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A splendid assortment of
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MILLINERY
AT THE STORE OF
Mrs. M. E. RAINES.
The Ladies and all desiring to purchase
something
New and Fashionable !
in Millinery, will find it to their advantage
to examine her stock at an early date.
STORE AT THS OLD STAND,
9 Jaclcson Street, west of the Public
Square, Americus, Ga.
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Mrs. M. T. ELAM
Announces to the public that her stock
of Fall
MILLINERY and 10TI0NE
HAVE ABHIVED,
The assortment is complete, selected by
herself in the city of New York. As to
Style and Quality !
of goods, the taste of the most fastidious
can be suited. As to prices, she can
almost say that even chronic
grumblers will be satisfied.
She regrets that on account of the dust
being so awfully bad, she has to forego the
usual opening. Still, her stock is here in
more than usual richness and variety.
Customers will be waited on by her corps of
assistants,
Mrs. Lewis. Mrs. Tommey,
Miss Preston Miss *ead.
Cash buyers and prompt paying short
itme customers are Invited to call, examine,
price and buy. octlStf
Mew liilEiuery
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ELAM S LIVE! RSTABLES
FOE SALE.
t Owing to my age and feeble health I offer
[for sale my Livery Stables, situated on
[Lamar Street, In the city of Americus, east
[of the Public Square. The long continuance
Pof this property in this line of business, and
F the quantity of room, sufficient for all the
[ demands of drovers coming to this market
f —having stalls and open iots, it is very de
sirable, and I now offer to sell it for the
reasons above stated. 1 wil) sell to a cash
purchaser on very reasonable terms, and on
very satisfactory figures to those who would
like time. Cali early or you’ll miss a bargain,
oct-tf H. ELAM,
THE CELEBRATED
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To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first
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S. FLEISGHMAN’3
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[Patented Aug. 22, 1882.[
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end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates
the second, and perfects the last of these
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AGENTS WANTED
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octll-Om Cotton Ave., Americus. Ga.
DON’T HUY
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-AS THEY—
WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD!
On any article in their line, but
propose to
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WILL PAY HIGHEST TRICE FOE
Georgia Seed Slge !
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
Will find that they can buy ot us
Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot
and Matches! !
For less money than they can order.
GLOVER & PERRY,
sspfitf Americus, Ga.
OLD BUG
COMES TO TIIE FRONT THIS SEASON
WITH
DRINKS,
FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR
TEN GENTS.
OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND
AT ALL TIMES. •
SVSEALS
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ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT.
BILLIARDS
5c per game two games for 25 cts—cash.
POOL
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Come one, come all, and see if you don’tget
the best—nothing charged at these rates.
Best Cigars and Tobacco Always
on Hand !
BOTTLED LIQUORS
ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM.
T. P. CHAPMAN.
AGENT FOR
KING’S ROYAL POWDER COMPANY,
Also, PARKER’S GUN AND BREEOII
LOADING FIXTURES.
Americus, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. G 2m
TAYLOR’S
SMILING ROOM
IS HEADQUARTERS FOR
SOMETHING GOOD
TO
EAT AND DRINK!
The Best Cook in the city. Meals
Served at Short Notice !
Come One, Come All.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, -NOVEMBER 25, 1882.
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Americus, Ga., Sept, 20,1882, tf
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeVYITT TALMAGE
COEN HUSKING TIME.
Asa shock of corn cometh in in his season.
—Job v., 26.
Going at the rate of forty miles the
hour last Wednesday, I caught this
sermon. If yoa have recently been in
fields of Pennsylvania, or New Jersey,
or New York, or New England, or in
any of the country discrete, you know
that the corn is all cut. The sharp
knife struck through the stalks and
loft them all along the fields until a
man came with a bundle of straw and
twisted a few of these wisps into a band,
and then gathering up as much of the
corn as he could compass with his arms,
lie bound it with this withe of straw
and then stood it in the field in what is
called a shock. It is estimated that
there are now at least two billion bush
els of corn either standing in tho shock
or have been already husked. In the
latter part of this month or next month
the farmers will gather one day at one
farm and then another day on another
farm, and they will put on their rough
husking apron, and they will take the
husking peg, which is a piece of iron
with a leathern loop fastened to the
hand, and with it unsheath the corn
from the husk and toss it into tho golden
heap. Then the wagons will come
along and take it to the corn crib. How
vividly to all those of us who were born
in the country comes the remembrance
of husking time. We waited for it as
for the gala day of the year. It was
called a frolic. The trees having for
the most part shed their foliage, the
farmers waded through the fallen leaves
and came through tho keen, morning
air to the gleeful company. The frosts
which had silvered everything during
the night began to melt off of the top
of the corn shocks. While tlie farmers
were waiting for others, they stood
blowing their breath through their fin
gers or thrashing their arms around
their body to keep up warmth of circu
lation. Roaring mirth greeted the late
farmer a* he crawled over the fence.
Jokes and repartee and rustic saluta*
tion abounded. All ready, now! The
men take hold of the shock of corn and
hurl it prostrate, while the moles and
mice which have secreted themselves
there for warmth attempt to escape.
The withe of straw is unwound from
the corn shock, and tho stalks, heavy
with the wealth of grain, arc rolled in
to two bundles, between which the
busker sits down. The husking peg is
thrust in until it strikes the corn, and
the fingers rip off the sheathing of the
ear, and there is a crack as tho root of
the corn is snapped off from the husk,
and the grain disimprisoned, is hurled
up into tho sunlight. The air is so
tonic, the work is so exhilarating, the
company is so blithe that some laugh,
and some shout, and some sing, and
some banter, and some tease a neighbor
for a romantic ride along tho edge of
the woods in eventide in a carriage that
holds but two, and some prophesy as
to the number of bushels to the field,
and others go into competition as t.o
which shall rifle the most corn shocks
before sundown. After a while the
dinner horn sounds from the farm house
and the table is surrounded by a group
of jolly and hungry men. From all
the pantries and cellars and perches of
fowl on the place the richest danties
come, and there is carnival and neigh
borhood reunion, and a scene which
fills onr memory, part with smiles, hut
more with tears, as we lemember that
the farm belongs now to other owners,
and other hands gather in the fields,
and many of those who mingled in
that merry husking scene have them
selves been reaped “like as a shock of
corn cometh in in his season.”
There is a difference of opinion as to
whether the Orientals knew anything
about the corn as it stands in our fields;
but recent discoverers have found out
that the ancient Hebrews knew ail
about Indian maize, for there have
been grains of the corn picked up out
of ancient crypts and exhumed from
hiding places where they were put down
many centuries ago, and they have been
planted in our time and have come up
just such Indian maize as we raise in
New York and Ohio; so 1 am right
when I say that my text may refer to
a shock of corn just as you and I bound
it, just as you anil threw it, just as you
and I husked it. There may come some
practical and useful and comforting
lessons to all our souls, while we think
of coming in at last-“like a shook of
corn coming in in his season.” It is
high time that the King ot Terrors
were thrown out of the Christian voca
bulary. A vast multitude of people
talk of death as though it were tho
disaster of disasters instead of being to
a good man tho blessing of blessings.
It is moving out of a cold vestibule
into a warm temple. It is migrating
into groves of redolence and perpetual
fruitage. It is a change from bleak
March to roseate June. It is a change
of manacles for garlands. It is the
transmiting of the iron handcuffs of
earthly incarceration into the diamond
wristlets of a bridal party, or to use the
suggestion of my text, it is only husk
ing time. It is the tearing off of the
rough sheath of the body that the bright
and the beautiful soul may go free.
Coming in “like a shock of corn cometh
in in his season.” Christ broke up a
funeral procession at the gate of Nain
by making a resurrection day for a
young man and his mother. And 1
would that I could break up your sad
ness and halt tho long funeral process
ion of the world’s grief by some elieer
ing and cheerful view of the last trans
ition. We all know that husking time
was a time of frost. Frost on the
fence. Frost on the stubble. Frost on
the ground. Frost on the bare bran
ches of the trees. Frost in the air.
Frost on the haads of the buskers.
You remember we used to hide between
the corn stacks so as to keep off the
wind, but still you remember how shiv
ering was the body and how painful
was the cheek and how benumed were
the hands. But after awhile the sun
was high up and all the frost went out
of tho air, and hilarities awakened the
echoes, and joy from one corn shock
went up, “Ha! ha!” and was ans
wered by joy from another corn shock,
“Ua! ha!” t'o we all realize that the
death of our friends is the nipping of
many expectations, the freezing, the
chilling, the frosting of many of our
hopes. It is far from being a south
wind. It comes out of the frigid north,
and when they go away we stand be
numed in body, and benumed in mind,
and benumed in soul. We stand among
our dead neighbors, our dead families,
and we say, ‘Will vve ever get over it?’
Yes we will get over it amid the shout
ings of heavenly reunion, and we will
look back to all these distresses of be
reavement only as the temporary dis
tresses of husking time. “Weeding
may endure for a night, but joy cometh
in the morning.” “Light, and but for
a moment,” said the apostle, as he
clapped his hands; “light and but for
a moment.” The chill of the frost fol
lowed by the gladness that cometh in
“like a shock of corn cometh in in his
season.” Ol course the husking time
made rough work with the ear of corn.
The husking peg had to be thrust in,
and the hard thumb of the busker had
to come down on the swathing of the
ear, and then there was a pull and there
was a ruthless tearing, and then a com
plete snapping, off before the corn was
free, and if the husk could have spoken
it would have said: “Why do you lac
erate me? Why do you tear me? Why
do you wound me?” Ah! my friends,
that is the way God has arranged that
the ear and the husk shall part. And
that is the way he has arranged that
body and soul shall separate. You can
afford to have your physical distresses
when you know that they are only for
warding the soul’s liberation. Every
rheumatic pain is only a plunger of the
husking peg. Every neuralgic tinge
is only a twist by tho busker. There
is gold in you that must come out.
Some way the shackle must be broken.
Some way the ship must be launched
lor the heavenly voyage. You must
let the husbandman husk off the mor
tality from the immortality. There
ought to be great consolation in this
for all who have chronic ailments, since
the Lord is gradually and more mildly
taking away from you that which hin
ders your soul’s liberation, doing grad
ually for you what for many of us in
robust health perhaps lie will do in
one fell blow at the last. At the close
of every illness, at the close of every
paroxysm, you ought to say, “Thank
God, that is all past now; thank God,
I will never have to suffer that again;
thank God, I am so much nearer the
hour of liberation.” Y r ou will never
suffer the same pain twice. You may
have anew pain in an old place, but
never the same pain. The pain does
its work and then it dies. Just so
many plunges with the crowbar to free
the quarry stone for the binding. Just
so many strokes of chisel to complete
the statue. Just so many pangs to
separate the soul from the body. Yon
who have chronic ailments and disor
ders are only paying in installments
that which some of ns will have to pay
in one payment when we pay the debt
of nature. Thank God, therefore, you
who have chronic disorders, that you
have so much less suffering at the last.
Thank God that you will have so much
less to feel in the way of pain at the
hand of the heavenly husbandma i
when the shock of corn cometh in in
His season. Perhaps, now, this may
bo an answer to a question which I
asked last Sabbath morning, but did
not answer Why is it that so many
really good people have so dreadfully
to suffer? You often find a good man
with enough pains, and aches and dis
tresses, you would think, to discipline
a whole colony, while you will find a
man who is perfectly useless going
about with easy digestion and steady
nerves and shining health, and his exit
from the world is comparatively pain
less. llow do you explain that? Well,
I noticed in the husking time that the
husking peg was thrust into the corn
and then there must be a stout pull be
fore the swathing was taken off of the
ear and the full, round, healthy luxur
iant corn was developed; while on the
other hand there was corn that hardly
seemed worth husking. We threw
that into a place all by itself and we
called it “nubbins.” Some of it was
mildewed, and some of it was great
promise and no fulfillment. All cobs
and no corn. Nubbins! After the
good coin bad been driven up to the
barn we camo around with the corn bas
ket and we picked up these nubbins.
They were worth saving, but not worth
much. So all around us there are peo
ple who amount to nothing. They de
velop into no kind of usefulness. They
are nibbled on one side by tho world,
and nibbled on tho other side by the
devil, and mildewed all over. Great
promise and no fulfillment. All cobs
and no corn. Nubbins! They are
worth saving. I suppose many of them
will get to heaven, but they are not
worthy to be mentioned in the same
day with those who went through great
tribulation into the kingdom of onr
God. Who would not rather have the
pains of this life, the misfortunes of
this life—who would not rather be torn,
and wounded, and lacerated, and
wrenched, and husked; and at last go
in amid the very best grain of the gran
ary, than to be pronounced not worth
husking at all? Nubbins! In other
words, I want to say to you people who
have distress of body-, aud distress in
business, and distress of all sorts, the
Lord has not any grudge against you.
It is not derogatory.it is complimentary.
“Whom the Lord loveth, He chas
teneth,” and it is proof positive that
there is something valuable in you, or
the Lord would not have husked you.
You remember also that in the time
of husking it was a neighboring reun
ion. By the great fireplace in the win
ter, the fires rearing around the glorifi
ed back log on an old fashioned hearth,
ol which the modern stoves and regis
ters are only the degenerate descendants,
tho farmers used to gather and spend
the evening, and there would be much
sociality, but it was not anything like
the joy of the husking time, for then all
the tanners came, and they came in the
very best humor, and they came from
beyond the meadow, and they came
from bey r ond the brook, and they came
from regions two and three miles
around. Good spirits reigned supreme,
and there were great handshakings,
and there was carnival, and there was
the recital of the brightest experiences
in all their lives, and there was a neigh
borhood reunion, the memory' of which
makes all the nerves of my body trem
ble with emotion, as the strings of a
harp when the fingers of a player have
swept the chords. The husking tune
was the tun3 of neighborhood reunion,
and so heaven will be just that. There
they come tip! They slept in the old
village churchyard, There they come
up! They reclined amid the fountains
and the sculpture and the parterre of a
city cemetqry. There they come up!
They, went down when the ship found
ered off Cape Hatteras. They come
up from all sides—from Potter’s Field
and out of the solid masonry of West
minster Abbey'. They come up! They
come up! all till hindrances to their
better nature husked off. All their
physical ailments husked off. All their
hindrances to usefulness lmsked off.
The grain, tho golden grain, the God
fashioned grain visible and conspicu
ous. Some of them on earth were such
disagreeable Christians y'ou could hard
ly stand it in their presence. Now in
heaven they are so radiant you hardly
know them. The fact is, all their im
perfections have been husked off". They
did not mean on earth to be disagree
able. They meant well enough, but
they told you how sick you looked, and
they told you how many hard things
they had heard about you, and they
told you ho.v often they had to stand
up for you in some battles until you
wished almost that they had been slain
in some of the battles. Good, pious,
consecrated, well-meaning disagree
ables. Now, in heaven, all their offen
siveness has been husked off. Each
one is as happy as he can be. Every
one he meets as happy as he can be.
Heaven our great neighborhood reunion.
All kings and queens, all songsters, all
millionaires, all banquetters. God, the
Father, with His children around Him.
No “goodly” in all the air. No grave
cut in all the hills. River of crystal
rolling over bed of pearl, under arch of
chrysofrassus, into seats of glass min
gled with fire. Stand at the gate of
the granary and see the grain come in;
out of the frosts into the sunshine, out
of tlie darkness into the light, out of
the tearing and the ripping and the
twisting and the wrenching and the
lacerating and the husking time of
earth, into the wide open door of the
King’s granary, “like as a shock of
corn cometh in His season.” Yes,
heaven is a great sociable with joy like
the joy of the husking time; no one there
feeling so big as to decline to speak to
someone that is not so large; archang
led willing to liltfen to smallest cherub;
no bolting of thiNls'wjff castle at our
heavenly mansion to keep out the citi
zens of a smaller mansion; no clique
in one corner whispering about a clique
in another corner; David taking none
of the airs of a giant killer; Joshua
making no one halt until he passes, be
cause lie made the sun and moon halt.
Paul making no assumptions over the
most ordinary preacher of righteous
ness. Naaman, captain of the Syrian
uost, more honored than the captive
maid who told him where he could get
a good doctor. 0! my soul, what a
country. The humblest man a king.
'File honest woman a queen. The
meanest house a palace. The shortest
lifetime eternally. And what is more
strange about it all is, we may all get
there. “Not I,” says someone stand
ing back under the galleries. Yes, you.
“Not I,” says someone who has not
been in church in fifteen years before.
Yes, you. “Not I,” says someone
who has been for fifty years filling up
his life with all kinds of wickedness.
Yes, you. There are monoplies on
earth, monopolistic railroads, and mon
opolistic telegraph companies, and
monopolistic grain dealers, but no mon
opoly in religion, All who wants to
be saved may be saved “without money
and without price.” Salvation to the
Lord Jesus Christ for all the people.
Of course, use common sense in this
matter. You cannot expect to get to
Charleston by taking ship for Portland,
and you cannot get to heaven by going
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in opposite direction. Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved, Through that one gate of par
don and peace all the race may go.
“But,” says someone, “do you real
ly think I would be at home in that
supernal society, if I should reach it?”
I think you would. I know yon
would. I remember that in the husk
ing there was great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn shock a farmer would be at work
who owned two hundred acres of ground.
The man whom he was talking with
at the next corn shock owned but thir
ty aeres of ground and perhaps all that
covered by a mortgage. That evening,
at the close of the husking day, one
man drove home a roan span so frisky,
so full of life they got their feet over
the traces. The other man walked
home. Great difference in education,
great difference in worldy means; but I
noticed at the husking time thev all
seemed to enjoy each other’s society.
They did not ask any man how much
property he owned, or what his educa
tion had been. They all seemed happy
together in those good times. And so
it will be in heaven. Our Father will
gather His children around Him, and
the neighbors will come in, and the past
will be rehearsed. And someone will
tell of a victory and we will all celebrate
it. And someone will tell of a great
struggle and we will all praise the grace
that fetched him out of it. And some
one will say: “Here is my old father
that I put away with heartbreak, just
look at bim! lie is as young as any of
us.” And someone will say. “Here
is my darling child that I buried in
Greenwood, and all the after years of
my life were shadowed with desolation
—just look at her! she doesn’t seem as
if she had been sick a minute.” Great
sociality. Great neighborhood kind-,
ness. Go in and dine. What though
John Milton sit down on one side and
John Howard sit down on the other
side? Noembarrassment. What though
Charlotte Elizabeth sit down on one
side and Hannah More sit down on the
other side? No embarrassment. A
monarch yourself, why be embarrassed
among monarchs? A songster yourself,
why be embarrassed amid glorified
songsters? Go in and dine. All the
shocks of corn coming in in their sea
son. 0 yes, in their season. Not one
of you having died too soon, or having
died too late, or havingdiedat hap-haz
ard. Planted at just the right time.
Ploughed at just the right time. Cat
down at just the right time. Hnsked
at just the right time. Garnered at
just the right time. Coming in in your
season. O, I wish that the two billion
bushels of corn now in the fields ron
the way to the seaboard might be a
type of the grand yield of honor and
glory and immortality when all the
shocks come in. Ido not know how
yon are constituted, but 1 am so con
stituted that there is nothing that so
awakens reminiscences in me as the
oilers of a cornfield when I cross it at
this time of year after the corn has been
cut and it stands in shocks. And so
I have thought it might be practically
useful tor us to-day to cross the corn
field, and I have thought perhaps there
might be some reminiscence roused in
our soul that might be salutary and
might be saving. In Sweeden a prima
donna, while her house in the city was
being repaired, took a house in the
country for temporary residence, and
she brought out her great array of jew
els to show a friend who wished to see
them. One night after displaying these
jewels, and leaving them on the table,
and all her friends had gone, and the
servants had gone—one summer night
she sat thinking and looking into a
mirror in front of her chair, when she
saw in that mirror the face of a robber
looking in at the window behind her,
and gazing at those jewels. She was
in a great fright, but sat still, and,
hardly knowing why she did so, she
began to sing an old nursery song, her
fears making the pathos of the song
more telling. Suddenly she noticed,
while looking at the mirror, that the
robber’s face had gone from the win
dow, and it did not come back.
A few days after the prima donna
received a letter from the robber, say
ing: “I heard that the jewels were to
be out that night and i came to take
them at whatever hazard, but when I
heard you sing that nursery song with
which my mother so often sang me to
sleep I could not stand it, and I fled,
and I have resolved upon anew and an
honest life” Oh! my friends, there
are jewels in peril richer than those
which lay upon that table that night.
They are the jewels of the immortal
soul. Would to God that some song
rolling up out of the deserted nursery
of your childhood, or some song rolling
np out of the cornfield, the song ot the
buskers twenty or forty years ago,
might turn all our feet out of the paths
of sin into the paths of righteousness.
Would God that those memories waft
ed in an odor or song might start ns
this moment with swift feet toward
that blessed place where so many of our
loved ones have already preceded us,
“coming as a shock of corn cometh in
in his season.”
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