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without sense or reason we saw a beautiful
tree
■Woodman, spare that tree'.
Touch not a single bough'
In youth it sheltered me.
And I'll protect it now.
T*-as uiy forefather's hand
That placed it near his cot;
There, woodman, let it stand.
Thy ax shall harm it not.
My heart-strings round thee cling.
(.'lose as thy bark, old friend'
Here shall the wild bird sing.
And still thy branches bend.
Old tree! The storm sud brave:
And woodman, leave the spot;
While I re a hand to save.
Thy ax shall harm it not.
As we nde along on these mountains of
Lebanon, we bethink how its cedars sure ad
their branches, ami breathe their aroma,
ana oast their shad >w* all through the
Bible. Solomon discoursed about them iu
his botanical works, when bespoke of trees,
“from the cedar tree that is i.i Lebanon
even unto the hyssop that springeth out of
tte wall.’ the psalmist says: “The right'
eous shall grow lise the cedar in Lebanon.”
and in one of his magnificent doxologies
cads on the cedars to praiso the Lord. And
Solomon says the countenance of Christ is
excellent as the cedars, and Isaiah declares,
“The day of the Lord shall be upon all the
cedars of Lebanon.” And Jeremiah and
Ezekiel and Amos, and Zepbaniab, anil
Zecharish weave its foliage into their sub
limes: utterances
As we ride over Lebanon to-day, there is
a howling wind sweeping past aud a dash
of raiu, all the better enabling us to ap
preciate that description of a tempest,
which no doubt was suggested by what
David had seen with his own eyes among
these hights, for, as a soldier, he carried his
wars clear up to Damascus, and such a poet
as he, I warrant, spent many a day on
Lebanon. And perhaps while ho was sea'ed
on this verv rock against which our car
riage jolts’ he writes that wonderful
description of a thunderstorm: “The voice
of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the
Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the
Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. He
maketh them also to skip like a calf, Leba
non and Sirion like a young unicorn. The
voice of the Lord divideth the flames of
fire.”
As the lion is the monarch of the fields,
and behemoth the monarch of the waters,
the cedar is the monarch of the trees. And
i think one reason why it is so glorified all
pp and down the Bible is because we need
more of its characteristics in our religious
life. We have too much of the willow, arid
are easily bent this way or that; too much
©f the aspen, and we tremble under every
xephyr of assault; too much of the bramble
tree, a id our sharp points sting aud wound;
but not enough of the cedar, wide-branched,
and heaven aspiring, and tempest-grap
pling. Bat the reason these cellars stand
no well is ttiat they are deen-iooted. They
run their anchors down into the caverns of
the mountain and fasten to the very founda
tions of the earth, and twist around and
iolincti themselves on the other side of the
deepest layer of rock they con reach. And
bhat is the difference between christia a
who stand and Christians who fall. It is the
difference between a superficial character
and one that has clutched its roots deep
down around and under the Hock of Agei.
One of the Lebanon cedars v. as examined
by a scientist,ami from its concentric circles
it was found to be thirty-five hundred years
old and still standing, and there is such
a thing as everlasting strength, and suoh a
stanch nees of enristian character that all
(time and eternity, instead of being its
demolition, shall be its opportunity. Not
such are those vacillating Christians who
are so pious on Sunday that they ifove no
religion left lor the week day. As the
anaconda gorges itself with food, and then
eeeius for a long wmle to lie thoroughly
Insensible, so there are men who wiU on
Sunday get such a religions surfeit that
the rest of the weak they seem
thoroughly dead to all religious
emotion. They weep in churcli under a
charity sermon, but if on Monday a subject
of waut presents itself at tbe door, the beg
gar’s safety will depend entirely on quick
limbs and an unobstructed stairway. It
takes all the grace they can get to keep
them from committing assault and battery
on those intruders who come with na.e
feces and stories of distress and subscription
papers. The reason that Hod planted these
codars in the Bible was to suggest to us
that we ought, in our religious character.to
be deeo like the cedar, high like the codar.
broad-braached like the ceihir. A trav
eler measured the spretfl of the
boughs of one of these trees and found
it one hundred and eleven feet from
brunch tip to branch tip, aud I have seen
cedars of Christian character that through
their prayers end charities put out one
branch to the uttermost parts of America,
and another branch to the uttermost parts
of Asia, and these wide-branched Christians
will keep on mul iplyiug until nil the earth
is overshadowed with mercy.
But mark you. these cedars of Lebanon
couid not grow if planted in mild climates,
and in soft air, and in carefully watered
gardens. They must have the gymnasium
of the midnight hurricane to develop their
arms. They must play the athlete with
a thousand winters before their feet are
rightly planted, and their foreheads
rightly lifted, and their arms rightly i
muscled. And if there he any other way
for developing strong Christina character
except by storms of trouble I never heard
of it. Call the roll of martyrs, call the roll
of the prophets, call the roll of the Apos
tles, and seß which of them had an easy
time of it. Which of these cedars grew in
the warm valley? Not one of them.
Honeysuckles thrive best on the south side
of the bouse, but cedars in a Syrian whirl
wind. Men and women who hear this or read
this, instead of your grumbling because vou
have it hard, thank God that you ore
in just the best school for making heroes
and heroines. It is true both for this world
and the next. Rock that baby in a cradie
cushioned and canopied; gra iuute him from
that into a costly high chair and give him a
gold spoon; send him to school wrapped in
furs enough for on arctic explorer; send
him through a col ego w here be will not
have bo study in order to get a diploma, be
cause his father is rich; stars him in a pro
fession where he begins with an office the
floor covered with Axminster, and a library
of books in Russian morocco, and an arm
cba.r upholstered like a throne, and au em
broidered ottoman upon which to put his
twelve-doliar gaiters, and they lay upon
his table'.lie best ivory cigar holders you
can import from Brussels, aud have stand
ing oufeide his door a prancing span that
won the prize at the horse fair, ana leave
him estate enough to make him independent
of all struggle, and whit will become of
him? If he does not die early of inanition or
dissipation, ho will live a useless life, and
die an unlameiited death and go into a fool’s
eternity.
But what has been the history of most of
the great cedars in merchandise, in art, in
law, in medicine, in statesmanship, in Chris
tian usefulness? “John, get up and milk the
cows; it’s late; it's half oust five in the
morning. Split an armfnl of wood on your
way out so that we can build the fires for
breakfast. Put your bare feet on the cold
oilcloth, and break the ice in your pitcher
before you can wash. Ye-; it hat been
Hiowiig and drifting again last night, and
Vf will have to break the roads.” The
boy’s educational advantages, a loug oak
plank without any back to it, in country
school-house, and stove throwing out more
smoke than beat. Pressing on from
one hardship to another. After a
while a pos.tioii on salary or wages small
e oi.gli to keep life, but keep it at its low
est ebb. (Starting in occupation or business
with prosperous men trying to fig.it you
back at every step, but after a good
while fairly on your’fest, and your oppor
tunities widening, and then by some sudden
turn you are tiiumpbaut. You are master
of the situation, and defiant of ail earth and
ha:L A Lebanon cedar! John Milton on
his way up to the thro.a of the world’s
sacred [iota* t , must sell hut copyright of
I'aradite Lott lor a#v**'ity*two dollars iu
three uuyn.ouis. Aud Wiliam Htakeajiuare
on U.s way up to Its arkuoade tge-1 tie*
greatest dramatist of all ag a, must hold
horses at Uut do r of the London tm atro for
a sixpence, and Horn or must struggle
through total blindness to immortality, and
Joan Bunyan must cheer himself
on the way up by making a flute ut of bis
prist n stool, and Ca ova, tnesculntor.must
toil 0:1 through < rpha iage, modeling a lion
in butter before he could cut h 9 statues in
marble. And tae great Stephenson must
watca cows in the fi.-lds for a few pennies
and then become a stoker, and afterward
mend clockß, before he puts the locooioti ro
on its track and calls forth plaudits from
parliaments, and medals from kings. Abel
Stevens is picked up a neglected child of the
street, and rise*, turough nis consecrated
genius, to be one of ihe most illustrious
clergyman end historians of the century.
And Bishop Janas of the same church, in
boyhood worked his passage from Ireland
to America, and up to a usefulness, where,
in tbe bishopric, he was second to no one
who ever adorned it.
While in iumishment Xenophon wrote
his "Anabasis’ and Thucvdidas Lis “History
of the Pelop nne‘iau War,” and Victor
Hugo must t>e exiled for many years to the
isla ;d of Guernsey before he can come to
that hight in the affections of his countrv
men, tbi: crowds Champs Elrsees and the
adjoining boulevards with one million
mourners, as bis hearse rolls down to the
Church of the Madeleine. Oh, it is a tough
old world, ad it will keep you back, aud
keep you down, and keep you uuder as long
as it can. Haii, sons and daughters of thu
fire!
Stand, as the anvil when the stroke of stalwart
men falls fierce ami fast.
Storms but more deeply root the oak whose
brawny arms embrace the blast.
Stand like an anvil; noise and heat are born of
earth and die with time:
The soul, like Cod, its source and seat, is sol
emn. still, serene, sublime.
Thirty years from now the foremost men
in ail occupations and professions will be
those who are this hour in awful struggle of
early life, many of them without five dol
lars to their name. So in spiritual life it
takes a course of bereavement', persecu
tions, sicknesses, and losses to develop stal
wart Christian character. I got a letter a
few duys ago saying: "I have hardly seen
a well day since I was born, and I could not
write my own name until I was fifty years
of age, and lam very poor, but I am, by
the grace of God, the happiest man in Chi
cago.” The Bible speaks of the snows of
Lebanon, aud at this season of the year the
snows mere must be tremendous. The
deepest snow ever seen in America
would be insignificant compared
with th miideat winter of snows on those
Lebanon mountains. The cedars catch that
skyfull of crystals on their brow and on
their long arms. Piled up in great heft 9
are those snows, enough to ciush other
trees to the ground, splitting the branches
from the trunk and leaving them rent and
torn, never to rise. But wuat do the cedars
care for these snows on Lebanon? They
look up to the winter skies aud say: "Snow
on! Empty the white heave s upon us, and
when this storm is passed, let other proces
sions of tempest try to bury us in their
fury. We have for five hundred winters
been accustomed to this, and for the next
five hundred winters we will cheerfully
taka all you have to send, for that is the
way we develop our strength, and that is
the way wo serve God and teach all ages
how to endure and oonquer.” So I say:
Good cheor to all people who ara snowed
under. Put your faith in God and you will
come out gloriously. Others may be
stunted growths or weak junipers on the
lower levels of spirituality, but you are
going to be Lebanon cedars. At last it will
bo said of such its you: “These are tbev who
cameout of great tribulation ad had their
robes washed and made white in the blood
of the Lamb.”
But while crossing over these mountains
of Lebanon I bethink myself of what an ex
citing scene it must be" when one of the
cedars does fall. It does not go down
like other trees, with a slight orackle that
hardly makes the woodsman look up, or a
hawk flutter trom a neighboring bough.
When a cedar falls it is the great event in
the calendar of the moun'uins. The ax
men fly. The wild beasts slink to their dens.
The partridges swoop to the valley for escape.
The neighboring trees go down under the a w
fiC weight of the descending monarch. The
rocks are moved out of their places, and the
earth trembles as from miles around all
ravines send back their sympathetic echoes.
Crash! Crash! Crash! So when the great
cedars of worldly or Christian influence fall
it is something terrific. Within the past
few yea s how many mighty and overtop
ping men have gone down. There seems
now to bo on epidemic of moral disaster.
Tne moral world, the religious world, the
political world, the commercial world are
quaking with the fall of Lobanon celars.
It is awful. We are compelled to cry out
with Zachariah the prophet, “Howl, fir
trees, for the cedar is fallen!” Some of the
smaller trees are glad of it. When
some greet dealer in stocks goes
down the small dealers clap
their hands and say “Good for him!” When
a great political leader goes down the small
politicians clup their rands aud ray “Just
as 1 expected!'” When a great minister of
religion falls, many little ministers laugh
up their sleeves and thins themselves some
how advantaged. Ah, beloved brethren,
no one makes anything out of moral ship
wreck. Not a willow by. the rivers of
Damascus, not a sycamore on the pluins of
Jericho, not an olive tree in all Palestine is
helped by the fall of a Lebanon cedar. Bet
ter weep aud pray and tremble ami listen
to Paul’s advice to the Galatians when he
says ‘ 'Considering thyself lest thou also be
tempted.” No man is safe until he is dead
unless he is divinely protected. A greater
thinker than Lord Francis Bacon the world
never saw, and ho changed the world's mode
of thinking for all time, bis Novum Oryati
um, a miracle of literature. With thirty
eight thousand dollars salary and estates
worth millions,and from the highest judicial
bench in the world, he goes down under the
power of bribery, and confessed his crimo
aud was sentenced to the Tower and the
scorn of centuries. Howl, fir tree, for the
cedar is falleu!
Warren Hastings, rising until he became
Governor General of India, and tho envy of
the chief public men of his day, plunges
into cruelties against the barbaric people he
had been sent to rule, until ins name is
chiefly associated with the criminal trial iu
Westminster Hall where upon him came tba
anathemas of Sheridan, Fox, Edmund
Burke, the English nation, aud all time.
Howl, firtree, for the cedar is fallen! As
eminent instances of moral disaster are
found in our own land and our own time,
instances that 1 do not recite lest I
wound the feolmgs of those now
alive to mourn the shipwreck. Let
your indignation against the fallen
turn to pity. A judge iu one of our Ameri
can courts gives this experience; Iu a re
spectable but poor family a daughter was
getting a musical education. Sne needed
one more Course of lessons to complete that
education. The father’s means were ex
hausted, and, so great was his anxiety to
heip his daughter, that he feloniously took
some money from his employer, and, going
home to his daughter, said: "There ii the
money to complete your musical education.”
Tho wife and mother susjiected some
thing wrong, and obtaiued fran her
husband the whole story, aad that night
went around with her husband to
tho merchant’s house uud surrendered ,
the whole amount of tho money, and 1
asked forgiveness. Forgiveness was denied,
aud the man was arrested. The judge, know
ing all tho circunislmn-es, and that the
money bad all been returned, t-ugrestei to
the merchant he had better let the matter
drop for the sake of toe wife and the
daughter. No! he would net let it drop,
ad he did ul! he could to muke th-> cue
conspicuous and blasting. The judge rays
that after ward that same inexorable mer
chant was tool re him for breaking the law
of tho land. It is a ptor rule that will not
work both ways. Lot him that stanheth
take heed lest be fall. N t congratulation,
but tears when u cedar is falleu!
Yot there 1* on* Ofdnr of Jxtbanou that
always has and fiways will overtop ad
others. It is the 0 >r : -I whom Ezekiel de
scribes as a good'y „dr, ana says; "I inter
it shall oou.e s<i fowl of every wing."
Make y qf nest n tUutgnut cedar. I bun
Lt the eU*riu be* and tho earth rock, a id
time end, u*i eternity begin, a 1 shall he
well.
In my Journey up and down Palestine
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1890.
a id Syria nothing more impressed me than
the trees—the terebinths, the sycamores,
the tamarisks, the oleanders, tne mulberrys,
the olives, tbe myr'les, the palms, the ce
dars—all of them explanatory of so much of
the scriptures. And the time is coming
when, through an improved arboriculture,
the round world snail be circumferenced,
engirdled, embosomed, emparadised in
shade trees, and fruit trees, and flower
trees. Isaiah declares in one place, “The
glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,”
and in another place, “All the trees of the
field shall clap their hands. Instead of the
thorn shall corns up the fir tree. Instead of
the briar shall corae up the myrtle tree.”
Oh, grandest arborescence of all time. Be
gin! Begin!
Oh, I am so glad that the Holy Land of
heaven, like the Holy Land of Palestine and
Syria, is a great place for trees, an orchard
of them, a grove of them, a forest of them.
St, John saw them aloig the streets, and on
both sides the river, and every month they
yielded a great crop of fruit. You know
what an imposing appearance trees give to
a city on earth, but how it exalts my ida
of heaven when St. John describes the city
on high as having its streets and its rivers
lined with them. Oh, the trees! the trees!
The jasper walks, the fountains, tbe temples
were not enough. There would have been
something wanting yet. So t ) complete all
that pomp and splendor T behold the
uphranchir.g trees of life. Not like those
stripped trees now around us, which, like
banished minstrels through the long winter
night utter their dolorous lament, or in the
blast moan like lost spirits wandering up
anil down the gale, but their leaf shall never
wither. Whether you walk on the banks
of the river you will be under trees, or by
the homes of martyrs under trees, or by the
heavenly temple under trees, or along the
palace of the king immortal under trees.
Blessed are they that do his command
ments, that they may have right to the
Tree of Life, is tone wall Jackson's dying
utterance was beautifully suggestive: “Le.
us cross over and lie down under the
trees!”
TWO REMARKABLE CURES.
A Paralytic Made Well by Invisible
Hands—A Broken Jaw Cured by
Prayer.
From the New York Sun.
Beverly, Mass., Dec. 4.—One of the
most remarkable recoveries ever reported
came to Charles S. Dennis of Beverly last
Sunday evening, and his friends who saw
him then and have seen him since are firm
believer' in miracles.
About four months ago Mr. Dennis had a
shock, and as a result his whole left side
was paralyzed. He was unable to do any
work, and tbe services of a nurse were re
quired constantly.
About a inontn ago he began to improve
and was able to get around by the aid of
crutches and a cane. Hit left side was a
dead weight, and he could not lift hia left
foot an inch from the ground.
For years past Mr, Dennis’ friends have
claimed that he possessed a supernatural
gift, but be seldom exercised it, and, know
ing bis condition and fearing another shock,
they urged him to exercise that power on
himself which it was claimed he possessed.
After much persuasion he consented, and
last Sunday evening he invited to his house,
26 Prospect street, several friends, includ
ing Israel, proprietor of the Queen
hotel; Benjamin Lareorn, Jr., a leading
grocer, and Dr. 0. F. Swazey. an old school
t>bysio ; an, who has been doctoring Mr.
Denn.s during his recent lilness, besides one
or two lady friends.
The comp.ny sat down in a darkened
room, and joined bands, placing them on
tbo table around which they sat. In a few
minuter Mr. Dennis felt what seamed to be
hands rubbing his right leg and thigh.
immediately they passed to tbe left leg
and side, and began to rub them. 80 dis
tinct was the noise that ali in the room
heard it, and as it proceeded Dr. Swazey,
who had hold of Mr. Dennis’ hand, marked
a growing warmth and moisture where it
was cold aud clammy before. As the bleed
bo tan to circulate tho same operation ot
rub ing was extended to his throat. A few
minutes later the doctor was surprised to
hear Mr. Dennis speak in his natural tone
of voice, when ever since the shock his
articulation had been understood with
difficulty, as the organs of tbe throat were
paralyzed.
In about half an hour from the time they
sat down Mr. Dennis broke the circle by
getting up and declaring himself well, and,
to the astonishment of all, he ran up and
down stairs three or four times, while one
of the company held the light.
From that time to this, ho has felt no
effects of his recent illness, except a little
weakness in the left side. Ho cannot ex
plain how the change came about.
Portland, Me., Dec. 4. A most remark
able faith cure has recently been accom
plished at Bryant’s Pond, in tho case of
Charles A. Brooks.
About a month ago Mr. Brooks was
thrown from hi 9 carriage upon the rocks.
His jaw was broken and his shin was so
badly injured that it was feared he would
never recover.
He was helpless and suffered intense pain.
On Thanksgiving day he prayed fervently,
and at midnight a complete cure was effected
with miraculous suddenness.
The next morning he ar se and dressed
himself without help, and ate with the
family a3 though his jaw had never been
broken. The cure is vouched for by the
Rev. J. IV. Smith, the Methodist minister
t W est Pa ris.
EIGHTY DAYS FOR EIGHTY OATHS.
A Revival of the Pennsylvania Blue
Laws Against Profanity.
Chambersburg, Pa., Dec. 14.—Polk
Wilson, a-well known character about
town, was sent to jail yesterday by Justice
Havoman for eighty days under the Penn
sylvania blue-laws act of 1794 for swearing
eighty profane oaths. The penalty for pro
fane swearing is 67 cents for each oath, or
in default of payment thereof one day in
jail for each oath. Wilson would not pay
the flue of $53 60 for the oaths indulged in
during a drunk on Saturday Dlght, so he
went to jail for eighty days.' A conviction
under the blue laws is a very rare occasion
in this state.
A Wedding a; Sumner.
Sumxfr, Ga. . Dec. 14.—Rev. C. H.
Branch, son of Dr. J. O. Branch aud late
pastor of this circuit, was married to Miss
Be„uie H. Johnson, daughter of Col. L G.
Johnson, yesterday morning at tho bride’s
home at Daniolsviile.
Mr. Reed Able to Tell a Story,
From the Chicago Herald.
Mr. Reed tells a story t-o Illustrate his
views as to the situation of the Republican
party.
“We are like the man up in Maine,” h_*
said. “This man was charged with a good
many offenses against tha peace and rn< -
rality of the neighb. brood, and go his neigh
bors got together aud gave him a horse
whipping and ducked him in ahorse pond
I ar.d tarred and feathered him. After all
this was over, and the man had cleaned the
I lime and tar and picked the feathers off
1 himself he showed up one day bright and
i smilling. ’There’s nothing tho matter with
I me,’lie said: ’Pm just as good a man as 1
j ever was, and all here, sale and sound, and
j feeling first rate, though I must own my
mural tone has been lowered a little.’ ”
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Of age and during forty yean* of lus lon life he
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JILTED HIM AT THE ALTAR.
Miss Johnson Decides 1 hat She Doesn't
Want a White Husband.
From the Sew York Smn.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 10l—Tbe
city was excited yesterday over the
issuance of a license to James Hurst, a
white mao, with considerable property and
four children, to Mary Angelina Johnson, a
colored woman. W hen the wedding guests
assembled in the parlors last night the pre
sents were spread out on a table, and the
groom waited i 1 the parlor with toe minis
ter. Angie’s footsteps were heard descend
ing the stairs. Someone told her she was
wanted in a rear room, and she went there,
to find James Russell (colored), an old
flame, who had been thrown over for
Hurst.
He urged her not to throw herself awav
on any poor white trash, but to marry him.
Angle’s heart softened, and she told Russell
to come along and they would be married
by the minister Hurst had hired. When
Angie appeared leaning on the arm of
Russell the guests were surprised. She an
nounced:
“Dar’il be a wed Ting here to-night, people,
but Jim Hurst won’t be de groom. Mr.
Russell and I will be married. 1 don’t want
any white traah husband.”
Hurst said he would not pay the minister,
and the parry broke up, the gue-ts carrying
a>vay the presents they had brought. Hurst
tried to get at Russell to thrash him, but
was held back by his friends. Hurst has
$5,000 in the bang, whi!e Russell is a laborer
of no means, and very black.
Gashed His Throat.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 14—Peter Cauld
fla-ih, a carpenter, attempted suicide to-day,
while in a tit of despondency, by cutting his
throat. His wound’s may prove fatal.
MEDICAL.
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“In one store where I went to buy Hood’s
Sarsaparilla the clerk tried to induce me buy
their own instead of Hood’s; he told me their's
would last longer; that I might take it on ten
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on me to change. I told him I had taken
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satisfied with it, and did not want any other.
When I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla
I was feeling real miserable with dyspepsia,
and so weak that at limes I could hardly
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stand. I looked like a person in consump
tion. Hood's Sarsaparilla did me so much
good that I wonder at myself sometimes,
and my friends frequently speak of It.” Mrs.
Ella A. Goff, 61 Terrace Street, Boston.
Sarsapariiia
Sold by all dropjetats. ?!: six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. IIOOD fr CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass,
IQQ Doses One Dollar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Oliß SUCCESS
In catering to the better tade of the people ot
Savannah induced us this season to select a
larger and much more elegant stock than ia
previous years. We have many elegant goods
usual to a first class Jewelry establishment, anil
as in the past many years of this business they
are offered with the fullest guarantee of
quality.
OCR DIAMOND
Stock is not of the usual commercial 9 irt, but
of the better grade of goods, carefully'selected,
all of the new cut, producing the greatest
brilliancy, saving to the buyer all exoess weight
not Deeded.
IN' fSILVEn
We have all the novelties for practical table
use, as well as the many requisites for the toilet
table and library.
We have a most beautiful assortment of
Enamel pins and Pendants, a quality of work
seldom seen and worth looking at, as gems of
art enameling.
OCR ONYX AND BRASS TABLES
Are solid brass fnot iron covered with brass)
of the most graceful designs.
In watches, we have for both ladies and
gentlemen, a stock never before equaled
in Savannah, both in plain and jeweled cases,
tha prices of which we invite special attention
to.
SILVER HEADED CANES AND UM
BRELLAS.
Solid silver goods (not plated). French Clocks
and Onyx and Marble cases, and carefully
selected line of fine Porc'-lains.
Our store will he open at night for the future.
THE I'd BROS.
DON’T GIVE UP IN DESPAIR.
Dyspeptics, you will find a reliable remedy in
DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
It is a faultless vegetable preparation, and
indorsed by prominent medical men.
Silver medal and diploma awarded over com
petitors.
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist.
Savannah, Ga.
Price. $1 per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Uh. T. F. ROBEKdO.t.
DENTIST.
ODD FELLOWS BUILDING
Corner Barnard and State Streets.
DH. M. SCHWAB A SON.
The well knotin Opticians, or No. 23 Bull
street, inform the public that they carry the
largest stock of Optical Goods in the State,
which thuy will sell at reasonable prices during
the mouth of December. We offer a fine lot of
imported Opera. Field anil Marine Glasses, also
a fine lot of M :gic Lanterns, below importation
cost, aud ah other Optical Goods at special
prices for the Holiday trade. Gold Spec:acles
or Eve Glass-*-, bought for Holiday Presents,
can nave tho lenses coaiigeti within six months
free of charge. K -member the place: No 23
Bull street, t lird door from Broughton street.
At POl \n Till* VY ONLY.
GUM DROPS
Remember to look for every day’s special
prices, and to se-> HEIDT’S pretty Christmas
goods.
NOTICE.
The 7th an 1 331 Installment of the Capital
Stock of tlm Title (iusrante * and Loan Com
pany is due THIS DAY', an 1 must be paid on or
before 20th inst , to avoid firms.
•SPECIAL AOTIC’K.
AU Isllk against the Kpauisit steamship
MIUI’EL M PiNILL Ul must tie proa* me I
at our office before Ik oV-loc* t. THlii AV,
or payment thereof will In* deterred.
‘lon, Dec It !Yjy, KTK YCH AN A <X*„
Contigowe.
DEATHS.
HOLT.—Died of diphtheria, SavanoahTGa""
Dec, la, ’.SSO, youngest daughter of the
late Wm. S. and Mrs. Harriet R. Holt, aged 7
years and 1 month Funeral at I eurel Grove
Cemetery THIS DAY (Dec. 15), at 10:80 a. m
MKETINhs.
DR KALB LOOOK TO. . | q. U. V.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows' new
building.
The Initiatory Degree will be conferred.
Members < other lodges anu visiting brethren
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. M. REEVE. \ G
John Riley. Secretary.
CITIZENS' SANITARY ASSOCIATION.
Ofpicx Citizens' Kanttaby Association )
Savannah. Ga., Dec. M. 1890. ' f
A meeting of the Executive Council Citizens'
Sanitary Association, open to all inemb-n of
the aseociati n, will be held MONDAY EVEN
ING, 15th inst. at Br. m.. at tbe office of the
association, 7 Drayton street.
JAMES B. READ,
t, , „ „ President.
JDenib J. Murphy. Sec y.
THE SAVANNAH SOCIETY FOR THE
PREVENTION OK IKIELTY TO
ANIMALS.
A meeting of the above Society will be held at
the Knights of Pythias Hallifirst floor)on MON
DAY NIGHT, the 15th inst, at eight o'clock,
for permanent organization. All persons in
terested are requested to attend or send an ap
plication for membership.
By order of the Presiient.
HENRY I. SEEM ANN,
Acting Secretary.
meeting of stockholders.
Gkktrai. Railroad a to Backing Cos. op Ga. i
Savannah, Ga, Dec. 3,1890. f
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
this company will take place at the Banking
House, in Savannah, on TUESDAY, Dec. 23. at
10 o'clock a.*. Stockholders ana their families
wiii be passed free over the company’s road to
the meetingfrom the 20th to the 23d, inclusive,
and will be passed free returning from the 23d
to the 27th, inclusive, upou presentation of their
stock certificates to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
SPECIAL NOTICED.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis nf meas
urement of all aflvertuioi) m the Moryi.yo
Nbws wiU be agate, or at the rate of $1 40 an
inch for the first insertion.
NOTICE TO WATER TAKER*!
Office Water Works, [
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 15, 190. t
The water will be shut off at nine (9) o'clock
THI3 (Monday) MORNING, in the district be
tween Gwinnett and Waldburg and Whitaker
and West Broad streets, for the purpose
of moving fire hydrants, and will be off several
hours.
JAMES MANNING, Superintendent.
TO TAXPAYERS.
Treas'r's Office of the City of Savannah, )
Savannah. Ga., December 12, 1890. )
Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers of
the city of Savannah that, under an ordinance
passed by the council on the 10th iust. the as
sessment and valuation of property made for
municipal taxation for the year 1890. under the
terms and provi-aoas of the ordinance of the
city, passed November 29, 1883, wiil be con
tinued as the basis of taxation by the city for
the year 1891 as to the real estate, including
improvements, covered thereby in the absence
of objections.
Such objections, if any, must be filed in this
office within fifteen (15) days from this date. In
the absence of objections within the time
specified, the assessment and valuation aiready
made will be considered as satisfactory, and
will be binding for the year 1-91 .
CHAS. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer,
FDR COUNTY TREASURER.
To the Voters of Chatkam County —Fellow
Citizens: I am a candidate for a re-election to
the office of Treasurer of Chatham County, and
respectfully solicit your support. Your obedi
ent servant, WARING RUSSELL.
IMPORTED SOLID-BACK
HAIR BRUSHES, CLOTHES BRUSHES.
TOOTH AND Nail brushes.
The finest selection in the city. Call and
ex sraine.
ROWLINSKI. Pharmacist, Broughton and Dry
ton streets. Telephone 455.
AS A PRESENT,
What is nicer, and HEIDT makes a specialty
for Christmas Presents.
EXTRACTS, COLOGNE, HAIR BRUSHES.
Call and see.
ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS.
Central Railroad and Baskins Cos. of Ga. (
Savannah. Ga., Dee. 8, 1890. )
An election for thirteen directors to manage,
tbe affairs of this company for tbe ensuing
year will be held at the Banking House in Sa
vannah, MONDAY, the sth of January, 3891,
between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m., and a
o'clock p. m. Stockholders and their families
will be passed free over the company’s road to
attend the election, from the 3rd to the sth of
January, inclusive, and be passed free return
ing, from the sth to the 7th of January, inclu
sive, on presentation of their stock certificates
to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Qasbiar,
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
The friends of Col. CHARLES H. OLM
STEAD announce him as a candidate for the
office of County Treasurer, and ask in his be
half the votes and supportTof their fellow citi
zens at tho election WEDNESDAY’, January 7.
189 L
BAKER WHISKY.
I have been appointed by E. Walters & Cos. of
Baltimore, Md., as agent for their celebrated
BAKER WHISKY. Parties wishing it can be
supplied fromstore. 15S and 160 Bryan street,
or from E. WALTERS A CO,, Baltimore, Md.
P. H. WARD.
Successor to W. M. Davidson.
A LECTURE
By MABTER WORKMAN T. V. POWDERLY.
will take place at Masonic Temple on
TUESDAY" EVENING, at Bo'clock. Dee, 18.
The public are inTittd to hear the eminent
lecturer on the principles of the Knights of
Labor. Seats free, and al! are inrited. Re
served seats for ladies.
L. C. DOWNS,
Master Workman Powderly Assembly 3596.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The public are cordially invited to call and
make their purchases of
TOYS, FIREWORKS, Etc.,
THIS WEEK, and avoid neat week’* rush. For
the convenience of those who cannot con
veniently make their purchases during the day,
our store will be kept open evemngs till 9
o'clock,
STRAUSS BROS.,
Si and SSt Earnard street^
ELECTION Kill llUll.t IOH-.
Th* Man* M*a ra'Nat loan. IliMtoc SavAKS AH. i
Ha vast an, ta • Dec- It I*o. (
1 be annual election for Director* of i ‘>ta liat,k
will h* bold at l> baobl'lK b >um <>u TUE do. V,
I Jen It, IWI, MtMl IS and I o'clock.
I THOd. (JAOfMtN. I'Mktar.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
City of Savannah. )
Orncs Clerk of Cocxcru Dec. 12, 18C0. f
The following ordinance, passed by the City
Council of Savannah Dec. 10. 1890. is published
for the information of all concerned.
By order of the Mayor.
FRANK E. REBARER.
. _ Clerk of CounciL
Aw Ordinance to provide for the assessment of
real property in toe city of Savannah for
taxation for the year 1891.
Section i. Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aluerruen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled. That the valuation and aasessmeot
of teal estate, including improvements, made
under the ordinance of the c tv passed Novem
ber go, 188:1, entitled ’ An ordinance to assess
aid value real property in the city of Savannah
including improvements, for the purposes of
taxation," and which, as revised and
corrected, have formed the basis of
municipal taxation for the year 1890,
are hereby continued as to the property
covered thereby for the year lejl, and the sail
assertment and valuation ‘hall form the bais
of taxation by the city of Savannah as to such
property for the year ls9l, save as the same
may be corrected as provided in the next two
sections of this oroiuance.
Btc. 2. Beit further ordained that the tr as
urer of the city of Savannah shall at once cause
to be published in the official organ of "he citv
of Savannah, and also in the Savannah M ruing
News, beginning with the issue of December 12,
1890. an official notice to be signed by him as
treasurer, of which tae following shall be a
copy:
"Treascrkr's Office of the 1
City of Savannah, y
i . “Savannah, Ga., December 12, 1890,1
•Notice is hereby given to the tax pavers of
the city of Savannah that under the
ordinance pa-sed by council on the llfih
inst. tho assessment and valuation of
property made for municipal taxatiou for the
year l-tm,under the tmis and provisions of the
ordinance of the city passed Nov. 99, 1883, will
be eontiou and as the liasisof taxation by the
city for the year 1891 as to thereat estate, in
cluding improvements, covered thereby, in the
absence of objections. Much objections, if any
must be filed in this office within fifteen days
from this date. In the absence of objections
w ithin the time specified, the assessment and
valuation already made will he considered as
satisfactory, and will be binding for the year
“(Signed) Chao. S. Harder.
.. “Ci y Treasurer."
The said notice shall be published in each
issue of the said two papers for 15 days, and
after the said 15 days from the date of the first
publication, the asm-sir,ent and valuation made
for the year 1890 shall be final and
binding for tbe year 1891, and shall form
the basis of taxtation bv the said City of Sa
vannah for the year 1891. save only to the
extent objected to and as to the pr operty cov
ered by the objections filed as hereinbefore
just provided.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained. That the ob
jections filed render the prt ceding section
shall be heard and determined by the com
mdtee on assessments as eariy as practicable,
and they shah have the party objecting notified
promptly of their decision. Such party so
notified shall have the rigjtto appeal t, council
from and cision of the said committee within ten
days from notice of such decision, provided
such party or his or her authorized agent will
file with the clerk of council within the said ten
days a written anneal, supported by affidavit,
that the pro er;y has been va ue 1 for taxation at
a higher price than its actual market value.
Upon such appeal being made, it snail be heard
and determined by- counsel at a meeting of
which the appellant shal.|be notified, acd the de
cision of council on the appeal shall be final.
The decision of the said committee when un
appealed from, or of c uucil on appeal (where
appeals are rnad-ishall fora: tie hasisof nsse.su
meut and valuation for taxation by the city of
Savannah as to the property covered by such
decision for the year 1891.
Sac. 4. Be it further ordained that it is hereby
made the duty of the freeholders appoint and
under Sec. 1 of the said ordinance passed Nov.
29, 3 S-9, to at once assess and value for taxatiou
under the terms and provisions of
said ordinance all new improvements
erected during the present year, and also all
real estate, whether improved or not, withia the
real estate taxable limits of the city of Savan
nah (except only such property as is exempt
under the Constitution of the State of Georgia)
not heretofore asse-e~d and valued for taxatiou.
The return of the said assessors as to the said
additional property shall, immediately upou its
completion, be filed with the city treasurer for
Inspection by the taxpayers, and the aid
treasurer shall at once give notice, in the official
organ of the city, of such filing, and that objec
tions must be made thereto, if any there are,
within twenty days from such notice. Where
the said objections are not made within tbe said
twenty- days, then tho assessment
aud valur.tiou shall bo final as
to tho said property covered thereby, and
shall form the basis of taxation by the said
city of Savannah for the year 1891 as to the
said property. The said objections shall bo
be-ara and determined by tbe committee on
assessments, the notice shall be given of their
decision, and the appeal to council shall be
allowed under the terms and provisions of sec
tion 3 of this ordinance, the decision of council
being final.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, that it is hereby
made the duty of the ooinmittee on assessments
to revive the said return as to the said new
property, to the end that a full and fair valua
tion may bo had, and if in their opinion any
property has not been fairly and correctly
valued, the said committee shall correct said
valuation and have the owuer of the property
duly notified of such correction, so that
sued own t may have the right, under
the terms and provisions of this ordinance, to
appaal to council.
Sec. 0. Be It further ordained, That the said
valuation and assessment of the said new prop
erty. as it may- ha made, revised and corrected
as provided for in the last two preceding sec
tions of this ordinance, shall bo the basis of
taxation by the citv of Savannah as to the said
property for the year 1891.
Ssc. 7. Be it further ordained. That all ordi
nances and parts of ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed.
INSURANCE AGENCY.
Ja~. T. Stewart & Son, Agents.
Jas. G. Yonge, Manager.
London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Com
pany of Liverpool and New York Underwriters
Asreney of New York. OFFICE; No. HO
Bay Street.
“PEACH BLOSSOM,”
A DELICATE. DELIGHTFUL, YET LASTING
ODOR.
vserS-'eAn-
THE PERFECT RESULT OF CONSTANT
STUDY.
* *^=**nhi
Our store will be perfumed every afternoon
with it.
Made and sold only at ’>“*
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull and Congress streets
FRIED & HICKS,
THE ONLY LADIES’ RESTAURANT IN THE
SOUTH.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
THE FINEST OYSTER COOK IN GEORGIA.
FRIED & HICKS. 9, II and 13 Market.
DON’T BE “DEAD BROKE.”
“Uncle Adam" wi l lend you Money on any
* personal'' property at lowest rate of Interest
for one, two or three months. Open from 7a.
sr. to 9P. M.; Saturdays to 11 r. m. NEW YORK
LOAN OFFICE, 2D Jefferson street, corner
Congress Ft feet Lane. ADAM STRAUSS.
Manager.
BEER.
D RINK
S. G UCKiiIM H iil I M ii) K &L SO N b
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER?
Monday and Tcesday. Dec. 15 and 16.
A BIG DRAMATIC FESTIVAL!
BRONSON HOWARD’S
SHENANDOAH!
A Great Comedy Drama.
New Y’ork’s Grearest Success! “Better than
the Henrietta.”—New York Herald.
A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR.
Beautiful and Wonderful Scenery. A Complete
cast of players. Presented id the seme rnaon- r
as seen for over 300 nights in New Y’orl: city—
-3CO. It will always stand as the leading American
play. Prices: Admission sl. 50c. and 25c. Re
served seats 25c. extra, r vats at Butler's Dnc.
12. 9a. is. Next Attraction Heushaw & Ten
Broeck. Dec. 19 and at).
A FREE LECTURE
BY’
HON. T. V. FOWDERLY,
Gene-a! Master Workman K. of L.,
AT
MASONIC TEMPLE, .
TUESDAY, [DECEMBER 16,
AT 8 F*. M.
Seats Reserved for Ladies.
RAN ix.
! JOB-rrWF.El>.—'jisiVT."j{.'"wlEjßld’
President. Vice President.
JAS. H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK & TRUST CO.
Savings Dep’t
ALLOWS 40
Deposits cf SI and Upward Racaived.
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
DIRECTORS:
Joseph D. Wekd, of J. D. Weed & Go.
John C. Rowland, Capitalist.
C. A. Reitze, Exchange aud Insurance.
John I. Hardke. Capitalist.
R. G. Erwin, of Chisholm, Krwin Jfc dußigncn
Edward Kakow. of Strauss A Cos.
Isaac G. Haas, Genera! Broker.
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y. & D. L Maclntyre.
John Lyons, of John Lyons & Cos.
Walter Coney, of Paterson, Downing & Cos.
I). C. Bacon, Lumber.
HOTS us.
THE
DE SOTO,
SAVANNAH, GA
One of the most elegantly appointed hotels
in the world.
Accomodations for 500
Guests.
OPKN ALI, YEAR.
WATSON & POWERS.
PULASKI HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GA.
v. *
Management strictly flrst-claat s *'
TV
Situated in the business ooritef,
* I. w. SCOVILUS.
THE MARSHALL,
SAVANNAH, GA.
EUROPEAN METHOD.
Rooms and Restaurant First-
Class. H. N. FISH, Prop.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
C3ENTRALLY LOCATED on line of street
! cars, offers pleasant south rooms, with
regular or table board at lowest summer rates.
New baths, Eewerage and ventilation perfect,
tbe sanitary condition of the house is of the
best.
Cor. BROUGHTON and DRAYTON STREETS
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.
ißßa-FALL'?I Wim-1831
PRINTIHG AND BINDING,
BLfIMX BOOKS.
Establishment fully furnished with all
necessary TOOLS and MACHINERY,
PAPERS and MATERIALS. Compe
tent Workmen. Established Reputa
tion for Good Work. Additional or*
ders solicited. Estimates furnished.
93>£ BAY STItEET.
GEO. N NICHOLS.
COTTON FACTORS.
Johv Flannery. John 1.. Johksox.
JOHN FLASNEFIY l CO.,
Cotton Factors,
SAVANNAH, GA
Bagging aud Iron ties furnished at lowM.
market rates. Prompt attention K ,v * n eea
business entrusted to us. Liberal cash a
made on consignments of cotton. __
PAINTS ANl> OILS.
JOHN G. BUTLER,
PAINTS; RAILROAD. STEAMER AN i>' • 1 „
SUPPLIES; BAKHK-. DOORS BUhDb A>®
BUILDERS' HARDWARE. bole AgJ
LADD LIME, CALCINED PLASTER, CE.IL
IIAIR AND LAND PLASTER.
140 Congress street and 189 St. Juuxn s
Savannah. Georgia- „,
