plwc 'f-v . ' " ---- - - -- ^g->. - |^f ,-j mitt}--- - ~ NATURE PRAISES./ " Christ is the Theme of Nature's Joyful Song. HYMNS HEARD IN INFANCY Have a Stronar Influence in After Life, Says Dr. Talmage? Infinite Music in the Name of Jesus. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how Chris* brings harmony and melody into every life that be enters; test, Psalm cxviii, 14, ''The Lord is my strength and song." The most fascinating theme for a heart properly attuned is the Saviour. There is something in the morning light to suggest him and something in the evening shadow to speak his praise. The flower breathes him, the stars shine him, the cascade proclaims him, all the Toiees of nature chant him. Whatever ii grand, bright and beautiful if you listen to it will speak his praise. So when in the summer time I pluck a flower I think of him who is "the Rose J T'oiUo ? OX OilUVU SJU LUO Hi J VI UU.V ""vj. When I see in the fields a lamb, I say, ''Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." When in Very hot weather I earn? under a projecting cliff, I say: Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myaelf in thee! Orer the old fashioned pulpits there was a sounding board. The voice of the misiste; rose to the sounding board and then was struck back again upon the ears of the people. And so the 13,000 voices of earth rising up fiad the heavens a sounding board which strikes back to the ear of all nations the praises of Christ. The heavens tell his glory, and the earth shows his handiwork. The Bible thrills with one great story of redemption. U*on a blasted aod faded paradise it poured a light of glorious restoration. It looked upon Abraham from the ram caught in the thicket, it spoke in the bleating of the herds dnvtn down to Je"* IV nut iriftni>o IliHICUl iVI o?>iiuue< xv |/ua pathos into the speech, of uncouth fishermen. It lifted P&oi into tbe third heaven, and it broke upon the ear of St. John with the brazen trumpets and I' the doxoiogy of the elders and the rushing wings of the seraphim. The old Greek orators, when they saw* their audiences inattentive and slumbering, had one word with which they would rouse them up to the greatest enthusiasm. In the midst of their orations they would stop and cry out "Marathon!' and the people's enthusiasm would be unbounded. My hearers, though you may have been borne down with ?in and thoagh trouble and trials and temptation may have come upon upon you, and 50a feel today hardly like looking up, methinks there is one grand, royal, imperial word that ought to rouse jour soul to infinite rejoicing, and that word is "Jesus!" Taking the suggestion of the text, I shall speak to you of Christ our Song. 1 remark, in the first place, that Christ ought to be the cradle song. What our mothers sang to us when tbey put us to sleop is singing yet We may have forgotten the werds; but they went into the liber of our soul and will forever be a part of it. it is not so much what you formally teach your children as what you sing to them. A hymn has wings and can fly every- j whither. Oce hundred and fity years after you are dead and 4'Old Mortality" has worn out his chispl recutting yoar same on the tombstone your greatgrandchildren will be singing the song which last night you sang to your little ones gathered about your knee. There is a plaoe in Sffitzland where, if you distinctly utter your voice, there come back 10 or 15 distinct echoes, and every Christian song sung by a mother in the ear of her ohild shall have 10,000 ehoes coming back from all the gates of heaven. Oh, if mothers only knew *1 J 11 1 U tus pvwei ui tuio aavieu open, uu w iuuvu of tener the lit tie ones would be gathered and all our homes would ohime with the songs ot Jesus! We want some counteracting influence upon jour children. Tiie very moment your child steps into the street he steps into the path of temptation. There are foul mouthed children who would like to besoil your little ones. It will not do to keep your boy* and girls in the house and make them house plants. They must have fresh air and recreation. God save your children from the scathing^ blasting, damning influence, of the street! I know of no counteracting influence but the power of Christian culture and example. Hold be fore your little ones the pure life of Jesus. Let that Dame be the word that shall exercise evil from their hearts. Give to your instructions all the fasoination of music morniog, noon and night. Let it be Jesus, the cradle song. This is important if your children grow up, but perhaps they may not. Their pathway may be short. Jesus may be wantiDgthat child. Then there will be a soundless step in the dwelling, and the youthful pulse will Kooin trt flnffoi- lirflo hhphemy of others plowing up his own spirit, tbe condensed bitterness of d>ir>g away from home among strangers Vet 8"cg* in the night! Songs in the niffhtl "Ah," said one dying soldier, "'tell my mother that last night there was not one cloud between my soul and Jesus." Songs in the night! Songs in the night! This Sabbath day came. From the [ altars of 10 000 churches has smoked up the savor of sacrifice. Ministers of the gospel preached ia plain English, m broad Scotch, in flowing Italian, in harsh Choctaw. God s people asseaI bled in Hindoo temple and Mcravita church and Qiaker meeting house and ! sailors' bethel and king's chapel and high towered cathedral. They s$ng, and the song floated off amid the spioe groves or struck the icebergs or floated off into the western pines or was drowned in the olamor of the great cities. Lumbermen sang it and the factory girls and the children in the Sabbath class and the trained choirs in great assemblages. Trappers, with the same voice with which they shouted yesterday in the stag hunt, and Mariners with throats that only a few days ago sounded in the hoarse blast of the sea hurricane, they sang it. One theme for the ?f\r%A KniJon fKo armiDg his ministry?the tears he wiped away from the eyes of the orphans, the lame men that forgot their crutches, the damsel who from the bier bounded out into the sunlight, her 1 I ? J a? IOC is Bnatiug uuwu uver mo nusucu cheek, the hungry thousands who broke the bread as it blossomed into larger loaves?that miracle by which a boy with five loaves and two fishes became the sutler of a whole army. We sing his sorrows?his Btone bruised feet, his aching Lart, his mountain loneliness, his desert hunger, his storm pelted body, the eternity of anguish that shot through his last moments, and the immeasurable oc?an of torment that heaved up against his cross in one foaming, wrathful, omnipotent surge, the sun dashod out, and the dead, shroud wrapped, bieaking open their sepulchers and rushiDg out to see what was the matter. We siog his resurrection?the guard that could not 1 help him, the sorrow of his disciples, the clouds piling up oa either Bide in pillared splendors as he went through, treading the pathless air, higher and higher, until ha came to the foot of | the throne, and all heaven kept jubilee ( at the return of the conqueror. Oh, is there any soag more appropriate for a ' " - ' 1 -? - ? I o 1 BaDData mgnt mac tms soog ci uescsr Let the passers by ia the street hesr it, * let the angels of God carry it amidst ; the thrones. Sound it out through ibe darkness. Jesus the night song, appro- j priate for any hour, but especially sweet aod beautiful and blessed on a Sabbath J nighfc. I say once more Christ is the everlasting song, The ?ery best singers sometimes get tired, the strongest throats sometimes get weary, and many ( who sang very sweetly do not sing now, but I hope by the grace of God we will (J after awhile go up and siBg the praises of Christ where we will never be weary. J Yon know there are some songs that ( aie especially approriate for the home j circle. They stir the soul, they start ( the tears, they turn the heart in on itself and keep sounding after the tune , has stopped, Hke some cathedral bell J which, long after the up of th where in all that land, children in the towers, children on the seas of glass, ohildren on the b*iiletneots. Ah, if you do not OC I 111U VlliiUigU) UV uv? JV vavivt o.44V^ are in vast majority. And what a fong when they lift it around about the throne! The Christian singers and composers of all ages will be there to join in that song. Thomas Hastings will be there. Lowell Mason will be there. Beethoven and Moiart will be there. They who sounded the cymbals aod the trumpets in the ancient templei will be there. The 40 000 harpers that stood at the ancient dedication will be there. The 200 singers that assisted on that day will be there. Patriarchs who lived amid thrashing floors, shepherds who watchtd amid Chaldean hills, prophets i il J 1 1 !.* _ _ J WOO Waisea, WHU ioug uearus ?uu coarse apparel, pronouncing woeagainsi ancient abominations, will meet the more reoeot martyrs who went up with leaping cohorts of fire; and some will speak of ihe Jesus of whom they pro phesied, and others of the Jesus for whom they died. On, what a soogl It came to John upon Pafccnos, it came to Calvin in the prison, it dropped to Kid ley in the fire, and sometimes that son* has come to your ear, perhaps, for I really do thiofc it sometimes breaks oyer the battlements ef heaven. A Christian woman, the wife of a minister of the gospel, was djingin the parsonage near the old church, where on Saturday night the choir used to assemble and rehearse for the following Sabbath, and she said: "How strangely sweet the choir rehe-v.-ses tonight. Theg have been rehearsing there tor an hoar." "No," said some one about her, "the choir is not rehearsing tonight." *'Yes," she said, "I know they are. I hear them sieging. How very sweetly they sing!" Now, it was not a choir of earth that she heard, bat the choir of heaven. I think that Jesus sometimes sets ajar the door of heaven, and a passage of that rapture greets our ears. The ministrels of heaven strike such a tremendous straiD the walls of jasper cannot hold it. 1 wonder?and this is a question I have been asking myself all the service ?will you sing that song? Will I sing it? Not unless our sins are pardoned and we learn bow to sing the praise of Christ will we ever sing it there. The first great concert that I - ?j-j v? v~.\r ever aiwuueu wis iu new jlui& nu?u Julien iu the Crystal palace stood before hundreds of singers and hundreds of players upon instruments. Some of | you may remember that occasion. It was first one of the kind at which I was present, and I shall never forget it. I saw that one man standing and with the hand and foot wield that great harmony, beating the time. It was to me overwhelming. Bat, oh, the grander scene when thev shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south, "a great multitude that no man ean number," into the temple of the skies, host beyond host, rank beyond rank, gallery above gallery, and Jesus will stand before that great host to oonduct the harmony with his wounded hands and wounded feet! Like the voice of many waters, like the voice nf miffhtr thnndprimrfl. thev shall CTV. I V- ? rr~y * Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end. Amen and amem!" Oh, if my ear shall hear no other ffceec sounds may I hear thai! If I join no other glad assemblage, may I join in that. I was readiog of the battle of Agincourt, in which Henry V figured, and it is said after the battle was won, gloriously won, th'e Vng wanted to acknowledge the divine intcrpo*iiion, and he ordered the chaplain to read the Pia'im of David, and when he came to the words "Not unto us 0 Lord, but to thy name be the praise," the king aia mounted, and all the cavalry dismounted, and all the ?rreat host, officers and men, threw themselves on their faces Dh, at the story of the Saviour's love hnd the Siviour's deliveranoe shall we ot prostrate ourselves before hiua toiay, hosts of earth and hosts of heaven, Faliiog upon oar faces and crying, "\iNot unto us, not uoto as, bat aato tky Dame be the glory!" "Until the daybreak and the shadows flee away tare Dar beloved and be thou like a roe or a Foung hart apon the mountains of Bether." Tried to Kill Themselves. Dr. Vincecza Yaccari and his wife. )f San Francisco, attempted suicide at New Orleans Thursday. The woman's ;orset saved her life, the knife barely penetrating and the man cut his throat with a scalpel. They are beiog ftuard?d and will be taken to an insane asyiuoi. Dr. Vicarri broke down from overwork and he and his wife left for i long trip to Italy and Paris, taking ilong fifteen thousand dollars in money ind jewels. The doctor's mind became mbalanced on the trip and the wite's kAmofanf viffil 1"> CkV rOOflAT) /VUOtaUU * igtA UVVUiVUVU UW4 AVUUWM* Both will likely recover. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has jeen used in my family and I am perfectly satisfied that it is all, and will lo all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. 0. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself, [t's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all Iruggists. tf 1 1 Col. Wm. F. Wickman, who in some yay unknown shot himself several days ' igo, died at his home in Powhattan ] sounty, Va , Thursday nisrht. He was 1 i son of the late Gea. Wickman, the I Confederate cavalry general, aud for < nany years president of the Chesa >eake and Ohio railroad, and had been J prominent in Republican policies in I firgiaia. V;1 gas saESfegg MORMONISM. Facts That Will Be of Interest at This Time. THE CREED OF THE CHURCH A Story of Mormonism Published by Rev. Sheldon While Editing a Newspaper as He Supposed Jesus Would. While managing the Teresa Capital as he considered Jesus would run a newspaper the Rev. Sheldon piinted a great deal of stuff about the Mormons and he had a man at Salt Lake City write a story about the Mormon3 at home. In this article it was said that few converts to the faith were being made and many were being lost. The religion, it was said, was losing ground. In the Topeka Capital the writer says: Mormonism is the conundrum of the century. Sach a medley of superstition and shrewdness, of absurdity and sagacity, of religious fanaticism and worldly wisdom, the world ha3 never seen. Recent events have so brought this strange faith and peculiar people ioto < the focus of public attention that cor- i rect information concerning the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints'' cannot be inopportune. Inquiries concerning Mormonism < cluster around three points?creed, re- s ligious life and ethical resu'ts. , > 1. The creed. Mormonism profes < nes to be a restored form of the gospel < It claims that universal Christendom < had departed from apostolic doctrine < and i-ractioe, and hence God called Jo ! t>ephSmith to be the Prophet andGieat I High Priest of a new dispensation i Through him has been re-established < the Melchisedek and Aaroritc priest hoods. As no sacrifices are offered, not even the sacrifice of the Mass as in the Catholic Church, the functions of the ' priesthood are to exercise authority ana to be the channel through which alone saving grace can flow to the people. There can be no salvation without immersion, administered by one of the i >:ly order, and complete obedience ! i j iis commands in all things ] The doctrine of ''Immediate Revela- , f '?ou" is the corner stone of the system. ( The Bible is but one of several of manv revelations. Itrevealed the Divine will of 1 (rod's ancient people in the Eastern hem ; isphere, while the Book of Mormon wan i a revelation to the early inhabitants of , the Western Continent. Bat more im i portant than either is the Boole of Doc | trines and Covenants, containing reve- < lations to Joseph Smith and other modem seers. 1 Hjach succeeding head of the Church < receives revelations from time to time, i and the later revelation supersedes i those previously given if in any partic- i uiar they disagree. Hence, polygamy, ( f.llO R.\n!r. nf Mrtr. * moil, was commanded to Joseph Smith, | then "suspended" through President Woodruff, and may be at any time reestablished by a later communication to some inspired head of the church. Baptism for the dead is a prominent doctrine of the sect. As there can be no salvation but by immersion, administered by a priest, the generations who have died without this rite are held in a ghostly prison until some friendly soul an earth shall undergo vicarious baptism in their name. President Woodruff, shortly before his death, stated in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that forty years ago he had been baptised in one of the Utah temples in the names of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and many other of the fathers of ] the country, and that thereupon these ] wnrr.hifl* had heen freed from their im prisooment and introduced into the j heavenly state. j This superstition gives the priesthood ; a fearful power oxer th? people, for | they are made to believe that not only t their own salvation, but that of their < departed kindred, depends upon their , obedienec to the Church.' 2 They believe in many Gods; that t God the Father was oace a man and j a till has a body of fiesh and bones. They j teach thu we have a Heavenly Mother ( as well as a Heavenly Father, for how j otherwise could God be the "Father of Spirits?" They believe that Adam was j the "Ancient of Days;" that he is our t Father and God; that Ere was a celestial wife whom he brought with him j from Heaven. They also believe that v all faithful saints will ultimately be c come god*. Polygamy may be correctly described j as an essential feature of Mormooism. t The degree of glory to which a saint may attain in Heaven will be deter- j mined by the number of his children, as these will form the family or tribe J over which he will reign. Heoce it is important that every facility be allowed hiui to secure a numerous offspring. As fc the marriage relation will ooutiDue in 0 Heaven with same privileges and re- fe Milta as attach to it here the much-mar- i ned saint will enjiy a perpetual advan- 0 ta^e over his poor monogamous brother t To sustain the doctrine and practice a of polygamy it is taught and generally p believed that Jesus Christ was the poly gamous husband of the Bethany sisters r aad of M^ry Magdalene and probably 'n of others. t As salvation depends upon such y things as baptism, the laying on of hands, 0 obedieDce to the priesthood, payment of t tithes and ''doing of temple work," out- e ward observances of all, there is no demand for those inward changes on which the Christian faith insists. As ,j regards religious emotion the Mormon t] Church is a veritable Desert of Sahara j( for drvnessand barrenness. The trap test of a religion is its ef- j feet upin character and conduct. n Judged by this standard Mormogism 0 must be pronounced a conspicuous fail- ? ure. The moral tone of Mormonism is tj far below that which prevails in average Protestant communities. Prof^ni- a; ty is a prevalent vice and indulgence in j, the habit is no bar to official position in a the Church. The editor of Living Issues, a highly respected eitizen of Salt ? Lake City, who has recently withdrawn from the Mormon Ohurch, signalizes 4 his withdrawal by publishing an open letter to President Angus M. Cannon, in which he says: 4,You could lay ? your fingers on high priests, seventias " and elders who are to be found in gaming hells; who let their premises for houses of ill fame and for saloons. Drinking, swearing and bad language are so common that when a good brother ht*?na nrt hjKa oKcfoina frnm oil tkaaa bUiUD U Y ?"v iaVJMttUJ A1VU* he is a curiosity and a marvel." "When 3j, twenty-oae members of jour State ar- Ci ranged to furnish a grand brothel on al Commercial street we never heard your bi protest. Sixteen years ago, when the &l sditor of Living Issues came to Salt Lake, he found the saloon, the gaming " bell and the brothel in full swing. Atj hat time no Non-Mormon had everj reea in the city council; no Non-Mor- i | i . mon bad ever bees elected to &s Legislature." The inherent weakness of Monnonism is shown by its inability to secure converts in Utah, wbere it is best known and by tbe large number of defections from its ranki. The editor of Living Issues, in the letter above referred to, asks President Caonon: 4,In the twenty-three years of your presidency how many of the residents of this fair city have joined your Church? You could almost count them on your fingers. How many have left it? Why, tens of thousands. Among those who left you were some of the best men and women who ever joined you. Did you ever stop to think of that and of the awful gaps made in the Church? Of the three special witnesses to the Book of Mormon all apostatized. Of the first quorum of the first presidency two apostatized. Of the fir*t twelve apostles seven apostatized. Of the first seven presidents of seventies four apostatized. Of the high priests, Bishops, seventies, elders and members who have been excommunicated or have withdrawn there must have been hun dreds of thou?aBds." Of forty evangelical churches reporting as to losses and g-.ins to and from Mormonism figures show that during the history of these churches they have lost but nine members perverted to the dominant Church, while their gains from that Church equal 44 per cent of their present membership. The indisputable fact that where Mormonism is best known it has the least success is eloquent in condemnation of the system. The rejection of Congressman-elect Roberts has been a serious blow to the polygamic hierarchy controlling the Uhurch, and if do* h constitutional amendment disfranchising polygamists -hail be adopted it will have a crushing t-ffect upon the most oboosious feature :>f this strange anomaly in nineteenth sentury civilization, which insists upon jailing itself a religion. To seoure the An f\( oti nn n m m A ill A ?UUpbJUU VI 3UOU au dlUCUUUJCUb KU bUC Jonstitution of the United States we invoke the aid of all friends of virtue md true religion. XttP&ESSlCSte OF CUBA. What a Man Who Ought to Know Say a of the Island. Lieut. Marcus B Stokes, U. 8 A., who is now detailed as collector of the port at Cardenas, Cuba, while in Columbia recently talked interestingly to i representative of The State about Cuba and the Cubans. Among other things he said: "I went to the island a pear and a half ago and have opportunities to observe the people and their iharaoteristics. The popular idea is that the Cubans are a very excitable people. 1 have net observed anything specially of this character among them The typical Cuban countryman is just the very opposite. They are good, steady Workers both on their plantations and on the publio roads and works that are being constructed. They are, the most temperate people I have ever seen, aod that as a people, too. It is the polioy to give every position available in the island to native Cubans, preference always being given to Cuban ne 1 iv mi , i" juicers and soldiers. rney are taKing the places in the telegraph and postal md other service*, and seem to be filing them satisfactorily. Ia all eases it is impossible to secure, of course, the best men on first effort, bat those pbtained are,- as a role, doing their ffork most satisfactorily. "The color lioe among the better. classes, as far as I can judge, is jast as sharp as it is in this country. Socially ;he people are on a par with those "ound in our own country. "There is at present a clamoring and liscontented element in Cuba, but this jlement is not a part of the class oi people I have just referred to?the soDer, tninking' people. ' Crime is almost unknown, and this applies tc all classes upon the island; including the Spaniards. And as to the Spaniards there is a large proportion of :he population of the cities made up of ;hem. They are in fact the merchant jlass. They are apparently contented mh the way things are g>ing, at least iccepting conditions. Oaly a short :ime ago I noticed one of the newly appointed Spanish consuls apparently perfectly at home at a reception and iance at the house of a leading Cuban :amily." "Da you think the Cuban white people will ever allow the negroes to govern hem?" '{l finrfcAinlv dr? not ffcinlr an* if *riv )olitical color question ever arrises it rill never come up ia the western half >f the island. "The masses of the people are anxous for work. Oa all public works ail he laborers needed can be secured." . "Is there much hatred for Americans n Cuba?' "I never find any hal7ed expressed. q Habaoa we hear of it. that is all." "Is business reviving?" "A great many sugar plantations are >eirg built up. I am in the sugar belt ti the island. The destruction has >een fearful; the great need is capital, absentee landlordism and foreign wnerahip of lands seem to be the rouble. It is a case of indefiaate lease, ,nd it is holiing a great deal of the ircgress of the island back. "The winter climate in Cuba is simily ideal?most delightful, in the summer I found that it is more pleasant ban here ia South Carolina, provided ou keep out of the sun in the middle f the dey. A white man can work in < he fields all the year, morning and < vening. j "The United States government is < timing over all the offices in anticipa , ion of transferrin^ the zovernmnel of be island to the Cubans as soon as it j practicable. It is a necessarily slow rocess. I am, for instance, the only Lmerican who is in om custom departjent at Cardenas. The force consists f about 3") men. All the chiefs are lubans, and they are giving satisfacion. ''It is a pleasure to see the streets live with school children now attendig the public schools. The children rc bright and keen." l kingdom for a cure . You need not pay so much. l twenty-five oenc bottle of L. L? & K. Will drive all ills away. 8ee ad. and trv it?never failg. PITTS' ANTISEPTIC HilOH! Cures La Grppe, dyspepsia. indigestion, id all ktomach and bowel tr> ub'es colic or tolera mo'bos, teething troubles with liidren, kidney troubles, bad blood and 1 aorta of sorea, risings or felons, cuts and lrns. It is as good autiseptic, when locally ?pli<;d, as anything on the market. Trjr it and yon will praise it to others, your druggist doesn't keep it, write to 4 TEE MURRAY DRUG CO., < Columbia, S. C. j X [ TEXTS QN GOLD LEAF " Why Gold Lezf Is Packed Between Leaves of the Bible. People outside of regular dealers In gold leaf are occasionally surprised when they purcha.se books of the material to find that the paper leaves between the sheets of geld have texts of Scripture printed on them. Looking closer they find that the paper leaves are actually cut from the Bible. Speaking of this, the head of a Chicago firms which deals in gold leaf said: "The gold leaf which Is put up In books made from paper leaves cut from the Bible comes from England. There Is no Intention to be irreverent In packing the gold leaf in this way. Moat of it goes to the stores where they sell artist's materials, and is packed between printed sheets because the slight indentations in the paper made by the printing serve to hold the delicate film of gold in place; "Why is it that the Bible la generally used? Simply for the reason that the Bible is usually printed in small type and Is always very evenly set, and the impression of the type on the paper is very light, but enough to hold the gold leaf in place without injuring it Another book that is used for the same purpose is the Book of Common Prayer, the small type editions, of course. The paper is always very fine and smooth and when printed the leaves are just adapted for the purpose of holding the gold leaf. '"The first time I was asked for an explanation on this point was when I had a store for the sale of artist's materials. A gentleman who bought several books of English-made gold leaf came to me and asked me If paper was so scarce where the gold leaf was made that they had to cut up Bibles for the purpose of packing t&e leaf. He had noticed that the sheets of gold leaf were packed between sEeets of printed paper, but paid no attention to it until his eye caught a Scriptural text that had often puzzled him. It was the passage 'Iron sharpeneth iron; j so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.' Then he saw that the ffnld Ipjif was nlaced between cut-up pages of the Bible. He seemed to think that the sheets of the Bible were used by some religious manufacturer who thought some one might be con-; verted by reading a stray text He said he was almost startled when he I read the text he was puzzling over j and looked disappointed when -1 ex- j plained in a matter-of-fact way why j pages of the Bible were used. "Once or twice very excellent people who bought this gold leaf from me were indignant when they found that the Bible was cut up to bold It, and told me I should not encourage the profanation by selling that kind of leaf. Others who r ere of a different temperament said they were glad to see it, as. it might lead to some people reading texts of Scripture, by glancnig with curiosity at the printed sheets, who never took a Bible In their hands. They held that no matter what lorm It took It was a good thing to circulate texts of Scripture." London's Meat. little more than a half of the bill that London settles every year goes into the pocket of the English farmer. j From the ends of the earth comes this j vast supply. This great ogre of a city I of ours, before whose gastronomic ef-! forts the feats of all the giants of legend and fairy tale fade into insignificance, has taken his toil of the wild rancher* from boundless Western prairies, of the beautiful chestnut-colored herds of the And&lusian Mountains, of the piebald-coated cattle that the honest Dutch tend as their own children, and of the sturdy oxen of the North German plains, says Cassell's Magazine. Canada and Australia send us lambs and sheep, the River Platte our ox tongues, Hamburg and Rotterdam oar pigs. What an adTertisement for the Nary League! What an object lesson for those who declare our fleet is overgrown! It passes human comprehension to think what would become of London if our command of the sea were lost and the foreign supplies failed! if the 150,000 live cattle from America that swell the metropolitan cattle herd during the year never reached their destination; if Holland's half million of sheep were forced to remain-on the home pastures?in short, if the 140,000 tons of meat, neither bredsnor fed in these islands, thax London annually tn armftar In thft hat ohen' shops of the metropolis. A FREAK OF JUSTICE Trying to SoIto a Question of Suicide or Murder. There was an odd freak if court Justice out in Santa Fe, New Mexico, & few days ago. It was in a puzzling case of suicide or murder. The point to be decided was whether the dead man, Fred Merrill, had committed suicide ty shooting himself or had been shot by Walter Locke, his brother-in-law, who had been suspect? ed of murder. . A note was fotmd in the dead man's room purporting to give reasons for committing suicide. This note, the prosecution claims, was a forgery. The friends of Locke, the prisoner, insisted on the suicide theory. The court and Jury went to the cemetery. The pistol which was found in \ Merrill's band was placed against the head of a lately-deceased pauper, dug t up for the purpose, and pointed in the \ direction that it is alleged the bullet ? went through Merrill's head. The skull was cracked to splinters I and torn apart In mnch the same man ner as was Merrill's head. The wounds were, however, different in character, and no clean cuts appeared. "The face was powder burned immediately around the bullet wonnd and pieces of skull on the left side were thrown outward. one piece being blown thirty feet against the wind. The recoil of the revolver was such that had it been in the bands of a man committing suicide It would have been thrown thirty-five feet or clutched so tightly that force would have been necessary in removing it from the dead man's hand. It is claimed there were no powder burns on the dead man's .face. ? jl/OODTliGirGRA^ Farm Seeds. r Our business in Farm Seeds is f ; v to-day one of the largest in this r I Country. A result due to the fact $ i tnat quality has always t^ees oar & a first consideration. We supply \ I all Seeds required for ti e Farm, i [ GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS, \ } Cow Peas, Cotton Seed, r ) Seed Oats, Seed Corn, 4 , Soja, Navy & Velvet f Beans, Sorghums, ? Broom Corn, Kaffir r i Cora, Peanuts, ( Millet Seed, & Wood's Descriptive Catalogue f gives the fullest information about ? these and all other Seeds; best methods \ < of culture, soil best adapted for differ- a erent crojis and practical hints as to \ whit, are likely >>"prove most profitable m to grow, Catalogue mailed free upon \ request. * T.W. 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Verdict For the FUlttiC Heard a couple of good eses os this trip," announce^ one of Detroffa trt?* cling men. "At a little town la Oklahoma court was in session -and I dropped in while waiting for the train. The prosecution had taken the testimony of a stationary engineer and the attorney for the defense took koU 'Where were you the day this thlag lianfwnul? K* InnnlPML ? ? " Running' a injun.' " 'What .-Ibe did ha bdeaf to? "The day before a case had beta tried In which a man had climbed to the top of a freight car, laM op ea a. siding. He had no buslneaa there, but loosened the brake. The car started down grade, gained speed rapidly for five miles, and then turned a simmer* Ban 11 over an embankment His collar bone was broken and be got a verdict for $500 because a smart lawyer convinced the jury that the ralhead waa guilty of contributory neglif?? . 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