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CANTON
Cherokee County, Georgia.
BfeAFEB HOUSE.
J. M. MoAFEE, Pnora., Nw Court Boom.
Boarding HousH
posting _
Ms, timber, minerals, etc.,—we have written the following,
*y, <M«aaU, water, (and*, timber, ,
MMtof forth in a brief and oonoiao manner a few of the many advantage* with
w “*J® nr oonnty and county neat are blessed.
, •“ ell peraons, whether contemplating a vi*it or permanent *ottlement
here or net, to road oarefulJ|r what we have written, and if you are deairoua of
ora write to Thb Advance and nil aaoertainable information will be
** tomigraticn and aaanre all who will come a hearty welcome. Na
"“•“t been bountiful to onr section and ha* done a* much for ui a* for any people
H?ii* globe, but wo await an influx of population—men and women who can and
iii ,U FP ly B,on *y- ^or. enterprise and generul industry—to come and assist in
«*«v.tiog our lands, utilizing the water powers, working the mineral depot its, and
building up our section a* one of the finest and most delightful summer or winter
retort* in the world.
C-AHsttoust
If oeunty-*eat of Cherokee oocim, Georgia, i* situated on the Marietta and
:i railroad, 24 miles north of Marietta, on the Western and Atlantic
railroad, and 45 milea north of Atlanta, the State capital. A crescent is formed on
the north and weet of tRfe town by the Etowah river,which river is navigable lower
down. The town i* situated on an eminence at an elevation of about 1,100 feet
above see level, and there 1* not a healthier place in Georgia. It is an old, liistori-
*8° been headquarters of the Indians. It was first chartered
in 1888 aa Etowah, hut subsequently changed to its present name. During the
‘war between the state*” it was almost wholly destroyed by fire. It lias aince
built up, and present* now a handsome appearance. The street* are wide and
ahaded and its principal housea substantially built of brick. It now has an e*ti«
mated population of uOO, only about ono-tenth of whom are oolored. There are
here splendid briok churches of Baptist and Ahihodlst denominations; the Episco
palians have a lot and contemplate ereotingadhapel thereon, nnd the Pre»byter-
lane hold monthly services in the Methodist church. The Etowah Institute is a
large, two-story brick building, new and specially adapted to the educational
wants of this section, and supplied with ell needed apparatus and a corps of ood)tt
potent teachers,
A large, two-story briok hotel, containing twenty-fivo rooms, gives splendid
aooommoaatlon at cheap ratea. There are also a number of private boarding
houses. *here is a large, three-story brick flooring mill, with other manufactur-
hu enterprises; also syjfino livery stable stocked with good horses and vehicles.
The oonnty property Ignis a large and magnifloent two-story brick courthouse, a
two-story brick jail, ana within a naif-mile of the courthouse a farm consisting of
180 acres and having thereon a number of good buildings for the proper care of the
county’s poor. By special enaattoent *f the legislature, no whiakey is allowed to
be sola within two milea of the ^Ke ; the re Are no gaming houses nor other places
of vicious amusement; the town is quiet, oraerly aud peaceable, having no cala-
boos* nor any use for oue. Canton presents many advantages over other towns.
It bos the benefit of railroad and telegraph communications end daily mails north
and south. The Etowah river paesing at the base of the town, near the depot, a 1*3
ford* ample opportunity for bathing, beating or fishing, and present* fine water
powers. The wooda nea> town are full of small game and afford splendid hunting
ground*. Nestling in the beautiful and picturesque mountain district of North
Georgia, it is protected from the extreme chilly blasts of pflnter, while in the hot
sAnmer months the cool mountain breezps make it a modVptaasunt tummor resort.
Near town are magnifloent springe of mineral water*, notably among them an alum
spring of known curative powers.
W. M. ELLIS.
TRANSIENT OR PERMANENT,
F.spocml accommodation (or oommerolal men
Bail Marietta street.
JMwry Stable,
W. T. MAHAN. Prop..
BED BTi
KALE, LIVERY A FEED STABLE, Main Rt
Physician.
DRS. J. M. TURK,
W. L. OOLE1
Ofloo in Drag store, Main street.
Dentist.
DR. T. HOGAN.
Office over Ellis' Store, Main street.
Drug*.
TURK * COLEMAN. Main Bt.
Millinery anti Dresmaktng.
E. A. GAULT.
MILLINERY,
Residence Ben. F. Perry, Oslnssville streot.
MISSES WILEY.
DRESSMAKING, Gainesville street.
MRS. M. J. HUDSON.
DRESSMAKING, Gainesville street.
(nderlakew.
HOLLAND * BURTZ.
Corner West Marietta and Main ate.
Illarksm Ithiny, M’ngone, Kir.
WARLICK BROS, A REID,
ULAI KKMITHINU AND GENERAL REPAIR,
Main atreet.
W. T. MoCOLLUM,
BLACKSMITHING AND GENERAL REPAIR
Juno. Main, Cartersvil'.e and Depot streets.
Shoes, Hametw and Saddlery.
SCOTT, KEITH * BRO.,
Opposite Court Honae.
B. F. CRISLER.
Comer East Marietta and Main sts.
IlOWtOTS
P. DuPRE
. Office witi
oUBItOE R. Ill
CTETEjIROTCIEjIE] county.
Is situated in the wOflern part of Nortli Georgia, 70 miles from the North Cardins
aud Tennessee lines, and it bounded by,the counties o f Dickenson the North, Daw
son and Forsvth on the east, Milton nml Cobb on the south, and Bartow on the
west. It is ono of the best of the twenty-one counties comprising what is known
as Cherokee Georgia, or that portion of the state lying northwest of the Chatta
hoochee river, and contains 470 square miles. It i« the original Cherokee, from
which the other twenty counties have been cut ofl since its purchase from the
Indians iu 1888. By virtue of its climslp, healthfulness, soil, crops, water powers,
minerals, society, transportation and telegraphic facilities and political liberality, it
stands second to none. The richest land* are to be found in the valleys, of course,
but the magnificent timber that clothes the hillsides shgws that strong, productive
soil is not wantedvere as well. Almost every character of soil known to the state
can be found within the limits of the county, from the dark alluvial of the river
and creek bottoms to the light gray or mulatto lands of the uplands, and all are
equally produeRve and responsive to care and good tillage. All the products of
® the nortn enn be successfully grown here, in audition to tliose of the south. The
cereals, wheat,-oats, corn, barley, rye, all the grasses and especially clover, find
here a congenial home. CottflB is the principal money crop ; tobacco forms an
important one, tupplying some half dozen or more factories in the county. With
abundant HreamCcf never-failing, pure water and a mild climate, this can be made
a nuraery for mules, horses and cattle to mpply the great northwestern markets,
and is here being successfully demonstrated. All thereby making it one of the
most attractive and desirable counties in Nortli Georgia. 'The county is lacking in
more labor and money. With psofe of each the inexhaustible agricultural am
lujawyal resource* would soon be turned into greater Wealth and usefulness. Trie
mttferal wealth ef this county is varied and exbeustless sad, as yet, even unknown
to us. Prominent among the minerals found dfjyosited here are fold, silver, iron,
_ manganese, copwer, coal, mica, asbestos, lend, marble, slate, etc. Our water power
0 is exceptionallwfeood. The Etowah and Little rivers eaoh possess many thousands
of available horse powers, beside that furnished by themumerous creek*. Ihe va
riety of fertile and produolive lands, and minerals and superior water powers are
not so great as the pure water, good health and equitable climate with which the
citizens of Cherokee are blessed. The healthfulness of the county cannot be sur
passed being entirely free from all malarial influences—a case of chills having
never keen known to originate in this county. Our atmosphere is exceptionally
fine the winters not being rigidly cold nor the summers bppresstvely hot. Ihe
religious and educational advantages of the county are splendid, there being
churches and school houses in short distances of each other all over the county.
The county now has an estimated population of 16,000, of whom 1,100 are colored.
Our citizens are all intelligent, social, moral and industrious. The Marietta and
North Georgia railroad passes through the entire county from south to north, and
along its line are the towns of Woodstock, Too Ny, Holly Springs, Canton (the
county seat), Mabel and Ball Ground in this county. Besides these towns there
ere Cherokee Mills, Hickory Flat, Ophir, Orange, Moore’s Mill*, Sutallee.Walesca,
Sharp Top, Salacoa, Laredo, Macedenia and Fort Buffington. All the above towns
© and the surrounding country are peopled by thrifty, energetic and wide-awake citi-
sens. No whiskey is sold in bar rooms in the county, and none oiceftl by the
gallon. There are several manufacturing establishments in Umi county. o
To all who may pay Cbestkae oonnty a visit ws will pledge a warm WHeome, and It they will
settle, a hearty co-operation our people. For further information regarding this section
sddrese Bin. F. Pbbbt, Editor Chbbokeb Advawob, Canton, Georgia.
irdinary, in Ooort House.
6ffloe in Court Honse.
O. D. MADDOX, Office on MalJkftfeot,
First door Jones.
W. A. A O. I. TEASLBY,
Offiae in Masonio building.
JNO. D. ATTAWAY.
Oftlon with Clerk, In Court House.
H. VV. NEWMAN, Oflo* in Court Hunzt-.
Insurance.
y PJJRRY .
REPRESENTING BEST FIRE COMPANIES
Office with CtlZBOKBB Advanor.
Banking
R. T. JONES,
EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND BOLD.
Office In R. T. Jones’ store, Main et.
Educational.
ETOWAH INSTltUTE,
HILL A THR0OP, PitntoiraiA
Miss Nell Barrett, Assistant,
Itru Goods, Groceries, Etc.
A Formal Call
1 Two ladies had tin amusing experience
in making a formal cull at a house on
Linwood avenue the other day. The
maid asked them to wait until she us-
-certained whether the persons inquired
for were in. Presently she tripped
down stairs and announced that ‘the
ladies were not nt homo.” One of tho
callers, finding that she had forgotten
her cards, said to her friend: “Let me
write my name on your card.” ‘Oh, it
isn’t at all necessary. Miss ,” put in
the maid cheerfully “I told them who
it wasl” Exeunt amt to, with suppressed
emotion.—Buffalo Advertiser.
OUR
R. T. JONES, Near Court Home.
HOLLAND A BUR! Z,
Corner \Vu»t Mai Jttta aud Main sts.
COGGINS A SQto
Corner Bari Marietta ami Main sts.
SCOTT, I< El I II <V Blto., 0|>. Court House.
B. F. 01U8LER,
Corner East Marietta and Main sts.
W. P. IUED. Mam Htroat.
W. M. ELI,IB, Main Street.
J. C, AVEI1Y, Main Street.
HARDIN A CROCKETT, Main Btreat.
C. F. EDGE, Main Street.
Confect
ol5nery!^
WILLIS J. PEARCE, Main Street.
O. F. EDGE, Oppo*itu McAfee House.
Hardware, Stoves, Etc.
BARTON
&BR0.
— -
Main Street.
Cabinet Maker.
P. M. H0LLEN, Main Street.
Carpenters and Contractors.
JOHN H. BELL, R. L. GAINES,
I*. M. HOLLEN, WILT,IE TOLBERT,
It. G. GRAMLING, J. M. BURTZ
Masons and Contractors.
H. H. MoENTYRE,
A. W. ARCHER,
Jeweler and Jfj^ittogrwpher.
J. W. JARVIS,
ALL KINDS REPAIRING DONE.
Guano Dealers and Cotton Buyers.
R. T. JONES, Main Street
J. O. AVERY, Main Strcat.
COGGINS A SON, Main Streot.
SCOT!'. KEITH A BRO., Main Btreet.
W. M. ELLIS, Main Street.
Mills.
MOUNTAIN CITY FL0UB MILL,
MERCHANT AND CUSTOM GRINDING,
J. M. McAvbz, Propr. On Railroad, naar Depot.
Gin.
DEPARTMENT
Coroner Stevenson, of JNyack. give*
it to a City and Country representative,
that in his long experience he has never
met with or known of a case where a
man was drowned, or killed by a rail
road accident, that had a receipted sub
scription bill for a newspaper in his
pocket. The doctor lias faith in the re
ceipted newspaper subscription bill as a
safe guard against disaster.
supplied with r.ll the requisites for doln*
ali kin.la of Job an 1 Book work in Fu at-
(Jl&bs Stylo. Promptly and at Be*-
•onable Price*.
BOARD OF IDUOATKOV.
O. W. PUTNAM, PrSS’t.
A. T. Boon, K A. Kzbth,
j o ban, J- J- Maddox.
' Jno. D. Attawat, School Com.
Superior Court-Blue Ridgs Circuit.
JaiTR. Bbown, Canton, Jndga.
OBOBOV F. Gobbb, Marietta. Boh Gen.
Meets fourth Monday in Febrnai
Meeta fourth Monday hi February, and
eeoond and third Msnday in September in
Cherokee County.
H 0. Kauoae. fo+nsstn, Canton.
WEDDING CARDS,
VISITING CARDS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
BALL CABDL
POSTERS,
HANDBILLS,
PROGRAMMES,
STATEMENTS,
LETTER HEADINGS,
DODGERS,
PAMPHLETS,
am. sxo. sxa
J. M. MoAFEE, Prop’r., Near Depot.
Tannery.
W. A. TEASLEY, Prop’r,
HARNESS, SOLE and UPPER LEATHER.
Cotton Planter.
&. L GAINES. Manufacturer.
In shops Warliok Bros. A Reid.
I ,ro We Deluded?"
Text: ''He n,dil- his arrows hriyht, he
runsutteit with f HTgea, hr looked in the I
fiver.”—Emklol xi , SI.
Two modes of iivlnation by which the
King of I in by Ion proponed to find out the
will of God. ’ lie I uok a bundle of arrows,
put them together, mixed them up, then
j'ulle I forth ou >, mill by tbe inscription on
it doclded what e:|v lie should first assault.
Then nu animal was slain, and by the lighter
or darker color "ffcl.c liver, tho lirlghtor or
darker prospect of Micron waa inferred. That
Is the u mining offtho text; "lie made his
arrows bright, hwonsjltei with images, ho
looked i\tuo UV*K ’ ■>
Mtnpi 1 delus-.rfU And yet n i the ages havo
been filled with Elusions It scorns n- if tho
world loves to be hoodwinked, tho delusion
of ti o tx-xt only a^peefnion of a vast number
of do.eits i rneticeil uponths hitman race. In
Ibe latter part crlhi last century Johanna
Koiitheote came forth, pretending to liavo
divine power, made | ropbeciea, Imd chapels
built, in her honor, nnd one hundred
ibs Iplescomo forth t.i foll-nv her. About
ll-o years befCVo the liirlh of Christ,
A, oil.'inliis was born nnd lin rnmo fori 11,
nr.d after live VCIV'S being s, e clileii accord
ing t ’ the tra-fitKli. lie henlod Die sick nnd
loised the dead, Mid preacliod \irtne, nnd,
it -c. rdlng to tho myth, having deeensed, ta*
brought 11 reaurr iction!
The Do’phio Ora lo de eivel vast multi-
til i s of |>eo It-; the Pythonessnontod in the
Tern|do of A - llr» Ottering a rrnzv Jnrgon
from whi h t.'to people gufsu-d tiieir indi
vidual or nation*' fortune! or mislortuuos.
The otto: mice* wf-ro .f -,u b n nature lb it
you lould riad them any ivay you ivonud
to read thuui. A (lenetnl going forth to bat
tlo, runiuuvnd tilt llolphlo Oracle, nnd
wai-tod lo find out whet'icr h - wns goi ig to
be safe In t' o battle, or killed in the battle,
and tlie answer rn e foilb from Hi i Delphi"
Oracle in sii' li Words that, if you put lliu
comma before the word‘‘never," it meins
ono tiling, and Ilf on put the comma rflor
the woid "nover"' It menus anotlie thing,
iu»t opposite, The message ir m I lie
Dell hie Oin ile to tlu Gen-ml was: “Go
folth, l'et .i'll never in battle shall
thou peri b.” If ha was killed, Unit
xvan according to the Del hio Ornolo;
If he came home laely, ilia wni n- o-ding
to tho Delphic Oia-'le Sot'.ienn ientu igur-
le» de-i lve.I the people. Too priiati of ilios.,
augur es, by the fiightof birds, or bv the iu-
tonnlihi of thun-k i, . r by the inside aiipca--
anco of slain noYbinls, told tin lort'iiies m-
inisfortu os of ifidlvidiials oc uni i' ll s Tim
sibyls deceived t m | o i le. 'I ho sibyls we o
BUpy sj.1 to 1)0 in pTo.l by wo.non wlio lived
In rniai and wr lo the Sibylline books uft r-
wariliairchnsod by Tor pun th > I’rouil. Hi
latoegHfeyenr IX Jfi.n man arose in New York,
pr.'NpFng to be a divine being, nil I playing
his part no well tn it we ilthv merclmuts h -
camu jili disciples nml threw their fortunes
Into bis dis Ipleslop And so In nil ages,
tbero have been ns roinancies, in. nidations,
xvithcrafla, f orcis s, magi' nl nrt-, em limit-
nients, dlvl-m lop- and ile'.u ion*. no
of tlio text wni only u spec,nun of tlmt
which hus been Ir ms- iring In all ug.n of tho
world. Nouo ol theso delu-ion- necom
plished any gi«-l "hoy deceived, tl uy
pauperized the pc mle, they wo.e ns erne,
they were absur.' They op' ne I no hospitalV
they honied no wwind", they wipe I away no
tears, they ema ic pnl 'I no mu I Io n.
But there are III e wliosnv that nil these
delusions combine I men. notli ng coin: n d
with tlie doliisl ni now nli c a I in ilio world,
the delusion of the ( hr si inn religion Th it
doluaiou has to-day ov r four hundred mil
lion dupes. It proposes to encir I ■ I lie ear di
with its glrdlo. 1 hut which liiri been culled
a delusion hns already overshn lowed the
Anpn'ncliinn range on this siihi thesen, nn I
it Inis overshn lowed tlie Bulknii and t ail
easiau ranges on the otlur aide of Ihe “'-n. It
lias comiuered England and the Unit d
States This clianiplou d luslou, th s li ax,
this swindlo of Iho age--, as it Ibis been rnlle I,
has gono forth to con pi -r tlie is auds of tlie
Pacific: the Melunnsla nnd ihe .Micronesia
and Malavnn Polynesia have nl only
surrendered ti the delusion. Yen, It Inis
conquered tho Ind an Ar.-hlpo ago, nnd M w-
neo ami Siiiimti-nund Celeb-s and Java liavo
(alien under its wile i. In the I'd I Islands,
where there are '.’ Jo,'Hid people, 10.’,o 0 have
already bei ome th - dupes of tills Christian
religion, nnd if tilings go on ns they are now
[ning on, and if Hie inll u nco of this great
lailurinntlon of the ages cannot lie stjpj o l,
it will swallow the glob • Supposing, sunn
that Christianity is tho ile'.u-i n of the centn-
riesyns s mio liavo prononueod it I propose
his morning to show you wlint hiuibeen nc-
compkshed by this clilinera, this fidBk'.v, this
hoax, this swimllo of Iho nges.
And in (lie firtSplaco, I remark, ihM this
dolus on of thu (Art tian religion hns mmlo
wonderful t aissfonnntion ■ of human clnr
acter. I will godowu the aisl < of any church
in Qg*stendom, nnd I will find on either si lo
tturfralslo thole who were once profligate
fr< ifane, unclean of speech' and unclean of
action, drunken ausA lost. But by tho power
of thisdelusiouof faeChristian religion th-y
have been compli ldy transformed, uud now
they nra kind nnd amiahlo nnd genial nnd
loving and useful Everybody secs (lie
change. UJeter the power of this great hallu
cination tfejr have quit the r funner n-so-
cint"s, nnd whereas they once found their
chief deliglit among tli so win gambled
and swore nnd raced ho'ses, now they find
their chief joy among tliose who goto prayer
meetings nnd churches; so comnl' to isthedo-
lusi n. Yen, Umlr own families have noticed
it—the wifsaR* noticed it, tlie children have
noticed. HI money that wont for rum now
f ;oes for books nnd for clothes and for e lin n
ion. Hu is a new man All who know him
say there has t e n a wonderful chauge.
What is tho< umeof this change' This great
hallucination of tho ( In is: inn religion. There
is os inu-h difference between wlint he is now
and what he once wns, us between a rose and
nettle, as between u dovo and a vulture,
as between day and night Tremendous de
lusion!
Admiral Fnrracut, one of the most ad
mired moil of tho American new, early
became a victim of I his Christian delusion,
and, seated, not long before his death, nt
Long Branch, ho wa. giving some friends an
account of he early life. Ho said: “My
father went down in behnlf of the United
States Government to put an end to Aaron
Burl's rebellion. I was a cabin boy and
went along w th him. 1 could swear like an
old salt. I could gamble in every style of
gambling. I knew all thu wickedness there
was at that time abroad. One day my father
cleared everybody out of the cabin except
myself, and locked the door. Ho su'd :
‘David, what nre you going to do! What
are you going to be!’ ‘Well,’ I
said, ' filth r, I am going to follow
the sea ’ ‘Follow the sea! and be a poor,
miserable drunken -ailor, kicked and cuffed
about ihe worl I ami die of a fever in a foreign
hospital:’ ‘Oh! no,’ I said, ‘father, I will
not he that; I will tread the quarter-deck and
command, ns you do.’ ‘No, David,'my father
said: ‘no, David, a icrsm that has your
P rinciples and your bad habits will never
■ am d 4l.„ . no „t a .In ,1. . f. /wimn ii ml ^ \T
Printing.
(tkerokce ^dunnee.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
Canton and Cherokee County
JOB PRINTING.
could not freeze It out of him, nnd they could
not sweat it out of him, and they could not
pound it out of him, to they tried tho sur
gery of tho sword, and ono summer day In the
year AS ho was do anitatod Perhaps the
mightiest intellect, of (tie il OOP years of the
world’s existence hoodwinked, client“d, 'll-
jolod. diqied by the Ghristlan religion. Alt!
that is the remarkable thing nhout this delu
sion of Christianity, it overpowers the
strongest Intellects. Gather tho critics, secu
lar and religious, of tills century together,
and pv.t a vote to them ns to which is tho
greatest book ever written, and bv large
majority they will snv “Paradise Lost.”
Who wrote “Paradise Lost!’ 1 One of the
fools who holleved In this Bible, John Mil-
ton. Benjamin Friniklin surrendered to tills
delusion. If you may judge from the letter
that he wroto to Thomas Paine lieggiug him
to destroy the “Ass of Reason" in manu
script and never let, It go Into type, nnd writ
lug afterward, in his old days: “Of this
Jesus of Nazareth I have to snv that, tin
tern of morals He le t, ami the religion He
has given us nre Iho host, tilings the world
lias ever seen or Is likely to see.”
Patrick Henry, tlie electric champion
of liberty, enslaved by tills delusion,
so that he says: “Tlie hook worth all other
hooks put together is the Bible. Benjamin
Rush, the lending physiologist nml anatom
ist of his day, tlm great medical scientist—
whntdld ho sny! “The only truennd perfect
religion Is Chrlsllntiitv. " Isaac Newton, (ho
leading philosopher of Ills time—wlint, did lie
snv/ rhnt innn surrendering to this delu
sion of tlie Chrl-tlnii religion, crying out:
“The subllmest philosophy on enrih Is tlie
philosophy of the Gospel.” Davlii Rrewsier,
at the pronunciation of whose name every
scientist the world over bows his head, David
Brewster saving: "O, this religion lias been
a grnnt light, to me, a verv great light all my
days.' 1 President Thiers, tlie great
French statesman, acknowledging tlint he
proved Sp*ti lie snld: “I Invoke the Lord
God In waom 1 am glnd to lieliovo '' David
Livingstone, nhle to cnmiuer the lion, nhlo
to Conquer the panther, aide t, > con pier • ho
savage, yet conquered by th : s delusion, this
hallucination, this great, swimllo of ilienges,
so when ttiev find him dead they tfiM him on
his knee-. William 14. Gladstone, the itronc:-
eat intellect in England to-day, unable to re
«lst this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion
of the Christian religion, goes to the home
of God every Sabbath, and often, at. the In
vitation of th" rector, rends tho prayers to
the people. O, If those mighty Intel'eclH are
overborne by this delusion, what chancels
there for you aud for me/
Beside that,. I have not I coil that first-rate
Infidels cannot bo depended on for HTond fast
ness in tho proclamation of their sentiments
Goethe, a lending skeptic, was so wrou ;lit
upon by this ('hrlslinnity that in a weak
moment he cried out: "My belief in the
Bllilo hns saved mo Iigmy literary nml mornl
life.” Rousseau, on r of the most eloquent,
champions of Infidelity, spending Ills whole
life warring against Christianity, cries out:
“Tlie majesnef tho Scriptures nmn7.es me ’
Altamont, tire notorious infidel, one would
think he would have been safe against tills
delusion of Ihe Christian religion Oh, no!
After talking against, Christianity all his
days, In Ills last Jiours ho cried out: "Oh,
tfljsu blasphemed but most indulgent
fS-d God. hell itself is a Mm.-e If
It hide me from Thy frown.” Vesprire, the
most talented infidel the world over saw,
writing two hundred and fifty publications,
and tlie most of tlmm spiteful ngninst, Chrls-
tliuiRy, himself the most notorious libertine
offer century—one would have (li eight ho
conn havo licen depended upon for stead
fastness In the advocacy of Infidelity nnd In
the war against this terrible chimera this
delusion sff.Lhe (Josocl. ligt po: in Ills Inst
hour he asked for Christ, an hit rial, arid iiskb
that they give him the sacrament of tho
Lord Jesus Christ, Why, yon cannot do
pend tqion these flrst-rnto infidels—.you can
not depend upon their powor to resist this
f ront delusion of Christianity. Thomas
nine, tho go 1 of modern skoptii s, his
birthday celebratod in Noiv York
aipA Boston with great enthusiasm—
Thoetas Paine, the parngon of Bllde
haters -Thomas Paine, about whom Ills
brother Infidel, William Carver, wrote Inn
letter which I have at my house, saying that
ho drank n qunrt of rum a day and w as too
mean and too dishonest to pay for it —Thom
as Paine, the adored of modern infidelity—
Thomas i’aino, ivho stole another man's wffo
in England and brought hor to this land—
Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and no
loothesoine and so drunken niul no prnfiigat i
nml no beastly j n his habits, su&otiincs picked
out of tho ditch, sometimes Inf! filthy to be
picked out—Tluueau Paine, one would have
thought that he 00*11 have li *n depended on
for steadfastness against this great delusion.
But no In his dying hour, lie hogs the Lord
Josus Christ for mercy.
Powerful delusion, all-con morlngdelusion,
earthquaking delusion or the Christian re
ligion, Yea, it goes on, it is so importlnent,
and it lsso oierbcaring, this chimera of the
Gospel, that having conquered tho grent
picture galleries of the world, the old mus
ters and the young inn-tors, as I showed in a
former sermon, it is not itiitisfiod until it lias
conquered tho music of tho world. Look
over the programme of that magnificent
musical festival & few years ago In
Now York an A see what w re Iho
great performances, nnd learn Umt, tlie
greatest of all tlie subject: «ero religious
subjects. Wlint was it ono night when throe
thousand voh os were accom aided with a
vast number of Instruments: “Israel In
Egypt" Yos. Beethoven delude l until lie
wrote tho High Mips in D, Mn or. Haydn
deluded with this religion until ho wrote tlie
“Creation.” Handel dolu ‘e I until lie wrote
the oratorios of “Jsphthah'’ nnd “Esther”
and “Saul” and “Israel in Egypt,” and the
“Messiah." On the dosing night, three
thousand deluded people H iiciiig of a delu
slon to eight thousand deluded hearers.
Yes, this chimera of the Gospel is not sat
isfied until It goes on nml builds itsel 1 Into
tho most permanent architecture, no it seems
as if tho world is never to get rid of it. What
nre Nome of tin* finest buildings In tho world/
Kt. Paul's, HI. Peter’s, tho churches and ea
thedrnls of all Christendom. Yes, this im
pertinence of tho f los| el, this vast delusion
is not satisfied until it projo ts itself, and In
ono year gives, contributes, I0,:F.0,0 ; I0 to
foreign missions, the work of which is to
make dunces nnd fools on the other sido of (lie
world—peojilo we havo never seen. Deluded
nothing, it goes to tho dying bed and fills the
mail with anticipations. How much better
it would lie to liavo him die without any more
hopn than swine nml rats and snakes. That
is all. Nothing more left him. Ho will n«ver
know anything again. Shovel him under!
The soul Is only n superior part of tho body
and when tlie body disintegrates the soul dls,
integrates. Annihilation, vacancy,everlast
ing Blank, obliteration. Why not present
till that lieautiful doi trine to the dying, in
stead of coming with this hoax, this swindle
of tho Christian religion, and filling th'- dy
ing man with anticipations of another life
until some iu the last hour havo clappod
their hands, and some have shouted,
and some liavo sung, ami some
have boon so overwrought with joy they
could only look ecstatic. Palace gates alien
ing, they thought; diamond coronets llanh-
iug, ham is lie, Rolling, orchestras sounding.
Little hildren dying, actually behoving they
saw their dot arte l parents, so Unit,although
tlie little cliililron hail been so weak nml h o-
blo and sick for weeks ttioy could not turn
on the d>ing pillow, nt the Inst, inn | nr-
oxsyni of rapture uncontrollable,they spuing
to their feet, and s;*uted: "Mother, catch
mo, I am o iiuing!”
Ami to show tlie immensity of thiu delu
sion, lids an fill swindle of Mie Gospel of
Jesus Christ. I Open a hospital ami 1 bring into
tlmt hospital tlie dentil hods of a great many
Christian |>onplc, and I take you by tlie hand
this morning, aud 1 walk up ana down the
wards of tlmt hospital, and 1 ask a few
questions: ' Dying Stephen, wlmt.liavo you
to Bay/” "Lord Jesus, recoivo my spirit."
“Dying John Wesley, what linvn you to
say!" “The best or nil is, God is with us.”
“Dying Edward I'ayson, what havo you to
sayi” "I llont in a sea of glory." “Dying
John Bradford, what have you to say/"
“If there Ik) any way of going lo Heaven on
horseback, or In a fiery chariot, it le this.”
"Dying Nrander, wlmt time you to say i" “I
am going to sleep now—good night." "Dy
ing Mrs. Florence Fo-,ter, whatliave you to
say/” “A pilgrim In Ihe valley, but tlie
mountain-tops uio nil ngloum from js-uk to
peak.’’ “Dying Alexander Math r, wlmt
have you to Hay /’’ "The Lord who lias taken
care of me titty yeara, will not cast me off
now; glory be to God mid to tlie lAinbl
Amen, iiineii, amen, amen I" “Dying John
Powson, after preaching the (4oh|h>I ho many
Benei
Every Bw^imertlme, when t
Fade* one more t
Every autumn, when the dead leave* I
Ono more leaf goat.
One more bird Alee with the flying j
Fleet-winged and strong—
I a viw another empty neat, where I
But pchofng-cong.
But each frost-time, when the has res
Glooms cold and far,
Through the trembling twilight
ascends
Another star.
Sometime all the roses will he |
The loaves, all dead,
Fill the paths with heaps of rusty |
While overhead,
Only empty nests, forsaken, AH
The hrnnehes bare;
Only songs of wsndoring minstrel Wl
Sweep 'round them there.
Ye*, what mntter, Soul! Thy l
liook up nnd see—
Where, with countless star* o’*! hrlnsraefl,
tho sky
Spreads orer thee.
Wlieti no more earth-mnsio sounds, flis,
swoet,
Will greet thine ears,
Sernph music wnftod down, past far
Mist-silvored spheres
—Athlon M. Fellows tn ths I
years, wlint have you to say I" My denfli-lsHl
is a hod of roses,” “Dying 1
IIUM0K0U8.
_ toctor Thomas
Scott, what have you to say/" “TblH is
Heaven begun." “Dying soldier in the last
war, wlmt. have you taAs*I" “Boys, 1 am
going to the front.” If ^^ig telegraph ope
rater on tho battle-field or Virginia, what
have you to Hay I’ “Tho wires are nil laid,
an I the poles are up'frim Stony Point to
hendi|iftrt»re." “Dying I‘nul, what have you
to sayi” “1 am now rciuL' lo buotlured, and
the tune of my deinrti^eis at hand; 1 have
fought tho good light, I havo finished my
course, 1 Iniva kept tint faith. G Death,
where is thy stingl O Grave, wln-ro
Is thy victory/ Thunks bn unto God w.io
glvuili us the victory through our lsird Jesus
Christ.” ( , my Lord, mv God, wlmt a de
lusion, what ii glorious delusion! taubmerge
me with It, fill mv eyes nnd oars with It, put
it under my dying hood lor a pillow—this de
lusion—spread it over inn for a canopy, put
it uiiilormmtli mo for an outspread wing, roll
It over me in ocean surges ton thousand
fathoms deep! G, if infidelity,and if atholsin,
and if annihilation me a reality, and tlm
Christian religion Is a delusion, give mo the
delusion 1
The strong conclusion of every man and
woman In the house Is that Christianity pro
ducing such grand r. suits jeiinot, lie a ilelit-
siou. A lie. a cheat, n sivlOmu, au hallucina
tion cannot launch such a glory of tho eentu-
ric*. Your logic and your ooinmon sensf con
vince yon tlmt a had i-auso cannot nrmlifce an
Illustrious result; out of tho womb of such a
monster no such angel can be born. There
are ninny In this house this morning, in the
gallerlO’ and on tho main floor, who began
doctors—two hundred and twenty physicians
meeting week by we k in London, in tho
Union Medical Prayer Circle, to worship
G' d. Deluded lawyers—the late Lord Cairns,
the higlfst legal authority iti England, tho
“■’■-advisor of r ho throne, spending his va n
I Jesus Christ
tion in preaching the Gospel t
to the poor p *op!0 of H ot’anrl. ]M*e<lori' - k
T. FrellngHuvscn, '-nee tho Secretary of
State of the United Hint s. au old fashioned
evniigoll'-al Christian, nn elder in the R«
formed Church. Jonn Bright, a delurtea
Quaker. Henry Wilson, the Vico-President
of the United States, dylnga deluded Metho-
list or (‘i.ngrogatlonollst. Karl of Kint ire
The canni
with thinking that theC'hrlstlnn religion was
a stupid fin wlio have come to tho conclu
sion tlmt It Is a reality. Why are you
hero to ilny/ Why did you sing this song)
Why did you bow your liend in the opening
prayer/ Why did you bring your family
wltn yon/ IVliy, wlion I tell von of tlie end
ing or all trials in thu bosom of t /oil, do there
stand lours In your eyes lint tears of grief,
but tears of lov, such us stand in the evos of
homesick children far away at school when
snino one talks lo them about going home/
Why Is it tlm' you can bo so c nlmly sub
missive to tlmdcnlh of your loved one, about
whose departure you once were so angry
Mil so rebellious/ There L some
thing tho matter with you. All yo ir
friends liavo found out there Is a gn nt
Imngo. And If some of you would give
your experience, you would give it in si linl-
nrly styl ■, and others giving your experi
ence would give it in broken style, but Ihe
one experience would lie jest ns goo I us the
other. Some of you Imve rend everything.
You are scientific nml you nro scholarly,nnd
yet if I should ask you: “Wlmt Is the most
sensible tiling you over did/” you would say:
“The most sensible thing 1 over did was to
glvn my heart to God."
But there mnv be others here wlio havo not
had early advantage!, ami if they were
uslu-d to give thdr cxuM'ieucc, tlioy might
rise aud give su, li ti’stiiRjgty ns the man gave
. i ,.. r lieei lii> viiifl- n i v
Children of tho sen -Harbor buoyt
Every tnisor should have a chest pf»
tector.
The greatest wag ever knows—A wo
man's tongue.
Ilostlors aro never on good terms to
gether. There is always a hitch among
thorn.
If a dealer In grave-stones were to (ell,
some newspaper would bo sure to refer to
tho disaster as "a bust in marble.”
An ordinary small boy is never so hap
py as when lie is standing undor*a safe
that la being hoistod to tho fifth story.
A Michigim woman kicked a boar to
death a feWVAys ago, and now hsr hus
band never contradict* anything ska
says.
There Is everything to discourage e
man who soils medicines. His best aril
cle is pretty sura to bo a drug on the
mnrket.
Misery loves company, and company
causes tho good housekeeper a great deal
of misery, too, when she hasn’t anything
oooked in the houso.
“Were you ever ongnged In a duel,
Col. Blood?” “Yes, sir, I was, Mr."
“Did it terminate soriouslyf” “Yes; I
was arrested and fined |10.”
Women wlio Irnve a iiabit of turning
round in the streot to inspect other w^
men’s dresses will loam with envy that a
(lull has been found wlftch has eyes in
tho back of its hoad.
“Augustus, dear,” said the gentle
girl, tenderly pushing him from her e*
the moonlight flooded tho bay window
where thoy were standing, “I think you
had better try some other hair dye; your
moustache tastus like turpontioe,”
Cattle
ipnprny.T ineeting, whan ho sail! • >n mv
wnv here t" night,, I met a man ''w* asked
mo whore I was going. I said ‘I am going
to prayer-meet ing.* llosiid: 'There aro a
mo<1 ninny religions, anil I think tho most of
them are delusions; hh to tlie Christian
religion, that Is only a notion, that
is a mere notion, tlie Christian
religion I said to oltn: ‘Ktrungor, you sen
that tavern over thorel’ ‘Yes,’ lie raid, ‘I see
it.' 'Do you see me!’ ‘Yes, of course t see
you ’ ‘Now, the time was, as everybody
fn this town knows, that if I had a quarter
of a dollnlgfll my po kot I could not pass that
tavern without going in and getting a drink;
nil the people ol .Intiarson < onld not keep me
out of that place; but God lias changed my
heart and - tlie Lord Jesus Christ has
destroyed my thirst for strong drink, and
there is my whole week's wages, and I liavo
no teinoiution to go in there; aud, stranger,
If this is a notion, I went to toll you it is i
mighty powerful notion; it is u notion that
lias put cloth' •» i iny children s back and il
L a I'vU"" that has filled my mouth with
tl.anMmlvliin to God. And, stranger, you
ha I ItHFrc go along with me. you might get
religion, too: lots of people are getting re
ligion now.' ”
Well, wo will soon understand it all. i our
life and tniuo will soon be ovor. Wo will
s ' ome to Ihe last bar of the music, to
ties last a-'t of tho tragedy, to tho last page
o tlie book—yea, to the last lino and to the
last word, amt to you and to mo it will cither
bo inidu 'on or midnight
tread the quarter-de k or command. ’ My
father went out and shut tlie do .rafter him,
and Isaidt,h'’n: ‘I will change, I will never
swear agalti. I will never drink again, I will
never gamble again;’ nnd. gentlemen, by the
help of God I ha- e kent th .so three vows to
this time. I toon after that becam ■ a < Tu i i
tian, and that decided my fate for time and
eternity.”
Another captive of tills great Christian
delusion! There goer Haul of Tarsus on
horseback at full gallop. Whore is ho go
CITY PRICES DUPLICATED.
OSes Opposite flseri Haase*
list or Coflgr
dying a deluded Presbyterian. T he ea
ball in Houth K, u, tlie Bushmen of Torra do!
Fuogo, the wild men of Australia, putting
down the knives of thoir cruelty, and cloth
ing themselves in docent apparel—all under
the power of this delusion. Judsoii.aiid Doty ,
and Abeel, and Camptiell, and W ill am, and
th" three thousand missionaries of the cross,
turning their backs on homo and civilization
ami comfort,and going out among tlie squalor
of heathenism to receive it, to save it to
hell, it, toiling until they drop into their
graves, dying with no oarthly comfortatiout
them, and going into graves with no appro
priate epitaph, when they might have moil
in this country, and lived for themselves,
and lived luxuriously, and been at last put
into brilliant sepulekMa. t\ hat a delireicm.
Yea this de)usi"ilm Christian religion
shows itself in tlie fa' t that it goes to those
who are iu trouble. Now, it is bad enough
to cheat a man when he is well, and w hen he
is prosperous; but this religion comes to a
~ lo it rwl «avk- “ YOll Wll 1)0
llorstw In Baltic.
lngl To des’roy Christians. He wants "° i man when ho’is sick, and says: "Yon w 11 be
better playspoll than to stand and witch the wo jj a fter a while; you are going into
bats and coats of the murderers wlio are
massa ring God’s children. There goes the
same man. This time ho is afo't. Where
Is he going now} Going on the road to
Ostia to die tor (:brist, they tried to whip
It out of him. fhev tried to scare it ■ nt "f
him, they thought tliev would gi f > hm
enough or it by putti ig him into a win •
less dungeon, n i l keeping him on turd
dl i and denying him a cloak, and
eoiuleuiuine him os a criminal, and
bowling tn him through the street; but they
Lord George I’aget, writing of tlie
famous charge of the Light Brigade at
Bulaklava, says: “One incident struck
me forcibly about this time—the bearing
ni riderless horses in such circumstances.
X%?ns, of course, riding by myself, aud
clear of tlie line, nnd for that reason
was a marked object for the poor dumb
brutes. They subsequently made dashes
at me, some advancing with mo a t on
siderable distance at one time as many
us five on my right and two on my left
clinging in on tne, and positively
squeezing me as tlie round shot came
bounding by them. I remarked their
oyeB, betokening as keen a sense of tlie
perils around them as we human beings
experienced (and that is saying a good
deal'. The bear ng of tho horse 1 was
riding, in contrast to these, was remark
able." He had been struck, but showed
no signs of fear, thu9 evincing the con
fidence of dumb animals in the superior
being."
Origin of the Orest Western
Herds.
8. T. Bimmottds, wlio has made lerg*
investments In Western cattle business,
said tho other day that the original stook
of cattle from which the great henls of
to-d tut Jmvo been for tho most part bred,
was m inhoritanco from the Spaniards.
He added: “I was out in Wyoming re
cently, whoro I mot Thomas Sturgi^
whose Intimate knowledge of the cattle
business probably exceeds that of any
man in tho West. _ He told me that the
breeding of ranch cattle was begun by
the driving from Texas 1868 and suc
ceeding years into the plains to th*
northward of a port of tho vast growth
of cattle which had sprung up there wild,
unwatclied and untamed during the war.
These herds were all of Spanish or Mex
ican origin. Tito meat was coarse and
tho animal full of tho wildness of gensr-
ations of tho untamed ancestors. Thess
cattle havo boon improved os the cattls
business has grown by the importation
of breeding animals from Missouri,. Iowa,
Illinois, Kentucky and in sorao instances
from New York und Europe. In 1888
tho ranchmen of Wyoming alone paid
out over a million dollars for breeding
animals. The general idea of the publls
that all a ranchman has to do is to turn
his cattle loose on tho plains, round them
up once a year and kill off tlie fat ones,
is quite ridiculous. The cattle business
requires capital, labor and attention no
less imperative than any other branoh oi
industry.”—N«u> York Tribune.
a land where there are no coughs and no
pleurisies and no consumptions and no
languishing: take courage and bear up.
Yea, this awful chimera of tho Gospel conies
to the poor and it says to them: "You
dlvld°eu iu aTwaysderiarah’e “This tMuslen VV niTROCK (Jim Cummings) gave up
of Christianity comes to the bereft, and it < the coal business to go into the train
talus of reunion before the throne and of the , robbing industry. Tlte transition was
ces ation of all sorrow. And tbeuJtO|Show I ea8 y f ro m a light-waigh-man to a high-
good
Kept Watting.
“Your resturunt gives a man
appetite."
“Glad to hear you say so.”
“Makes a man hungry to come ia
here."
“You flatter me."
“When I came in here, I don't have s
bit of appetite, but before I go out I am
hungry as a boar.”
“Why, how’s that?”
“Have to wait so long after giving my
order to the waiter 1 nearly starve t#
death.”—Lynn Union.
that this delusion will stop at absolutely
way man.
A Funny Stoi y.
“Hal hat hal" laughed D.tmley as ha
finished a long chestnut. “Capital story,
eh, Featherly?’’
“Yes,” replied Featherly, “it’s good
overtime, Dumleyj good every time.”
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