About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1887)
€ THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12,1887. TO TELL THE AC* OF A HORSE. To tell the ago of auy muse, 1 aspect the lower ] iw, ot course: The sixth frout tooth the tale will tell, Aud every doubt and fear dispel. Two m ddle ‘nippers” you behold Before the colt Is two weeks old, Before eight weeks two more will come, Eight months the “corners" cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two In just one year, In two years from the second pair; In three the corners, too, are bare. At two the middle “nippers” drop; A* three the s c nd pair can’t stop, Wnen four years old the third pair goes; A! fl re a lull new set he shows. The deep black spots will pass from view At six years from the middle two, The second pair at seven years; At eight the spot each ‘ comer’’ clears. From middle “nippers” upper J iw At nine the black spots will wltndraw, The second pair at ten are white; Eleven flods the “corners” light. As the time goes on, the horsemen know, T ie oval teeth three-sided grow; They longer get, project before TUI twenty, when we know no more. —Toronto Truth, How the Hen Can Win Popularity. Illinois reports a chicken with four legs, and New Jersey a pullet wilhsix wings. But what we want is a chicken with eight breasts, so as to go around a small family.—Philadelphia Call. Cuttings, Crafts and Buds. Raceland, the phenomenal "-year old. has been sold for seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. He was purchased a year ago for three hundred dollars. Gen. Simon Cameron has a steer that weighs 2,100 pounds and measures over eight feet around the body. A Wonderful Tree. The Banyan-tree is well known to science. It thrown out branches which, touching the ground take root, so that after awhile a whole forest may grow from a single tree. But there is another wonderful tree, with similar power, that has just been discovered in New Guinea. This tree also throws out branches, but instead of taking root, the branches twine themselves around any object they touch, and lift the ob ject into the air. Alabama Sugar Cane. Mr. C. II. Tarver, Pine Grove, Bullock coun ty, Alabama, has shown samples of his sugar cane, the stalks of which were seven feet high. He had an acre and a quarter, from which he expects to make fifteen barrels of syrup. Some of his neighbors, who have inspected his crop, estimate that he will make that much. This will be 450 gallons, which, at 40 cents a gallon, will amount to $180. Mr. Tarver has just gathered his sweet potato crop He had one acre, from which he gathered 200 bushels worth to-day 00 cents a bushel, or $120. This beats cotton. Facts for Poultry Keepers. [Prairie Parmer.] Absolute cleanliness is most essential to health. Buy eggs only from reliable sources, if you want to be certain of reliable fowls Ho not try to keep too many breeds. If artificial stimulants tend to the production of eggs, so do they to that of debility as well. If grain is fed upon a floor covered a few incbes deep with straw, the exercise the fowls get in scratching for it, is good for them. Egg-eating hens are best broken of the habit by cutting off their heads. If they are very valuable, it is worth trying to cure them by putting cayenne pepper into an egg, pasting up the hole, and letting the hen eat it. Give fowls plenty of sunshine in the winter. They can not do well if they are kept shut up in a dark or dimly lighted house. Success in poultry keeping, as in every oth er b'isinese, requires a thorough knowledge of its details. Cost of Wintering Stock. At this season of the year it is important that farmers should seriously consider the cost of wintering stock. If they did this undoubt edly many animals would be sold for what they would be sold for what they would bring, or possibly killed as not worth wintering. There is no use in trying to make believe it will not cost much to winter stock even in the poorest manner. It does not really make much difference what the feed is, the cost for the best is little more than for the poorest. Grain is considered dear, white straw and cornstalks are thought to cost little or nothing. Vet near a market straw always sells for more than its feeding value. Of late years grain has gener ally been cheaper than hay. Happy is the farmer whose stock is all so good that he need raise no question as to whether it will pay to winter it. Of course, having good stock he will feed grain pretty largely to get as much as possible out of it. This will make rich ma nure so that, both stock and farm will improve together. The man who stints his stock in winter, either in quantity or quality, is stand ing in his own light, though it takes both good feeding and good stock to make positive profit in keeping animals through our long Northern winters. The Horse’s Feet Few farmers give that attention to their horses’ feet that they should give. Most men rub and curry well enough, perhaps, and many take great pride and plenty of time in smooth ing the horse’s bide; but seldom is it that they think of that most indispensible part, the horse’s feet, and stop to give them that little attention and inspection that is almost daily necessary. The feet of the horse require as much atten tion as the body, and some horses’ feet much more. Without sound feet the horse is not of much service for labor. A horse’s feet may become unsonnd by having to stand in a filthy stable. The floor and bedding of the stable should always be dry, and the manure that is caked under foot every morning should be carefully removed by the groom. As often as necessary the foot should be pared, and the frog examined as to soundness and hardness. A little alum water and brine should be kept at hand, ai d the frog of the foot mopped with it once a week to keep the frog sound and hard. A soft frog causes the animal to get lamed easiiy, and so he cannot travel or work well. Sometimes stones or other hard substances get fastened in the foot, and if not removed cause lameness. Copperas thrown over the manure of the stable to destroy smell, will tend to keep the hoof sound. It is well to sprinkle it over the stable frequently, if for no other purpose to cure the unpleasant smell that often attaches to the feet of the horse. Blaster will have the same effect, and is very useful to prevent the loss of ammonia from the manure.—Southern Cultivator. Silk In Yucatan. The government of the State of Yucatan, Mexico, is making experiments on a new spe cies < f silk, produced by a wild silkworm, which is closey allied to the domestic silk worm. The silk on the cocoons is elastic and of excellent quality, though rather uncertain in color, varying from white to ale brown, but one difficulty is that it is covered with a gum which is very diflicult to dissolve. Sumter County, Ceorgia, Beats the World. James Alexander, of Americus, exhibits a small limb which has upon it four good sized apples of a second crop. The tree bore a bountiful crop of apples in the summer, and is now full with a second crop. His fig trees are also full with a second crop. J. N. Scarbor ough says he has a LeConte pear tree which is full with a second crop. A Horned Rooster. The Durham, N. C., Tobacco Plant says that Mr. Walter Lewellin, living near Durham, has a veritable curiosity. It is no humbug. It is a rooster, no doubt about that. Mr. C. D Whitaker, who knows a chicken when he sees it, pronounces it a horned rooster. He is small, common looking chicken, on the red ‘‘dominecker’’ order. The horns come out over each eye, and each horn is about one and a half or two inches long, and looks exictly like a ram’s horn. It is a lusus naturce that the oldest inhabitant never saw equaled. Feeding for Milk or Butter. A great supply of milk does not always mean a la-ge butter yield. If the cow is in reasonably good condition she will put in the cream-pot all the fat-forming food she eats, and if an extra good cow something more. In other words, she will grow poor while giving milk. There is nothing more stimulating to milk creation than warm mashes of wheat bran, but the milk will not be rich in cream ex cept at the expense of the cow. If butter making is wbat is aimed at, corn or oat meal must be added to the bran, and if the cow grows poor on this feed, omit the bran alto gether. Tobacco in Florida. The Monticello, (Fla.) Constitution says: It is conceded that from COO to 1,000 pounds of merchantable tobacco per acre can be grown in Jefferson county—in fact, Mr. Bruce, on Mr. Kedney’s farm in this county, realized the past season from five acres of land 0,000 pounds of tobacco. This tobacco, if placed upon the market, will command from $1 500 to $1 800—from $300 to $300 per acre. The same land—five acres—if planted in cotton would probably not yield exceeeding 1 250 pounds of lint cotton, 250 pounds to the acre, and if it should bring 8c. per pound the sum total realized from the five acres would be $100. It requires not exceeding six months labor and attention to cultivate and prepare the tobacco for market. It requires ten months of the twelve to cultivate, pick, gin and market the cotton. The Colt Liked Fruit. A gentleman who keeps a two-year-old colt in a lot where there is fruit has been particular of late to have all the fruit that fell during the night gathered before the colt was turned out in the morning, thinking the fellow would get all that his system required if he ate what fell during the day. Yesterday afternoon one of the family heard a pear tree rattle, and slip ping to the window to see if the tree was be ing molested, she saw the colt rubbing against it. Directly a pear was started and the colt at once made for it. Then he repeated the rub bing operation till another fell, which he se cured and ate. He had been seen rubbing against the tree before, but his movements were not watched, and his owner has no doubt but that he has secured his share of the fruit and didn’t take up windfalls either.— Hartford Courant. <&cm& of Cljougfjt. Nothing eo soon reconciles us to the thought of our own death as the prospect of one friend after another dropping around us.—Seneca. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body; therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.—Lord Bacon Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.— Burke. That which lays a man open to an enemy, and that which strips him of a friend, equally attacks him in all those interests that are capa ble of being weakened by the one and support ed by the other.—South. Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and be come inflexible.—Sir Thomas Browne. The person who has a firm trust in a Su preme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.—Addi son. The strongest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.—Colton. They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such as have lived to no purpose, who have rather breathed than lived.—Earl of Clarendon. No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.—Lord Bacon. As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.—T. Fuller. Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and ttiere can be no friendship with out confidence, and no confidence without in tegrity; and he must expect to be wretched who pays to beauty, riches or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim — Dr. Johnson. CurioujS A gas well recently bored atFairmountlnd., flows nearly 12,000,000 cubic feet per day. Color blindness is twice as common among Quakers as it is among the rest of the commun ity, owing to their having dressed in drab for generations and thus disused the colot sense. There are now about 10,000 metal aDd elas tic contrivances in the market for the sole pur pose of holding together and at a respecful dis tance different portions of gentleman’s wear ing apparel. A cherry tree of the white Oxheart variety on the premises of John Capura of Oroville, Cal., bore this season 2,800 pound of fruit. It is eighteen years old, is sixty feet high and six feet in circumference. In Brown County, 111., is the home of a man who is in his eighty-sixth year, and has never seen a piano, never been within ten miles of a railway, never wore a collar or necktie, never' had on a pair of socks Bince he can remember. The fibre of silk is the longest continuous fibre known. An ordinary cocoon of a well-fed silk worm will often reel 1,000 yards, and relia ble accounts are given of a cocoon yielding 1,295 yards, or a fibre nearly three quarters of a mile in leng’h. A Dutchman of the sixteenth century paint ed a landscape the size of a grain of wheat, in which was to be plainly discerned a mill, a miller going upstairs with a sack of corn on his back, and some peasants going along a winding country road. The Massachusetts men whose heads are conspicuous on the paper currecy of the coun try are: On the 10 dollar greenbacks, Webster; 50-dollar greenbacks, Franklin; on the 50-dol- lar silver certificate, Edward Everett; and on the 500-dollar, Charles Sumner. The Swiss watchmakers have invented a watch for the blind. A small peg is set in the centre of each figure. When the hour hand is approaching a certain hour the peg for that hour drops when the quarter before it is pass ed. The person feels the peg is down, and then counts back to twelve. He can thus tell the time Within a few minutes, and by practice he can become so expert as to tell the time al most exactly. QURPllLPIT ^ ijStorical. Object Lesson In Economy. We now sport a nice milch cow. How did we get her? Bought her. Faid $40 for her, the whole amount being ten cents per day, saved since March 0, 1886 ( *n that day a friend of ours insisted on treating us to a smoke, as it was our birthday, but we refuse! the kindness, informing him courteously that we never smoked a cigar, to which he replied that he averaged from one to three per day, at a cost oi five to twenty cents each day, aud that he never missed the small change. We told him then that from that day on we would la? away ten cents per day as long as we were able to do to, and see bow much it would amount to etch year. We have kept it up to date, and as a consequence we have a fine Durham cow and calf bought with 400 ten-cent pieces —Bandera (Tex ) Bwjle. Band Together. Recently a number of farmers held a meet- ing, the object being to form an association for the purpose of breeding fine poultry. They canvassed the matter thoroughly, and were unanimously of the opinion that the ordinary dung hill “must go,’’ and a resolution was im mediately passed which disposed of the mon grels to the market master. Each man then selected one variety of pure bred fowls to raise, and the understanding is that the rights of one shall not be encroached on by the other mem bers. By this mode, the qualities of several breeds can be tested in the same neighborhood and at the same time without entailing a great expense or a vast amount of labor. The re sult will be mutually ben ficial, and a few sea sons will demonstrate the great superiority of the pure bred fowl over the mongrel. The ex ample of this set of farmers should be fol lowed iu every community not only with poul try, but with stock of all kinds.—Farmers’ Home Journal. Good Farming in North Carolina. A Franklin county farmer, R. T. Holden, with the assistance one mule, a sixteen-year- old boy and five dollars in day labor, has made this year forty barrels of corn, sixty-five bushels of wheat, two large stacks of oats, a large quantity of pens and potatoes, has gin ned eleven bales of cotton averaging four hun dred and seventy-five pounds each, and will get about four bales more. In addition to this he has a good garden. This will pass for good farming if we are any judge. From Buncombe county (in the mountains of Western North Carolina) we have the fol lowin'.-; The Asheville Citizen says: Our countryman, T. L. Weaver, Esq , of Reems Creek township, brought to our office yester day some as fine sweet potatoes as we have 8*en grown in Edgecombe county, the native home of this delicious esculent. They are of the Texas six-weeks variety. Mr. W., says says he raised about 450 bushels of these po tatoes on one acre; got one peck of good ones from one hili; while a neighbor got one weighing nine pounds, and two from one hill weighing twelve pounds. This shows what our country will do when our people try. At 70 cents a bushel this acre fetches $315. Files were in use among artisans as early as 1093 B. C. Leaden pipes for the conveyance of water were brought into use in 1286. Licenses for the increase of the public reve nue originated with Richard I. about 1190. The earliest known letter is that sent to Joab by David, by the hand of Uriah, about 1035 B. C. At the destruction of Jerusalem 1,100,000 Jews ate said to have been put to the sword A. D. 70. The nobility of England date their creation from 1066, when William Fitz-Osbome is said to have been made Earl of Hereford by Wil liam I. The first laws of navigation originated with the Rhodians, 916 B. C. The first considerable voyage was that of the Phoenicians sailing round Africa, 604 B. C. Otto von Guericke constructed the first elec trical machine, a globe of sulphur, about 1647. Humphrey Davy produced electric light with carbon points in 1802. Popp;ea, the wife of Nero, is said to have invented masks to guard her complexion from the sun; but theatrical masks were in use among the Greeks and Romans. The great London fire in 1666 destroyed eighty-nine churches (including St. Paul’s), many public buildings and 13,200 houses, ana made homeless 200,000 people. Southern Planters’ True Policy. A distinguished planter from Mississippi, General Myles, iu a brief off-hand talk from the floor, seemed to give the most satisfactory so lution. His first position was that the planter should so conduct his operations as to be able to withhold his cotton from the market when the price was below the cost of production, which would consequently, if generally done, be sure to enhance prices. To do this the planter should make himself independent of advances by factors or indebtedness to mer chants. He should not plant all cotton and buy everything he needed; he should raise all his own supplies, and buy nothing that he could raise at home. Tne South pays the Northwest fifty millions of dollars per year for ro^at, near,y all of which could be raised at home; it pays the Western States twenty-five miliioi s per year for mules which could be mainly raised at home. Gen. Myles owned four hundred slaves before the war. At the close of the war he was burdened with a debt of $210,000, bearing ten per cent, interest. Within twenty crops he had paid off tnis debt and was now independent in his circumstan ces. He practiced what he preached, and he believed others could do the same. The Gen eral’s speech made a profound impression.— Major Fairbanks, in Fernandina Mirror. “Have you cologne?’’ she asked,—“No, ma am,” replied the druggist; “I have no scents at all.’ he bad. She said he did not look as if A Determined Young Woman. [New York letter to the Indianapolis Journal.] A daintily clad little woman—she was one of the best operators as well as the prettiest— whom I had noticed several times in a down town type-writing office, was missing from her desk the other day. The plump, prosperous looking head of the establishment smoothed down some rebellious reddish-brown locks as she explained, to an accompanying clatter- and-bang, as if the whole alphabet were out on a spree. “I didn’t expect to keep her long,’’ she said. “She came to me a year ago to learn the business, and her mother—she wore dia monds—came with her, half apologizing for the daughter’s whim. The two of them wore gowns that turned the heads of the whole office, and looked as if they had money enough and to spare. It turned out, when I was in my new apprentice’s confidence a little, that she was engaged to a law student—an impecunieus one—and that they wanted to marry as soon as he was admitted to the bar. ‘Papa’ had absolutely refused his consent, and ‘mamma’ frowned on the whole thing. So what does my lady do but get per mission, without assigning any reason for the freak, to learn type-writing—she is studying short-hand, too—having taken the idea into her head that if she and her law student chose to marry when the time same, she could support the family until the appearance of some fees. They had the knot tied a cou ple of days ago, the household powers to the contrary notwithstanding, and are taking a week’s holiday somewhere down on the shore. She told me she should be ready for work when she came back, and I think she will. She has been earning $7 a week, and is about expert enough to get $10 now. That will help them out for a while, though I fancy her hus band won’t leave her here long.” Chansing a Farm to a Sheep Ranche. The "Cuthbert Liberal (Randolph county, Ga.)say8: We heard a gentleman say the other day that he was gradually converting his farm into a sheep ranche. The wool from a sheep is estimated to be worth $1 a year. Five hundred head would pay a nice little sum into the family exchequer and then not mo nopolize a man’s time by any means. A Wonderful food and medicine, known and used by Physicians all over the world. Scott’s Emulsion not only gives flesh and strength by virtue of i.s own nutritious properties, but creates an appetite for food that builds up the wasted body. “I have been using Scott’s Emulsion for several years, and am pleased with its action. My patients say it is p.easant and palatable, and all grow stronger and gain flesh from the use of it. I use it in all cases of Wasting Diseases, and it is specially useful for children when nutrient medication is needed as in marasmus.”—T. W. Pierce, M. D., Knox ville, Ala. TALMAGE’S SERMON. Brooklyn, November 6.—The main feature in the music of the Brooklyn tabernacle is the congregational singing. To-day, after the opening song, in which all the thousands heartily participated, Professor Browne gave on the organ, Scherzo, opus 6r, by Mendel ssohn. Tne Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., expounded a chapter in the first book of Sam uel, where Saul, possessed of an evil spirit, threw a javelin at David, who was playing on the harp before him, thus showing that the evil spirit does not like sacred music. The subject of the sermon was “Concord and Dis cord,” and the text was from Job, chapter xxxviii., 5, 6 and 7. “Who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together?” Dr. Talmage said: We have all seen the ceremony at the lay ing of the corner-stone of church, asylum or Masonic temple. Into the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history and important documents to be sugges’ive if, one or two huD dred years after, the building should be de stroyed by fire or torn down. We remember the silver trowel or iron hammer that smote the square piece of granite into sanctity. We remember some venerable man who presided, wielding the trowel or hammer. We remem ber, also, the music as the choir stood on the scattered stones and timber of the building about to be constructed. The leaves of the note-books fluttered in the wind, and were turned over with a great rustling, and we re member how the bass, baritone, tenor, con tralto and soprano voices commingled. Tfiey had for many days been rehearsing the special programme, that it might be worthy of the corner-stone laying. In my text the poet of Uz calls us to a gran der ceremony—the laying of the foundation of this gieat temple of a world. The corner-stone was a block of light and the trowel was of ce lestial crystal. All about and on the embank ments of cloud stood the angelic choristers, unrolling their librettos of overture, and other worlds clapped shining cymbals while the cer emony went on, and God, the architect, by stroke of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of a world, with moun tains for pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling, and flowering fields for fl >or, and sunrise and midnight aurora for upholstery. “Who laid the corner-stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together?” The fact is that the whole universe was a complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The great sheet of immen sity had been spread out, and written on it were the stars, the smaller of them minims, the larger of them sustained notes. The me teors marked the staccato passages, the whole heavens a gamut, with all sounds, intonations and modulations, the space between the worlds a musical interval, trembling of stellar light a quaver, the thunder a base clef, the wind among trees a treble clef. That is the way God made all things, a perfect harmony. But one dgy a harp-string snapped in the great orchestra. One day a voice sounded out of tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrif- fic, grated upon the glorious antiphone. It was the sin that made the dissonance, and that harsh discord has been sounding through the centuries. All the work of Christians, aud philanthropists, and reformers of all ages, is to stop that discord and get all things back into the perfect harmony which was heard at the laying of the corner-stone, when the morning stars sangAogstt^r. Before I get through, if I am divinely helped, I will make it plain that sin is discord and righteousness is harmony. That thiags in general are out of tune is as plain as to a musician’s ear is the unhappy clash of clarionet and bassoon in an orches tral rendering. The world’s health out of tune: Weak lung and the atmosphere in collision, disordered eye and noonday light in quarrel, rheumatic limb in damp weather in struggle, neuralgias, and pneumonias, and consumptions, and epilepsies in flocks swoop upon neighborhoods and cit ies. Where you find one person with sound throat, and keen eyesigh', and alert ear, and easy respiration, and regular pulsation, and supple limb, and prime digestion, and steady nerves, you find a hundred who have to be very careful because this, or that, or the other physical functions is disordered. The human intellect out of tone: The judg ment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky, or the will weak, or the tamper inflammable, and the well balanced mind exceptional. Domestic life out of tune: Only here and there a conjugal outbreak of incompatibility of temper through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak about a father’s will through the sur rogate’s court, or a case of wife-beating or husband poisoning through the criminal courts, bat thousands of families with June outside and January within. Society out of tune: Labor and capital, their hands on each other’s throat. Spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale in a struggle to get up, and putting those who are up in anxiety lest they have to come down. No wonder the old pianoforte of society is all out of tune, when hypocracy, and lying, and subterfuge, and double dealing, and sycophan cy, and cbaraltanism, and revenge have for six thousand years been nanging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of harmonies. ^Nations in discord: Without re alizing, it so wrong is the feeling of nation for nation that the symbols chosen are fierce and destructive. In this country, where our skies are full of robins, and doves, aud morning larks, we have our national symbol, the fierce and filthy eagle, as immoral a bird as can be found in all tne ornithological catalogues. In Great Britain, where they have lambs and fal low deer, their symbol is the merciless lion. In Russia, where from between her frozen north and blooming south all kindly beasts dwell, they choose the growling bear; aud in the world’s heraldry a favorite figure is the dragon, which is a winged serpent, ferocious and deathful. And so fond is the world of contention that we climb out through the heav ens and baptize one of the other planets with the spirit of battle, and call it Mars, after the god of war, and we give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name of the scorpion, acreature whnh is chiefly celebrated for its deadly sting. But, after all, these symbols are expressive of the way nation feels toward nation. Discord wide as the continent and bridging the seas. I suppose you have noticed how warmly in love you dry goods stores are with other dry goods stores and how highly grocery men think of the sugars of the grocery men on the same block. And in what a eulogistic way alopath- ic and homeopathic doctors speak of each other, and how ministers will sometimes put ministers on that beautiful cooking it. strument which the English call a spit, an iron roller with spikes on it, and turned by a crank before a hot fire, and then if the minister beiLg roast ed cries out against it, the men who are turn ing him say: “Hnsh, brother! we are turning this spit for the glory of God and the good of your soul, and you must be quiet while we close the set vice with: “Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love.” The earth is diametered and circumferenced with disccre, and the music that was rendered at the laying of the world’s corner stone, when the morning stars sang together, is not heard now; and though here and there, from this and that part of society, and from this and that part of the earth, there comes up a thrilling solo of love, or a warble of worship, or a sweet duet of patience, they are drowned out by a discord that shakes the earth. Paul says: “The whole creation groaneth.” and while the nightingale and the woodlark and the canary and the plover sometimes sing so sweetly that their notes have been written out in musical notation, and it is found that the cuckoo sings in the key of D. and that the coromant is a basso in the winged choir, yet sportsman’s gun and the autumnal blast often leave them ruffled and bleeding or dead in meadow or forest. Paul was right, for the tan, the latter to be in the composer’s service. But one night he handed to Satan a viqjuo, on which DtaboIa-plA^Sd such s veet nuisib that the composer was awakened by the emotion and tried to reproduce the sounds, and there from was written Tartini’s most famous piece, entitled the “Devil’s Sonate,” a dream ingt- nious but faulty, for ail meloldy descends from heaven, and only discords ascend from hell. All ha reds, feuds, controversies, backbitings and revenges are the devil’s sonata, are diabol ic fugue, are demoniac phantasy, are grand march of dfom, are allegro of perdition. But if in this world things in general are out of tune to our frail ear, how much more so to ears angelic and deific. It takes a skilled art ist fully to appreciate disagreement of sound. Many have no capacity to detect a defect of musical execution, and, though there were in one bar as many offenses against harmony as could crowd in between the lower E of the bass and the higher G of the soprano, it would give them no discomfort, while on the forehead of the educated artist beads of perspiration would stand out as a result of the harrowing disso nance. While an amateur was performing on a piano and had just struck the wrong chord, John Sebastian Bach, the immortal composer, ent red the room, and the amateur rose iu em barrassment, and Bach, rushed past the host, who stepped forward to greet him, and before the keyboard had stopped vibrating, put his adroit hand upon the keys and changed the painful inharmony into glorious cadence. Then Bach turned and gave salutation to the host who had invited him. But the worst of all discords is moral dis- oord. If society and the world are painfully discordant to imperfect man, what must they be to a perfect God. People try to define what sin is. It seems to me that sin is getting out of harmony with God, a disagreement with his holiness, with his purity, with his love, with his commands, our will clashing with his will, the finite dashing against the infinite, the fr *il against the puissant, the created against the Creator. If a thousand musicians, with flute, and cornet-a-piston, and trumpet, aud violincello, and hautboys, and trombone, and all the wind and stringed instruments that ever gathered in a Dusseldorf jubilee should resolve that they should play out of tuDe, and put cod cord to the rack, and make the place wild with shrieking, and grating, and raspiDg sounds, they could not make such a pandemo nium as that which rages in a sinful soul when God listens to the play of its thoughts, pas sions and emotions—discord, lifelong discord, maddening discord. The world pays more tor discord than it does for consonance. High prices have been paid for music. One man gave two hundred and twenty-five dollars to hear the Swedish songstress in New York, and another six hundred and twenty-five dollars to hear her in Boston, and another six hundred and fifty dollars to hear her in Providence. Fabulous prices have been paid for sweet sounds, but far more has been paid for dis cord. The Crimean war cost one billion seven hundred million dollars, and our American civil war over nine and a half billion dollars, and the war debts of professed Christian na tions are about fifteen billion dollars. The world pays for this red ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia of broken bones, and death agonies, and destroyed cities, aud ploughed graves, and crushed hearts, any amount of money Satan asks. Discord! Discord! But I have to tell you that the song that the morning stars sang together, at the laying of the world’s corner-stone, is to be resumed again. Mozart’s greatest overture was com posed one night when he was several times overpowered with sleep, and artists say they can tell the places in the music where he was falling asleep, and the places where he awak ened. So the overture of the morning stars, spoken of in my text, has been asleep, but it will awaken and be more grandly rendered by the evening stars of the world’s existence than by the morning stars, and the vespers will be sweeter than the matins. The work of all good men and women, and of all good church es, and all reform associations is to bring the race back to the original harmony. The re bellious heart to be attuned, social life to be attuned, commercial ethics to be attuned, in ternationality to be attuned, hemispheres to be attuned. But by what force and in what way? In olden time the choristers had a tunning fork with two prongs, and they would strike it on the back of pew or music rack, and put it to the ear, and then start the tune, and all the other voices would join. In modern orchestra the leader has a complete instrument, rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and all the other performers turn the keys of their instruments io make them correspond, and sound the bow over the string and listen and sound out over again, until all the keys are screwed to concert pitch, and the discords melt into one great symphony, and the curtain hoists, and the ba ton taps, and audiences are raptured with Schnman’s “Paradise and the Peri,” or Ros sini’s “Stabat Mater,” or Bach’s “Magnificat” in D, of Gounod’s “Redemption.” Now our world can never be attuned by an imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona would not do. Heaven has ordained the only instru ment, and it is made out of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany it are im ported voices, cantatrices of the first Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good-will to men.” Lest we start too far off, and get lost in the generalities, we had bettter begin with ourselves, get our own hearts and life in harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for his almighty spirit to attune us, to chord our will with His will, to modulate our life with His life, and bring us into unison with all that is pure and self-sacrificing and heaven ly. The strings of our nature are all broken and twisted, and the bow is so slack it cannot evoke anything mellifluous. The instrument made for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck by influences worldly and demoniac. O! master hand of Christ, restore this split and fractured and despoiled and un strung nature until first it shall wail out for our sin and then thrill with divine pardon. The whole world must also be attuned by the same power. A few days ago I was in the Fairbanks weighing sc tie manufactory of Ver mont. Six hundred hands, and they have never had a strike. Complete harmony be tween labor and capital, the operatives of scores of yesrs in their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose inven tion and Christian behavior made the great enterprise. So all the world over labor and capital will be brought into euphony. You may have heard what is called the Anvil Cho rus, composed by Verdi, a tune played by hammers, great and small, now wiih mighty stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beating a great iron anvil. Taat is what the world has got to come to—anvil chorus, yardstick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickaxe chorus, gold-mine chorus, rail-track chorus, locomotive chorus. It can be done, and it will be done. So all the social life will be attuned by the gospel harp. There will be as many clasi • i in society as now,but the classes will not be regulated by birth, or wealth, or accident, but by the scale of virtue and bene volence, and people will be assigned to their places as good, or very good, or most excel lent. So, also, commercial life will be attun ed, and there will be twelve in every dozen, and sixteen ounces in every pound, and apples at the bottom of the barrel will be as eouod as those on the top, and silk geode will not be cotton, and sellers will not have to charge honest people more than the right price be cause others will not pay, and goods will come to you corresponding with the sam ple by which you purchased them, and coffee will not be chickoried, and sugar will not be sanded, and milk will not be chalked, and adulteration of food will be a state’s prison offense. Aye, all things shall be attuned. Election in England and the United States will no more be a grand carnival of defama tion and scurrility, but the elevation of right eous men in a righteous way. In the sixteenth century the singers called the Fischer Brothers, reached the lowest bass ever recorded, and the highest note ever trilled was by La Bastardella, and Catalini’s voice had a compass of three and a half octaves, but Christianity is more wonderful; for it runs all up and down the greatest heights and the deepest depths of the world’e necessity, and it will compass everything and bring it in accord with the song which the morning stars sang at the laying of the world’s corner-stone. All the sacred music in homes, and concert halls and churches tends toward this consummation. Make it more and more hearty. Sing in your families. Sing in your places of business. If we with proper spirit use these faculties, we are rehearsing for the skies. Heaven is to have a new song, an entirely new song, but I should not wonder if, as some time on earth a tune is fashioned out of many tunes, or it is one tune with the variations, so s ime of the songs of the redeemed may have playing through them the songs of earth, and how thrilling as coming through the great an them of the saved, accompanied by harpers with their harps and trumpeters with their trumpets, we should hear some of the strains of Antioch and Mount Pisgah and Coronation FLOWERS! Hvacinth Bulbs, Fine Roses, Tulips, Crocuses, An* Rare Plants of All Kinds. £^=SEND fob catalogue to EVERGREEN LODGE FLOWER GARDEN, 621-8t Clarkesville, Tenn. the church worship in which on earth we min gled 1 I have no idea that when we bid fare well to earth we are to bid farewell to all these grand old gospel hymns, which melted and raptured our souls for so many years. Now, my friends, if sin is discord and righteousness is harmony, let us get out of the one and enter the other. After our dreadful civil war was over, and the summer of 1S69, a great nation al peace jubilee was held in Boston, and as an elder of this church had been honored by the selection of soma of his music, to be rendered on that occasion, I accompanied him to the jubilee. Forty thousand people sat and stood in the great Coliseum erected for that purpose. Thousands of wind and stringed instruments Twelve thousand trained voices. The master pieces of all ages rendered hour after hour, and dav after day—Handel’s “Judas Macca- baeus,” Sphor’s “List Judgment,’’ Beetho ven’s “Mount of Olives.” Haydn’s “Crea tion,” Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” Meyerbeer’s “Coronation March,” rolling on and up in surges that billowed against the heavens. The mighly cadenees within were accom panied on the outside by the ringing of the bells of the city and cannon on the commons, in exact time with the music discharged by electricity, thundering their awful bars of a harmony that astounded all nations. Some times I bowed my head and wept. Sometimes I stood up in the enchantment, and someti nes the effect was so overpowering I felt I could not endure it. When all the voices were in full chorus, and all the batons in full wave and all the orchestra in full triumph, and a hundred anvils under mighty hammeis were in full clang, and all the towers of the city rolled in their majestic sweetness, and the whole building quaked with the boom of thirty cannon. Parepa Rosa, with a voice that will never again be equalled on earth until the arch-angelic voice proclaims that time shall be no longer, rose above all other sounds in her rendering of our national air, the Star Span gled banner. It was too much for a mortal, and quite enough for an immortal, to hear, aud while some fainted, one womanly spirit, released under its power, sped away to be with God. , , , O Lord, our Gad, quickly usher in the whole world’s peace jubilee, aud all islands of the sea join the five continents, and all the voices and musical instruments of all nations com bine, and all the organs that ever sounded requiem of sorrow sound only a grand march of joy, and all the bells that tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and all the cannon that ever hurled death across the nations sound to eternal victory, and over all the acclaim of earth and minstrelsy of heaven there will be heard one voicb sweeter and mightier than any human or angelic voice, a voice once full of tears, but then full cf triumph, the voice of Christ saying: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” Then at the laying of the top-stone of the world’s history, the same voice shall be heard as when, at the laying of the world’s corner stone, “the morning stars sang together.” THE CHILL MISTER. 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