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BOUNDED LIKE DEER.
WHERE THE TROUBLED OF EARTH
MAY QUENCH THEIR THIRST.
Dr. Tulmaxr **••••» tn th«* Fnr.it nn
F.tnmplr of Hope For the I'nforltl-
■ ntr nn«l Hnrn>M-il of the World—A
Lennon From the Life of Ilmld.
[Copyright, ISItS, by American Prensn Asso
ciation]
WASHIDGTOjr, Oct- 2.—Dr. Talmage,
drawing hix llluHtr.it ionn from a fleer hunt.
In this dituounte calls all the ptirmod and
troubled of the earth to come and slake
th< ir thirst at the dm p river of divine
comfort; text, Pitalms xlii. 1, “As the
hart panteth after the water brooks, so
pnru-th my soul after th<-e, O God.”
David, who must some time have ju*»n a
dew hunt, )>oints us here to a hunted stag
making for the wafer. The fascinating
animal celled iu my text the hart is the
same animal that, in sacred and profane
literature is called the stag, the roebuck,
the hind, the gazelle, the nlndoiT. Tn cen
tral Syria in Bible times there were whole
past uro fields of them, as Solomon sug
gests when he says, “I charge you !>y the
hinds of the field.” Their antlers jutted
from the long grass as they lay down. No
hunter who has Iwx-n long in “John
Brown’s tract” will wonder that in the
Bible they were classed among ci< an ani
mals, for the dews, the Hhowets, the lakes
washed them as ch an as the sky. When
Isaac, the patriarch, longed for venison,
Esau shot ami brought home a roebuck.
Isaiah compares the sprightliness of the
restored cripple of millennial times to the
long and quick jump of tie stag, saying,
“The lame filndl leap as the hart ” Solo
mon c.xpressoft his disgust at. a hunter who,
having shot a deer, is too lazy to cook it,
•eying, “The slothful man ro.;-t<-th not
that which he took In hunting.”
But one day David, while far from the
homo from v. hit h he had been driven, and
sitting near the mouth of a lonely cave
where ho had lodged, and on the banks of
a [Kind or river, heard a pa< k of hounds in
swift pursuit. Because of the previous
•llonco of the forest the clangor startles
him, and he Hays to himself, “1 wonder
what those dogs uro after ” Thon there is
a crackling in the brushwood; and the
loud breathing of Home rushing wonder of
the woods and the anti- r- of ad< er rend
the leaves of the thicket and by an in
st I net which all hunters recognize the
creature plunges Into a pool or lake or
river to cool its thirst and at the same time
by its capacity for swifter and longer
swimming to get away from the foaming
harriers. David says to himself; “Aha,
that is myself! haul after ine, Absalom
after mo, enemie-without number after
me; I am chased; their bloody muzzles
at my heels, barking at my good name,
barking after my ls;dy, barking after my
soul Oh, the hounds, the houndsl But
look there,” says David to himself; “that
roindwr has splashed into the water. It
puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool
wave that washes its lathered Hanks'and
it swims away from the fiery canines ami
it is free at last. Oh, that I might find in
the deep, wide lake of God’s mercy and
consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh,
for the waters of life and rescue I ‘As the
hart panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after thee, O God.’ ”
Tiie Adirondaeks are now populous with
hunters, and the doer are being slain by
the score. Talking one sui'nmer with a
hunter, 1 thought I would like to sec
whether my text was accurate in its allu
sion, and as 1 heard the dogs baying a lit
tle way off and supposed they wore on the
track of a door, I said to one of the hunt
ers in rough corduroy, “Do the deer al
ways make for water when they are pur
sued!’” lie said; “Oh, yes, mister. You
see they am a hot and thirsty animal and
they know where the water is, and when
they hear danger in the distance they lift
their ant lers and snif f the breeze and start
for the liaquot or Loon or Saranac, and
we get into our collar shell boat or stand
by the ‘runaway’ with rille loaded and
ready to blaze away.”
lillilc Allohlooh True to Aatnre.
My friends, that, is one reason why I
like the Bible so much -its allusions are
ho true to nature. Its partridges .'fro real
partridges, its ostriches real ostriches and
• its reindeer real reindeer. Ido not. wonder
that, this antlered glory of the text makes
the hunter’s eye sparkle and his cheek
glow and his respiration quicken. To say
nothing of its usefulness, although it is
the most useful of all game, its flesh deli
cious, its skin turned into human apparel,
its sinews fashioned into bowstrings, its
antlers ’ putting handles on cutlery and
the shavings of its horn used as a pungent
restorative, the name taken from the hart
and called hartshorn. But. putting aside
its usefulness, this enchanting creature
Booms made out of gracefulness and elas
ticity, What an eye, with a liquid bright
ncss ns if gathered up from a hundred
lakes nt sunset! The horns, a coronal
branching into every possible curve, and
after it seems complete ascending into
other projections of exquisiteness, a tree
of polished bone, uplifted in pride or
swung down for awful combat. The hart
is velocity embodied; timidity imperson
ated; the enchantment of the woods. Its
eye lustrous in life and pathetic in death.
The splendid animal a complete rhythm
of muscle and bone and color and atti
tude and locomotion, whether couched in
the grass among the shadows, or a lixing
bolt shot, t hrough the forest, or turning at
bay to attack the hounds, or rearing for
its last fall under the buckshot of the
trapper It is a splendid ajipeararce that
the painter’s pencil fails to sketch, and
only a hunter’s dream on a pillow of hem
lock at the foot, of St Regis is able to pic
ture. When 20 miles from any settlement
it comes down at event ide to the lake's
edge to drink among the lily pods and
with its sharp edged h<mf shatters the
crystal of Ijong lake it is very pictur
esque. But. only when, after miles ot pur
suit, with heaving sidesand lolling tongue
and eyes swimming in death the stag
leaps from the clitT into upper Saranac,
can you realize how much David had suf-
• fen d from his troubles and how much he
wanted God when ho expressed himself in
• the words of the text, “As thi' hart pant
eth after the water brooks, so panteth my
soul after thee, O God.”
Beer at Bay.
Well, now, let all those who have com
ing after them t he lean hounds of poverty,
or the black hounds of persecution, or the
spotted hounds of vicissitude, or the pale
hounds of death, or who are in any wise
pursued, run to the wide, deep. glorious
lake of divine solace and rescue. The most
ot the mon and women whom I happened
to know at different times, if not now,
have had trouble after them, sharp muz
zled troubles, swift troubles, all devouring
troubles. Many of you have made the
mistake of trying to fight them. Some
body meanly attached you, and you at
tacked them. They depreciated you, you
depreciated them, or they overreached you
in a bargain, and you tried, in Wall street
parlance, to get a corner on them, or you
have had a bereavement, and. Instead of
being submissive, you are fighting that
bereavement. You charge on the doctors
who failed to effect a cure, or you charge
on t hoearolessne -s of the railroad company
through which the accident occurred, or
you are a chronic invalid, and you fret and
worry and scold and wonder why you can
not lx' well like other jxeple, and you an
grily blame the neuralgia, or the laryngi
tis, or the ague, or the sick headache. The
fact is you are a doer at bay. Instead of
running to the waters of divine consola
tion and slaking your thirst and cooling
your body and soul in the gixxl cheer of
the gospel and swimming away into the
mighty deeps of God's love you arc light
ing a whole kennel of harriers.
I saw Ln the Adirondaeks a dog lying
across the road. anil he seemed unable to
get up, and I said to some hunters near
by, “What is the matter with that dug?”
They answered, “A deer hurt him.” And
I saw he had a great swollen paw and a
battered head, showing where the antlers
struck him. And the probability is that
some of you might give a mighty clip to
your pursuers, you might damage their
business, you might worry them into ill
health, you might hurt them as much as
they have hurt you; but. after all. it is
not worth while. You only have hurt a
hound. Better lie off for the upper Saranac,
into which the mountains of God’s eter
nal strength look down ami moor their
shadows. As for your physical disorders,
the worst strychnine you can take is fret-
j i illness anu the lx»t medicine is religion.
i I know people win? were only a little dis
-1 ordered, yet have fretted themselves into
complete valetudinarianism, while others
; put their trust in God and come up from
the very shadow (if death and have lived
| comfortably 25 years with only one lung.
A man with one lung, but God with him,
* is better off than a godless man with two
I lur - Some of you have been for a long
; time sailing around Cape Fear when you
•ugfit to have t« en sailing around Cape
Go* 1 Hope. Do not turn track, but go
ahead. The deer will accomplish more
with its swift fa-t than with its horns.
I saw .•■•h !•• chains of lakes in the Adi
rondacktt. and from one height you can
H « “>O, and there are said to be over 800
in the great wilderness of New York. So
n ar ar. they to each other that your I
mountain guide picks up and carries the
I boat from lake to lake, the small distance
< between them for that reason called a :
“e.arry. ” And the realm of God’s word |
is one long chain of bright, refreshing i
lakes, ea< !i promise a lake, a very short
carry I t • n them, and, though for ages
the purs;cs! have been drinking out of
j them, th- y are full up to the top of the
grien Ixjo’.s, and the same David describes
them, ami they seem so near together that
in three different places he speaks of them
as a continuous river, saying, “There is a
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the city of < Irxl,” “Thou shalt iqake them
I drink of In rivers of thy pleasures,”
’ ic u gn -.t y enrichest it with the river
! of <»od. which is full of water.”
Shed Your liorns.
But ma >f you have turned your back
I on that supply and confront your trouble,
i and you -.re soured with your circum
! st ..ucch, ai'i; you are fighting Hociety, and
‘ you .it - fighting a pursuing world, and
tr uides. instead of driving you into the
> cool lake of heavenly comfort, have made
| you sto| and turn around and lower your
■ln ad, and it is simply antler against
tooth. Ido not blame you. Probably un-
I der the same circumstances I would have
I done worse. But you arc all wrong. You
in' <i to do as the reindeer does in February
ai’d March—it sheds its horns. The rab
binical writ.i rs allude to this resignation of
.■hitlers by the stag when they say of a man
who ventures his money in risky enter
; prl es he has hung it on the stag’s horns,
i and a proverb in the fur east tells a man
who has foolishly lost his fortune to go
and find where tho deor sheds her horns.
ly brother, quit tho antagonism of your
circum-tence::, quit mlsanthrophy, quit
complaint, quit pitching into your pur
, u< r.-; be as wise as next spring will bo
di the door of the Adirondaeks. Shed
your horns.
But Very many of you who are wronged
of the. world—and if in any assembly be
tween here and Golden Gate, San Fran-
• ih<o, it were asked that all those that
: ad ii.x-H sometimes badly treated should
raise both their hands and full rcsponso
should lx- made, there would be twice as
many hand lifted as persons present—l
■ o a.’ii’;,' ol' you would declare, “We have
al ways done the best wo could and tried
to be useful, and why we should become
the victims of malignment or invalidism
or mishap is inscrutable.” Why, do you
know tho liner a deer and the more ele
gant its proportions and the more beauti
ful it s hearing the more anxious the hunt
ers and the hounds tiro to capture it? Had
the roebuck a ragged fur and broken hoofs
and an obliterated eye and a limping gait
tho hunters would have said, “Pshaw,
don’t let us waste our ammunition on a
sick doer ” And tho hounds would have
.:i'' n a few Htdffs of the scent, and then
darted off In another direction for better
game. But. when they see a deer with ant
lers lilted in mighty challenge to earth
and sky, and the sleek hide looks as if it
li id been smoothed by invisible hands,
mid Ihe fat sides inclose the richest pas
ture that could be nibbled from the banks
of rills so dear they seem to have dropped
out of heaven, and tho stamp of its foot
iloiies the jack shooting lantern and the
rille, the horn and the hound, that deer
they will have if they must needs break
their neck in the rapids. So if there were
no noble st uff in your make up, if you
were a hifiuvated nothing, if you were a
forlorn failure, you would bo allowed to
•’o undisturbed, but tho fact that the
whole pack is in full cry after you is proof
positive that you arc splendid game and
wort h capturing Therefore sarcasm draws
on you its finest, bead.” Therefore the
world goes gunning for you with its liest
daynaid bree< hli ader. Highest compli
ment is it to your talent, or your virtue,
or your usefulness. You will lie assailed
in proportion to your great achievements.
The best and tho mightiest being the
world i ver saw had set alter him all the
hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they
Japped Ids blood after the Calvarean mas
sacre. The world paid nothing to its Re
deemer but a bramble, four spikes and a
cross. Many who have done their best to
make the world better have had such a
rough time of it that, all their pleasure is
in antic nation of the next world, and
they could express their own feelings in
the words cf the Baroness of Nairn at the
close of !. r long life, when asked if she
Would like to live her life over again:
Would you lie young again?
So would not I;
One tear of memory given,
Onward I’ll hie;
l.if< s dark wave forded o'er.
Ail but at. rest on shore,
Say, .ould you plunge once more.
With home so nigh?
If y -u might, would you now
Retrace your way?
W u.der through stormy wilds.
Faint and astray?
Night's gloomy watches fled.
Mornin;; all l earning red.
Ho, smil • around us shed,
Hea v cnwai d, away!
Relief For Tronble.
Yes, for s. io people in this world there
seems no let up. They are pursued from
youth to manhood and from manhood into
old ago. Very distinguished are Irord
Stafford's hounds, the Karl of Yarbor
ough's hounds and the Duke of Rutland’s
hound.-, .and Queen Victoria pays $8,500
nor year to her master of buckhounds.
But all of them put together do not equal
In number or speed or power to hunt down
the great kennel of hounds of which sin
and trouble are owner and master.
But what is a relief for all this pursuit
of trouble and annoyance and pain and
bereavement? My text gives it to you in
a word of three letters, but each letter is
a chariot if you would triumph, or a
thr. ne if you want to be crowned, or a
lake if you would slake your thirst—yes,
a chain of three lakes—God, the one for
whom David longed and tho one whom
I David found. You might as well meet a
j stag which, after its sixth mile of run
: ning at the topmost speed through thicket
j and gorge and with the breath of the dogs
■ on its heels, has come in full sight of
Sx-ro i lake and try to cool Its projecting
and blistered tongue with a drop of dew
from a blade of grass as to attempt to
satisfy an immortal soul, when flying
from trouble and sin. with anything less
dixq> and high and broad and immense
and infinite and eternal than God. His
comfort —why. it embosoms all distress.
His arm. it wrenches off all bondage. His
hand, it wipes away all tears. His Christ
ly atonement, it makes us all right with
the past and all right with the future, all
right with God, all right with man and
ill right forever. Lamartine tells us that
Ki; _ Nimrod said to his three sons:
"Here are three vases, and one is of clay,
another of amber and another of gold.
Choose now which you will have.” The
eld <t n , having first choice, chose tho
vase of gold, on which was written the
word ‘ Empire,” and when opened it was
found to contain human blood. The sec
ond son, making the next choice, chose
tlie vase of amber, inscribed with the word
“Glory,” and wlien opened it contained
the ashes of those who were once called
great. The third son took the vase of clay,
and. ouening it, found it empty, but on
the bottom of it was inscribed the name
of Ct;. d. King Nimrod asked his courtiers
which vase they thought weighed the
im -t The avaricious men of his court
, said the vase of gold. The poets said the
one of amber. But the wisest men said
the empty vase, because one letter of the
I name of God outweighed a universe.
Tlie World Too Vneertain.
For him I thirst; for his gnute I bog; on
his promise 1 build niy aIL Without him
I cannot be happy. I have tried the world,
and it does well enough as far as it goes,
but it is too uncertain a world, too evanes
cent a world. lam not a prejudiced wit
ness. I have nothing against this world.
I have been one of the most fortunate, or, '
to use a too re Christian word, one of the
most blesM.’d of men—blessed in my par
ents, blessed in the place of my nativity,
blessed in my health, blessed in my field
of work, blcssi'd in my natural tempera
ment, blessed in my family, blessed in my
opportunities, blessed iu a comfortable
livelihood, blessed in the hope that my
soul will g > to heaven through the pardon
ing mercy of God, and my body, unleM it
be lost at sea or cremated in some confla
gration, will lie down in the gardens of
Greenwood among my kindred and
friends, some already gone and others to
come after me. Life to many has been a
disapixiintment, but to me it has been a
pleasant surprise, and yet I declare that if
I did not feel that God was now my friend
and ever present help I should be wretched
and terror stricken. But I want more of
him. I have thought over this text and
preached this sermon to myself until with
all the aroused energies of my body, mind
and soul I can cry out, “As the hart
panteth after the water brooks, so fianteth
my soul after thee, O God.”
Faith In Adversity.
Through Jams Christ make this God
your God, and you can withstand anything
and everything, and that which affrights
others will inspire you. As in time of an
earthquake when an old Christian woman
was asked whether she was scared, an
swered, “No; I am glad that I have a
God who can shake the world;” or, as in a
financial panic, when a Christian merchant
wiw asked if he did not fear he would
break, answered: “Yes, I shall break when
the Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth
verse: ‘Call upon me in the day of trou
ble. I will deliver thee and thou shalt
glorify me.’” Oh, Christian men and
women, pursued of annoyances and exas
perations, remember that this hunt,
whether a still hunt or a hunt in full cry,
will soon be over. If ever a whelp looks
ashamed and ready to slink out of sight,
it is when in tho Adirondaeks a deer by
one tremendous plunge into Big Tupper
lake guts away from him. Tho disappoint
ed canine swims in a little way, but, de
feated, swims out again and cringes with
humiliated yawn at the feet of his master.
And how abashed and ashamed will all
your earthly troubles be when you have
dashed into the river from under the
throne of God, and the heights and depths
of heaven are between you and your pur-,
suers. We are told in Revelation xxii, 15,
“Without are dogs,” by which I conclude
there is a whole kennel of hounds outside
the gate of heaven, or, as when a master
goes in through a door his dog lies on the
steps waiting for him to come out, so the
troubles of this life may follow us to the
s.Jning door, but they cannot get in.
“Without are dogs I” I have seen dogs and
owned dogs that I would not txj chagrined
to see in the heavenly city. Some of the
grand old watchdogs who are tho con
stabulary of the homes in solitary places,
and for years have been the only protec
tion for wife and child; some of the shep
herd dogs that drive back the wolves and
bark away the flocks from going too near
the precipice, and some of the dogs whoso
neck and paw Landseer, the painter, has
made immortal, would not find me shut
ting them out from the gate of shining
pearl. Some of those old St. Bernard dogs
that have lifted perishing travelers out of
the Alpine snow, the dog that John
Brown, tho Scotch essayist, saw ready to
spring at the surgeon lest in removing the
cancer he too much hurt the poor woman
whom tho dog felt bound to protect, and
dogs that w’e caressed in our childhood
days, or that in later time lay down on the
rug in seeming sympathy when our homes
were desolated. I say if some soul entering
heaven should happen to leave the gate
ajar and these faithful creatures should
quietly walk in it would not at all disturb
my heaven. But all those human or brutal
hounds that have chased and torn and
lacerated the world, yea, all that now bite
or worry or tear to pieces, shall be prohib
ited. “Without are dogs !” No place there
for harsh critics or backbiters or despoil
ers of the reputation of others. Down with
you to the kennels of darkness and de
spair I The hart has reached the eternal
Water brooks, and the panting of the long
•base is quieted in still pastures, and
“there shall nothing hurt or destroy in all
God’s holy mountain.”
A Olorlonii Rencne.
Oh, when some of you get there it will
be like what a hunter tells of when push
ing his canoe far up north in the winter
and amid the ice floes and 100 miles, as he
thought, from any other human beings.
He was startled one day as he heard a
stepping on the ice, and he cocked the
rifle ready to meet anything that came
near. He found a man, barefooted and
insane from long exposure, approaching
him. Taking him into his canoe and
kindling fires to warm him, he restored
him and found out where he had lived and
took him to his home and found all the
village in great excitement. A hundred
men were searching for this lost man, and
his family and friends rushed out to meet
him, and, as had been agreed, at his first
appearance bells were rung and guns
were fired and banquets spread, and the
rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when
some of you step out of this wilderness,
where you have been chilled and torn and
sometimes lost amid the icebergs, into the
warm greetings of all tho villages of the
glorified, and your friends rush out to give
you welcoming kiss, the news that there
is another soul forever saved will call the
caterers of heaven to spread the banquet,
and the bellmen to lay hold of the rope in
the tower, and while the chalices click at
tho feast and the bells clang from the tur
rets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray
God I may be there to take part in tho
celestial merriment. “Until the day break
and the shadows flee away, be thou like a
roe or a young hart -upon the mountains
of Bother.”
A TEXAS WONDER.
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MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3 1898.
A Barefaoed Bunko Game,
One evening while Colonel Riche’s regt
ment was stationed -t the fair grounds •
bronzed and broad shouldered Texan walk
ed into the ollioe of the Commercial hotel
j and, squaring hiius. If at a table, began
tho Lusk of composiug a letter. It was ev
idently a hard job. He stuck out his
i tonaue, scratched his head, changed pens
i a dozen linn’s and went through all the
contortions of a man with a had case of
. St. Vitus’ dauce before he concluded the
epistle. Then he fished out a black wal
let, unwound a strap a yard long and ex
tracted a $5 bill, which he carefully folded
up with tne sheet. By that time the per
formance had excited the sympathetic in
terest of several bystanders, and one of
them pointed out the mail box in the
corner.
“Just put your letter In there, my
friend. ” be said.
*Tley?” exclaimed the Texan, glancing
up.
“I said todrop your letter in that box,”
repeated the other. The big immune bent
upon him a look of unutterable scorn.
“Well, I’ve heerd tell of all kinds of
city bunko games,” ho said slowly, “but
that’s the durndest, barefacest one of the
hull loti Don’t you say nothing, now, o»
I’ll have to smash you. Say. mister,” he
called to the clerk, “kin yon tell me where
tho postmaster keeps his shop?”
He was given the proper directions and
returned beaming.
“Say,” he asked one of the hotel staff
confidentially, “do I reely look as green as
all that—like I’d bite at sech a game?”
He was assured that he looked like a
thoroughbred and went away happy.
“Hope to die if I ever give any more tips
to a Texan,” was tho comment of the gen
tleman who pointed out tho box.—New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
An Impressive Ceremony.
A rich widow in a town not far from
Winter Harbor was making arrangements
for tho marriage of her daughter, when
the Mothodist conference mot in that town
and 20 ministers camo to attend it. She
invited thorn all to tho wedding, and, hoi
pastor belonging to that denomination,
sho expressed to him a wish that the cere
mony be arranged so that they could all
participate. The dominie thought the
matter over and told her that ho could de
vise no scheme by which her wish could
bo gratified. He did not see how the mar
riage service could bo cut up into 91 seg
ments, and, furthermore—and he express
ed it as delicately as possible—he did not
think the members of tho conference
would consider it dignified to engage in
any such performance.
As the widow was a person of great im
portance, he had to treat her gingerly
She is the largest contributor to the sup
port of the church, and the parson expect
ed a handsome fee for hitching her daugh
ter to the most eligible young man in
town. Hence ho promised to consult with
some of the brethren and see her later, but
she did not wait for him. Sho took mat
ters into hot own hands and formed a
plan that at least had tho merit of origi
nality. She went direct to the presiding
elder, invited him to perform the cere
mony and suggested that after he bad pro
nounced the couple man and wife ail tho
members of the conference stand up in a
row before the pulpit and recite the Lord’*
Prayer in unison.—Chicago Record.
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The meet charming inland water trip on
the American continent.
The Palace Iron Steamers,
“New York” and “Aibanv”
Os the
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Daily except Sunday.
Leave New York, Desbrosses st. .8:40 a.m.
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Through tickets sold to all points.
Restaurants on main deck. Orchestra on
each steamer. Send six cents in stamps
for “Summer Excursion Book.”
F. B. Hibbard, Gen. Pass. Agent
E. E. Olcott, Gen. Manager.
Desbrosses st. pier, New York.
FOR SALE!
Johnson & Harris store building,
corner Fourth and Cherry
streets.
The Glover place on Huguenin
Heights, a good five room house.
The Ghepman property, No. 1020
Ocmulgee street, two four room
tenant houses and large lot.
Tenant house on Jackson street, in
rear of Hawes’ store.
Two 2-room tenant houses on
Tindall property.
Large vacant lots at Crump’s park.
20 lots on the Gray property.
Two elegant plantations in Hous
ton county.
M. P. Callaway,
Receiver
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est time between the Southern winter re
sorts and the summer resorts es the
Northwest.
W. H. McDOEL, V. P. * G. M.
FRANK J. REED, G. P. A.,
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WATCHES. JEWELRY.
Right Prices.
Honest Goods.
BEELAND, the Jeweler,
Triangujar Block. .
DIHinONDS. CUT-GLfISS.
DRY GOODS.
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HUTHNRNCE & 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 one 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 Are Better Prepared Than Ever
To take care of the building trade of Macon
and tributary points. Our facilities for prompt
ly filling orders are unexcelled. If you are go
ing to build a house it will tave you money to
see us before buying your material. If you
desire to build by contract, we are contractors
and builders and take any house, large or small
by contract.
Macon, Sash, Door and Lumber Co.
Office, Fourth Street, Phone 416.
Factory Enterprise, South Macon, Phone 404
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 <Bc CO.,
450 Cherry Street - - - - Macon, Ga.
Home Industries
and Institutions
HENRY STEVENS, SONS & CO
H. BTR VENS’ SONS 00., Macoo, Ga., Manufacturers of Sewer and Railroad cul
vert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing that will last forever.
MACON REFRIGERATORS.
MUBCKX'S Improved Dry Air Refrigerators. The best Refrigerators made. Manu
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•e ikTA We invilte you 10 051,1 M ' l inspect our
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/* X showing them to you whether you wish to
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J H & W. W. WILLIAMS,
352 Second Street.
| COOL NIGHTS |
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Diamond
Jubilee...
ON
October 11,1213 and 14
Macon Will Celebrate the 75th '
Anniversary of Her Foundation.
Four Days of Spectacular Splendor.
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October il, Patriotic Day.
A gieat procession with Miss Columbia and Uncle Sam
and a review by the King of the Carnival.
October 12, Floral Day.
Gorgeous parade of flower-decked vehicles; a battle of
of roses, presided over by the queeu of the flowers.
FLORAL BALL
October 13, Trades-Display Day.
Procession of trade floats emphaizing the industrial and
comercial progress.
...THE VENETIAN RETEL AT NIGHT ...
October 14, Macon Dny.
The living flag, with 1,500 school children.
The Unpar ailed u War and Peace' Night
Pageant.
showing Dewey on the Olympia, Hobson on the Merrimac, the burning of the
Maria Teresa, the Death of Bagley, the Surrender of Toral to Wheeler, the Apo
theosis of Peace, the Glorification of Macon, Georgia, the South, anti the Imperial
Democracy.
Meeting of the King and Queen of the Carnival on the slope of Colemans
hill.
THE QUEEN’S BALL AT NIGHT.
Pain s Fireworks.
Showing, the battle of Manila Bay, the nights of October 11, 12, and 13.
Great Race Meeting.
Conducted by the Macon Driving Club. Every day trotting and running.
Railroad Rates.
the loweet ever before conceded a city celebration.
We Have Bought In combined force to bear on
Energy, this stock of ours.
Judgment RESULT: Thehandsom-
i -i- ess line of Trunks to be seen
and Cash in Macon
The handsomest line Jin of CLOTHING in
Georgia.
Our Trunk Department
occupies an entire floor.
B Benson & Houser
Up-iD-Oafs Cloiniers.
Furnishing Goods,
/- - and Hats, Trunks,
and Valise
Telephone 276. 408 Third Street.
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