ritualism. Whatever may be
their faults it must be admitted, however,
that the ritualists set in some respects a
good example. St. Alban's church,which
has a confessional, and a system resemb
ling that ol the Roman Catholic inonas
terms, is in Baldwin’s court, a most
wretched place, inhabited by the very
lowest classes. The rector of this church,
who has been repeatedly under discipline
for his ritualistic pract ses, is doing more
for the poor people of this district, than
all the other churches therein. Perhaps
after all he is not under discipline by
“thejudgesof all tie earth.” who may
look morn to his work than how he
does it, I
A Mill for the Godh.—Canon City,
(Col.) Avalanche: A camp of pilgrims
were preparing breakfast under a cotton
wood tree yesterday morning, and a
small boy to whom the task of grinding
coflee with a worh-out cofl’ec-inill had
been assigned, aftdr twisting away until
he got plumb sick of the job, startled the
camp by the assertion :
“ This ought t« be the gods’ coffee
mill.”
“ Why,” lie rallied, “they say the
mills of the gods' grind slowly, and if
slow’s any oYileri, they’d better come
and get this’n.”
THE YELLOW FKVKIL
lion Its I'oImoii « !•«•<• pi Orrt' n ('Ur*
Wo quote tho following stat* incut
lately made by Dr. Flislm Harris, of New
York, who is an excellent authority :
The death rate in yellow fever is from
twenty-live to thirty five per cent. It
was twenty-flvo per cent, in Shreveport
and thirty per cent, in Memphis. In the
New Orleans opidomlo it has usually
boon nbout twonty-fivo per cent. Balti
more is much moro socuro against a yel
low fever epidemic than New York is,
for thoro the greater part of the popula
tion live on nigh ground, and the dis
ease will not travel up tho stoop hills of
Baltimore. It will no moro likely to
travel along the coast, and should the
coming winter be a mild onoin the south,
wo may look for yellow feVcr in the
npniig.
The true nature of tho poison has not
yet boon Ascertained, and cannot bo un
til more scientific progress is made. The
time will come when wo shall doubtless
be ablo to moot the enemy, and fully
understand how it effects its work. The
disease does not travel through tho air.
as many used to think, llis a thing that
creeps on the gftmttd. It travels oil a
level or down a decline much faster
than it ascends. This has been fully
demonstrated by the examination of the
progress of epidemics, particularly the
one which passed through this city in
1822. It began at the foot of Rcetor
street, on tho North river, where the
poilfbn hnd been deposited from a sailor’s
luggage. It traveled slowly up Rector
street, which is pretty steep. Coming
to Broadway, it branched out in both
directions, and then went rapidly down
tho streets lending toward Now and Broad
st roots.
At the same time it was spreading up
and down, and atone timo tho fence that
was put up to check its progress inclosed
the city hull and the park. All tho
merchants and bankers moved up to
Greenwich village, which iH now in the
neighborhood of Ninth avenue and
Twenty-third streot. Somo positively de
clined to go outside of tho enclosure' and
many of tho obstinate ones lost tlicii
lives as tho result of their folly. The
poison wnspropagated on nboutnn average
of about fifty feet each day, and over
spread nearly the whole city. As I said
before, tho poison goes up hill with ap
parent. difficulty, and, in its march
through the city, it never went over tho
houses, but always round them. Persons
living in the upper Htorics of tall houses
would, therefore, not be likclv to be af
fected if they remained in their domi
ciles all the time.
Absolute clonnlincs.H is the best pro
tection. Bathing all over once or twice
ovory day, and putting on clean cloth
ing every timo; scouring, sweeping,
scrubbing, etc., everything that could
keep tho 1)ody and its surroundingsclean,
would bo the course to pursue. People
should keep their spirits up nmLthc.
pores ol the skin open, (/'are should be
tnljon to keep the dwelling and out-
houses dry by tho use of lime, and no
one should venture out in the night air
when yellow fever is around.
Our Study of (lie Attributes or Deity.
From a mwnl sermon by 1’iof. HwIiik.
It is not only, certain that tho new
sciences need not harm Christian doc
line. hut it is possible they may nlmo-
Iutefy reform our ideas of God. When
we inherited the notion of the Almighty
being a person like a human person, we
fell heir to a very inferior conception.
A Deity fashioned like the colossal David
of Angulo, has not boon the best form
through which or in which the human
family could behold its make rand judge.
Tho Deity thus embodied, thus central
ized, was too easily removed from tho
homes and pallia of men. All human
hearts have always thought of Him ns
being elsowhoro, and hence Ho has been
too faraway to alarm the sinful and to
comfort the sorrowing. Wicked men
have felt that they could hide from
Him; that millions ami millions of miles
lav between their little actions nml tho
White Throne. Devout hearts have
looked up with tears, wishing for the
wings of a dove, or the wings of light
and thought, that they might fiy away
and find the infinite rest. In bis error
and weakness, the christain 1mscompared
his prayer to a telegraph that ran from
enrtn to the realms of tho Father. If
any science can conic with power to over
throw these childish synilmls of Deity
and to I'ivo us a Father filling all space
with his presence, wo shall all hasten
to mill that science tho noble lmne/actoi*
of religion. It must be rernombered that
a “ personal God” does not imply a lo
calized or humanized God. A personal
God is n power conscioiisjof scll’—a mind
—a consciousness. To picture this mind
as a person like a king or a judge was
the error of the infant-man. If, by de
grees, science can remove this idea from
the earth, erase it from the memory of us
who arc living and exclude it from the.
generation to come, and give to the soul
a belief in a mind which penetrates and
permeates the whole uni verse, and which
lienee envelopes every heart, it will have
poured into mortals a new motive and
into death itself new consolation. And it
does indeed seem that the new science,
should it ever be established, will be fol
lowed, not by atheism, but by a new
conception of the omnipotence of God.
Instead of dressing up the Deity in the
form of a Moses or a David, the universe
will all become the form of the Al
mighty ; every constellation will bo in
cluded in His diadem, every flowery
world be interwoven in His wreaths; all
the Hoods of light Income the folds
and trains of His garments. In
all times Christians have loved
here and there to venture ufon
this thought. From St. John, who saw
the creative word coming from all the
universe aiid encamping in the Christ,
to all the mystics of the seventeenth
century the mind has attempted to bring
the Infinite nearer to itself. But the
fear of pantheism on the one hand, and
tho feebleness of the intellect on the
other, have always.come to lead the
head back to great man on a throne as
lHiing the lawful representations of the
Eternal. Oh, that Home science may
come, if come it has not, that shall
throw down our graven images in our
temple, and shall east our hearts into an
omnipresent soul, as drops of water arc
east IuU the sea ! Do yon desire to be
lieve that a million years ago Deity
placed in certain seeds the germs of life?
Would we not better feel that the Father
is still in the sunbeam that plays around
our pathway at noon and in tho moaning
winds that sigh at midnight? It is high
time that those who .break tho laws of
right, whoso loves aro full of all injus
tice and vice, should feel that there iH
an omnipresent mind and -power whoso
empire they insult and whoso very pros-
onoe they pollute with their dcoilH and
character. The human soul needs for
its virtue a ruling mind never to ho ab
sent, never to no evaded, but always
present with reward or punishment; the
religious heart needs to nave its love in
fluenced by tho thought that tho Being
it worships is in tho very air that touches
tho cheek, and is a mysterious agency in
the very tomb where the earthly body
returns to dust. Such a Doity, rescued
from the iron-liko form of the past imagi
nation, can bocomo incarnato in Christ,
can enter tho Hotil of tho penitent, c
explain the mental and moral photioinc
of earth, explnin its learning, its pro
gress, its love, its beauty, and then can
enter tho chamber of death and make it
tho gateway of a second existence.
FOOL BETTING.
One of the most serious evils of the
turf iH thus discussed, editorially, by tho
Turf, Field and Farm.
That the trotting associations receive
anything but a small rovonuo from the
tax on pool sales aro not to lie questioned
for a moment. At Homo-pf tho tracks
tho tax after dividing with the pool-sel
ler, frequently ainounts to five and six
thousand dollars. Tho commission
which the pool buyers pay in tho inarch
from Clovoland to Springfield amounts to
a small fortune. Capital Would soon be
eaten up by the percentage charged on
the in ami out speculation on heat races,
did not tho winnings largely outnum
ber tho losses. The tax would ruin any
man \Vhoso nggregato winnings only
equaled his aggregate losses. Almost
every speculator knows this, and there
fore lie Is not particular as to the menus
by which ho wins. The odds are so
great against him that ho is tempted
into schemes which will not hear tho
light of day. All the knavery practiced
in the trotting turf is hatched in the
interest of the pool box.
There are thousands of peoplowhonre
fond of racing, but who will not coun
tenance a sport used to foster a gambling
spirit. Wo might as well look the truth
in the face first ns last. When professional
drivers lament tho evils of tho day, it is
time for nark managers to be up nml on
guard. The question for them to take
into serious consideration iswhotlier they
can best afford to do without the five
per cent, tax on pools, or tho one dollar
at the gate. ■
Those who beliovo'in moderate instead
of oxtremo measures havo suggested a
plan which possibly might work well.
They propose to retain the pool stand,hut
to allow no pools to he Hold no. a race
after the raco ban been called. They ar
gue Hint this would breakup tho combi
nations, as the speculator would have no
ehniieo to liedgo after placing his money.
If the judges believed that a hot so was
not trying to win they could take him
out of the hands of his driver and pul
Homo one up behind him in whom thoy
bad confidence. When made to realize
the fact that honest judges would see to
it that horses wero honestly driven, tho
spectators would back their candid judg
ment of the capacities of tho contending
liorsos, instead of lending Ids support to
a job. Ho would bo without protection
should ho attempt to pursue any other
course. To give force to this plan the
telegraph would have to bo looked after.
It would be necessary to instruct tho
o|ierator on the park grounds to refuse
every disimteh offered him giving Hie
betting (aids. Unless this wero done tho
horses would bo manipulated in the in
terests of jobs put up in the pool rooms
distant from the sceneof action.
Will the Washington Monument St ami
or Fall.’
Members of tho United States commis
sion to superintend tho completion
of the Washington monument do not
expect to see any work dono this
fall. No work by act of congress can bo
proceeded with until an examination is
made of the foundation by tho army
commission just appointed by tho secre
tary of war. If lias been stated tlmt the
stone in the base of the monument is not
strong enough to bear its weight when
finished. This, however, is not believed
by those who should know. The main
point of examination will be the quality
of dirt around mid undornonth tho mon
ument to a depth of eighty or ninety
feet. It is feared that about twenty feet
under the surface there is a (tort of quick
sand, the monument being but a short
distance from the river. In that easo
the great weight would probably press
the quicksand out into the river and so
sink tho monument. There is another
fear that tho different strata of earth in
cline downward toward the river, and
that by the slipping out of one of these
layers tho monument would either come
down, or on the supposition many have
that the leaning tower of Fisa was not
built as it now stands, Washington would
have a leaning monument.
A Ska Serpent.—A California papor
says that an inlant sea-serpent has been
pieked lip near cape Flattery mid taken
to fort Townsend, Oregon, whenco it
will be sent to the centennial. It is
seven feet long, and its head is twenty-
two inches in circumference. It has a
pair of formidable looking iaws, thickly
set with powerful teeth, ana has a prom
inent fin, above and below, running tho
entire length of the Imdy.
“ I sympathize sincerely with your
grief,, said a French buly to a recently
widowed friend. “ To lose such a hus
band as yours.” “ Ah, yes, lie was very
good. Ami then, you see, such a mis
fortune is always great, for one knows
what kind of a husband one has lost, but
can not tell what kind of a man one will
find to succeed him.”
Connubial Burnt—A henpecked hns-
b'iid declared that the longer he lived
with liis wife the more he was smitten by
h-r.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Whenever wo pass judgment upon
ourselves, the prisoner is suro to bo well
defended.
All men are better than their ebul
litions of evil, but they are worse than
their outbursts of noble enthusiasm.
There is nothing moro truly insinu
ating and deferential than llio ivnggle of
a little dog's tail in tho presence o? a big
dog with a bone.
“Time waits for no man.” That’s
another. Doesn’t time always wait for
a man to get firmly Heated on tho top
rail boforo it breaks?
Kate Field is also mad at Joaquin
Miller. She says she can’t respectn mi n
who sloops with his head nt the foot ot'
tho bed.
General Dix hns got so old an
fooblo that ho can no longer sec a worm
hole in an apple, and every insect must
look oqt for n i nine If.
“We expect tho Great Father to feed
nnd clothe us nslong ns we live,” tenderly
remarked one of the Indians who had
thirteen scalps hnuging in his lodge.
Taxidkemihtk are now busy stuffing
whito doves, which are in largo demnnd
for room decorations, there being a su
perstition among some classes that they
bring ponce to tho iipnrtments where they
e hung.
Man’s Inhumanity to man 1h too
familiar to require any explanation, but
mnn’sinhumanitv to woman is perhaps
best illustrated by the euro ho exercises
in forming a circle around a dog fight, ho
tlmt a passing female miiHtclimo a lamp
post to get a view of tho proceedings.
The day has come when inanufiietiir-
s can take calves feet and work them
up into delicious strawberry jelly, nnd
raspberry him, hut that's us far as they
can go; when they can tncklo a cnlrs
head with success, somo folks will ho
missed from society.
Doctor: “I am pleased to say, Mrs.
Fitzbrown, that 1 shall be ablo to vne-
linato your baby from a very healthy
Mid of your neighbor, Mrs. Jones’.” Mrs.
Fitzbrown: “Oh, dear doctor, I could
not permit thnt! Wo do not care to be
ixell up with the JoneHcsin any way.”
The flrat step toward making a man of
your son is to train him to enrn what he
spends; then the liest way to tench him
to lie frugal is to tako away his money as
fast as ho earns it. anil spend it wisely
for yourself. There is nothing like
teaching the young by cxnmplo.—Bur-
I inn ton rfawkeye.
A waiter advertising for a situation
says lie can “ fold napkins in three hun
dred (Hfforont ways,” but what the
boarding community wants most just
now is a waiter who carry a dish of soup
without soaking tho first joint of ills
thumb in it.
Tain’t no use in your cry In’,V said
a 1 heartless maiden to her prostrate lover;
“ I wouldn't marry you if you wore tho
last nmn on earth.” “ Well, Mary,” he
replied, brouthing through his no«o with
groat (lHHeulty, “you’ll lend me your
pocket handkerchief, won’t you?”
YEARBngo, when a painter wanted to
depict wholesale anguish ho went for
inspiration to the place whore criminals
wore tortured to donlh; but now ho finds
a bettor nnd more convenient subject in
the young man in tho front seat at tho
theater whoso tall collar has bocomo un
buttoned behind.—fit. Louis Republican,
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ontli'i
Willi Mo's Ihjwcin mill rum ontwlno,
And our lives wnulit l»o .Urkcned l.y err
Dl.l wo even, like cnlit,lKHM»H ninol
They wouhl lie porlmpn nil of thorn wort!
Ami he reoklemiy wiunudorcd nwny,
Ami not hull of Ihe Joyn wouhl ha taste
Thnt one llfo enu umbrnco in u dnjr.
Ami not borrow nt fifty per coni.;
|.et iin never ccoio IovIiik nnd hmrnliiK,
A ml iik llffl for lt« nohluit of emla,
Then when ilnnt to lla dual In returnliiff M
Wo ahull live In Ihu henrlnof our filend*.
A well known author wos about lo
ad a new piece in the green-room of it
West End theater, when, before com
mencing, a young and charming actress,
who is always remarkable for the elegance
of her toilets, smlrkingly said: “My
dear Mr.—, is the part you lmvo written
for me well within my power?” Per
fectly,” replied tho author. “You havo
to change your dress seven times 1”
Tommy is fond of sugar, and asks his
mother for somo to eat with his straw
berries. Him refuses. Ho appears re
signed, but adds gravely: “ You know,
mamma, what happened round the coi
ner? Thoro was a little boy, nnd his
mother would not glvo him any sugar on
Ills strawberries, and—” “ And—7”
And next day ho fell into a well.”
Aiiout nine o’clock the other morning
no of our most active business men was
beard to say: “ I am going to be worked
to death again to-day. I’vo got to get
that letter in »Jie postollicc before night,
and it isn’t directed yet, and there is no
stamp on it either. That will take an
hour, nnd then it will be too late to go
to tho postofliec, except in a hack, and
there lis nobody nbout to help me into
it.—fit. Louis Globe Democrat.
At the distance of twenty miles from
Carter station, on the Union Pacific rail
way, is situated a remarkable coal-mine.
It is about four miles in length, and con
sists of sixteen veins, lying one above
another, with ft thin layer of sandstone
intervening. The bottom vein is the
thinnest (live feet), while the one next
above is over sevcnty*five leet in thick
ness. A few feet above this is a vein of
sixty feet, another of forty succeeding,
and *»> on, making in all about four hun
dred feet of coal. The veins solpe al an
angle of about twenty-two degrees, and
very easy of access.
On other iipIkIiI-.iIiii! hrsr ches Mood
Other hirdH who heard hlisuiiKi
Loudly he Kims, and Hear and MroiiR;
Sweetly he miiw. and K allrrcl (heir
iK his Kruve one happy May,
1 brought (Ills HiikUnIi da *y nway.
T/wrnas Bailey AUlrhh in
