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PULPIT AM) PRESS.
DR. TALMAGE TAKES THF PRINTING
ART FOR HIS SUBJECT.
Fl prr ***-•» Hi* Grtstitucle to God snd the
Newspaper Commemorate* the Two
Thousandth Publication of Hi* trnnota.
An Appeal to Editor*.
(Copyright. 1838. by American Pn*’* Asso*
Washington, Feb. 20. For the first
time Dr. Tnlmnpo in this diwourse toils
in what way his h< rtuor.s have rome to n
multiplicity of publication such as has
netcr in any other caw la-on Know n since
the art of printing was in vented ; text,
Nahum ii, 4, “They shall seem like torch
es. they shall run like the lightnings.”
Express, rail train am) t< 1.-graphic com
munication are suggested, if not foretold,
In this t< ;t. and from it 1 start to preach
a sermon in gratlt: do to God ami the
newspaper pros for tic-fact that I have
had the opportunity of mlivering through
the ncw -;;:[ r pre>-s 2.'of) sermons or re
ligious adder ■--s, -<• that 1 have for many
years Im. n allowed the privih goof preach
Ing the g- -pf I every w < k to every neigh
borhood in Christendom and in many
lands outside of < hrist. ndom Many have
wondered at the pt<;ci -s by which it has
come to p:u>s, and for the first time in pub
lic place I state tl>e thn e causes. Many
years ago a young man who J.as since be
come emi'.ent in hi - pr< f< sslcn wns then
studying law in a distant city. Ho came
to me r.nd said that lor -lack of funds be
must stop his studying t.iih-s through
atenogrophy 1 would give him ketches of
sermons lint he might I>yt he ralo of them
secure means for the completion of his
education. 1 positively declined, because
it seemed to mean impossibility, hut after
rome months hnd passed, and I had re
flected upon tho gvi.it s; diK-ss for “u< h a
brilliant yoni.-g man to be defeated in l>is
ambition for the ley H profession, J under
took to rvc him. of coursefreeof charge.
Within three weeks there came a request
for those sti nopriipl ic Kpoits from many
parts of the continent.
Time passed on, and seme gentlemen of
my own profession, evidently thinking that
thoro was hardly room for them and for
mysflf in th;eminent, began to assail
me, ami became so violent in their assault
that the chief newspapers of America put
special corn .- f ondonts in my church Sab
hntii by Sabbath to takedown such reply
as I might make. I never made reply, ex
cept once for about three minutes, but
those correspondents could not waste their
time, and so they telegraphed the sermons
to their particular piq)ers. After I.while Dr.
Ixruls Klopsch of New York systematized
tho work into a syndicate until through
that and other syndicates he has put the
discourses week by week before more than
20,000,000 pr opio on both sides the sea.
There have been so many guesses on this
subject, many of them inaccurate, that I
now tell tho true story. 1 have not im
proved tho opportunity na I ought, but I
fool the time has come when ns a matter
of common justice to the newspaper press
1 should make this statement in a
sermon commemorative of the two thou
sandth full publication of sermons and
religious addressee, saying nothing of frag
mentary leperts, which would run up into
many thousands more.
Nothing but Point*.
There wan one incident that I might
mention in this connection, showing
how an insignificant event might in
fluence us for a lifetime. Many years
ago on a Sabbath morning on my way
to church in Brooklyn a representative
of a prominent newspaper met me and
Said, “Are you going .to give us any
points today?” I said, “What do you
mean by ‘points?’ ” Ho replied, “Any
thing wo can remember.” 1 said to my
self, "Wo ought to bo making ‘points’ all
tho time in our pulpits and not deal in
platitudes and inanities.” That one inter
rogation put to mo that morning started
in me the desire of making points all tho
time nnd nothing but points.
And now how cun I more appropriately
commemorate tho two thousandth publiea.-
tion than by speaking of the newspaper
press us an ally of tho pulpit and mention
ing some of tho trials of newspaper men?
Tho newspaper is the great educator of
tho nineteenth century. There is no force
compared with it. It is book, pulpit, plat
form, forum, all in one. And there is not
an interest—religious, literary, commer
cial, scientific, agricultural or mechanical
—that is not within its grasp. All our
churches and schools and colleges and asy
lums and art galleries feel tho quaking of
tho printing press.
Tho institution of newspapers arose in
Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was
published, nnd monthly, during the time
Venice was warring against Soly man 11 in
Dalmatia, it was printed for tho purpose
of giving military and commercial infor
mation to tho Venetians. The first news
paper pul lisbed in England was in 1588
and called Tbe English Mercury. Who can
estimate the political, scicntilie, commer
cial nnd religious revolutions roused up in
England lor many years past by tho press?
Tho first attempt at this institution in
Franco was in 1631, by a physician, who
published The News, for tho amusement
and health of his patients. The French
nation understood fully how to appreciate
this power. So early as in 1820 there were
in Paris 169 journals. But in the United
States tho newspaper has come to unlim
ited sway. Though in 1775 there were but
87 in the whole country, the number of
published journals is now counted by thou
sands, and today—we may as well ac
knowledge it as net—tho religious and
secular newspapers are the great educators
of tho country.
I’ower of the Pres*.
But, alas, through what struggle the
newspapi rl-.r.s come to its present develop
ment! Just as soon as it began to demon
strate its power superstition and tyranny
shackled it. There is nothing that despot
ism so much fears and hates as the print
ing press. A great, writer in the south of
Europe declared that the king of Naples
had made it unsafe for him to write on
any subject pave natural history. Austria
could not bear Kossuth’s journalistic pen
pleading fcr the redemption of Hungary.
Napoleon I. wanting to keep his iron heej
on the neck of nations, said that the news
paper was the regent of kings and the
only safe place to keep an eoit-or was in
prison. But the great battle for the free
dom of the press was fought in the court
rooms of England and the United States
before this century began, when Hamilton
made his great speech in behalf of the free
dom of J. Peter Zeuger's Gazette in Amer
ica. and when Erskine made his great
speech in behalf of the freedom to publish
Paine's “Kights of Man” in England.
Those were the Marathon and the Ther
mopylae where the battle was fought
which decided tho freedom of the press in
England ami America, and ail the powers
of earth and hell will never again be able to
put upon the printing press the handcuffs
and the hopples of literary and political
despotism.
It is remarkable that Thomas Jefferson,
who wrote the Declaration of Independ
ence, also wrote these words, “If I had to
choose between a government without
newspapers and newspapers without a
government, I would prefer the latter."
ptung by some new fabrication in print,
we come to write or speak about np “un
bridled printing press.” Our new book
ground up in unjust criticism, wo come to
write or speak about the “unfair printing
press.” Perhaps through our own indis
tinctness of utterance we are reported as
saying just the opposite of what we did
say, and there is a small riot of semico
lons and hyphens and commas, and we
oomo to write or talk about the “blunder
ing printing press, "or we take up a news
paper full of social scandal and of cases of
divorce, and we write’ or talk about a
“filthy, scurrilous printing press.” But
this morning I ask you to consider the im
measurable end everlasting blessing of a
good newspaper.
Next to the Bible,
I find no difficulty in accounting for the
world's advance. What has made the
change? “Books,” you say. No, sir! The
vast majority of citizens do not read books.
Take this audience or any other promiscu
ous assemblage, and how many histories
have they read? How many treatises on
constitutional law or political economy or
works of science? How many elaborate
poems or books of travel? Not many. In
ths United States the people would not av j
erage one such Look a year for each indi
vidual. Whence, then, this intelligence,
this capacity to talk about all themes, sec
ular and religious, this acquaintance with
.-cienoe and art, tLis power to appreciate
the beautiful nnd grand? Next to the Bi
ble. the newspaper, swift winged and ev
erywhere present, flying over the fence,
shoved under the door, tossed hnto the
counting house, laid on the workbench,
hawked through the cars! All read it—
white and black, German, Irishman.
Swiss, Spaniard, American, old and
young, good and Lad, sick and well, before
breakfast and alter tea, Monday morning,
Saturday night, Sunday nnd weekday. I
now deciare that I consider the newspaper
to be the grand agency by which the gos
pel is to be preached, ignorance cast odt,
oppression dethroned, crime extirpated,
the world raised, heaven rejoiced and Gcd
glorified. Jn the clanking of the printing
press as the sheets fly out I hear the voice
of the Lord almighty proclaiming to ail
the dead nations of the earth, “Lazarus,
come forth!” and to tho retreating surges
of darkness, “Let there be light!” Jn
many of our city newspapers, professing
no more than secular information, there
have appeared during tho past 80 years
some of the grandest appeals in behalf of
religion and some of the most effective in
terpretations of God’s government among
the nations.
Two Kind* of Newspapers.
There ar ■ only two kinds of newspapers
—the one good, very good, tho other bad,
very bad. A newspaper may bo started
with an undecided character, but after it
has been tjoing on for years everylwdy
finds out just what it is, and it is very
good or it is very l ad. The one paper is
the embodiment of news, the ally of vir
tue, the foe (if crime, the delectation of
elevated taste, the mightiest agency on
earth for nail ing the world better. The
other paper is a brigand among moral
forces; it is a bcslhner of reputation, it is
the right arm of death and hell, it is tho
mightiest agency in the universe for mak
ing tiie world worse and battling against
the cause of God, the one an angel of in
telligence and mercy, the other a fiend of
darkness. Between this archangel and
this fury is to Lu fought the great battle
which is to decide the fate of the world.
If you have any doubt as to which is to be
victor, ask the prophecies, ask God; the
chief batteries w ith which he would vindi
cate the rignt and thunder down the
wrong are now unlimbered. The great
Armageddon of the nations is not to be
fought with swords, but with steel pens;
not with bullets. Lot with type; not with
cannon, Lt.t with lightning perfecting
presses, and the Sumters, and the Moul
tries, ami the Pulaskis, and tho Gibraltars
of that conflict u ill be the editorial and
roportorial rooms of our great newspaper
establishments. Men of the press, God
has put a more stupendous responsibility
upon you than upon any other class of per
sons. What long strides your profession
has made in influence and power since the
day when Peter Sheffer invented cast
metal type, and because two books wcro
found just alike they were ascribed to the
work of the devil, and books were printed
on strips of bamboo, and Rev. Jesse Glover
originated the first American printing
press, and tho common council of New
York, in solemn resolution, offered S2OO
to any printer who would come there and
live, and when the speaker of the house of
parliament In England announced with
indignation that the publid prints had rec
ognized some of their doings, until in this
day, when we have in this country many
newspapers sending out copies by the bil
lion. The press and the telegraph have
gone down into the same great harvest
field to reap, and the telegraph says to the
newspaper, “I’ll rake, while you bind,”
ami tho iron teeth of the telegraph are set
down at ono end of the harvest field and
drawn clean across, and the newspaper
gathers up the sheaves, setting down one
sheaf on the breakfast table in the shape of
a morning newspaper, and putting down
another sheaf on the tea table in the shape
of an evening newspaper, and that man
who neither reads nor takes a newspaper
would be a curiosity. What vast progress
since the days when Cardinal Wolsey de
clared that cither the printing press must
go down or the church of Gcd must go
down to this time, when the printing
press and the pulpit are in hundreds of
glorious combination and alliance.
Trial* of the Editor.
One of the great trials of this newspaper
profession is the fact that they are com
pelled to see more of the shams of the
world than any other profession. Through
every newspaper office, day by day, go the
weakness of the world, the vanities that
want to be puffed, tho revenges that want
to be wreaked, all the mistakes that want
to bo corrected, all the dull speakers who
want to bo thought eloquent, all the mean
ness that wants to get its wares noticed
gratis in the editorial columns in order to
save the tax of the advertising column, all
the men who want to be set right who
never were right, all the crack brained
philosophers, with story as long us their
hair and as gloomy as their finger nails,
all the itinerant bores who come to stay
five minutes and stop an hour. From tho
editorial and reportorial rooms all the fol
lies and shame of the world are s<jeq day
by day, ami the temptation is to believe
neither in God, man, nor woman. It is
no surprise to me that in your profession
there are some skeptical men. I only won
der that you believe anything. Unless an
editor or a reporter has in his present or
in bis early home a model of earnest char
actor, or he throw hjmself upon the up
holding grace of God, he may make tem
poral and eternal shipwreck.
Another great trial of the newspaper
profession is inadequate compensation.
Since the days of Hazlitt and Sheridan and
John Milton, and the wailings of Grub
street, London, literary toil, with very few
exceptions, has not been properly requited.
When Oliver Goldsmith received a friend
in his house, he (the author) had to sit on
the window, because there was only one
chair. Linnaeus sold his splendid work
fora ducat. De Foe, the author of so many
volumes, died penniless. The learned
Johnson dined behind a screen because his
clothes were too shabby to allow him to
dine with the gentlemen who, on the oth
er side of the screen, were applauding his
works. And so on down to tho present
time IJterary toil Is a great struggle for
bread. The world seenis to have a grudge
against a man who, as they say, gets his
living by his wits, and the day laborer
says to the man of literary toil, “You come
down here and shove a plane and hammer
a shoe last and break cobolestones and
earn an honest living as I do instead of
sitting there in idleness scribbling!” But
there are no'bapjer workuj men in all
tlif earth than the newspaper people cl
this country. It is not a matter of hard
times; it is characteristic at all times.
Men have a better appreciation for that
which appeals to the stomach than for that
which appeals to the brain. They have
no idea of the immense financial and in
tellectual exhaustion of the newspaper
press. Oh, men of the press, it will be a
great help to you, if wheu you get home
late at night, fagged out and nervous with
your work, you would just kneel down
and commend your case to God, who has
watched all the fatigues of the day and the
night, and who has promised to be your
God and the God of your children forever!
Demands of the Public.
Another great trial of the newspaper
profession is the diseased appetite for un
healthy intelligence. You blame the news
paper press for giving such prominence to
murders and scandals. Do you suppose
that so many payers would give promi
nence to these things if the people did net
demand them? If I go into the meat mar
ket of a foreign city, and I find that tho
butchers hang up on the most conspicuous
hooks meat that is tainted, while the meat
that is fresh and savory is put away with
out any special care, I come to the conclu
sion that the people of that city love taint
ed meat. You know very well that if the
great mass of people in this country get
hold of a newspaper and there are in it no
runaway matches, no broken up families.
c ’( l Uf n ig £igh put Ilion,
they pionbunce tlie paper insipid. Tney
say, “It is shockingly dull tonight.” I
believe it is one of the trials of the news
paper press that the people of this country
demand moral slush instead of healthy
and intellectual food. Now, you are a re
spectable man, an intelligent man, and a
paper comes into your hand. You open it,
and there are three columns of splendidly
written editorial, recommending some
moral sentiment or evolving some scien-
Uflc theorv. In the next, column there is
a miserable, contemptible divorce case.
Which do you read first? You dip Into the
editorial long enough to say, “Well, that's
very ably written,” and you read the di
vorce case from the “long primer” type at
the top to the “nonpareil” type at the bot
tom, and then you a<k your wife if she has
rend it! Oh, it is only a case of supply
and demand! Newspaper men are not
fools. They know what you want, and
they give it to you. 1 believe that if the
church and the world bought nothing but
pure, honest, healthful newspapers, noth
ing but pure, honest and healthful news
papers would be published. If you should
gather all the editors and the reporters of
this country in one great convention, and
ask of them what kind of a paper they
would prefer to publish, I believe they
would unanimously say, “We would prefer
to publish an elevating paper.” t?o long
as there Li an Iniquitous demand there
will be an iniquitous supply. I make no
apology for a debauched newspaper, but I
am saying these things in order to divide
the responsibility between those who print
and those who read.
Temptation* of Journalist*.
Another temptation of the newspaper
profession is the great allurement that
surrounds them. Every occupation and
profession has temptations peculiar to it
self, and the newspaper profession is not
an exception. The great demand, as you
kuow, is on the nervous force, and the
brain is racked. The blundering political
speech must road well for the sake of the
party, and so the re porter or the editor has
to make it tread well, although every sen
tence wore a catastrophe to the English
language. The reporter must hear ail that
an inaudible speaker, who thinks it is vul
gar to speak out, says, and it must be
right the next morning or the next night
in the p>apcrs, though the night before the
whole audience sat with its hand behind
its ear in vain trying to catch it. This
man must go through killing night work.
He must go into heated assemblages and
into unventilated audience rooms that are
enough to take the life out of him. He
must visit courtrooms, which are almost
always disgusting with rum and tobacco.
Ho must expose himself at the fire. He
must write in fetid alleyways. Added to
all that, he must have hasty mastication
and irregular habits. To bear up under
this tremendous nervous strain they are
tempted to artificial stimulus, and how
many thousands have gone down under
their pressure God only knows. They
must have something to counteract tho
wet, they must have something to keep
out the chill, and after a scant night’s
sleep they must have something to revive
them for the morning's work. This is
what made Horace Greeley such a stout
temperance man. I said to him, “Mr.
Greeley, why are you more eloquent on the
subject of temperance than any other sub
ject?” He replied, “I have seen so many
of my best friends in journalism go down
under intemperance. ” Oh, my dear brother
of the newspaper profession, what you
cannot do without artificial stimulus God
docs not want you to do! There is no half
way ground for our literary people be
tween teetotalism and dissipation. Your
professional success, jour domestic peace,
your eternal salvation, will depend upon
your theories in regard to artificial stim
ulus. I have had so many friends go down
under the temptation, their brilliancy
quenched, their homes blasted, that I cry
out this morning in the words of another,
“Look not upon the wine when it is red,
when it glveth its color in the cup, when
it moveth itself aright, for at tho last it
biteth like a serpent, and it etingeth like
an adder. ”
Neglect Their Souls.
Another trial of this profession is the
fact no one seems to care for their souls.
They feel bitterly about it, though they
laugh. People sometimes laugh the loud
est when they feel the worst. They are
expected to gaiher up religious proceedings
and to discuss religious doctrines in the
editorial columns, but who expects them
to be saved by the sermons they stenograph
or by the doctrines they discuss in the edi
torial columns? The world looks upon
them as professional. Who preaches to re
porters and editors? Some of them camo
from religious homes, and when they left
the parental roof, whoever regarded or dis
regarded, they came off with a father’s
benediction and a mother’s prayer. They
never think of those good old times but
tears come into their eyes, and they move
through these great cities homesick. Oh,
if they only knew what a helpful thing it
is for a man to put hie weary head down
on the bosom of a sympathetic Christ! He
knows how nervous and tired you are. Ho
has a heart large enough to take in all
your interests for this world and the next.
Ob, men of the newspaper press, you some
times get sick of this world, it seems so
hollow and unsatisfying! If there are any
people in all the earth that need God, you
are the men, and you shall Lave him if
only this day you implore his mercy.
A man was found at the foot of Canal
street, New York. As they picked him up
from the water and brought him to the
morgue they saw by the contour of his
forehead that he had great mental capacity.
He had entered the newspaper profession.
He bad gone down in health. He took to
artificial stimulus. Ho went down further
and further, until one summer day, hot
and hungry and sick and in despair, he
flung himself off tho dock. They found in
his pocket a reporter’s pad, a lead pencil, a
photograph of some one who had loved
him long ago. Death, as sometimes it
will, smoothed out all the wrinkles that
had gathered prematurely on his brow,
and as he lay there his face was as fair as
when, seven years before, he left bis coun
try home and they bade him goodby for
ever. The world looked through the win
dow of the morgue and said, “It’s nothing
but an outcast,” but God said it was a gi
gantic soul that perished because the
world gave him no chance.
Fight Corruption.
Let me ask all men connected with the
printing press that they help us more and
more in the effort to make tbe world bet
ter. I charge you in the name of God, be
fore whom you must account for tbe tre
mendous influence you hold in this coun
try, to consecrate yourselves to higher en
deavors. You are the men to fight back
this invasion of corrupt literature. Lift
up your right hand and swear new alle
giance to thecauspof philanthropy and re
ligion. And when at last, standing on the
plains of judgment, you look out upon
the unnumbered throngs over whom you
have had influence, may it be found that
you were among the mightiest energies
that lifted men upon the exalted pathway
that leads to the renown of heaven. Bet
ter than to have sat in editorial chair,
from which, with the finger of type, you
decided the destinies of empires, but decid
ed them wrong, that you had been some
dungeoned exile, who, by the light of win
dow iron grated, on scraps of a New Tes
tament leaf, picked up from the earth,
spelled out the story of him who taketh
away the sins of tbe world. In eternity
Dives is the beggar. Well, my friends, we
will all soon get through writing and
printing and proofreading and publish
ing. Wbat then? Our life is a bock. Our
years are the chapters. Our months are
the paragraphs. Our days are tho sen
tences. Our doubts are the interrogation
points. Our imitation of others the quota
tion marks. Our attempts at display a
dash. Death the period. Eternity the pep
oration. O God. where will we spend it?
Have you heard the news, more startling
than any found in the journals of the last
six weeks? It is tbe tidings that man is
lost. Have you heard tbe news, the glad
dest that was ever announced, coming
this day from the throne of God, lightning
Couriers leaping frem the palace gate?
The news! The glorious news! That there
is pardon for all guilt and comfort for all
trouble. Set it up in “double leaded” col
umns and direct it to the w hole race.
The Angel’* Wing.
And now before I close this sermon,
thankfully commemorative of the “Two
Thousandth" publication, I wish
fully to acknowledge the eepyices rendered
by tb? sfcplae nress iu the matter of
efangelizatJon. All the secular newspa
pers of tbe day—fcr I am not speaking
this morning of the religious newspapers
—all the secular newspapers of the day
fliscuss all the questions of God, eternity
»nd the dead, and all the questions of the
past, present and future. There is not a
single doctrine of theology but- has been
discussed in the last ten years by the secu
lar newspapers of the country; they gather
up all the news of all tbe earth bearing on
religious subjects, and then they scatter
the news abroad The Christian
MACON NEWS Muwuay EVENING, FEBRUARY 11 xBsB.
newspaper Kill toe right wing of the
Apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of ’.be
Christianized j rinting press will be tbe
front wheel of the Lord's chariot. I take
tbe music of this day, and I do not mark
it diminuendo—l mark it ciescendo. A
pastor on pieaches to a lew hun
dred or a xew thousand people, and on
Monday or during the week the printing
press will take the same sermon and preach
it to millions oi people. Gcd speed the
printing press! Gcd save the printing
press! God Christianize the printing
press!
\tbcn I see tbe printing press standing
with the electric telegraph on the one side
gathering up material and the lightning*
express train on the uthir aide waiting lor
the tons of folded tfccets of newspapers, I
pronounce it the mightiest force in our
civilization, r-o I comnxnd you to pray
fur all those who manage the newspapers
of the land, lor ali typesetters, tor ail edi
tors, for ail publishers, that, sitting cr
standing in positions of such great influ
ence, they may give ail that influence for
Gcd and tho betterment of the human
race. An aged woman waking her living
Ly knitting unwound tho yarn from the
ball until ihe found in tho center of the
ball then wtie un old piece of newspaper.
She opened it and read an advertisement
which announced that she had become
heiress to a la; ge pio(.iTtyand that frag
ment of a newspaper lilted her up from
pauperism to affluente. And 1 do not
know but as tho thread of lime unrolls
and unwinds a little farther through the
silent yet speaking newspaper may be
found the vast inberiranco of tbe world’s
redemption.
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Does his successive jcuineys run,
Ins kingdom stietcls £lOlll shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Gauging Their Fees.
Dr. A.—Why do you always make such
particular inquiries as to what your pa
tients eat? Does that assist you in your
diagnosis?
Dr. B. Not that, but it enables me to
ascertain their social position and arrange)
lay fees accordingly.—Neuo Zcit.
The Legal Mind.
A young candidate for the legal profes
sion was asked what he should do when
first employed to bring an action. “Ask
for wore money on account,” was the
prompt reply. He passed.—Louden Figaro.
A Demon
Contagious Blood Pc-son is cutting
down human heingsby the thousand.
It is an awful afiliction. Doctors
have all sorts of theories about it
that they learned at college, but they
fail miserably when they try to cure
it. Every sufferer should know, be
fore he seeks professional help, that
he will be given mercury and other
poisons, whichne.'er -
did, never will and
never can effect a
cure. y
Know
tl,at
WrT-ltiufZ Sw®’?
! Specific
(S. S.S.)is
purely veg
etable and
is his only hope. It will go to the root
of the trouble and purify the blood—
make it rich, red and healthy—stop
the eating sores forever—stop the
hair from falling out—drive the ter
rible disease completely away.
Free books on the
disease and iis treat-
ment can be had by
writing to tbe Swift
Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. 1
pg Big is a nan-poisonout*
remedy for Gonorrhuua,
Gleet, S perin a t or r h u» a,
j6ij|Bgy r in Ito 5 Whites, unnatural dis
Guaranteed charges, or any inOanima-
M kJ? not to sttieture. tiou, irritation or ulceni
Prevents contagion. tion of in uco u s mem-
branes. Non-astringeut.
CINCINNATI. 0 Sold by
U.S.A. or sent ’ u Plain wrapper,
express, prepaid, for
11.I 1 .- 00 - or 3 bottles, $2.75.
* O-renlar sent on roo-iop*
CLAY’S COP FIN STORE.
Oldest exclusive undertaking house Id
Macon. Orders by telegraph promptly at
tended to.
Nos. 511 and 513 Mulberry street. Store
’phone 425. Residence ’phone 426.
Money.
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.
GEORGIA, 8188 COUNTY—To the Su
perior Court of Said County: The petition
of 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 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 name, to sue and be sued, to
have and use a common seal, to make all I
by-laws for their own government as they ;
shall think necessary, to appoint such offi- I
cers and agents as they think proper, to I
purchase and hold such property, real or i
personal, as is necessary to the purpose i
of the organization: to do all such legal 1
acts as are necessary for the carrying out
°f the purpose of the corporation, and gen
erally to exercise all powers conferred
upon corporations under and by the laws
of the state.
herefore, petitioners pray that an or
der be passed granting this their applica
tion for incorporation, and petitioners will I
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
banders 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.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “C ASTORIA?” AND
“PITCHER'S CA&TORLA,” AS OUR TRADE'MaRK.
7, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, cf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator cf “PITCHER'S CASTOR;A,” Me same
that has borne and does now ' 0:1 evcr U
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCH ER’S CASTO RIA, ’ which ras been
used in the homes efthe Mothers of America far ova*' thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrap]; r and see that it is
I the hind you have always bought • —“L*’
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me io use r»r; came ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. JI. fl etcher is
President.
March 8, 1897. Qpi
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life cf your chi’id by accepting
a cheap substitute v.hi< h some druggist may oiler you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the. in
i gredients of which even Pc does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought"
BEARS THE FAQ SIMILE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
XHC CLWTAKF. GC TV KURSaV ATHSt7 h!SW VORMCTIf.
Thera’s EYBiyllilUD
In Knowing
That you have the correct thing when
you pay out money for footwear. Any
body can sell Shoes, but you want the
right kind. Everybody will tell you that
AVE sell the right kind. Stick a pin
here, ladies.
The Strong Shoe Company
368 Second st Phone 410.
GL 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.
Great Sale of Hats
2.000
Drummers’ samples of Men’s,
Boys’ and Children’s Hats
and Caps. Just oponed and
will be sold at .half manufac- ’
turer’s cost.
The Dixie Shoe and Clothing Co.
Corner Cherry and Third Streets.
FRESH VACCINE DAILY
From now until the scare is
over. We will receive fresh
Vaccine Points every day.
Price, ISc. each, 2 for 35c.
GOODWYN’S DRUG STORE.
CENTRAL CITY.
RBfriQerator and Caffli® Works.
MANUFACTURE S OF
Bank, Bar and Office Fixtur s, Drug Store Mantels
and all kinds 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. HUECKE, Manager
oil New Street.
My One Sin-
aim is to do better
ROOF PAINTING than any one else.
I r urnish matrial, labor, paint the
roof f< r C’i cents a square of 100 square
net. . n<l give a written guarantee that
“If th alive named roof leaks or needs
Pf-intirg at any time within ten years fro
m dati . 1 am to do the work needed with
out at; expense to owner of building.”
Albany. Ga.. June 5. 1897.
We anew Mr. Haivey English to be a
citizen of Dougherty county, Georgia, a
proper y holder therein: that he has done
a large amount of painting in Albany. Ga.
We hare leant of no complaints about his 1
work. \\ irk entrusted to bis hands will I
be faithfully executed, and his guarantee .
is goo. . J. 'I. Hester, tax collector; Sam i
W. Smith ordinary; S. u. Gunnison, tax !
reeeivtr; R. P. Hall, clerk superior court; I
W. T. Jor.es, judge county court; W. E. ;
Wooten, solicitor-general Albany circuit; |
x'.d. L. W ight, iqayor of Albany and repre- '
sentative in the Georgia legislature; B. F. |
Brimbs i ry. John Mock, C. B. James, tgent I
Southern Express Company; N. F Tirt J ‘
C. Talbjo. L. E. Welch, A. W. Muse. Y.' G. |
Rust, postmaster; J. J). Weston, S. R.
Weston.
Albany, Ga., Nov. 19, 1895.
The roof painting done for me by Mr.
Haivey English lias b en 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 i
ftTcut ma-iv. His whole transaction w;ts j
fair, business-like and satisfactory. Re- I
spectfully, A . w . Muse. i
Albany, Ga., Jan. 28, 1897.
Mr. Harvey English has covered the roof >
of the engine room of the Albany Water- |
works wi.h his roof paint, and 1 am well I
satisfied with the work. He has also done I
some vork for me personally, two years I
ago, vhich has proved satisfactory.
0. W. Tift.
C.iief 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 NTT LEAKED A
DROP. He painted a roof for Capt. J. G.
McCall that leaked so badly that no ore
would rent it. He had it painted atid
worked on until he had about decided that
HARVEY ENGLISH, Albany, Ga.
“English Paint stops leaks, yes it do.”
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.
6. W. LINGO, ™ Cf m st.
1 MACON, GA.
We i<?
ilnngnam
Sash and Door Company.
DEALERS IN
Painters’ and Builders’ Supplies,
Cabinet Mantels, Tiles and Grates.
Facilities Unsurpassed. L 847
a. b. hinkle, piiusiclan and Surnaon.
Office 370 Second Street. Office Phone 39. Residence Phone 917
Docs general practice. I tender my ser vices to the people of Macon and vicinity.
Diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and lungs specialties. Office consutation and
treatment absolutely free from 8 to 9 ever y morning, visits in the city for cash, day
sl. night $2. I invite the public to visit my office. Vaccination free. Office hours,
8 to 9 a. tn.; 12 to 1 p. m., and 3 to 5:30 p. m.
Sweet Peas
Free to Ladies.
Every lady that calls at our store Monday will
receive absolutely free a package of our finest
mixed Sweet peas. Remember the day,
MONDAY, 21st
Streyer Seed Comp’y.
466 Poplar Street.
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, gonts’ size; ladies’ for $lB.
BEELAND, the Jeweler Triangular Block.
Home Industries
and Institutions.
Henry Stevens’ Sons Co.
H. STEY ENS’ 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 packing house, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Macon Machinery.
MALLARY 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 and see them at tlxt factory o° New St
roof. Since Mr. English painted the root
it could not be fixed except with a rew
it has not leaked ary. He has painted roofs
for J. W. Hopson, John Tillman, Clayton
Groover and others. He does the best work
' I have ever seen done on tin roofs. He ia
au honest and upright man, who would not
I deceive you for yo r money.
.. B. Finch, Merchant.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 21, 1897.
Having had Mr. Harvey English to pafcit
i several roofs with his incomparable prep
aration for stopping leaks, it affords me
pleasure to bear testimony to his honest
workmanship and to the fact that “Eng
lish Faint Stops the Leaks; Yes. It Do.”
Joseph S. Davis,
Cashier First National Bank.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 25. 1895.
Mr. Harvey English has stopped a very
bad leaking roof for us with his English
Faint. 1 recommend his paint to any one
I who is troubled with leaky roofs.
F. Whire, Supt.
Georgia Cotton Oil Co., Albany Mill.
Mr. English has done some work for us
that required the best of paints and skill
as a workman. Without soldering he has
made a very leaky roof dry and tight. It
i gives us pleasure to recommend him.
T. J. Ball & Bro..
| Wholesale dealers lu choice groceries and
delicacies.
Thomasville, Ga., Ag. 18, 1894.
The corrugated iron roof of our shop
I 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
I his English Roof Faint, stopped the leaks,
and now the work goes on, rain ox 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., 1594.
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, 18-4
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