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JPMSa ■—ill' I he Criticism On clothing made by us j K always 'ivor bl* M< n who have been for years adkted to th** “ready made" habit sinelimb to th* fascination of a perfect {i'tin.r up when they barn that it costs t.o more than the other kind itur dnj '»> of xuli'affft and troinerlngz for summer wear is worth looking at. Come In ampßee the prevailing styles. We won't ask you to order. We spare our customers much trouble In fitting, etc., but we don’t spare ourselves. The utmost care I* taken to make gar ments that are satisfactory to our cus tomers. Geo. P. Burdick a Go., 568 Mulberry Street. GEORGIA. Bibb Count. To the Superioi Court of Said County: The petition of the Jones Furnitur* * Company respectfully -hows: That on th 11th <);iy ol Novi infe r. I8!>7, It ,\.i- dill'. Incorporated by an ordoi of the •'•> Court of ilil county, a Itody corporate an jxjlitic under tin corporate name of I Joni ■ Furniture Company. for the purpo of carrying on a- ,u< r.il wholesale -nd r tail furniture and lio-i :e -fin nisitin,- bust neji.H, and that It has been duly organize* under said charter, and Im carrying on th bir-iiK c authorized by M ini charter. Your petitioner <]< - ir«-s to amend it aforesaid charier by changing the eorpe rate riani- from the Join ■• Furniture Com pany to th.ri of the Georgia l-’tiinitui Company and that ‘-,ili| corporation sha) have all the rights anrl privileges tin-l tin new name of the Georgia Furuiiiu rtompiny, that it had under its origin.') name of the Jones Fuinllurc Company and that said charter as amended, with al. powers, privileges, right.-, and imrniinlti- • by its said charter conferred, be continue under its aforesaid charter as amended, fo a term of twenty years, with the right o renewel at the end of that time. Wherefore your petitioner prays th granting of an order amending its sal nharler by changing Its name to that o the Georgia Furniture Company, with al the righto and privileges under its tier name that it held under its original nam- Ami your petitioner will fort-ver pray. It. K. HINES, Petitioners’ A R. K. HINES, Petitioner’s Attorney. I, Robert A. Nisbet, clerk of Bibb Stipe rior Court, do certify that the above is a true copy of the original petition as th< same appears on file in said clerk’s office This 'April I ifih. 180 S. ROBERT A. NISBET. Clerk. I COCOA ; / . k'j CHOCOLATES J FOR EATING DRINKING, i, X '''/jt COCKING. BAKING 81 \\ >'<!’! 'YIW ' Punty nf Material and j / Oeltcistisftess * Rarer f inexc ellrd \z; I '■ ■■, FOR £A!T AT OUR STORES ANI> liv ' l o' GROCERS 1 i K ')F“' iJj»/ iF SOL Rapid Firing Guns And plenty of ammunition are here to use in war (gainst roaches. ants ami otnei noxious insects. Our Insect Powder is cer tain death and a small quantity -will work fearful destruction. Ami don't forget ic purchase enough camphor, camphor cake* ■ami moth (balls to insure the safety o : your winter garments during their sum mer rest. BWW FLY TRAPS. An ingenius ami effective catcher of flies. 25c each. Never wear out. H.J. Lamar & Sons Cherry St. Macon, Ga. IX A. KKA TING. ... :. {♦ ■ 0 \ \ Urnnml Undertaker and Enihnlmer, OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Caskets, cases, coffins and burial robes: hratrst and carriages furnished to all funerals in and out of the city. Undertaker’s telephone 467. Resl dence telephone 4GB. RA3 Mvlherry street. Uaron. If in Need of a Safe. Buy a Good One. Below Is a lisixof merchants who know a good thing when they see it. List of sales since March 22. IS9S: Georgia Quincy Granite Company. Jones Grocery Coinpanv. Rogers .<■ Joiner Commission Company I. C. Crawford. J. S. Frink. A. E. Harris. Jake Ginsburg. Cordele, Ga. J B. Rau. M S. Rogers. J. B. Frink. , " £ ■ F<» Devlin. H. Kessler. N. I. Parr. E. Friedman. AV. J. Wyche. Hardeman Grocery Company. A. Delkin, Atlanta. Ga. Davidson Jewelry Company'. H. D. Adams. J. T. Callaway, Jr 412 Second Sr. Phone 334. «Big <■ is a non-poisonous t-niedy for Gouorrhtea, :t.-<t, Spermatorrhoea, thitos, unnatural dis jiarges, or any iuUamnia ion. irritation or ulcera tion of mucous tn- m branes. Non-ystripgent Said E»y «>ruKg»s«*- or sent in plain a-rappor, by express, prepaid, for • 1.00, or 3 bottles. 82.75, Circular soul ou roguesL AN ORIENTAL WELL. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON FROM A RUSTIC SCENE. Work la Honorable, and There Should Be No Idlers, Says the Great Preacher. How >iuw,s* Found Hl* Hri-le I *e- fulness From the Sheik's Ihsughter. V'• >pyt ight. 1898. bv American Press Asso ciation.] Washixgt.' X, May ts. From n rustic Till ie scene* Dr. Talmage in this sermon drew-* pFwcticrvi an*l inspiring lessons for ■ill clasxi •< *.i people. The text is Exodus li, 1, "?<*■»'.• Mose* kept the flock of J*-tbro, his father in-law, the priest of Midian.” In the ?<mfhi'nste-n part of Arabia a man is sitting by a well. It is an arid onntry anti water is scarce, so that a .vidl Ih of great value, and flocksand herds <rn driven vast distances &> have their .hirst slaked. .Jethro, a Midianite sheik tnd priest, was so fortunate as to have ..-u-n daughters, nnd they are practical girls, nnd yonder they oome driving the sheep nnd cattle and camels of their father o the watering. They lower the buckets and then pull them up, the water plash ing on the stones and chilling their feet, vnd the troughs are filled. Who is that ■nan out there sitting unconcerned and looking on? Why does he not come and help the women in this hard work of irawing water? But no sooner have the !rv lip- and panting nostrils of the flocks begun to cool a little in the brimming trough of the well than soino rough Bed ouin shepherds break in upon the scene, md with clubs and shouts drive back the ininmls that wi re drinking nnd affright hise girls until they fly in retnat, and lie flocks of th- se ill mannered shc|dierds ;ro driven to the troughs, taking the laces < f the other flocks. Now that man .ilting !>y the well I cgh t<; color up, and -i: eye I’m-las with hi<ii*'i!nli*-n. nti<l all -■if e.'iilrn try '■( l.i- m.t uro i•- <i It Moms, who naturally had a quick mn>- ii) anyhow, as h»- demonstrated <-n one eemdon whe; ho vaw an Egyptian op r< -in;’ at- I rnelite and gave the Egyp iiiisa smliion i-Jip at-fl buried bitn in the iiitl, am! In- show, il afterward when ie broke all the Ten ConHiu.ndmoi-ts at -nee hy shattering the two granite slabs n which th” law vas written. But the n.iUHI i< ■-(,f this tt>.. tii-ent of the seven Jrls nt.; him on f.ro with wrath, and lie ■il- it i: shepherd by the. throat and :tis|>es L.ick ; actho till he falls over the rough and aims stunning blow between ho eyes of another as he cries, “Begone, nil villains!'' and lie hoots and routs at he sin c-.p and cattle and camels of these nvaders ivmldrives them back, and, hav ng cleared the place of the desperadoes, <■ told the seven girls <>f this Alidianito hoik to gather their flocks together and bring them again to the watering. An Oriental Well. Oh, you ought to seo a fight between the shepherds nt a well in the orient ns I aw it in December, 185)0. There were -.< re a group of rough men who had driv n the cattle many miles and here anoth r group who had driven their cattle as many miles. Who should have precedence? Such clashing of buckets! Such hooking of horns! Such kicking of hoofs! Such vehemence in a language I fortunately could not understand! Now the sheep with a peculiar mark across their woolly hacks were at the trough and now the sheep of another mark. It was one of the :nostf writing scenes I ever witnessed. An >ld book describes one of t hese contentions ■it an eastern well when it says: “Ono day lie poor men, the widows nnd the orphans met together nnd wore driving their cam -Is and their flocks to drink and were all tanding by the waterside. Daji camo up and stopped them all and took possession >f the water for his master’s cattle. Just ■ hen an old woman belonging to the tribo if Abs camo up and accosted him in a sup pliant ninnner, saying: ‘Be sn good, Mas ter Daji, as to let my cattle drink. They ire all the property I possess, and I live by their milk. Pity my flock; have com passion on me. Grant my request and lot them drink.’ Then camo another old woman and addressed him: ‘Oh, Master Daji, 1 am a poor, weak old woman, as you see. Time has dealt hardly with mu. It has aimed its arrows at me, and its daily and nightly calamities have de stroyed till my men. 1 have lost my chil dren and my husband, and since then I have been in great distress. These sheep ire all that 1 possess. Let them drink, for I live on the milk that they produce. Pity my forlorn state. 1 have no one to tend them. Therefore grant my supplica tion and of thy kindness let them drink.' But in this ease the brutal slave, so far from grant ing this humble reiiuest, smote the woman to the ground.” A like scrimmage has taken place at the 'veil in the triangleof Arabia between the Bedouin shepherds and Moses champion ing the cause of the seven daughters who had driven their father’s flocks to the wa n-ring. Ono of these girls, Zipporah, her name moaning “little bird,” was captured by this heroic behavior of Moses, tor, how -vor timid woman herself may be, she al ways admires courage in a man. Zipporah became the bride of Moses, one of the mightiest monos all the centuries. Zip porah little thought that that morning as he helped drive her fathe r’s flocks to the well she was splendidly deciding her own destiny. Had she staid in the tent or house while the other six daughters of ihe sheik tended to their herds her life would probably have been a tamo and un ventfulJife in the solitudes. But. her in dustry, lie)- fidelity to her father’s inter est, her spirit of helpfulness, brought her into league with one of the grandest char acters of all history. They met at that, famous well, and while sl.e admired tha cour.-igo of Moses he admired the filial be havior of Zipporah. Cares of Home, The fact that it. took the seven daugh ters to drive the flocks to the well implies that they were immense flocks and that her father was a man of wealth. What was the use of Zipporah’s bemoaning her self with work when she might have re clined on the hillside near her Lather’s tent and plucked buttercups and dreamed out romances and sighed idly to the winds and wept over imaginary songs to the brooks? No, she knew that work was honorable and that every girl ought to have something to do, and so she starts with the bleating and lowing and bellow ing and neighing droves to the well for the watering. « Around every homo there are flocks and droves of cares and anxieties, and every daughter of the family, though there be seven, ought to ho doing her part to take earn of the flocks. In many households not only is Zipporah. bat all' her sisters, without practical and useful employ ments Many of them are waiting for for tunate and prosperous matrimonial alli ance, but some lounger like themselves will come along and after counting tbo iarge number of father Jethro s sheep and 'smelswill make proposal that will be ao ■epted, and neither of thi pi having done anything more praeii aj tlnm to chjJW bcoolate caramels the two nothings will 'art on the mad of life together, every rep more and moiN a failure. That daugh ter of the Midiquirtsh sheik will never find her Moms Giris of Amoriea. imitate ■ ipnornh! Do s<-i setting practical., D*? omething helpful Do something well. ,Im:v have fathers with great flocks of absorbing duties, and such a father needs help in home or office or field. Co cut and help'him with the tlc-cks. The reason that so many men now condemn them selves to unaffianccd and solitary life is because they cannot support the modern young woman, who rises at half past JO in the morning and retires after midnight, one of the trashiest of novels in her hands most of the time between the late rising and the late retiring, a thousand of them not worth one Zipporah. There are questions that every father and mother ought to ask the daughter at breakfast or tea table, and that ail tho daughters of the wealthy sheik ought to ask each other: “What would you do if the family fortune should fail, if sickness should prostrate the breadwinner, if tho flocks of Jethro should be destroyed by a sudden excursion of wolves and bears and hyenas from the mountain? What would you do for a living? Could you support yourself? Can you take care of an invalid mother or brother or sister as well as your self?” Yea, bring it down to what any day might come to a prosperous family. “£axi jou cook a Uiauex if tho gqryants should’make a ■trikefor higher wages ami leave that morning?” Every minute of every hoar of every day of every year there are familhs flung From prosperity into hardship, and, alas, if in such exigency the seven daughters of J* thro can do nothing but sit around and cry and wait for some one to come and bunt them up a situation for which they have no qualifi cation. Get nt something useful; get at it right away! I?o net say. “If I were thrown upon n>s own resources, i would 11come a n.usie teat her." There are now mor, mus.. timc.-rs than could l»<: srp pcrt*-d if th»-y were all Mozarts and Wag ner. ai d I.ls i’o not say, “I will go toemi.n.iCeriug Hiji-er-. There are more slippers now than th. re are feet Our hearts aic. every day wrung by the story of elegant women who were once affluent-, but through catastrophe have fallen help ks-, with no ability to take care ol them selves Idlers Should Work. Our friend and Washingtonian towns man. W W Corcoran, did a magnificent thing when he built and endowed the Louise home for the support of the un fortunate aristocracy of the south—the people who once hud everything, but have cone to nothing We want another W. W. Corcoran to build a Louise home for the unfortunate aristocracy of tho north. But institutions like that in every city of the land could not take care of one-half the unfortunate aristocracy of the north and south whose large fortunes have failed and who, through lack of acqnaint apce with any style of work, cannot now ; earn their own bread. | Tii-re needs U? be peaceful yet radical ■ revolution among nmst of the prosperous homes of America by which the elegant i do nothings may fie transformed into i practical do somethings. Let useless wom s en go to work and gather the flocks. i Come, ZJppora.h, k t me introduce you to Moses. But you do net. mean that this t man r.fllanerd to this country girl was tho pra .t Mos* s of history ,do you? You do | not mean that he was the man -who after ward v. ronght ench wonders there! Surely you do not nwui be whose tali', dropped, I wriggled into a serpent and then, clutched, ; t tifi'em <1 again into a staff? You do not mi (in the cludleup. r of Egyptian thrones , and ; :>l;k( (-s You do not mean ho who i struck the ro.k so hard it e. i tin a stream i toi tl.ii: ly tu.: ! '- ly y. u do in.t mean i the man who stood alone with God on the quaking Sinai!ic ranges, not him of that ; most famous lunera! <>f all tin e, God com : jng dew n out of tbo hc.iv. ns to bury him? > Yes, the same Moses defending tho seven daughters of the Midianitish sheik, who I afterward rescued ail nations. ■ Why, do you not know that this is tbo j way men and women get prepared for special work. The wilderm ss of Arabia , was the Jaw school, the theological semi nary, the university of rock and sand from whi'eb ho graduated for amission that will- balk seas, and drown armies, and follow the cloud of fire by night, and start the workmen with bleeding* backs among Egyptian brick kilns toward the pas! uro lands that flow with milk and the trees of Carman dripping with honey. Gracious God, teach all tho people this lesson. You must go into humiliation and retreat and hidden closets of prayer if you are to lie fitted for special usefulness. How did John the Baptist get prepared to Lieeome a forerunner of Cbrist? Show mo his wardrobe. It will be hung with silken socks and embroidered robes and attire of j Syrian purple. Show me his dining table. I On it the tankards ablush with the richest wines of tho vineyards of Engedi, and rarest birds that were ever caught in net, and sweetest venison that ever dropped antlers before the hunter. No, vve are di rectly told “the same John had his raiment of eajiiel’s hair,” not the fine hair of the camel which we call camlet, but the long, coarse hair such as beggars in the cast wear, and his only meat was of insects, the green locust, about two inches long, roasted, a disgusting food. These insects were caught and the wings and legs torn off, and they wore stuck on wooden spits and turned before the lire. Tho Bedouins pack them in salt and carry thi in in sacks. What a menu for John tho Baptist! Through what deprivation he came to what exultation! Victory of Endeavors. And you will have to go down before you go up. From tho pit into which his brothers threw him and the prison in which his enemies incarcerated him Jo seph rose to bo .Egyptian prime minister. Elijah, who was to be tho greatest of all tho ancient prophets; Elijah, who made King Ahab’s knees knock together with the prophecy that tho dogs would be his only undertakers; Elijah, whose one pray er brought more than three years of drought, and whose other prayer brought drenching showers, the man who w rapped up his cape of sheepskin into a roll and with it cut a patfi through raging Jordan for just two men to pass over, the man who with wheel of fire rode over death and escaped into the skies without mortu ary disintegration, the man who thou sands of years after was called out of the eternities to stand beside Jesus Christ on Mount Tabor when it was ablaze with the splendors of transfiguration—this man could look back to the time w hen vora cious and filthy ravens were his only ca terers. Yon seo John Knox preaching the cor onation sermon of James VI and arraign ing Queen Mary and Lord Darnley in a public discourse at Edinburgh and telling the French embassador io go home and call his ting a murderer, John Knox i making all Christendom feel his moral ■ power and at his burial tha Earl of Mor ! ton saying, “Here both a man who in’hia life never foareil tho face of man.” Where did John Knox get, much of his schooling for such resounding and everlasting achievement? Ho got it while in chains pulling at the boat’s oar in French cap tivity. So the privations and hardships of your life may on a smaller scale be tho preface and introduction to usefulness and victory. See also in this call es Moses that God ■ has a great memory. Four hundred years before he had promised the deliverance of I the oppressed Isriulitcs of Egypt. The ! clock of time has struck the hour, and j now Moses is called to the work of rescue. Four, hundred years is a very long time, I but you see God can remember a promise I 400 years as well as you can remember 400 minutes. Four hundred years includes all I your ancestry that you know anything about and all the promises made to them, and we may expect fulfillment in our heart and life blessings that were predict ; ed to our Christian ago. You have a dim ren>emb>*.ee, if any re | membrance at all, of your great-grandfa i ther, but God sees those who were on their knees in 1508 as well us those on their i knees in ISOS, and the blessings he prom i ised the former and their descendants have arrived or will arrive. While piety is not hereditary it is a grand thing to have had a pious ancestry. So God in this chapter calls up the pedigree of tho people whom Moses was to deliver, and Moses is or dred to say to them, “The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the Gixl of Jaeph hath sent nie flptq J’Ufl-” If ihar ihought'be divinely accurate, let me ask, What are we doing by prayer and by a holy life for the redemption of the next 400 years' Our work is pot nply with the people of the latter part <<f the nineteenth century, but with those in Ibe Closing of the twentieth century, and the closing of tho twenty first century, and the closing of the twen ty second w&tury, and the closing of the twenty-thira ce::tt.ry. For 4UO years, if the world continues to swing until that time, or if it ilrt'ps then notwithstanding the influence will go on in other latitudes and longitudes of God's universe. . For Good °t Evi]. No one realizes how great he is for good or for evil. There are branchings out and rebounds anti reverberations and elabora tions of influence that cannot be estimat ed. The 50 or 100 years of our earthly stay is only a small part of our sphere. The flap of the wing of the destroying angel that smote the Egyptian oppressors, the wash of the Red sea over the heads of the drowned Egyptians, were all ful fillments of promises four centuries old. And things occur in your life and in mine that we cannot account for. They may 1 be the echoes of w hat was promised in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Oh, the prolongation of the divine memory I Notice also that Moses was 80 years of l age when he got this call to become the Israelitish deliverer. Forty years he had ! lived in palaces as a prince. Another 40 years he had lived in the wilderness of MACON NKWa MONDAY EVENING, MAY g 189 S. Arabia. 1 should not wonder i? he Lai! said: “Take a younger ibimi for this work. Eighty winters have exposed my health. Eighty summers have poured their heats upon my b* ad. There are 40 years that 1 spent among the e:u rvating luxurus us a palace, and then follow the 40 years of wilderness hardship. I am too old. Let me off. Better call a man in the forties or fifties and not one who has entered upon the eighties.” Nevertheless he un dertook the work, and if we want to know whether ho succeeded ask the aban doned brick kilns of Egyptian taskmas ters, and the splintered chariot wheels strewn on the beach of the Red sea, and tl timbrels which Miriam clapped for the Israelites passed over and the Egyp tians gone under. Do not rat ire too early. Like .Moses, yon may have p ur chief work to <:o alter mi It may not l-e in tho high places of tbo field. It may not bo where a strong arm and an athletic foot and a clear vision are raquir d, but there is something for you yet t- :.-o. Perhaps it may be to round off the work you have already done, todomon- Ktrate the patieiice you have been lecoin inending all your lifetime. Perhaps to stand a lighthouse at- tbo mouth of tho bay to light others into harbor. Perhaps to show bow glorious a sunset may come after a stormy day. If aged n-.en do not feel strong enough for anything else, let' them sit around in our churches and pray, and perhaps in that way they may accomplish more good than they ever did In tho meridian of their life. It makes us fee! strong to see aged men and women in. up and down the pews, their faces -showing they have been on mountains of transfiguration. Wo want in all our churches more men like Moses, men who have been through tbo deeps and climbed up the shelled beach on the other side. We want aged Jacobs, who havo seen ladders which let down heaven into their drums. We want aged Peters, who have been at Pentecosts, and aged Pauls, who have made Felix tremble. There are he ro and there those who fiu-l ’ike tl.e woiiuin of V 0 years who said to Fontenelle, who was 85 years of ape, “Death appears to have forgotten us." “Hush, ' said Iteuhnelle, tho wit, put ting liis finger to his lip. No, my triend, you Lave not 1 <-( n forgotten. You will he tailed at tho right time. Meantime be holily occupied Labor a Preservative. Lot the rped remember that by increased longevity ol the. race men are not, as old at Go as they usi d to be at 50, not as old at 70 as they usid to bo at. GO, not. as old at 80 a.-, they used to be at. 70. Sanitary pre caution hitter understood; medical sci ence lul l her advanced; laws of health more thoroughly adopted; dentistry con tinuing h r longer tin e successful masti cation; homes and churches and court rooms and places of business better venti lated— ail these have prolonged life, and men and women in the close of this cen tury ought not to retiro until at least 15 y ears later than in the (q.ening of tho cen tury. Do not put the harness off until you have fought a few more battles. Think of Moses starting out for his chief work an octogenarian; 40 years of wilder ness life after 40 years of palace life, yet just beginning. There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng land, one of the most wonderful men that ever lived since the ages of time began their roll. He is the chief citizen of the whole world. Three times has he prac tically been king of Great Britain. Again and again coming from the house of com mons, w hieh he had thrilled and overawed by his eloquence, on Saturday, on Sunday morning reading prayers for tho people with illumined countenance and brim ming eyes and resounding voice, saying: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.” The world has no other such man to lose as Gladstone. The church has no other such champion to mourn over. I shall never cease to thank God that on Mr. Gladstone’s invitation I visited him at Hawarden and heard from his own lips his belief in the authenticity of tho Holy Scriptures, the divinity of Jesus Christ and the grandeurs of the world to come. At his table and in the walk through his grounds I was impressed as I was nover before, and probably will never be again, with the majesty of a nature all conse crated to God and tho world’s betterment. In the presence of such a man what have those to say who profess to think that our religion is a pusillanimous and weak and cowardly and unreasonable affair? Match less William E. Gladstone! Still further watch this spectacle of gen uine courage. No wonder when Moses scattered the rude shepherds ho won Zip porah’s heart. What mattered it to Mosos whether the cattle or the seven daughters of Jethro were driven from the troughs by the rude herdsmen? A sense of justice fired his courage, and the world wants more of the spirit that will dare almost anything to see others righted. All the time at wells of comfort, at wells of joy, at wells us religion and at wells of litera ture there are outrages practiced, the wrong herds getting the first water. Those who have the previous right come in last, if they come in at all. Thank God wo have hero and there a strong man to set things right! I am so lad that, when God has an especial work to do he has some one ready to accomplish it. I there a Bible to translate, there is a Wyc lif to translate it; if there is a literature to bo energized, there is a Shakespeare to energize it; if there is an error to smite,, there is a Luther to smite it; if there is io be a nation free, there is a Moses to fret it. But courage is needed in religion, in literature, in statesmanship, in al! spliert-s heroics to defend Jethro’s seven (laugh tors and their flocks and put to flight the insolent invaders. And those who do the brave work will win somew here high re ward. The loudest cheer of heaven is to be given “to him that overcometh.” God Knows You. Still further, see in this call of Mosos that if God has any especial work for you to do he will find you. There was Egypi and Arabia and Palestine with theii crowded population, but the man the Lord wanted was at tho southern point of tie triangle of Arabia, and he picks him right out, tha shopherd who kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, tbo priest and sheik. So God w ill not find it hard to take you out from rhe 1.600,000,000 of th* human race if he wants you for anything especial. There was only just, one man qualified. Other men had courage like M- ■. s, other men had some of tho talents of Moses, other men had romance in their history, as had Moses; other men wen impetuous like Moses, but no other man bad these different qualities in the exact proportion as had Moses, and God, who makes no mistake, found the right man for the right place. Do not fear you will be overlooked or that when you are wanted God cannot find you He know s your name, your features, your temperament and your characteristics, and in what land or city er ward or neighborhood or houte you f’”. He will net have to tend oub scouts or explorers to (ipd j ouj reskk'neoer place of stopping, uud when ho wants you he will make it as plain that be means you as be made it plain that he needed Moses. fi( called his name twice, as afterward whci fco called the great apostle of ihe gentiles be called twice, saying “Saul, Saul.” anu when he called the troubled I.eust krepei he ep.ikd her twice, saying "Martha, Murtha.” and when he called the prophet to his mission he called him twice, saying “Samuel, Samuel,” and now when be wants a deliverer bo calls twice, saying “Moses, Moses.” Yes, if God has any thing for US to do he will call us twice by name. At the first announcement of our name we may think it possible that we misunderstood the sound, but after he calls us twice by name vve know he means us as certainly as vv hen he twice spoke the names of Saul or Martha or Samuel or Moses. Nou see, religion is a tremendous per sonality. We all have the general call of salvation. V>e bear it in songs, in ser mons, in prayers. We hear it year after year. But after awhile, through our own sudden and alarming illness, or the death of a playmate, or a schoolmate, or a col , lege mate, or the decease of a business part ner, or the demise of a next door neighbor, we get the especial call to repentence and a new life and eterhal happiness, and we know that God means us. You have no ticed the way in which God calls us twice? Two failures of investments, two sick nesses, two persecutions, two bereave ments, two disappointments, two disas ter & Moses! Moses! AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE A- .'ING IN THS COURTS OUR KIGHT TO T”V exclusive u <■? tiil Word U CASTORIA," .nd “FITCH fid 3 OAFTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. 1 3 DR. SAE< _L ?;FCH£H, cf I'gannis, Massachusetts, was the origin- ■■■ t/“PITCHE-TS CASTO RIA/’ the same that has borne'a does now 7 . on every bear the fac-si;nii . nature c- Cd.. ffffA wrapper. This is the original •* F TCKE.TS CASTOR! •. ’ which has been used in the homes of Fa Mothers oj Amcrk a far over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY al the wrapper and see that it is the hind w hour alw's on the and has the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company cf which Chas. 11. Fletcher is President. • -r, ✓ March 8, 1897. .Do Not Bo Deceived. Do not endanger the life cf your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients of which even Z?e docs not. know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought BEARS THE FAC SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Z* Z? -*'< >. Insist on Having The Kind That Never’Failed You. »M« CCWTAWH CCMW. ?» KJ««AV MiS ■/<>«« C‘T». Character of Mosca. Mill fi;r! hi i. notice (!■:?. thn call of Voses was written in letters of lire. On tbo Sinaitio peninsula there L a thorn bush called the acacia, drj’ and brittle, and it. easily goes down at tho touch of the flame. It crackles and turns to ashes very quickly. Moses, seeing one of these bushes on lire, goes to look at it. At first no doubt it seemed to be a botanical curiosi ty, burning, yet crumpling no leaf, part ing no stem, scattering no ashes. It was a supernatural fire that did no damage to the vegetation. That burning bush was tho cull. Your call will probably come in letters of fire. Ministers get their call to preach in letters on paper or parchment or type written, but it docs not amount to much until they get their next call in letters of fire. You will not amount to much in usefulness until somewhere near you find a burning bush. It may be found burn ing in the hectic flush of your child’s cheek. It may be found burning in busi ness misfortune. It may be found burn ing in the fire of the world’s scorn or hate or misrepresentation. But harken to tho crackle of tho burning bush! Oh, what a fascinating and inspiring character this Moses! How tame all other stories compared with the biography of Moses! From the lattice of her bathing house on the Nile, Thermutis, daughter of Pharaoh, sees him in the floating cradle of papyrus leaves made water tight by bitu men; his infantile cry is beard among the marble palaces, and princesses hush him with their lullabies; workmen by the road side drop their work to look on him when as a boy he passed, so beautiful was he; two bowls put before his infant eyes for choice to demonstrate his wisdom, the one bow l containing rubies and the other con taining coals of lire, sufficiently wise was he to take the gems; but, divinely direct ed, ho took the coals and put them to his mouth, and his tongue was burned, and he was left a“* stammerer all his days, so that he declared, in Exodus iv, 10, “I am slow of speech and of slow tongue;” on and on until he set firm foot among tho crumbling basalt, and his ear was not deafened by tho thunderous “Thou shalt not” of Mount Sieai, the man who went J. S. BUDD CO. 320 SECOND STREET. 421 Walnut St. FJnr 1016. 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C ~ 11 is neatly encased in a hard-wood box, .. . . well finished, size SUxnlixM inches, with brass hinges and catch; has hearing tubes for two persons', one (Ber liner s Gramophone) recorc. and twenty-five needle points. Price complete with one Record (express charges prepaid) $3.50, weight 4 lbs. Remit by Bank Draft, Express, or Post- Office money order. Agents wanted. For terms and particulars address UNITED STATES TALKINC 11ACHINE CO., (DEPT. , ) 57 E. 9th ST., NEW YORK CITY* THIS MATTER OF JEWELRY Is much a matter of taste. No matter what your tastes are, we can suit you, be cause we’ve got the stock to select from, and the prices are right. GEO. T. BEELAND, Jeweler, Triangular Block. take Periodical Tickets. to the relTef of the Israelites who were scourged because without chopped straw they were required to make firm bricks, the story of their oppression found chisel ed on the tomb o’ Roschere at Thebes, and when his armies wore impeded by venom ous serpent? sent orates of ibises, the snake destroying birds, io clear the way so that his host could m treh straight ahead, thus surprising tho enemy, who thought they must take another route to avoid the rep tiles; the whole sky an aquarium to drop quails for him and tho hosts following; the only man in all ages whom Christ likens to himself; the man of whom it is written. “Jehovah spoke unto Moses face to face as a man speak; th to his friend;” tho man who had the most wondrous funeral of all time, the Lord coming down out of heaven to bury him. No human lips to read the service. No choir to chant a psalm. No organ to roll a requiem. No angel alighting upon the scene, but God laying him out for the last sleep, God up turning the earth to receive the saint, God smoothing or banking tho dust above the sacred form, God, with farewell and bene diction, closing the sublime obsequies of law giver, poet and warrior. “And no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day.” Get your eye on him instead of try ing to imitate some smaller example. A great snowstorm camo on a prairie in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh was lost, but after awhile struck tho track of another sleigh and felt cheered to go on, since he had found the track of anoth er traveler. He heard sleighbolls preced ing him and hastened on and caught up with his predecessor, who said, “Where are you going?” “1 am following you,” was the answer that came back. The fact is that they were both lost and had gone round and round in a circle. Then they talked the matter over and, looking up, saw the north star, and toward the north was their home, and they started straight for it. Oh, instead of imitating men like ourselves and circling round and round, let us look up and take some starry guide like Moses and follow on until we join him amid tho “delectable mountains. ” You say you cannot reach his character: Oh, no Neither can you reach tho north star, but- you can be guided by its heaven ly pointing. 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