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THE BOAT OF RUSHES DRL TALMAGE TAKES MOSES’ SISTER AS HIS THEME. Be Admire* the Behavior of the Faithful. Brilliant and Strategic Miriam—Exhort* Maters to Bestow Care on Their Broth ers—Home Thoughts. (Copyright. 189 S, by American Press Asso ciation. ] Washington, Feb. o—ln this sermon of Dr. Talmage the character of a wise, sym pathetic and aelf denying Hater is sot forth as an example, and the story will set hun dreds of men to thinking over old times; text, Exodus ii, 4, “And his sister stood afar off to wit what would be dono to him. ” Prinoww Thennutis, daughter of Pha raoh, looking out through the lattice of her bathing bouse, on the banks of the Nile, saw a curious boat on the river. It hAd neither oar nor helm, and they would have been useless anyhow. There was only one passenger and that a baby boy. But the Mayflower, that brought the pilgrim fathers to America, carried not so precious a load. Thu Hlat was made of the broad leaves of papyrus, tightened together by bitumen. Boats were sometimes made of ■ that material, as we learn from Pliny and Herodotus and Theophrastus. “Kill all the Hebrew children born," had been Pha raoh’s order. To eave her boy, Jochebed, tbs mother of little Moses, hud put him in that queer boat and launched him. Bis sister Miriam stood on the bank watching that precious craft. She was far enough off not to draw attention to the boat, but near enough U> offer protection. There she stands on the bank—Miriam the poetess, Miriam the quick wilted, Miriam the faithful, though very human, for in after time she demonstrated it. Miriam was a splendid sister, but had her faults, like all tho rest of us. How carefully sho watched the boat containing her brother! A strong wind might upset it. The buffaloes often found there might in a sudden plunge of thirst sink it. Home ravenous waterfowl might swoop and pick his eyes out with iron beak. Some croco dile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might crunch the babe. Miriam watched and watched until Princess Tber anutis, a maiden on each side of her hold ing palm leaves over her head to shelter her from the sun, came down and entered her bathing house. When from tho lattice ■he saw that boat, she ordered it brought, and when tho leaves were pulled back from tho face of the child and the boy looked up he cried aloud, for ho was hungry and frightened and would not even lot the princess take him. The infant would rath er stay hungry than acknowledge any one of the court as mother. Now Miriam, tho sister, incognito, no one suspecting her re lation to the child, leaps from the bank nnd rushes down and offers to get a nurse to pacify the child. Consent is given, and ■he brings Jochebed, the baby’s mother, incognito, none of the court knowing that, •ho was the mother, nnd when Jochebed arrived tho child stopped crying, for its fright was calmed and its hunger appeased. You may admire Jochebed, tho mother, and all tho ages may admire Moses, but I clap my hands in applause at the behavior of Miriam, the faithful, brilliant and •tratogio sister. A Nonsuch In History, “Go home," some ono might havo said to Miriam. “Why risk yourself out there alono on tho banks of the Nile, breathing tho miasma and in danger of being attack ed of wild beast or ruffian? Go home!” No. Miriam, tho sister, more lovingly watched and bravely defended Mosos, tho brother. Is ho worthy her caro and cour age? Oh, yes; the 60 centuries of the world's history have never had so much involved in tho arrival of any ship at any port as in tho landing of that papyrus bont calked with bitumen! Its one pas senger was to boa nonsuch in history lawyer, Htatesman, politician, legislator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer. He had ■uch remarkable beauty in childhood that, Josephus nays, when he was carried along tho road jieoplo stopped to gaze at him and workmen would leavo their work to ad miro him. When tho king playfully put his crown upon this boy, ho threw it off Indignantly and put his foot on it. The king, fearing that this might be a sign that tlio child might yet takedown his crown, applied another test. Accord ing to tho Jewish legend, the king ordered two bowls to be put before the child, one (toufnining rubies and the other burning coals, hui) if ho took tho coals ho was to live and if ho took tho rubies ho was to die. For some reason the child took ono of the coals and put it in his mouth, so that his lift) was spared, although it burned the tongue till h«» was indistinct of utter ance ever after. Having comp to manhood, be spread open the palms of his bonds In prayer, and the Bed eea parted to let 8,500,(100 people escape. Ard he put tho palms of his hands together in prayer, and (bo Bed son closed on a strangulated host. » Burial of Moses. His lifo so unutterably grand, his burial roust bo on tho same scale. God would let neither man nor saint nor archangel hav« anything to do with weaving for him a •hrond or digging for him a grave. The omnipotent God left bis throne in heaven one day, and if tho question wi’S asked, “ Whither is the King of the Universe gi,- Jng?” tho answer was, “I am going down to bury Moses.” And the Lord took this roigbtiekt of men to the top of a hill, and the day was clear, and Moses ran his eye over the magnificent range of pppntry. Here tho valley of Ksdraelon, where the final battle of all nations is to be fought, •nd yonder the mountains Hermon and Lebanon and Garizim and the hills of Judina, ami the village of Bethlehem there, and the city of Jericho yonder, pud the vast stretch of landscape that almost took the old lawgiver’s breath away as he looked at it. And then without a jmng, ■■ I learn from the statement that the eye of Mc«es was undlmnied and fiig natural force unabated, God touched the great lawgiver's eyes anil they closed, and his lungs and they ceased, and saps heart and it Btopprd, and commanded, saying, “To the ekies, thou inijuortal spirit!" And then one divine hand was put against tho tiack of Mosee and the other hand against the pulseless breast, and God laid him •oftly down on Mount Nebo, and then the lawgiver, lifted in the Almighty’s arms, was carried to the opening of a cave and placed In a crypt, and one stroke of the divine hand smoothed the features intoan •verlasting calm, and u rock was rolled to the door, and tho only obseqylps, nt which God did all the offices of priest and under taker and gravedigger and mourner, were ended. Miriam the Faithfnl. Ob, was not Miriam, the sister of Moses, doing a good thing, an important thing, a glorious thing when she watched the boat woven of river plants and made water tipbtwitb asphaltum, carrying Its one pas senger* Did she not put all the ages of time and of a coming eternity under obli gation when she defended her helpless brother from the perils aquatic, reptilian and ravanous? She it was that brought that wot derful babe and his mother to gether, so that be was reared to be the de liverer of his nation, when otherwise, if •aved at all from the rushes of the Nile, he would have been only one more of the God defying pharaohs; for PrincessThennutis of the bathing house would have inherited the crown of Egypt, and as she had no child of her own this adopted child would have come to coronation. Had there been do Miriam there would have been no Moans. What a garland for faithful sister hood! For how many a lawgiver and how many a hero and how many a deliverer and how many a saint are the world and the church indebted to a watchful, loving, faithful, godly sister? Come up out of the farmhouses, come up out of the inconspic uous homes, come up from the banks of the Hudson and Penobscot and the Savan nah and the Mobile and the Mississippi and all the other Niles of America, and let us aee you, the Miriams who watched and protected the leaders in law- and medicine and merchandise and art and agriculture and mechanics and religion! If I should ask all physicians and attorneys and mer chants and ministers of religion and suc ceasful men of all professions and trades who are Indebted to an elder sister for good influences and perhaps for an education or a*prosperous start to let it be known, hun dreds would testify. God knows how many •K our Greek lexicons and how much of pur Kboojing were paid tor by money that w ould othi j .viselm’ve gone for the replen ishing of a sister's wardrobe. While the brother sailed off for a resounding sphere, the sister watched him from the banks of self denial. The Elder Slßter’a Guiding Hand. Miriam was the eldest of the family; Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were younger. Oh, the power of the eider sis ter to help decide the brother’s character for usefulness and for heaven! She can keep off from her brother more evils than Miriam could have driven backwaterfowl or crocodile from the ark of bulrushes. The older sister decides the direction in which the cradle boat shall sail. By gen tleness, by good sense, by Christian prin ciple she can turn it toward the palace, not of a wicked Pharaoh, but of a holy God, and a brighter princess than Therm utia should lift him out of peril, even religion, whose ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. The older sister, how much the world owes her! Bern while yet the family was in limited circum stances, she hail to hold and take care of her younger brothers. And if there is any thing that excites rr.y sympathy it is a lit tle girl lugging round a great fat child and getting her ears boxed because she cannot keep him quiet. By the time she gets to young womanhood she is pale and worn out and her attractiveness has been sacrificed on tho altar of sisterly fidelity, and she is consigned to celibacy, and so ciety calls her by an unfair name, but in heaven they call her Miriam. In most families tho two most undesirable places in the record of births are the first and tho last—the first because she is worn out with the cares of a hon.e that cannot afford to hire help, and the last because she is spoiled as a pet. Among the grandest equipages that sweep through the streets of heaven will be those occupied by sisters who sacrificed themselves for brothers. They will have the finest of the Apoca lyptic white horses, and many who on earth looked down upon them will have to turn out to let them pass, thocharioteer crying: “Clear tho way! A queen is coming!” Blensiog or Curse. Lot sisters not begrudge the time and care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to believe that any boy that you know so well as your brother can ever turn out anything very useful. Well, be may not be a Moses. There is only one of that kind needed for 6,(Mil) years. But I tell you what your brother will be—either a bless ing or a curse to society and a candidate for happiness or wretchedness. He will, like Moses, have the choice between rubies and living coals, and your influence will have much to do with his decision. He may not, like Moses, be the deliverer of a nation, but he may, after your father and mother aro gone, bo the deliverer of a household. What thousands of homes to day aro piloted by brothers! There are properties now well invested and yielding income for the support of sisters and younger brother because the older brother rose to the leadership from tho day the fa ther lay down to die. Whatever you do for your brothers will come back to you again. If you set him an ill natured, censorious, unaccommodating example, It will recoil upon you from bis own irritated and de spoiled nature. If you, by patience with his Infirmities and by nobility of character, dwell with him in the few years of your companionship, you will have your coun sels reflected back upon you some day by his splendor of behavior in some crisis where be would have failed but for you. Don't snub him. Don’t depreciate his ability. Don’t talk discouragingly about his future. Don’t let Miriam get dow-n off the bank of tho Nile and wade out and upset the ark of bulrushes. Don’t tease him. Brothers and sisters do not consider it any barm to tease. That spirit abroad in the family is one of the meanest and most devilish. There is a teasing that is pleasurable and is only another form of innocent raillery, but that which provokes anil irritates and makes the eye flash with anger is to be reprehended. It would be less blameworthy to take a bunch of thorns and draw them across your sister’s check or to take a knife and draw its sharp edge across your brother's hand till the blood spurts, for that would damage only the body, but teasing is the thorn and the knife scratching and lacerating tho dispo sition and the soul. It is the curse of in numerable households that the brothers tease the sisters and the sisters tho broth ers. Sometimes it is the color of the hair, or the shape of tho features or an affair of the heart. Sometimes it is by revealing a secret or by a suggestive look or a guffaw or an “Ahem!” Tease! Tease! Tease! For mercy's sake, quit it. Christ says, “He that bateth his brother is a murder er.” Now, when you, by teasing, make your brother or sister hate, you turn him or her into a murderer or murderess. Beware of Jealousy. Don’t let jealousy over touch a sister’s soul, as it so often does, becapse her broth er gets more honor or more means. Even Miriam, the heroine of the text, was struck by that evil passion of jealousy. Sho had possessed unlimited influence over fcioses, and now he marries, and not only so, but marries a black woman from Ethi opia, and Miriam is so disgusted and out raged at Moses, first because he had mar ried nt fill, find next because he had prac ticed miscegenation, that sho is drawn into a frenzy, and then begins to turn white and gets white as a corpse and then whiter than a corpse, flor complexion is like phalli—the fact is, she has the Egyptian leprosy. And now the brother whom she had defended on the Nile comes to her res cue in a prayer that brings her restoration Let there bo no room in all your house for Jealously either to sit or stand. It is a lep rous abomination. Your brother’s success. O sisters, is your success! His victories will be your victories. For while Moses the brother led the vocal music after the cross ing of tho Red sea, Miriam the sister, with (wo sheets of shining brass uplifted and glittering |n the sun, led the instrumental music, clapping tho cymbals till the last frightened neigh of pursuing cavalry horse was smothered in the wave and the last. Egyptian helmet went under. How styopg it makes a family when all the sistersand brothers stand together and what an awful wreck when they disinte grate, quarreling about a father’s will and making the surrogate’s office horrible with their wrangle! Better, when you were lit tie children in the nursery, that with youi playhouse mallets you had accidentally killed each other fighting across your pradl? that) that, having come to the age of maturity and having in your veins and arteries the blood of the same father ami mother, you fight each other across the pa rental grave in the cemetery. Dp Your Part, If you only knew it, your interests are identical. Os ail the families of the eartl - that over stood together perhaps the most conspicuous is the family of the Roths pbllfis, A? MayPP Alltelm Rolhsebild was about to die, in 1813, he gathered his chii dren about him—Anselm, Solomon, Na than, Charles and James—and made them promise that they would always be united on 'change. Obeying that injunction, they have been the mightiest commercial power on earth, and at the raising or low ering of their scepter nations have risen or fallen. That illustrates bow much, on a large scale and for selfish purposes, a unit ed family may achieve. But suppose that instead of a magnitude of dollars as tlu object it be doing good and making salu tary Impression and raising this sunken world, how much more ennobling! Sister, you do your part and brother will do his part. If Miriam will lovingly watch the boat pn the Nile. Moses will help her when leprous disasters strike. W hen father and mother are gone—and they soon will be, if they have not already made exit—the sisterly and fraternal bond will be the only ligament that will hold the family together. How many reasons for your deep and unfaltering affection for each ether! Rocked in the same cradle; bent over by the same motherly tender ness; toiled for by the same father's weary arm and aching brow; with common in heritance of ail the family secrets and w ith names given you by parents who started you with the highest hopes for your hap piness and prosperity, I charge you be lov ing and kind and forgiving, if the sister see that the brother never wants a sympa thiser, the brother will see that the sister never wants an escort. Oh, If the sisters of a household knew through what terrific and damning temptations their brother goes in city life, they would hardly sleep nights in anxiety for his salvation! And if you would make a holy conspiracy of kind words agd gentle >ttent4<;o« aadeax- nest prayers, that would save his soul from death and bide a multitude of sins. But let the sister d&sh off in one direction in discipleship of the world, and the brother flee off in another direction and dissipa tion, and it will not be long before they will meet again at the iron gate of despair, their blistered feet in the hot ashes of a consumed lifetime. Alas, that brothers and sisters though living together for years very often do net know each other, and that they see only the imperfections and none of the v irtues! Know Thy Brother. General .Bauer of tho Russian cavalry had in early life wandered off in the army, and the family supposed he was dead. After he gained a fortune he encamped one day in Husain, his native place, and made a banquet, and among the great military men who were to dine he invited a plain miller and his wife who lived near by and who, affrighted, came, fearii.g some harm would bo done them. The miller and his wife were placed one ou each side of the general at the table. The general ask co the miller all about his fam ily, and the miller said that he had two brothers and a sister. “No other broth ers?” “My young. r brotherwenteff with the army many years ago and uo doubt was long ago killed. ” Then the general said, “Soldiers, I am this man's younger brother, whom he thought was dead.” And how loud was the cheer and bow warm was the embrace! Brother and sister, you need as much of an introduction to each other as they did. You du not know each other. You think your brother is grouty and cross and queer, and lie thinks you are selfish and proud and unlovely. Both wrong. That brother will be a prince in some woman's eyes, and that sister a queen in the estimation of some man. That brother is a magnifi cent fellow, and that sister is a morning in June. Come, let me introduce you: “Moses, this is Miriam. Miriam, this is Moses.” Add 75 per cent to your present appreciation of each other and when you kiss good morning do not stick up your cold cluck, wet from tho recent washing, as though you hated to touch each other s lips in affectionate caress. Let it havo all the fondness and cordiality of a loving sister’s kiss. To Part No More. Make yourself as agreeable and helpful to each other t.s possible, remembering that soon you part. The few years of boy hood and girlhood will soou slip by, and you will go out to homes of your own and into the battle with tho world and amid ever changing vicissitudes and on paths crossed with graves and up steeps hard to climb and through shadowy ravines. But, O my God and Saviour, may the terminus of the journey be the same as the start— namely, at father’s and mother’s knee, if they havo inherited the kingdom. Then, as in boyhood and girlhood days, we rush ed in alter the day ’s absence with much to tell of exciting adventure, and father and mother enjoyed the recital as much as we who made it, so we shall on the hillside of heaven rehearse to them all the scenes of our earthly expedition, and they shall wel come us home, as we say, “Father and mother, we have come and brought our children with us.” The old revival hymn described it vrtth glorious repetition: Brothers and sisters there will meet, Brothers and sisters there will meet, Brothers and sisters there will meet, Will meet to part no more. I road of a child in the country who was detained at a neighbor's house on a stormy night by some fascinating stories that were being told him, and then looked out and jaw it was so dark he did not dare go homo. The incident impressed me tho more because in my childhood I had much the same experience. The boy asked bis comrades to go with him, but they dared not. It got later and later—7 o’clock, 8 o’clock, 9 o’clock. “Ob,” he said, “I wish I were homo!" As he opened the door the last time a blinding flash of lightning and a deafening roar overcame him. But after awhile he saw in the distance n lantern, and, 10, his brother was coming to fetch him bom •, nn;! the lad stepped out and with swift feet hastened on to his brother, who took him home, where they were so glad to g: :et him and for a longtime sup per bad bvn waiting. So may it be when the night „f death comes and our earthly friends cannot go with us, and we dare not go alone; may our brother, our elder brother, our friend closer than a brother, come out to meet us with the light of the promises, which shall be a lantern to our feet, and then we will go in to join our loved ones waiting for us, supper all ready, the marriage supper of the Lamb! What It Means. When we advertise that we will guaran tee Dr. Klug's New Discovery, Electric Bitters, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, or Dr. King’s New Life Fills, it means that we are authorized by the proprietors to sell these remedies on a positive guarantee; that if the purchaser is not satisfied with results, we will refund the purchase price. These medicines have been sold on this guarantee for many years and there could be no more conclusive evidence of their great merit. Ask about them and give them a trial. Sold at H. J. Lamar & Sons’ drug store. WIPS OPEN To Devastation by an Enemy Are the Southern Ports. • Washington, Feb. ?—ln the body of the House, Ward, of the Six teen New York district, and Congressman Hooker, chairman of the rivers and har bors committee, have made significant statements concerning harbor defenses throughout the South. They have just re turend from a tour of inspection. They found that there was not even a pretense of protecting any of the Southern harbors. The forts protecting Charleston, they say, are uneared for. The new big guns for which the government has paid enormous sums haye not been mounted, and are lying around covered with cement and debris. In. conversation with the officers in charge at Pensacola, Charleston and else where, they were informed that the har bors were not mined; that little powder was stored there ready for use, and prac tically no shells or ammunition, A naval officer at Pensacola told the members of the committee that a Spanish man-of-war eould steam over from Ha vana, capture New Orleans, levy tribute upon the city and escape before our gov ernment could stop it. Other officers informed the committee that in ease of trouble with Spain, which they all anticipate, our Southern ports are practically unprotected, and that the of ficers of the army and navy stationed there could only stand and be shot down,, having no alternative, ' The Discovery of the Day. Aug. J. 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The moss will be used as food for the reindeer. For two weeks the vessel has been re ceiving the animals at Alten. She will reach New York in about two weeks. CASTCFLIA.. Ths fas- /I ___ , ilaiia /O MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7 1898. RATES RESTORED. Prediction Made by The News Has Been Fulfilled. As predicted by The News some days ago the railroads operating in this.state have given notice to the railroad commis sion today that the old rates on freight in quantities less than a carload would be restored. This the outcome of the case made by Griffin merchants who were represented by W. H. Brewer, of that city. This-is the third time the case has been before the commission. Twice the petition failed, but this may be regarded as a victory for the Griffin people, though it is really a surrender on the part of the railroads. The protest was made on the action of the roads in putting up the rates on heavy groceries and grain four cents per hun dred where the shipments were less than carload lots. The case was set for hear ing before the railroad commissioner on Saturday. At the meeting, however, assurances were received from the railroads that the old rates would be restored on February 10. Had the commission so ordered it. the new rule could not be put into effect before the ninth, three days notice to the roads being required by law. In view of this fact, the commission decided to al low the roads to voluntarily replace the old rates, and the case was accordingly withdrawn. WHO ARE THEY? A Party of Four Building a Boat Near the Pumping Station. Near the pumping station of the Macon Gas Light and Water Company, a small party of white people composed of three men and a woman are camped, and no one at the station knows who they are. For the shelter of the four there is only one small tent, hardly large enough for one person. The tent is pitched right on the bank of the river, where a good sized flat bottomed boat is in the course of con struction. Near the tent Is a large sign which warns the intruder that the grounds are private and no one is al lowed to come near. Several' gentlemen attempted to satisfy their curiosity yesterday afternoon, but one of the men referred them to the sign and asked them to leave. OCMULGEE BOAT CLUB. Members Will Revive Interest in That Organization at Once. Several of the leading members of the Ocmulgee Boat Club are now endeavoring •to revive interest in the organization, and to increase the membership. It is the intention of these members to have a new boat house, as the old one is in bad condition and is not conveniently arranged. For the last season or two in terest in boating has been on the wane, and the members now hope to revive in terest. 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SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyarnis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA?’ the same that has borne and does no-j » on every bear the facsimile signature of zz rapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORiA;’ - ? t has been used in the homes of the Mothers of A-'eri a ; t: Av.ly years. at the wrapper a: ' < T.-jffzs the kind you have always bought ~ -----—on the and has the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from r: to ise ry no me ex cept The Centaur Company of which Cl..w. M. Fletcher is President. ,? March 8,1897. Bo Kot Bo Deceived, Do not endanger the life of your chiL'i b • accepting a cheap substitute which sonic druggist ray 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 Cr~ Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. THC Cl.»7*W> CC«K»V. 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Call before cold weather comes. T. C. BURKE. 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. G. W. LINGO, 620 s Cfterrij st. ’ MAOON, GA. Central of Georgia Railway Company WOEORGIA Schedules Jn Effect Jan. 23, 1898, Standard Tima, 7 90th Meridian. i X o, ’J 7 ‘l No. I*l STATIONS I No. 2•] No. B’l No 6 V Dan? s ‘2 °. PPI ‘=° am Lv Macon. . ,Ar| 725 pm] 740 a-n| 355 pm I3L pm T ’ FO o Valley - • L YI 627 pm| 639 am] 253 ?“ ’ 4 nm in’m”"! ° SO pm Ar - • B’mham. . .Lv 930 am’ i t1 0 pm 10 “ Ar " •Americus. . .Lvi I 518 pm] 12t pm 3 . I Ar.. ..Smithville .Lv | 455 am|f 105 .m 5 ;.<> nil pIU Ar - " -A any.. ..Lv | 415 am| 1J f>o am - ' Ar.. .Columbia. ..Lv I | k pp (Ja Vr • pm ” < ? uthb . erL ' ” Lv 11 30 am 12,4 m Xo. 9 *,Ar.. .tort Gaines. Lv No. 10 •' !10 am , H ' 4 40 am Ar Eufaula.. ..Lv 7 30 pml | 10:05 am • iAr Ozark. .. .Lv 1 ; it 7 n-. 7 2:10 am Ar .... Un Springs. Lvj 600 pmff.’.’.’.'.‘.‘.‘.’.| 9 15 am 735,“ LA: Xr Troy • - Lv l I 1755 am ~Nc ~~ 10 am Ar " Montg°mery. .Lv] 420 pmi | 745 am 9 ’’am 547 4 pm^v -. • -Macon. ... Ar'll‘w am| 11 fo° pm’l fm ’!•’ 05 im 4 ‘ -R pm Lv ‘ Barnesville . .Lv| 945 r y 45 pm 605 pm 9' im ''c'ic”“ 40 pni Ar - -Thomaston. ..Lv' 7 00 am' ! 300 pm y- am 6io ani 613 pm A] . ~G riffiu. . _. LV | 912am9 15 - |™ P“ 4 ‘ |Ar.. ..Newnan. . .Lvj 1 j 3 23 pm 1 - 7 r 46 - ;,:i: ?’»»a£‘. TaESST; .xvj| ?»mUftTw? ! <o?S? "'A - ' .V. .. .vaeon. ... Ar'., amj TftT SSO nm ?? p,u Ar ’ • Gordon. .. .Ar 500 rm| 310 anil 710 am 15 00 , 4 k> Pm. Ar. .Milledgeville .Lvj 3 15 pm| | 6 30 >jn U p !■ 3 00 pni|Ar.. ..Eatouton. . .Lv|! 1 30 pm I 5 25 am I- 4 <5 purAr. . .Machen. . .Lvj’ll 20 am] | • • ® rm Or. .. Covington. ..Lv !920 am [, n ; , nmPl !! • Macon kr|*TF« pml* S6* ami* S4spm ‘ >U nm 9 1 17 pm Ar - " -Tennille Lv| 156 pm| 152 ami 156 pm V i P . , a!u 230 PmlAr. . .Wadley. .. ,Lv|fl2 55 pm 12 50 am| 12 55 pm , ph ’i 1 1,11 2 51 pm Ar. . .Midville, . .Lv| 12 11 pm 12 30 am| 12 11 pm , I ?"’! ■? b ; m , ?25 pm:Ar. .. .Millen. .. .Lv| 11 34 am lx 58 pm| 11 34 am =1 -m 7- 1' 1111 . 10 pm Ar •‘Waynesboro.. .Lv| 10 13 am 10 37 pm|slo 41 am s pin i ’’ :iIU • 6 5-> pnpAr... .Augusta. . .Lv]! 820 am 840 pm|s 920 am ’■ ‘ ‘ •JA’• ’ 1 3 PLydi 600 pm]Ar.. .Savannah. ..Lv| 845 am 900 pm I No. 16. •] “j” No. 15. * ~——— 4 I I 120 pmiAr. ..Athens. . ..Lv| 300 pm| .| * Pally- ! Daily except Sunday, f Meal station, s Sunday only. -■■iii-i iiaiiis ait run to audf from Maeon and Montgomery via Eufaula, S&vaa aaa and Atlanta via Macon, Macon and Albany via Smithville, Macon and Birmin-g - ' ;:l Columbus. Elegant sleeping cars on trains No. 3 and 4 between Macon ami Savannah and Aalanta and Savannah. Sleepers for Savannah are ready for ecew ps.icj in Maeon depct at 9:00 p. m. Pas-sengers arriving in Macon on No. 3 and tin va-iin a on No. 4, arc allowed to remain insleeper until 7 a. m. Parlor cars between ? c ;‘ ana Ath'at t on trains Nos. 11 an-112. Seat fare 2( cents. Passengers for »> ightsvilte. Dunlin anti Sandersville take 11:25. Train arrives Fort Gaines 4:.>u i- ni., and leaves 0:30 a. m. Sundays. For Ozark arrives 7.25 p. m. and leaves >.-■5 a m. Fur further inforr.-ation tr schedules to points beyond our lines, addreas J. G. CARLISLE, T. p. A., Macon, Ga. E. P. BONNER, U. T. A. E. 11. iiIKION, I'ialic Manag.a J. C. HAILM, G. P. A. THEO. D. KLINE, General Superintendent, My One Sin- gle aim is to do better ROOP PAINTING than auj r one else. 1 furnish matrial, labor, paint the roof for 50 cents a square of 100 square feet, and give a written guarantee that “If the above named roof leaks or needs painting at any time within ten years fro m date, I am to do the work needed with out any expense to owner of building.” Albany, Ga., June 5, 1397. We know Air. Harvey English to be a citizen of Dougherty county, Georgia, a property holder therein; that he has done a large amount of painting in Albany, Ga. We have heard of no complaints about his work. Work entrusted to-his hands will be faithfully executed, and his guarantee is good. J. T. Hester, tax collector; Sam W. Smith, ordinary; S. \/. Gunnison, tax receiver; R. P. Hail, clerk superior court; W. T. Jones, judge county court; W. E. Wooten, solicitor-general Albany circuit; Ed. L. Wight, mayor of Albany and repre sentative in the Georgia legislature; B. F. Brimberry, John Mock, C. B. James, tgent Southern Express Company; N. F. Tift, J. C. Talbto, L. E. Welch, A. W. Muse, Y. G. Rust, postmaster; J. D. Westou, S. R. Weston. Albany, Ga., Nov. 19, 1895. The roof painting done for me by Mr. Harvey English has been and still is one of the most satisfactory pieces of work which I ever had done. He stopped ail ledks in a large tin roof, and there were a great many. His whole transaction was fair, business-like and satisfactory. Re spectfully, A. W. Muse. Albany, Ga., Jan. 28, 1897. <lr. Ha rvey English has covered the roof of the engine room of the Albany Water works with his roof paint, and I am well satisfied with the work. He has also done some work for me personally, two years ago, which has proved satisfactory. C. W. Tift, Chief Engineer Albany Waterworks. Quitman, Ga., June 8, 1894. I have had my tin roof painted by Mr. English. It leaked very badly. Since it was painted it HAS NOT LEAKED A DROP He painted a roof for Capt. J. G. McCall that - leaked so badly that no one would rent it. He had it painted and worked on until he had about decided that HARVEY ENGLISH, Albany, Ga. “English Paint stops leaks, yes it do.” H Gold Watch Is a good investment, because it enables you to save time. When “time is money” by knowing the exact time when you need to know it. That’s the kind of Watches we sell, and don’t think our prices high because others are. We can sell you a gold filled (not plated) Watch for $20.00, gouts’ size; ladies’ for $lB. BEELAND, the Jeweler - - - Triangular Block. “”la N DLO RDS! Do you know that we are the only exclusive rental agents in Ma con. No other departments. If you are not satisfied with your in come give us a trial. A. J. McAfee, Jr., & Co. 357 Third Street. Home Industries and Institutions. Henry Stevens’ Sons Co. H. STEVENS’ SONS CO, Macon, Ga., Manufacturers o f Sewer, and Railroad culvert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing with perforated bottoms that will last forever. Macon Fish and Oyster House. CLARKE & DANIEL, wholesale and retail dealers in Fresh Fish, Oysters,Crabs, Shrimps, Game, Ice, etc., 655 Poplar street. Tel ephone 463. Fisheries and paching house, St. Petersburg, Fla. Macon Machinery. MALLARY BROS. & CO., dealers in Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills. Specialties —Watertown Steam Engines, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, CottoYi 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 cn the market possesses. Come and see them at tl>e factory on New St. roof. Since Mr. English painted the root it could not be fixed except with a n»w it has not leaked any. He has painted roofs for J. W. Hopson, John Tillman, Clayton Groover and others. He does the bes. work I have ever seen done on tin roofs. He ii an honest and upright man, who would not deceive you for your money. J. B. Finch, Merchant. Albany, Ga., Jan. 29, 1897. Having had Mr. Harvey English to paint several roofs with his incomparable prep aration for stopping leaks, it affords me pleasure to bear testimony to his honest workmanship and to the facr that “Eng lish Paint Stops the Leaks; Yes, It Do.” Joseph S. Davis, Cashier First National Bank. ibany Ga., Jan. 25, 1895. Mr. Harvey English has stopped a very bad leakin Hh nis Ei.gliah Paint. I re mend his pail t to any one who is troubled with leaky r< ' r . Whtre, Supt. Georgia Cotton Oil Co., Albany Ml'l. Mr. English has done some ■■ ork ; r us that required the best of paints an skill as a workman. Without soldering he has made a very leaky roof dry and tight. 4t gives us pleasure to recommend him. T. J. Ball & Bro., Wholesale dealers in choice groceries anu delicacies. Thomasville, Ga., Ag. 18, 1894. The corrugated iron roof of our shop 1 leaked so badly that in times of a heavy i rain, w r e have been compelled to shut down all work and wait until the rain was over. Mr. English painted the roof with his English Roof Paint, stopped the leaks, and now the work goes on, rain or noTKtn. - His paint is a first-class article. We taka pleasure in recommending English and bis paint. Beverly Bros. & Hargrave, “Big Jim” Variety Works. Thomasville, Ga., Aug., 1894. I hav had Mr. Harvey English to do some painting for me on iron and tin roofs. I am satisfied he has a superior roof paint, Wiley C. Pittman. Thomasville, Ga., July 21, 1894 5
