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WHERE DOES IT COME FROMq

Pins and quarts Of filthy catarrhal dis
charges. Where does Il. all come from ?
The mucous membrane, lining the cham.
beers Of the nose, and It's little glands, arc
diseased, so that they draw from the blood
It's liquid and exposure to the air changes
It into corruption. This liIe.liquid was to
build up, the system but It Is extracted
and the system Is weakened by the loss.
To cure, gain flesh and strength by using
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
which also acts directly upon these
glands, correcting Them applying DR.,
Sage's Catarrh Remedy with Dir. Plerce's
Nasal Douche, the only method Of reach.
Ing the upper Cavities where the dis.
charge accumulates and comes from.
GATARRH OF2O YEARS STA NDLNG
l. CURED.
MONROE, onachita Parish, La, /,
Sept. Is, 1871.
R. V. PIERCE, N. D.:
Sometime about last June l commenced
the use Of your medicines, and they have
entirely cured me Of Catarrh OF twenty
years standing.
Respectfully, MEs. Q. E, Pu1LlPs.
deodsw&w - E.E
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TIE TEST OF SCIENCE.

The proper course therefore to pursue
when any new theory presents. itself is
not TO accept il because it claims 10 be
scientific, or even because in one oil the
many senses OF this term this claim may
be true; hut to weigh it carefully in the
light Of the proof which 1t furnishes
This is what should be done in regard to
DarYinism,
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There are two ways in which we may
legitimatelY form an opinion as to the
degree Of It's probability. One by an
examination Of The conclusions reached
by those who are best informed In the de.
partment 10 which 1t belongs. The 9th.
er Is by an examination for ourselves Of
the phenomena Of nature In regard TO
1t. Both oil these methods will lead to
the conviction that Darwinism cannot be
accepted as even probably true. In the
present article we can only glance at the
former OF them,
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they scratched does not prove that mon.
key has 70 fine intellect" Neither does
therolllng down Of some stones show that
company Of balloons had q reciprocal
understanding In the matter, any more
than the same thing Is proved In regard
to company Of sheep which sImuita-
truder. - - -
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Thus Darwin is against himself; OAR
Winlsts contradict each other; and the
vast majority of men OF science are OBJ
posed to the whole theory. The concIu.
sion to which we are brought by this pro.
cess therefore Is that Darwinism, In lis
present form, has in it no probability Of
truth. HOMO
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THE FACTi OF pARwINIsM

As a science this system presents two
things for consideration. One is q mass
Of information as to the phenomena Of na.
ture. The other Is q hypothesis in expla.
nation Of them. The phenomena are'de.
signed to show the analogy existing be-
tween different species Of plants and Of
animals and between man and the brutes.
Thereby its advocates seek 10 lay the
foundation for their doctrine Of the trans.
mutation Of species, and Of the descent Of
man from an animal. II will be at once
apparent that, In the very nature Of the
case, II is impossible here to consider In
detail the phenomena which are enume-
rated by Darwin and his followers. This
would require as much space as they have
filled with the discussion Of them; and as
large a familiarity with the special de-
partments Of the field Of nature as some
Of them enjoy. Butin order to show the
utter incredibility of their hypothesis no
such extended consideration Is necessary.
If we concede tho truth OF all the facts
which they sdduce they furnish no suff1-
cient reason whatever for their conclusion.
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pARwIN1srs VERSUS DARwN1sM.

A. R. Wallace divides with Darwin
whatever honor attaches to the original
advocacy OF the theory Of the transmuta.
ton oil species Rs now 90 widely taught
Many persons are disposed to regard him
as having decidedly the clearer and cooler
head. Strenuously as he supports the
hypothesis he cannot bring himself 70 ap'
ply it fully 10 man. At the close Of his
book on the subject he has q chapter
which Is designed to controvert the OAR
Wintan hypothesis as to our race. He
argues the question at length. de seems
to be willing to concede that at least as
70 his body man may have been develop.
ca rom an animal; but at the same time
insists that If SO, 1t must have been under
the efficient operation Of the Creator. He
says: 1.-THE inference I would draw from
this class OF phenomena 10 that q superior
intelligence has guided the development
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MONROE, 0nachita Parish, La, !
Sept. Is, 1871.
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Of the phenomena In detail, II ought 10 be
observed that they have been collected by
Darwinists for the purpose Of supporting
a theory. Tho course pursued has NOT
been frat to gather Information Of every
kind and then TO seek an explanation Of
1t. That would have been the method
most likely to lead 10 the truth. But the
plan pursued has been to start with q
hypothesis and then 10 range over tho
fields OF nature and to collect as many
phenomena as possible which seem 10
support It. The whole argument there
fore resembles lawyers plea more than
a genuine philosophers Investigations.
The object is 10 do the best possible for
the case in hand. The consequence is
that nature is not allowed 10 give other
than eE pdrte evidence. She is permitted
10 testify TO every incident that can be
construed into resemblance between the
various species Of plants and of animals
and between man and the brutes. But
these constitute only an intellectually
small portion Of all that might be ad.
duced. The vast majority do not indi-
cate any such analogy. They are posi-
lively against u. #... '..
SOME OF THE FACTS DOUBTFUL.
SO far as Darwin himself has examined
the phenomena which he mentions, his
statements are generally very reliable.
He is unquestionably a conscientious and
careful observer, although, Of course, not
iniallible even in suck matters. But when
he comes TO deal with the Representations
Of others he sometimes exhibits remark.
able credulity. This Is especially true oil
the anecdotes which he relates upon Sec
ond-hand authority to support the ra-
tionality OF brutes. He. accepts the most
marvellous stories apparently without an
attempt TO investigate them, and then uses
them as o part Of the foundation for this
theory. For example, on the authority oil
Bfehm, In telling Of a female baboon, he
says: IAN adopted kitten scratched the
above mentioned afiectionate baboon, 4plsO
certainly had fine intellect, for she was
much astonished at being scratched, and
Immediately examined the kittens feet
and without more ado bit of the claws, .
And again, on the authority Of the same
writer, he tells Of tribe Of balloons in
Abyssinia who when attacked with fire
arms "rolled 80 many stones down the
mountain, some as large as q mans head
that the attackers had to beat hasty re-
treat, and the pass was actually for q time
closed against tho caravan. II deserves
notice that these balloons thus acted IN
concert" These are mild examples Of the
stories collected. The truth Of them L
here not positively denied. It Is only In
sisted that before they are accepted they
ought 70 be more carefully investigated
Even then 1t may DO remarked, en- PEASANT
that to bite of . kittens claws because
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-13

and dimensions of other parts with
which, In structure and action, il Is asso-
ciated.
A long back would i'll accord with short
legs, defeated In their operations q short
back would not require long legs, they
would do too much for 1t. We have,
therefore, long.backed horses and short
backed horses, and yet with backs of
proper length because the longitude,
whatever it may be, is that which is the
suitable length for the machine of which
IL forms part. A very common but
not less, on that account, reprehensible
custom among "judges of horses" is to
find fault with point, without any ref.
erence whatever to the general or par.
ticular conformation with which that
point is consorted. Abstractedly consid.
cred, IL may be out of proportion; but
considered correlatively, with out-of-pro-
portioned other parts In the same frame
1t may be in the best proportion, or OF
such proportion as serves to compensate
for faulty dimensions IN other parts. A
part most faultlessly fashioned and pro
portloned may-placcd among certain
other Informed or out-of-proportioned
parts-appear itself to be the faulty
piece in the fabric.
In an animal body, as in machines
made by mans hands, the great object tC
be sought for is harmony between the
constituent members; at the instant We
are not hastily to condemn any apparent
disproportion, lest, on critical examina
tion, II should turn out to have beer
given for the purpose of compensation
to make amends for some defectiv,
structure elsewhere, which may not a
first sight have struck our attention.
| PJdtrEe Farmer.
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reported that II was not completed with
in the terms of the law. The use of
these soft-wood ties was held by them to
be an evasion of contract, and Govern
ment patents for the lands granted along
two or three hundred miles of the road
have accordingly been refused. The
settlers who have bought the lands can
get no titles from the company, for IL has
none This Looks bad for our forests,
since Il means the ultimate destruction
of thousands of acres of more good tim
Der to replace the condemned ties which
have already swept off large part of
the few precious growths of this com
paratively treeless region. If 1t is re-
membered that ties have to be renewed
every seven years the extent of the de-
mand on our forests will be appreciated,
When 10000 miles more of rails have
been laid it will require all the trees in
the country to supply the demand for
ties.
Fences are also enormous consumers of
trees In the East we are learning in
this regard economy from necessity, but
in the West, in some States, the farmers
cut down the forests with scarcely more
thought than they harvest their grain.
The fences of the United States, people
may not generally know, have cost more
than the lands, and are to-day the most
valuable class of property, save railroads
and real estate in cities. Illinois alone
has $2,000,000 invested in fences, and
they cost annually $l75,000 for repairs.
In Nebraska where excellent herd laws
are in force, the necessity for fences has
been so much lesscned that the fences of
the State cost less in proportion to pOpu-
lation than in any other in the Union
The outrageous waste of timber caused
by the telling of forests and the burning
of the trees to bring the land under cul-
tivation still goes on at fearful rate
From 1860 to 1870 no less than ~ 1000, ,00C
acres of forest were thus wantonly de.
stroyed For fuel also vast tracts are
leveled of their trees. 1t took 10000
| acres of forest to supply Chicago witt
fuel one year, 1871 Our annual decrease
of forest from all these causes is not fal
| from 100000 acres. Yet we plant only
10000 acres of new forest year.
The necessity for a commission o
forestry and the need of efficient law
in all the States for the preservation o
our forests need no further argumen
than these facts-N. Y. Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-13
An Avalanche on the MatterhOrn.

SITTING there gazing at the 1000 or
5000 feet of the MatterhOTn's height and
breadth that were still higher than my
resting-place, and drinking in the influ-
ence of the vast silent scene around and
beneath, | perceived n movement upon
the left-hand outline and a large surface
of the adjacent front of the mountain.
The upper fourth part apparently of the
mountains height from the left-hand
edge to about the middle of the front
was already bare and black like solid
rock. The movement of the mass, at the
outset very deliberate, was first percep-
tible from the widening distance of the
dark surface between its upper edge and
crest of bare rock that stood out upon
the profile above. Then it was plain
that the entire weight of snow for Il
thousand or two feet below on that side
Of the mountain and nearly to the midst
of its front, as | viewed it, was moving;
| and felt the strange, false sense of
being lifted with the whole steep, messy
bank on which | sat facing the avalanche.
Swiftly it gathered momentum and its
immensity became more comprehensive
when its greater part, fifty to Il hundred
| feet thick, shot out over a crag that had
not been visible under this great thick
ness of snow, and down through the
clear air in one vast sheet, striking
upon a less inclined surface .. 600 feet
| below, where it was dashed into mill
| ion fragments, and there flashed up Il
vast cloud of fine, dusty snow Rapidly
massing ITSELF it again surged forth
from the tleecy bosom of the snow
cloud over precipice of nearly vertical
wall for mile or more into its final
| depths, leaving II large area upon the
mountain black and barren, and tossing
| upward throughout the broad abyss an
other and more widely. spreading snow
| cloud, while its sudden displacement of
air produced rushing wind which
reached to where | sat. AS you first see
the distant artillery's rushing smoke, and
hear the roar so here arose, far beneath
and a mile or two away, rolling, white,
misty cloud, and then the astounding
thunder of the conclusion. The inter
ruption of this avalanche in its prog
ress doubled its sublimity. Had il
rushed all the way down one incline,
with no intervening crash between the
loOsening of the mass and its plunge
into the depths, or if ii had shot of clear
into the air and struck into the very bot
tom in solid mass, it could not have
carried with it such majestic movement
of awful deliberation, nor produced
such prolonged and terrific roar,-Cor.
Detroit Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-13
A Days Churnlng.

THEY have new hired girl over at
Keyser's farm, just outside our town,
and on Tuesday, before starting to
spend the day with friend, Mrs. Key
ser instructed the girl to whitewash the
kitchen during her absence. Upon re-
turning Mrs Keyser found the job com
pleted in very satisfactory manner. On
Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser always churns,
and on last Wednesday when she was
ready she went out, and, finding that Mr..
Keyser had already put the milk into the
churn, she began to turn the handle.
This was at eight o'clock in the morn
ing, and she turned until ten without
any signs of butter appearing. Then
she called in the hired man and he
turned until dinner time, when he
knocked off with some very offensive
language addressed to that butter which
had not yet come After dinner the
hired girl took hold of the crank and
turned it energetically until two o'clock,
| when she let go with remark which
conveyed the impression that she be.
! lieved the churn to be haunted. Then
| Mr.. Keyser came out and said he wanted
| to know what was the matter with that
churn, anyhow. 1t was good-enough
churn if people only knew enough to work
| it. Mr.. Keyser then worked the crank un-
| til half-past three, when, as the butter had
not come, he surrendered it again to
the hired man because he had an engage
ment in the village. The man ground
the machine to an accompaniment of
frightful imprecations; then the Keyser
children each took turn for half an
hour, then Mrs Keyser tried her hand,
and when she was exhausted she again
enlisted the hired girl, who said her
prayers while she turned. But the butter
didn't come. When Keyser Game home
and found the churn still in action he
blasted his eyes and did some other in.
nocent swearing, and then he seized the
handle and said he'd make the butter
come if he kicked up an earthquake in
doing in. Mr.. Keyser effected about two
hundred revolutions. of the crank q
minute, enough to have made any
ordinary butter come from the ends OF
the earth; and when the perspiration he
gan to stream from him and still the
butter didn't come he uttered one wild
yell of rage and disappointment and
kicked the churn over the fence. When
Mrs. Keyser went to pick it up she put
her nose down close to the buttermilb
and took sniff. Then she understood
how it was. The girl had mixed the
whitewash in the churn and left it there
A good, honest and intelligent servant
who knows how to churn can find stua
ton at Keyser's. There is IA vacancy
.Ndr Adeler, IN Ddnbuly Nel0s.
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The Destruction of Forests.

THE constant and reckless destruction
of our forests is fast bringing us to a
condition in which there will be occa-
sion for real alarm 1t is not probable
that any "scaTe" like that which IL few
years ago went over England, concern
ing the prospective exhaustion of her
coal supply, will Immediately occur in
America touching the loss of our for
ests, but we wish something near enough
approaching it might happen to stop
work that is full Of evil promise.
In the whole United States there is
left but one really great tract of timber.
1t lies at the far extreme OF our country,
and consists of about One-half of Wash
ington Territory and third of Oregon.
California has, perhaps, 100000 acres of
forest, of which fully onc-half has been
cut away within the last two or three
wears. Here in New York we have no
considerable forest left except in the
Adirondack region. Our wealth Of
maple, walnut and hickory is substan-
tally gone, and large part of it has
been wantonly destroyed. Wisconsin
had a magnificent forest growth, but the
people are sweeping 1t away at rapid
rate. One billion feet of timber were
cut in single year. 1t will not take
more than decade or two at the utmost
to fairly exhaust this source of wealth to
the State. Michigan and Minnesota are
following in the same course, slashing
away at their forests as if tree had no
right to lift its head. One of our most
intelligent army officers, Gen. Brisbin,
who knows the Western country thor
oughly, and to whose accurate knowledge
of this subject we are indebted for many
facts, says that 10000 acres of Wiscon-
sin timber are cut annuallyto to supply the
Kansas and Nebraska markets alone.
The Saginaw forests are even now prac-
tically destroyed, and if the Northern
Pacific Railway is built it will open up
to- the AK the one remaining belt of
American timber, in Oregon and Wash
ington Territory,
The railroads have been the great de-
stroyers of our forests. They use 160,-
900, 900 of ties annually-that means the
leveling of at least 100000 acres of trees
The timber they use, also, is not the
refuse or the inferior but among the
very best fine young trees eight 10 ten
inches in diameter. The Union Pacific
Company undertook at first to lay their
road with cottonwood ties, drawn from
the occasional wooded canons along the
line of the road, One consequence of
this was shown in our Washington dis
patch the other day regarding the legis-
lation to be asked of Congress for the re-
lief of the road The Government Com
mission appointed to examine the line