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THE FOES WE FACE.
THE SINS THAT BESET THE END OF
THE CENTURY.
Oo«i Come* Before Man, Sava Dr. Tai-'
m»jr The Prevalence of Hluphcmy.
The Sine of City Life—And the Final
Judgment.
JCopyright, IS9B. by American Preen Asso
ciation.)
Washington, Sept. 18.—This arousing
Slsoiurse t»y Dr. Tidningo will excite inter
est by the manner in which it assails some
of the groat evils now abroad. The sub-
Jexst is “Enemies Overthrown,” and the
text Psalms Ixviii, 1. God arise, let
his enemies ls> scattered.”
A prisiession was formed to carry the
ark, or wkthl box, which, though only 3
feet W inches in length and 4 feet 3 inches
In height and depth, wax the symbol of
God’s presence. As the leaders of the pro
cession lift<«l this ornamented and bril
liant tex by two golden poles run through
four golden rings and started for Mount
Zion uil the people chanted the bat tie hymn
of my text, 'let God arise, let his ene- I
mies Im> scattered. ”
The Cameronians of Scotland, outraged '
by James I, who forced m*»n them reli
gions forms that were off! naive, and by the
terrible persecution of Drummond, Dalz.iel
and Turner, ami by the oppre- -ive lawn of
Charles 1 and Charles 11, were driven to
proclaim war against tyrants and went
forth U> fight for their religious lllsTty,
and the mountain heather became red
with carnage, and at Bothwell bridge ami
Aird’s Moss and Drumclog the battle
hymn and the battle shout of those glo
rious old Scotchmen was the text I have
shown, “Let God arise, let his enemiesJxt
Mattered.”
What a whirlwind of power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how with his soldiers,
named the “Ironsides,” he went, from vic
tory to victory! Opposing enemies melted
as he 10010 dat them, lie dismissed jiar
llamont as easily as a schoolmaster a
echo'll. lie pointed his finger at Berkeley
castle, and it was taken. He ordered Sir
Ralph Hopton, the general, to dismount,
ami he dismounted. See Cromwell march
ing on with his army ami hear the battle
cry of the “Ironsides,” loud as a storm
and solemn as a deathknell, standards
reeling before it ami cavalry horses going
back on their haunches, and armies Hying
at Marston Moor, nt Wlnceby Field, at
N'uscby, nt Bridgewater and Dartmouth—
•‘l*>t God arise, let his enemies be scat
tered I"
Wlmt Battlecry?
So you see my text is not like a compli
mentary and tasseled sword that you some
times see hung up In n parlor, a sword
that was never in battle and only to be
used on general training day, but more
like some weapon carefully hung up in
your home, telling its story of battles, for
my text hnngs in the Scripture armory,
telling of the holy wars of 3,000 years in
with h it has been carried, but still as keen
and mighty ns when David first unsheath
ed It It He'itis to mo that in tho church
of God, and in all styles of reformatory
work, what we most need now is a battle
cry. Wo raise our little standard and put
on it the name of some man who only a
tow years ago began to live and in a few
years will cease to live. We go into con
test against the armies of iniquity, de
pending too much on human agencies. We
use for a battlecry tho name of some brave
Christian reformer, but after awhile that
reformer dies or gets old or loses his cour
age, and then we take another battlecry,
and this time perhaps we put, the name of
some one who lietrays the cause ami sells
out to tlje enemy What we want for a
battlecry is the name of some leader who
will never betray us and will never sur
render, and will never die.
All respect have 1 for brave men and
women, but if wo are to get the victory all
along the line wo must take the bint of
tho (lideonites, who w ipod out tho Bedouin
Arabs. commonly called Midianitcs.
These Gideon ites had a glorious leader in
Gideon, but what was tho battlecry with
which they Hung their enemies into the
worst, defeat, into which any army was
ever tumbled? It was, “The sword of the
Lord mid or Gideon.” Put God first, who
ever you put second If the army of tho
American Revolution is to free America,
it must, be, “The sword of the Isjrd and of
Washington." If the Germans want to
win the day at Sedan, it uui-t be ' The
nword of tho Ijord and Von Mollkc.” Wa
terloo was won for the English because
not only the armed men at the front, but
the worshipers in the cathedrals at the
rear, were crying. “The sword of the Ix>rd
and of Wellington.”
God l irnt-
The Methodists have pone in triumph
across nation after tuition with thecry,
“The sword of the Lord and of Wesley
The Presbyterians have gone from victory
to victory with theory. “The sword of the
Lord and of John Knox.” The Baptis's
have conquered millions after millions for
(’hrist with the cry, “The swe .l of the
liord and of Judson." Thu Arne, '' in I j is
eopalians have won their might way with
tin'cry, “The sword of tie I.( "d and of
Bishop M'Hvaine.” The victory istothose
who put tied iirst Bid, aswewant a bat
tlecry suited toall scctsof religionist sand
to all lands, I nominate as the battlecry
of Christendom in the approaching Arma
geddon tho words of my text, sounded be
fore tin? ark as it was carried to Mount
Zion. ‘i jet God arise; let his encmiek be
scattered
As far as our finite mind can judge.lt
reams about time for tied to rise Does it
not scent to you that the abominations of
this emth have go.:e far enough? Was
there over a time when sin was so defiant.?
Were there ever before so many lists lifted
toward God, telling him to come on if he
dan.*? Look at the blasphemy abroad!
What towering profanity! Mould it be
possible for any one to calculate the num
bers of times that the name of the Al
mighty God and of Jesus Christ are every
•lay taken irreverently on the lips? Pro
sane swearing is us much forbidden by tho
law ns theft or arson or murder ret who
executes it? Profanity is worse ttin.ii theft,
or arson or murder. for these crimes are
attacks on humanity; that is an attack on
God. •
The Cnruer Cursed.
This country is pre-eminent for blas
phemy. A man traveling in Russia was
supposed to be a clergyman. “Wbydo you
take me to be a clergyman?” said the man.
"Oh,” said the Russian, “all other Amer
icans swear. ” Tho crime is multiplying
in intensity. God very often shows what
he thinks of it, but for the most part the
fatality is hushed up. Among the Adiron
daeks I mot the funeral procession of a
man who two days before had fallen under
a flash of lightning while boasting after
a Sunday of work in the fields that he had
cheated God out of one day anyhow, and
the man who worked with him on the
•ame Sabbath is still living, but a helpless
invalid under the same Hash.
Years ago in a Pittsburg prison two
men were talking alnnit the Bible and
Christianity, and one of them, Thompson
by name, applied to Jesus Christ a very
low and villainous epithet, and as he was
uttering it hi fell. A physician was called,
bu sno help could be given. After a day
lying with distended pupils and palsied
tongue he passed out of this world. In a
cemetery in Sullivan county, in New York
state, are eight headstones in a line and
all alike, and these are the facts; In 1861
diphtheria raged in the village, and a
physician was remarkably successful in
curing his patients. So confident did he
become that he boasted that, no case of
diphtheria could stand before him and
finally defied Almighty God to produce a
case of diphtheria that he could not cure.
His youngest child soon after took the
disease and died and one child after an
other until all the eight had died of diph
theria. The blasphemer challenged Al
mighty God. and God accepted the chal
lenge. Do not think that because Got! has
been silent in your case, O profane swear
er, that he is dead. Is there nothing now
in the peculiar feeling of your tongue or
nothing in the numbness of your brain
that indicates that God may come to
avenge your blasphemies or is already
avenging them? But these cases I have
noticed, I believe, are only a few cases
where there are hundreds Families keep
them quiet to avoid the horrible conspicu
ity. Physicians suppress them through
professional confidence. It is a very,
very, very long roll that contains the
names of those who died with blasphemies
0D their lips.
Still the crime rolls on. up through par
lor:-. up through chandeliers with lights
all ablaze and through the pictured cor
ridors of clubrooms, out through busy ex
changes. where oath meets oath, and down
through all the haunts of sin, mingling
with the rattling dice and crackling bil
liard balls, and the laughter of her who
hath forgotten the covenant of her God,
and round the city and round the conti
nent and round the earth a seething, boil
ing surge flings its hot spray into the face
of a long suffering God, and the ship
captain curses his crew, and the master
builder his men, and the hack driver his
h r=e, and the traveler the stone that
brut st -» his foot or the mud that soils his
shoes, or the defective timepiece that gets
him too late to the rail train. I arraign
profane swearing and blasphemy, two
names for tho same thing, as being one of
the gigantic crimes of this land, and for
its extirpation it does seem as if it were
about time for God to arise.
The Day of Drink.
Then look for a moment at the evil of
drunkeo'<->-s Whether you live in Wash
ingion or ,\ew York or Chicago or Cin
cinnati or Savannah or Boston or in any
of the cities of this land, count up the sa
loons on that street as compared with the
saloons five years ago. and see they are
growing far out of proportion to the in
crease of tho population. You people who
an so precise and particular lest there
should ix some imprudence and rashness
in attacking the rum traffic will have your
son sow' night pitched into your front
door deed drunk, or your daughter will
come home with her children because her
Lusha ,d has by strong drink been turned
into a demoniac. The drink fiend has de
spoiled wh'Ji streets of good homes in all
our cities Fathers, brothers, sons on the
fune’-al pyre of strong drink! Fasten
tighter the victims! Stir up the flames!
iileon the corpses! More men, women
and children for the sacrifice! Let us have
whole gen* rations on fire of evil habit,
and at th • sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
eicl.l.tit, psalit ry and dulcimer let all the
p- [,!c fall down and worship King Alco
hol, or y-- i! -bull l.< east into the lii.ry fur
nave under some jstlitical platform I
1 iii'liet this ( ,il as the regicide, tho
fratrici le, the patricide, the matricide, tho
uxoricide, of the century. Yet under what
inn. < ent and delusive and mirthful names
alcoholism deceives tin people! It is a
“cordial.” It is “bitters.” It is an “eye
opemr.” It is an “appetizer.” It is a
“digester.” It is an “invigorator.” It is
a *■ set,:.'er." It is a “nightcap.” Why
don’t, they put on tho right labels—“ E
ssence of Perdition,” “Conscience Stupe
fler, ” “Five Drams of Heartache,”
“Tears of Orphanage,” ‘‘Blood of Souls,”
•‘Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy,” “Venom
of the Worm That Never Dies?” Only
once in luvhile is there anything in the
title of liquois to even hint their atrocity,
a- in the case of “sour mash.” That I see
advertised al! over It is an honest name
and any < :ie can understand it. “Sour
mn.-'h!” That is, it makes a man’sdisposi
tlon sour, and his associations sour, and
his prospects sour, and then it is good to
mash his body, and mash his soul, and
mash his business, and inash his family.
“Sour mash I" One honest name at last
for an intoxicant! But through lying la
bels of many of the apothecaries’ shops,
good people, who are only a little under
tone in health and wanting some invigo
ration, have unwittingly got on their
tongue the fangs of this cobra that stings
to death so large a ratio of tho human race.
The Deadly Cup.
Others are ruined by the common and
all destructive ha!(it of treating custom
ers. And it Is a treat on their coming to
town, and a treat- while tho bargaining
progresses, and a treat when the purchase
is made, and a treat as ho leaves town.
Others, to drown their troubles, submerge
themselves with this worse trouble. Oh,
t he world is battered and bruised and blast
ed with this growing evil! Itisnioreand
more intrenched and fortified. They have
millions of dollars subscribed to marshal
and advance tho alcoholic forces. They
nominate ami elect and govern the «ast
majority of the officeholders of this coun
try On their side they have enlisted the
miglitiest bitical power of tho centuries,
and behind them stand all the myrmidons
of the nether world, satanic, Apollyonio
ami diabolic It. is beyond all human ef
fort to overt hrow this Bastille of decanters
or capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs. And
while 1 approve of all human agencies of
reform 1 would utterly despair if we had
nothing else. But what, cheers me is that
our best troops are yet to come. Our chief
artillery is in reserve. Our greatest com
mander lias not. yet fully taken the field.
If all hell is on their side, all heaven is on
our side. Xow “ Let God arise, and let his
enemies be scattered.”
Then look at the impurities of these
great cit ies Ever and anon there are in
the newspapers explosions of social life
that make the story of Sodom quite respect
able, “for such 1 hings, ” Christ says, “wepe
more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah”
than for the Chorazins and Bethsaidas of
greater light. It is no unusual thing in
our cities to see men in high positions
with two or three families, or refined ladies
willing solemnly to marry the very swine
of society if they he wealthy. The Bible
; aflame with denunciation against an
impure life, but many of the American
ministry uttering not one point blank
word against this ini(}uity lest some old
libertine throw up his church pew. Ma
chinery organized in all the cities of the
I Uited States and Canada by which to put
yearly in the grinding mill of this iniquity
thou* inds of the unsuspecting of the coun
try farmhouses, one procuress confessing
in the courts that she had supplied the in
fernal market with 150 victims in six
months. Oh, for 500 newspapers in Amer
ica to swing open tho door of this lazar
house of social corruption! Exposure
must come before ext irpation.
The City of Siu.
While the city van carries the scum of
this sin from the prison to the police court
morning by morning it is full time, if we
do not want high American life to become
like that of the court of Louis XV, to put
millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours
of your brownstone palaces into a van of
popular indignation and drive them out
of n sp<>ctablo associations. What pros
pect of siH'ial purification can there be as
long as at summer watering places it is
usual to see a young woman of excellent
rearing stand and simper and giggle and
roll up her eyes sideways before one of
those iirst class satyrs of fashionable life
and on the ballroom floor join him in the
dunce, the maternal chaperon meanwhile
beaming from the window on the scene?
Matches are made In heaven, they say.
Not such mutches, for the brimstone indi
cates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities.
By some these immoralities are called pec
cadillos gallantries, eccentricities, and
are relegated to the realms of jocularity,
and few efforts are being made against
them. God bh'ss the “White Cross” move
ment. as it is called—an organization
making a mighty assault on this'evil! God
forward tho traess on this subject distrib
uted by the religious tract societies of the
land! God help parents in the great work
they art' doing in trying to start their chil
dren with pure principles! God help all
legislators in their attempt to prohibit
this crime!
The Day of Judgment.
But is this all? Then it is only a ques
tion of time when the last vestige of puri
ty and home will vanish out of sight. Hu
man arms, human pens, human voices,
human talents, are not. sufficient. I begin
to look up. I listen for artillery rumbling
down the sapphire boulevards of heaven.
I watch to see if in the morning light
there be not the flash of descending scim
iters. Oh, for God! Does it not seem time
for his appearance? Is it not time for all
lands to cry out. “Let God arise, and let
his enemies be scattered?”
I got a letter asking me if I did not
think that the earthquake in one of our
cities was the Divine chastisement on that
city for its sins. That letter I answered
by saving that if all our American cities
got all the punishment they deserve for
their hort-i Me impurities the earth would
long agi. have cracked, opening crevices
transcontinental and taken down all our
cities so far under that the tip of our
church spires would be 500 feet below the
surface. It is of the Lord’s mercies that
we have not been consumed.
Not only are the affairs of this world so
a-twist, x-jaugle and racked that there
seems a need of the Divine appearance, but
there is another reason. Have you not
noticed that in the history of this planet
God turns ale »f about every 2,000 years?
God turned a leaf, and this werld was fit
ted for human residence. Alxnt 2,000
more j ars along, and God turned
moth« r leaf, ind it was the«lelug»'. About
2,000 more years passed on, and it was the
Nativity. Almost 2,000 more years passed
by, and ho will probably soon turn anoth
er leaf What it shall Ims I cannot say. It
may l» the demolition of all these mon
- i ru-otics of turpitude and the establish
ment of righteousness in all the earth. He
• ■an do it. and ho will d > it I am as con
fident as if it were already accomplished.
How easily he can do it- rny text suggests.
It. d'x* not a k God.to hurl a great tbnn
derlx.lt of his power, but just to rise from
the throne on which Le sits. Only that
will be necessary. ‘‘Let God arise!”
Redemption.
It will be no exertion of omnipotence.
It will bo no bending or bracing for a
mighty lift. It will be no sending down
the sky yf the white horse cavalry of heav
en or rumbling war chariots. He will
only rise. Now he is sitting in the ma
jesty and paticnceof his reign. He is from
bis throne watching the mustering of all
the forces of blasphemy and drunkenness
and impuri y and fraud and Sabbath
breaking, and when tl, y have done their
worst and are niost surely organized he
will lx?stir himself and say; “My enemies
have denied me long enough, and their
cup of iniquity is full I have given them
all op[x>n,unity for rejientance. This dis
pensation of patience is ended, and the
faith of the good shall bo tried no longer.”
And now God begins to rise, and what
mountains give way under his right foot
I know not; but. standing in the full radi
ance and grandeur of his nature, he looks
this way and that, and how his enemies
are scattered! Blasphemers, white and
dumb, reel down to their doom, and those
who have trallicked in that which destroys
the bodies and souls of men and families
will fly with cut foot on the down grade
of broken decanters, and the polluters of
so iely that did their bad work with large
fortunes and high social sphere will over
take in their descent the degraded rabble
of underground city life as they tumble
over the eternal precipices, and the world
shall be left clear and clean for the friends
of humanity and the worshipers of Al
mighty God. The last thorn plucked off,
the world will be left a, blooming rose on
the bosom of that Christ who came to gar
denizo it. The earth that stood snarling
with its tigerish passion, thrusting out its
raging claws, shall lie down a lamb at the
feet of the Lamb of God, who took away
the sins of the world.
And now the best thing ? can wish for
you, and the best thing I can wish for my
self, is that we may be found his warm
and undisguised and eathi.sij.-tic friends
in that hour when God shall rise and hi&
enemies shall bo scattered. »
Modernizing His Metaphor.
A farmer who had lost a son in the wai
employed the village poet to write an obit
uary, which ran as follows:
He for his country fit an font
Until Death blowed his candle out.
“That won’t do,” said tho bereaved par
ent, “kaze they don’t use candles now.
Take another whirl at it ”
The poet squared his jaws and presently
produced the following:
He fit an Tout with gun an knife
Till Death blowed out the gas of life.
“That's better, now,” exclaimed the
farmer. “I’ve blowed out tho gas myself
a many a time!”—Atlanta Constitution.
An Editor’s Mishap.
A recent issue of the Hardeman (Tenn.)
Free Press contained the following para
graph: “We wish to explain our lack of
editorial this week. We was down to Mem
phis, and a smart Alec at the tavern put
tram oil on our greens and said it was
vinegar. Os course we were horse dew
com ba w for three days, and now that we
are able to talk our language is not fit for
publication. ”
Strange Things
in Two States.
George and Allen Geiger, of Geneva,
caught and killed a monster aligator a
few days ago. They found him in a cave
and pulled him out with a hook. It was
13 feet 8 inches in length.
An industry of Levy county is an aliga
tor farm located south of Bronson. It is
operated by Rev. Andrew Lynn, and he
realized good money from the hides of the
old ’gators. The young ones are sold when
the price warrants it.
Orlando Sentinel: Miss Willie Leigh is
the boss fisherman of this season, amongst
all Orlandoites who have gone to the
coast. This young lady caught a sea bass
■at Ormond lately, weighing ten pounds.
She will probably keep the belt until next
fishing season.
Two young men, John Leader and Will
Vassar, have returned to Orlando from a
prolonged hunt after alligators. They pen
etrated the Okechoobee region, and went
to sections not often visited by white men.
They were quite successful, bringing in a
large number of skins of various sizes.
'Gator hides are becoming somewhat
scarce in Florida. A few years more and
they will have passed, like the buffalo of
the West.
The Orlando Reporter is responsible for
this: There is a little fellow about 6 years
old who comes to town shopping on an
ancient horse. The little fellow after
completing his purchases, has a peculiar
way of renvounting his horse. It is a tall
old fellow with an eye about as lustreless
as that of a sheep, but it knows its boss,
so that when the little fellow goes up to
the. horse's head, the animal puts his nose
on the ground and the boy jumps astride
its neck. The horse then resumes its
natural position the boy slips down on its
back, and away they go.
A Narrow Escape.
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 myself up to my savior, determined
if 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. Lamar & Sons’ drug
store. Regular size, 50c and sl. Guaran
teed or price refunded.
fl GRrncflLlifflE
During the Battle of Santiago--Sick
or Well, a Rush Night and Day.
PRCKEHS WERE RLE HEROES.
Their Untiring Efforts in Getting Ammu
nition and Rations to the Front
Saved the D \y.
P. E. Butler, of pack train No. 3. writing
from Santiago de Cuba, on July 23d, says:
“We all had diarrhoea in more or less
violent form, and when we landed we had
no time to see a doctor, for it was a case
of rush and rush night and day to keep
the troops supplied with ammunition and
rations, but thanks to Chamberlain's Colic
Cholera axid Diarrhoea Remedy, we were
able to keep at work and keep our health:
in fact, I sincerely believe at one critical
time this medicine was the indirect sav
iour of our army, for if the packers had
been unable to work there would have
been no way of getting supplies to the
front- There were no roads that a wagon
train could use.. My comrade and myself
had the good fortune to lay in a supply
of this medicine for our pack train before
we left Tampa, and I know in four cases
it saved life.”
The above letter was written to he man
ufacturers of this medicine, the Chamber
lain Medicine Co., Des Moines, lowa. For
sale by H. J. Lamar & Son.
Pay third installment of
city tax by September 15 and
save tax execution.
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19 1898.
Political Comment.
The Eastman Times-Journal is in a po
litical wrangle in which a woman takes up
the cause of Populism. The outcome of the
argument is being watched with interest.
Reidsville Journal: Some of our Popu
list politicians imagine that they are 13-
ineh guns in the campaign, but October
sth will reveal the fact that they are only
firecrackers loaded with gas.
The Democrats in Oconee county will
not run a candidate for the legislature
against the Populist nominee, Mr. W. P.
Elder, the Populist nominee, however, will
have opposition. Mr. W. W. Price, who,
up to two years since, was a Populist, but
who is now an Independent, will be 'his
opponent. Mr. Price is running as an Inde
pendent and will make a good race.
Fitzgerald Courier: The address of Gen
eral Clement A. Evans to our citizens, on
Saturday last, was well received by. all.
His remarks to the old soldiers present
were applauded. He made the duty of all
lovers of good government plain, and poin
ted out the grave mistakes always made by
any set of men when they arranged for fu
sion of any kind. ITaise of the "higbeet
was heard on all sides.
Douglasville New South: The leaders of
the Populist party exjressed themselves al
most to a man against the use of money
and whisky in elections. This is nothing
but right. But how Billy it sounds when
we know that they are preparing for the
hardest battle in their history, and those
two things are essential to success in
Douglas politics. They have used it and
they will use it again. Watch them and
see.
Dublin ‘’Dispatch: The Populists in this
district want to trade with the colored
Republicans by promising to support Wil
kinson for Congress in November if the
negroes will support the state and county
tickets in October. But if the negroes ful
fill their part of the contract in October,
rwhat assurance from the past have they
that the Populists will do their part in No
vember? How many postoffices in the
Eleventh district have the Populists, in
stead of Republicans, got since 1896? The
colored people in Georgia know who their
white friends are, and they will be sure to
vote with the Democrats next month.
HOW TO 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 boils, and
gives a good complexion. Every bottle
guaranteed. Sold at H. J. Lamar & Sons’
Drug Store. 50 cents per bottle.
Titusville Advocate: That wildcat is still
at Georgiana. He got Ray Wethey’s pet
duck one night last week. A few nights
ago he carried off one of Mr. White’s steel
traps.
Sacrificed to
Blood Poison.
Those v/ho have never Had Blood Poi
son can not know what a desperate con
dition it cun produce. This terrible
disease which the doctors are totally
unable to cure, is commrmi rated from
one generation to another, inflicting its
taint upon countless innocent ones.
Some years ago I was inoculated with poison
by * nurse who infected my babe with blood
taint. The little one was
unequal to the struggle,
and Its life was yielded
up to the fearful poison.
For six long years 1 suf
fered untold misery. I
was covered with sores
and ulcers from head to
foot, and no language
can express my feelings
of woe during those long
years. I had the best
medical treatment. Sev
eral physicians succes-.
sively treated me. but all'
1
to no purpose. The mer
cury and potash seemed to add fuel to the
t >vful flame which was devouring me. 1 wM
advised by friends who had scon wonderful
cures made by it. to try Swift’s Specific. We
got two bottles, and 1 felt hope again revive in
ray breast—hope for health and happiness
again. 1 improved from the start, and a com
plete and perfect cure was the result. S. S. 8.
is the only blood "remedy which reaches des
perate eases. ' Mrs. T. W. Lee,
Montgomery, Ala.
Os the many Wood remedies, S. S. S.
is the only one which can reach deep
seated, violent cttses. It never fails to
cure perfectly and permanently the
most desperate cases which are beyond
the reach of other remedies.
S.S.SM s Blood
is purely vegetable, and is the only
blood remedy guaranteed to contain no
mercury, potash, or other mineral.
/Valuable books mailed free by Swift
Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
.A, fv < itiv <il is a non-poisonoii,
<< remedy for Gonorrhoea,
jgte ICKES Gleet, Spermatorrhoea
in 1 to 5 days.ai Whiles, u n n a tu r ». 1 die
jKSEzf Guaranteed charges, or any intlarnina-
not to stricture. tion, irritation or ulcera-
Prevents contagion. tion of mucous mem-
branes. Ji on-astringent
IS®&niNCINN*TI,O gXS So,d Oru WSi»t*.
wfareh USA "jKnap or sent in plain wrapper
‘ Atw*™ by express, prepaid, Jot
SI .00. or 3 bottles, $2.7f.
• *' M Circular sent on
MACON AND BIRMINGHAM R. R. CO.
(Pine Mountain Route.)
Effective June 5, iB9B.
4 15 pm| Macon Ar|lo 40 am
4 20 pmlLv Sofkee Lv|l6 14 am
5 46 pm Lv . ...Colloden.... Lv] 9 09 am
5 57 pm|Lv ...Yatesville... Lvj 8 57 am
6 27 pnrLv ...Thomaston... Lvj 8 28 am
7 07 pm|Ar ...Woodbury... Lvj 7 48 am
SOUTHERN RAILWAY. '
7 25 pmiAr. Warm Springs. Lv| 7 29 am
6 03 pm Ar ....Columbus... Lv| 6 00 am
8 07 pmtAri Griffin Lvj 6 50 am
9 45 pmiAr Atlanta Lvj 5 20 am
SOUTHER??” RAILWAY.
4 20 am|Lv .... Atlanta ....Ar 9 40 am
6 03 pmjLv Griffin Lv 9 52 am
5 25 pm|Lv ....Columbus.... Lv 9 „0 am
6 49 pm|Lv .Warm Springs. Lv 8 06 am
707 pmjLv.. ..Woodbury.. . Ar 7 48 am
7 27 pmiAr ..Harris City.. Lv| 7 28 am
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA?
7 45 pmiAr ...Greenville... Lv| 7 10 am
5 20 pm Lv ....Columbus.... Ar] 9 40 am
7 27 pmiLv ..Harris City.. Ari 7 28 am
8 20 pmAr ....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 the Southern railway, at Harris
City City with Central of Gtorgia railwoy,
for Greenville and Columbus, at Wood
bury with Southern railway tor Colum
bus and Griffin, at LaGrange with th*
Atlanta and West Point railway.
JULIAN R. LANE,
Genera) Manager,
Macon, Ga.
M. J. CHANCEY,
General Passenger Agent.
Macon, Dublin
and Savannah R. R.
~~*4' 2d ; i mi
PM. P.M STATIONS. lA.M.IA.M.
4 00; 2 30'Lv ...Macon ....Arj 9 40,10 15
4 15, 2 50 f ..Swift Creek ..f 9 20,10 00
4 25 3 00 f ..Dry Branch ~f 9 10| 9 50
4 35 3 10 f ..Pike’s Peak ..f 9 00| 9 40
4 45 3 20 f ...Fitzpatrick ...f J 8 501 9 30
4 50! 3 30. f Ripley f 8 40] 9 25
505 3 50 ( s ..Jeffersonville., s 8 2§j 915
5 15. 4 001 ....Gallimore.... f 8 05j 9 05
5 25 4 15 s ....Danville ....a 7 50? 8 50
5 30; 4 25 s ...Allentown... a 7 51 8 50
5 40 4 40:s ....Montrose.... a 7 25] 8 35
5 50 , 5 00 s Dudley a 7 101 8 25
6 02 5 25 s Moore a « 55] 8 12
« 15| 5 40|Ar. ...Dublin ...Lv| 6 30| 8 30
P.M.!P?M.| |A-M.|A.M.
•Passenger, Sunday.
d Mixed, Daily, except Sunday.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR BIGHT TO
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTOIHA,” AND
“PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same that
has borne and docs now bear on every
the sac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORIA” 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 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 24,1895. /? *
. D.
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 does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY OTREET. NEW YORK <TV
-JOL Southern R’y.
Schedule in Effect July 6, 1898
CENTRAL TIME
RHAD~DOWN7 ‘ READ UP.
"No. 7~| No7is~T~ NoT~&~T NoFhi | ~ West. ~TNo. 14 [ No. 10 |No. 8 | No.To ’
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 15am|Ar.. Atlanta. Lv|ll 55pm| 5 20am| 8 10am| 4 20pm
7 50am|10 00pm| 4 00pm| 4 20am|Lv.. Atlanta. Ar|ll 50pm| 5 00am|. |ll 40am
10 20am| 1 00am| 6 25pm| 6 30am|Lv.. Rome.. Lv| 0 40pm| 1 44am| | 9 00am
11 30am| 2 34am | 7 34pm| 7 22am|Lv.. Dal ton...Lv 8.42pm|12 10am| | 750 am
1 00pm| 4 15am| 8 50pm| 8 40am|Ar Ghat’nooga Lv| 7 30pm|10 00pm| | 8 00pm
7 10pm| 7 lOpmj 7 40am| |at .Memphis . Lv| | 9 15am| | 8 00pm
4 30pm| | 5 00am| (Ar Lexington. Lv| |lO 50am| |lO 40pm
7 50pm| | 7 50am| |Ar Louisville. Lvj | 7 40am|.. v .....| 745 pm
7 30pm| | 7 30am| |Ar 7inci nnati Lv| | 8 30am| | S 00am
9 25pm| | 7 25pm| |Ar Anniston .. Lv| | 6 32pm| | 8 00am
11 45am| |lO 00pm| | Ar Birm’ham Lv| | 4 15pm| | 6 00am
8 05am| | 1 lOamj 7 45pm|Ar Knoxville. Lv| 7 00am| 7 40pm| | 740 pm
| | No. iTFNo.TsJ So uth. [ N0."15?j No. 13 | |
| 7 10pm| 2 10am | 8 35am|Lv.. Ma con .. Ar| 8 20am| 2 00am| |
| | 3 22am|10 05am|Lv Cochran.. Lv| 3 20pm|12 55amj j
| | |lO 45am|Ar Hawk’ville Lv| 2 50pm| | |
| | 3 54amjl0 50am|Lv. Eastman. Lv| 2 41pm|12 25am| |
..j | 4 29amjll 36am|Lv.. Helena.. Lvj 2 03pm|ll 54pm| |
’.j | 6 45am| 2 38pm|Lv.. Jesup... Lv|ll 22am| 9 43pm| |
| i 7 30am| 3 30pm|Lv Everrebt.. Lv|lo 45am| 9 05pm| |
| | 8 30am| 4 30pm|Ar Brunswick. Lv| 9 30am| 6 50pm| |
| | 9 40am| 9 25am|Ar Jack’ville. Lv| 8 00am| 6 50pmj |
| N 0.7 | No. 9 | No. 13 | East? | N 0716 | NoTTTf. | - .7... .T
| 7 lOpmj 8 30am| 2 05am|Lv.. .Macon.. At| 8 20am| 7 lOpmj j
| 9 45pm|ll 10am| 4 15am|Ar ..Atlanta. Lv| 5 20am| 4 20pm| |
| 9 25am| 8 30pm| 6 10pm|Lv Charlotte Lv|lo 15am| 9 35am| |
| 1 30pm|12 00n’t|ll 25pm[Lv . Danville. Lvj 6 07pm| 5 50am| |
| 6 25pm[ 6 40am| |Ar. Richmond Lv|l2 01n’n|l_ 10n,n| |
| 5 30pm| 7 35am| |Ar.. Norfolk. Lv| 9 30am|10 00pm| |
| 3 50| 1 53am| |Lv. .Lynch burg Lv| 3 55pmj 3 40am | i
| 5 48pm| 3 35am| |Lv Chari’ville Lv| 2 15pm| 1 50pm| |
I 9 25pm| 6 42am| |Ar Washgton. Lv|ll 15amjl0 43pm|... |
| 3 00am|10 15am| |Ar Phila dlphia Lv 3 50am; 6 55pm| |
| 6 20am|12 45n’n| |Ar New York Lv|l2 15am! 4 30pm| |
| 3 pm| 8 30pm| |Ar .. ..Boston Lvl 5 00pm kO oOaml . . ..j
THROUGH CAR SERVICES. ETC.
Nos. 13 and 14, Pullman Sleeping Cars between Chattanooga and jaeksob in
also between Atlanta and Brunswick. Berths may be reserved to be taken a>
Macon.
Nos. 15 and 16, day express trains, bet ween Atlanta, and Brunswick.
Nos. 9 and 10, elegant free Observatior cars, between Macon and ktlanta, also
Pullman Sleeping cars between Atlanta and Cincinnati. Connects in Union depot,
Atlanta, with “Southwestern Vestibuled Limited,” finest and fastest train in tin.
South.
Nos. 7 and 8, connects in Atlanta Union depot with “U. 3. 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. Q Washington, D. C.
W. A. TURK, G. P. A., S. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A.,
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, G*.
RANDALL CLIFTON, T. P. A., BURR BROWN, C. T. A.,
Macon, G* 565 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga
Central ot Georgia
Railway Company
Schedules in Effect June 12, IS9B-. standard Tine
tfrea 7 90th Meridian.
No. 5 | No. 7 *1 No. 1 »| STATIONS ] No. 2 •[ No. B*l No «
Vo 9°, am| i 7 o 4 ;r. Pm 'i 7 , 5 2 arn ' Lv Macon .. .Ar 725 pm| 740 am| 350 pm
i 224 pm 840 pm 850 ami Ar ....Fort Valley Lv 627 pm| 639 am' 242 pm
. 9 3o pm|. I 9 40 am|Ar. ... Perry Lv I 4 45 pm| 'ill 30 am
I |H 15 am Ar. ..Columbus. . .Lv 400 pm, j
••••• I 5 50 pm|Ar. . .B’mham. . .Lvl 9 30 am! 1.....’.’.’.’.’
152 pm 957 pm! |Ar.. Americus ~..Lv| 518 am 1 67’pin
• ; H pm 10 21 pm I Ar.. .Smithville ..Lvl 4 55 am|f 12 42 pm
’ ™ Pm 11 °° pm ' Ar •••• Alban y ...Lv[ | 4 15 am| 11 35 am
3 06 pm [Ar .. .Dawson ....Lvl I ’j’ i£ 52 am
5 00 pm >. No 9 * [Ar .. .Fort Gaines ..Lv| No 10 * 955 am
4 37 pm 7 45 am|Ar ....Eufaula ....Lvl 7 30 pm .. io 20 an
3 H Pm! | lAr Ozark .. ..Lv 6 fj
600 pm; | 9 05 am|Ar ..Union Springs Lv| 6 00 pm 9 05
725 pm, .1 |Ar Troy. . ..Lvi j ' 755 ani
730 pm;.... I 10 35 am|Ar.. Montgomery ..Lv| 420 pm| | 740 am
No. ll.*| No. 3.*| No. l.»| j No. 4.«| No '2 ~
800 am; 425 am; 4 20 pm|Lv ... .Macon. . ..Ar| 11 10 am| 11 10 pm| 720 om
922 am ; 540 am| 540 pmjLv. .Barnesville . .Lv| 945 r 945 Dm | «05
112 00 m 12 00 m 710 pm; Ar... .Thom aston I 810 am' H 300 nm
955 am 608 am, 613 pm|Ar. .. .Griffin. . ..Lv| 912 am| '9 15 pmi’ 530 nm
11 20 am| 7 35 am| 735 pm|Ar.. .Atlanta, . ~Lv| 7 50 am| 750 pm| 406 pm
No. 6. I No. 4. •! No. 2*i . n.. £.l
730 pm 11 38 pm 11 2& am|Lv. .. .Macon. . ..Ar| | j 55 ar -| 74 8 aw
810 pm 12 19 am 12 08 pm|Ar. - ..Gordon. .. .Ar| 400 pml 210 am| 710 am
8 50 pm ! 1 15 pm Ar. .Milledgeville ,Lv|! 3 00 pmj I 6 20 am
10 00 pm ?3 00 pm|Ar.. ..Eatonton. . .Lv!l2 50 pm* ” 525 am
•U 25 am *ll 38 pmi*ll 25 am;Lv. .. .Macon . ..Ar|* 3 45~pmT* 3 55 ami»~3 45 pm
117 pm, 130 am ( f 117 prmLv. . .Ten nille„ ...Lv| 156 pm 152 ami 156 pm
2 30 pm, 225 am, 2 30 prn,Lv. . Wadley. .. .Lv!fl3 55 pm; 12 25 am| 12 55 mtn
251 pm 244 am 251 pnflLv. .. Midville. . Lv| 12 11 pm 12 25 am| 12 11 pm
330 pm 335 am 400 pm Lv.. ..Millen .. ..Lv 11 35 am; 11 50 pm sll 30 am
5417 pm 442 am 503 pm Lv .Waynesboro . .Lv| 10 10 ami 10 34-pm 10 47 am
5530 pm 635 am I 650 pm Ar.. ..Augusta .. .Lv; 18 20 am 840 pm| 930 am
I 342 am 350 pmjLv.. Rocky Ford.. .Lv| 11 03 am 11 14 pm
m 1 ..........
| 600 am 600 pm|Lv.. .Savannah. ..Lv| 845 am| 900
i No. 16. *| | No. 15. *| ‘
I 10 45 amlAr. ...Madison. .. Lv 440 pm ’”’’*'***
• Dally. ! Dally except Sunday, f al station, s Sunday only. ————
Solid trains are run to ands from Macon and Montgomery via Eufaula, Sa van
nah and Atlanta via Macon, Macon and Albany via Smithville, Macon and Binning
ham via Columbus. Elegant sleeping cars on trains No. 3 and 4 between Macos
and Savannah and Aalanta and Savannah. Sleepers for Savannah are ready for occv
pancy In Macon depot at 9:00 p. m. Pas-sengers arriving i n Macon on No. 3 and 81
vannah on No. 4, are allowed to remain iusieeper until 7 a. m. Parlor cars between
Macon and Atlanta on trains Noe. 1 and 2. Seat fare 25 cents. Passengers for
Wrightsville. Dublin and Sandersville takell:2s. Train arrives Fort Gaines
4:45 p. m., and leaves 10:10 a. m. Sundays. For Oaark arrives 7:30 p. m. and leaves
7:30 a. m. For further information or schedules to points beyond our lines, addrest
J. G. CARLISLE, T. P. A., Macon, Ga. B. p. BONNER, U. T. A.
B. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager j. c. HAILE, G. P. A
THEO. D. KLINE. General Bunerintf.dent.
WATCHES. JEWELRY.
Right Prices.
Honest Goods.
BEELAND, the Jeweler,
Triangular Block.
DIfIniONDS. CUT-GLASS. I
The only safe, sure and
VIV D sl Ea A reliable Female PILL
JKar PEh> TRh Ai
, J ’ * ■ I 8E»l J| eu vO married Ladies
— 1 J KaSTSOUt, pua.3 and take no other,
ciroul,.l rice ifl.OO per box, 6 boxeo lor $5.00,
DLL MOTTS <X>., - Cleveland, Obic
For sale by H. J. LAMAR & SONS. Wholesale Agents.
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 Tiaffic Manager, Cinciunati, O.
The News Printing Co.
Printers and Pubishers.
WILL PRINT
BRIEFS, BOOKS,
FOLDERS, STATEMENTS,
PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS,
CARDS, CHECKS, ENVELOPES,
LETTER HEADS. NOTE HEADS
AND
iii lie Pniteil
On Short Notice,
At Low Prices,
In Artistic Sty lb
We have added to our Pletnt a Well-Equipped
Bindery,
And can now turn out any sort of book from a 3,000 page
ledger to a pocket memorandum; or from the handsomest library
volumn to a paper back pamphlet.
A Trial is All We Ask.
NEWS PRINTING CO
THE FAIR STORE *
Has removed to Cherry street, next to
Payne & Willingham’s and L. McMa
nus’ furniture stores and opposite Em
pire Store.
Home Industries
and Institutions
HENRY STEVENS, SONS & CO
H. iTEVFNS’ SONS 00., Macon, Ga., Manufacturers of Sewer and Railroad cul
vert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing that will last forever.
MACON REFRIGERATORS.
MUECKE’S Improved Dry Air Refrigerators. The best Refrigerators made. Manu
factured right here in Macon, any size and of any material desired. It has qualities
which no other refrigerator on the market poeseeses. Come and see them at the fac
tory op New street.
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