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BLANCO SAID
CEVERA USELESS
Wanted Him Relieved from
the Command of Spanish
Squadron.
MISSED HIS OPPORTUNITIES.
Might Have Slipped Out and Given
Battle to the Americans Out
side Santiago.
New York, 4—Advices received by the
Junta says:
News has reached here to the effect that
<'attain General Blanco ha* sent a mes
i ag. from Havana to the Queen Rngurit
of Spain ri-questing her to relieve Vlmiral
Cervira from command or the fleet in the
ha.ri.or us Santiago and urging that he be
repine d by Commodore Villamil.
General Blanco said further that he did
not Inllevo Admiral Perri ra was equal to
the impart an-r of bi* command and J.li
miting that if Santiago in lost to the
Am< clean and Cuban forces it will be due
to his neglect to take advantage of hi»
opport unities.
Hlamo thinks that Admiral Cervera ha*
allowed valuable opportunities to slip by
which ho has been laying in the harbor of
Santiago, and says that ho should have
gone out to meet and tight the American
flei r before the Invading army was given
an opportunity to land.
At the same time Blanco's message show
that he still believes, or rather hopes, that
Spain will be victorious He Informs the
Queen Regent that, the dissention and re
volt among the police and volunteers in
Hiv.inn due to the strict observance of
military discipline have blown over and
the inhabitants of the city, as well as the
soldiers, are pacific and patriotic in their
expression* and actions Ho says that the
American soldiers am not fit to fight in
Cuba, never having had any experience in
tropical countries and the intense heat and
peculiar climate have produced much ill
ness among them.
The Cuban soldiers lie refers to very
contemptuously, saying that no account is
to be taken of them, and he urges the
Queen Regent to pay no attention to
.American re-ports of victory in Cuba,
which ho says, uro written for the sen
sational American press, and ►ave no
foundation in fact.
According to the message Blanco says
that a number of vessels loaded with pro
visions for various ports have arrived, and
that there is no danger of a famine. The
American blockade of Havana lie says is
absolutely ineffectual and the steaim rs
find no difficulty in running it. A few of
them are captured but the majority So far
have succeeded In landing their cargoes.
Ae the same time the Queen Regent re
ceived Information from the representa
tives of the South American governments
in Madrid that they could not undertake
to intervene or interfere in* any way with
the Spntiish-American war, even to the
extent of offering their services in the
matter of securing favorable peace terms.
Their deelin'tition Is accompanied by ex
pressions of regret, but 1t is couched In
such terms to leave Spain no hope of aid
from that quart, r.
The majority of the South America’,
governments represented in M.ulri I. wnile
pieserving a strict neutrality, are in heart
In favor of Cuba if ain’t for h? United
•States and would do nothing to place ob
* tachs in the wav of the island neonle
and th< indept ndenee which now seems
assured to them.
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EPWORTH LEAGUE.
Important Meeting Will bf Held Tomorrow
Night.
An important and interesting meeting
of the' city union of the Epworth League
will fc. li. id at the annex of Mulberry
Street Methodist church tomorrow night.
An add.r< s< will be' delivered by Col. N.
E Harris, who was a delegate' to the con
vention in Baltimore.
An < x<. ptlonally good musical program
has been arranged by Mr. R. I. McKenney
ami the choir of Mulberry street church.
A presiden.t of the' city union of the’ Ep
worth league will be elected at this meet
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My husband was advised to get Dr. King's
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IN THE KLONDIKE
Scurvy Has Marked Many Victims for Its
Own.
San Francisco, July 4—Miners who ar
rived from the Klondike report that scur
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and pneumonia have already begun a har
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disiase peculiar to a new and thinly Bet
tied country The deaths average about
three per day.
About one month ago my child, which Is
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sent for a physician and it was under his
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by tihe rector, Rev. F. F. Reese. The music
for the service had been specially adapted
to the patriotic occasion. A large congre
gation was out and Joined in the services.
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MORE RECRUITS
Wanted to Join the Expedition to the Philip
pines.
San Frascisco, July 4 —South Dakota
needs forty more recruits. Kansas wants
several and the 19th United States infan
try is short two men.
The United States signal corps detach
ment at Camp Merritt wants sixty or more
recruits, in addition to twenty reported to
be on the way here from the east and the
United States hospital corps, attached to
the field hospital desires 200 recruits to
complete its quota of 700 attendants.
Practically no other vacancies exist
among the different commands.
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CHEAP RATES.
Baptist Young People’s Union, Buffalo, N.
Y., Jnlv 14 to 17, 1898.
Account of the above occasion the
round trip tickets to Buffalo at one fare,
half rate, tickets on sale July 11, 12 and
13, with tinal limit July 20, 1898. An ex
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io leave ‘Buffalo not later than Augusts,
provided tickets are deposited with joint
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RECORD BROKEN.
San Francisco, July I—Howard1 —Howard Brewer
in an exciting contest has beaten the
world’s amateur swimming record for 440
yards, his time being 6 minutes, 10% sec
onds. The previous record was 6 minutes,
23 and 1-5 seconds and was held by Blum
cf Chicago.
Self Defence.
Thia is to certify tnat a called confer
ence of South Macon ’Baptist church we
were dismlsed from said church for con
tending for the rights, privileges, discip
line and sovereignty of a Baptist church,
which was all done contrary to the discip
line of a ’Baptist and the scripture. If a
brother commits an offense against the
church the church should appoint a com
mittee of one to wait on the brother and
if he will not hear the brother the church
should then appoint a eomittee of two or
three and wait on the brother so that in
the mouth ot two or three witnesses every
word may be established, and if he will
still not hear he should then be brought
before the church and if he will not hear
the church he should then ba treated.as a
publican and a sinner.
df I had been a culprit I could not be
treated worse. If a < person cannot receive
Justice in a Baptist* church where can ho
reveive it, as a church shoull be the high
est tribunal on earth. This shows that
somebody is wrong , and where js the
wrong? There were seven deacons and
four of the deacons were put out of the
church, myself ineluded in one of the
four. 1 will here state that one of the four
has been a deacon and labored for the
church over twenty years. There was a
resolution put before the conference,
signed by fiften male members, the four
deacons including four of the fifteen, are
parties of the resolution, was a request
for the pastor to resign. The whole of the
resolution or charges were correct but
were not sustained by the church. The
major’iy of male members were In favor
of passing the resolution, but it was lost
by the ft male vote.
I will state that tthere has not been a
conference in the church during the pas
torate of W. P. Southern which is about
two vears and a half, consequently no
ininutts have been kept. The pastor has
ruled the church, usurping all authority.
He made three deacons and bad them or
dained without a confernece. He also nad
two preachers culalned without a tonfer
nev. which ’s contrary to Baptist discip
line. The four deacons who were dismiss. .1
an ! a preacher combined against 'his. It
is the duty of the deacons to look after the
w-'lfare’.if th' (lurch and at » ceiled con
fei<n< -' the foir deacons and -he p-.-acli.-r
w.‘i-' accused of disturbing the ha.-'u inv of
th. chir. h si>? signing the lesulutious
and dismissed from the church when they
were upholding the dignity of the church.
In defense 1 claim that the acts of the
pastv.r are all illegal, as the business of
a church musk be done in conference, and
there- has been no conference, except the
called conference. Letters ot dismissal
have been granted to numerous members
.it different times without conference, and
I would like to ask anyone acquainted
with church government did they ever see
a letter presented to church for member
ship 'ba: not read "done by order of the
church in conference” and signed by the
moderator and clerk. Members presenting
these letters to another church for mem
bership certainly cannot be received, as
there has been no conference. If this does
not show a pastor ruling a church with
a higti hand, then I will have to acknowl
edge that I know nothing of church gov
ernment or discipline. -
We simply write in self-defense, feeding
that we have Jone our duty as deacons
and done nothing only for the good of the
church, and could make no obeisance to
man where our duty was to God.
F. L. Brown.
J. R. Langford.
VASHTI THE VEILED.
REV. DR. TALMAGE COMMENDS MOD
ESTY IN WOMAN.
Draw* * Le«uu>n From the Story of Drunk
en AhMucru* and Ills Beautiful Queen.
Condemns the Bold Female Demagogue.
Some Heroic Women.
(Copyright, IR9B, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
WASHINGTON, July 3.—Dr. Talmage in
this discussion ‘tells the story of a beauti
ful queen dethroned and draws practical
lessons for all conditions and all times;
text, Esther 1, 11-12. ’'Brii«» Vashti, the
queen, before the king with the crown
royal to show the people and the princes
her beauty, for she was lair to look upon;
but. the Queen Vashti refused to come.”
We stand amid the palaces of Shushan.
The, pinnacles are aflame with the morn
ing light. The columns rise festooned
and wreathed, the wealth of empires flash
ing from the grooves, the ceilings adorned
with images of bird and beast and scenes
of prowess at*d conquest. The walls are
hung with shields and emblazoned until
It seems that the whole round of splendors
is exhausted. Each arch is a mighty loaf
of architectural achievement. Golden stars
shining down on glowing arabesque.
Hangings of embroidered work in which
mingle the blueness of the sky, the green
ness of the grass and the whiteness of the
sea foam. Tapestries hung on silver rings,
wedding together the pillars of marble.
Pavilions reaching out in every direction.
These for repose, filled with luxuriant
couches, In which weary limbs sink until
all fatigue is submerged. Those for ca
rousal where kings drink down a king
dom at one swallow. Amazing spectacle!
Light of silver dripping down over stairs of
ivory on shields of gold. Floors of stained
marble, sunset red and night black and
inlaid with gleaming pearl. In connec
tion with this palace there is a garden
where the mighty men of foreign lauds
are seated at a banquet. Under the spread
of oak and linden and acacia the tables
are arranged. The breath of honeysuckle
and frankincense fills the air. Fountains
leap up Into the light, the spray struck
through with rainbows falling into crys
talline baptism upon flowering shrubs,
then rolling down through channels of
marble and widening out here and there
into pools swirling with the finny tribes
of foreign aquariums, bordered with scar
let anemones, hypericums and many col
ored ranunculi.
Meats of rarest bird and beast smoking
up amid wreaths of aromatics. The vases
filled with apricots and almonds. The
baskets piled up with apricots and figs and
oranges and pumegranates. Melons taste
fully twined with leaves of acacia. The
bright waters of Eulams filling the urns
and dropping outside the rim in flashing
beads amid the traceries. Wine from the
royal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz, in bot
tles of tinged shell, and lily shaped cups of
silver and flagons and tankards of solid
gold. The music rises higher and the rev
elry breaks out into wilder transport, and
the wine has flushed the cheek and touch
ed the brain, and louder than all other
voices are the hiccough of the inebriates,
the gabl.'le, of fools and the song of the
drunkards.
A Woman Wronged.
In another part, of the palace Queen
Vashti is entertaining the Princess of
Persia at a banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus
says to his servants, ‘‘You go and fetch
Vashti from that banquet with the women
and bring her to this banquet with the
men and let me display her beauty.” The
servants immediately start to obey the
king’s command, but there was a rule in
oriental society that no woman might ap
in-ar in public without having her face
veiled. Yet here was a mandate that no
one dare dispute, demanding that Vashti
come in unveiled before the multitude.
However, there was in Vashti’s’ soul a
principle more regal than Ahasuerus, more
brilliant than the gold of Shushan, of
more wealth than the realm of I’ersia,
which commanded her to disobey this or
der of the king, and so all the righteous
ness and holiness and modesty of her na
ture rise up into one sublime refusal. She
says, ”1 will not go into the banquet un
veiled.” Ahasuerus was infuriate, and
Vashti, robbed of her position and her
estate, is driven forth in poverty and ruin
to suffer the scorn of a nation, and yet to
receive the applause of after generations,
who shall rise up to admire this martyr
to kingly insolence. Well, the last vestige
of that feast is gone, the last garland has
faded, the last arch lias fallen, the last
tankard lias been destroyed, and Shushan
is a ruin, but as king as the world stands
there will be niultitudesof men and wom
en familiar with the Bible who will come
into this picture gallery of God and ad
mire the dixine portrait of Vashti the
queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sacri
fice, Vashti the silent.
In the first place, I want you to look
upon Vashti the queen. A blue ribbon,
rayed with white, drawn around her fore
head, indicat'd her queenly position It
was no small honor to bo queen in such a
realm as that. Hark to the rustle of her
robes! See the. blaze of her jewels, and
yet it is not necessary to have place and
regal robe in order to bo queenly. When
I see a woman with stout faith in God
{tutting her foot upon all meanness and
selfishness and godless display, going right
forward to serve Christ and the race by a
grantl and glorious service, I say, ‘‘That
woman is a queen,” and the ranks of heav
en look over the battlements upon the cor
onation, and whether she comes up from
the shanty on the commons or the man
sion of the fashionable stpiare I greet her
with the shout, ‘All hail, Queen Vashti!”
Things to Consider.
What glory was there on the brow of
Mary of Scotland, or Elizabeth of Eng
land, or Margaret of France, or Catherine
of Russia compared with the worth of
some of our Christian mothers, mqny of
thorn gone into glory; or of that woman
mentioned in the Scriptures who put her
all into the Lord’s treasury; or of Jeph
thah’s daughter, who made a demonstra
tion of unseltish patriotism; or of Abigail,
who rescued the herds and flocks of her
husband; or of Ruth, who toiled under a
tropical sun for poor, old. helpless Naomi;
or of Florence Nightingale, who went at
midnight to stanch the battle wounds of
the Crimea; or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson,
who kindled the lights of salvation amid
the darkness of Burma; or of Mrs.
Hernans, who poured out her holy soul In
words which will forever be associated
with Iwnter’s horn, and captive’s chain,
and bridal hour, and lute’s throb, and cur
few’s knell at the dying day, and scores
and hundreds of women unknown on earth
who have given water to the thirsty, and
bread to the hungry, and medicine to rhe
sick, and smiles to the discouragi.'d, their
footsteps heard along dark lane and in
government hospital and in almshouse
corridor and by prison gate? There' may
be no royal robe. There may be no pala
tial surroundings. She does not need
them, for all charitable men will unite
witii the crackling lips of fever struck
hospital and plague blotched lazaretto tn
greeting her as she passes: “Hail! Hail!
Queen Vashti!”
Again, I want you to consider Vashti
the veiled. Had she ap]>eared before Ahas
uerus and his court on that day with her
lac* uncovered she would have shocked all
the delicacies of oriental society, and the
very men who in their intoxication de-
Inandrel that she come in their sol>er mo
ments would have despised her. As some
flowers seem to thrive best in the dark
lane and in the shadow and where the sun
does not seem to reach them, s 6 God ap
points to most womanly natures a retiring
and unobtrusive spirit. God once in awhile
does call an Isabella to a throne, or a
Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front
of a host, or a Marie Antoinette to quell a
French mob, or a Deborah tostand at the
front of an armed battalion, crying out:
“Up! Up! This is the day in which the
Dire! will deliver Siseia into thy hands. ”
And when the women are called to such
outdoor work and to such heroic positions
God prepare* them for it. and they have
iron in their soul, and lightnings in their
eye, and whirlwinds in their breath, and
the borrowed strength of the Lord omnip
otent in their right arm. They walk
through furnaces as though they were
hedges of wildflowers and cross seas as
though they were shimmering sapphire,
and all the harpies of hell flown to their
dungeon at the stamp of womanly indig
nation.
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, JULY 4 1898.
Vashti Unveiled.
But these are the exceptions. Generally
Dorcas would rather make a garment for
the poor boy, Rebecca would rather fill
the trough of the camels, Hannah would
rather make a coat for Samuel, the He
brew maid .would rather give a prescrip
tion for Naaman’s leprosy, the woman of
Sarepta would rather gather a few sticks
to cook a meal for famished Elijah, Phebe
would rather carry a letter for the inspired
apostle, Mother Lots would rather educate
Timothy in the Scriptures. When I see a
woman going about her daily duty, with
cheerful dignity presiding at the table,
with kind send gentle but firm discipline
presiding in the nursery, going out into
the world without any blast of trumpets,
following in the footsteps of him who went
al tout doing good, 1 say, “This is Vashti
with a veil on.”
But when I see a woman of unblushing
boldness, loud voiced, with a tongue of in
finite clitter clatter, with arrogant look,
passing through the streets with the step
of a walking beam, gayly arrayed in a
very hurricane of millinery. I cry out,
“Vashti has lost her veil.” When 1 see a
woman struggling for political prefer
ment, trying to force her way on up to
conspicuity amid the masculine dema
gogues, who stand with swollen fists and
bloodshot eyes and pestiferous breath to
guard the polls, wanting to go through
the loaferism and defilement of popular
sovereigns, who crawl up from the saloons
greasy and foul anil vermin covered to de
cide questions of justice and order and
civilization—when I see a woman, I say,
who wants to press through all that hor
rible scum to get. to public place and pow
er, 1 say: “All, what a pity! Vashti has
lost her veil!”
When I see a woman of comely features
and of adroitness of Intellect and endowed
with all that the schools can do for her
and of high social position, yet moving in
society with superciliousness and hauteur,
as though she would have people know
their place and with an undefined com
bination of giggle and strut and rhodo
montade, endowed with allopathic quanti
ties of talk, but only homeopathic infin
itesimals of sense, the terror of dry goods
clerks and railroad conductors, discoverers
of significant meanings In plain conversa
tion, prodigies of badinage and innuendo,
I say, “Vashti has lost her veil.”
Man’s Cruelty.
Again, I want you this morning to con
sider Vashti the sacrifice: Who is this
that. I sec coming out of that palace gate
of Shushan? It seems to me that I have
seen her Itefore. She comes homeless,
houseless, friendless, trudging along with
a broken heart. Who is she? It is Vashti
the sacrifice. Oh, what a change it was
from regal position to a wayfarer’s crust!
A little while ago approved and sought
for. Now. none so poor as to acknowledge
her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sacrifice.
Ah, you and I have seen it many a time!
Here is a home empalaced with beauty.
All that refinement and books and wealth
can do for that home has been done; but
Ahasuerus, the husband and the father, is
taking hold on paths of sin. He is gradu
ally going down. After awhile he will
flounder and struggle like a wild beast, in
the hunter’s net—farther away from God,
farther away from the right. Soon the
bright apparel of the children will turn to
rags; soon the household song will be
come the sobbing of a broken heart. The
old story over again. Brutal centaurs
breaking up the marriage feast of Lapi
thse. The house full of outrage and cruel
ty and abomination, while trudging forth
from the palace gate are Vashti and her
children. There are homes in all parts of
this land that are in danger of such break
ing up. Oh, Ahasuerus, that you should
stand in a home bj a dissipated life de
stroying the peace and comfort of that
home! God forbid that, your children
should ever have to wring their hands and
have people point their finger at them as
they pass down the street and say, “There
goes a drunkard’s child!” God forbid that
the little feet should ever have to trudge
the path of poverty and wretchedness!
God forbid that any evil spirit, born of the
wine cup or the brandy glass should come
forth and uproot that garden, and with a
lasting, blistering, ail consuming curse
shut forever the palace gate against Vashti
and the children.
Life’s Campfires.
One night during our civil war I went
to Hagerstown to look at the army and I
stood ou a hilltop and looked down upon
them. I saw the campfires all through
the valleys and nil over the hills. It v?as
a weird spectacle, those campfires, and I
stood and watched them, and the soldiers
who were gathered around them were no
doubt talking ot’ their homes and of the
long march they had taken and of the
battles they wore to tight, but after awhile
I saw these campfires begin to lower, and
they continued to lower until they were
till gone out, and the army slept. Lt was
imposing when 1 saw the campfires. It
A r as imposing in the darkness when I
thought of that great host asleep Well,
God looks down from heaven and he sees
the firesides of Christendom and the loved
ones gathered around these firesides.
These are the campfires where we warm
ourselves at the close of day and talk over
the battles of life we have fought and the
battles that are- yet to come. God grant
that when at last these fires begin to go
out and continue to lower until finally
they are extinguished and the ashes of
consumed hopes strew the hearth of the
old homestead it may be because we have—
Gone to sleep that sleep
From which none ever wake to weep.
Now we are an army on the march of
life. Then we shall be an army bivouacked
in the tent of the grave.
The Silent Martyr.
Once more, I want you to look at Vashti
the silent. You do not hear any outcry
from this woman as she goes forth from
the palace gate. From the very dignity of
her nature you know there will be no
vociferation. Sometimes in life it is nec
essarj to make a retort; sometimes in life
it is necessary to resist ; but there are
crises when e most triumphant thing to
do is to ko p silence. The philosopher,
confident in his newly discovered princi
ple, waiting for the coming of more intel
ligent generations, willing that men
should laugh at the lightning rod and cot
ton gin and steamboat and telegraph,
waiting for long years through the scoff
ing of philosophical schools in grand and
magnificent silence.
Galileo, condemned by mathematicians
and monks and cardiinds, caricatured ev
erywhere, yet waiting and watching with
his telescope to see the coming up of stel
lar re-enforcements, when the stars in
their courses would fight for the Coper
nican system, then sitting down in com
plete blindness and deafness to wait for
the coming on of the generations who
would build his monument and bow at his
grave. The reformer, execrated by his
contemporaries, fastened in a pillory, the
slow fires of public contempt burning un
der him, ground under the cylinders of
the printing press, yet calmly waiting for
the day when purity of soul and heroism
of character will get the sanction of earth
and the plaudits of heaven Affliction
enduring without any complaint the
sharpness of the pang, and the violence of
the storm, ami the hi it of the chain, and
the darkness of the night, waiting until a
divine hand shall !«■ put forth to soothe
the pang, asid hush the storm, and release
the captive. A wife abused, persecuted
and a perpetual exile from every earthly
comfort, waiting, waiting until the Lord
shall gather up his dear childre n in a
heavenly home and no poor Vashti will
ever be thrust out from the palace gate
Jesus, in silence and answering not a
word, drinking the gall, hearing the cross,
in prospect i.f the rapturous consumma
tion when—
Angels thronged his chariot w heel
And bore him to his throne,
Then swept their golden harps and sang,
“The glorious work is done!"
Oh, woman, does not this story of Vashti
the quren. Vashti the veiled. Vashti the
sacrifice. \ ashti the. silent, move your
soul:- My sermon converges into the one
absorbing hope that none of you may be
shut out of the palace gateof heaven You
can endure the hmxLships, and the priva
tions, ami the cruelties, and the misfor
tunes of this life if you can only gain ad
mission there. Through the blood of the
everlasting covenant you go through those
gates or never go through at all. God
forbid that you should at last be banished
from the s>M.-iety of angels, and banished
from the companionship of your glorified
kindred, and banished forever. Through
the rich of our Jjord Jesus Christ
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER'S (. ASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same that
has borne and does now bear x . - on every
the foe- simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORIA” which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for ova thirty gears.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind, you have always bought . on the
and has the signature of wrap-
per. Ao one has authority from me to use my name except
ihe Centaur Company, uj which Chas. 11.1 Letcher is President.
March 24,1893. ~/f ?
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of 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 he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE Ur
s? l ... /7
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Bailed You.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY THRU- . r V v I: NA 3ITY
may you !;e enabled to imitate the exam
ple of Rachel and Hannah ami Abigail
and Deborah and Mary and Esther and
Vashti.
Buzzards and Christian Science.
On our ride to Xochicaleo we chanced
upon a valuable piece of information,
which 1 do not feel like withholding from
tliis superstitious age, and I think it will
be of great use to our mind eurists and
healers. When I wondered at the size of
tile buzzards we encountered, our guide,
who was a volunteer guide and a man of
standing and perfectly trustworthy, in
formed me that this bird.was really a crow
and not a buzzard, as I had thought, and
it is not merely an ornamental and thiev
ing bird. This is what he told me:
If any man has heart disease or is threat
ened with it, organic or otherwise, all ho
needs to do is to catch one of these crows
and make a companion of him, a real in
timate. He must keep him con
stantly, let him eat from the same plate at
table and sleep with him at night. When
this intimacy is established, all the man’s
heart disease and tendency to it will leave
the man and pass into the crow. The tes
timony to this fact is abundant and ad
mits of no doubt, and the singular thing
about the miracle is that the crow is not
injured. The crow, by an entirely mental
process common in all mind cures, absorbs
the heart disease aud sustains no harm
and asks no pay for his work.
This Christian Science crow is, to be
sure, a Mexican, but I suppose that any
kind of crow with us would do as well.—
Charles Dudley Warner in Harper’s Mag
azine.
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Living in the
Open Air
on the veranda brings health and com
fort to those who know how to enjoy it.
We have nice big easy rockers, chairs in
reed or willow, with wide arms and roomy
seats, lawn tables, hammocks, settees and
every thing for cool summer furnishings
for indoors and out.
WtiKvsil
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The Sleep i g Room
of a Mil lio Hain
offers no more solid comfort thaji what
can be had by a selection from our stock
of fine chamber furniture. We will sur
prise you when you see such handsome
and artistic designs at such simple prices.
It is worth your time to see.
V »esy y
Iron Beds.
No bed has given so great satisfaction to
the public as the all iron bedstead.
Cleanly, durable and tasty in design. One
of ours fitted with the famous felt per
fection mattress will yield a larger divi
dend of solid comfort and give more
genuine pleasure than any investment
you can make.
Prices on beds begins as low as
$4.00.
SEE US.
The IRood-Pea zy
Furniture Co
Get Your Ice Near-Du
The College Hill
Ice Company.
269 Washington Avenue.
pls the most convenience ice house for all
the homes between New street and Vine
ville. Delivers ice anywhere in the city
without extra cost. Prompt attention to
all orders. Telephone 511, two calls.
W. H. SHEPARD,
Manager.
Hlacon Screen co.
Manufacturers of the best adjustable
wire window screens and screen doors.
Your patronage respectfully solicited. Es
timates furnished free of charge. J. D.
Newbanks, manager, 215 Cotton avenue,
Macon, Ga.
In order to reduce our stock of specta
cles and Eyeglasses we will, for a short
time, sell all $2.50 Spectacles and Eye
glasses for $1; all $3.50 Spectacles and
■Eyeglasses for $1.75. We guarantee them
to be the best quality, and if not satisfac
tory will return the money.
H. J. Lamar 3 Son
Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
For Sale,
tai Rhl
Eslate.
The Johnson & Harris store building,
corner Fourth and Cherry streets, now
occupied by A. & N. M. Block.
6 room house, 10 Franklin street, known
as the “Dickey" property.
.3 room dwelling, 314 Jackson street.
The Glover residence on Huguenin
Heights.
The Chapman property on Oemulgee
street, In front of M. & I. street railway
shops, with two 4-room houses.
Two 4-room dwellings on the Tindall
property.
5 acres on Yinevilte car line adjoining
Crump’s park.
Vacant lots on Gray property in rear
of Mercer University.
Vavant lots on Tindall property and on
Huguenin Heights.
For any information apply to
M. P. CALLAWAY,
Receiver,
Progress Loan Improvement and
Manufacturing Company.
D. A. KELATION.
-V # /Tv s ‘ -/ j
iGmoral Undertaker ami Embalmer.
OPEN DAY* AND NIGHT
Caskets, cases, coffins and burial robes:
hearse and carriages furnished to ail
funerals in and out of the city.
telephone 468. 322 Mulberry street, Macon,
Ga. • i->
BECOME A MAN
'This will interest those who hare doctored with
“medical companies” and ’’free prescrip
ijon” fakes and electric belts, until they are tho--
ouKhly disgusted. I ain a weH known
t A physician of Chicago and have n; ul<-
nervous disorders and all .
a peculiar to men a apt dal study for
'JS" 1 -V 40 years. Ihaven’t a remedy that v.-lji
wonderß 1° & few day-, but with p-t
tierce and the correct Use of my ti eat
roent I will guarantee to MAKE A MAN OF
YOU IN TIME. For a short time i will s-nd a fall
month’s treatment of my “NERVE-MEEDS” with
some valuable private instructions, for VI.OO. or six
boxes (a full course) for »0.00. I HAVE CURED
THOUSANDS AND CAN CURE YOU. if
ruffering from a chronic disease of any nature write
to me in confidence at once. All medicines sent tn
plain wrappers.
DOCTOR GRAHAM,
114 Dearborn St., Room 1101), Chicago lib
a. n a r. gd - n<»us
~r emedy f;>r Gr>uo • r Ro n.
K <:f ** t. s r rmat or r h r»- u.
in Ito 5 days Whiten, nnnjithral hs
gßw GrwrMd’-td charge, or any inflaniiua-
V cm ta stricture. tiou, irritation or ulcere
y* -if rnvttiu ecnLAcion. tion ot mllc*» u « ijh in
-Htfcms CHtMinuCo. h™™- Non-astrii»getit
Vrik ciaKMKATI.O.IEg * o “ l ‘ , - T
V S r>r w ‘ ,;t u* Plain wrapp-r,
NBBSha- V by expiess. prepaid, t r
\WfeUahtefflyagF: a si.in, or 3 untie.., $2 '’-
■ • Areal ar seut ou reguesk
HOT SPINGS, Nort Carolina
Mountain Park Hotel and Barta. HaAei Metus in Every Department—
saad 3ervSoe linuxceUcA.
Swimming r<x>l, Bowling, Tunnie. Gdtf. Port and IflUtavds. PfaotogwnAw's dartt
room. Riding, Driving, Tennis. Large Bait Btxxu and Auditorium. Special reduoed
summer rates.
BEARDEN S Orchestra. . » . D Gfceen, Manager.
POPULAR SUMMER RESORT. _
p * f ' lB n ° W 006 tlle mOBt pojniiar summer resorts tn Che South—
tl'.'l. > ?cenery beautiful drives, good Hvery. Hotel Dalton is
bells L''' Bee^er 35M1 mercial traveler. Elegantly built, edectrte
fi.mlii.-e M • t'Uiq’hone. hot anl coM baths on every flour. Special rates to
formation given by ,Ut " 1U ' !l i * ,lnnier Luiav Georgia and MorMhk Further ia
,D. L. DETTOfR, Proprietor Dalfoo. Ga.
Ket’p out of Reach of the Spanish Gun.
TAKE THE
C H. & D. TO MICHIGAN.
3 Trains Daily.
Finest Trains in Ohio.
Fastest Trains in Ohio.
Michigan and the Great Lakes constantly growing in popularity.
Bverybody will be there thte snnuner. For information inquire
of your nearest ticket agent.
waimSDiings, Ga.
R JUOIOTIN BESORT.
Tho health and pleas
ure resort of the South.
With better bathing than on the coast.
Swimming Pool, 50x150 Feet.
of warm mineral water, 90 degrees tem
perature. Also individual pools. 1,200 feet
above sea level.
Delightfully Cool Climate. Ab
solutely pure air. No mos
quitoes
First-class accomodations and ser
vice. Electric lights, oxci'ik-.nt or
chestra
Board, per day. $2.00 to $2.50,
week $ll.OO to $14.00. Four weeks
$36.00 to $44.00 ' . . .
ONYY 3 HOURS FROn'i RIHCON.
Write for booklet with full in
formation
CHRS. L. DRV IS, PloprletOL
HOTEL Hi®
And Cottages.
Tallulah Falls, Ga.
Open for the season. Hoard from sls to
S3O per month, according to room. Six
hundred feet of shade piazzas in center of
finest scenery at Tallulah.
■Climate unsurpassed. Hight elevation.
All modern improvements. ’Cable excel
lent.
MRS. B. A. YOUNG, Proprietress,
Tallulah Fells, Ga.
Glenn Springs
Hotel,
Glenn Springs, S. C.
Queen of Southern Summer
Resorts.
There Is but one Glenn Springs and it
has no equal on the continent for the stom
ach. liver, kidneys, bowels and blood.
Hotel open from June Ist to October Ist.
■Cuisine and Service e*celleal. Water
shipped the year round.
SIMPSON & SIMPSON,
Managers.
Bedford Alum, Iron and lodine
Springs of Virginia.
From whose water the celebrated “Mase’'
so extensively known and used, U imihi
facteured. Opens June IS, and is tt»e most
home-like place in Virginia tor recuper
ating.
A modern writer bn the mineral waters
of Europe and America gays: “Bedford
Springs water cures when alt rther re.ne
dies have failed, and especially in derange
ments peculiar to females."
Long distance telephone- connections,
send for a 50-page Interesting phamptot of
proofs. P. O. Bedford Springs. Va.
J. R. MABEN, .IK., Via.,wletor.
Hoanoke Red Sulphur Springs-
ROANOKE RED SULPHUR SPRINGS,
Via Salem, Va., opens first of .bin-;. Ele
vation 2,200 feet. Sulphur, chalybeate,
freestone and limestone water; fln< sum
mer climate; waters rcHev. dyspepsia,
hay fever, asthma, lung throat and kidney
and female troubles. Terms reasonable.
Write for descriptive pamphlet, references,
etc. J. H. CHAIM AN, Manager.
Long distance telephone connection.
Find Relief in the heat of Summer at
Sparkling
Catawba
Spring.
Splendid hotel, health givdr.g water,
Catawba county, N. C.
DR. E. O. ELIAOTI & SON.
Proprtetors.
THE BEST QUIET KUMMER RESORT IN
THE WORW.
V.'ashlngon Springe. Virginia,
nearest to the South of the Virginia
Springs. Seven different mineral sprtags.
Four analyzed show woottorfud curative
pioperties. Cool, dry, dean, sweet is this
■pace. Ask anyone who has been there
about it. |25 per month of four weeks.
E Lou&ley, Jr., M>«x*f?er.
Glade Springs, Va., N A W. H. R.
.THE SKYUKA,
SKYUKA. N C. ° '
Elevation 3.200 feet. AH modern Im
proveim at —electric ligffts. baths with bet
and vid water on every floor. An Ideal
summer resort. For terms aptJy to D. E.
Stearns & Son.
Ocean View House.
St. Simon’s Island Beach, Ga
Fine sunt bathing, good table, artesian
water. A. T. ARNOLD,
. ‘ . Proprietor.
ftoauttfully eltnatcd, fine shade trees,
j lawn of blue grtete, itoX’’ well and city
J water. Oipen at the year.
The Arlington House.
Nt>. 53 Sorth Main
N. C.
Balti rvntrns and wtrser dkieoaa in the
I house, large nxMus. wtJi famished, good
T. A. ALUPN, Prop.
When you hear of War
Rttmons of war. the iX<stUtukce that stalk
erh by day or tho mocquito that llttieth
by. night,
Flee to the Mountains.
Txwvhurg, Va., ie the pknx\ Only 86
miles from Washington. Write tor Hiua
trated booklet to Leesburg luu, Deesburg,
Va.
The Atlantic Hotel
MOOREHEAD CITY. N. C.
j The finest resort on Che Atinrrtto coast.
Bathing, sailing, fishing, biltlarda, tenpins,
dancing and other amusements.
Thu best and largest ballroom tn the
south- The ccldbroted Old Colony orches
tra of Erie) Pa., eight ‘pieces, brass and
String.
For pamphlet ajtly to Pettyjohn Bros.,
i managers.
THE ELKTON,
ELKTON. VA.
I Open June 1. On N. W. and C. W. R.
| R. Modern in all its appointments. Hot
and cold Llthla water on every floor. Bath
toilet and gas. Write for ratea.
J. H. BROWN * CO..
Proprietors.
[ STURTEVANT HOUSE,
B Broadway and 20tli St,, New York,
H American & European plan. Wil
| 11am F. Bang, proprietor. Broad
fl way cable oars passing the door
:| transfer to all parts of the city.
I Saratoga Springs
I THE KENSINGTON,
§ and eottages.
I
■I H. A. & W. F. BALNG, Proprietors,
g New York Oifiee, Sturtevant House.
(For Business Men <►
In the heart of the wlLokisale dis < *
triet. «
For Shoppers <►
3 minutes walk to Wan.amakers; < >
y 8 minutes walk to Siegel-Coopers w
> Big Store. E;*ey of access to the <
j ’ great Dry Goods Stoves.
I> For Sightseers
One block trerra cars, giving < >
easy tramqwrtatloa to all points <►
Hutel Alton,
I New York. :>
Cor. TWb St. and University
l 1 8a»e. Only one block from , ►
Broadway. <
ROOMS, $1 UP. RESTAURANT, <►
Prices Reasonable. S
MACON AND BIRMINGHAM I*. R. CO.
(Ptne Monutatn Route.) ,
Effective June 5. 1898. .
4 20 pmfDv Macon ArftO 86 am
4 20 pmfLv Sofkee DvilO 14 am
546
557 pmtLv ... YatesvlHe... Lvj 857 am
627 pmrUv .. .I*hnmaston... Lvj 828 am
7 07 pm [Ar ...Woodbury... Lvj 7 48 am
scxmrEteN r/Ylway. ’
7 25 pm (Ar. Warm Springs, f/vi 7_29 am
6 03 pm'Ar ....Columbus... Lvt 6 00 am
8 07 pmlAr Griffin Lvj 6 50 am
9 45 pmfAr Atlanta Lv| 5 20 am
MOUTHER... RAIDWAY. ~
420 amfLv .... Atianfa ....Ar| 9*40 am
i 6 03 pmtLv Griffin Dvl 0 52 am
I 525 pmfLv ... .C04um9M».... Lvj 0M) am
j 6 49 pmpw.AVarrn Springs. Lvj 8 06 am
; 707 prrdLv.. ..Woodbury.... Ari 7 48 am
7 27 pmfAr ./Harris Clty._. I/v| 7 28 am
CHJJTRAfL OF <MOf>RGIA.
7 45 pmlAr ...Greenville... Lvi 7 TO am
3 20 pin}Lv ».. .Columbus.... Arj ft 40 am
7 27 janlla/ ..Harris City.. Atj 7 28 am
Close connection at Macon and Rcrfkeo
with He Georgia Southern and Florida
Central off Georgia for Savannah, AWiany,
Soothweet Georgia points and Montgom
ery, Ala., at Yateevßle for Roberta and
pointe on the Atlanta and Vtorida di
vision of the Southern railway, at Harris
City City with Central of Gtorgla rail wry,
| for GreenvHle and Columbus, at Wood
j bury •vito Southern railway tor Coltrm
| bus and Griffin, at LaGrnrtze with the
: Atlaqta arid Weet Point railway.
JULIAN R. LAS4E.
General Manager,
Macon, Ga. <
! R. G. STONE,
Gea. I’ass. A»4.
PULLMAN CAR LINE
jfTFTOTTOrW)
BETWEEN •»
I Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or
-Louisville and Chicago and
THE NORTHWEST.
Pulman Buffet Sleepers on night trains.
Parlor chairs and dining cars on day
trains. 'The Monon trains make the fast
est time 'between the Southern winter re
sorts and the summer resorts of the
Northwest.
W. H MeDOEL, V. P. A G. M.
FRANK J. REED, G. I’. A.,
Chicago, 111.
For further particulars address
R. W. GDAD4NG. Gen. Agt.
Thomasville, Ga.
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