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ALLURING AS HONEY.
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON TRAPS FOR j
the unwary.
The Honeybee and It* Work Tempta
tion That I« Delictone and Attractive, i
but Damaging and I>e«tructive Ani
hroala and Nectar For the Soul.
[Copyright, IS9S. by American IT« ss Amo- I
elation.]
Washington, Jan. 23.—Dr. Talmage '
hero starts with an oriental scene, from ;
which he draws practical lessons ns to the j
allurements which entrap the unwary,
nnd the discourse will put many on their j
guard. The text is I Samuel xlv, 43, “I '
did but taste a little honey with the end
of the rod that was in my hand, and, 10,
I must die.”
The honeybee is a most Ingenious ar
chitect, a Christopher Wren among in
sects, geometer drawing hexagons and
I>entagons, a freebooter robbing the fields
of pollen and aroma, wondrous creature
of God whoso biography, written by Huber
nnd Swammerdam, is an enchantment for
any lover of nature. Virgil celebrated the
bee in his fable of Aristmus, and Moses
and Samuel and David and Solomon nnd
Jeremiah and Ezekiel and St. John usod
the delicacies of bee manufacture as a
Bible aymbol. A miracle of formation is
the bee Five eyes, two tongues, the outer
having a sheath of protection, hairs on all
sides of it* tiny body to brush up the par
ticles of flowers, its flight so straight that
all the world knows of the lx*» line. The
burn y< omb is a palace such ns no one but
God could plan and the honeybee con
struct; its cells sometimes a dormitory
ami sometimes a storehouse nnd some
times a cemetery. These winged toilers
first make eight strips of wax and by their
antennae, which are to them hammer and
chisel and square and plumb lino, fashion
them for use. Two nnd two those work
ers shape the wall. If an accident hap
pens, they put up buttresses of extra beams
to remedy the damage.
Whim about, the year 1 "70 an insect be
fore unknown in the nighttime attacked
the ixtchlvea all over Europe and the men
who owned them were in vain trying to
plan something to keep out the invader
that was the terror of the beehives of the
continent, it was found that everywhere
the bees had arranged for their own pro
tection and built before their honeycombs
an especial wall of wax, with portholes
through which the bees might go to and
fro, but not large enough to admit the
winged combatant, called the Sphinx
at ropes.
Do you know that the swarming of tho
bees Is divinely directed? 'The mother bee
starts for a new home, and because of this
the other bees of the hive get Into an ex
citement which raises the heat of the hive
some four degrees, and they must die un
less they leave their heated apartments,
nnd they follow tho mother bee and alight
on the branch of a tree, and cling to each
other nnd hold on until a committee of
two or three bees has explored tho region
and found tho hollow of a tree or rock not
for off from a stream of water, and they
hero sot up a new colony and ply their
aromatic industries and give themselves
to tho manufacture of tho saccharine edi
ble. But who can tell tho chemistry of
that mixture of sweetness, part of it tho
very life of tho boo and part of it the life
of tho fields?
Plenty of this luscious product was
hanging in tho woods of Bethaven during
tho time of Saul and Jonathan. Their
army was in pursuit of an enemy that by
God’s command must bo exterminated.
'The soldiery were positively forbidden to
stop to eat anything until the work was
done. If they disobeyed, they were ac
cursed. Coming through the woods they
found a plaeo where tho bees had been
busy—a grout honey manufactory. Honey
gathered in the hollow of the trees until
It. had overflowed upon tho ground in
great profusion of sweetness. All thoarmy
obeyed ordersand touched it not save Jona
than, and he, not knowing tlio military or
der about abstinence, dipped tho end of a
stick ho had in his hand into tho candied
liquid, and us yellow and tempting it
glowed on the end of tho stick ho put it
to his mouth and ate tho honey. Judg
ment fell upon him and but for special in
tervention lie would have been slain. In
my text Jonathan announces his awful
mistake, “I did but taste a little honey
with tho end of the rod that was in my
hand, and, 10, I must die.” Alas, what
multitudes of people in all ages have been
damaged by forbidden honey, by which I
moan temptation, delicious and attractive,
but damaging and destructive!
Corrupt literature, fascinating but
deathful, comes in this category. Where
one good, honest, healthful book is read
now there is a hundred made up of rhetor
ical trash consumed with avidity. When
tho boys on tho ears come through with a
pile of publications, look over the titles
and notice that nine out of ten of the
books uro injurious. All the way from
here to Chicago or New Orleans notice that
objectionable books dominate. Taste for
pure literature is poisoned by this scum of
tho publishing house. Every book in
which sin triumphs over virtue, or in
which a glamour is thrown over dissipa
tion, or which leaves you at its last line
with fesS inspect for the marriage institu
tion and less abhorrence for tho paramour
is a depression Os your own moral char
acter. The bookbindory mny bo attractive,
and tho plot dramatic nnd startling, and
the stylo of writing sweet as tho honey
that Jonathan took up with l)is rod, but
your best, interests forbid it, your moral
safety forbids it, your God forbids it, nnd
one taste of it. may load to such bad re
sults that you may have to say at the close
of the experiment or at the close of a mis
tiuproved lifetime, “I did but taste a little
honey with the rdd (hat was in my hand,
and, 10, 1 must die.”
Corrupt literature is doing more today
for the disruption of domestic life than
nny other cause. Elopements, marital in
trigues, sly correspondence, fictitious
names given at postoitice windows, clan
destine meetings in parks, and at ferry
gates, and in hotel parlors, and conjugal
perjuries are among the ruinous results.
When a woman young or old gets her head
thoroughly stuffed with the modern novel,
sho is in appalling peril. But. some one
will say, “The heroes are so adroitly knav
ish, and the heroines so bewitchingly un
true, and the turn of the story so exquisite,
and all the characters so enrapturing, I
cannot quit them.” Aly brother, my sis
fc-r, you can find styles of literature just
as charming that will elevate and purify
and ennoble and Christianize while they
please. The devil does not own all the
honey. There is a wealth of good books
coming forth from our publishing houses
that leave no excuse for the choice of that
which is debauching to body, mind and
soul. Go to some intelligent man or wom
an and ask for a list of books that will be
strengthening to your mental and moral
condition.
Life is so short and yonr time for im
provement so abbreviated that you cannot
afford to fill up with husks and cinders
and debris. In the interstices cf business
that young man is reading that which will
prepare him to be a merchant, prince, and
that young woman is filling her mind with
an intelligence that will yet either make
her the chief attraction of a good man’s
home or give her an independence of char
acter that will qualify her to build her
own home and maintain it in a happiness
that requires no augmentation from any of
our rougher sex. That young man or
young woman can, by the right literary
and moral improvement of the spare ten
minutes here or there every day, rise head
and shoulders in prosperity and character
and influence above the loungers who read
nothing, or read that which bedwarfs. See
all the forests of good American literature
dripping with honey. Why pick up the
honeycombs that have in them the fiery
bees which will sting you with an eternal
poison while you taste it? One book may
for you or me decide everything for this
world and the next It was a turning
point with me when in a bookstore in
Syracuse one day I picked up a book called
“The Beauties of Ruskin.’ It was only a
book of extracts, but it was all pure honey,
and I was not satisfied until I purchased
all his works, at that time expensive be
yond an easy capacity to own them, and
with what delight I went through reading
his “Seven Lamps of Architecture” and
his “Stones of Venice” it is impossible for
mo to describe except by saying that it
gave me a rapture for good books and, an
everlasting disgust for decrepit or im
moral books that will last me while my
life lasts. Al! around the church and the
world today there are busy hives of intel
ligence occupied by authors and authoress
es from whose pens drip a distillation
which is the very nectar of heaven, and
why will you thrust your rod of inquisi
tiveness into the deathful saccharine of
perdition?
Stimulating liquids also come into tho
category of temptation delicious, but death
ful. You say, “I cannot bear the taste of
intoxicating liquor, and how any man can
like it is to mean amazement. ” Well, then,
it is no credit to you that yoiffdo not take
it. Do not brag about your total absti
nence. because it is not from any principle
that yon reject alcoholism, but for tho
reason that you reject certain styles of
food—you simply don’t like the taste of
them. But multitudes of people have a
natural fondness for all kinds of intoxi
cants. They like it so much that it makes
them smack their lips to look at it. They
are dyspeptic, and they like to aid diges
tion; or they are annoyed by insomnia,
and they take it to produce sleep; or they
are troubled, and they take it to make
them oblivious; or they led happy, and
they must celebrate their hilarity. They
begin with mint julep sucked through two
straws on the Long Branch piazza and end
In the ditch, taking from a jug a liquid
half kerosene and half whisky. They not
only like it, but it is an all consuming pas
sion of body, mind and soul, and after
awhile have it they will, though one wine
glass of it should cost the temporal and
eternal destruction of themselves and all
their families and the whole human race.
They would say, “I am sorry it is going
to cost me and my family and all the
world’s population so very much, but here
it goes to my lips, and now let it roll over
my parched tongue and down my heated
throat, the sweetest and most inspiring,
the most delicious draft that ever thrilhsl
a human frame. ” To cure tho habit be
fore it comes to its last stages various plans
were tried in olden times. This plan was
recommended in the books: When a man
wanted to reform, ho put shot or bullets
iiito the cup or glass of strong drink—one
additional shot or bullet each day that dis
placed so much liquor. Bullet after bullet
added day by day, of course the liquor be
came less and less until the bullets would
entirely fill up the glass, and there was no
room for the liquid, and by that time it
was said the inebriate would bo cured.
Whether any one ever was cured in that
I way I know not, but by long experiment
it is found that the only way is to stop
short off, and when a man does that he
needs God to help him, and there have
been more cases than you can count when
God has so helped the man that he loft off
the drink forever, and I could count a
score of them, some of them pillars in the
house of God.
Ono would suppose that men would take
warning from some of the ominous names
given to the intoxicants and stand off
from tho devastating influence. You have
noticed, for instance, that some of the
restaurants are called The Shades, typical
of the fact that it puts a man’s reputation
in the shade, and his morals in tho shade,
and his prosperity in the shade, and his
wife and children in the shade, and his
immortal destiny in the shade. Now, I
find on some of tho liquor signs in all our
cities the words “Old Crow,” mightily
suggestive of tho carcass and the filthy
raven that swoops upon it. “Old Crow!”
Mun and women without numbers slain of
rum, but unburied, and this evil is peck
ing at their glazed eyes, and pecking at
their bloated cheek, and pecking at their
destroyed manhood and womanhood,
thrusting beak and claw into the mortal
remains of what was once gloriously alive,
but now morally dead. “Old Crow!”
But, alas, how many take no warning!
They make me think of Ccesar on his way
to assassination, fearing nothing, though
his statue in the hall crashed Into frag
ments at his feet and a scroll containing
tho names of the conspirators was thrust
into his hands, yet walking right on to
meet the dagger that was to take his life.
This infatuation of strong drink is so
mighty in many a man that, though his
fortunes are crashing, and his health is
crashing, and his domestic interests are
crashing, and wo hand him a long scroll
containing the names of perils that await
him, he goes straight on to physical and
mental and moral assassination. In pro
portion as any stylo of alcoholism is pleas
ant to your taste and stimulating to your
nerves and for a time delightful to all your
physical and mental constitution is the
peril awful. Remember Jonathan and
the forbidden honey in the woods at Beth
aven.
Furthermore, tho gamester’s indulgence
must be put in the list of temptations de
licious but destructive. You who have
crossed tho ocean many times have noticed
that always one of tho best rooms has,
from morning until late at night, been
given up to gambling practices. I heard
of men who went on board with enough
for a European excursion who landed
V ithout money to get their baggage up to
* o hotel or railroad station. To many
there is a complete fascination in games
of hazard or the risking of money on pos
sibilities. It seems as natural for them to
bet as to eat. Indeed tho hunger for food
is often overpowered by the hunger for
wagers. It is absurd for those of us who
have npyer felt the fascination of the
wager to speak slightingly of the tempta
tion. It has slain a multitude of intellec
tual and moral giants, men and women
stronger than you or I. Down under its
power went glorious Oliver Goldsmith,
and Gibbon, the famous historian, and
Charles Fox, the renowned statesman, and
i in olden times senators of the United
! States, who used to be as regularly at the
gambling house all night as they were,in
. the halls of legislation by day. Oh, the
I tragedies of the faro table! I know per
sons who began with a slight stake in a
i ladies' parlor and ended wit h the suicide’s
■ pistol at Monte Carlo. They played with
i the square pieces of bone with black marks
on them, not knowing that satan was play
ing for their bones at the same time, and
was sure to sweep all tho stakes off on his
side of the table. State legislatures have
again and again sanctioned the mighty
evil by passing laws in defense of race
tracks, and many young men have lost all
their wages at such so called “meetings.”
Every man who voted for such infamous
bills has on his hands and forehead the
blood of these souls.
But in this connection some young con
verts say to n;e: “Is it right to play cards?
Is there any harm in a game of whist or
euchre?” Well, I know good men who play
whist and euchre and other styles of games
without any wagers. I had a friend who
played cards with his wife and children
and then at the close said, “Come, now,
let us have prayers.” I will not judge
other men's consciences, but I tell you
that cards are in my mind so associated
with the temporal and spiritual ruin of
splendid young men that I would as soon
say to my family, “Come, let us have a
game of cards,” as I would go into a men
agerie and say, “Come, let us have a game
of rattlesnakes, ” or into a cemetery and
sitting down by a marble slab say to the
gravediggers, “Come, let us have a game
at skulls.” Conscientious young ladies
are silently saying, “Do you think card
playing will do us any harm?” Perhaps
not, but how will you feel if in the great
day of eternity, when we are asked to give
an account of our influence, some man
should say: “I was introduced to games of
chance in the year 1898 at your house, and
I went on from that sport to something
more exciting, and went on down until I
lost my business, and lost my morals, and
lost my roul, and these chains that you see
on my wrists and feet are the chains of a
gamester's doom, and I am on my way to
a gambler’s hell.” Honey at the start.,
eternal catastrophe at the last.
Stock gambling comes into the same
catalogue. It must be very exhilaratng to
go into the stock market and depositing a
small sum of money run the chance of
taking out a fortune. Many men arc do
ing an honest and safe business in the
stock market and you are an ignoramus
If you do not know that it is just as legiti
mate to deal in stocks as it is to deal in
coffee or sugar or flour. But nearly all
the outsiders who go there on a financial
I excursion lose all. The old spiders eat up
the unsuspecting files. I had a friend who
I put his band on his hip pocket and said in
substance, ‘,‘l have there the value of
$250,000.” Hie home is today penniless.
What was the matter? Stock gambling.
Os the vast majority who are victimized
you hear n:t one word. One great stock
firm goes down and„ whole columns of
newspapers discuss their fraud or their
disaster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But where
one such famous firm sinks 500 unknown
men sink with them. The great steamer
goes down and all the little boats are
swallowed Id t he same engulfment.
Gambling is gambling, whether in stocks
or breadstuff's or dice or race horse betting.
Exhilaration at the start, but a raving
brain and a .battered nervous system and
a sacrificed property nnd a destroyed soul
at the last. Young men, buy no lottery
tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on
no has .’ball glints or yacht racing, have no
faith in luck, answer no mysterious circu
lars proposing great income for small in
vestment. drive away the buzzards that
hover around our hotels trying to entrap
strangers. Go out and make an honest
living. Have God on your side and be a
candidate for heaven. liemember all the
paths of sin are banked with flowers at the
start, and there are plenty of helpful hands
to feteh the gay charger to your door and
hold the stirrup while you mount. But
farther on the horse plunges to the bit in
a slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which
Jonathan took on the cud of the rod amt
brought to his lips, but that which God
puts on the banqueting table of mercy, at
which we are all invited to sit. I was
reading of a boy among the mountains of
Switzerland ascending a dangerous place
with his father and the guides. The boy
stopped on the edge of the cliff and said,
“There isaflower I mean to get.” “Come
away from there,” said the father. “You
will fall off.” “No,” said he.“l must got
that beautiful flower.” And the guides
rushed toward him to pull him back when,
just as they heard him say, “I almost have
it,” be fell 2,000 feet. Birds of prey were
seen a few days after circling through the
air and lowering gradually to the place
where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers off
the edge of a precipice when you can walk
kneedeep amid the full blooms of the very
paradise of God? When a man may sit at
the king’s banquet, why will he go down
the steps and contend for the refuse and
bones of a hound’s kennel? “Sweeter than
honey and the honeycomb,” says David,
is the truth of God. “With honey out of
the reck would I have satisfied then,” says
God to the recreant. Here is honey gath
ered from the blossoms of trees of life, and
with a rod made out of the wood of the
cross I dip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia
and a nectar the drinking of which would
make men live forever, and one sip of the
honey from the eternal rock will give you
eternal life with God. Come off tho ma
larial levels of a sinful life. Come and
Jive on the uplands of grace, where the
vineyards sun themselves. “Oh, taste and
see that the Lord is gracious!” Be happy
now and happy forever. For those who
take a different course the honey will turn
to gall. For many things I have admired
Percy Shelley, the great English poet, but
I deplore the face that it seemed a great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The
poem “Queen Mab” has in it the malign
ing of the deity. Shelley was impious
enough to ask for Rowland Hill's Surrey
chapel that he might denounce the Chris
tian religion. He was in great glee against
God and the truth. But he visited Italy,
and one day on the Mediterranean with
two friends in a boat which was 24 feet
long he was coming toward shore when
an hour’s squall struck the water.* A gen
tleman standing on shore through a glass
|tw many boats tossed in this squail, but
ill outrode the storm except one, in which
.Shelley and his two friends were sailing.
That never came ashore, but the bodies of
two of the occupants were washed up on
the beach, one of them the poet. A fu
neral pyre was built on the seashore by
some classic friends, and the two bodies
were consumed. Poor Shelley! He would
have no God while he lived, and I fear had
no God when he died. “Tho Lord know
eth the way of the righteous, but the way
of the ungodly shall perish.” Beware of
the forbidden honey I
PRESS A BUTTON
And Rothschild’s Treasures are Safe From
Mobs Which he Fears.
A representative of the great banking
house of the Rothschilds says that the
Dreyfus affair In France is viewed with
greater apprehension by Baron Rothschild
and other wealthy Semitics than has been
made public. Speaking of the outbreaks
in Paris, this gentleman said that Baron
Alphonse Rothschild, the head of the
Parisian branch of the great banking
house, is in great fear that the mob,
should it once start, would be sure to seek
him out. It has long been a matter of
semd-publlc knowledge that Baron Al
phonse Rotschlld’s Paris residence was the
most luxuriously furnished of any in his
victaity, and that the Baron owns and has
there the most valuable private collection
of pictures and bric-a-brac in the world.
Fearing that any anti-Semitic demon
stration might result in an attack upon
his beautiful palace, Baroil Rotschild but
recently had the residence fitted out with
one of the most unique contrivances ever
produced by a Parisian workshop. The
Baron’s residence was formerly the great
Talleyrand's palace. It faces the Place
de la Concord.
Upon the walls the valuable pictures are
protected, and by touching a secret spring,
should the alarm be sounded, every pic
ture in the palace disappears into the
wall, leaving nothing hut a plate of steel
covered with beautiful crimson brocade
in its place. In the same manner each
piece of valuable bric-a-brac disappears
either behind the wall or beneath the sur
face of the floor.
In this way. within ten minutes from
the time an alarm could be sounded the
time an alarm could be sounded the
Baron’s art treasures would be safe from
the mob’s violence unless the latter took
a notion to fire the palatial mansion or
blow it up with dynamite. According to
private advices received anent the Baron’s
efforts to protect his property, it is an
nounced that he for one is thoroughly
alive to the dangers of the situation, and,
being a student of history, places no re
liance in a Paris mob. much preferring to
take time by the forelock and prepare
himself for emergencies. The fact that a
cool and calculating man of affairs, such
as Baron Rothschild is reputed to be. has
taken such unusual precautions against
any outbreaks of the anti-Semites is suf
ficient to illustrate the "gravity of the oc
casion. it is said.
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MACON EVENING, JANUARY 24 1898.
MAYOR'SMESSAGE.
It Will Be Ready to Be Read
to Concil Tomorrow
Afternoon.
MANY RECOMMENDATIONS
Os Importance Will Be Made that
are of Great Interest to the
General Public.
The mayor’s annual message will be
read -to council on next Tuesday night.
The message has been delayed because
same of the department reports have been
delayed, but as these are now all in, and
the mayor has his data at hand on which
to work, the message is in course of pre
paration.
No information will be given out as to
the contents of the message, but it is un
derstood that it will include a number of
most important recommendations and that
the mayor has some surprises up his
sleeve.
Among other things it is very probable
that a recommendation will be made that
some changes and improvements be made
in the city ball. The offices and the recor
der’s court will, under that recommenda
tion be made more convenient and com
fortable. At present the offices are entire
ly too scattered and the clerk is crowed
for room.
The recorder’s court is badly ventilated
and lighted, and is not by any means a
credit to the city.
The report of the chief of the tire de
partment, which will be included in this
report, shows that the department is in
excellent condition and that it has done
good work during the year. A recommen
dation for a change in the fire alarm boxes
and their color will be included in the
message. It is recommended that the tire
alarm boxes and the plugs be painted
white instead of red.
The police report will also show that the
department has done good work during the
past year and it is possible that a slight
increase of the force will be recommended,
though this 1s somewhat doubtful, as the
mayor has expressed himself to The News
as not in favor of ahy material increase
in the force just at this time, on the score
of economy.
The mayor’s message will not be an
elaborate document, but it will make in
teresting reading for 'Macon people and
for outsiders, as a review of the work of
the past year, and of some of the work to
be completed during the next year will be
included.
Mayor Price has a number of important
matters under consideration that will not
be included in the message as he is not
yet ready to ask for them the considera
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The BUkDFiaLD REGULATOR CO.* Atlanta. Oa.
GEORGIA, 8188 COUNTY—To the Su
perior Court of Said County: The petition
of James R. Sanders and L. Oscar Taylor,
of said county, shows:
First —That they desire for themselves,
their associates and successors, to be in
corporated as a body corporate and politic
under the corporate name of “The Sanders
Furniture Conjpany” for a term of twenty
years, with the privilege of renewal at the
expiration of the said term of twenty years
under and by corporate name aforesaid.
Second—Petitioners show that the object
of said corporation is pecuniary gain and
profit; that the principal business of said
corporation which they propose to carry
on, is to buy and sell all housefurnishing
goods, carpets, stoves, clocks, watches and
all jewelry and works of art, to buy, sell,
repair and manufacture furniture of every
kind, and wearing apparel of every kind.
Third—The capital stock of said company
shall be four thousand dollars ($4,000), to
be divided into shares of one hundred dol
lars ($100) each, with the privilege to in
crease said capital stock to any amount not
exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)
by a majority vote of all the stock, each
share of stock to be entitled to one vote
in the management of the affairs of said
corporation. Whenever any stockholder
shall have paid in full his subscription to
the capital stock of said corporation his
liabilities shall cease.
Fourth —The place of business of said
corporation shall be in Bibb county, with
the right to establish agencies anywhere
in this state, as they may deem necessary
or expedient.
Fifth—Petitioners further pray that they
may have the right, under and by said
corporate same, to sue and be sued, to
have and use a common seal, to make all
by-laws for their own government as they
shall think necessary, to appoint such offi
cers and agents as they "think proper, to
purchase and hold such property, real or
personal, as is necessary to the purpose
of the organization; to do all such legal
acts as are necessary for the carrying out
of the purpose of the corporation, and gen
erally to exercise all powers conferred
upon corporations under and by the laws
of the state.
Wherefore, petitioners pray that an or
der be passed granting this their applica
tion for incorporation, and petitioners will
ever pray, etc.
H. F. Strohecker,
Petitioners' Attorney.
I, Robert A. Nisbet, clerk of the superior I
court of Bibb county. Georgia, do certify i
that the above is a true copy of the orig- |
inal petition for incorporation of “The |
Sanders Furniture Company as the same I
appears now of file in said clerk’s office, j
Witness my official signature and seal of '
office this 10th day of January, 1898.
Robt. A. Nisbet, Clerk.
BRASS BAND
Instruments, Drums, Uniforttis, Equip
f mentsfor Bands and Drum Corps. Low-
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iTW Music A Intruct’ns for Amateur Banda. I
, // LYON A HEALY,
»o*«a~S»n
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO TNE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA.” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now on every
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHERS CASTCRIA,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty ■
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you hrtvejdways bought
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me’to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company cf which Chas. 11. Fletcher is
President. g
March 8,1897. ,p.
Bo Kot Be Beceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought’'
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF"
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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The Callaway
Coal Company
Phone 334.
G. BERND CO.,
Are Leaders
In STYLE QUALITY AND PRICE
When in Need of
Fine Harness, Saddles, Robes, Blankets, Whips, etc., call and see us.
Riding and Huntng Leggings in all styles.D
TRUNK REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
CENTRAL CITY.
HBfrlQßrator and cabinet Worfcs. I
I MANUFACTURE SOF
Bank, Bar and Office Fixtur s , Drug Store Mantels |
and all kinds of Hard Woo 1 Work, Show Cases to 1
order. Muecke’s newest improved Dry Air Refrigeri- g
tor will be made and sold at wholesale prices to every i
body- Give us a trial.
F. W. fRJECKE, Manager I
614 New Street.
Don’t be Selfish |
While buying a coat, blow yourself and put
one on the HOUSE. It needs it. I will
take pleasure in coating your house inside or’
outside with up-to-date schemes of coloring at
moderate prices.
GW. LINGO, B3 ® Efißiru st.
MACON, GA.
"eogkwokF
The Best and Purest.
M. O’HARA,
COTTON AVENUE.
COAL!
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Buy of me and get what you pay for. Prices, $3.50
per ton and up.
Best Red Ash, Genuine Jelico,
Eureka, Nut and Egg Hard Coal.
HOLMES JOHNSON, Ocm ?, 1 g l e e st.
I PHONE
Great Clearance Sale
|Of Men’s and Boys’ Winter Clothing
Our salesmen haue instructions to sell every
Suit and Overcoat regardless of cost. We must get
rid o, them at some price. If you are interested in
Clothing this is your opportunity. 50c on the dollar
will buy any Suit or Overcoat in our store.
The Oixie Shoe and Clothinp Co,
Cornsr Cherry and Third Streets.
f.a guttenbergefT&co
.■S-V-e® Pianos and or £ ;ina —Celebrated Sohmer
Matchless Ivers & Pond, Reliable
Bush & Gerts, th? Famous Burdette Organ,
- othe0 the Wa t er l°° OG»®n> ®H strictly flrst-clau.
S Artistic piano tuning.
? ?G'’:. P = '" ’'st'SY
’? I ave secured the services of Me. Wm.
wk, Hinspeter, so favorably known in Macon
•wfla, as a tuner and salesman. All orders left
_W;I
sS= ‘‘WiF at store will have prompt attention and
satisfaction guaranteed.
We Have Moved!
O ir office and sales room to two doors from the express
of ice on Fourth street, wheie we are better prepared than
ex er to serve those needing
Building Material of Every Kind.
Macon Sash, Poor Lumber Co
WMAM
Sash and Door Go.
DEALERS IN
; Builders’ and
Painters’ Supplies
Cabinet Mantels,
i
( Tiles and Grates
Facilities Unsurpassed.
A HEAVY cold on the chest
xA., jaSpS* y".
k ' 1 ' Rt this season of the year may prove fa-
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■ BraL ~ Cough Balsam and our Lung Panacea, 25c.
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kind of pulmonary trouble induced by
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. «- " and ctires permanently. ,
Look at These Prices:
Hot water bag, 2 quart, 95c. Laxine, the wonderful nerve and liver
Hot water bag, 3 quart, $1.20. cure, 50c.
Fountain syringes, 2 quart, 95c. Almond Cream, the only preparation of
Atomizers 50c. to JI real merit for the skin, 25c.
Cne minute thermometers, regular price , Hazel, same size as Pond’a Ex-
$3, for $1.50. tract, 15c.
, .. , , , „ , Goodwyn s Female Remedy, a positive
i- S ome ’ ie won< l er ful flesh cure for menstrual irregularities, |l.
Dullaei, sl. Absorbent cotton, package sc.
Hypodermic syringes, best, $1.50. Great bargains in toilet soaps.
GOODWYN’S DRUG STORE.
/ Novelties
FOR
Holidays
Wedding Presents, BirthdayJGifts and Beau
tiful things in Jewelry.
J. H. & W. W. WILLIAMS.
Home Industries
and Institutions.
Henry Stevens’ Sons Co.
H. STEVENS’ SONS CO, Mason, Ga., Manufacturers of Sewer,
and Railroad culvert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing with
perforated bottoms that will last forever.
Macon Fish and Oyster House.
CL/XRKE & DANIEL, wholesale and retail deak « in Fresh
Fish, Oysters,Crabs, Shrimps, Game, Ice, etc., 655 Poplar su ret. Tel
ephone 463. Fisheries and paching h®use, St Petersburg, Fla. '
Macon Machinery.
MALLAKY BROS. & CO., dealers in Engines, Boilers, Saw
Mills. Specialties—Watertown Steam Engines, Saw Mills, Grist Mills,
Cotton Gins.
Macon Refrigerators.
MUECKE’S Improved Dry Air Refrigerators. The best Re
frigerators made. Manufactured right here in Macon, any size and of
any material desred. It has qualities which no other refrigerator on
the market possesses. Come ans see them at the pct St*
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