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Bulloch Times. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY STATESBORO, GEORGIA. J. R. MILLER, Editor aid PuMister. Rubinstein, the pianist, it is declared, w uld become an American citizen if it were not for the objections of his wife. He is quoted as saying; “I am a Rus¬ sian of Russians; but I am also a Re¬ publican, and America is the land foi those that love liberty.” Wealthy Chinese merchants are send¬ ing their sons to England and America to he educated. Last year America had more Chinese students than England had. The correct length of time for a thor¬ ough education is considered to be about #ve years. If possible, the father goes after his son and brings him home when his period of education is completed. Of the nflarly 7000 homicides reported in 1892, 246 were committed by mobs, this being an increase of forty-one over the number reported for the previous year. This represents an increase of about fourteen per cent, in a single year. Of the persons so murdered 231 were men and five were women; eighty were white and 155 were colored, while only one-Indian was reported. Among the many progressive measures Inaugurated in England by Gladstone’s administration is a scheme for teaching the elements of politics in all scholastic Institutions controlled or supervised by the Government. Hitherto this branch of education, to which so much attention is paid in this country, as well as in Switzerland and France, has been en¬ tirely neglected in the primary schools of Great Britain. An interesting case was recently tried in England which illustrates an import¬ ant difference between English law and that of this country, though the common law of England forms the basis of all our Btate codes except that of Louisiana. A Mr. Cobb was traveling oa the Great Western line. When the train stopped at Wellington a number of roughs got into his compartment, hustled him and robbed him of all his money. He got out and notified the station-master; but the latter refused .to interfere or to de¬ tain the train until the thieves could be arrested. Mr. Cobb sued the road, but both the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeals decided that, though the facts might be as Mr. Cobb had stated Tn Switzerland very stringent laws f ~ ist for the protection of fruit trees from insects and other pests. No tree owner is allowed to treat his trees as he chooses, but a strict watch is kept over both amateur and professional horticulturists. The Russians believe thatcotton grow¬ ing will rapidly develop in their posses¬ sions in Central Asia. A cargo of the fleecy staple was recently shipped from Odessa to various German ports, The quality, however, was very inferior. According to the President of the Kansas State Dairy Association it costs more to grow a pound of wheat than to make a pound of milk in that State, and the wheat sells for three-quarters of a cent a pound and the milk for a cent a pound. ________ The failure of several Missouri banks lias awakened in the New York Despatch reminiscences of financial operations in the past. “By common consent the sweepstakes is awarded to a Stewarts ville institution, the liabilities of which were $100,000, and the assets a single two-cent postage stamp. '' A Bible wrapped in the American flag, relates ihe New York Mail and Express, was the first message sent through the first pneumatic postal tube iu the United States. This occurred at Philadelphia a few days ago. Mr. Wanamaker felici¬ tously stated that he had sent “the great¬ est message ever given to the world. ’’ Says the New York Press: The Ni¬ caragua Canal will cut off an on average about one-half the distance between this port and 500,000,000 of people with whom wc trade little and Great Britain trades much. The Suez Canal is iu her favor now, and we cannot meet her oa even terms in those markets till our ships can cross the Isthmus. The fact that about 400 applications for patents were made last year by women is an indication to the New York Press of how thoroughly the gentler sex is en • tenng into the practical activities of modern life. Many of these applications relate to such industries as textile manu¬ factures and railway and electrical de¬ vices. The unselfish spirit of the fair inventors is exhibited by the fact that among the products of their genius are improved braces, button hole flower holders, self attaching neckties, sleeve liuks and trousers splash'preventors. Man is no longer sole lord of creation. Charles Dudley Warner, in the Editor’s Study of Harper’s Magazine, writing upon some of the chana irbi REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Text: "lie took of the. stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep , and he dream ed."— Genesis xxviii., 11. feathers Asleep it on a pillowcase filled with hens’ is not strange one should have pleasant dreams, hut here is a pillow cf rock, and Jacob with his head on it. and io! ar)i earn of angels, two processions, those coming stairs. down the stairs met by those going up the It is the first dream of Bible record. You may say of a dream that it is nocturnal fantasia, or that it is the absurd combination of waking thought*, and with a slur of intonation you may say, “It is only a dream,” but God has honored the dream by making it the avenue through which again and again Hehas marched upon the human soul, decided the fate of Natious and changed the course of the world's his tory. God appeared in a dream to Abitnelec'i, warning in him against an unlawful marriage: ing a dream to Joseph, foretelling ilis com power under the figure of all the sheaves of the harvest bowing down to his sheaf; to the chief butler, foretelling his disimprisonment, to the chief baker, Pharaoh, an pouncing his decapitation, to shoiving him first the seven plenty years and then the seven famine struck years, un der the figure of the seveu fat cows devour ing the seven lean cows; to Solomon, giving him the choice between wisdom and riches and honor' to the warrior, under the figure of a barley cake smiting down a tent, on* couraging Gideon in his battle against file Amelekites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under the figure of a broken image and a hewn down tree, foretelling his overthrow of power; to Joseph of f he New Testament, announcing the birth of Christ in his own household; to Mary, bidding her fly from Herodic perse cutions; to Pilate’s wife, warning him not to become complicated with the judicial overthrow ot Christ. We all admit that God in ancient times and uuder Bible dispensation addressed the people through dreams. The question now is. Does God appear in our day and reveal qhes Himself through dreams? That is the tion everybody asks, and that question You this morning I shall try to answer. ask me if 1 believe in dreams. My answer is I do believe in dreams, but all I have to say will be under five heads. Remark the First—The Scriptures are so full of revelation from God that if we get no communication from Him in dreams we ought nevertheless to be satisfied. With 20 guidebooks to tell you how to get to Boston or Pittsburg or London or GLaf gnw or Manchester, do you want a night vision to tell you how to make the journey ? We have in this Scripture full direction in regard to the journey of this life and bow to get to the celestial city, and with this grand guidebook, this magnificent directory, we ought to be satisfied. I have more faith in a decision to which l come when I am wide awake than when I am sound asleep. I have noticed that those who gave a great deal of their time to studyiug dreams get their brains addled. They are very anxious to remember what they dreamed about the first night they slept in a new house. If in their dream they take the hand of a corpse, they are going to die. If they dream of a garden, it means a sepulcher. If some thing turns out according to a night vision, they say, ‘ Well, I am not surprised. I dreamed if.” If it turns out diffierent from the night vision, they say, “Well, dreams go by contraries.” In their efforts to put their dreams into rhythm they put their waking thoughts into discord. Now Bible is so full of revelation that we ought to be satisfied if we get no further reveia tion. Sound sleep received great honor when Adaui slept so extraordinarily that the sur gical incision which gave him Eve did not wake h i but .ther ne or brandy or “hasheesh" or lau iatmm is not a revelation from God. The leurnei Da Quincy did not ascribe to divine eommuni cation what he saw in steep, opium situ rated; dreams which he afterward described in the following words: “I was worshiped. I was sacrificed, (fled from the wrath of Brahma through all the forests of Asia. Vishnu hated rue. Siva laid in wait for me. I come suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. I had done a deed, they said, that made the crocodiles tremble. I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. 1 was kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiles and lay confounded' with unutterable slimv tliings among wreathy and Nilotic mud." Do not mistake narcotic disturbanca for di¬ vine revelation. But I have to tell you that the majority of dreams are merely the penalty of outraged digestive organs, and you have no right to mistake the nightmare for heavenly revela¬ tion. Late suppers are a warranty deed for bad dreams. Highly spiced meals at 11 o’clock at night instead of opening the door heavenward open the door infernal and dia¬ bolical. You outrage natural law, and you insult the God who made these iaws. It takes from three to five hours to digest food, and you have no right to tax your digestive organs in struggle when the rest of yoilr body is in somnolence. The general rule is, eat nothing after (5 o’clock at night, retire at Id, sleep on your right side, keep the win dow open five inches for ventilation, and other worlds will not disturb you much, By physical mattreatment you take the ladder that Jacob saw in his dream and you lower it to the nether world, allowing the ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are mid night dyspepsia. An unregulated de-ire for something to eat ruined the race in para disc, and an unregulated desire for sun ? thing to eat keeps it ruined. Tne world during 0000 years has tried in vain to digest be that first apple. The world will not evangelized until we get rid of a dyspeptic Christianity. Healthy people do not want this cadaverous and sleepy thing that religion some people call religion. They day want and a sleeps that lives regularly by soundly If by night. trouble coming of old through Christian or service on age or exhaustion of you cau not sleep well, then you may expect from God “songs in the night,” but there are no biassed communications to those who will ingly surrender to indigestibles. Napoleon's Borodino army at Leipsic, Dresdeu and came near being destroyed through commander. the uis turbed gastric juices of it That is the way you have lost some of your battles, Another remark I make is that our dreams are apt to be merely the echo of cur day thoughts. recipe for pleasant i will give you a dreams: Fill your days with elevated thought and unselfish action, and your dreams will be set to music. If all day you are gouging and grasping and avaricious. in your dreams you will see gold that you cannot clutch atid bargains in which you were outsbylocked. If during the day you are irascible and pugnacious and gunpow dery of disposition, you will at night have battle with enemies in which they will get the best of you. If you are all day long rail in a hurry, at night you will dream of trains tnat you want to catch while you cannot move one inch toward*the depot, If you are always oversuspicious will' have and night ex peetunt of assault, you at hallucinations ot assassins with daggers ( | rawn . No one wonders that Richard 111., the iniquitous, the night before the battle of Bosworth Field,dreamed that all those whom he had murdered stared at. him, and that he was torn to pieces by demons from tne pit. The scholar’s dream is a philosophic echo, The poet’s dream is a rhvthmie echo. Cole ridge composed his “Kubia Khan” asleep in a narcotic dream, and waking up wrote down 1100 lines of it. Tar tin!, the violin player, composed his most wonderful sonata while asleep in a dream so vivid that wak i n g he easily transferred it to paper. W thoughts^^tf^^Km aking thought^rfye their echo in sleep ing spends his life in trying toheavenly immle l, pies prec rheumatic, sick, poor tv> ihe last point of destitution. Sue was waited on and cared for by another poor woman, her only at tendant. Word came to her one day that this poor woman bad died, and the invalid of whom I am speaking lay helpless upon the couch wondering what would become of her. In that moo i she fell asleep. In her dreams she said the angel of the Lord appeared and took her into the open air and . points i in one direction, and there were mountains of bread, and pointed in anotoer direction, and there were mountains o batter, and in an other direction, an i there were mountains of all kinds o: worldly suomy. The angel of the Lord said to har, “Woman, all these mountains belong to your Father, and do you think that He will let you, His child, hunger and die?" Dr. Crannage told me by some divino im puiso he went into that destitute home, saw the suffering thare and administered unto it. caring for her all the way through. Do you tell me that that dream was woven out of earthly anodynes? Was that the phan¬ tasmagoria of a diseased brain? No, it was an all sympathetic God addressing a poor woman through a dream. Furthermore, I have to say that there are people in this house who were converted to Go:l through a dream. The Rev. John Newton, the fame of whose piety tills ail Christendom, while a profligate sailor on. shipboard, in his dream, thought that a be¬ ing approached him and gave him a very beautltul ring and put it upon his finger and said to him, “As long as you wear that ring you will be prospers i; if you lose that ring, you w ill be ruined." In the same dream another personage ap¬ peared, and by a strange infatuation per¬ suaded John Newton to throw that ring overboard, and it sank into the ssa. Then the mountains in sight were full of fire, and the air wis lurid with consuming wrath. While John Newton was overboard repenting the of his folly in having thrown treasure, another personage came through the dream and told John Newton he would plunge into the sea and bring the ring up if he desired it. He plunged into the sea and brought it up and said to John Newton. “Here is that gem, but I think I will keep it for you. lest you lose it again,” and John Newton con sented, and all the fire went out from the mountains, and all the signs of lurid wrath disappeared from the air, and John Newton said that he saw in his dream that that valu¬ able gem was his soul, and that the being who persuaded him to throw it overboard was iSataD, and that the one who plunged in and restored that gem, keeping it lor him, was Christ. And that dream makes one of the most wonderful chapters in the life of that most wonderful man. A German was crossing the Atlantic ocean, and in his dream he saw a man with a handful of white flowers, and he was told to tollow the man who had that handful of white flowers. The German, arriving in New York, wandered into Lamphier—whom the Fulton street prayer meeting, and Mr. apostle of many of you know—the great prayer meetings, that day had given te him a bunch of tuberoses. They stood on his desk, and at the close of the religious services he took the tube¬ roses and started homeward, and the Ger¬ man followed him, and through an inter¬ preter told Mr. Lamphier that on the sea he had dreamed of a man with a handful of white flowers and was told to follow him. Suffice it to say, through that interview and loilowiug interviews he became a Christian and is a city missionary preaching the Gospel to his own countrymen. God in a dream I John Hardock, while on shipboard, dreamed one night that the day of judg¬ ment had come, and that the roll of the ship’s crew was called, except his own name, and that these people, this crew, were all banished, and in his dream he asked the reader why bis own name was omitted, and he was told it was to give him more oppor¬ tunity for repentance. He woke up a dif¬ ferent man. He became illustrious for Christian attainment. If you do not believe these things, then you must discard all tes¬ timony and refuse to accept any kind ot au tboritative witness. Godin a dream! Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to ^iod m through a dream of the last judgment, I doubt if there is p man or woman m For Kent. Plantation nine miles below Statesboro, ood dwelling and barn. Enough land for one or two horse farm. Apply to tf S. L. Moore, Jr, Statesboro, Ga. OSUKE TOlIi STOCK. 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