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ART OF FRIENDSHIP.
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON ON MAKING
AND KEEPING FRIENDS.
A God Given Regulation Ardent Friond*
and Ardent Fnerniea Cover Up the
Fault* and Kstol the Virtue* - The
Hearty Handeha&e and It* Great Value.
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elation.]
WtHHiWTON, Sept. 11.—The obtaining I
of g<xxl friends, which most look upon as a
mutter of happy accident, Dr. Talmage in |
this sennon shows to be a matter of intel- ’
ligi nt selection; t< st, I’roverlw xvili, 21, ?
A man that hath friends must show him
self friendly.”
About the sacred and divine art of mak- i
ing «n<l k<«eping friends 1 s]stak —a sub- |
Ject nnwhnh I never heard of anyone
preiehing—and yet God thought it of |
enough im|>ortnnce to put it, inti- middle 1
of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, '
boumhwl on one nidi by the |*>ptilar psalm |
ol David, and on the ocher by the writings '
of Isaiah, the great tof the prophets. It |
secmsall a matter of haphazard how many
friends we have or whether wc have any
friends at all, but there is notiiihg a- <i
dental about it. There is a law which
governs the accretion and dispersion .of
friendship. They did not “jti-.t happen
so” any more than the lido just happen
to rise or fall or the sun jest hap]x ns to
rise or set,. It is a science, an art, u God
given regulation.
Tell me how friendly v>n are to others,
and 1 will tell you how friendly others are
to you. Ido not say you v. ill not have
enemies. Indoeu the liest way to get ar
dent friends is to have ardent enemies, if
you get their enmity in doing the right,
thing. Good men and women will always
have cni-rnles, because their goodness is a
perpetual rebuke to evil, but, this antago
nism of foes will make more intense the
love of your adherents. Your friends will
gather closer around you because of the at
tacks of your assailants. The more your
enemies abuse you the better your coad
jutors will think of you.
Our Ih-wt Friends.
The bent friends we have ever had ap
peared at some juncture when vre were
especially bomtmrded. There have been
times in my life when unjust assault mul
tiplied my friends, as n< ar as I could cal
culate, about 50 a minute. You are bound
to some people by many cords that, neither
time nor eternity can break, anil I will
warrant that, many of those cords were
twisted hy hands malevolent. Human na
ture was shipwrecked about 5U centuries
ago, the captain of that craft, one Adam,
ami Ids first mate running the famous
cargo aground on a snag in the river Hid
dekel But there was at least one good
trait, of human nature t hat waded safely
ashore from that shipwreck, and that is
the disposition to take the- part of those
unfairly dealt with. When it is thorough
ly d< Im rst rated that some one is being
persecuted, although nt the start slander
ous tongues were busy enough, defenders
finally gather around as thick as honey
bees on a trellis of bruised honeysuckle.
Il when s< t upon by the turies you cun
have grace enough to keep your mouth
shut, and preserve your equipoise and let
others tight your battle--, you will find
yourself after awhile with a whole cordon
of allies. Had not the world given to
('hri.-t on his arrival nt I’niestino n very
.cold shoulder there would not have been
one half us many angels chanting glory
out of tl-.o hymn books of the.sky, bound
in blin k lldsof midnight. Had it not been
for the heavy and jagged and tortuous
cross Christ would not have been the ad
mired ami loved of men- people than any
being whoever touched loot on either the
wv.--terii or Western hemisphere. Instead
therefore of giving up in d< spair Lee oi.se
you bav<’ enemies r< oi<e in the fa; IM hat
they rally for yon the most. helpful and
enthusiastic admirers. Jn ether words,
there is no virulence Hint can hinder my
text, from coming tmo. ‘A man that- hath
friends must show himself friendly.”
I Jf is my ambition to project, especially
upon the young, a thought which may be
Hlgnly rb.ape their destiny !'< rthv here and
the hereafter Before you show yourself
friendly you must, be friendly. I do not.
recommend a dramatized geniality. There;
is su< h ,u thing n.t pretending to be en
rapport with others when we tiro their dire
destriletante. .Hid talk against, them and
w ish thorn calamity Judas covered up
bis treachery by a, resounding kiss, and
caresses may be deumnbical. Better the
mythological Cetiterus. (he three headed
dog of hell, barking at us, than the wolf
in sheep's clothing, its brindled hide cov
ered up by doceplivt wool anti its dvathful
howl radeneed into an innocent Ideating.
Disraeli writes of Lord Mani red. who,
.after committing many outrugi s upon the
people seemed suddenly to become friend
ly and invited them to a banquet. After
most <>t the i .iir :- food had bet'it served
he blew a horn, which was in those times
h signal tor the ;■< wants to bring on the
d<-serf, but in this case it was the signal
for ai-sassins (o enter ami slyy the guests.
His pretended friendliness wan a cruel
fraud, ami there are now people whose
smile Is a falsehood.
Orrniilr Tide* «»f Mxhl’.h Grh.e.
Before you itegin to show yourself
f ; i.'iully you must, be friendly. Get your
heart-right with God anti man, anti this
gttktv* will become easy. You may by
your own resolution get your nature* into
ji .semblance of this virtue, but. the grace
of God can sublimely lift you into it.
jSail'.ng all the river I'bames two' v--els
ran aground. ’The owni-r.; of one got 100
horses and pulled on the gr<nitide<t ship
mid pulled it j ieccs The owners of
the o<her groundtxl ye-s. I waited till the
tides came in ami easily floated the ship
out of all trouble. So wo may pull and
haul nt one grounded human nature and
try to get it. into (.tetter condition, but
then' is nothing like the ocemiie tides of
God's uplifting grace. If, when under
the Hash of the Holy Ghost, we see our
own foibles and defects and depravities
■w«v will be very lenient and very easy with
others We will look into their characters
for things commendatory and not damna
tory. If you would rub your own eye a
little more vigorously, you would find a
mate in it. the extraction of which would
keep you so busy you would not have
mn< h time to shoulder your broadax and
go forth to split up the t*«in in your
neighbor's eye. In a Christian spirit keep
on exploring the characters of those yot,
inert, and 1 am sure you will find some
thing in them fit for a foundation of
friendliness.
You invite me to come to your country
seat and spend a few days. Thank you!
I arrive about noon of a beautiful sum
mer day. What do you do? As soon tvs I
arrive you take me out. under the shadow
of live great, elms. You take me down to
the artificial hike, the spotteil trout Heat
ing in and out among the white pillars of
Jhe pond lilies You take mo to the stalls
and kennels where you keep your fine
stock, atld here are the Durham cattle and
the Gordon setters, and the high stepping
st<Msls. by pawing and neighing, the only
language t’vey > an speak, asking for har
ness or saddle and a short turn down the
road. Then we go biu K B the house, and
you get me in the right light, and show
me the Kennetts and the Bierstadts on the
wall, ami take me into the music room
and show me the birdcages, the canaries
in the bay window answering the robins
in the tree tops. Thank you! I never en
joy'd myself more in the same length of
time. Nuw, why do we not do so with the
characters of others, and show the bloom
and the music and the bright fountains*
Xo. We say: ‘ Come along and let me
show you that man’s character. Here is a
green scummed frog pond, and there’s a
silt hy cellar, and I guess under that hedge
there mu>i lie a black snake. Come and
let ii» tor an hour or two regale ourselves
with the nuisances.”
Cover Vp the Fault*.
Oh, my friends, better cover up the
faults and extol the virtues, and this habit,
onee established of universal friendliness
will liex'oine a* easy as it is fur a syringa
to Hood the air with sweetness, as easy as
it w ill be further on in the season for a
quail to whistle up from the gra.-»s. When
we hear something bad about somebody
whom we always supposed to be good, take
out your lead pencil and say: ’’Let me s»>e!
Before I accept that baleful story against
that man’s character I will takeoff from
jt 25 yer cent for the habit of exaggeration
v. l.icfi lH>longH to the man who first told
the story, then I will takeoff 25’iser cant
for the additions which the spirit of gossip
in every comnv’nity has put upon the
original story ; then I will take off 25 per
cent from the fact that the man may have
been put into circumstances of overpower
ing tmnpuition. So I have taken off 75
l»er cent. But I have not heard his side of
t he story at all, and for that reason I take
•>ff the remaining 25 percent. Excuse me,
sir. I don’t believe a word of it.”
Bui here comes in a defective maxim, so
often quoted, “Where there is so much
smoke there rnnst4 H ‘sonic firo.” Ixxik at
all the smoke for years around Jenner, the
introducer of vacz.-i nation; and the smoke
around Columbus, the discoverer; and the
smoke around Martin Luther and Savona
rola and Galilee and Paul and John and
tell inc whe-to was the lire! That is one
of tlie ratanic arts, to make smoke without
fire. Slander, like the world, may be
ma le out of m.thing. If the-Christian,
fair minded, common sensieal spirit in re
gard to otivers predominated in the world,
v».t should have the millennium in about
six weeks, for would not that be lamb and
lion, cow and leopard, lying down togeth
er: tilling but the trace of God can
dver put us inu» such a habit of mind and
heart as t h The tendency is in the op
posite direction. This is the way the
world t.-.lks: I put my name on the back
of a man’s note, and I had to pay it, and
I will never again put my name on the
ba kof any man's note. I gave a beggar
10 eent.s, and five minutes after I saw him
mb-ring a liquor store to spend it; I will
never again give a cent to a beggar. I
helped that young man start in business,
a;.. t, 10, after awhile he came and opened
a store almost next door to me and stole
my customers! I will never again help a
young man to start in business. I trusted
in what my neighbor promised to do, and
he broke, his word, and the psalmist wafl
right before he corrected himself, for “all
men are liars.” So men tiecome suspi
cious and saturnine and selfish, and at ev
ery additional wrong done them they put
an< thcr iay< r on the wall of their exclu
siveness and another bolt to the door that
shuts them out from sympathy with the
world. They get cheated out of ? 1,000 or
misinterpreted or disappointed or betrayed,
and higher goes the wall and faster goes
aiiothi r bolt, not realizing that while they
lock others out they lock themselves in,
and some day they wake up to find them
selves imprisoned in a dastardly habit.
No fi lends, to others, others are no friends
to f hem. There’s tin island half way be
tween JCngland, Scotland and Ireland call
ed the Isle of Man, and the seas dash
ngaipst nil sides of it, and I am told there
is no more lovely place than that Isle of
Man, but, when a man becomes insular in
his <lisposit.ion and cuts himself off from
the mainland of the world’s sympathies,
he is despicable, and all around him is an
Atlantic ocean of selfishness. Behold that
Islo of Man.
The Poise of the Head.
Now, supposing that ytfti have by a di
vine regeneration got right toward God
and humanity, and you start out to prac
tice my text “A man that hath friends
must show himself friendly.” Fulfill this
by all forms of appropriate salutation.
Have you noticed that the head is so poised
that tlio easiest thing on earth is to give a
nod of recognition* To swing the head
from side to side, as when it is wagged in
derision, is unnatural and unpleasant; to
throw it hack invites vertigo, but to drop
Hie chin in greeting is accompanied with
so little exertion that all day long and ev
ery day yi i might practice it without the
least semblance of fatigue. So, also, the
structure of the hand indicates hand shak
ing; the knuckles not made so that the
lingers can turn out, but so made that the
fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands,
and the thumb divided from and set aloof
from the fingers, so that while the fingers
take your neighbor’s hand on one side the
thumb takes it on the other, and, pressed
toget her, all the faculties of the hand give
emphasis to the salutation. Five sermons
in every healthy hand urge us to hand
shaking.
B sides this every day when you start
out load yourself up with kind thoughts,
kind words, kind expressions and kind
greetings. When a man or woman does
well, tell him so, tell her so. If you meet)
some one who is improved in health, and
I it. is demonstrated in girth and color, say,
I “How well you look! But if, on the oth-
I er hand, under the wear and tear of life he
app. ars pale and exhausted, do not intro
duce sanitary subjects or say anything at
all about physical condition. In the case
of improved health you have hy your
words given another impulse toward the
robust and the jocund, while in the rose
of the failing health you have arrested the
decline by your silence, by which he con
cludes, “If I were really so badly off, he
would have said something about it.” We
are all, especially those of a nervous tem
perament, susceptible to kind words and
discouraging words. Form a conspiracy
against us, and let ten men meet us at cer
tain points on our way over to business,
and let each one say, “How sjck you
look’” though we should start out well,
after meeting the first apd hearing his de
pressing salute we would begin to ex
amine our symptoms. After meeting the
second gloomy accosting we would con
clude we did not feel quite as well as
usual. After meeting the third our sen
sations would be dreadful, and after meet
ing the fourth, unless we suspected a con
spiracy. we would go home and go to bed,
and the other six pessimists would be a
useless surplus of discourageipent.
My dear sir. my dear madam, what do
you m;■ <:. 1 going about this world with
disheartenmeutsf Is not the supply of
gloom and trouble and misfortune gjipjigh
to meet the demand without your running
a factory of pins and spikes? Why should
you plant- black and blue in the world
when God so seldom plants them? Plenty
<_»f irh't colors, plenty of yellow, plenty
of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom
3 plant black or i-Jt; ■. I never saw a black
flower, and there’s only hero and there a
.bitg'bell or a violet, but the blue is for the
most part reserved for the sky, and we
have to look up Jo see that, and when we
look, up no color can do ns harm. Why
.not plant along the paths of others the
brit;htui'sses instead of the glooms?
Ho not prophesy misfortune. If you
must- be a prophet, at all, be an Ezekiel
and .rot a Jeremiah. In ancient; times
proji'nets who foretold evil were doing
righ;, for they were divinely directed, but
the prophets of evil in our time are gener
ally false p rophets Some of our w’eather
wisc people prophesied we-would have a
summer of unparalleled heat. It has been
a very comfortable summer. Last fall all
the weather pft’iphets agreed in saying we
should have a winter of extraordinary se
verity, blizzard on the heels of blizzard.
It was the mildest winter 1 ever remember
to have passed. Indeetl the autumn and
the spring almost shoved winter out of the
I pnu'ession. Real troubles have no heralds
running ahead of their somber chariots,
and no one has any authority in pur time
to ant ounce their coming. Load yourself
up with hopeful words and deeds. The
hymn once sung in our churches is unlit
co be sung, for it says:
We sheaid suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep miser
able aii the time. The old song sung at
tiio pi;u'.< s a quarter of a century ago was
right— K ind words can never die. ’ ’ Such
kind words have tlx-ir pests in kind hearts,
and when they are hatched out and take
wing they circle round in Hights that nev
er ee.asi. and sportsman's gun cannot
shoot them, and st. pins cannot ruffle their
wings, and when they erase flight in these
lower skies of earth they sweep around
amid tin- higher altitudes of heaven. At
Baltin ore I talked into a phonograph.
The cylinder containing the words was
sent on to Washington, and the next day
that cylinder from another phonographic
instrument, when turned, gave back to
mo the very words I hud uttered the day
before and with the same intonations.
Scold into a phonograph, and it will scold
I back. Four mild words into a phono
graph. and it will return the gentleness.
Society and the world and the church are
phonogruj '' !S Give them acerbity and
rough treatment, and acerbity and rough
treutinent you will get back- Give them
practical friendliness, and they will give
back praetieal friendliness. A father ask
ed his little daughter, “Mary, why is ii
that everybody loves you?” i?he answer
ed, “I don't know, unless it is because J
love everybody.” “A man that hath
friends must show himself friendly.”
The Spirit of Sacrifice.
We want something like that spirit of
sacrifice for others which was seen In the
English channel, where in th* storm a
boat containing three men was upset, and
all throe were in the water struggling for
their lives. A boat came to their relief,
and a rope was thrown to one of them,
and he refused to take it, saying: “First
fling it to Torn. He is just ready to go
down. lean last some time longer. ” A
man like that, be he sailor or landsman,
be he in upper ranks of society or lower
ranks, will always have plenty of friends.
What is true manward is true Godward.
We must I® the friends of God if we want
him to be our frimd. We cannot treat
Christ badly all our lives and expect him
to treat us lovingly. I was reading of a
sea fight in which Ixird Nelson captured a
French officer, and when the French officer
offered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson re
plied, “First give me your sword, and
then give me your hand.” Surrender of
our resistance to God must precede God’S
proffer of pardon to us. Repentance be
fore forgivem sx. You must give up your
rebellious sword Indore you can get a grasp
of the divine hand.
Oh. what a glorious state of things to
have the friendship of God! Why, we
could afford to have all the world against
us and all other worlds against us if wo
h:ul God for us. He could in a minute
blot out this universe, and in another
minute make a Ixstter universe. I have no
idea that God tried hard when he made
all things. The most brilliant thing
known to us is light, and for the creation
of that he only used a word of command.
As out <>f a flint a frontiersman strikes a
spark, so out of one word God struck the
noonday sun. For the making of the pres
ent universe I do not read that God lifted
so much as a finger. The Bible frequently
speaks of God’s hand and God’s arm and
God’s shoulder and God’s foot; then sup
pose ho should put hand and arm and
shoulder and foot to utmost tension, what
could he not make? That God of such de
monstrated and undemonstrated strength
you may have for your present and ever
lasting friend, not a stately and reticent
friend, hard to get at, but as approachable
as a country mansion on a summer day
when all the doors and windows aro wide
open. Christ said, “I am the door.” And
he is a wide door, a high door, a palace
door, an always open door.
My 4-year-old child got hurt and did not
cry until hours after, when -her mother
camo home, and then she burst into weep
ing, and some of the domestics, not under
standing human nature, said to her, “Why
did you not cry before?” She answered,
“There win no one to cry to.” Now, I
have to tell you that while human sym
pathy may lie absent, divine sympathy is
alway accessible. Give God your love, and
get his love; your service, ami secure his
help; your repentance, and have his par
don. God a friend? Why, that means all
your wounds medicated, all your sorrows
soothed, and if some sudden catastrophe
should hul l you out of earth it would only
hurl you into heaven.
The Two Christians.
If God is your friend, you cannot go out
of the world too quickly or suddenly, so
far as your own happiness Ss concerned.
There were two Christians /zho entered
heaven. The one was standing at a win
dow in perfect health, watching a shower,
and the lightning instantly slew him, but
tlie lightning did not Hash down the sky
as swiftly as his spirit flashed upward.
The Christian man who died on the same
day next door had been for a year or two
failing in health, and for the last three
months had suffered from a disease that
made the nights sleepless and the days an
anguish. Do you not really think that
the case of the one went instantly
was more desirable than the one who en
tered the shining gate through a long lane
of insomnia and congestion? In the one
ease it was like your standing wearily at a
door, knocking and waiting and wonder
ing if it will ever open, and knocking and
waiting again, while in the other case
it was a swinging open of the door at the
first touch of your knuckle. Give your
friendship to God, and have God's friend
ship for you, and even the worst accident
will be a victory.
How refreshing is human friendship,
.in 1 true friends, what priceless treasures!
When sickness comes and trouble comes
nnd death comes, wo solid for cur friends
first of all, and their apj carance in our
doorway in any crisis is re enforcement,
and vs lien t hey have entered we say,
“Now it is all rigid!” Oh, what would
we do without p< r.-onal friends, business
friends, family friends? But we want
jiotnething mightier than human friend
ship in the gn at exigencies. When Jona
than Edwards, in his final hour, had given
the last goodby to ail his earthly friends,
he turned on his pillow and closed his
eyes, confidently saying, “Now where is
Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never
failing Friend?'’ Yes, I admire human
friendship as seen in the case of David and
Jonathan, of Paul and Onesiphorus, of
Herder am] Goethe, of Goldsmith and
Reynolds, of Bea;imoj)|b and Fletcher, of
Cowley ami Harvey, <f Erasmus and
Thomas More, of Lessing and Mendels
sohn, of Lady Churchill aiid Princess
Al’ine, of Drostes nnd l\vlades, each re
questing that himgelf might take f.ha point
of the dagger, so the otiipr might be spar
ed; of Epaminomia* and Folopidas. who
locked their shields in buttle, determined
to die. together, but the grandest, the
mightiest, the tenderest friendship in all
the universe is the trien 'ship between
Jesus Christ and a believing soul, yet after
all I have said I feel I have only done
what James Marshall, the miner, did in
1848 in California, liefore its gold mines
were known. He reached in and put upon
the table of liis employer, Captain Sutter,
a thimbleful of gold dust. “Where did
you get tiiat?” .said h]s employer. The
reply wgs, “I got it this morning from a
mill race from whk’h the water had been
drawn off.” But thnt gold dust, which
could have been taken up txitween the fin
ger ami the thumb, was the jirophecy and
specimen that revealed California’s wealth
to all nations, and today I have only put
before you a specimen of the value of di
vine friendship, only a thimbleful of mines
inexhaustible and infinite, though ail time
and all eternity go on with the exploration.
A TEXAS WONDER.
Hall’s Great Discovery.
One small bottle of Hall’s Dis
covery cures all kidney and bladder trou
bles, removes gravel, cyree div be ti a. semi
nal emisisons, 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 wilt be sent by
mail on receipt at >l. One small bottle is
two months' treatment ami will cure any
ease above mentioned.
E. W. HALL,
Sole Manufacturer.
P. O. Box 211, Waco, Texas.
Sold by H. J. Lamar & Son, Macon, Ga.
READ THIS.
Cuthbert, Ga. March 22, 1898. —This is
to certify that I have been a sufferer from
a kidney trouble for ten years and that I
have taken less than one bottle of Hall’s
Great Discovery and I think that I am
cured.
I cheerfully recommend it to any one
suffering from any kidney trouble, as I
know of nothing that I consider its equal.
R. M. JONES.
THE PEST HOUSE.
Citizens pving Near It Clamoring for Its
Destruction.
The pest house has not yet been burned,
i but the eitizens of the county -who Hve
near it are still clamoring for its destruc
-1 tion. They wrote the commissioners that
they wanted the house down and the com
miss toners will hare to comply with their
request.
The commissioners agree* to destroy the
house as soon as the epidemic was over,
i if they would be allowed to build it.
At their last meeting they wrote to the
residents living in that section asking if
they stiff wanted it burned, and the resi
dents have sent the answer to the letter
and in it they say that they want it de
stroyed.
The commissioners will act at their next
meeting, and it is probable that the house
wff] ije touched off in a tpw daya.
Bears the _ You HaW AlwaTS
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12 1898.
ORDER OF RED MEN.
Great Council Meets at Indianapolis Next
Week.
The members of the Improved Order of
Red Men in this city, as well as those
throughout the country, are looking for
ward with a great deal of interest to the
session of the great council of the United
States, the supreme head of the order,
which convenes in Indianapolis, Ind., for
the week commencing September 13.
The session will be one of the most Im
portant in the history of the order, as
there are several amendments to the con
stitution, offered at the last meeting,
which will come up for final action. One
of the most important is to prevent “sa
loonkeepers or any one engaged .in the sale
of liquors as a beverage in any capacity,”
becoming a member of the order."
The great council of this state, at its an
nual session held in the city of Augusta
last May. unanimously adopted a resolu
tion instructing the representatives from
Georgia to vote in favor of and use all
honorable means for the adoption of the
above amendment.
There is considerable feeling relative to
the wisdom of this proposed law, and a
lively fight is anticipated. It will require
a two-third vote to adopt it.
The order of Red Men is one of the
largest fraternal organizations in this
country. There are over 2,000 tribes with
a membership of upwards of 200,000. In
Georgia there are fifty tribes with nearly
4,000 members.
The Great Incohonee, the supreme head
of the order, is a Georgian, Judge Robert
T. Daniel, of Griffin. His term of office,
two years, expires next week, and he will
be succeeded by -Hon. George E. Green,
mayor of Binghamton. N. Y.
The order was founded in the city of
Boston, Mass., in the year 1775, by the
“sons of liberty,” those revolutionary pa
triots who took part In that little tea
party wit hthe British.
The “Red Men” is purely an American
order, and seeks to perpetuate and keep
alive the manners and customs of the
primitive red man. In Its ritual Is en
grafted a great deal of the mythology and
characteristics of the aborigines, a race of
people, who are fast giving way to the on
ward march of civilization. The members
of the order at Indianapolis have arranged
a very elaborate program for the enter
tainment of the delegates.
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Rheumatism often causes the most in
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vainly sought relief from this disabling
disease, and are to-day worse off than
ever. Rheumatism is a blood disease,
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cause it is the only remedy which can
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A few years ago I was taken with inflamma
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that I was for weeks unable to walk. I tried
XX. several prominent physi
cians and took their treat
ment faithfully, but was
unable to get the slight
y jy est relief. In fact, my con.
dition seemed to grow
v* / worse, the disease spread
/jte* from November to March
I suffered agony. I tried
fc-A many patent medicines,
I h ut none relieved me
7 Upon the advice of a
s '<\K' t friend I decided to trj
S. 8. 8. Before allowing me to take it, how
ever, my guardian, who was a chemist, ana
lyzed the remedy, and pronounced it free oi
botash or mercury. I fejt so much better aftei
taking two bottles, that I continued the rem,
edy, and in two months I was cured completely,
The cure was permanent, for I have never sined
had a touch* of Rheumatism though manj
times exposed to damn and cold weather.
Bt.kanor M. Tipfeix,
8711 Fowelton Avenue, Philadelphia,
Don’t suffer longer with Rheumatism-
Throw aside your oils and liniments, aS
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and mercury will add to your disabil
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tion.
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MACON AND BIRMINGHAM R. R. CO
(Pine Mountain Route.)
Effective June 5. 1898.
4 ]5 pmj Macon Ari 10 40 am
4 20 pmlLv Sofkee Lv|lo 14 am
546 pm Lv ... .Colloden.... Lv| 909 am
5 57 pm|Lv ...Yatesville... Lv| 8 57 am
6 27 pmlLv ...Thomaston... Lv| 8 28 am
7 07 pm|Ar ...Woodbury... Lv| 7 48 am
southern' railway!
7 25 pmlAr. Warm Springs. Lv| 7 29 am
6 03 pm Ar ....Columbus... Lv| 6 00 am
8 07 pmlAr Griffin Lv| 6 50 am
9 45 pm;Ar .. ± ..Atlanta LvJ 5 20 am
SOUTHER.. RAILWAY”
4 20 amiLv .... Atlanta ....Ar 9 40 am
6 03 pm|Lv Griffin • Lv 9 52 am
5 25 pmfLv ....Columbus.... Lv 9 v 0 am
6 49 pm|Lv .Warm Springs. Lv 8 06 am
707 pmiLv.. ..Woodbury.. .Ar 7 48 am
7 27 pmfAr ..Harris City.. Lv 7 28 am
CENTRA L OF G EORGIA. '
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5 20 pmiLv ....Columbus.... Arj 9 40 am
7 27 pmiLv ..Harris City.. Arj 7 28 am
8 20 pmjAr 7...LaGrange.... Lv| 6 35 am
Close connection at Macon and Sofkee
with the Georgia Southern and Florida
Central of Georgia for Savannah, Albany,
Southwest Georgia points and Montgom
ery, Ala., at Yatesville for Roberta and
points on the Atlanta and Florida di
vision of tbeSouthern railway, at Harri»
City City with Central of Gtorgia railwoy,
for Greenville and Columbus, at Wood
bqry with Southern railway for Colum
bus and Griffin, at LaGmnge with the
Atlanta and West Point railway.
JULIAN R. LANE,
General Manager,
Macon, G*
M. J. CHANCEY,
General Passenger ’Agent.
News and Opinions
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■No. 7 j No. 15 | No. 9 | No. 13 | West. j No. 14 | No. 10 I No. 8 | No. 10
7 10pm| 4 45pm| 8 oflam| 2 05am|Lv.. Macon ~Ar| 2 05am| 8 20amjl0 55am| 710 pm
9 45pm| 7 45pm|10 40am| 4 ISamjAr.. Atlanta. Lv|ll 55pm| 5 2flam| 8 lOamj 4 20pm
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10 20am| 1 00am| 6 2-spm| 6 30am|Lv.. Rome.. Lv| 0 40pm| 1 44amj | 9 00am
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1 OOpmj 4 15am| 8 50pm| 8 40am|Ar Chat’nooga Lvj 7 SOpmjlO OOptnj | 8 00pm
7 10pm| 7 10pm| 7 40am| |Ar .Memphis . Lv| j 9 15am| | 8 00pm
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7 50pm| | 7 50am| |Ar Louisville. Lv| | 7 40am| I 745 pm
7 30pm| | 7 30am| |Ar Cincinnati Lv| | 8 30am| j 8 00am
9 25pm| | 7 25pm| |Ar Anniston .. Lv| j 6 32pm| | 8 00am
11 45am| |lO 00pm| | Ar Birm’ham L.v| j 4 15pmj | 6 00am
8 05am| | 1 10am| 7 45pm|Ar Knoxville. Lv| 7 OOamj 7 40pmj | 740 pm
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| 7 10pm| 2 10am' 8 B&am;Lv.. Macon .. Ar| 8 20am| 2 00am| |........
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| 3 QOi)m|lo 15am| |jXt Phila dlphia Lv 3 50am| 6 55pm| |
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| 3 pm| 8 30pm| |Ar .. ..Boston Lvj 5 00pm|10 00am| i
THROUGH OAR SERVICES, ETC.
Nos. 13 and 14, Pullman Sleeping Cars between Chattanooga and Jaeksonvill?.
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 th*.
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. O. Atlanta, Ga.
UANDALL OLIFTON, T. P. A., BR.OWN, C. T A.,
Macon. G*.. 565 Mulberry St., Macon, Gx
HALF CEHT ft WORD
ADVERTISEMENTS of Wants, for Sale
For Rent, I.usl, Found, Kt«„ar« Insioted
In THIS COLUMN at Half Cent a Word
each insertion. No Advertisement taken
tor less than 15 r ents.
Miscellaneous.
FOR RENT —Two nice rooms. Apply 122
Academy street.
WANTED—You to examine my fine vtoek
of harness and saddles before buying
My expenses are smaller than anyone
else in Macon, my oniy help is my
boys, therefore I can sell you cheaper.
I will save you money. Repairing a
specialty. J. L. Gretsham, 457 Poplar
street.
FOR SALE—My house at 570 College
street. Apply to Mrs. Jeff Lane.
TAKE notice of 558 Mulberry street,
Migrath’s portrait copying and picture
framing house. First class work; also
dealer in pictures, picture frames,
easles, etc., etc. Jewelry, breast and
scarf pins, ear and finger rings, studs,
cuff and collar buttons, etc. Writing
paper, tablets, envelopes, ink, etc.,
etc. Office and store 558 Mulberry,
opposite Hotel Lanier. Dr. J. W.
Migrath, proprietor.
FOR SALE —Three small farms close in,
of 25, 50 and 100 acres respectively.
High and level, fine land for truck
and fruit farming. L. W. Hollings
worth.
JEWISH New Year cards, latest novelties,
a large assortment, at prices to suit
the times. John Hartz. _
FOR RENT—The offices over the Macon
Savings Bank; possession Oct. 1. Ap
ply at Macon Savings Banin
LOST—Bunch of keys, with name on
check. Reward if returned to C. T.
Guernsey.
FOR RENT —270 New street, next to Mul
berry. Conveniences, in perfect order.
H. V. Washington.
NEW French peas, truffles, mushrooms,
asparagus, salad, russe, Brussell
sprouts, schnittbohen, macedoine, suc
cotash, pumpkin, okra,' cream corn.
lima beans, snap beans, etc. Flournoy.
VJAVI can be obtained from Mrs. J. 3.
Stevens. $59 Oak street.
NOW jg the time to have yonr lace cur
tains laundered. Mrs. Ryder, near
Crump's park, does the very best work.
Ail curtains laundered at only 25 cents
per window.
FRESH lemon, vanilla, banquet, cham
pagne, ginger, graham and sugar wa
fers, lemon and vanilla- creams, fig,
macaroons, milk biscuit, etc. Flour
noy.
WANTED —To buy a good milch cow.
Must be at a bargain. Apply 559 Oak
street.
W. A. GOODYEAR, carnage, buggy and
wagon shop. Horae shoeing, fine paint
ing. Repairing of scales a specialty
451, <55 Poplar street.
NEW YEAR cards for everybody. Come
■and make your own selection. A big
stock on- hand. John Hartz.
AGENTS W ANTED—For war ip Cuba bj
Senor Quesada, Cuban representative
at Washington. Endorsed by Cuban
patriots. Xu tremendous demand A
bonanza for agents. Only ?1.50. Big
book ,big commissions. Everybody
wants the only endorsed, i liable book.
| Outfits sent free. Credit given. Freight
paid. Drop ail rtash and make s3o€'
a month with War in Cuba. Address
today, THE NATIONAL BOOK CON-
■ CERN, Dearho's straw, Chi
care. ID
WANTED —A position by a young man
with experience in stock-raising and
truck- farming. Willing to take charge
of some man's stock farm. Will work
for a reasonable salary. Apply T, care
News.
NOTICE—We have advanced tile price of
wood: Pine wood per cord, J 3; oak
wood per cord, $3.50. Prompt delivery.
Ivey Bros, Telephone 59 and 458.
IOR SALE —The following office fixtures
at very low prices: Six leather and five
cane bottomed chairs, tw desks, an
office railing, a carpet, a good size
iron safe, and quite a few other minor
things useful in an office. Call at 314
Second street.
FOR &ALE Full blooded male Pug puppy,
two month’s old for 55. Apply at News
office. ,
FOR SALE—I will sell before the court
' house door on September 27th, if not
sooner sold at private sale, my 7 room
residence, 141 Park place; lot 70x210;
' house newly painted; rooms plastered
I and papered, hot and cold water, bath
bath and conveniences, two room ser
vants’ house and stable, 15 foot privite
alley. Terms cash or half cash, balance
one and two years. House convenient
ly located to both colleges and Gres
; bam High school. W„ R. Ivey.
FOR RENT —Eight room house, Oak
street, near Second, October 1. All
conveniences. M. O’Hara.
FOR RENT —Store now occupied by C. T.
Garden. Possession October 1. Apply
Frank B. West, 356 Second street.
TWO bedrocm suits and book-ase sot 7 sale
at A. Gtbian s residence, 277 College
street.
ORDER your wood from the Oak street
woodyard. All wood sheltered from
the rain. Full loads and prompt de
livery. Phone 213.
BARGAIN Brand new high grade sewing
machine. Latest model, 5 drawers,
drop head. Complete attachments.
Owner must sell. Address H. H., care
News. .
FOR RENT—House corner Third and Pine
street. Mrs. Annie E. Porter.
GET our prices on iron or steel fence. The
latest and most up-to-date patterns.
A postal card will get our illustrated
catalogue.. Central City Marble and
Granite Works.
Wesleyan Female College.
Stands for the equal mental capacity of the sexes.
S 1 1! may take at Wesleyan courses in Ethics
and Metaphysics, Literature and History, the
Sciences aud Mathematics, Ancient and Modern
Languages, equal to corresponding courses in our
male colleges, besides courses iu Music, Art aud
Elocution, equal to those of the best female col
leges. Therefore send your daughter to her home
college. It is cheapest for you and best for her.
To prepare her for college send her to Wesleyan
Academy. Address
J. W. Roberts, D. D., President.
FOR RENT.
DWELLINGS ’ 417 F,)rs - vth street, 5 rooms and kitehen.
combined, in a good neighborhood, on
fl 2 Fourth street, corner Columbus road, for rent or for eale.
752 o . Elegant 10 room dwelling of Capt. Park's
second st., 8 rooms and kitchen. on College street.
459 New st., 8 rooms and kitchen. Irvine house, 7 rooms and kitchen, third
457 New st., 5 rooms and kitchen. door from car line on Rogers avenue.
136 Cole st., 5 rooms and kitchen.
!363 Oglethorpe st., 9 rooms and kitchen, STORES,
with stables.
«’ PS rey,h , 6 “ d 11? Srp ™ rJ s,reeL
st -» 7 rooms and kitchen. 419 Cherry.
765 Spring st., 4 rooms and kitchen. 421 Cherry.
317 College st., 10 rooms and kitchen. Cotton avenue.
7'63 Cherry st., 6 rooms and kitchen 469 CoUon avenue.
913 Walnut street, 10 rooms and ki'tchen. Mu!Lerry VenUe '
911 Walnut st., 9 rooms and kitchen. 259 Second.
12 room house on Cherry street suitable 357 and 359 Second, will rent portion or all.
for boarding, one block from business Wolff & Ha PP building, half or all, will ar
portion of city. range suitable for tenants.
Dr. Shorter’s residence on Orange street vc'n* 03 n< > ar C ° X * cha PP ell ' s -
■ .i-irohn i street. Walker house, Vineville, 6 rooms and
z\ desirable surburban store and dwelling kitchen.
John R. Ellis, resideuce, Orange street, partly furnished.
11. HORNE,
315 Third Street.
IYe Herve BtOuYlt In combined force to bear on
7 —a this stock of ours.
linergy, result:*-
v somest line
7 / °f Trunks to be seen in
tuagment Mac ° n -
The handsomest line of
rf/zT Cas/l CLOTHING
iu Georgia.
* O ur Trunk Department
occupies an entire floor.
Benson & Houser
UD-t° Date Clothiers.
Furnishing Goods,
'■ ■. and Hats, Trunks,
* and Valises
Telephone 276. 408 Third Street.
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.
D. G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, O
HOT SPRINGS, North Carolina.
Mountain Park Hotel and Baths —Modern Hotel Ideas in Every Department—Tabla
and Service Unexcelled.
Swimming Pool, Bowling, Tennis, Golf, Pool and Billiards. Photographer’s dark
room, Riding, Driving, Tenuis. Large Ball Room and Auditorium. Special reduced
summer rates.
BEARDEN’S Orchestra. T. D. Green, Manager.
Your Watch
Needs Cleaning /
That’s what’s the matter with it. It can’t keep good
time while full of dust. Bring it here and we’ll fix
it so it will run right, for only $2.00, with one year
guarantee.
RPPLQKin The Jeweler,
DuDLljlpß, Triangular Block.
f * ’ Coast Line to Mackinac
f The Greatest Perfeo
■kJX,tlon jet attained In
Beat Constructions
oT-AV.eBS, Luxurious .Eoulp-
SPEED, rT" ment. Artistic Fur-
C O M FORT 1 • ■» nlshlng .Decoratioe
and sal; ft \ and efficient Sondes
Tc De-- VG kinac, Bay, Petoskey, Chicago
\ r Ld6 c*’--"* * : . 4 *&i ...lit** of **owil variety and iaternt.
~ r.e*- 5 ; Das »-k! ; Day an ! Mght Survive B«tw«ea
B£iii»n ass ciEvtUNi
I ’■ C Fare, $ I .SO WrwtUr
FilU.hi i'l tE ■ mJi -.n -, , Berths. Stateroom,
> »> DlLci**- : jndfolsdj. Com. ans made at Cle v <land with
W/V. , . r. x-»J ’ F-/D*ST Frail.A for all pom* i>=t, "-Hlth
<x Ra.j. ’ ',»* .. i ScjiKtiu: 4, and Gt Detroit for all i/ouiw
” • .-iu ..z ! ... • •• - C. ' North aad Northwest.
U .’*’** , tjp.jiJay Trip*. Jur.% July, Anspist,
* TJ frcalßt. . anfl oetuVcr Onlv.
“t ' »,iisimß®joii9fiMa
PO PU LAR SU MM ER
Dalton, Ga., is now op° the .most popular summer resorts In the South—
climate delightful, scenery superb, beautiful drives, good livery. Hotel Dalton la
the bornp of the resort seeker and the com mereial traveler. Elegantly built, electric
b:-i’.s. el. vator, telephone, bot aol coid baths on every door. Special rates to
families. Many tome each summer from lower Georgia and Florida. Further in
formation given by
D. L. DETTOR, Proprietor, Dalton, Ga.
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