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THE SUNNY SOUTH
THE BIBLE,
AM) MODERN INFIDELITY.
[],(. Bible immoral mid false.’
“Heaven and
l,ut My word shall not
Subject:—“ I
Ttxt: St. Matthew xxi
clashed, Dore-illns-
■ cloth of the draw-
Wliat
lor reads
is it that
is the
hour.
earth shall pass ;
pass away.
What is that scrolled,
tratcd volume lying on th
. What volume is it
ing-room centra-tai>-(.-
defaced, and worn and lead-penciled, lying on
the Clerk’s desk in the Court-row
volume is it that the gowned l’roh
in the College-cliapel V Whatvoliu.
is packed away by loving hands in the trunk
on the morning of the young man’s leaving
home ? What volume is it on which tin-
judges of the Supreme Court of the United
States, and all our Presidents take their oath
of office? Of what volume have the printers
made 200,000,000 copies? It is the book on
which infidelity puts its hands to-day and
cries “surrender 1” Shall we do so,
question of the day and of the
For years I have heard many com
plaints made against the Bible, and 1
have classified these complaints, and find
them to be four : The Bible is impure. The
Bible is cruel. The Bible is contradictory.
The Bible is unscientific. To prove that the
Bible is impure its enemies read portions of
Scripture which they say are unfit for the eye
and ear of the family circle. They read Solo
mon’s Song, and put upon it their own inter
pretations, and then fling down the book, de
nouncing it as a polluted volume. Is the
Bible is impure? I lay it down as a principle
that an impure book will have impure results.
No one will deny the truth of that proposition.
Of all your friends, how many have had their
purity of soul stained, tarnished or despoiled
by scriptural perusal? Two hundred million
copies of an impure book scattered through
Christendom; there must be a great many
victims. Show me a thousand victims, Show
me five hundred victims. Show me a lnin-
fiftv.
victim.
dred. Show-
Show me o
bit ant? I do not care
men is, whether man,
white, black, copper-colon
ropean, Asiatic, Airie;
Show me ten.
Is that exor-
wliat the speci-
wlioman, child
-d— American, Eu-
Two hundred mill
ions of books, in each volume of which is the
leprosy of impurity. Show me one victim. • I
do not confine you to our own times, llange
through all the four thousand years that have
passed, and show me one soul whose chastity
aiul purity have been despoiled and ruined by-
Bible perusal. I challenge all earth and hell
for one victim. Yo.-.r charge collapses and
dies in the presence of every frank-minded
man. So far from the Bible being an impure
book, you know very well that it is only
where the Bible reigns that the family insti
tution is regarded. The only difference be
tween Sodom and Constantinople and Pekin
and Madras on the one side, and our Ameri
can cities on the other, in regard to the statu
of purity or impurity, is the difference be
tween Bible and no Bible. If the Bible be an
impure book, I am only asking of you a lair
thing when 1 ask that after two hundred mill-
on copies have been doing their work you
show me one victim.
Charge the Second—The Bible is cruel. To
prove this the (lienties of the Bible give us
the story of the ancient wars, passages in the
history- of David and Joshua, and tin-extermin
ation of the Canaanites, and then declare that
the Bible approves of laceration and man
slaughter. You have known a great many
people have this “cruel” book in their hands.
Was the effect of this “ crut 1” book upon them
to send them toward vivisection, toward mal
treatment, toward mauling ? 1 fid your friends
come out and practically say : “ I have been
reading about the extermination of the Ca
naanites, and now I mean to cut, stab, bruise
and beat to pieces every body I can meet?”
As your children have studied the Bible, have
they got more and more of a tendency to pull
off the wings of flies, and to pin
grasshoppers, and to rob birds’-nests. If
the Bible is cruel, w hy dot s it not show its
cruelty in that direction ? So far from its be
ing true, all the asylums and institutions of
mercy in this country have been founded by
the Bible believers. When did this “bloody-
book,” so called by name, implant cruelty in
the heart of George Peabody, of Miss Dtx, of
Florence Nightingale, of John Howard, of
John Frederick Oberlin, of Abbott Lawrence?
Look at those twenty Cnristian women in a
hospital. They are washing wounds, they are-
administering cordials, they are taking the
last message of the expiring. Those Christian
women have been reading this book all their
lives, and now they are reading to the sick
and the dying. At what point does the cru
elty of this hook crop out in the life of that
ministering angel in the hospital? Do you
find it in the gentleness of her step, or in the
soft ead( nee of her voice, or in her prayer for
brought together, and they j
architectural tri- .
umiiii
pronounce it a complete harmony ? 1 is as
though a great Cathedral were to he built and
a hundred men were to do the work, and
those hundred men lived in different coun
tries, and lived in different ages, and had no
idea of the general design of the Cathedral;
nd yet after awhile all their fragments of
ork' shall be
prove to be a complete
the man who carved the pillars hav-
conimunication with the man who
planned the dome; the man who fashioned
the door having no communication with Hu
man who cont ived the arches.
Charge Fourth The Bible is unscientific.
Your Bible says there was light before the
sun was created. How was it possible? lour
Bible intimates that the sun turns round the
earth, when the motion is in the other direc
tion. Your Bible says that in Joshua’s time
tlu- sun and moon stood still, which halting
would have deranged the machinery of the
universe. Your Bible says that water was
turned into wine, and presents other impos
sibilities. Through all that rigamarolc in
fidelity goes every day. And it says that there
is an unbridgable chasm,between the Bible
and science? Stuart Mill, Darwin, Tyndall,
Kenan ? Yes. Well, I will give you the names
of men who believe there is a perfect harmony
between the Bible and science—men as much
higher than those whose names I have quoted
as Mount Washington and Himalaya are
higher than Ridgewood Water-Works—
Hersehel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Rose, Isaac New
ton. At any rate, these names that
I quote arc as good as the names
you quote. These men found a har
mony between the Bible and science.
Have vou never heard Professor Hitchcock or
General Mitchell lecture on the harmony be
tween the Bible and science? 5 he ®tg. of
science is a boy and revelation a full-grown
man. The hoy thinks lie knows more than
the man, and he asks a great many un
answered questions; hut after science is fully
grown and has been growing and learning as
long as revelation has been established, per
haps it may know as much. I say perhaps.
Voltaire brought an argument to show that
the Bible story of the golden calf being
dissolved was an impossibility—a chemical
impossibility. While Voltaire was proving
that gold could not be ln-ld in solution, all
the gilders and coiners and metallurgists of
tlu- earth were holding it in solution, and
tlu-re were fifty shops in Paris at that time
where Voltaire might have seen the very pro
cess which he pronounced an impossibility.
If, therefore, at any time you should find a
seeming disparity between science and reve
lation, it is your common sense that demands
that you wait until science is more thoroughly
developed. The temple of the universe
has two orchestras the orchestra of
revelation and the orchestra of science.
The former lias all its musical strings
strung, and it is ready for the hurst of eternal
accord. The latter is only stringing its instru
ments. Wait and be patient. After a while
vou will find twisted into the same wreath
the rose of Sliarou and the laurel of scholarly
achievement, and the roar of the sea w ill be
the magnificent bass of the temple of worship
ers, and the earth will he ionnd out to lie
only the pedals of an organ of which the heav
ens are the key-board.
Now, you see, you have not made out a case.
The lty.de G not impure, it is not (cruel, it is
not contradictory, it is not unscientific. This
plaintiff, the infidel, has made out no case
against the Bible. The def -ndant and I
might in the court of voitr reason move for a
non-suit. But I will not take advantage of the
circumstance s. 1 am going on to see whether
anything can be said in behalf of this much
maligned book. Why do you hold to the Bi
ble as a divine hook ? “ Oh,” you say, “ I in
herit it from my father.” That is no reason.
Hindoo cluldri n inherit the Shastc-r from
tlieir parents and think it divine.
Mohammedan children inherit the Ko
ran from their fathers and think it
divine. You present no argument when you
say that you believe the book is from God
because you inherit it from your fathers.
You ought to have some good reason, some
portable reason why you should carry
around in the hanking house and store
and shops and streets. 1 am going to give
you such a reason. T am not addressing you as
theologians. Many of you are busy men, and
you have no time for elaborate study on this
suhjt ct ; and yet in this day, when the city is
filled with infidel slang and skeptical scurril
ity and eanicatnre of the Bible, you ought to
have some quick and decisive answer for the
assailants. If God will help me I will help
you. How do I know this Bible is from
God? Here is the Old Testament. Here is
the New Testament. First 1 take the New
Testament. How do I know that this conies
from a divine Christ? Jesus and Eusebius
in the fourth, and Origen in the third Century
after Christ, gave a list of the books of the
They died for the truth ! Men will not die be from God—do yon think the Lord would
for a lie. Was Matthew honest when he admit these prophecies to be bound up with
wrote his book ? He died for the truth ! ' a pack of lies and passed down front gener-
They made a shaft of wood, and they put on ation to generation thousands of years?
it sharp steel prints, find they punctured
his life out. Was Mark honest? For the
truth’s sake he was dragged through the
Wottid you allow an honest letter of yours
to be put into an envelope with ten or fifteen
lying and indecent letters ? No. Finding
streets until the flesh wus torn from his | your letter there, you would take it away
bones, and he expired ! Was Luke honest? j burn up tha whole envelope. Now, do you
He was banged until death on an olive-tree! j suppose that these prophecies would have
Was St. James honest? For the truth s i been allowed by the hand of Almighty God
sake, at ninety-four year# of age, he was U 0 continue ages after ages and for thousands
thrown out of the window of the Temple ! p f years in the companionship of Genesis,
Was Peter honest? For the truth’s sake I au( j Deuteronomy, and Job, and Proverbs,
be was crucifi -d, bis head downward, by am j the Psalms, and all the other books of
New Testament, just corresponding to our list
the dying : “ Lord Jesus, receive his spirit?” | of the hooks of the New Testament. But you
When you can make a rose-leaf pierce like a I say : “ Where did they get their list?” They
bayonet, when yon can make icicles out of got the New Testament from Ironacus : Iren-
the sontli wind, «hen you
poison the
tongue with honey, made out of blossoming
buckwheat—then you can find people practic
ing cruelty learned from the Bible.
Charge Third—The Bible is contradictory.
Its enemies put apostle against apostle, and
prophet against prophet, and say: “If this
passage is true, how can that passage he true?
The whole book is a mass of contradictions.”
Mr. Mill,'Ha friend of the Bible, translated the j
New Tesfltment, and he declared that he had :
found thirty thousand different readings, but
these differences were unimportant, and were
very small differences, and were to lie ac
counted for on the ground that the Bible had
come down from generation to generation,
and had be in copied by a great many differ
ent hands, and it is not surprising that here
and there there is a word changed ; hut about
the great doctrines of the Bible there
is no difference. All the sacred writers
agree in these doctrines : God— good, holy,
just, wise, omnipotent. Man—a lost sinner.
Christ—all glorious, and inviting the whole
world to he saved. Two doctrines—one for
believirs and the other for unbelievers.
About these doctrines there is perfect har
mony. Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn
never saw, wrote, heard more complete har
mony. Is it not wonderful that this Bible,
written by scorces of men living in different
lands, living in different ages, some of them
having no communication with each other,
and having no idea of the general design of
the Bible, after their fragments of work
arc brought from these different lands
and ages and are rnt together,
make a complete hook, a book so
harmonious that the best scholars of our day
tens got it from Polycarp: Polycarp got'it
from St. John ; St. John got it from the Lord
Jesus Christ, with whom lie was a personal
associate. Is not that straight, and is not that
clear? My grandfather gave a book to my
fath:r ; my father gave the hook to me ; I give
the book to my child. Is there any dilli-
cultv in tracing that book through the four
generations. Here is a person at the end of
the pew. I put a hook in his hands
and he passes it to the next per
son, and that one to the next, until
it comes to the end of the petv. Is there
any difficulty in tracing the book back
through the hands that passed it to my hand
that started it? Now this New Testament
came dawn in as straight and clear a line
as that. Christ gave it to St. John; St. John
gave it to Poly carp; Polycarp gave it to Ire-
ntcus ; Iren tons gave it to Origen ; Origen
gave it to Eusebius; Euseb’us put it into
the hands of thousands of Christians, who
pressed it to their hearts. You see the New
Testament was not a bundle of documents
fiung out of a window and picked up loose
and put together by chanee. The Divine
Chnst gave it to a good man, and he to
another, and so on down, and, as a silver
commnnion chalice, is passed along from
hand to hand, jnst so the New Testament
has been passed along from generation to
generation, and all the world is invited to
drink out of the new wine of The Kingdom.
But yon say: “Now, suppose the Bible did
start from the heart of the divine Christ,
and go down in that line, how do yon know
that these m en were honest? I will tell yon.
choice, because, he said, he did not leel
worthy to die upwright as did his master.
Was Paul honest? Through what ship
wrecks and imprisonments he went ! Look
into the Mainertine duugeon, and ask
whether he is honest. Soe his head rolling
over into the dust under the stroke of the
executioner and ask whetier he is honest.
Men may write lies to plea* the public, but
no man ever (lied for a lie dying willingly
and cheerfully. I appeal,to your common
sense for the asseveratioi of what I say.
Now, then, yon have the Jew Testament,
handed down from the *bsom of Christ,
and yon see it come rigli down into our
century and then yon hav inexorable and
overwhelming proof that tta men who wrote
the New Testament were honest men be
cause they died for the trith. Aud every
man that is not, under this testimony,
readyto receive this New Testament as from
the heart of Christ, is not hirami honest in
his argument.
Now I come to the Oid lastameut. How-
do I know that it is from God ? Because
there are things in it thatno one but God
could have forseen, prcplafsied to come to
pass hundreds, thousand of years in the
future. William H. Sevird, one of the
most eminent men of his tine, said, by- way
of propecy; “The Southen rebellion will
end in thirty days.” It laced four dreadful
years. The great Franeiman prophesied
that there would be a lo,g line of Napol
eonic glories. All perisbel. Valeras proph
esied that because Bomilus saw twelve
vultures in the air at the tmnding of Kerne
that therefore the City of lorne would stand
unhurt for twelve centuri-j. At the end of
the fourth century it burntl down. Human
prophecies are never to belepended upon ;
but the prophecies in thi- book show that
they must be from God, ho only can see
in the luture. The propheies of this book
are being fulfilled. Whe. Tyre and Baby
lon and Nineveb and Jerualem were in full
porno and power the prohets foretold, by-
God’s direction, that thos cities should be
destroyed and the mode of heir destruction.
It all came true. Suppce a man should
now cry that in the futur the East ltiver
will oveiflow Brooklyn ail destroy it, and
would not sound so ttb-nl to us as the
prophecies of those men ^o, in the name
of God, stood in those greakities, standing
in their architectural ponl witl ( a glory
which the finest mansjJ^-j^ison
Square aud Fifth avenue c.
prophesying their destrnctnTi’I. et it lias
all proved true. Ibis Bible saithat all
the luxuriant fields around Baton—that
raised the finest harvest ever kivu- that
all those fields around the City (Babylon
should become a desert. It :a desert.
The traveler will now tell yon tt he goes
around through those once lnxulit fields,
aud there is not a particle of igetation,
and the hard ground blisters thBct of the
explorer. So with the city its. It was
prophesied thousands ot years More that
the ruins of that city would btle habita
tion of wild beasts. All has 'me true.
The explorer to-day- has to go Jy armed
when he looks at the ruins of BJlon. He
finds lions aud apes there, hold£ reserved
seats in the theatre. The Bip foretold
that the City of Tyre should bustroyi ti
the prophecy given at a time wn the City
of Tyre had walls 350 feet higli.il provi
sions enough lor twenty years; it that city-
should come down, and that t fishermen
should spread their nets on ! ruins. It
you should go there this S abb; fmorning,
you would find that very thinatne. The
nets of the fishermen drying * the rocks
which are the ruyis of a oncreat Tyre.
The Turks, the Tartars, the Safns, know
ing nothing about the Bible,et age after
age fulfilling prophecy literannd to the
last point. Go up ChathanJtreet, New
York, to-morrow, and you wsee the ful
fillment of prophecies madaousands ot
years ago. Why is it tin./(Jews of New
York and Loudon aud . Ptersburg and
Pekin and Vienna and lockiolm are dis
tinguishable ? The Ajriciu in foreign
land loses his nationalitatter two or three
generations you can n distinguish any
thing that seems likemerican features.
So the Englishman la his nationality,
and the Spaniard his, il the Italian his,
and the Frenchman hifmt the Jew never.
Why ? Because this be again and again
and again said in thed prophecies that
the Jews soould be itered all over the
earth, and that they raid be kept sepa
rate. So, wherever y find a Jew to-day,
whether high enouglp to belong to the
Syndicate, or low oigh down to hawk
“ old clo ’ ” through streets, there is a
fulfillment of the piracy. The Bible
thousands of years b<e said that a Mes
siah should come, o certain tribe, of a
certain family, in a cin place, at a cer
tain time. A personrresponding with
all the minute descion given in the
prophecy came, whole call onr Saviour.
He came of that venibe, of that very
family, in that very p, at that very tirtie.
Foreseen thousands ears. Who foresaw
it? Man or God? man pretends to
forsee a thousand ye No man pretends
to forsee a hundred -s. If these things
were forseen and for j, it must have been
by Divine inspiratio:
But you say theiphecies are only a
part of the Old Testnt Then I answer:
Do you think that h prophecies which,
by inexorable argon, you must admit to
the Old Testament, if they were lying im
positions? Do you think the Lord would
allow his fair^daughter, Prophecj-, to be af
fianced to this brigand of falsehood ? The
fact that these prophecies, which by over
whelming arguments you admit to be from
God -the fact that these tremendous proph
ecies have been allowed to continue for
thousands ot years in the companionship of
those other books of the New Neestament
proves that they must be good books.
Now I have shown to you how the New
Testament was handed from the heart of
Christ to our world. I have shown you.
also, how the old Testament was handed
down from the heart of God to onr world.
Will yon surrender them ? I call your at
tention to the fact that most of these Bible-
writers were illiterate and uneducated men,
wi'h no worldly advantages. Yet tlieir dic
tion, in beauty and power, puts out the
blaze of Grecian philosophy. Plain Gali
lean fishermen having a thousand-fold more
iiilluence on our times than Demosthenes,
who seems to be of but little use in our day
save to let his admirers tell some stale story
about his eloquence. These uneducated
fishermen, hands hard from the fishing-
tackle, wielding an influence over all the
following ages throughout ^Christendom !
How do you account for it? There is only
one way of accounting for it frankly. Di
vinely inspired ! Except on the ground ot
being a divine book, how do you account
for the fact that, notwithstanding all the
unlimbered batteries of earth and hell
have been aimed at this hook century after
as being both useful and easy to manufacture
at home.
The small waste-paper baskets, which can
be purchased in plain white wicker, painted
black and gilded by the purchaser, have now
been adopted as flower-pot covers, and very-
elegant ones they make, with their square
gilded handles standing up and the two small
rings hanging down as ornaments on either
side. They can lie decorated in many ways j
and take painting with great effect. An es-
I'athcr isGcHi n S Well.
My daughters say, “Ho-.v much better fath
er is since he used Hop Bitters.” He is get
ting well after his long suffering from a dis
ease declared incurable, and we are so glad
that he used your Bffters.—A lady of Roches
ter, N. Y.
The Princess of Wales not only designs her
nwn mmt.iiinna ini': outs them out herself. At
Englishwomen are adapting the tall silli j “Dressmaker to H. R. H.’
hats worn by gentlemen for was** paper bas- tieeable.
kets and work baskets. These hats when dis- . . , , . • - ,
missed by their wearers are usually only Princess Stephanie is s.u lious and retiring
about a quarter worn, as no one will wear a anrt f° n<1 Hie fi,ie arts. After her marriage
“shocking bad hat” if it be possible to get a to Rudolph, the young pair intend to spend a
new one, and to many ladies to find a use for 1 Y ear at oneof t,le oldest castlesin Bohemia,
the discarded ones will lie a great boon. I at Hindschin, near Prague. Ibe inneess
When decorated and beautified they form wi| l fill the castles with painters and mu-
really a useful end pretty novelty. The best smians, ,; n order that she may pursue the fa-
way of making them up is to embroider the ! vorite amusements of her maiden life. 1 nnce
straight piece around the hat first; cut out
a circle for the top, which will not need dec
oration, as it is not seen; then sew these on
the hat securely, hiding the stitches round the
crown with a cord of the colors used. The
brim, cover nnu the lining are prettiest of
fluted material. A very elegant one was of
black satin, embroidered or painted with red
geraniums, and the fluted lining and brim of
red satin to match. To counteract the ex
treme lightness of the hat, it may be slightly-
weighted with lead, sewn in under the lining.
When the hat-bosket described is intended
for work, loops of ribbon for scissors, thim
ble, etc., should be attached to the edge, or a
bag top may be sewn round the top.
The cheap Yeddo hats so much worn last
summer are made into “wall-pockets,” or
•hanging-baskets- The outside is brushed all
over with gold or black paint and allowed to
dry thoroughly; the inside of the brim is
lined with satin and a bag top is put in the
crown, which is drawn up with cords and
tassels. Then the brim of the hat is turned
up on one side and a bunch of dried grasses
and artificial flowers is placed there, or for
this may be substituted a bow of ribbon
matching the lining. The bag is hung
against the wall, turned with the hat outside.
Very pretty work-baskets may be made of
strawberry baskets, lined with red Turkey-
twill or satin, the lining forming a bag which
draws up at top with a ribbon, and when
open turns (low n over the basket. Two ] rack
ets are set on opposite sides of the basket
(inside, of course) and a needle box .and
straps for holding scissors, thimble, etc , are
fasten- d to the others.
Pretty catch-alls are made of the Yeddo
reed cuffs worn by chemists. For th- se they
are omb- oidered in long stiches with colored
wools, or are decorated with applique figures.
A bag bottom is ad-led and the edges are tin
ished with quilled ribbon. Slippers of the
Rudolph’s mother has given to him six of her
handsomest horses.
„ , .I i itii , i same material, lined and trimmed, are used
century, they have not knocked a piece out I for ti . Ueis .
Blotting books are ea-ily made and are
very useful. Stiff crash in two thicknesses
of it as fcig as the small end of a sharp
needle. Oh, how llie old book sticks to
gether ! Unsanclified geologists have been
pulling away at the Book of Genesis. Yet
the Book of Genesis is there! Unsanclified
astronomers have been pulling away at tht-
Book of Joshua because it seemed to inter
fere with their theories; but Joshua, like
the moon over Ajalon, stands still ! .Un
sanctified anatomists and physiologists have
been trying to pull at the Book of Jonah,
and to harpoon that whale; but the Book o
Jonah still stands- the best illustration to
all ages that when God tells a man to go t
Nineveh he can 'not go to Tarshish, though
to stop him Cod should have to upset tin
Mediterranean Sea with a cyclone. Thou
sands of uusanctified hands have been try
ing to pull out the miracles from .the New
'TT'r.TJuienL but which have they taken
Which wine-jar of the wedding tn Cana -
What piece of the torn sail of the shipping
on jGenessaret ? Which fragment of tin
pall of the young man’s funeral in Nam ?
What slice of the miraculous bread-making
in the desert? What withered leaf of tin
blasted fig-tree? What srna l piece of th-
shrond of the resurrected Lazarus? Tin
Bible stands complete. They have not suc
ceeded in stealing anything. The books,
the chapters driven in, clenched on the- oth
er side by the hammers of eternity. The
imaginary lever of Archimedes not strong
enough to pry open one passage. Tin
Judgment day with its fires will come, and
I suppose that the last books that will be
burned up will be the Bible.
HOME-MADE GIFTS,
Some
«-lo:
llasily Consti-nctcd Ai'ti
For llolidtiy Presents.
Speaking of appropriate articles for Christ
mas gifts which may be made at home, the
Philadelphia Times says:
Art needlework as applied to home deco
ration is the fashionable craze of the day.
All manner of pretty trifles are popular and
the room looks barren which does not include
some of them among its furnishings.
The many trifles manufactured of gilt and
silver card-board look especially w ell upon
the Christmas tree. Hair-pin cushions, pho
tograph-holders, cigar cases, catch-alls, air-
castles, intended for ornament only or for
use as pin cushions: all these are decorative
and easily made. For (he match safe there
are many patterns, the best of which is per
haps the double safe—two boat shaped recep
tacles, one above the other, for matches and
burnt ends respectively. Tins come for these
and the card-lioard must be cut to cover
them. These covers are ornamented with
needlework or scrap pictures and the affair
is suspended by a ribbon. Tins for whisk-
holders are covered in the santo wav, finished
w-ith ribbon quillings and with satin or silk
at the bottom to match. Split work is also
used for these and is very effective when
prettily embroidered. Such a holder makes
an acceptable present to either a lady or gen
tleman.
Empty mustard or spice boxes form a good
foundation for cigar holders. The cardboard
is cut to fit and decorated to taste. The bot
tom—of cardboard—is sewed in and quilled
ribbon hides the joint and finishes the case.
A ribbon is sewed to the sides and forms the
handle. The same case may lie hung on the
gas bracket and used for lighters. In this
case the tapers should be made and the holder
filled before giving the present. Newspaper
holders are pretty and easily made. The
al tlx* llviilenee.
A retired physician in the .St:te of New
Y"i k says: “I have read with care your
Brochure and many of the erases given and
treated by the ‘Compound Oxygen Treat
ment,’ and freely say the testimony from so
many persons ( f reputation and character,
and your reasonings and facts, ought to in
fluence the most incredulous to take the treat
ment—in such cases, at least, as to have
baffled long perseverance and skill.” Bro
chure sent free. Address Drs. Starkey &
I’ulen, m2 Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Chicago did not have a Ladies’ Deposit
Company,but it bad a Woman’s Produce Ex
change which was almost ns successful. At
present the exchange is close 1; somebody
.holds a chattel mortgage on the furniture;
tthere is no money, ami the manager grow s
lachrymosal whenever the ladies try to talk
w ith him about- business.
makes a good back for one of these. Cut
the strips nine inches wide and sixteen in
length. Work the outer one in cross-stick,
with the mom gram of the person for w hom
it is intended jimt where it will come in the
centre of the upper lid of tlie book. Brad the
edges with scarlet woolen braid or with rib
bon, so as to hold the pieces together. More
elegant blotters are of satin or velvet, made
in the same way. Double the back through
the middle, like the back of a book, and work
two buttonholes lengthwise in tlie crease.
Cut blotting paper to tit, forming, say eight
leaves, and fasten in by a ribbon passed in
through one buttonhole and out at the other,
through the paper, and tied at the !i ck in a
bow. Embroidery may be substituted for
the monogram, if desired, or etching. For
this last a design from Kate Gruttaway’s
“Under the Window” or from “Mother
Goose.” etc., looks well. If you cannot
draw, have the design stamped and mark the
lines over with India ink; or, work the pat
tern in outline stitch in color to match the
A useful present, also, is a little case to be
carried in the pocket when traveling, contain
ing scissors, comb, pins, needles, bl
whiteco ton(on flat winrlers.) sticking-plaster, j
stamps, buttonhook and thimble. This may
be made of e> ameled cloth or leather, with
loops of elastic arranged on it in such a man
tier that it will fold into a little packet about
the size of a letter and only a little thicker.
Tea cosies grow in popularity, and are at
once pret’y and usef' 1. They are made in
cap shape to cover the teapot, and as their j
miss on is to keep the tea hot, must he warm
ly wadded and lined. Quilted silk, satin or :
Merino are the materials most used for them,
but so i e are daintily embroidered or hand
painted.
The fashionable side bags will figure largely
as Christinas presents this year. Those most
liked are the fiat bags, with plated rims and
wit h ea’ches and cltara. Others are in reti
cule shape, plain or embroidered, and some
are exqusifely hand painted in floral de-igns.
Pincushions are legion. The handsomest
are of plush. Next comes silk or satin, so
beautifully embroided or painted that, as a
lady said of one such, “it, would be a sin to
stick a pin in it.”
Fans also appear among fashionable fancy
work. A five cent Japanese fan with long
handle forms the foundation. This is cover
ed with satin, enibioidered, painted or tram
med with lace and flowers. Seme have a j
butterfly, others have a humming-bird in a I
nest of luce, and all are finished with satin ;
rililx m.
Pen-wipers pass enumeration. Tlie new est j
are in form of a niinia'ur * tea-cosy, the cosy i
lined by stiff card and filled in with strips of j
cloth, or, better yet with ends of black worst
ed. The outside should he prettily w orked.
Another new pen-wiper imitates a sl aw
strap. To make this the cloth may bear-
ranged in three different colored rolls—for
instance, red, blueand gray—and padded by
odd scraps until about half an inch in dia
meter. Form small straps of enameled cl ith,
similar to those used for shawls, and fasten
the tiny luggage together. A few threads of
gold-colored silk w ill represent the buckles.
Another style is a small cup stuffed tight
w ith a tassel of black wool; indeed, there is
no limit to the forms which this necessary
appendage to a w riting table may assume.
V ry useful on a dressing table are the lit
tle baskets of three or four incites in diame
ter, just large enough to hold a spool of black
cotton, one of white, a thimble, needle-book
and a tiny pair of scissors. Baskets of this
kind are to lie had resting on three legs
and may, with a little patience and in
genuity, be made exceedingly pretty as
well as useful. They should be carefully
lilted with a little gray colored silk or
satin and should have a small pocket just
large enough for a thimble, tacked inside,
and opposite this should be fast- tied a tiny
stuffed pin cushion. The scissors should have
a sheath of the same color as the lining, if
possible, and the needle-book should be small
but convenient for holding two flat papers of
needles nnd a leaf or two of fine flannel. A
little cord around the edge of the basket is a
great improvement and
Jiiiiiliy of Wrong,
Some people have a fashion of confusing
excellent remedies with the large mass of
“patent medicines,” and in this they are
guilty of wrong There are some advertised
remedies fully worth all that is asked for
them, and one at least we know of—Hop Bit
ters. The writ r has bad occasion to use tlie
Bitters in just such a climate as we have
most of the year in Bay City, and has always
found them to t>3 first-clast and reliable, do
ing all that is claimed for them.—Tribune,
IX EITHER UOI'H) OR DRY FORM
That Acts at. the Same Time on
The Liver,
The Bowels,
and the Kidneys.
natural cleanser;
i ll. health will Ik
icy become il dmuiful dis-
• -uses are sure U- follow w ith'
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
Bitiousneya, lit attache, Dj^i* Jant, flirt'.
Constipation. Piles, y (omplain Is.
Grart t. biahttoi. Ilh* tnn>;‘‘ic Pal on or . \fhm.
the humors that should he < spelled naturally.
KIDNEY-WORT
n and all these destrt
shed; neglect them and
fid
There is no civilized nation in the Western
Hemisphere in w Inch the utility of Hostet-
ter’s Stomach Bitters as a tonic, corrective,
and ami-bilious medicine, is not known and
appreciated. Whi*e it is a medicine for till
seasons and climates, it is especially suited to
the complaints generated by the weather,
being the purest and best vegetable stimu
lant in the world.
For sale by Druggists and Dealers, to whom
apply for Hostetter’s Almanac for iSSl. de
r SCRAP
BOOK
finish.
some of the trifles which may lie made as
frames for these are sold at fancy stores m'ul * Christmas presents for those who will value
are merely wooden or paper Jache backs own^andi^k
with slits through which the straps pass. ° " “ t K '
There are two of these straps of strong can
vas, bound with ribbon and worked in point
Russe or cross stitch. These straps hold the
newspapers and ntay be let out or taken up as
desired. The holder is to be hung on the
wall and forms a most ornamental adjunct
to a study table.
Baskets of all kinds are popular and are
variously decorated. Open wicker baskets
are still in great favor for waste baskets.
They are decorated with lambrequins made
of cloth, velvet or sateen. When this last
named material is used cretonne flow r ers may
be transferred to the centre of each Vandyke
and finished with silk or crewels round the
edge; small tassels finish the points. The
smaller sizes have now been adopted as
workbaskets, for which purpose they are
lined with Turkey red, and the lining coming
up beyond the top is used as a bag and gath
ered up with drawing-strings. These, how
ever, are not new, but they dcservejinention
Greenwoqd, S. C., Jan. 27, IS80.
Dr. L. T. Hill:
Dear Sir—Knowing the constituent ele
ments of your Hepatic Panacea, I have
used it in my practice with most gratifying
results. I unhesitatingly recommend it as
a reliable and valuable alterative and gentle
catharic. Its rapidly increasing popularity
attests the value of its medicinal properties.
Yours respectfully,
M. C. TAGGART, M. D.
For sale to the trade by W. H. Barrett,
Augusta, Ga., and by druggists generally.
Fresh political complications in the East.
Trouble is surely brewing in Ireland.
efully 1
1 of ten thousand fine engraving*-.
I Size, from 50 to 100 square inehes
1 each. Suitable for framing, for scrap
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copying by those learning to draw.
^for subjects for compositions, and
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