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INTERNATIONAL BIBLE LESSONS.
SUNDAY, JULY II, 1880.
THE FALL AND THE PROMISE.


GENERAL STATEMENT.
The human pair, sorrowing over their sin,
yet cheered by the promise, find their home
outside the guarded gates OF Paradise. Their
hopes arise as they look upon the face of their
first-born, and soon family, perhaps, a tribe
assemblies with their parents around the altar
OF God. The elder son grows up to manhood,
selfish, scOrnfu, irreverent; the younger,
gentle and believing. On an occasion of
worship, each appears before God with his
offering. Cain presents a thank-ofierng of
fruits and grain recognizing Gods gifts, but
not mans need of pardcn. Abel comes with
the sprinkled blood of a sacrifice, attestins
his consciousness of sin and faith in prom
upon Abe's Offering; and Cain turns away
with the lowering brow of wrath and hate
toward his favored brother. The Almighty
designs to expostulafe with the sinner upon
MS copdnct, aud To warn him against the
guilt which wifi foffow IN his course. But
even the voice from heaven fails to reach his
conscience; for in fierce anger Cain smites
his innocent brother, who dies the first of
the noble martyrs. The divine inquiry.
Where is Abel thy brother?'' receives a
brutal reply; but the awful curse of the Most
High, and the warning of his condemnation
to lonely, bitter life, pierce his soul with
terror, and he receives II toke en- of lengthened
life and opportunity of repentance. Forth
rom the face of parents and relatives he goes
TO distant place eastward and there estab-
fishes home for himself and his descend
ants.
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The Principles of the Democratic
Candidate.

We have watched Our Deinderatic
exchanges and carefully searched for
the principles that General Hancock
carries in his saddle yalise. The re-
suit of our search can be summed up
as follows:
On the subject of the currency, he
is a magnificent looking fellow.
On the subject of the tariff, he is a
slendid soldier.
On the subject of free trade lie
wears a brilliant uniform.
On the subject of river and hafbOr
improvements he makes a grand ap.
pearance on horseback.
On state rights he appears we'll in
his spaulets and brass buttons.
On civil service reform he has a
fine military bearing.
On the so-called reform in the ad-
miDistration of the government he is
a modern Murat.
Ou VuOStlOtl ilC ID tItC
finest looking Indian fighter the
country ever produced, notwith-
standing that for every Indian killed
it cost the government S4,500,0O0.
o. the Subject of hanging Mrs.
Surratt he hung her in a soldiefllke
manner. but he would rather nothing
be said about it,!
On the Southern question he be-
haved like q gallant soldier, and
made himself popular with every
Ku-Klux, White Liner. bulldozer
and ballotbox stuffer.
On the subject of our foreign rela-
tions he wears splendid mustache.
On the school question he is 4
handsome looking man.
On all other questions of public
policy he has martial bearing.
In some respects Ire resembles JEFF.
Davis, the only difference being that
he wears a corset, While jeff. wore a
petticoat. - UeUetand Leader.
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Democratic Reform.

The fourteenth plank in tho Dem
ocratic,. platform congratulates the
country upon the honesty and thrift
OF the Democratic Congress, which
has reduced public expenditures forty
millions a year. The country has
heard.them talk in that strain before.
Previous to 1874 their criticism of
Republican mistakes captivated
many voters, and they were given a
lease of power. Can anybody point
% what they have done In the way
ecf reform or good gavernment For
five years they haye had contr,,l of
the House of Representatives and
what is the resu t? Where have the
people been benefited ? Where is the
better government? The last year
the Republicans had control of the
House the number Of employees was
l25, and the total expenditures of the
House were $3.50, 1000. The en-
ployes of the present House have
be,n increased to 173, and the eypen-
diturss TO $685. What is wit
messed here extends through al. the
branches of the government. During
the last years the Republicans were
in power in Congress the amount of
the appropriations were steadily de-
creased each year. That was as GER
tain as the reduction of the public
debt. For the fiscal year ending June
30, 1871, the expenditures of the goy-
ernment were S292. III. .1S8. %, and for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1876,
the last year the Republicans had
control of the appropriations, they
were $25S, ,459, 1868, thus reducing
the expenditures S33, III 800. so in five
years. Now, what have the Demo-
crafts done in five years they haye
been in office? For the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1877, the appropria-
tions were S23S $3.50, ,00S.93, an excel
lent start. The next year they were
S236 1854 ,526. 80, but the next year they
jumped to S266, ,947 ,SS3.53; the next
year June 80. l9S0) to 1897 1850, 237 IT,
and for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1881, the amount appropriated is
1922, ,423 1888. 90, an increase of S52.-.
1891 .97 in five years. That shows
! Democratic reform in the clearest
light.
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'Rpe Lord emansipashun wont mean
nothlng in Texas cept a change uy
Dame.
I wood suggest that you, to wunst,
A''ke the last orders NV Gen. Hancock
'nd make it the subject NV messige
RCongress. Detale IN full the Gen
'sls talk here, and add to it ez only
A8qu kin. Tell congriss the General
agein to make the law the rool NV
conduck, and that he proposes to
Hhold the corts and civil authorities,
#W will only yoose his military to
'ese ends agin the niggers. Sling
''' here suthin I'd the efTeck that
american liberty (which, in this
fMnt;y, is pekoolyer variety of the
}lkle] is still an inheritance NV the
Wlite people, and shall alIus he. Tell
e'H that when a stjer hez unlimited
sl'qWer in his hands. and refooses to
y sSese.it fi'r the purpose Of satisfyin
7%lfish ambishun, he presents betty
sample NV virtoo under ditfikulties.
l\wood be we'll at this point to com.
pare Hancock with Washington,
maxim the difference atween um
merely nominal. Say that there may
be officers in the army besides Han
cock who initiates Washington, but
you haven't sot ewes onto EN- ez yit.
Assert that Hancock is the first Off
Ger in command, sence the close NV
the late unpleasantness, wat hez
given utteruns to sich sentimence in
his orders, and demand that congris
shell vote him a gold medil.
sejest that this he done to wunst,
for reasons which are obvious. We
desire Hancock to continue in we'll
doin, but ez that well doing in our
behalf mite lead to his hominashun
for the Presidency, it il well enough
to kill him off in that direckshen so
soon as he is committed. Hence
write. Don't let Seward diloot it, or
Randall pollok it. Put iii my naked
idea, clothed in your terse and yigrus
languidge, and 700 will hev done a
good thing.
l repeated them to the leading
members Of the Lost Cos Club
and the idee wuz rapcher0usly re.
ceived. One member selected ii
wasn't best. ez reely the thing was
too absurd, but he voted ay on the
proposishun, compromizin with him.
self by sayin that eff it wuz received
ez he 'spoZed ii wood be it wuz eazy
notf to swear that his Eggslency wuz
drunk when he wrote it, Wich wood.
ent hurt him with his party at all.
\ Another, who IS trooly a friend uy
yoors, objected on the score that such
settin up wood give Hancock the
nominashen, but he waz laft to
skorn. "Wat." saiG an old gray
headed member, chez A. John0n
ever commended that he haint
killed ?"
1t wuz yoonanitneusIy resolved
that yoo do it. iii more heart than
| have been for moliths, l subscribe
myself,
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ.
(Which is Postmaster).
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An enterprising newspaper man in
Washington, Immediately after the
nomination of Gen. Hancock. COM
menced collecting articles and
speeches by Democratic writers and
speakers ON the danger OF military,
rule, but, he is not in the business
now. When he had gathered in
POO, 900 paragr phs relating to "The
Man on Horseback" and $50, 1856 on
'"rhe White House and West Point"
he retired in utter disgust.
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NUMBER 2l.

light of our Republican liberties.
Applause. ] trust the time is not
Jar distant when, under the crossed
swords and the locked shields of
American North and South, our peo-
snail sleep in peace and rise in liber,
~, love and harmony under the
Union of our flag of the stars and
stripes.
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The ex. Confederate brigadiers will.
he marvellous spectacle wearing
the trefoil badge of Hancock's. old
army ccrps. if the Democracy adopts
that for campaign badge. But how.
about infringing upon the rights. of
the Republican veterans of the Sec,
ond Corps. who are better entitled to
wear it?
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The Democratic argument for a
change amounts to this: The Re-
publican party has brought the coun-
try to the greatest prosperity il has,
ever known; therefore, it IS wise 70,
turn that party out and let ds come
in to enrich ourselves,
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The Baby'scries are its only method
of letting you know that it suffers
and needs DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup.
Price % cents a bottle.
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.STO YES AND 1INWARE.

EAR. e. IL. PARSONS,
- offers his professional services
o the ueople of Oakland and vicin-
iy. Office in the old Offutt building.
3 8 3m
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
CONTRACTORS Dc BUILDERS

TOHN NJ. JARBOE,
a Carpenter, Contractor & Buildet,
Residence on Liberty st. nearly oppo. Depot
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Garfield on War.

PAINEseiLLE, OHIO, July 4.-The
following is the speech in full of Gen.
Garfield at the dedication of the Sol
diers' monument yesterday;
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15

ing of the 4th of June he crossed the Ticino
by the Buffalora Bridge, and found that the
enemy were in force at Magenta, on the
other side of the Naviglio. He maintained
that it was only reconnaissance, and re-
turned to the right bank, where he re-
manned during the rest of the day, three
miles from the battle. / was with my
brigade-part of Canrobert's division-at
Novara, in the rear, about sixteen miles from
Butfalora and twelvefrom Trecate, where we
were to sleep. When we reached Trecate
We received orders to advance as quickly as
We could to Buffalora. We reached Buffa-
lora III the evening in some disorder from
the haste of our march. found the En-
peror before the door of house, near the
bridge, walking silently up and down, and
smoking l asked him for orders, and he
answered that had better cross the bridge
and advance toward the Magenta. There
the battle was going on, but the Austrians
were losing ground. found several Gen.
erals, but nobody who could give me any
orders, and at last was advised to attack
a village to our right. I did so, drove out
the Austrians, and established myself there
for the night AT about three in the morn
ing was attacked myself, but unsuccess-
fully.
Senior-That seems to prove that your
victory at Magenta was not complete A
thoroughly beaten army does not attack
within few hours.
Trochu-Certainly and so they seem to
have thought at headquarters. For,
though we were highly praised, and
twelve crosses were given to me to be dis
tributed to my officers, the fact that we
had been attacked was carefully concealed.
You will find no mention Of it in the bull
letins or general orders.
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dedication of style by the French.

Senior-When Louis Napoleon wrote the
"Idees Napoleoniennes he was already
practical writer. He had been for years
writing in the Pas du Calais journal, Ls
Progres. 1t is seldom that writer i'm
proves much after he is So The only in
stance of an English writer that recollect
is that OF DIR. johnson, whose best written
work, "The Lives of the Poets" was
written after he was 20.
Maury-That may be the case in Eng
land, where you enjoy language freer
from arbitrary restraints and idioms than
ours is, and where you prefer the substance
to the form. La .forme is our idol 1t re-
sembles cookery. The best meat ill cooked
is UNBEATABLE. Inferior meat we'll cooked
may be delicious. We have been at work
refining our style, introducing into it DIES
naalices ct des deLcatesses, until to write
perfect French is the acquisition of only
long life. Our best writers-V oltaire,
for instance-have gone on improving
till they died We spend much of
what you would call useless labor on style.
We omit ideas worth preserving, because
we cannot express them with perfect ele-
gance. We are sometimes in the state of
a man speaking foreign language, qui
ne dit pas &c qfi Ueut, mais &c q.A
pem, but we have created literature
which will 1--we, for it is the style, not the
matter, which preserves book. Good
matter i'll expressed is taken possession of
by a master of style and reproduced in
readable form, and then the first writer is
FORGOTTEN.
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COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. corre-
spondent of the REcoRD-USIoS at Vaca-
vile sends the following, under date Of
May 18th
The commencement exercises OF the Cali
fornia College closed to-day, after confer
ring degrees on six graduates young
ladies and two young gentlemen. The es-
says, especially the valedictory OF Miss l..
frankie Jepson, were voted to be the finest
literary productions ever presented at any
commencement Of that institution. The
degree of d. d. was conferred on Rev.
Granville S. Abbott of Oakland and Rev.
H. |. Parker OF Los Angeles. The future
prospects OF the College were never better,
and its friends are highly elated with its
success during the past year.
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Clergymen in Society.

Senior-You told us the other day that
you never met clergyman in society. |
am invited to meet on Monday the Cardinal
Archbishop.
Lasteyrie-I do not envy you he will
be dull, and the cause of dullness. 1t is
thought correct when mere bishop is
present to be formal. What must it be in
the presence OF cardinal? Many SUBJ
jects must be avoided vices must be
treated as sins, and errors lamented, not
ridiculed. What remains to be laughed
at
Senior-In Rome the Cardinals are good
company.
Lasteyrie-Yes, for there the Church is
at home, and therefore at her ease. Here
in Paris she feels herself stranger. Dur
ing the fifty years that preceded the Res
toration, when infdelity was aggressive,
an eccles;astic was always in danger of
hearing things which he could not tolerate
without some loss of dignity, or reprove
without making a scene. The clergy,
therefore-even those whose birth, and ed
ucation, and fortune, would have enabled
them to mix in socisty-gradually with
drew from it. That danger no longer ex-
lists no clergyman in good company would
hear anything that could offend him. But
the habit has remained, though the cause
has ceased. In some country places,
where there is great proprietor = a
squire-the cure dimes with him ON Sunday;
but this is rare. In fact, the clergy are
seldom fit to be our companions. The ig-
norance, even of the higher ecclesiastics,
and even on their own subjects theology
and Biblical history-is astounding. They
never read, they never talk to educated
men. Their doctrinal sermons are there
fore pitiable. They do not know what are
what are the difficulties that require ex-
years before the Revolution had been en-
gagged in the great work called "Gallia
Sacra." After the Restoration they re-
sumed it, but made so little progress that
it was taken from them, and given to a
layman, who in about ten years has done
more than the whole Benedetine Order did
from 1915 to lS4S. The monks, however,
having nothing else to think about, are
good administrators of their estates, and
the clergy in general learn something of hui
man nature, especially of female weak
nesses, in the confessional.
Lasteyrie was followed by Circourt
Senior-M. de Lasteyrie has been talk.
ing to us of the ignorance of the French
clergy.
Circourt-It is wonderful. Pere Lacor-
daire was perhaps the most ignorant man
that ever entered the Academy. His his
tory and theology were full of originality
Indeed, they were absolutely original, for
he invented them as he went on. This gave
to his sermons the charm. of perpetual nov
city. They never resembled one another.
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Hueo,s Lies Miserables."

Duvergier came in. We talked of Victor
Hugo's Miserables."
Thiers-H is detestable. The spirit is
bad the plan is bad and the execution
is bad.
Duvergier-It contains some very fine
passages.
Thiers-You are a hereto You have
taste for strongly-seasoned meats. believe
that you could eat high venison. | am
almost inclined to think that you read
Michelet.
Duvergier to be burned if do'
Theirs : Perhaps not burned, only
scorched. reserve perfect burning for
those who can read Victor Hugo.
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SENIORS CONVERSATIONS
WITH DISTINGUISHED PERSONS DURING
The SECOND EMPIRE, FRoM
1860 TO 1858.

CONTINUED from the RECORD UNION Of May Still
The work of Nassau William Senior entitled
Conversations with Distinguished Persons During
the Second Empire, from 1850 to 1861 affords
mine Of mater al of historical and rsonal cfar-
acter He had unusual opportunities for intimacy
with his famous French contemporaries. The ex-
tracts below but samples selected from the pages
of the two volumes of the work referred to.
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[FoR THE
SET In A SILVER SEA
4 ROMANCE BY B. L. FARJEON.

AUTHOR OF BLADE KISSES
liking NoL.N OF PENRAVEN,"
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Conversation with Renan.
april 9, 1862. We breakfasted with
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M Ernest Renan was in early life intended for
the priesthood He was sent 70 studyat ST. Suipice,
and it was at that seminary that his taste for ORR
entail languages and eccesa teal studies first showed
itself His turn Of mind was far too independent
for bis intended profession; he therefore left st.
Sulpice and de, oted himself to private study. Ia
ls4s he obtained the first place in the Concours de
Philosophe" and at the same the Volney prize for
an essay on the "Greek language IN the Middle
Ages was crowned by the Academy. In 1851 he
was attached to the DepartDl mt Of Manuscripts in
the Bibliotheque Rationale; and in 1886 he was
elected member Of the Academic des Inscriptions
in place of NJ. Augustin Thierry. At the end Of
1860 he was sent on a mission TO Syria In 1862 he
was appointed Professor OF Hebrew but did not per
rnanenty occupy the chair for fear OF renewal OF
the manifestations which occurred at his opening
lecture in February In 1868 he published his well
known "Ve de Jesus, which he wrote after his voy-
age to SYRIA and OF which numerous editions have
been issued This work yehemently attacked
by the Bishops and clergy, the result being that the
author was dismissed from his professorship NJ
Dur,Iy, the Minister OF Public instruction, en-
deavored to conceal the significance OF this di mlssa
by giving him an office in the Bblotheque lmperi-
ale which was, however, taken from him on June
H. 1864 NJ Renan was elected member OF the
Academy in 1879. He is continuing his series OF
works bearing on theology.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-15

Statistics of births, marriages, and
deaths for 1873 In France and Germany
have just heen published, and the Con
trasts offered are in various instances
most significant. In Germany at the
time of publication OF the statistics the
estimated popuiation was "A 200 900, the
marriages numbered 10000. the births
l,7S5 900, and the deaths !, ,22S 900. The
still>bhrn are reckoned IN bosh births
and deaths. In France the number of
births was 936. 600 and of deaths 639, 900,
20 that the births exceeded the deaths
by $1,000. lns Germany the excess of
births was 556 ,000-tbat is to say, that
while in France population increased in
1873 at the rate of q per cent. 1t in
creased IN Germany at the rate of 25
per cent. The lumber OF marriages in
Germany has greatly fallen off since
1872, when 423, 900 were registered
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Wheat, Glover And sheep.

In Great Britain the average yield of
wheat is twenty-six bushels per acre
against only Is bushels in the United
States. Wheat is no longer a profitable
crop in many parts of this country
where the yield was very large within
The memory of men who are still young.
The soil of England has been cropped
as many centuries as ours has decades,
and Is increasing instead of diminish
ing in fertility. The English have
rendered continued wheat production
practicable by combining this industry
with growing clover and raising sheep.
10 is likely that we must adopt this
practice or give up raising wheat except
On new land, and our supply of virgin
'soil will soon be exhausted. Glover re-
turns to the surface soil much more
than ii takes from it. 1t derives much
bf its sustenance gfrom the air. Its
growth is wonderfully increased by an
application of land plaster which costs
very It'll lie. The production of clover
improves the soil mechanically as well
as chemically. Its roots penetrate the
subsoii deeper than any plow or harrow
its foliage shades the soil and keeps it
moist during very hot and dry weather.
There is no better food for sheep
than clover. Sheep while feeding on
clover leave their droppings scattered
about where they will manure the soil
10 the best advantage. Winter wheat
sown on clover sod enriched by the
manure of sheep will produce vigorous
growth and ordinarily affords good past
lre during several months. Where
winters are mild wheat may be eaten of
by sheeep without injury to the crop.
I'm fact, the yield of grain is often IN
creased by allowing sheep to feed on the |
foliage during portion of the winter
months.