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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - ?4 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in Advance.^! All advertisements emanating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Bates. One Square first insertion, - - ~--}l.oo Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .5 Jegr'l'EN Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserte will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places wil be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. FALL MILLINERY ! A splendid assortment of JXT 153 -W IV > Jj Ij 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. octlttf 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 LATEST STYLES OF HATS, T IMMI GS, RIBBONS, LINGERIE HMSIDKERCHIEFS, AND FANCY GOODS, A NEW STOCK OF SPIT ZEPHYR! In all Colors, just Received. 9 4-TZI kirtg . Public Square, - Americus, Ga. novßtf 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 SEXTUPLE SPRING BED. To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first requirement of physical organization. S. FLEISGHMAN’3 SEXTUPLE BED SPRING. [Patented Aug. 22, 1882.[ Is the first and foremost to accomplish this end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates the second, and perfects the last of these grand purposes. It is a “thing of beauty and a foy forever.’’ Last witli life, perfect in its adaptation for coml ort, being disconnect ed in the center prevents sagging. Made by S. M- LESTER, who will put them on, and is from long experience able to guarantee satisfaction. AGENTS WANTED to sell these Springs. Territory and Spring outfit turnished and large commissions paid. S. FLEISCHMAN, Patentee and Manufacturer, octll-Om Cotton Ave., Americus. Ga. DON’T HUY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING GLOYER4 PERRY’S LARGE STOCK! -AS THEY— WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! On any article in their line, but propose to UNDERSELL! 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 FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT. BILLIARDS 5c per game two games for 25 cts—cash. POOL 2 % CENTS PER CUE—ALL CASH. 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. nov4ct . INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE'AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, -NOVEMBER 25, 1882. DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and I Eradicates l™,.;™ 1 TJATAT3TA Station, Ulcerated J Sore Throat, Small BBHBSBBaBBBSI Fox, Measles, and all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on tha Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread where the Fluid was used. 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I would call the attention of farmers and all others wishing a good meal, to the fact that lam still running my RESTAURANT, Under the Barlow House, where I will ser re you up a warm meal at any hour. Oyste s, Fish and Game served in their season. I also keep a full line of CONFECTIONS ! Fruits, Cigars and Tobacco! 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 FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 20. 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.” Personal To Men Only! ! Tlie Voltaic Belt Cos., Marshall, Mich, will send Dr. Dye’s Celebratbd Electro- Voltaic Bei.ts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete destoration of health and manly vigor. Ad dress asnbove. N. B.—No risk is incurred, as tliirt y davs’ trial is allowed. 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