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m fry 9-4 I. rf. f ' 1, we m it m w - THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1891. Jayne vs. Moses and Joshua. "JiiynoV remarks on Numbers 11 : 31-33, published in Tin: Hcout lust week, fehows how .littlo they know who iniiko such tin attack on the Iiible. 1. Jnyno ia deficient in Iiis mathe matical knowludg.o Ho says, "Now square this (i. o. GO) and we have 3C00 tquiire milen; and if wo calculate in circular measure, as should bo dodo, it would bo more." Now every math ematician knows that this is not true. A circle 00 miles in diameter is only .7851 of GO milea square, or about 2827A tquaro miles. Also Jayne failed to multiply 100, 302,210,000 by 30 correctly. Also 330,000,000, given as the number of bushels of quails gathered, is not llx 15x000,000, nor llxlfix'10,000. Jayne was evidently confused in this. 2 Jayne is deficient in his Biblical knowledge and power of interpreta tion, and on this account makes fatal mistakes. He says, "According to Moses there were 000,000 .people in the camp, but eomo commentators think thoio were not more than -10,000." No intelli gent commentator thinks so. And Moses does not say that there wero so many men, women and children as Jayne calculates, but that in round numbers there were G00.000 (Hx. 12: 37.) and precisely 003,550 men over 20 years old, or warrior-. (See Num.1: 451G.) According lo our common calculation for voters that would make over 3,000,000 persons in all. Only the men gathered the quails. The ancient Israelites honored the women you must remombor, accord ing to God's command. (Ex. 1(5:10.) So the 10 or 12 homers gathered by tho men was not a very unreasonable amount to bo divided between tho other members yf tho family. Jayne mivh, "A Iliblo day's journey is 30 miles." The fact is, a Jiiblo day's journey indicates no certain distance. Only the ordinary distance which a person in tho east traveled on foot. Some say 30 miles, bomo 20 niilec, others 10 miles or less. For the lire t two months of tlfeir journey tho Isra elites averaued only about 1 miles-a day. a lu tho passage quoted (Num. 11: 31.) no oxact distance was intended. It is said "about a day's journey." It means of course about the distance they had been in tho habit of travel ing in a day, ! or 6 miles. But it may 'mean m this connection as far as a man could conveniently go aud kill a load of quails and eomo back the same day. This would bo even less than -1 miles. Counting the -1 miles from tho center of the camp, the diameter of tho circle would bo 8 miles and would contain about 50 square miles, but counting Hie camp 3 miles in diame ter, a ring miles wido around it would contain about 87 square miles, instead of 3G00. This would be about ono squaro milo to every 31,'181 per sons in the camp. Again the Bible does not say that the quails were piled up in a solid mass two cubits high. It aya there were quails "As it wero two cubits high upon the fftco of tho earth," or, in the Revised Version, "About two cubits above tho face of thu earth." Those of us who have hi'on quails or other birds driven liy tho wind across a lake or a plain and strike against building or trees and fall to the ground, can easily im agino the scene witnessed by tho Isra elites east of the Red sua. In some places theio were heaps of quails, but in most places tho quails wero Hying low, "About two cubits nbova the faeo of the earth," and striking against one another and against other objects, falling and trying to lly again. The Israelites going among them knocked them down with sticks, killed them and curried them home. That tho quails wero blown to tho vicinity of the camp of Israel at that time was a miracle. But there is nothing impossible or absurd in the history as Jayne claims. Is it wise for a man who has never read the Biblo in tho language in which it was written, and who does not know which is tho largest, a squaro milo or a circle a milo in diam eter, to criticUo thu Bible, a book that has done more good in tho world than nil tho other books over wiitten put togothorT TitUTiiu)VJ:it. Aeeuti Wanted OurniJfuU innlu flu) lot-kDu month mIIIiik our it'""! ' t'll,r merlin. We wont count)- ami Kl'livml Mtfi'llt", Mid it 111 Ulu Ui'k all good till old If iHiunly MKuut full iDPliwir IHOuuiltu iK'iiu'd Nflur h thirty tl' trial, urn hciiumI HKuiil lew than f0 t III wnl Iuimv IIImh Imtul (ilriiulmn ud lallw ullli n nwtt utter lu Mill lunlli'ry ui)dll fur, w iMMiidttf lUtw iiiaCiji!lMuii. .MiJ t (Uiwuiiil nvi n ..ii llio Immiiii .d'liMi. 4u,yj rnuuiiiijli, I'm Our Antelope Ball. Christmas is clo.'c nt hand in all its bluff and hearty honesty. It is the season of hospitality, merriment ami good-hearted noss. Tho old year is preparing to call his friends atound him and, amidst the sound of feasting and revelry, to pass gently and calmly away. The fine new school house at Telocaset wjll be completed on or be fore Chribtmae, and tho taxpayers of tho district contemplate, before turn ing tho building over to the tchool directors, giving a ball to cement the the bonds of friendship already exist ing between tho people of Antelope. It will be a grand all'air. People arc coming for miles and miles around. The, newswapors will give due notice. We intond having a string band from Baker City or La Grande, dressed in uniform; a gold watch for the homeli est lady in the bunding and a baby carriage for tho handsomest; a gentle man of color, with white gloves on, for doorkeeper; special police in uniform to preserve order and keep all object-, iomiblo people away, and everything in style. Union and La Grande have hud their own way long enough will their Odd Fellows' and Firemen's balls. Wo propose having a Christinas ball that is a ball. There will bo no funny business about it. Ono of the features of the ball will be the supper. The cuisine will be under the management ot tho ladies of Antelope. Tho waiters will bo ' twelve of the most beautiful gills in Union county. The table will fairly groan under its loud of good tilings. There will be sugarplums, gingoi bread and cakes plain cake, sponge cake, shoit cake, cakes with no plums and cakos stuck full of plums; and pies, whew! mince pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie, gooseberry pie, custard pie and and pies of all "descriptions; grapes and oranges from California; dates and raisins from Madcriu, and mummy apples fiom Africa; fresh codfish, live oysters, clams, qtiahaugs, eels and lobsters from Portland, and live salmon from the Columbia river; a yearling calf roasted whole will stand at tho upper end of the table, and little pigs roasted 'and stuck full of cloves will be standing on largo plates on tho table. Plum pudding, huckle berry pudding, baked apple dumplings aud doughnuts will be there; hard cider will be thare in bands, but no spiritous liquor will be allowed. At the upper end of tho hall will bo a bower of evergreens for the musicians. In all sorts of places and on all sorts of brackets will stand old silver candle sticks with four branches each, stuck full of Adolph Lovy's lino candles. Them will be no carpet on tho lloor, for that would intorero with tho mer ry go rounds, but tho lloor will, be Waxed and polished until it will puzzle an acrobat to stand on it. The cau dles will burn bright, tho firu will blaze anil crackle, ami merry voices and light-hearted laughter will ring through thu room ; and people going by will think that the Antelope folks have turned into fairies and aro hold ing high revel. They will not bo much mistaken. Our coining Christ mas ball in Antelope will be a "Joe Dandy." Turn out to our Antelope ball, for Wo will ilunru till night, until bruud daylight. And bo homo with tho girls In tho tn-o-r-u-l-ii-K1 11. Coiib'ross on the Silver Question. Tho New York Press of the 0th, prints tho result of a poll of the Fifty second congress on tho silver question and gives tho foil .wins summary: Senate .lop. Dem. Total For free coinage 18 HO 51 Against 110 . II 113 House For free coinage 0 102 171 Against 70 !17 .107 Doubtful 0 -IS CI Majority in house .... 107 Two-thirds vote ...... 222 This, tho Press adds "precludes tho possibility of a free silver bill becoming a law, as tho president's vote would kill it. A Grand Opportunity! THE FINEST 01! TllliM A1.LII Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands," l.ly J. V. 13UISt. The Kruudi'.t nuturriptlon book uver Intro-ilm-isl on tho ('mid. Over uX extra Urgo uiiHrto unite, isui iiuignlil'ooni orltiltiiil llltutrutloiu, Double-page colored platen. SELLS ON SIGHT. a - 1JNTvT"l0 anted imhU county J.KjriZ,X 1 O A.wo ru determined lota tend our bu.liui. Into lliU Htitcuo are uiilinr tu kluit lu liv (illurlim licltor iuduromcilU lul Kent, limn Mil) other houMi Into er vel) diKir (riti id fielght rhurntMi or an) ollmr iMiku tiKiii Ht )our hHMurmi) ollmr out . Don't u mm) aienc) lor tnu givnl miiii. Iiuih hh) Ibw ItoM.vuuill ou lum Mtuiiuuk furtwr wlnlhelrt'U CUMI MHl MUl iIU MUKtUt-TKIIN V Mill gtMtnUUMt tu ill! I tit Ml, DOMIMnv I'l III IMIIV. i it uiiruiiit.r. Ill lino l .liiu.l.m iuih) Ahviii lr iliv ii ulu r GRAND asm AT WEIGHT'S HALL CHRISTMAS EVE. DEC. 24 Tickets Including1 Supper $2.50 FLOOR MANGERS: Roval Jones, Jo White, Fcrd Bloch, Geo. Baird, Music, the best that can be secured. Supper will bo 'served ixt the Centennial Hotel- Everybody Cordially. Invited. GEO. BAIRD, Manager. 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