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MOTS IN THE BIBLE.
DR. TALMAGE MAKES AN INGENI
OUS DISSECTION OF THEM.
It Zb Mot Necessary to Believe That the
( World is Only 0,000 Tears Old—Joshua’s
( Command to the San and Moon—The
j Whale Swallowing Jonah.
/ Brooklyn, March 24. —At the Tab
ernacle this monllng, after expound
ing some passages of Scripture in re
gard to the mysteries, the Rev. T' De
Witt Talmage, D. D., gave out the
Jjymn beginning:
Bow firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word.
The subject of his sermon was,
•Tough Things in the Bible,” and
liis text, II Peter iii, 16: “In which
ere some things hard to be under
stood.” Dr. Talmage said:
The Bible is the most common sense
book in all the world. But there are
many things in it which require ex
planation. It all depeudson the mood
in which you come to this grand old
book. You may take hold of the
handle of the sword or its sharp edge.
Tfou may employ on its mysteries the
rule of multiplication,or subtraction.
There are things, as my text suggests,,
hard to be understood, but 1 shall
solve some of them, hoping to leave
upon all honest minded people the im
pression that if four or €ve of them
can be explained, perhaps they may all
beexplained.
Hard thing the first: The Bible says
the world was created in six days,
while geology says it was hundreds Of
thousands of years in process of build
ing. “In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth.” “In the
beginning.” There you can roll in
ten million years if you want to.
There is no particular date given—no
contest between science and revelar
tion. Though the world may have
been in process of creation for millions
of years, suddenly and quickly, and in
one week, it, may have been fitted up
for man's residence. Just as a great
mansion may have been many years
in building, and yet in one week it
may be curtained and chandeliered
and cushioned and upholstered for a
bride and groom.
You are not compelled to believe
that the world was made in our six
days. It may not have been a day of
twenty-four hours, the day spoken of
in the first chapter; it may have been
God’s day, and a thousand years with
him are as one day. “And the even
ing and the morning were the first
day”—God’s day. “And the evening
and the morning were the second day”
—God’s day. “And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day”—
God’s day. You and I living in the
seventh day, the Sabbath of tne world,
the day of Gospel redemption, the
grandest day of all the week, in which
each day may have been made up of
thousands of years. Can yon tell me
bow a man can get his mind and soul
into such a blasphemous twist as to
scoff at that first chapter of Genesis,
its verses, billows of light surging up
from sapphire seas of glory?
AN EXPLANATION-ON A BCIENTIFIO BASIS
4 The Bible represents that light was
created on Monday, and .the sun was
sot created until Thursday. Just think
of it! a book declaring that light was
created three days before the sun shone I
Why don’t you know that heat and
electricity emit light independent of
the sun? Beside that, when the earth
was in process of condensation, it was
surrounded by thick vapors and the
discharge of many volcanoes in jthe
primary period, and all this obscura
tion may have hindered the light of
the sun from falling on the earth until
that Thursday morning. Beside that,
• David Brewster and Herschel, the as
tronomer, and all the modern men of
their class, agree in the fact that the
sun is not light, that it is an opaque
mass, that it is only the candlestick
that holds the light, a phosphores
cent atmosphere floating around it.
changing and changing, so it is not
to be at all wondered at that not un
til that Thursda
on the earth. _ Beside that, the rocks
in crystallization emit light. There is
rained eight hundred feet of water
each day in order that it might be fif
teen cubits above the hills. They say
that the ark could not have been large
enough to contain “two of every
sort," for there would have been hun
dreds of thousands and hundreds of
thousands of creatures. They say that
these creatures would have come from
all lands and all zones. They say
there was only one small window in
the ark, and that would not have
given fresh air to keep-the animals in
side the ark from suffocation. They
say that the ark finally landed on a
mountain seventeen thousand feet
high. They say they do not believe
the story, Neither do L There is no
such story in the Bible. I will tell
you wliat the Bible story is. 1 must
say that I have changed my mind in
regard to some matters which once
were to me very mysterious. They
are no more mysterious. This is the
key to the facts. This is the story
of an eye witness, Noah, his story
incorporated afterward by Moses in
the account Noah described the
scene iust as it appeared to him. He
saw tne flood and he fathomed its
depth. As far as eye could reach
everything was covered up, from ho
rizon to horizon, or, as it says, “under
the whole heaven.” He did not refer
to the Sierra Nevadas, or to Mount
Washington, for America had not been
discovered, or, if it had been discov
ered, he could- not have seen so far off.
He is giving the testimony of an eye
witness. God speaks af ter the manner
of men when lye says everything went
under, and Noah speaks after the man
ner of men when he says everything
did go under. . An eye witness. There
is no need of thinking that the kanga
roo leaped the ocean or that the polar
bear came down from the ice.
Why did the deluge come? It came
for the purpose of destroying the out
rageous inhabitants of the then thinly
populated earth, nearly all the popula
tion, probably very near tne ark
before it was launched. What would
have been the use of submerging North
and South America, or Europe, or
Africa, when they were not inhabited?
And as to the skeptical suggestion that
in order to have the water as deep as«
the Bible states, it must have rained
800 feet every day, I reply, the Bible
distinctly declares that the most of the
flood rose instead of falling. Before
the account where it says “the win
dows of heaven were opened,”- it says,
“all the fountains'of the great deep
were brokon up. ” All geologists agree
in saying that there are caverns
in the earth filled with water, and
thev rushed forth, and all the lakes
d rivers forsook their bed. The
'MMVSVW tuuv AAVSU UU-
iy morning its light fell
Beside that, the rocks
>n emit light. There is
light from a thousand surfaces, the
alkalies, for instance. The metallic
bases emit light. There was a time in the
history of the world when there were
thousands of miles of liquid granite
flaming with light Beside that, it has
been found that there are burned out
volcanoes in other worlds which,
when they were in explosion and ac
tivity, must have cast forth an insuf
ferable light, throwing a glare all over
pur earth. Beside that, there are the
Aurora Borealis and the Aurora An
clndis. A book on Physical Scienco
says:
I r “Capt. Bonnycastle, coming up the
Gulf of St Lawrence on tho 17th of
September, 1826, was aroused bv the
, mate of the vessel in great alarm from
an unusual appearance. It was a star
light night, when suddenly the sky
i became overcast In the direction of
j the high land of Cornwallis county
an instantaneous and intensely vivid
! light, resembling the aurora, shot out
• ou tho hitherto gloomy and dark sea
■ on tho lee bow that was so brilliant it
| lighted everything distinctly, even
j to the masthead. The light spread
over the whole sea between the
two shores, and the waves, which
before had been tranquil, became
agitated. Capt. Bonnycastle de
scribes the scene as that of a blazing
sheet of awful and most brilliant light,
—a. long and vivid line of light that
showed the face of the high frowning
land abreast. Thesky became lower
ing and more intensely obscure.
Long, tortuous lines of light showed
immense numbers of large fish darting
about as if in consternation. The top
sail yard and mizzen boom were
lighted by the glare as if gaslights had
been burned directly below them, and
Until just before daybreak, at 4 o’clock,
the most minute objects were dis
tinctly visible." My hearers, there are
ten thousand sources of light besides
the light of the sun.
> A WRONG CONCEPTION ABOUT NOAH’S
ARK. ,
Another hard tiling: The story of the
deluge and Noah’s ark. They say that
from the account there it must have
And the evening aQl
- fountains of the great deep
broken up, and then the windows of
heaven were opened. Is it a strange
thing that we should be asked to be
lieve in this flood of the Bible, when
geologists tell us that again and again
and again the dry earth has been
drowned out? Just open yourgeol
ogy and you will read of twenty
floods. Is it not strange that infidel
scientists wanting us tobelieve in the
twenty floods of geological discovery,
should, as soon as we believe in one
flood of the Bible, pronounce us non
compos mentis?
THE BEASTS ON THE ARK OF NOAH.
Well, then, another tiling, in re-
E rd to the size of the ark. Instead of
ing a mud scow, as some of these
skeptics would have us understand,
it was a magnificent ship, nearly as
large as the Great Eastern, three times
the size of an ordiucry man-of-war.
At the time in the world when ship
building was unknown, God had this
vessel constructed, which turned out
to be almost in the same proportions
as our stanchest modern vessels. After
thousands of years of experimenting
in naval architecture and in ship car-
jentery, we have at last got up to
! Noah’s ark, that ship leading all the
fleets of the world on all the oceans.
Well, Noah saw tfce animal creation
going into this ark. He gave the ac
count of an eye witness. They were
the animals from the region where he
lived; for the most part they were ani
mals useful to man, ahd if noxious in
sects or poisonous reptiles went in, it
was only to discipline the patience
and to keep alert the generations after
the flood. He saw them going in.
There were a great number of them,
and he gives the account of an eye wit
ness. They went in two and two of
all flesh.
Years ago I was on a steamer on the
river Tay, and I came to Perth, Scot
land. I got off, and I saw the most
wonderful agricultural show that; I
had ever witnessed. There were horses
and cattle such as Rosa'Bonheur never
sketched, and there were dogs such as
the loving pencil of Edwin Landseer
never portrayed, and there were sheep
and fowl and creatures of all sorts.
Suppose that “two and two” of all the
creatures of that agricultural show
were put upon the Tay steamer to be
transported to Dundee, and the uext
day I should . be writing home to
America and giving an account of the
occurrence, 1 would have used the
same general phraseology that Noah
used in regard to the embarkation of
the brute creation in the ark—I would
have said that they went in two and
two of every sort. 1 would not have
meant six hundred thousand. A com
mon sense man myself, 1 would sup
pose that the people who read the let
ter were common sense people.
“But hqw could you get them' into
the ark ?” ask infidel scientists. 4 ‘How
could they be induced to go into the
ark? Ho would have to pick them
out and drive them in, and coax them
in.” Could not the same God who
gave instinct to the animal inspire that
instinct to seek for shelter from the
storm? However, nothing more than
ordinary animal instinct was neces
sary. Have you never been in the
country when an August thunder
storm was coming up and heard the
cattle moan at thebars to get in? and
seen the affrighted fowl go upon the
perch at noonday, and heard the af
frighted dog and cat calling at the
door, supplicating entrance? And are
you surprised that in that age of the
world, when there were fewer places
of shelter for dumb beasts, at the mut
tering and rumbling and flashing and
quakmgand darkening of an approach
ing deluge, the animal creation come
moaning and bleating to the sloping
embankment reaching up to the an
cient Great Eastern and passed in? I
have owued hoi ses ana cattle and
sheep and dogs, but I never had a
horse or a cow or a sheep or a dog
that was so stupid it did not know
enough to come in when it rained.
And then, that one window in the ark
which afforded such poor ventilation
to the creatures there assembled—that
small window in the ark which ex
cites so much mirthfulncss on the
part of infidels. If they knew as
much Hebrew as you could nut on
your little finger nail they would have
known that that word translated win
dow there means window course, a
whole range of lights. Those igno-
raut infidels do not know a window
pane from twenty windows. So if
there is any criticism of the ark, there
seems to be too much window for such
a long storm. And as to the # other
charge that the windows of th*c ark
must have been kept shut and conse
quently all inside would have perished
from suffocation, I have to say that
there are people in this house today
who," all the way from Liverpool to
Barnegat lighthouse, and for two
weeks, were kept under deck, the
hatches battened down because of the
storm. Some of you, in the old time
sailing vessels, were kept nearly a
month with the hatches down be
cause of some long storm.
Then infidels say that the ark land
ed on a mountain seventeen thousand
feet high, and that, of course, as soon
as the animals came forth they would
all bo frozen in the ice. That is geo
graphical ignorance 1 Ararat is not
merely the name for a mountain, but
for a billy district, and it may have
been a hill one hundred feet high, or
five hundred, or a thousand feet high
on which the ark alighted. Noah
measured the depth of the water ubove
the hill, and it is fifteen cubits, or
twenty-seven feet.
Alii my friends, this story of the
ark is no more incredible than if you
should say to me: “Last summer I was
among the hills of New England, and
there came on the most terrific storm
I ever saw, and the whole country was
flooded. The waters came up over the
hills, and to save our lives we got in a
boat on the river, and even the dumb
creatures were so affrighted they came
moaning and bleating until we let
them in the same boat?’
We are not dependent upon the
Bible for the story of the flood, en
tirely. All ages and all literatures
have traditions, broken traditions, in
distinct traditions, but still traditions.
The old books of the Persians tell
about the flood at the rime of Ahri-
man, who so polluted the earth that it
had to be washed by a great storm.
The traditions of the Chaldeans say
that in tns time when Xisuthrus was
king there was a great flood, and he
f >ut his family and his friends, in a
arge vessel and all outside of them were
destroyed, and after a while the birds
went forth and they came back and
their claws were tinged with mud.
Lucian and Ovid, celebrated writers,
who had uever seen the Bible, de
scribed a flood in the time of Deu
calion. He took his friends into a
boat, and the animals came running
to him in pairs. So all lands, and all
ages, and all literatures, seem to have
a broken and indistinct tradition of a
calamity which Moses, here incorpo
rating Noah’s account, so grandly, so
beautifully, so accurately, so solemnly
records.
My prayer is that the God who cre
ated the world may create us anew in
Christ Jesus; and that the God who
made light three days before the sun
shone may kindle in our hearts a light
that will burn ou long after the sun
has expired; and that the God who
ordered the ark built and kept open
more than one hundred years that the
antediluviaus might enter it for shel
ter, may graciously incline us to ac
cept the Invitation which this morn
ing rose in music from the Throne,
saying: “Come thou and all thy house
into tne ark.”
AN EXPLANATION OF ANOTHER OLD
TESTAMENT WONDER.
Another hard thing to be under
stood: The story that the sum and
moon stood still to allow Joshua to
complete his victory. Infidel scien
tists . declare that an impossibility.
But if a man have brain and strength
enough to make a clock, can he not
start it and stop it, and start it again
and stop it again? If a machinist
have strength and brain enough to
make a corn thresher, can he n^ start
it and stop it, and start it again and
stop it again ? If God have strength
and wisdom to make the clock of the
universe, the great machinery of the
worlds, lias he not strength enough
and wisdom enough to start it and
stop it, and start it again and stop it
again? Or stop one wheel, or stop
twenty wheels, or stop all tho wheels?
Is the clock' stronger than the clock
maker? Does the corn thresher know
more than the machinist? Is the
universe mightier than its God?
But people ask how could the
moon have been seen to stop in
the daytime? Well, if you have
never seen the. moon in the daytime,
it is because you have not been a very
diligent observer of the heavens. Be
side that, it was not necessary for
the world literally to stop. By unu
sual reflection of the sun’s rays the
day might have been prolonged. So
that, while tho earth continued on its
path in ^ the heavens, it figuratively
stopped. You must remember that
these Bible authors used the vernacu
lar of their own day, just as you and
1 say the sun went down. The sun
never goes down. "We simply de
scribe what appears to the human tve.
Besides that, the world, our world,
could have literally stopped without
throwing the universe out of balance.
Our world has two motions—the
one around the sun and the other
on its own axis. It might have stopped
ornts own axis, while at the same tune
it kept on its path through the heavens,
bo there was no need of stellar con
fusion because our world slackened its
speed or entirely stopped in its revolu
tion on its own axis. That is none of
the business of Jupiter, or Mars, or
Mereury or Saturn, or the Dipper.
Beside that, within tho memory of
man there have been worlds that were
born and that died. A few * years ago tical difference to you and to me who
astronomers telegraphed, through the Junius was, whether Sir PhilipJb ran-
Associated Press, to all the world—the
astronomers from the city of Wash- j
ington—that another world had been j
discovered. Within a comparatively
short space of time, astronomers,
tell tin, thirteen worlds have ;
burned down. From their observatory j
they notice first that the worlds look .
like other worlds, then they became a
deep red, showing they were on fire;
then they becamo ashen, showing they
were burned down; then they entirely
disappeared, showing that even the
ashes-' were scattered. Now, I say, if
God can start a world, and swing a
world, and destroy a world, he could
stop one or two of them without a
great deal of exertion, or he could by
unusual refraction of the sun’s rays
continue the illumination. But infidel
scientists say it would have been be
littling for other worlds to stop on
account of such a battle. Wliy, sirs,
what Yorktowu was for revolu
tionary times, and what Gettys
burg was in our civil con
test, and what Sedan was in the
Franco-German war, and what Wat
erloo was in the Napoleonic destiny—
that was this battle of Joshua against
the five allied armies of Gibeon. It was
that battle that changed the entire
course of history. It was a battle to
Joshua as important as though a bat
tle now should occur in which Eng
land and the United States and France
and Germany and Italy and Turkey
and Russia should fight for victory or
annihilation. However much any
other world, solar, lunar or. stellar,
might be hastened in its errand of
light, it. would be excusable if it lin
gered in tho heavens for a little while
and put down its sheaf of beams and
gazed on such an Armageddon.
In the early part of this century
there was what was called the Dark
Day. Some of these aged men per
haps may remember it. It is known
in history as the “Dark Day.” Work
men at noon went to their homes, and
courts and legislatures adjourned. No
astronomers have ever been able to
explain that dark day. Now, if God
can advance the night earlier Ilian its
time, can he not adjourn the night
until after its time? 1 often used to
hear my father describe a night—1
think he said it was in 1833—when his
neighbors aroused him in great alarm.
All the heavenly bodies seemed to be
in motion. People thought our earth
was coming to its destruction. Tens
of thousands of stare shooting. No
astronomers have ever been able to
explain that stfy shooting. Now,
does not your common sense teach you
that if God could start and stop tens
of thousands of worlds or meteors, he
could start and stop two worlds? If
God can engineer a train of ten thou
sand worlds or meteors, and stop them
without accident or collision, cannot
he control two carriages of light, and
by putting down a golden brake stop
tne sun, and by putting down a silver
brake stop the moon? Under this ex
planation, instead of being skeptical
about this sublime passage of the Bible,
you will, when you read it. feel more
like going down ou your knees before
God as you read: “Sun, stand thou
still above Gibeon, and thou moon in
the valley of Ajalon.”
A POINT THAT IS MUCH DISCUSSED.
Then there is the Bible statement
that a whale swallowed Jonah and
ejected him upon the dry ground in
three days. If you will go to the
museum at Nantucket, Mass., you will
find the skeleton of a whale large
enough to swallow a man. I said to
the janitor, while I was standing in
the museum, “Why it does not seem
from the looks of this skeleton that
that story in the Book of Jonah is so
very improbable, does it?” “Oh, no,"
he replied, “it does not." There is a
cavity in the mouth of the common
whale large enough for a man to live
in. There have been sharks found
again and again with an entire human
body in them. Beside that, the Bible
says nothing about a whale. It says,
“The Lord prepared a great fish;” and
there are scientists who tell us
that there were sea monsters in other
days that make the modern whale
seem very insignificant 1 know in
one place in the New Testament it
speaks of the whale-as appearing in
the occurrence 1 have just mentioned,
but the word may just as well be trans
lated “sea monster"—any kiud of a
sea monster. Procopius says, in the
year 532, a sea monster was slain
which had for fifty years destroyed
ships. 1 suppose this sea. monster that
took care of Jonah may have been one
of the great sea monsters that could
have easily takeu down a prophet, and
ho could have dived there three days
if he had kept in motion so as to keep
the gastric juices from taking hold of
him and destroying him, and at the
end of three days the monster
would naturally be-sick enough to
regurgitate Jonah. Beside that, my
friends, there is one word which ex
plains the whole thing. It savs, “The
Lord prepared a great -fish.” If a ship
carpenter prepare a vessel to carry
Texan beeves to Glasgow, I suppose it
can carry Texan beeves; if a ship car
penter prepare a vessel to carry coal to
one of the northern ports, 1 suppose it
can carry coal; if a ship carpenter pre
pare a vessel to carry passengers to
Liverpool, I suppose it can carry pas
sengers to Liverpool; and if the Lord
prepared a fish to carry one passenger,
I suppose it could carry a passenger
and the ventilation have been all right
So all tho strange things m the Bi
ble can be explained if you wish to
have them explained. And you can
build them into a beautiful and health
ful fire for your hearth, or you
with them put your immortal interests
into conflagration. But you had bet
ter decide about the veracity of the
Bible very soon. 1 waut this morning
to caution you against putting off
making up your mind about this book.
Ever since 1772 there has been great
discussion as to who was the author
of Junius’ Letters, those letters so full
of sarcasm and vituperation and
power. The whole English nation
stirred up with it. More than a hun
dred volumes written to discuss that
question: “Who was Junius?” “Who
wrote the letters of J unius?" Weil, it is
an interesting question to discuss, but
still, after all. it makes but little prac*
DANIEL8V1LLE.
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Ckawfopd, March 22.
cis, or Lord Chatham, or John Horne i
Tooke, or Horace Walpole, or Henry ;
Grattan, or any one of tho forty-four
men who were seriously charged with
the authorship. But it is an absorb
ing question, it is a practical question, - . . ~ *«:
it is an overwhelming question to you i P e msny da vs
and to me, the authorship of this
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afford to adjourn that question a week
or a day or an hour, any more than a
sea captain can afford to say: “"Well,
this is a very dark night. I have
really lost my bearings; there is a
light out there. 1 don’t Know whether
it is a lighthouse or a false light on
the shore, I don’t know what it is; but
I’ll just go to sleep and in the morn
ing I'll find out." In the morning the
vessel might be on the rocks and the
beach strewn with the white faces of
the dead crew. The time for that sea
captain to find out about the light
house is before he goes to sleep. Oh,
my friends, I want you to understand
that in our deliberations about this
Bible we are not at calm anchorage,
but we are rapidly coming toward the
coast, coming with all the furnaces
ablaze, coining at the rate of seventy
heart throbs a minute, and I must
know whether it is going to be harbor
or shipwreck.
SOULS
DEL1TY.
I was so glad to read in the papers
of the fact that the steamship Edam
had come safely into harbor. A week
before the Persian Monarch, plow
ing its way toward the Narrows, a
hundred miles out, saw signals of dis
tress, bore down upon the vessel, and
found it was the steamship Edam. She
had lost her propeller. She had two
hundred passengers on board. The
merciful captain of the Persian Mon
arch endeavored to bring her in, but
the tow line broke. He fastened it
again, but tho sea was rough and the
tow line broke again. Then the night
came on and the merciful captain of
the Persian Monarch “lay to," think
ing in the morning he could give res
cue to the passengers. The morning
came, but during the night the
steamship Edam had disappeared,
and the captain of the' Persian
Monarch brought his vessel into
harbor saying how sad he felt
because he could not give complete
rescue to that lost ship. I am glad
that afterward another vessel saw her
and brought her into safety. But
when I saw the story of that steam
ship Edam, drifting, drifting, drifting,
I ao not know where, but with no
rudder, no lighthouse, no harbor, no
help, I said: “That is a skeptic, that is
an infidel, drifting, drifting, drifting,
not knowing where he drifts." And
then, when I thought of the Persian
Monarch anchored in harbor, I said:
“That is a Christian, that is a man
who (toes all he can on the way, cross
ing the sea to help others, coming per
haps through a very rough voyage into
the harbor, there safe and sale for
ever.” Would God that there might
be some one today who would go forth
and bring in these souls that are drift
ing. In this assemblage, how many a
score shall I say, or a hundred, or a
thousand?—not quite certain about the
truth of the Bible, not certain about
anything. Drifting, drifting, drifting.
Oh, how I would like to tow them in.
I throw you this cable. Lay hold of
that cable of the Gospel. Lay hold of
it. 1 invite you all in. The narbor is
wide enough, large enough for all thq
shipping. Come in, O you wanderers
on the deep. Drift no more, drift no
more. Come into the harbor. See the
glorious lighthouse of the Gospel.
“Peace ou earth, good will to men.”
Come into the harbor. God grant that
it may be said of all of you who are
now drifting in your unbelief as it
might have been said of the passengers
of the steamshipEdam, and as it was
said centuries ago of the wrecked corn
ship of Alexandria, “It came to pass
that they all escaped safe to land.”
As to Breathing.
The following heretofore unheard of
information in regard to breath and
breathing was made public in Ken
tucky recently by a school boy of 12
years, who wrote an essay on the sub
ject: "
_ We breath with our lungs, our
lights, our kidneys and our livers. If
it wasn’t for our breath we would die,
when we slept. Our breath keeps the
life agoing through the nose when we
are asleep.
Boys who stay in a room all day
should not breathe. They should wait
until they get out in ‘the fresh air.
Boys in a room make bad air called
carbonicide. Carbonicide is as poison
as mad dogs. A lot of soldiers were
once in a black hole in Calcutta and
carbonicide got in there and killed
them.
Girls sometimes ruin the breath
with corsets that squeeze the diagram.
A big diagram is the best for the°right
kind of breathing.—Youth’s Compan
ion.
Women Studying Rudimentary Surgery*
The women who are the pupils of
the St. John Ambulance association at
Birkenhead, England, are not mere
students of physiology and hygienic
rules, but are practiced in the art
of bandaging, removal of injured
on stretchers and arrest of bleed
ing. Most of the lady stu
dents have joined the association
from choice. Some of them are
wealthy and independent, and a few,-
like the Duchess of Westminster, are
titled.—New York Telegram.
Popes of tho Ninth Century.
Pope Benedict HI was a native of
Rome, and elected to the chair of St.
Peter by the college of cardinals in
855. His pontificate, like that of most
of the popes of the Ninth cen
tury , was a brief one, lasting
but three years. Benedict died
° n March 10, 858. He was succeeded
by Nicholas I. Benedict’s pontificate
succeeded the fabulous reign of
the female Pope Joan. During the
Ninth century there were twenty-one
popes.—Philadelphia Times.
county commissioi.ers, whn U i ° r m
sick for several Wieks, U still i^ 8
criticalcondition. 1D »iJ
■The new church has b°en «
:and the seals are t?ein R pi- Ct( i nn| sl
" ill be held they" | j
tion.
day.
S l*vices
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A LONG AND ASSIDUOUS LIFE.
Mr. John H. Newton, though
quite feeble, is able to ba out these!
days. Mr. Newton has spent a
and useful life in Athens. Thu
nearly ninety years of age he has
a most assiduous worker up to a
weeks ago and, hut for the interpositL
of kind friends, would be at his desk!
day. In speaking to a youneer mu,
cently, who referred to a holiday
sion he was going to take, Mr. N e(f
remarked, “I have bean hard at m
ever since I was 15 years of age
have never known what it was to*
a holiday.’' ThiB remark is indiot
of the character of the man. We t
that he may enjoy many days yet am
his devoted family and warm friends!
Is Consumption Incurable?
Read the following: Mr. C. II.M01
Newark, Ark., says: “Was down
Abscess of Lungs, and friends and 1
sici-.ns pronounced me an IncurabltC
sumptive. Began taking Dr. King’s xi
Discovery for Consumption, am now|
my third bottle, and able to oversea!
work on my farm. It is the finest 1
icine ever made,”
Jesse Middle wart,Decatur, Ohio,
“Had it not been for Dr. King’s Ji!|
Discovery for Consumption I wouldh
died of Lung Troubles. Was giving^
by doctors. Am now in best of health
Try it. Sample bottles free at Jo-
Crawford & Co.’s or L.D.Sledge &•(
Drugstores.
t Highest market price paid in cashfj
' butter, eggs and chickens and all c
conntry p-oduce. Jo C. BebsamJ
d w- 4-18
STOCK FARM.
M. 1. W. Neal, of Harmony Gi
is thinking of going into the stock
ing business, and raising none
thoroughbreds. He has already
of the Hambletonian breed, and will
quite a number of fine horses to 1
stable during the summer. Mr.W-
Goss will take an interest in the sts!
and will put considerable money ini
business. _
THE ATHENS AND KNOXVlU
Judge W. B. Thomas left for *
York last night to be gone about
month. He is confident of closing
rangements for the extention of
road to Knoxville. The time for s
ir»g the contract expires the 22d of A]
and if the parties Judge Thomas is
treating with, f«il to make the neceM
deposit in bank by that time, there
other parties who will do so at once.
A fine Coldvfater Bo
Cart, bran new, for
cheap for cash. Apply
this office.
John F. Plummer.
John F. Plummer, who has been®
tioned as likelv to be preferred by
Harrison, is the senior membdr of
New York drygoods firm of
Plummer & Co. In the late camp
he was president of the Wholesale I
goods Harrison and Morton club of •
York, a position he recently resig*
and he has fot many years tak®
active part in politics and is a
effective campaign speaker.
twice declined the Republican no®
tion for mayor of New York city
in 1884,' as candidate for comp
ran far ate
his party »
his gain b<
due to b* 3
sonal pop
among "
chants and
ness »en
spectireoiP
He was one®
New YtfJ
gates to m
vention **
D0Tni na ^\j
eon.andig
liberal in helping his party. L '
politics and business be is best -
a liberal patron of art, and “p
feeling comes out in his P ref f.„^
American artiste and product^-v,
his home on East Fifty-si^j 11 ,^
has a very large collection 0' rjj,
paintings and etchings. B 0 .^!
ber of the Union League cW®*. p
, chants’ club and the New
club, besides his business P C;K ;
chamber of cpnaraqyo. -. -
'-S'
JOHN F. PLUMMER.
