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TALMAGE ON AQUATICS,
fit Makes “Unsafe Lifeboats’’ the
Subject of a Timely Sermon.
The Performances of the Vigilant and
the Valkyrie, and of Grace Darling,
and the Camperdown, and the Maid
of the Mist Made to Illustrate and
Bear Out the Story of the Old Ship
of Zion.
Brooklyn, Oct. 22.—After preaching on
nearly different subjects, and being
closely followed by the printing press for
about twenty-five years, liev. I)r. Tal
iniipc still seems to find new subjects that
have never been preached on. This' fore
noon he chose for his subject: “Unsafe
Lifeboats.” The text being: Acts 27:32,
“Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of
tho l>oat, and let her fall off.’’
While your faces ace yet somewhat
bronzed by attendance on the inter
national boat contest between the Vigi
lant and Valkyrie, I address you. Good
things, when there is no betting or dissi
pation, those out-door sports. We want
more fresh air and breeziness in our tem
peraments and our religion. A stale and
slow and lugubrious religion may have
done for other times, yet will not do for
these. But my text calls our
attention to a boat of a different
sort, and instead of the Atlantic, it
is the Mediterranean, and instead of not
wind enough, as the crews of the Vigi
lant and Valkyrie the other day com
plained, there is too much wind and the
swoop of a Kuroclydon. I am not call
ing your attention so much to the famous
ship on which Paul was the distinguished
passenger, but to the life boat of that ship
which no one seems to notice. For a fort
night the main vessel had been tossed and
driven. For that two weeks, the account
Bays, the passengers had “continued fast
ing.” I supiKise the salt water, dashing
over, had spoiled the sea-biscuit, and the
passengers wore seasick anyhow. Tho
sailors said, “It is no use; this ship must
go down,” and they proposed among
themselves to lower the lifeboat and get
into it, and take the chances
for reaching shore, although they pro
tended they were going to get over the
sides of the big ship and down into
the lifeboat only to do sailors’ duty. That
was not sailor-like, for the sailors that I
have known were all intrepid fellows, and
would rather go down with the ship than
do sueh a mean thing as those Jack Tars
of my text attempted. When on the
Mediterranean last June the Victoria
sank under the ram of the Camperdown,
the most majestic thing about that awful
scene was that all the sailors staid at
their posts doing their duty. Asa class
all over the world sailors are valorous, but
these sailors of the text were exceptional
and pretended to do duty while they
were really preparing for flight in tho
lifeboat. But these "Marines” on board
—sea-soldiers -had in especial charge a
little missionary who was turn
ing the world upside down, and when
these marines saw the trick the sailors
were about to play, they lifted the cut
lasses from the girdle and chop! chop!
went those cutlasses into the ropes that
held the lifeboat, and splash 1 it dropped
into the sea. My text describes it: “The
soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat,
and let her lull off.” As that empty life
boat dropped and was capsized on a sea
where for two weeks winds and billow's
had been in battle. I think that many on
board the main vessel felt their last hope
of ever reaching home had vanished. In
that tempestuous sea a small boat could
not have lived five minutes.
My subject is “Unsafe Lifeboats.” We
cannot exaggerate tho importance of tho
lifeboat. All honor to the memory of
Lionel Lpkin. the coach-builder of Long
Acre, London, who invented the first
lile boat, and Ido not blame him for or
dering put upon his tombstone in Kent
the inscription that you may still road
there:
“This Lionel Lukin was the first who
built a lifeboat, and was the original in
ventor of that principle of safety, by
which many lives and much property
lia\e been preserved from shipwreck:
and ho obtained for it tho king’s pat
ent iu the year 1785.”
All honor to the memory of Sir William
Hillary, who living in the Isleof Man, and
after assisting with his own hands in tho
rescue of 305 liv es of the shipwrecked,
stirred the English Parliament to quick
action in the construction of lifeboats.
Thanks to God for tho sublime and pa
thetic and divine mission of the lifeboat.
Iso one will doubt its imimrtaiit mission
who has read of the wreck of the Amazon
in the Bay of Biscay; of the Tweed run
ning ou the rccf3 of the tJulf of Mexico,
or of the Ocean Monarch on the coast of
"Wales, or of the Birkenhead on the Capo
of Good Hope, or of the Koyal Charter on
the coast ol Anglesea, or of the Exmouth
on the Scotch breakers, or of the Cambria
on the Irish coast, or of the Atlantic on
the rocks of Nova Scotia, or of the lex
iugton on Long Island Sound. To
add still further to the imi>ortanco of
the lifeboat, remember there are at least
three million uien following the sea, to
say nothing of the uncounted millions
this moment ocean passengers. We
“land-lubbers,’’ as sailors call us, may
not know the difference between a mar
linspiko and a ring bolt, or anything
alout heaving a log, or rigging out a fly
ing jib boom, or furling a top-sail, but we
all realize, to greater or less extent, the
importance of a lifeboat in every marine
equipment. But do we feel the im
portance of a lifeboat in the matter of the
soul’s rescue? There are times when we
all feel that we are out at sea. and as .
many disturbing and anxious questions I
strike us as waves struck that vessel, i
against the sides of which the lifeboat of i
i i.v text dangled. Questions about the 1
church. Questions about the world. j
Questions about God. Questions about
our eternal destiny. Every thinking
man and woman have these ques
tions. and. in proportion as they are
thinking people, do these questions arise.
There is no wrong in thinking. If God
hud uot intended us to thiuk and keep on
thinking, he would not have built under
this wheel-house of the skull this tliink
ingmaebiue, which halts uot in itsrevolu- !
lions from cradle to grave. Even the j
midnight does not stop the thinking ma
chine. for when we arc in dreams, wo ar#
thinking, although we do not thiuk as
tvi-U. All of us who are accustomed to
thinking w ant to reach some solid shore
of safetv and satisfaction, and if any one
has a good lifeboat that we may honor
ably take. 1 wish lie would unswing it
from the davits and let us get into it and
put for shore. But I give you fair notice,
1 must first examine the lifeboat before 1
risk nay soul in it or advise you to risk
your soul in it. All the spl-nuid Kams
gate lifeboats an 1 Margate lifeboats and
South Shields lifeboats and American
lifeboats w ere tested before being put
into practical use. as to their buoyancy
and speed, and stowage and self-righting
capa ity. And when you offer my sou! a
lift boat 1 must first test it.
Here is a splendid net.- lifeboat called
Theosophy. it tins only a little while
been launched, although some of the
planks are really . vent, thousand years
old. am, from a worm-eaten ship, but they
are painteti over and look new. They are
really Fatalism and Pantheism of olden
time. But we must forget that and eail
them Theosophy. The Grace Darling
ol ibis iifelxjai was an oars woman by the
name of Madame liluvatskv, but the
Oarswornau now is Annie Besant. So
many art getting aboard the bout, it is
wni th v of ■ vu m j !; :ition. fco’.h because of
Inc safely of those who have entered it
nau uocause weourseives ace invited to get
in. Its theory is that everything is God.
Horse and star and tree and man are
parts of God. We have throe souls An
animal soul, a human soul, a spiritual
soul. The animal soul becomes, after
awhile, a wandering tiling trying to ex
press itself through mediums. It enters
beasts, or enters a human being, and
when you find an effeminate man. it is
because a woman’s soul has got into the
man, and when vou find a masculine
woman, it is because a mans soul has
taken i>ossession of a woman's body. If
you find a woman has become a platform
speaker and likes polities, she is possessed
by a dead politician, who forty .t ears ago
made the platform quake. The soul
keeps wandering on and on. and may
have fifty or innumerable different forms,
and finally is absorbed in God. It was
God at the start and will be God at the
last. But who gives the authority for
the truth of such a religion? Some be
ings living in a cave in Central Asia.
They are invisible to the naked eye, but
they cross continents and sens in a flash.
My Baptist brother, Dr. Haldeman, says
that a Theosophist in New York was
visited by one of these mysterious beings
from Central Asia. The gentleman knew
it from the fact that the mysterious being
left his pocket-handkerchief, embroidered
with his name and Asiatic residence.
The most wonderful achievement of the
Theosophists is that they keep out of the
insane asylum. They prove the truth of
the statement that no religion ever an
nounced was so absurd but it gained dis
ciples. Societies in the United States
and England and other lands have been
established for the promulgation of
Theosophy. Instead of needing the reve
lation of a Bible, .you can have these
spirits from a cave in Central Asia to tell
you all you ought to know, and after you
leave this life you may become a
prima donna or a robin or a gazelle or a
sot or a prize fighter or a Herod or a
Jezebel, and so be enabled to have great
variety of experience, rotating through
the universe, now' rising, now falling, now
shot out in a straight line, and now de
scribing a parabola, and on and on, and
up and up, and down and down, and
round and round. Don’t you see? Now,
that 'J’heosophic lifeboat has been
launched. It proposes to take you off the
rough sea of doubt into everlasting qui
etude. How do you like that lifeboat?
My opinion is you had better imitate the
mariners of my text, and cut off the ropes
of that boat and let her fall off.
Another lifeboat tempting us to enter is
made up of many planks of Good Works.
It is really a beautiful boat—alms giving,
practical sympathies for human suffering,
righteous words and righteous deeds. 1
must admit I like the looks of the prow
and o*the row-locks and of the paddles
and of tho steering gear and of many who
are thinking to trust themselves on her
benches. But the trouble about that
lifeboat Is, it leaks. I never knew a man
yet good enough to earn heaven by his
virtues or generosities. If there be one
person here present on this blessed Sab
bath all of whose thoughts have been al
ways right, all of whose actions have
always been right, and all of whose words
have always been right, let him stand up,
or if already standing, let him lift his
hand, and I will know that he lies. Paul
had it about right when he said: “By
tho deeds of the law shall no flesh living
be justified.” David had it about right
when he said: “There is none that doeth
good ; no, not one.” The Old Book had it
about right when it said: “All have
sinned, and come short of the glory of
God.” Let a man get off of that little
steamer called “Maid of the Mist," which
sails up to the foot of Niagara Falls, and
then climb to the top of the falls on tho
descending floods, for he can do it easier
than any man ever will be able to climb
to heaven by his good works. If your
thoughts have always been exactly right,
and your words exactly right, and your
deeds always exactly right, you can go up
to the gate of heaven; and you need not
even knock for admittance, but open
it yourself, and push the angels out of
your way, and go up and take one of tho
front seats. But you would be so unlike
any one else that has gone up from this
world that you would be a curiosity in
heaven, atul more fit for a heavenly
museum than for a place where the in
habitants could look at you free of
charge. No. sir, I admire your good
works, and that lifeboat you are thinking
of trusting in is handsomer than any
yawl or pinnace or yacht or cutter that
ever sped out of a boat house or hoisted
sail for a race. But she leaks. Trust
your soul in that, and you will go to tho
bottom. She leaks. So I imitate the
mariners of the text, and with a cutlass
st rike tlie ropes of the boat and let her
fall off.
Another lifeboat is Christian Inconsist
encies. The planks of this boat are com
posed of the split planks of shipwrecks.
That prow is made out of hypocrisy from
the life of a man who professed one thing
and really was another. One oar of this
lifeboat was the falsehood of a church
member, and the other oar was the wick
edness of some minister of the gospel,
whose iniquities were not fora long while
fouud out. Not one plank from the oak of
God's eternal truth in all that lifeboat.
All the planks, by universal admission,
are decayed and crumbling and fallen
apart, and rotten and ready to sink.
"Well, well,” you say. “No one will
want to got into that lifeboat.” Oh. my
friend, you are mistaken. That is the
most popular lifeboat over constructed.
That is the most popular lifeboat ever
launched. Millions of people want to get
into it. They jostle each other to get the
best seat in the boat. You could not
keep them back though you stood
at the gunwales, with a club, as on our
ship "Greece” in a hurricane, and
the steerage passengers were de
termined to come up on deck, where
they would have been washed off, and
the officers stood at the top of the stairs
clubbing them back. Even by such vio
lence as that you could not keep people
from jumping into the most popular life
boat, made of church-member inconsist
encies. In times of revival, when sin
ners tiock into the inquiry room, the most
of them are kept from deciding aright be
cause they know so many Christians who
arc bad. The inquiry room becomes a
world’s fair for exhibition of all
the frailties of church mem
bers, so that if you believe all is
there told you, you would be afraid to
enter a church, lest you get your pockets
picked or get knocked down. This is the
way they talk: "1 was cheated out of
£50(1 by a leader of a Bible class." "A
Sunday school teacher gossiped about me,
and did her best to destroy m.v good
name.” "I had a partner in business who
swamped our business concern by his
trickery, and then rolled up his eyes in
Friday night prayer meeting, as though
he was looking for Elijah’s chariot to
make a second trip and take up another
passenger.” But what a cracked and
water-logged and gaping-seemed lifeboat
the inconsistencies of others. But me on
a shingle mid-Atlantic and leave me
there, rather than in such a yawl of spirit
ual confidence. God forbid that 1 should
get aboard It, and lest some of you make
the mistake of getting into it. i do as the
mariners did on that Mediterranean ship
when the sailors were about to get into
the unsafe lifeboat of the text and lose
their lives in that way. “Then the sol
diers cut off the ropes of the boat, and
It t her fall off."
"Well," -ays someone, "this subject is
very discouraging, for we must have a
lifeboat, if we are ever to gel ashore, and
you have already condemned three."
Ah, it is because 1 want to persuade you
to take the only safe lifeboat. 1 will not
allow you to bo deceived and get on to
the wild waves ami then capsize or sink.
Thank God. there is a lifeboat that will
take >ou ashore in safety. as sure as (iod
is God ami heaven is heaven 'J'he io < I
and ribs of this Isiat are made out of a
tree that was set up on a bluff hack of
Jerusalem a good many year* ago. Both
of tlu* oats are made out of the same
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1893.
I tree. The row-locks are made out of the
same tree. The steering gear Is made
out of the same tree. Tho planks of it
wore hammered together by the ham
mers of executioners, who thought they
were only killing a Christ, but wore
really pounding together an escape for all
imperiled souls of all ages. It is an old
boat, but good as new, though it has been
carrying passengers from sinking ships to
firm shore for ages, amt has never lost a
passenger. These old Christians begin to
smile because it is dawning' u|>on them
what I mean. Tho fact is that in this
way years ago they got off a wreck them
selves, and I do not wonder they smile.
It is not a senseless giggle that means
frivolity, but it is a smile like that on the
face of Christians the moment they leave
earth for heaven, yea, like the
smile of God himself when he
had completed the plan for saving the
world.
Right after that big tumble of the At
lantic ocean six or seven weeks ago, on the
beach at East Hampton, linet the captain
of the life-saving station and said: "Cap
tain, do you think a lifeboat could live in
a sea like that?” Although the worst of
it was over, the captain replied: “No, I
do not think it could.” But this lifeboat
of which I s]teak can live in any sea and
defies all breakers, and all cyclones, and
all equinoxes, and all earth, and all hell.
In twenty years the life-saving apparatus
along our Atlantic coast saved the lives of
over 45,000 of the shipwrecked, but this
lifeboat that I commend, has saved
in twenty years hundreds of mil
lions of the shipwrecked. Like
those newly invented English life
boats, it is insubmcrgeable, self-righting
and self-baling. All along our rocky
American coast things were left to
chance for centuries, and the ship
wrecked crawled up on the beach to die
unless someone happened to walk along
or some fisherman’s hut might be near.
But after the ship Ayrshire was wrecked
at Squari Beach, and the Powhatan left
her 800 dead strewed along our coast, and
another vessel went on the rocks, 400
lives perishing, the United States gov
ernment woke up and made an appropria
tion of *200,000 for life-saving stations,
and life-lines from faking-box are shot
over the wild surf, and hawsers are
stretched from wreck to shore, and what
with Lyle’s gun and six-oared surf-boat,
with cork at tho sides to make
it unsinkuble, and patrolmen all
night long walking the beach until
they meet each other and exchange
metal tickets, so as to show the en
tire beach has been traversed, and the
sufferer, and surfmen, encased in Merri
man life-saving dress, and life-car rolling
on the ropes, there are many probabilities
of rescue for the unfortunate of the sea.
But the government of the united heavens
lias made better provision for the rescue
of our souls. So close by that this
moment we can put our hand on its top
and swing into it. is this gospel lifeboat.
It w ill not take you more than a second
to get into it.
But while in my text we stand watch
ing tlie marines with their cutlasses, pro
paring to sever the ropes of the life boat
and let her fall off. notice the poor equip
ment. Only one lire boat. Two hundred
and seventy-six passengers, as Paul
counted them, and only one life boat. My
text uses the singular and not the plural.
“Cut off the ropes of the boat.” I do
not suppose it would have held more
than thirty people, though loaded to the
water's edgo. I think by marine law all
our modern vessels have enough life
boats to hold all the crew and all the
passengers in case of emergency, but the
marines of my text were standing by the
only boat, and that a small boat, and yet
two hundred and seventy-six passengers.
But what tin-ills me through and through
is the fact that though we are wrecked
by sin and trouble, and there is only one
lifeboat, that boat is large enough to hold
all who are willing to got into it. The
gospel hymn expresses it :
All may come, whoever will.
This Man receives poor sinners still.
But I must haul in that statement a little.
Room for all in that, lifeboat, with just
one exception. Not you; ldo not mean
you, but there is one exception. There
have been cases where ships were in
trouble and the captain gotall the passen
gers and crew into tho lifeboats, but
there was not room for the captain. He,
through the sea-trumpet, shouted:
“Shove off now and pull for the
beach. Good-by,” and then the
captain, with pathetic and sub
lime self-sacrifice, went down with the
ship. So the captain of our salvation,
Christ the Lord, launches the gospel life
boat, and tells us all to get in. hut he
perishes. “It behooved Christ to suffer.”
Was it not so, ye who witnessed his
agonizing expiration? Simon of C.yrene,
was it not so? Cavalry troops, whose
horses pawed the dust at the crucifixion,
was it not so? Ye Marys who swooned
away with the sun of the mid-day heav
ens, was it not so? “By his stripes we
are healed.” By his death we live. By
his sinking in the deep sea of suffering
we get oft in a safe lifeboat. Yes, we
must put into this story a little of our
own personality,c We had a ride iu that
very lifeboat from foundered craft to
solid shore.
Ouce on the raging seas I rowed.
The storm was loud, the night was dark,
The ocean yawned and rudely Plow'd
The wind that tossed my foundering bark.
But I got into the gospel lifeboat, and I
got ashore. No religious speculation for
me. These higher criticism fellows do
not bother me a bit. You may ask mo
fifty questions about the sea and about
the land, and about the lifeboat, that I
cannot answer, but one thing I know: I
am ashore, and I am going to stay ashore,
if the Lord, by his grace, will help me. I
feel under me something so firm that I
try it with my right foot, and try it with
my left foot, and then I try it with both
feet, and it is so solid that 1 think it must
Ito what tho old folks used to call the
Hock of Ages. And be my remaining
days on earth many or few, 1 am going to
spend my time in recommending the life
boat which fetched me here, a poor sin
ner saved by grace, and in swinging the
cutlasses to sever the ropes of any
unsafe lifeboat and let her fall
off. My hearer, without asking any
question, get into the gospel lifeboat.
Room! and yet there is room! The big
gest boat on earth is the gospel lifeboat.
You must remember the proportion of
things, and that the shipwrecked craft is
the whoie earth, and tlu- lifeboat must be
in proportion. You talk about your
(’.tin. auias. and your Lueanias, and your
Majesties, and your City of New Yorks,
but all of them put together are smaller
than nu Indian's cunoe on Schroon Ixike
compared with this gospel lifeboat, that
is large enough to lake in all nations.
Room for one, and room for all. Get
in! “How’ how?" you ask. Well, I
know how you feel, for summer before
last, on the sea of Finland, I had the same
experience. The ship in which we
salted could not venture nearer
than a mile from shore, where
stood the Russian palace of Peterhof. and
we had to get into a small boat and ho
rowed ashore. The water was rough,
and as we went down the ladder at the
si-lc of the ship, we held firmly on to the
railing, but in order to get into the boat,
wo had at last to let go. How did 1 know
that the boat was good and that the oars
men were sufficient How dii 1 know
that the Fiudlau.l sea would not swallow
us with one opening of It* crystal jaws’
We had to trust, and we did trust, and
our trust was well rewarded. In the
same way get into this gos|>el lifeboat.
Let go! As long as you hold on to any
other hope, you are Imperiled and vo'u
get no advantage from the lifeboat. Let
go ! l)o s settle one here say, "1 guess I
will hold oil a little to my good works, or
to a pious parvnLag) ,or to .oaic-lhing 1
can do in the wuy of achieving mv own
saltation " No.no. let go! Ti--*t the
eaptuin, who would not put you into a
rickety or uncertain craft
lor the s..*. of your present and over
lasting welfare, with all the urgency of
an immortal addressing immortals, I cry
from the depths of my soul and at the
top of my voice. Let go! Last summer
tho life-saving crew at East Hampton in
vited me to come to the life station and
see the crew practice, for twice a week
they are drilled in the important work as
signed them by the United States govern
ment. and they go through all the routine
of saving the shipwrecked- But that
would give little idea of what they would
have to do if some midnight next winter,
the wind driving beachward, a vessel
should get in the grasp of a hurricane.
Bee the lights flare from the ship in the
breakers, and then responding lights
flaring from the beach, and hear the
rockets buzz as they rise, and the life
boat rumbles out, and the gun booms,
and the life-line rises and falls across the
splintered decks, and the hawser tightens,
and the life-ear goes to and fro. carrying
the exhausted mariners, and the ocean,
as if angered by the snatching of the
human prey from the white teeth of its
surf and the stroke of its billowing paw,
rises with increased fury to assail the
land. So now lam engaged in no light
drill, practicing for what may come over
some of your souls. It is with some of
you wintry midnight and your hopes
for this world and the next are wrecked.
But see! See! The lights kindled on tho
beach, I throw out the life line. Haul in.
hand over hand! Ah, there is a lifeboat
in the surf, which all the wrath of earth
and hell cannot swamp, and its captain
with scarred hand puts the trumpet to
his lips as he cries: “Oh, Israel, thou hast
destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help.”
But what is the use of ail this if you de
cline to get into It? You might as well
have been a sailor on board that founder
ing ship of the Mediterranean when the
mariners cut the ropes of tho boat and
let ner fall off.
THREE STORES BURNED.
A Druggist and Two Milliners Burned
Out at Mcßae.
Mcßae, Ga., Oct. 22. —Last night an
alarm of fire was given about 10 o’clock,
and it was discovered that one of the 3
stores of L. W. Robeson was on fire. Three
were wooden buildings and very near
together. It was seen at once that all
were destinod to burn.
One was a drug and the other two were
millinery stores. The crowd that gath
ered worked to save the goods. Not many
drugs were saved. Most of the millinery
goods were. There was some
insurance on the goods, but none on
the buildings, Mr. Ilolston ran the drug
store and Miss Darnels and Mrs. Rose
are the milliners.
Mr. Roberson, the owner of the build
ings, is the greatest loser, his loss being
about $2,000, with no insurance.
It Is thought the fire was incendiary.
Other houses would have also burned if
heroic work had not been done.
The Campbell’s new brick store and
Mrs. G. I. Forester’s store had hundreds
of gallons of water thrown on them and
were saved.
ROBERT SOHLKY PARALYZED.
His Whole Left Side and Power of
Speech Involved.
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 22.—Robert Schley,
who suffered a paralytic stroke yester
day, is resting quietly to-day. His whole
left side is involved, including his power
of speech. He is conscious and can un
derstand what is going on about him. but
with difficulty' makes himself understood.
He is 71 years old and his age makes his
recovery more doubtful than it would
otherwise be under the same circum
stances. Mr. Schley is the uncle of Dr.
Charles Schley, of Savannah, and has
numerous relatives and friends in that
city who will regret to hear of his serious
condition, ,
FLOWER AND THE FIGHT.
The Governor Non-Committal Con
cerning Hie Attitude.
New York, Oct. 22. —If Gov. Flower had
a hand in stopping the Mitchell-Corbett
fight at Coney Island, he will not say so.
He was seen in tho corridor of tho Hoff
man house to-day and asked whether it
was his intention to prevent the fight. He
replied that such actiou on his part was
unnecessary, as the requisite notion had
already been taken by the authorities of
Kings county and there was nothing for
him to do. Gov. Flower added that no
complaint had been made to him by any
body concerning the fight, and that no
charges had been made in this connection
against Sheriff Courtney, of Kings county.
MEDICAL
Hood’s Cures
Mr. J. A. Wheeler
“ During the War
I was taken 111 with spinal disease and rheu
matism. When I came home my trouble
was still with me, and I was confined to my
bed, unable to help myself, for 22 months.
After taking seven bottles o£ Hood’s Sarsa
parilla I was well, have not been troubled
with my old complaints. My wife was in ill
health, suffering with headache, dizziness
and dyspepsia. She took two bottles of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and feels like n ne w woman.” J. A.
WnFLKu:n. 1900 Division St.. Baltimore.
" Hood’s Hills Set easily, j ii promptly
and efficiently, on the liver and bowels.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
COME AND SEE
Tho Sanitary Underwear
made by the
IfOIIENZOLLKRN SANITARY WOOLEN
SYSTEM CO.,
which
WE GUARANTEE
to he
The Beat and
—of—
All health giving and health preserving
Underwear.
TALK CLOTHING CO.
Our first Invoice of these good* will In;
put on tale to-day.
NOTICE.
All bills against Norwegian harks TROS
and OiiK ajui be pre*erUxJ at our office ha
fore V* o'clock USWU TO IMV or
the reof Hill Ut: debarred
J i OU, Agent*.
MEDICAL.
ENDORSERS:
The following distinguished persons, well
and widely known, testify to tho valuable
properties of
Simmons Liver Regulator:
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
John W Beckwith. Bishop of Georgia.
Gen. Jno. B. Gordon. cx-U. S. Senator.
Hon. Jno. Gill Shorter. ex-Gov. of Alabama.
Rev. David Wilis. D.D . Pres. Oglethorpe Col.
Bishop Fierce, of M. E. Church South.
Judsre Jas. Jackson. Supreme Court, Georgia.
J. Edgar Thompson
Hon. Ben Hill.
Hon. John C. Breckenridge.
Hiram Warner, late Chief Justice of Ga.
Lewis Wunder, Assistant Postmaster. Phila
delphia. Pa
And many others from whom we have letters
commenting upon this medicine as a most
valuable household remedy.
See that You Get the Genuine:
PEPARBD BY
J. H. ZEIFIN A CO , Philadelphia, Pa.
__ DEATHS. _____
LUEDKRS.-Died, in this city, at No. 240
Bryan street, at 12:40 o'clock this morning,
Mrs. Henrietta Lusher*. formerly of Bak
enheim, Hanover, Uermany. Notice of
funeral hereafter.
INVITATIONS.
NORDEN.-’The relatives, friends and ac
quaintance of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Norden
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral
of the former, from the residence of Mr. Na
than Gazan, corner Hull and Abercorn
streets, THIS AFTERNOON at 4 o'clock.
Please omit flowers.
DE KALB LODGE No. 9,1. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will beheld
THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock, InOddFellows
Hall.
The Third Degree will be conferred.
Visiting brothers are Invited to meet with
us. D. A. HARRIS, N. G
JNO. W. Smith, Secretary.
JOSEPH LODGE NO. 70, I. O. B. B.
A special meeting will be held at the lodge
room, Knights of Pythias hall, THIS AFTER
NOON at 3 o clock, to pay the last tribute of
respect to our deceased brother, S. B. Nor
dkn. Brethren from Savannah and sister
lodges I. O. S. B. are fraternally invited to
attend. By ordor of
THE PRESIDENT.
J. Gardner, Secretary.
SPECIAL. NOTICEh.
WE ARE GOING TO SURPRISE YOU.
WE WANT A RUSH OF BUSINESS. WE
ARE GOING TO FORCE IT. COME IN
AND ASK PRICES THIS WEEK. THEY
WILL SURPRISE YOU. WE SUR
PRISED OUR CLERKS WHEN WE
TOLD THEM THE SCALE OF PRICES
WE HAD DETERMINED TO REDUCE
OUR GOODS TO. NOW IS YOUR OP
PORTUNITY. WE ARE GOING TO FIND
NOW, IF EVER, WHETHER BOTTOM
PRICES WILL INDUCE TRADE OR NOT.
INSPECT OUR BOYS’ CLOTHING.
GOOD TASTE APPAREL.
KOHLER’S
High Art Clothing and Haberdashery,
140 Bronghton Street.
GO TELL AUNT SALLIE
Not to spend ten cents for a cake of
Sconring Soap when she can get Scourene,
tho best 5 cent cleaner known. For sale
by all retailers. Trade supplied by
HENRY SOLOMON A SON.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE TRADE.
New York, Oct, 19.1893.
For reasons satisfactory to the company
and myself, our connection has this day been
dissolved. Respectfully,
CLAUDE SHEWMAKE,
Formerly of Thurber, Whyland Cos., New
York.
NOTICE.
All bills aqainst the British steamship
SLINGSBY must be presented at our office
before 12 o'clock noon THIS DAY, Oct. £3.
1893, or payment will be debarred.
RICHARDSON & BARNARD,
Agents.
NOTICE.
Office Board of Sakitary comm'rs, i
Savannah. Oa, Sept. 18, 1893. f
Citizens are 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.
PROCLAMATION.
City of Savannah. Mayor g Office. I
Savannah. Ga., Sept 13, 1893. f
On account of the prevalence of yellow
fever in the city of Brunswick, Go., and for
the pun ose of protecting the people of Sa
vannah theretrom. a rigid quarantine Is now
hereby declared again- 1 the city of Bruns
wick and against all other“p a -es and dis
tricts in the stat ? of Georgia which may be
come infected with yellow fever.
No persons, a tgage, cars, i oats, vessels,
freights or pari ages o’ 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 baggago
from United States! camp of detention near
Waynesville and holding certificate of officer
commanding same.
No malls from uaid places, unless and until
disinfected under re Dilations from the United
Stales postal authorities, will le a-loved tp
enter Savannah.
I’ersons from other points must provide
themselves with proper health certificates or
they will not be allowed lo enter the c|ty.
This quarantine will continue in fores until
further notice
The officers, agents onl all persons i n
charge of rallri ads. steamboats, express com
panics and other means of public conveyance
are requested to assist in euforcit g this quar
an tine
Given under my hand sal official signature
and seal of said city at the city f s avannah,
Georgia, tide thirteenth day of September!
el*bluer, huaure l and ninety three
JS'J J McDUKoUUM Mayor
Attest F t. UAUAUtu, t'ierk of CnuueU
AMUSEMENTS.
——
Oct. S3 and 34.
POSITIVELY HER LAST TOUR.
ANNIE ABBOTT
Little Georgia Magnet.
Nothing else on earth like it!
A great scientific phenomenon!
Two hours of startling and inexplicsb’e
tests.
Miss Abbott has just returned from Europe
and will make one more tour before her per
manent retirement.
8:39 p. m.. sharp.
Next attraction, EFFIE ELLSLER,
Oct. 27, 28,
GRAND CONCERT
—AT—
OPENIHGOF ST. PAUL’S NEW Oil
TUEBDAY, OCT. 24,
BY choirs of Christ church, St. John's, the
Cathedral, Sacred Heart and Independ
ent Presbyterian. Tickets for sale at Lud
den & Bates', Flint’s jewelry store. Theus
Bros., Fernandez. Kennlckell & Co.’s art
store. Solomons' drug store, Bull street
branch, Livingston's drug store. Masonic
Temple pharmacy. DeGaugh's palace phar
macy. Duke's drug store, Pigman sand Reid's
drug stores on Abercorn, and L. B. Greer's.
mmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmm ————— mnmmm a————■■agl
SPECIAL NOTICES.
TO CHICAGO AND RETURN VIA S., F.
A W., L. & N. AND PA. R’YS.
Round Trip Tickets, 15 days’ limit. 123 30.
Leave Savannah 6:10 a. m., standard time,
arrive in Chicago at 10 p. n,. the following
night. Route: Via Waycross, Thoxnasville,
Montgomery, Nashville and Louisville. Pull
man's latest Buffet Dtawing Room Sleeping
Cars Savannah to Waycross and Waycross to
Chicago.
Returning, leaving Chicago at 8 am., ar
riving in Savannah at 8:32 p. m. the following
night. Through sleeping cars Chicago to
Waycross and Waycross to Savannah.
For further information, tickets and
schedules apply to
E. A. ARMAND,
City Ticket Agent. 22H Bull street.
NOTICE.
Neither the master nor consignees of the
British steamship WAKEFILD, Wales, mas
ter, will be responsible for any debts con
tracted by crew of said vessel.
J. F. MINIS & CO., Consignees.
C. B. HCIET A CO.,
COTTON,GRAIN, PROVISIONS, STOCKS,
99 Bay street.
Board of Trade Building.
Representing Atwood, Vlolett & Cos.. New
York and New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
Lamson Bros., & Cos., Chicago Board of Trade
and Purnell Hagaman & Cos., New Y’ork
Stock Exchange.
Telephone 164.
NCRSKB.
Nurses for the sick, white and colored, who
have changed their residence, please notify
us. Those who hate not registered can do so.
We make no charge for registering. The list
is always open to the pttblio.
SOLOMONS & CO.,
Branch Store. Bull and Charlton streets,
Volunteer Guards Armory.
NOTICE.
CITY OF SAVANNAn, I
Office Board Sanitary commissiojjbrs -
Sept. 13, 1893. )
The following resolution was passed at a
meeting of the Board of Sanitary Oommisj
sioners, held this day, and is published for
information of all concerned:
Resolvgd, That all persons who have come
into this city from Brunswick since yellow
fever made its appearance in said city, bo re
quired to report to the health officer, to whom
they shall state i.n ler what circumstances
they came to this city.
Resolved, further, That all persons who
have come into this city from Unmswick since
September 9th be required to leave Savannah
immediately with all their luggage.
JOHN J. MCDONOUGH, Chairman.
W. F. Brunner. Health Officer.
NOTICE.
City of Savannah. i
Mayor’s Office, Sept. 18,1893. f
Yellow fever has been declared opidemic at
Brunswick, and the citizens of that ill-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
tions nnd all other donations will be received.
Packages of all kinds donated for the cufler
ers will be sent to Brunswick by the S., F. &
W. Railway free of charge.
JOHN J. MCDONOUGH. Mayor.
Attest: F. E. Rebarfr, Clprk of Council
NOTICE.
We have purchased the -stable at present
occupied by Mr. A. W. Harmon, corner Dray
ton, Hull and McDonough streets, and will
occupy same on Nov. 1, where a first-class
Livery and Boarding Stable will be conduct
ed. The stable will be remodeled through
out, and a special feature will be its superb
accommodations for boarding horses. Par
ties desiring to arrange for the board of
horses can notify us at our stables or rmg up
telephone 168.
JOHN FEELEY & SON,
The Do Soto Livery and Hoarding Stables.
State and West Hroad streets.
CONSULTING OPTICIANS.
A STARTLING FACT,
That very few persons have perfect eves. It
must te evident that It requires both know!
edge and skill to know what the eves need
and to at them properly with glasses. Those
who trust this work to uninslmcted dealers
are criminally careless of the most valuable
of all the senses, their sight. In addition to
graduating In Germany and my thirty years’
practical experience I have taken a course
and graduated In a school of optics in New
Yo. k an.l learned the latest and test methods
or ascertain!*.,; the different defects of the
eyes and their proper correction, so that I
can lit you properly with glasses that will
strengthen and improve yoareyesight instead
of rnpldly rtlnlng it. an poorly luted classes
will Always da. No ehar?fi for examination.
DB. N. KCUWAU A HUN,
Cmrluafcd Opticians,
No. IS Dull S;rccu
M. KEPHOLS,
PRINTING,
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKB.
831 Bay It Savannah.
SHOES.
Proof
Positive,
g. p. m i
Shoe Exhibit at
Chicago
World’s Fair
Received High
est Award.
The above telegram we
have just received, showing
and positively proving the
higii standard of
FORD'S SHOES.
We are Sole Agents.
BYCK BROS.,
17 WHITAKER ST,
BANKS.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST G 9.
BAVANNAH, GA.
INTEREST AT
4%
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART*
MLENT.
Collections on Savannah and all south*
era points, we handle on the mast favors*
Lie terms aud remit at lowest exchange
rates on day of payment. Correspond*
onef solicited.
JOSEPH D. WEED, President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND. Vico Prosldaafc
JAMES 11. HUNTER. Cashier.
Savannah Savings Bank,
CORNER ST. JULIAN AND WHITAKER
STREETS.
RECEIVES DEPOSITS OF 250,
and upwards and allows 5 PER CENT.
INTEREST on deposits, compounded
quarterly.
Loans made on Stocks, Bonds and Heal
Estate.
Rents boxes in Its safety deposit vault
open until 6 o'clock p. m-
Rank open mornings from 9 till
Saturdays 4 till 8 o'clock.
W. K. WILKINSON, President.
C. S. ROCKWELL, Treasurer.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital 8500,000.
Transacts a general hanking business.
Maintains a .Savings Department and ill*
lows INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., com
pounded quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, firms, banks
and corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspond
ents in GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA
and SOUTH CAROLINA, we are prepared
to handle collections on the most favora
ble terms.
Correspondence invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, President.
M. B. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN. Cashier.
SPECIALIST.
Dr.- Broadfoot,
SPECIALIST.
§ GIVES
Examination
Consulta-
Advice
7 feeof
CHARGE.
PRACTICE LIMITED.
Special altenllon to the following diseases:
Diseases ttf Women (painless method*
of treatment), Npoetfle Itlootl Poison,
Nervous Drhllltr. hperllle Urethritis. Dis
eases of Kidney and Bladder. Skin Dis
eases, ller.eiuM, Psoriasis, Pimples, I'leers,
*tC.
All biiftinoHs htr-ctly confidential and modi*
‘ in# h H*nt free from observation. Address or
rail on
Atlantic Medical and Surgical Institute,
IM Hrouuhton alrwet, Savaunah, Cin
WKDDI NON.
WeddlriK iovlutlomi and card* nrint f,, l 0
•titrritvm at th#* niiortefti notice and in
latest MiyU n *Vi* tarry an ex w*iikiv* an<l *' '
m*i < u*<i alock of tin# paper*, aovelope*
urd* • *|* ■ lally for auch order*, hamr* 0 *
tern on application.
MUUNIMU NKWH I’KINTIMO UL‘UI*
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