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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. COMMON SENSE CURE. I‘YHAMIDTILE CUKE.“.CURES PILES PERMANENTLY BY CURING THE CAUSE. Remarkable Remedy Which is Bringing Comfort to Thousands of Sufferers. Probably half the people who see this article suffer from piles. It is one of the commonest diseases and one of the most obstinate. People have it for years and just because it is not immediately fatal they neglect it. Carelessness causes no end of suffering. Carelessness about so simple a thing as piles has often caused death. Hemorrhages occur during sur gical treatment, often causing death. Piles are simple in the beginning and easily cured. They can be cured even in the worst stages , without pain or loss of blood, quickly, surely and completely. There is only one remedy that will do it — Pyramid Pile Cure. It allays the inflammation immediately, heals the irritated surface and with con tinued treatment reduces the swelling and puts the membranes into good, sound healthy condition. The cure is thorough and permanent. Here is a voluntary and unsolicited tes timonial we have lately received: Mrs. M. C. Hinkly, 601 Mississippi St., Indianapolis, Ind., says :Have been a suL serer from the pain and annoyance of Piles for fifteen years, the Pyramid Pile Cure and Pyramid Pills gave me imme diate relief and in a short time a complete cure. Druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure or will get it for you if you ask them to. It is but 50 cents per package and is put up only by the Pyramid Drug Co., Marshall, Mich. The half a cent a word column of The News is the cheapest advertising medium in Georgia. 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 tion of council. Baby Fl me! t Every mother feels an ind e - dread of the pain and danger attend ant upon the most critical pe riod of her life. Becoming a mother should be a source of joy to all, but the • ’ ’ suffering and danger of the ordeal make its anticipation one of misery. MOTHER’S FRIEND is the remedy which relieves women of the great.pain and suf fering incident to maternity; this hour which is dreaded as woman's severest trial is not only made painless, but all the danger is re moved by its use. Those who use this remedy are no longer de spondent or gloomy; nervousness nausea and other distressing con ditions are avoided, the system is made ready for the coming event, and the serious accidents so com mon to the critical hour are obviated by the use of Mother’s Friend. Zr is a blessing to ivontan. 51-00 PSRBOTTLE at all Drug- Steres, or sent by express on. receipt of price. BOOKS Containing invaluable information of rprr interest to all women, will he sent rtixE to any address, upon application, by 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- t < /JU est prices ever quoted. FineCataloc, 401 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. ?H£ Gi.NTA&ft COMFZ-MV, 71 KURRA-' ; VCHK. CITV. L- 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! R K 294 M r W 11 . ' «L ■■ , „ ... - „ , . ~ , ~ O L_ _ 1 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- tal if not cure<i at on c®- Our Pina T*r ■ BraL ~ Cough Balsam and our Lung Panacea, 25c. \ x"'"'! an< * are t^G b est Preparations for all A kinds of coughs, colds, bronchitis, or any kind of pulmonary trouble induced by chills and colds. It relieves immediately, . «- " 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* 3