Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

entire chain gone. DR. TALMAGE DISPROVES “MISSING LINK” THEORY. At Kvary Stage of Tinman I.lf* Thera I* Direct F.vldrnre of Divine Will—Cd bridgeable <inlf Between Mtn and Beast Portrait of an Kvolnttonlnt. JCopyright. IK*, by American Press Assc>- elation.) AFHtNOTON, Aug. 88.—Dr. Talmage In this diroourre advocate* a Christian evolu tion In contradiction U> an Infidel evolu tion and declare* that the only radically improving feme In the world in Chris tiar.lty; text, Ronutns I, 22. 23, “Pro fessing th<-ni«elv«-H to be Wi >?, they Ixvamo fools and changed the glory of the uncor ni; Hlilc God into an linage made like to corruptible man, and to bird- and four foobsl boast* and creeping things.” Thl“ is a full length |>ortrai» of an evo lutionist who HuhM it uu» the lie-rial origin ttfr the divine origin I showed yon last week that evolution was curt rafftetod by tie Bible, by -s-i i.co. by ob • rvation and by cointuon mcuhc; that the Bible account of the creation of man and of brute and of th< world. and the cv"l'.t! r.bf’a account collid ’d with e/u I. other as certainly as two exprei >- tn Ins going In opposite direc ♦ tone at do miles th<- h< ur, thrjlr locomo tives mcs’th gon the nuinn truck. I showed that all the evolution hclcntieta, without any tion, wire [ ronouwd ini.del-; that evoiutku was a heathenism thousands of yea- < Iff; that nuph men Agassis nr d Hugh Miller ur -.t Ft. r>idt»y and Daw w>n and D.u.a had for that ihxriliio of ovo lution unli:..!?<<( <•.,j,t4 in ( t I showed you the 1 their favorite theory of tlie “survival of the situ st was an .’.inllty and at; uni nth. and that natural evolution Wa» dlwnj. downward and r>. • r upward, and ♦ hat there bad never Iwien any Improve rm nt for man or beast or world except through the direct nr fmiircut influence of our glorious Christianity. And In the closing part <.t that mniwn I t>old you I was not a p'-rlinbt, hut an optin i r, that ln-t« .'. of ji loitig II o <;lo< k at night It is halt pf»»i 5 tn the ni.truing. Now 1 [jo on to tell you, It seen *to me that evoinlf> t ist-rt are *ryiog to Impress th. punt mnsstM of the people with the id.<•; th it them ie an r.iwt-.triil lino lead Ing from the primal germ on n; through the H-rpcne arid on up through the quad ruped and on up through t.i,e gorilla Ki t ian. they admit thaf then- la a “miss Intt link,’’ ns they call it, but there is not a ml. Ing link- rt is a whole chain gone. Between the physical construction of the hlgln t animal nmi the phv >)< id construe tion -,f the lowest nmn there is a chasm as vide on the Athmtlo ocean Evolutionism te“ us that H'-mcwhere in central Africa or'n Borneo tJioro Jh a creature half way Is- w«on Ihe brute and the man, and that that creoturu to the highest step In the Itr'riil ascent and the lowest stop in the Im l an creation. But what are the facts? The brain of the largest gorilla that was freer found is 80 cubic inches, while the br In <>f the tin st Ignorant man that was ever found is 70. Vast difference between 80 and 70. It needa o bridge of 40 arches to span that gulf Evidence of Divine Power. Beside* that there Is a difference be tween the gorilla and the man —a dif ference of blood globule a difference of tier , ii, a difference of muscle, a difference of botin, a difference of sinew. The horse Is more like man in intelligence, the tiled Is m< to like him in musical eztpnoit.y, the mast iff is mon- like him in ffwt ion. That oulopirod Goa t of whl' h wo hear so much, ropers ntixl on the walls of cities thou sands of yean; ago, is Just ns complete as It is n.iw showing that there has not been a particle of change. Besides that, if a pair of apes had a man for descendant, why would not all the apesjiavo the same kind of desc, ndantp? ('an it lie that that one favored pair only was honored with human progonyf Besides that, evolution says that a* ono spiwics rises to another species tlie old tyjsi dies off Then how is ft that there m e whole kingdoms of chimpanzee and gorilla and iwtbocn? The evoiutionl’t.s have come together and have tried to expl. in a bird’s wing. Their thixiry has al ways linen that a faculty of an animal while being dovelopixl must always bo useful and always beneficial, but the wmg of a bird, in the thouspnds us years it was being dovelopixl, so far from being any help must have been a hindrance uiii tl it could bo brought into Sraetioul use away on down in the ages. lust there bixin an intelligent will formed that wonder ful tlyinw instrument, so that a bird ftllO times htxtv li-r ti an the air can mount It and put gravitation under claw and beak? That wcinlorfui mechanical instrument, the wing, with hciween 20 and 30 difie.- out appnr.itl curioindy constructed, docs it not Imply n dtvlno Intelli mmor Does it not imply a dlroot act. of some outside be ing? All the evolutionists in the world cannot explain a bird’s wing or an in (UxMi’b wing. Ro they are eonfoundixl by the rattle of the rattlesnake. Ague tx'fore that reptile had any enemies this warning weapon was created Why was it created? W hen the reptile, far Imek In the ages, hud no en emies, why this warning weapon? There must have been a divine luielligenco fore seeing and known g that in ages to come that reptile would, have enemies, and then tiffs warnii.-’ weapon Would bo I;,-, t. rht Into ns,v \ ,>u sco evolutlo.i at < very step is a ixm trad let ion or a monstrosity. At every stage of animal life as well ns at every stage of human life there isevidenre of dins-t aci.e.n of divine will. No Kinship Between Man am<l Beast. Besides that, it is wry -v’dert- from an other fact that we arc an entirely different creation atid that there L no kinship The animal in a few hours or months comes to fuff atrc 'gth and can take euro of itself The human ruee for the first one, two, three, five, U-n years Is tn com plete hclples.-m ss The chick just come out of its sl.ell begins to [ ick up its own food. The uog, the wolf, the lion, soon earn their own li . eliheod and .net for their ow n defense The human ra,-e doos not come to d< v-'iopm< nt until 20 er 3o years of age. and by that time the animals that were born the some year the num was bom; the vast n ijorlty of them, have died of old ago This shews there Is no kinship then* Um si;-ibi> ,ty. If w - hud been horn of th« 1 east, wuvould have had f-he bea,-' s Htrengiii at- the start or it would have had our weakness Not only ditfcrvnts bur o>'p j( c . Darwin admitted that the dovecot I’ige n has >.ut changed In thousands of years It is dem -'net rated over and over again that *b ■■ rd on the lowest forma *k>n of rocks w s rest ■>« complete as the llrard now It is si wn that the mtnold, the first fish, was j; ; e.; complete as the sturgeon, another nr? -for tl>e s.‘> e fish now I)fwwln> ent-’-e system is a guess, and Il'.ixlcy and .T<-.hn I'tuart Mill and Tyndall and nsjxx?laily Professor Hacx-kel c< re to 1 ,ip I ',n in the gu jo-.l gnejut about ne :ui,G . .v. d ossa’ o-it.tu.-vn. and gUO" ;c'n:,; v,sltii> - t U) iia . ing or.o solid fr-ot ■? g! mud I . swimt on they uev er havi h -..? It and r. ver w ill have it. I ppi H; <»pp.siti'in to tin--c evo’mt.knjlst the. 'k-s the inward • -’Hs, :<>t : ..that we hro- n ixti.saiigi’inßy with the deg that fawns at our feet, or the spi-.lct th.:t crawls on the wall, or the fish th;.( Hops in the frying t an. or the row that swops on the field carcass, or the swine that wallows in the mire. Evcrylnxly s-vs the o>. .age it would lx* to put askl- the Bible nv<>i~l that Abraham begat Isaac, anti Isttao be gat Jacob, and Jtuxtb begat Judah, tor the record that the microscopic animalcule be gut the tadpole, and the tadpole begat the polll.vng, and the polliwog begat the ser pent, and the begat the quadruped, and the quadr;ip«<d begat the baboon, and the baboon begat man. The evolutionists tell us that the apes were originally fond of climbing t:ie trees, but after aw hile they lost their prehensile power and therefore could nc-t climb with any facility, a?td hence they surrendered monkeydoxn and set up in business us men. Failures as apes, successes as men. AcxjOrdlng to the evolutionists, a man is a bankrupt monkey. fiod tile Father. I pity the person who in every nerve and mtwtcle and bone and mental faculty and spiritual exporleuoe does not realise that he is highor in origin and has had a grander ancestry than the boasts which jKTISh. Howeygy degraded nice and wom- en may be. and though they may have foundered on the nrx ks of crime and sin. and though we shudder as we them, nevertheless then- is something within us that tells us they Itelong to the same great brotherhood ami sisterhood of our race, and our sympathies are aroused in regard to them. But gazing ui«»n the swifte st gaz-lie, or upon the tropical bird of most flamboyant wing, or upon the curve of grandest courser’s neck, we feel there is no consanguinity. It is not-that we are stronger than they, for the lion with one stroke of hie paw could p>ut us into the dust. It is not that wo have better eye sight.. for the eagle can de*cry a mole a Djilr- away It is not that we are fl<x-ter of foot, for a roebuck in a flash is out of sight, just seeming to touch the earth as he g<x*». M>tny of the animal creation sur pae .ing us in fleetnees of foot and in keen ness of nostril and In strength of limb, but notwithstanding all that there is some thing within ua that tells us we are of ce lestial jx ilign-e. Not of the mollusk, not of the rislpod, list of th<- primal germ, but of the living and mnnfpotont God. Lin eage of she skies. Gem-elogy of l>eaven. t toll you plainly that, If your father was a muskrat tiud your mother an opos sum and your great-aunt a kangaroo and the tom Is and tins snapping turtles were your illustrious predecessors, my father was God I know It. I feel It. It thrills through me with an emphasis and an ecstasy which all your arguments drawn from anthropology and biology mid zoolo gy and rnorology and paleontology and all the other ologioe <-«m never shake. Evolution Lx one great mystery. It batches out W) mysteries, and the flO hatch -mt 1,000. and the 1,000 batcJi out 1,000,- •300. Why, my brother, not admit the one gn it mystery <>f God and have (lint settle all the oth*.r mysteries? I can more easily appreciate the f.vt that God, by one stroke of his omnipotence, could make man than I could realize bow out of !»,(>OO,OOO ages he oould have evolved one, putting on a little her” and a little there. It would have licen just as gnat a miracle for God to have turned an orang outang Into a man as to make a man nut and out, the one Job just as big as the other. Give God a Place. It Ms-re tnj me we had bettor let God have a Hi i,!r-piinx- tn our world somewhere. It seems re me If we cannot haw him make nil <v. atarea we bad better have hlm make two or three. There ought to be sonic pltfe* where be oould stay without interfering with the evolutionists “No,” says D/irwtn, and so for y<xtrs lie is trying to rt Ise faiuailed pigeons and to turn th'-w fantail plg<x>ns into some other kind of t'lg'.x>ns or to have them go into some thing that in not a pigvxm—turning them into quail or barnymxl fowl or brown thrasher, hut pigmn it is. And others have triixl vvl-h the ox and the dog ami the horse, but they staid tn their species. If they att< ;npt to cross over, It Is a hy brid. Mid a hybrid is always sterile and goes into extinction. There has Ison only one successful attempt to pass over from wpecchlese ; ~;mnl to the articulation of man, and ohzit was the attempt which Balaam v. Gni sstxl in the lieust that he rode, hut au angel of the Lord with drawn sword hood Htopxxxi that long eared evolu tionist. But says some one, “If we cannot have God make a man, lot uh have him make a horse.’’ “Oh, nol” says Huxley in his great lectures in New York years ago. No, he doos not want any God around the promisee. God did not make the horse. The ho?so came of the pllohlppus, and the pllohippus came from the protohippus, and the protohlppus came from the mlohlppus, and the mlohlppus cuune from the lueeho hlppus, and the ruoahohippus camo from the orQhippus, and so away bock, all tho living < rca'un s, wo trace it In a line until we get to tho inoneron, and no evidence of divine intermeddling with the creation until you got to the moneron, and that, Huxley says, is of so low a form of life that the probability Is It Just made itself or was tho result of spontaneous genera tion. What a narrow escai>e from the ne cessity of having a God I As near tvs I can toil, these evolutionists seem to think that God at the start had not Jnade up his mind as to exactly what) ho would make, and having made up his mind partially ho hits been changing It. all through the ages. I believe that God made the world as ho wanted to have It, and that, the happiness of all the species will depend upon their staying In the species whore they wore ore ?atext. Parliament of Bvamta, Once upon a t ime there was In a natural amphitheater of the forest a convention of animals, and a gorilla from western Africa came in with Ins club and pounded “Or der!” Then he sat down in a chair of twisted forest root. The delegation of birds came In and took their position In the galleries of the hills and the tree, tope. And a delegation of reptiles camo in, and they took t.holr position In the pit of tho valley. And the tiers of rocks were occu pied by tho di'legntlon of intermediate ani mals, and there was a great aquarium, and a ca.iml leading into It, through which came tho monsters of tho deep to join the great convention. And on one table of rock there were four or five primal germs under a glass case, and in a cup on anoth er table of rock there was a quantity of protoplasm. Then this gorilla of the Afri can forest with his club pounded again, “Order, order I” and then he cried out: “Oh, you great throng of beasts and birds and reptiles and insects, I have called you together to propose that we move up Into tho human race and be beasts no longer! Too long already have we l>een hunted and raged and havnessod We shall stand W no longer.” At that Hj>eech the whole convention broke out Into roars of enthusiasm like as though there were many menageries being fed by their keepers, and it did seem as If the whole convention would march right up and take possession of the earth and the human raw, but an old Hon arose, bis mane white with many years, and he ut tered his voice, and when that old lion ut tered his voice all the other beasts of the forest were still, and he said: “Peace, brothers and sisters of tho forest. I think We have been placed in the spheres for which we were intended. 1 think our Creator knew the place that was good for us.” He could proceed no further, for the whole convention broke out In nn uproar Ilk- the house of commons when the Irish question conies up or the American con gress the night of adjournment, and the reptiles hissed with indignation at the loo: lue Ga n betta, and the frogs croaked tec Ir contempt, and the Lears growled their contempt, and the panthers snarled their disgust, ami the In-tivts buzzed and buzzed with excitement, and, though the gorilla of tho African forest with his club pounded “Order! Order!” there was no ore t. and there was a thrusting out of adderlne sting and a swinging of ele ph;.ntine tusk ami a stroke of beak and a swing of claw until It seemed as If the convention would be massacred. Just at that moments at the door of this natural amphitheater of the forest, the curtain of the leaves lifted, and the bolts and liars of ti e tret'' branches were shoved back, and there appeared Agassiz and Audubon and SUltman and Moses, and Agassiz cried out: “Oh, you beasts of tho forests, I have studied your ancestral rec ords and 'found you always have been beasts, you always will t>e beasts! Be content to be beasts!” And Audubon aimed his gun at a b>ildhf»ded eagle which dropped from the gallery and as it dropped strnck a serpent that was winding around one of the pillars to get np higher, and Sil liman threw a rock of the tertiary for mation at the mammals, and Moses thun dered, “Every beast after Its kind, every blr»l after its kind, every fish after its kind!” Aud. 10. the parliament of wild bixvste was prorogued and went home to their constituents, and the bat flew out Into the night, and the lizard slunk under the rock, and the gorilla went back to the jungle, and a hungry wolf passing out ate up the primal germa, and a clumsy buffalo upset the protoplasm, and kbe lion went to bis lair, and the eagle went to his eyrie, and the whale went to his palace of crystal and coral, and there was peace—peace In the air, peaoe Ln the waters, peace in the fields. Man in his place; thelxastaof the earth Ln their places. An Absurd Theory. But, my friends, evolution la not only infidel and atheistic and absurd. It is brutalizing in Its tendenotes. If there is anything in the world that will make a man bestial In his habita, it is the idea that be was deeoendod from the beast. Why, according to the idea of these evolu tionists, we are only_a .superior kind of cattle, a sort of Alderney among other berda. To be sure, we browse on better pasture, and we have better stall and bet ter accnuiniodations. but then w« are only Southdown* among the great flocks of sheep. Born of a beast, to die like a beast, for th* evolutionists have no Idea of a fu ture world. They say the mind is only a superior part of the body. They say our thoughts an* only molecular formation. They say when the body dies the whole nature dies. The slab of the sepulcher is not a milestone on the journey upward, but a wall shutting us Into eternal noth ingness. We all die alike—the cow, the horse, the sheep, the man, the reptile. An Sibilation is the heaven of the evolutionist. From such a stenchful and damnable doc trine turn away. Compare that idea of your origin—an Idea filled with the chat ter of apes and the hiss of serpents and the croak <>f frogs—to an idea in one or two stanzas which I quote from an old book of more than Denmethenio or Homeric or power- * What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou vtHitest him? Thou hast made him n little lower than the angels and hastcrownetl him with glory and hon or. Thon mad< st. him lo have dominion over the works of thy hand. Thou hast put all thing.? under ids feet. All sheep and oxen—yea, and the benste irf the field, the fowl of the nlr, and tho fish of the sea, and whateoevvr pnswth through bbo paths of the seas. O L«rd. our Ijord, how ex cellout V? thy name in all the earth.” A Great Unrolling. How do you like that origin? Tho lion the monarch of the field, the eagle th® monarch of tho air, bohometh the monarch of the deep, but man monarch of all! Ah, my frlouds, 1 have to aaj to you that I am not so anxious to know what was my origin ns to know what will be my destiny. I do not care w; much where I camo from an where lam going to. lam not so ln fcer.ishxl In who was my ancestry 1(1,000,- 000 years ago ns I am to know where I will lie 10,000,000 years from now. lam not so much interest* d in the preface tx> my cradle as I am Interested In the ap pendix to my grave I dn not care so much about protoplasm as I do about etoernasm. The “was” is overwhelmed with the “to be.” And here comes in tho evolution I believe In—not natural evolv tion, hut gracious and divine and heavenly evolution—evolution out of sin into holt ncsß, out nt grief into gladness, out of mortality Into immortality, out of <xirth into heaven. That G tiuj evoluthm I be Hove in. Evolution from evolvere, nurnJllngl 1 Inrolling of attributes, tmrolling of re wards, unrolling of experience, unrolling of angalto ootiqiankinahip, unrolling of di vine glory, unrolling of providential ob scurities, unrolling of doxologics, unroll lug of rainbow to canopy the throne, un rolling of a new heaven nnd a new earth in which to dwell righteousness. Oh. the thought overwhelms inel I have not the physical endurance to consider it. Monarchs on earth of all lower orders of creation and then lifted to be hierarchs in heaven. Masterpiece of God’s wisdom and goodness, our humanity; masterpiece of divine grace, our enthronement. I nut one foot on Darwin's “Origin of the Fpe cles,” and I put tho other foot on Spen oor’s “Biology,” and then, holding in one hand the book of Moses, I see our Genesis, and, holding in the other hand the book Revelation, I see our celestial arrival. For all wan; I prescribe tho Bethlehem chant of the angels, for all sepulchers I prescribe the archangel’s trumpet, for all tho earthly griefs I prescribe the hand that wipes away all tears from all eyes. Notnn evolution from beast to man, but an evolution from contestant to conqueror, and from the struggle with wiki beasts in the arena of the amphitheater to a soft, high, blissful scat in tho King’s galleries. If all tho tobacco smoked in tho British empire last year were powdered into snuff, It would supply a sufficient quantity to bury a good sized town as completely as Pompeii was buried. A TEXAS WONDEK. Hall’s Great IXscoTeiy, One small bottle at Hall's Great Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder trou bles, removes gravel, cures dlcfoetis, semi nal emlstsons, 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 mall on receipt Os 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. Damar & 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. About one month ago my child, which t* fifteen months o4d, had an attack of diar rhoea accompanied by vomiting. I gave it such remedies as are usually given In such cases, but as nothing gave relief we eent for a physician and It was under his care for a week. At this time the child had been sick for about ten days and was hav ing about twenty-five operations of the bowels every twelve hours, and we were convinced t’bat unless it soon obtained re lief it would not live. Chamberlain,s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was rec omm and I decided to try it. I soon noticed a change for the better; by Its eon Untied 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. ANGELS AT MONTAUK. Miss Helen Gould Looking Out After Wants of the Boys. Camp Wlkoff, Montauk Point, L. 1., August 23 —(By Mail.) —Mrs. John A. Lo gan and Miss Helen Gould are notable figures about the thoroughfares at Mon tauk Mies Gould In her plain dress and simple manner detains as many of the boys of the Sixth U. S. I. as she can and takes their names, and finds, by very cute questioning of each individual, about what clothing he has, and as her secretary jots down those badly needed she makes her self known and says: “The articles', you need will be wired for and tomorrow you shall have them.” Mrs. Logan Is working with the Red Cross Society, and I find, though silvery white as her hair may be, she Is very spry and moves about unattended and directs the needs of sick to be supplied quickly, and has wagons on the spot to carry out her demands. Mrs. W. A. Downs, wife of Colonel Downs, of the Seventy-first New York volunteer infantry, is also a noticeable figure, and she, too, has a big heart for the soldier boys, and by her diligence and hustling qualities she Is making many a poor boy remember home and mother. A Narrow Kocape. Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton. S. D. “Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs; cough set In and finally terminated in consumption. Four doctors gave me up, saying I could only live a short time. I gave tnyseX up to my savior, determined W I could not stay with my friends on earth I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. I gave It a trial, taking In all eight bottles. It has cured me, and, thank God. I am now a healthy woman." Trial bottles free at H. J. Damar & Sons’ drug store. Regular size, 50c and 11. Guaran teed or price refunded. THE BEST REMEDY FOR FLUX. Mr. John Madhlaa. a well known stock dealer of Pulaakl, Kysays: "After suf fering for over a week with flux, and my physician having failed to relieve me, I wtus advtoed to try Chamberlain’• Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and one bottle cured tne.” Far aria by H_ J. La mar ft Boon, Anwraintc fiubacribers must pay up and net allow small balances to run over from week to week. The carriers have been la strueted to aoeept no port payinont ftwm aayoao ■Am Aaril hrt. MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, SOUTHERN’S EARNINGS What the Big System Has Done During the Last Year. The fourth annual report of the Southern Railway has just come from the prese. The company’s gross earnings from oper ations for the year ending June 30, 1898, were 22,000,000 in round figures, and the net earnings from operations were |6,593,- >74. This was an increase of nearly $748.- 000 over the net earnings for the previous year. The Southern had to pay out $5,862,767 for interest and rentals. The balance car ried to credit of profit and loss was more than $1,000,000. In the report are included the earnings of 'the Memphis and Charleston for four months. During the year the system’s mileage was increased by 404 miles. Preaident Samuel Spencer says that company has no floating debts and has had none since its organization. The maximum In fixed charges, as provided in the plan of reor ganization, was reached during 'the year. The Southern railway has $120,000,000 of common stock and $57,200,000 of preferred stock. No di vid ent was paid on the com mon stock, and only 1 per cent was paid on the preferred. The company’s funded debt amounts to $101,236,000, while its out standing securities of leased properties, equipment notes, certificates of indebted ness and other obligations amount to about $14,000,000 more, making the company’s total capital fund and Hen liabilities amount 'to $292,636,617. The total cost of the system's properties Is figured at $263,580,831 and the equip ment cost about $12,000,000. The freight earnings Increased $1,015,403, or 8.20 per cent. The number of tons of freight carried, in creased 649,306 tons, or 8.21 per eent. The number of tons of freight carried one mile increased 112,658,457 tons, or 8.51 per cent. The average length of haul of freight was 167.95 miles in 1898, and 167.50 miles in 1897. The average rate per ton per mile was .936 of a cent In 1898, as compared with .936 of a cent the previous year. The average earnings of freight trains per mile run were $1,392 In 1898, -as com pared with $1,385 In 1897. The passenger earnings Increased $428,- 033, or 8.86 percent. The number of passengers carried in creased 143,020, or 3.52 per cent. The number of passengers carried one mile increased 22,8X5,869, or 11.21 per cent. The average rate per passenger per mile was 2.322 cents, as compared with 2,372 In the previous year, a decrease of 2.11 per cent. A vast amount of rolling stock to neces sary to operate a system 5,200 miles long. The Southern has 21,162 freight cars, 593 passenger cars and 686 locomotives. More than half of its freight cars have been equipped wl<h air brakes and more than four-fifths have automatic couplere. HOW TD LOOK GOOD. Good looks are really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a healthy con dition of all the vital organs. If the liver is inactive, you have a bilious look; if your stomach Is disordered, you have a dyspeptic look; if your kidneys are af fected, you have a pinched look. Secure good health, and you will surely have good looks. “Electric Bitters” Is a good Altera tive and Tonic. Acts directly on the stom ach, liver and kidneys, purifies the blood, cures pimples, blotches and bolls, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at H. J. Lamar & Sons’ Drug Store. 50 cents per bottle. fV/S!PELAS Two Diseases That Causs Their Victims to Be Shunned by Their Feliow-Man. Sfrixsfield, Mo. Gbwti.knrn : I commenced taking P. P. P., Lippmau’a Great Remedy, last Tall, for Erysipelas. My face was eom plat«ly covered with the disease ; I took a abort course of P. P. P,, and It soon disappeared. Thia Spring I became ■such debilitated and again took an other eourse, and I am now in good eeaditioa. I consider P. P. P. one of the beet blood preparations on the market, and for those who need a gen eral tonic to build up the systom and has prove the appetite 1 consider that it has no equal. Will say, anyone who eares te trv P. P. P. will not be disap pointed In Its results, and I, therefore, eheerfully recommend it. ARTHUR WOOD, Springfield, Mo. Erysl'neljts and Scrofula cured by P. P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy, surely and without fall. Spjtnto field, Mo. G»ntt.kmsw: Last June I had a acrofulous sore which broke out on my ankle. It prew rapidly, and soon ex tended from my ankle to my knee. I (sot »ne bottle of your P. P. P., Lipp man's Great Remedy, and was agree ably surprised at the result. The entire sore healed at once. I think I have taken almost every medicine recom mended for scrofula and catarrh, and Senr P. P. P. Is the best I have ever rled. It cannot be recommended too highly for blood poison, eta. Yours very truly, W. P.'HUNTER. P. P. P. cures all blood and skin dis ease, both in men and women. Rheumatism, which makes man's life a hell upon earth, can be relieved at onee by P. P. P., Lippman’s Great Rem edy. It makes a PERMANENT cure. r. P. P. la the great and only remedy for advanced casts of catsrrn. Stnp- Eage es the aostrils and difficulty fn reathing when lying down, P. P. P. relieves at once. P. P. P. cures blood poisoning In all (V various stages, aid ulcers, sores ami kidney complaints. by all Srarfista. UFFMaM BkOS.. Apethecsries, Sots Prop'ra, Uppcssa’s Btock, Sevsuah. Go. FOR RENT, A three room furnished cottage with meals at hotel. Reduced rates for eight or ten. Apply to FLAT ROCK INN, Fiat Rock, North Carolina. M. S. Farmer, Proprietor. VmiEN Easily,Quickly, Permanently Restored MAGNETIC NERVINE SXXi sntee to Cure Insomnia, Fits, Dizziness, Hysteria Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality. Seminal Losses, Faihng Memory—the result of Over work, Worry, Youth or Over-uiduigenee Pries 50c. and si; 6 hexes >5. s ... Po E < l u * c 'f> positive and lasting results in Sexual Weakness. Impotence Nervous DsNlitv and Lost Vitality, use YELLOW LABEL SPEClAL—double strength—will give strength and tone lo every part and effect a permanent care. Cheapest and best. 100 Pills $2; by mail. FREE —bottle of the famous Japanese LI vat Pellets will be given with a $1 box or more of Msg setic Nervine, tree. Sold onl» by For Sole at Goodwyn’s Drug Store and Brown House Pharmacy. lICASTORIA w For Infants and Children Y° u r Always Bought 1 AjcpekiblePrcpardtioalorAs- y simulatingtteFoodancPtegula- # ting the Stomachs andßowels es JBeaTS IjllO Jr A -——— ife Signature z/S w Promotes ° ' ness and Rest.Gontaias neither p - g ( Opium.Morphiite nor Mineral. 01 IF • Not Narcotic. Kj i 81\ iK* The ——/ |j f !/1 n n I Apcrfrctßemedy forConstlpa- 1% 111 U I (ion. Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, If ®af Worms .Convulsions, Feverish- 1 Vaii i ness and Loss OF Sleep. KjP I HI! hAVH (Always Bought, n i QTfi RIA I EXACT COPTf OF WRAPPER. || Og | 4h| 'Lbw* , , , . —— TME ertt r- r.O* « any YORK city. BYCICLES AT COST FOR CASH Strictly high grade, up-te-date, 1898 models. None better on the market. $75.00 Wheel, “The World” for $57 50 75.00 “ “Thistle,” special Road Race:, 60 00 75 00 “ “Hussar,” 55 00 50.00 “ “The World,” 37 50 Albo one second-hand wheel in good condition for 20 00 OAROIsN.FUBNITUirE MAN FOR RENT DWELLINGS. Ble Tn n co?i^“treZt ellh * of Capt - rark ’ 8 7 ro . o ™ . Paschal house, 6 rooms and kitchen third 758 Second st., 8 rooms and kitchen. door on Cleveland avenue, Vinevlile. 459 New st., 8 rooms and kitchen. Irvine house, 6 rooms and kitchen, third 457 New st., 5 rooms and kitchen. door from ear line on Rogers avenue. 136 Cole st., 5 rooms and kitchen. 1363 Oglethorpe st., 9 rooms and kitchen, 81*0 with stables. 417 Forsyth st., 6 rooms and kitchen. Cherry' Fhir<l 664 Plum st., 7 rooms and kitchMi. 419 Cherry. 765 Spring st., 4 rooms and kitchen. 421 Cherry. 317 College st., 10 rooms and kitchen. 125 Cotton avenue. 763 Cherry st., 6 rooms and kitchen. Cotton avenue, no: . .a . , 465 Cotton avenue. 915 Walnut st., 10 rooms and kitchen. 4 g, 917 Walnut st., 9 rooms and kitchen. 259 Second. 12 room house on <»crry street suitable 357 and 359 Second, will rent portion or all. for boarding, one block from business | Wolff & Happ building, half or all, will ar— , portion of city. range suitable for tenants. Dr. Shorter’s residence on Orange street. I Stables near Cox & Chappell's. The elegant three story store, No. 454 Third street, now occupied by Messrs. Culver & Corbin. Best city, out of town and country trade location in the city. Moderate rent. H. HORNE, 315 Third street. Central ot Georgia Railway Company VOEORGIA Schedules in Effect June 12, ibqX, Standard fin t 7 90th Meridian. _. N ®: ‘ I , N ?A 7 ‘l No - I *l ST A TIONS I No. 2•' No. 8 •i~N»7T” /o .->< 7 0 40 pm '. 700 am|Lv Ma con .. .Ari 725 pmi 740 ami 350 pm " pm | 840 pml 850 Ar - ...Fort Valley Lv 6ZI pmj 639 am. 242 pm . 9 3o pmj. I 9 40 am Ar. ... Per ry Lv|! 4 45 pm] |!11 30 am I |H 15 am Ar. ..Columbus. . .Lvj 400 pmj 1.... | 5 50 pm Ar. . ..B'm ham. . .Lvl 9 30 am! < 1 52 pm 10 01 pm: |Ar ..Amer ieus . ...Lv| j 518 am| 107 pm ' • II piU 10 25 pm Ar. •• Smit hville ..Lvl | 455 amjf 12 42 pm 2 ™ pmll 05 pm f Ar ••••Alb any ...Lvl ’ 415 am| 11 35 am 8 --Col urn bia .... Lv| | | g 55 am 8w pm I-Ar .. .Daw son ... .Lvl I j nSO am 346 pm |Ar ... uth bert ...Lv| | j u q am 500 pm No 9 • lAr .. .Fort Gaines ..Dv| No 10 •! I 9 55 (up 4 37 pm 7 45 am|Ar ....Eufaula ....Lvl 7 30 pm I 10 20 a n * P m I |Ar Ozark .. . ,Lv|... I | 650 am 6 00 pm| J 9 05 am|Ar ..Union Springs Lv| 6 00 pmi I 9 05 am 72 & Pm| I |Ar Tr oy. . ..Lv:.. ( j 7 66 7 30 pmi | 10 35 am|Ar.. Montg ornery ..Lv| 420 pmj | 7 40 am No ll.*| No. 3.»| No. I.*' j No. 2.»i No.No 800 am 425 amj 420 pmjLv ... .Macon. . ..Ar| 11 19 am! 11 10 pm 720 pm 922 am] 540 am] 540 pm|Lv. .Barnesville . .Lv| 946 ; 945 pm 605 pm !12 noon| | 7 10 pm|Ar.. .Thomaston. ..Lvl 7 00 ami ]l 3 00 955 am] 608 am| 613 pm|Ar. .. .Griffin. . ..Lv| »12 am] 915 wn 539 p la illl 47 am] |Ar.. ..Newnan. . .Lvl j I 3 2S pi* |! 1 05 pmj |Ar.. ..Carrollton. .Lv] j 1 j iq pjM 11 20 am| 7 35 am] 735 pm|Ar.. . Atlanta. . ~Lv| 750 am' 750 pm 40C pm No. 6. 11 No. 4. ♦! No. 2*j , N*. I.’l N. 3. «j Ni~i~ 7 30 pm 11 38 pm 11 25 am]Lv. .. .Macon. . ..Ar| | 3 55 ami 7 45 810 pm 12 19 am 12 08 pmj Ar. . ..Gordon. .. .Ar| 400 pm| 210 amj 710 am 8 50 pm ! 1 15 pmj Ar. .Milledgeville .Lvj! 300 pmj I 620 am 10 00 pm ’ 3 00 pmjAr.. ..Eatonton. . .Lv!l2 50 pm; I 5 25 am 1 6 50 pmjAr. ~ Covington. ..Lv|! 9 20 am| | •11 25 ami’ll 38 pm|*li 25 am'Lv. .. Macon . ..Arj* 345 pmj* 355 amj* 34iTpm 1 17 pmj 1 30 am t 1 17 pm|Lv. . .Ten niHe Lvj 156 pmi 1 52 am| 1 56 pm 230 pm 325 am 230 pmiLv. . Wad ley. .. .Lvjfl2 56 pm 12 25 am] 12 55 pm 251 pm 244 am 251 pm|Lv. .. Midville. . Lvj 12 11 pm 12 25 am| 12 11 pm 855 pmj 335 am 400 pm]Lv. ...Millen. .. .Lvj 11 36 am 11 50 pmja 810 am I 5935 pm 442 am 520 pm|Lv .Wayne eboro .. Lvj 945 am 10 34 pm' 725 am slO 50 pm 635am1 740 pmLv... .Augusta. . .Lv ! 740 am 840 pmi 615 am I ~ No. 16. ♦} 1 NO. 15. • ij— ——— ....................j 10 45 amt Ar. ...Mad ison. .. Lv 440 pm • Dally. ! Dally except Sunday, f al station. ■ Sunday anly. Solid trains are run to ands from Mac on and Montgomery via Eufaula, lavas nah and Atlanta via Macon, Macon and Albany via Smithville, Macon and Binning ham via Columbus. Elegant sleeping ca is on trains No. 8 and 4 between Maces and Savannah and Aalanta and Savannah. Sleepers for Savannah are ready for acts pancy In Macon depat at 9:00 p. m. Pas- sengers arriving In Macon on No. * and Sa vannah on No. 4, are allowed to remain in sleeper until 7a. m. Parlor cars between Macon and Atlanta on trains Nos. 1 and 2. Seat fare 35 cents. Passengers for Wrightsville, Dublin and Sandersville take 11:25. Train arrives Fort Gaines 4:45 p. m., and leaves 10:10 a. m. Sundays. For Ozark arrives 7:30 p. m. and leaves 7:80 a m. For further information or ach edules ta points beyond our lines, address J. G. CARLISLE, T. P. A., Macsn, Ga. HP. BONNER, U. T. A. ■. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager J. C. HAII<B, G. P. A. THEO. D. KUNE, G ensral SuperintendeuL AS HOT SPRINGS, North Carolina. Mountain Park Hotel and Baths—Modern Hotel Idea* in Every Deoeetmeni—T>au and Service Unexcelled. Swimming Pool, Bowling, Tennis, Golf, Pool and Billiards. Photographer's dark room. Riding. Driving, Tennis. Large Ball Room and Auditorium. Special reducM summer rates. BEARDEN'S Orchestra T D Groeo. . POPULAR SUMMER > S U ° W ° ae 1110 mOBt p °P ular summer reeorta in the South— the homP of r ho ’ BCe ° ery S '’ TK ’ rt ’- beaUti fUI drlT< *' 8004 ,irery ' Hptel bells tpU Beeke f an <l the com mercial traveler. Elegantly built, electric £mHies Manv p one> hot anl Cf>,d baths tMI rate, to formation tfven by summer from lower Georgia and Florida. Further in- D. L. DETTOR. Proprietor Newport of the South. SEASON OF 1898. Hotel St. Simon St. Simons Island, Georgia. Newly equipped. Rates SIO.OO per week. Sea bath- Fishing, Boating, Lawn Tennis, Driving, Dancing, Billiards and Pool. Two gennans 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. \ n 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 agexit. I). G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, O. WslMi TO GO To Tfte mountains. Wann Springs, Ga. IB In too mountains, Whore the weather is delightfully cool and the conditions are all healthful. The Warm Springs’ water is the best acd most pleasant cure for dyspepsia, ’insom nia, rheumatism and general debility. Hotel accommodations and service flrst olass. Rates moderate. Easily reached by the Macon and Bir mingham railroad. For further Information write to CHHS. L. DHViS, Proprietor. hotellß 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 Ln center of finest scenery at Tallulah. Climate unsurpassed. Hight elevation. All modern improvements. Table excel lent. MRS. B. A. YOUNG, Proprietress, Tallulah Falls, Ga. Glenn Springs Hotel, Glenn Springs, S. C. Queen of Southern Summer Resorts. There Is but one Glenn Springs and R has no eyual on the continent f<ir the a tian 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 “Maas ' so extensively known and used, is manu factoured. Opens June 15, and is the most home-like place In Virginia for recuper atlng. A modern writer on the mineral waters of Europe and America says: “Bedford Springs water cures when all other reme dies have failed, and especially inderange ments peculiar to females." Long distance telephone connections, send for a 50-page interesting ph am pl et of proofs. P. O. Bedford Springs. Va. J. R. MABEN, JB., Proprietor. | STURTEVANT HOUSE. 1 Broadway and 29th St,, New York, I American A »uror>ean plan. Wil liam F. Bang, proprietor. Broad way cable ears passing the doot transfer to all parte of the cite. Saratoga Springs THE KENSINGTON, and coCtacea. H. A ft W. F. BANG, Psoprietors, New York Office, Sturtevant House. Ocean View House. St. Simon’s Island Beach, Ga Fine surf bathing, good table, artesian water. a. T. ARNOLD, Proprietor. | For Business Men | > In the heart of the wholesale dis < k > trict. < * | For Shoppers > 3 minutes walk to Wanamakera; i * w 8 minutes walk to Sffegel-Coopers > Big Store. Easy of access to the < > great Dry Goode Store*. q > For Sightseers <► < * One block from care, giving < * 1, easy traneporUUion to aM pointe ’ > 1 Hutcl Ain, INew York. ;> Cor. 11th St. and University Place. Only one block from 4 * Broadway. 4 * ROOMS, $1 UP. RESTAURANT, % Prices Reaeoi.;kbte. < > MACON AND BIRMINGHAM R. R. CO. (Pino Monwtain Route.) Effective June 5. 1898. 4 20 pmiLv Macon ArflO 36 am 4 20 pmjLv Sofkee Lvpo 14 am 546 pmiLv ... .Colloden.... Lvj 999 am 5 57 ptmLv ...Yatesville... Lvj 8 57 am 6 27 pmiLv ...Thomaston... Lv| 8 28 am 707 prafAr. ..Woodbury... Lvj 748 am SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 7 25 pm Ar. Warm Springe. Lv 7 29 am 6 03 pm Ar ....Columbus... Lv 8 90 am 8 07 pm Ar Griffin Lv « 50 am 9 45 pmjAr Atlanta..... Lv 5 20 un SOUTHER.. RAILWAY. 4 20 amlLv .... Atlanta ....Ar 9 40 am 6 03 pmiLv Griffin Lv 9 M am 5 25 pmLLv ....Columbua.... Lv 9 «9 am 6 49 pmjLv .Warm Springs. Lv 8 06 Mjn 707 pm|Lv.. ..Woodbury.. . Ar 7 48 am 727 pmjAr ..Harrte City.. Lv 728 am CENTRAL OF GEORGIA. ~ 7 45 pmjAr ...Greenville... Lv 7 10 am 5 20 pmfLv ....Cotantai.... Ar 9 49 am 7 27 pm'Lv ..Harris City.. Ar 7 38 am 8 20 pmsAr ....LaGrange.... Lv 6 36 am Close connection at Macon and Sofkoe witb the Georgia Southern and Florida Central of Georgia for Savannah, Albany, Southwest Georgia points and Montgom ery, Ala., at Yatesville for Roberta and pointe on the Atlanta and Florida di vision of the Southern railway, at Harris City City with Central ot Gtorgia railway, for Greenville and Columbus, at Wood bury with Southern railway for Oolum tms and Griffin, at LaGrange with the Atlanta and West Point railway. JULIAN R. LANE. General Manager, Macon. Ga. R. G. STONE, Gen. Paes. Agt. PULLMAN CAR LINE ifgjv |t| > 1111 h BETWEEN Ctoctnoati, Indianapolis, or Louisville and Chicago and THE NORTHWEST. Pulman Buffet Sleepers on night train*. Parlor chairs and dining ear* on day trains. The Monon tradite make th* te*t f«t time between the Southern winter re aorte and the summer resort* *d tea North weet. W. H. MeDOEL, V. P. ft G. M. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., Chicago, HL For further partdeuiars addrea* R. W. GLAMiNG, Gen. Agt. Trt>oma«vHla, Qa. @Hlg N la * non-poisoaena ernedy for Gonorrhana. Jleet, Spermatarrhaß* Vhitos. nnnatnral dla hare‘*. or any inflamaia iou, irritation or uksra tion of hi nr.a n a bimu branoa. Nori-artringmt. Sold by Dru«UU, or »ont in plain wrapper, by express prepaid, for *I.OO. or 3 botttaa, $2.7&. Circuit *ot an New Steam DYE WORKS, F. H. JOHNSON, Prop’r. 25c Second Street, Macon, Ga. Radies’ dresses nicely cleaned and pressed. Also Gents’ Linen Suits.