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/ ATTftE' TABERNACEE. <6 s , /?; a DR. TALMAGE DELIVERS A SfcASONA 8LE SERMON ON BIRDS. ii* in Preeminently the XoatJi to Con *ai?r the Ministry of Xatare? How the .So?gs of the Tattoos feird* 1 v Show Forth the Family Life. % Brooklyn, Jane 25. ? Rev. Dr Til mage this morning -chose for the subject of his sermon "The Songs of Bird*." This, like many of his ser mons, hi suited to the season of the year in which it is preached. It is well fitted to be read under the trees and has in it the health of outdoor life. Text, Psalms civ, 12, "By them shall jihe fowls of the heaven have their / habitation, which sing among the branches." There is an important and improv ing subject to nhich most people have given no thought, and concerning ^ which this i? the first pulpit discussioi ? namely, "The Bon of Birds." If aU that has been written concerning mu le by human voice or about music sounded on instrument by finger or breath were put together, volume by . the side of volume, it would fill a hun dred alcoves of the national libraries. * But about the son g of birds there is . as much silence as though a thousand years ago the last lark had with his wing swept the door latch of heaven, 1 4 and as though never a whippoorwill had sung its lullaby to a slumbering forest at nightfall. We give a passing smile to the call of a booolink or the ? chirp of a canary, but about the origin, about the fiber, about the meaning, about the mirth, about the pathos, j#bout the inspiration, about the re ligion in the song of birds, the most of | -us are either ignorant or indifferent. ?A caveat I this morning file in _ the high court of heaven against that al most universal irreligion. . , ? s ? FEAXtlERED CHOIRS. First ? I remark that which will surprise many, that the song of birds is a regulated and systematic song, japable of beingrwritten out in note and staff and bar and clef as much as * ? Tray thing that Wegner or Schumann or Handel ev^r put on papert As we, pass the grove where the docks are homing matin or vesper service, we * art apt to think that the sounds are extemporized, the rising or Ming i is a mere accident, it is flung up down by haphazard, the bird did not know wfcat it was doing, it did not care whether it was a* long meter psalm or a madrigal. What a mistake! , The musician never put on the music rack before him Mendelssohn's or Beethoven's "Concerto", in 'G-o^SophrYB flat symphony with more definite idea as to what he was doing than every bird that can sing at all confines himself to accurate and predetermined rendering. The oratorios, the chants, the carols, tie overtures, the interludes, the bal ^lada, the canticles, that this morning were heard or will this evening be f heard in the forest have rolled down through the ages without a variation. Even the chipmunk's song was ordain ed clear back in the eternities. At the gates, of paradise it sang in sounds like ;-the syllables "Kuk!" "Kuk!" "ituki" just as this morning in a J&ug Island orchard it sang "Kuk"' "Kuk!" "Kuk!" The thrufh of the creation uttered sounds like the word "Teacher!" "Teacher!" ''Teacher!" as now it ut^a^aaittda^ JjOte "Teacher!" * r#Teacher!" "Teacher!" In "the sum mer of the year 1 the yellowhammer trilled that which sounded like the word "If!" "If" "If as in this summer ? it trills "If!" "If?" "Ii!" The Mary land the yellowthroat inherits and be queaths the tune sounding like the words "Pity me, pity me,, pity me!" The white sparrow's "Tseep tseep," woke our great-grandfathers as it will awakes our great-grandchildren. The ^"Tee-ka-tee-ka-tee-ka1' of the birds in first century was the same as the "Tee-ka-tee-ka-tee-ka" of the nine teenth centrry. TAUGHT BY THE CREATOR. The goldfinch has .for 6,000 years been singing "De-ree dee-ee-ree." But these sounds, which we put in harsh words, they put in cadences, rhythmic, : soulful aad enrapturing. Now, if there is this order and systematization and rhythm all through God's crea tion, does it not imply that we should - have the same characteristics in the rausicwe make or try to make? Is it not a wickedness that so many parents give no opportunity for the culture of their children in the art of sweet sound? If God stoops to educate every brlnebird, oriole and grosbeak in song, hoif can parents be scrindifferent about the musical development of the immortals in their household? While God will ^accept our attempts to sing, | though it b^only a hum or a drone, | if we can do no hotter, what a shame V that in this lut decide of the nine . teenth cefctufy* when so many orches tral batons are waving, and so many ^jjcgldemies of music are in full concert, and so many skilled men and women are waiting to offer instruction, there are so laany people who cannot sing with any confidence in the house of God, because they ha$e had no culture ? in this sacred art, or while they are * able to sing a fantasia at a piano amid the fluttering fans of social ad mirers nevertheless feel utterly help^ less when is church the surges of an "Ariel" or an "Antioch" roll over them! TheNpJ<f^&ghioned country \ singing ajfeool, now much derided aad jag scat u red ? and indeed some it was diverted from the real de #'s%n into the culture of the soft emo J tions rather than the voice ? neverthe- | f lea^ did admirable work, and in our -* ^ churches we need singing schools to j prepare our Sabbath audiences for 2*&dptand spontaneous and multipo-^ test psalmody. This worki needs to be stormed with halleluiahs. We want a hemispheric campaign of hosan aahs. From hearing a blind beggar ? Sing Martin Luther went home at 40 yeaTs of age to write- his first hymn. Jn the autumn I hope to have a oon -singiag school hesa during week, which shall prepare the for the soogs of the holy Sab If-the church of God univer sal is going to take this world tor ff righteousness, there most be added a . houdred&kl of more harmony as well as a hundredfold of more volume to sacred music. ; THE DIVIDE MELODY. Farther, I notice in the song of birds that it is & divinely taught song. The rarest prima donna of all the esr& could not teach the robin one musical note A kingfisher flying oyer the roof of a temple a-qoake with harmonies would not catch up one melody. From the time that the first bird's throat was iashioned on the banks of the Gihon and Hiddeke! un til to-day ob the Hudson or Rhine, the winged creature has learned nothing from the human race in the way of carol or anthem. The feathered song sters learned all their music direct from God. * He gave them the art in a nest of straw or moss or sticks and taught them how to lift that song into the higher heavens and sprinkle the earth with its dulcet enchantments. God fashioned, God tuned, God launched, God lifted music! And there is a kind of music that ? the Lord only can impart to you, my hearer. There have been depraved, reprobate and blasphemous souls which conld sing till great auditoriums were ; in raptures. There have been soloists and bassos and baritones and sopranos whose brilliancy io concert halls has* has not been more famous than their debaucheries. But there is a kind of song which, like, the song of birds, is divinely fashioned. Bongs of pardon. Songs of divine comfort. Songs of worship. "Songs in the night" like those which David and Job mentioned. Songs full of $sith and tenderness and prayer like those which the Christian mother sings over the sick cradle. Songs of a broken heart being healed. Songs of the dying flashed upon by opening portals of amethyst Songs like that which Paul commended to the Coloesians when he said, * Admon ish is one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Songs like Moses sang after the tragedy of the Red sea. Songs like Deborah and Barak at the overthrew of Sisera. Songs like Isaiah heard the redeemed sing as they came to Zion. Oh, God, teach us that kind of song which thou only canst teach and help us to sing it on earth and sing it in heaven. It 'was the highest result of sweet sound when under the play ing of Paganni one auditor exolaimed reverently, uOh, God!" and another sobbed out, "Oh, Christ!" THE 80NG8 OP HOPE. Further, I remark in regard to the song of birds that it is trustful and without any fear of what may yet come. Will you tell me how it is possible for that wren, that sparrow, chickadee, to sing so sweetly when they may any time be pounced on by' a hawk and torn wing from wing? There are cruel beaks in thicket and in sky ready to slay the song birds. Herods on the wing, Mod^cs of the sky. Assassins armed witfc iron claw. Murderers of song floating up and down the heavens. How can the birds sing amid such perils? Besides that, how is the bird sure to get its food? Millions ' of birds have been starved. Yet it sings in the dawn without any certainty of breakfast, or dinner or supper. Would it not be better to gather its food for the day before vocalizing? Besides that, the hunters are abroad. Bang! goeargun in one direction. Bang! goes & gun in an other" direction. The song will at tract the shot and add to the peril. Besides that* yonder is a thunder cloud, and these may be hurricane and hail to be- let loose, and what then will become of you, the poor warbler? Besides that, winter will come, and it may be smitten down before its gets to the tropics. Have you never seen the snow strewn with the birds belated in their migration? The titmouse mingles its voice with the snowstorms as Emer son describes the little thing he found in tempestuous January: Here was this atom In full breath Hurling defiance at rast death; This scrap of ralor just for play 'Fronts the north wind in waistcoat gray. For every bird a thousand perils and disasters hovering and sweeping round and round. Yei there it sings, and it is a trostlul song. The bird that has it the hardest sings the sweetest. The lark from the shape of her claws may not perch on a tree. In the grass her nest is exposed to eyery hoof that passes. One of the poorest shelters of all the earth is the lark's nest. If 9he sing at all, you will ex pect her ' to render the saddest' of threnodies,. No, no ? she sings exult ingly an hour without a pause and mounting 3,000 feet without losing a note. Would God we all might learn the lesson. Whatever perils, what ever bereavements, whatever trials are yet to come, sing ? sing" with all your heart and sing with all your lungs. If 'you wait until all the hawks of trouble have folded their wings and all the hunters of hate have unloaded their guns and all the hurricanes of disaster have spent their fury, you will never sing at all. David, the pursued of Abealom, and the betrayed of Ahithophel, and the depleted of"apres that ran in the night," presents in the beet songs of the Bible. John Milton, not able to see his hand before his face, sings for car the most famous poem of all literature, and some of the most cheerful people I have ever met have been Christian people under physical or domestic or public tor ment. The songs of Charles Wesley which we now calmly sing in church weie composed by him between mobs. THE VOICE OF MA. NY MOODS. ^..Further, in the sky galleries there are songs adapted to all moods. The [ meadow lark is mournful, and the goldfinch joyous, and the grosbeak prolonged of note. But the libretto ; of nature is voluminous. Are you sad, you can hear from the bowers the echo of your grief. Are you glad, you can hear an echo of your happiness. Are you thoughtful, you can hear that which wiil plunge you into deeper profound. Are you weary, you may catch a restful air. So the songs of birds are administrative in all circum stances. And we would do well to have a hymnclogy for all changes of condition- You may sing your woes into peace and rouse your joys into power of song. Hie mukitudinous utterances of gpnre and orSnxd and garden and forest suggest most delight ful possibilities. SONGS OF FAMILY LIFE. &F urther, I notice that the song of birds is a family song. Even those of the leathered throng which have no song at all make what utterances they do in sounds of their own family of birds. The hoot of the owl; the clat ter of the magpie, the crow of the chanticleer,' the drumming of tfie grouse, the laugh of the loon in the Adirondacks, the cackle of the hen, the scream of the eagle, the croak of the raven, are sonnds belonging to each particular family, but when you come to those whicbJbave ' real songs, how suggestiref that it is always a family song! AH the skylarks, all the .nightingales, ^11 the goldfinches, all the blackbird^ all the cuckooe^prefer the song of their own famihf and never sing anything else. ^ So the most deeply impressive songs we ever sing are family songs. They have come down from generation to generation. You were sung to sleep in your infancy and childhood by songs that will sing in your soul for ever. Where was it, my brother or sister, that you heard the family socg ? on the banks of the Ohio, or the Alabama, or the Androscoggin, or the Connecticut, or the Tweed, or the Rantan? That song at eventide, when you were tired out ? indeed too tired to sleep, and you cried with leg ache, and you were rocked and sung tosleep ? you hear it now, the soft voice from sweet lipe, she as tired, perhaps more tired than you, but she rocked and you slumbered. Oh, those family songs! The songs that father sang, that mother sang, that sisters and brother sang. They roil oif*8 today with a reminiscence that fills the throat as well as the lie^T-with emotion. In our house in my childhood it was always a religious song. I do not think that the old folks knew anything but religious songs. At any rate I never heard them sing anything else. It was "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," or "Hock of Ages," or "There Is a Foun tain Filled With Blood," or "Mary to the Saviour V Tomb." Mothers, be careful what you sing your children to sleep with. Let it be nothing frivolous or silly. Better have- in it something of Christ and- heaven* . Better have in it something that will; help that boy 30 years from now -to bear up under the bombardment ot temptation. ' ' ? L I Better have it ia something that will help that daughter 30 years from now wuen upon her come the cares of motherhood, and " the ages ies of bereavement, and the brutal treatment of one who swore before 1iigh heaven that he would cherish and protect. ?o not waste the beat hour for mak ing an impression upon your little one, the hour of dusk the beach between the day and the night Sing not a doleful son g, but a suggestive song, a Christian song, a song you will not be ashamed to meet when it comes to you in the eternal destiny of your son and daughter. 1 he oriole has a loud song, and the chewink a long song, and the bluebird a short song, but it is always a family song, and let your gloaming song to your children, whether loud or long or short, be a Christian song. These family songs are about all we keep of the old homestead. The house where you were bom\will go into the hands of strangers. g&The garments that were carefully kept as relics will become moth eatei& The family Bible can go into the pSssession of only one of the family. The lock of gray fc&ir may be lost from the locket, and in a few years all signs and mementos of the old homestead will be gone forever. But the family songs, those tnat we heard at 2 years of age, at 5 years of age, at 10 years of age, will be indestructible, and -at 40 or 50 or 60 or 7 0 years of age will give us a mighty boost over some rough place in the path of our pilgrimage. THE CAPTIVES1 SONG. Many years ago a group of white children were captured and carried off by the Indians. Years after a mother ; had lost two children ia that capture | went among the Indians, and there were many white children in line, but eo long a time had passed the mother . could not tell which were hers uncil | 8he5 {*2*? to sing the old nursery song, J and her two children immediately rush jedup, shouting, "Mamma! M am ma!" i i es, there is an immortality in a nursery song. Hear it, all the mothers ? an immortality power to rescue and save. What an occasion that must ,have oeenin Washington Dec. 17^1850 when Jenny Lind sang -Home, Sweet Home, the author of those words, John Howard Payne, seated before iKr. bhe had rendered her ^ other favorite songs, "Casta Diva ' aud her "Flute Song," with fine effect, but when she struck "Home, Sweet Home" John Howard Payne rose under the wwer, and President Fillmore and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and thejrhofe. audience rose with him. ! Anything connected with home j ransacks our entire nature with a holv power; and songs that get well started | m the nursery or by the family hearth , roll on after the hps that sung them are forever silent and the ears that hrst heard them forever cease to hear. I preach this sermon just before many of you will go out pass days or week in the country. Be careful how yon treat the birds. Remember they are'God's favorites, and if you offend them you offend him. He is so fond of their voices that tiiere are foreife where for a hundred miles no human foot has ever trod and no human ear has ever listened/ Those interminable forests are concert halls with only one aoditor-the Lord God Almighty. He builded those auditoriums of leaves and sky and supports all that infinite minstrejgy for himself alone. Be careful how you treat his favorite choir. In Deuteronomy fie warns the peope, "If a bird's nest chance to oe t-efore thee in the way in any fk*' i?r OQ the ground, whether be young ones or eggs, thou ahalt not take the dam with the young, that it may be well with thee, and w?t thou mayest prolong thy days." see your own longevity is rela ted to your treatment of birds. Then Puf J? ,a"fDd ** ^"trelsy. frjVf a*nl"]g colore, Which the wished songsters into si lence or flight, and put on your more sober attire and move noiselessly into the woods, farther from the main road, and have no conversation, for many a concert in and out of doors has been ruined by persistent talkers, and then sit down on a mossy bank. Where a wild stream with headlong shock " Comes brawling down a bed of rock. And after perhaps a half an hour of intense solitude there will be a tap of a beak on a tn* branch far up sound ing like the tap of a musical baton, and then first there will be a solo' followed by a duet or quartet and afterwards by doxologies in all the tree tope a^d amid all the branches, and if you have a BiblAlong with you, and you can without rustling the leaves turn to the one hndred and forty-eighth Psalm of David and read, "Praise the Lord, beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying fowls," and then turn over quietlv to my text and read, "By th^na shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches," or if under the powpr of the bird voices you are transported, as when Dr Worgan played so power fully on the organ at St John's that Richard Cecil said he was in such blessed bewilderment he could not find in his Bible the firqt chapter of Isaiah, though he leafed the book over and over, and you shall be so overage with forest harmony that jou cannot find the Psalme of David. Never ! mind, for God will speak to you so mightily it will make no difference whether you hear his voice from the printed page or the vibrating throat of one of his blumed creatures. V god's FIR8T TEMPLES. While this summer more than usual out of doors let us have what my text suggests ? an out of doors religion. What business had David, with all the advantages of a costly religeQus service and smoking incense on the altar, to be listening to the chantresses among the tree branches? Ah he wanted to mak$ himself and all who should Q^me after him more alert and more worshipful amid the sweet sou uds and beautiful sights of the natural world. There is an old church that needs to be dedicated. It is older than St Paul's or St Peter's er St Mark's or St Sophia's or St Isaac's. It is the cathedral of nature* That* is the church in which the services of the millennium will be held- The build ings fashioned out of stone and Jirick and mortar will not hold the people. ? ^ Again the Mounts Olives will be the pulpit Again the Jordon will be the baptistry. Again the mountains will be the galleries. Again the skies wil be the blue ceiling. Again the sunrise will be the front door and the sunset the back door*of that temple. A^ain the clouds will be the up holstery and the mornjpg mist the in ceiiice. Again the trees will be the orgin "loft where "the fowls of heaven have their habitation which sing among the branches." Saint Francis d'Assisi preached a sermon to birds and pronounced a benediction upon them, but all birds preach to us, and their benediction is almost supernal While this summer amid the works of God let us learn Tesponsiveness. Surely if we cannot, sing we can hum a tune, and if we cannot bum a tune we can whistle. If we cannot be an oriole, we can be a quail. In some way let us demonstrate our gratitude to God. 5 Let us not be beaten by the chimney swallow ay4 the huming bird and the brown thrasher. Let us try . to set everything io our life to rausicvand if we cannot give the carol of "the song sparrow take the plaint of the hermit thrush. Let oor life be an an them of worship to the God who created us and the Christ who ran somed us and the Holy Ghost who sanctififS us. And our lagt song ? may it be our best song! The swan was thought by the ancients never to sing except when dying. In the time of Edward IV no one was allowed to own a swan except he were a king's son or had considerable estate. Though one &r two hundred years of life that bird was said never to utter anything like music until its last moment came, and then lifting its crested beauty it would pour forth a song of almost matchless thrill re sounding through the groves. ^Lnd so/ although the struggles of life may be too much for us, and we may find it hard to sing at all when the ias*. hour comes to you and me, may there be a radiance from above and a glory settling round that shall enable us to utter a song on the wings of whic^ we shall mount to where the music never ceaits and the raptures never die. "What is that, mother?" "The swan my love; He is floating down from his native grove. No loved one, no nestling nigh ? He is flossing down by himself to die. Death darkens his eye and un plumes his wings Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings". Live so, my child, that when death shall come, Swanlike and sweet, it m*y waft thee home!" It Is the Flrit Substantial Meal of th? Day. In Java, as.in most really warm coun tries, it is customary to rise early and to take a cup of tea or coffee, together with a biscuit and some fruit, immedi ately on leaving one's bed. This ik fol lowed by a'more substantial breakfast; but the first really serious meal is served at half -past twelve and i&.,the equivalent of the French dejeuner a la fourchette or the Anglo-Jndian tiffin. | Thin meal is called rice table r(rys tafel), from the principal dish? ai'vei? | elaborate curry, in the preparation c? which the* Malay cooks are especially ; skillful. The peculiarity of the rice table con* j sists in the number and variety of dishes pr< rented. From these dishes the guest has to select the materials which, together with the rice upon th? soup plate before him, are to constitute his curry. It is also to as well tfuow beforehand that one is not required to lunch solely on curry, but that tWe rice i table is succeeded by courses of ordi nary luncheon dishes. It is a case, there* fore, of embarr&s de richesses. There are two dangers to be avoided In the first place it is quite possible, in spite of the number of the dishes pre seated singly, to my nothing of an oc Ujonal tray containing a separate chutney in each of its nine compart ments, to get no lunch at all. For noth ing- is easier than, after saying " Jfein 'T to a succession of frivolous compounds to dismiss the one solid and palatable dish eapable of sustaining an English man until dinner-time. The second danger is that of making up one's curry 44 not wisely but too well " and leaving neither appetite nor -capaoity for the beefsteak or for any of the other solid dishes which subsequently appear. ? Cfcfatf* Second. LIZZIE BORDEN GOES FREE. ACQUITTED BY a J^RY OF HER COUN TRYMEN. The Atrocious Murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden Still Enshrouded in Mjstery ?Closing Scenes ot the Great Trial. . New Bedford, Mass., June 20. ? Miss Lizzie Borden breathes the air of freedtan again. A jury of her countrymen has pro nounced her innocent of the horrible charge of murdering her father and her stepmother. The district atfomry resumed his argument at 9 4 lousx this morning. He again recurred to his theory of motive for the murder as shown in the relations between Lizzie Borden and her stepmother, from which he 1 said: "We can suspect even the mal ice existing. have called your attention to the way in which they lived under the same roof. It im pressed me deeply, as I am sure it did you, The malice was all before the fact." The wickedness, the ingratitude had gone on under that roof fur many, many months. Because the lips of those who do know are sealed iD death! we don't know but that some new phase had come up in the family life, adding to the feeling of malice and jealousy existing in this woman. No suggestion could be made by that poor man in favor of his wite but would fan the tlan.es into unquench able fire. There may be that in this case which shows that Lizzie Andrew Borden did not plan to kill her father; and I hope so. But it was not Lizzie Andrew Borden who came down those stairs to meet her father, but a mur deress transformed from the ties of aflfetion to the most consumate cruelty ever known. She came down to meet that stern old man who loved his daughter, but who also loved his wife, and the one man above all who would know who killed his 'wife; and when she came down stairs, she came to meet her nemesis. He knew too much of the family relations, and she did not dare to let him live. When she came down stairs it was her father she met, but it was also the husbaud of the stepmother she had hated. There was no escape from the crime but to complete the bloody work. The secoud murder was not planned, but was done as a wicked and fearful ne cessity. And I say thi^ to relieve my mind of the dreadful feeling that there is a deliberate parricide in the world. Mr Knowlton then analyzed the testimony as to what went on in the Borden house during the short time between Andrew Borden's arrival at the home and Lizzie's announcement of the murder. The story of Lizzie ironing clothes he discredits, ami the visit to-the-baru alibi he said would not stand. Officer Medley's story, which went to show that nobody had been in the barn, Mr Knowlton held to be correct. The prisoner watched Mr Knowlton fixedly during his argument. He de clared the silk dress produced by de fendant was not the dress worn at the time of the murder as shown by Mrs. Churchill, Doherty and Dr Bowen. The search the day of the murder was insufficient, but put the defendant on her guard, and Saturday's thorough search failed to disclose the dress; therefore he claimed it was concealed. A paper would have protected the de fendant's j>erson. and a burnt paper was found in the stove. The two versions of the burning of the defen dant's dress were irreconcilable. Defendant's couduct siuce that time was discussed, and Mrs Regan's story was declared to be true. The pro duction of the hatchet was no part of the government's case, but it was part | of its duty to \produce all it knew bearing on the case. I Mr Knowlton reviewed at length the evidence as to the handleless | hatchet, and discussed its bearing on the case, dwelling on the significance of its fitting the wounds ? and being broken short, as if by design. Mr Knowlton briefly but powerful ly summarised his entire argument, claimed that the defense amounted to nothing, and closed at 12:05 with an eloquent appeal to the jury to decide as their consciences should direct. The court then took a recess. At 1:40 the court resumed its ses sion, and the defendant was given an opportunity to speak. She said: "I am innocent, but I will leave my case in your haads and with my counsel." ?Judge Bewey then charged the jury. He told them to disregard previous hearings, and defined the different de grees of murder. He stated the pre sumption of innocence, which was in creased with defendant's character. There must be a real and operative motive. - Judge Dewey charged the jury to weigh the evidence so as to see whether defendant's permanent state of mind showed a motive for the crimes. Every material allegation in the indictment must be proved beyond j a reasonable doubt ? that is, to a moral certainty. He compared the , direct and circumstantial evidence, j and said that failure to prove an e*>sen | tial fact would be fatal, but failure to j prove a helpful fact might not be. i Lizzie's statements .about the note ! were discussed at length, and he said j they must be satisfied thev were false, j Every fact proved must be reasonably | consistent with ^ guilt. The govern ment did not show that anybody else ! had the opportunity to commit the j crime, but must prove the defendant; committed it The jury must reason ; as to the effect of defendant's conduct j and statements. They were not to conclude by expert testimony, but j were to apply to it reasonable judg- i ment. ^hey may convict, if satisfied ; the act was done by another party, but that defendant was present aiding . and abetting. The fact that defendant j did not testify ought not to influence them against her. ? The justice concluded his charge to the jury at 3:15. j The jury filed into their seats at 4:30 p. m., and were polled. Miss 1 Borden was asked to stand up, and j the foreman was asked to return a verdict, upon which he announced ; "Not guilty." The closing scenes in the trial were ; in direct contrast with those which j had proceeded it Heretofore all had j been decorous and in keeping with the j dignity of the most dignified court in i the country. But when the verdict of - ot guilty was returned, a cheer went up which might have been heard half a mile away through open win dows, and there was no attempt to check it. The stately judges looked straight ahead at the bare walls. | Sheriff Wright was powerless to wield the gavel whiefc lies ready for his use, j and not once duriDg the itemendous excitement, which lasted fully a miu i ute, did he make the slight sign ot having heard it He never saw the people rising in their seats and wav ing their handkerchiefs in unison with their voices, because his eyes were full of tears and completely blinded for the time. :Miss Borden's head went down up6o- the rail in front of her, and tears came where they had refused to come for many a long day, as she heard the sweetest words ever poured into her willing ears, the words ?ATot guilty." Mr Jennings was almost crying, and his voice broke as he put his hand out to Mr Adams, who sat next to him, and said: "Thank God!" while Adams returned the pressure of the haud and 1 seemed incapable of speech. After the verdict had been received the district attorney moved that the other case against Miss Borden be nolle prossed, and the order of the court was to that effect. Chief Justice Mason theu gracefully thanked the jurors in appreciation of their work and faithful service, aud re minded them that the precautions taken with them, which jpay have seemed irksome at the time, were sole ly in the interest of justice? a fact which they undoubtedly realized now. I he j.ury was then dismissed. Governor Robinson turned to the rapidly dissolving jury as they filed out of their seats and beamed on them with fetherly interest in hi* kindly eyes, aud stood up as Mr Kuowlton and Mr Moody came over to shake hands with the counsel for the defense. As soon as possible the room was cleared When the spectators had finally gone Miss Borden was taken to the room of the justices and allowed to recover her composure, with only the eyes of friends upon her and the caresses of devoted admirers. At the expiration of an hour she was placed in a carriage aud driven to ^ the station, where she took the train tor Fall River, her home 110 longer, probably, but still the only objective point for the immediate present. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. Showing 1 ho Condition of the Crops in South Carolina. The following is the weather crop bulletin for the week ending Monday, Jbne 19, issued by Weather Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture for this State: Cotton has had -but little growth this week on account of the excessive rains and lack of sunshine. In some localities the laud has been badly washed and considerable dam age to the crop resulted. This state of affairs has allowed lice to propagate freely, and with the rapid progress rmade by grass, hot dry weather will be required the coming week to check I injury in time to avert serious dam- i age. While the rains have l>een less ex cessive in the Piedmont region than else where, their evil effect has been greater than in the coast counties. Some fields in Barnwell County, where the plant is sickly and lousy, will be abandoned. Iji parts of Orange burg County the prospect is reported as the poorest in years. Pickens County report cotton beginning to put on fruit. Corn and wheat. ? Reports of corn and wheat are encouraging from all counties except where damaged by the storm of the loth and Kith, which was confined to Greenville, I^exington, Sumter, Williamsburg, Chesterfield j Berkeley, and Beaufort. This storm j blew down considerable corn, washed ! lands, tangled uncut grain, ?| toiled J grain on shock and overflowed bottom i lands. Wheat is harvested in many sections, and threshing going on; the grains is excellent and'yieM good. Some conn Corn is pretty generally suHe^ug for work and may receive some damage by plowing after standing so long without. Darlington County rejHirts it as tasseling ami silking in many places; it is mostly laid by in Colleton County. Fruit? Grape, twrries and melons are generally leported as looking line, and a large crop. Some peaches are rotting, but from rej>orts they are an I early variety Peas and plums an* good. ! Some watermelons were reported rijie | in ()? lletou County on the 14th. I j Marlborough County says apj>le? ami ' peaches are best in years. Peas. ? A large amount of stubble land is being sowed in |*-as in all localities. potatoes is being set in Abbeville i County. Orangeburg County rejxirts j potatoes splendid and vines being trans I ferred. Tobacco. ? Tobacco looks well in ; Darlington County. Gardens? From all sections r<.j>orts j of gardens are to the effect that they j are looking tine and growing rapidly. Labor. Except in Aiken County labor is abundant. J. H. Harmon, Director Terrible Fat<> t>f un Oil Well In IVn- | Hylvuola. Bradford, Pa., June 2->. ? Early | this morning Andy Muldoon, an oil well shooter, was on his way to < Inliev to shoot a well. He had two hundred quarts of glycerine in his wagon, and while comiug down a steep hill into j Gufley Station, a wheel struck a large stone and the wagon was overturned. ? Nothing was found of Muldoon or the j horses but a few smaii pieces of tlesh ; were scattered through the woods. : The shock was felt for fifteen miles around and the people in the vicinity were severely shocked. for Infants and Children V THIRTY yean' oheerratlan ofOntoria with thej>atron*c? of niiilllonaof pftr?onv permit n?_to *peak of it withont It i? nnqneationably the beet remedy for Infant* and Children , tli c world hu over known. It it harml? . Children like Jt It give* them health* It will *ave their lire*. In it Mother* hare aomething which i* ab*olntely ??ft? and praotioally perfect m a child'* medicine. Caatoria dettroji Worm*. Caatoria allay Fereriahne**. Caatoria pmw?t? vomiting Soar Curd* Caatoria c tire a Diarrhoea and Wind Coliq. Caatoria relieve* Teething Trouble*. ? Caatoria cnre* Conatipation and Flafaloncf. Caatoria aentmltwi the efcot? of carbonic acid ga? or polaonona air, Caatoria do? not contain morphine, optnm, or oilier narcotic property. Caatoria a*aiir_ilatea the food, reftnlfetoi the atoiach and bowel*, eivinphealthy andnatural^aleep. CMtorU fa pnt np in one-alae bottle* only. It is not_*old in ibnlk. Don t allow any oncto *ell yon anything el*e on the plea or promise th ^t it i*^ jn?t a* good " and M will aniwer every pnrpo? gee that yon get C-A-S-T-O-R-I-A. Tin fkcnlaile sL(fn*tur^of is ?n rTBry wrapp or. f / ? Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. A BRAVE YOUNG GIRL PERFORMS A DARING DEED. Miss Minnie ftac??t, Aged Sixteen, Rescues Mrs. Phlniry ami Her Child frotn Drowning. Beaufort, June 23. ? Yesterday while Mrs Leonard Phiuizy, of Au gusta, and her little son were bathing in the river directly in front of the Sea Island Hotel, of Beaufort, they got beyond their depth and would have drowned, for they had gone under the second time, had not Miss Mauiie Bacot, a girl of 16, daughter of G. Cuthl>ert Bacot, gone to their rescue. Mamie had just commenced dis robing for a bath when she heard Mrs Phiuizy gasping for breath. Without waiting tor anything she sprang into the river with her clothes on and came very near going under too, for her dress skirt, which she had previously unfastened, became entangled round her feet and it was only by a des{>erate effort that she got rid of it and swam out and rescued Mrs Phiuizy and her [ child. It was a noble act and Beaufort is very proud of Miss Mamie. SuUiiilw Willi Two rirttol*. Long Branch, N. .1., June 21. ? I^ouis Dreyfus, a wealthy merchant ot i ? J this place, committed suicide today. He selected the revolvers from the stock in his store, seated himself in a1 chair, a revolver in each hand, placed a pistol on each side of his head, pulled both triggers and put the bullet in his brain. No adequate reason can b?* assigned. RipansTabules. Ripans Tabulcs are coin pounded from a prescription widely used by the best medi cal authorities and are pre sented in a form that is be coming the fashion everv where. Ripans Tabules act gently b-it promptly upon the liver, MotiKich and intestines; cure dyspepsia. habitiijl constipa ti >n, offensive breath and head he. One tabule taken at the 1- ? st svmptom of indigestion, biiiousQcss, dizziness, distress iiitcr eatinir, or depression of spirits, will surely and quickly remove the whole difficulty. Ripans Tabules may be OD tained of nearest druggist. Ripans Tabules nre airy to t.ike, quick to net, and save many a Joc-; li ?r's bill. r ? H ^ fi CS?:l &*?>. *J 3IZN-HUH '. ES 1~ NT TL Li TTS ; PHEUMiTiC TIRE, - ? StOO.OO 1 ; CUSHION TIRE, - ? ? 75.00 out HXW 1891 novo KZXS cms. WSfff FLOWER SEEDS Varieties, FREE! A m 1* Rp?rtll?lf4 Offrrkr aa tfM-btaklUM a*4 Reli able Paklkklac Haaitl T?? L* rai' Wott o to i itrp ?? put, HUonlaiM Uturtnlni M?c? fur WkM ??<1 U* fastUf otovW. 1 1?* ^ctomO to *li>r1?i, porow, Udwa' tmrj wcri, artMk i?*4?work. Van* d*<-ot??ioB, boatriMtaf, 'Tukt-Ma. kj>-uo?,J?v??iU ivulin#. ?llfocUr, ?tf. To lBtro4*r? Ikto divining l?dtoV p*prr Utai whirr* U It But ui?B, w? %om oeX, Ui? totiuoiBf *frr O/vm ?> Mart t/amlm It Cf?U ?? ? hff *T*. ??? |W1 Tk? I.UW*' World f* TkPM MW|W. ?">< **eh fatarrtlwr ?? will ?J?? tnU V rut *+-i ? '?'P* ???' ?????? ?*?* c.1. Ifrtlo* ?T ('Mm ri*?tr 8e*4>. ID.' lu.luiK PuiM, ,WU'.??, Cfrry? IfcfWH, AnUn, l"hl>i !>nin>(i?.>n4it, H>1? l, Crpnai VI lit, UUvka, Dlffitaila, XVtabW ' /.in:, Li. Ptnkj, ik.,(k. 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