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®lie Jllotttgomcrg -Monitor. D. C. SUTTON, Editor and Prop’r, DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. ABSURDITIES OF EVOLUTION. 1 Preached at lakeside, Ohio.] Text. ‘The statutes of the Lord are right.” —.Psalm xix, 8. Old books go out of date. When they were written they discussed questions which were being discussed; they struck at wrongs whu h have long ago c-oased, or advocated institu tions which excite not our interest. Wore tliev boohs of history, the te. its have been gathered from the imperil' t, mass, better classified and more lucidly presented. W ore theA- books of poetry, they were interlocked with wul mythologies, which have gone up from the fare ot the earth like mi-ts at sai ‘^ e V •’W’iwof morals, civil,.nth n ill not sit at thvj twt of barbarism, neither Tnllv e re" + aut i, a I’P h °» 1 ythagornn red ' S tench us morals. H hat do the rnaajte ot the people rare now for the pathos o: oimonides, or tho sarcasm of Men ander, or the gracefulne-s of Philemon, or the wit of Aristophanes; Even the old h inks we have left..with a few exception;. have but Xery little effect upon our times, Bocks are human; they have a time ro be born, tticv nrelon, leii they grow in strength,they Ini e a middle life ot usefulness; then conies old age. they totter end they die. Many of t « national libraries are merely the cemeteries of the dead books. Some of them live] lia-utious lives aud died ileaths of ignominy. Some were virtuous an 1 accomplished a gloriour mission Some went into tho ashes through inquisitorial firer. Koine found their funeral pile m sacked and plundered cities, home were neglected nud died as fouudlin -s at tho door of science Some expired imho a:i thors study, others iu the publisher’s hands. it\ er aud anon there comes into your pos- | session nil old borne, its author lorgott-u and its usefulness potie, and with 1 atiiern lip; ,1. seems to say- ‘‘i wish I were dead.” M-nu niems nave been raised over poets and phi Jan.hiopista Wou d that some tall shaft -o erected in honor of tho world's bnvied books! The world’s authors would '.lake pilgrimage thereto, au,l p retry and it eraturo aud science and religion would con secrets it with their tears. Not so witli one old book. It started in the world's infancy. It grew under theocracy and monarchy. It witbst od the st rms of tire. It grew under pro, hut’s mrtutV and under tho fisherman's ioat,of the apostles; in Pome, and Ephesus, and Jerusalem,aud Pa' Tyranny i;. sued edicts against it. aud snhdolity put out the tongue, and Mohamme danism from its mosques liuriod its mm-bo urns, but the old Bilde .still lived. It crossed the British Channel and was greeted by >A lcklifiti and James I. it cros ei r.ho At lantic and struck Plymouth Pock, until like that of Horeb it gushed with blessedness. Churches and asylums have gathered alone its way, ringing t heir bells and stretching out their hands of blessing; and every Sabbath there are ten thousand be: aids of tho cross hn,l,: n this open, grand, tree old English Bible. But it will not have ac complished its mission until it has climbed the icy mountains of Greenland; until it has gono over the granite cliffs of China: until «; lias thrown its glow amid the Australian mines: until it bas scattered its gems among the diamond districts of Brazil; and all thrones shall be gathered into one throne, ” n i. ‘V * crowns by the fires of revolution shall bo molted into one crown, and this Book shall at t o very gate of heaven have ■waved in the ransomed empires. Not until 'vill tin’s glorious Bibio have acco n plished its mission. Jnrerryiug out, thon, the idea of my toxt the statutes of the Lord are right”—l shall show you that the Bible is right in au thentication; that it is right in style: that it is right in doctrine; that it is right in its ef fects. 1. ( an you doubt the authenticity of the Scrip tun s' There is uot so much evidence that Walter Scott wrote “The J.ady of the Take;” not so much evideuce that Shake speare wrote •‘Hamlet;’’ net so much evidence that John Milton w.-otn “Paradise Lo,t” as there is evidence that the T.or i God Almighty, l»y the hands of the prophets, ev angolistsand ajwitles, wrote this book. Suppose a book now to bo written which oarno iu conflict with a groat many thin" I *, and was written by bad men or iumostors, how long would such a book stand; It would be scouted by every body. And J say if that ruble had been an imposition; or if it ha l not been written by the men who said they wrote it,; if it had been a mere collection of false hoods, do you not suppose that it would have been immediately rejected by the people; If “nd Isaiah, and Jeremiah, an 1 Haul, ana Peter, and John were imposters they would have been scouted by generations and nations. If that book has come down through fires of centuries without a scar it is because there is nothing in it destructible. How near have they come to destroying the Bible? When they began their opposition thpre were two or three thousand copies of it. Kow there are two hundred millions, as far as I can i aTulate. These Bible truths, not withstanding ull tha opposition, have gone into all languagi s—into the philosophic Greek, the flowing Italinn. the grace fill (Jerman, the passionate French, the picturesque Indian, and the exhaustions Anglo-Saxon. Uu.ier the painter's pencil the birth and th» crucifixion and the resur rection glow on the walls of palaces; or, un der the engraver's knife, speak from the man’ol of the mountain cabin; while t »ne touched by the sculptor’s ehise’, start up into prea h’ng apostles and as ending lnartvrs. Mow, do you not suppo-e, if that Book ha l been an imposition and a falsehood, it would not have gone down under these ceasel -g flies of opposition ? Further, suppose that there was a great pestilence goiug over the earth, and hundred ; of thousands of men were dying of that j esti lence, an 1 someone should find ame (• ie that cured tea thousand people, woult ft every body a kn iwledgo that [hat uiu-t Is; a good medicine ; Why, some one would av: “Doyou deny it ? There have been t<*n thou sand people cured by it.” I simply state the fact that there ha •- een hundreds of thou sands of Christ an pen and women who-av they have !e t the truthfulness of that book and its power in their souls It has cured them of tin worst leprosy that evir'atne down cn our earth, naroely: the ienro-vof sm. And if I <nnp. iitvou to multitude. who pay they have ,'elt the power of that cure, are you n it reasonable enough to ac knowledge the fa- ■ tha; th«-e must be some power in the me li ine? Will vou take the ev'dence of millions of patients who have been cured, or will you take theciiden-o of the skeptic who stands aloof and confesses that he m-v r took the rreiicinef That l.ib e intimates thac there was a city failed I’etra. built out of solid rock. Infldel ity scoflel at it: “Where is your city of Betraf’ Buckhardt and T-ahorde went forth in their explorations and they came upon that very city. Tnemountains-land around like g all's guarding the tomb when the city is buried Thcv linda street in that city sir mile; long, where on e flashed imperial pem-. and which echoed with the laughter of light-hsarted mirth cm its way to th ■ th-atre. On temples fashioned out < f <•,,!- orei stones—some of which have blushed into the crimson cf the- roe. and sum- of whi h have paled into the whiteness of th • lily—aye. on column, and pediment, and en tablature. and statuary, God writes the truih of 'hat Bible. The B.ble says that Sodom and Gomorrah 'rere flbsttpved by fire and brimstone. “Ab- SuW. ’ Infidels year aft *r year Sato: “It is positively absurd that they could have been destroyed fy .brimstone. There is nothing in the element* to < au-e, such a shower of death hs that.” Lieutenant Lynch—l think lie was the first man who went out on the discovery, but lie bas been followed by many others— Lieutenant Lynch went out iii explo atiou and came to the Bead Sa, which,by a convul sion of nature, has overflown the place we re tho cities oneo stood, lie sank his fathoming line, and brought up from the bottom of the Deal Boa great masses of sul phur, reitt nit tits of that very tempest that swept Sod, m and Gotnprrnh so ruin who Was right, tho Bible that attilounced the destruction of those • ities, or the skeptics who l'or ages Scoffed at it ? . -’ho Bible says there was a cit,v calhd Ninevt b, and that it was three days’" journey around it, ami that it should be destroyed by tire anil water. ‘ Absurd,” cried out hun dreds of voices for many years; “no city was ever built that it'would take three days’ jouTney to go Abound. Beside-., it re,,ld hot bo destroyed, by fire and iVv'er: thOy are antagonistic elements.” lint Lnv hrd. B »t,ta and Keith go out, and by t!i rt ir or,pi. a aliens they find that city of Nineveh, and they toll us that by they own experi inteut it is three days’ journey around, ac cord, ng to the old cs invito of a day’s jour ney, am! tliAt, it was literally''destroyed by fire and water—two antagonistic elements— n part oi the city having 1 r-cn inumlatel by the River Tigrir, the bii k material in those tuner, being ilt'ie 1 day illstcftl of ImrUsi while ill othek- pArts they find the remains of the fire 'll hodps of charcoal that hue,, boon excavated, and iii the calcin'd slabs ot gypsum. Who was right, the Bible or in li lelity; Moses intimated that, they had viti wards itt Egypt. “Absurd.” cried hundreds of voices; “you can’t raise grapes in Egypt: or, ! if y, u can. it is a very great exception that you can rats' them.”' But, the traveler goer down, and in the un lergr-umi vaults of Eil tliya he finds painted ,>n the wall oil the pro e.,s ttf tending tho vines and treading Ant the grapes. It is all there, familia Ivi sketched by people who evidently knew all ' about if, and saw it all about thorn every day: and in those underground vaults there j are vases still inernstori with tho -oUlims-f the wine. You ter tho vine did grow in * H-vpt, whether it. crows there now or not. Tuns, on s?o. that wlfilo Clod wrote tho Bible, at tho same time 110 wrote (bis coin itionta-y, that “tho statutes of tho Lord are right ” on leaves of rock and shell, bound in clast s of metal, and lying on mountain table and in the jeweled vase of tho sen. In authen ticity and in genuineness the statutes of the Lord are right. -• Again, the Btbl > is right in style. I know Ihero are a great many people who think it I is merely a collo dion of genealogical tallies I and dry in Is. That is because they do not know how to read tho book. You take the ! most int'resting novel that was ever written, i nod if you commence at the four hundredth page to day, and to-morrow at tho three t hundredth, and tho next day at tho first page, how much sense or interest would you cot from it? Yot, that is the very process to wlii. li tho Jlil.lu ts nut,l -v V.,1 u.-,-.o T .tar. An angel from heaven reading tho Bible in that way could not understand it. Tho Bible, like all other palaces. ba» a door b“ which to enter and a door by which to go out. Genesis is tho door liy which to go , iu aud Reve ations tin door to go out. Tho Epistles of Paul tlia Apo,t!earo merely letters written, folded up and sent by post men to the d i tlerent Churches. Ido you read other letters the way you read Raul s letters? Suppose you get a business letter, and you know that in it there are important financial propositions, do you read tho last page first, aud then one line of tho third page, and an other of the second, and another of tho first? No. You begin with “Pear Sir,” and end with “Yours truly.” Now. here is a letter written from the throne of God to our lost world: it is full of magnificent hopes and propositions, and we dip in here and there, and wo know nothin ' about it. Besides that, people read tho Bible when they can not do anything els\ It is a dark day and they do not feel well, and (hoy do not go to busi ness, and after lounging about a bit they pick up tho Bible—their mind refuses to en ,;oy the truth. Or they come home weary from tho store or shop, and thev feel, if th y do not say, it is a dull book. While the Bible is to be read on stormy days and while your hea 1 aches, it is also to bo read in the sun shine and when your nerves, like harp strings, thrum tho song of health. While your vision is clear, walk in this paradise of truth,nnd while your mental appetite is good, pluck these clusters of gra m. J am fascinated with the conciseness of this look. Every word is packed full of truth. K> ery sentence is double barreled. Every paragraph is like an old ban van tree with a hundred roots and a hundred branches. It is a great arch: pullout one stone and it all comes down. There lias never been a pearl diver who could gather un one half of the treasures in any verse. John Haisebaeh. of Vienna, for twenty-one years every Sabbath expounded to his congregation the first chap ter of the Book of Isaiah, and yot did not get through with it. Nine-tenths of all the good literature of this ago is rnerelv the Bible diluted. Goethe, tho admired of all skeptics, had the w.ill of his house at Weimar covered with religions maps and pictures. Milton’s “Para di-e Lost” is part, of the Bit.le in blank vi rse Tassos “Jerusalem Delivered” is borrowed from (he Bibl •. Spenser’s writings are imi tations from (ho Parables. John Bun van saw in a dream only what Saint John had .wen before in Apo alyptic vision. Ma-anlay crowns his most gigantic sentences with Script ire quota ions. Through Add so'i’s “Spectator’’ there glances in nnd out tho stream that broke from the throne ol Go I clear as crystal. Walter Scott's let characters are Bil-lo men and worn -n under different names, ns M<-g Merri -1 ic-. the Witch of Endor. Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth wa; Je.ebel. Hobbes stole from this Castle ol Truth the weapons with which he afterward assaulted it. Lord Byron caught the ruggeduess and majesty of his style from the pro; he'des. The writings of Pope are saturated with Isaiah, and he fin Is his mo t su" esstul theme in the Messiah. Th: poet; Thompson an 1 Johnson dipped th'-ir i-ens in the stylo of the inspired Ori-n --t il. Tnomas Carlyle is only a splendid dis tortion of Ezekiel: and wandering through tlm lanes and parks of this imperial domain of Bible truth, I fin I all the great American, English, German, (Spanish. Italian poet-’, palmers, orators nnd rhetoric.: ns. U here is there in the world of poetic de scription anything likn Jobs champing, neighing, pawing, lightning-footed, thunder necKed war horses? Jlrydens, Milton's, Cow per's temoests are very tame compared with David's storm that wrecks the mountains of Is:isin---! and shivers the wilderness of Kadirh. Why, it semi sas if > the feet of th se Bible writers t,;e mountains brought all th ir gems, an I the s-as all their pearls, an l the gardens all the r frankincense, an I .he Rpring all it; Mo v,m.s, and the harvests all lie i.- wealth, and hea en all its gran 1 zur. and efernitvall its stupendous r«aliti<-s: an I that ‘-inre t h m y-oets, and orators, and rhetoricians have been drinking from exhausted foun* tains, and searching fur diamonds in a realm utterlv rifled and ransacked. 1 his book is the hive of all sweetness. It is th - armory of all well-tempered weapons. Ittoe tower containing th ■ crown jewels of the :n;V'-rse. it is the lamo that kindles ail oth'-r lights, it is the hme of ail ma eg ti: s and sje ndors It is the marriage ring that unit* the C'.iestial and terrestrial, while MT. VERNON, MONTGOMERY 00..-GA-.TMUKHDA Y. SEPTEMBER !i, 188(1. ! nil iho roNnl denizen’s of th j sky hovering around rojoieo nit tho nuptials ! This book—it i a tho wronth into which an I twisio l nil garlauis; it is tho song into whicl i :\!\' struck all ha r nionics; it is tho river int< j \vhich are poured all the groat tide* of hallo | lujtih: it is tl)e firmament in .which sn'nsauc j moons, and stars and constellations, and n,ni tor o ami eternities wheel i n l blaze and t i uinph. Whze is tho yo ng man’s sou with any music in it that is not stirred witl I Jacob's lament, or Nahum's dirge, or Habak kuk s dithyrambic, or Paul's march of tin restin'o *tion, or John’s anthem whore the ol dors with doxology on their faces respond ti the ti'umppt-blast of the Archangel ns h< stands witli one fddt on the Soft nnd the otho iobt On the land, swearing by Him thrtt, liv oth fordver and evp’r that fimoj-ha'l he nc longer/ I am also amazed at the variety of thi Book. Mind not eontradi< tion or <*(»! lision, but variety. Just as in tho song yoi Have the basso, anil alto, and soprano, am tenor -they are not in colhsii n with ea 1 either, tmt cOmC in totnriko up tho harmony S<> it is iii this Book; there lire different i Art: of this great song of redemption. Tin prophot comes ami takes onto j art, and tie evangelist, another part, an l tin* apostle nil other part, and yet they all rnmo into tin grand harmony—“the song of Moses and th< Lamb.” If Hod had inspired men of tin same temperament to write this Book, i might have been mom-ton us: but David nn l lsainh, ami Pet r, nnd Job, and E/.okiol dml Patti and John wore men of ditferen it'mperiiim nts, and so, Urban , Ho I Inspires j tlieni t<» Uriti* JlieV wrote in their own stylo Col pn'parod tho book for all classes ol [ poo *le. For instance, littlo children woulc in ud the Bible, aud God know that, so in allows Mathew ami Luke to writ» sweet stories about Christ with tile doctors of the ; law, and Christ at tho well, and Christ at the cross, so that any little child can understand j thorn. Then Cod knew that the aged people would want to ren 1 the book, s> He allows Rolomon to com pa t a World of wisdom in that Book of Proverbs. Cod knew that the historian would want to r ad it, and so he allows Moses to give the plain statement oi til:* Pentateuch. God knew that the poet would want to road it. and so In allows Job to picture the Heavens os a curtain, nnd Isaiah, the mountains as weighed in a balance, and the waters ns hold in the hollow of the Omnipotent hand ; and God touched David until in tho latter part oi the Psalms ho gathered a great choir standing in the galleries ah >vo each other— beast and man in th) first gallery; above them, hills and mountains: above them, firo and hail and tempest; above them, sun an moon and stars of light: and on the highest gallery arrays tho hosts of angels: and , then standing before the great choir, reach ing from the depths of ear'll to the heights ' of Heaven, like the loader of a great orches ' ten. he lifts his hands, crying: “Praise yo the Lord! Lot everything that hath breath praise the Lordl And all eavthlv creatures iu i their s mgs,and mountains with their waving cellars, and tempests in their thunder, and rattling hail, and stars on all tlieir trembling harps of light, and angels on thoir thrones, respond in magnifiront acclaim: ‘‘Praise yo the .Lord I Let every thing that hath breath praise tho Lord!” Hod know that tho pensive and comnlabi ing world would want to road it, and so he inspiro< Jeremiah to write: “Oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes fountains of tears!” God know that tho lovor.s of the wild, the romantic an I tho strange would want to read it, so lie lets Hzekiel write of mysterious rolls and winged creatures and flying wheels of fire. God orepared it for all zones—for the Arctic and Tropic, as well /is for the Temperate /one. Cold-blooded Greenlanders would find much to interest them, and the tanned inhabitant* at tho Kouator would find his passionate nature boil with the vehemence of Heavenly truth. The Arabian would rea 1 It on his drome dary, and t.ho Lnnlandor seated on the swift sled, and the herdsman oT Holland guarding the cattle in tho grass, and th * Swiss girl re- Mining ami-1 Alnine crags. O, when I sea that the Bible is suit'd iu sfvlc, exactly suited, to ail ages, to all conditions, to all land-, I can not. help repeating the conclusion I or my toxt: “The statutes of the Lord uro i right. ” ! I remark again : Tho Bible is right in its doctrinei. Man. a sinner; Christ, asavior— -1 the two doctrines. Man must come down— his pride, his self.righteousness, his worldli ne-;s; Christ, the Anointed, mint, g - up. If it bad not, been for tho s-tt’ng forth of the Atonement Moses would never have de scribed the Creation: prophets would not have predicted; apostles would not have p-ea lied. It seems t- me as if Jesus and tho Bib’o were standing on a platform in a great amphitheater, ns if tho prophets were behind Him throwing light for ward on HD sacred person, and as if the apostles and evangelists stoo I Id fore Him lik' footlights throwing up the r light into His blessed countenance, and tho i as if all the earth and heaven were tho applauding auditory, tt-e Blhlo speaks of Risgah and Cnrrriel and Sinai, but makes a!] mountains bow down to Calvary. The flocks lad overth » Judean h lls were emblems of “tlu* baud- <-f Go-1 that takoth away the sins of the world:” and tho lion leaping out of its lair, was an ombl 'tn of “tile lion of Judah's tribe.” I will in my next breath recite to you the most wonderful sent nice over written: “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all a- optation. that Christ Jems cam- into the world to save sinners.” No wonder that when Jesus was horn in Bethlehem Heaven sympathized with earth, an l a wave of joy dashed cleftr overt,he battlements and dripped noon (he shepherds in t'uo w ir-ls: “Glory to G'd -ri the highest, anl on earth peace, good will toward men.” Iri my next sent mee every word weighs a ton: “God so loved tho world that. He gave His only be'ot'en Bon. that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life ” Show me any other book withsu h a doctrine -c- high so deer-, y vast ’ 4. Again: tho Bible is right in it; effects. I do not care where yon put the Bible, it just suits the place. You put i' i- the hand of a man seriously con-erned about his soul. 1 see people often giving to the serious soul this and that book. It may very well: but there i:s no book like tho Bible. He rea Is the Don mandments. an I pleads to the indictment “Guilty.” He takes up the Psalms of David’ ami says: “They just de e dbu rnv feel ings.” li-flier to good works; Raul starts him out of that by the announcement: “A rnan ir not i- s'iflel by works.” He falls bn-k in hi; discouragement: the Bible starts him uo with the sentence-: “Remember I-ot's wi f e,” “Grieve not, the Spirit ” “Klee the Wrath to Come.” Then the man in de spair begins to erv out “VYhat shall I do? Wl-ero shall I go?” nnd a voice reaches hirn saving: “Come unto me. all ve who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Take this Bible and place it in the hands of men in trouble! is there anybody here in trouble? Ah, i might 1-ettuzr ark are there any here who have never been in trouble? Put this Bible in th; hands of the troubled. A on fin-1 that as some of the best berries grow on the sharprst thorns, so some of the sweetest consolations -,f the gor M grow on the most stinging affliction. You though* that death had grace! your child Oh, no! It v. a only the H -avenly Shepherd taking a -nu-b out of th • r 0 ‘ | Christ 1-ent over von as you hel I the child in your lao and puttin'- His arms gently a-uund th- little one, said: “Os u-h is the kingdom of heaven.” Pc* rhe Bible in tie s -bool Ral-ied be the heed that, would tik- the Bible from the eol je- r. and the s -bool. Educate only a man’s head and yo j make h : ra an in*i lei. Edu ate “ SUB DEO FAOIO FOE TITER." y b’uiy a man’s heart and yob m«Ao him n{ fanatic. Educate them both together, ami ' you have the b'blest, work of Go l An e lu » catart mind without moral principle, is a ship’ y without a helm, a rushing m’il train without brakes or reversing rod to control tip* speed. I Put. the Bible in the family. There it. lies oh the table, an unlimited power. Polygamy ami tins ripturnl divorceaiv prohibited Parents* 1 are kind and faithful, child on polite and i obedient Domestic sorrows lessened by be ing divided, joys increased bV being multi* ' plied. Oh father, oh m »the‘r. take down that long-neglecto<d Bible nnd rea l it yoifrsolvcHf > ami let your children read it! Put tho Bildo ' oi\ tho rail train nnd on shinlnard, till /ill i* parts of this lan l and all other lands shall have its illumination. This hour the e rises 1 the yell of heathen worship, and in the face of t-fiis day’s sun smokes t he blood of human * tfnerifice. Give them the Bible. Unbind that wife from the funeral prye, for no other sac i riflee is needed since the blood of Jesus i Christ cleanse tli from all sin. 1 f am preaching this enn »n he *auso there are so many who would have you believe that 1 the Bible is an outlandish book and obso’ote. j It. is fresher and more intense tlmu any book that yesterday came out. of the eroat nuldish , ing lion sirs. Make it yous guide in life an 1 your pillow in death. ; a ftor the battle of Richmond, a dead k soldier was found with his hand Iving on the open Bible. Th * summer inso its hul eateu ’ tho flesh from the hand, but the sk deton fin* j per lay on the words: “Vea, though I walk j through tho Valley of flu* Shadow of Death, T will fear no evil, for*Thou art with me; Thy rod an I Thy staff they comfort me.” C Yes, this book will become in your last days, l when you turn away from /ill ot her books, a » solace for your soul. Perhaps it, will be your 5 mother’s Bible; perhaps tho one given you on * your wedding day, its cover now worn out » and its leaf faded with age; but its bright [ promises will flash upon the opening gates of i Heaven. » “How precious is tho Book divine, i By inspiration given; Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine, | To guide our souls to heaven. , “This lamp, through /ill the tedious night i Os life, shall gtiideour way, ♦Till wo lx*hold tho clearer light. Os an eternal day.” iii ■ - Told the Trulli. A man who walked with a crutch nnd was badly crippled generally was in front of a house a few miles from Estelino, when another man approached und said: “Hollo, J'rown. Is that hay horse of yours out there in the pasture for salo ?* i “Yes.” “I want a horse that won’t kick—l’in afraid of a kicking horse.” “That’s just, the hoss you want then, | gov’nur. 1 never se ■ him kick.” “You’re sure of this, are you ?” “You bet I am—never see that hoss raise his foot to kick.” “Well, if that’s the ease, I’ll take him.” j„ He bad not b<cn gone long when he returned afoot, looking as if ho had been 1 run through a cyclone, and said : “.Say, that infernal horse began to kick down here und didn’t stop till he broke tire wagon all up and got loose aud ran oil across the prairie I” “Is that so “ v es, that’s so, nnd your neighbors tell me that the reason you arc so badly crip pled is that he kicked you.” “Well, that.s about the size of it.” “You’ll own up to it now will you! j What made you tell mo vou never saw him kick?” “I told you so’cos it was tho truth, pardner, I always make a practice o’ tollin’ the truth. I never see that boss , kick. I’ve had him ’bout a week and the other day I was out n’ the barn when 1 guess hesort o’got a noshin’ o’ kickin’, leastways the air was filled with pieces of barn and straps of harnesses and oats and hay and mangled remains of a man ’bout my size,but it came so quick that I didn’t see none of it. If you’d only b;en I cen stand in’ ’round and told me ho was goin' to begin, I should o’ been very happy to climb up in tlie grand stand I and take it all in, but you wasn’t, so all I j knew ’bout it was what they told mo after I come to. I told you th ■ truth an I you'd better go ’long now aud catch yer boss. I hain’tgotno time to stand nnd fool with you any longer. Hood i day!” -/intelUiie (Dakota) Bell. A Sure I’roof, I heard a story last week about the twin-stccplcd Ste. Anne’s (.'hurcli. An officer of sh" th reginr i-t, many aye ir ago. was in Detroit,and he went out to one of the jovial Detroit parties wlie.e the cup that cheered and inebriated got iu : its work. It was a fine moonlight night when he turned his wavering steps to the oi l American, where the Biddle now stands, and in passing Ste. Anne’s church he was appall, d to notice that it had two steeples exactly alike. He could riot be lieve that he was drunk as all that, hut there were the two steeples before him. When he got to his rooms he said to his comrade: “Jack, me hoy (hie , I’m afraid I’m (hic)diunk. Coming ’long the other street I passed a (hie) church, and do you know, I aim st thought it had two (hie. steeples.” “Well,” said the other, it has two steeples. “That's Ste. Anne's Church.” The officer pondered a b-w moments on this information, and remembering how it hud been impossible for him to tell whether the church had or had not the two steep I. s as he stood by it, he replied, mournfully: “By George. Jack fhicj, lan drunk, sure enough.’’- Detroit Free Brent. Forgot she Answer. “I sav, .Miss Belle, I think I can be weal iutewestirig to-night, even more so than usual,” said a young man who was born that way, and e m’t help it, to the young lady on whom he was calling. “Is it possible?” was the response. “Ya-a-s. You see I made a eonundwnm the other day and I wote it down weal quick bo's not to forget it. Heah it is. Why is it that when the wcatliah gets weal wahm, it’s always s’mother evening? Smother evening—ain't that good.” “But what is the answer?” inquired the listener. “Oh—the answer—er —by Jove! Do you know I forgot to make any answer to it. t must try and think ' one up.”— Merchant Traveler, Til T FAMILY PHYSICI.IX. A physician says that if arnica with I which bruised fiirtlw nro bathed is I heated its good 1 effects two perceptlblo liiurli BOtrmcr than if applied while cold. A standing antidote for poison by poi son oak, ivy, o tff.y 18 to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in wn**r, let. it stand tf.ilf an hour, then paint tint poisoned phrt with it. Three or four applica tions, it is ffltM,. will euro tho most ag gravated eases. A retired phisieian living iff Ohio, and strfTering with diabetes, elaims to find great relief ia a diet consisting wholly of buckwheat. He states that when lie coniines himself to a buckwheat diet ex clusively, tho disturbance in the stomach is relieved, ns is also tho pain in tho eyes, duo to the disease from which he has so long suffered. This remedy is a very simple one, and well worth trying. For ordinary nervous system being out of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep I will naturally follow, and upon getting I up the patient will feel very much ro ! freshed and tho toothache gone. For j what is known as “jumping” toothache, ! hot, dry flannel applied to tho faco ami | neck is very effective. For common toothache, which is caused by indiges tion, or by strong, sweet acid or any thing very hot or cold in a decayed tooth, a little piece of cotton steeped in strong camphor or oil of cloves is ugood remedy. Care in tho diet, especially when tho bowels are disordered, is helpful to miti gate toothache. If the tooth is much de cayed, nothing is better than its extrac tion. Hand Organs. Hand-organs, writes a correspondent of the Troy Tima, are a modern inflic tion, and have introduced the monkoy, which is a feature formerly unkown in mendicant minstrelsy. Tho monkey, in ! deed, is so amusing that one almost for gets tho organ-grinding wliilo watching | his nnties. Those animals are worth from $lO to sllO, according to their train ing, and when an Italian owns his organ 1 and monkey ho is really well-to-do In tho world. The best lmnd-organs cost from SIOO ' to $l5O, but those which so commonly j torment the public rarely cost more than j $lO. The best, aro the flute organs, and they play nearly a dozen tunes, and some j have extra cylinders, which add to their capacity. The principal factory is in Chatham street, this locality being so near the Italian quarter ("Maxtor street) that it is very favorable to trade. There are some Italians who own a number of organs, whieli they rent by tho season at a large profit and with but little loss. The grinder having finished his summer itinerancy, of course comes back for win ter quarters, and thus pays his rent. liotll organ-grinders and hoy fiddlers have their regular routes, which they re peat year after year, and there seems to be some general arrangement which pre vents interference. It is said that moro than 800 of these peripatetic minstrels have gone from New York this season, und yet it will be rare if two men visit the same village. When cold weather sets in tho grinders return to Maxtor street, where they pack together—some times nearly a dozen in a small room, with neither fire nor lights. The Italian can sustain life under extreme privations, and he seems content to sleep on tho floor and live on what he can pick up. A Curious Kansas Law in Ifeguril to Murderers. The most curious law in the United States dealing with punishment of mur derer i exists in Kansas. The Legislature in 1872 passed a bill which provided that any person convieted of murder in the first degree should be sent to the peniten tiary, there to remain until the governor of the state signed a warrant for and fixed the date of his execution. This was a fearful responsibility to place upon the executive, who would hesitate before being directly responsible for the death of any man, no mutter how heinous his crime. The responsibility was shifted from the jury or court, to which it prop erly belonged. That law is still in force, and the result lias been that the Kansas : penitentiary is crowded with murderers, ! as no governor would order their execu tion. Forty-one convicted murderers, four of whom are women, could bo bung | any day by order of the governor. Some 5 of their crimes arc unparalleled in the ! annals of cold blooded assassination. One of the-: days, unless that strange • law is repealed, there will be a grand hanging tournam nt in Kansas. The J state will licet a governor pledged to rid 1 the community of a band of cut-throats. I rt may be stated that the law was a neat bit of strategy on the part of the oppo nents of capital punishment. It sceins * thus far to have fulfilled the expectation* if those who desired to see bunging played out.— Cincinnati Inquirer . VOL I. xNO. 27. Parted. The SOW brook will m'ss thou, Tin bniozi? Mini used to kiss Uioo, | And rutlD with n sortr caress thy curls of sunny htflvt When the early dewifnpjps glLiUm On thu roses, they will Ifsjen For thy step upon the garden waJk,thy laugh ter in tho air. Tim meadows pay witli flowers, - The summer's leafy bowers, Will know thy joyous smile no more; the woodlands stand forlorn; f hear the soft complaining Os birds, from mirth refraining, : That greeted with their earo's sweet thy waking every morn. Poor mother 1 hush thy weeping, Abofe thy darling sleeping, Nor fret with ittlght of earthly grief tho still ness where ho lies, FI overs in Ids liWp Angers, Wh re the rosy flush still lingers, For the angels are his playmate* "" tho plains of Paradise. —lx- X mni o Rous. I'noide down A feather bed. , 11. MiI,US FIIOM MT, VKIiNoN, SOUTH.) jESSE FOR PRODUCE, .VEST FOR HOODS, ptcry Comity. \V« lump on hand , HATS IN THE COUNTY, Tin: in:ast iron icy. f "arc Tinware, Fancy and Heavy Ornco piriuidiing Goods, Ready Made Clothing, lu « 1,1 “»« ,illu “I »->iy Goods, Notions & CLOTHING, he sold ecltnpcr llinn the cheapest, nu lcr it limy. \y 0 will sell you i? ~r! :( " 7 « I (: '”-ii 85c; Coffee 8 (,i 10 Ihn ~n" "" 11 ‘'ini. You will timl in,r ‘ '! Ui,u You. No trouble to show nprlfi'Rfi (hu. 'MING OUT SALE. IE A SOOO INSTSUSSENT R-Q-TLIUST. 100 Filinas! 100 Oignns! to bn ( li’aratico Sale to reduce stock. Tlieso stock; iini.d get our money out of them. '' " m. •! as, w months; some used six months ; si . : ■■ mil i! unit Jirntnimint* taken 'Jjhlj< H and iiiadr uh {.'(H’dan now. » pi.' Id I’innos, Grand Pianos, Church v iliilcretif, o'.diets, including I hiei, Get ,V l);tvis, tlmiHiHh, k, Vos*- botiiugcr, Kwfny mid Itrnt " •«» 'tiadi! by coirespon io<|,tl|l’v < ' B,!,ltC<l oeiH ‘- , J r » ,f * l, "'y arc, uiul Organs $5 T month. Orc.it miner.. will oiler burgmiu, that will op, n y„ ue sold dnring Gcntcnnia! ww . k# hnt lh ■ '"Tr"’ ,iv<; '“”«aoM daily i"i\ei tiscinciit (in 51) good papers) will "It Hale Gii'cnlars, hu,l mention this ad- WSIC HQUS£ SAVANNAH GA., , A, l„ ItVAI.S, Ag’t. McVillc On. T 9 •« *tfTTM9\merjmtem n~. ■ev-rwmammmnemmummarni ANODYNE ll.ai i " **uraUrU. I'.S-um»t!»m, Blci-'llmr «t tho tungsi p. Cholera Morbus, DysOiitcr.r, Chronic plot freo. Dr. L. O. Johnson & Co., Boston, Musa. make qg| i a CBW, BICQ Intf IA $ a BLOOD, gj $ P,m yL ike them in t?>«} rvorld. Will positively euro oi* uoch box it* v/uitn ton limes tho eo:»t of a box cf laukful. Ou« piii u hose. IlJtistrated pumphli t j. ts. C.K. JOfiNHUN 4cCO.. 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