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alt mar, uurbe fie BON einem NiereuIei.
ben befalen. Sd faufte cine GIai9e
Warners Safe Cure unb bas bat He ges
beilt. Nls He Is Monate alt tuar,
bate He einen Nnfa1 bon gcorbut.
3mei 6lai@en bon Waruers Safe Cure
baben fe interchangeable. Nls lie 3
Sabre alt mar, tpurbe fe tpieber franf.
Sine Tlai9e BALI ibr piebtrum. SECT
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Is Monate als NOR, lit CT ebenfaQs am
Scorbut. Weniger als eine einsige
5lai6e Marners Safe Cure fteate i'm
tpteber Der. SEPT 1T er seiunb unb
munter.
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parb ct ii@ bas unbetreitbare @igens
tbnmsre6t auf bemielben.
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neuen Stern ober MebaiQe fir beniels
ben 3med BEL Serrn 2arl Stubearau9
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YeDe,t & Mlttmamtt.
San Antonio MARBLE. WORKS,
PIP Oft Commerce . @traBe.

3eigen biermit benz publitum an,
baB fie fhr ben ausge5ei@aeten unb
bier f9on ldngf gemiini9ten Sanbs
fetn aus 6apette @ountp
bic Msentur ibernommen baben. Sie'
fer Sanbftein, Der better pie ieber ans
oere benz .Geuer uno ben Witterungs=
einfiHen miberfebt, eignet ii6 beions
bers fur @eitenipege, Curbstones,
Stufen unb beionbers fiir &ir9bofsars
beiten. Ct lit benz @ranit an Sauer
sIei9, aber bebeutenb billiger. 9intsrs
laBt Cure Muftrdge fir ale eini6lagens
ben Wrbeiten BET 3eben & Wltmann.
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9ie alusfuhr ppm @entiiien.

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frif9en @emtien, @arten.gr5eugnifen,
Obif, Melonen, &artofeln &c. nod
tueftli6en unb 6itli6en M~arftpldben
ber Union aamdlig at, groBartige nno
geregelte 8erbdltni6e an5unebmen. 9ie
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ten Malen @elegenbeit genommen,
barauf bin3umeiien, baB fi@ In Nlbin,
8raaorta &c., lit 0empifeab, Waler
Co., In Oorttopn, 9etpitt 60. unb an,
berpdrts 8ereine BON @drtnerrt urb
Garmerr gebilbet baben, tpel9e ben
3ped perfolgen, elmer berartisen Yerz
i9iffung bon 6riibs@ Semitic uno Sbit
au etnem ftebenben un5, tpie nit alIer
Si6erbeit noraus3ufeben 1T, duBerit
geminnbringen6en @ei9dfts5weige .au
MAIDEN. Grit In Der b%erga1genel1
Wo6e Bat tpteber bic 9orticultur . &C.
ieai1aft BON pilot point, Denton Co.,
tn ibrer regelmdBigen Gibung, tpel9e
am 5. @pril tattfanb, bic Grage, einen
lobnenben, austudrtigen Marft fur lire
probutte gu bei9afen, unter Beratburs
eebabt unb 1T 5u benz 8ei9luNe ge=
langt, nit einem grport ibres Sfens
unb ibrer Semitic mad Denber @itp,
i'm State Colorado einea 8eriu@! gu
MAIDEN. IS tpurbe geltenb gema9t,
baB Semitic, Gbf, @ehagel, Butt
ter, @ier auf benz bortigeu Martte utter,
bort bobe preiie' brinsen, baB aber BET
ber bisberigen 06be ber grportpreiie bic
Sransport $ @eieQi9aften unb bic Wtitz
telmdtner ben 9auptgepinn auf Sos
item BET probu5enten un6 Der Gonius
menten an ft9 ge3pgen baben. IS
tuurbe oaber bei6lofen, bas @ei@dft
10 gu organifren, baB in 3ufunft BET
proou3ent, alfo ber 8erein, = au9
ber birefte 8erf9ifer fei. 81 biefem
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unb gu glei@er 3eit- beauftrast, nit
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in nnterbanblung 5u treten, UNI ftir
ben Werein bic m6gli9f ginftigeu
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Mderbaus unb Sbf3u6ts3eitung gu be-
%griinben; bic gu bieiem 3pede erfors
berli6en @elbmittel tpurben iofort ges
f9ert, unb i9on Bel Der nd9Iten regeIz
mdBigen 8erlammluug tpirb Der plan
unb oas programm BEG 8lattes, befen
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tuorben 1T, Der @eleQi9aft our 8s,
f9IuBnabme borgelest peroen..
MuBerbem bat f6 nod Elm beforberer
nMelonen'&lub" gebilbet, tpel9er bafiir
Gorge tragen fon, baB MeIonen In 10
binrei9enber Menge ge3ogeu tperben,
baB es ern10gli9t uiro, iie TT gan5en
Wagenlaoungen gu beri@ifen. unb mon
boft, oas bortige Melonen,@ ei6dft gu
einem 10 groBartigen gu MAIDEN, baB
Der Grtrag beRelben benz Der Baummol>
lensGrnte on Wert6 5iemli9 gletdtom.
men tpirb. sSie Seute bier" fagt
Der geridt, tpel9er uns borlie9t-
stpthen, tuas tie ipouen, unb tuerben
t9en In btr tommeroen Satfon bic
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- 2er9buifen tann ~bnllfdnbig tons
trolirt unb iebe @efabr bermieben pers
ben, bur9 bdrfigen @ebrau9 bon
@bamberlain's 9utensM ebiain. Mi9ts
Beferes tann-peri9rieben perben. 8er=
fault bon &C. @pbn'& 6 %.
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Sie bette Gribiabrsmebiain unb
8lutreinisungsmittel -finb eit BOAR 30.
fen ct. patrids pilen. 9ie S9a9tel
foftet rs @euts uno fie betpirft riebr
als irgenb cine DoGarsM ebiain. @arans
tirt unb bertauft bon 81. 6 obn&@ o.
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@elo 40 nerJetbest

obne Rommtffions @sbhbrtu
bon $1,000 an aufipdrts auf bis 10 Sabren
auf Gpbptbefeu bon taltibirtem 2anb, elm.
geiduntes Q1eibeIanb unD grunbeieentbum In
ero5eren Stdbten Ia 9eras. Autauf nnb
Berldnsernng bon 9enbors 2iens.
6raneis Smith, @albweu & Co.,
80 SoumersssS traft Gan Gutonic, 3sras.
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Alexander Strakosch fomntt!

@arten : @erdtbi6afteu, 8lume11s
geitele, 8lument6pfe, 'Bfumenf6rbe,
merifanii9e 8a6erfiibler, 9dngemats
ten, Sobtenfrdn3e BON getrodneten 8lu'
men unb bon 8le6 bel
PauI Wagner.
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$500 @elphnuua.

9ie llntersei@neten oHeriren biefe
Belobnuns fir irgenb einen Gaa BON
0dmorrboiben, ben fie ni@t furiren.
unteriu6uug unb @onfultation frei.
ellis & s bamberlain,
Solebab Blpd, San Nntonio, Seras.
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2MamM& N~~+&u

Maeo, seras. Z. San. 1888. Sd
babe Warners Safe Cure regelmdBig
gegen Blaiencatarrb a%ngetpaabtl. unb
stuar felt porigen Nusut. Sos Mittel
bat an mir Munber gepirft.
&%& #. Ma~ S&@
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=. 3. Mheiner.

@rocerp : 6dnbler, gde Nlamos unb
2abaca : StraBe, fabrt eth boGitdnbiges
2ager BON STAPLE unb Ganep Groceries.
BiIligf tie Marttpreife. Ollie
Waaren per6en fret Ing 9aus -geliefert.
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BSr 9ie feinften unb m~obernitet
Sommerbite. 8eiebt uniere ausgez
3ei9neten 9trobbtte fit so Gents.
pancDaf 6 5obn.
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2n Derna6tett.

Ser untersei@nete fu6t fir feinei1
i@6n am JluB gelegenen i@attige1
picnic $ plab einet Bd@ter. 8doer,
@ebaube, Gang platform &C.
Cd. Braben.
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- Scr. s. .. 8osmeQ, elm befanns
ter Burger BON Brownsville, 9eras,
tbeilt Golgenbes aus eigener grfabrung
nit: Na9bem i'd cine 3eitIane an
Siarrboe gelitten unb peri9iebene Mes
bi3inel gebrau9t bate, beriu6te i'd
eine Jlai6e bon Gbamberlains Collie,
@bolera unb Diarrboe'9 eilmittel, tuel9e
mid fofort pieberberitelte. Sd ems
pfeble bies Mittel allen 2eibenbea.
Gum 8ersauf bel q. goba & 60.
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Alexander. StrakOsch fot1tut !
Weues Wrpcern ; GeIdaft.

Weues Grocery > Gei9aft.
gde BON Nlan1o & 2apaca : GtraBe
bat 9err s. S. &beiner cine nere
@rpcerD er6fnet. Sober &dufer tpirb
f6 bon Der 8ot5igli9feit uno 8iuigs
felt Der Waaren iberSeugen.
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Sic Stabt6aMe+
Manprs Office,

WaDDrs Office,
San Intonip, 2. NpriI, 1888.
8erRegelte Ingebote Der pIdne fur
bic rteue Stabtbale perben bonn Mapor
Der Gtabt big IL ubr Mitta9 ben IA.
Mai 1888 in uebereinfimmung init
ben in ber Office bes @taot'Sngenieurs
g. g. Maurp gu erIangenben Specifis
fationen, entgegengenomrnen.
8rDan @aIlagban,
MaDor,
6. g. @Iaubou, Stabt $ glert,
San NntoniO, Seras.
hS- Has aaser in fertisen Mn3isen
lit bieies Sabr better unb rei@baltiger
in Nuspabl unb preiien als ie BEL
Paneoat G Sobn.
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Er 9errenbemben unb Soiletteartis
tel in uniibertreffli9er Muspabl bel
paneoat & Sobn.
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Gtabt Roueftcrs Office
San Mntonic, ben IT. 1fdri 1883.
GEe @erfpnen, psl1e su EaFer fir gepdl.
lsrnuesauede bere@tigt ftab, tperben bierbur@
axfeelorbert ibre @aferfeuer entipeber Dor ober
NJ 1um 90. MpriI 1883 80 betableu.
s. 6. Qaueien,
s9,e,llmt4nb Gtaot aouettor.
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Inbere llr d e, anbere 80
tung.
,Was tpar alio bic urfa6e Der Gaus
ferei2"
,0ir uollten einen 8ruoeri@aftss
8erein griinben."
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Garr6Is prairie, Ser. "a.
Sea. 1887. Sd babe Warners Safe
Cure NIT ,sroBem Nuben gebrau6t unb
balte es fir bic bette Mebi3iu, bic i'd
iemals gefeben babe.
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&aarem Wei@1ft
PAUL WAGNER.

Die reidNfe unb elesantefe Musmab
bon Nrtiteln, welde td ~beipnbers at
@eburtstasss unb SO4Beits i. @eidenfen
eisnen. ais
Silberplattirte Waaren.
Statuen BON Bronze, Sierra , Gotta,
YOr3ellan unb Mabafter.
@elisi5ie Gisuren, @rueiire unb Ss.
ientran3e.
Blumen.g aien unb 9lupeln.
: Eahen, fein beccrirte.
Glbums in grocer auswaht.
photographer aller Nrt.
Scupenirs nit 81 Nniidten BON @an
Wntcnio, fur so Gents.
BilDers unb Bilber= Rabmen.
Wufttbcien unb l1bren
Sperasld5er uHb Ternrsbre.
Eaidenmefer unb Sdeeren.
Oanlen> unb &erren,T cilet Wecefaire.
@elbtaiden far 0erren unb Damen.
DamensS ahDtuiden.
Brief Mappen.
9&reibseuse unb NOti3baaer.
Viitenz2 artens Gtuis.
DamensG rbsitss adfi&en unb RSrbe.
5anbzS ptesel unb Rdmnle.
Hau4-Eifde unb Service.
@isarrensg tuis.
3eitmnss. Wappen.
@pa3ierfSde.
Icsel. unb Gi@bcrn. 3dise.
Mcccrbecns, 3itbern unb 9~eruonieas.
Wui9eln in GROCER Iuswubl.
Tiid.apparute.
Bapiere unb ionifise WoteriaIien 3ur :
anfertisuns bon Bapier. Blumen.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-03
YOUNG BEECHERS.

Harriet Bsecher Stowe tells this story
OF her early girlhood:
Smother was an enthusiastic horticul-
turist in all the small ways which limited
means allowed. Her brother John, in
New York, had just sent her small par
Gel of fine tulip bulbs. 1 remember rum
maging these out of an obscare corner
in the nursery one day when she was
gone out, and using all the little English
1 then possessed to persuade my brother
that these were onions, such as grown
people eat, and would be very nice for us;
we fell to and devoured the whole. I re-
member being somewhat disappointed in
the odd, sweetish taste, and thinking that
onions were not as 1 had supposed.
"Then mothers serene face appeared at
the nursery door, and we all ran toward
her, and with one voice began to tell our
discovery and achievement. We had
found this bag of onions and had eaten
them all upl There was not even mo-
mentary expression Of Impotence, but
she sat down and said:
"'My dear children, what you have done
makes mamma very sorry; those we're
not onion roots. but the roots of beauti-
full flowers; and if you had let them alone
mamma would have had next summer in
the garden great beautiful red and yellow
flowers such as you never saw.
81 remember how dropping and disap-
pointed we all grew at this picture, and
how sadly we regarded the empty paper
bag.
"When Harriet was five years old eight
little children were gathered around the
bedside of the dying mother While
they sobbed she told them, with mex
pressible sweetness, that God could do
more for them than she had ever done,
or could do, and that they must trust
| him, and urged her six sons to become
ministers of the gospel, which wish they
each carried out in after years" Sarah
| K. Bolton.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-03

them builtp Why is so much of our
time consumed in these mean evils,
which are only for this vile body; and
why is there so little left for science
and for criticism of the Universe
Yes, gentlemen, 1 confess it. This is a
hard World to live in 1t is needlessly
hard = The eloquent orator thus
closed Such, gentlemen, is the Uni
verse, such its parts, such its purpose
and plan. Such also are its defects,
and such is the proved pre-eminence of
the Bumblebee, who is not only its
crown and its completion, but who can
enjoy and comprehend it all, nay, Can
look beyond and see its faults, and find
a severe and melancholy pleasure in
thinking that it might be better made"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-03
REMARKABLY CONDOLENCES

Condolences in names are of such
| frequent occurrence as to be familiar;
but some of them are surprising. Dan
lei Webster married Catherine LIE Roy.
A few months since in Boston a suit
was noticed, the parties to which were
Daniel Webster and Catherine LIE Roy.
+ The First Unitarian church of the city
of Baltimore was attended for more
than forty years by gentleman recent
ly deceased. From that pulpit he heard
discourses by Doctors Furness, Bel
lows, Sparks, Blrnap, and Greenwood.
Two were settled pastors; the other
eminent men who appeared on various
occasions. In Guilford, Conn, till
within few years, the Second Congre-
gational church had had but three pas
tors in its entire history Root, Wood
and Chapman. This society resulted
from disturbance in the First church,
and when Mr.. Root was about to be in
stalled, one of the members of the First
church, with equal bitterness and wit,
suggested text, And l saw the
wicked taking root" Not many years
since the city of New York had atten-
ton drawn to the names of four great
criminals whose names contradicted
their character5-Charles Peace, who
had persoaated clergyman, was hung
for murder in England; Angel was the
name of defaulting cashier; John
Hope, of one of the robbers of the Man
haitian bank, and the Rev. John Love
was deposed for crime. On the day
that the Hon. John p. Hale died, the
on reef called Norman's Woe. When
James Buchanan was President of the
United States, a ship of-war was named
after his niece, the accomplished Miss
Harriet Lane. The officer in command
was Henry Wainwright. An accident
happened to that vessel about the same
time that Henry Wainwright of Eng
land murdered Miss Harriet Lane.
The papers that announced the acct
dent to the ship gave in another column
the details of the murder. The super
stitions concerning dates occasionally
exhibit some remarkable condolences.
Thirty-three sovereigns have assembled
the English throne since the time of
William the Conqueror, every month
except May witnessing the coronation
of one or more; that month not one. In
the lives of men extraordinary coinci-
dences often occur on particular days
of the week.
Impressive condolences have oc-
CURED in the words of parts performed
by actors in their last appearance on
the stage previous to death OF attacks
of fatal illness. The same is true of
clergymen whose texts for their last
sermons, and frequently the very words
which they uttered before being strick-
en- with paralysis or apoplexy, have
been singularly appropriate. How Of
ten resemblances of persons in no way
related confuse the question of identity.
Detectives frequently unravel difficult
problems by their skill and sagacity,
but owe their success in many cases to
chance condolences. Such happenings
are of assistance to lawyers, and by
them desperate cases are saved. Every
lawyer of large practice has list of
anecdotes Of this sort with which he
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-03

delights young limbs of the law"
AS general proposition the law of CO.
medicines is that when two phenome-
ma always coincide, they are either
connected as "cause and effect" or are
the "effect of comm on cause" But
If they do not always coincide, neither
of these is proved. They may then be
the effects of separate causes working
in their respective planes. The first
question is: Do the phenomena always
coincide? The Importance of wide
generaliz alton is often lost sight of,
and erroneous conclusions are asserted
with all the confidence of demonstra-
ton. A physician who lives near the
sea says that during the past five
years he has noted the hour and min
ute of death Of ninety-three patients,
and that every one has "gone out with
the tide" save four, who died suddenly
by accident. Yet about thirty-two
years ago, writer in the English
Quarterly ReUie,o claimed to have ascer-
tanned the hour of death in 2 $50 in
stances of all ages. His observations
show that the maxim um hour of death
is from to o'clock A. NJ when it is
40 per cent above the average; the
next during the hour before midnight,
when it is 25 per cent in excess. Be-
tween 8 and 10 o'clock in the morning
it is 1712 per cent above from 10 A. M.
to P. NJ. it is 1872 per cent below the
average. From co in the afternoon
the deaths rise to sig per cent above
the average and then fall from that
hour to IL P. M, averaging 6l2 per
cent balow mean. 1t is probable that
both these observations are worthless
in view of the SIN Ill number of instan-
ces covered. 1t Is clear that they do
not concur; yet, taken separately, each
would seem conclusive.-Reu J. M
Buckley, IN the Century for February.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-03

contact with have told but few of those
stories pertaining to our faith.
The old Quaker is no longer moved
by the spirit to speak, and men and
women everywhere have come to see
that in Universalism many a sanity
soul has found the inspiration for life
that was beautiful and grand, and
strength to face without fear the is
sues of eternity.
To the managers of the revival the
results have been disappointing.
Twenty one churches representing over
three thousand members, at an expense
of over 1900, gather in about one
hundred and fifty converts. Half of
that number would naturally connect
themselves with the churches repre-
sented in the revival. They come from
families upon which the churches de-
pend for their growth. Different rea-
sons are given for the meager results:
the cold weather, the great crowds
before which timid people dreaded to
stand up and make known their resolu-
ton to live better life; but the real
reason has been overlooked. The peo-
pie are losing faith in that pagan abom-
nation, " Salvation by the blood" and
are coming to a realiz alton of the
fact that salvation is mans emancipa-
ton from his own baser self through
obedience to the laws of God. S Salvation
is harmony with our environment.
The meager results are cause for
both gratitude and sorrow. 1t is graf
flying to think that the maj ority who
have listened to Major Whittle could
not be m ade to believe that the sweet
and homely virtues of our daily life, the
love of home and children, was hateful
in the sight of God, il they were uncon-
verted, and that the good Father in
heaven should damn them for all eter-
nifty for not accepting scheme of sal
walton that is immoral and absurd.
And it is sad to see that with a reviva-
list of national reputation, with the en-
thusiastic support of the daily press,
with the attractiveness Of sweet music,
and the Jealous work of hundreds of
consecrated men and women, the re-
vival has failed to gather in the I'M
churched.
1t is very evident that the true re-
vival is yet to come, and when it does
come it will have some other end in
view than the salvation of souls from
perdition hereafter. 1t will carry sun
shine to the darkened home and heart,
strength to the despairing and hope to
the hopeless. The salvation it pro.
claims will be a salvation by character
not by belief; its inspiration that no.
BILE generosity and unselfish service
that seeketh not its own but its broth
er's good. For such revival let us
ever work and pray.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-03
"A BUMBLEBEE S THOUGHTS ON
THE UNIVERSE"

The following extracts are selected
by Christian Thought from Theodore
Parker's bright paper entitled +" A Bum
blebee's Thouaht on the Plan ant
Purpose of the Universe"
son the 2lst day of June, in the
year of 1,OO0,617, before our era, there
was a great Scientific Convention Of
Bumblebees (Api- Bombax) in little
corner of valley in the Jura Noun.
tains. At the close Of the convention
the various sections assembled to listen
to an address from the President, the
most distinguished savant in the world
of Bumblebees. Through orderly, logic
steps, the eminent savant led his de:
lighted auditors to this conclusion
such, gentlemen, is the Purpose OF
the World-the Bumblebee. >. Our
thought is the standard measure of the
world of things. The Bundle
bee consciousness is the true macro-
cosm, the real great world. The
possibilities of mind and matter are
exhausted in the Universe, and it's plan
and purpose in the Bumblebee. But,
gentlemen the orator proceeded,
there is one faculty of our multiform
consciousness l have not named as yet,
though l think it the greatest of all.
l mean the power of criticism. Let
me apply this highest faculty of the
Bumblebee to the Universe itself, for
that is the proper object of our criti-
cism. For grasshopper OF
even the largest beetle to criticise the
Universe it were ridiculous. But for
US, gentlemen, the Universe lies below
the level of the Bumblebee's conscious.
ness; we look down thereon and pass
Judgment He then alluded to his
own peculiar qualifications for such
criticism; his great age - have
buzzed four summers > his wide trav-
els-'I have been up to the highest fiji
tree, yea have flown over it and touched
the sky;' all which qualifications
warranted him in saying, If l am
Judge of anything, it is of the Universe
ITSELF His judgment he thus de-
clares: OF the Universe in general,
1 say, like it. l admire its plan, |
comprehend its wisdom and rejoice in
it. However, it is not so large
as we have commonly supposed and not
so wonderful. But, gentlemen, when !
come to speak of its parts, confess /
have my reserves; l cannot approve of
all things in it,
This omniscient Bumblebee then
proceeded to point out some of the
defects of creation. Too much time
was consumed in preparing for our
race. The bumblebee might have exis-
ted 100000 years before he did, and
all that time was lost. l find fault also
with the proportion of the seasons the
summers are too short, the winters are
zoo long and cold. The trees are too
toll, such, l mean, as bear the most
valuable flowers. Why must the Bum
blebee fly for his daily food to such an
excee ling height2 The conditions of
life are too difficult. Why does not
honey run all day in any place, or fall
each night like dew2 Why must we
build our houses, and not find