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CHURCHES AS HELPERS.
Dr. Talma, ''c Tells W liat a Church
OuMht to Be.
Church Work, Sermons and Music
Should Be Helpful to Individuals.
Tailor-made Ministers and the Min
isters of the Spirit.
Brooklyn, Oct. 15.—The character of
the hymns given out by the Rev. Dr.
Talmape in the Brooklyn tabernacle this
forenoon, called for the unusual power of
congregational singing. organ and cornet,
and the voices of the thousands of
worshippers made the place resound with
music. The subject was. “Helpful
Churches,’’ the text being, Psalms 20: 2:
“Send thee Help from the Sanctuary.”
If you should ask fifty men what the
church is. they would give you fifty
different answers. One man would say,
“it is a convention of hypocrites.”
Another, "It is an assembly of people
who feel themselves a great deal better
than others.” Another. “It is a place for
gossip, where wolverine dispositions de
vour each other.” Another, “it isa place
for the cultivation of superstition and
cant.” Another, “It is an arsenal where
theologians go to get pikes and muskets
and shot.” Another. “It is an art gallery
where men go to admire grand arches,
and exquisite fresco, and musical warble,
and the Dantesque in gloomy imagery.”
Another man would say. “It is the best
place on earth except my own home. If I
forget thee, O, Jerusalem! let my right
hand forget her cunning.”
Now, my friends, whatever the church
is, my text tells you what it ought to be;
a great, practical, homely, omnipotent
help. “Send thee help from the sanctu
ary.” The pew ought to yield restfulness
to the body. The color of the upholstery
ought to yield pleasure to the eye. The
entire service ought to yield strength for
the moil and struggle of every-day life.
The Sabbath ought to be harnessed to all
the six days of the week, drawing them in
the right direction. The church ought
to be a magnet, visibly and mightily af
fecting all the homes of the worshippers.
Every man gets roughly Jostled, gets
abused, gets cut, gets insulted, gets
slighted, gets exasperated. By the time
the Sabbath comes, he has an accumula
tion of six days of annoyance, and that is
a starveling church service which has
not strength enough to take that accu
mulated annoyance and hurl it into perdi
tion. The business man sits down in
church headachey from the week's en
gagements. Perhaps he wishes he had
tarried at home on the lounge with the
newspapers and the slippers. That man
wants to be cooled off, and graciously
diverted. The first wave of the religious
service out to dash clear over the hurri
cane decks, and leave him dripping with
holy and glad and heavenly emotion.
“Send thee help from the sanctuary.”
In the first place, santcuary help ought
to come from the music. A woman dying
in England persisted in singing to the
last moment. The attendants tried to
persuade her to stop, saying it would ex
haust her and make her disease worse.
She answered : “I must sing: lain only
practising for the heavenly choir.” Music
on earth is a rehearsal for music in
heaven. If you and I are going to take
part in that great orchestra it is high
time that we were stringing and thrum
ming our harps. They tell us that Thal
berg and Gottschalk never would go into
a concert until they had first in private
rehearsed, although they were such mas
ters of the instrument. And can it be
that we expect to take a part in the great
oratorio of heaven if we do not rehearse
here? But lam not speaking of the next
world. Sabbath song ought to set all the
week to music. We want not more har
mony, not more artistic expression, but
more volume in our church music.
Now, I,am no worshipper of noise, but
I believe that if our American churches
would with full heartiness of soul and
full emphasis of voice sing tne songs of
Zion, this part of sacred worship would
have tenfold more power than it has now.
Why not take this part of the sacred ser
vice and lift it to where it ought to be!
All the annoyances of life might be
drowned out of that sacred song. l)o you
tell me that it is not fashionable to sing
very loudly ? Then, I say, away with the
fashion. We dam back the great Missis
sippi of congregational singing, and let a
few drops of melody trickle through the
dam. I say, take away the dam, and let
the billows roar on their way to the
oceanic heart of God. Whetherit is fash
ionable to sing loudly or not, let us sing
with all possible emphasis
We hear a great deal of the art of sing
ing, of music as an entertainment, of
music as a recreation. It is high time
we heard something of music as a help,
a practical help. Iu order to do this, we
must only have a few hymns. Mew tunes
and new hymns every Sunday make poor
congregational singing. Fifty hymns are
enough for fifty years. The Episcopal
church prays the same prayers every
Sabbath, and year after year, and century
after century. For that reason they have
the hearty responses. Let us take a hint
from that fact, and let us sing the same
songs Sabbath after Sabbath. Only in
that way can we come to the full force
of this exercise. Twenty thousand years
will not wear out the hymns of Wiliam
Cowper, and Charles Wesley, and Isaac
Watts. Suppose now each person in this
audience has brought all the annoyances
of the last 5(55 aays. Fill this room to the
ceiling with sacred song, and you would
drown out all those annoyances of the
three hundred and sixty-five days, and
you would drown them out forever. Or
gan and cornet are only to marshal the
voice. Let the voice fall into line, and in
companies, and in brigades, by storm
take the obduracy and sin of the world.
If you cannot sing for yourself, sing for
others. By trying to give others good
cheer, you will bring good cheer to your
own heart. When Londonderry, Ireland,
was besieged many years ago, the people
inside the city were famishing, and a
vessel came up with provisions, but the
vessel run on the river bank and stuck
fast. The enemy went down with
laughter and derision to board the vessel,
when the vessel gave a broadside fire
against the enemy, and by- the shock was
turned back into the stream .and all was
well. O. ye who are high and dry on the
rocks of melancholy, give a broadside fire
ol song against your spiritual enemies.
and by- holy rebound you will comeout into
the calm waters. If we want to make
ourselves happy, we must make others
happy. “Mythology tells us of Amphion,
who played his lyre until the moun
tains were moved and the walls of
Thebes arose: but religion has a mightier
story to tell of how Christian song may
build whole temples of eternal .oy, and
lift the round earth into sympathy with
the skies, i tarried many nights in Lon
don, and I used to hear lie hells, the
small bells of the i ity, strike the hour of
i-'-’bt one. two, three, four, and after
they were done striking the hour of night
lli> n the great St. Caul's cathedral
would come into mark the hours, making
tP the other sounds seem utterly insig
nificant in with mighty tongue it an
ln uin and tin- hour of tile night, every
stroke an overmastering taxon. My
fricuds, it was intended that all the
lessor sounds of the world should be
dio . i oil out in the mighty tongue of con
gregational song tx-atmg against the
gates of heaven Do you know how they
mark the hours in heaven? They have no
clocks, as they have no candles but a
great (x-ndulum of hallelujah swinging
n< r'/f heaven from eternity to eternity.
lx those ref use . liiu
V'.'ho fer ko< w oor Gixl;
li a i h UO-llme lisuvei-ly King
’'>!*-< . <pe..a their joys abroad
Aga.i, 1 remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. Of a
thousand people in this or any other
audience, how many want sympathetic
help? Do you guess a hundred ? Do you
guess five hundred! You have guessed
wrong. I will tell you just the propor
tion. Out of a thousand people in tins
audience there are just one thousand who
need sympathetic help. These young
people want it just as much as the old.
The old people sometimes seem to think
they have a monopoly of the rheumatisms,
and the neuralgias, and the headaches,
and the physical disorders of the world ;
but I tell you there are no worse heart
aches than are felt by some of these
young people. Do you know that much of
the work is done by the young? Raphael
died at thirty-seven; Richelieu at thirty
one; Gustavus Adolphus died at
thirty-eight; Innocent 111. came to his
mightiest influence at thirty-seven; Cor
tez conquered Mexico at thirty; Don
John won Lepanto at twcnt.v-five; Gro
tius was attorney-general at twenty four:
and 1 have noticed amid all classes of
men that some of the severest battles
and the toughest work comes before
thirty. Therefore we must, have our ser
mons and our exhortation in prayer-meet
ing all sympathetic with the young.
And so with these people further on in
life. What do these doctors and lawyers
and merchants and mechanics care about
the abstractions of religion ? What they
want is to help to bear the whimsical
ities of patients, the browbeating of legal
opponents the unfairness of customers,
who have plenty of fault-finding for
every imperfection of handiwork, but no
praise for twenty excellences. What does
that brain-racked, hand-blistered man
care for Zwingle's “Doctrine of Original
Sin,” or Augustine’s “Anthropology?”
You might as well go to a man who lias
the pleurisy and put on his side a plaster
made out of Dr. Parr's “Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence.”
While all of a sermon may not be ho p
ful alike to all. if it be a Christian ser
mon, preached by a Christian man, there
will be help for every one somewhere.
We go into an apothecary store. We see
others being waited on ; we do not com
plain because we do not immediately get
the medicine; we know our turn will
come after awhile. And so while all parts
of a sermon may not be appropriate to
our case, if we wait prayerfully before
the sermon is through, we shall have the
divine prescription. 1 say to these young
men who come here Sabbath by Sabbath
and who are going to preach the gospel,
these theological students—l say to them,
we want in our sermons not more meta
physics, nor more imagination, nor more
logic, nor more profundity. What we
want in our sermons and Christian ex
hortations is more sympathy. When
Father Taylor preached in the Sailors’
Bethel at Boston, the jack tars felt that
they had help for their duties among the
ratlines and the forecastles. When Rich
ard Weaver preached to the operatives in
Oldham, England, all the workingmen
felt they hud more grace for the spindles.
When Dr. South preached to kings and
princes and princesses, all the mighty
men and women who heard him felt pre
paration for their high station.
Again I remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come through the prayers of all
the people. The door of the eternal store
house is hung on one hinge, a gold hinge,
the hinge of prayer, arid when the whole
audience lay hold of that door, it must
come open. There are hero many people
spending their first Sabbath after some
great bereavement. What will your prayer
do for them? How will it help the tomb
in that man’s heart! Here are people who
have not been in church before for ton
years: what will your prayer do for them
by rolling over their soul holy memories?
Here are people in crises of awful tempta
tion. They are on the verge of despair,
or wild blundering, or theft, or suicide.
What will your prayer do for them this
morning in the way of giving them
strength to resist? Will you be chiefly
anxious about the fitof the glove that you
put to your forehead while you prayed?
Will you be chiefly critical of the rhetoric
of the pastor’s petition? No. No. A
thousand people will feei "that prayer is
for me,” and at every step of the prayer
chains ought to drop off, and temples of sin
ought to crush into dust, and jubilees of
deliverance ought to brandish their trum
pets. Inmost of our churches we have
three prayers—the opening prayer, whqt
is called the “long prayer,” and the clos
ing prayer. There are many people who
spend the first prayer in arranging their
apparel after entrance, and spend the sec
ond prayer, the “long prayer,” in wishing
it were through, and spend the last
pwi.ver in preparing to start for home.
The most insignificant part of every re
ligious serviceiis the sermon. The more
important parts are the Scripture lesson
and the prayer. The sermon is only a
man talking to man. The Scripture les
son is God talking to man. Prayer is
man talking to God. Oh, if we under
stood the grandeur and the pathos of this
exercise of prayer, instead of being a
dull exercise, we would imagine that the
room was full of divine and angelic ap
pearances.
But, my friends, the old style of church
will not do the work. We might as well
now try to take all the passengers from
Mew York to Buffalo by stage-coach, or
all the passengers from Albany to Buf
falo by caual-boat, or do all the battling
of the world with bow and arrow, as with
the old style of church to meet the exi- n
ciesof this day. Unless the church in
our day will adapt itself to the time, it
will become extinct. The people reading
newspapers and books all the week, in
alert, picturesque, and resounding style,
will have no patience with Sabbath hum
drum. We have no objections to bands
and surplice, and all the paraphernalia of
clerical life; but these things make no
impression—make no more impression on
the .great masses of the people than the
ordinary business suit that you wear in
Wall street. A tailor cannot make a
minister. Some of the poorest preachers
wear the best clothes; and many a back
woodsman has dismounted from the sad
dle-bags, and in his linen duster preached
a sermon that shook earth and heaven
with its Christian eloquence. N T o new
gospel, only the old gospel in a way suited
to the time. Mo new church, but a church
to be the asylum, the inspiration, the
practical sympathy, and the eternal help
of the people.
But while half of the doors of the
church are to be set open towards this
world, the other hall’ of the doors of the
church must be set open toward the next.
You and I tarry here only a brief space.
We want somebody to teach us how to
get out of this life at the right time and
in the right way. Some fall out of life,
some go stumbling out of life, some go
groaning out of life, some go cursing out
of life. We want to go singing, rising, re
joicing, triumphing. We want half the
doors of the church set in that direction.
We want half the prayers that way. half
the sermons that way. We want lo know
how to get ashore from the tumult of this
world into the land of everlasting
peace. We do not want to stand
doubting and shivering when we
go away from this world; we want our
anticipations aroused to the highest pitch.
We want to have the exhilaration of a
dying child in England, the father telling
me the story. When he said to her, “Is
the patli narrow?" she answered, "The
path is narrow; it is so narrow that I
cannot walk arm and arm with Christ,
so Jesus goes ahead, and lie says. Mary,
follow. Through these church gates
set heavenward how many of your friends
I and mine have gone? The last time they
\ wcreoutof the bouse they came to church.
; The earthly pilgrimage ended at the pil
! iar of nubile worship, and then they
marched out to a bigger ami brighter as
semblage Some of them were so old
they could not walk without a caue or
two crutches; now they have eternal
juvenescence. Or tiny were sn young
j they could not walk except as the ina-
Lrmul hand guided tin m; uow they
j bound with the hilarities celestial. The
THE MORNING NEWS: .MONDAY, OCTOBER I<>, 1893.
last time we saw them they were wasted
with malarial or pulmonic disorder; but
; now they have no fatigue, and no diffi
! culty of r< spiration in the pure air of
j heaven. How I wonder when you and I
will cross over! Some of you have had
about enough of the thumping and flailing
j of this life. A draught from the fountains
| of heaven would do you good. Complete
release you could stand very well. If you
: got on the other side, and Tad permission
to come back, you would not come.
Though you were invited to come back
and join your friends on earth, you would
say, "No. let me tarry here until they
eome: I shall not risk going back; if a
man reaches heaven he had better stay
here.”
Oh, I join hands with you this morning
in that uplifted spiendor.
When the shore is won at last.
Who will count the billows past?
In Frevbourg, Switzerland, there is
the trunk of a tree-IDo years old. That tree
was planted to commemorate an eveut.
About ten miles from the citv the Swiss
conquered the Burgundians, and a young
man wanted to take the tidings to the
city. He took a tree branch and ran
with such speed the ten miles, that when
he reached the city waving the tree
branch he had only strength to erv “Vic
tory!” and dropped dead. The tree branch
that he carried was planted, and it grew
to be a great tree twenty feet in .circum
ference. and the remains of it are there
to the day. My hearer, when you have
fought your last battle with sin and death
and hell, and they have been routed in
the conflict, it will be a joy worthy of cele
bration. You will fl.v to the city and
cry “Victory!” and drop at the feet of the
great King. Then the palm branch of the
earthly race will be planted to become
the out-branching tree of everlasting re
joicing.
When shall these eyes thy heaven-built
walls.
And pearly gates behold.
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong.
And streets of shining gold?
WORKING ON A TARIFF BILL.
The Democrats Hope to Report it to
the House Within a Month.
Washington, Oct. 15.—The democratic
members of the ways and means commit
tee hope to have the tariff bill reported
to the House within a month and to have
it pass that body before the holidays.
This indicates that considerable progress
has been made with the bill and
that it is not anticipated that
on the schedules yet to arrange
very much time is to be consumed, as it
will be necessary to have the bill consid
ered by the full committee and the repub
lican members given an opportunity to
make a minority report before the bill is
reported to the House. It has been
known by the republican members of the
committee that great haste was being
made with the bill and that there was
anxiety to get all other press
ing business out of the way in order
that the tariff bill may have a clear field
when it is reported. Members of the
majority say that everybody expects a
change in tariff rates, and it is well for
the business men to know at an early
date what changes may be looked for in
the House bill.
GREAT SECRECY MAINTAINED.
Great secrecy has been enjoined upon
all the members who have the prepara
tion of the tariff bill, because when it is
stated that certain reductions have been
agreed upon, representatives of the in
terests affected are sent to Washington
to argue with the committee against the
proposed changes. Considerable interest
has been manifested by the iron produc
ing states as to what was to be done with
iron ore and it looks very much as
if iron ore would follow coal
on to tho free list. It is
claimeu that the only iron ore imported
or that can be imported, is a little from
Cuba, and perhaps from Spain and from
one or two points iu Canada. The great
iron producing regions along the great
lakes will object to this and will protest,
but it is understood that the claim will
be made that the undeveloped iron mines
of Canada are remote from railroads and
i a not enter into competition with the
best iron producing and best developed
mines on this side of the border.
LEAD ORE TO BE FREE.
Another article that will probably be
restored to the free list is lead ore, which
is imported with other minerals and
when the other ore is the most valuable.
This lead ore is largely imported from
Mexico and is used for smelting.
One Kansas City concern has paid about
$790,000 duty on lead ore so imported
since the McKinley law went into effect.
The smelters on the southwest borders
have also made demands that this duty
be remitted. The mining states, or some
of them, will make an effort to prevent
the restoration of the free lead ore but
it seems to have been determined upon.
Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, who is a
member of the majority of the committee
on ways and means, is trying to have a
graduated income tax made a part of the
tariff bill. If it is not accepted he will
present it to the house in some form. The
young Nebraska statesman thinks he has
solved what is considered the most
objectionable feature of the in
come tax proposition, the inquisi
torial feature. Ho would have
it made the duty of every person
liable to a tax upon his income to go to
the officer and pay it and not subject him
to the annoyance of paying agents of the
government, which has been suggested as
its disagreeable feature. He thinks those
who had* no desire to avoid the payment
of the tax would escape the inquisitiou or
annoyance.
THE PROPOSED TAX RATE.
He will propose a tax on all incomes
above $2,590 at the rate of 1 per cent. 2
per cent, on $5,000, 4 per cent, on SIO,OOO
I 0 per cent, on $25,000 and 10 per cent ou
| $50,000. His plan is to have tho post
masters in cities of 10,900 population or
less collect the income taxes, and in larger
a special income tax collector to be ap
pointed. He has been getting some infor
mation from foreign countries on
this subject and thinks he
| will be able to present the
matter to the House in a manner that
will give the proposition the support of
the majority. He says it solves the ques
tion of raising revenue and gives the
party an opportunity to carry out the
plan of tariff reduction to which it is
pledged. He does not know yet whether
his plan will be accepted by the demo
crats of the ways and means committee,
as it has not yet been discussed at any
great length.
FISHING BOATS WRECKED.
Considerable Damage Done by the
Storm at Punta Gorda.
Punta Gorda, Fla., Oct. 15. -The storm
that lias been blowing for three days has
played havoc with small boats. The
greatest damage was done to fishing
boats, which are wrecked and piled up on
the beach. The wind was continually
shifting from the east, north and west.
It is reported that the excessive rains
and high water during the rainy season
have killed out most of the oysters,on the
Ca|ie Haze oyster beds, the fresh water
coming down Peace and Mvakka rivers
beiu g more or i< ss jioisonous.
Sandlin A, King have established a
schooner line between Punta Gorda and
Mobile. Their first vessel, the Seratiaa
C . is in port, discharging a full cargo.
This schooner was iu the gale at Mobile
and came nut without damage. Business
is. iu every way, improving. The fish
dealers are doing exceptionally well, hav
ing made more clear money so fur this
sea sou than they made all last year.
T ravel i beginning <urly und most of the
I hotels are crowded.
LAST DAYS AT THE FAIR.
Preparations to Have it Wind Dp In a
Blaze of Glory.
Chicago, Oct. 15.—During the week
ending Oct. 14, 2,121,794 people paid to
see the world's fair. It was the banner
week of the exposition thus far. and far
exceeded the attendance for a like period
of any international fair ever held Of
this number, Chicago day contributed
over 700,000 a greater crowd per
haps than ever before congsegated
within an enclosure. Every ef
fort will be made to induce a
large attendance this week and the one
following The big event of this week
will be Manhattan day. which will be
celebrated by Gothamites next Saturday.
New Yorkers are active in their prepara
tions for this event, and big excursions
will begin to arrive in a day or two from
the east. Mayor Gilroy’s official repre
sentative is hero completing the final ar
rangements for the big day.
TO CLOSE IX A BLAZE OF GLORT.
The exposition officials are at work
formulating a plan of closing the fair. An
effort will be made to have President
Cleveland and the members of his cabi
net present and the official life of the ex
position will be terminated in a blaze of
glory.
This week will see the school children
at the fair. The admission fee has been
reduced to 10 cents for girls and
boys under 18 years of age,
which will give every pupil in
public and private schools a chance to see
the beauties of the white city before it is
swe it away. The public schools of Chi
cago will be closed this week, and an
enormous crowd of youngsters is antici
pated.
HEAVY LOBER BY THE STORM.
Forty Miles of the Louisville and
Nashville’s Track Washed Away.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 15.—From advices
received from the officials of the Louis
ville and Nashville from Chief Engineer
Montfort from New Orleans, the line will
be open to New Orleans Tuesday or
Wednesday and shipments may be made
with assurance of prompt delivery. The
damage to the road in the recent storm is
more than can be estimated.
It may reach $500,000. About
forty miles of road has been
practically rebuilt, men being employed
night and day on the work. Not only
were many miles of bridges carried away,
but the embankment was washed out and
no trace of the original road bed was left.
Mr. Montfort has been on the ground
personally supervising the work of about
500 men, since the storm. The road has
suffered greatly from the loss of traffic
during the time of the washout.
A ROLLING MILL INSOLVENT.
Holders of First Mortgage Bonds Ap
ply for a Receiver.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 15. —A petition
has been filed in Floyd circuit court in
M’ew Albany by Paul Keising, E. N.
Hallen, A. Gonesph, Gertrude Strobel,
M. Jacobs Cutter, M. Stoll and others,
praying that a receiver be appointed for
the New Albany Steam Forge and Rolling
Mill Company.
The petitioners hold $5,000 of the first
mortgage bonds issued by the company
secured by a lien on the plant on East
Water street. In their petition the peti
tioners allege that the company has
ceased to do business; that it is insolvent
and unable to pay its debts; othat it has
permitted its policies of fire insurance to
elapse, that its debt is over $150,000, and
that its property is not worth more than
$50,000, the amount of the first mortgage
bonds. The petition will be heard by
Judge H. Floyd to-morrow.
INGERSOLL FOR 81-METALLISM.
He is Not in Favor of Repealing the
Sherman Law Until A Better One is
Framed.
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 15.—Robert G.
Ingersoll, in an interview here said: “I
am and always have been a bi-metallist.
I want a currency that will be good in
every country of the world at any time,
and 1 want to see the day when it can be
relied upon that, however threatening
the financial aspect, there will always be
plenty of money. lam afraid that such a
time is a long way off, however. I have
never been in favor of the Flierman law,
but Ido not think it should be repealed
until some bettet measure can be substi
tuted.”
A MAIL CAR BURNED.
The Train Bowling Along Near Chip
pewa Falls When the Fire Started.
Chippewa Falls, Wis., Oct. 15.—The
through mail car from Chicago to St.
Paul caught fire from a lamp early this
morning when the train was about ten
miles east of here. The car was a combi
nation mail and express and the car and
most of its contents were destroyed. The
value of the mail destroyed is not known.
“ZIMMIE” WON’T BE HERE.
He Has Gone to Springfield to Try for
Records.
New York, Oct. 15. —Zimmerman, the
world's champion cyclist, who was to
have left yesterday for Savannah to race
iu the southern meet this week, has gone
to Springfield to try for the records there.
Zimmerman was entered for tho southern
races and was expected to smash the rec
ord on the Savannah track.
A Suit Against the Olympic Club.
New Orleans, Oct. 15. —The first step
towards preventing the Mitchell-Corbett
fight taking place here will be a suit be
gun Monday against the Olympic club for
$12,000 taxes.
Frost at Johnston.
Johnston, Ga.. Oct. 15.—A light frost,
the first of the season, occurred in this
vicinity last night. Another frost is ex
pected to-night.
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V. M. Hose
•• I was troubled with terrible rain 1° ni J
back amt also lud kidney difficulty.
For 27 Years I Suffered.
I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla and began to get
belter. 1 fiavs not had un nttaek since 1 be
gin to use It. I wai also cured of eaUrrh
in .’.is bead and am now In good health.'*
D. Id. Hoax, Denison,
Hood's Pills Mil
and eOcitoUy. ou the liver aud bowel*. Ufc
A SDIT OVER A BIG ESTATE.
A Dead Man’s Wife Out Out of Her
Share on the Ground That He Was
Insane.
San Francisco, Oct. 15.—The Chronicle
says: “There is being prepared for ad
justment before the supreme court of
Arizona a case which involves a $500,000-
estate. left by the late John D. Walker,
who died in the Napia Insane asylum.
Shorty before his death, Walker
married a Miss Rice, but was
put in an insane asylum by his brothers,
William Walker, of Pasadena and Lucian
Walker of Los Angeles. His wife claimed
a share of the estate, but the Arizona
court declared the marriage illegal be
cause it was said Walker wrs insane at
the time the marriage was contracted.
Mrs. Walker will appeal the case to the
supreme court.”
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FOR INDIGESTION
f SIMMONS !
LO- , - ■■ 1
And its attendant evils:
Headache, Biliousness, Constipation,
Piles, Lassitude, etc.
Safe to take in any condition of the system.
Absolutely free from mercury or any injuri
ous mineral ingredient.
•My wife suffered for many years with in
digestion. I must admit after trying every
thing else recommended to me I tried Sim
mons Liver Regulator. She can now eat
anything she wants without any of her previ
ous symptoms."— W. C. Scbebs, Batnbridge,
Ga.
Demand the genuine, which has the red Z
on front of Wrapper, prepared only by
J. H. ZEILIN & CO.,
Sole Proprietors, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
ROYALL.—The relatives and friends of
Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Royall are invited to at
tend the funeral of their infant son,
Charles Dunham at Laurel Grove Ceme
tery at 3:30 o’clock THIS AFTERNOON.
SCHTJLT — l The relatives and friends of P.
N. Schult and family are invited to attend
the funeral of their youngest daughter. Cora,
THIS MORNING at 10 o'clock, from the cor
ner of Burroughs and Second avenue.
WILKINSON.— The friends and acquaint
ance of Mrs. A. E. Wilkinson are requested
to attend the funeral of her daughter. Helen,
at 3:30 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON from 183
Duffy street.
_
DE KALB LODGE No. 9,1. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will beheld
THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock, In Odd Fellows
Hall.
Visiting brothers are invited to meet with
us. D. A. HARRIS, N. G
Jno. W. Smith, Secretary.
LADIES’ AUXILIARY.
A regular meeting of the Ladles’ Auxiliary
of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association
will be held THIS AFTERNOON at 4 o’clock,
at the Sunday school room of Mlckva Israel.
By order of THE PRESIDENT.
ANNUAL MEETING
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement
Company.
The annual meeting of the shareholders
(Series A and B), will be held at Odd Fellows
Hall on THURSDAY EVENING, 19th Inst.,
at 7:30 o’clock.
The election of officers and other business
of importance will be transacted. It is de
sirable that every shareholder be repre
sented, either In person or by written proxy.
J. H. ESTILL, President.
M. J. Solomons, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SEASONABLE GOODsT~
Fragrant nose warmers,
LE PANTO CIGARS.
I sell them at B cents a piece.
E. L. MASTICK,
Price and Harris streets.
NOTICE.
All bills against Italian bark CORTESIA
and German hark CARL must be presented
at our offleebefore 12 o’clock m. TO-DAY, or
payment will be debarred.
J. F. MINIS A CO.. Agents.
NOTICE
All persons are hereby cautioned against
trusting or harboring any of the crew of Nor
wegian barks HENRIETTE and TROS, as no
bills of their contracting will be paid by
either masters or
J. F. MINIS A CO., Agents.
MME. DESBOUILLONS,
Having returned from New York, will open
her Fall and Winter Novelties in Millinery on
MONDAY and TUESDAY.
PILOT BOAT FOR SALE.
We offer the Pilot Booat ROBERT H.
COWAN for sale. She is in good condition.
Tonnage 25 tons. Will be sold reasonable.
FRED W. HOYT A CO.,
Agents for Owners,
Fernandina, Fla.
COLD WEATHER
Is upon us. Negligee shirts are laid on the
shelf for the season.
Have your shirts, collars and cuffs and all
other laundry work done at the
SAVANNAH STEAM LAUNDRY,
131 Congress Street,
The Leader of Fine Laundry Work ]
M. PRAGER,
Telephone 383. Proprietor.
nurses.
Nu-scs for the sick, white and colored, who
have changed their residence, please notify
us. Those who haie not registered can do so.
We make no charge for registering. The Hat
Is always open to the public
SOLOMONS A CXI.,
Branch Store. Bull and Charlton streets
Under Savannah Volunteer Guards Anuory
AMUSEMENTS.
TUESDAY NIGHT, OCT. 17.
The Charming Comedienne,
PATTI ROSA,
Aided by JOHN D. GILBERT. JOE CAW
THORN. and a superb contingent of
players, in Chas. T. Vincent's
Jolly Comedy,
“MISS DIXIE;”
Or Hypnotism rewritten and refreshed in
every particular.
Seats at Livingston s drug store Oct. 14.
Next Attraction—“ The Dazzler." Oct. 19.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
THURSDAY, OCT. 19, 1893.
BETTER THAN EVER.
IN ITS FOURTH YEAR.
Cosgrove & Grant's Comedians
In the Favorite Farce Comedy,
THE DAZZLER
With JOS. A. OTT, ANNIE LEWIS,
The Original Clipper Quartette,
And 20—others—20 to make it merry.
Seats for sale at Livingston’s 17th.
Next Attraction—" Dr. Hill,” 20 and 21.
SPECIAL NOTICES. ~
The Savannan Wheelmen (after lots of
hard work) will give the people of Savannah
and vicinity sn opportunity to see some fine
bicycle races on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 16th and 17th. at Bicycle Park. We want
you all to come and make the meet a financial
success. Zimmerman, Wheeler, Banker,
Murphy and other celebrated riders will be
here to make the races interesting.
NOTICE.
Office Board of Sanitary Comm rs, |
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 18.1893. (
Citizens aro earnestly requested to co-op
erate with the health authorities in sustain
ing a rigid quarantine against Brunswick. It
is necessary for the preservation of our health
that all persons from Brunswick be kept out
of the city, and citizens are requested to aid
the authorities in apprehending suspects who
may be in the city at the present time, or
those who may in the future evade quarantine
and enter the city.
All persons are warned against harboring
people from Brunswick under penalty of the
law. All persons are also warned against
spreading false rumors as to the existence of
yellow fever In this city, and all good citizens
should report to the city authorities the
authors of all such reports so damaging to
our every interest.
JNO. J. MCDONOUGH, Chairman.
W. F. Brunner, Secretary.
C. B. HUIET A CO.,
COTTON,GRAIN, PROVISIONS, STOCKS,
99 Bay street.
Board of Trade Building.
Representing Atwood. Violett & Cos., New
York and New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
Damson Bros., & Cos., Chicago Board of Trade
and Purnell Hagaman & Cos., New York
Stock Exchange.
Telephone 164.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
City Treasurer’s Office, I
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 1, 1893. (
The following taxes are now due:
REAL ESTATE, third quarter, 1893.
STOCK IN TRADE, third quarter. 1893.
FURNITURE, ETC., third quarter. 1893.
MONEY NOTES ETC., third quarter, 1893.
A discount of ten per cent, will be allowed
upon all of the above if paid within fifteen
days after October first.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
WATER RENT NOTICE.
City Treasuher's Office, |
Savannah, G A., Sept 30, 1893. (
Water rent In advance for the six months
ending Dec. 31 is past due since the first of
July. Delinquents are requested to call and
pay without delay, otherwise the supply
of water will be shut off without further no
tice. C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
PROCLAMATION.
City of Savannah Mayor s Office. I
Savannah. Ga., Sept 13, 1893. f
On account of the prevalence of yellow
fever in the city of Brunswick, Ga., and for
the purl oie of protecting the people of Sa
vannah therefrom, a rigid quarantine is now
hereby declared against the city of Bruns
wick and against all other p aces and dis
tricts in the state of Georgia which may be
come infected with yellow fever. •
No persons. 1 a igage, cars, boats, vessels,
freights or packages of any kind from Bruns
wick, or any other infected place in the state
of Georgia, will be allowed to enter the city
of Savannah except persons and baggage
from United States camp of detention near
WaynesvlUe and holding certificate of officer
commanding same.
No malls from said places, unless and until
disinfected under regulations from the United
States postal authorities, will te allowed to
enter Savannah.
Persons from other points must provide
themselves with prper health certificates or
they will not be allowod lo enter the cjty.
This quarantine will cohtlnue in force until
further notice.
The officers, agents and all persons in
charge of railreads, steamboats, express com
panies and other means of public conveyance,
are requested to assist In enforcing this quar
antine.
Given under my hand an 1 official signature
and seal of said city at the city of Savannah,
Georgia, this thirteenth day of September,
eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
JNO. J. MCDONOUGH. Mayor.
Attest: F. E. Kebaber. Clerk of Council.
NOTICE.
City of Savannah. i
Office Board Sanitary Commissioners -
Sept 13. 1893. '’ (
The following resolution was pissed at a
meeting of the Board of Sanitary Coin mis'
sioners. held this day, and is published for
Information of all concerned:
Resolved. That all persons who have come
into this city from Brunswick since yeiliw
fever made its appear; n'e in said city, be re
quired to report to the health officer, to whom
they shall state ; n ier what circumstances
they came to this city.
Resolved, further, That all persons who
have come into thiscity from Brunswick since
September 9th be requiri and to leave Savanna:;
Immediately with all their luggage
JOHN J. MCDONOUGH, Chairman.
\V. F. Brunner. Health Officer.
NOTICE.
CITY OF SAVANNAH, I
Mayor s Offior, Sept. 18. ihss. f
Yellow fever has teen declared epidemic at
Brunswick, and the citizens of that 111 fated
city are In distress and need the necessaries of
life. A subscription list Is now open at the office
of the Clerk of Council, where cash subscrip
tion* nd all other donations *'lll he received.
Packages of all kinds donated for the cuffer
ers will be sent to Brunswick bythe.S .F. &
W. Railway free of charge
JOHN J MoDONOI’OH. Mayor.
Attest; K. E. Uxhauem. Clerk of Council
SHOES.
CONFIDENCE
IS THE ’
great
LINCH FIN
That holds you and us to
gether in
BUSINESS
RELATIONS.
When SfifJFf 3 Give you
we lj|l EL a most
take your fm § satisfactory
money M ■ fca equivalent,
TRY US FOR
SHOES!
lives BROS,
17 WHITAKER ST.
BANKS.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH. GA.
INTEREST AT
4%
OK DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART*
MJENT.
Collections on Savazumh and all south*
era points* we handle on the most favors*
ble terms and remit at lowest exchange
rates on day of payment. Correspoui*
uc solicited.
JOSFFH D. WEED, President.
JOHN C. HOWLAND, Vice PresldMA
JAMES H. titNTJL.It, Cashier.
Savannah Savings Bank,
CORNER ST. JULIAN AND WHITAKER
STREETS.
RECEIVES DEPOSITS OF 25c.
and upward, and allow. 5 PER CENT.
INTEREST on deposits* compounded
quarterly.
Loans made on Stocks, Bonds and Real
Estate.
Kents boxes in its safety deposit vault
open until 6 o'clock p. m-
Bank open mornings from 0 till 2i
Saturdays 4 till 8 o'clock.
W. K. WILKINSON, President.
C. S. ROCKWELL, Treasurer. __
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital $500,000.
Transacts a general banking business.
Maintains a Savings Department and si*
lows INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., com
pounded quarterly.
The accounts*of individuals, firms, bankl
and corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspond*
ent. in GEORGIA, ALABAMA,FLORIDA
and SOUTH CAROLINA, wo aro prepared
to handle collection, on the uio.t favor.-
ble terms.
Correspondence invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK. President.
M. It. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
SPECIALIST.
Dr. Broadfoot,
SPECIALIST.
GIVES
Ff \ Examination
M Consults
tion
iind Advice
nfiJ// FREEOF
M\' A' • CHARGE.
PRACTICE LIMITED.
Special attention to the following
Diseases of Women (painless n
of treatment), Specific Blood I oi**‘ •
Nervous Debility, specific l rethr/tis.
eases of Kidue.v and Bladder ,*.*[ r , r *,
eases. Kczema, Psoriasis, Pi^.pies. I I'*
etc. . xi.
All busine* sir-otly
cities sent ftce from observation
call on
Atlantic Medical and Surgical fi
136 Broughton street. Si.. acnah,
WEDDINGS.
Wedding Invitations and cards
engraven at the suortest notice an *JP
finest styles. *Ve carry anexieu*> v '',
selected stock ot tine papers, envelop j
curd, especially for such orders,
sent on application.
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