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FOR RANK AND FILE.
THE WORLD WANTS A RELIGION FOR
ORDINARY PEOPLE.
S« Dr. In a Sermon
That la Full of Fnrouragrrncnt For
Faithful Men and Noble W omen Who
Are Vnrccogrnlred and Vnrewarded.
[Copyright, 1898. by Amyl in Press Aw-
Washingtom, Feb. 13.—Dr. Talmage In
this discourse call* the roll of faithful men
■nd noble woman In all department« who
are unrecognized and unrewarded and
sounds encouragement for those who do
work tn spheres inconspicuous; text, Ro
mans xvi, 14, 15. “SnluUs Asyncritus.
I'hlegon, Herrnaa, Patrobas, Herinea, Phi
lologus and Julia."
Matthew Henry. Albert Barnes, Adarn
Clark, Thomas bcott and ail the oom
mentatora pass by these verses without
any espe'ial remark. The other 20 peopl<-
mentioned in the chapter were distin
gulahed for something and wore therefore
dlscuswed by the Illustrious expositors, but
nothing is said about Asyncritus, Phlegon.
Hennas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus
and Julia. Whore were they Iwjrn? No one
knows. When did they die? There is no
record of their decease. For what were
they distinguished!’ Atwilutely nothing,
or the trait of character would have been
brought aut by the apostle. If they had
been very intrepid, or opulent or hirsute
or musical of cadence or crass of stylo or
tn any wise anomalous that feature would
have been caught by the apostolic camera
But they were good people. because Paul
sends to them his high Christian regards.
They were ordinary people moving hi or
dinary sphere, attending to ordinary duty
and meeting ordinary responsibilities.
What the world wants is a religion for
ordinary people. If there bo in the United
States 70,000,<N)0 people, there are certain
ly not more than 1,000,000 extraordinary,
and then there are 09,000,000 ordinary,
and we do well to tumour backs for a lit
tle while upon the distinguished and con
spicuoua people of the Bible and consider
in our text the seven ordinary. We sficnd
too much of our time in twisting garlands
for remurkables and building thrones for
magnates, and sculpturing warrii rs, and
apotheosizing phllnntbrcpists. The rank
and fileof tho Lord’s soldiery need especial
help.
Tl*o Mediocre Many.
Tho vast majority of people will never
lead nn army, will never write a state con
stitution, will never electrify a senate,
will never make an Important invention,
will never introduce a new philosophy,
will never decide the fate of a nation. You
do not expect to; you do not want to.
You will not boa Moses to lead a notion
out of bondage. You will not be a Joshua
to prolong the daylight until you can shut
five kings in a cavern. You will not be a
St. John to unroll an Apocalypse. You
will not be a i’uul to preside over an apos
tolic college. You will not be a Mary to
mother a Christ. You will more probably
bo Asyncritus or Phlegon or Hernias or
Patrobas or Hermes or Philologus or Ju
lia.
Many of you arc women at tho head of
households. Every morning you plan for
tho day. The culinary department of the
household is in your dominion. You de
cide all questions of diet. All the sanitary
regulations of your house are under your
•upervision. To regulate tho food, and the
apparel and tho habitsnud decide the thou
sand questions of home life is a tax upon
brain and nerve nnd general health abso
lutely appalling, if there bo no divine al
leviation.
It doos not help you much to he told
that Elizabeth Pry did wonderful things
amid tho criminals at Newgate. It does
not help you much to be told that Mrs.
Judson was very brave among tho Hor
noslan cannibals. It does not help you
very much to be told that Florence Night
ingale was very kind to the wounded in
the Crimea. It would be better for mo to
tell you that tho divinefriend of Maryand
Martha is your friend and that ho sees all
the annoyances and disappointments and
abrasions and exasperat ions of an ordinary
housekeeper from morn till night, and
from the first day of tho year until the last
day of the year and at your call he is ready
with help nnd re enforcement.
They who provide the food of the world
decide the health of the world. You have
only to go on some errand amid tho tav
* erns and the hotels of the United States
•Vid Great Britain to appreciate the fact
that a vast multitude of the human race
aro slaughtered by incompetent cookery.
Though a young woman may have taken
lessons in music and may have taken les
sons in painting and lessons in astronomy,
she is not well educated unless she has
taken lessons in dough I They who decide
tho apparel of the world and the food of
tho world decide tho endurance of the
world.
Martyrs of the Kitchen and Nursery.
An unthinking man may consider it a
matter of little importance—the cares of
tho household and the economies of do
mestic life—but 1 tell you the earth is
strewn with the martyrs of kitchen and
nursery. The health shat tered womanhood
of America cries out for a God who can
help ordinary women in the ordinary du
ties of housekeeping. The wearing, grind
ing, unappreciated work govs on, but the
samo Christ who stood on the bank of
Galileo in the early morning and kindled
the fire nnd bud the fish already cleaned
and broiling when the sportsmen stepped
ashore, chilled and hungry, will help every
woman to prepare breakfast, whether by
her own hand or the b '.nd of her hired
help. The God who made indestructible
eulogy of Hannah, who made a coat for
Samuel, her son, and carried it to the tem
ple every year, will help every woman in
preparing the family wardrobe. The God
who opens tho Bible with the story of
Abraham’s entertainment by the three
angels on tho plains of Mamre will help
every woman to provide hospitality, how
ever rare and embarrassing. It is high
time that some of tho attention we have
been giving to the remarkable women of
tho Bible—remarkable for their virtue, or
their want of it, or remarkable for their
deeds—Deborah and Jezebel and Herodias
and Athalia and Dorcas and the Marys,
excellent and abandoned—it is high time
some of tho attention wo have been giving
to these conspicuous women of the Bible
be given to Julia, an ordinary woman,
amid ordinary circumstances, attending to
ordinary duties and meeting ordinary re
sponsibilities.
Then there are all the ordinary business
men. They need divine and Christian
help. When we begin to talk about busi
ness life, we shoot right off and talk about
men who did business on a large scale,
pnd who sold millions of dollars of goods
a year, nnd the vast majority of business
men do not sell a million dollars of goods,
nor half a million, nor quarter of a mil
lion. nor the eighth part of a million. Put
all the business men of our cities, tow ns,
Villagesand neighborhoods side by side,
and you will And that they sell less than
SIOO,OOO worth of goods. All these men
in ordinary business lif J want divine help.
You see how the wrinkles are printing on
the countenance the story of worriment
Mid care.
Premature Old Age.
You cannot tell how old a business man
is by looking at him. Gray hairs at 30.
A man at 45 with the stoop of a nonoge
narian. No time to attend to improved
dentistry, the grinders cease because they
aro few. Actually dying of old ago at 40
or 50, when they ought to be at the meridi
an. Many of these business men have
bodies like a neglected clock to which you
come, and when you wind if up it begins
to buzz and rear, and then the hands start
around very rapidly, and then the clock
strikes 5 or 10 or 40, and strikes without
any sense, and then suddenly stops. So is
the body of that worn out business man.
It is a neglected clock, and though by
tome summer recreation it may be wound
up, still the machinery is all out of gear.
The hands turn around with a velocity
£hat excites the .xstenlshmeut of the jyorld.
Men cannot understand the wonderful ac
tivity, and there is a roar and a buzz and
a rattle about these disordered lives and
they strike 10 when they ought to strike
5, and they strike 12 when they ought to
strike 6, and they strike 40 when they
ought to strike nothing, and suddenly they
•top. Post mortem examination reveals
the fact that all the springs and pivots and
weights and balance wheels of health are
completely deranged. The human clock ia
simply run down. And at the time when
the steady hand ought to be pointing to
the industrious hours on a clear and sun
lit dial the whole machinery of body,
mind and earthly capacity stops forever
Oak Hill and Greenwood have thousands
of business men who died of old age at 30.
35, 40, 15.
Now, what is wanted is grace, divine
grace, for ordinary business men. men who
are harnessed from morn till night and all
the days of their life—harnessed in busi
ness. Not grace to lose SIOO,OOO, but grace
to lose $lO. Not graze to supervise 250
employees in a factory, but grace to super
vise the bookkeeper aud two salesmen and
the small boy that sweeps out the store.
Grace to invest not the SBO,OOO of net profit,
but the $2,500 of clear gain. Grace not to
endure the loss of a whole shipload of
spices from the Indies, but grace to en
dure a loss of a paper of collars from the
leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor
roof. Grace not to endure the tardiness
of the American congress in passing a
n<-eesi-ary law, but grace to endure the
tardineKsof nn errand boy stepping toplajr
marbles when be ought to deilvei the
golds Such a grace as thousands of busi
ness men have today—keeping them tran
quil, whether goods sell or do not sell,
whether customers pay or do not pay,
whether tariff is up or tariff is down,
whether the crops are luxuriant or a dead
failure—calm in all circumstances and
amid all vicissitudes. That is the kind of
grace we want.
Heroes at Home.
Millions of men want it, and they may
have it for the asking. Some hero or hero
ine comes to town, and as the procession
pasees through the street the business men
come out, stand on tiptoe on their store
step and look nt grime one who in arctic
clime, or in ocean storm, or in day of bat
tle, or in hospital agonies did the brave
thing, not realizing that they, the enthu
siastic spectators, have gone through trials
in business life that are just as great be
fore God. There are men who have gone
through freezing arctics nnd burning tor
rids and awful Marengos of experiences
without moving five miles from their door
step.
Now, what ordinary badness men need
is to realize that they have tho friendship
of that Christ who looked after rbc reli
gious interests of Matthew, the custom
house clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira
to sell the dry goods, and who opened a
bakery and fish market in the wilderness
of Asin Minor to feed the 7,000 who had
come out on a religious picnic, and who
counts the hairs of your head with as much
particularity as though they were the
plumes of a coronation, and who took the
trouble to stoop down with his finger
writing on the ground, although the first
shuffle of feet obliterated tho divine calig
raphy, and who knows just how many
locusts there were in the Egyptian plague
and knew just how many ravens were nec
essary to supply Elijah’s pantry by the
brook Cherith, and who, as floral com
mander, leads forth all the regiments of
primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths
and lilies whit h pitch their tents of beauty
and kindle their campfires of color all
around the hemisphere—that that Christ
and that God knows the most minute af
fairs of your business life and, however in
considerable, understanding all the affairs
of that woman who keeps a thread and
needle store as well as all the affairs of a
Rothschild and a Baring.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
We talk about agricultural life, and we
immediately shoot off to talk about Cin
cinnatus, the patrician, who went from
tho plow to a high position, and after ho
got through the dictatorship in 21 days
went back again to the plow. What en
couragement is that to ordinary farmers?
The vast majority of them—none of them
will bo patricians. Perhaps none of them
will be senators. If any of them have dic
tatorships, it will be over 40 or 50 or 100
acres of the old homestead. What these
men want is grace to keep their patience
while plowing with balky oxen and to
ke'-p cheerful amid the drought that de
stroys the corn crop and that enables them
to restore tho garden tho day after the
neighbor’s cattle have broken in and
trampled out the strawberry bed and
gone through the Lima bean patch and
eaten up the sweet corn in such largo
quantities that they must be kept from the
water lest they swell up and die.
Everyday Grace.
Grace in catching weather that enables
them, without imprecation, to spread out
the hay the third time, although again and
again and again it has been almost ready
for the mow. A grace to doctor the cow
with a hollow horn, and tho sheep with
tho foot rot, and the horse with the dis
temper and to compel the unwilling acres
to yield a livelihood for the family and
schooling for the children and little extras
to help the older boy in business and some
thing for tho daughter’s wedding outfit
and a little surplus for the time when the
ankles will get stiff with ago and the
breath will be a little short and the swing
ing of tho cradle through the hot harvest
field will bring on the old man’s vertigo
Better close up about. Cincinnatus. I know
500 farmers just as noble as he was. What
they want is to know that they have the
friendship of that Christ who often drew
his similes from the farmer's life, as when
he said, "A sower went forth to sow," as
When ho built his best partible out of the
scene of a farmer boy coming back from
his wanderings, and the old farmhouse
shook that night with rural jubilee, and
who compared himself to a lamb in the
pasture field and who said that the eternal
God Is a farmer, declaring, "My Father Is
the husbandnmn.”
Those stone masons do net want tq hear
about Christopher Wren, tho architect who
built St. Paul’s cathedral. It would bo
better to tell them how to carry the hod of
brick up the ladder without slipping, and
how on a cold morning with the trowel to
smooth off the mortar and keep cheerful,
and how to be thankful to God for the
plain food taken from the pail by the road
side. Carpenters standing amid the adz.
and the bit, and the plane, and the broad
ax need to be told that Christ was a car
penter, with his own hand wielding saw
and hammer. Oh, this is a tired world,
and it is an overworked world, and it is an
underfed world, and it is a wrung out
world, and men and women need to know
that there is rest and recuperation in God
and in that religion which was not so
much intended for extraordinary people as
for ordinary people, because there are more
of them.
The healing profession has had its Aber
crombies, and its Abernethy?. and its Val
entine Motts, and its Willard Parkers, but
the ordinary physicians do the most of the
world’s medicining, and they need to un
derstand that while taking diagnosis or
prognosis, or writing prescription, or com
pounding medicament, er holding the del
icate pulse of a dying child they may have
the presence and the dictation of the Al
mighty Doctor who took the case of the
madman, aud after he had torn off his
garments In foaming dementia clothed
him again, body and mind, and who lifted
up the woman who for 18 years had been
bent almost double with the rheumatism
into graceful stature, and who turned the
scabs of leprosy into rubicund complexion,
and who rubbed the numbness out of par
alysis, and who swung wide open the
closed windows of hereditary or accidental
blindness until the morning light came
streaming through the fleshly casements,
and who knows all tho diseasesand all the
remedies and all the herbs and all the
eatholicons and is monarch of pharmacy
and therapeutics, and who has sent out
10,000 doctors of whom the world makes
no record, but to prove that they are an
gels of mercy I invoke the thousands of
men whose ailments they have assuaged
and the thousands of women to whom in
crises of pain they have been next to God
in benefaction.
Come, now, let us have a religion for or
dinary people in professions, in occupa
tions, in agriculture, in the household, in
merchandise, in everything. I salute across
the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon, Her
nias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and
Julia.
Tired of Extraordinary Folk.
First of all. if you feel that you are or
dinary, thank God that you are- not ex
traordinary. I am tired and sick and
bored almost to death with extraordinary
people. They take all their time to tell us
how very extraordinary they really are.
You know as well as I do. my brother and
sister, that the most of the useful work of
the wofld is done by unpretentious people
who tolL right on—by people, who do not
get much approval and no one seems to
say, "That ie well done.” Phenomena are
of but little use. Things that are excep
tional cannot be depended On. Better trust
the imallest planet that swings in its orbit
than ten comets shooting this way and
that, im;>eriling the longevity of worlds
attending to their own business. For
steady illumination betterte a lamp than
a rocket.
Then, if y-;u feel that you arc ordinary,
remember that your position invites the
k-ssattack ('onepicuous people—how they
have to take it! H«,w they sre misrepre
sented and abused and shot at! The high
er the horns of a roebuck the easier to
‘■trike him down. What a delicious thing
it must be te lie a candidate for governor
of a state or • resident of the United States!
It must be ti sociti :ng to the nerves. It
must pour nto tl.e soul of a candidate
such a sense < f serenity when ho reads the
blessed
I came into the jx>s«v~sion of the abusive
cartoons in the time of Napoleon I, print
ed while bo was yet alive. The retreat of
the army from Moscow, that army buried
in the s;icW4 of Ru».,ia, one of the most
awful tragedies of the centuries, represent
ed under ti e figure of a monster called
General Frost shaving the French emperor
with a razor cf ici< le. As Satyr and Beel
zebub he is represented, page after page,
page after page. England cursing him,
Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him,
Russia curei;: ’ him, Europa cursing him,
North and South America cursing him
The most remarkable man of his day, and
the most abused. AH tho.se men in history
who now have a halo around their name
on earth wore a crown of thorns. Take
th'- few extractdinary railroad men of our
time ami see vv hat abuse comes upon them,
while thousands of stockholders escape.
New York Central railroad had 9,265
stockholders. If anything in that railroad
affronted tho jieople, ail the abuse camo
down on one man, and the 9,264 escaped
All the world took after Thomas Scott,
president of the Pennsylvania railroad,
aburau him until lie got under the ground.
Over 17,00 U steck holders in that company.
All the blame on one man! The Central
Pacific railroad—two or three men get ail
tho blame if anything goes wrong. There
are 10,000 in that company.
I mention these things to prove it is ex
traordinary’ people who get abused, while
the ordinary escape. The weather of life
is not so severe on t he plain as it is on the
high peaks. The world never forgives a
man who knows or gains or dees more
than it can know or gain or do. Parents
sometimes give confectionery to their chil
dren as an inducement to take bitter med
icine and the world’s sugar plum precedes
the World's aqua fortis. The mob cried in
regard to Christ, "Crucify him, crucify
him!” and they had to say it twice to be
understood, for they were so hoarse, and
they got their hoarseness by crying a little
while before at tho top of their voice,
“Hosannal” Tberivor Rhone isfoulvvhen
it enters Lake Leman, but crystalline
when it comes out on the other side. But
there are men who have entered the bright
lake of worldly prosperity crystalline and
come out terribly roiled. If, therefore, you
feel that you are ordinary, thank God for
the defenses and the tranquillity of your
position.
From Huiuble Homes.
Then remember if you have only what
Is called an ordinary home that the great
deliverers of the world have all come from
such a homo. And there may be seated,
reading at your evening stand, a child who
shall be potent for the ages. Just unroll
the scroll of men mighty in church and
sta;e, and you will find they nearly all
came from log cabin or poor homes. Genius
almost always runs out in the third or
fourth generation. You cannot find in all
history an instance where the fourth gen
eration of extraordinary people amounts to
anything. In this country vve had two
groat m?n, father and son, both presidents
of tho United States, but from present
prospects there never will be in that gene
alogical line another president for a thou
sand years. Columbus from a weaver’s
hut, Demosthenes from a cutler’s cellar.
Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from a
shoemaker’s bench, Arkwright from a bar
ber’s shop and he whose name is high over
all in earth and air and sky from a manger.
Let us all bo content with such things as
we have. God is just as good in what he
keeps away from us as in what he gives
us. Even a knot may be useful if jt is at
tho end of a thread.
At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb
asylum one of the children wrote upon
the blackboard words as sublime as the
"Iliad,” the "Odyssey” aud the "Divina
Commedia” all compressed in ono para
graph. The examiner, in the signs of the
mute language, asked her, "Who madetho
world?” Tho deaf and dumb girl wrote
upon the blackboard, "In thebeginning
God created the heaven and the earth.”
The examinor asked her, "For what pur
pose did Christ come into the world?” Tho
deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the black
board, "This is a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners. ” The
examiner said to her, "Why were you born
deaf and dumb, while I hear and speak?”
She wrote upon the blackbottyfl, "Even so.
Father, soy sa it seemeth good in thy
sight." Oh, that wo might be baptized
with a contented spirit. The spider draws
poison out of a flower, the bee gets honey
out of a thistle, but happiness is a heaven
ly elixir, and the contented spirit extracts
it not from the rhododendron of the hills,
but from the lily of the valley.
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GEORGIA? 8188 CcTvNTY—To tne 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 Company” 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 i« pecuniary gain and
profit; that the principal business of said
carporation which they propose to carry 1
on. is to buy and sell all housefurnishing
goods, carpet?, stoves, clocks, watches and
all jewelry aud 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 pf gtoek 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 Bibh county, with
the right to establish agencies anywhere
in this state, as they may deem necessarv
or expedient.
Fisth —Petitioners further pray that they
may have the right, under and by said
corporate name, 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.
W herefore, 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
court of Bibb county. Georgia, do certify
that the above is a true copy of the orig
inal petition for incorporation of "The
Sanders Furniture Company as the same
appears now of file in said clerk’s office.
Witness my official signature and seal of
office this 10th day of January, 1898.
Robt. A. Nisbet, Clerk.
MACON NEWS MONDAY
WILL NOT RUN.
Mr. Lawton B. Evans Will Not Oppose Com
missioner E. R. Glenn.
Macon is much interested in the poli
tical future of Professor G. R. Glenn,
state school commissioner, against whom
it has been stated that Mr. L. B. Evans,
of Augusta, would enter the race.
In a letter written to State School Com
missioner G. R. Glen-n, Mr. Evans has an
nounced that he will not be a candidate
for the office of state school commis
sioner.
The name of Mr. Evans has t>een prom
inently mentioned in connection with the
office of state school commissioner and it
has been intimated in several papers in
the state that he would be a candidate for
the office.
As a matter of fact, many have expect
ed his announcement, and the letter re
dbived by State School Commissioner
Glenn yesterday shows that he has no in
tention of making the race.
Mr. Evans’ statement that he will not
be a candidate for the office leaves Pro
fessor ®lenn practically without opposi
tion, since no one else has been mentioned
as a probable aspirant. It seems very
likely that Professor Glenn will have no
opposition.
The letter from Mr. Evans making
known his intention to remain out of the
race is as follows:
"Augusta, Ga., Feb. 11, 1898 —My Dear
Mr. Glenn: I see my name mentioned in
several of the papers of the state as a
probable candidate for the position of
state school commissioner. I assure you
that I had nothing whatever to do with
such an announcement and have no pres
ent intention of offering for the position.
On the other hand, I shall cordially indorse
your candidacy and will do what I can to
secure your nomination and election. I
‘oakeit that the papers desire to compli
ment me with their mention and I am
obliged to them for it. However, I think
your election is certain and I shall feel
disappointed if you are not retained. I
esteem you as a good man for the position,
and do not believe in turning good men
out. Yours, L. B. Evans.”
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Loans negotiated on improved city prop
erty, on farms, at lowest market rates,
business of fifteen years’ standing. Facili
ties unsurpassed.
HOWARD M SMITH
314 Second St., Macon, Ga.
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H. J. Laman Sons.
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We Do It.
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Clothing made by us wins reputation
upon many points of excellence.
Os course, quality is pre-eminent. But
style, workmanship and finish receive the
amount of attention their importance de
mands.
Our mid-winter reduction sale presents
an opportunity to the careful, stylish
dresser that should not be overlooked.
Values are up to our usual high standard,
but prices have been cut materially.
We have a splendid line of medium
weights, suitable for early spring wear as
well as for present use.
Geo. P. Burdick & Co.,
Importing Tailors.
Bicycles and Typewrite,
New and second hand for
sale or rent.
Factory man in charge of
repair department.
J. W. Shinholser,
Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street.
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Willingham
Sash and Door Company.
DEALERS IN
Painters’ and Builders’ Supplies,
Cabinet Mantels, Tiles and Grates.
I®=* Facilities Unsurpassed.
LET
Sell you SEED and plant
YOUR GARDEN
We have an experienced white gardener who understan
his business. Leave orders now.
STREYER SEED CO
466 Poplar Street.
FRESH VACCINE DAILY ~
From now until the scare is
over. We will receive fresh
Vaccine Points every day.
Price, ISc. each, 2 for 25c.
GOODWYN’S DRUG STORE.
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, Ocmu %U st.
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GL BERND &b 00.,
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.
Prepare foFWinter.
Window Glass, Mantels and Grates.
Can furnish any size or parts broken.
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 i
take pleasure in coating your house inside or
outside with up-to-date schemes of coloring at
moderate prices.
G. W. LINGO, 62(U Cfierru st. .
MACON, GA.
CASTORIA
The Kind You Have
Always Bought,
Bears the Fao-simile
Signature
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BOTTLE.
THE KIND
YOU HAYE
ALWAYS BOUGHT.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY.
Great Sale of Hats.
2.000
samples ofFZlen’s,
Boys’ and Children’s Hats
and Caps. Just opened and
will be sold at half manufac
turer’s cost.
The Dixie Shoe and Clothing Co,
Corner Cherry and Third Streets.
CENTRAL CITY.
Befrloetator anil Cabinet Works.
MANUFACTURE S OF
Bank, Bar and Office Fixtur s, Drug Store Mantels
and ad of Hard Wood Work, Show Cases to
order. Muecke’s newest improved Dry Air Refrigeia-||
tor will be made and sold at wholesale prices to'every
body. Give us a trial.
F. W. ITUECKE, Manager
614 New Street.
My One Sin-
gle aim is to do better
ROOF PAINTING than any one else.
I 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, 1897.
We know’ Mr. 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. W. Gunnison, tax
receiver; R. P. Hall, 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 tbe 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. Weston, 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 all
leaks 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.
Mr. Harvey English has covered the roof
of the engine room of the Albany Water
works with his roof paint, and I am well
satisfied with tbe 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 BEAKED 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.”
LANDLORDS!
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.
OffiTwatcir
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, gonts’ size; ladies’ for $lB.
BEELAND, the Jeweler - - - Triangular Block.
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Home Industries
and Institutions.
Henry Stevens’ Sons Co.
H. STEVENS’ SONS CO, Macon, 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.
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 f
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 and see them at tl>e factory New St.
roof. Since Mr. English painted the root
it could not Jjc fixed except with a new
it has not leaked any. He has palmed roefs
i for J. W. Hopson, John Tillman, Clayton
► Groover and others. He does the best work
I have ever seen done on tin roofs. He is
an honest and upright man, who would not
deceive you for your money.
i J. B. Finch, Merchant,
i Albany, Ga., Jan. 29, 1897.
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Having had Mr. Harvey English to patnt
> several roofs with his incomparable prep
i aration for stopping leaks, it affords me
' pleasure to bear testimony to his bouest
workmanship and <.o the fact that “Eng
lish Paint Stops the Leaks; Yes, It Do.”
Josepa S. Davis,
Cashier First National Bauk.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 25, 1895.
Mr. Harvey English has stopped a very
bad leaking roof for us with his English
Paint. I recommend his paint to any one
who is troubled with leaky roofs.
F. Whi re, Supt.
Georgia Cotton Oil Co., Albany Mill.
Mr. English has done some work for us
that required the best of paints and ekiil
1 as a workman. Without soldering he has
made a very leaky roof dry and tight. It
gives us pleasure to recommend him.
T. J. Ball & Bro.,
Wholesale dealers in choice groceries and
delicacies.
Thomasville, Ga., Ag. 18, 1894.
The corrugated iron roof of our shop
leaked so badly that in times of a heavy
rain, we 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 no rain.
His paint is a first-class article. We take
pleasure in recommending English and his
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
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