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FAIR DEALING REST.
DR. TALMAGE EULOGIZES HONESTY
IN MONEY GETTING.
Tor of Money In Politico ■» Fruitfol Source
of Corruption Bribery 1« Villainy Vio
lation of * Soil inn Tnet an I npardon
able Offence, an KwrliMtitlg Blot,
V opyrlwiit. IKrs, by Arn< ts< ->n I’ress Asso-
WAMIIS«iTt»S. Aug. 7.—Dr Talmage in
this diMourMi arraign tin- tarioi.- mode*
by which Mime jwople get money that dot*
not lx long to them anti commends the
fair dialing that succeeds best nt last;
text, I Timothy vj, y, “They that will Ixi
ri< h fall into a temptation and a snare,
and info many foolish anti hurtful lu-t-s
which drown nu n in destruction anti per
dition
That is the Nlagan* falls over which
rush a multitude of souls—namely, the
determination to have the money anyhow,
right or wrong. 'l'ell me how a man gets
his money and what he <t<wx with it and
1 will tell you his character and what ,
will lx- 1.1 de tiny in this world and the
next 1 pro,lose to -|n»k today about the 1
ruinous moilcs of getting money.
In all our city. statu ami national elec
tions large minis of money are used in ,
bribery. Politic- from is-ing the science '
of good government, has often iiecn lie- :
draggled into the synonym for truculency
and turpitude. A monster sin, plausible, i
potent, J* tiferous, has gone forth to do
its dreadful work in all ages. Its two ;
hand-ar< rotten with leprosy. It keeps
Its right hand hidden in a deep pocket. ■
The left hand Is clinched, and with its !
ichorou* knuckle it taps at the door of the
courtroom, the legislative hall, the con- ,
gross and tin [tarliament The door swings j
ojwn and the monsU r enters and glides
through the aisle of the council chamber
ns softly ns a slippered page, and th< n it !
take- it right hand from its deep pocket I
rind offers it in salutation to judge or leg- j
islator If that hand Is* taken and the j
palm of the intruder cross the palm of the •
olli; ini, the leprosy crosses from palm to ;
juiliii in a round blotch, round as a gold .
eagle, and the virus spreads, and tin- doom ’
is fixed, and the victim jierisheH. Let I
briliery, accursed of God ami man, stand i
up for trial
T he Bible arraigns it again and again.
Samuel says of his two sons, who became
judges, “They took lirilics and perverted I
judgment.” 1 lav i<l says of some of hia
pursuers, “Their right hand is full of
bribes. ” Amos says of some men in his
liny, ‘‘They take a bribe ami turn aside
the poor in the gate.” ICliphnz foretells
the crushing blows of God's indignation,
declaring, “Fire shall consume the taber
nacles of bribery. ”
The Mighty Fallen.
It is no light temptation The mighti
est have fallen under it. Lord Bacon,
lord chancellor of England, founder of
our modi rn science, author of “Novum
Organum” and a whole library of books,
the leading thinker of his century, so pre
cocious that when as a little child he was
asked by Queen Elizabeth, “flow old are
you?” he responded. “I am two years
voungi r than your majesty's happy reign
of whose oratory lion .Jonson wrote, “The
fear of every man that heard Idm was lest
lie should make an end, ” having an in
come which you would suppose would have
put him beyond the temptation of bribery
§36,o(i(i a year and Twickenham court.,
n gift, and princely estates in Hertford
shire—yet under this temptation to I rib
cry, falling lint into ruin and on his con
fession of taking brihes giving as excuse
that all hi predi ev.-sors took them; he
was lin' d §2(>O l (Hl<i, or what, corres| nnds
with our §■_•<>(»,ooo, and imprisoned in Lon
don Tower
The black ehr] ter in English, Irish,
French amt American politics is the chap
ter of briliery Sonm of you remember the
I’aejJle Mail sub; idles Most, of you re
jui nibct the awful tragedy < f the Credit
Mobilter. Ender the temptation to brib
ery Benedict, Arnold sold the fort m the
highlands for §3l, 1 <>< this >11: Go:g< y
betray'd Hungary, Ahdh.ophcl forsook
David, and .1 udns ki -ard Uhi’ist. V. hen 1
fi*'o so many <;J’ the Illustrious going down
under tin 1 ten.p!-it ion, it makes me think
of the r<d dragon spoken of in Revelation
with seven 1. .ids ia:il t< 11 herns and seven
crowns drawing a third part of the stars
of heaven down alter him.
The lobbies <1 the legislatures of this
country control the country. The land is
drunk witli briliery, “Oh,” says some
pno, “there’s no med of talking against
bribery by promise or by dollars, liecnuse
overy man lias his price.'' 1 do not believe
it. Even heathenism and t lie dark ages
have furnished speeim msof incorruptibil
ity. A cadi of Smyrna had a ease brought
before him oii trial A man gave him 500
ducats in briliery The case earns on The
briber bed many witnesses The poor
man on the other side hud mi witnesses. 1
At the dose of the ca. c tin' c’ldi s:>id< |
“This poor man has no witnv.-ses, be |
thinks. 1 shall produce in his behalf s<’O !
witnesses neatest the other side. ’’ Th* 11
pullingout the ling of ducats Irani under
the ottoman he dashed it down at the feet
of tiie briber, - lying. "1 give my division
against you.” E| iminonda-s, ottered a
bribe, said, “1 will do this thing if it be
right, and if it bo wrong all your goods
cannot persuade me."
A j’uor Compliment.
The president of the American ;■» ygtwa
during the American Revolution, General
Reed, was offen d JO,GOO guineas l y for
eign commissioner- If lie would betray
this country. He tepliod, “Gentlemen, I
am a very poor man, hut tell your Ling he
is not rich enough to buy me." But why
go so far w hen you ami 1, if w» move in
honorable society, know men and women
who by all the forces of ear'll and hdl
could not be bribed. They would no more
be brilxd than you would think ol tempt
lug an angel of light to exchange heaven
for the pit To offer a bribe is villaii.y,
but it is a very poor compliment to tiie
man to whom it is offered.
1 have not mueb faith in those people
who go about Dragging how much they :
could get if they would only sell out. |
Those women who complain that they are 1
very often insulted need to understand 1
that there is something in their carriage !
to invite insult There are men at Al- |
liany and nt Harrisburg at Washing- '
ton who would no more be approached by .
a bribe than a pirate boat with a few cut- ;
lasse- would dare to attack 1 British man
of-war with two banks of guns on each I
side loaded to the touchholc. They are •
Incorruptible men, and they are the lew
men who are to save the city and save the
land
Meanwhile niy advice is keep out of ■
polities unless youare invulnerable tothia ;
style of temptation Indeed if even you i
are naturally strong you mxxl religious |
buttressing Nothing but the grace of i
God can sustain our publie men ami make ;
them what we wish 1 wish that there ;
might come an old fi*shie.na I revival of |
religion, that It might break out iu eon- i
gruss and the legl-'atuns and bring many '
of the leading Republicans and Democrats !
down on the anxiou- -er.t of repentance :
That day will ei.nie, or something better,
for the Bible ihxdares that kings ami ;
queens shall liecome nursing fathers and i
mothers to tiie church, ami if the greater
in authority then certainly the less.
A Moral Ilankrupt.
My charge also to parents is, reinoinlvsr !
that this evil of bribery often begins ini
the home circle and in the nursery. Doi
not bribe your ehildn n. Tv.wh them to I
do that which is right, and not Is cause of ‘
the 10 cents or the orange which you will
give them. There is a great difference iv ■
twtvn rewarding virtue and making the 1
profits thereof the impelling motive. That
man who is honest mervly because “hon- ■
esty i- the best policy” is already a moral .
bankrupt.
My charge Is to you in all departments
of life, steer clear of briliery, all of you. Ev- ■
ery man and woman at some time will be
tempted to do wrong fur vxmijiensation
The bribe may not be <Hi red in money.
It may be offered in social jiesition I>et
us remember that there is a day coming ,
when the most secret transaction of pri
vate life and of public life will come up
for public repreht nsion.
We cannot bribe death, we cannot bribe
sickness, we cannot bribe the grave, we
cannot bribe the judgments of that God
who thunders against this sin. “Fiel” I
said Cardinal Beaufort, “fie! Can’t death
be brliied? Is money nothing? Must I
die, so rich? If the owning of the
whole realm would save me, I could get it
by jxilicy or by purehaw—by money.”
No. death would not be bribed then. He
will nr tbe hrihtxi now Men of the world
often regret that they have to leave their
money here when they go away from the
world. You enn t.-11 from what they say
in their last hours that one of their chief
sorrow - Is that they have to have their
nr I bn-ak that d.-lusion. I tell that
brilw taker that he will take his money
with him. God will wrap it up in your
shroud, or put It in the palm of your hand
in n-*un<. ;ion. and there it will lie, not
the cool, bright, shining gold as it was on
the <lay when you -old your vote ami your
moral prim ij>le, but there it will lie, a
hot metal, t timing ami consuming your
hamt f : •. r Or. .1 tl.erc lx-enough of it
for a • ‘. .1; 'hen it will fail over thewrlst,
clanking the L iter.- of an eternal captiv
ity TI. bribe is an everlasting [x>sses
sion You take it for time, you take it for
eternity Some day in the next world,
w hen you an longing for sympathy, you
w ill feel on your cla ck a kiss Looking
up, you will find it to lx* Judas, who took
HO pieces of silver a- a l.rilx: ami finished
the bargain by purring an infamous kiss
on the pure check of his Divine Master.
Abuse of Trust Fun<ix.
Another wrong use of money is seen in
the abuse nt trust funds. Nearly every
man during the course of his life, on a
larger or smaller scale, has the property of
others committed to his keeping. lie Is
so far a safety deposit, he Is an adminis
trator and holds in his hand the interest
of the family of a deceased friend, or he
Is an attorney, ami through his custody
g<x>s the jiaymcnt from debtor to creditor,'
or he is the collector for a business house,
which comp'tisates him for the resjxjnsi
blllty, or he is treasurer for a charitable
institution, and he holds alms contributed
for the suffering, or he Is an official of the
city or the state or the nation, and taxes
and subsidies and salaries and supplies are
In his keeping.
It is as solemn a trust as God can make
it. It is concentered and multiplied con
fidences. On that man depends the sup
port of a IxTeft. household, or the morals
of dcj-endentH, or the right movement of a
thousand wheels of social mechanism. A
man may do what he will with his own,
but he who abuses trust funds in that one
act commits theft, falsehood, perjury and
becomes in all the intensity of the word a
miscreant. How many widows and or
phans there are with nothing ixitween them
and starvation but a sewing machine or
held up out of the vortex of destruction
simply by the thread of a needle, red with
their own heart’s blood, who a little while
ago had by father and husband left them
a competency! What is the matter? The
administrators ortho executors have sacri
ficed it—running risks with it that- they
would not have dared to encounter in their
own private affairs.
How often it is that a man will earn a
livelihood by the sweat of his brow and
then die, and within a few months all the
estate goes into the stock gambling rapids
of Wall street! How often it Is that you
have known the man to whom trust funds
were (x)inniitted taking them out of the
savings bank and from trust companies
and administrators, turning old home
steads into hard cash, and then putting the
entire estate into the vortex of specula
tion. Embezzlement is an easy word to
pronounce, but it has 10,000 ramifications.
There is not a city that has not suffered
from tiie abuse of trust funds. Where Is
the courthouse or the city hall or the jail
cr the postoilice or the hospital that in the
building of it has not had a political job?
Long before the new courthouse in New
York city was completed it cost over $12,-
000,000 Five million six hundred and
sixty-three thousand dollars for furniture!
For plastering and repairs, $2,370,000;
for plumbing and gas works, $1,231,517;
for awnings, $23.5.>3, the bills for three
months coming to the nice little sum of
$13,151,108.311. There was notan honest
brick 01 stone or lath or nail or loot ol
plumbing or inch of plastering or inkstand
or doorknob in the whole establishment
An Fverlastiiig Crop.
That bad example was followed in many
of lhe cities, which did m t steal quite so
much because there was not so much to
steal There ought to lie a closer inspec
tion, and thi ie o'i.i'ht. to be less opportu
nity for embezzlement. Lest a man shall
take a 5 cent piece that does not belong to
him, the conductor on the city horse car
must s 'rind his bell at every payment, and
we are very cautious about small offenses,
but give plenty of opportunities for sin
ners on a large scale to escape—for a boy
who steals a loaf of bread from a corner
grocer to keep his mother from starving to
death, a prison, but for defrauders who
abscond with §500,000, a castle on the
Rhine, or. waiting until the offense is for
gotten, a castle on the Hudson!
.Another remark needs to be made, and
that is that people ought not to go into
places, into business or into positions
where tiie temptation is mightier than
.•fieir character. If there be large sums of
money to be handled, and the man is not
sure of his own integrity, you have no
right to run an unseaworthy craft in a
hurricane. A man can tell by the sense of
Weakness or strength in the presence of a
bad opportunity whether he is in a safe
place. How many parents n ake an awful
mistake when they put. tlieir boys in bank
ing houses and stores and shops arid fac
tories and places of solemn trust without
once discussing whether they can enduro
the temptation! Aon give the boy plenty
of money and have no account of it and
make the way down become very easy
and you may put upon him a pressure
that he cannot stand. There are men wlw
go into positions full of temptation, con
sidering only that they are lucrative posi
tions.
An abbot wanted to buy a piece of
grqund, and the owner would not sell it,
but the owner finally consented to let it to
him until lie could raise one crop, and the
a* hot sowed acorns—a crop of 200 years!
And I till you, young man, that the dis
honesties whieii you plant in your heart
and life will st em to lx-very insignificant,
but they will grow up until they will
overshadow you with horrible darkness,
overshadow all time and all eternity. It
will not be a crop for 200 years, but a crop
for everlasting ages.
I address many who have trust funds.
It is a compliment to you that you have
been so intrusted, but I charge you in the
presence of God and the world be careful
—lie as careful of the property of others as '
you are careful of your own. Above all. )
keep your own private acctmnt at the i
bank separate from your account as trustee
of an estate or tiustee of an institute.
That is the point at which thousands of
people make shipwreck. They get the
property of ethers mixed up with their
own property, they put it into investment,
and away it *ill goes, and they cannot re- I
turn that which they liorrowed. Then
comes the explosion, and the money mar ;
ket is shaken, and the press denounces,
and th? church thumb is expulsion.
Make Open Confession.
You have no right to use the property of
others except for their advantage, nor
without consent, unless they are minors.
If with their <‘onsent you invest their prop
erty as well as you can. and it is all lost,
you arc not to blame You did the best you
could, but do not come into the delusion,
which has ruined so many men, of think
ing because a thing is in their possession,
therefore it is theirs. You have a solemn
trust that God has given you
In any community there may be some
who have nds;ippre>priatcd trust funds.
Put them back or. if you have so hopeless
ly involved them that you cannot put
them back, confess the whole thing to
those whom you have wronged, and you
will sleep better nights, and you will have
the better chance for your soul. What a
sad thing it would he if alter you are dead
your administrator should find out from
the account books, or from the lack of
vouchers, that you were not only bank
rupt tn estate, but that you lost youn-soul!
A blustering young man arrived at a
hotel in the west, and he saw a man on
the sidewalk whom he supposed to lx- a
laborer, and in a rough way. as no man has
a right to address a laborer, said to him, '
“Carry this trunk upstairs.” The man
carried the trunk up stairs and came
down, and then the young man gave him
a quarter of a dollar which w.is clipped,
and instead of being 25 cents it was worth
only 20 cents. Then the young man gave
his card to the laborer and said: “You take
this up to Governor Grimes. I want to
sec him.” “Ah,” said the laborer, “I am
Governor Grimes.” “Oh,” said the young
man, “you—l—excuse m§." Then_the
r governor said: “I was much impressed by
the letter you wrote me asking for a cer
tain office in my gift, and I had made up
‘ my mind you should have it, but a young
r man who will cheat a laborer out of e
' cents would swindle the government of
the state if be got his hands on it. 1 don't
' want you. Good morning, sir.”
r I do not suppose there was ever a better
t specimen of honesty than was found in
the Duke of Wellington. He marched with
’ his army ever the French frontier, and
I the army was suffering, and he scarcely
1 knew how to get along. Plenty of plun
-1 d. r all alxitt. but he commanded none of
r tin' plunder to lx- taken. He writes home
1 these remarkable words, “We are over
whelmed with debts, and I can scarcely
I stir out of riy house on account of public
creditors, waiting to demand what Is due
to them. ’ Yet at the very time-the French
Ixsasuntry were bringing their valuables te
him to ki-ep. A celebrati d writer says of
the transaction: “Nothing can be grander
1 or more nobly original than this admis
: sion. This old soldier, after 3o years’ serv
‘ ice, this iron man ami victorious general,
established in an enemy's country at the
head of an immense army, is afraid of his
I creditors! This is a kind of fear that has
Sehlem troubled conquerors and Invaders,
and I doubt if tins annuls of war present
1 anything comparable to its sublime sim
plicity. ”
Return to God.
Oh, is it not. high time that we preach
the morals of the gospel right beside the
i faith of the gospel? Mr. Froude, the cele
brated English historian, has written of
Disown country these remarkable words:
“From the great house in the city of Lon
don to the village grocer the commercial
life of England has been saturated with
fraud. So deep has it gone that a strictly
honest tradesman can hardly hold his
ground against competition. You can no
longer trust that any article you buy is
the thing which it pretends to be. We
have false weights, false measures, cheat
ing and shoddy everywhere. And yet the
clergy have seen all this grow up in abso
lute indifference Many hundreds of ser
mons have I heard in England on the di
vine mission of the clergy, on bishops and
on justification, and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacraments, but during all
these 3o wonderful years never one that I
can recollect on common honesty.”
Now, that may bean exaggerated state
ment, of things in England, but 1 am very
certain th. t in all parts of the earth we
need to preach the moralities of the gospel
right along beside the faith of the gospel.
My hearer, what are you doing with
that fraudulent document in your pocket?
My other hearer, how are you getting
along with that wicked scheme you have
now on foot? Is that a “pool ticket” you
have in your pocket? Why, O young man,,
were you last night practicing in copying
your employer’s signature? Where were
you last night? Are your habits as good
as when you left your father’s house? You
had a Christian ancestry perhaps, and you
have had too many prayers spent on you
to go overboard. Dr. Livingstone, the
famous explorer, was descended from the
highlanders, and ho said that one of his
ancestors, one of the highlanders, one day
called his family around him. The high
lander was dying. He had his children
around his deathbed. He said: “Now, my
Luis, 1 have looked all through our history
as far back as 1 can find it, and I have
never found a dishonest man in all the
line, and I want you to understand you
inherit good blood. You have no excuse
for doing wrong. My lads, be honest.”
Ah, my friends, be honest before God,
be holiest before your fellow men, be hon
est before your soul. If there be those
who have wandered away, come back,
come home, come now, one and all, come
into the kingdom of God.
Warning Signal.
I am glad some one has set to music
that scene in August, 1881, when a young
girl saved from death a whole rail train
if passengers. Some of you remembei
that out west in that year on a stormy
night a huirictne blew down part of £
railroad bridge A freight train came
along, and it crashed into the ruin, and
the engineer and conductor perished.
There was a girl living in her father’s
cabin, near the disaster, and she heard the
crash of the freight train, and she knew
that in a few moments an express was
due. She lighted a lantern and clambered
up on the one beam of rhe wrecked bridge
on to the main bridge, which was trestle
work, and started to cross amid the thunder
and the lightning of the tempest and the
raging of the torrent beneath'. One mis
step and it would have been death. Amid
all that horror the lantern went out.
Crawling sometimes, and sometimes walk
ing over the slippery rails and over the
trestlework, she came to the other side of
the river. She wanted to get to the tele
graph station where the express train did
not stop, so that the danger might be tele
graphed to the station where the train did
stop. Tl o t rain was due in a few minutes.
She was one mile off from the telegraph
station, but fortunately the train was late.
With cut ami bruised feet she flew like the
wind. Coming up to the telegraph sta
tion, panting with almost deadly exhaus
; tioii, she had only strength to shout, “The
bridge is down!” when she dropped un
-1 onscious and could harldy be resuscitat
ed 3he message was sent from that sta
tion to the next station, and the train
halted, and that night that brave girl
saved the lives of hundreds of passengers
and saved many homes from desolation.
But every street is a track, and every
style of business is a track, and every day
is a track, and every night is a track, and
multitudes under the power of temptation
come sweeping on and sweeping down to
ward perils raging and terrific. God help
us to go out and stop the train! Let us
throw some signal. Let us give some
warning. By the throne of God let us
flash some influence to stop the downward
progress. Bewares! Beware! The bridge
is down, the chasm is deep, and the light
nings of God set all the night of sin on fire
with this warning: “He that, being often
reproved, hardeneth his neck shall sud
denly be destroyed, and that without rem
edy.”
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Grand Encampment, Indianapolis, Ind., Au
gust 22-29, 1868.
Account of the above occasion the South
ern Railway Company will sell round trip
tickets to Indianapolis at one fare. Half
rate tickets on sale August 19th, 20th and
21 = t with final limit August 31st. By de
positing tickets with agent at Indianapolis
on or before August 29th and payment of
fee of 25 cents, an extension of the final
limit can be obtained to leave Indianapolis
.on September 10th. The quickest and the
liest rout' is to leave Macon via Soutkerei
Railway at 2:05 a. m., arriving Chatta
nooga 8:40, taking Q. and C. route, arriv
ing at Indianapolis 11 p. m. same day. po r
• further information apply to
Green R. Pettit, Depot Ticket Agt.
C. S. White. T. P. A.
Burr Brown, C. T. A.
Subscribers must pay up and not allow
small balances to run over from week to
j week. The carriers have been la atructed
I » „„ yjaj-t vaymant from anyaas
after ▲jrfl M.
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8 1898.
TAX RETURNS
SHOW DECREASE
Change in the Value of Real
Estate is Responsible for
Falling Off.
RETURNS SLOW COMING IN.
Tax Receiver Says that It Was More
Difficult this Year Than Ever
Before to Get Them Correct.
Tax Receiver Anderson completed his re
turns for this year late on Saturday even
ing. He finds that Bibb county shows a
decreas of $329,714. It was to oe ex
pected that the county returns would show
a decrease, and as the county real estate
I has certainly fallen in value the reduction
j in the total returns for the county are
: looked upon as surprisingly small. As
i was expected, the main difference is shown
in the real estate. The city and the coun
ty both contribute their share. The tax
receiver says that this has been an unu
sually hard year in the way of securing
the returns. This statement is borne out
by a comparison of the figures as between
this year and Ixst. The returns of per
sonal property are lamentably short. It is
further shown by the returns that the peo
ple of greater wealth in the communtiy
have failed to make as fair returns as
those who have smaller possessions. This
same complaint was made by the city tax
assessors.
The following figures show a complete
summary of the returns:
Number of polls, white 5,170
Number of polls, colored 4,438
Total 9,608
Number of lawyers 81
Number of doctors, white 52
Number of doctors, coler&d 1
Total 53
iNpmber of dentists 10
Number of presidents of banks 6
Number of superintendents of railroads 1
Number of acres of land, white... .156,845%
Number of acres of land, colored 4,353
Total 161,198%
Value of land outside city,
white $2,194,249
Value of land outside city,
colored 16,600
Total $6,782,635
Value or shares of banks $1,884,750
Surplus in banks 56,000
Building and loan association stock
of non-borrowers 69,000
Capital invested in shipping and
tonnage....: 2,005
Stocks and bonds 1,095,100
Amount of money and solvent
debts of all kinds, white 541,985
Amount of money and solvent
, debts of all kinds, colored.. 790
Total $ 542,725
Value of merchandise of every
kind, white $974,740
Value of merchandiae of every
kind, colored 7,045
Total $981,785
Bicycles owned by individuals $ 1,254
Woolen ami cotton manufactories. $553,500
Iron works and foundries 47,500
Household and kitchen furntiure,
white 55,165
Household and kitchen furntiure,
colored 27,530
Total $584,715
Watches, jewelry and silverware
white $ 62,100
Watches, jewelry and silverware
colored 155
Total $62,360
Live stock, whites $152,400
Live stock, colored 22,845
Total $175,245
Plantation and mechanical tools
white $ 79,130
Plantation and mechanical tools
colored 2,180
Total $ 79,130
Cotton, corn and crops held for
sale, whites $ 2,625
Value of other property not other-
wise enumerated $ 67,365
Value of property not otherwise
enumerated, colored 545
Total $ 67,910
Wild land, white $ 600
These figures compared with last year
show the following:
LAST YEAR.
Number of acres of land 157,661%
Value of land $3,137,265
Value of city property 6,975,273
Value of bank shares 1,236,250
Surplus in banks 73,000
Building and loan associations, un-
borrowed stock 92,065
Slocks and bonds 1,202,850
Amount of money, notes and ac-
counts 512,510
Merchandise 973,451
Cotton manufacturers 566,000
Iron works 44,500
Household and kitchen furniture. 570,215
Watches, jewelry and silverware. 65,168
Live stock 178,803
Plantation tools. 73,311
'Farm products for sale 2,110
Property not otherwise enumer-
ated 74,215
Totallß97 15,777,078
Total 1897 15,777,078
Decrease 329,714
AN ENTERPRISING DRUGGIST.
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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
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Consumption. Coughs and Colds. This is
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Call at at>ove drug store, and get a trial
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About one month ago my child, which is
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for a physician and it was under his care
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1s prepared only for Piles and itching of
the private parts and nothing else. Every
box is warranted. Sold by druggists or
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' *' '•' ' * THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YOHK C V.
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THIRD GEORGIA
IS NEARLY FULL
Onlv Three Hundred More
Men are Wanted to Com
plete the Muster.
One thousand and six men have been
mustered into the service at Camp Northen
and recruits are coming in rapidly. Three
companies have been mustered in and the
officers have received their commissions.
Captain Bob Hodges was in camp yester
day looking after his company. He has
forty-four men and ten of his men are out
recruiting. Recruits for his company
come in every day.
Major Spence was in charge of the regi
ment yesterday, as Colonel Candler and
Lieutenant Colonel Berner were absent
from camp. The dress parade yesterday
afternoon was very pretty. The band of
twenty-five pieces, which is from Griffin,
has enlisted In the regiment and they give
two concerts daily.
The new flag came in a few days ago.
It is raised every day at reville and lower
ed at retreat.
Guns and other accoutrements have been
sent out to every company having over
fifty men and the non-commissioned of
ficers are putting the men through tfce
manual of arms.
There is one thing about the Gamp which
could easily be remedied and that is in
the way passes are issued to the men. In
stead of giving each man a separate pass
the names of all those from each company
who wish to go out are placed on one pass
and it must be registered at the guard
house. 'Each man must check off his name
and it causes the greatest confusion. The
men are sometimes kept on the guard line
until 11 o’clock at night waiting to get
into camp.
The colonel gave orders to the captains
not to give too many passes as the men
tore up several fences and took up a front
porch with which to build tent floors a few
nights ago.
No one is sick in the Griffin hospital and
the sanitary condition of the camp 's ex
cellent.
Only 360 more men are needed to com
plete the regiment and the officers say that
these men will be secured in a few days.
The soldiers at Camp Northen are under
splendid discipline and very few men are
confined in the guard house. Each com
pany has enlisted a company cook and the
men are relieved from the laborious job of
cleaning pots.
The guard lines have been strengthened
in the last few days, as many of the men
have been slipping the lines.
The regiment so far is in fine shape and
as soon as the full quota is secured it will
be in as good condition as either of the
other Georgia regiments.
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guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25c per box. For
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A CUBAN SHOWER,
Something Tbout the Nature of the Rains
at this Season.
A Cuban shower in all its might is a
thing that one who is not used to will
never forget, says a correspondent in the
Cincinnati Post. The downpour of rain is
something that no one can appreciate un
less he is there to be in it. The rain falls
in spots, and when it does come down it
does not come in drops, but in solid sheets
that are driven through the clothing and
into the skin. A person may cross a ridge
of the high mountains that lead to San
tiago and run into two or three of these
rains.
A bright sunshine will suddenly give
way to a dark cloud, a clap of thunder will
follow and without any further ceremony
the rain will begin to come down, It does
not waste any time in preliminaries, but
begins with an advance sheet that becomes
heavier until it is a driving wall of water
that will last for from one-half to a whole
hour. This kind of rain plays havoc with
the soldiers, and wets them in their tents
and makes their beds wet and soggv. On
the afternoon before the big battle of Fri
day, July 1, the rain fell with such force
that Captain Parker, of the machine-gun
battery, ordered his men to strip their
clothing and roll It in their rubber blank
ets. They then stood in the pelting rain
and had a natural showc-re bath, the only
discomfort being the extreme force of the
water as it struck their naked backs.
These rains impeded the progress of the
army, and caused many exasperating de
lays. Not a day passed during the whole
Santiago campaign but what some luck
less camp was flooded out.
CASTOFLIA.
Bears the K |n(l 0U ave Wwa l s
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on the priaes which are to be given away
by The News can obtain them on Wednes
day Thursday of Friday of each week by
calling or sending to the office of the sub
scription department. Office hours 8:30
a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Remember that sub
scription must be paid when due to secure
tickets. G. W. TIDWELL,
"Manager City Circulation.
Don’t Lose sight
, or trie Fact....
That we do the highest class Bind-
ery work at prices that will com
pete with any establistment in the
coun try.
Is a home enterprise that doesn’t,
depend upon patriotism for pat
ronage. If it can't give you the
right sort of work at the right
price, go elsewhere.
But we do think it, or any other
home enterprise, is entitled to a
showing—a chance to bidon your
work.
We have added to our plant a
Well EijniDDea
BlQflßiy
And oan now turn out anysort of
book from a 3,000 page ledger to a
pocket memorandum; or ftom the
handsomest library volume to a
paper back pamphlet.
ReDinfling
i Is a feature to which we give spe
cial attention. Old books, maga-
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ing turned out in beet style for
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Skilled mor in charge. Modern
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. |'MACON AND NEW YORK SHORT LINE
■ Via Georgia Railroad and Atlantic Coast
Line. Through Pullman cars between
Macon and New York, effective August
4th, 1898.
Lv Macon. . 900 am: F 20“pm' ~7 40 pm
Lv Mill’gev le;10 10 am 5 24 pm; 9 24 pm
Lv Sparta.... 10 51 am, 6 03 pm 10 31 pm
Lv Camak.... ill 40 arn 6 47 pm. 10 31 pm
Ar Aug’taC.T. 1 20 pmi 8 25 prr. J 15 pm
Lv Aug’taE.T. 2 30 pm
Ar Florence.. 8 15 pm
Lv Fayettev’leJO 15 pm
Ar 'Petersburg 3 14 ami
Ar Richmond. 4 00 am,
Ar Wash’ton.. 7 41 am
Ar Baltimore.! 9 05 am|
Ar Phila’phia. 11 25 ami
Ar New York 2 03 pm|
Ar N Y, W 23d st| 2 15 pm' I
Trains arrive from Augusta and points
on main line 6:45 a. m. and 11:15 a. m.
From Camak and way stations 5:30 p. m.
A. G. JACKSON,
General Passenger Agen .
JOE W. WHITE, T. P. A.
W. W. HARDWICK, S. A., 454 Ch- :y St
Macon, Ga.
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HOT SPRINGS, North Carolina. "
i Mountain P&rk Hotel and fJMhe- Hofei Ld ws in Every D*x>artnuMit— T<bl«
«.ad Service Unexcelled.
Swimming ]>oo4, Bowling, Tennis. Golf. Pool and Billiards. Photographer's dark
room. Riding. Driving, Tennis. Large Ball Room and Auditorium. Special reduced
summer rates.
BEARDEN'S Orobeetra. T. D. Green. Manager.
POPULAR SUMMER RESORT. ’
<,a._ i S now one the most popular summer resorts In the South—
c delightful, scenery superb, beautiful drives, good livery. Hotel Dalton la
rs° rt ?ecktr and the commercial traveler. Elegantly built, electric
f nifiuw m' 1 ’ Mil cold Uitbe on eveuy floor Special rates to
formation given BumnM * £n * u lowof Florida. Further in
-11. L. BETTOR. Proprietor
Newport of the South.
SEASON OF 1898.
Hotel St. Simon
St. Simons Island, Georgia.
Newly equipped. Rates SIO.OO per week. Sea bath
ing. Pishing, Boating, Lawn Tennis, Driving, Dancing,
Billiards and Pool. Two gernians weekly. 25 mile bicycle
path. Excellent orchestra. Hotel lighted by electricity.
Table the best.
W. B. ISAACS, Lessee.
Keep 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 ami the Great Lakes constantly growing in popularity.
Everybody will be there this summer. For information inquire
of your nearest ticket agent.
D. G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, O.
irtTfig
TO GO
To the mountains.
Warm Springs, Ga.
CJ
In Hie mountains,
Where the weather is deltghtfuHy cod and j
the condl’Jotiß arc all heelthful.
The Warm Spring:! water 1b the beet and
most pleasant cure for dyspepsia, taeom
n!u. rheumaXlsm and general debility
l-Jotel eyeorr.nwFjetions and .service finst -
class. Katee moderate.
Easily reached by the Macon and Bir
mingham railroad.
For further Information write to
cups. L. BRVIS, Proprietor. !
Horn MftßiriNi
nuiiL iviHniuiii
And Cottages.
Tallulah Falls, Ga.
Open for the stsiwxi. Boarti £rcm >l6 to
S3O per month, accoedtng to room. Ely
hundred feet of Schade piezzaft in center of j
finest scenery at Taihilah.
CWnurto unsurpassed. Hight elevaxton. ■
All modem Improvements. Table eacel- i
lent.
MRS. B. A. YOUNG, Propriotreaß,
TaUalah Falla, Ga.
Glenn Springs
Hotel,
Glenn Springs, S. C.
Queen o/ Southern Summer
Resorts.
There is but one Glenn Springe and «
ban no equal on the oonrincot for the atom
aoh, liver, kldroye, bowels and blood.
Hotel op«:«i from June let to October Ist.
Cuisine and Service esctOent. Water
shipped t3ie year couod.
& SIMPSON,
MenKMfewi
Bedford Alum, Iron and iodine
Springs of Virginia.
From whose water 'be celebrated "Maas”
so extensively Uactwn and used, fit manu
faeteurod. Opens Juue It, and te the most
hom<‘-Yli"- place in Vlr-gliiie. for recuper
ating.
A modern writer ot the nr neral waters
ot Europe and America says: ‘ Bedford
Springs water cures wbon Ml other reme
dies have failed, and especially in derange
ments peculiar to females.”
Long dlrieace Wephone connections,
send for a 50-pege interesting pbamplet of
proofs. V. O. Bedford Sprlrigs. Va.
J. n. MABKN, .Hi., Proprietor.
HmrSrETl
B Broadway and 29th Hr., New York, B ;
Amefkaa A HJnropean plari Wil- g |
jg B&m F. Bang, proprletryr. Brtted- 3 I
IS way ettbie cats jwaeinx Ebe •kroi ■
® tranater to all par« of the city. ■
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THE KEHSIHGTON, |l
•« J7** and cotte->-a.
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I H. A. *W. 7 BANG Proprietors, B;
g --,v . S'.iitevect House*.
Ocean View House.
St. Simon’s Island Beach, Ga
Fine suit bathing, good Table, artesian
»»<«. A. T. ARNOLD,
Proprietor.
I For Business Men <1
In the heart of the waoieeaie dis < k
trtet. < ►
For Shoppers ;►
3 minutes walk to Wanatnakers; < ►
j. 8 minutes walk to Sk>gel-U<Kt{tera %
Jt Big Store. Eatty of aceeea to the <.
> greet Dry Goods Stores. <,
> For Sightseers
! block from giving <
t < easy transportation to all points 1
l Id fcl
I New York. ;>
Cor. Hth Ft. and University | k
Ptace. Only one block from ‘
Broadway. <,
ROOMS, $1 f»P. RESTAURANT, < ►
Prices ileaaonatole. * k
j MAOON AND BFICMiiNCIkAM R. R. CO.
MoiHrthtn Ronto.)
Effective dime 5. 18i»8.
‘ 4 20 pml.Lv Maicon ArflO 86 am
4 20 pm|'Lv Srtfhee Lr!10 14 am
540 pmjLv . ..CoModeD....
5 Iff pmtLv ...Yatoevttle... Lrj H f>7 tun
627 pmiLv .. .Ttarmaaton... Lv| 82k am
•■■ Woodbtuy.. , Lvi 7 48 tan
SriU’IHERN HAADWA Vl '
7 25 puUAr. Warm Lvi 7 29 am
CO3 i?m«Ar ... .Oolumftnra... Lvj 600 am
8 07 pm*Axs Grffflo Lv| 6 50 am
9 46 pm|Ar „ ... Attanta.. „ ._Dyj 520 am
Souther matijway.'
4 20 am-Lv .... (Atlanta .... Ari 9 40 am
j 6 03 pm;7jv Grinin lyy, S 62 am
i 625 prnJLv ... .Coiumibns.... lyvj »c oam
| 6 49 pmfDv .Warm Springe. Vv| 806 am
707 ptnfLv . .. WotxMmry.... At. 7 48 am
j 7 fffntAr . .Harris City.. Lzv! 728 ua
OUNTHA'I. OF GEORGIA? ~
74? j prniAr .. .Grot® vtUe... Isv 7N) am
5 20 pmJLv ....Columtnw.... Ar 9 40 cm
7 2? p®n*Lv . .Harrie City.. Ar] 7 28 *m
820 pmgAr . LaGrange.... tbv] 635 ttm
Close connection at Maxxm and Sofkee
, with tbe Georgia Southern and Florida
Central of Georgia for Savannah, Albany,
Southwest Georgta points and Montgom
ery, Ala., at Yatesville for Roberta and
points on the Atlanta arid Florida di
vision of theSouthere railway, ®t Harris
City City wdtb Central of Gtorgla railwoy,
for Green rille and Ccdumbua, at Wood
bury with Southern railway for Cotam
ous and Griffin, at I>a.GrM»ge with Gia
Atlanta and West Point railway.
JULIAN «. LANE.
x Central Manager,
’ Mweon, Go.
R. G. STONE. jl
Gen. Pasp. Agt.
PULLMAN CAR LINE
Otccinnatl, Indtanapolta, or
Louisville and Chicago and
THE NORTHWEST.
Pulmaa Buffet Sleepers on night trains.
Pwlor chairs and dining cars on day
traine. The Monon trains make the faM
eet time I>etween the Southwinter re
sorts and the sumtm.-r resorts of the
Northwest.
W. H. V. F. A G. U.
FILVNK J. RKED, G. P. A ,
Chicago, Hi.
For further parrtcuiars adlrvss
R. W. GLaJAMG, Gen. .V’t-
Tbomasvjjie. Ga.
ro W i« » n poMoman*
renkwiy f<>.- Uoaorrlae*,
Bc>*rmatorrh<ra,
ln 1 •'WMvon r>»t eril dte-
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i jpEaiff wm eretore. tion, irritation or uicorn
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hy for
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New Steam
DYE WORKS,
F. H. JOHNSON. Prop’r.
25c Second Street, M \cok, Ga.
I
Ladies’ dresses nicely- cleaned
i and pressed. Also Gents’ Linea
I Suits.
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