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TRIBE OF ISKACIIAR. DR. TALMAGE SAYS THEY UNDER STOOD THE TIMES. That In Where They Differed From the 1 ShniiM i‘rei»nrr t'*>r?>tirrl«m liventa. Sjin m! of the t.«»»j*el. •pyrirU. isss fo> *m(ri<an Pn>w Asso ciation.] W 'smvi:"f»r, ' ov. U7.—This *<-niton of Hr Talma* .■•.» is on ?m, icipotion «>f things i r fit I- :«1 in 1 urges |jv« jwmtdon for i Tiring text. I Chronicles x!i, 82, “The children <>f I««nchnr, which wens men that I «d umkrsteiriding of the times, to know v h t I t-o 1 ought to (in " Great iril. ,tl it .tribe of bsnchar When .Jin>b took the <•< tiMis, there were 145,600 n< them. Before the altnanae was bom, through .u-trolog|..J etn.ly, they knew from stellar conjunctions all about the seasons of tic year. Befori agricult urn be came at. ;irt they wi re ••kiil.'d In the rais ing of croj s Before [xiliurx became a sci otn they knew the lemj <-r of cations, and whenever they mairhod, either fur pleas ure or war, ;! .<•; marchcil umh-r a three colored flag- topaz, xnnliriq and earbun cle But the < ! characteristic: of that tribe of I-sachurwas thiit they umlerstood lie i.' <*„ 'i ;icv vuri! not like the politi »;i! end u e.al ineon.t t-:ente of our day,, tvf.it i r • i g to guide Ih'.iH by the theo ries of 1«28. They looked at the divine in dication* in t,heir own particular century. Po we ought to nnder-tand tl times, not tie tiii i v. lon Ann rbn v.ar 12 col< nice huddled together along the Atlantic coast, bin • i! ticu - v . u !he i ation di ■ i ne band in the ocean on oneside the continent amt tis nth* r 1 .t i in tie. .•,■■■ <>n the othi r side the continent; times w hich put N> w Vork Narrows and the Golden Horn tis the Pacific within one llie-lt of electric t U" r: j! y - ; •- hen (iod is as directly, j.- pmiio iv, r. -oh mnly. as tremendous lj nieir - -mg us tl.rough the uaily news pa pi I and (heq.T.k rt \ ill i ion of events ie lie ever fiddn'■-> d the ancients or ad clr —es ns thrmigh the Holy F.Tipt ores The voice of tied in 1 ’rovklrnnc is us im portant os the voice of (»od in typology, lor to our on n day we have had our Hitmis vitii thunih-r- of the Almighty, and (Hi varii . of k..•rifle.', and (I. ths. manes that sweat great drops of blood, and Olivets of a . eiiyioii, atid Mount I'Bgaiisof fnrroaeh lng vi ion 1 lie Lord who rounded this world d.Odf) years ago and sent his Hon to redeem it near 1,000 years ago has yet in licit U> do with H -* radiant hilt agonized planet May (iod make n« like theehil dren of L-aelr.r. “which were men that bad tniderstaiiding nl the times, to know whflt Lrael ought to do.’ The Dying Century. The crave of this century will soon lie dug Tim cradle of another century will ■ mil lio rocked. Them is something mov ing this we out of the eternities, some thing that ti.rills me, blanches me, ap palls me. exiiilnrnti s me, eiiraptmo,i me ft will Wreathe the otul: go blossoms for millions of weddings It will beat the dirge for millions of obsequies. It will carry the gilded banners of brightest mornings and the black flags of darkest midnights The world will play the grand nut; Ji of its heroes and sound the rogues' march i f its cmvnrds. Other processions may iifilt or break down or fall hack, hut the pr.Mit ssiol) led by that leader moves Mteadl!v .*n and v. ill soiin be lu re It will preside over coronations and dethrone ments I hail it! I bless it ! Iwehayno it t The twentieth ci aturyof the Christian era. What- may we expect of )! and how shall we prepare h r it ale t he moment mis quea tloiis 1 |. repose ii v. (.odist iisif An in fam ilies hijnian nativity is an!ieijmied by all wnnet ity mid kindliness and solemnHyand sane and hop. (nine-s, so ought we prayer fully, hope I 'nJly, indust rlotisly, ooi.fldei.tly prepare for the ail - ut of a now century. The nineteenth e.-ritury must not treat the t via Mirth on i'-s arrival as tiie eight eenth century treated the nineteenth Our <eiif l i , v tiihorib tl the wreck of revo lutions and tho superstitions of ago. A round it s eratile stood the armed asrivgsin of old world tyrannies; the “reign of ter ror, bequeathing its horrors; Robe spierre, plotting his diabolism, the Jacobin club, with its wholesale mussivcro; thn k *;ulllotine, chopping its heheadnietits. Th« j.i omul quaking with the great guns of Marengo, NVauram and Badajos All Ku i-upe in convulsion. Asia in conipnrotlvo ■quiet, jbilt the quiet ness of death. Airiou in tln'elms hes of the slave iriuie. Ameri can savagsS in lull cry, their scalping knives lifted The exhausted and poverty struck people of An eriia sweating under the del.t of (jtaOO.IHnO.OOt), which tho Rovo lutionary war had left them. Washington just gone into tho long sleep at Mount Vernon, at d ihn nation in bereavement, Anvon Burr the champion lilxTlino, lie coming soon tiller thn vice president. Tho government of the lad usd States only at) experiment, most, of tho philosophers and statesmen and governments of the earth prophesying it. would bu a disgraceful fail vvre No poor foundling laid at night on t,\o cold steps of a umcsipn, to bti picked uj' In tho morning, was poorer oiT than tin i century i\t its nativity Tho United Ht: tvs government laid taken only 12 steps on i. e journey, its constitution having been ..’crim'd In 1789, and most of the na tions v*f tho carl h laughed at our go vers tin nt iit its llr.-t nt torn pis to walk alone Mn|» oi Um» oriel. The bi.'fJiday of our niniti- .ulh cent ury ocrur/eii in tho time of War Our small United St.'U.navy under Captain ',l'ritx ton. eomr.i u dint oo f rigate t 'ans! it ution, was in eoliivi iM with the French frigates La \ ongeayvo L’lnsurgente, ami ?ho hist infant cries of tills century were ■ drowned in the roar of navr.l battle And political strife on this eontinent vvas rho limit si, the parties rending each other with pant-aerii e rage x'lw* I• irt day pres ont* Ith nineteenth et titur/vvas vituper ation public unrest, threat of national deii.obiion asd horrors nationai and in ternational i adjure you, let not the twentieth century ho met. in that awful way. hut with isll I rightness of temporal valid religious p.ri.'s|x cts l- irst, U t us put iqwti the cradle of the new century a new map of the world. The «>1 JI map was black with tu many harlvar istns and red will; too many slaughters and pale with too many sufferings. Let Us sco to it tl'.nt o.n that map. so far tin possible, our eountrv froiu ocean to oernn is a Clirtst-.a: i/.ed ccr.tiocnt —schools, col leges. churches and good homes in long line from ocean Ix-ach to avail beaeh On that map Culm must be free, f’orto Rico must be frvx* Tho archipelago of tfce Phil ippines must Ih» fri«6 If cruel Spain ex jxx f s by procrastination and intrigue to get back what she has surrendered, then the warships lowa and Indianaand Brook lyn and Texas and Vesuvius and Oregon must lx'sent back to southern waters or across to tho o'W-t of Spain to silence the insolence, as decidedly tvs ltvst summer they sdeiK-ed the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and Maria Teresa and Vircaya. "When we get those islands thoroughly un der our prouxvtomre, for the lirst time our missionaries in Ciiina will lx* safe. The atrocities imposed on those good men and women in the r.o calk'd Flowery Kingdom will ik v r be resumed, for our guns will fx> too near Hongkong to aIU-vv the mas sivore of missionary settlements. On that map must lx' pr.t the isthmian canal, begun if not completed. No long Toy ages around Cape Horn for the world's merchandise, but short and cheap commu nication by water instead of expensive communication by rail train, and more millions will ix' added to our national wealth and the world s betterment than I have capacity to calculate. On that map it must be made evident that America is to 1»* the world's civilizer and evangelizer. Free from the national religions of Europe on the one side and from the superstitions of Asia on the oth er side, it will have facilities for the work that, no other continent can possibly pos sess. As near as I can tell by the laying on of the ha mix of the Ix>rd Almighty this continent has been , rdai rod for that work This is the only country in the world where all religions are on the same plat form, and the people have free selection for themselvoki without any detriment. When we proejit to the other continents this assortment of religions and give them unhindervxl choice, we have no doubt of their selecting this religion of merry and kindness and good will- anil temporal and eternal rescue. Hear it! America is to take this world for (Jodi | On the map which we will put bn the cradle on the new century we must hare very soon a railroad bridge across Bering strait, those 36 miles of water, uot deep, and they are spotted with Islands capable of bolding the piers of a great bridge. And what with America and Asia thus con nected, and Siberian railway, and a rail road now j tujectod for the length of Afri ca, and Palestine and Persia and India and China and Burma intersected with railroivd tracks, all of which will be done before the new century is grown up, tho * way will i*o op n Jo tho quick civilization and evangi liz.,tion of the whole world. The old rnaji w<* u.-. d t<i study in our boy li ;1 days is dusty and on the top shelf or •tiitd tiie rubbish of tl ■ garret, and so will the pro. nt map of the world, however gilded and beautifully oound. lx* treated, »:;d an entir. iy t .-vv map will be jiur into the infantih hand of the cauing century (*f}*pcl W iflcsfirpad. The wotk of this o r. j;ry h s hoen to get r< (.'iy AJ! Jot ■ »-:h i- now free to tho t.' -» 1 except two little Spots, one in Asia and or e in Africa, while at the beginning of the '-entnry there st >d t-M» Chinese wall in <1 th* re Haiti' <1 the fires’ and there glittered the swords that forint'l* entranco to many islands and large reach. , of ccm tiner’t. i. .rm -ian oru.bn s and Fiji Jp lar •* connipalism h ive given way, ami all t!u- jrv-i of all the continenfs are ■ vti»: g *" rt with a t i.eng that lei- I n a I osirivo and glorious inv itation for Chris tianity to i-nt'T ’lr !ee raph, tJlephone Hint i her. T/rnnh are t/* is- cot!s>ternted to go 'si di.- - jr iixiii’n. un<‘ instead * J the vol etiiat gains t'ae r;t! i tiou of a few hundred or a f.w rlior.sattd people within the chan li v-alir. tiie t v*. iil tprill the s'ln.l tio ngs am) the telephone will utter thorn to i,.any n lliums Oh, tno in fn no advantage that, the twentieth cen tury ha- ouTwimi t • >■ ■ nth century had ar the «ar ing' 111 preparation for this coining century we have fit o in the inb rvening years to gi" Kline <ie. isiv.j strokes at the seven or eight great -v.;ls hat cut ■■ the world. It would be an assault and battery upon tho coming cent in y hy this century if wo al lowed the full blow of j r. sent, evils to fall upon the future \V“ ought somehow to cripple or minify some of t hose abomina- ; tions Aleohoiism is today triumphant, i and are we to !< t the all devouring moil- : liter that, has throttled this century seize j upon tho next without first having filled I is accursed bide with stinging arrows : enough to weaken and stagger him? Wo [ have vvn t.d about 25 years How s<>y While we iytve been waiting for tho j law of ti e land to prohibit intoxicants wo have done little to quench the thirst of ! appetite in tin* palate and tongue of a ! whole generation. Where are the public j and enthusiast ie meetings that used to he | held 3tl years ago for the on«i piirposo of j persuading the young and middle aged and old that strong drink is poisonous and J damning? When will wy learn that we must educate public opinion up to a pro- | hibitory law or such a law will not bo ■ passed or if [Hissed will not be executed? (iod grant that all state and national leg islatures may build up against this evil a wall which will bo an impassable wall, shutting out the alcoholic abomination. But while we wait for that lot us, in our homes, in our schools, and our churches and on our platforms and in our newspa pers, persuade the people to stop taking alcoholic stimulant, unless proscribed by physicians, and then persuade physicians not to prescribe it if in all the dominions of therapeutics there may bo found some other remedy Seven or eight, years ago on the anniver sary plat form of t he National Temperance society, in New Vork, 1 deplored tho fact that wo had left politic,* to do that which moral suasion only could do and said on that occasion, “If some poor drunkard, wandering along this street tonight,should see tlurlights kindled by t ins brilliant as semblage and should come in and, finding she eiiaraet. r of till) meeting, should ask for a t-eu , ranee pledge, that he might sign it and begin a new career, Ido not believe there is in aij f.hjs house a temper anee pledge, and you would have to take out A turn letter envelope or a loose scrap of paper for the inebriate’s signature.’’ I found out afterward that there 'was one such tomp.Tuncu pledge in the audience, but only one that 1 itouhl hear of. I)o not leave to politics that which can be dono now in 10,000 reformatory meetings all over the oountry The two great political parties, Republican and Democratic, will put. a prohibitory plank in the platform the sumo day that satan joins the church and turns per.litiou into a 4mip Meeting. Both parties want the votes of the traffick ers in liquid death, and it' you wait for tho ballot box to do the work, first you will have local option, and then you will have high livens., and then a first rate law passed, to be revoked by the next legisla ture Redeem the Nation. Oh, save the young man of today and greet Iho coming century with a tidal vyuvo of national redemption! Do not put upon the cradle of the twentieth century a mountain of demijohns and beer barrels and rum jugs und put to its infant lips wtyjelu' tncss, disease, murder and aban donment in solution. Aye, reform that army of Inebriates. “Ah,” you say, “if, cannot be doneff’ That shows that you will (v> of no use in the work. “O yo of little faith I” Away back in early times I ■’resident Davies of Princeton college oije day found a mart in uttyr despair because of Dm thru).! of strong drink, The presi dent said to him' “Sir, be of good cheer. You can few saved. the pledge.” “Ah.” said fr.hedcsi airing victim, “I have often “signet, tv., pledge, but 1 hr.vo always bKiken my pledge. *' “Di)t.’’ said the j idvnt. “J will be your strength to keep the ;dodge. : will bo your trio: .1 ■ d with a hiving aria w« and you will hoio y«u up. When your n. p-< i'e burns, and you feel that you must gratify it, come to my houst*. Sit down with me in the study or with the family in the parlor, and I will be a shield to you. Aii that lean do for you with my books, my sympathy, my ex perience, my society, my love, my money, i will do. You shall forget your appetite ami .master it.” A look of hope glowed on tho poor man's face, and he replied, "Sir, vvjjl you da aH that?” “Surely I will.” ‘-Then l will rvoeuiu. ” lie sign ed the pledge and kept it. That plan of President DavW which saved one man, tried on a large scale, will save a million men. _ I Alexander the Oreat made an imperial banquet at Babvhiq. and, though he had been drinking the hgabh of guests all one night and all next day, the second night he had 20 guests and he drank the health of each separately Then, calling for th* cup of Hereules, the giant, a upnster cup, he filled and drained it twice to allow his •endurance; but as he finished the last draft from the cup of Hercules, the giant, he dropped in a fit, from which he never recovered. Alexander, who had conquered | Sardis and conquered Halicarnassus and ; conquered Asia and conquered the world, j could not conquer hi.mseJf. and there is a threatening peril that this good land of ours, having conquered all* with whom it has ever gone into battle, may yet be over thrown by the cup of the giant evil of the land —that Hercules of infamy, strong drink. Do not let the staggering and I bloutod and embruted host of drunkards' go into tno next century looking for in- j sane asylums and ajmshouses and.delirium ' tremens and dishonored graves. Another thing wo must ge£ fixed is a national Jaw concerning divorce. Vt’jPiam F. Gladstone asked me while walking in his grounds at Hayyarden. “Do you not \ think that your country is in peril from j wrong notions of divorce: ' And Ix>fore I had time to answer he s&id, “The only gu.xl law of divorce that you have in America is the law in South Carolina. ” The fact is that Insjead of state laws on n.is subject we not'd a nntiocftl law pass 'd by the *i-nste of the United Htateo and ths house of repr - ntatives and plainly ietrr pjvreii by the supnetu*. 'or.rt of the country Mjjrriasc and fit - eree. There are thousands of married people i vln an. unhappy and th-w ought never to have lx-, n we-'.lod. They were deceived, j or they were reckless, or they were fools, I or they were caught by dimple, or hung by a curl, or married in joke, or expected a fortune and it did not come. Gr good habits turned to brutality, and hence the domestic wreck, but make divorce less easy and you make the human race more cautions about entering upon life time al liance. Let people understand that mar riage is not an accommodation train that wfil let you leave almost anywhere. fe\it a CEf.oigii train, and tbefi tl.oy will hot step Oh tilt) i tin unless they expect to go clear through to tie* bis-t depot One brave man this i-oming v. int r. risiru amid the white marble of yc-der Capitol bill, could offer a resolution upon the subject of divorce that could keep out of the next century much of the free lovifiin and dissoluteu».«s which have cursed this t»ntury. Another thing that we need to get fixed up before the clock shall strike Id on that night of centennial transition is the ex pulsion of war by the power of arbitra tion Within the next three years we ought to have, and I hope wiil have, what t. Sght be called “a jury of nations,” which shall renb-w verdict on all contro ' rt.-d in: ;mat) tal questions. All civi lized nations art* ready for it. Great Britain with a standing urn y of 210,000 men, France with a ?* .tiding ’army of 580.000 men. Germany with a standing army of 60(i.000 men. L .issia vf.tn a standing army of 900,000 men. Europe with stand ing armies of about 3,500,000 men, the Unimd States proposing a standing army of b 0.0.' ii: !. What a glorious idea, that of disarmament! What an emancipa tion of miti •■■“ and uenturi. s! The czar of Rub-ia last summer proposed it in world resounding manifesto. Disarma ment! What nil inspiring and heaven de scended thought! In some quarters the czar’s manifesto was treated with derision, and we were i old that ho was not in earitost wU I. he made it. I know personally that he Bid in.rn it. Six years ago he expressed to i. the same theory in hi* palace at i’o terhof, ho then being on the way to the throne, not yet having reached it. Ilis father. Alexander 111. then on the throne, 1 to me in his palace the same s. ntii ants of peace,and Lis wife, the then * .ij - '•• ill, t in her .-yes, sai l, in reply to my remark, “Your Majesty, there w iil never be it !,er grr it war Ixitwecn Christian n . ions, ” "Ah, I hope there t ■ *r will lx:! If there should over be an other great war, 1 am sure it will uot t >r front this palace.” ! niverwl Peace. ‘ ii a l ■ ,n i ' 1 in' world if Russia and Ger.iiariy and England and the United H'eu s . ild safely disband all their stand ing arnr * and dismantle their fortresses and spike their guns! What uncounted millions of dollars would be saved, and, more t han that, what a complete cessation of human slaughter! What an improve ment of the morals of nations! What an adoption of that higher and better mani- I festo which was set to music and let down | from the midnight heavens of Bethlehem ag s ago! The world has got to come to j this Why not make it tiie peroration of the nineteenth century? Are we going to make a present to the twentieth century of reeking hospitals and dying armies anil hemispheric graveyards? Do you want tiie hoofs of other cavalry horses on the breasts of fallen men? Do you want other harvest li< Ids gullied with wheels of gun carriages? Do you want tiie sky glaring with confla gration of other homesteads? Ah, this nineteenth century has seen enough of war. Make the determination that no other century shall bo blasted with it. During the first half of this century we expended $8,000,1)00 to educate the Indi ans and $400,000,000 to kill them. Accord ing to a reliable statistician, during this century.we have had tho Crimean war, which slew 785,000 and cost $1,700,000,- 000, and our American civil war, which slew 1,000,000 men, north and south, and cost $9,000,000,000, digging a grave trench from Barnegat lighthouse, New Jersey, to Lone Mountain cemetery at San Francis co. And you must add to these the Zulu war, anti the Austro-Prussian war, and the Danish war, and the Italian'war, tho Franco-Prussian war,Chino-Japaoesewar, Napoleonic war and the Americo-Span ish war. What a record for this boasted nineteenth century! It makes all pande monium chuckle. It has called out all the realms of diaiiolus in grand parade, eatan reviewing them from platform of fire as the demons in companies and regiments and brigades have passed with banners of fire ami riding on horses of fire, keeping step to the roll of the grand march of hell In the name of the God of nations, let tho scroll of blood bo rolled up and put upon th- shelf, never to be taken down. And by the middle of next century let the sword and the carbine and the bombshell become curiosities in a museum about which your grandchildren shr.il ask ques tions, wondering what thoso instruments wore ever used for, but let no one dare tell them but keep it from them an everlast ing secret, Jest they too much despise our nineteenth century and curse the memory of their ancestors. Will it uot be grand if on the first day of the twentieth century tho last will and testament of the nineteenth Century shall be opened and it shall be found to read: “In the name of God, amen. I, the dying century, do make this my last will and testament I give and bequeath to my heir, tiie twentieth century, peace of na tions; swords, which 1 direct to be beaten into plowshares, and spears, which must be turned into pruning hooks; armories, to be changed into seboolhouses and for tresses, to be rebuilt into churches, and I order that greater honors be put on those who save life than upon those who destroy it. And if amid the universal peace now attained those two nations, Spain and Turkey, do not stop their cruelties, let tho other nations, banded together, extem porize* a police force to wipe those coun tries off the map of pations as a 'wet spoil}?.) wipes from a boj T ’s slate at school a hard sum in arithmetic. This last will I sign and seal and deliver on the 31st day of December, in tho year of pur Lord 1900, all tho civilized nations of earth and all the glprified nations of heaven witness ing.” But what we do gs individuals, as churrhos, as nations, as continents, wo must do wry soon, if we want the transi tion from century to century to boa wor thy f ran.-JU' m for i kray the trumpets of the nppf.• w idng century and the clatter ing hoofs of the jf leads on A 'livtortc For hMerit al reniinlseer.ee there is r.o street jn all Uso world like yonder Penn sylvania avenue Champs lvlysees of Paris is more brilliant; Princess street, Edin burgh, more picturesque; Ur.ter den Lin den, Berlin, mere richly foliaged; Picca dilly street. London, nu ro populous; Nev sky Prospekt of St. Petersburg stands for more years; the Corso of Rome is lined with mpfp antiquities, but for an intelli gent and patriotic ApifTjfcaq yonder nv .mu.' has no equal for suggestsvenesa. Thp ctbc? flight, while thinking of this sub jeer, as (e tile yvfiy fji which we ought tq meet tho new psfifujiy so p»(jf fit hand, I fell into a sort of dreamy state, in which the chronology of events «oamed obi iterat ed, gj)d I saw on Pennsylvania ayenqa two prcv;.-*<;'?ns, which seemed to meet each other as till*; cojif qry goes out and an other comes i:i As ue;vr a# [ p.qpjfj fgj} in that dreamy state it was the last mgM pf tiie century aaq J saw the spirits of the mighties in American ffistory passing down tin* marble steps of the eapjtpl on yonder hiii and moving through that memorable Pennsylvania avenue. There they come, the departed members of tho supreme court of n:r nation, led qu by Chief Justice Marshal) There come tho distinguished men of our national legis lature. in v hiefc are Webster and Clay and Benton and Calhoun aml Preston and Corwin and Edward Everett and John Quincy Adams and Hamuol L. Southard and Rufus Choate and others—soma great for state-manship, others great for wit, : others great for eloquence, others great for courage They pass on through the j avenue immortal for those who in past i tim >» tiv<i n Yonder 1 see the funeral i pageants c. sertiuoi* ;»nd three presidents! Banners draped in gloom, black i plumes foil wing tossing black plumes, i Cato.',fi,,;i.‘s. j-ach drawn by eight white hors. s, while up; ore guns boom. Yonder ' a nation in tears follow* pm victims of tho exploded Princeton, the slain secre taries .J itaty and navy. inuagura) processions, ac comranjeJ by vanished music tiiap jias re turned. the li; y again on iiutes and comets i Jiiteg ;.go rusted, tsut now repolished, and l fiuu,” the beating drums, w hich, silent | for many y ms. are again sounded, greet ed by the huzza .d ii’indreds of thousands of voices. Many dcglides hushed, but again resonant Regiments of the army of Amori nu Revolution followed by regl jnents rs tiia army of 1613 and regiments of the army of 1564 They have pome up from the encampments in the tomb to take part in this great parade in honor of the century on this night passing away From the windows on both sides—win dows upholstered again, as in those olden MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 38 *B9B. days— ti nump . uT fashi n na tional car »1 I 1 ng cht upon the pass ing spec h< 1 Tie*: 3 Marrt lis de I>afayett(J passe*, t cc i ~y the . f men of the land, w:. » 1 .ve i cn authorized to wel come hitu in bci*iif of a nation which he helped to set fr*o. On through that avenue pass the throngs toward the presidential residence, where, to greet them, come out on the platform built to review the pass ing century Washington and the Adamses and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and Lincoln Askhat long and brilliant procession, vanished, bat now a resurrect .d and remarshaled host, passes before that reviewing stand 1 see an other Jproces -ion coming from the opposite direction to n et this They are the presidents, the senators, the legislators, the judges, the philanthropists, the deliverers of the twen tieth century They come up from the schools tiie churches, the farms, the cities, the lamest cads of tho continent Their cradles were rocked on the banks of the Alabama, and the Ht. Lawrence, and the Oregon, and the Androscoggin, and the Potomac, and the Hudson. They have just as firm a tread, just as well built a brow, just a? great a brain, just as noble a heart, just as high a purpose, just as sublime a courage passing in procession one way thr. .h t hat aveuue as the other procession passes the other way. Yea, the men coming out of the twentieth century in some respects surpass those coming out of the nineteenth century, for they have had better advantage, and will liavogrand er opportunity, and will take part in high er achievements of civilization and Chris tianity What a meeting on this midnight 12 o’clock, tho two processions of the mighties t.f two c. nturies! Uncover all heads and bow reverently in prayer. Thank God for the good done by the pro cession coming out of the past and pray to God for good to lx don • by tho proces sion coming out of the future. But halt, both processions! Halt! Halt! Break ranks! Back to your thrones, ye mighties of the nine.t. n'h century, and eiijoy the reward of your fidelity! Back to your homes, ye mighties of the twentieth con tury, jour congressional chairs, your ju dicial benches, your presidential mansions, your editorial rooms, your stupendous re sponsibiiities and do the work for the twentieth century! Farewell and tears for the one procession! Hail and welcome to the other procession! Xew’Year’s Watcli. It has been a custom in all Christian lands for people to keep watch night as an old year goes out and a new year comes in People as .-"in hie in churches about 10 o’clock of that, last night of the old year, and they have prayers and songs and ser mons and congratulations until the hands of the church clock almost reach the figure .12, and than all bow in silent prayer, and the scene is mightily impressive, until the clock in the tower of the church or the' clock in tho tower of the city ball strikes 12, and then all rise and sing with snsil ing face and jubilant voice tho grand dox ology, and ttiere is,a shaking of hands all around But what a tremendous watch night the world is soon to celebrate! This century will depart at 12 o’clock of the .list of De cember of the year 1900. What a night that will be, whether starlit or moonlit or dark with tempest! It will bo such a night, as you and I never saw Those who watched the coming in cf tho nineteenth century long ago went to thqjr piliows of dust. Here and there one will s. 0 the new century arrive who saw this century, yet they were too infantile to appreciate tho arrival. But on the watch night of which I speak in all neighborhoods and towns and cities and continents audiences will assemble and bow in prayer, waiting for tho last breath of the dying century, and when the clock shall strike 12 there will be a solemnity and an ov. nvhelming awe such as have not been felt for 100 years, and then all the people will arise and chant the welcome of a new century of joy and sorrow, of triumph and defeat, of happi ness and woe, and neighborhood will shake hands with neighborhood, and church with church, and city with city, and con tinent with continent, and hemisphere with hemisphere, and earth with heaven, at the stupendous departure and the ma jestic arrival. May we ail ho living on earth to see tho solemnities and join in the songs and shake hands in the congrat ulations of that watch night, or if between this and that any of us should be off and away may we be inhabitants of that land where “a thousand years are tis one day,” and in the presence of that angel spoken of in the Apocalypse who at the end of the world will, standing with one foot on tho sea and the other foot on the land, “swear by him that livoth for ever and ever that time shall bo no longer.” A Story of Colonel Waring, “I was living in Memphis in 1879,’ said Mr. G. E. Norton, now of Charleston, “when Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., who died the other day, was engaged to design a sewerage system for tho city. It was a gigantic engineering problem, and Waring attacked it with his habitual vig or. One night while the work was in progress I had occasion to call on him at his hotel. I had never met him before, and when I entered his room was stag gered by the evidences of concentrated la bor that met my eyes. Ho was in his shirt sleeves at a big table, writing furi ously. His hair was disheveled, his point ed mustache bristled menacingly, his writing materia! was in wild disorder and plye floor %vas lift.-red with sheets of paper. I concluded that be was deep ip some stupendous balouiati'pu and made iuy stay as brief as possible. “A few days inter I saw him at the office of tho geworago works. He was faultlessly dressed, perfectly groomei and cool as a cucumber, although busily en gaged in tlio examination of some intri cate draw ittgs The startling contrast con vinced me that my former visit had been i fioul ly inopportune, and I said something po that effect. 'Not at all,’ ho replied laughing. ’! was writing a short story I when you dropp'd in ft’s away I have ! of amusing myself. Ho mentioned the ! title, and 1 afterward read the tale in bis book called 'Whip, Hpur and Saddle.’ ” New Orleans Times-Democrat. A TEXAS AVONDEu. Kail’s Great Discovery, One small bottle of Hail’s Great Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder trou bles, reqa+yes grayei, cures dhaheUs. semi nal etnisisons, weak and lame backs, rheu matism and ali irregularities of the kid neys and bladder in both men and women. Reg«lste§ trpunies in children. If not solid by yqur druggist wilt he sent by mail ob feeejpt of sl. One small bottle is two months’ treatment 99*1 Wifi cure any ease above mentioned: E. W. HALL, !So!P Manufacturer. P. 0. Box 21*, Waco, Sold by H. J. Lamar & Son, Macon, Ga. READ THIS. Cuthbert, G&. March 22, 1898.—This is | to certify that I have been a sufferer from ; a kidney trouble for ten years and that I j have taken less than one bottle of Hall’s j Great Discovery 2nd I think that I am ; cured. I cheerfully recommend it to any one suffering from any kidney trouble, as I know of nothing that I consider Its equal. R. M. JONES. Kr.mi S.w Zealand. Reefton, New .Zealand, November 23, 1 IS9S. —I am very pleased to state that ! sinee I took the agency of Chamberlain's I medicines the sale has been very large, 1 more especially of the Cough Remedy. In 1 two jews 7 h4iC more of this particu lar remedy thaa of ail other moae* j o r the past five years. As to its efficacy I have been informed by scores of persons of the good results they have received from it and know its value from use in my own 1 household. It }« up pleasant to take that 1 we have to place the bottle beyond th c reach of the children. E. J. Seantlebury. For -tile by H. J. Lamar & Sons, druggists. Pile*, run, r-nesi Dr. Williams' Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles when all other ointments have failed. It absorbs the tumors, allays the Debing at once, acts as a poultice, gives re lief. Or- Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment Is prepared eniy lor-Piles an '♦-''ing of the private parts aqd nothing else. Every box is warranted. Sold by drusurlsts or 11.09 per box. WILLIAMS MANTJFACTURING CO.. Proprietors. Cleveland. O sent by mall on receipt of price, 50c tjxi SSBtm. Besolutioas AJoptEil at saumiag's iDeeting De claring Against tfie Movement as Being Inim ical to trie Commercial and Civic Interests or Hlacon. A special meting of the Chamber of Commerce was held Saturday afternoon at which, in addition to other business, the question of the commercial interests of Macon in connection with the prohibition election, to he held December 1, was ta ken under consideration. There was a large representative atendanee, the meet ing having been duly announced. The committee on election submitted the following report, which was unanim ously adopted: “Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce: “Your committee to whom were referred the subject involved in the election to be held on the Ist day of December, to de cide whether the liquor traffic shall be li censed or prohibited in Bibb county, re spectfully submih that after a careful con sideration of the question they are of the opinion that the Chamber of Commerce.re | presenting the busines interests of Macon, ; and the greater portion of its invested j capital, is fully justified in declaring it self clearly on an' issue that involves the business conditions of Macon. The busi i ness men of Macon are anchored here by ; investments—are held here by ties not j easily loosened —whatever, therefore, af | sects the profit or investments threatens i losses, or adds burdens that places them | at a disadvantage in business competition j with other cities: whatever makes for the i development and maintenace of busi ness; whatever makes for public order or the reverse is, in our judgment, a proper subject for this organization to consider. Actuated by this view, your committee find that the issue presented the business men of this city in the coming election is ■ whether the liquor traffic shall be per mitted in Bibb county under a license system and police supervision or an unli censed and unlawful traffic. The traffic under a license system and police super vision is kept within the proper limits, UNCLE SAM'S LAKE MARINE, John Buil About to Receive a Very Worrying Lot of Information. oust GREAT TONNAGE. United States Treaty Commission ers Submit Facts that Open Eyes of Their Canadian Associates. By Associated Fress. New York, Nov. 28. —A dispatch jo the Press from Ottawa says: In framing the report for the British the imperial defense board have been largely guided by the existing treaties between Great Britain and the United States. Un forseeo conditions have grown up since the treaties were ratified. The military and naval situation is in many respects changed. New war factors have arisen; some have disappeared. Facts are brought out that will appear incredible in 'Great Britain relating to the growth of the American power on the lakes. The treaties relate to Newfoundland, Labrador, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the coasts of the maritime provinces, the fish ing grounds of British North America and the Great Lakes. Their consideration raises the questions affecting the security of communication from salt water to the unsalted seas of the interior and the navi gation of the Great Lakes, canals and river systems, forming the boundary for more than one thousand miles. The move ment in the United State’s for the modifi cation or abrogation of Teh treaty relat ing to warships on the Great Lakes brings that treaty more particularly to the front. From various sources in the L>nited States and Canada, official and unofficial, ■a striking aray of facts and figures have been drawn, which fully bears out the United States contentions that In case of j war tlie value of the lake property—hos- j | tage millions —at stake on t.hb United ■ States side would he Immeasurably great l er than that on the Canadian and the po i sit ion of affairs is consequently one in which the United States is fully justified in considering adequate measures of pro tection, even if such measures should be contrary to thee lause of the treaty. In the event of the United States and Great, Britain ever being at war, even should the former 'be successful in obtain ing control of the St. Lawrence, ~o Amer ican warship piorp than l?y feet in length ! could ue sent up from the sea through | the locks to the interior. It Is not much j of a warship that measures less than 200 ! feet in length. Great Britain holds the I mouth of the St. Lawrence apd flu* peeat’ er pars of the seventy miles or so of ca nals Is oh the Canadian side, While the entire lake marine of Canada, : it appears, comprises less than 900 steam vessels, mostly small, with an aggregate tonnage Under One hundred thousand, one company alone out of the many on the United States side, owns a fleet of close j oii to one hundred thousand tons. The lake marine of the United States com- i prises in round numbers some 3,500 ships j with a tonnage of upward of a million and j a half and of this enormous fleet\ fully I one-half the tonnage.is that of steamers, j A striking fact is that some 500 of the*e steamers are of a tonnage of 1,000 to 5.- 000 each. Several lake steamship com panies at United States ports are found to own magnificent fleets numbering from 6 to 20 powerful vessels and some of these fleets are comprised of scarcely any steamers of less than 4.000 tons. The United States, too. is shown to have all to lose and Canada all to gain in the way of steel plants for shipbuilding and dry docks. The object of contiguous pow ers would be to procure ix>sses«iaH of ' points of such vital importance in a na- j va| struggle. It seems that Oanafta has scarcely a dock or steel plant o! the larg est class to lose where modem steamers equal to those of the United States owners are constantly putting upon the lakes, could he built or put into condition for fighting or where damages could be re paired. The United States on the other hand has modem ship bulding yards in most of the chief ports .on the upper lakes, fifteen complete modern ste*l plants and more than thirty dry d«ck3 of which eight are cf the largest class, ca pable of taking the heaviest steamers afloat on teh lakes. It is not surprising under these circumstances to learn that the treaty concerning warships on the lakes is one of the principal objects of consideration by the imperial defense board in preparing the material for their report to the British government. and yields a revenue which defrays a large portion of public expenditure. The burden of expenditure is inevitable whether we have a licensed or unlicensed liquor traffic. It costs the city of Macon $40,000 annually to maintain its "police force. Under present conditions the reve nue derived from saloons, wholesale liquor dealers and brewers contributes about $35,000 of this,amount. The police force must be maintained. Indeed it is hardly adequate now, and with an. unlicensed li quor traffic wiuld probably not be suffl • cient. The present cos: of maintaining it and the probable increased cost under • prohibition would be an additional burden ; placed upon the property owners of the i city of Macon. The result would be high er rents and vacant buildings, or an addi i tional burden placed upon the renters, | who are now burdened, to the limit. Nor j is this all. “The experience of other cities, notably Atlanta, proves that prohibition is not j effective; that the illicit traffic in liquor i is certain to follow the abolition of the li censed saloon, and what is known as the “jug trade” takes thousands of dollars out of a community that never returns and cai’-fs more liquor to be used than under a L L.-.'d system. Atlanta’s ex perience is a proper guide, in our judg -1 ment, for the people of Macon. The busi ness men of Atlanta who contributed money, time and their best efforts to carry prohibition in Atlanta, after two years of I bitter and costly experience, cast their ballots for a license system under police ! supervision. Such men as Capt. J. W. ! English, ex-May-or Goodwin and many I other prominent citizens who favored i prohibition when it. was put in operation |in Atlanta say- now that after a fair | trial it proved a costly failure and that a \ licensed system under police supervision i is the best method of handling the liquor j traffic.” A Narrow Ksnifio. Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. D., “Was taken with a bad cold which settled on mylungs; cough set in and finally terminated in consump tion. Four doctors gave me up, saying I could live but a short 'time. I gave myself up to my savior, determined if T could not stay with my friends on earth I would meet my absent ones above. My husband i-was advised to get Dr. King's New Dis j coyery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial; took in all eight bottles. It has cured me and thank God I am saved and am now a well and healthy woman.” Trial bottles free at H. J. La mar & Sons' drug store. 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