The Phoenix Herald, 1879-04-23

them to ridicule he di si iii;!; t.. ihc level of a Wacksruard. P.-jcanst- there is no other subject which ntn.-.i pefi pefi-pie - pie pefi-pie deem si sacred, and which liu.i; liu.i;-sands - sands liu.i;-sands of intelligent nicu and women bold so dear, regard so tenderly, think of so reverc-nlly, as reliiiion. Sup. pose a man should announce n lec tnte on " I:igersf)l!'s Family, " and ' s''riu'11 r-'H;r ol;t mvic live, riuscnlc; j and traduction fur an hour 0:1 his wife 11.! d:iii ;'i?er. Would anyoa:? blame I.igrrs-iil if Uf gaveliiui a liirnshiu:; Would anyone pretend lh:ii such a fellow was a frentleman ? Vet he would be as we!! entitled to ba so called as the man who ridicules that which is to many dearer than liou;;e- hold treasures, and which they cn - shrine in the inner sanctuaries of their natures with all precious and I holv things. Let Inp-ersoll miur out places him nn a level with Dennis Kearnev. Both are orators (it is said but ll"t'1 :"'G I'laekguai-ds. I Inirers(ll Is not truthful, because j : rr. j wc ,J,!ic.v; ,n Ull.t,0 Gods whici.u I not true. w ,'ll sav we have three sovmimenls because we have a trinul gvernmeut, or that a man is three '; mca ''t"Uise l,e has a tripple nature. as to sav Ihat those who believe in Iriual Uod worship tliree Gods. He savs "the minislers of the duv were made from such membi-r? of a fanii- ! ly as were believed to be until for .luylhing else," another untruth, 'ri.r- i '1. ri-.f t:i :i rn t nist rv v.-i 1 1 e.'iim:tr . lavoniljlv, la point t! e uciilion and ; intellectual power, with any oiher cr.ss of people, lie says "religion ":Ul ;:,"'i;lng 'UC,1 M , raise again. More dicoverits liave : been made bv Christians than bv t.,., .... ,. . ; aineisis. Jinrc soicnimc woi-ks nave .. ...u ..ii vu.ici - liaaity than by atheists. More is be - i ing done for education by Chrisibuis than by atheisN; and by way ot cou cou-i - i cou-i irat wilij the huiniivd-i i i' ( ( ;i- dowed r.nd. carrie.'i on by Ciii isti-.iiis, i will Iiigi-rsol: i.'li us how many cd cd-i - i cd-i lejjos are conduced by Rlhc isN ? lit; ! says '"it is .-aiJ Gd esin'olisUed ,io-; lyi'Mmy y.ijoii ysiirs ai;o.'' Jjtill lal.se. 1 i The oriina! marriage establiii-u by ' j ftccordi.-m to the bible, was mo- j nog.-iunc. In time the marriage re re-: - : re-: irtlion became corrupter! l):t God i was not responsible for that any 1 more than he i? for tho raviiiLS of j Ingersoll. These are a few of the j misrepresentation taken from ike. rc- : pertoire of this modern hiijh priesl of : ; intldulity. A nice lot! ' liiioisoll is as void ol modesivr.s ! of tiiilhfnlr.tss and-L'-f-ntlemanly icel- in?. Thus he says that Mo. i s did : not viitc one word of the Pcnlati n. h. ; ?ow from time immemorial the Jews ' have ascribed most of these books to 1 Moses. The proft.un'.lest (;hritian scholars who have made toe bible a study are almost unanimous in the opinion that Closes wroie tliem, cx- ; cPt idditions by a later wnier. j . An.l now, !iere comes ine great san;i san;i-lot - lot san;i-lot champion of inildclity and brtisli brtisli-i - i brtisli-i es aside all this study of years with a sicsie sentence. What sublime im 1 lHidenee. Bob would do for a life I insurance ajrent. lie iiai- the cheek i for ii. However, it may be set down ! as a ';liltle mistake, excusable in a ! man who was not then-, to know 1 what he is talkiii"- about."' lie ac accuses - cuses accuses Cni'isiiaus of a lack of intelli intelligence - gence intelligence in believing that the world was made onto'.' nothing; but if he w.;re : not wholly blinded by egotism and vanity be would see that modern aliic. , Mic science is more open to this 'charge thrill Christianirv, because I Christ ians trace everything back to a j self-exisient, creative, inteiligenl pow pow-j - j pow-j er, wniie the latest phaso of s.kepii s.kepii-! - ! s.kepii-! cal science traces nil tilings bark by ;i series of evolutions ti a pviniordial ! germ. Xow, whence came that germ ; from God, or nothing? Ji doubt ' Hob can tell. A man who can say ' tl'.-.t Afwf.a liidn't writ'- : word oflhv

; liow the oiisiinnl aomad enme into i existence. lie wasn't there Any more I than Moses, but he knows more abou t if, because check is better than in inspiration. - spiration. inspiration. A Fr.iENTl OE P.nLIOION. ftj.arii.Ii Ouitni'4. tho air pei formed required if. The wfrkii-mship displayed on Hies.; Uonzalrs gtiitirs is exquisite, and the instruments wi-ie sold at the price ot S200 each. The progressive develop develop-merit - merit develop-merit of sonorous power in mush mush-which - which mush-which began in the setcntl Liiif of (he riirhleeiiih century, has caustd to . Si.s.ii.pear from the d..iiir.in of jtrt otc by one, ail insirniaenls w hst voices fire not very slrojirr. P.nt as receiil receiil-ly - ly receiil-ly as fo l v year3 ajo tiie guitar wsi cultivalrd with passionate loeliii;: by e multitude of persons of musical tastes all over the world. Rossini, in j The Barber ofSiCj'Uc, gets a charming, ! effect fiom it in the famou serena.lr-. Sii'.l, the days of the guitar, in any j wide sense, were even then numbered, , Jt has not sufficient volume of sound : to hold a place in the noisy music of ; the nrpsr-nt. nnt to lention tbr.t fit ticeit hand, and Accompanied by a mellow voice, it seems in perfect an analogy - alogy analogy with the character of the nation itself tender, gallant, dreamy, secret and melancholy. On the minstrel stage it is likely to hold iu own for many a year to come. A potent ; cause will retain it there ; it is a capi- tal dummy. A valuable iuterlocuter or a desirable balladist who is not mas ter of anv instrument can always j hold a guitar in his hands and pre- ; lend to be strumming while the others ! play. larii Twain's Very Last. At a dinner given recently to Twain, by the Stanly Club of , tl ; P,.r;5 nt which were nre;ert n r-reat ; maliy distinguished people, that i "Inn-cent Abroad" being of course : caned on ror a speecn. made one, in : which he related the following storv i v. iiii his accustomed drawl and seri . uusn!,S5 o( cnunteuancc. , "itoser .ucfuersou, sir, was a ! ,,,an y u.t ou a VOvasre from the Bermudas, who had been perma-ne-iilly ss.Idenctl by c.vperienee which Ivfel! him in Wisconsin. Ho had been asked to convey the re. mains of a valued frieiid lo his huuio in that state from a distant town where he ciicd. lie had the body put in a rough case, which, I am son v to s.n-, was exchaneccl at the , depot ilminsj his momeniary absccco for a couple of rifles which very much resembled it in outward form. The l ilies were put id the car and Roger took his seat beside them i:i awe sirr.el; silt nre, thinking he w: s sliii guai'.linir i!ie remains of his old IVicil Aiioihtr traveler, sir, had metin'.ii.ie deposited a iimberjer cheec iii .he car. which, somehow or other, I can hardly leil why, tended to keep up the mourner's illusions. McPhe: 'n knew' nothing of his having this delicacy for a traveling companion. Ye'.: it was in all proba probability - bility probability the cause of his thinking incrs. saniiy of his late frijnd. It had Ihe same n'Vecl on olhcrs. 'Did he die. recently that is this year?' .,sklHi tUe Cxpresmaa in tones of ; cnmiiiieratioii, looking at the ril! ril!-box. - box. ril!-box. -He aiiit in no trance,' added I ihc honest fellow after a pause, con. ! templating the box. 'lie's perma perma-I - I perma-I nent, I'll go bail for him.' I've ! carried a good many of 'cm, too," . gasps the expressman presently, 'but I for genuine power' and he looked 1 at tlio box again. They smoked 111 111-! - ! 111-! cessanlly, they burned feathers, and : at last tho expressman says: 'It aint : no use, your friend wants to travel a a-lone,' - lone,' a-lone,' and they no outside and pass the rest of a very bitter night on the.. platform of the ear-" In answer to Shakespeare's cotinu-. drum, "What's in a name?'" the Syracuse Times says that if it's a Russian general's name tho entire alphabet is ia it. Sidney Smith once rebuked a "wearing visitor by saying, "Let us assume that everything and every, body are dammed, and proceed with ' i,r t 1 1 ii ; -. -f "

tc-iiu.-i "c.LLv. u icv j aware that. Ill order tO UO this we will have to sell! cheaper than our I lit-15, U - ibors, and we are prepared 11 ; to do so. As we are ; tj U 1 i i ill CI WO are VOry mucll pressed for Casll and ue tl,,-r,,.- If will lwJ l,tt,. ; IJ1V.1 VIV'l , A K- Mill I.'L Ll.,l for us to sell for cost than ; to sell Oil ever SO Snort a I lime. llO Kiatter how trood iti,. l-,, 1,-11. nivv fn.t:. Liiu . u 1. 1 . iia; itiLO in 1 1 the case are just these: it i.- . iitt.L-asii) " it" it lu have OUr srOOtlS Or tO have the wherewith to buy illiore. Of COUrse We do nr.t urn,..! to .In cn mimli S business but de- we are , - i, termmea IO CIO Wliat we can. Our Lumber Yard is now full and nearly com com-ulete. - ulete. com-ulete. i ! Provisions, Groceries, ! Dry (Joods, i Ciothino- i 7 j Boots and Shoes. ; Fruits, j Honey, Summer Hats, .Ranch Butter, Hard wave, i Tinware, i Paints, j Oils, ; Glass, Putty, J Crockery "Ware. : Iron and Steel, i Lamps, j Powder. ; Fuse, j Jtc , eve., Sec, Sec, Sec. j Keep on the "West side of I the Plaza. Remember the i sign over the do r-, t Rv nc & Variety Sior Tiencla Be rata.

lecture on Moses iteiriontraes Shut The country which of all nib era the lecturer is lackiiii; in t!nr-e of the j lias associated the guitar with its nut nut-most - most nut-most essential requisites of insnhor.d j ional expression i:i music is Spain, genlleinanly instincts, ti u'.hfulutss on whose romantic soil it was intro. and modesty. He is not a gen tl -jib a- j -laced al the time of the Moori3U in in-because - because in-because he treats religion with scorn, Tasi.)i:. There always bare the rnnn ridicule and sarcasm, instead ol &r- tuneful guitars been manufactured. T. srumcut. A gc-ntieinan may reason . the P.iris Expositioa were s?nt guit guit-calmly - calmly guit-calmly against rr li aiou, endeavorin g ars from a Spanish ii;strumcnt-makrr to convince his voiaries iljai t'.icy are j the vibrations of whose ?trin!is could wrong; but liie i-ioijienl he su'ojerts ' be prolor.ed twenty seconds uln a

jinentlS ana Hie ptlDllC I argument if he can; let him reason ; the future. Spain U row the only generally that from t.lli.3 i logically and deccully, it lie is able J country where the instrument con con-f'1(J' - f'1(J' con-f'1(J' ' time forth we will cease to ! "nJ ,llc l)u!j'ic vii' respect hiui, how- : tiuues to give active signs of life. ',,11 v.. . i ever much thev mav deem him mis-! Heard amid the stillness of the iconn- -.-.o-.!t ... , sell lor credit on anv , , , . , -" " .. , , . , ... r .. . . , , taken: but his nresent inctnod oiiivl ; l.r mollis of S.-tain. struck bv n Drac-