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FOOTSTEPS OE GOD.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Dr. Talmatre In
Ms dlHooure< takes u» with him on a jour
ney to the Piv ific nnd finds “rh< foot-’. r, 3
of the Crouter" everywhere, ns Hugh Mil
ler found th<-m j n the old red sanLtone;
texts, Isalnh xxxv, 6, “Stren-ts in th”
d<>*Tt; pgahnaciv. 32, “He touchcth the
hills, and they smoke. ’’
My first text means irrigation. Itn cans
the waters of the Himalaya or t. •> Pyre
neesor tho Sierra Nevatlaa poured through
canals nnd aqued-. te for the fort ilizat i< n
of tho valleys. Jt, means the process by
which the last mile of American barron
ness will Im made an apple orchard, or an
orange grove, or a wheat field, < r a cotton
plantation, ora vineyard—“str* ms In the
desert.” My second text meat.s av< '.iuio
like Vesuvius or Cotopaxi, or it means
the geysers of Yelk wstone park or of
California. You wo a hill calm and still
nnd for ages immovable, hut the Ix>rd out
of the heavens puts his linger on the top
of it, and from itrisa thick and impres
sive vapors. “He toi tcheth tho hills, and
they smoke!” •
Although my jou -ney across the con
tinent this summer was for the eighth
time, more and more am I impressed with
the divine hand in its construction and
with its greatness a.u J grandeur, and more
and more am I thril led with the fact that,
it. is all to LeirrigaU d, glorified and Eden
ized. What nchang o from the time when
Daniel bster on y under Capitolina hill
said to the America m senate in regard to
the center of this c< >nt incut and to tho re
gions on the Paciflt , const: “What do you
want with thisva t, worthless area, this
region of savages and wild beasts, of des
erts and cactus, cf shifting sands and
prairie dogs? To v/b at. use could wo ever
put these groat deserts or these great
mountains, impenetrable and covered
with eternal snow? V- shat can weever hope
to do with tho west rn coast, rock bound,
chef rless and unint • ting and not a harbor
on it? 1 will neve: • vote one cent from the
public treasury 1/> place the Pacific coast
one inch nearer loskin than it now is.”
W hast a mistake V ie great statesman made
when Im said tha t.l All who have crossed
thoeontinent renlizt. that tho states on the
Pacific ocean wi'l h ave quite as grand op
portunities ns tho states on the Atlantic,
anti all this realm f tom sea to sea to be tho
Lonl's cultivated p ossosslon.
A Cron* on the Mountain.
D<> you know w’ jat in some respects is
tho most remnrkn hie thing between tho
Atlantic and Pad fie? It is the figure of
n cross on a moui: tain in Colorado. It is
called tho"Moui it of the Holy Cross.”
A horizontal crov* ice filled with perpetual
snovi and a per] jondicular crevice filled
with, snow, Imt b oth tho horizontal lino
and the perpend’, cular line so marked, so
bold, so signifies) nt, so unmistakable, that
all wl io pass In the daytime within many
miles uro comps' Jed to soo it. There aro
Romo figures, so mo contours, sortie moun
tain appearance s, that you gradually make
out after your a Mention is called to them.
So a man's face on tho rocks in the White
mount alns. So- a maiden’s form cut in
tho gn nite of I ho Adirondacks. So a city
in tho.moving clouds. Yet you have to
look in dor tie > pointing of your friend or
guide f ir som< > time before you can see tho
similar ty. 1 Jut, the first instant you
glance at th is side of tho mountain in
Colorado, y< >u cry out: “A cross! A
cross!" Do you say that this geological
Inscrlpt! on j r:st happens so? No! That
crosson tho Colorado mountain is not a
human ,<ievi Co or an accident of nature or
tho freu kof an earthquake. Tho hand of
God cut it there and set it up for tho na
tion to look at. Whether set, up in rock
before t ho cross of wood was sot up on tho
bluff br ck of Jerusalem or sot up at some
time sb ice that assassination, I believe the
Creator meant, it to suggest tho most nota
ble eve nt in all the history of this planet,
and ho hung it there over tho heart of this
contim mt to indicate that tho only hope
for thl s nation is in the cross on which
our L .nmannol died. Tho clouds were
vocal at our Saviour's birth, tho rocks
rent »• his martyrdom, why not tho walls
of Col irado bear tho record of the crucifix
ion f
Fiw t, consider tho immensity of this
oontii ental possession. If it were only a
small tract of land, capable of nothing
bettor than sagebrush and with ability
only 1 o support prairie dogs, I should not
have much enthusiasm in wanting Christ
to ha vo It added t o his dominion Hut its
Immi msity and affluence no one can imag
ine u nless in Immigrant, wagon or stage
coacl i or in rail train of the Union Pacific
or t’ io Northern I’acilic or tho Canadian
Pad fin or the Southern Pacific lie has
trav <rsed it.
A Vast Domain.
I supposed in my boyhood, from its size
on tho map, that California was a few
yar Js across, a ridge of land on which one
mu st walk cautiously lost ho hit : head j
agt dust tho Sierra Nevada ott one side or i
fill ,» off into tho Pacific waters on tho
ot’ ier. California, the thin slice of land, j
as 1 supposed it to bo in lioyhood, I have
so and to be larger than all the states of
N ow England and all New York state and
a 11 Pennsylvania added together, and if
J ou add them ingotler their square miles
f all far short of California And then all
those newborn states of the Union, North
and South Dakota, Washington. Montana.
Idaho and Wyoming Each state an em
pire in size.
“But," says someone, “in calculating
the immensity of our continental acreage
you must remember that vast reaches of
our public domain are uncultivated heaps
of dry sand, and tho ‘Rad Lands’ of Mon
tana and the Great. American Desert.” I
am glad you mentioned that. Within 25
years there will not be between the Atlan
tic and Pacific coasts 100 miles of land
not reclaimed either by farmers’ plow or
miners'crowbar. By irrigation, tho wa
ters of tho rivers and tho showers of heav
en, in what aro called tho rainy season,
will bo gathered into great reservoirs
and through aqueducts let down where
and when tho people want them. Utah
is an object lessen. Some parts of that
territory which were so barren that a spear
of grass could not have been raised there
in 100 years aro now rich as Lancaster I
county farms of Pennsylvania or Westches
ter farms of New York or Somerset ooun- ,
ty farms of New Jersey. Experiments
have proved that ton acres of ground irrt- [
gated from waters gathered in great hy- I
drological basins will produce as much as
CO acres from the downpour of rain as seen ;
in our regions. We have our freshets and
our droughts, but in those lands which
are to be scientifically irrigated there will j
be neither freshets nor droughts. As you
take a pitcher and get it full of water, and j
then set It on a table and take a drink out !
of it when you are thirsty and never think I
of drinking a pitcherful all at once, so
Montana and Wyoming and Idaho will
catch the rains of their rainy season and
take up all the waters of their rivers In
great pitchers ot reservoirs and refresh
their land whenever they will.
The work has already been grandly be
gun by the United States government.
Over 400 lakes have already been officially
taken possession of by the nation for the
great enterprise of irrigation. Rivers that
have been rolling idly through these re
gions, doing nothing on their way to the
sea, will lie lassoed and corralled and pen
ned up until such time as the farmers
need them. Under the same processes the
Ohio, the Mississippi and all the other
rivers will be taught to behave themselves
better, and great basins will be made to
catch the surplus of waters in times of
freshet and keep them for times of drought
The irrigating process by which all the
arid lands between tho Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans are to be fertilized is no new
experiment.
Jehovnh'R Throne.
It has been going on successfully hun
dreds of years in Spain, in China, in In
dia, in Russia, in Egypt. About 800,000,-
000 of people ot the earth today are kept
alive by food raised on irrigated land.
And here we have allowed to lie waste,
given up to rattlesnake and bat and
prairie dog, lands enough to support whole
nations of industrious population. The
begun will be consummated. Here
and there exceptional lands may he stub
born and refuse to yield any wheat or
corn from their hard fists, but if the hoe
fail to make an impression the miner’s
pickax will discover the reason for it and
bring up from beneath those unproduc
tive surfaces coal and Iron and lead and
copjier and silver and gold. Godspeed the
geologists and the surveyors, the engi
neers and the senatorial commissions, and
the capitalists, and the new settlers, and
the husbandmen, who put their brain and
hand and heart to this transfiguration of
th< American continent. “Streams in the
desert'”
But while I speak of the immensity of
tho continent I must remark it is not an
immensity of monotone or tameness. The
larger some countries are the worse for
the world. This continent is not more re
markable for its magnitude than for its
wonders of construction. Yosemite and
the adjoining California regions! Who
that has seen them can think of them
without having his blood tingle? Trees
now staraling there that were old when
Christ lived! These monarchs of foliage
r< ignvd liefore Casar or Alexander, and
the next 1,000 years will not shatter their
scepter. They are the masts of the con
* tinent, their canvas spread on the winds,
while the old ship bears on its way
through the ages.
That valley of the Yosemite is eight
miles long and a half mile wide and 3,000
feet deep. It seems as if it had been the
meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into as
small a place as possible some of the most
stupendous scenery of the world. Some
of tho cliffs you do not stop to measure by
feet, for they are literally a mile high.
Steep so that neither foot of man nor beast
ever wall'd them, they stand in everlast
ing defiance. If Jehovah has a throne on
earth, these are its white pillars. Stand
ing down in this great chasm of the val
! D?y, you look up, and yonder is Cathedral
( rock, vast, gloomy minster built for the
: silent worship of the mountains. Yonder
is Sentinel rock, 3,270 feet high, bold, soli
i t.iry, standing guard among the ages, its
top seldom touched until a bride one
l' Fourth of July mounted it and planted
the national standards, and the people
flown in tho valley looked up and saw the
head of the mountain turbaned with stars
and stripes. Yonder are the Three broth
ers, 4,000 feet high; Cloud’s rest. North
and South dome, and the heights nover
captured save I>y tho fiery bayonets of tho
thunderstorm.
lie Tont hetli the Hills.
No pause for tho eyo, no stopping place
for tho mind. Mountains hurled on
mountains. Mountains in tho wake of
mountains. Mountains flanked by moun
tains. Mountains split. Mountains
ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains
triumphant. As though Mont Blanc and
tho Adirondacks and Mount Washington
wore here uttering themselves in one
magnificent chorus of rock and precipice
and waterfall. Sifting and dashing
through the rocks tho water comes down.
Tho Bridal Veil falls so thin you can see
tho face of the mountain behind it. Yon
der is Yosemite falls, dropping 2,634 feet,
16 times greater descent than that of Ni
agara. These waters dashed to death on
the rocks, so that the -white spirit of these
slain waters ascending in robe of mist
seeks the heavens. Yonder is Nevada
falls, plunging 700 feet, tho water in ar
rows, the water In rocks, tho water in
pearls, tho water in amethysts, the water
in diamonds. That cascade flings down
tho rocks enough jewels to array all the
eartli in beauty and rushes on until it
drops into a very hell of waters, the smoko
of their torment ascending forever and
over.
But tho most wonderful part of this
American continent is the Yellowstone
park. My two visits there made upon me
an impression that will last forever. Go
in b> the Moneida route as wo did this
summer and save 250 miles of railroading,
your stagecoach taking you through a
day of scenery ns captivating and sublime
as tho Yellowstone park itsolf. After all
poetry has exhausted itself concerning
Yellowstone park, and all the Morans and
I li'.’rst adts and the other enchanting artists
have completed their canvas, there will be
ot her revelations to make and other stories
of its beauty and wrath, splendor and
agony, to bo recited. The Yellowstone
park is tho geologist’s paradise. By cheap
ening of travel may it become tho nation’s
playground ! In some portions of it there
seems to bo the anarchy of tho elements.
Fire and water, and tho vapor born of
that marriage, terrific. Geyser cones or
hills of crystal that have been over 5,000
years growing! In places tho earth, throb
bing, sobbing, groaning, quaking with
aqueous paroxysm. At the expiration of
every 65 minutes one of the geysers toss
ing e s boiling water 185 feet in the air
and thou descending into swinging rain
bows. “He toucheth the hills and they
smoke.” Caverns of pictured walls large
enough for the sepulcher of the human
race. Formations of stone In shape and
color of calla lily, of heliotrope, of rose, of
cowslip, of sunflower and of gladiolus.
Sulphur and arsenic and oxide of 'iron,
With their delicate pencils, turning the
hiiis into a Luxemburg or a Vatican pic
ture gallery. The so called Thanatopsis
goys -r. < • luisite as the Bryant poem it
was 'lamed alter, and Evangeline geyser,
lovely as the Longfellow heroine it com-
I memorates.
Sunrise and Sunset.
Wide reaches of stone of intermingled
j colors, blue as tho sky, green as the foliage,
c: mson as the dahlia, white as the snow,
spotted as the leopard, tawny as the lion,
grizzly as the bear, in circles, in angles,
in stars, in coronets, in stalactites, in
stal igmitos. Here and there aro petrified
gn.wths, or the dead trees and vegetables
of other ages, kept through a process of
natural embalmment. In some places wa
ters as innocent and smiling as a child
making a first attempt to walk from its
mother’s lap, and not far off as foaming
and f.’enzied and ungovernable as a
maniat in struggle with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for days and begin
to feel that there can be nothing more of
interest to see you suddenly come upon
the peroration of all majesty and gran
deur, the Grand canyon. It is here that It
seems to me—and I speak it with rever
ence—Jehovah seems to have surpassed
himself. It seems a great gulch let down
into the eternities. Hero, hung up and let
down and spread abroad, are all the colors
of land and sea and sky. Upholstering of
the Lord God Almighty. Best work of the
Architect of worlds. Sculpturing by the
Infinite. Masonry by an Omnipotent
trowel. Y’ellow! You never saw yellow
I unless you saw it there. Red! You never
j saw red unless you saw It there. Violet 1
You never saw violet unless you saw it
there. Triumphant banners of color. In a
cathedral of basalt, sunrise and sunset
; married by the setting of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basilicas built before human
architecture was born. Huge fortifications
of granite constructed before war forged
its first cannon. Gibraltars and Sevasto
pol that never can bo taken. Alhambras,
where kings of strength and queens of
beauty reigned long before the first earth
ly crown was empearled. Thrones on
which no one but the King of heaven and
earth ever sat. Fount of waters at which
the hills are baptlted, while the giant
cliffs stand around as sponsors. For thou
sands of years before that scene was un
veiled to human sight the elements were
busy, ami the geysers were hewing away
with their hot chisel, and glaciers were
pounding with their cold hammers, and
hurricanes were cleaving with tfieir light
ning strokes, and hailstones giving the
finishing touches, and after all these forces
of nature had done their best in our cen
tury the curtain dropped, and the world
had a new and divinely inspired revela
tion, the Old Testament written on papy
rus. the New Testament written on parch
ment and this last Testament written on
the rocks.
A Hall of Jrulsment.
Hanging over one of the cliffs, I looked
off until I could not get my breath; then,
retreating to a less exposed place, I looked
down again. Down there is a pillar of
rock that in certain conditions of the at
mosphere looks like a pillar of blood.
Yonder are 50 feet of emerald on a base of
500 feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting on
pedestals of beryl. Turrets of light trem
bling on floors darkness. The brown
brightening into golden. Snow of crys
tal melting into fire of carbuncle. Flam
ing red cooling into russet. Cold blue
warming into saffron. Dull gray kin
dling into solferino. Morning twilight
flushing midnight shadows Auroras
j crouching emong rocks.
Yonder Is an eagle's nest on a shaft of I
basalt. Through an eyeglass we see
among it the young eagles, but the stout
est arm of our group cannot hurl a stone !
near enough to disturb the feathered do
mesticity. Yonder are heights that would
be chillfd with horror but for the warm
robe of forest foliage with which they aro
enwrapped. Altars of worship at which i
nations might kneel. Domes of chalced
ony on temples of porphyry. See all this
carnage of color up and down the cliffs.
It must have been the battlefield of the
war of the elements. Here are all the col
ors of tho wall of heaven, neither the sap
phire,'nor the chrysolite, nor the topaz,
nor the jacinth, nor the amethyst, nor the
jasper, nor the 12 gates of 12 pearls want
ing. If spirits bound from earth to heav
en oiuld pass up byway of this canyon,
the dash of heavenly beauty would not be
so Civerjsiwering. It would only be from
glory to glory. Ascent through such
earthly scenery, in which the crystal is so
bright, would be fit preparation for the
“sea of glass mingled with fire.”
■Standing there in the Grand canyon of
the Yellowstone park for the most part we
be Id our peace, but after awhile it flashed
upon me with such power I could not help
brit say to my comrades, “What a hall this
would be for the last judgment!” See
that mighty cascade with the rainbows at
the foot of it. Those waters congealed
and transfixed with the agitations of that
day, what a place they would make for
the shining feet of a Judge of quick and
dead! And those rainbows look now like
the crowns to be cast at his feet. At the
bottom of this great canyon is a floor on
which the nations of the earth might
stand, and all up and down these galleries
of rock the nations of heaven might sit.
And what reverberation of archangels’
trumpet there would be through all these ;
gorges and from those cavernsand over all i
these heights. Why should not the great
est of all the days the would shall ever see
close amid tho grandest scenery Omnip
otence ever built?
Christ's Dominion.
Oh, the sweep of the American conti
nent! Sailing up Pugot sound, its shores
so tvild that for 1,500 miles a ship’s prow
would touch the shore before its keel
touclied tho bottom! On one of my visits
I said, “This is tho Mediterranean of
America.” Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Port Towns
hend and Vancouver and other cities of
tho irorthwest region I thought to myself,
“These aro tho Bostons, Now Yorks,
Charlestons and Savannahs of the Pacific
coast.” But after all this summer’s jour
neying and my other journeys westward
In other summers, I found that I had seen
only a part of the American continent, for
Alaska Is as far west of San Francisco as
tho coast of Maine is east of it, so that the
central city of the American continent is
San Francisco.
I have said these things about the mag
nitude of the continent and given you a
few specimens of some of its wonders to
let you know the comprehensiveness of
Christ’s dominion when he takes posses
sion of this continent. Besides that, the
salvation of this continent means the sal
vation of Asia, for we are only 36 miles
from Asia at the northwest. Only Bering
straits separates us from Asia, and these
will be spanned by a great bridge. The
36 miles of water between these two conti
nents are not all deep sea, but have three
islands, and there are also shoals which
will allow piers for bridges, and for the
most of the way the water Is only about
20 fathoms deep.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So, you see, America evaugelized, Asia
will be evangelized, Europe taking Asia
from one side and America taking It from
the other side. Your children will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and Eu
rope all one, what subtraction from the
pangs of seasickness and the prophecies
in Revelation will bo fulfilled, “there
shall be no more sea.” But do I mean
literally that this American continent 11
going to bo all gospolized? I do. Christo
pher Columbus, when he went ashord
from tho Santa Maria, and his second
brother Alonzo, when he wont ashore from
the Pinta, and his third brother Vincent,
when he went ashore from tho Nina, took
possession of this country in the name of
the Father and the Son and the Holy
Ghost. Satan has no more right to this
country than I have to your pocketbook,
ear him talk on tho roof of the tern
p. ■>, where he proposed to give Christ the
kingdoms of this world and the glory of
them, you might suppose that satan was a
great capitalist or that he was loaded up
with real estate, when tho old miscreant
never owned an acre or an inch of ground
on this planet. For that reason I protest
against sometbtag I heard and saw this
summer and o#ror summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and California. They have given
devilistic names to many places in the
west and northwest.
Away With Weeds.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone park
or California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as “The
Devil’s Slide,” ‘ The Devil’s Kitchen,”
“The Devil’s Thumb,” “The Devil’s Pul
pit," “The Devil’s Mushpot,’’ “The Dev
il’s Teakettle, ” “Tho Devil’s Sawmill,”
“The Devil’s Machine Shop,” “The Dev
il’s Gate” and so on. Now it is very much
needed that geological surveyor or con
gressional committee or group of distin
guished tourists go through Montana and
Wyoming and California and Colorado
and give other names to these places. All
these regions belong to the Lord and to a
Christian nation, and away with such
Plutonic nomenclature. But how is this
continent to be gospelized? The pulpit and
a Christian printing press harnessed to
i gether will be the mightiest team for the
first plow. Not by the power of cold,
formalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities. I am sick of them, and the
world is sick of them. But it will be done
by the warm hearted, sympathetic presen
tation of tho fact that Christ is ready to
pardon all our sins, and heal all our
wounds, and save us both for this world
and the next. Let your religion of glaciers
crack off and fall into the Gulf stream and
get melted. Take all your creeds of all
denominations and drop out of them all
human phraseology and put in only scrip
tural phraseology, and you will see how
quick the people will jump after them.
On the Columbia river we saw the salm
on jump clear out of the water indifferent
places, I suppose for the purpose of getting
the insects. And if when we want to fish
for men we could only have the right kind
of bait they will spring out above ths
flood of their sins and sorrows to reach it.
The Young Men’s Christian associations
of America will also do part of the work.
They are going to take the young men of
this nation for God. These institutions
seem in better favor with God and man
than ever before. Business men and cap
italists are awaking to the fact that they
can do nothing lietter in the way of living
beneficence or in last will and testament
than to do what Mr. Marquand did for
Brooklyn when he made the Young Men’s
Christian palace possible. These institu
tions will get our young men all over the
land into a stampede for heaven. Thus we
will all in some way help on the work,
you with your ten talents, I with five,
somebody else with three. It is estimated
that to Irrigate the arid and desert lands
of America as they ought to be irrigated
It will cost about >100,000,000 to gather
the waters into reservoirs. As much con
tribution and effort as that would Irrigate
with gospel influences all the waste places
of this continent. Let us by prayer and
contribution and right living all help to
fill the reservoirs. You will carry a bucket,
and you a cup, and even a thimbleful
would help. And after awhile God wIU i
send the floods of mercy so gathered pour- '
ing down oyer all the land, and some of i
us on earth and some of us in heaven will !
sing with Isaiah, "In the wilderness wa- !
ters have broken out and streams in the i
desert,’’ and with David, “There is a river
the streams whereof shall make glad the
sight of God.”, Oh, fill up the reservoirs.
America for God!
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
Effective Sunday, October 16. Train No.
9 will leave Macon 8:30 a. m.. Instead of
8:00a. m.. and arrive Atlanta 11:30 a. m.,
instead of 10:40 a. m. Schedule of other
trains from Brunswick to Atlanta remain
unchanged. Southbound trains will leave
i Atlanta as at present.
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17 1898.
New Selections.
Th wise f! cai.ior.ist is now laying tn
her winter st.ck of selections. Wo say
i “her” because the masculine elocutionist
has become rapidly extinct since the regu
lations against lynching were so easily
evaded. This has left the business largely
in the hands of a few professional women
and a large number of promising ama
teurs. In a community with as many
' churches as ours it is our proudest boast
that lovely woman Is not amenable to re
straint in the same degree that ruder man
is; hence tho number of uninterrupted re
citers.
But the coming season offers a pleasing
diversion from the prevalent monotony of
tho art. A brand new lot of selections,
all founded on the war, will be launched
upon a patient public. There will be,
among others:
“The Boy of El Caney.”
“ The Dying Marino’ ’ (piano accompani
ment).
“The Child of Guantanamo.”
“The Tale of a Turret.”
“The Powder Monkey of the Bomba
zeen.”
"The Mule of Matanzas” (with imita
: tions).
“What Captain Philip Said.”
“The Bursting of the Dam” (dedicated
to Captain Bob Evans). —Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Wanted to Unload.
Captain Barnaby of the United States
coast survey steamer Blake tells a charac
teristic anecdote of Captain Robley D.
Evans of the United States battleship
lowa. While aboard the Blake at Key
West Lieutenant Commander Edward D.
Tausig, hydrographic inspector, went
j alongside the lowa, which was lying eight
I miles off the port. Hailing Captain
1 Evans, who was leaning against a rope
life line which had been substituted for
the rails removed in case of action, Mr.
Tausig asked the doughty commander if
he hud any message to send to the depart
ment at Washington, as he would leave
for there next day.
“Tell them for me, Tausig,” said the
captain, “that I have a cargo of ammuni
tion on board the lowa that I am mighty
anxious to be allowed to discharge.”
The reply produced a laugh, which was
heartily joined in by the bluejackets on
the lowa who wore grouped neor the cap
tain. Tho message was subsequently de
livered, and it was not long after that the
cargo of ammunition was being vigorous
ly discharged from the lowa.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Soda water, cool and spark
ling. Nothing but the purest
fruit juices used. Henry J.
Lamar & Sons, Second st.,
next to Curiosity Shop.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE, SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
Effective Sunday, October 16. Train No.
9 will leave Macon 8:30 a. m., instead of
8:00a. m., and arrive Atlanta 11:30 a. m.,
instead of 10:40 a. m. Schedule of other
trains from Brunswick to Atlanta remain
unchanged. Southbound trains will leave
Atlanta as at present.
Easily,Quickly, Permanently Restored
MAGNETIC NERVINE
antee to Cure Insomnia, Fits, Dizziness, Hysteria,
Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, Seminal Losses,
Failing Memory—the result of Over-work, Worry,
Sickness, Errors c< Youth or Over-indulgence’
Price 50c. and $1; 6 boxes $5.
For quick, positive and lasting results in Sexual
Weakness, Impotencv, Nervous Debility and Lo«t
Vitality, use YELLOW LABEL SPEClAL—double
strength—will give strength and tone to every part
and effect a permanent cure. Cheapest and best.
100 Pills $2: by mail.
FREE — A bottle of the famous Japanese Liver
Pellets will be given with a $1 box or more of Mag
>etic Nervine, free. Snldonl bv
For Sale at Goodwyn’e Drug Store and
Brown Houae Pharmacy.
jnacon Screen Co.
Manufacturers of the best adjustable
wire window screens and screen doors.
Your patronage respectfully solicited. Es
timates furnished free of charge. J. D.
Newbanks, manager, 215 Cotton avenue,
Macon. Ga.
Hudson Hiver Dy Daylignt
The most charming inland water trip os
the American continent.
The Palace Iron Steamers,
“New York” and “Albanv”
Os the
Hudson River Hay Line
Daily except Sunday.
Leave New York, Desbrosses »t. .8:40 a.m.
Lv New York, West 22d st, N. R. 9:00 a.m
Leave Albany, Hamilton »t 8:30 a.m.
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
dacks, Hotel Champlain and the
North, Niagara Falls and tha
West.
Through tickets sold to all polats.
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.
The News
Printing Co.
Does Binding and Job
Printing of every de
scription. Ask for
estimates. High class
work.
O -j
D. A. KEZATINQ.
- 'JI Tai
Genoral Undertaker and Embalmer.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Caskets, cases, coffins and burial robes;
hearse and carriages furnished to all
funerals in and out of the city,
telephone 468. 322 Mulberry street, Macon,
Ga.
Montevallo
T 1
ROUSH COAL CO.
Agents, Macon, Ga.
Phone 245.
sl&i? IxaJ» w jbII as ® W
|l HIF w*Til If ® 1 <JI IF W
pl IW J bi r—l
, The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of—
and has been made under his per-
1 801151 supervision since its infancy.
' X/, Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex
periments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups, It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
l contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee, it destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
• and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
( The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
, GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
' Ths Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 v ears.
the CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY.
Clothing and Gents’ Furnishing’Goo s.
BENSON & HOUSER.
DRY GOODS.
HUTHNONCE 8 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.
= — J. T. CALLAAY,
BANK, STORE AND OFFICE FIXTURES.
TYPEWRITERS. £
SCALES, DESKS. 1 1
SAFES CASH REGISTERS, I J
ELEVATORS, SHOW CASES, -U U|M lAlJL
fall J 9 O
AVe Have Brought In combined force to bear on
Energy, this stock of ours.
Judgment RESULT: The handsome
Hnd C3Sh eSS lie trunks to be seen
The handsomest line in of CLOTHING in
Georgia.
Our TiLink Depar ineot
I occupies an en ire floor.
EKMHpHja Be nso n & Houser
UD-to Dare Clotnisrs.
Furnishing Goa is,
WBB s ’ Trunks,
and Valises
Telephone 276. 408 Third St eet.
eF. fl. GUttBDDBHjei § CO.
452 Second St.
I have accepted the agency for the wt 1-
known Everett and Harvard pianos, and in
addition to other celebrated makes, such
as Sohmer & Co., Ivers & Pond and Bush
•tGests, have the finest line of pianos ever
brought, to the market. Lowest prices and
on easy terms. Have on hand a few second
haud pianos and organs I will close out
at a bargain.
itistime
TO
ti/il\ |aF
f/
J//M
V y A ~~s== <
of what kind of cooking apparatus shall be put in for
fall! The oil and gas stove will have to be abandoned.
Why not get a TRIUMPH STEEL RANGE ?
It is the most perfect yet invented, and is unsurpassed
for the quality of its work and economy of fuel. Is
less trouble, cleaner and less expensive than any other
stove made. Come in and examine it. Price S3O,
with complete furniture list of 30 pieces.
Central of Georgia
Railway Company
Schedules in Effect June 12, 189$ Standard Time
U2O LJ 7 ~ N F 1 T STA TIONS |~Ne. >«| N«.' ••I Na. 6 "
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Pm Ar. . ..Opelika. . ,Lt| J U pa
152 pm' '957 pm 6 P “ A , r - • -B’®, 11 *®. . .Lvl »SO am FFFF"
2 17 pm 10 21 ph Ar*‘ ;l • 11 1 07 pm
327pm11 05 pm J?’ AlhYn “t 4 » am|f U« pm
6 00 rm, P ;\ r ••• , Alb “ ny I 4 1» ami 1135 am
306 pm; ‘ ••Columbia ... Lv| | | eM am
3« pm *• - Da * *°“ —G T I I 11» *®
5 on nm! * Ar ••• uth bert ...Lt n n
437 pm X -° 4 - 9 ft * ,Ar ••-Fort Gaines ..Lt| Na 10 • 9M am
814 pm! F ••••Eufaula ....Lr| 7SO pm 10 20 a
600 pm ' a'oVam a-’ tt j° 7 a'L
725 pm| 905 am Ar r SP rtn S’ Lt| •00 pm 905 am
—‘ 30 pm l• • •; • • •••.*! 10 35 am|Ar.. Montgomery ..Lv| 4 30 pm|.h.’.E..J 7 40 am
No. ll.*i No. 3,» \’ o j~T —— :
800 am 425 am 420 n m |T„ « 8 ! N »-4.»| No. 13 *
922 am 540 am slu pm E v ’ i,a ' Ar ' Ul° ■»®l 11 10 pmi 720 pm
112 00 mll 710 D P m ! h V - •® a h rneßviHt Lv! 545 945 pm« 05 pm
955 am 6OS am. 613 nmilr” F m OU ”-r 810 am| !300 P®
11 20 am 735 am 735 pmlAr ' ° llton " I,v * 220 P®
—Nn rII N- A.— 3 P®iAr.. . Atla ata. .U| 750 am| 760 pm| 406 pm
T3opmll 38 nm'i - M Ne ’ L *' N -’• *1 No - 6 ' "
810 pm 19 Fio ns 'V Macon. Ar 1 S 55 ar-l 745 am
' us ?! pui : Ar - Ul f ? nrdon - •• - Ar l 400 pm| 210 am| 710 am
10 0V pm 1 ...... P3Ol nm \ M ‘ lkd « eville Ml 300 pml I 620 am
P : , I?? pn> Ar -- -Eatonton. . .Lv 112 50 pm 525 am
i ;l^ pmAr - • -Mathen. . .Lv|!lo 55 amj
PmiAr Covington. ..Lt,! y 2ft ami I
117 Jm'i 130 am:?! 17 nmf V ’ " n?’ acon • •• Ar l* 3 45 pm|*“3~ss am|* 345 pm
230 pml 225 am •> tn • Y' ’ ‘ i lll * 6 -Lvi 156 pm; 152 am| 156 pm
251 pm ’44 t ' ? m P® Lv. . Wadley. .. .Lv f!3 55 pm! 12 25 ami 12 55 pm
330 pml 3 - • Lv| 12 11 pm 12 26 am 12 11 pm
8417 pm 4 5 n,° pm L v -• •-MU len .. ..Lv) 11 35 am) 11 50 pm'sll 30 Ln
s 5 30 pm 635 am ' fi £n -Maynesboro ..Lv 10 10 am| 10 34 pm| 10 47 am
P 3 F ami 9na pm Ar ‘* • -Augusta .. .Lv !8 20 ami 840 pm! 930 am
5 q bn | a m Pm|^ V " -Lv 11 03 am 11 14 pm|
I 1 rnn Pm Lv ” - Dover ‘ • ••Lv| 10 47 am) 10 57 km |
—•- L, ~*jo_am|__6_oo pm Lv.. .Savannah. ..Lv| 8 46 am| 9 00 pm|
1 C a l6 ’ *! I No - 16 - *1
A 1 12 20 pm|Ar. ... Ath ens .. ..Lv 330 pm
c ,?5 U , y .‘ < ! Dally exce P t Sunday, f L.e al station, a Sunday only.
rah Fa AtfF- ar f t 0 ands from Macon and Montgomery via Eufaula, Savan
“m via cSurnbu? Fi C ° n ’ , Macon , and Albany via Smithville. Macon and Blrming
i-Yslvanna) - o i El , S ? e‘" plnß CS ra on traln " No ' 3 and 4 between Maco*
u. ? tialauta and bavannah. Sleepers for Savannah are ready for accw
vannah on M No 4 d are hu 1 9:PO p ' m ’ ?*•»-angers arriving in Macon on No* 3 and 8a
rajnati on .so. 4. are allowed to remain in sleeper until 7a. m Parlor cars between
’-Jne Nos. , and 2. “seat fare 25 Tenth"pL'aengS™
4-45 n »n?/hL ?A F andersv J VjC tßkell:26 ‘ Traln arrives Fort Gains'
7 : tn a" rn’’ Fnr I Th’ m ’ Sunda y ß - Eor Ozark arrives 7:30 p. m. and leave*
j’ G CARLIS’ R rtber lpk)r ® ati °n orsch edulea to points beyond our lines, address
«. H. i^* n ' G ‘' * J.' KHA™* P. 1
THKO. D. KIJNK. G en«r»l Sutwintendent. ’
w£|L. Southern R’y.
* Schedule in Effect July 6, 1898
CENTRA L TIME
BEAD DOWN. READ UP.’" 7 ' "
No, 7 I No. 16 I No. 9 I No. 13 | West j No. 14 | No. 10 | No? 8 | No. 10
7 lOpmj 4 45pm| 8 30am| 2 o.7am|Lv .. Macon .. Ar| 2 05am| 8 30wm|il 00am I 710 pm“
9 4>spm 7 45pmjll lCamj 4 15am|Lv .. Atlanta. Lv|ll 55pm| 5 20aml 8 lOaml 4 30pm
7 50am|10 00pm| 4 00pm| 4 20am|Lv.. Atlanta. Ar|ll 50pm| » OOaml 11l 40am
10 20am| 1 00am| 6 25pm| 6 30am|Lv.. Rome.. Lv| 0 40pm| 1 44am|.. I 9 06am
11 30am| 2 34am| 7 34pm| 7 22am|Lv.. Dal ton...Lv 8 42pm|18 10am| 7 (oam
1 00pm| 4 15am| 8 50pm| 8 40am|Ar Chat’nooga Lv| 7 30pm|10 00pmI I 8 00pm
7 IQpmf 7 10pm| 7 40amj |Ar .Memphis . Lv| | 9 15am| | S 00pm
4 30pm| | 5 00am| 6 40pm| Ar Lexin gton7’Lv|loToam|id 60am| |lO 40pm
7 60pm|.. | 7 50am| 7 45pm|Ar Louisville. Lv| 7 40am| 7 40am| | 746 pm
7 30pm| | 7 30am| 7 30pm|Ar Cincinnati Lv| 8 30am| 8 30am| ] 8 00am
9 26pm| | 7 25pm| 9 15am||Ar Anniston. Lvj 6 Mpmp6~s2r>Tn| | 8 06n-m ~
11 45am| jlO 0(ipm;ll 15am,Ar Birm' ham. Lv| 4 15pm| 4 16pm| | 6 00am
8 05am| | 1 10am| 7 45pm|Ar Knoxville. Lv| 7 00am| 7 40pm| *| 740 p -
•11 1 No. 14 | No. 16 | .So uthi
I 7 10pm| 2 10am| 8 35am|Lv.. Macon .. Ar| 8 20<m| 3 00am|777777.7|77777777’
I | 3 22am|10 05am|Lv Coch ran.. Lv| 3 20pm|13 55am| |
j | |lO 46am|Ar Hawk’vllle Lv| 2 50pm| | |
I | 3 54am|10 50am|Lv. Eastman. Lv| 2 41pm|13 25am| |
I | 4 29am|ll 36am|Lv.. He! ena.. Lv| 2 03pm|ll 54pm| |
I | 6 45am| 2 38pm|Lv.. Jesup... Lv|ll 22am| » 43pm| |
I i 7 30am| 3 30pm|Lv Ever rett.. Lv|lo 45am| 9 05pm| |
I | 8 30am| 4 30pm|Ar Bruns wick. Lv| 9 30am| 6 50pm| |
| | 9 40am| 9 25am|Ar Jack’ville. Lv| 8 00am| 6 50pm]..7 |. ~~
I No-7 | No? sTno-TiH East? fNe. 16 | N«. 10 | |
i 7 10pm| 8 30am| 2 05am|Lv.. Macon.. Ar| B”2bam|Tlopii| |
| 9 45pmjll 10am| 4 15am|Ar ..Atlanta. Lv| 5 20am| 4 20pm| |
| 9 25am| 8 30pm| 6 10pm|Lv Charlotte Lv|lo 15am| » SSaraj |
| 1 30pm|12 00n’t|ll 25pm|Lv . Dan ville. Lr| 6 OTpmj 5 50am|........|
| 6 25pm| 6 40am| |Ar. Richmond LvJl2 01n’a|13 lOn.nj |
| 5 30pm ; 7 35am| lAr.. Nor 'oik. Lv| 9 30am70 00pm| |
| 3 50| 1 53am| |Lv. .Lyn ’ burg Lv' 3 55pro> 3 40<am| | 77
' 5 4£pm| 3 35an>l 'Lv Cha ville Lv 2 15pm| 1 60pm| |
i 9 25pm! 6 4 tm| |A/ Was- gton Lv|l; Isam|lo 4Spm| |
| 3 00am'40 15am|. ...|Ar Phil. Ilphia Lv 3 50am< * 55pm| |
| 6 ■■■■:-. 45n 'ni.. .lAr N York ,v 12 i6aml 4 30pm| |
|3 pn 30pm1.. ; Ar stots Lv 5 00pm 1C 00am! |...
THKUUG' 1 CAR sF VICES ETC
Nos. 13 and 14, Pullman Sleet.,.g Can- ibet- een Cincinanti and Jacksonville,
also between Atlanta and Brunswick R may be reserved to be taken t
Macon.
Nos. 15 and 16, day express trains, bet ween Atlanta and Brunswick.
Nos. 9 and 10, elegant free Observatior cars, between Macon and isnta. also
Pullman Sleeping cars between Atlanta and Cincinnati. Connects in U r ,on dep*/t»
A-tlanta, with ‘‘Southwestern Vestibule-.! Limited,” finest and fastest train in thb
South.
Nos. 7 and 8. connects in Atlanta Union depot with “U. 8. Fast Mail Train” to and
': from the East.
i FRANK S. GANNON, 3d V. P. & G. M., J. M. CULP, Traffic Manager
i Washlngon, D. C Washington, D. 0.
W. A. TURK, G. P. A., 8. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A ,
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
C. S. WHITE, T. P. A., BURR BROWN. C- T. A.,
Macop Ox 665 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga.
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ENJOY" THEM
-7< - . SELVES.
; ? 7 Thoroughly when they are furnished with
J a pony or horse and one of our pretty
z*** -- xv-' y 77 7;vl 77 carts, traps, phaetons or buckboards to
enjoy driving through shady lawns and
0 sunny slopes. We can sell you a well
. ■-•77 ‘77 > /’ ; i made and Stylish vehicle at such a reason-
7;' 7 • 7-7 able price that no one need deprive their
family of healthy enjoyment. Remember
Py-ty ’"‘L’-J.- ‘7/ ' that rubber tires fitted, on your vehicle
: ...za now are not only a luxury but a necessity.
.A-ah-y"^’i U makes the vehicle last longer. We fit
r t J 1 only the best rubber tire that is sure to
S. S. PARMELEE
Macon, Ga.
We represent Six strong and reliable
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Protect your property by insuring
with
J.'S. BUDD & CO.
Office 461 Second Street. 439.
Home Industries
and Institutions
HENRY STEVENS, SONS & CO
H. STEVENS’ SONS CO., Macoo, Ga., Manufacturers of Sewer and Railroad cul
vert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing that will last forever.
macotFrefrigerators.
•MUECKE’S Improved Dry Air Refrigerators. The beet 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 poaaeasea. Cease and cee them at the fae-
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