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6 CHBISTIK IT mxi Annual Convention of the Church Will Be Held in that Citv. SOME SHORT HISTORY Os the Establishment and the Con duct of the Organization Sine? that Time. The general convention of the Christian Church will be held at Chattanooga,Tenn., October 13 to 21. There is no chapter in American church history, nor in universal church history, that is of more interest to the student of religious movements than the work inaug urated and now being carried on by the people known as Christians, or Disciples of Christ. Their origin and marvelous growth is a matter of wonder to those who will take the time to look into their history. They discard all human creeds and authority and plead for the acceptance of the Bible as the onlj rule of faith and practice. Zwingle, the ’S-wiss reformer and con temporary of Martin Luther of the six teenth century, was the first to suggest a return to the Bible only as authority. He .said: “Reject all you cannot prove by the Scripture.’’ In 1792 James O’Kelly, of Virginia, with some friends withdrew from the 'Methodist Church, called themselves Christians and received the Bible as their only book of authority. In 1800 Abner Jones of Vermont, gath ered some people together on the above principles at Lyndow. In 1802 another congregation was organ ized at Bradford, Vt. In 1803 there were many similar organ izations in New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. in 1804 the old Cane Ridge Church of Ktntucky was organized. It is the oldest organization among the Disciples of Christ. Services are still held there and the organization kept up. In 1807 Thomas Campbell came to this country from Ireland. A year or so later Alexander Campbell, his son. came. They •were, in harmony with those who had in augurated the work on this continent, and with their help the plea became more and more widely known. The work was soon recognized as a permanent work, and as the object and permanencey of the plea became better understood, the growth was more rapid. Today they number more than 10,000 organizations, with a membership of more than 1.100,000. In the ministry they have more than 6,200 men. Their church prop erty is valued at about $17,600,000. Their Sunday schools number nearly or quite 8,000, with over 700,000 teachers and schol ars. They report more than 4,000 Chris tian Endeavor societies in their churches. Un; 1897 they raised for all missions $430,952.68. For all purposes the amount was $5,054,142.68. Their general convention met last year at Indianapolis, Ind. The atendance was the largest in the history of the organi zation. At some of the sessions there were present ‘between three and four thou sand people. October 13 to 21 of this year they will meet, in Chattanooga. The pres ent indications are that the attendance will be much larger than last year. Those who attend will meet and hear the lead ing men of the church, and they number among them as scholarly and pleasant speakers as you will find in. any religious body. A good delegation is expected to attend from this city. Spain’s Greatest Need. Mr H. P. Olivia, of Barcelona, Spain, spends his winters at Aiken. S. C. Weak nerves had caused severe pains in the back of bis head. On using Electric Bitters, America’s greatest blood and nerve rem edy, ail pain soon left him. He says this grand medicine is what his country needs. All America knows that it cures liver and kidney trouble, purifies the blood, tones up the stomach, strengthens the nerves, puts vim. vigor and new life into every muscle, nerve and organ of the body. If weak, tired or ailing you need it. Every bottle guaranteed, only 50 cents. Sold by H. J. Lamar & Sons, druggists. MANY BALES. Estimated that Loss to the State Will Be Five Million Dollars. Reports received from middle and South Georgia indicate that the storm of Sunday. Monday and Tuesday was disastrous to the cotton crop. The continued wind and the driving rain beat out the open cotton and ruined it. Professor Glenn, state school commis sioner, told a Constitution reporter that he met a number of farmers on the train who told him that the loss would reach be tween 200,000 and 300.000 bales in this state, or a money loss equal to $5,000,000. Mr. Joe Q. Ellis, a planter of Dooly coun ty. stated that last Saturday he had 100 bales of cotton open and ready to pick? Every bit of it had been whipped out. he said, and he declared that he would not get one bale. Other farmers made similar statements. There was no top crop this year. This year the wet weather caused the top cot ton to shed. Last year there was a full crop of cotton. • Senator A. O. Bacon when in Atlanta said that in the Wiregrass the lose was immense, and that it was a sad pic ture to see fields uttery bare and desolate, which a few days before were white with the ripened stable. “It is very sad,’’ said Professor Glenn, “to think of this visitation and to reflect on the suffering it must cause. The only set-off t? it is the fine hap crop and the large amount of hogs raised this year by our farmers. This has been a great year for hay. and some of our farmers have told me that they will make more money this year than ever before on hay. Many a farmer will try something else next year, and not depend entirely on cotton.” A NEAT KEEPSAKE. Carnival Buttons Representing Old Fort Hawkins. The most appropriate keepsake of the coming Jubilee we have yet seen is one gotten up by Mr. E. D. Irvine. It is a but ton with a nice engraving of old Fort Hawkins as it appeared just after being finished. As Macon really sprung from this old block house the badge is a most appropriate souvenir and every man. wo man and chhild should wear one for in so doing they show the origin of our beauti ful Macon. They can be had at the Geor gia Music House, but will not be sold on the streets. Deafness Can Be Cured. by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of tpe mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it i$ entirely closed deafness is the result and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous sur faces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of deafness! caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. Free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by drugists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. SPECIAL TRAINS To the Carnival, Via. Central of Georgia Railway. The Central of Georgia Railway has ar ranged 'to run special trains as follows to Macon during the Carnival: Special from Atnens October 11th, 12th Bind 13th at 5:30 a, m., from Covington at 6:30 a. m.; arriving Macon 9:30 a. m. Re turning, leave Macon at 10:30 p. m. Special from Machen via Eatonton and ■Milledgeville, 11th, 12th and 13th, 4:45 a. m., arriving Macon 7:45 a. m. Returning leave Macon 7:30 p. m. Special from Columbus 12th and 13th, 5:30 a. m., arriving Macon 9:05 a. m. Re turning leave'Macon 10:30 p. m. Special leave Millen October 5:30 a. m., arriving iMacon 9:00 a. m. Returning leave Macon 10:30 p. m. In addition to the above, special train will leave Macon for Atlanta, connecting for Thomaston, on the 13th and 14th at 10:30 p. m. Second division, train No. 7, due to leave Macon at 7:40 p. m., will leave on the nights of 13th and 14th at 10:20 p. m. (Persons going to Eatonton and Milledge ville may leave Macon by regular No. 4 at 11:38 p. m. on the nights of the 12th and 13th, special having been arranged to run from Gordon to Eatonton on arrival of No. 4 at Gordon. J. C. Haile, G. P. A. AT THE TEA STORE. A beautiful wall pocket, consisting of a handsome painting of roses, violts, or pan sies, mounted on glass, surrounded by a brass chain and set in a highly polished •white enameled fram, presented to all purchasers of the following articles: $1 worth of coffee 50 cents worth of tea, 1 pound of A. and P. Spices, 1 pound A. and P. Baking Powder, 50 cents worth flavor ing extract ot an assorted sale of 75 cents worth of any of the above articles. Fri day and Saturday this week. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. If you don’t care to be both ered with that trap and yet want it decirated in the most artistic manner, turn it over to the Macon Carnival Decor ating and Contracting Com pany—Sims, Den nick e and other decorators in charge of this work. Leave orders at Powers’ Curiosity Shop. RELIEF ASSOCIATION Held a Short Meeting Yesterday Afternoon at the Library. The Soldiers Relief Association held a short session yesterday afternoon at the Macon Library. Mrs. Mallory Taylor pre sided over the meeting. Nothing of im portance was done and the business trans acted was of the usual kind. The association extended a vote of thanks to the mayor and council for their generous donation of SSO and the vote will be put in writing and read before the mayor. The association will meet again next Friday afternoon at the usual time and place. Jos rirrv • Every man watches 1 his balance in the bank, and bis balance in his cash account, pretty closely. There is an other ledger account that the average man entirely forgets to his own undoing. It is his account with death. It is more important than a “profit and loss ” account, for its a “life.and death ’’ account. It is a man’s duty to himself and family to look up this account once every day and see that the balance is on the right side. It doesn’t pay to let this account run on, and have it debited with indigestion, and then impure blood, and finally nervous ex haustion. or prostration, or deadly con sumption. When these diseases come it means a debit balance with death brought down in the blood red ink of another life sacrificed on the altar of foolish overwork and neglect of health. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes the appetite keen, the digestion perfect, the liver active and the blood pure. It is the great blood-maker, flesh-builder and health-forger. It makes firm, healthy flesh, but does not produce corpulence or raise the weight above na ture’s normal. It cures 08 per cent, of all cases of consumption, bronchial, throat and catarrhal affections. Honest de alls re don’t urge substitutes. "My wife had suffered for seven years with dyspepsia, sick headache and costiveness." writes Mr. Alonso D. Jameson, of Dunbarton, Merri mack Co., N. H. "We tried many diapiors and many kinds of medicine, but all Wre of no avail. We purchased six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which together with the ‘ Pleasant Pellets.'has entirely restored my wife’s health. We cannot say enough to you in thanks for these valuable medicinesT It may save a life some day. Send 21 one cent stamps, to cover cost of mailing to the World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo. N. Y., for a paper-covered copy of Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medi cal Adviser; cloth binding 10 cents extra. Contains 100 S pages, over 300 illustrations— a valuable medical library in one volume. MACON NEWS SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8 ißab. JAPANESE gm pi CURE A New and Complete 1 refitment. consisting of SUPPOSITORIES, Capsules of Ointment and two Boxes of Ointment. A never-failing cure for Piles • f every nature and degree. It makes an operation with the knife, which is painful, and often results in death, unnecessary. Why endure this terrible disease? Ae pack a Written Guarantee in eac-- 1 Box. No Cure, No Pay. jcc.and Ji a box, 6 for Sent ’ v trail. Samples iree OINTMENT, 25c. and 50c. CONST I PAT 10 N -reat LIVER and STOMACH REGULATOR and BLOOD PURIFIER. Smail, mild and pleasant to take: especially adapted for children’s use. 50 loses 25 cents. FREE. — A vial of these famous little Pellets will be g;v*n _ with a $1 box or more of File Cure. Notice—Thk genuine fresh Japanese Pilf Cuke for sale only by For Sale at Goodwyn’s Drug Store and Brown House Pharmacy. money on Hand. Loans on real estate. Easy monthly pay ments. GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man. Equitable Building and Loan Association, Macon, Qa„ 461 Third Street. THE GEORGIA LOAN AND TRUST CO., O. A. Coleman, General Manager, 356 Second Street. We offer the following money for this weeek: $22,750 to loan on good farm prop erty; $19,475 for city loans. Our rates will satisfy you that we are headquarters. No delay. Call and see us. ♦ SYPHILIS 1 Primary, secondary or tertiary, no mat ter how long standing, cured for life under absolute guarantee in from 15 to 69 days. I have used this wonderful remedy in my private practice for over 20 yearS and have never failed. A patient once treated by me is free from outbreaks forever. I use no mercury or potash. I will pay SSOO for any case that I fail to cure within 60 days. Write at once. DR. GRAHAM, Suite 1109, 114 Dearborn st., Chicago, 111. Patriotic Day Bicycle Parade. Every rider in the city is requested to enter the parade. It is desired to make this a grand feature of Patriotic Day, October 11. A meeting is called for Saturday night, October 8, of the wheelers at J. W. Shinhol ser’s store, corner Cotton avenue and Cherry street, to discuss final arrangements and make en tries for the cash prizes of fered by the Carnival Asso ciation. To Hip fcrc 10 ’ Ulb lily ?bl o We have Room Mouldings in large varity. We have Cords, Picture Hooks, Screw Eyes and ail these things. Also 2,500 feet New Mouldings in today. The prettiest and cheapest Pictures anywhere. Come to see us. W. Lamar Williams, 422 Second St. “Queen of Sea Routes.’ Merchants and Miners T ransportation Co Steamship Lines Between Savannah and Baltimore, Norfolk, Boston and Prov dence. Low rates and excellent 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, ML DIAMOND JUBILEE! OCTOBER H, 12.13,14. - ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 « flacon will celebrate the 75th Anniversary of her foundation v - yyy v^y— : y'Y"Y y 1 -yl October 11, PATRIOTIC DAY, Miss Columbia and Uncle Sam. y : ~y : y y - October 12, FLORAL DAY, Battle of Roses. October 13, Trades Display Day, The Venetian Revel. October 14, MACON DAY, The Living Flag. YYY Y YYTYY YYYY YYYYYYYYYYnYY YYYYY.YYY YYYY. YYYY The Unparalleled “WAR AND PEACE” Night Pageant. With Dewey on the Olympia, Hobson on the Merrimac, the Burning of the Maria Teresa, the Death of Bagley, the Sur render of Toral to Wheeler, the Apotheosis of Peace, the Glorification of Macon, Georgia, the South and the Imperial Democracy, Meeting of the King and Queen of the Carnival on the slope of Coleman’s hill. The Queen’s Ball at night. pi_ rUnnTnrfr'n Showing the Battle of Manila Bay, the PaiHS FIIBWOIKS nights of October 11, 12 and 13. Great Race meeting Oo " y “Y Dnitrnorf Dotoc? The lowest ever before conceded a liulllllull puluu city celebration. ,j