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What Is in Thine Hand?
“If I had time,'* said one. with longing heart;
••Bo many things to ease the great worlds
smart
And cheer it on, how gladly would 1 do!
But these spare moments are so very few.
And so those precious moments, running
tie t.
Which, grasped and held, would yield abua
dani wheat
Os deeds that from a tiny effort grew
Unnoticed, slipped her listless fingers
through.
•‘lf I had wealth,” another sighing, said;
• The poor would shower blessings on my
head; ~ .
I’d gladly spend my all for their relief,
And lavish contorts that would banish grief :
But 1 have naught to give,” and sorrowed
sore.
Unmindful of wealth she had in store
Os golden sunny smiles to make them glad;
Ko left the poor unvisiled and sad.
“ If I were only talented ami wise.”
Another craved, with upturned,w Istful eyes;
“What Jo> to use my eloquence to wre t
From galling bonds ttie tempted and op
pressed!
But all my gifts are dull and commonplace.
Nor heeded in a little child’s fair face.
Uplifted to her own, away to teach
The inspiration of persuaiive speech.”
—Selected.
Trees That Give Meat and Drink
THE “TRAVELERS’ PALM." THH “MILK
TREE,” THE BANANA PLANT, AND
THEIR VIRTUES.
Nature is a beneficent and generous
provider of all that is needful for the
sustenance of all living things. All
this season of the year, when the
plants and grasses are beginning to
show their tender shoots, and shrub and
tree are almost budding, the brown
earth is already sending forth htr sig
nals of the plenty to come when, warmed
by the sun and moistened by the rains,
ever}’ separate particle of soil will have
its part to perform in the divinely-or
dained law of production.
Among the trees, there are several
that deserve special pre eminence for
the life-sustaining qualities of their
fruit, and the numerous uses to which
other parts of the plant may be put.
Humboldt, the traveler, mentioned a
strange tree he saw in South America,
and which he called the ’'cow-tree,'' be
cause its whitish juice or sap, of a milk
ish c insistency and taste, wks freely
used by the natives, as we ourselves use
the lacteal fluid. The cow-tree, he de
scribed as growing out of rocks, and
having dry, leathery leaves, but large
spongy roots. After heavy rains, the
trunk, when pierced, gives out the milky
secretion quite copiously, and it was
sweet and nourishing. It was cus
tomary for the natives to use this milk
freely and to give it to their children.
Another wonderful tree is known as
the “Travelers’Palm," and is a native
of the island of Madagascar. The
branches stand out in fan shape, while
the large leaves almost hide the lower
part of the trunk from view. This is a
most graceful tree, its symmetrical pro
portions making it an object of admi
ration to travelers. On the lower side
of the branches, a dew collects in the
evening in myriads of drops, and these
form little streams that run down the
stems to the base of each branch, where
there is, in every instance, a peculiar
cup-like hollow. Here the dew gathers
in a little pool, deliciously cool and
limpid, and when a thirsty wayfarer
comes along, all that is needed is to
press the lower part of the sac or reser
voir, and hold a cup or jar to catch the
tiny crystal rivulet as it trickles oyer
the edge
Os a very different and even more
beneficent character is the banana tree.
It has been computed that, if necessary,
the whole population of the earth could
be supported on the present annual ba
nana product, as it alone of all the
fruits possesses every essential
for the sustenance of human
life. It is the most valuable
fruit the earth produces. In Afiica it
is a staple food, and so also in some
parts of the West Indies. In some lat
itudes the banana grows to a consider
able size, equal to a small tree, while
elsewhere it remains a dwarf plant, pro
ducing the finest and most delicate fig
bananas. These small fruits, which are
never sent North, are preferred on ac
count of their superior flavor. After
blossoming the fruit forms, and during
the next three months it is “filling” to
ripeness The plant’s life ends with the
bearing of a single bunch of bananas
and it is cut down Our banana import
trade has been almost wholly developed
in the last ten years, and it promises to
become an article of greatly increased
consumption. While the banana has
thus a great value as a food
supplier, it has other uses,
for excellent cloth can be made
from its fibre, and indelible ink. or
vinegar, from the juice of its skins. But
the cocoanut palm has even a wider
field of utility, for every leaf, branch
and fibre are utilized. The nut yields
oil, milk, and solid food, the rind is
made into spoons cups, bowls, and
tables, the bark into twine, cloth and
mats, the buds are eaten and the sap
gives sugar, while the leaves are used
assails, sacking, baskets and thatch.
Even this record of usefulness is eclips
ed by the Chinese bamboo, from which
a thousand different articles are man
ufactured by the ingenious Celestials.
Such are some of the trees a kind Prov
idence has placed in those regions to
supply wants which in other parts of
the globe are supplied through different
means. — Selected.
Really a Heroine.
“Nannie, dear, I want you to hem
those napkins this afternoon without
fail. Can I trust you to do it? I
must go out for the whole afternoon,
and cannot remind you of them,” said
Mrs. Barton to her little girl. “Yes,
mother, dear, I will. You can trust
me,” said Nannie. Now Nannie did not
like to hem napkins any better than you
do; but she wfnt at once to her work
basket, took out her needle and thread
and thimble and began work Pretty
soon she heard the sound of music. It
came nearer, and at last it sounded
right in.front of the house. She dropped
her sewing to run to the window, and
then she stopped. “No, I promised
mother, and she trusted me,” said Nan
nie to herself; and she sat down again
and went to sewing. Soon the door
burst open, and in rushed several little
little girls. “Nannie, Nannie, where
are you? There's a monkey out here
and a trained dog, and they’re playing
lovely tricks! Come on!” “I can’t. I
promised mother, and she trusted me,”
she answered. They coaxed and scold
ed. but all to no purpose. So they left
her. Just as she finished the last nap
kin, her mother came in. “My little
heroine! "she said, as she kissed Nan
nie. “Why, mother, I didn’t save any
body’s life or do anything brave; I only
kept my promise.” answered Nannie,
wonderingly. “It is sometimes harder
to keep a promise and do one’s duty than
to save a life. You did a brave, noble
thing; and I thank God for you. my
dear, "said Mrs. Barton.— Our Little Ones.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX : THURSDAY, MAY 7, 189«
A Fortune in the Fire.
There died lately in London a lady
who had for some time past been an in
valid and confined to her apartments,
but who through a single act of self-de
nial. several years ago attracted the at
tention of the literary world. Lady
Burton was the widow of Sir Richard
Burton, who became distinguished as a
military hero, traveler, and author.
With him she spent several years among
the Arabs, and she shared numerous
perils and privations. At the time of
his death, Sir Richard Burton had com
pleted the manuscript of a work which
was regarded by a certain class of lit
erary men as exceedingly valuable, but
which, on account of its immoral char
acter, might have blighted thousands
of pure young hearts, had it been pub
lished. It was a translation from’the
Persian and gave evidence of his high
scholarship, although it was also a tea
tiinony of his lack oi Christian principle.
His widow was offered a fabulous sum
for the manuscript over which he had
labored for years, but she made the
matter a subject of prayer, and after
becoming convinced of its true nature,
she without hesitation committed the
entire manuscript to the flames -an act
for which she deserves to be gratefully
remembered by the entire Christian
world. Selected.
Faets About Notable Books
Longfellow turned out about one vol
ume of poems a year for many years;
nearly four yeers were required for his
translation of Dante.
Macaulay, from the inception of the
plan to the time when his work was cut
short, spent eight or nine years on his
"History of England.”
Bunyan took the otherwise unem
ployed hours of three years to finish
"Pilgrim’s Progress.” which was writ
ten almost entirely in Bedford jail.
Thackeray would produce, under
gressure, a novel in six or eight months.
[e did not like to work, and. as he often
stated, only did so under compulsion.
One of Milton’s biographers says that
nearly twenty yeaus elapsed between
the sketching out of the plan of "Para
dise Lost" and the completion of that
work.
Gibbon devoted over twenty years of
his life to the labor of reading for and
writing the "Decline and Fall." It is
oue of the most stupendous literary
feats ever accomplished by the labor of
one man.
The manuscript of Gray’s "Elegy” re
mained in the author’s hands seven
years, receiving touches here and there,
and would not have been published then
had not a copy loaned to a friend been
printed. — Epworth Herald.
The Troubles of Youth.
There are many young people whose
happiness or unhappiness seems to de
pend upon the shifting currents of life—
the circumstances of a day. the little
favors or slights of others, the multi
tude of influences that play like alter
nating lights and shadows about us. If
everything goes right, these mercurial
young spirits are buoyant and happy;
but just as sure as the chance shadow
flits over, there is gloom in the heart.
No deep, abiding source of joy, no
treasured up sunshine of hope and trust
—this is what makes the happiness of
thousands of young people such an un
certain, unsatisfactory thing. Mere
chameleons of life are such, taking the
hue of the surface over which they pass.
The trouble lies in youth's so frequent
failure to understand that happiness is
not an external but an internal condi
tion and possession. It is not a mood,
but a life—the kind of life that reaches
down so deep that the sources of it never
know when the surface is ruffled or
clouded, any more than the depths of
the sea know when the winds blow or
the sky lowers.— Selected.
Well bred Listeners.
It is an indication of good breeding
not to interrupt a guest, even though
one be already familiar with the matter
the guest is discussing. Thesamekind
ly rule applies to most old people who
have their pet stories which they delight
to relate. There are dear old gentle
men —and old ladies, too —who have fa
vorite stories which they are rather
fond of telling. People in their own
families, or among their very intimate
acquaintance, hear these stories more
than once —indeed, they sometimes hear
them till they become very familiar.
The really well bred woman or girl lis
tens to the thrice-told tale, the well
worn anecdote, says a pleasant word,
smiles, forgets that she has heard it be
fore. and does not allow the dear nar
rator to fancy that the story is being
brought out too often. Good manners
at the table are inflexible on this point.
You must give pleasure to others, and
make up your mind to receive gratifica
tion by imparting it.
Signing the Pledge.—l could
bring you evidence after evidence of the
wonderful power that has been mani
fested simply by the quiet witness of
signing the pledge and carrying it home
to the family in which you live; not
pharisaically finding fault with every
body, but calmly and quietly bearing
what little obloquy it may bring you,
until by degrees your example spreads
and the power reaches to other hearts
and God shall give you the glorious hap
piness of having been the means of
leading others out of darkness into
light In every department of the na
tional life the gospel temperance move
ment is making itself felt. When they
want to ride a bicycle race from the
postoffice in London to the postoffice in
Edinburgh, they do it on cold water
and not on alcohol, because they want
to win. When they send over a team
of football Maoris from New Zealand
they make them sign a promise that
they wont take alcohol in England, be
cause they want to win the football cups
and they know they can win them bet
ter on water than on alcohol Canon
Wilberforce.
She Wanted Love.
A kind hearted, sweet-faced woman
called one day to see a little maid,
whose mother was dead, and who had
been placed in the poorhouse. She car
ried a present with her, but before giv
ing it, she asked, “Now, dear, what
would you like best?” The little one
looked up wistfully, and then shyly
said, “I would like to sit on your knee
for a minute, as if I were your little
girl.”— Ex.
The out-and-out Christian is a joyful
one The half-and half Christian is the
kind that a great many of you are—lit
tie acquainted with the joy of the Lord
Why should we live half way up the
hill, and swathed in mists, when we
might have an unclouded sky and a vis
ible sun over our heads, if we would
climb higher and walk in the light of
his face? — Alexander MacLaren.
There may be saints who have no
higher mission than to sit still and wrap
themselves in ecstatic dreams; but those
who are closest to their Lord’s heart
know that his life, when it beats
through theirs, moves their hands ir
resistibly toward acts of tender, human
sympathy like his “ who went about
doing good.”
A Lesson Well Learned.
A poor man on the way home from
his day’s work, was walking along just
ahead of me, with a sack of flour on
his shoulder. His little boy was trudg
ing by his side with a beetle swung
over his shoulder.
It was a heavy thing to carry, and I
heard the little boy say very wearily:
"O, father, how glad I am that we
left the wedges till to-morrow night.
This beetle is just all I can carry.’
“Do the best you can, my son," said
the father. “ I know you are tired,
and the beetle is heavy, but be patient. ”
For some time after these words of
encouragement the little fellow was
very patient, but the farther he went
the heavier the beetle seemed to grow.
At last he stopped, and, lowering it
to the ground, said;
“ Father, I cannot carry it any far
ther. "
“You need not carry it any farther,
my boy," was the father’s reply. "You
have done well. Some little boys would
have complained in a very short time,
but you have done nothing of the kind.
You’have been patient, and you have
nobly strengthened your own power of
endurance by what you have done.
Now. my darling. I will carry the beetle
the rest of the way for you. "
How easy and how pleasant the re
mainder of that walk was to the little
boy whose father was carrying the bur
den for him.
I saw the two—father and child—as
they entered the little yard in which
their low, vine covered cottage stood.
Two lessons were learned during the
evening walk.
The little boy learned that when he
really needed help, the father would
help him. He would not shirk. He
carried the heavy beetle as far as a lit
tle boy ought to carry it, and then he
learned the grand lesson of his life:
that his father could be depended upon
to help him.
1 als J learned a lesson. I learned that
if I bear life’s burdens patiently, my
heavenly Father, all unseen, will, when
the proper time comes, take them and
bear them for me. —TAe Messenger.
Shifting Membership.—The rapid
ity with which the population of cities
shifts found fresh illustration the other
day in the count which a Boston pas
tor made of his Sunday school pupils
and teachers. The occasion was an an
niversary, and the pastor asked all who
were connected with the school when he
began his pastorate seven years
ago to rise Between 200 and
300 were present, but of that
number only twenty five responded.
Such is the situation in a church which
cannot yet be considered down town
and which is not supposed to have suf
fered the losses that some of its neigh
bors have experienced. But we pre
sume what are known as family church
es in other cities could also tell a story
not unlike this. Only those who are
in the stress and strain of city work
realize how constant is the drain of men
and resources into the suburbs, or from
one less favored locality to another more
desirable as a place of residence.- 77/e
Congregationalist.
Like as a Lily.— One day I saw a
lone, lovely lily springing tall and white
from among the dark weeds and rank
grasses that grew along the shores of
a stagnant pond.
So still were the waters of the pond
that a slimy greenness always over
spread them, full of impurity and
miasm.
In the midst of all this uncleanness
and unpleasantness the lily bloomed;
it was a marvel of waxen purity in the
midst of foulness. >
And even as the lily grew in perfect
purity amid its
so have I seen a little child holding fast
the love of God in its heart in the
midst of sin
O the love of God ! Like a spell it
saves the soul from pollution, and keeps
it like as a lily in the midst of the weeds
of wickedness.
When a King was Poor.
A writer to an English paper
tells the following story of a
royal grandmother and her little
grandson:
“A little anecdote of the Queen
of Denmark comes to me as illus
trating the kindness and good
sense for which she is so well
known. It leaches her Majesty’s
ears that one of her little grand
sons had spoken slightingly of a
poor officer who was much about
the Court. The next day the
the Queen took the child
for a walk in that part of Copen
hagen where rank and fashion
are unknown, and, pointing up
to an humble-looking house.‘The
King lodged there once,’ she
said, ‘when he hadn’t as many
kroners in a year as my grand
children have now for pocket
money. He was a poor officer in
the late King’s service, much
poorer than Col. , and he al-
ways thinks of that when the
people cry, ‘Long live the King!’
It’s not a bad thing for a young
prince to be poor.”
Christian Governors.—The
Chicago Times-Herald has learned
that of the forty-four State Gov
ernors, thirty nine are avowed
believers in religion. Ten are
Presbyterians, five Congre
gationalists, five Episcopa
lians, four Methodists, three Uni
tarians, one Baptist, and one
‘•Christian,” while the remaining
ten say that they are simply
Christians. Gov. Budd, of Cali
fornia, in his reply says that he
has no religion,but he believes in
the observance of Sunday as the
day of rest. His parents are
not believers, and he was I r night
up as a free thinker. Gov. Oates,
of Alabama, says that he is not a
member of any church, and lhat
he never joined but Two institu
tions: the Masonic fraternity and
the Democratic party.
“Every man sheds a light pe
culiar to himself. No man has all
the light. No one star holds in
its little cup all the glory of the
universe. One star differeth
from another star in glory. Sup
pose one of the least of these
stars should say: ‘I am going to
withdraw from the firmament be
cause I see a great flame com
pared with whose splendor I am
but a glowworm in the presence
of the sun.’ Better for that lit-
tle star to say: ‘The God that
made yonder great flame trims
my lamp, gives me my little
sparkle of light.’ ” — Joseph Parker.
Removing Cinders from the Eyes.
. Nine persons out of every ten
with a cinder or any foreign sub
stance in the eye, will instantly
begin to rub the eye with one
hand while hunting for their
handkerchief with the other.
They may and sometimes do re
move the offending cinder, but
more frequently rub until the eye
becomes inflamed, bind a hand
kerchief around the head, and go
to bed. This is wrong.
The better way is not to rub
the eye with the cinder in it at
all, but rub the other eye as vig
orously as you like, according to
a writer in the Medical Summary,
who relates the following expe
rience:
A few years since, I was riding
on the engine of a fast express.
The engineer threw open the
front window, and I caught a
cinder that gave me most excru
ciating pain. I began to rub the
eye with both hands.
“Let your eye alone and rub
the other.”
I thought that he was chaffing
me.
“I know you doctors think that
you know it all; but if you will
let that eye alone and rub the
other one the cinder will be out
in two minutes,” persisted the
engineer.
I began to rub the other eye;
soon I felt the cinder down near
the inner canthus, and made
ready to take it out.
“Let it alone and keep at the
well eye,” shouted the doctor
]tro tern.
I did so for a minute longer,
and, looking in a small glass he
gave me, found the offender on
my fcheek.
Love's Greatest Gift.—
That was a touching story of
sick room ministration which
Mr. Gladstone gave in Parlia
ment, when announcing the death
of the Princess Alice. Her little
boy was ill with diphtheria, and
the mother had been cautioned
not to inhale the poisoned breath.
The child was tossing in the de
lirium of fever. The Princess
stood beside him and laid her
hand on his brow to caress him.
The touch cooled the fevered
brain, and brought back the wan
dering soul from its wild delir
ium. He nestled a moment in
his mother’s lap; then, throwing
his arms around her neck, he
whispered, “Mamma, kiss me.”
The instinct of mother-love was
stronger than all the injunctions
of physicians, and she pressed
her lips to the child's. The re
sult was death.
You say she was foolish. Yet
where is the mother who would
not have done the same ? There
may be peril in the sick-room for
those who minister there for
Christ; but love stops at no peril,
no sacrifice. There was peril in
Christ’s own mission to this
world. In his marvellous love
for us he put his lips to the
poison of oursin and died.
Nagging is not a means of
grace. There is a more excel
lent way—the way of love. It is
better, when we wish to correct
faults in others, to be careful to
let them see in us in strong re
lief, the virtue, the excellence,
opposite to the defect we see in
them. It is the habit of a cer
tain good man, if one of his
family or friends mispronounces
a word in his tearing, never pe
dantically to correct the error,
but at some early opportunity to
find occasion to use the same
word, giving it the correct pro
nounciation. Something like
this is wise in helping others
out of their faults of character
or conduct. An example is bet
ter than a criticism. — J. H.
Miller.
Daniel Webster on one occa
sion related a very expressive
anecdote in one of his eloquent
speeches, and was afterwards
asked by a friend where he ob
tained that illustration. Webster
replied, “I have had that anec
dote in my mind for twenty years
and nev .r had occasion to use it
before today.” The time had
come at last for its use and the
great orator used it with telling
effect. The words of Christ
stored up in our minds, will some
day serve some great purpose in
comforting our hearts and in
stimulating us to a life of greater
faith and patience. Well did Da
vid say, “Thy word have I hid in
my heart that I might not sin
against thee.”
Moral Tone in Italy.—The
Church of Rome is largely re
sponsible for Italy’s sad moral
and spiritual condition by the ex
ample it has set. The tone of
morals is low, the chief thought
of many being not to avoid the
evil but to escape a scandal. Re
cently a prominent daily of Rome,
La Tribuna, stated that crime is
becoming more frequent in Italy
than in any other country of Eu
rope. Suicides also are distress
ingly frequent, most trivial iea
sons often being given for the
deed.
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Educational Advantages in
Italy.—ltaly has thirteen uni
versities, a great many colleges
and academies, and not less than
ten thousand public schools. Be
sides these, there is a great num
ber of private schools. Most of
the present 'generation, between
the ages of ten and twenty, can
read, though great ignorance
prevails among those who grew
up before the present govern
ment came into power, and while
education was almost exclusive
ly in the hands of the priests.
Os these there are probably fif
teen millions who cannot read.
A great impetus, however, has
been given to education in these
late years, and the gcod effects
are already plainly seen.
G.od gives a great many peo
ple only one talent because he
wants them for plain, common
work. But whatever our talents
may be, they are just what God
has given us, and they are just
the talents we need for the spe
cial work which God has assign
ed to us. And if we use our gifts
and fill our places, however hum
ble and lowly, we shall be noble.
Who will say that the lowly,
modest daisy is not as noble in
its own place and sphere, as the
tall, proud oak? Nobleness con
sists in being what God made us
and meant us to be, and doing
what he gives us to do.— J. R,
Miller.
Every Day.—Try every day
to do some kind, helpful act. If
you watch for opportunities, you
will find them —at home, at
school, when you are playing;
and a kind act every day will
soon form in you a habit of kind
ness. Live every day as in your
Heavenly Father’s sight and to
gain his approval. Do not delay
to serve him, to have him every
day as your nearest friend, or to
give the help you mean to
give to father or mother, or the
kind word to sister or brother.
In giving pleasure to others you
will be almost sure to gain hap
piness for yourself. Try it!—
Morning Star.
The Bible.—The Bible never
grows old, but-increases in inter
est and power. There is no
more widely circulated book
to-day. All talk about its
unpopularity and decline is
so much wasted breath in the
light of the fact that during the
pastyear more Bibles have been
printed and circulated than were
produced in all the years preced
ing l«N0. This demand for the
Word of God is one of the most
cheering signs of the times.
Mankind wants it. Let all peo
ple under the sun have it.— The
Presbyterian.
Sometimes in the course of our
lives there comes a season—an
oasis in the desert, as it were
—when the past grows dim and
distant, and future there seems
none; when in the present we
are so content that all the rest
may go, so long as we can drift
on aimlessly in the same sweet
calm.
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1896.
On account of the Interstate Drill
and Rifle Contest at Savannah, Ga.,
May 11th to 16th, 1896, the Central of
Georgia Railway Company will sell
tickets from all points on its system to
Savannah at the low rate of one fare
for the round trip, for individuals.
Tickets will be sold from May 9th to
14th, limited, returning May 18th, and
for military companies, rifle teams, and
military bands, traveling together in
uniform, in parties of ten or more on a
solid ticket, at rate of one cent per mile
distance traveled. Tickets to be sold
May 9th to 11th, limited, returning May
18th.
The Central of Georgia Railway Com
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from Atlanta, Athens. Macon, Birming
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Opelika, Columbus, Americus, Albany,
Fort Valley, and all points in Alabama
and Georgia to Savannah for this occa
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Passenger Association territory via the
Central of Georgia Railway Company.
For further information relative to
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SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVEN HON.
The forty-first session, fifty
first year, of the Southern Bap
tist Convention, will, at the invi
tation of the Baptist churches of
Chattanooga, Tenn., be held in
the meeting house of the First
Baptist church of Chattanooga,
beginning, Friday May Bth, 1896,
at 10 a. m. The annual sermon
will be preached by Rev. Charles
A. Stakely, D. D., of District of
Columbia.
Lansing Burrows,
Oliver F. Gregory,
Secretaries.
Jonathan Haralson,
President.
Railroad Rates.
The Southern States Passen
ger Association, the Seaboard
Air Line, Louisville & Nashville
R. R. Co., Associated Railways
of Virginia and the Carolinas,
Mobile & Ohio R. R., the Cotton
Belt Route and the Queen and
Crescent Route, and all lines
south of Washington, together
with all railroad lines in Texas,
have granted the following:
Rates of one first-class fare for
the round trip, tickets of iron
clad signature form, limited to
continuous passage in both di
rections, to be sold May sth-Bth,
1896, valid for return within fif
teen days from date of sale, and
to be extended and made good
for return within fifteen days ad
ditional upon their deposit with
joint Agent at Chattanooga, on
or before May 14, 1896.
The Tennessee River Trans
portation Co. grants a rate of one
fare for the round-trip.
Other announcements may be
made later. Any information re
garding railroad matters will be
cheerfully given by
. O. F. Gregory,
Secretary in charge of trans-’
portation.
Baltimore, March 25, 1896.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Apr. 24.
Christian Index: The Recep
tion Committee of the Southern
Baptist Convention desire to
meet all trains containing dele
gates coming to Chattanooga.
To avoid confusion, delegates
are requested to have their as
signment cards convenient, so
that the members of the commit
tee may as nearly as possible,dis
tribute delegates from the depots
to the different homes provided
for them.
And all those in charge of Bap
tist trains containing a number
of delegates, will please give
timely notice to the chairman of
the Reception Committee of the
number of delegates upon said
train and the time of its arrival in
Chattanooga.
F. S. Yager,
Chm’n of Reception Com.
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