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ORIGIN OF MANKIND.
DR. TALMAGE PINS HIS FAITH TO THE
DIVINE ACCOUNT.
Evolntion Io Infidelity Attempt to O»l-
VRnire nn Old IfeAtlien Doctrine Into
Life—Scientific Almardities to Drive Out
God and the Bible.
JCopyright, IR9B, by American Press Asso
ciation.!
Washington, Aug. 21.—The question of
human origin, ho prominent now in scien
tific and religion- circles, Is discussed in
characteristic style by Dr. Talmage in this
discourse, in which he also advocates the
theory that all the world's progress has
coino through Christianity; text, I Tim
othy vi, 20, “O Timothy, kc< p that which
U committed to thy trust, avoiding oppo
sltlonH of science falsely, ho called!”
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of prophet wrote on
parchment, by the hand of the storm wrote
on the r<x:k. The Isst tehwcoixts and mi
croscope* and electric batteries ami philo
sophical apparatus Ixdorig to Christian
universities. Who gave uh magnetic teleg
raphy? Professor Morse, a Christian.
Who swung the lightnings under the sen,
cabling the continents together? Cyrus
W. Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the aninsthetical pro)>ertics of chloroform,
doing more for the relief of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving
back nine-tenths of the horrors of surgery?
James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, as emi
nent for piety as for science, on weekdays
in the university lecturing on profoundest
Scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preach
ing the gosjxdof Jesus Christ to the masses
of Edinburgh. I saw the universities of
that city drajxd in mourning for his death,
and I heard his eulogy pronounced, by the
destitute jiopulationsof theCowgato. Sci
ence and revelation are the bass and so
prano of the same tune. The whole world
will yet acknowledge the complete har
inony, but Isitwecn what my text descrilies
as science, falsely so called, and revelation
there is an uncompromising war, and one
or the other must go under.
At the present time the air is filled with
social and platform and pulpit talk about
evolution, and it is high time that the
people who have not time to make inves
tigation for themselves understand that
evolution, in the first place, is up and
down, out and out infidelity; in the sec
ond place, It is cont rary to the facts of sci
ence ami, in the third place, that it is
brutalizing In its tendencies. I do not
argue t hat this is a genuine book, I do not
say that the Bible is wort hy of any kind of
credence—those are subjects for other
Sabbaths— but I want you to understand
that Thomas Paine and Hume and Vol
taire no more thoroughly disbelieved the
Holy Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe in evolution. And
when 1 say scientists of course I do not
mean literary men or theologians who in
essay or in sermon and without giving
their life to scientific investigation look at
the subject, on this side or that. By scien
tists I mean those who have a specialty in
that direction and who through zoological
garden and aquarium and astronomical
observatory give their life to the study of
the physical earth, its plants and its ani
mals and the regions beyond so far as op
tical instruments have explored them.
1 put upon the witness stand living and
dead the leading evolutionists —Ernst
Heckel, John Stout Mill, Huxley, Tyn
dall, Darwin, Spencer On the witness
stand, ye men of science, living and dead,
answer these questions: Do you believe
the Holy Scriptures? No. Ami so they say
all. Do you believe the Bible story of
Adam and Evo in the garden of Eden?
No. And so they say all. Do you believe
the miracles of the Old and New Testa
nient.s? No. Ami s<> they say all. Do you
believe that, Jesus < 'liri.T died to save the
nations? No. And so they say all. Do
you believe in the regoi.er.it ing power of
the Holy Ghost? No. t id so they say all.
Do you I>ellose that human supplication
<llre< ted licaii nward ever makes any dif
ference? No And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only address ho
made in this country, in his very first sen
tence ascribes his physical ailments to fide,
and the authorized report of t hat address
begins t he word fate with a big“ F.” Pro
fessor Heckel, in the very first page of Ids
two great volumes, sneers at the Bible as a
ho called revelation. Tyndall in Ids fa
mous prayer test, defied t he whole of Chris
tendom to show that, human supplication
jnadouny difference in the result.of things.
John Stuart Mill wrote < laborately against
Christianity, and to show that his rejec
tion of it. was complete ordered this epi
tnph for his tombstone, “Most Unhappy.”
Huxley said that at. the first reading of
Darwin’s book he was convinced of the
fact that, teleology had rcceiveil its death
blow at the hand of Mr. Darwin. All the
leading scientists who believe in evolu
tion, without one exception the world
over, tiro infidel. I say nothing against
Infidelity, mind you. I only w ish to de
fine the belief and the moaning of the re
jection
Evolution Is Infidelity.
Now, T put opposite to each other, to
ahow that evolution is infidelity, the Bible
account of how the human race slink’.l
nml the evolutionist account of how the
human race started. Bible account: “God
«t.'iid lot us make man in our image. God
created man in his own image, mail' and
female created ho them.” Ho breathed
Info him t he breath of life, the whole story
sotting forth the idea that it was not a
perfect kangaroo or a perfect orang ou
tang, but a perfect man. That is the Bible
account. The evolutionist account: Away
back in the ages there were four or five
primal germs or seminal spores from
which all the living creatures have been
cvolvixl. Go away liaek, ami there you
will find a vegetable stuff that, might be
calk'd a mushroom. This mushioom by
innatt force develops a tad]*ole, the tad
pole by innate foiee develops apellivog,
the polliwog develops a fish, the fish by
natural force develops into a reptile, the
reptile develops into a quadruped, the
quadruped develops into a baboon, the ba
boon develops into a man.
Darwin says that the human hand is
only a fish’s fin developed. He says that
the human lungs are only a swim bladder,
showing that iu> once floated or w< re am
phibious. Lio says the human ear could
once have boon moved by force of will just
as a horse lifts itsear at a frightful object
He says the human race were originally
webfooted. Freni primal germ to tadpole,
from tadjwle to fish. from fish to reptile,
from reptile to wolf, from wolf to chim
panzee and from chimpanzee to man.
Now, if anybody says that the Bible ac
count of the starting of the human race
and the evolutionist account of the start
Ing of the human race are the same ac
counts, he makes an appalling misrepre
sentation.
Prefer, if you will, Darwin’s‘’Origin of
the Species” to the lunik of Genesis, but
know you are an infidel. As for myself,
as Herbert Spencer was not present at the
creation and the L>rd Almighty was pres
ent, 1 prefer to take the divine account as
to what really occurred on that occasion.
To show that this evolution is only an at
tempt to eject God and to postpone him,
and to put him clear out of reach I ask a
question or two. The liuboon made the
man, and the wolf made the baboon, and
the reptile made the quadruped, and the
fish made the reptile, and thetadjude made
the fish, and the primal germ made the
tadpole. Who made the primal germ?
Most of the evolutionists say, “We don't
know.” Others say it made itself. Others
say it was spontaneous generation. There
is not one of them who will fairly and
openly and frankly and emphatically say.
"God made it.”
The nearest to a direct answer is that
made by Herbert Sp< ncer in which he says
it was made by the great “unknowable
mystery.” But here comes Huxley with
a cup of protoplasm to explain the thing.
This protoplasm, he says, is primal life giv
ing quality with which the race away luu k
in the ages was started. With his proto
plasm ho proposes to explain everything.
Dear Mr. Huxley, who made the proto
plasm?
To show you that evolution is infidel 1
place the Bible account of how the brute
creation was started opposite to the evolu
tionist’s account .of the way the brute
creation was started. Bible account: You
know the Bible tolls how that the birds
were made at one time, and the cattle
made at ’another time, and the fish
brought, forth alter Its ’kinil. - Evolution
ist's account: From four or five primal
germs or seminal spores all the living
creatures evolved. Hundreds of thousands
of species of insects, of reptiles, of tx-asts,
of fish, from four germs— u statement flat
ly contradicting not only the Bible, but
the very A BC of science. A species nev
er develops into anything but its own spe
cies. Tn all the ages and in all the world
there has never been an exception to it.
The shark never comes of a whale, nor the
pigeon of a vulture, nor the butterfly of a
wasp. Species never cross over. If there
bo an attempt at it, it is hybrid, and the
hybrid is always sterile and has no de
scendanta.
These men of science tell us that 100,000
species came from four when the law all
through the universe is that, starting in
one six-eies, it keeps on in that species,
and there would be only four now if there
had been four at starting. If I should say
to you that the world is flat, and that a
circle and a square arc the same, and that
twice two make 15, I would come just as
near the truth as when these evolutionists
tell you that 100,000 sixties came from
four. Evolution would have been left out
of question with its theory flatly contra
dicting all observation and all science had
not its authors and their disciples been so
set on ejecting God from the universe and
destroying the Bible that they will go to
any length, though it lead them into
idiotic absurdity. You see what the Bible
teaches In regard to it. I have shown you
also what evolution teaches in regard to it.
Agassiz says that he found in a reef of
Florida the remains of insects 30,000 years
old—not 3,000 but 30,000 years old—and
that they wore just like the Insects now.
There has been no change. All the facts of
ornithology and zoology and ichthyology
anil conchology but an echo of Genesis
first and t wenty-first, “Every wingedfowl
after his kind.” Every creature after its
kind. When common observation and sci
ence corroborate the Bible, 1 will not stul
tify myself by surrendering to the elabor
ated guesses of evolutionists.
To show that evolution is infidel I place
also the Bible account of how worlds were
made opposite the evolutionist’s account
of how worlds were made. Bible account:
God made two great lights—the one to
rule the day, the other to rule the night;
he made the stars also. Evolutionist ac
count: Away back in the ages there was
a fire mist or star dust, and this fire mist
cooled off Into granite, and then this gran
ite by earthquake and by storm and by
light was shaped into mountains and val
leys and seas, and so what was originally
fire mist became what we call the earth.
Tlie First Cause.
Who made the fire mist? Who set the
fire mist to worldmaking? Who cooled off
the fire mist, into granite? You have
pushed God some 60,000,000 or 70,000,000
miles from the earth, lint he is too near
yet for the health of evolution. For a
great while the evolutionists boasted that
they had found the very stuff outof which
this world and all worlds were made.
They lifted the telescope and they saw it,
the very material out of which worlds
made themselves. Nebula of simple gas.
They laughed in triumph because they
had found the factory where the worlds
were manufactured, and there was no God
anywhere around the factory. But in an
unlucky hour for infidel evolutionists tho
spectroscopes of Fraunhofer and Kirchoff
were invented, by which they saw into
that nebula and found it was not a simple
gas, but was a compound, and hence had
to lie supplied from some other source, and
that implied a God, and away went their
theory, shattered into everlasting demoli
tion.
So these infidel evolutionists go wander
ing up and down guessing through the
universe. Anything to push away back
Jehovah from his empire and make tho
one book which is his great communica
tion to the soul of the human race appear
obsolete and delusive. But lam glad to
know that while some of these scientists
have gone into evolution there are many
that do not believe it, among them the
man who by most is considered the great
est scientist we ever had this side of the
water—Agassiz, a name that makes every
intelligent, man the earth over uncover.
Agassiz says: “Tho manner in which
the evolution theory in zoology is treated
would lead t hose who are not special zoolo
gists to suppose that observations have
been made by which it can be inferred
that there is in nature such a thing as
change among organized beings actually
taking place. There is no such thing on
record. It is shifting the ground of ob
servation from one field of observation to
another to make this statement, and when
the assertions go so far as to exclude from
the domain of science those who will not
be dragged into this mire of mere assertion
then it is time to protest.”
With equal vehemence against the doc
trine of evolution Hugh Miller, Farraday,
Brewster, Dana, Dawson and hundreds of
scientists in this country and other coun
tries have made protest. I know that the
few men who have adopted the theory
make more noise than tho thousands who
have rejected it. Tho Bothnia of the
Canard lino took 500 passengers safely
from Now York to Diverpool. Not one of
the 500 made any excitement. But after
wo had been lour days out, one morning,
we found on deck a man’s hat and coat
and vest and boots, implying that some
one had jumped overboard. Forthwith
we all began to talk about that one man.
There was more talk about that one man
overboard than all tho 500 passengers that
rode on in safety. “Why did he jump
overboard?” “I wonder when he jumped
overboard?” “I wonder if when he jumped
overboard he would liked to have jumped
back again?” “I wonder if a fish caught
him or whether be wont clear down to the
bottom of tho sea?” And for threeor four
days afterward we talked about that poor
man.
Here is the glorious and magnificent
theory that God by his omnipotent power
made man and by his omnipotent power
made the brute creation and by his om
nipotent power made all worlds, and 500
scientists have taken passage on board
that magnificent theory, but 10 or 15 have
jumpwl overboard. They make more talk
than all the 500 that did not jump. lam
politely asked to jump with them. Thank
you, gentlemen, 1 am very much obliged
to you! I think I shall stick to the old
Cunarder. If you want to jump over
board, jump and test for yourselves wheth
er your hand was really a jish’s fin and
whether you were webfooted originally
and whether your lungs are a swim blad
der, and, as in every experiment there
must be a division of labor, some who ex
ix'riment and some who observe, you make
the exix'riment, and I will observe!
There is one tonet of evolution which it
is demanded we adopt—that which Darwin
calls “natuuil selection” and that which
Wallace calls the “survival of the fittest.”
By this they mean that the human race
and the brute creation are all tho time im
proving because the weak die and the
strong live. Those who do not die survive
because they are the fittest. They say the
breed of sheep and cattle and dogs and
men is all the time improving, naturally
Improving. No need of God or any Bible
or any religion, but just natural progress.
Not the Survival of the Fittest.
You see, tho race started with “spon
taneous generation.” and then it goes
right on until Darwin can Like us up with
his “natural selection” and Wallace with
his “survival of the fittest,” and so we go
right on up forever. Beautiful! But do
the fittest, surv Ive? Garfield dead in Sep
temlxT; Guiteau surviving until the fol
lowing June. “Survival of the fittest?”
Ah. no! The martyrs, religious and po
litical, dying for their principles, their
bloody persecutors living on to old age.
“Survival of tho fittest?” Five hundred
thousand brave northern men marching
out to meet 500,000 brave southern men
and die on the liattletield for a principle!
Hundreds of thousands of them went
down into the grave trenches. We staid
at home in comfortable quarters. Did
they die Ix-eause they were not a- fit to
live as we who survived Ah. no. not the
“survival of the fiitc.-t!” Ellsworth ard
Nathaniel Lyon falling on the northern
sid . Allx'rt Sidney Johnston and Stone
wall Jackson falling on the southern side.
Did they fall bii ause they were m t as fit
to live as the soldiers and the generals who
came back in safety? No! Bitten with
the frosts of the second death be the tongue
that dares utter it! It is not the “sur
vival of the fittest.”
How has it been in the families of the
world? How was it with the child phys
ically the strongest, intellectual Iv the
thm cKTId ilie liecauke It waaTnot ~SS Ct to
live as those of your family that survived?
Not “the survival of the fittest.” In all
communities some of the noblest, grand
est men dying in youth or in midlife,
while some of the meanest and most con
temptible live on to old age. Not “the
survival of the fittest.”
But to show you that this doctrine is
antagonistic to the Bible and to common
sense I have only to prove to you that
then* has been no natural progress. Vast
improvement from another source, but
mind you, no natural progress. Where is
the line horse in any of our parks whose
picture of eye and mane and nostril and
neck and haunches is worthy of being
compared to Job’s picture of a horse as he
thousands of years ago heard it paw and
neigh and champ its bit for the battle?
Pigeons of today not so wise as the carrier
pigeons of 500 years ago—pigeons that
carried the mails from army to army and
from city to city, one of them flung into
the sky at Romo or Venice landing with
out ship or rail train in London. Look at
the great animals that walked tho earth in
olden times—animals compared with
which in size our elephant is a cat—mon
sters of olden times that swam the deep,
compared with which our whale is a min
now. Conies have learned nothing about
climbing, and the hounds nothing about
hunting, and the ostrich nothing about
hatching, and the condor nothing about
flying, and the owl nothing about musical
cadences for 6,000 years. Not a particle
of progress.
And as to the human race, so far as
mere natural progress is concerned, once
there were men 10 feet high; now the av
erage is about 5 feet 6 inches. It started
with men living 200, 400, 800, 900 years,
and now 30 years is more than the aver
age of human life. Mighty progress we
have made, haven’t we? I went into the
cathedral at York, England, and the best
artists in England had just been painting
a window in that cathedral, and right be
side it was a window painted 400 years
ago, and there is not a man on earth but
would say t hat tho modem painting of t he
window by tho best artists of England is
not worthy of being compared with the
painting of 400 years ago right beside it.
Vast improvement, as I shall show you
in a minute or two, but no natural evolu
tion.
Look at China, where evolution has had
full swing for thousands of years uninter
ruptx-d by anything except here and there
a mission station with this defunct book,
the Bible, but through the most of the
realm not interfered with. What has evo
lution done for China? Christian civiliza
tion goes in and builds a railroad; they
tear it up. For 1,000 years the Chinese
nation, where it is not invaded by the gos
pel, has not made one-flve-hundred-mil
lionth part of an inch of advancement.
They worship the same gods of red paint.
Just as always they drown the female
children as a nuisance. Just as always
they cat wit h chopsticks So in India, so
in Arabia, so in Turkey, so everywhere
where the gospel has not made an invasion.
Evolution Downward.
I tell you, my friends, that natural evo
lution is not upward, but it is always
downward. Hear Christ’s account of it.
Fifteenth Matthew and nineteenth verse,
“Outof the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, blasphemies.” That is what
Christ said of evolution. Give natural
evolution full swing in our world and it
will evolve into two hemispheres of crime,
two hemispheres of penitentiary, two hem
ispheres of lazaretto, two hemispheres of
brothel. New York Tombs, Moyamensing
prison, Philadelphia Seven Dials, London
and Cowgate, Edinburgh, only festering
carbuncles on the face and neck of natural
evolution. See what the Bible says about
the heart and then what evolution says
about the heart. Evolution says, “Better
and better and better gets the heart hy
natural improvement.” The Bible says:
“The heart is deceitful above all things
and despei-ately wicked. Who can know
it?” When you can evolve fragrance from
malodor, and can evolve an oratorio from
a buzzsaw, and can evolve fall pippins from
a basket of decayed crab apples, then you
can by natural evolution from the human
heart develop goodness. Ah, my friends,
natural evolution is always downward; it
is never upward.
What is remarkable about this thing is
it is all the time developing its dishonesty.
In our day it is ascribing this evolution to
Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. It
is a dishonesty. Evolution was known
and advocated hundreds of years before
these gentlemen began to be evolved. The
Phoenicians thousands of years ago de
clared that tho human race wabbled out of
tho mud. Democritus, who lived 460
years before Christ— that—
knew this doctrine of e\ < when he
said: “Everything is composed of atoms,
or infinitely small elements, each with a
definite quality, form and movement,
whose inevitable union and separation
shape all different tilings and forms, laws
and efforts, and dissolve them again for
new combinations. The gods themselves
and the human mind originated from such
atoms. There are no casualties. Every
thing is necessary and determined by the
nature of the atoms which have certain
mutual affinities, attractions and ropul
sions. ” Anoximander centuries ago de
elated that the human race started at the
place where the sea saturated the earth.
Lucretius developed long centuries ago, in
his poems, the doctrine of evolution.
It is an old heathen corpse set up in a
morgue. Charles Darwin and Herbert
Spencer have tried to galvanize it. They
drag this old putrefaction of 3,000 years
around the earth, boasting that it is their
originality, and so wonderful is tho infat
uation that at the Delmonico dinner given
in honor of Herbert Spencer some 15 years
ago there were those who ascribed to him
this great originality evolution. There
the banqueters sat a w nnd the table in
honor of Herbert Spencer, chewing beef
and turkey and roast pig, which, according
to their doctrine of evolution, made them
eating their own relations! Slicing up
their own cousins! Driving a carving
fork into their beloved kindred! Dashing
Worcestershire sauce, bedaubing mustard
over their uncles and aunts! And while
Herbert Spencer read a patronizing lecture
to Americans the banqueters sat around
the table with their hands up, saying,
“Dear me, it is the voice of a god and not
of a man!”
Evolution a Heathen Doctrine.
There is only one thing worse than
English snobbery, and that is American
snobbery. I like democracy and 1 like
aristocracy, but there is one kind of
ocracy in this countiy that excites my
contempt, and that is what Charles Kings
ley, after he had witnessed it himself, call
ed snohocraey. Now, 1 say it is a gigantic
dishonesty when they ascribe this old
heathen doctrine of evolution to any mod
ern gentleman !
1 am not a pessimist, but an optimist.
I do not believe everything is going to de
struction. I believe everything is going
on to redemption. But it will not Ixj
through the infidel doctrine of evolution,
but through our glorious Christianity
which has effected all the good that has
ever been wrought and which is yet to re
construct all the nations.
What is that in the offing? A ship gone
on the rocks at Cape Hatteras. The hulk
is breaking up, crew and passengers are
drowning. The storm is in full blast and
the barometer is still sinking. What does
that ship want? Development. Develop
her broken masts. Develop her broken
rudder. Develop her drowning crew. De
velop her freezing passengers. Develop
the whole ship. That is all it wants. De
velopment. Oh, I make a mistake. What
that ship wants is a lifeboat from the
shore. Leap into it, you men of the life
station! Pull away to the wreck! Steady
there! Bring the women and children first
to the shore! Now the stout men! Wrap
them up in flannels, and between their
chattering teeth you can pour restoration.
Well, my friends, our world is on the
rocks. God launched it well enough, but
through mispilotage and the storms of
6,000 years it has gone into the breakers.
What does this old ship of a world want?
Development? There is enough old evolu
tion in the hulk to evolve another mast
and another rudder and to evolve all the
passengers and evolve the ship out of the
breakers. Development? Ah, no, my
friends, what this old shipwreck of a world
wants is a lifeboat from the shore. And
it is coining. Cheer, my lads, cheer! It
is coming from the shining shore of heav
en, taking the crests of ten waves with
one sweep of the shining paddles. Christ
1- ■ . -■ ’ ’. i I'.!. 7 ' O t ;-t!s
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22 1898.
and feet anil shle antr nrow, snowing ne
has been long engaged in the work of res
cue, but yet mighty to save—to save one,
to save all, to save forever. My Lord and
my God, get us into the lifeboat. Away
with your rotten, deceptive, infidel and
blasphemous evolution and give us the
Bible, salvation through Jesus Christ our
Lord!
Salvation! Let the echo fly
The spacious earth around.
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.
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ing about twenty-five operations of the
bowels every twelve hours, and we were
convinced that unless it soon Obtained re
lief ib would not live. iChamberlain.s Colic
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was rec
ommended and I decided to try it. I soon
noticed a change for the better; by its
continued use complete cure was brought
about and it is now perfectly healthy.—C.
L. Boggs, Stumptown, Gilmer County, W.
Va. For sale by H. J. Lamar & Sons,
druggists.
The Rev. W. B. Costley, of Stockbridge,
Ga., while attending to his pastoral duties
at Ellenwood, that state, was attacked by
cholera monbus. He says: “By chance I
happened to get hold of a bottle of Cham
berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and I think it was the means of
saving my life. It relieved me at once.”
For sale by H. J. Lamar & Sons, druggists.
THE BEST REMEDY FOR FLUX.
Mr. John Mathias, a well known stock
dealer of Pulaski, Ky., says: “After suf
fering for over a week with flux, and my
physician having failed to relieve me, I
was advised to try Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and one
bottle cured me.” For sale by H. J. La
mar & Sons, druggists.
The Vict.ii'ia. Cross.
The agitation about Eindlater has been
productive of good results, for in future
soldiers who receive the Victoria cross and
are incapacitated forwork will receive sESO
a year instead of the TlO now granted, and
no soldier who wears the cross for valor
need fear that he will end his days in the
workhouse. The granting of a fair pen
sion with the Victoria cross has frequent
ly been suggested, but the hero of Dargai
Is the man who has forced the hand of the
British government and brought about the
reform. —Argonaut.,
HiND 8 P O
restores VITALITY
JLJTZ y r Made a
X Well Mau
THE of Me.
GREAT >ofX7
ETRENCH REMEDY produces the above reuult
in 30 days. Cures Nervous Debility, Impotrncy,
Varicocele, Failing Memory. Stops all drains and
losses caused by errors of youth. It wards off In
sanity and Consumption. Young Men regain Man
hood and Old Men recover Youthful Vigor. It
gives vigor and size to shrunken organs, and fits
a man for business or marriage. Easily carried in
the vest pocket. Price Psi PTO 6 Boxes J 2.50
by mail, in plain pack- Du w I W.age, with
written guarantee. DR. JEAN 0 HAiiRA. Paris
For Sale at Goodwyn’s Drug Store and
Brown House Pharmacy.
The News
Printing Co.
Does Binding and Job
Printing of every de
scription. Ask for
estimates. High class
work.
GEORGIA, 8188 COUNTY.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of George N. Hurt, George
E, Scott and Edwin W. Gould, all of said
state and county, respectfully shows
1. That they desire for themselves, their
associates and succcessors to be incorpor
ated under the name of the “Hurt Coal
Company,” for a period of twenty years,
with privilege of renewal at the end of
that time.
2. The capital stock of said corporation
is to be $1,500, in shares of SIOO each, the
whole of which has already beeen paid in.
but petitioners ask the privilege of in
creasing said capital stock from time to
time as tlhey may desire, the same not to
exceed SIO,OOO in the aggregate.
3. The object of said corporation is the
pecuniary profit of the stockholders, and
the of said corporation is to be
selling and delivering coal,
other articles usually handled
by coal dealers, including fire wood, if de
sired, acting as agent for other persons or
corporations in handling or selling coal
and other such like articles; and generally
to conduct an ordinary coal business, with
all of the rights and powers usually inci
dent to such business.
4. The pricipal place of business of the
proposed corporation will be in he city of
Mac-on, said state and county.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that
they be made a body corporate, under the
name and style aforesaid, with all the
rights and privileges and subject to the
liabilities fixed by law.
This June 6th, 1898.
ANDERSON & JONES.
Petitioners’ Attorneys.
I, Robert Nisbet, clerk of Bibb Superior
Court, do hereby certify that the above is
a >.rue copy of the original petition for in
corporation of the "Hurt Coal Company,”
as tbe same appears on file in said clerk’s
office. V itness my official signature and
seal of office, this 7th day of June, 1898.
ROBERT A. NISBET.
Clerk. (
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO
THF EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same that
has borne and does now bear on every
the sac-simile signature wrapper.
This is the original “C ASTORIA” which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought on the
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
March 24, IS9B. /7 *
QZZ—t .jd.
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”
BEAUS THE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK
Southern R’y.
> Schedule in Bffect July 6, 1898
CENTRAL. TIME
~ READ DOWN? READ UP?
No. 7~|~N0715 | No. I) | No. 13 | WtTst. | Noi 14|No. 10 j No?TTNoTio“
7 10pm| 4 45pm| 8 00am| 2 05am|Lv.. Macon . .Ar| 2 05am| 8 20am|10 55am| 710 pm
9 45pm| 7 45pmjl0 40am| 4 15amjAr.. Atlanta. Lv|ll 55pm| 5 20am| 8 10am| 4 20pm
7 50am|10 OOpmj 4 00pm| 4 20am|Lv.. All anta. Ar|ll 50pm| 5 00am| |ll 40am
10 20am| 100 am | 8 25pm| 6 30am|Lv.. Ro me.. Lvj 0 40pm| 1 44am| | 9 00am
11 30am| 2 34am| 7 34pm| 7 22am|Lv.. Dal ton...Lv 8 42pmil2 10am| ) 750 am
1 OOpmj 4 15am| 8 50pm| 8 40am|Ar Chat’ nooga Lv| 7 30pm|10 00pm| | 8 00pm
7 10pm| 7 l-opm| 7 40am| |Ar .Mem phis . Lv| | 9 15am| | 8 00pm
4 30pm| I 5 00am| |A.r Lexington. Lv| |lO 50am| |lO 40pm
750 pm | j 750 am | |Ar Louis ville. Lv| | 740 am | | 745 pm
7 30pm| | 7 30am| |A- Cincinnati Lvj | 8 30am| | 8 00am
9 25pm| | 7 25pm| |Ar Anniston .. Lv| j 6 32pm| | 8 00am
11 45am| |lO OOpmj | Ar Birm ’ham Lvj | 4 15pm| | 6 00am
8 05am| | 1 10am| 7 45pm|Ar Knoxville. Lv| 7 00am| 7 40pm] | 740 pm
i. | | No. 14~j| .Xo. 15 j . South. j”No. 15. | No. 13 | 7T
| 7 10pm| 2 10am| 8 35am|Lv.. Macon .. Ar| 8 20am| 2 00am| |
| | 3 22am|10 05am|Lv Coch ran.. Lv| 3 20pm|12 55am| |
| | jlO 45am|Ar Hawk’ville Lv| 2 50pm| | |
| | 3 54am|10 50am|Lv. East man. Lv| 2 41pmjl2 25am|.. |
I I 4 29am|ll 36am|Lv.. Helena.. Lv| 2 03pm|ll 54pm| |
| | 6 45am| 2 38pm|Lv.. Jesup... Lv|ll 22am| 9 43pm| |
I | 7 30am| 3 30pm|Lv Ever rett.. Lv|lo 45am| 9 05pm| |
| | 8 30am| 4 30pm|Ar Brunswick. Lv| 9 30am| 6 50pm| j
| | 9 40am| 9 25am|Ar Jack’ville. Lvj 8 OOamj 6 50pmj j
I N 0.7 | N0.~9 | No. 13 | East? | No. ~16 ]~No. 10~] .T7.T.T.|7~ .?7~
j 7 lOpmj 8 30am| 2 05am|Lv.. Ma con.. Ar| 8 20am| 7 iOpmj |
I 9 45pm|ll lOamj 4 15am|Ar ..Atlanta. Lv| 5 20am| 4 20pm| |
| 9 25 am | 8 30pm| 6 10pm|Lv Charlotte Lv|lo 15am| 9 35am|
| 1 30pm|12 OOn’tjll 25pm|Lv . Dan ville. Ly| 6 07pm| 5 50am| |
I 6 25pm| 6 40am| |Ar. Richmond Lvjl2 01n’n|12 10n,n| |
| 5 30pmj 7 35am| |>Ar.. Norfolk? Lv| 9 30am|10 00pm| |
| 3 50| 1 53am| |Lv. .Lynch'burg Lv| 3 55pm] 3 40am|,,, |.
| 5 48pm| 3 35amj |Lv Chari’ville Lv| 2 15pm| 1 50pm| |
I 9 25pm| 6 42am| |Ar Washgton. Lv|ll 15am|10 48pm| |
1 11 25am| 800 am | |Ar Balti’more iLv| 6 17am| 9 20pm| |
I 3 00am|10 15am| |Ar Phila dlphia Lv 3 50am| 6 55pm| |
I 6 2uam|l2 45n ’n| |’Ar New York Lv|l2 15am| 4 30pm| |
I 3 pm| 8 30pm| |Ar .. ..(Boston Lvj 5 OOpmjlO 00am| |
THROUGH OAR SERVICES. ETC.
Nos. 13 and 14, Pullman Sleeping Cars between Chattanooga and Jacksonville,
also between Atlanta and Brunswick. Berths may be reserved to be taken at
Macon.
Nos. 15 and 16, day express trains, bet ween Atlanta and Brunswick.
Nos. 9 and 10, elegant free Observatior cars, between Macon 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., S. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A..
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
BANDALL CLIFTON, T. P. A., BURR BROWN, C. T. A.,
Macon. Ga 565 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga
'"■’“X: Coast Line to Mackinac -
NEW STEEL The Greatest Perfeo
PASSENGER _ itfirXg, tlon yet attained In
STEAMER*. Boat Construction:
XX \ Luxurious . Equlp-
BPEED, AcXT ment. Artistic Fur-
COMFORT * nishlng,Decoration
ANO SAFETY ( andEfflclentServlc.
To Detroit, Mackinac, Georgian Bay, Petoskey, Chicago
No other Lino offers a Panorama of 460 miles of equal variety and interest.
Fonr Trip. ptr Week Betneea Erory Day and Day and Night Berries B.tw.en
Tolede, Detroit and Mackinac ciXfind? DETROIT AND CLEVELAND
PITOSUI, -THE son/. ■A R qvETTB Put -in - Bay Jrih.; £S” r^ s .
_ tow«inst. M .t.„.,;.« MUM .„d andTol * do -
Return, Including Meals and Berths. Approx- nd Southwest, and at Detroit for all point*
■mate Cost from t'leroland, sl2: from Toledo, North and Northwest.
sl4; from Detroit, $12.50. Sunday Trips June, July, August,
_ Beiran mu cieSj gm Sm
Ofea, 30K.. MOTT’S The only safe, sure and
Jt PENNYROYAL PILLS.
k „ for J R R - MOTT’S PENNYROYAL PILLS and take no other’
Sts Send for circular. Price SI.OO per box, 6 boxes for $5.00.
UR, MU 11 ’sS CJBICjyUCJjV.I_a Cleveland, CUxic
For sale by H. J. LAMAR & SONS, Wholesale Agents.
25 Per Cent Off
sjz We Can’t Make
z ’i s It Too Strong...
We Can’t Emphasize S V
The Fact Too Much... z i s
That we will turn our splendid stock of
CRASH SUITS
Into cash as rapidly as possible. HOW? Our prices
Will do it. We offer for your inspection a fine stock. If
you contemplate anything in the Clothing line you can’t
afford to ignore this.
BENSON & HOUSER,
The Up-to-Date Clothiers, Macon, Ga
HOT SPRINGS, North Carolina.
Mountain Park Hote4 and Baths—Modern Hotel Ideas In Every Department—Tabla
and Service Unexcelled. j,*
Swimming Pool. Bowling, Tennis, Golf. Pool and Billiards. Photographer’s dark
room, Riding, Driving, Tennis. Large Ball Room and Auditorium. Special reduce*
summer rates. •
BEARDEN S Orchestra. T . D . Oreen> Manager.
PO PI7l AR SUMMER RESORI.
the home •> 11 sceoer V superb, beautiful drives, good livery. Hotel Dal too la
bells elevito/’ seeke r and the 00,11 mercial traveler. Elegantly built, electric
families Manv hOt a “ l cold I,aths 00 *very floor. Special rates to
formation given by sumaier from lower and Florida. Further in-
D. L. DETTOR,
Newport of the South.
SEASON OF 1898.
Hotel St. Simon
St. Simons Island, Georgia.
Newly equipped. Rates SIO.OO per week. Sea bath
ing, b ishing, Boating, Lawn Tennis, Driving, Dancing,
Billiards and Pool. Two germans 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 and the Great Lakes constantly growing in popularity.
Everybody will be there this summer. For information inquire
of your nearest ticket agent.
I). G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, O.
Kir is Di Tim
TO GO
To the mountains.
Wain Springs, Ga.
is
In the mountains,
Where the weather is delightfully cool and
the conditions are all healthful.
The Warm Springs water is the best and
most pleasant cure for dyspepsia, insom
nia, rheumatism and general debility.
Hotel accommodations and service first
class. Rates moderate.
Easily reached by the Macon and Bir
mingham railroad.
For further information write to
CHfIS. L. DRVJS, Proprietor.
HOTEL MARION
And Cottages.
Tallulah Falls, Ga.
Open for the season. Board 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. Table excel
lent.
MRS. B. A. YOUNG, PropMetress,
Tallulah Falls, 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 excellent. Water
Shipped the year round.
SIMPSON & SIMPSON,
Managers.
Bedford Alum, Iron and lodine
Springs of Virginia.
From whose water the celebrated “MasiU
so extensively known and used, is manu
facteured. Opens June 15, and Is the most
home-like place in Virginia for recuper
ating.
A modern writer on tire mineral waters
of Europe and America says: “Bedford
Springs water cures when all other reme
dies have failed, and especially indcrange
ments peculiar to females.”
Long distance telephone connections,
send for a 50-page interesting pbamplet of
proofs. P. O. Bedford Springs, Va.
J. R. MABEN, JR-, Proprietor.
STURTEVANT HOUSE,
Broadway and 29th St,, New York,
American &; European plan. Wil
liam F. Bang, proprietor. Broad
way cable cars passing the doot
transfer to all parts of the city.
Saratoga Springs
THE KENSINGTON,
and cottages.
H. A. &W. F. BANG, Proprietors, L
New York Office, Sturtevant House. g '
Ocean View House.
St. Simon’s Island Beach, Ga
Fine surf bathing, good table, artesian
water. a. T. AILNOUD,
• Proprietor.
For Business Men <►
p In the heart of the wholesale dis
► trict. 1,
<► For Shoppers <►
,► 3 minutes walk to Wanamakers;
8 minutes walk to Siegel-Coopers
Big Store. Easy of access to the <
great Dry Goods Stores.
b For Sightseers
1 * One block from ears, giving <
easy transportation to ail points
I Hotel Allen,
I New York. :>
Cor. 11th 9t. and University 9
Ilace. Only one block from
Broadway. < *
RtMIMS, $1 UP. RESTAURANT,
Prices Reasobikde. ►
MACON AND BIItMINGHAM! R. R. CO.
(Pine Monutain Route.)
Effective June 5, 1898.
4 20 pm Lv Mar.-on AxjlO 36 am
4 20 pm Lv Sofkee Lv|lo 14 am
5 46 pm Lv ....Coiioden..., Lv| 9 09 am
5 57 pm Lv ...YatesriMe... Lv 8 57 am
627pmLv .. .Thomaston... Lvj 818 am
707 pm|Ar .. Lvj 748 am
SOUTHERN RiAIJAVAYT
7 25 pmjAr. Warm Springs. Lvj T 29 am
603 pm lAr ... .Columbus... Lvj 800 am
8 07 pmiA< Griffin Lvj 8 50 am
9 45 pm|Ar ... . .Attantn. Lv| 5 20 am
SOUTHEB. . RAiLWikY.
4 20 amlLv .... Atlanta ....Ari 9 40 am
6 03 pm Lv Griffin LT 9 66 am
525 pmfLv ... .Cotambue.... Ltr 9 u o am
6 49 pmjLv .Warm Spri-nns. Lv 8 08 am
707 pmjLv.. ..Woodbury.... Art T 48 am
727 pm|Ar . .Harris City.. Lv 728 am
CENTRAL, "W GEORGIA. '
7 45 pmtAr ... Green viße... Lv 7 10 am
5 20 pmlLv . ...Coluinlazs.... Ar 9 40 am
7 27 pm Lv ..Harris Ctty.. Ar 7 28 am
8 20 pmjAr Lv] 6 35 an
. Close connection at Macon and Sofket
*wrtti the Georgia Southern and Florida
Central of Georgia for Savannah, Albany.
Southwest Georgia points and Montgom
(try, Ala., at Yatesville for Roberta an,’,
points on the Atlanta and Florida di
vision of theSoathorn railway, at Harri.-
C9ty City with CetUral of Gtorgla railway
for Greenville and Columbus, at Wood
bury with Southern railway for Colum
bus and Griffin, at LaGrange with th.
Atlanta and West Point railway.
JULIAN R. LANE,
General Manager,
Macon. Ga.
R. G. STONE,
Gen. Paes. Agt.
PULLMAN CAR LINL
QiLiiiiaaiiW
gj] (mwi [^ima'iaixh tsr-|ni tswii r Qaiwav ■
I®TWEE»?
Cincinnati, ‘tndianapoifa, or
Louisvßie end Chleage an ’.
THE NOR’mWEST.
Pulman Buffet Sixjpers on night train-
Parlor chairs and dining cars on ds >
trains. The Monon trains mab» the tai
est time Ixstween the Southern winter r.
sorts and the eummer reeorta of th
Northwest.
W. H. McDGEL. V. P. & G. M.
FRANK J. REED, G. P. A.,
Chicago, 111.
For further particulars addresß
R. W. GLAUNG, Gen. A«t.
TbomrusvCUe, Ge
«Kie ft is a non-poisonr
•emody for (ronorrhM •
i|»-vt, Spermatorrhc t
Whites, unnatural <‘
barges, or any inflamn •
ion, irritation or ul«* •
tion of in ne» n am«
bran«s. Non-astrine. • .
Sold by UrtiKKtMt
or sent in plain wrap; -
by express, prepaid, i -
*l.on, or 3 bottles. s2.'.
Vir«wJar sent on roat>.
New Steam
DYE WORKS,
F. H. JOHNSON, Prop’ .
25c Second Street, Macon, Ga
Ladies’ dresses nicely clear'd
and pressed. Also Gents’ Liner
Suits.
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