The Weekly Chroniele.
THI DALLI8,
OREGON
FRIDAY,
MAY 1, 1891
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
H. T. Johnston the postmaster
Dufar was in the city Saturday.
Of
Miss Georgia Smith - of Hood River
made a flying visit to the city to-day,
A very large quantity of merchandise
was discharged from cars at the depot
to-day.
Unas. JS. Bayard left Jvnday morn
. ing lor Seattle where be expects to re
main for some time.
Miss Minnie Garrison of East Port
land is visiting at the home of her grand
mother Mrs. Garrison.
B. S. Huntington went to Canyon
City Saturday, to attend court, which is
" in session at that place.
So far this season, the run of salmon
has hardly commenced, which is an un
usual thing at this time of year.
A wagon load of fat hogs owned by C
M. Van Duyn were sold Thursday at five
and one-fourth cents, on foot.
C. M. VanDuyn sold two cars of beef
. cattle to Mr. Lewis of Portland, last
'Friday.
: . Hon. Robert Mays has returned from
his ranch at Antelope where he has been
for the past few weeks.
The regular meeting of the Eastern
Oregon , Pomelogical society was held
Saturday in the council chamber in
this city. " " -
James Fulton, Jr., of Lower Ten Mile
was in town. He says they had a fine
rain at his place and the grain is looking
splendid.. .
Herman Raster formerly of Kingsley
now ' of Kings valley, .Benton county
came up on the noon train Friday on
visit to his old ranch at Kingsley.
The Columbia river at this point had
a raise of one foot yesterday and is on
stand at about eleven feet above low
water mark.
The musical jingle of the bell on the
lead horses of the . six and eight horse
freight teams from the country is Jaeing
heard on the streets.
- Stock In specter Rice is so far recovered
from his sickness as to be able to go out
to bis father's ranch on Fifteen Mile to
spend a short time for a change of air.
Potatoes seem to be a drug in this
market. We saw two persons from the
country Friday who could not dispose of
some they had brought into town, at
any price.
. Twenty cars of cattle, a whole train,
were fed Saturday at the stock yards.
They belong in part to Reynolds Sc. Chil
ders and part to Kirkahaw & Coolege
and are for the Sound market.
Edgar Pratt of Wamic, A. J. Wall of
Eight Mile, C. P. Balch of Dofur, Alex.
8trachan of Dufar, Frank Gabel of Wap-
initia and Wm. Holder, state lecturer of
the grange from Grass Valley, were in
town Friday.
Thi following statement from Mr. W.
. B. Denny, a well known dairyman of
New Lexington, Ohio, will be of interest
to persons troubled witb ' Kheumatism.
'He says: "I have used Chamberlain's
. -Pain Balm for nearly two years, four
bottles in all, and there is nothing I have
ever used that gave me as much relief
for rheumatism. . We always keep a bot
tle of it in the house." For sale by
Snipes it Kinersly. '
The land contest case on hearing for
the past three or . four days between
." Richard Sigman and Robert Bradley of
Dufnr was settled by the mutual agree
ment -of the parties, Friday. The
' contest involved 80 acres of railroad land
which the parties agreed to divide.
A. J. Wall bought a fine trotter from
C, P. Balch of Dufnr Friday morning.
Wall says the price paid was $300, and
that the animal can trot in 3 minutes,
The Chboniclb is privately informed
that under favorable circumstances on
" -. good track she might make a mile in 10
minutes.
..Mr. William O'Dell of Hood Rir er who
has been under the medical care of Dr.
vanaerpooi at JJarur lor some time was
moved to this city Thursday last and is
the - guest - of superintendent - Shelley
- Mr, O'Dell stood the journey from Dufur
. better than was expected. He will pro
ceed to his home as soon as it is thought
' prudent. ---'-
'He wants it .known. Mr. J. H
-Straub, a well known German citizen, of
' Fort Madison, Iowa, was terribly afflicted
witn inflammatory rneumatism wben
Mr. J. F. Salmon, a prominent druggist
there, adviBed him to use Chamberlain's
Pain Balm. One bottle of it cured him.
Hie cam was a very severe one.. He suf
' fared a gssat deal' and now wants others
w similarly afflicted' to know what cured
him. 50 cent bottles for sale by Snipes
Kinersly.'
This is a plain and truthful utterance,
made to. an Oregonian reporter by E. B.
Dufur, of .The Dalles: "Eastern Oregon
is with Portland, heart and soul, in its
efforts to build a portage road, between
The Dalles and Celilo. Every man,
woman and child endorses the scheme
' ; adopted at the Portland convention. I
am satisfied that oar section of the state
: will pat np its portion of the amount
needed, . If Portland does not get the
river opened its Eastern Oregon trade
. will surely . go over the . mountain to
Paget sound."
So the state militia is to go into camp
In a couple of months and for the time
conduct themselves as real soldiers.
The state has shown how proud it is of
t the boys by making an appropriation so
exceedingly liberal that six overcoats
will be loaned oat to each company of
60 men for the men on guard duty. The
boys will be permitted to furnish their
.. own bed and bedding; if they indulge in
. .the luxury of target practice they can
blow off their own ammunition for tne
state won't furnish any, and besides all
these privileges and emoluments they
are paid a wage of $1.50 a day. You see
it's a fat job this. Xet as all join.
The-only sisterof Mr. J. M. Patterson,
of this city, Mrs. G. W. Browne, died at
Spokane this morning from the effects of
la grippe. Mrs. Blanche Patterson was
at her bedside at the time of her death,
f. and will bring her body down here and,
being1 joined by her husband, will go
through to Salem, where the funeral
will take place. The deceased lady
leaves a child of her own and the infant
child of Mr. Patterson's older sister who
died last fall, and for which she has
- been caring. Mrs. Browne was a woman
of lovely character and her loss will be
sadly felt. . 1
From our Wmmie Correspondent.
Wamic, Or., April 23. 1891
Editor Chronicle : Dear sir, I sent
you a few items from here last week bat
as I did not find them in your columns
I presume they found their way to your
waste basket. I won't let you off so easy
I'll bore you with this one anyway.
We are increasing very fast this spring,
for a daughter was born to the wife of
A. C. Sanford, April 9th, and a daughter
to the wife of Orange Brittian, April
13th, a son to the wife of S. H. Douglas,
Aprill 19th, a daughter to the wife of W
H. Patison, April 19th and a son to the
wife of Rufus McCorkle, April 23. That
is all we have heared of lately, hut the
deuce only knows how many more there
are in this locality.
Jas. Patison and family left here for
Fossil last Monday where his wife will
visit her sister while he is shearing
sheep.
Tne ground is very dry and many
were compelled to let their summer fal
low ground lay idle this season from
that cause. All grain that is sowed
looks nicely and will raise a fair crop,
without any rain, but rain is needed
yery badly.
Wishing your paper'success, and hop
ing to always have the oppertunity to
pick up the Chronicle at all spare
moments to tret the correct news I am
very respectfully, Ought.
ANOTHER SURVEY.
Bat a Usual the Matter is Shrouded in
Mystery.
Evening Telegram.
It is understood that in a few davs a
party of engineers will start out from
here to eo over the line of the old Hunt
system on the north side of the Columbia.
Just what the object is cannot be
learned, nor can it be learned whom the
engineers represent.
It is supposed they want to ascertain
the actual, value of the right-of-way and
franchise in general. There is no longer
any hope that the Northern Pacific will
build the line, hence the actions of the
engineers are all the more mysterious.
Ground Selected.
Mr. Joseph Paquet who has the con
tract for building the boat for The Dalles,
Portland and Astoria Navigation Com
pany was in tins city batnrday and
chose the grounds and selected the
location on which he is going to build
the boat. It will be at the foot of Wash
ington street. The contractor has all
arrangements made for the work and
will have the lumber and men here on
Monday next and will then begin oper
ations and push the boat through to
completion inside of three months.
The Government Slow hut Sure.
Our townsman Marshall Hill this
morning received from the government
at Washington the sum of $57.03. There
is nothing particularly strange in that,
but from "the circumstance that it was in
payment for services rendered by Mr,
Hill when he was a lad not then twenty'
one years of age. He is now fifty-four
years old. . Mr Hill thinks the United
States government a slow paymaster but
a sure one.
Notice to tax Payers.
All state and county taxes, become
delinquent April 1st. Taxpayers are here
by requested to pay the same before that
date in order to avoid going on tne de
linquent list. The county court has
ordered the sale of all property in which
the taxes have not been paid. Please
call and settle before the time mentioned
and save costs. D. L. Gates,
Sheriff of Wasco County
NOTICE.
R. E. French has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
landajn. the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county. They will be sold
very cheap and on reasonable terms
Mr. r rench can locate settlers on some
good unsettled claims in the same neigh
oornood. a is address is trrass valley.
Sherman county, Oregon.
FOR SALE. '
A choice lot of brood mares : also
number of geldings and fillies by "Rock-
wood Jr.," "Planter," "Oregon Wilkes,"
and "Idaho Chief," same standard bred
Also three fine young stallions by
"Kockwood Jr." out of nrst class mares,
For prices and terms call on or address
either J. W. Condon, or J. H. Larsen,
The Dalles, Oregon.
Merino Sheep for Sale.
I have a fine band of thorough bred
Merino sheep consisting oi 07 bucks,
about 340 ewes and about Ai young
lambs, which I will sell at a low price
and upon easy terms. Address,
- D. M. French,
- The Dalles, Or.
Stock Strayed.
Three 3-year-old fillies (2 sorrels and
one bay.) two 2-year-olds (both bays) all
branded i on the left shoulder. - I will
give $5 apiece for the recovery of the
same. J. W. Rogers.'
Boyd, Or.
City Treasurer's Notice.
All City Warrants registered prior to
July 6, 1889 are now due and payable.
interest ceases on and alter date.
J. S. Fish.
February 7, 1891. City Treas.
Lost.
Pair of gold bowed eye glasses in case.
The finder will be rewarded by leaving
at this omce.
Horsemen Attention.
The spring rodero for horses will meet
at Bake Oven on the first day of May.
it. XSOOTEK,
Chas. W. Haight,
J. N. Burgess.
Lone Ward offers for sale one of the
best farms of its size in Sherman county.
It consists of 240 acres of deeded land at
Erskinville. There is a . never-failing
spring of living water capable of water
ing five hundred head of stock dailv.
Tne house, which is a large store build
ing with ten rooms attached alone cost
$1700. A blacksmith shop and other
buildings and the whole surrounded by a
good wire fence. Will be sold cheap and
on easy terms. Apply by letter or other
wise to tne editor of the Chronicle or to
the owner, W. L. Ward, Boyd, Wasco
county, Oregon.
The temperance lecture of Major
Scott last Thursday evening was one of
the finest of the kind ever heard here.
For over an hour he held a large audi
ence as not one out of a hundred public
speakers could do. His language, though
pointed and strong, was not calculated
to arouse antagonism. It was excellent
seed sown in good ground and will pro
duce rich fruit, though it may not re
form any who are already drunkards or
debased tipplers. Polk County Itemizer.
Dr. J.' B. Mahama, the inventor of the
single rail railway, is a citizen of Union,
Oregon, but is constructing his first rail
way in Vermont, from Rutland to Mont-
pelier, a distance of seventy miles, on aJ
subsidy of $3,000 per mile, and twenty
carloads through freight pe'Say, per
annum. . f
Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., under a
canvass will appear in The Dalles in a
few days. It is spoken, very highly of
and a rare treat Is in -prospect.
A PLAGUE OF UNBELIEF.
THE MOVING CAUSE OF ALL THE
PLAGUES OF CITIES.
Dr. Talin age's Masterly Contrast of the
Effects of Christianity and Agnosticism.
The Glorious Results of a LiTing Faith.
What Has Infidelity Done?
New York, April B. Continuing his
course of sermons on "The Ten Plagues of
the Cities," Rev. Dr. Talmage today took
for his subject "The Plague of Infidelity."
The discourse was delivered to large and
appreciative audiences at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music in the forenoon and the
New York Academy of Music m the even
ing. The text was Romans iii, 4, "Let
God be true, but every man a liar."
That is if God says one thing and the
whole human race says the opposite, Paul
would accept the Divine veracity. But
there are many in our time who have dared
arraign the Almighty for falsehood. In
fidelity is not only a plague, but it is the
mother of plagues.
It Seems from what we hear on all sides
that the Christian religion is a huge blun
der; that the Mosaic account of the creation
is an absurdity large enough to throw all
nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam
and Eve never existed; that the ancient
flood and Noah's ark were impossibilities;
that there never was a miracle; that the
Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of
polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that
the Christian religion is woman's tyrant
and man's stultification; that the Bible
from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a hum
bug, a sham, a lie; that the martyrs who
died for its truth were miserable dupes;
that the church of Jesus Christ is
properly gazetted as a fool; that wben
Thomas Caxlyle. the skeptic, said. "The
Bible is a noble book," he was dropping
into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker
declared in Music hall, Boston. "Never a
boy or girl in all Christendom but was
profited by that great book," he was be
coming very weak minded; that it is some
thing to bring a blush to the cheek of
every patriot that John Adams, the father
of American independence, declared, "The
Bible is the best book in all the world;"
and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson
turned into a sniveling coward when he
said, "That book, sir, is the rock on which
our republic rests;" and that Daniel Web
ster abdicated the throne of his intellectual
power and resigned his logic, and from
being the great expounder of the constitu
tion and the great lawyer of bis age turned
into an idiot when he said, "My heart as
sures and reassures me that the gospel of
Jesus Christ must be a divine reality.
From the time that at my mother's feet
or on my father s Knee 1 nrst learned to
lisp verses from the sacred writings they
have been my daily study and vigilant con
templation, and if there is anything in my
style or thought to be commended the
credit is due to my kind parents in instill
ing into my mind an early love of the
Scriptures;" and that William H. Seward,
the diplomatist of the century, only showed
his puerility when he declared, "The whole
nope of human progress is suspended on
the ever growing influences of the Bible;"
and that it is wisest for us to take that
book from the throne in the affections of
uncounted multitudes and put it under
oar feet, to be trampled upon oy ha
tred and hissing contempt; and that
your old .father was hoodwinked and
cajoled and cheated and befooled when
he leaned on this as a staff after his
hair grew gray, and his hands were
tremulous, and his steps shortened as he
came up to the verge of the grave; and that
your mother sat with a pack of lies on her
lap while reading of the better country, and
of the endmg of all her aches and pains,
and reunion not only with those of you
who stood around her, but with the chil
dren she had buried with infinite heart
ache, so that she could read no more until
she took off her spectacles and wiped from
them the heavy mist of many tears. Alas!
that for forty and fifty years they should
have walked under this delusion and had
it ondor their pillow when they laya-dying
in the back room, and asked that some
words from the vile page might be cut upon
the tombstone under the shadow of the old
country meeting house where they sleep
today waiting for a resurrection that will
never come.
This book, having deceived them, and
having ' deceived the mighty intellects of
the past, must not be allowed to deceive
our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupen
dons intellects. And so out with the book
from the court room, where it is used in
the solemnization of testimony. Oat with
it from Under the foundation of church
and asylum. Out with it from the domes
tic circle. Gather together all the Bibles
the children's Bibles, the family Bibles,
those newly bound, and those with lid
nearly worn out and pages almost obliter
ated by the fingers long ago turned to
dost bring them all together, and let as
make a bonfire of them, and by it warm
our cold criticism, and after that turn un
der with the plowshare of public indigna
tion the polluted ashes of that loathsome,
adulterous, obscene, cruel and deathful
book which is so antagonistic to man's
liberty, and woman's honor, and the
world's happiness.
AGNOSTICS ATTACK THE VERT UKE.
Now that is the substance of what infi
delity proposes and declares, and the at
tack on the Bible is accompanied by great
jocosity, and there is hardly any subject
about which more mirth is kindled than
about the Bible. I like fun; no man was
ever built with a keener appreciation of it.
There is health in laughter instead of harm
physical health, mental health, moral
health, spiritual health provided you
laugh at the right thing. The morning is
jocund. The Indian with its own mist bap
tizes the cataract Minnrthaha, or "cg
Water. You have not kept your eyes open
or your ears alert if you have not seen the
sea. smile, or heard the forests eiap their
finia or the orchards in blossom week
glee witb redolence. Bat there is a laugh
ter which is dnaUinil, there la a laughter
which has the rebound of despair. It is
not healthy to giggle about God or chuckle
about eternity or smirk about the things
of the immortal aooL.
You know what caused the accident
years ago on the Hudson tuver railroad.
It was an tntoxtcatea man who lor a joze
polled, the string of the air brake and
stopped the train at the most dangerous
point of the journey. But the lightning
train, not knowing there was any impedi
ment in the way, came down, groaning out
of the mangled victims the immortal souls
that went speeding instantly to God and
judgment. It was only a joke. He thought
U would be such run to stop tne train, lie
stopped it. And so infidelity is chiefly
anxious to stop the long train of the ihble,
and the long train of the churches, and the
long train of Christian influences, while
coming down upon ns are death, judgment
and eternity, coming a thousand miles a
minute, coming with more force than all
the avalanches that ever slipped from the
Alps, coming with more strength than all
the lightning express trains that ever whis
tled or shrieked or thundered across the
continent.
Now in this jocularity of infidel thinkers
I cannot join, and I propose to give you
some reasons why I cannot be an Infidel,
and so I will try to help out of this present
condition any who may have been struck
with the awful plague of skepticism.
First, I cannot be an infidel because in
fidelity has no good substitute for the con
solation it proposes to take away. Yon
hnow there are millions of people who get
their chief consolation from this book.
What would yon think of a crusade of this
sort?' Suppose a man should resoive that
he would organize a conspiracy to destroy
all the medicines from all the apothecaries
and from all the hospitals of the earth.
The work is done. The medicines are
taken, and they are thrown into the riven,
or the lake, or the sea. -
A pattest wakes up at mhuzzht in a nar-
exyam of distress, antJTTants an anodyne.
"UV aaya tne n-Sse. "the anodynes are
all destrojs'i"; we have no drops to give
you. bT iruUA&d of that I'll read vou a
PZK on the absurdities of morphine and
on the absurdities of all remedies." But
the man continues to writhe in pain, and
the nurse aaya: Til continue to read you
some discourses on anodynes, the cruelties
of anodynes, the indecencies of anodynes,
the absurdities of anodynes. For yoor
(roan 111 give you a laugh."
ALAS! FOB THE SORSOWTKO.
Her in th hospital is a patient baring a
gangrened Umb amputated, m.
for ether! Oh, for chloroform!" The doc
tors say: "Why, they are all destroyed; we
dont have any more chloroform or ether,
but I have got something a great deal bet
ter. I'll read you a pamphlet against
James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloro
form as an anaesthetic, and against Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton and Hosack and
Mott and Harvey and Abernethy." "But."
says the man, "I must have some anaes
thetics." "No," say the doctors, "they are
all destroyed, but we have got something a
great deal better." "What is that?"
"Fun.'.' Fun about medicines. Lie down,
all ye patients in Bellevue hospital, and
stop your groaning; all ye broken hearted
of all the cities, and quit your crying; we
have the catholicon at last!
Here is a dose of wit, here is a strength
ening plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle
of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken
np and take a spoonful of it after each
meal, and if that does not cure you here is
a solution of blasphemy in which you may
bathe, and here is a tincture of derision.
Tickle the skeleton of death with a repar
tee! Make the Bang of Terrors cackle!
For all the agonies of all the ages a joke!
Millions of people willing with uplifted
hand toward heaven to affirm that the
goepel of Jesus Christ is full of consolation
for them, and yet infidelity proposes to
take it away, giving nothing absolutely
nothing, except fun. Is there any greater
height or depth or length or breadth or im
mensity of meanness in all God's universe t
Infidelity is a religion of "Don't know."
Is there a God? Don't know! Is the soul
immortal? Don't know! If we should
meet each other in the future world will we
recognize each other? Don't know! A re
ligion of "don't know" for the religion of
"I know," "I know in whom I have be
lieved," "I know that my Redeemer liv-
eth." Infidelity proposes to substitute
religion of awful negatives for our religion
of glorious positives, showing right before
ns a world of reunion and ecstasy and high
companionship and glorious worship and
stupendous victory, the mightiest joy of
earth not high enough to reach to the base
of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor
awaiting all those who on wing of Chris
tian faith will soar toward it.
- Have you heard of the conspiracy to put
out all the lighthouses on the coast? Do
you know that on a certain night of next
month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bell Bock
lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse, Mon
tank lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New
London lighthouse,. Barnegat lighthouse,
and the 640 lighthouses on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished?
"Oh," you say, "what will become of the
ships on that night? What will be the
fate of the one million sailors following the
sea? What will be the doom of the mil
lions of passengers? Who will arise to put
down Buch a conspiracy?" Every man, wo
man and child in America and the world.
But that is only a fable. That is what in
fidelity is trying to do put out all the
lighthouses on the coast of eternity, letting
the soul go up the "Narrows" of death
with no light, no comfort, no peace ell
that coast covered with the blackness of
darkness. Instead of the great lighthouse,
a glowworm of wit, a firefly of jocosity.
Which do you like the better, O voyager
for eternity, the firefly or the lighthouse?
What a mission infidelity has started on!
The extinguishment of lighthouses, the
breaking up of lifeboats, the dismissal of
all the pilots, the turning of the inscrip
tion on yonr child's grave into a farce and
a lie. Walter Scott's "Old Mortality,"
chisel in hand, went through the land to
cut out into plainer letters the half obliter
ated inscriptions on the tombstones, and it
was a beautiful mission; but infidelity
spends its time with hammer and chisel
trying to cut out from the tombstones of
your dead all the story of resurrection and
heaven. It is the iconoclast of every vill
age graveyard and of every city cemetery
and of Westminster Abbey. T" of
Christian consolatiou for the dying, a freez
ing sneer. Instead of prayer a gran ace.
Instead of Paul's triumphant defiance of
death, a going out you know not where, to
stop you know not when, to do you know
not what. That is infidelity.
THB FALSE PLEAS OF arFHkXLHT.
Furthermore: I cannot be an Infidel, be
cause of the false charges infidelity is all
the time making against the Bible. Per
haps the slander that has made the most
impression and that some Christians have
not been intelligent enough to deny is that
the Bible favors polygamy. Does the God
of the Bible uphold polygamy, or did he?
How many wives did God make for Adam?
He made one wife. Does not your common
sense tell you when God started the mar
riage institution he started it as he want
ed it to continue? If God bad favored
polygamy he could have created for Adam
five wives or ten wives or twenty wives
just as easily as he made one.
At the very first of the Bible God shows
hlmaalf in favor of monogamy and antago
nistic to polygamy. Genesis ii, 24, "There
fore shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall cleave onto his wife."
Not his wives, but his wife. How many
wives did God spare for Noah in the ark?
Two and two the birds; two and two the
cattle; two and two the lions; two and two
the human race. If the God of the Bible
had favored a multiplicity of wives he
would have spared a plurality of wives.
When God first launched the homaji race
he gave Adam one wife. At the second
launching of the human race he spares for
Noah one wife, for Ham one wife, for Shem
one wife, for Japhet one wife. Does that
look as though God favored polygamy?
In Leviticus xviii, 18, God thunders his
prohibition of more than one wife.
God permitted polygamy. Yes; Just as
he permits today's murder and theft and
arson and all kinds of crime. He permits
these things, as you well know, but he
does not sanction them. Who would dare
to say he sanctions them? Because the
presidents of the United States have per
mitted polygamy in Utah, you are not,
therefore, to conclude that they patronized
it, that they approved it, when, on the
contrary, they denounced it. All of God's
ancient Israel knew that the God of the
Bible was against polygamy, for in the
four hundred and thirty years of their
stay in Egypt -there is only one case of
polygamy recorded only one. All the
mighty men of the Bible stood aloof from
polygamy except those who, falling into
the crime, were chastised within an inch
of their lives. Adam. Aaron, Noah, Jo
seph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But
you say, "Didnt David and Solomon favor
polygamy?" Yes; and did they not get
well punished for it?
Bead the lives of those two men and
yon will come to the conclusion that all
the attributes of God's nature were against
their behavior. David- suffered for his
crimes in the caverns of Adullam and Mas
sad a, in the wilderness of Mahanaim, in
the bereavements of Ziklag. The Bedouins
after him, sickness after him, Absalom af
ter him, Ahithopel after him, Adonijah af
ter him, the Edomites after him, tee Sy
rians after him, the Moabites after him,
death after him, the Lord God Almighty
after him. The poorest peasant in all the
empire married to the plainest Jewess was
happier than the king in his marital mis
behavior. How did Solomon get along
with polygamy? Bead his warnings in
Proverbs; read his self disgust in Kodesi-
astes. He throws up his hands in loath
ing and cries out, "Vanity of vanities, all
is vanity." His 'seven hundred wives
nearly pestered the life out of him. Solo-
omon got well paid tor bis crimes well
paid.
I repeat that all the mighty men of the
Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save
as they were pounded and flailed and co
to pieces for their iunult to holy marriage.
II tue BiDie is tue iriena oi poi;my why
is it that in all the land Tuere the Bible
predominates polygw-Vy is forbidden, and
in the lands nre there is no Bible it is
"""j- foiygamy an over unina, an
O.VfTindia, all over Africa, all over Persia,
all over heathendom, save a the mission
aries have done their work while polyg
amy does not exist in England and the
United States except in defiance of law.
The Bible abroad, God honored monogamy.
The Bible not abroad, God abhorred polyg
amy. ,
THE GLORY OF CHRISTIAN WOMANHOOD.
Another false charge which infidelity has
made against the Bible is that it is antago
nistic to woman, that it enjoins ber degra
dation and belittles her mission. Under
this impression many women have been
overcome of this plague of infidelity. Is
the Bible the enemy of woman? Come
into the picture gallery, the Louvre, the
Luxembourg of the Bible, and see which
pictures are the more honored. Here is
Eve, a perfect woman; as perfect a woman
as could be made by a perfect God. Here
is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling
a host into battle. Here is Miriam, lead
ing the Israeli tish orchestra on the banks
of the Red sea. Here is motherly Hannah,
with her own loving hand replenish! the
wardrobe of her son Samuel, the prophet.
Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot
of the mountain until the four hun
dred wrathful men, at the sight of - her
beauty and prowess halt, halt a hurricane
stopped at the sight of a water lily, a dew
drop dashing back Niagara. Here is Buth
putting to shame all the modern slang
about mothers-in-law as she turns her
back on her home and her country, and
faces wild beasts and exile and death that
she may be with Naomi, her husband's
mother. -Bath, the queen of the harvest
fields. Buth. the grandmother of David.
Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The
story of her virtues and her life sacrifice is
the most beautiful pastoral ever written.
Here is Vashti defying the bacchanal of a
thousand drunken lords, and Esther will
ing to throw her life away that she may
deliver her people. And here is Dorcas,
the sunlight of eternal fame gilding her
philanthropic needle, and the woman with
perfume in a box made from the hills of
Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on
the head of Christ, the aroma lingering all
down the corridor of the centuries. Here
is Lydia, the merchantess of Tyrian purple
immortalized for her Christian behavior.
Here is the widow with two mites, more
famous than the Peabodys and the Len
oxes of all the ages, while here comes in
slow of gait and with careful attendants
and with especial honor and high favor,
leaning on the arm of inspiration, one who
is the joy and pride of any home so rarely
fortunate as to have one, an old Christian
grandmother, Grandmother Lois. Who
has more worshipers today than any being
that ever lived on earth except Jesus
Christ? Mary; For what purpose did
Christ perform his first miracle upon earth
To relieve the embarrassment of a woman
ly housekeeper at the falling short of
beverage. Why did. Christ break up the
silence of the tomb, and tear off the shroud,
and rip up the rocks? It was to stop the
bereavement of the two Bethany sisters.
For whose comfort was Christ most anx
ious in the hour of dying excruciation?
For a woman; an old woman, a wrinkle
faced woman, a woman who in other days
had held him in her arms, his first friend.
his last friend, as it is very apt to be, his
mother. All the pathos of the ages com
pressed into one utterance, "Behold thy
mother. Does the Bible antagonize wom
an?
A CALL FOB THE WITHX8SES.
If the Bible is so antagonistic to woman
how do you account for the difference in
woman's condition in China and Central
Africa, and her condition in England and
America? There is no difference except
that which the Bible makes. In lands
where there is no Bible she is hitched like
a beast of burden to the plows, she carries
the hod, she submits to indescribable in
dignities. She must be kept in a private
apartment, and if she come forth she must
be carefully hooded and religiously veiled
as though it were a shame to be a woman.
Do you not know that the very first
thing the Bible does when it comes
into a new country is to strike off
the shackles of woman's serfdom?
woman, where are your chains today?
Hold np both your arms and let us see
yonr handcuffs. Oh, we see the handcuffs.
They are bracelets of gold bestowed by
husbandly or fatherly or brotherly or sis
terly or loverly affection. Unloosen the
warm robe from your neck, O woman,
and let us see the yoke of your bondage.
Oh, I find the yoke a carcenet of silver, or
a string of cornelians, or a cluster of pearls,
that must gall you very much. How bad
you must all have it.
Since you put the Bible on your stand in
the sitting room, has the Bible been to you,
O woman, a curse or a blessing? Why is
It that a woman when she is troubled will
go to her worst enemy, the Bible? Why
do you not go for comfort to some of the
great infidel books, Spinoza's "Ethics," or
Hume's "Natural History of Religion,"
or Paine's "Age of Reason," or Dedro's
Dramas, or any one of the.260 volumes of
Voltaire? No, the silly, deluded woman per
sists in hanging about the Bible verseo, "Let
not your heart be troubled," "Ail things
work together for good," "Weeping may
endure for a night," "I am the resur
rection," "Peace, be still."
Furthermore, rather than invite I resist
this plague of infidelity because it has
wrought no positive good for the world
and is always a hindrance. I ask you to
mention the names of the merciful and the
educational institutions whieh infidelity
founded and is supporting, and has sup
ported all the way through institutions
pronounced against God and the Christian
religion, and yet pronounced in behalf of
suffering humanity. What are the names
of them? Certainly not the United States
Christian commission, or the sanitary com
mission, for Christian George H. Stuart
was the president of the one, and Christian
Henry W. Bellows was the president of the
other.
COMPASS THE HOSPITALS AND COLLEGES.
Where are the asylums and merciful in
stitutions founded by infidelity and sup
ported by infidelity, pronounced against
God and the Bible, and yet doing work for
the alleviation of suffering? Infidelity is so
very load la its braggadocio it most have
some to mention. Certainly, if yoa eome
to speak of educational institutions it is
not Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Prince
ton, it is not Middletown, it is not Cam
bridge or Oxford, it is not any institution
from which a diploma would not be a dis
grace. Do yoa point to the German uni
versities as exceptions? 1 nave to tell you
that all the German universities to-day are
under positive Christian influences, except
the University of Heidelberg, where the
ruffianly students cat and maul and man
gle and murder each other as a matter of
pride instead of infamy. Do yoa mention
Girard college, Philadelphia, as an excep
tion, that college established by the will of
Mr. Girard which forbade religious in
struction and the entrance of clergymen
within its gates. My reply is that I lived
for seven years near that college and knew
many of its professors to be Christian in
structors, and no better Christian influ
ences are to be found in any college than
in Girard college. -
There stands Christianity. There stands
Infidelity. Compare what they have done.
Compare their resources. There is Chris
tianity, a prayer on her lip; a benediction
on ber brow; both hands full of help for
all who want help; the mother of thou
sands of colleges; the mother of thousands
of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, the
sick, the lame, the imbecile; the mother of
missions for the bringing back of the out
cast; the mother of thousands of reforma
tory institutions for the saving of the lost;
the mother of innumerable Sabbath schools
bringing millions of children under a drill
to prepare them for respectability and use
fulness, to say nothing of the great future.
That is Christianity.
Here is infidelity: no prayer on ber lips,
no benediction on her brow, both bands
clenched what for? To fight Christian
ity. That is the entire business. The com
plete mission of Infidelity to fight Chris
tianity. Where are her schools, ber col
leges, her asylums of mercy? Let fne
throw yoa down a whole ream of foolscap
paper that yoa may fiUaU of it with the
e of ber beneficent institutions, the
colleges, and Ah asylums, the institutions
of mep7'ahd of learning, founded by ln
fifJTty and supported alone by infidelity,
pronounced against God and the Christian
religion, and yet in favor of making the
world better. "Oh," you say, "a ream of
paper is too much for the names of those
institutions." "Well, then, I throw yoa a
quire of paper. Fill it all np now. I will
wait until yoa get all the names down.
"Oh," you say, "that is too much." Well,
then, I will just hand yoa a sheet of letter
payer. Just fill up the four sides while we
are ig of this matter with the names
of the merciful institutions and the educa
tional institutions founded by infidelity
and supported all along by infidelity, pro
nounced against God and the Christian
religion, yet in favor of humanity.
WHERE ABE YOCB FBIJTT8, AGNOSTICS?
"Oh," yoa say, "that is too much room.
We don't want a whole sheet of paper to
write down the names." Perhaps I had
better tear oat one leaf from my memoran
dum book and ask you fill np both sides
of it with the names of such institu
tions. "Oh," yoa say, "that would be
too much room. I wouldn't want to
mucn room as that. .i, then, sup
pose you count them on your ten fin
fiers. "Oh," you say, "not quite so much
as that." Well, then, count them on the
fingers of one hand. "Ob," you say, "we
don't want quite so much room as that.
Suppose, then, you halt and count on one
finger the name of any institution founded
by infidelity, supported entirely by infidel
ity, pronounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, yet toiling to make the world
better. Not one! Not one!
Is infidelity so poor, so starveling,
mean, so useless? Get out, you miserable
pauper of the universe! Crawl into some
rathole of everlasting nothingness. In
fidelity standing today amid the suffering,
groaning, dying nations, and yet doing ab
solutely nothing save trying to impedi
those who are toiling until they fall ex
hausted into their graves in trying to make
the world better, bather up all the work,
all the merciful work, that infidelity has
ever done, add it all together, and there is
not so much nobility in it as in the small
est bead of that sister of charity who last
night went up the dark alley of the town,
put a jar of jelly for an invalid appetite on
a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare
floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the
dying soul.
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wound
ed, bakes no bread for the hungry, Bhakes
up no pillow for the sick, rouses no com
fort for the bereft, gilds no grave for the
dead. While Christ, our Christ, our
wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the
Christ of this old fashioned Bible blessed
be his glorious name forever! our Christ
stands this hour pointing to the hospital.
or to the asylum, saying: "I was sick and
ye gave me a couch, I was lame and ye
gave me a crutch, I was blind and ye phy-
sicianed my eyesight, 1 was orphaned and
ye mothered my soul, I was lest on the
mountains and ye brought me home; inas
asmuch as ye did it to one of the least oi
these, ye did it to me."
But I thank God that this plague of in
fidelity will be stayed. Many of those who
hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their
hearts will cease to be scoffers and will be
come disciples, and the day will arrive
when all nations will accept the Scriptures.
The book is going to keep right on until
the fires of the last day are kindled. Some
of them will begin on one side and some on
the ether side of the old book. They will
not find a bundle of loose manuscripts eas
ily consumed like tinder thrown into the
Are. When the fires of the last day are
kindled, some will burn on this side, from
Genesis toward Revelation, and others will
burn on this side, from Revelation toward
Genesis, and iu all their way they will not
find a single chapter or a single verse out
of place. That will be the first time we
can afford to do without the Bible.
Whpt will be the use of the book of Gen
esis, descriptive of how the world i
made, when the world is destroyed ? What
will be the use of the prophecies when thev
are all fulfilled? What will be the use of
the evangelistic or Pauline description of
Jesus Christ when we see him face to face?
What will be the use of his photograph
when we have- met him in glory? What
will be the use of the book of Revelation
standing as you will with yourfoot on the
glassy sea, and your hand on the ringing
harp, and your forehead chapleted with
eternal coronation, amid the amethystine
and twelve gated glories of heaven? The
emerald dashing its green against the
beryl, and the beryl dashing its blue against
the sapphire, and the sapphire throwing
its light ion the jacinth, and the jacinth
dashing its fire against the chrysopraaus,
and you and I standing in the glories of
ten thousand sunsets.
That Lorely Narcissus.
Narcissus was a mythological young
person who had so much beauty that
was in the way. He was interrupted
during office hoars by people who want
ed to admire nun, and a case went on
record of a woman's thinking so much
of him that she would always keep still
until he got clear through talking. At
last he got a good look at himself in
mirror, and he said he couldn't blame
them. He felt that he was a menace to
society, arid history says that he drowned
himself. Bat he didn't.
He went and got a pair of voluminous
trousers, decorated his eye with a large
piece of glass, took the fit oat of the
back of bis coat, shoved his chin out of
place with his collar, and went about
his business satisfied that he had restored
their peaces of mind to the feminine
members of his acquaintance. Bat
was in vain. And he is obliged to de
vote large portions of his time in fact,
nearly all of it to the search for im
provements that will make his garments
effective for their true purpose. In the
meantime he is obliged to go on bother-
somely beloved. Washington Post.
Clothing of th F.sqnlninOT.
Clothing for men consists of knee
breeches, belted at the loins, a loose
fitting cloak trimmed around the bot
tom, and the hood with wolf or wolverine,
or a blending of both, a pair of stockings
and a short legged pair of boots with
sealskin soles. In winter two salts are
worn, the inner suit with the hair next
the body and the outer with the hair
turned out.
The difference between the dress of
men and women is that the latter have
their boots, stockings and pantaloons all
in one "garment. The cloaks of all fe
males have at the back of the neck a
fullness for carrying infants.
These cloaks come down below the
knees and are gored out at the sides op
to the hips, making the front look like
an apron. Exchange.
An Englishman Couldn't Mo n.
Little Marshall P. Wilder, the famous
merrymaker, is perennial, and has a hu
morous skit for evoYy hoar of the day,
This is one of his latest, illustrative of
an Englishman's appreciation of humor:
I have been in England, and I have
studied Bngrigh humor. Its fundamen
tal principles are not related to the
American article that raiaes a cyclone of
laughter. An Englishman was dining
at a swell hotel out west, and after he
finished his regular dinner he asked for
sweets. A waiter from the Bowery had
gone west for employment, and was
waiting on the particular table at which
the F-"g''Kf"T"" sat.
'And phwat is sweets, sar?" asked the
waiter.
The Englishman finally explained that
be meant dessert, padding, etc
'We 'ave apple and mmce pie," said
the Bowery man.
"Give me mmce pie.
"What's der matter wid der apple
pie?" asked the waiter m a hard, l-dont-care-a-cotttinental
tone of voice. Many
heard the remark and laughed.- An hour
later I hanneaied to meet the English-
xnsji, and he asked me if I heard the
waiter ask him what was the matter
with the apple pie. I said Tea.' Then
the Englishman naively asked me;
"Well, what was the matter with the
apple pie?" New York World.
A Dreadful Threat.
A poet having loaned a small amount
to a friend found it very difficult to collect
the same, as his friend failed to recollect
the incident. Meeting his friend in need
the poet said:
"If you donT pay me that fi7 wnicn
yoa owe me I shall have to resort to ex
treme measures."
"And what may they be?"
ril dedicate my "next poem in your
honor."
The friend turned pale and shelled oat
abruptly. Texas Sifttnga.
Dlffn
"What was your lawyer's fee in that
case, Dimling?'
"It wasn't a fee, Totting; it was aa
honorarium."
"What's the difference?"
"Well, an honorarirun is about ten
tiraea as roach as tea em
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