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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. 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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 3