Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 188.

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SOME BIBLE MYSTERIES. QUESTIONS SETTLED BY TALMAGE,'

Knotty Points and incident of Blbl HU. lory Characteristic ally Explalned-An-oiher Version of the Miracle of Jonah and the Great f iah. The glorious -weather last SuncUy morning brought out a host of church-goers, and the Brooklyn tabernacle was jammed to the outer corridors long before the services began. Hundred of people who came late -were unable to get further than the doors. The lie v. Dr. Tal mage preached a ßermon in defense of the bible: "In -which are many things hard to be understood." II Peter iii, 16. As there are many thing in the bible, according to the suggestion of my text, hard to be understood, I purpose this morning to solve Bomeof these things, hoping to leave upon the mind of every honest man Piid honest woman in this assemblage the impression that if five or six or eeven of these hard things may be explained, then J all the other mysteries may be explained. Hard thing the first: The bible says the world was made in six days. Geology pays the process of making the world may have gone on hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps millions of years. We say that God wrote the bible, God certainly made the rocks. Now, is there a contradiction? ""In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." In the beginning. There you can roll in 10,000,000 years if you want to. There i3 no date given. No war between science and revelation. You can roll in 10,000,000 years before the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis, or you can roll in 10,000,000 years right after that verse. The world may have been in process of construction for millions of years, and yet in one week fitted up for man's residence ; just as you might be building a great mansion for many years, and then in one week upholeter it, chandelier it, picture it for a bride and groom. ifo there is no war between those two statements God writing in the bible, the same God writing on the rocks. Perfect harmony and perfect accord unless you want to make a discord. And beside that, we are not compelled to believe that the day mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis is a day of twenty-four hours. The Bible distinctly says that a thousand years are with the Lord as one day, and it may have been God's day. Another hard thing to understand: The Bible says that light was created on Monday and the sun did not shiue until Thursday, and hundreds and thousands of scientific infidels have scoffed at the Bible. They say: "What an absurd book." Why, my dear friends, heat and electricity emit light independent of the sun. The world in process of condensation emitted light. Rocks in crystallization emit light. David Brewster and Herschcl, the astronomer, and all men of that type they go on to pay that the sun is not light, it is an opaque ma?s, it is only the candlestick that holds the light surrounded by a phosphorescent atmosphere. The aurora boreali3 emits light independent of the sun. All geology asserts that there were thousands of miles of liquid granite all aflame for ages emitting light independent of the sun. Another hard thing to be understood: The deluge and Noah's ark. Why, the skeptics, the infidel fccientists of our day say: "That story is absurd. The ark would not have contained two of every kind. Beside that there was only a small window in the ark and these creatures would have been asphyxiated for lack of ventilation. Beeide that, the ark landed on Ararat, according to the bible that i.s 17,000 feet high and all these creatures would have been immediately frozen to death." I must confess there used to be some my6terv about that story of the deluge and of Noah's ark, but there is no possible mystery to me now because I have the key to unlock the whole affair. Noah was 1"ust giving the account of an eye-witness. Ie himself measured the depth of the flood. He talked about the great storm just a you and I would talk about any great Etorm, and then Moses took Noah's account and incorporated it into the bible. Noah says everything under the whole heaven was covered as far as he could pee. What was the use of the ancient deluge? It -was to destroy the outrageous people of the then thinly inhabited earth. We need not necessarily believe that that storm covered the Sierra Nevadas and Mount Washington, Europe and Africa. There was not a soul living in all these lands. This deluge was sent for a special purpose and it swept to ruin the 6mall population of the earth then around about the place where the ark was launched. As to so much water coming down every day in order to make the great depth, have you noticed that most of the flood came up and did not come down at all? I know the bible says "the windows of heaven were open," and then it says that "all the fountains of the great deep were broken up," and the rivers, and the lakes, and the oceans, unmoored by this great convulsion of nature, came up. Most of the flood rose. It did not fall at all. Geologists tell us that again and again there has been a flood of ice, or a flood of fire, or a deluge of destructive elements. You cannot take up a work on geology but you will read about twenty floods; but, when having had twenty floods, we ask that they believe the one flood of the bible, they almost charge us with being lion compos mentis. They believe in twenty. We believe in one. Besides that, as to the size of that great ark. It was as large as the Great Eastern of our time ; it was as large as three or four of our men of war. Before the world had any shipping at all God constructed the vessel so that it was the model vessel and of about the same proportions as the Btanchest vessels now. In other words, after we have improved in naval architecture for thousands of years, we have just got up to Noah's ark. That one model failing ahead to-day on all the oceans. Then, as to the small window. Why, if the infidel ecientists knew as much Hebrew as you could put upon the tip of the little finger they wouid know that the word translated window means window courses, a whole flight of windows. So if there be any lawful criticism of the ark on the subject of windows, there were two many windows considering the great storm. But, pay they, "the whole group of people and the large number of animals would have been su Jbcated in the ark ; because of the tempest these windows must be kept closed." I answer, saying, there are people in this house this morning who camo all the way from Liverpool to Earnegat lighthouse with the hatches battened down. But say some: "How would it have been possible to get all those creatures in the ark? Why, you would have had to coax them " in and push them and then you couldn't have got them in." I do not think you have been born in the country, or you have heard an August thunder storm coming up, and you have seen the cattle at the bars moaning to get in, and you have seen the fowl go to perch at noon, and you have heard dog and cat at the door,

begging for entrance. And when that great storm came on, that darkening and tremendous tempest, the most terrific storm the world ever saw, was it not natural for the animal creation to go to the only shelter for there were few shelters then for dumb beasts to start right away ? I have owned horses and dogs and cattle and sheep and I never had a dog or a goat or a sheep that did not know enough to come in when it rained. And as to the ark landing on Mount Ararat, 17,000 feet high, that is geographical ignorance. Ararat i.s the name of a whole range of hills, some of them fifty feet high, some 100 feet high, some 1,000 feet high, and the ark, that famous vessel, came down upon one of those hilltops. Another hard thing to be understood : The story that the sun and the moon stood still in order to allow Joshua to finish his battles. Did you see the Corliss engine at the Philadelphia centennial? Could the machinist start it? Could he not stop it? What a poor machinistthat would be, who could make an engine start and could not stop it, and could not take it all apart and start it again. Is a machine mightier than than the man who made the machine or wiser? lathe universe mightier than the God who made it? If He could make all worlds, could He not have stopped two of them? If lean lift fifty pounds can I not lift an ounce? "Oh" they say, "it is such an absurd story the sun and the moon standing still in the daytime ! What is the moon doing out in the daytime?" Why, my friends, you have not been a very close observer of the heavens, if you have not seen the moon a hundred times in the daytime. Beside that, the earth has two motions a motion on its own axis and it has a motion around the sun. It is not necessary that the earth stop its motion around the sun. It just had to stop on its own axis to make the miracle I speak of. The bible vernacular and God's vernacular in this case is only human vernacular. We say sunset. The sun never sets. The earth only has to stop the motion on its own axis. Beside that, the world need not have stopped a 6econd when by miraculous power there could have been a prolonged continuance of the refraction of the sun's rays. God in the bible always speaking in the language of men. Why in our time worlds have been made. A few years ago an astronomer telegraphed from Washington through the Associated Press saying he had found a new world. No one doubted it. And within two centuries there have been thirteen worlds destroyed that we are positive about. Astronomers saw them. They looked iust like other w orlds. Then, after a while, astronomers looked at them, and they were red in other words, afire. After a while they looked, and they were ashen in other words, they had gone to ashes. After a while these bodies had disappeared the ashes had been scattered. Now, I say, if God can make a world, and destroy thirteen of them without accident or collision to the astronomical heavens and the universe, I think He could stop two. But says some one: "It is so belittling to think that other worlds should have been stopped until Joshua should get through his battles." Then, you do not know what a battle it was. What Yorktown was in the revolution, what Gettysburg was in our civil strife, what Sedan was in the Franco-German war, what Waterloo was in the Napoleonic destiny that was this battle of JoshuaIt was more than that. If England and the United States and France and Germany and Italy and Russia should now all go into one great war, battling for victory or annihilation, it would not at our ago of the world be a more tremendous battle than that battle which Joshua fought against the five kings of Gibeon. Another hard thing to be understood : The story of the whale swallowing Jonah and emitting him at the end of three days. In the first place, t'ie book of Jonah says nothing about a -whale. It says: "The Lord prepared a great fish." I know in one place in the new testament, referring to that story, it calls the sea monster a whale, but you can translate that word sea monster just as well and a little better. It was one of those great sea monsters that took care of the prophet, and the gastric juices had no power over him, because, I warrant you, he kept stirring around, and the monster was sick enough at the third day to regurgitate Jonah. I warrant you that sea monster was as tired of Jonah as Jonah was of the' sea monster. If a ship carpenter prepares a ship to carry "00 passengers to Liverpool, I think the ship can carry 500 passengers to Liverpool. And if it could, I think the Lord could prepare a fish that could carry one passenger. Another hard thing in the bible for some people to understand: So many of the prominent men of the bible were polygamists, and the bible seems to permit polygamy. Let us look at this matter. How many wives did God make for Adam? One I suppose. He started the institution of marriage as He wanted to go on. How many wives did God keep for Noah when the race was the second time started after the deluge? Noah one wife. Ham one wife. Shem one wife. Japheth one wife. But, says some one, "Did not God permit polygamy?" Yes, but never sanctioned it. There is an infinite difference between permitting a thing and sanctioning a thing. The presidents of the United States for the last thirty years have permitted polygamy in Utah. None of them sanctioned it. In the world are theft and arson and murder and crime of all sorts. God permits them, never sanctions them. Mark the difference and never confound the two again. A FAMOUS BOOK.

The Recent Sale of the Gatenburg Bible For Nearly Ten Thousand Dollars. The London Times, in reporting the recent sale of Lord Hopetoun's library, says: "It appears that the collection was not formed by the constant pursuit of the first earl of Hopetoun, who, though a bibliophile, was not exactly a collector, for he fortuntt'jly obtained his library by one purchase when he bought the library of the Jesuits at Strasbourg some time in the last century. The earl was then completing the building of the mansion Hopetoun house, near Edinburgh, and naturally wanted to furnish it with a library worthy of the place, and in this he certainly succeeded. But, thouzh there are some rare books in the collection, they do not give the chief interest to the sale, for this centered in one alone the famous 'Mazarin,' or, more properly, Gutenberg bible and, strange to say, this treasure was quite unknown to the present Lord Hopetoun, having been cast aside as 'an old bible' with books and papers at the back of a cupboard. Here it was discovered by Mr. Hodge, jr., when ho -was engaged in preparing for the present sale. As it has ' happened, the precious volumes have not Buffered so much from those accidents of damp and mildew as might have been expected, and those slight injuries to the first three leaves of the second volume which have occurred were not such as to be called serious damaees. Indeed, the price of 2,000, which Mr. Quaritch has now given for the volumes, is sufficient evidence of this. It was put up as lot 260, the first bid being 1,000 from Mr. Quaritch, who had to compete with Mr. Ellis, who advanced to 1,000, and so on by fi.'ties to the end at ?2,000. "This bible is entitled Biblis Sacra Latina e versione et cum pnpfatione S. Hierenymi,' two volumes, without any date or place but Mogunti;e, J. Gutenberg et J. Fust, circa 14.j0-55 the first edition of the bible and, earliest book printed with movable metal types by

the inventors of printing, ornamented with two borders and many initial letters illuminated in gold and colors, printed on thick paper in double columns -without title, pagination or signatures; one of the original impressions, the first volume containing 324 folios and the second 31 S, making in all C42 leaves, of which the last is blank. In this first issue the headings of St. Jerome's epistle and of Genesis are printed in red letters, and the rest written in red ink, but those of the second issue are all written. This copy has the first three leaves in vol. ii slightly damaged, and is also wormed in a few places. It is bound in old calf. We have now seen within a few years no lees than four copies of this splendid specimen of the art of printing at its birth, since when it is not exaggerating to say that a3 an art it has not been surpassed by any modern achievements. The finest of these Gutenberg bibles was that sold in 1S73 in the Terkins sale for 2,000, when it passed into the noble library of Mr. Huth. Then comes the fine copy which was sold in the Syston park library sale, Sir John Thorold's, December, 1SS4, for 3,000, to Mr. Quaritch. After this, in June, 17, came the other fine copv sold in Lord Crawford's library sale for 2,000, also to Mr. Quaritch." Keligious "ote and Tho tight. Mr. John D. Rockfeller has just given $100,000 to the American baptist education society for educational work in the United States, payable $10,000 each month, beginning with March and ending with December next. It is just 100 years 6ince the introduction of methodism into New England. Jesse Lee had the distinction of having been the first circuitpreacher, and a bronze equestrian statue on the site of the old apple tree at Norwalk, where he held his first meeting, is proposed. I. L. Moody will be in Chicago to preside over the sessions of the "Christian convention," which will begin April 4. The special direction of Christian work contemplated is that of bible study, and the series of meetings will be almost exclusively devoted to an exposition of the fundamental doctrines of the Chrtstian faith. At a recent meeting of the baptist clergymen of Chicago, facts were presented showing the increase of its population and the need of an increase of the home missionary force of that denomination to reach the non-church-going population. The meeting favored the raising of $10,000 to be expendedby that denomination in city missions during the current year. "The Baptist Year-Book" for 1SS9 makes the following showing for the past year: Total number of associations, 1,312; ordained ministers, 21,420; churches, 3--',fXiO; baptisms, 1.11,''.3; received by letter, 66,923; by restoration, 20,000; by experience, f, 40;. Losses: By letter, 71,4.32; by exclusion, 37,84.3; by erasure, 10,;''3; by death, 25,6o9. Total membership, 2,1"J7,714; a gain over last year of 80,479. The oldest minister of the gospel in active service is the Rev. William Stoddart, of the parish of Moderty, in Scotland. The baptismal register shows that he was baptized on the 29th of March, 1787, and is now in his one hundred and third year. Father Stoddart walks about a mile to his preaching service every Sunday with buoyant step, and preaches a 6ennon of about an hour's length, discharges, unaided, all his pastoral duties, and is a most efficient chairman of the county school board. Church of To-Day. However artificial may be the observances which accompany Lent, any season in this modern busy world which brings a period of rest for mind and body is to be encouraged, not merely on account of its origin, but for the sake of its effects. There are over-indulgent people who might be greatly benefited by observing with some strictness the rules prescribed by some of the acts in regard to fasting. There are fashionable women who would be better for a cessation from worldly frivolities. But the external and superficial aspects of Lent ought not to be confounded with its more wholesome religious significance. The Unitarian. Human nature will always have some terrible penalty to inflict upon those who try to interfere with its inherent rights, and has abundantly asserted that freedom of worship is one of these. The sympathies of mankind rally round a persecuted cause. Attempted obstruction has again and again not only defeated itself, but done more to assist the cause it hates than all other agencies combined. This was the case with the reformation, with methodism. with the Tractarian movement, and it has been true in hundreds of minor cases. The religious persecutor has become a poor creature in the eyes of mankind. He still appears periodically, but no longer dares to indulge in the oppressive measures, the harsh epithets, and the misrepresentations of his earlier career. I'rovidence Journal.

Spring Idles Advice to House-Cleaners Bring the flower-tubs from the cellar. Dace them out of doors ; Carry carpets out and shake them, Scrub white all the floors. Spatter all the walls with whitewash, Take down every bed ; Carry sums up to the attic, Old chairs to the shed. Take a little bit of soap, Place it on the stair; Also take a pail of suds And place beside it there. Call your good man to come down, LiMen to him swear! Tay the doctor to come in And the breaks repair. Carry all things back in place, Smile with brow serene; Though you may be dead yourself, Still the house is clean. Miss Smith. An Angel Inn wares. N. Y. World. A newsboy took the Sixth avenue elevated at Tark place at noon yesterday, and eliding into one of the cross seats fell asleep. At Grand-st. two yonng women got on and took the seats opposite the lad. His feet were bare and his hat had fallen off. Presently the younger girl leaned over and placed her muff under the little fellows dirty cheek. An old gentleman in the next seat smiled at the act and without saying anything held out a quarter with a nod toward the boy. The girl hesitated a moment and then reached for it. The next man just as silently offered a dime, a woman across the aisle held out some pennies, and before she kntw it the girl with flaming cheeks had taken money from every passenger in that tnd of the car. She quietly slid the amount into the sleeping lad's pocket, removed her mutf gently from under his head without arousing him and got off at Twenty-third-st, including all the passengers in a pretty little inclination of the head that seemed full of thanks and the possession of a common secret. A Lnat Appeal. Tit-Bits. "Mabel," sail nenry, and in spite of hia effort to control himself the voice was tremulous, and he spoke with the air of timid desperation which marks the elocution of a man about to astc for the loan of $25; "Mabel, I do not kneel at your feet" (and he wasn't hf was sitting told upright on a sofa) "to plead for myseif. I come here only to beg you to think of my brother George. He he loves you dearly, Mabel, and should you refuse his plea I tremble for the consequences. He is alone in the world, and he wants a sister-in-law. Oh! will you not be one to him?" Different 1'oints of Tlew. Sheffield Telegraph. A minister, with a rather florid complexion, had gone into the shop of a barber, one of his parishioners, to be shaved. The barber was addicted to heavy bouts of drinkin?, after which his hand was, consequently, unsteady at his work. In shaving the minister on the occasion referred to he inflicted a cut sufliciently deep to cover the lower, part of the face with blood. The minister turned to the barber and said, in a tone of solemn severity: "You see, Thomas, what comes of taking too much drink." "Ay," replied Thomas, "it mak's the skin verra tenner." A Doable Obligation. Puck. Police Justice "It' no ose, alderman. I can't let a man off simply because he is one of your constituents." Alderman Gilhooligan (whispering) "But tare an 'ouns, judge, he got ful' in my saloon." They Can't Help It. Puck.) Waiter "Flow ju want eher beefsteak cooked V Mail and Express Reporter "Well done, thou good and faithful servant."

FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.

WHY CHARLEY LOST HIS SITUATION. Teasing and Practical Joking Indisputable Evidence Lottie Solves the Mj--tery Tommy's Politeness A Thoughtful Baby Problems. Charley wo3 whistling a merry tun ho came down the road, with his hands in his pockets, his cap pushed back on his head, and a general air of good-fellowship with the world. He was on his way to apply for a position in a 6tationer's store that he was very anxious to obtain, and in hia pocket were the best of references concerning his character for willingness and honesty, lie felt sure tbat there would not be much doubt of hia obtaining the place when he presented these credentials. A few drops of rain fell, as the bright eky was overcast with clouds, and he began to wish he had brought an umbrella. From a house just a little way before him two little children were starting out for school, and the mother stood in the door eniiling approval aa the boy raised the umbrella and took the little sister under it3 shelter in a manly fashion. Charley was a great tease, and, like most boys who indulge in teasing or rough practical jokes, he always took care to select for his victim some one weaker or younger than himself. "I'll have some fun with those children," he said to himself; and before they had gone very far down the road he crept up behind them and 6natched the umbrella out of the boy's hands. In vain the little fellow pleaded with him to return it Charley took a malicious delight in pretending that he was going to break it or throw it over the fence; and as the rain had stopped, he amused himself in this way for Bome distance, making the children run after him and plead with him tearfully for their umbrella. Tired of this sport at last, he relinquished the umbrella as a carriage approached, and, leaving the children to dry their tears, went on toward the store. . Mr. Mercer was not in, so Charley sat down on the steps to wait for him. An old pray cat was basking in the sun, and Charley amused himself by pinching tho poor aninAl's tail till she mewed pitifully and struggled to escape. While he was enjoying this sport, Mr. Mercer drove up in his carriage, and passed Charley on his way into the store. Tho boy released the cat, and, following the gentleman in, respectfully presented his references. "These do very well," Mr. Mercer said, returning the papers to Charley. "If I had not seen some of your other references, I might have engaged vou." "Other references? What do you mean, sir?" asked Charley, in astcnishment. "I drove pa&t you this morning when you were on your way here, and 6aw you diverting yourself by teasing two little children. A little later a dog passed you, and you cut him with a switch you had in your hand. You 6hied a stone at a bird, and just now your were delighting jrourself in tormenting another defenseless animal. These are the references that have decided me to have nothing to do with you. I don't want a cruel boy about me." As Charley turned away, crestfallen over his disappointment, he determined that wanton cruelty, even though it seemed to him to be only "fun," should not cost him another good place. Lottie Solves a Great Mystery. Philadelphia Pres.l The rector was a very genial old gentleman and always taught the small children in the Sunday-school. One day he, by request, handed the class over to his young nephew, who undertook the duty very willingly. The subject was Jacob's dream. AH went along smoothly until, in an unguarded moment, he impulsively asked: "Children, why did the angels walk up and down the ladder instead of flying?" Profound silence. (The young man confessed when he came home that he had no sooner asked the question than he was compelled to acknowledge Iiis inability to answer it.) At length one small child held up her hand. "Well, what is it, Lottie?" "Please, sir, I thinks I knows." "Speak out, then ; don't be afraid." "Please, sir, I thinks it wuz 'cause they wuz moulting, sir." Young man (immensely relieved) "Quite right, Lottie." Note Lottie's mother kept canaries for 6ale. Patriotism. Kingston Free:nan. A precocious Ponckhockie boy had his photograph "taken" the other day. His uncle, desiring to send one of the portraits to airiend in England, wrote the following on a slip of paper and asked the boy to recopy it on the back of the portrait : To Uncle 's English fiiend, From a little American boy. When the portrait and the copy were given the lad he shook his head and apE eared dissatisfied. His mother asked im why he acted in that manner. "I ain't going to eend my picture to the English, because they came over here and taxed us on tea," was the youngster's answer. A Thoughtful Baby, Boston Beacon. Our pet at home is little Beth, four years old, and full of cunning ways and sayings. .She is very fond of the baby, and once when a caller asked if she might not carry it home with her, Beth answered very emphatically, "No, no, but I will write to my Fatherin heaven and perhaps He will send you one." Her grandmother said to her one day : "Your papa used to be my little boy." Beth thought it over a minute, then said : "Well, grandma, I think you made him up into a very nice man." Of Conn. Elraira Advertiser. It was a little Fifth ward boy who was walking on the street with his mother, when his attention was attracted by a dog which wagged a stub that showed he once possessed a tail. "Isn't it too bad," said the mother, "that the doggy has lost his tail ?" "Yes," replied the little fellow, sadly, and then brightening up asked, "But, mamma, why don't they take him to the tailor's shop r ....... ... .Tommy's Politeness. - , Chicago Tribune. Tommy (at dinner-table) "Mamma, when a little boy does anything impolite he always ought to beg pardon, oughtn't he?" Mamma "Yes, my son." Tommy (to guest) "Mr. Gobblum, I beg your pardon for thinking you eat just like a hired man." Indisputable Evidence, (Boston Courier. A small boy was calling the other day on one of his school friends and fell into conversation with the mother of the latter. He was led to remark that it was getting very hard to tell from the places in which people live whether they are entitled to social consideration or not. Of course this

is not the way in which he put it, but this is what it came to. "Now, there is Blank-st." he said ; "you wouldn't think anybody that lives on Blank-st. was much, would you? But there's Mr. T., he lives there.,r "And is Mr. T. much ?" she asked, not unwilling to draw him out. "Mr. T. ?" he repeated, with the air of one who is overwhelmed with astonishment that so obvious a fact should have escaped the knowledge of anybody. "I should think he was ! He s an awful Bwell. Why, he won't epeak to "my father."

Among the Kids. "narry, you ought not to throw away nice bread like that; you may want it some day." Well, mother, should I Btand any better chance of getting it then if I ate it now." Governess (to little Miss Ethel, who is making famous progress in mythology) "Now, Ethel, what do you know of Minerva?" Etheh "Minerva was the goddess of wisdom; 6he never married." A youthful Chicago story teller offered the following unique prize story: "The minister's wife had nine email children, each of which was one year younger than the other. Though poor, 6he was a diligent woman." Dickie, six years old, had a pair of boots, lie cut one of them with his hatchet. The father became very angry and scolded incessantly. The little fellow looked his father in the face and said : "If you don't stop talking, you'll get me mad, too." The other day a teacher in a Boston school showed a little girl a picture of a fan, and asked her what it was. The little girl didn't appear to know. "What does your mother do to keep her cool in hot weather?" asked the teacher, "Drink beer," was the prompt reply. A naturalized citizen of English birth tells this story: "The day before the Fourth of July last year the teacher to whom my boy goes to school explained to her class why the day was celebrated, giving full particulars. The next morning the boy, who was born in this country, said to me: 'Dad, this is the day we licked you.' " Miss Olive is evidently fitting herself to become a funny man on a newspaper, for looking out of the window at some children playing in the Btreet, she observed, pensively: "Pray, mamma, why are those childrea like my new ßhoes?" Aain her mother gave it up. "They are both American kids, dear." KNOTTY PROBLEMS. Our readers are invited to furnish original enigmas, charades, riddles, rebuses, and other "Knotty Problems," addressing: all communications relative to this department to E. IL Chadbourn, Lewiston, Me. No. 2607 What Is It? ; I am small on the earth, but when seen far away, As the stars in the heavenly blue, The sun may be less than my mighty form; 'Tis strange but still it is true. I'm found in the bird but not in the fowl, With betrothed as well as bride; Sometimes on the face, the scarf, coat or vest, And really on every side. If you look at the wall, the ceiling, the floor, You'll see me in every part ; In carpets, curtains, paptT and rugs, In designs of beautiful art. In papers and boots I play a preat part; 1 should go in the right position, Or the author's most beautiful thoughts and lines Would be placed in a sad condition. If you take me to France my meaning and sound Are chanced in wondrous ways: I'm delight to the grooms, the wish of the brides, And cause parents some anxious days. (iOOD Wiix, No. 2698 Conundrum. Mrs. Jink is seldom home, And I think she likes to roam; Iter daughter on her nxt birthday Will be eleven the 6th of May. Now, people say that Jenny Jink Is like her mother; why, do vou think? I Fans B. No. 269 Block Letter E.

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Acrosi 1. An extraordinary event. 2. Condemnatory. 3. A plant that grows on trees. 4. Keenness. 5. Covetous. 6. A guard. 7. What a cask wants of being full. 8. To inspect, 9. An abbreviation which was Innocently mistaken for a great poet's name bv Mn. I'artington. 10. A boundary. 11. A power that drives. 11. To exceed in number. 13. A direction. Dotm From 1 to 2. Act of measuring. From 3 to 4. Amusements. Kmm 5to 6. To watch. From 7 to 8. A tree allied to the rines. Fron 9 to 10. To test. It. K. A. Dino. No. 2 TOO Anagram. ' Voice, a rrnbb;" old man to a sour apple tree; He was once a babe sitting on his mother's knee. She sang to him sweetly many, many times; He cost her, 'tis true, many many dimes. No! handle him gently, who shall dare To hurt a once loved one so gentle and fair. X. J. No. 2701 Hidden Trees. HOW MANY? As In a hare lay hill and slopes The month was pale No vein her The mist about the shadowy copse, Histiuctly I remember. A gauzy shawl hung on the trees, Veiled up each nook and hollow; A hunter's horn winds up the breeze And tremulous echoes follow : But when the lazv tun appeared, (" 'Twas thick or yet like lace is;") There brightly through the curtain glared A hnndred golden traces! The slope can bathe in irold ; the copse May have the fairies hiding; Or angels, down those pearly ropes Might out of 'leaven come sliding! Jos Amort. No. 2703 A Mallet. Head upward and you will find the names of two very popular Americans, one bora in 1622, the other In 1767. Read across and you will find on the left side: 1 A plant 2 A mixture. 3 Intelligence. 4 A mineral, r.ightside: 1 A tooth. 2 An aromatic plant. 3 A divinity student. 4 A common flower. B. B. No. 2703 Three Words. Three words that know are pronounced just tho same. The spelling differ each from other; One word means double duplex, as you see; One is accord, the other is over; The spelling Is different, as I said before, And we use them each day, over and over. Elva. Are Vou Trying;? KISS FIXE PRIZES ARB TO BE GIVEN TUI BRIGHTEST PUZZLE MAKERS. Three prizes Tenrdoliars, a six-volume edition of Shaksi-eare's works, and three dollars are to be awarded for the best three lots of three original puzzles of any kind. Two prizes a bracket saw outfit and a standard work of poetry or fiction for the beM two lots of three original anagrams, charades or riddles. Two prizes Five dollars and twe dollars for the best two lots of three original "forms" of any kind; and two prizes a single volume edition of haipeare and a standard work of poetry or fiction lor the best two lots of three original squares or diamonds. The prizes will be divided among bine different competitors. ; . Answers. 2C0. 2i3 453415 3127 ' . . 435 184 S'U 2-J0 1015 1015. 2690. The letter O. 261. Cur-few, 2692. "The noblest undertakings that man's wisdom hath conceived Hare by oft repeated efforts been triumphantly achieved." 2C93. Sample, ample; needles, needless. 2fiS4. Treason, reason. 2694. PLASMA LABIAL ABSEN T 8 I K N N A MANNE R A L T A K 3 2C25. Acceleration.

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MARION COUNTY'S OLDEST RESIDENT James Ilubbartt, ilale and Ilearty, Celebrates Ills One II and red and Fourth Birthday, Surrounded by a Host of Descendant An Eventful Life. Thursday's Daily Sentinel. A good old ase and a hearty laugh are two jewels of brightness in life's casket of sorrows to be prized above all. Happy is the man who possesses one of them, and doubly happy is the man who possesses them both. And it whs a jolly and spry old fellow (for his age) who celebrated his one hundred and fourth birthday yesterday at Mapleton. Iiis name is James Ilubbartt and he is well known to many residents of Marion county. He is almoBt as old as the United ' States and is chock full of reminiscences of early days. The many descendants and friends of the centenarian de termined to hold a reunion yesterday and celebrate the old gentleman's birthday with a regular ovation. Accordingly all day long coul J be seen a stream of vehicles wending their way along Michigan pike, coming from the north, south, east and west. So a rather unusual sight greeted the eyes of the reporter as he turned around a little side road running off Michigan pike about a half mile north of Crown Hill cemetery. Standing in front of a little two-story frame house, very nice and white end clean, stood a motley array of vehicles buggies and farm wagons, hansoms and spring wagons. A cool country breeze bowled along over the fields, giving a '"cabby" who was louncing against a rail fence a case of the "irascibles," as he vainly endeavored to peruse a newspaper which shook violently from each gust When the reporter stepped inside the door he found the two lower rooms packed with people of all ages and 6izes. There were big men with beards, and little boys in knee-breeches, and matronly looking women with kindly faces, and young ladies of susceptible age, not forgetting two or three babies, which, however, were to be heard and not seen. But the central figure of all was a little old man who sat on a nice easy chair, taking the greatest interest in all that was going on. His head was almost bald and his face was adorned with those little choppy chin whiskers so common in the survivors of three or four generations ago. Quite involuntarily the reporter smiled as the almost forgotten words of a poem ran through his mind: I know it is a sin For me to sit and (rrin At iiru Bitting there, IUit his old three-cornered hat, And his breeches and all that Are so queer. "How do you do" Mr. Ilubbartt, said the reporter in a loud tone, the old gentleman being rather deaf. "Oh, pretty well, thankee, for an old man like me," chuckled the old gentleman, as he glowered over an immense pair of spectacles at the speaker. "He's a pretty jolly old fellow, isn't he?" said Mrs. Berry, his granddaughter. "But he's kind of deaf and everybody has to speak loud to him, you know." Four years ago Mr. Hubbartt's one-hundredth anniversary was celebrated by a family reunion, and those present little expected that he would be alive four years from that day. He was born in Delaware on the 27th of March, 17S5. His parents were of Irish extraction. When a child his parents moved to North Carolina, afterward removing to Lebanon, O., in lSOo. He remained there two years and then returned to Carolina where he married a Miss Nancy Thomas of Guilford county In isil he again removed to Ohio, settling in Hamilton county, and from there went to Dearborn county, Indiana. In 1S32 he removed to Marion county, entering a threequarter section of land in Washington township, 160 acres of which he retains to-day. His wife has been dead for twenty-five years. He has always been engaged more or less in farming, though he at one time owned a sawmilL His temperate habits no doubt account for his length of years, as he has always been extremely moderate in bis indulgences. When a young man he used tobacco more or less, but of late years has almost given up the habit. For four years Mr. Ilubbartt was totally blind from cataract, which obscured both eyes, but when eighty-6even years of age his eyes were euccesstully operated upon by Dr. Thompson of this city. Mr. Hubbartt's family relate a good story in this connection. After the doctor had finished the operation and the old gentleman was allowed to take the bandage oti his eyes, the doctor asked him: "Well, do you 6ee me now?" "Yes," replied the old gentleman, delightedly. "But you ain't a very good looking feller." At the present time Mr. Ilubbartt is a nable of reading the finest print, and whiles sway whole days in reading. As has been said, his hearing is quite bad, but his only serious complaint is neuralgia, which bothers him very much at times. He has a very retentive memory and keeps well informed on the affairs of the times. He lias been a life long republican, casting his first presidential vote for Monroe, and recently became a member of the methodist church. He is a member of the Tippecanoe club, and visited Harrison durin the campaign. The president sent him a letter in recognition of the call, and the old gentleman at once became an enthusiastic Harrisonite. Mr. Ilubbartt lias been the father of ten children, all of whom attained their majority, though only three are living now. His descendants are legion, there being forty-seven grandchildren, over one hundred great-grandchildren, and seven or eight great-great-grandchildren. A great many of his descendants now spell their names Hubbard, and this led to considerable trouble, when the old gentleman applied for a pension for serving in the war of 1812 as a minute man. Three of his own children were present yesterday, Richard Hubbard, aged seventy-seven, Elizabeth Iiichards, aged seventy-five, and Jane Berry, aged seventy-three. The grandchildren present were Nancy Utterback, Virginia Davenport, Lyda Berry, Sally Allen, John Shephard and wife and Ella Wanderly and husband. Great grandchildren present: Charles Miller, Cora Davenport, Nancy Davenport and Ezra Miller. Great-great grandchild, Luther Lee. Grand nephew and son, James M. Glenn and Wilmer Glenn of Cincinnati. A hundred or so visitors called during the day who brought their baskets rilled with good things. Among the number were John Bowers, Mrs. Elizabeth Guion, A Myers, wife, son and daughter, S. A. Howard and wife, Henry Whitmyer, Dr. McDonald and wife, the Rev. Mr. Norihcut, wife and sou, John Quick and daughter, Mrs. llollingsworth and daughter, Charles Benson and Miss Jane Brunson, FTorence and Josie Blue, Miss Cora Bradley, Mrs. Butler and daughter and Mrs. G. W. Lancaster. Altogether, the day was a happy one, and it was the only wish that the old gentleman may live to Bee many more such anniversaries. Was it Murder or no Accident. MCXCIE, March 27. Special. A train bound west ran over a man this morning nearly one mile from town. The head was completely severed from the body, as were the legs. lie had been lying crosswise on the track when struck. The men were horrified to observe that his wounds were not bleeding, and the track was not bloody. There was a iagged wound in the head, the blood of which was clotted, showing that the train had not caused his death. A letter, bill-headed "The French Hotel." Lima, ).. dated March 25, and addressed to his wife in Fostoria, O., was signed Harry F. Batesman. Last evening a stout, thick-set man hired a buggy at a livery stable. About 2 o'clock this morning the horse came bome alone, with reins trailing. This was a full hour before. the train left. . The . hostler says this man was not the .victim. , Others cay he was. Neighbors report hearing a . buggy near the scene of the catastrophe an hour and a half before the train came. " It seemed to go backward and forward for a little while and then slowly wheel toward the city. The engineer of the train is Batesman's brother-in-law. He brought to-night with him Batesman's photograph, and his identity is unquestionably established. The coroner's verdict will be that the man was murdered. His wife arrived to-night. The city is tremendously excited, and a large reward will be ofiered for the murderer's apprehension. M A Tossle For S10O,000. Goshen, March 27. Special The National gas light and fuel company; of Chicago has brought suit against the Goshen gas light company for $100,000 damages, alleging infringement of patent rights granted to J. B. Springer and consigned by him to the above company, on an apparatus designed for the manufacture of water gas. The company here is amply protected and will fight it out to the end.

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