lurat Karugag.
JACOB STRAWN AGAIN.
MR. EDITOR :—ln your paper of the 12th
inst. you have an article headed " Jacob
Strawn—the Great Illinois Farmer," in
which are many misstatements, and a slander
on the energetic, enterprising, benevolent
citizens of the town of Jacksonville., The
individual who wrote that article was either
ignorant of the facts; or wrote a deliberate
falsehood, and the only charitable construc
tion that can be given is, that the writer
confounds the honorable Senator Funk of
Illinois (who was probably as wealthy a
farmer, and a better man,) with Jacob
Strewn.
The writer states that "he built pretty
much the whole village of Jacksonville."
Now, sir,
that is not true; the only house
he ever built in the town was a two-story
building known as Strawn's Hall, in which
are three storehouses on the first floor, and
the hall occupying she second story; the
foundation of this building was not laid
until the fall of 1857. The building is a
good one, cost a large sum of money, but
it is very inferior to any building in Phila
delphia at such a price.
The town of Jacksonville is a place of
eight or ten thousand inhabitants. The
Illinois State Institution for the Insane is
located here; also the Deaf and Dumb,
and the Institution for the Blind—all
State Institutions. The Illinois College,
the Presbyterian Female Academy, and the
Illinois Conference Methodist Female Col
lege are all located here. And yet the
writer states that Jacob Strawn built nearly
the whole of the village. Instead of being
any advantage to the town, he was rather
a disadvantage, especially in its earlier
days. He did not encourage the business
men, for in earlier days he would go about
town and borrow money from the business
men, or wherever he could get it, and go
to St. Louis, buy goods and groceries, and
then sell them to his employes—thus de
priving the business men of the town of
so much trade. He no doubt was a very
singular man, for he would borrow money
from persons here for a few days, and then,
at the appointed time, return the identical
money which he borrowed.
The writer also states that "he repre
sented his district in the legislature."
Now, sir, that is not true: He never rep
resented this district, or any other, in the
Legislature of Illinois. And therefore his
" noted available good sense" did not
render any assistance to that honorable
branch of our State Government and it is
doubtful if he could have doricso if he
had been there, unless they wanted to
drive a trade in cattle. '
Time will not permit the notice of any
more of the misstatements in that article.
It is sufficient to say, that he was not the
man to hold up as an example worthy of
emulation to the young men of our coun
try. The best that can truly be said of
him is, that he was energetic, industrious,
persevering; was a good judge of cattle
and made money.. He was not a Christian
man, never was a member of.a church, and
gave no evidence of a religious life; or, if
he did, it was at the eleventh or twelfth
hour.
There are many better men, whose
Christian life of industry and good deeds
have pissed away, whose praises are un
printed, unheralded and unsung. Respect
for the family and friends of the deceased
requires that the mantle of Christian char
ity be let fall over much that might be said
of him. .A CITIZEN.
JACKSONTILLE, ILLINOIS, April 16, 1866
THE GARDEN.
The garden is a beund volume of agricul
tural life, written in poetry. In it the far
mer and his family set the great industries
of the plow, spade and hoe in rhyme. Every
flower or fruit-bearing tree is a green sylla
ble after the graceful type and curse of
Eden. Every bed of flowers is an acrostic
to nature, written in the illustrated capitals
of her own alphabet. Every bed of beets,
celery, or savory roots or bulbs, is a page of
blank verse, full of belles lettres agriculture.
The farmer may lie known by his garden.
It eontains the synopsis of his character in
letters that may be read across the road.
The barometer. hung by his door will indi
cate certain facts about the weather, but
the garden, lying on the sunnyside of the
house, marks with great precision, the de
gree of mind and heart culture which he
has reached. It will embody and reflect
his tastes, the bent and bias of his percep
tions of grace and beauty. In it he holds
up the mirror of his inner life to all who
pass; and with an observant eye they may
see all the features of his intellectual being
in it. In that choice 'rood of earth he re
cords his progress in mental cultivation and
professional experjence. In it he marks,
by some intelligent sign, his scientific and
successful eetemonies in the cornfield. In
it you may see the germs of his reading,
and you can almost tell the number and
nature of his books. In it he will repro
duce the seed-thought he has culled from
the printed pages of his library. In it he
will post•an answer to +he question whether
he has any reading at all. Many a nominal
farmer's house has been passed by the
book agent 'without a call, because he saw
a blunt, gruff negative to, the question in
the garden or yard.—ENis Barna.
CLEAN. THE CELLARS.
We advise farmers and others to be par
ticular and thorough in cleaning their cel
lars, sinki, &a., and in removing all filth
and rubbish from the vicinity of their dwel
lings. We advise it as a cholera preven
tive, and, likewise, as a promotion against
the approach of various forms of sickness
to which we are particularly liable in the
sunnier season. Do not wait until hot
weather comes, and the foul smell of de
cayed vegetables in the cellar renders the
work a necessity, but purify your premises
now.
Soon as danger from freezing is over, a 1
vegetables keep better if removed town up
per room where the air is dryer. After re
moving such from the cellar, and clearing
away the debris, it is well to scrape off a
little of the bottom, if it be of dirt, and
take it away, and then scatter some quick-
lime, or other disinfectant, in various places.
Don't neglect to white-wash the walls and
ceiling overhead. Then give the cellar a
free airing when the weather is warm and
dry. Provide, also, for a free circulation
of air throughout the entire season. We
believe that farmers' cellars can often justly
be charged with producing much sickness,
and the proper cleansing of them is a matter
that cannot be safely neglected during the
coming season. Clean up the yards also,
and be watchful that there is no decaying
vegetable matter in proximity to the-dwel
ling
PLANT STRAWBERRIES,
All should have as many strawberries
as they want to eat, and spring is the time
to set out the vines. They will grow in
almost any situation, and under almost any
circumstances. It is nearly as cheap to
have a bed of strawberries as a bed of sor
rel. They will grow upon the same kind
of land, and with as little care, but, per
haps, there is no fruit that pays better for
having good cultivation.
If are determined to have strawber
ries, and not take any care of them, plough
the ground and set the vines about a foot
apart, and let them mover the ground as
soon as possible, merely pulling up the
weeds as soon as they get high enough, and
you will have strawberries in due season,
and all that you deserve.
But we hope you will do better than this,
and dig up the ground as deep as you can
afford to, and set the vines about two feet
apart, and keep them hoed, and cut off the
runners as fast as they come, and see what
nice, large hills they will be by next fall
Cas large as a peck measure) ; and such
fruit as you will get off such vines ! Try
as large a bed as you can of the best varie
ties that you can find, and you will not be
sorry.—Farmer's Almanac.
EXPERIMENT IN GRASS CULTURE.
An English farmer writes to the Mark
Lane Express an account of an accidental
experincent,in grass culture which occurred
on his farm a few years ago. He says that
his plowman mistook , orders and plowed half
an acre in one of his-grasS fields before the
mistake was discovered. 'This was in, the
fall, and the'land lay with the roots of the
grass turned up to the weather during the
winter. In the spring the sods were turned
down carefully and the land rolled. The
result was, that the grass grew richer and
higher in the plowed part than in any other
portion of the field, so much so that the
difference could be noticed from a consider
able distance. The improvement in the
grass of the plowed 'part has been perma
nent.
THE FLOWER GIRDEN:
Set out the annuals you may have got
forward in windows or frames, that is the
hardy ones. The plan used to be to set out
in a shower; but the plan is barbarous.
No wonder, with such old fogyish rules, our
handsome young ladies are disgusted with
gardening. Let the girls lift the seedlings
carefully from the soil l in the pots, set the
roots in a saucer of water, take them to
their assigned places in the garden, and
from the water dibble them , at once in.
Cover for twenty-four hours with ari invert
ed flower-pot—next day cover only six
hours during the middle,ot the day,—next
but an hour or so during hot sun, if there
be any ; and the plant is safe.
~cigicti€ic.
HOW OLD IS MAN Y
The question of man's age upon the globe
becomes really serious' in presence of the
eaves and of the drift period. The evi
dew() of the "finds" in the drift, especially,
poll to the existence of man on the earth
at a period far back of the assumed Bibli
cal date of his creation. We cannot well
doubt that the weapons and implements of
stone found so abundantly in the drift were
of human workmanship; nor is it easy
to account for their deposit in such , ' a
forniation without allowing a. vast margin
of time for the pre-historic races. Such
evidence cannot be set aside by an appeal
to Genesis; it, must stand upon its own
merits, and. every well-attested fact must
be received without reference to the ques
tion of harmonizing it with the Mosaic his
tory of man.
But, on the other hated, it must be re
membered that the data are as yet too mea
gre for a scientific determination of the
antiquity of man ; and, as was forcibly said
by Mr. Wright at the Xtirmingham meeting
of the' British Association, "there is a
spirit of too hasty generalizing in relation
to these pre-historic times, as shown in the
theory that they were divided into three
periods or ages, 'distinguished by the names
of Stone age, Bronze age, and Iron age.''
According to this theory, man existed at
the first in a rude, savage state, when his
only implements were of unpolished stone.
At a much later period, the invention of
bronze enabled 'itim to fashion his imple 7
ments of that material. Still later he
acquired the more difficult art of working
iron; when stone and bronze disappeared
from commott use.
But this is arbitrary, and is not borne out
by facts. The use of rude implemend
marks a state of barbarism, but not neces
sarily a high antiquity, nor the primordial
type .of existence. Upon the American
continent, the stone hatchet and flint
arrow-lead of the Indian are contempora
neous with the locomotive, the sewing -ma
chine, the telegraph, the Sharp's rifle of
the Anglo-American. The household
utensils and personal ornaments of the Eng
lish peasantry and the Irish tenantry are in
striking contrast with the skilled labor o f
Leeds and Biriningham. The rude occu
pants of the. Swiss lake-huts and of the
Danish sea-board may have been cntempa
raries of the civilized nations of the East.
History, tradition, language, monuments,
and physical geography all. point to Middle
Asia as the cradle of the human race; and
it is as rational to believe that man, endow
ed by the Creator With supremacy over the
physical world, started at a high level, and
that wandering tribes of pioneers degener
ated--as is the tendency of such m . grations
—as that man began his existence at the
a
low level of the stone age, and rose, by slow
advances, to. the age of iron.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866.
•
Mofeover, the very implements which
are said to Characterize distinct epochs are
intermingled in many of these "pre-historic
finds." An eminent authority in the,arch
mology of Great Britain—Mr. Wright—
says : "The mere presence of a stone im
plement does not prove that the deposit
was British any more than Roman. Stone
implements have often been found on Ro
man sites in this island; they have often
been found in Saxon graves in Kent; and
I have myself found flint flakes, evidently
placed there by the hand of man, in Saxon
graves in the Isle of Wight, perfectly re
sembling those of which the geologists
have talked so muoh of late." Similar flint
flakes have been found in Roman graves in
Normandy. We have the same authority,
sustained by that of De Caumontand other
.distinguished archaeologists, for saying that
the bronze implements are very frequently
found in ruins known to belong to the Ro
man period, and that bronze and iron wea
pons often occur in juxtaposition in Roman
remains. "The bronze swords, the bronze
shields, the bronze spears, the bronze dag
gers which have been found in Britain 5 are
all. Roman in character and in their pri
mary origin. . . . In this part of the world,
the use of bronze did not precedb that of
iron."*
The division of pre-historic times into
the three periods of Stone, Bronze, and
Iron is thus seen to be arbitrary; and the
theory of the advance of the race from rude
beginnings by successive.stages marked by
improvements in the arts of life—a pro
gress requiring immense epochs for its de
velopment—is simply conjectural It is
not a necessary sequence from the facts of
science. It is quite as credible that the
human race began its existence with a high
degree of intellectual endowment, and that,
in later times, the civilized and the barba
rian, the iron and the stone, were cotempo
riry phases of humanity.
The Bibligal account of the origin of the
world and of man has certain internal
marks of. Divine authenticity. The sacred
books of other ancient peoples are eminently
autoethonous in their spirit and fabulous in
their antiquity. They magnify the ances
try and the duration of the races to which
they severally. pertain. But the sacred
books of the Hebrews do not attempt to
magnify them as a people in their origin of
their antiquity. - Adam is not the progeni
tor of the Jews, but of mankind. His
home is not in Palestine, but in Mesopota
mia. He is not a hieing of the fabulous
past, but one whose personality is reached
by a well-connected tradition.
In the account of the Creation given in
Genesis, there are no absurdities or puerili••
ties, such as discredit all other ancient
cosmogonies in the light of modern science.
The sublime simplicity of ,the narrative is
a note of its inspiration, and its grand out
lines accord with the latest results of science.
We cannot doubt, therefore, that any seem
-ing discrepanci4s between the Bible and
science in respect to the antiquity of man
may be harmonized, whenever the facts
shall be finally established. But in , the
present unsettled state of the question, we
are' not shut np t,o the -alternatift,her
monizing science and the Scriptures, or
rejecting the Bible. Let each stand upon
its own evidence, abiding the issue of fact.
And though we should never be able fully
to harmonize them, it might yet be that
both the Bible and Nature were from God,
and both are true.
In one point certainly they are agreed.
Science teaches that man had .a beginning.
There was an epoch when he appeared for
the first time on the surface of the globe
It teaches also that tbi re wa:-. n•.t..ing in
nature adequate to the production of such
a thing. And even on the theory that lie
began to exist at the low level of the Stone
age, he there appears as the inventor, the
builder, the master of nature, adapting all
physical materials to his own use, extermi
nating monster creatures,
- gaining the as
cendency over the world, "replenishing
the earth and subduing it, and having do
minion over the fish of the sea, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the
earth."—Hours at Home.
* Wright on Bronze Weapons; Anthropo
logical Review, No. 12, p. 81.
The following reminiscences of Bev.
Samuel Fiske, popularly known as " Dunn
Browne" are from an article in the last
Congregational Quarterly.
Professor Tyler says of him :
" Entering Amherst Codlege in the an-'
tumn of 1844, as, I believe, the youngest,
and, as I know, the smallest; and, as his
classmates will all agr,e, the brightest'
and smartest of his claw, he took at once'
high rank as a scholar. Perhaps his forte
was itrmatheinatics ; but he excelled also
in the classics and all the departments.
* * * I remember just where tie. 7.",
and just how he looked when he Niati t:
Junior under my own instruction. Inn icriY
mind's eye I see him now, curled up in the
corner of his seat, scarcely occupying more
room than a kitten, playful as a kitten too,
still the boy, and in promise the coming
man of the class, his eye flashing with in
terest, his • face beaming with intellectual
life and joy, , and his whole
_body vibrating
and throbbing in spontaneous Sympathy
with his active mind.'
Many of his sallies , are remembered, as
well as his drawing food for mirth even
from the Hebrew grammar. One recollec
tion must suffice. sAt an examination of
the class by the professor in theology, being
questioned upon some topic, he omitted one
point to which the professor called his
attention. He remembered he said, that,
was treated, but had forgotten how: "Well,
sir," said the professor, in his peculiar and
genial way, " suppose you were on a West
ern steamboat, and' somebody should ask
you about that point, how would it do for
You to answer, that Professor said
something about it, but you did not really
know
what?" " Ah,". replied he, " no
bodyywill ever catch me on a Western
--
steamboat without notes of Professor 's
lecture s un d er m arm !"
scene was altogether, too much for the
gravity of the professor and the class
The imaginary
, - ` l / 1852 he ' oed to Amherst, where
retur
he spe„,tutor.
the next three years as
isttliantguo.
SAMUEL FISKE.
"Still a mere freshmen in apparent age
and size, and mistaken for such when he
first came upon the college-grounds, some
of the fathers of the freshman-class were
disposed to patronize the young man, and
more fatherly sophomores undertook to give
him good advice touching his duty to his
superiors. He enjoyed the mistake too well
to correct it; and his amusement was only
equalled by their surprise when they dis
covered their error by.finding him in the
tutor's chair, and themselves sitting under
his instruction. About the same time a
clergyman, laboring under the same mis
take, asked him if he proposed to enter
college. He replied that he had about
made up his mind to take a shorter course
into the ministry. The clergyman pro
ceeded to argue the point, insisting on the
superior value of a college education, when
the tutor enlightened him by saying, 'Per
haps you do not understand my reasons for
not entering college; it is because I have
already been through, atid knew all about it
by experience.'"
When the call came for three hundred
thousand men, he entered the army as a pri
vate soldier, but was soon promoted to the
rank of captain, and fell at the head of his
command, on the second day of the battle
of the Wilderness, and' died after sixteen
days of suffering., His last - hours are thus
described :
" When a surgical examination had re
moved the last ground of hope for his re
covery, and a chill came over him which he
took for the last, he said, ' Now death can't
be far of;' but presently he added, ' heaven
is a better country than this.' Then, turn
ing to his brother, he inquired, sa, do
you think heaven-comes,—that is, immedi
ately after death ? Well, I shall be there
and know all about it pretty soon.' Then
followed messages of love to absent friends,
tender words to those by his side, particu
lar charges touching his ' darling' children,
and thoughtful instructions about his affairs,
all as calm and tranquil as if he were in
pefect haalth. The last night of his life,
as his brother was sitting by his side by
midnight, he seemed to be awake and think
ing. Presently he said, I have been run
ning ,everything over in my mind to see it
Iliad left anything undone towards them;'
meaning his wife and children. can't
think of anything I have left.' When
assured that he had remembered every
thing and had nothing to do but just to lay
himself in Jesus' arms, and rest, he smiled,
as if well pleased; and when asked, You
can love and trust him ?' he said, ' yes, I
can perfectly.' They repeated hymns to
him, such as Jesus, lover of my soul,' and
' Rock of ages, left for me;' and he repeated
them after them. His brother happening
to pass between him and the light, he asked,
' Who is that ?' 'Your brother Asa; you
must not forget him.' Instantly carrying
the significance of the words forward to
that world whither he was so soon going, he
said, 4 heaven must be .a very forgetful place
if I do.' Sabbath morning, the day of his
death, he greeted his sister with the salu
tation, 'To-day I shall get my marching
orders; well, lam ready.' His brother
' , aced limakor , - laikil-reetod.----i-Oh, beau
tifully !' he answered; g just like a sleeping
angel.' Then he smiled, and added, But
I don't look much like one, do I?' Thus
cheerfully did he obey his last orders; thus
naturally did he die, just as he lived, just
like himself; thus beautifully did he pass
from the Sabbath on earth to the Sabbath in
heaven. And now he has fought his lag%
fight, and conqnerad the last enemy. 7,,
It was on' the 22d of May, in the hospital
at Fredericksburg, that he passed away. His
was one more brilliant name added to the
long. sad, glorious list of patriot martyrs.
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Rev. T. 11 . .. Hopkins. A. K. Geneva. NOW Yo r k. .p otw ik
Edition. IV.n. d. Moses : Auburn. N. Y.
KIND Rzsoza: Wouldyou like to see it demon
strated, that the story of Samson and Ids Foxes, and
that of the Dial of Ahas. are - evidently a etietrents/a-
Lion P.—the Stopping of the Sun and Moon by Joshua,
an iseerweiatieuf and that the word of God contains
nothing of these, as they are in our common Transla
tion? .Would You like to inquire, among the institu
tions of Jesuit Christ, for certain dogmas - of the
Church, and not find them there Y Would you see in
what sense men are born in the Image of God? Be
sides, Infidelity has asserted. that if the dead were to
rise to-day. and to occupy as much spue as when they
were alive, they would cover the whole earth to the
depth of some eight or ten feet; would you see it
demonstrated. that apace for at least five burying
grounds tan be found within the limits of the State of
New po r k, of sufficient capacity to bury every son
and daughter of Adam? The above-named Book
will do this and something more; you may obtain it
by sending $1 50 to the author at Geneva, who 'will
forward it to you post-paid. When you have read
it, if you do not find it so, return the Book and I will
refund the money. T. M. HOPRINS,
Geneva, N. Y.
LONG'S MONTHLY
LETTERS.--No. I to a
Young Person. No. 2
to a Sunday-school, a
Class, or a Family of
Children.
The Author, devoting his whole time in preaching
to, and corresponding with children, finds that there
is A CHARY in what comes to them in letter form. es,
peoially when directed to a parthinlar school, class,
family or child.
No. 1. Theyoung love to be noticed. Seldom re
ceive letters. 'l'hese letters, in a. neat handwriting
teach how to write, read, and compose letters:.
No. 2. Those having children in charge; find it de
sirable always to have choice, spicy matter at hand
and "in a nutshell," to interest children with. _ _
They are filled with incidents, extracts from chil
dren's letters and other illustrations, all bearing on
one gospel theme or teat.
Rev. Dr. Newton: "
fuL"
Rev. A. Cookman : "The collection of incidents
and simplicity of expression, make them exceedingly
interestin&"
George 11. Stuart: "Admirably adapted to interest
children." Others say,. " Exactly what is needed in
our Sabbath-school."— ' The subject of conversation
until thu next one appears.",— • MICANS of increasing
our sohool."—Contributes largely to the interest of
our Sunday-school concerts."—"All were delighted
-several were melted to tears."—" Could not think of
doing without them."—" While they interest, they in
struct and profit," etc. ,etc. TEEns-11 a year. A
specimen 10 eta. Address. mentioning 0.1 or 2,
REV. EDWIN M. LONG_,
1210 Chestnut Street, Phila.
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