Georgia Historic Newspapers

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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-
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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
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well to earth we are to bid farewell to all these
grand old gospel hymns, which melted and
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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.
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and dav after day—Handel’s “Judas Macca-
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“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.”
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