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THE MONROE llfc ADVERTISER. VOL XXXIII ATTENTION FARMERS! We m.ke i-pccinlty of your trade, and are anxioua to increase our trade in vonr 7 ' C^ rd ‘ al 'y ,nv * Uj J ou 10 c *“ u *nd arrange to do your future business wttn ua. We keep in stock .BAGGING AND TIES,BACON, LARD, CORN OATS,HAY,BRAN.FLOUR MEAU TOBACCO. CIGARS, SYRUP, COFFEE, SUGAR, ETC. We sell on time to farmers cheaper than any house in Middle Georgia and brides our regular stock, we sell on time 6 Males, Wapas, Gotlon Planers, Dry Goods, Bools, SDoes and in fact anything needed. We offer these eitra induceinents so as to make it con rcnieru or you in trading. We have every facility for these outside items, nnd will ” tl ** ctieap as any one. We have just received anew lot of Georgia Raised Rye, Georgia Raised Barley, Texas Rust Proof Oats. FERTILIZERST FERTILIZERS! We are agents in Middle Georgia for GEORGIA CHEMICAL YV ORKS, of Augusta, Ga., JOHN M ERRY.M A N <& CO., of Baltimore, Md. 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It.—Our Blinds are wired with Patent Clincher Machines, and will not break loose, thus preventing the unsightly appearance that most others do. SMITH & MALLARY, MACON, GEORGIA. STATE MANAGERS OF THE Watertown Steam Engine Cos. AGENTS FOR DEALERS IN BROWN’S COTTON GIN B, LUSIMUB COTTON GINS, ENGINES AND BOILERS, FINDLAY COTTON GINS, SAW MILLS. SCIENTIFIC MILLS, BELTING, LUBRICATING OILS, NORDYKE A MARMON’B CELE- j IRON PIPE AND FITTINGS, BRATED GRIST MILLS. | BRASS FITTINGS. WE! G-U.A.E&AuISr'X’IELE TITTI WATERTOWN STEAM ENGINES /To bo the Safest, Strongest, Most Reliable and Efficient Engines in the Market. Jpy Seud for Circulars. HUNGER’S MUSIC HOUSE Masonic Tomple,96 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga. largest v\ areroom and"Most Complete and Elegant Stock of Pianos and Organs! No Low Grade or Shoddy Instruments. Planum lan*e scale, full 7$ octaves, genuine ivory keys, all modern improvements, warranted. All Organs in Solid Walnut Cases Elegant Designs, >uie Finish, Strictly I irst-elas ai.d Fully Warranted. Special Catalogue of Sheet Afusie will he Sen; Free to any address. If you want anything in the Music Line, ser.d in yoor orders ani they will be promptly tilled. All Sheet Music, Music Books & Small Instruments Pianos and Organs sold on long time with monthly, quarterlv, semi-annual or yearly payments, without interest. The scale of uniform prices adopted hv this house are th* lowest ever offered on superb, first class instruments that are cheap enough for every body and good enough for anybody. Address all Communications to M. L. MUNGER, _ 96 Mulberry Street, MACON, GA. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! We advise all of those wanting Furniture of anv kind to go to JOHN NEAL & CO., Nos. 7 and 9 South Broad Street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. As they keep a Full Line, which they are selling at LOW ER PRICES than can be elsewhere Sets from J 1 i.OO up. vie. Don i forget our address. FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31. 1888 DR. JEKYL--MR. HYDE. S.evecson's Strange Story the Subject of a Sermon. i DR. STRICKLAND TALKS ABOUT THE FAMOUS NOVEL. Til I'. GREAT TRI'TIIS WHICH I.Y -iM Ki.ir. riii: con rosrnos. Tlte FirKt Hnptitl Clturrli Filled Willt uu tntcrralcd Audience.- lieligiou ana Imagination. Nashville American. Bcv. Dr. C. 11. Strickland repeated his lecture on “Dr. Jckly and Mr. Hyde” at the First Baptist church last night to a large and appreciative audience. The plot of Stevenson’s celebrated story was graphically re viewed and many valuable lessons deducted therefrom. Portions of his address are given, and it is re gretted that lack of spaee prevents its reproduction in full. The speaker read Romans vii., 21, “When l would do good evil is pres ent with me,” as suggestive of the thought and substance of the topic to bo discussed. “I am persuaded that the author of the little book ‘Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde’ was inspired possibly in part by his experience, by his observation and surely in part by the chapter, a portion of which I have read to you. This plainly shows the contention and struggle that is going on in the minds of men good and true —a struggle between an impulse to do right; a struggle between a man’s moral sense and his lower nature. Paul here touches upon the ex peri cnee of all thinking men and all who know anything at all of their own mental processes. I find a law in my members warrying against the law of my mind ; a disposition on the part of my body to rebel against the region of my higher nature. One is drawing a man in that direction and another in this. This is true though the Bible had never been written. Here is a great fundamental fact that scarcely needs the demonstration of argument; and the apostle touches upon huTnan ex perience, his own possibly, and experience of which no thinking man can bo ignorant. You and I just, coyeious of an impulse to do t's&kks. 4 ifeu c?i --... some fbrm ahl w desire or’inspfcvt.iun uPCC causo it is right. You and 1 have made up our minds fully and we have resolved to avoid a certain form of sin, but some how or other we permit the, commission of that sin for the fiS&th time. We know the right arid choose the right, and yet the wrong pursue. You have done it a thousand times; so have I ; wept over it ; been sorry tor it; prayed God to forgive us, and sometimes with the bans of resolution around us we have tried to lash ourselves to ’<mc good purpose or some good life, as the old sailor is said to have lashed himself to the mast of the vessel that he would not be enabled to throw himself in ruin upon the isles of the syrens. Wo had desired to do right, 3'et appetite came along and crushed pitilessly’- that desire and intention, and 10, we did very wrong. Good and evil commending in the same man, now one is in the ascendancy and now the other. Now a man is good, and now he is bad ; and some time in life the last and decisive conflict will be fought and then good will prevail finally and forever, and the man will grow better and better in closer affinity and sympatly with God, or he will grow worse and worse until lie is a hopeless alien from God and from all that is God like. 1 affirm that these truths which I have merely* glanced at are great and fundamental truths that are recoginized by all religionists. Be yond a given line—where that is located t cannot sa3* —a man will go on in the direction in which he is going as long as we have knowledge of him, and reason says that he will go on in that direction for all time and enternity. liis character is unalterably fixed. If he shall undergo any change in the great beyond, it is contrary to any law that has been revealed to us, physical, mental or moral. This little story of Dr. Jck3'l and Mr. Hyde is a character study re markable for its keen insight into human nature, for its simplicity and truthfulness. 1 mean the deep, un derlying truths which show how habit binds a man in chains, and how be must walk in these fetters to the end, which shows how a man may be coneious of his danger and captivity and ruin and be tilled with remorse because of the same, and \'et he is utterl)' powerless to throw off the manacles that bind him. The powerful hand of evil nestling in the human heart is portrayed graph ically by this book. It shows man in secret -dallyance with his destroy er. A man playing with a beautiful serpent, wraps it around his wrists and tO3'S with it about his neck, and even Kisses it, until, finally, this beautiful serpent —this secret sin— stings him to the death. Yon re member something of a fable of death in the old legend. It was said that there was a fountain which possessed a two-fold property. To look upon it and see its beautiful ripple was to have the thirst intense 13' excited. One single draught and another produced laughter loud and long: hut the laughter diy h* in wailing of mortal Rg<:nv. tSo we find it portrayed in this little book. 1 commend it to you.” JL. The speaker graphically in sublime thought aB<J beautiful language, the interesting events in the life of Dr. Jekyl and tbedeplora ble ending of Mr. Hyde. Af, its con clusion he continued-: “It is a most rmplontMe story as written but there are groa-rttrtel *eo mentuous truths underneath the figures used by the author that com mend themselves to all men and women —evil indulged in secretly and appetite growing upon that which it feeds upon until it is too strong for restraint; occasional and temporary reformation like the tides that come and go at the bid ding of sins of dissipation jj, evil and good contending within the arena of a man’s own mind and sc‘wr the possession of that which * Aieeless; hell mov’ng beneath tc oyk the ruin of a man, and heavdn -looping to give him life; the fatal-Waterloo at last that cuds his Lamenting punishment. Notice the good and the cyil con tending for mastery in man. .One or the other must finally Jbi,supreme with you and with me. \V .veannot serve God and Mammon; vou can not run with the hare and hold with the hounds; you cannot be this and that at tho same time. Tins is self evident, but also we too' Afyen un conscious!}’ try to be good it ml are willing to bo bad at the same time, good one day in the week and bad five or six; and when conscience reproaches us how softly we walk and how careful we are, and how morally perpendicular wbiimain for quite awhile, until cooseie'fcc ceases to upbraid us! Man is obliged to be at peace with himself. Evil and good contending for the miistery in the man ; right and wrong\wrestling like two athletes; obedience on one hand and disobedience on the other, and here is will standing between and will must choose one or the other. Evil says ‘choose me’ so soft ly and sweetly and winsomely. There is the clear sweet voice of right, of good, of obedience, of truth clad in white garments, earnestly inviting us in. You ami I must choose between 4 tjfe tw' e can not walk in both dir W H W gr. ~ ■ ■ want Vi- Without owing it \vE are nearear the end of the line •vhcre the bad is. Ido not pretend to know the origin of moral evil in this world, but that it exists there can he no manner of doubt. It exists even in the poorest human heart I believe, and the result of sin, when yielded to, is not only death to re demption, death to honor, death to to hope, but you and 1 understand the Bible to teacli that it is that death which knows no resurrection —death eternal. In your nature and mine are inclinations and pro pensities and appetites that war against the law of the mind, against conscience and the law of right; and we can also say that ‘when we would do good, evil is with us,’ and we do evil when we do not mean to and do not desire to. I was looking at evil and the first thing I knew evil had me by the hand. Hundreds of men and women are in this situation. You are undecided as to which way to go; your inclination says it will be nice to go in one direction, but duty says ‘no.’ Your will must de cide. You decide the question your self. A struggle might have secured a different result, but }'OU made it not. Men are born with their faces in the wrong direction. To do wrong is natural and eas}*; to do right re quires some effort and men have to be taught to do right. When a man has a so-called “change of heart” there has been a change in his affections, and hopes, and fears, and ends, and aims, and purposes. If God had not shown us that such was desirable we would never have chosen good. God must act upon our reason in some way. We are better than the savage, because we have been brought under the influence of God’s word, and been instructed in the Christian civilization, and our mind, reason and soul have been acted upon by revelation from God. Secret sin in dulged in, according to the law of God and even according to the law of nature, must at last destroy the sinner. :jc :}: jjc We can be good men and true men and keep getting better and better while we live. Asa ph}’sician or a lawyer may ascend the scale and be come more and more useful and honored, so in morals we may grow better and nobler and stronger. :jc % 3c :)c Not only is it true that good or evil must obtain the mastery, but it is true that the downward course of those who are walking in the path way of evil is gradual. Other important facts were dis cussed and valuable lessons arriv ed at. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores. Tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. Tt is guaranted to give per feet satisfaction, or mony refunded. Price 15 cents per box. For sale by Ponder & Hill. WHISKY TAX NOT A WAR TAX. Judge Stewart on the Question of the Day. Judge Stewart thus states his | views on the tariff and internal i revenue: “The business interests of | the country demand that the sur plus in the treasury shall be reduced, i nnd this can be done by a reduction ! of the tariff on the necessaries of life, | such as woolen goods, sugar, hoop | iron, etc., all articles of prime no ! cessity in which all classes of our I people are largely interested.” I asked him if repeal ofthe intern al revenue laws would not reduce the surplus, and was it not claimed that this was a war tax. To this he replied: “It is somo wliat amusing to see tho various ar guments made in favor of the repeal of the internal revenue laws. The repeal of these laws will create a deficiency. A reduction of about §118,000,000 will require that a higher tariff be placed on the articles of prime necessity. To claim that the tax on whisky, etc., is a war measure is an unfair statement of the question, and one calculated to deceive the people. The war tax on whisky was about two dollars per gallon. Since the war a reduc tion was made to ninety cents per gallon. During the war a high tariff was made upon articles of prime ne cessity, due to the influence of rao nopolies,corporations and syndicates. These have only been reduced in part. The claim that the war is over and therefore the internal reve nue laws should be repealed is an argument without force when we remember as the result of the war that the government has to raise annually about §73,500,000 as a pension fund and this fund is likely to be increased, and may continue for many years. Now, THE REAL QUESTION IS, shall whisky, which no one con to ids is an a! s >lute necessity, c< n tribute a part to this fund, or shall articles of food and raiment he taxed to raise this enormous sum of money, which, in twenty years, will amount to nearly a billion and a half of dol lars? For myself, I think the in terests of the poor, tho millions that toil for a living, should be required to bear as lightly as possible the i of government, and that ' indulge in luxuries should f ./ -< “Y uat sa \ ' ' jl 1,1 E states regulating the whisky tax?” He replied: “This argument is most fallacious. Under the constitu tion of Georgia taxes arc uniform and ad valorem on all species of property taxed, and our Supreme court has repeatedly held that one species of property cannot be taxed at a greater rate than another. A simuiar provision will be found in the constitutions of twenty-seven of the states, and I apprehend that our people will not be in a hurry to hold a convention with the purpose of CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION, so that the state can tax whisk}’. It is well calculated to deceive where it can only be taxed as other property*. If our peoplo would only fully real ize the fact that last v r ear, under the internal revenue laws, there was raised in Georgia about 8336,000 and in Illinois 824,825,704.34,they would, no doubt, be less inclined to clamor for the repeal of those laws, but would be more willing to let those states whose inhabitants are receiv ing most of the pension money con tribute most larged* to pa3' the same, and rather keep this than adopt some other system which would require the poor to contribute largely from incomes to pay* this pension debt.” Chill and Fevex Conpuered. Another guardian of health pro claims : Pleasant Mound P. 0., Laurens Cos., S. C. Messrs. Westmoreland Bros., Gentlemen—You gave me a hottle of your Calisaya Tonic, which I administered to m3’ son who was suffering at that time with chills and fever, and I must say for the benefit of the public, that it gave hi in entire satisfaction and relieved the case, and that the chills have not returned, I have examined }*our formula for making the tonic, and believe it to be a superior preparation, and if used as directed think it an invalua ble remedy in our southern malarial districts. Very respectful 13’. M. C. COX. M. D. Westmoreland’s Cali say a Tonic is perfect!}’ harmless and faultless. Can be used b}’ the infant, aged or infirm. The best tonic and appetizer in the world. Try it! Sold b}’ all druggests at 81 00 per bottle. Take Dr. Dukes Anti Billious Wafer, with Tonic if your liver is out oforder. Which Will You Choose. An exchange commenting on the proper course to be persued by young men sa}*s: Young man, you are responsible for your success or failure ; if you are sober, honest and industrious you will find employment. If }*oa are determined to drink, idle away }’our time, and neglect }’our inter est, don't blame }'our friends or employers for not wanting 3-our services. For, even if your employer is a drunkard, he wants sober em ployes in his business. The two roads are before you. One leads to health, prosperity and happiness, the other to ruin and eternal woe ! HIGH TONED KLEPTOMANIACS. If They Were Nobodies They Would be Sent tojail. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Every once in a while we hear of kleptomaniacs, and pity them ac cording to their circumstances. If the victim is poor we generally de ride the idea of kleptomania and charge tho weakness to common thievery, but if the victim is rich we are more charitable and ready to concede that there may be something more in kleptomania than a polite excuse for inordinate knavery. A story is told of the late John D. Dry den, father of the brilliant and gen ial Nat C. Dryden, of Troy, known to all Missourians, that goes far to illustrate the character of kleptoma nia. Judge Dryden and two of his friends were talking one day and relating incidents growing out of strange human impulses. One of the men said that the great struggle of his life was to keep sober; that he loved whisky better than any thing else in the world, and it requir ed all the strength of will he had to resist it. The second man said that his weakness was a love of speech making; that he would rather make a speech than do anything else in the world, and that ho never saw a crowd together that the impulse to elevate his voice and make a speech did not attack him. Judge Dryden said that the struggle of his life was to be honest; that he never saw any thing that he took a fancy to that the impulse to take it did not come upon him strong. He said that if lie did not bring an iron will to resi.-t his inclinations he would be one of the greatest rouges in Missouri. This coming from a man who was a mod el of integrity and fairness during a long active life, is a powerful illustra tion. Some things go to show how much will power has to do in direc ting the lives of people, and how easy it is for people not able to con centrate their will to fall victims to their passions. The present earl < f Derby, an ex-British cabinet officer, and one of the richest men in Eng land, is a confirmed kleptomaniac. The earl’s particular weakness is for old silver, and the greater its antiq uity and beauty the more certain it is to find its way into his pocket. There is a story to the effect that once when Le was kneeling at the com munion table only f he. ready hand &'*. fP’Wiwi saved H’VVA old wine cup from sliui’ng i. A sleeve. It is the duty f his aiet to examine his master’s clothes everv morning when he has dined out the night before. What ever is found is taken out to the countess, a beauti ful and good woman who returns it to the owner with a pretty note cl apology. The earl is quite awarcof his unfortunate weakness, and is said to have struggled against it in vain. No fear of detection or exposure makes heavy his light fingers, and it is said lie will not trust himself to go alone to a public sale where old sil ver is displayed. How many peo ple with the noble earl’s weakness are to be found in every day life? Suppose the head of the powerful Stanly family were poor and unti tled, would the pleadings of the kleptomania keep him out of the penitenitiary. The Wealth of a Home Is dependent upon the happiness therein. If sickness is there, what a shadow falls. Parents, }’ou should never neglect a slight cough or cold, but give in time Taylor’s Cherokee liemedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein. Claiming in Spite of Facts. Enquirer Sun. The protectionists still claim that the tariff sentiment is weak through out the country, and they may do so even after the question comes up in an election and results in a tariff overthrow. Their claim is almost as absurd now as it would be then, for wherever the people have had a chance to express themselves on the subject, tiieir expression bas been for reform. The prominent republicans who spoke in Boston for tariff reform, ex- Minister Lowell among them, and the manufacturers in New England who have been demanding taiff re reduction, ought to have settled the question so far as the east is concern ed, but the protectionists seem dis posed to claim everything in spite of facts. And now the loss of the control of the democratic party in Pcnsylvania by Mr. Randall, shows that even in that state, where the tariff is in trenched behind the strongest bar riers of self interest, it finds few supporters, except republicans. The battle there has been fought, and it resulted in an endorsement of the administration, and a victor}’ for tariff reform. An}* candid man must admit that the idea of tariff reduction is much stronger than the democratic party. Even in the meeting of' bloody-shirt wavers, in Mineapolis, a few days ago—a meeting in which none ex cept repnblicans participated—the prevailing sentiment was found to be in favor of tariff reform. Bronchitis Cured. I have suffered with bronchitis, and was cured b}’ Brewer’s Lung Restorer. I shall always keep the medicine on hand for an emergency. Mrs. B. D. Martin Milner, Ga. pOYfti 'royal Msyaj H i POWDER Absolutely Pure. This pi >\vder never varies A marvel o f purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cam. Royai. Bakixo Powder Cos., 106 Wall* street. New York. Executor s Sale. BORGIA— Monroe countv—By virtue Cl of ail order from the court of Ordinary of Monroe county will be sold on the first Tuesday in February next before the court house door in the town of Forsyth, between the legal hours of sale one hundred and twenty (120) acres of land beW-ing to the estate of Jethro Williams late °of said county deceased; seventy-five acres of said land being hounded on the north by K. T Maynard, east and south hv lands of J. S. Jossey, and west by lands*of said estate* and forty-five acres more or less, bounded on the north by public road, east hv E T Maynard, south by land of said estate and west by J. A. Williams, the same being in the 12th district of said county and num bers of lot not known. Sold for the pur pose of paying the debts of said estate Terms cash. .1 A. Williams, Executor. Jan. 2nd 1888. SaleT~ GEORGIA— Monroe county—By virtue of an order from the court <>t Ordinary < f Monroe county will be sold before tho court house door in tho Town of Forsvth between the legal hours of sale, on the first 1 uosday in February next, that tract or parcel of Jand belonging to the estate of ‘ ■ , , I , n "A le deceased, lying and being in the 11th district of said county, containing one hundred and thirty acres! (130) more or less, No. of lot not known, and bounded on the west by land of Geo. P. Swift, north W ” e “ r - v and Beui, Sapniiigton, east bv J. - " place. n \jnm ior distribution. Ternu i uu sale cash. This January 2nd 1888. A. h. MOl E, Admidistrator of Patience Pringle. JOB PRINTING"" Bn. H r r d “" ifyou Note Heads, Cards, Letter Heads, Fa ave lopes, Statements, Dodgers, Circulars, Programmes, Hand Bills, )r an) other kind of Jon Printixo done, send your orders to the office of the Monroe Advertiser We have on hand a large stock of printing material of all kinds and of the latest styles. \V ork done neatly and prompt Monroe Advertiser, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN". GEORGIA —Monroe County—Notice is herby given to all persons concerned, that H. G. Bean late of said county, depart ed this life intestate, and no person has applied for administration on the estate of said H. G Bean in said state; that admin istration will be vested in the public ad ministrator, or some other fit and proper person, after the publication of this cita tion, unless valid objection is made to his appointment. Gi\en under my hand and official signa ture this 2nd day of January 1888. J. T. McGINTY, Ordinary. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. GEORGIA —.m on roe cou n n ty— M rs. Fa n - Banks has appled to me fora twelve months support out of the estate of William A. Banks, late of said county, deceased, and I will pass upon said application on the first Monday in February next at lOoclock a. nr Given under my hand and official signature this 2nd day of January 1888. JOHN T. McGINTY, Ordinary. Application for Leave to Sell Land. GEORG lA—Monroe county—Applica tion wiil be r/iade to the court of Ordi nary of Monroe county on the first Monday in February next for leave to sell two hundred acre- of land belonging to estate of A. Middlebrooks, late of said countv de ceased. J. W. M idllkbhooks, Executor. APPLICATION FOR DISMISSION. GEORG lA—Mon ro f. cor ntv-Where. as C. O. Goodwyne, administrator of W E. Goodwyne, deceased has applied to me for letters of dismission from said estate, this >, therefore to cite all persons interest ted to show cause, if any by the lirst Mon day in February next, why said letters of dismission should not lie granted. .. my hand and official signature, this November 7th, 1887. Joux T. McGivty. Ordinary. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. ALL persons having any claim or claims against me are hereby requested to present them to me for payment at once. All persons indebted to me are hereby notified to come forward and settle imme diately, and save cost of legal proceedings, and bar the publication of their names and amount of indebtedness. John A. Hvtcheson'. November Slh, 1887. NUMBER 4