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EISQUIKJLK • i^UM : COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 \m, 7 CLERGYMEN ON SMOKING. v> ijiTEKBWI ING QUESIIuS DISCUSSID BV FAMOlIl CLERGYMEN. j^,i Elder’s Offer to Dr. Talmage of Free t igers Which Led Him to Stop 'muk- iug-Au Editor Clergyman W ho Insists ou His Cigars. nomination, notably the Methodist, now regularly makes inquiry of candidates for the ministry as to their habits concerning the use of toDacco. A large number of Conferences refuse to accept habituU smokers as preachers. I believe there should be a reform in this matter of smoking among young men, but nothing prevents it so much as the practice of a few distinguished preachers, whose habits I in other respects are exemplary, but who, i in regard to smoking, set a bad example j to the young. Boston. Joseph Cook. doing; of clergymen. In habit3 or aots not positively sinfal they must be governed iy the law of expediency. Smoking is such an act. If the habit is found to in jure the health of the one who thus in dulges, obscures his intellect, or leads oth ers to excess, then he should aostain. If, however, he finds that smoking tranquil lizes the nerves, lessens the jar and the friction of life, a.ds digestion, then he may quietly indulge. Those reformers go to an extreme who put sm okiag ou a par- ample, therefore, goes for little. Washington D. C. W. H. Milburn. rcopyright, 1889. All Rights Reserved by The • ijok Syndicate Press of New Yvrk City ] It has always bee i an interesting question iu the minds of many whetner clergymen, front point of example, should indulge jn smoking. It is a common belief Ulat the cigar in the mouth of the minister is injurious example to the young. Up Do gn’t Smote llut Wishes He Did. I am| not a smoker, but ~wiah I were. There is some constitutional obstacle. The habit is not in my family. I smoked a little in college, but not from the pleas ure of it. Later m life I gave it entirely Lbf one cigar a day for more haa fifty up. The clerical life is one of much ner vous excitement which needs quieting; lo this time the voice of the clergy has, j and at the same time of moral restraint save in one or two scattering opinions, not br.en heard. Accordingly, more than a year ago, I began to secure the opinions of the most famous preachers in America and Europe, as written or spokes by themselves especially for this publication. Whether the question, “Should Clergy men Smoke?” finds its solution in these opinions or not, I leave the readers to judge. Edward W Bok. which ensures moderation. A cigar is a solace and a companion. The student craves both. If these circumstances were known and considered, the smoking cler gyman’s example would be harmless; but as it is, in the present passion for exhila ration and injurious narcotics by people who do not require them, I am inclined to think the habit should be dispensed with by those who aim at elevating moral sentiment. Boston. O. B. Frothingham. The Voice of a Methodist. Clergymen certainly should not smoke- No clergymau should do anything he does not expect and wish the young men in his congregation and Sabbath-school to do. How can a man reprove boys for smoking if he does it himself? No, save ns from clergymen who smoke! I am glad the . Methoaist Churcn has decided not to ad- allel line with the use of intoxicants. They < mit young men to her m history who are - ^ —— v . mtv j uuUq mwu vj uv/i aa. lead to very different results Even the addicted to the practice. excessive use of the one does not end in poverty, vio ; ence, misery, an utter aban donment of all that is manly, virtuous aud good. Over the evils of the latter au angel might well weep. For the relief of an early infirmity I have indulged in the use years, a id have experienced no evil ef fects. S. D. Burcharp- New Yoik. New York. (Chaplain) C. C. McCabe. Not His Brother’s Keeper. I have no wisdom to impart on the question whether clergymen should smoke. I do not smoke myself, nor do I judge those who do. Columbus O Washington Gladden. < ^From the Author Oi “America” I am glad to bear my testimony against the evii practice to the use of tobacco by ministers of the Gospel. They are often called to visit in the chambers of th9 sick Dr. lalinage Once a Smoker. It seems to me that this question of the use of tobicco by clergymen is one that every minister should decide for himself. I do not, therefore, speak for others, but express only my own individual opinion when I say that I believe tobacco to be ruinous to one’s physical health, whether he be clergy or layman. It is not a rapid poison. The taste for tobacco may be endured tor generations, but sooner or later I believe it*ct« disastrously in some way, either to the mind or to the body. Nor is this a statement of glitter irg generalities. I know whereof I speak. For many years I smoked cigars, but I do not do so now. I would not now think of smoking a cigar any more than I would youth, and whose system is so saturated drink a vial of laudanum. I came to give wl tn me poison that they fear they will, Would .Smoke if He Wanted To. One cannot say whether clergymen as a class should or should not use tobacco. It is nobody’s business, except in his own individual case. I do nor use tobacco my self, but if I wanted to I should do so. New York. Morgan Dix. No Mistaking His Views. I can give no opinion based on expe rience of the effects of smoking, as the practice has always seemtd to me filthy and useless, aud therefore indulgence in it sduply sensual. I think the practice inexcusable, except in the case of those who have begun it in au idiotic or vicious up the habit in this way: 1 was livin Syracuse, N. Y., but had just been called to Philadelphia. An elder in the Phila delphia church to which I accepted a call offered, as one of the inducements to my j coming, that he would give me ail the ci gars I wanted the rest of my life free of 1 through tue shock the cnange would give the brain, revert into idiocy should they cease taking iu the usual supply of nico tine. William Hayes Ward. New York. He Kecol.ects Hitt First Smoke. I began to smoke at eight years of age charge. He was a wholesale tobacconist, I ali( j i e ft, the same day. Tae cane cut aud would have kept his promise. At that time cigars were higher in price than they are now, and the offer meant the saving of a great deal of money to me. I was then smoking up to my full capacity—that is, I used as many cigars as health would per mit. I thought to myself what>, would happen if I should get them fret! Tae thought so appalled me that I made a res olution then and there to stop smoking and never touch tobacco again in any man ner or form. And from that day to this from the hedge made me sick, and all my experience since has made ma more sick of what I regard a dirty, costly, ty’rauical and unhealthy habit. Excuse may be made for some elderly or aificted smokers, but the practice should be spe cially avoided by ministers. There are in every church Some who will be pained by such au example, same who may ba in I jured by following it. Smokers are liable j to to come tlaves to the habit, so that its ! indulgence gets to be a necessity of life. I never have. Now, I would not take up j q'jjey are uncomfortable without it; they smoking again for all the surplus in the - - - - treasury. As I said before, every clergyman must settle the question for himself according to hisown conscience and belief.But as for myself, smoking is utterly out of the question. It is my opinion that many clergymen who have on their tombstone “Died in the Lord” might have for more appropriate epitaph “Killed by Tobacco.” Brooklyn. T. DeWitt Talmage. become reckless of the comfort of others; they must smoke in the street, in the car, in the house, in the bedroom. It often leads to drinking, wastes time, aud costs money which is needed for better objects. London. Newman Hall. Howard Crosby’s Views. The questiou is one for each individual minister to decide. Of course I cannot sa/ whether my brother clergym- n should or should not use tobacco. It is out of the question for any man to dictate in this respect to ward another; aud, after all, the question oi smoking does not center into one’s moral life. The kingdom of God is a kingdom of righteousness, uud not a king dom of what we eat or drink. New York. Howard Crosby. Robert Coilyer Enjoy* His Cigar. Should clergymen smoke? Well, they sbould.if they want to. The question of clergymen smoking depends mainly upon the cigars they use, in my opinion. If I want to smoke I do smoae, and it is no body’s business except perhaps my phy sician’s. Aud I do not think that the use of tobacco has ever hurt my health phys ically, and I much enjy a good cigar. However, I think that the question of clergy men smoking is a very foolish onh A great trouble with modern society is that we are hemmed in and around, by too many barriers. The question of eler gymen using cigars is not one that can concern the church at large, or society at large. If a clergyman wants to smoke it is nobody’s business so long as he can afford it, provided it does not hurt his constitu tion—and he smokes good cigars. I enjoy good cigars, and intend to smoke them as often as I please. However, if the use of tobacco affected my health, ot course I would drop cigars instantly. New York. Robert Collyer. Dr. Furness, at Eighty, r ight, Still Smokes I have been a smoker from my youth up. It has not prevented me from reach- my eghty eighth year without any of the usual infirmities of old age, save a certain slifintts in stooping to pick up a pm. It is said that smoking leads to drinking. 1 think it is a mistake. It takes the place of drinking. Were smoking abolished, I believe there would be ten drunkards where there is now only one. I have no faith in doing things for example’s sake. They must be done for their own sake; then only is the example good and influ ential. William Henry Furness. Philadelphia. Dr. Storrs is a Smoker. Either “Yes” or “No” may be easily written, but any satisfactory answer to the question of whether clergyman should smoko would require more time than I have at command. The general Christian rule is plainly one of self restraint and the avoidance of offense. Each man who feels himself responsible to the Master must judge for himself, I think, in apply ing the rule to the particulars of conduct. For myself. I find material help from a cigar when engrossed in study. Brooklyn. Richard S. Storrs I have never used tobacco in any form, and therefore write without that knovvl edge which is derived from personal en joyment of the cigar. From such study as I have been able to give to the matter, I am not able to dis cover any physical or moral argument for smoking. The arguments appear to be all ou the other side. While the evils of alcohol are vastly greater than the evils of tobacco, ou the other hand, it appears to me easier to construct an argument iu fa vor of the moderate use of alcohol than iu favor of the moderate use of toDacco. The physical evils that result from the tobacco habit are notorious. The moral evils appear to me also seriom. Whatever may be the imagined benefit of smoking to oveworked men (and wo men? if it is a sedative, who need it mjro than the wives and mothers?; it is by sub stantially univers 1 consent an injury to the youDg. Aud yet not only the young men in our stores and coll- ges, but the boys in their teens are inveterate smokers The minister should teach by his lift; he should set an example which he is will ing his congregation should follow; he should walk in the paths in which ho de sires that the boys and young men who look up to him should walk. As I person ally do not wish to see the boys in my Sunday schools nor the young men in my church and congregation smoking, I do not propose to set them the example of the smoker. And I cannot but tniuk that, on the one hand, if all ministers were of this opinion, and set a universal exam pie against the cigar, it would count for something, and on the other hand that there is a certain incongruity iu a smoking clergyman preaching a sermou on crucify ing the lusts of the firsh, or denying our selves for the sake of our neighbars. And yet some of the noblest, most de voted, most constcrated ministers in the church of Christ, men before wnom I bow in reverence, are habitual smokers. Brooklyn, Lyman Abbott. From Venerable Dr. McCosh. Smoking will be put down when young ladies declare that they will not look with favor on a you ig tutu who smokes, and j whose sensitive frames are paiued and when congregations decla-e that iney will disgusted by tae ill savored odors carried not take a minister who smokes. ^ - j a the breath or in the clothing of visitors. Princeton, N. J. James Mo Josh < Intimate conversations of sympathy with ! the » ffl:cted, or of advice to the troubled Equal nights for Clergymen. j and to inquirers—all alike demanding I see not way clergymen should not i proximity, will often be unwholesome and smoke if men of any sort or otner orofes- ; distressing, not^to say impossible, sions do. I have never been a smoker my- j self, but it seems to me to be the same I question mentally and physically for all 1 persons alike, aud the example of a smok- J ing clergyman, if hurtful, is equally so by men of other sets. . Boston. C. A. Bartol. J i instruct made a test of character,even in our private judgments of men. As a man thinisest so HEALTH AND BEAUTY ! Samuel Francis Smith. Newton Centre, Mass. 4&1 n « A Voice From Andover. Some concession mas made to the smoking habit. i fairness, be It is not a sin , ... any man whose own conscience does 1 not so instruct him It should not be From the Canou of Westminster. I have never been a smoker, never having felt the smallest need to adopt the practice, or the smallest attractions toward it. Whether smoking is injurious to the health of full grown men, or not, I am uuabie to say, but many wuo oegiu by smoking in moderation go on to smoke in excess, and there they injure their health very seriously. It seems to me that when man has so many natural wants it is not desirable to add to them another want, which can only be regarded as artificial. London. Frederic W. Farrar. From an Editor-Clergyman. If any one should smoke, why deny the privilege and pleasure to a man of tha cloth? If no one ought to smoke, then, I imagine, the clergyman should be inclu ded. I have noticed that nearly every body who doson’t smoko thi iks it sinfui, a vile habit, and a waist of silver dollars, while the maa who does smoke believes that it warms his heart, clears his head, and helps to make life worth living. For myself, I am my own double, a clergym in and a journalist. Asa j jurnal- ist I take unspeakable comfort in a good cigar. There is poetry iu its lifting clouds, and I watch them with a placid sense that I am enjoying a very innocent pleasure. Moreover, my clerical con science does not rebel, but accepts the situation with serene approval. I should say, then, that a clergym in may smoke if he wishes lo. If he does not wish to, he may credit himself with resisting one of the softest blandishments of this cold world, and denying hia tired nerves one of the precious narcotics that ever threw i s magic spell over ill temper and substi uted good nature for chronic irrascibility. You may rob others of their cigars if ] you have the requisite strength—and hard- ] ness of heart—out you can’t get mine, { nnless you weigh a good deal more than I do. Yours, with a Duff. ! Yew York. George H. Hepworth. Bishop Coxa Doseu’l Like It. I know so mauy men far better than myself who enjoy the rank weed that it seems in bad taste for me to rebuke a habit to which t am not tempted person ally. But it is an expensive habit; and they who make appeals for hundreds of good and needy objects might save for charity what does no good to anybody. i Ic is a bid example of waste to the young. I a sked ayouth to save for buying books overy dollar he usually expended for cigars, and in a very short time he showed me an admirable little library t saved from t he smoke. It is an off msive habit to innumerable persons whom we are commanded to love as ourselves. A lady who entertained a worthy clergyman ou je objected to re ceiving him again. Slid she: “It took a week’s airing and some scrubbing to get the nauseous smell out of my guest cham ber and out of clothes that nung iu one of . its closets.” It is a social habit that leads to the society of men who waste time iu puffing smoke and telling anecdotes not always the most likely to “minister grace to the hearers.” A lady once said “her pa-tor came to pray with her as she lay sick and expect ing" to die, but the 6mel! of tobacco which he brought into the room with him nsu- is he. It is not a proper su jj ?ct of eccles- ! iastical prohibition. Tue distinction is not a wise one which forbids it to clergy men more imparativel / than to laymen. That is not a healthy j type of reiigous faith waieh ! lays the clergy under prohibitions I which are not thought necessary in regu- , laiing the couduct of other men. 1 Yet there are few, if any, usages morally . innocent in themselves of which so many i things can be said to t heir diseedit as may ! be said of the use of tobacco as au indul gence. The habit is against nature. Tobacco is neither food nor drink. Sa far as I know, it is not medicine extent to a sick sheep. No natural appetite of the human body craves it. Of the whole animal creation, but one species naturally takes to it—and that is a worm. Iuieleotual cul ure is not fostered by it. Nor does it quicken or gratify spiritual aspirations. General Stonewall Jackson once said to his daughter that since he had reached - adult years he had never taken a mouth ful of food at any hour of day or night without asking the blessing of God upon it. The General was a native of a tobacco growing State, and probably a smoker. But it may be reasonably question whether he ever sought the divine bless ing upon his daily cigar. Wnat smoker ever did? Yet why not? Can smoking • clergymen answer the question? Au immense an i iner a ing number of Christain believers condemn the habit as being unsympathetic with the imitation of Christ. The drift of the noblest and purist civilization is palpably adverse to a usage which so distincly subordinates mind to matter, soul to body, i Austin Phelps. j Andover Theological Seminary. bpSClliC is a great health restorer and promotes beauty by removing blotches, pimples, erup tions, and all such troubles. S. S. S. is not one of the old potash, mercury and sarsaparilla mixtures flooding the country. It contains no mineral at all but is mads to build up broken health, instead of tearing it down. We will send our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases; and book of advice iree to aN who will write for it. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga. DRINK MONTGOMERY REEK. AWARDED THE Address ju27 6mo GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSMTOU. MONTGOMERY BREWING CO. MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA. A II 1 J J - 1 T A L \ \J -MANUFACTURED-BYHTHE- Heber Newton Is Frtjutiieed. I fear that my judgment concerning the use of tobacco by clergymen is not a dis interested one. I am one of that by no means inconsiderable number of unfortu nate, if not guilty beings who c-nnot smoke themselves, audeaunot endure the smeke of others, and are always in a fix between their courtesy to smokers and their regard for their own wretched nerves. To me, thus prejudiced, perhaps, the case is a clear one. The sedentary habits of the parson and the frequent overweight upon his nervous energies make the seductions of this habit peculiarly subtle, and at the same time j render its evil effects physically peculiarly j serious. Moreover, to a prejudiced eye i like my own, it seems a very offensive | habit for a “man of the spirit.” lean I bU _ maoi , -carceiy fancy myself seeking spiritual | moutbs aad consolation from lips whence issue the 1 odious fumes of nicotine. The smoking La bit seems so clear a luxury, and withal a more or less poisonous one, that lire physical offensiveness of the smoker’s presence is re inforced by a certain moral offensiveness. I find smokers, as a rule, utterly inconsiderate of the discomforts that their luxury inflicts on others—a by ro means clerical frame of mind. Bui I confess to being prejudiced,and since some of the sweetest and best ministers I know ere habitual smoker, I can only respect mv own judgment. New York. R. Eebeb Newton. Dr. W. II, Alger’s Views. It is the duty ot a clergyman by precept and example to teach other men their duties. Therefore, no clergyman ought to smoke, because smoking is a vice. It is a vice because it is a master of labor, time, attention, and health, I believe that intoxicating liquor aud tobacco are the two chief enemies of the human race. It seems, therefore, as clear as the sun in heaven that no clergyman can be held guiltless Who does not set a personal ex ample in opposition to them both. Boston. William R. Alger. A Home Institution Seeking Home Patronag •. Every Ton Made From the Follow irg High Grade Materials J H. S. Sps:m, President. E. H. arrive. C&i'rl Phosphate Rock Dissolved with Sulphuric lAcid, Pure Raw Bone Meal, Dried Blood, Cotton Seed Meal, Potassium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Sulphate Potash, Cotton Seed Ashes, High Grade Steam Bone Tarkage, and Solium Nitrate. We also have manufactured a High Grade Acid Phcsj-hate, which we sell under 8 high guaran tee of from 13)4 ‘o 16 per cent available Phosphoric Acid, which we sell under the ntme of SOLU BLE BONE. Keep constantly on Sale COTTON SEED MEAL, RAW EONE MEAL and KaINIT: We pay 75-units per hundred pounds for Dry Bones deliv- Ciiattahoochee National Bank, ered at our works in any quanity. wmid-tm COLUMBUS, GA. Capital sed undivided profits 1206,000. Ac counts of Merchants, Manufacturers and Farm ers respectfully solicited. Collections made on ad points in the United States. Eat change tumtcht ivu<5 sold. t«’ MUSCOGEE REAL ESTATE COMPANY, O WILTS LE City Keal Estate and Suburban Property, With Dummy Line through the center of it Cheap and rapid transportab'en guaranteed. Free mail delivery, not only within the city limits, but over this entire property. Free Schools. Electric Lights. Broad streets and sidewalks. Ail lots regularly laid off. Lots 50 feet wide by 142)4 feet deep; Lots 75 feet wide by 142U feet deep; Lots 100 feet wide by 142)4 ‘eet deep; lots 100 feet wide by 300 Let deep. AH with 15 feet alleyways in the rear. Over $100,-'00 of improvements made on this property within the past 12 months, aid as mnch or more assured for the next year With the beli tower as a base, measure on be i.ew city map aud see how very near to the railroads, depots, postoffi -e, eburches aud business Center of the city this propel ty is. ORDINANCE j To Require Railroad Companies to Station Flag men at Crossings on Thirteenth Street. Section 1. Bs it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the city of Columbus, Tnat from and after the adoption of this ordinance it shall be the duty of any railroad company operating its engines, trains or cars ou or across Thirteenth street, in the city of Columbus, between Sixth - t . _ ... , , , _ , and Eighth avenues, to place or station at the sealed her and spoiled ad his heavenly ex- j p 0 | n t w here sai 1 track or tracks cross said street hortations. • a competent fligoiaa, who shall be required to A young man onoe said to me that “he keep said track and crossing clear, about or at hadobeyed his mother and given up the ; the time of the passage of any engine, train or habit, when he saw a reverend D. D. 1 car across or along said street. Said flagman smoking and joking in a public place, but ? buttoned at said crossing, aud must see PRICES LOW. TERMS EASY. this so disgusted him that he obeyed his mother better than ever.” Buffalo N. Y. A. CLEVELAND COXE way is kept clear, aad no person or ■ property is in any way injured or damaged by ! reason of the passage o." running ot such engine, j train or cars Nothing in this section shall be < construed as to authorize any railroad company l to obstruct said street for a greater length of Thomas Beecher Says “Don’t.” i time than five minutes, or a longer time than is Tobacco? Yes, it has done m3 damage; . absolutely necessary far the proper movement of it has tarought me beueflt 1 _ Slight T excess, j lt8 Aa y superintendent or other officer or agent of any railroad company who shall fail or refu :e This property has, daring the short time that it has been opened to the public, shown more substantia] growth and solid improvement than any of a like kind in Georgia. At present prices it is today the cheapest, most desirable of any property in or around Columbus. For information and particulars apply to J. F. FLOURNOY President Muscogee Real Estate Comrany. Dr. Cuyler Never Smoked . I never smoked a cigar or a pipe in my life, and never expect to do so. It is a matter to be left to every minister’s con science and common sense. I fear that some valuable lives have ended in smoke; and there are times when a cigar in a min ister’s month does not help the gospel that comes out of It—and is not a whole some “ensample to the flock.” Brooklyn. THEODORE L. CUTLER. The Baptist Church Speaks. It, is neither better nor worse in the sight of God for clergymen to smoke to bacco than it is for other men to do this. I have no experience on this subject, hav ing never tasted tobacco in any form. In early life I read many essays on the subject from the ablest pons, all snowing that, its effects upon the animal and imental na ture were injurious, and so I eschewed it forever. There is something so unclean, morbid and adverselto the daily life of the Lord Jesus in the practice of smoking, chewing or snuffing tobacco, that the very thought of associating the Son of God therewith would be scouted by the slaves of these practices as savoring of blasphemy. And yet, mauy of His ainoassadors quite ex cuse themselves in preaching His Gospel throats saturated with i this filthy product. As a rule, ministers I will paiiate their conduct in the use of to j bacco by some semi solemn or even comic I joke, which may suffice to hoodwink themselves to tne evils of the offensive practice, but such trash uever hoodwinks either the holy God or sensible men.Thisjis a mere mockery of their own shame. Adam Clark severely reproved two of his brethren for their smoking. “Yes, Doc tor,” they said, “we are burniug our idols.” “Brethren,” replied the indig nant commentator, “if you waut to please the devil better than by burning* your idols, offer him, I pray you, a roast pig stuffed with your tobacco, it will bathe most delicious sacrifice that you can de vote to him.” There are plenty of Chris tian men, and I fear clergymen, too, who spend more money every year in ruining their health by tobacco than they devote to the spread of the Gospel by Bible dis tribution and by missionary work. To bacco and rum are twin daughters of Satan, and it is of but little use to pray, “Thy kingdom come” while we tamper with either of these deadly poisons. New York. Thomas Armitagh. I think, of dam ige. If consulted, I should reply, “Don’t.” If asked, “Why not?” Should answer, “Why?” To use anything without a good reasou is at best an ex periment, and experiments aro risky. ] Abstain until nature calls for help. Then J take advice or experiment cautiously— j very cautiously. A good servant may' prove a most cruel master. Tobacco has j its uses, no doubt. He is a rare man who | learns to use if usefully. Elmira, N. Y. Thomas K. Beecher, j From tlie Kldmr Beecher. My deepest feeling is excited by the j gre it extent to which ministers of the! gospel are involved in the sin of using j tobacco. It not only injures them physically, but ] morally. Against unanswerable evidence of its ; wide-spread evils, physical, intellectual, j aud moral, they subject themselves to a j habit of ruinous self indulgence, and do j all .hat example can do to induce others to do the sams. Thau of what avail is it for them to preach to men to deny un godliness and every worldly lust? Y7nile ministers of the Gospel oppose one with vivid eloquence, they advocate the other by example, and are a rampart to defend it agaiust all assaults. Brooklyn. Edward Beecher. Bishop I’orters Suggestion. I do not think that clergymen are under any obligation to smoke. Whether they ought not to smoke is a question concern ing which I would suggest that you obtain the views of the Rev. Mr. Spur- to comply promptly with the requirements of this ordinance, s all he fined or imprisoned for each day’s default in the discretion of the Mayor. Adopted in Council December 4. 18-9. CLIFF. B. GRIMES, Mayor. M. M. MOORE, Clerk Council. deed lvr CENTRAL RAILROAD OF uEOKttlA. Schedule in Effect November 3, 1889. lhc C e! you. know/VP yclPySpep 5 ' ^jndzyestlon. Smoking Ministers Bad Examples. re than one important religious de- Dr. Burch »rd a Fifty-Year Smoker. 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I suffer no pain and feel no baa effects, aud am better in all respects than I have been for years. Yours truly, F. J. Smith. Columbus, Ga., September 8, 1889. 33. W. TD. Baker’s Wonderful Discovery, the great sys tem renovitor, is a choice family medicine for everybody. A wonderful blood purifier and great health-restoring tonic, ft will cure indi gestion, biliousness, headache, and all diseases arising from a disordered liver. It ai30 cures all kinds of kidney troubles. Manufactured by B. W. D. Co., r-henix City, Ala. Wholesale By Patterson & Thomas and Bran non & Carson. COLUMBUS, GA. wick and Jacksonville*via Union Springs. i Leave Columbus • Arrive Union Springs. ; Arrive Troj 1 Arrive Eufanla 1 Arrive Albany | Arrive Thomasville | Arrive Bruns .vick Arrive Jacksonville ! 7 45 a m; 3 45 a m ii”i0 a m 2 25 p m 5 25 pm! i 2 45 p o.! 4 56 p n j 6 30 p r, ; 10 25 p n! 1 20 a m j 7 30 a a i 825am Through sleeper from Union Springs to Way- cross and Jacksonville on night train. To Atlanta, via Opelika. Leave Columbus | 7 45 a m Arrive Opelika | 8 50&m Arrive Atlanta | , 12 45 p Hi 150pm 5 40 p m’ i 7 05 p rr, i j 8 00pm t 6 55 p m train from Columbus by abov- sched ule ca ries a sle- per to Birmirghani, connecting in union depot with Pullman Buffet sleeper to Memphis arid Kansu? City without change. 7 i5 p ei 9 45 p m I € a m To Smithvilie, Albany. Thomasvil) . Brunswick and Jacksonville via Aruerieus. 1 'Leave Columbus 7 4'iam, Aiive Americas 16 4 % oo Arr've Albany j 2 25 p m Arrive Thomasville 5 20aoi Arrive Wsycross I ! 5 d a m Arrive Brim-.wick i ; 7 40&m Arrive Jacksonville 8 20 a ra Through sleeper via the above route from Atnericus to Wavcross and Jacksonville 7 65 p 12 45 p in train makes same time to Atlanta as 7 45 a in train via above named route. Columbus to Greenville. Sunday Daily. I only. Leave CoInmbu3 ’ 2 45 p m 7 00 a m, Arrive Greenville i 8 15 p m 10 00 a m To Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans, vi* Union Springs. To Atlanta via Griffin. — Lfeive Columbus j *1 05 p ;n |+5 10 pm . 8 16 p ra iO 40 p CQ Arrive Atlanta 1 5 45 p m Through coach on 1 0*5 p m train schedule from Columbus to Atlanta. of above Greenville to Columbus. ■ Daily. Sundays • only. ‘Leave Greenville Arrive Colnrabus . 4 00 p m ; 7 1-5 pm Arrivals of Trains at Columbus. Leave Oolmnbns i 2 45pmj 7 45 am Arrive Union Springs i 4 56 p m Arrive Montgomery I 6 30 p m 111 35 a tr Arrive Mobile I 210am; Arrive New Orleans 6 15 p m: 6 45 p m' 6 25 p m 10 20 a m _ _ _. _ _ 7 00pm; - 709aui' From Greenville 10 .5 a m;7 15pm B’day only From Macon I 7 25am 9 45 a m From Americas ' 7 35 a m! Frim B’bam&Op’ka 6 25 a m i Frim Montg’y&Tr’y 12 05pm Sleeping Cars cm night train between Savannah and Macon. ’Daily. tDaily ezeept Sunday. For further information relative to tickets, best routes, etc., apply to J. H. Leitner, Ticket Agent. J. C. Haile. Agent, Columbus, Ga. J. W. Haylow, Supt. S. and W. Division, Columbne, Ga, W. W. Starr, Supt. Soithwestem Division, Macon Ga. E. T. Charlton, G. P. A., Savannah, Ga,