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hypocrisy rebuked WHAI WAS IT THAT CHRIST WROTE IN The DUSTT l>r. T*ln>:«Ke Ft pl ulna the «t<iry of th< Soviour «■ I tJ > 4bi»<»<g U oiiu.i. ‘uni p*th> forth. I'. utl. .>t <»• •an <>f Divine «:• r< ». b’op.mO.t, I" ' An,.! . I'i A«. Wa.siim i<» j !? in this. <tis of n <!• il< >’ iiiiji.t id-! ;i. t< n>< >1 <in •..»!!■:} ts), 1. ~,n t night t.j ( hri-t i'll a m< inorahli'text, John viii. <l, "J< .. —o , [ml itn hi ling, r wrote on tin ground You mvt ■ • our • h<o of! and put on th.' . p.-ial lipu ( ii< < I nt the door if you iViUlhl . til t■■ nicsqui- whiih sti.iidr h- n Kt<XXi Hll -I toll |,||, th,, w -oe of my t<-Xl Foiojnon it< nip)» had M«wl there, but N. bir hndm z.z ii had thundered it down. Z< ,'uf 1 alz ! t irqdi: hud sto«xl th. re, but that i.i.d l»vti prostrated. Now wi- taka our plrr in n temple thr.t Herod built, bcr aUM- he v. .- fond of great archi t.-i-turo and h< wanted the pna-.tling t.-ni jib's to seem insignificant. Put eight or ten modern cathedrals together, and they would not equal that structure. It cov ered lit uerc.' There wen: marble pillars aupjwrtlng roof-- of cedar and silver tables on which stood golden cups, and there were carving, < xq:ii.-lt> and inscriptions resplendent, glittering balustrades and ornamented gateways. The building of thl temph k.pt, Ib.o'io workmen busy 4«i years. In that ,' ipendoiis pile of pomp and magnifi. neo at ( hrist, and a listening throng stood about him when a wild dis turlwtnce took pln<" A group of men aro pulling and pushing along a woman who had comitted a crim, against society. When they hav, brought her in front, of Christ, they ask that he sent, nee her to death by stoning. They are a critical, merciless disfngonuoiis crowd. They Want to get Christ into controversy and public reprehension. If be any, “Let her die," they will charge him with cruelty. If he lei her go, they will charge him with living in complicity with wickedness. Whichever way he does they would howl at him Then occurs a scene which has not lieen sufficiently regarded Hi' leaves Hie lounge or liehch on which ho was sitting and goes down on on. knee or Isith knees, and with the forefinger of his right hand he begins to writs) in the dust of the floor, word .'iftcr word Hut they were not to lie diverted or hindered They kept on do mending that ho settle this cas.'of trans gression. until he looked up and told them they might themselves Is gin the woman’s assassination if tlio complainant who had never don. any thing wrong himself would open the lire. “Go ahead, but lie sure that tile man who flings file first missile is immaculate ’’ Then he resumed writ Ing wit li Ids finger in the dint, of' the floor, word after word. Instead of looking over his shouhlei to see w hat he had written, tlic scoundrels skulked away. Finally Hie whole place is clear of pursuers, antago nists and plaintills, and when Christ has finished this strange eiiirograpliy in the dust lie looks up and finds the woman al) alone A 111 vine Judge. The prisoner is the < nly one of the court room Jett, the judges, tile police, tile prosecuting (dtorney having cleared out (’hrist is v ictor, and he -.ays t.o the woman : “Where are the pro— utors in this ease? Arc they all gone? Th n J discharge you. Go and in no more.’’ I have wondered what <’hrist w rote on the ground lor do y<m realize that is thl old time Hint lie overwrote at al y I know that Eusebius rays that <’hri-.t. once w rote a letter to All gurus, the l ing of Edessa, but there is no good evidence of su< h a eoi, csjuindence. 'l’he wisest being the world ever saw, and the one who had more to say than anyone who ever lived, tn ver writing a book ora chapter or a paragraph or a word on pnreh ment I Nothing but the liteiiitnro of the dust, and one sweep of a brush or one breath of a wind olilit, i ited it forever Among all the rolls of the volumes of the first, library founded at T’liel os there was not one scroll of <’hrist. Among the 700,000 books of I he Alexandrian library, which by’ file infamous decree of ( aliph .(•mar were used as fuel to beat the I 000 Ixdhs of firn city, not one sentence hail Christ penned. Among all the infinitude of volumes now standing in t lie libraries of Edinhuigji, the British museum or Jler Hu or Vienna or Hie h arneil repositories of nlj nations not. one word written directly by the finger of Christ. AH that lie ever wrote lie wrote in dust , uncertain, shifting dust. My text says ho stooped down and wrote <m tlie ground. Standing straight up a num might write on the ground with a Fluff, hut, if with his fingers lie would write in the dust he must fiend ejenr over. Ayo, ho must get at least on one kiw or he cannot write on the ground. Be not •urprised that he stooped down His whole life was a down. Stooping iloivn from castle to barn. Shu.ping down from ci lestinl homage to inonoeratte jeer. From resilience above the stars to whore a star had to tall to designate his landing place From heaven’s front door to tile world's back gate From writing in round and silvi red letters of constellation and galaxy on the blue scroll of heaven to writing on the ground In the dust which the feet of the crowd had left in Herod’s temple If in .limuary yon have ever step ped out of a prince's conservatory that liad Mexican < wtus and magnolias iji full bloom into the outside air. 10 degiees be low zero, you may get some idea of Christ's cliang; of atmosphere from celes tial to tern strial How many heavens there are I know not, but there .<n> at least tbn-e for r.ml was “caught up into the third heaven ’’ Christ came down from the highest heaven to the ns ond heaven ami down from second heaven to first heaven, down swifter than meteors ever lei), down amid stidlar splendors that iiimself I'elipsixi, down through clou.rs. through urjiu* phores through appalling space, down to where tlu’tv was no lower depth. From luting waited on at the lianquetof the skies to Hie broiling of tish for his own break fast on the (tanks of the lake. From em blazoned chariots of eternity t.o the saddle of a mule's back. From the homage che rubic, serapiiie. arehangelio, to the paying of ti'J’s cents of tax to Ca-sar. From the deathless country to a tomb built to hide human dissolution. The uplifted wave of Alalilix'was high, but he had toeonicdown iu'fore with his feet he could touch ft. anil the whirlwind that arose alvove the billow was higher yet, but. he had to come down ix'fore with his lip he could kiss it into quiet Bethlehem a sivoping ilovvn. Naz areth a stooping down. Death bictwix-n two burglars a stoopwig down Yes, was in consonance with humiliations that went lieforv and self abnegations that came after when on that memorable day in Herod s t >mple he stooped down and wrote on the ground l!ow Christ Writes. M hethi'r t.i' words he was writing were I in Greek or Isatin or Hebrew. I cannot ! say for ho knew all thosi languages, hut he is still stooping d >wn and with his lin ger writing on thi ground In the winter in letters of crystals, in the spring in let ters of ilowen., tn summer in golden let tersof harvest, tn autumn in letters of fire on fallen leavts; How it would sweeten up and enrich and embluzon this world tumid wo sii• Christ's ealigraphy all over it I This world was not llung out into sjvai-e thousands of years ago and then left to look out for itself. It is still under the divine can'. Christ never for a half sec ond takes his hand oil of it. or it would soon be a shipwrecked world, a defunct world, an obsolete world, an 01x1114001x1 world, a dead world. “Let there he light.’’ was said at the beginning, and Christ stands under the wintry skies and says. Let there ho snowflakes to enrich the earth. ,md under the clouds of spring and says, Come, ye blossoms,mid make redolent the orchards and in SeptemluT dips the branches in the vat of beautiful colors and swings them into the hazy air. No whim of mine is this. ‘ Without him was not anything made that was made.” Christ writing on the ground. If you could see his hand Snail thejuxas ing aonsons. how it would illumine the world! All verdure and foljagv would be allegoriiy mid aijain we would hear him •say as of old Consider the lilies of the field, how they /rrow.” and we would not hear in the whistle of a quail or the caw , ing of a raven or the roundelay of a brown thrasher without saying: “Behold the fowls of the air. They gather not in tarns, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them.' and a Ixmiinic hen of the barn yard could not cluck for her brood but we would hearChnst saying, as of old. “How often would I have gathered thy children togoflx r. c .j) n hen gnthervth her • hh-ket.s und< r her wmgn. and through the redolent hetlges we would hear Christ saying. “I am the rose of Sharon.” We could not dip th< we.-isoning from the salt collar without thinking of the divine sug gi-Mtion. Ye are the salt of the earth, but if thi salt hath lost its savor It is fit for nothing hut to iw cast out and tr.xlden und« r toot <if men. : 1 I>-t us wake from our stupidity and take the whole world as a parable. Then, if with gun and |wk of hounds we start off ixrfore dawn and see the morning coming doe n off the hills to ni‘X*t us we would I cry out with the evangelist, “The day spring from on high hath visited us,” or, caught in a snowstorm while struggling home, eyebrows and beard and apparel all covered with the whirling flakes, we would cry out with David, “Wash me, and I shall be whiter ti an -now.” In a picture 1 gallery of Europe there is on the ceiling an exquisite fresco, but the jieople having to look straight up. it wearied and dizzied thi m and bent their necks almost beyond endurance, so a great looking glass was put near the floor, and now visitors only rul'd to look easily down into this mirror, ! and they see the fresco at their feet. And -o. much of the high heavi n of God's truth 1 reflected in this world us in a mirror, mid tilings that are above are copied by things around us \v hat right have we to throw away one of Cell's Billies—aye. Hie first, Bible he ever gave the race? We talk aliout the Old j Testament and the New Testament, but | tlie ohtest testament contains the lessons of the natural vvoiiii Some people like the New Testament so well they discard , the Old Testament .Shall we like the New j Testament anil the Old Testament so well as to depreciate the oldest—namely, that which was written liefore Moses was put afloat on the bout of leaves which was calked with asphaltum—or reject the Gen esis that was written centuries before Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No, no! When Deity stoops down and writes on the ground, let us read it. The Bililc In Nature. 1 would have no less appreciation of the Bible on pajMirtiiat comes out of the paper mill, but I would urge appreciation of the Bilile in tlie gra s. the Bible in the sand liill, the Bilile in the geranium, the Bible in the asphodel, the Bilile in the dust. Some one asked m ancient king whether he had seen the eclipse of the sun. “No,” said he “I have so much to study on earth I have no time to look at heaven.” And it our faculties were all awake in the study of God we would not have time to go much fart her than the first gruss blade. I have no fear that natural religion will ever contradict w hat we call revealed re ligion I have no sympathy with the fol lowers of Aristotle, who after the telescope was inventisl would not look through it lest it contradict -ome of the theories of their great nmsti r. I shall be glad to put igainst one lid <,f the Bible tlie microscope and against the other lid of the Bible the telc.-sxipe. But vviien ('hrist stoopixl down and wrote on Hie ground wb.it dill he write? Tlie 1 barisccH did not stop to examine. The cowards, w iiij ped of their own con sciences, fled pclln.eli Nothing will flay a man like mi aroused conscience. Dr. Stevens, in bis “History of Methodism,” says that when Bev. Benjamin Abbott of olden times, was preaching he exclaimed, “For aught 1 know there may be a mur derer in this house, 1 ' And a man rose from the assemblage and started for tlie door mid bawled aloud, eonfessipg" to a murder fie hud commit ted 15 years liefore. And no wonder these Pharisees, reminded of their sins, took to t heir heels. But what did (’hrist write on the ground? The Bible does not state, yet as ! Christ never wrote anything except that i once you canntit blame ns for wanting to i know what he really did write, but 1 am certain he wrote nothing trivial or nothing unimportant, and will you allow me to say that I think I know what he wrote on tlie ground? I judge from the circum stances. He might have written other things, hut, kneeling there in the temple, surrounded by a j ack of hypocrite's who were a. self appointed constaliulary and having in his presence a persecuted wom an, who evidently was very penitent for her sins, I am sure lie wrote two words, both of tliem graphic and tremendous and reverberating, and the one word was “hy pocrisy, ” and the other word was “for giveness. ” From the way these Pharisees and scribes vacated Hie premises anil got out into the fresh air as Christ, with just one ironical sentence, unmasked them I know they were first class hypocrites. It was then as it is now. The more faultsand inconsistencies people have of their own the more severe and censorious are. they about the faults of others. Here they are, 20 stout men arresting and arraigning one weak woman I Magnificent business to be engaged in! They wanted the fun of sixiing her faint away under a heavy judi cial sejitencc from Ciirist, and then, after she had been taken outside of the city and f'astened at the foot of the precipice, the scribes and Pharisees wanted th.e satisfac tion of each comiag and dropping u big stone on her head, for t hat was rhe style of capital punishment that they asked for. Some people have taken the tespionsibility of saying that Christ never laughed, but I think as he saw those men drop every thing, ehagiincd. niortitjed, exposed, and go out quicker than they came in he must have laughed. At any rata, if makes me laugh t’> vend of it. All of those liber tines drat atizing indignation against im purity! Blind bats lecturing on optics! A (lock of crows on their way up from a careaSs Qciv-iirjciiig carrion! Rebuking Xljpocriny. Yea, 1 think that one wont written on tlie ground that day by the flngerof Christ was tlie awful word hypocrisy. What pre tensions to sanctity are the part of those hypocritical Pharjsix's! When the fox be gins tn pray, look out for your ehiekens. One of the cruel magnates of olden times was going to excouin.ur<i< one of the martyrs, and he began in the usual form —“ln the name of God. Amen.” “Stop!” says tlie martyr. ‘ Don't say ‘in the name of God!’ ” Y'et how many outrages are practiced under the garb of religion anil sanctity When in synods and conferences ministers of tlie gosj el are tdiput to say something unbr< therly and unkind about ;» jneinlter, they almost always begin by being ,>.-»• ptatmusly pious, the venom of their assault corresponding to the heaven ly flavor of the prelude. Aliout to devour a reputation, they say grace ivfoye meal. But I am sure there- was anothi r word in that dust. From her entire manner I am sutv that rirteiijjnvd woman was re iH-nt.int She made no .ij-oL and Christ in nowisi« bclittleil her sin But her sup plicatory tieha' .i; and bir tears moved him, and when he st tap? A down to write on the ground lie wrote that mighty, that itiiperial word, forgiveness. When on Sinai t’od wrote the law, he wrote it with linger of lightning on tables of stone, each word cut as by a chisel into thi- hard granite surface. But when he w rites the otfense of this woman ho writes it in dust so Hurt it can be easily rubbed oiw. and when she repents of it, oh. he was a mcrcitid Christ! 1 w’as reading of a 1< genii that is told in the far east about, him He was walking through the street* of a city, and he saw a crowd around a dead dog. And one man said, “What a loathsome object is that dog”' “Yes,” said another; “his ears are mauled and bleeding." "Yes." said another; “even his hide would nor be of any use to the tanner.” “Yes. ’’ said another; “the odor of his carcass is dreadful. ” Then Christ, standing there, said. “But poaria cannot I equal tiiv whitmess of his teeth." Then the people, moved by the idea that anyone ! could find anything picmsuit concerning i the dead dog, said. “Why. tills miiwt he 1 Jesus of Nazareth!’ Reproved and con- I vieted. they went away. jsurely this legend of Christ is good enough u? he true! Kindness in all his ' words and ways and habits I Forgiveness! ; W ord of 11 letters, and some of them [ thrones and some of them palm branches, j Better have Christ write close to our names j that one word, though he write it in dust, I than to have pur yuine cpt into menu- ' mental granite with the letters that the storms of 1,000 years cannot obliterate. Bishop Babington had a book of only thr < leave.- The first leaf was black, the sc< ind leaf red, the third leaf white. The black Itaf suggested sin, the red leaf atonement, the white leaf purification. That is the w hole story. God will abun -1 ’ dantly jiardon Sympathy For the Feuiteot, I must not forget,to say that as Christ, stooping down, with his finger wrote on the ground it is evident that his symjia thie- are with this penitent woman and that he has no synqsithy with her hypo critical pursuers Just opposite to that is the world s habit. Why didn’t these unclean Pharisee's bring one of their own numior to Ciirist for excoriation and capibd punishmejit? No, no! Theyover lixik that in a man which they dumnate in a woman, and so the world has had for ofTending woman scourges and objurga tion, anil for just one offense she becomes an outcast, while for men whose lives have L» en s< tde.mlc for 20 years tlie world swings open its doors of brilliant welcome, and they may sit in high places. Unlike the Christ of my text, tlie world writes a man s misdemeanor in dust, but chisels a woman's offense with great capitals upon j ineffaceable marble. For foreign lords and princes, whose names cannot even be mentioned in re spectable circles abroad because they are walking lazarettos of abomination, some > of our American princesses of fortune wait and at the first beck sail out with them into the, blackness of darkness for ever. And in what are called higher cir cles of s -.’iety there is now not only tile ; imitation of foreign dress and foreign manners, but an imitation of foreign dls j soltitetass. I like a foreigner, ami I like . an Amciicru but the sickest creature on earth is an American playing the foreign - er. Socfety needs to be reconstructed on f this subject. Tieat them alike, masculine ; crime and feminine crime. If you cut the ‘ one in granite, cut them liuth in granite. ; If you write the one in dust, write the j other in dust. “No, no,” says the world; “let woman go ilown and let man go up.” What is that! hear plashing into tlie Hud son or Potomac at midnight? And then there is a gurgle as of strangulation, and all is still. Never mind. It is only a woman too discouraged to live. Let the mills of the i ruel world grind right on. But wliily 1 speak of Christ of the text, his stooping down writing in the dust, do not think I underrate the literature of the dust It is the most trenmndous of all literature. It is the greatestof all libraries. When Bayard exhumed Nineveh, he was only opening the door of its mighty dust. The excavations of Pompeii have only been the unclasping of the lids of a volume of a nation’s dust. When Admiral Farra gut. anil his friends visited that resurrected city, Hie house of Balbo, who had been one of its chief citizens in its prosperous days, was opened, and a table was spread in that house which 1,810 years had been buried by volcanic eruption, and Farragut anil his guests walked over the exquisite mosaics and under the boautiful fresco, and it almost seemed like being entertain ed by those who 18 centuries ago had turned to dust. Literature of the Dust. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust! Where ate the remains of Sennacherib and Attila and Epatninondas and Tamerlane and Trajan and Philip of Macedon and Julius (’ivsar? Dust! Where aro tlie he roes who fought on both sides at ChaT onea, at Hastings, nt Marathon, atCressy, of the 110,000 men who fought at Agin court, of the 250,00(1 men who faced death at Jena, of Hie 400,000 whose armor glit tered m the sun at Wagram, of the 1,000,- 000 men under Darius at Arbela, of the 2,041,000 men under Xerxes at Thermop ylai? Dust! Where are the guests who danced tlie floors of the Alhambra or the Persian palace of Ahasuerus? Dust! Where are the musicians who played or tile orators who spoke and the sculptors who chiseled and the architects who built in all the centuries except our own? Dust I Where are the most of the books that once ' entranced the world? Dust! Pliny wrote j2O books of history; all lost. The most of j Menander’s writings lost Os 310 come dies of Plautus all gone but 20. Euripides wrote 100 dramas ; ail gone but 19. JEschy lus wrote 100 dramas; all gone but seven. Varro wrote the laborious biographies of 700 Remans; not a fragment left. Quin tilian wrote liis favorite book on the cor ruption of eloquence; all lost. Thirty books of Tacitus lost . Dion Cassius wrote 80 books; only 20 remain. Dcrosius’ his tory all lost. Where there is one living book there are a thousand dead books. The greatest library in the world, that which Ims the widest shelves and longest aisles anil the most, u ultitudinous vol umes and the vastest, wealth, is tlie under ground library It is the royal library, the continental library, the hemispheric library, the planetary library, the library of the dust. And all these library cases will be opened, and all these scrolls un rolled, and all these yplumes unclasped, anil as easily as in your library or mine wi) take up a book, blow the dust off of it and turn over its pages so easily will the Lord of the resurrection pick out of this library of dust every volume of human life and open it and read it and display it, and the volume will bo rebound, to be set in the royal library of the king’s palace or in the prison library of the self destroyed (boundless Mercy. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust’ It is not so wonderful, after all, that Christ chose instead of an inkstand the impressionable sand on the floor of an an cient temple, and instead of a bard pen put forth ins forefinger with the same kind of nerve and muscle and bone and flesh as that which makes up our ovv n forefinger, anil wrote the awful doom of hypocrisy, and full and complete forgive ness for repentant sinners, even the worst We talk about the ocean of Christ’s mercy Put four ships upon that ocean and kt them sail out in opposite directions for 1,000 years and see if they can find the shore of tlie ocean of the divine mercy. Let them sail to the north and the south and tlie east and the west, and then after the 1.000 years of voyage let them come back and they will report, “No shore, no shore to the ocean of God's mercy!” And now I can believe that which I read, how that a mother kept burning a candle in the window every night for ten years, and one night very late a poor waif of the street entered. Tlie aged woman said to her, “Sit down by the tiro. ” And the stranger said. ‘Why do you keep that light in the window?" The aged woman said: “That is to light my wayward daughter when she returns. Since she went away, ten years ago, my hair has turned white Folks blame, me for worry ing al out her, but you see I am her moth er. and sometimes half a dozen times a night 1 open the door ami look out into the darkness and cry. ‘Lizzie! Lizzie!’ But! must not tell you any more about my trouble, for I guess from the way you cry you have trouble enough of your own. Why, hiiw eohi and sick you seem! Oh, my! 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One small 'bottle of Hall’s Great Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder trou bles, removes gravel, cures dia.beUs, semi nal emislsons, weak and lame backs, rheu matism and all irregularities of the kid neys and bladder in both men and women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mail on receipt of sl. One small bottle is two months’ treatment and will cure any case above mentioned.. E. W. HALL, Sole Manufacturer. P. O. Box 211, Waco, Texas. Sold by H. J. Lamar & Son, Macon, Ga. READ THIS. Cuthbert. Ga. March 22, 1898.—This is to certify that I have been a sufferer from a kidney trouble for ten years and that I have taken less than one bottle of Hall’s Great Discovery and I think that I am cured. I cheerfully recommend It to any one suffering from any kidney trouble, as I know of nothing that I consider its equal. R. M. JONES. LIL HAS CANCER., The Ex-Queen of Hawaii Has Not Long to Live. San Francisco, August I—There were tears in the eyes of ex-Queen Liliuokalani when she stepped aboard the steamer Gaelic. The ex-Queen believed that she was going to her grave. For more than a year past she has been suffering from a cancer on the right side of her neck, but for many months the presence of the growth was known to no one save herself. Dr. English, the New York specialist, ac companies the ex-Queen to Hawaii. He has announced, it is said, that, owing to the position of the cancer and the long neglect in securing proper treatment, the condition of the ex-Queen is very critical. AN ENTERPRISING DRUGGIST. There are few men more wide awake and enterprising than H. J. Lamar & Sons, who spare no pains to secure the best of everything in their lines for their many customers. They now have the valuable agency for Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. This is the wonderful remedy that is producing such a furor all oyer the country by its many startling cures. It absolutely cures Asthma, Bronc-hitis, Hoarseness, and all affection of the Throat, Chest nd Lung". Call at above drug store, and get a trial bottle free, or a regular size for 50 cents and SI.OO. Guaranteed to cure or price re fundede. PHILIPPINERS” FULL OF SPORT It Is a Pauper that Does Not Own a Fighting Cock in that Citv. Manila, via Hong Kong, July 10 —The sports of the city of Manila, in the Phil ippines, are purely Spanish. They consist of hull fights, sometimes with men and sometimes with lions and tigers, and more insistently and continuously of cock fights. Every native has his fighting cock, which is reared with the greatest care until it has shown sufficient prowess to entitle it to an entrance into the cockpit. In case of fire the rooster is rhe first thing rescued and removed to a place of safety. It is almost impossible to walk along any street in the suburban part of the town without seeing dozens of natives trudging along with roosters under their arms. At every other little roadside hut an impromptu battle will be gojng on be.- tween two birds of equal or unequal merit, the two proprietors holding their respec tive roosters by the tails in order that they may not come into close quarters. The cockpits, where gatherings are held i on Thursdays and Sundays, are . rge in closures. covered with a roof of thatch sewed on a framework of bamboo. They are open on all sides, and banked u, with tiers of rude seats, that surround a saw dust ring in the center. Outside the gates to the flimsy structure sits a motely crowd of women, young amj old, selling eatables, whose dark, greasy texture beggars description, while here and there in the open spaces a couple of na tives will be giving their respective roost ers a sort of preliminary trial with each other. As the show gpes pn iqside shouts and applause resound, and at i b e close ot the performance a multitude of two wheeled gigs carry off the victors with their spoils, while the losers trudge home thjaugh the dust on foot. CA.STOH.X.A.. Bears the The Kind You Haw Always Bought Signature AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. Wt * ARE ASSERTING ... l .JURIS OL :< HIGHT TO THE EX< LUSVvE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” and “PITCHER’S CASTORIA.” AS OCR TRADEMARK. Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, 0/ Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “CASTORIA,” same that has borne and does now hear ■7* on every I the sac- simile signature of wrapper. This is the original “CASTORIA’ chirr 1..s been used in the homes of Hie Mothers of Amerce for over llrrtii years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it Is the kind you have always bought on the and has the signature wrap- per. bio one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 24,1898. /? „ /L rs) S xdp • ✓ Do Not Bo Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you ne makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF /f■‘CT'-dz-- * r ''* J **< f & Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. THE CENTAUR GOMPANV. 77 MURRAY QTHtuT. fri-W YOHM CITY « Central of Georgia Railway Company Schedules iu Effect Feb. 26, 1898 Standard Tin e 90th Meridian. ~N ° : 5 ! /'?: 7 *l No - I *i STA TIONS I No. 2«j No. 8•! Ne. « 7 J’rA am! V V Ma con .. .Ar| 7 25 pmj 740 ami 350 Hn .«/ P “ 840 pm 850 am Ar ....Fort Valley Lv| G 27 pm 630 am; 242 pm 4 pm| f I- 70 A 0 .. .Per ry Lvj! 500 pm! Hit 30 am / 7 ‘ 550 Pm|Ar. . .B’m ham . ,Lv| 930 ami C"7”*. ' 1 n-n "inm ■” l | 940 a,u|^ r •••• Per ry •• •• Lv ' 1 45 pmj' i’ll 30 am ,?17 ? ra o .,- 1 Pm| ; |Av " Am6r icUB •• Lv. |5 18 pmj 107 pm ■327nn!l? a- P “ | Ar ' ” Smit hvil!e ■ • bv j I 4 am fl 242 pin fi 00 n/ 11 °° Pm Ar VH) ally ••• Lv| I 415 am| 11 35 am n pDI ! l Ar ••••Daw son ....Lvl I j u 57 am rno Pm I l Ar •••' r ’ uth bert ...Lv; ; 11 11 am a O6 P® No 9 * jAr ...Fort Gaines ..Lv| No 10 *j j 9 55 am 0 , 3 I P “ 745 am Ar ... .Euf aula ... ,Lv| 730 pm; | 10 20 am pri ““®’ Ly| 600 pm| .| 905 am 600 pm| | 905 am|Ar ..Un B 720 Prai I |Ar Troy . . Lv’.. . . i.j pm l I 10 35 am|Ar.. Montg ornery ..Livj 4 20 pmj ...| 7 40 am No. ll.*| No. 3.*l No. l.»| j No. 2?*j No 4*l No li * 800 am| 425 am 415 pm|UT.. . .Maeon. . ~Ar| 11 10 am|' 11 10 pm! 720 pm mo ac am ! 547 am 542 pm iLv. .Barnesville . .Lvi 945 .<■ 946 pm! fi 05 pm .12 05 am; 7 40 pm|Ar.. .Thomaston. ..Lv! 7 00 ami !' J 00 nm 95a am, t> 16 am 613 pm|Ar. . . Griffis. . ~Lv| Vl2 amj 915 pm' 530 pm ..........1.11 47 am| |Ar.. ..Mewnan. . ,L<v: I it g d l2oam ! I. .45 am ||_J 7 35 pm I Ar.. ..A tian u . ,Lv|_ 750 am| 750 pin| 406 pm No. 6. !| No. 4. *| No. 2 k | ■ ' 1 *? No~B~7' 7 30 pm 11 38 pm| 11 26 amjLv. .. .Macon. . ..Ar! I g 55 aro| 7 45 aa 8 10 pm 12 19 am 12 08 pm|Ar. . ..Gordon, .. .Ar; 500 pm; 3 10 ami 7 10 ain , S £6 Pm ! 1 15 pm|Ar. .Milledgeville .Lvl! 245 pm! I 630 ns 16 00 pm ' 3 00 pm|Ar.. ..Eatonton. . ,L>v|! 1 30 pm i 6 26 «>b j Ar. . .Maehen. . .UvlIU 20 am I. t- I 650 pmjAr. Covington ..Lv;!. 920 ami am !*il 38 pmi*il 25 am|Lv. .. .Macon . ..ar]» 345 pmj* 355 ami* 846 pm oin Pm 1o- am ' J 1 17 Pm|Ar. .. .Tennille.,. ...Uv! 156 pm 152 ams 156 pnj 2 30 pm| 2I 25 ami 2 30 pm|Ar. . .Wadley. .. ,Lvjfl2 55 pm 12 50 am| 12 55 pm 2 oi pmj 2 44 am| 2 51 pm|A.r. . .Midville. . .Lv! 12 n pm 12 30 am! 12 11 pir. 820 pni| ils am| 325 pmlAr. .. .Millen .. .Lv| 11 34 am 1. 58 pm| 11 34 am a 4 13 pm; 4 42 ami 5 10 pm|Ar .Waynesboro.. .I,v| 10 13 am! 10 37 r,m|3lo 47 am s o 30 pmj 6 35 am|! 6 55 pmlAr... .Augusta. . ,Lvl! i 20 am! 8 40 pmls 9 80 m I 342 am| 350 pm;Ar. .Hocky Ford. Lv{ 11 10 ami 11 19 pmj. ' 358 am 408 pmlAr.. . Dover . ..Lvl 10 5 2am; 11 00 pm!..... I 800 am 600 pmjAr.. Savannah. . .Lri 8 4ft am.; 900 pml No. 16. *| ~ Fno.”Ts? *j y “ I 10 05 am|Ar. .. Machen .. ..Lvj 5 27 pm! | I I 10 45 am|Ar. ...Madison. .. Lv 440 pmi I 112 20 pmjAr. ... Athens .. Lv! 330 pm! i • Daily. ! Daily except Sunday, f Meal station a Sunday ertly. Solid trains are run to ands from Macon and Montgomery via Eufaula, Savan uab and Atlanta via Maeon, Macon and Albany via Smithville. Macon ami Bnmiait ham via Columbus. Elegant sleeping cars on trains No 3 and 4 between Macoa 4D<l Savannah and Ay.ja.ata and Savannair.Sleepers for Savannah are ready for kccm pancy iu Macon depot at 9:00 p. m. Pas-sengers arriving in Macon on No. 3 and Sa vannah on No. 4, are allowed to remain incleeper until 7a. m. Parlor cars between Macon and Atlanta on trains Nos. 1 and 2. Seat fare 25 cents. Passengers ftrr Wrightsville. Dublin ami Sandersville takoll:2s. Train arrives Fort. Gaine* 4:4u p. m., and leaves 10:10 a. in. Sundays. For Ozark arrives 7:30 p. m. and leaves ‘ r ’ 2 2. a ’,, lQ ' information or sch edules to points beyond our lines, addr**s J. Q. CARLISLE, T. P. A.. Macon, Ga. E. P. BONNER U. T. A E 3 HINTON, Traffic Mruager j. c. HAILK*. G. F A THEO D. KLINE. General Suverinteutiaul. wfilL. Southern R’y. Schedule in Effect July 6, 1898 CENTRAL TIME READ DOWN? READ’UP. -~= No. 7 j No. 15 | No. 9 | No. 13 | We~sL |~No. 14 | No. 10 | NoHB~Fno. io~ 7 10pm| 4 45pm| 8 OOamj 2 05am|Lv.. Macon . .Arj 2 05am| 8 20am;10 55amj 710 pm 9 45pm 7 45pmjl0 40am| 4 15am|Ar.. Atlanta. Lvjll 55pmj 5 20am| 8 10am) 4 20pm 7 50am|10 OOpmj 4 00pm| 4 20am|Lv.. Atlanta. Arjll 50pmj 5 OOamj jll 40am 10 20am. 1 00am| 6 25pmj 6 30am;Lv.. Rome.. Lvj 0 40pm 1 44amj j 9 OOarn 11 30am; 2 34am; 734 pm; 7 22amjLv.. Dal ton...Lv 8 42pm;12 lOamj j 750 am 1 OOpmj 4 15amj 8 50pm| 8 40am|Ar Chat’nooga Lvj 7 30pm|10 OOpmj | 8 00pm 710 pm 7 IQpmj 7 40amj |Ar .Memphis . Lvj | 9 15am| j 8 00pm 4 30pm| j 5 OOamj |Ar Lexington. Lv| |lO 50am| |lO 40pm~ 50pm; | 7 50amj |Ar Louis ville. Lvj j 7 40am| | 746 pm 730 pm; | 7 30am| |Ar Zlnci nnati Lvj | 8 30am| | 8 Ooam 9 25pmj | 7 25pm| |Ar Anniston .. Lv|........ | 6 32pmj | 8 00am 11 45am| [lO OOpmj | Ar Birm’ham Lv; j 4 15pm| | 6 GQam 8 Usam| j 1 lOamj 7 45pmjAr Knoxville. Lv; 7 OOamj 7 40pm| | 740 pm 1 7 lOpml 3 10am. 8 35am Lv.. MacoaYTArj 8 20am j 2 00am 17.77777? 1777., ..T I I 3 22am 10 OftamjLv Coch ran.. Lvj 3 20pm[12 55amj j 1 3 54amjl0 50am|Lv. East man. Lvj 2 41pm|lk 25amj j I i 4 29am 11 36am|Lv.. Hei ena.. Lvj 2 03pm|ll 54pm| j i 6 45am| 2 38pm,Lv.. Jes up... Lvjll 22am! 9 43pm j I 7 30 am; 3 3Qpm,Lv Everrett.. LvjlO 45am; 9 05pm| [ ■ I 8 30am) 4 SOpmjAr Brunswick. Lvj 9 30am,' 6 50pmj | I No - 7 I No. 9 ) No. 13J EaTt. ' j"No7I6T~No7 10~[ j 1 10pm 8 30am 2 05am Lv.. Macon.. Arj 8 20am 710 pm 7.7...'7..7.7.7 ........j 9 25am; 8 30pm, 6 lupm;Lv Charlotte Lv.lo 15ami 9 35am| [...... ■ 1 30pm|12 OOn’tjll 2?pm,Lv . Dan ville. Lyj 6 07pmi 5 50am; j i ® 25pm| 6 4oam ; )Ar. Richmond Lv 12 01n’n,12 lOn.nj ! I 3 50; 1 53am| |Lv. .Lynch burg Lv] 3 55pm 3 4(«am; j j 5 48pm, 3 35am; |Lv Chari’ville Lv 2 15pic 150 pm; I j 9 25pm| 6 42am| |Ar Wash gton. Lvill IftamjlO 43pm) j jll 25amj 8 OOamj jAr Balti ’more Lvj 6 17am 9 20pmj j | 3 OuamjlO 15aml jAr Phila dlphia Lv 3 50am 6 55pmj j j 6 2uam;l2 Tsn’nj [Ar New York Lv 12 15am' 4 30pm. j | 3 pm| 8 30pm; |Ar .. ..Boston Lv, 5 00pm,10 00am| ...j THROUGH CAR SERVICES, ETC. Nos. 13 and 14, Pullman Sleeping Cars between Chattanooga and JacksonvUia. also between Atlanta and Brunswick. Berths may be reserved to be taken at Macon. Nos. 16 and 16, day express trains, bet ween Atlanta and Brunswick. Nos. 9 and 10, elegant free Observatiof cars between Maeon and Atlanta, also Pullman Sleeping cars between Atlanta and Cincinnati. Connects in Union depot, Atlanta, With “Southwestern Vestibuled Limited/’ finest and fastest train in tht South. Nos. 7 and 8, connects in Atlanta Union depot with “U. S. Fast Mail Train” to and from the East. Nos. 7 and 6, Pullman sleeping cars between Macon and Asheville. FRANK S. GANNON, 3d V. P. & G. M., J. M. CULP, Traffic Manager, Washingon, D. C. Washington, D. C. W. A. TURK, G. P. A., 3. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A., Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga, ttAXDAIX CLIFTON, T. P. A., BURR BROWN, C. T. A., Macon, G* Mulberry 9L, Q*. HOT SPRINGS, North Carolina. MounttMa Park HoM and Batt*s--hfcxieTU Hotel Ideas in Every Department—CabU and Bervico Unexcelted. Swimming Pool, Bowling, Tenets, Golf, Pool and BHllarda. Photograpb»r’ fl dark room, Riding, Driving, Tennis. Largte Ball Room and Auditorium. Special reduced summer rates. , ; . ...... BEARDEN’S Orchestra. T. D. G>een, Manager. POPULAR SUMMER RESORT?" • Dalton. Ga., is now one the most popular summer resorts in the South— climate delightful, scenery - suverfi. beautiful drives, good livery. Hotel Dalton is the home of the n s-vrt seefeer and the com meretal traveler. Wh gai tly built, electric belhe elevator, telephone, bpt an! cold baths on ewry floor. Special rates to families. Many eome each tunimer from lower Georglaf and Woal'ia. Further In formation gIA-en hy D. L. Proprietor, ........ Dalton. Ga. Newport of the South. SEASON OF 1898. Hotel St. Simon St. Simons Island, Georgia. Newly equipped. Rates SIO.OO per week. Sea bath ing, Fishing, Boating, Lawn Tennis, Driving, Dancing, Billiards and Pool. Iwo germans weekly. 25 mile bicycle path. Bxcclle<it orchestra. Hotel lighted by electricity. Table the best. W, B. ISAACS, Lessee. Keep oat 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. Everybody will be there this summer. For information inquire of your nearest ticket agent. 1). G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, O. iwisMi TO GO To Hie mountains. W ann Springs, Ga. —« In the mountains, Whwe tbo weatbejr hi detightfuHy cool u-tid the condttkxis are afl healthful. The Warm Bpnings water la the best and meet pleasant cure for dyspepsia, insom nia, rfceumattem and general debility. ■Hotel accxxnmcriations and service ftrst class. Ratee moderate. Easily reached by the Macon and Bir mingham rail-road. For further Information write to CHfIS. L DOVIS, Proprietor. HOTEL MARION And Cottages. I Tallulah Falls, Ga. Open for the season. Board from H 5 to |3O per month, according to room. Six hundred feet of shade piazzas in center of ! finest scenery at ‘Pellutah. Climate unsurpassed. Wight elevation, j All modern Improvements. TalMo eKoel- j lent. MRS. B. A. YOUNG, Proprietress, Taiiuiah Falls, Ga Glenn Springs Hotel, Glenu Springs, S. C. Queen of Southern Summer Resorts. There Is but one Glenn Spring® and R has no equal on continent for the stom ach, liver, kidneys, bow’ete and Mood Hotel open from Jnns Ist to October Ist. Cuteine and Jtecvic--.* tKcotlenf. Water shipped the year round. St 81MPBON, Managers. Bedford Alum, Iron and lodine Springs of Virginia. From whose water the celebrated “Mass” so ex tens! vcly known and need, is maou facteur'vL Opens 16, and Is the most home-lihe piece in Virginia for recuper ating. A modern wrtter oti the mineral waters of Europe and America says: “Bedford Springs water cures when all other reme dies have failed, and especially in derange ments peculiar to female®.” Long distance telephone connections, send for a 50-page interesting phampiet of proofs. P. O. Bedford Springs, Va. J. R. MABKK, JK., Proprietor. I STURTEVANT HOUSE, I Broadway and 29th st,, New York, ® American & Euaopean plan Wil- I ham F. Bang, proprietor. Droad- ■ way eabfe cars paestag the <Joo« I tramAer to all paM« o< the city. I Saratoga Springs | THE KENSINGTON, I cotta3ea. - Y 7 fc H. A. &W. BANG, Proprietors, E New York Office, Sturtevant House, s Ocean View House. St. Simon's Island Beach, Ga Fine su«f bathing, good table, artesian water. A. T. ARNOLD, Proprietor. I For Business Men i In the beaok of tbe whofesaje dia < k trtet. , j For Shoppers <► 3 minutes walk to Waoamafters; F j > 8 minute® walk to Sh'gi-l-Coopew C ► B4g Store. Easy of aceeae to ths < S ; ’ great I try Goods Btoree. ’, b For Sightseers <► > j One Mock from ear®, giving < , <, easy tvanepoi<tation to all points * > IW Mtol, ( I New York. Cor. 11th St. and University j k Place. Only one block from < * Broadway <, ROOMS, Up. RESrpAORANT, < , Prices Reasotwbie. * » MACON AND BIRIMINGILAM IL R. GO. flffnc Montrtain Route.) Effective June ft. 1898. 4 20 pmlLv Marxm ArftO 36 am 4 20 pinfLv ... .Scffkee LvjlO 14 am 546 pm|Lv ... .CoModen.... Lv; 909 am 5 57 pmlLv ...Yatesville... Lvj 8 57 am fi 27 pmllw ...Thomaston... Lvj 8 28 am 7 07 pmjAr ... Woodbury... Lv; 7 48 am SOUTIUHTRN RAIIAVAY? ~ 7 25 pmjAr. Warm Springs. Lv| 7 29 am 6 03 pmjAr ....Cohimbwi... Lv; 6 00 am ! 807 pmlArtl Orfffio Lvj 8 50 am 9 45 pmjAr .....Atlanta Lvj 5 20 am MOUTHER.. RAYLM’AT. 1 4 20 amjLv .... Atlanta ....At! 9 40 am ! 6 03 pro’Lv Griffin Lvj 3 52 am | 525 innLv ... .Columfoue.... Lv| 9 u o am i 6 4h fjmjLv .Warm Springe. Lvj 6 06 arn j 707 pm>Lv.. ..Woodbuiv--.. Avj 7 48 am ! 727 P*QfAr ..Harris City.. laa' 7 am CENTRAL OF GEORGIA. 746 pniJAr .. .GfeenvlHo... Lvj 7 am 520 pmlLv ... .Cohinabus.... Ar, 940 am 7 37 pmfLv ..Harris Oty.. Ari 7 28 am Ji 20 pmkAr .—LaGrange.... Lvj 8 35 am Cloee connection at Macon and Hofkee , with the Georgia Southern and Florida Central of Georgia for Savannah, Afhauy. Southwest Georgia points and Montgom ery, Ala., at Yatewvtlle for Roberta and points on the Atlanta and Florida di vision of tbeSoutbern ratbway, at Harris City City with Central of Gtorgia ratlwoy, for Greenville and Colutnlms, at W?oo<i bury •with Gw tth cm railway for Oofqjja buH and Griffin, at T>aG»Hisge with th a Atlanta and West Point railway. v JULIAN H. LANE, ijeaeyal Ma.nager, Macon, Ga. R. G. S’fONE, Gen. Pass. Agt. PULLMAN CAR LINE BEZIh’/eEN T ‘ " il ** Cincinnati, Ind’arrapolls, 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 tha Northwest. W. H. McDOEL, V. P. & O. M. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., Chicago, 111. For further particulars address R. W. GLAIANG, Gen. Agt. Thorn asvilie. Ga. eßig <4 i» a aon-pouonoua for tionorrhuw, 6permatorrho»», Vhij-fl. unnatural <Mh hargt**,. or any InOamnta ion, irritation or ulcera tion of io nee u 3 luoui branea. Kon-asUin«em. Mold i»y I>raKir*«tA. or sent in plain wrapper, by e«pre« prepaid, for SI.OO, or a bottle®, J2.K. tXrcnlar sot t ou rowooHt. Now Steam DYE WORKS, F. H. JOHNSON, Prop'r. 25c Second Street, Macon, Ga. Ladies’ dresses nicely cleaned and pressed. Also Gents’ Ldnea Suits. 3