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BILL ARF? Arp on Astronomy-? Sun Are ID Atlanta Co Dr. Baker says that all these late I disturbances of the elements are j owing to the moon, and that we havn't i had a left-handed moon before in forty years. The moon has been passing through a cycle of years, and is just turning back to go the other way, sorter lite the sun when it crosses the line and makes the equinoctial gales. "And that's thc reason," says, he, ? 44why everything is out of joint both in the heavens above and the earth beneath, for the moon is pulling one j way and the sun is pulling another. And that accounts for the extraordi nary weather and the storms and floods and cyclones; and this left-handed moon seems to affect the people, too, .and so we are having a hullabaloo about the jug and whisky business, and they have got it down so fine now that if a rattlesnake was to bite a man 1 he would die before they could get a .drink of whisky to save him. And here is all this devilment going on about mobs killing up the niggers, .and to my opinion it's all owing to . this left-handed moon, for you know that when a mau goes crazy they call him a lunatic, and that word came f rom'Luna, the moon, and so I reckon that about this time we are all crazy, more or less, and don't know it; ?I am, I know, or else I would have sold my cotton -when it was at the 'high-water mark, and I didn't. Br. Baker is an old-fashioned phi losopher and has his opinions and some superstition about the moon, and .also about screech owls and grave yard rabbits, and the like; but he is wrong about the cycle of forty years. 1 It takes the moon only eighteen years to complete its cycle, and I remember j that eighteen years ago we had a very j late spring, and never got a chanoe to j break up the land at all, but had to list it in April and plant anyhow. We made a good crop, though, and so we will trust in the Lord, who said that 'Seed time and harvest should not fail. ! 1 This moon business has perplexed j me all my life. I can't keep up with j . it-I can't foretell whether the next 1 moon will set fiat and hold water or i set up and down and spill it, nor whether it will ride high in the -zenith or coarse low down in the southern 'sky. It is the most mysterious orb in the heavens, and its movements the most complicated, but to the astrono mer it is the regularity of insularities. It revolves around the earth in twen ty-seven days, but as the earth is speeding around the sun it takes the moon twenty-nine days to keep up with it and make the circuit. Its orbit is an ellipse, and sometimes it is near us and sometimes more remote. It wobbles and has a new path around the earth every time for nine years, and then gets back again in nine years more. It has its librations on latitude and longitude and its nodes and ?spides, and with all these complications, no wonder the people have their signs and superstitions, and believe in ti wet moon and a dry moon and a left-handed moon, and see bad luck in looking at the new moon over your left shoulder or through a brushy tree top, and almost everybody has a theory about planting in the light or the dark o? the moon. But if the moon ever does make lunatics it is making them nowadays, and we are deeply concerned about those northern Methodist preachers we see from the New York papers that 400 of them recently held a con vention, with Bishop Andrews at their head, and listened with approval to the utterances of Rev. Mr. Cadman, of the Metropolitan church, who de clared that the time had come when the only test of religious faith should be Christ and his teachings, and that ail the miracles of the Old Testament should be discarded as falles and as 1 contrary to human reason. ;iWe must j cease to believe," said he, '"that Moses opened a way through the sea for the children of Israel to pass over, or that he made water to gush from ihe rock, or that Lot's wife turned into a-pillar ?f salt, or the tower of Babel story, or that Daniel went into the lions' den, or th?t Shadrack, Meschack and Abednago walked through the fiery furnace, or that the sun stood still at the command ol' Joshua, or that the whale swallowed Jonah, and so forth. The papers s?y that there was almost unanimous ap plause when he closed, and no one re plied to or controverted the argument of the reverend"gentleman. What does'all this mean? The press says it looks like a perfect upheaving and over-turning of the very founda tions of Methodism aud orthodox Christianity, and that this was the most representative bpdy of clergymen that ever met in America. Can this bs possible? Have they ignored Moses and thc prophets of whom this same Christ whom they pretend to believe quoted and indorsed time and again to his disciples. Didn't he say to the Pharisees: "Remember Lot's wife?" Didn't He say in one of His parable-: S LETTER. says the ZNLoon and the isagreeing. Hstyttrtfon. "If they will not believe Moses and the prophets neither would they be lieve though one rose from the dead." Dident Paul preach a sermon on faith and quote Moses and Elijah and speak .of the very miracles they performed? I confess that I was shocked when I read the Kev. Cadman's new departure from the faith of the fathers and still j more shocked when the 400 cheered him. It seems that they were not surprised, for Cadman had been for some time delivering himself on this same lin'-, and had made many con verts among them. t;Our belief must conform to human reason," said he, and yet the*idiot can't tell how his will raises his hand, nor how he winks his eye, nor how the leaves of the tree expand and grow and all conform to the same shape and?size, nor how the rose takes on its beautiful colors. All nature is a miracle and gives evidence of the existence of a Supreme Being, and it is only the fool who saith in his heart there is no God, or that there is no truth in the Old Testament. So far as I am concerned, I feel as if I was nothing, and less than nothing in the scale of existence, for I do not know whence I came nor where I am going, nor by what power \ think, nor what makes my heart to beat while I am sleeping. If I did not put my trust in a great and good Creator in whom I live and move and have my being I would be most miserable. He made me and he will take care of me. The Bible bas stood as the bulwark and foundation of the Christian's faith for nineteen centuries and now the Kev. Cadman and these 400 propose to strike down and annihilate the Old Testament. Moses and the prophets and the ten commandments must go, for they cannot strike out the miracles and leave the rest to stand. As yet, we have seen no reply to or explana tion of this astounding departure from the faith of the fathers. Are the times out of joint in the closing of this century? Are wars to continue ? Are mobs to administer the law? Are negro soldiers to tramp through this goodly land and outrage our people and make them desperate? ?This reminds me of a letter that Bishop Turner wrote to us in kind re membrance of our late wedding. I have known this eminent negro preacher for thirty-five years and never knew anything but good of him. In 1865 he was at Borne and used his talents and eloquence in pleading for peace between the races and in giving his people good counsel. I remember his public address there on one occa sion, during reconstruction times, when he and Albert Berrien both threw themselves within the breach, and how they counseled the insolent Spanish captain and provost marshal, De La Mesa, to stop arresting the white people on every trivial com plaint of the negroes. They had good influence over that conceited and re vengeful officer and alarmed him into milder treatment of the rebel traitors, as he called us. There is something very touching and pathetic in this long-continued devotion of Bishop Turner to his people. He has lived to see them all free and many of them to prosper, but his discouragement has at times almost driven him to despair. He sees the alienation between the races is growing wider and deeper and that it has arisen more from political factors and for political purposes than from race, color or condition. He 'sees not less than 4,000 of them in the chaingangs of Georgia and a like proportion in the other southern States, when there was not one in slavery days, and all this in the face bf a degree of education that the African never had before, for it is a fact of record that 75 percent of these convicts can road and write and but few of them are old enough to have known what slavery was before thc war. He has lived to read of a thou sand outrages and a thousand lynch ings when there was not one in slavery days. No wonder he is begging and pleading with his people to go to Africa. Here is part of his letter to us : uBill Arp. 'Esq.-Dear Doctor: Please 'permit a member of the junior race, or as you are pleased to call it, the inferior race, to tender you and your distinguished c?ns?rt his sincere and unfeigned congratulations upon reaching your golden wedding and being able, through the providence of (Jod, to celebrate your fiftieth mar riage anniversary. The privilege of spending fifty years with a devoted companion is an exalted honor and should call [for a reconsecration of time and talents to thc service of God and thc betterment of mankind. Once in a while you have hurled some heavy blows at the degraded portion of my race, hut you have ever been charita ble and always conceded the fact that there are some good, honest and Christian negroes. I pray God that the remainder of your days and thc days of yGur loving companion may be pleasant and felicitous and finally ter minate amid the smiles' and sunshine of our common Father. Your wide reading, your bright intellect, your wit and humor and wisdom, and your ceaseless industry will rank you among the great and notable men of Georgia. Again I tender you my congratula tions. Next July I will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of my connection with the Methodist church at Abbe ville, S. C. Yours with high esteem, "HENRY M. TURNER." We are pleased to place this good letter in our wedding scrapbook with all the rest. BILL ARI?. An Inventor's Battles. The secret of Edison's success might well be "Persistency, more persistency, still more persistency." One of his foremen relates that once in Newark, when his printing telegraph suddenly refused to work, he locked himself in his labratory, declaring that he would not come out till the trouble was found. It took him sixty hours, dur ing which time his only food consisted of crackers and cheese eaten at the bench; then he went to bed and slept twenty hours at a stretch. At another time, during the height of the first electric light excitement, all the lamps he had burning in Menlo Park, about eighty in all, suddenly went out, one after the other, without apparent cause. Everything had gone well for nearly a month, and the great success of the experiment had been published to the world. If the lamps, with their carbon filaments of charred paper, would burn for a month, there seemed to be no reason why they should not burn for a year, and Edison was stunned by the catastrophe. The trouble was evidently in the lamps themselves, for the new lamps burned well. Then began the most- exciting and most exhaustive series of experi ments ever undertaken by an Ameri can physicist. For five days Edison remained day and night at the labora tory, sleeping only when his assist ants took his place at whatever was going on. The difficulties in the way of experimenting with the incandes cent lamp are enormous, because the light only burns when in a vacuum. The instant the glass is broken, out it goes, Edison's eyes grew weak studying the brilliant glow of the carbon fila ment. At the end of the five days he took to his bed, worn out with excite ment and sick with disappointment. During the last two days and nights he ate nothing. He could not sleep, for the moment he left the laboratory and closed his eyes some new test suggested itself. Neither was there much sleep for his faithful force. Ordinarily one of the most considerate of men, he seemed quite surprised when rest and refreshments were sometimes suggested as in order after fifteen hours' incessant work. The trouble was finally discovered to be one that time alone could have proved. The air was not suficicntly exhausted from the lamps. To add to the discomfiture of the inventor, a professor of physics in one of thc well known colleges deciaied in a news paper article widely circulated that the Edison lamp would never last long enough to pay for itself. '"I'll make a statue of that man." said Edison to mc one day when he was still groping in the dark for the secret of his temporary defeat, "and I'll illuminate it brilliantly with Edi son lamps and inscribe on it: "This is the man who said the Edison lamps would not burn.' "-Forward. Racing for a Wife. In Lapland the crime which is pun ished most severely next to murder is the marrying of a girl against the ex press wishes of her parents. When a suitor makes his appear ance he says nothing to the girl, nor does she often know who he is, but her parents inform her that her hand has been applied for. Then, on a day appointed, the girl, her parents and friends meet together and sit at meat, with the suitor and his intended opposite to one another, so that they can view each other's face and converse freely. When thc feastj s over thc company repair to an open space, where "the race fur a wife" is to borun. Thc usual distance is about a quarter of a mile, and thc girl is placed a third of thc distance in advance of thc starting point; If she bc fleet of foot and does not care for her suitor she she can easily reach the goal firsc, and if she accomplishes it he may never trouble her again. If. on the other hand, she wishes to have him for a husband she has only to lag in her flight, and so allow him to overtake'her. If she be particularly struck with him and would signify to him that his love is returned, she can mn a short distance, then stop and turn and in vite him with open arms. Twas reading an advertisement of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy in thc Worcester Khferprisc recently, which leads mo to write this. I can truthfully say 1 never used any remedy equal td it for colic and diarrhoea. I have-never had tn usc more than one or two doses to cure the wurst case with myself or children-W. A. .vntorn, l'opom?ke City, Md. For sale liv Nill-Orr Drug Co. Circumstantial Evidence. A plausible combination of circum stances sometimes may put an entire ly innocent person into a seemingly guilty position, as witness this quota tion: A certain young lady, against whom appearances certainly looked dark, once had an amusing experience of unjust judgment. She went cut on a stormy day, and was unfortunate enough to have her umbrella turned inside out. Her two sisters were equally unlucky, and on the following day the jroung lady volunteered to take the umbrellas to be repaired. Promising to call for them before she returned home in the afternoon, she went about her business, part of which was to do some shopping in a large city establishment. On rising to leave the shop, she mechanically put out her hand to take possession of an j umbrella that was close by. It looked i like her own, and for the moment she ! had forgotten the accident. She was soon brought to her senses. "That is my umbrella," said a sharp voice at her side, and a hand was laid on her arm to detain her. Apologizing for her thoughtlessness she left the shop, did the rest of her business and called for her umbrellas. In the street car she met an indignant pair of eyes. Where had she seen them before? They scanned first her face and then the burden she carried. "Three of them!" muttered the own er of the eyes, and it was evident that she referred to the umbrellas. "Three! She's din no bad the day." As she spoke she grasped her own umbrella tightly, and moved farther away from the dangerous young lady. The color came into the cheeks of the latter. The speaker was her friend of the morning, and she evidently be lieved that the umbrellas had been stolen from different establishments in the city. And the worst of it was it looked as if it might be so. A Growing Habit. "Have you noticed a rapidly grow ing habit that has shown itself to a remarkable degree recently-that of people talking to themselves while they are traveling in cars or even when walking on thc streets ?" asked an ob servant niau who gets about town a good deal in the course of a day, ac cording lo the New York Times. "My attention was called to thc matter a few days ago, with a request for an examination. I hadn't noticed the pe culiarity up to that time, but since then I have done so and the result is a veritable surprise. On Tuesday I bid occasion to walk from the corner of Fulton street and Broadway down to the custom house, and I walked around through Wall street for the purpose of carrying on my investiga tions, for I had found that there was a lot of people, male and female, who indulge in thc habit of conversing with themselves while riding on the cars, apparently utterly oblivious to the fact that people near them can hear every word they say. Now, what was thc result ? Probably you will not believe it until you have trie4l the experi ment, but it is a fact nevertheless that I passed ll men who were engaged in more or less animated conversation with themselves, and in two of the cases the talk had reached a disputa tious stage. They all appeared to be perfectly sane and reputable business men. What was the matter with them I'm sure I don't know, any more than the two men I met at a big auction sale n week ago, who were plainly dis eussing with themselves the advisa bility of making purchases. One of them was a man well-known in the dry goods trade, who operates on the widest possible scale, and as his firm stands very high in the mercantile agencies and his paper is sought for in the market it certainly could not have been business worriment that caused him to think aloud. However, I have come to thc conclusion that this is the cause io very many cases, particularly among thc men who ride up-town in elevated trains at about 4 o'clock in thc afternoon, and who arc muttering to themselves about the market. These arc new and small operators who are carried away with the excitement of their ventures. But that theory will not work with the women who have fallen into the habit nor with thc men whom i met in my walk on Broadway. There is some sort of mystery about the spread of this habit, but it is be yond my powers of solution."-Chiat (Ju liccoi'tl. As the season of the year when pneumonia, la grippe, sore throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troubles arc to bc guarded against, nothing "is afine substitute," will ''answer thc purpose," or is 41 just as good" as One Minute Cough Cure. That is thc one infallible remedy for all lung, throat or bronchial troubles. Insist vigorously upon having it if "something else" is offered you. 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