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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
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possibility of a free silver bill becoming
a law, as tho president's vote would
kill it.
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