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TOO Midi IS MISERY
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON ON THE DAN-
GERS OF WEALTH.
Tlie I of <h«- Glnnt- Th*
Service of tlie < ommonplnce—They
Who Do the World** Work—The
Divinity of Service.
[Copyright. IS9?, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Washington, Sept 25.—From n passage
of Scripture that probably no other clergy
man ever preached from Rev. Dr. Talmage
in this discourse sets forth a truth very
appropriate for those who have unhealthy
ambition for great wealth or fame. The
text is 1 Chronicles xx. 6,7:
“A man of great stature, whose fingers
and toes were four and twenty, six on each
hand and six on each foot, and he also
was the son of a giant. But, wh ■he de
fied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shirnea,
David's brother, slew him.”
Malformation photographed, and for
what reason? Did not this pas age slip
by mistake Into the sacred S ires, as
sometimes a paragraph utterly obnoxious
to the editor gets into ids newspaper dur
ing his aliwnce? is not this scriptural
errata? No, no, there is nothing haphaz
ard about the Bible This passage of
Scripture was as certainly intended to be
put In tiie Bible as the verse, ‘‘ln the be
ginning God created the heave; d the
earth," or “God so loved the • , that
tie gave ids only I egc.tten Son.
And I select it for my text todsiv because
it is charged with practical and trenien
dons moaning. By the people of God the
Philistines had been conquered, with the
exception of a few giants. The race of
giants is mostly extinct, I am glad to say
There is no use for giants now except to
enlarge the income of museums. But
there were many of them in olden times
Goliath was, according to the Bible, 11
feet 4% inches high, or, if you doubt
this, the famous Pliny declares that at
Crete by an earthquake a monument was
broken open, discovering the remains of a
giant 46 cubits long, or 69 feet high. So,
whether you take sacred or profane history,
you must come to the conclusion that
there were in those times cases of human
altitude monstrous and appalling.
Impotent Giantism.
David had smashed the skull of one of
these giants, but there were other giants
that the Davidean wars had not yet sub
dued, and one of them stands in my text.
Ho was not only of Alpine stature, but
had a surplus of digits. To the ordinary
fingers was annexed an additional finger,
and the foot had also a superfluous adden
dum. Ho find 24 terminations to hands
and feet, whore others have 20. It was
not the only instance of the kind. Ta
vernier, the learned writer, says that the
emperor of Java had a son endowed with
the same number of extremities. Volca
tius, tho poet, had six fingers on each
han<L Maupertuis, in his celebrated let
ters, speaks of two families near Berlin
similarly equipped of hand and foot. All
of which I can believe, for I have seen two
cases of tho same physical superabun
dance. But this giant of tho text is in
battle, and as I (avid, the stripling warrior,
had dispatch' <1 one giant tho nephew of
David slays this monster of my text, and
there ho lies after tho battle in Gath, a
dead giant His stature did not save him,
and his superfluous appendices of hand
and foot did not save him. The probabil
ity was that in tho battle his sixth finger
on his hand made him clumsy in tho use
of his weapon, and ids sixth toe crippled
his gait Behold the pros! rate and mal
formed glantof thotext: “A man of great
stature, whoso fingers and toes were four
and twenty, six on each hand and six on
each foot, and he also was tho son of a
giant. But when ho defied Israel, Jona
than, tho son of Shimea. David’s brother,
slew him.*'
> The I se of Everyday.
Behold how superfluities are a hin
drance rather than a help! In all tho bat
tle nt. Gath that, day there was not a man
with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and
ordinary stat uro that, was not better off
than this physical curiosity of my text. A
dwarf on the right side is stronger than a
giant on the wrong side, and nil the body
and mind and estate and opportunity that
you cannot use for God and the better
ment of the world I'.ro n sixth finger and a
sixth too and a terrible hindrance. The
most of the good done in the world and
the most of I hose who win tho b itties for
the right are ordinary people Count
tho fingers of their right hand, and they
have just five—no more and no less One
Dr Duff among missionaries, but 3,000
missionaries that would tell you they have
only common endowment. One Florence
Nightingale to nurse the sick in conspicu
ous places, but 10,000 women who tire just
as good nurses, though never heard of.
Tho‘‘Swamp Angel' was a big gun that
during tho civ 11 war made a big i vise, but
muskets of ordinary caliber and shells of
ordinary belt did tho execution Presi
dent Tyler and his cabinet go down the
Potomac one day to experimei. with the
“ I'cacemaker, tk great, iron gut. that was
to affright with its 1I and' r fore!,' a navies.
The gunner touches h off, ami i xplodes
and leaves cabinet ministers d ■ the
deck, while at that th" ~11 t.’ • an
our coasts, were i v non ot era. b .e,
able to bo the i . f the r • and
ready nt the first to v a’ > uuiy
The curse of th v.d is big guns a.ter
the jKilit ieians, w. o have made all the
noise, o home 1: r.-e from i. ;ry discus
sion on t. >■ evening cf tiie first Monday in
November, the iv.l dty the p >ple. with
the silent ballots, will settle hing
and settle it. right, a million * hire
slips of paper they dr pinak. ...,c as
much noise as the tnllef an uj Uossom
Clear hack in the country Gay t'. e
are mothers in pl i apron aud shoes fash
ioned on a rough 1 .st by a shoemaker at
the end of the lane, rocking babies that
are to bo tho Martin Lutin.s and tho
Faradays and tho Edisons and the Bis
marcks and tho Gladstones and the Wash
ingtons ami tho George Whitefields of the
future. The longer I live tho more 1 like
common folks. They do the world s work,
bearing the world's burdens, weeping the
world’s sympathies. carrying the world's
consolation Among law yers we see rise
up a Rufus Choate or a William Wirt or a
Samuel L. Southard, but society would go
to pieces tomorrow If there were not thou
sands of common law yers to see that men
and women get their rights A Valentine
Mott or a Willard Parker rises up emi
nent, in tho medical profession, but. what
an unlimited sweep would pneumonia and
diphtheria and scarlet fv if have in the
world if ij were not for 10.(MX) common
doctors! The old physician in his gig.
driving up the lane of th" farmhouse or
riding on horseback, his medicines in the
saddlebags, arriving on the ninth day of
the fever, and coming in to take hold of
the pulse of the patient, while the family,
pale with anxiety, and looking on and
waiting for his decision in regard to the
patient. and hearing him say, ‘‘Thank
God. I have mastered the case; he is get
ting well!” excites in me an admiration
quite equal to tho mention of the names
of the great, metropolitan doctors of the
past or the illustrious living men of the
present
Useless Addenda.
Yet what do wo st e in all departments?
People not satisfied with ordinary spheres
of work and ordinary duties. Instead of
trying to see what they can do with a
hand of five fingers, they want six. In
stead of usual endowment of 20 manual
and pedal addenda, they want 24. A cer
tain amount of money for livelihood, and
for the supply of those whom we leave be
hind us after vve have departed this life, is
important, for we have the best authority
for saying. "He that provideth m t for his
own. and especially those of his own
household, is worse than an infidel,' 1 but
the large and fabulous sums for which
many struggle, if obtained, would l»e a
hindrance rather than an advantage.
The anxieties and annoyances of those
whose estates have become plethoric can
only be told by those who possess them.
It will be a good thing when, through
your industry and prosperity, you can
own the house in which you live. But
suppose you own 50 houses and yon have
all (hose rents to collect and all those
tenants to please. Suppose you have
branched out in business successes until
In almost every direction you have invest
ments. The lire bell rings at night; you
rush up stairs to look out of the window
Jo see if it is any of your mills. Epidemic
of crime comes, and there are embexzle-
n nte .and absconding in all directions,
and you wonder whether any of your book
k'•opera will prove recreant. A panic
strikes the financial world, and you are
like a hen under a sky full of hawks and
Dying with anxious cluck to get your
overgroyvn chickens safely under wing.
Aft* r a certain stage of success has been
reached you have to trust so many impor
tant things to others that you are apt to
become the prey of others, and you are
swindl'd and defrauded, and the anxiety
you had on your brow when you were
earning your first 81.000 is not equal to
the imxiety on your brow now that you
have won yo> r 8300.000.
Monetary Plethora.
The trouble witn such a one is, be is
spread out like the unfortunate one in my
text. You have more fingers and toes
than you know what to do with. Twenty
were useful; 24 are a hindering super
fluity
Disraeli says that a king of Poland ab
dicated his throne and joined the people
and l.wame a porter to carry burdens
And some one asked him why be did so.
and he replied: “I pon my honor, gentle
men, the load which I cast off was by far
heavier than tho one you see me carry
The weightiest is but a straw when com
pared to that weight under which I labor
ed. I have slept more in four nights than
I have 'hiring all my reign I begin to
live and to be a king myself. Elect whom
you choose As for me, I am so well it
would Is; madness to return to court.”
‘‘Well.” says somebody, ‘such overload
ed persons ought to lie pitied, for their
worriments are real, arid their insomnia
and their nervous pr stration are gen
ulne. ” Ir- ply that they could get rid of
the Ixtthcrsomc surplus by giving it away
If a man has mon, houses than he can car
ry without vexation, let him drop a few of
them. If his estate irf so great he cannot
manage it without getting nervous dys
pepsin from having too much, let him di
vide with those who have nervous dyspep
sia because they cannot get enough No,
they gui rd their sixth finger with more
care than they did tho original five. They
go limping with what they call gout and
know not that, like the giant of my text,
they are tamed by a superfluous toe. A
few of them by charities bleed themselves
of this financial obesity and monetary
plethora, but many of them hang on to
the hinttaring superfluity till death, and
then, as they are compelled to give tho
money up anyhow, in their last will and
testament they generously give some of it
to the Boni, expecting, no doubt, that he
will feel very much obliged to them
Thank Gt.tl that once in awhile wo have a
Peter Cooper, who, owning an interest in
the iron works at Trenton, said to Mr.
Lester- "1 do not feel quite easy about the
amount we are making. Working under
one of our patents, we have a monopoly
which seems to mo something wrong. Ev
erybody has to coibo to us for it, and we
are making money too fast ” So they re
duced the price, a <1 this while our philan
thro' i. 1 1 .. ' building Cooper Institute,
which mothers a hundred institutes of
kindne--, and mercy all over the land. But
the world had to wait 5,800 years for
Peter Cooper!
The Miser nn<l Misery.
I ampl.ul for the benevolent institutions
that gi t a legacy from men who during
their life were as stingy as death, but who
in their tast will and testament bestowed
money i n hospitals and missionary socie
ti> s, but for such testators I have no re
spect They would have taken every cent
of it with them if they could and bought
up half of hen von and let it out at ruinous
rent or loaned the money to celestial citi
zens at 2 percent a month and got a “cor
ne.r'' o.i harps and trumpets. They lived
in this world 50 er 60 years in the presence
oi' a,q<.filing suffering and want and made
no efforts for their relief. Tho charities of
such people uro in t he ‘ ‘ Paulo post future”
tense. They are going to do them. The
probability is that if such a one in his last
will by a donation to benevolent societies
trie, to atone, for his lifetime closcflsted
ness tho heirs at law will try to break the
will by proving that tho old man was se
nile or crazy, and tho expense of the liti
gation will about leave in tho lawyer’s
hands what was meant for the Bible so
ciety. O ye overweighted, successful busi
ness men, whether this sermon reach your
ear or your eyes, let me say that if you are
prostrated v. ith an :i. ties about keeping or
Investing these tremendous fortunes I can
tell you how you can do more to get your
health back and your spirits raised than
by drinking gallons of bad tasting water
at Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad—give
to God, humanity and the Bible 10 per
cent of all your income, and it will make
a new man of you, and from restless walk
ing of the floor at night you shall have
eight hours’ sleep without the help of
bromide of potassium, and from no appe
tite you will hardly be able to wait for
your regular meals, and your wan cheek
will fill up, and when you die the bless
ings of those who but for you would have
perished will bloom all over your grave.
Perhaps some of you will take this ad
vice, but the most of you will not. And
you will t ry to cure your swollen hand by
get ting on it more fingers, and your rheu
matic toot by getting on it more toes, and
there will be a sigh of relief w hen you are
gone out of the world, and when over your
remains the minister recites the words,
‘ Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord, ' persons who have keen apprecia
t : nos the ludicrous will hardly be able to
keep i liefaces straight But whether in
that divi.non my worus do good or not, 1
am anxious that all who have only or
d.’.a . ip.uent be thankful for what
they h and rightly ei ploy H. I think
vou all r. ive, flgur.Kively as well as liter
ah , fingers enou .h. Do Nut long for
hindering snper'd. n ;es Standing in the
presence of this fallen giant of my text
and in this post mortem examination of
Ln, let us learn how much better off we
are with just the usual hand, the usual
foot. You have thanked God for a thou
sand thi' xs but I warrant you never
thanked him for those two implements of
work ami locomotion that no one but the
Infinite and omnipotent God could have
ever planned or made—the hand and the
foot. Only that soldier or that mechanic
who in a battle or through machinery has
lost them knows anything adequately
about their value, and only the Christian
scientist can have any appreciation of
what divine masterpieces they are.
The Human Hand.
Sir Charles Beil was so impressed with
the wondrous construction of the human
hand that when the Earl of Bridgewater
gave 840,000 for essays on the wisdom
and goodness of God, and eight books
were written. Sir Charles Bell wrote
his entire book on the wisdom and
goodness of God as displayed in the hu
man hand. The 87 bones in the hand
and wrist with cartilages and liga
ments and phalanges of the fingers all
made just ready to knit, to sew, to build
up, to pull down, to weave, to write, to
plow, to pound, to wheel, to battle, to give
friendly salutation. The tips of its fingers
are so many telegraph offices by reason of
their sensitiveness of touch. The bridges,
the tunnels, the cities of the whole earth
are the victories of the hand. The hands
are nor dumb, but often speak as distinct
ly as the lips. With our hands we invite,
we repel, we invoke, we entreat, we wring
them in grief or clap them in joy, or
spread them abroad in benediction. The
malformation of the giant’s hand in the
text glorifies the usual hand. Fashiomsl
of God more exquisitely and wondrously
than any human mechanism that was ever
sontrived, I charge you to use it for God
and the lifting of the world out of its
moral predicament. Employ it in the sub
lime work of gospel handshaking. You
can see the hand is just made for that.
Four lingers just set right to touch your
neighbor's hand on one side, and your
thumb set so as to clinch it on the other
side By all its bones and joints and
muscles and cartilages and ligaments the
voice of nature joins with the voice of God
commanding you to shake hands. The
custom is as old as the Bible, anyhow.
Jehu said to Jehonadab: “Is thine heart
right as my heart is with thine heart? If
it be, give me thine hand.” When hands
join in Christian salutation, a gospel elec
tricity thrills across the palm from heart
to heart, and from the shoulder of one to
the shoulder of the other.
With the timid and for their encourage
ment, shake hands. With the troubled in
warm hearted symjiathy, shake hands.
With the young man just entering busi
uess and discouraged at the small sales
and the large expenses, shake hands.
With the child who is new from God_and
started on unending journey, for which he
Deeds to gather great supply of strength,
and who can hardly retwh up to you now
because you are so much taller, shake
hands. Across cr .dies and dying beds
and graves, shake hands. With your ene
mies who have done all to defame and
hurt you. but whom you can afford to for
give, shake hands. At the door of the
churches where people e<>me in, and at tho
door of churches where people go out,
shake hands. Let pulpit shake hands
with pew and Sabbath day shake hands
with weekday, and earth shake hands with
heaven. Ob. the strange, the mighty, the
undefined, the mysterious, the eternal
power of an honest handshaking! The
difference between these times and the
millennial times is that now some shake
hands, but then all will shake hands,
throne and footstool, across seas, nation
with nation, God and man, church mili
tant and church triumphant.
The Errant Foot.
Yea, the malformation of this fallen
giant’s foot glorifies the ordinary foot, for
which I fear you have never once thanked
God. The 26 bones of tl»o foot are the ad
miration of the anatomist. The arch of
tho foot, fashioned with a grace and a poise
that Trajan's arch or Constantine’s arch
or any other arch could not equal. Those
arches stand w here they were planted, but
this arch of the foot is an adjustable arch,
a yielding arch, a flying arch, and ready
for movements innumerable. The human
foot, so fashioned as to enable a man to
stand upright as no oilier creature, and
leave the hand that would otherwise have
to help in balancing the body tree for any
thing it chooses. The foot of the camel
fashioned for the sand, tile loot of the bird
fasnioned for the tree branch, the loot of
the hind fashioned for the slippery rock,
the foot of the lion fashioned to rend its
prey, the foot of tho’horse fashioned for
the solid earth, but the foot of man made
to cross the desert, or climb tile tree, or
scale the cliff, or walk the earth, or go
anywhere lie needs to go.
With that, diviue triumph of anatomy in
your possession where do you walk? In
what path of righteousness or what path
of sin havo you set it down? Where have
you left tho mark of your footsteps? Amid
the petrifactions in the r icks have been
found the marks of the feet of birds and
beast of thousands of years ago. And God
can trace out nil the footsteps of your life
time, and those you made 50 years ago
are as plain us those made in the last soft
weather, all of them petrified for tho judg
merit day. Oh, the foot! Give mo the
autobiography of your foot from the time
you stepped out of tho cradle until today,
and 1 will tell your exact character now
and what aro your prospects for the world
to conic.
That there might bo no doubt ..bout the
fact that both these pieces of divine
mechanism, hand and foot, belong to
Christ’s service both hands of Christ and
both feet of Christ were spiked on the
cross. Right through the arch of both his
feet to the hollow of his instep went the
iron of torture, and from tho palm of his
hand to tho back of it, and there is not a
muscle or nerve or bono among tho 27
bones of hand and wrist or among tho 26
bones of the foot but it belongs to him
now and forever.
A Fable of Service.
That is tho most beautiful foot that goes
about paths of greatest usefulness, and
that tho most beautiful hand that does the
most to help others. I was reading of
three women in rivalry about the appear
ance of tho hand. And the one reddened
her hand with berries and said the beauti
ful tinge made hers the most beautiful.
And another put her hand in the moun
tain brook and said as the waters dripped
off that her hand was the most beautiful.
And another plucked flowers off the bank,
and under the bloom contended that her
hand was the most attractive. Then a
poor old woman appeared, and, looking
up in her decrepitude, asked for alms.
And a woman who had not taken part In
tho rivalry gave her alms. And all the
women resolved to leave to this beggar the
question as to which of all the hands pres
ent was tho most attractive, and she said,
“Tho most beautiful of them all is the one
that gave relief to my necessities. ” And
as she so said her wrinkles and rags and
her decrepitude and her body disappeared,
and in place thereof stood tho Christ, who
long ago said, ‘‘lnasmuch as ye did it to
one of the least of those ye did it unto
me,” and who to purchase the service of
our hand and foot here on earth had his
own hand and foot lacerated.
Mr. Milixin’s Definition of Fusion.
From the (Brunswick Call.
Said Ben to Jim: “It seem to me ’tie
time we got some jobs. The districk’s had
enough of these here dimmycratic snobs.
There’s BiUy B. —he beat me once—-I’ve
got it in for him. You’ve got some friends,
you’s got some dough, suppose you try it
Jim.”
“Oh rats,” said Ben, "we’ll fix a scheme,
you know. I boss the Pops; whenever Ben
nie speaks the word, you bet there is some
thing drops. But there’s but precious few
of us and if we "spects to lan’ -well’s have
to do the business on the fusion plan.”
“Well Ben,” said Jim, “I’ll see the boys;
I’m powerful with the Reps; and when I
wave the flag of spoils, they’ll follow in
my steps. But one thing I can’t fathom;
and that is how in h —l we are going to
make the Pops and Reps hatch out of the
same shell. The Pops are all for silver,
the Reps are all for gold—nqw. how’re you
going to get the two into one party fold?”
“Gee whiz!” said Ben; “you’re soft, for
true; I thought you know what fusion
means, you gump? In co’se you do! Why,
fusion was invented —its a Tommy Watson
growth—'When one party isn’t strong
enough, to do the work with both. It
don’t cut any figure what the votin’ guys
may choose, the bosses yell ‘Together!’
and they simply have to fuse. And, in
this race, it saws no ice What platform you
pursue, and the gold and silver questions
aint wuth a howdy-do—there's some one
for one and some for ’t’other, but they’re
all for revenoo!” E. D. L.
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I cheerfully recommend it to any one
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Subscribers must pay up and not allow
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Get your flags ready for the Carnival.
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING,'SEPTEMBER 26 1898.
Queer Things in Georgia.
Gainesville Cracker: A cake of beeswax
wGghir-g seventy and a half pounds was
one of the curiosities at Hynds Company's
store this week. It sold for $15.65 ani was
brought in by V. M. Waldrop, as Union
county.
Dublin Courier: W. S. Holley spring
planted a small patch, about one-eiguth
of an acre, in Spanish peanuts, and this
week he gathered ten bushels from the
patch. At $1 per bushel, a crop of these
peanuts will pay as well as any crop that
can be raised in Georgia. His patch was
a poor place, with no fertilizer.
Ocilla Dispatch: Mrs. D. J. Henderson
sent the Dispatch a sample of her squash
crop Saturday last When first taken from
the vine it weighed fifty pounds, and when
weighed in Ocilla a few days afterwards
it had lost three-fourthsof apound through
the drying up process. This is perhape the
largest squash ever grown in Irwin county,
if not in Southwest Georgia.
Dalton Argus: A new species of tramp Is
in the field—the bicycle tramp. He rides
about from place to place on a bicycle, beg
ging food, shelter and work —though he is
not as particular about getting the work as
he is the food and shelter. One of them hit
the Argus the past w-eek, and rede away
supremely happy after he was sided up.
Albert Gregg said it was a big job to till
him.
Augusta Chronicle: C. E. Knox of Thom
bod has a little dog that seems proof to
disease and poison. The dog being too old
to be of service and becoming a nuisance,
Mr. Knox concluded to end his sufferings
and get him out of the way. He first got
two ounces of chloroform and saturated a
■piece of cloth and placed it and the dog
under a tight box, but the dog did not nod,
the only effect was apparently to give him
insomnia. He then got some strychnine
and gave it to him over night and went to
bed expecting to see a dead dog the next
morning, but when morning came the dog
appeared promptly for breakfast with a
good appetite and a better color to his
complexion. The last we heiard of the dog
killing w T as that Mr. Knox hired a colored
boy to steal the dog off and kill it, while
Mrs. Knox and the young ladies who op
pose killing faithful old Scott, were threat
ening the negro with vengeance if he did
so.
Copper Colored
Splotches.
There is only one cure for Contagion!
Blood Poison —the disease which has
completely baffled the doctors. Thej
are totally unable to cure it, and direci
they- efforts toward bottling the poison
up in the blood and concealing it from
view. S. S. S. cures the disease posi
tively and permanently by forcing out
every trace of the taint.
I was afflicted with a terrible blood disease,
Which was in spots at first, but afterwards
f spread all over my body.
These soon broke out intfl
sores, and it is easy to
imagine the suffering I
endured. Before I be
came convinced that th(
doctors could do no good
I had spent a hundred
dollars, which was reallj
5 thrown away. I th er
j tried various patent
medicines, but they did
1-iT not reach the disease
’r When I had finished ml
first bottle of S. S. S. 1
“AV-tr/ was greatly improved
and was delighted witi
the result. The large red splotches on mi
chest began to grow paler and smaller, and
before long disappeared entirely. I regained
my lost weight, became stronger, and my ap
petite greatly improved. I was soon entirelj
well, and my skin as clear as a piece of glass.
H. L. Myers, 100 Mulberry St., Newark, N. J
Don’t destroy all possible chance of s
cure by taking the doctor’s treatment
of mercury and potash. These minerals
cause the hair to fall out, and wil!
wreck the entire system.
S.S.SM e Blood
is purely vegetable, and is the onlj
blood remedy.guaranteed to contain n<j
potash, mercury, or other mineral.
Books on the disease and its treat
ment mailed free by Swit'L Specific Com
pany, Atlanta, Georgia.
\ WiHiam’s SCidney Pilis v
1 Has no equal in diseases of
v Kidneys ar.d Urin irv Organs. Have . i
£you ncgle ‘"'l your Kidneys'? Have '
\ you overw n iied your nervous sys- $
Lem ,<ii(l cc I trouble with your <
and Bladder? Have your
b pains in the joins, side, back, groin®
and bladder? Have you a flabby ap- V
.pearance of the face, c- '"dlyT
■y 'under the T-io frequent de-
oi-o. .. .... cm)
ind make . • ma •- •• By
• n .• H * .1 »• •
’“tar stile bv H J. Lamar & Sc ‘--bote
* i.f- * To-nt-e?
Hudson Rivei dy Day iont
The most charming inland water trip on
the American continent.
The Palace Iron Steamers,
“New York” and “Albany”
Os the
Hudson River Day Line
•Dally except Sunday.
Leave New York, Desbrosses 5t..8:40 a.m.
Lv New York, West 22d st, N. R. 9:00 a.m
Leave Albany, Hamilton 5t,.....8:30 am.
Landing at Yonkers, West Point, New
burgh. Poughkeepsie, Kingston Point,
Catskill and Hudson.
The attractive tourist route to the Catskill
Mountains, Saratoga and the Adiron
dack?, Hotel Champlain and the
North, Niagara Falls and ths
West.
Through tickets sold to all potato.
Restaurants on main deck. Orchestra on
each steamer. Send six cents io. stamps
for “Summer Excursion Book.”
F. B. Hibbard, Gen. Pass. Agent.
E. E. Olcott, Gen. Manager.
Des bros see st pier. New Yoik.
“Queen of Sea Routes.”
Merchants
and Miners
T ransportation Co
Steamship lines between Savannah and
Baltimore, Norfolk, Boston and
Providence.
Low rates and excellent service.
Accommodations and cuisine unsurpassed
Best way to travel and ship your goods.
For advertising matter and particulars
address
J. J. CAROLAN, Agent, Savannah, Ga.
R. H. WRIGHT, Agent, Norfolk, Va.
J. W. SMITH, Agent, 10 Kimball House,
Atlanta, Ga.
J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager.
W. P. TURNER, General Pass. Agent.
General offices, Baltimore, Md.
_j IUASTO Rin
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Cg Always Bought
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ting the Siomachs and Bowels of > HADI'S tilA ff
Siplato /W
--ji Promoles Digestion,Cheerful- s g / lai"
I ness andßest.Contains neither g >- b
Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. & uJL bJ
Not Naucotic.
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II Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- ! Ete * V . BI —. .
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facsimile Signature of S‘]
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_ _________ 7 }<r S " • ' r "’’ Mi Y NEW YORK CITY.
WATCHES. JEWELRY.
Right Prices.
Honest Goods.
BEELAND, the Jeweler,
Triangujar Block.
DIBinONDS. CUT-GLASS.
DRY GOODS.
HUTHNHNGE & ROUNTREE
GIVE
TRADING STAMPS
Also forty other merchants in Macon give
Stamps with all cash purchases. Ask for a
book. Save your Stamps and get an elegant
Clock, Lamp, Oak Table. Onyx Table, Watch,
Set of China, Morris Chair, or any oi-e of the
numerous elegant presents we give away.
Office— Goodwyn’s Drug Store.
Buy your drugs from Goodwyn’s and get trad
ing stamps.
We fire Better Prep?rea Than Ever
Tot ke care of the buildin r tr of ’Ancon
and tributary points Ou f* iti
ly filling orders are unexe * t rr . , rtr
ing to build a house it wi 1 v • •
see us before buying vo n materia ■' f
d sire tc build hy coi la<t, ' . cc t
and builders and take »n 4. nse, ± 11
by contract.
Macon, Sash, Door and umoc 'O.
Office, Fourth Street, Phoi* 116.
_ Factor y Enterprise South Macon, Phone 401
THE FAIR STORE *
Has removed to Cherry street, next to
Payne & Willingham’s and L. McMa
nus’ furniture stores and opposite Em-
pire Store.
Exquisite are the BELTS we are now
manufacturing for Ladies
and Gentlemen.
Pure white and colored leather. See our handsome line of
Buckles.
Trunks repaired. No drayage charged.
G. BERND Sc C 0.,
450 Cherry Street .... Macon, Ga.
Home Industries
and Institutions
HENRY STEVENS, SONS & CO
H. STEVEN’S’ SON’S 00., Macon, Ga., Manufacturers of Sewer and Railroad cul
vert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing that will last forever.
MACON REFRIGERATORS.
MUKCKE’S Improved Dry Air Refriger atora. The beat Refrigerators made. Manu
factured right here tn Macon, any size and at any material desired. It has qualities
which no other refrigerator on the market possesses. Come and see them at tbs fac
tory •» N«w street.
Central of Georgia
Railway Company
- Standard Time
P 90th Meridian.
,7*o. 5 I No. 7•( No. 1•! STA TIONS f No. 2«| No.~T«| Ne
11 20 ami 740 j?m| 750 om|Lv Ma con .. .Ari 725 pm 740 am 359 L
24 pm 840 pm l 860 aniiAr ....Fort Valley Lv’ 627 pm 639 am 242 nm
. 9 35 pm|. | 940 am|Ar. ... Per ry Lvj! 445 pm m3O
i 15 am|Ar. ..Colum bus. . .Lv| 400 pm
I ~.l 12 30 pmiAr. . ..Opelika. . .Lv| 2 45 pm
I 5 50 pm|Ar. .B m ham. . .Lvf 9 30 am ’’’*
152 pm' 957 pm 1 |Ar.. Americus ....Lv| 518 am 107 pm
!2 17 pm, 10 21 pm |Ar.. .Smit hville ..JLvi j 455
327 pmi 11 05 pm| .[Ar ....Albany ...L.v| | 415 am| 1135 am
6 00 rm |Ar ..Colum bia .... Lv| | | g 55 am
3 05 pm (Ar .. .Daw son ....Lv( i I 11 52 am
3 46 pm (Ar ... ath bert ...Lv | | n h am
5 00 pm No 9 * |Ar ...Fort Gainee ..Lvj No 10 * 9 55 am
4 3 < P m 7 45 amiAr ....Euf aula ....Lvl 7 30 pm 10 20 a_n
* 14 pm |Ar. ..Ozark .. ..Dvj 6 50 am
600 pm | 9 05 anrAr ..Union Springs Lv| 6 00 pm 9 05 am
* 2 n sp “i -I |Ar. Fl o, 7
1 so pm| 10 35 ami Ar.. Montg ornery ..Lvj 4 2o pm | 740 am
11 •' -\o i * No I.* ’ ”” No NoTT*?
a9O am ‘ 4 “ a ““I ♦ 3O pm|Lv ... .Macon. .ati 11 10 am 11 10 pmi 720> <u
!i9 nn a? 40m '? 40 8410 640 P m lLv. .Barnesville .Lv 9 4;> 945 pm 605 t a
’ “ YY ni 13 M m > 710 pniiAr... .Thom ascon |S 10 am} |! 300 pia
a :>» am, 608 amj 613 pm|Ar. .. .Griu's Lv »kz ani; 9 15 pm. »io f u
-11 40 am (Ar... .Newnan.. .Lv| | | 340 pm
"••••••••I- 105 pm: |Ar.. ..Carrollton ..Lv| ( j 220 pra
.1 -u am| 735 ain| 735 pm|Ar.. . Atiania. .lw,t>v am, 750 pmj 4Uo p .
7 N w 6 nn ;' , 0 - - Ne. 1. »| N.. J. *FNo. E
31 pm i •: amiL, Ma cob Ar | 155 am' 745 •
- Pui ? am .08 pm .Gordon .. .Ar| 400 pm| 210 am| 710 am
in nn 0 pib Aiille geville .Lv|! 3 00 pml I 620 an
pn ' »00 pm,Ar. .Ea,. neon. . ,Lv!l2 50 pmi 1 525 am
I .|! 650 pm Ar Covington m 9 am, |
17 oa pm i‘ ~ Macon ~.Ar|« 345 pm|» 355 amj* 345 pm
2™ n™ 99? f1 17 pm;Lv ’ • - Ten 166 P“ i 52 am lob . n
9 si n. 1 o 7? 2 30 pn LLv- • Wadley. .. ,Lv|fl2 55 pmj 12 25 am| 12 55 cm
4 1 w P nn i 4 A am: 251 PmiLv. .. Midville. . Lv| 12 11 pm, 12 25 am| 12 11 pin
s4l- nm ao? a “ ! 4 00 pmiLv.. ..Millen .. ..Lv, 11 35 am; 11 50 pm|sll 30 am
9s m 1o- am 503 P m l bv ■ Waynesboro ..Lv| 10 10 am, 10 34 pm| 10 47 am
pm ” 3a am ! 650 pm|Ar.. ..Augusta .. .Lvl !8 20 am| 840 pm| 930 am
6OO am 600 pm|Lv.. .Savauaah. ..Lv; 845 am; 900 pm|
No. 14. •; | N0.”15. ♦!
I 12 00 m|Ar .. . Eato nton .. .Lv ! 3 30 pm
'••••I 12 20 pm|Ar. ... Athens .. ..Lv 330 pm
’ ! D*hy except Sunday, f al station, a Sunday only.
n.h A.i ? Br ? run t 0 ands from MacOn and Montgomery via Eufaula, Savan
hi™ " tlanta vl » Macon, Macon and Albany via Smithville, Macon and Birmlng
anaLllon ol “ mb “ 8 - Elegant sleeping cars on trains No. 3 and 4 between Macoa
ah an s Aalanta aud Savannah. Sleepers for Savannah are ready for occu
x, Col \ depet at 8:00 P- m - PM-sengers arriving in Macon on No. 3 and Sa
allowed to remain iusleeper until 7a. m. Parlor cars between
° D 4r * ln “ J NoB - 1 aad 2. Seat fare 25 cents. Passengers for
Wrightsville, Dublin and sandersville take 11:25. Train arrives Fort Gaines
7- ™ £ nd J eav ® s 10; l° a - m - Sundays. For Ozark arrives 7:30 p. m. and leaves
J a ia r r L Ur^ er T. lnformation or to points beyond our lines, address
» m A ” Macan ’ Ga - P- BONNER. U. T. A.
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager j. c. HAILE G. P. A.
THEO. D. KLINE. GAr>»ral Superintendent.
Southern R’y.
> Schedule in Effect July 6, 1898
—. CENTRAL TIME
READ DOWN.~ ’ ' READ UP.
No. 7 | No. 15 | No. 9 | No. 13 | West, | No. 14 | No. 10 j No. 8 | No. 10
7 10pm| 4 45pm| 8 00am| 2 05am|Lv.. Maoon ..Ar| 2 05am|~8 20am110 55amI 710 pm
9 45pm| 7 45pm|10 40am| 4 15am|Ar.. Atlanta. Lv|ll 55pm| 5 20am| 8 10am| 4 20pm
7 50am1 10 00pm| 4 00pm| 4 20am|Lv.. Atlanta. Ar|ll 50pm| 5 00am| (11 40am
10 20am| 1 00ain| 6 25pm| 6 30am|Lv.. Rome.. Lv| 0 40pm| 1 44am| I 9 Oftatm
11 30am| 2 34amj 7 34pm| 7 22am|Lv.. Dal ton...Lv 8 42pm}12 10am| | 7 fiftam
1 00pm| 4 15am| 8 50pm| 8 40am|Ar Chat’nooga Lv| 7 30pm|10 00pin| I 8 00pm
7 10pm| 7 10pm] 7 40am| |Ar .Memphis . Lv| | 9 15am| | 8 00pm
4 30pmj 5 00am| Ar Lexington. Lvj |lO 50am| 110 40pm
7 50pm| 7 50am| Ar Louis ville. Lv| | 7 40am| | 745 pm
7 30pm| 7 30am| Ar Cincinnati Lvj j 8 30am| | 8 00am
9 25 P m l 7 25pm| | Ar Anniston .. Lv| | 6~3.2nm| | « 00am
11 45am| 10 00pm|.. . |Ar Birm’ham Lvj | 4 15pm| | 6 00am
8 1 10am| 7 45pm|Ar Knoxville. Lvj 7 00am| 7 40pm|.......Tp7 40pm~
I No- 14J N0._16 | South] | No. 15. | No. 13 | |
I 7 10pm[ 2 10am| 8 35am|Lv.. Macon .. Ar| 8 20am| 2 00am| |
I I 3 22am1 10 05am|Lv Cochran.. Lv| 3 20pm|12 55am| |
-’. j jlO 45amjAr Hawk’ville Lv| 2 50pm| | |
I j 3 54am1 10 SOamjLv. Eastman. Lv| 2 41pm|12 25am| |
I j 4 29am|ll 36am|Lv.. Helena.. Lv| 2 03pm|ll 54pm| |
I j 6 45amj 2 38pm|Lv.. Jesup... Lvjll 22am| 9 43pm| |
I i 7 30am| 3 30pm|Lv Everrett.. LvjlO 45am| 9 05pm| |
I I 3 30am| 4 30pm|Ar Brunswick. Lv| 9 30am| 6 50pm| |
I N 0.7 | No. 9 | No. 13 | Ease. i No. 16 | No. 10 |.
I 7 10pm| 8 30am] 2 05am|Lv.. Ma eon77'.ar i 8 20am| 7~lopmj. |
I 9 45pm|ll 10am| 4 15am|Ar ..Atlanta. Lv| 5 20am| 4 20pm| |
I 9 25am| 8 30pmj 6 10pm|Lv Charlotte Lvjlf- !sam| 9 35am| |
I 1 30pm|12 OOn’tjll 25pm|Lv . Danville. Lvj 6 07pm| 5 50am|
I 6 25pm| 6 40am| |Ar. Richmond Lv|l2 oin’n|l2 10n,n|. |..? '
I 5 30p*n| 7 35am| [Ar.. Nor folkT~Lv| 9 30am|16’OOpm| |
I 3 50, 1 53am| |Lv. .Lynchburg Lv; 8 55pm, 3 40am|... | 7
I 5 4£pm, 3 35ani| |Lv Cnarl’viile Lv! 2 15pm| 1 50pm| |
I 9 25pm| 6 42am| |Ar Wasbgton. Lv li 15am 10 43pm| | ~
jll 25am| 8 00am| |Ar Balti more Lv 6 Ham 9 20pm| |
| 3 OOamJIO 15am|.. . .jAi Phila dlphia Lv i bOam, 6 55pm| |
I 6 2oam|l2 45n ’n| |Ar Nev York Lv t l2 15am; 4 30pm|
I 3 pm| 8 30pm| lAr .. ..Bosuw Lv, 5 00pm, 10 00am| |
THo > G (k>. S .VICE 3. ETC.
wos 3 j-id Ullman ateepiug Car* between Chattanooga and JacksonviJ •.
. tw<-. , Atlanta and Brunswick. Berth’ may be reserved to be taken R
icon
Nos i? ...b day express trains bet <e u DJanta and Brunswick.
N Of . a d lu, elegant fme Obse'va ,v cars, between Macon am Atlanta, also
Pu ’d. -v jars betvecu Ai: i snd Cincinnati. Connects in Union depot,
Atlanta. * South ' 'rn Vest.. . f Liir.-tsd,’' finest a> 4 fastest train rn n
South.
Nos. 7 and a, connects in Atlanta Union lepot with “U. S. Fast Mail Train” to e 'd
from the E ’t.
Nos. 76, P” iman sleeping cars oetwweu Macon and Asheville.
FRANK S. CtANNL.’, 3d V. P. & G. M.. J. M. CULP, Traffic Manage
Washingon. D. Q t Washington, D O.
W. A. TUI L 1. P. A., g. H HARDWICK, A. G. P. A ,
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, i-a.
RANDALL CLIFTON, T. P. A.. BURR BROWN, C. T. A.,
Maoon. G> F,Sf, Mulberry BL. Macon. Gfi.
Coast Line to Mackinac
NEW STEEL The Greatest Perfeo.
PASSENGER o° n .’ eta T ln ‘! 1 ,n
STEAMER*. Bost Construction
Luxurious . Equip*
SPEED, ment. Artistic Fur*
COMFORT a* nlshlng,Decoratios
AND SAFETY ( andEfficlentStndcs
To Detroit, Mackinac, Georgian Bay, Petoskey, Chicago
Ns other Line offers * PanoramA of 400 miles of equal variety snd interent.
ffsvr Trip® psr Wssk Bstwssa Irery Day and Day and Night Berries Between
Toled,, Detroit and Mackinac cuClun™ »E™'T AND CLEVELAND
HtTOSUT, "TBI 800,” SIZqVXTta Put -In - Bay B.rtU, Ts’.;®?
IJID DULUTM, and Toledo. Connections are made st Cleveland with
LOW BlTl&4e Pletsreseue VaaklflM aad Earliest Trains for all pointe East, South
XJralnSsirmShta; sJuSSTaftiE »»““
Y -“- sr • -
Denon dm cwm won connw
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.
J. T. KNIGHT. G. H. DOLVIN.
KNIGHT <§6 DOLVIN
Livery, Feed and Sales Stables.
Telephone 329. Plum street, opposite Union depot,
Macon, Ga.
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