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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
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wrapp or. f
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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.
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