Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1891 — Page 3

Hypochondriac. A physician in this country, who made ft specialty of neural diseases, devised several years ago a system of treatment which he called the Rest Cure, for patients whose nervous systems were exhausted from overwork or other causes The sufferer was taken from home and separated wholly from her/ friends, which at once did away hotly with old associations and with coddling. She was put to bed in a sunny, cheerful chamber, in the care of a skillful nurse, and forbidden to move hand or foot. She was fed and tended like an infant; well fed, too, the meals being nourishing and frequent. Instead of exercise, she was manipulated once or twice a day. Patients who were real sufferers rose from this treatment strong, fat and rosy. But unfortunately there are nervous patients who are shams to whom such a regimen would be intolerable. Dr. Dash was sent for once in haste to a wealthy woman in New York, supposed to be dying, though no physician could discover her ailment. She had not tasted food for days. Her shrieks were incessant, her features livid ajid pinched as mortis. Her friends, exhausted by months of nursing, stood waiting to see her depart. The doctor made a close examination of the case: She 8 recognized him and her eyes gathered intelligence. “I’m dying, doctor,” shemdaned. “Nothing of the kind,” shortly. “What ails me?” / she said, after a louder shriek. He looked her steadily in the eye. “A , husband who has too much money,” he answered, briefly. Then, turning to the attendants, he said, “Take her up, dress r her, and bring her some beefsteak and bread and butter.” The treatment- was brutally blunt, perhaps, but it cured the patient. She never, however, forgave the physician. Another case was that of a leader of fashion in a Southern city, who came • with her suite of husband, maids, lapdog, etc., to him to be cured, declaring herself “a perfect wreck.” For a couple of days he watched her through her usual routine; lolling on a couch through the day— helpless ■ —then up at night brilliantly dressed for ball or opera. « As the result of his watching he ordered her into the hospital, and put her through the usual regimen of absolute inaction, solitude and manipulation. On the second day she dressed herself unobserved, stole out of the house and to the station, and literally ran away, never halting until she was at New Orleans, from which city she telegraphed for her husband and for her clothes. Nervous diseases are alarmingly rife in this country. But there is a nervousness born of idleness, or of' fashionable dissipation, or of morbi/l sensibility, which makes victims not only of the patient but of her family. Many a household is enslaved by these irritable in-» » valids, who do not realize the cause of their nervousness, and who only need fresh air, hard, daily work and regular hours of sleep at night to cure them of their fancied ills. Whether You Travel by Land or Sea You need a medicinal safeguard. Changes of climate or temperature, brackish water, unusual diet, draughts from open windows that surly fellow passengers will not close—all these breed ailments against .which the surest protection is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, finest of medicfinal fortifiers. Sea sickness, land nausea, are promptly counteracted by this agreeable corrective, which is also a capital defense against malaria, the effects of a tropical or chilly temperature, damp and exposure. 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■as A SERMON IN KENTUCKY. TALMAGE CALLS WITNESSES TO THE POWER OF CHRIST. Not Logic, Not Metaphysics, Not Antiquarian Research, but Faith Can Make Da Whole—The Gospel In India, China, Tahiti and Madagascar. Dr. Talmage preached from Acts iii, 15, “We are witnesses.” Standing amid the hills and groves of Kentucky and before this great multitude that no man can number, .most of whom 1 never saw before and never will see again in this world, I choose a very practical theme. In the days of George Stephenson, the perfector of the locomotive engine, the scientists proved cohClusively that a railroad train could never be driven by steam power successfully without peril; but the rushing express trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh and from Edinburgh to London have made all the nations witnesses of the splenditl achievement. Machinists and navigators proved conclusively that a steamer could never cross the Atlantic Ocean, but no sooner had they successfully proved the impossibility of such an undertaking than the work was done, and the passengers on the Cunard, and the Inman, and the National, and the White Star lines are witnesses. There went up a guffaw of wise laughter at Prof. Morse's proposition to make the lightning of heaven his errand boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could never be done, but now all the news of the wide world put in your hands every morning and night has made all nations witnesses. So in the time of Christ it was proved conclusively that it was impossible for Him to rise from the dead. It was shown logically that when a man was dead, he was dead, and the heart, and the liver, and the lungs having ceased to perform their offices, the limbs would be rigid beyond all power of friction or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute absurdity that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no sooner had they proved this than the dead Christ arose, and the disciples beheld Him, heard His voice and talked with Him, and they took the witness-stand to prove that to be true which the wiseacres of the day had proved to be impossible; the record of the experiment and of the testimony is in the text, “Him hath God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.” Now, let me play the skeptic for a moment. “There is no God,” says the skeptic, “for I have never seen Him with my physical eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of contradictions. There never was a miracle. Lazarus was not raised from the dead, and the water was not* turned into wine. Your religion is an imposition on the credulity of the ages.” There is an aged man moving in that pew as though he would like to respond. Here are hundreds of people with faces a little flushed at these announcements, and all through this throng there is a suppressed feeling which would like to speak out in behalf of the truth of our glorious Christianity, as in the days of the text, crying out, “We are witnesses!” The fact is, that if this world is ever brought to God it will not be through argument, but through testimony. You might cover the whole earth with apologies for Christianity, and learned treatises in defense of religion; you would not convert a soul. Lectures on the harmony between science and religion are beautiful mental discipline, but have never saved a soul and never will save a soul. Put a man of the world and a man of the church, against each other, and the man of the world will, in all probability, get the triumph. There are a thousand things in our religion that seem illogical to the world and always will seem illogical. _ Our weapon in this conflict is faith, not logic; faith, not metaphysics; faith, not profundity; faith, not scholastic exploration. But then, in order to have faith, we must have testimony, and if live hundred men, or one thousand men, or live hundred thousand men, or five million men get up and tell me that they have felt the religion of Jesus Christ a joy; a comfort, a help, an inspiration, I am bound as a fair man to accept their testimony. I want just now to put before you three propositions, the truth of which I think this audience will attest with overwhelming unanimity. The first proposition is, We are witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. The Gospel may have had a hard time to conquer us, we may have fought it back, but we are vanquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary thing. We know better. “We are witnesses.” There never was so great a change in our heart and life on any subject as on this. People laughed at the missionaries in Madagascar because they preached ten years without one convert, but there are many thousands of converts isl Madagascar to-day. People laughed at Dr. Judson, the Baptist missionary, because he kept on preaching in Burmah five years without a single convert, but there are many thousands of Baptists in Burmah to-day. People laughed at Dr. Morton in China for preaching seven years without a single conversion, bul there are many thousands of Christians in China to-day. People laughed at the missionaries for preaching at Tahiti for fifteen years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Bengal seventeen years? without a single conversion, yet in all those lands there are multitudes of Christians to-day. But why go so far to find evidences of the Gospel’s power to save a soul? “We are witnesses.” We were so proud that no man could have humbled us; we were so hard that no earthly power could have melted us. Angels of God were all around about us; they could not overcome us. But one day, perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat, or at a Presbyterian catechetical lecture, or at a burial, or on horseback, a power seized us, and made us get down, and made us tremble, and made us kneel, and made us cry for mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselves away from the grasp, but we could not. It flung us flat, and when we arose we were as much changed as Gourgis, the heathen, who went into a prayer-meeting, with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the meeting and destroy it, but the next day was found crying: 1 “Oh, my great sins! Oh, my great Saviour!” and for eleven years preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow mountaineers, the last words on his djing lips being, “Free grace!” Oh, it was tree grace! There is a man who was for ten years a hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had sent down its roots around the palate, and the tongue, and on down until they were interlinked with the vitals of body, mind, and soul; but he has not taken any stimulants for two years. What did that? Not temperance societies. Not prohibition laws. Not moral suasion. Conversion did it. “Why,” said one upon whom the great change had come, **ir, I feel just as though I were somebody else.” There s a sea captain who swore all the way •bom New York to Havana, and from Havana to San Francisco, and when he was in port he was worse than when he was on sea. What power was it that washed his tongue clean of profanities, and made him a psalm singer? Conversion by the Holy Spirit. There are thousands of people here to-day who are no more what they once were than a water lily is a nightshade, or a morning lark is a vulture, or day is night.

■ih—— I N ■■■ Now, isl should demand that all those people here present who have felt the converting power of religion should rise, so far from being ashamed thsy would spring to their feet with more alacrity than they ever sprang to the dance, the tears mingling with their exhilaration as they cried, “We are witnesses!” And if they tried to sing the old Gospel hymn, they would break down with emotiofi by the time they got to the second line: Ashamed of Jesus, that dear friend On whom my hopes of heaven depend? No 1 When I blush, be this my shame— That I no more revere his name. Again, I remark that “we are witnesses” of the Gospel’s power to comfort. When a man has trouble the world comes in and says, “Now, get your mind off this; go out arid breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper into business.” What poor advice! Get your mind off it! When everything is upturned with the bereavment, and everything reminds you of what you have lost. Get your mind off it! They might as well advise you to stop thinking, and you cannot stop thinking in that direction. Take a walk in the fresh air! Why, along that very street, or that very road, she once accompanied you. Out of that grass plot she plucked flowers, or into that show window she looked fascinated, saying, “Come, see the pictures.” Go deeper into business! Why, she was associated with all your business ambition, and since she has gone you have no ambition left. Oh. this is a clumsy world when it tries to comfort a broken heart! I can build a Corliss engine, I can paint a Raphael’s “Madonna,” I can play a Beethoven’s “Symphony” as easily as this world can comfort a broken heart. And yet you have been comforted. How was it done? Did Christ come to you and say, “Get your mind off this; go out and breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper into business?” No. There was a minute when he came to you—perhaps in the watches of the night, perhaps in your place of business, perhaps along the street—and he breathed something into your soul that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that you could take out the photograph of the departed one and look into the eyes and the face of the dead one and say: “It is all right, she is better off; I would not caliber back. Lord, I thank thee thou hast comforted my poor heart.” There are Christian parents here who are willing to testify to the power of this" Gospel Jo comfort. Your son had just graduated from school or college and was going into business, and the Lord took him. Or your daughter had just graduated from the young ladies’ seminary, and you thought she was going to be a useful woman, and of long life; but the Lord took her, and you were tempted to say, “All this culture of twenty years for nothing!” Or the little child came home from school with the hot fever that stopped not for the agonized prayer or for the skillful physician, and the little child was taken. Or the babe was lifted out of your arms by some quick epidemic, and you stood wondering why God ever gave you that child at all, if so soon He was to take it away. And yet you are not repining, you are not fretful, you are not fighting against God. What enabled you to stand all the trial? “Oh,” you say, “I took the medicine that God gave my sick soul, in my distress I threw myself at the feet of a sympathizing God, and when I was too weak to pray or to look up he breathed into me a peace that I think must be the foretaste of that Heaven where there is neither a tear nor a farewell nor a grave.” Come, all ye who have been out to the grave to weep there—come all ye comforted souls, get up off your knees. Is there no power in this Gospel to soothe the heart? Is there no power in this religion to quiet the worst paroxysm of grief? There comes up an answer from comforted widowhood and orphanage and childlessness,’saying,, “Aye, aye, we are witnesses!” Again, I remark that we are witnesses of the fact that religion has power to give composure in the last moment. I shall never forget the first time I confronted death. We went across the cornfields in the country. I was led by my father’s Hand, and we came to the farmhouse where the bereavement had come, and we saw the crowd of wagons and carriages, buttheie was one carriage that especially attracted my boyish attention, and it had black plumes. I said: “What’s that? what’s that? Why those black tassels at the top?” And after it was explained to me I was lifted up to look I upon the bright face of an aged Christian woman, who three days before had departed in triumph. The whole scene made an impression I never forgot. In our sermons and in our lay exhortations we are very apt, when we want to bring illustrations of dying triuwph, to go back to somedistinguisEed personage —to a John Knox or a Harriett Newell. But I want you for witnesses. I want to know if you have ever seen anything to make you believe that the religion of ! Christ can give composure in the final hour. Now, in the courts, attorneys, jury and judge jvill never admit mere hearsay. They demand that the witness must have seen with his own eyes or heard with his own ears, and so lam critical in my examination of you now; and I want to know whether you have seen or heard anything that makes you believe that the religion of' Christ gives composure in the final hour. “Oh, yes,” you say, “I saw my father and mother depart. There was a great difference in their death-beds. Standing by the one we felt more veneration. By the other there was more tenderness.” Before the one you bowed perhaps in awe. In the other case you felt as if you would like to go along with her. How did they feel in that last hour? How did they seem to act? Were they very much frightened? Did they take hold of this world with both hands as though they did not want to give it up? “0H,7 no,” you say, “no; I remember as though it were .esterday; she had a kind word for us ah, and there were a few mementoes distributed among the children,and then she told us how kind we must be to our father in -his lonliness, and then she kissed us goodby and went to sleep as a child in a cradle.” What made her so composed? Natural courage? “No,” you say; “mother was very nervous; when the carriage inclined to the side of the road she would cry out; she was always rather weakly.” What gave her composure? Was it because ! she did not care much for you, and the pang of parting was not great? “Oh,” you say, “she showered upon us a wealth of affection; no mother ever loved her children more than mother loved us; she showed it by the way she nursed us when we were sick, and she toiled for us until her strength gave out.” What, then, was it that gave her composure in the last hour? Do not hide it. Be frank and let me know. “Oh,” you say, “it was because she was so good; she made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we would all meet her at last at the foot of the throne.” Here are people who say, “I saw a Christian brother die, and he triumphed.” And some one else, “I saw a Christian sister die and she triumphed.” Some one else will say, “I saw a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed.” Come, all ye who have seen the last moments of a Christian, and give testimony in this cause on trial. Uncover your heads put your hands on the old family Bible, from which they used to read the promises, and promise in the presence of high hbaven that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. With what you with your own

eyes and what you have heard with your own ears, is there power in this Gospel to give calmness and triumph in the last exigency? The response comes from all sides, from young and old and middle aged, “We are witnesses!” * You see, my friends, I have not put oefore you an abstraction or a chimera, or anything like guesswork. I present you ! affidavits of the best men and women, living and dead. Two witnesses tn court will establish a fact. Here are not two witnesses, but millions of witnesses on earthand in Heaven testifying that there is power in this religion to convert the soul, to give comfort in trouble, and to afford composure in the last hour. If ten men should come to you when you are sick with appalling sickness and say they had the same sickness and took a certain medicine and it cured them, you would probably take it Now, suppose ten other men should come up and say, “We don’t believe that there is anything in that medicine.” “Well,” I say, “have you tried it?” “No, I never tried it, but I don’t believe there is anything in it” Os course you discredit their testimony. The skeptic may come and say, “There is no power in your religion.” “Have you ever tried it?” “No, no.” “Then avaunt!” Let me take the testimony of the millions of souls that have been converted to God, and comforted in trial and solaced in the last hour. We will take their testimony as they cry, “We are witnesses!” Prof. Henry, of Washington, discovered a new star, arid the tidings sped by submarine telegraph, and all the observatories of Europe were watching for that new star. Oh, hearer, look out through the darkness of thy soul, canst thou see a bright light beaming on thee? “Where?” you say, “where? How can I find it?” Look along by the line of the Cross of the Son of God. Do you not see it trembling with all tenderness and beaming with all hope? It is the Star of Bethlehem. Deep horror then my vitals froze. Death struck I ceased the tide to stem. When suddenly a star arose— It was tqe Star of Bethlehem. Oh, bearers, get your eye on it! It is easier for you now to become Christians than it is to stay away from Christ and Heaven. When Madam Sontag began her musical career she was hissed off the stage at Vienna by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steininger, who had already began to decline through her dissipation. Years passed on-, and one day Madam Sontag, in her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind woman, and she said: “Come here, my little child, come here. Who is that you are leading by the hand?” And the little child replied: “That’s my mother; that’s Amelia Steininger. She used to be a great singer, bnt she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that she lost her eyesight.” “Give my love to her,” said Madam Sontag, “and tell her an old acquaintance will call on her this afternoon.” The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that poor blind woman, and it was said that Sontag sang that night as she had never sung before. And she took a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the day of Amelia Steininger’s death Mme. Sontag took care of her and her daughter after that. That was what the queen of song did for her enemy. But, oh, hear a more thrilling story still. Blind, immortal, poor and lost, thou who, when the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away—Christ comes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to give thee Heaven. With more than a Sontag’s generosity, He comes now to meet your need. With more than a Sontag’s music, he comes to plead for thy deliverance. Famous Conflagrations That Destroyed Human Life. According to Folsch and Warden who have made extended special researches, every theater is doomed, sooner or later, to be destroyed by fire, the average “life” of such a building being somewhat under 23 years. Opera- ■ houses, by reason of the greater amount of superficial show which their performances require, are still more liable to destruction, and it is worth while noticing that in classical times the rate of loss was quite as high, as is instanced by the fact that the Circus Maximus, in i Rome, was destroyed by fire thrice between the years 21 and 64. From 1777 to 1880 there were burned 252 theaters, with a loss of 4,370 lives, 3,309 others being seriously injured. Os these five had not been opened, while three had entered upon their second century of existence. Thirty-seven were burned twice, eight thrice, four four times, and one—the National Theater of Washington—five times. On an average nowadays thirteen theaters are burned every year. The first quarter of the year is naturally the most fatal, and the Bth, 15th and 22d are the most unlucky days of the month. As a rule, fires in theaters break out in the middle of the week. Os the 252 cases just mentioned, in only thirty-six did the flames break out during the performance. Sixty-one per cent, of the theaters burned down are burned down in the daytime. Qf course, fires that begin at night are the most destructive of life. On the other hand, during the performance there are eyes to watch for an outbreak and hands to check it in its earliest stages. Between 1610 and 1882, according to another set of statistics, 523 theaters have fallen a prey to the flames. Os conflagrations in the Old World, the most terrible were those at Saragossa in 1778—137 lives; according to a second “authority,” 600, and, according to a third, 1,000; at Capo d’lstria, in 1794, 1,000; at St. Petersburg, in 1836, 800; or, according to the Russian papers, 3,000; at Canton, in 1845, 1,760, and 1,700 wounded; at Carlsruhe, in 1847, 63, and 200 wounded; at Leghorn, in 1857, 100 and 200 wounded. The discrepancies between the various statements show the difficulty of obtaining anything like a trustworthy body of statistics. In recent years the two great catastrophes have been those of Nice and Vienna. At Nice, on the 23d of March, 1881, the Italian Opera House was burned, sixty-one lives being lost, and at Vienna, on the Bth of December, 1881, the Ring Theater was destroyed, 384 people perishing in the flames. Os the American “horrors,” one of the earliest, and for many years the most terrible, was the burning of the theater at Richmond, Va., December 26, 1811, when sixtyseven persons were killed, including Gov. G. W. Smith, while many others were seriously injured. June 14, 1846, the old Chateau St. Louis, at Quebec, which had been converted into a theater, was set on fire by an exploding lamp, when forty-six persons lost their lives. But by far the most fatal of all theater fires in the New World was that of Dec. 5, 1876, when, by the destruction of the Brooklyn Theater, 295 lives were lost.— New York World. Dm. Charles Macrum, of Portland, Oregon, is authority for the statement that the canvas-back duck can fly two miles a minfite, and continue this speed for hours. JThe mallard duck travels • mile a minute. A

RAM’S HORN WRINKLES. Paragraphs in Every One of Which Isa Sermon. \KI HENEVER you ub jn find a man °P* posing the Bible, J ou one -w 'bo w has sins he F doesn’t want to I A give Up ’ I There are l\ /OwV vWcts4 people who dress vJSSf V their bodies in i v \ the height of Ijnxl 1 fashion, and let ■ their minds go *• * n ra & 3 ’ ’ 51 The man who expects to say good-bye to his sins, one at a time, will never get the devil behind him. If the heathen are never saved it will be the fault of close-fisted church members, and not the fault of God. No one has ever had a foretaste of heaven who has not done something unselfish to make somebody happy. The man who is not willing for the kingdom of God to come in his own heart, is opposing it everywhere. The man who waits for a golden harp with which to praise God, would feel very much out of place in heaven. Devils rejoice in the worldly prosperity of an ungodly man, because it turns him farther away from heaven. The closer we look at men, the less we think of them. The closer we look at Christ the more we love Him. There never was a sermon preached that the devil couldn’t answer, but he never tries to explain a godly life. The devil gets his hands on a good many preachers by making them believe that they have to preach great sermons. People who really love Christ, no matter how poor they may be, will manage to find some way to show it in tangible gifts. A good many preachers try so hard to feed a few giraffes in their flocks that they let the sheep and lambs starve to death. When God’s work comes to a standstill you can depend upon it that obstacles are in the way that human hands can remove. No man can live so as to please his next door neighbor, but the one who tries to please God will not find it hard to do it. , When it comes to house-cleaning, there is only here and there a man who i seems to be truly religious, from where his wife sees. When you want to see God’s power, ' look for it in the mountains. When you want to see His spirit, look for it in . Christian men. ; The right kind of religion doesn’t • mean twenty-five cents a year for misl sions, and turkey for yourself every i Sunday for dinner. One of the.main reasons why a bride _ is so proud of her husband is because , she thinks he knows everything. Some- ; thing warm seems to have been sud- . denly taken out of the sunshine when she finds out that he doesn’t. There are well-to-do men who will ; get down on their knees in church, and > pray for God to bless the whole earth, i who wouldn’t give a dollar toward build--1 ing a fence around the church to keep ‘ the pigs out of the graveyard. Two i reMdeiib. A day or two ago a gentleman, whom | nobody seemed to know, came out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, and walked up Broadway for some distance. He was not far from 70 years of age. His beard was quite gray, though his complexion was rosy; the beard had , recently been trimmed, apparently, so that it was as short as that which Gen- , eral Grant wore. The gentleman ' strolled on with an easy gait, now and then pausing to look in a window. Just ! after he had passed the Victoria Hotel a very stout gentleman, who had apparently been recently shaved, who wore a light brown mustache, whose cheeks were very billowy and over whose shirt collar appeared a billowy mass of flesh, came.from the Victoria. A few persons recognized him, and now and then one or two turned to look at him. He walked along indifferently apparently whether any one noticed him or not. He was scarcely twenty feet behind the other gentleman. Thus, in Indian file, they went up Broadway for several blocks, each unconscious that he was so near speh distinguished company. There was a lesson in this little scene. It was the suggestive lesson of the fate of ex-President’s and how quickly the greatest ruler on earth, when he lays down his office, becomes a plain everyday citizen. The first gentleman was Rutherford B. Hayes, and the second was one of his successors, Grover Cleveland.— Philadelphia Press. Lite Wortli Living. At one of the clubs one evening, Mr. Montagu Williams met Lord , who had just lost his father. The young lord was melancholy, and the lawyer proposed visiting a theater opposite, which proposition was accepted. There was a slight fire in the theater, whereupon the young lord was among the first to bolt “like a rabbit,” out of the building. Returning leisurely to the club, Mr. Williams found there his young friend quietly smoking a cigar. on earth made you bolt that way? You seemed frightened out of your wits (not a difficult matter, perhaps.) Don’t you know that, on such an occasion, if everybody got up and rushed out, a panic would ensue, with very likely fatal consequences ? Why on earth couldn’t you sit still as I did ? There was nothing serious the matter.” Upon this, with the most patronizing air, the young gentleman replied: “ Oh, yes; that’s very well for you, but you’ve not just succeeded to a peerage and twenty thousand pounds a year.” Judge Eoland’a Authority. Judge Poland was one of the most remarkable figures in Congress. His blue swallow-tail coat, brass buttons, snow white hair and chop whiskers made him appear remarkably English, and he always admired himself. Before entering Congress he had been Chief Justice of his native State, and at once resumed his practice before the courts after entering political life. One day he was arguing before the full bench a quite important case and had referred to several decisions, when, picking up a volume, he said: “May it please your honors, I will now call your attention to a ca**e decided in the volume of our State reports, the decision is somewhat old, but at that time there were some able men upon the bench,” and from • decision rendered by himself twenty years previous sustained the position be was contending for. The judges, of course, all smiled, but Poland was as dignified as it was possible for mortal to be. •■A •/'-

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