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THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER: MAY 26, 1891. 5 13 3?oetry. A TRIP TO BUNLAND. Little Nell'd been " helping mamma." 81ie Lad pwept the porch and hall. And had got w tired and hungry that she eat down by the wall. Just to rest herself a moment, with her broom across her knee; When a strange thing happened to her, as she tells the talo to me: She just shut her eyes a moment, so her little story runs. When she went away to somewhere, where the children gather bun ; They were growing on the bushes, and were hanging f i om the t rees. Sweet enough to tempt the palate of the honey loving bees. " O, they whs the very doodest buns that ever," was says she. And she smacks her lips, remembering, as she tells the tale to me. How she ate in that strange country that s not down on any map, Hun-fruit from the roadside bushes, when they thought she took a nap. There were lots and lots of children in. this very pleasant place. And it seemed that all were hungry, and, as happened in her case. They had come there without knowing how they came, but all agreed "Twas a mot-t deligtful country quite like fairy- iaiid. indeed. Such a jolly, jolly country, where they played t he nicest games, And tif children knew each other, though they ct-.tildn't tell their names; " IK'?-' :he bestest place that ever I was in," says little Nell; "And the buns O, my!" Words fail her when their sweetness she would tell. II w did you get back from Runlandr" Grand- v.tA asks, with laughing eye, Ashe listens to the story; "I)id you walk, or ride, or llyir" " I (L ift know," is Nellie's answer, with a puzzled face and air; " I t urn back all in a minnit, but I know that I was there." " I'shaw, you dreamed it," says her brother, " for 1 saw you fat asleep On the step." Hut "No," says Ne'lie. with a faith she means to keep In that pleasant, pleasant country v here the buns on bushes grow; "I'm dest sure that I went somewhere, an' I didn't dream, I know." Khcii E. Hexford, in Home Magazine RELIGIOUS. Till BLOODHOUNDS OF ORTHODOXY. Pulpit Review of Current Events by Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., for Sunday, May 10, 1891. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., preceded his sermon this morning in Association Hall by the following review of current events : It seems there are still some people who profess faith in Jesus Christ who believe that the way to preach the gos pel of the lowly Nazarene is to get out the bloodhounds, and hunt down the here jtiis. 1 nomas was the nrst heretic in the Christian Church on the subject of the resurrection. Christ dealt with Thomas personally. He set us an ex ample which the modern howlers for traditionalism seem entirely to over look. He did not give the heretic a single harsh word. He did not cast him . ut. The heart of Christ seems to have p;one out in special tenderness toward this doubting one. He Bpoke to him in accents of love, seeking to persuade him, to reassure him, to dis pel his doubt. Heresj' hunting is utterlv foreign to the Spirit of Jesus Christ. BORN IN HELL. Thf: v. lu.le business of heresy hunt ing in the Christian Church from the earlier ages down to the present, is of the devil. It was bom in hell. The heresy hunter seems to lose the instincts of a man when he enters his infernal work. He thirsts for blood. He is satisfied with nothing short of the utter annihilation of his victim. Love is a word unknown to his vocabu lary. God i3 love. He pretends to be serving God, but in his zeal to serve God he goes into partnership with the devil. These are the men who have been the bloodhounds of orthodoxy in the past. They never dried a tear, or soothed a heartache, but they have caused rivers of tears to flow, and mil lions of hearts to break. They never lighted the darkness of doubt for a single human soul. But they have destroyed the faith of generations. They never added one joy to the life of man. But they have rolled on his soul the burden of centuries of ignor ance and pain. RECORD OF THE TRAIL. These are the men who haunted Jesus Christ to death, crucified Him on Calvary and mocked Him while dying. They crucified Him because He kept not the traditions of the elders. These are the men who slew the apos tles and desciples of Christ. These are the men who, later, crawling into the Church, turned and slew the saints and heroes. These are the men who in the n.me of the Christ, whom, with lip they honored and in heart they have heaped upon the Church a his tory of cruelty and inhumanity. These are the men who hooted and hounded and persecuted John Knox until God gave him Scotland for an inheritance. These are the men who persecuted, slandered and lied about John Wesley until God gave unto- Methodism the masses of the English world. They called Wesley a liar, a swindler, and th most notorious hypocrite living. Now these same men claim him as their forefather and patron saint. These are the men who exhumed the bones of old Wy cliff, burned him as a heretic, and took his ashes and poured them in :o the brook that he might not have a resting place on earth. But the water rolled on the sea to and mingled the ashe with the tides which swept them to the uttermost limits of the globe. God gave Wycliff the earth for his inheritance. WHIPPED THE BAPTISTS. These are the men who whipped the aarly Baptists of Virginia. The Bap tists own the South now, and in Vir ginia, Episcopal churches must lease the baptistries of the Baptist churches for constant use. The masses are so thoroughly impregnated with this! heresy that they cannot be led into their Church any other way. BURIED ALIVE AND BURNED. These are the men who sent Alva into the Netherlands with his edict, the execution of which marks the blackest page in the history of the hu man race. Alva took an army into the Netherlands to suppress heresy. He went into the cause of the Truth of Christ he said. His supports sent him with his plan. He was serving God. This edict for the suppression of here tics provided that all heretics should be executed as follows: If they did not persist in their errors they were allowed the sweet privilege of dying, the men by the sword, and the women to be buried alive. If they wrere ob stinate and persisted, no such tender mercy was to be shown, but they were to be burned alive with fire. Their property in each case was forfaited to the crown. Any who failed to betray a suspected heretic, or furnished any with food, fire, or clothing, were pun ished in the same manner. The vilest and most ignoble principle of human nature was appealed to in the provision that an informer, in case of conviction, should be entitled to one half the prop erty of the accused. This wTas ordered in the names of the Holy Church of Jesus Christ. Under this awful edict Alva, in six years, executed 18,000 persons besides the unnumbered hosts that fell in battle. THE BOGUS MONK. We submit this edict to the vaga bond bogus monk, Rev. J. L. Lyne, so called Father Ignatus, O. S. B. We think it would be to his taste, especially the clause providing that one-half the proceeds shall go to the informer. Here is a fair modern specimen of your heresy hunter. He has stolen the livery of the church of Rome to start in a Protestant world in the name of unity and cheap notoriety. He is him self in his own church a heretic of such flagrant proportions that his very ex istence is tolerated as a half joke in the spirit of a broad charity. He uses this toleration as the occasion of self-laudation and seeks to lift himself on the bodies of his fellow ministers by strik ing them down as heretics and walking upon them. He, the rankest and most vicious heretic, tolerated in the Epis copal Church to day, destroying the faith of the simple-minded folk he has deluded into his establishment in Wales, and yet posing as the sole champion of the orthodoxy of the age. If this be orthodoxy, good Lord de liver us ! HOW TO SPREAD HERESY. Suppose vre agree that heresy should be suppressed? How are you going to suppress it? Will you crucify the heretic? That is what the Jewish Sanhedrim did with Christ. And when they lifted him up on the Cross behold He drew all men unto Him ! The way to make Heber Newton a mighty power is to run him down wTith your bloodhounds and crucify him, that will give wings to his words and magic to his name. Let the Presbyterians hound Professor Briggs down now and crucify him. They will rally hundreds and thousands around the standard he has raised. In proportion as a cause is persecuted in unrighteous ways and devilish methods it is given power. The day for the thumbscrew, rack, and torch is gone. The world is too far advanced to tolerate much longer the spirit of the Dark Ages. If Chris- tianity cannot rise above, Christianity is not worthy to live. Unless Chris tianity does repudiate these men and their methods, it cannot possibly stand the blazing light of the coming twen tieth century. GIVE WINGS TO THOUGHT. Let the earnest, loving, thoughtful men and women in the rank and file of Christianity rise and demand a free pulpit for the prophets of God ! These men who would muzzle and throttle the pulpit are in reality cowards who believe that they are voicing the ma jority of noses among the groundlings If not they simply voice the ignorance and superstitions of a dark past in their demand for the crucifixion of the heretic. Let human thought have wines. Give the soul free air and free sunlight! " Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free !" is the message of Jesus Christ to us to- dav. Let the followers of Christ abide in His Spirit, seek His ways. Let the persecuting Pharisee of to-day hear His message for him: " Ye blind guides which strain at the gnat and swallow the camel. Ye generation of vipers how shall ye escape the dam nation of hell r Rabbits have been known by M. G Colin to live in perfect health for two months in open hutches exposed to a cold of 10 degress above to 15 degrees below zero. Sheep and pigs also sur vive severe weather, but horses and dogs are killed by it. PROGRESS. THE GROWING AGE. The brain of a child is proportion ately much larger than an adult's, but of much softer consistency, and its convolutions are not complete until the seventh year. This is one of the reasons why early study is dangerous. The child's heart beats much more rapidly than that of an adult, and the growth of the heart, instead of being regular, like the growTth of the body as a wiiole, is accomplished by fits and starts. The more rapid action of the heart renders the child peculiarly liable to fever, and the liability is further increased by his weaker vital resistance. Hence child hood is the special season for scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, and other similar complaints. The irregu larity of the heart's growth may give rise to disturbances of the organ of a seemingly dangerous character, but with proper care they wTill pass away as the heart attains its full develop ment. Such proper care includes ample nourishment, sufficient sleep, and the avoidance of special strain. The season of rapid growth and development, say between the ages of ten and twenty, needs particular attention. Nature is then at work, as it never will be again, in building up the tissues and develop ing the nervous sensibilities. This is the period which makes the largest demands for an outdoor life, for pure air, sunlight, active exercise, abund ance of nutritious food, a vigorous digestive tract, a ready assimilation, and an active elimination of waste. It is the period of study and ambition, as well as of a wisdom that thinks it self wiser than it is. The increasing mental activity needs to be regulated by experienced teachers and consider ate mothers, lest the brain be worked at the expense of other organs and tissues. Duller minds should not be forced to keep step with those which are naturally more active, and the in fluences of the home and the school room should be tranquillizing and adapted to evoke the kindlier feelings. Fretful parents and scolding teachers may do a life-long injury during this susceptible period. It is a period when neither study nor night excitements should interfere with sleep; when dime novels do their worst work; when mothers need to know what their children read, and to be their confiden tial counsellor in all delicate matters ; when the use of tobacco is specially perilous, almost surely giving rise to affections of the heart, and when spirit uous liquors and all opiates are pecu liarly pernicious. Youth's Companion CIVILIZATION. It is very commonly said (perhaps no assertion is less likely to be disputed) that the age of miracles is past ; yet the statement will hardly bear analysis, unless the word "miracle'' is used only in a secondary and special sense. Dr Johnson defines it as "a wonder, an event contrary to the laws of nature ;" but Professor Skeat, a later and stricter etymologist, only gives ' 4 a wonder, a prodigy;" and on turning to find his interpretation of " prodigy," lo ! he can only explain it as "a portent, a won der." Now, if a miracle is nothing more than something astonishing, something to excite wonder, surelj- the age of miracles is in full swing; sur prises lie in wait for us round the cor ner of each new almanac. On the other liand, if we adopt Dr. Johnson's alternative interpretation, the propo sition is as unstable as ever, for the Doctor himself would assuredly have considered that to travel from London to Edinburgh in eight hours would be "contrary to the laws of nature." During the whole history of the world, up to his time, the fastest locomotion on land had been by means of horses yoked to wheeled vehicles; imagination failed to surmise anything beyond what could be accomplished by the fleetest animals liarnessed to the most perfect chariot. There are doubtless laws in nature of which we know nothing, and therefore have not yet recognized ; feats perf orrned by means of these laws may seem to us miracles, but we have no right to call them supernatural because we cannot trace the action of the knv. There is no irreverence to Scripture involved in this assertion. We see through a glass darkly ; we knowr in part. The Law giver reveals Himself to us by the ac tion of His own laws, by us imper fectly understood; that action has in past times transcended or evaded the observation of those who witnessed certain events which we class as miracles, just as the possibility of traveling sixty miles an hour tran scended the imagination of Sir Walter Scott. Looking back along the road travelled by human beings in what we conceitedly call the March of Civiliza tion, what a blundering, crooked track it is ! how much shorter the journey might have been made! How deeply the ground is trampled where frequent conflicts have taken place ! how many mighty barriers thrown across it by law-givers, ecclesiastics, warriors, may still be traced by their crumbling ruins. xushu wmcu we villi progress, yo- serves Mr. Leslie Stephen "is for the most part a process of finding the right path by tumbling into every ditch on each side of the way." Can it be claimed that our course even now is less staggering and blindfold than heretofore? Consider, for instance, the precautions taken for the physical development of the human race. It is possible that in after ages our posterity will look back with amazement to the nineteenth century, when people in the van of civilization freely devoted mind and means to developing the most capable strains of domestic animals, and were content to leave the perpet uation of their own species to utterly random haphazard. The mighty Clydesdale dray-horse, the racer with lungs and legs enabling him to outstrip the hurricane, and the shaggy little Shetland, are members of identically the same species; in the two first, qualities latent in the original animal have been developed by thoughtful selection of parents, and in the last have had to manifest themselves only in the degree permitted by an inclem ent climate and scanty food. Were the same discretion and control exer cised in the preliminaries of human matrimony, instead of leaving them all to the guidance of a proverbially blind little god or the calculations of mercenary prudence, what physical and intellectual miracles might not follow! Each succeeding generation might excel the past in-, symmetry, beauty of countenance, the use of all the senses duly balanced by intellectual qualities. Gentlemen there might then be not classified as such on account of their balance at the banker's or the superficial trick of caste, but because they would be gentle in the strict sense t. ?., men of birth till in time a mongrel would be as out of place in human society as it is now in a pack of fox-hounds. Sir Herbert Maxwell, in Blackwood's Magazine, for April. SCIENTIFIC. RACE INFLUENCE AND DISEASE. It has been my lot to deal profession ally for some years with people of divers colors and races, nations and languages, in many different parts of the world, I have thus had exceptional opportunity and sufficient leisure to ponder over social variations as they present themselves to the medical eye. The nations of East Africa are Mo hammedans of a somewhat lax and unorthodox type, yet owing to their implicit acceptance of Mohammed's fatalistic doctrines, their submission to kismet distinctly influences the course of their illnesses : indirectly, be cause it causes them to regard medical treatment as useless ; directly, because they will to die, their religion promis ing them better times in their heaven. Now we all know what it is, in the crisis of a severe illness, for a patient to have dogged pluck and to make up his mind to pull through, if only to please his friends, to spite his rivals, to foil his foes, or to accomplish some non-completed task. Such impulses as these from the organs of thought and will, have a distinct andbenefical effect upon the rest of the nervous system, and may make all the difference in tiding over a crisis, and during early convalescence. One of my first cases was that of a stalwart East African who complained of f eeling ill ; on examination nothing appeared amiss but slight febrile symp toms, and a small patch of pleuritic friction. To my surprise, the poor negro began by saying he was going to die, and in the evening he expired, more, it seemed, from what I might call inertia than from his actual dis ease. Later experience told me that had I bullied the man, and given him brandy with my own hand, I might have saved his life. As Hugh Nisbet says, when speaking of similar cases : "When hope ceases to glow in their breasts, or a superstitious omen tells them that they are alxmt to die, they can Lie down and give up life just as easily as they fall asleep, bailors say thev die out of 4 pure cussedness. A Maori will count up the days he has to live, inform his friends of the fact, and die up to time : he calmly lies down and dies without an effort. The most successful means of treat ing such cases lies in the use of alco hol, and among people unaccustomed to its action, very small doses are re quired to produce a good effect. It acts partly by a kind of intoxicating influence, putting a little energy or even devilment into them; and the treatment being kept up until con valescence is established, they realize that destiny means them to survive. The natives of India, apart from the Sikhs and Northern frontier men, are people of poor stamina and easily pros trated. Timid and feeble, they dread the pain of illness, and dislike the thought of death, mostly on account of the ordeal of the dying process. They are, however, very anxious for medical treatment ; but in spite of this, they fare worse than Europeans in all ordinary diseases, which is partly at tributable to their habitually poor diet, ' f TTi n 1 11 11 but more, I think, to a want of real grit among them. Chinese and Japanese make much better patients. They have faith, want to recover, and endeavor to do so. They are fairly tractable and obedient, their average constitution is more ro bust, and they are not destitute of moral courage ; consequently treatment yields in their cases, better results. gain, I have fo'ind that the phleg matic German is much more easily treated than the fussy Frenchman. The isolation of a community ap pears to result in a high susceptibility to disease when imported among them. For example: during my stay at As cension Island, I was told bv a resident official that a cold, introduced from a passing vessel, runs rapidly through the island as a severe epidemic. This effect is still more virulent, leading even to fatal results in the island of Tristan d'Aeunha, where the isolation is more complete, and the people of British origin. On the other hand, acclimitization and herelitv sometimes impart im munity from diseases fatal to foreign ers. Typhoid fever affords typical in stances, for in tropi 'al regions the disease is often limited to strangers. But with yellow fever, acclimitization is by no means absolute ; special liabil- itv and increased mortalitv still char- acterize the fair-haired races, while pure blooded negroes possess congenital immunity, which is certainly not shared by Redskins or Hindoo Coolies, though the Chinese are almost exempt. It is, perhaps, in malaria that we have the best evidences of acclimit Nation of races. G. Bernard Hojfmeister, M. A., M. D , in Popular Science Monthly, New York, for April. MISCELLANY. Mr. G. E. Ravenstein estimates that the earth could feed a total population of about 5,999,000.000. There are now 1034 compound loco motives at wTork or building, 523 bein in England, 430 in Germany, and eight in North America. A French aeronaut has been con structing an air ship of 3,000 yards capacity, to be propelled by a motor made from aluminum. Successful and satisfactory experi ments have Ixen made in Germany with small locomotives for towing heavy boats on canals. One of the greatest engineering works now in progress is the building of the great reservoir that is to supply Bom bay with water. The dam will be two miles long, 118 feet high, and 103 feet wide at the base. A French society has been trying electric motors for elevating and de pressing heavy gun, and for moving them into direction, using a separate motor for each of the two operations. A considerable saving of time is effected. Three war vessels for Chili now being built in France, are to be fitted with such motors, to be driven from the electric light circuit. Rats in Modern Medicine A late experimenter in Dr. Koch's laboratory, Mr. E. II. Rankin, of Cambridge, Eng land, has reported an interesting dis covery. A long study of anthrax sug gested investigations which resulted in bringing to light a " protective pro teid " in the bodies of rats, which en joy a remarkable immunity from many infectious diseases; and this, cultivated in the usual way, proves to be a remedy for anthrax, and may also be effective for diphtheria. Science and Business. The loss to England of the great coal tar industry, which in its early stages was particu larly her own, is attributed to the more thorough and systematic scientific study of the Germans and French. Sir F. Abel states that German' has great works where chemical research is car ried on as an elaborate business, and is pursued by men wTho have acquired university degrees and distinction, one establishment alone having 40 trained chemists at work on the particular branch of research in which it is in terested. Telegraphic Lightning. The dura tion of telegraphic currents has been calculated in Germany with these re sults: In ordinary Morse working, the signalling current lasts .125 sec end; and with the Hughes apparatus only from .04 to .07 second. With the Meyer multeplex apparatus, however, currents may have a duration of as little as .007 second, and with the Delaney multiplex, of .002 second ; while the Wheatstone automatic, when transmitting GOO words per minute, sends out 33,6000 currents every min ute, each having, therefore, a duration of ..0018 second. European Train lighting. Experi ments in the electric lighting of trains on a German railway have been made the subject of a report by Prof. Kohl rausch. He concludes that only the accumulator system is adapted for such lighting, the batteries being charged by means of fixed engines at various stations, and changed when approaching exhaustion. He cannot commend the use of power from the locomotive or the carrying of a dyna- mo, on account of the increase in the couplings of the train. Trains on Swiss railways are being successfully lighted by accumulators. An Electrical Brain tester. An apparatus for measuring brain effort has been made by Mr. J. L. Balbi, who suggests that the arrangement might be made to point out the proper studies for children, or those which can be pursued with the least work and great est profit. In the centre of a head-gear of some light heat conducting material, he places a thermo electric pile, which is connected by flexible wires to a sen sitive galvanometer. The slightest rise in temperature duo to rush of blood to the head is indicated by the galvanometer, the effect, of course, in creasing with the intensity of the mental work. The Wisconsin Mounds. -Scarcely anything in the range of American antiquities, according to a paper by Dr. Frederick Starr in the proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences, has caused more wonder and led to more discussion than the animal wounds of Wisconsin. Unlike many wounds in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, these were not sepulchral. They may have been village guardians; perhaps tribal totems marking terri torial limits; some may have been of use as game drives; some may have even served as fetich helpers in the hunt, like the prey gods of Zuni. They are nearly confined to a belt of moder ate width stretching through Wiscon sin and overlapping into Minnesota and Iowa. Within this area they oc cur by hundreds. Dr. Lapham pub lished a great work on the effigy mounds in 1855, since which time no one has paid so much attention to them as Stephen D. Peet, whose articles have lately beeen issued in book form. Mr. Peet has studied the kinds of ani mals represented the most satisfac torily identified among many species seeming to be the buffalo, moose, and deer, or elk; the panther, bear, fox, wolf, and squirrel ; the lizard and tur tle ; the eagle, hawk, owl, goose, and crane; and fishes. One or two man mounds are known, although most of those so called are bird mounds. Some times, too, "composite mounds" are found, and the same forms are found cut into the ground instead of built above it. These strange earth-works are very skillfully done, more or loss in harmony with their surroundings, and not only numerous, but of largo size including a man 214 feet long, a beast 100 feet long with a tail measur ing 320 feet, and a hawk with wings expanded 240 feet. NOTICE TO THE BRETHREN. Copies of President Polk's official plan for organizing a lecture system, which is sent out by the instructions of the National Legislative Council of our order, has been sent to each County Secretary in the State and to the State and District Lecturers and Stew ards. Be sure these circulars are carefully read, studied and explained at your next county meeting. Do all hi your power to see its requirements carried out. We must have a uniform understanding of our secret work, a higher appreciation and more thorough knowledge of the noble principles of our Order and unity of action wherever our interests are concerned. It is im possible for us to have these things without a thorough system of lecturing. If we follow the "plan" we will soon have that. Lend your aid and influ ence, my brother. Be sure to attend your county meeting and look after this all-important matter. Yours fraternally, W . S. Barnes, Sec'y N. C. F. S. A. SPECIAL NOTICE TO DISTRICT LECTURERS. After consultation with the Executive Committee in rcgarl to the lecture sys tem formulated and adopted by the National Legislative Council; and whereas in many of our districts lecturers had been at work for some time and appointments had been pub lished before the action of the legisla tive council was known; and whereas the time is so short from May district meetings, as xer order of our National President, to our annual meeting of the Stte Alliance; and whereas the May meeting would bring an additional ex pense to the order, and the cliange would carry confusion to our brethren on account of appointments already published, it is therefore ordered that the lecturers already appointed must continue their work till the regular meeting of the State Alliance, and that the system proposed by our National Legislative Council be deferred till that meeting. Elias Carr, Pres N. C. F. S. A. W. S. Barnes, Sec'v N. C. F. S. A. SPECIAL NOTICE TO LECTURERS There has been no money appro priated to defray the expenses of any meeting of the District Lecturers. The expenses of each County Lecturer to these meetings should be borne by hi County Alliance. All appointments made herenfvr by any District Lecturer must be conihiect to the counties composing his district, as laid off by the last legislature. Fraternall yy ours, W. S. Barnes, Sec'y N. C. F. S. A
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