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THE BARE ARM OF THE LORD
Talmage Preaches on One of the Bold
Metaphors of the Bible.
The Ease With Which God Works
Wonders One of the Most Impressive
Eeatures of the Bible—The Rectifica
tion of the World a Stupendous Un
dertaking—The Manifold Evils that
Challenge Christianity.
Brooklyn. Jan. 21.—Singularly appro
priate and impressive was the old gospel
hymn as it was sung this morning by the
thousands of Brooklyn tabernacle, led on
by cornet and organ:
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake;
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his subject,
“The Bare Arm of God,” the text being
Isaiah 52:10, “The Lord hath made bare
his holy arm.”
It almost takes our breath away to
read some of the Bible imagery. There
Is such boldness of metaphor in my text
that I have been for some time getting
my courage up to preach from it. Isaiah,
the evangeleitic prophet, is sounding the
Jubilate of our planet redeemed, and cries
out. “The Lord bath made bare his holy
arm.” What overwhelming suggestive
ness in that figure of speech, “The bare
arm of God!” The people of Pales
tine to this day wear much hindering ap
parel. and when they want to run a spec
ial race, or lift a special burden, or light
a special battle, they put off the outside
apparel, as in our land when a man pro
poses a special exertion, he puts off his
coat and rolls up his sleeves. Walk
through our foundries, our machine
ahops, our mines, our factories, and you
will find that most of the toilers have
their coats off, and their sleeves rolled up.
Isaiah saw that there must be a tre
mendous amount of work done before this
world becomes what it ought to be. and
be foresees it all accomplished, and ac
complished by the Almighty; not as we
ordinarily think of him, but by the
Almighty with the sleeve of his robe
rolled back to his shoulder: “The Lord
bath made bare his holy arm.”
Nothing more impresses me in the Bible
than the ease with which God does most
things. There is such a reserve of power.
He has more thunderbolts thun he has
over flung; more light than he has ever
distributed ; more blue thau that with
which ho has overarched the sky; more
green than that with which he has emer-
Slded the grass: more crimson than that
with which he has burnished the sunsets.
I say it with reverence; from all 1 can
see, God has never half tried.
You know as well as 1 do that mauv of
the most elaborate and expensive indus
tries of our world have been employed in
creating artificial light. Half of the time
the world is dark. The moon and the
stars have their glorious uses, but as in
struments of illumination they are fail
ures. They will not allow you to read a
book, or stop the ruffianism of your great
cities. Had not the darkness been per
sistently fought back by artificial means,
the most of the world's enterprises would
have halted half the time, while the crime
of our great municipalities would for half
the time run rampant and unrebuked.
Hence, all the inventions for creating artifi
cial light, from the flint struck against steel
in centuries past, to the dy-uamo of our
electrical manufactories. What un
counted numbers of people at work the
year round in making chandeliers, and
lamps, and fixtures, and wires, and bat
teries where light shall be made, or along
which light shall run, or where light
shall poise! How many bare arms of
human toil—and some of those bare arms
are very tired —in the creation of light
and its apparatus; and after all the work,
the greater part of the continents and
hemispheres at night have no light at
all, except, perhaps, the fire-flies flash
ing their small lanterns across the
swamp.
But see how easy God made the light.
He did not make bare his arm; he did not
even put forth his robed arm ; he did not
lift so much as a finger. The flint out of
which he struck the noonday sun was the
word, “Light." there be light!”
Adam did not see the sun until the fourth
day, for, though the sun was created on
the first day, it took its rays from the
first to the fourth day to work through
the dense mass of fluids by which this
earth was compassed. Did you ever hear
of anything so easy as that! So unique?
Out of a word came the blazing sun, the
father of flowers, and warmth, and light!
Out of a word building a lire place for all
the nations of the earth to warm
themselves by! Yea, seven other world’s,
five of them inconceivably larger
than our own, and seventy-nine asteroids,
of worlds on a small scale! The warmth
and for this great brotherhood,
great sisterhood, great family of worlds,
eighty-seven larger or smaller worlds, all
from that one magnificent fire-place made
out of the one word—“ Light.” The sun
886.000 miles in diameter Ido not know
how much grander a solar system God
could have created if tie had put forth
his robed arm, to say nothing of an arm
made bare! But this I know; That our
noonday sun was a spark struck from the
anvil of one word, and that word—
“ Light.”
“But.” says someone, “do you not
think that in making the machinery of
the universe, of which our solar system is
comparatively a small wheel Working
into mightier wheels, it must have cost
God some exertion; The upheaval of an
arm, either robed, or an arm made bare?”
No; we are distinctly told otherwise.
The machinery of a universe God made
simply with his fingers. David, inspired
in a night song, says so: “When I con
sider thy heavens, the work of thy fin
gers.”
A Scottish clergyman told me a few
weeks ago of dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle
walking out with a friend one starry
night, and as the friend looked up and
said, “What a splendid sky!” Mr. Car
lyle reniied, as he glanced upward. “Sad
sight, sad sight!” Not so thought David
as he read the great scripture of the
night heavens. It was a sweep of em
broidery, of vast tapestry, God manipu
lated. That is the allusion of the Psalm
ist to the woven hangings of tapestry, as
they were known long before David's
time. Far back in the ages what enchant
ment of thread and color, the Florentine
velvets of silk and gold and Persian car
pets woven of gont s'hair! If you have
been in the Gobelin manufactory of
tapestry in Paris—alas! now no more—
you witnessed wondrous things, as you
saw the wooden needle or broach, going
Lack and forth and in and out; you were
transfixed with admiration at tile pat
terns wrought. No wonder that Louis
XIV bought it and it became the posses
sion of the throne; and for a long while
none but thrones and palaces might
have any of its work I What triumphs of
loom! What victory of skilled fingers! So
David says of the heavens, that God's fin
gers wove into them the light; that God's
fingers tapestried them with stars; that
God's fingers embroidered them with
worlds. How much of the immensity of
the heavens David understood 1 know not.
Astronomy was born in Chine 2,800 years
before Christ was born. During the reign
of Hoang-Ti astronomers were put to
death if they made wrong calculations
about the heavens. Job understood the
refraction of the sun's rays, und said
they were “turned as the clay to the
s ® a - The .pyramids were astronomical
observatories, and they were so long ago
built that Isaiah refers to one -of them in
his nineteenth chapter, and calls it the
“Pillar at the border.” The first
of all the sciences born was as
tronomy Whether from knowledge al
ready abroad, or from direct inspiration,
H seems to me David had wide knowledge
of the heavens. Whether he understood
the full force of what he wrote, 1 know
not: but the God who inspired him knew,
and he would not let David write any
thing but truth; and therefore all the
worlds that the telescope ever reached,
or Copernicus, or Galileo, or Kepler, or
Newton, or I-aplaoe, or Herschel, or our
own Mitchell ever saw were so easily
made that they were made with the fin
gers. As easily as with your fingers you
mould the wax. or the clay, or the dough
to particular shapes; so he decided the
shape of our world, and that it should
weigh six sextillion tons, and appointed
for all worlds their orbits and decided
their color—the white to Sirius; the
ruddy to Aldebaran: the yellow to Pollux;
the blue to Altair; marrying some of the
stars, as the 2,400 double stars that Her
schel observed; administering to the
whims of the variable stars as
their glance becomes brighter or dim,
preparing what astronomers called,
‘The girdle of Andromeda.’ and the
nebula in the sword-handle of Orion.
Worlds on worlds! Worlds under worlds!
Worlds above worlds! Worlds beyond
worlds! So many that arithmetics are of
no use in the calculation! But he counted
them as he made them, and he made
them with his fingers! Reservation of
power! Suppression of Omnijxitenee!
Resources ns yet untouched ! Almighti
ness yet undemonstrated! Now, I ask. for
the benefit of all disheartened Christian
workers, if God accomplished so much
with his fingers, what can he do when he
puts out his strength ? and when he
unlimbers all the liatteries of his omnipo
tence! The Bible speaks again and again
of God's outstretched arm, but only once,
and that in the text of the bare arm of
God.
My text makes it plain that the rectifi
cation of this world is a stupendous un
dertaking. It takes more power to
make this world over again than it took
to make it at first. A word was only
necessary for the first creation, but
for the new creation the uu
sleeved and unhindered forearm of the
Almighty! The reason of that I can un
derstand. In the ship-yards of Liver
pool, or Glasgow, or New York, a great
vessel is constructed. The architect
draws out the plan, the length of the
beam, the capacity of tonnage, the rota
tion of wheel or screw, the cabins, the
masts and all the appointments of this
great palace of the deep. The architect
finishes his work without any perplexity,
and the carpenters and the artisans toil
on the craft so many hours a day, each
one doing his part, until, with flags fly
ing, and thousands of people huzzaing on
the docks, the vessel is launched. But
out on the sea that steamer breaks her
shaft, and is limping slowly along toward
harbor* when Caribbean whirlwinds,
those mighty hunters of the deep, looking
out for prey of ships, surround that
wounded vessel and pitch it on a rocky
coast, and she lifts and falls in the
breakers until every Joint is loose, and
every spar is down, aud every wave
sweep# over the hurricane deck as
she parts midships. Would it not
require more skill and power to
get that splintered vessel off the
rocks and reconstruct it thau it required
originally to build her! Ayel Our world
that God built so beautiful, and which
started out with all the flags of Edenio
foliage and with the chant of paradisaical
bowers, has been sixty centuries pound
ing in the skerries of sin and sorrow, and
to get her out and to get her off and to
get her on the right way again, will
require more of omnipotence than it re
quired to build her and launch her. So I
am not surprised that though in the dry
dock of one word our world was made, it
will take the unsleeved arm of God to lift
her from the rocks and put her on the
right course again. It is evident from my
text, and its comparison with other texts,
that it would not be so great an under
taking to make a whole constellation of
worlds, and a whole galaxy of worlds,
and a whole astronomy ol worlds, and
swing them in their right orbits, as to
take this wounded world, this stranded
world, this bankrupt world, this destroyed
world, and make it as good as when it
started.
Now, Just look at the enthroned difficul
ties In the way, the removal of which, the
overthrow of which seem to require the
bare right arm of omnipotence. There
stands heathenism, with its 860,000.000
victims. Ido not care whether you call
them Brahmins, or Buddhists, Confu
cians or Fetish idolaters. At the world's
fair in Chicago last summer those mon
strosities of religion tried to make them
selves respectable, but the long hair and
baggy trousers and trinketed robes of
their representatives cannot hide from
the world the fact that those religions
are the authors of funeral pyre, and Jug
gernaut crushing, and Ganges infanti
cide, and Chinese shoe torture, and the
aggregated massacres of many centuries.
They have their heels on India, on China,
on Persia, on Borneo, on three-fourths of
the acreage of our poor old world. I
know that the missionaries, who are the
most sacrificing and Christ-like men and
women on earth, are making steadv and
glorious inroads upon these built-up
abominations of the centuries. All this
stuff that you see in some of the news
papers about the missionaries as living
in luxury and idleness is promulgated by
orrupt American or England or Scotch
merchants, whoso loose behavior in heath
en cities has been rebuked by the mis
sionaries, and these corrupt merchants
write home, or tell unsuspecting visitors
in India or China or the darkened islands
of the sea, these falsehoods about our con
secrated missionaries who, turning their
backs on home and civilization and emol
ument and comfort, spend their lives in
trying to int roduce the mercy of the gos
pel among the down trodden of heathen
ism. Someof those merchants leave their
families in America or England or Scot
land, and stay for a few years in the
ports of heathendom, while they are
making their fortunes in the tea or rice or
opium trade, and while thev are thus ab
sent from home give themselves to orgies
of dissoluteness, such as 110 pen or tongue
could, without the abolition of all decency,
attempt to report. The presence of the
missionaries with their pure and noble
households in those .heathen ports is a con
stant rebuke to such debauchees and mis
creants. If satau should visit heaven,
from which he was once roughly, but
Justly, expatriated, and he should ‘write
home to the realms pandemoniac, his cor
respondence published in Diabolos Ga
zette, or Appollyome News, about what
he had seen, he would report the Temple
of God and the Lamb as a broken-down
church, and the House of Many Mansions
as a disreputable place, and the Cheru
bim as suspicious of morals. Sin never
did like holiness, and you had better not
depend upon satanic report of the sublime
and multipotent work of our missionaries
in foreign lands. But notwithstanding
all that these men aud women of God
have achieved, they feel, and we all feel
that if the idolatrous lands are to be
Christianized, there needs to be a power
from the heavens that has not yet conde
scended, and we feel like crying out iu
the words of Charles Wesley:
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake.
Put on Thy strength, the nations shake!
Aye, it is not only the lord’s arm that
is needed, the holy arm, the outstretched
arm. but the bare arm!
There, too. stands Mohammedanism,
with its 176,000.000 victims. Its Bible is
the Koran, a book not quite as large as
our New, Testament, which was revealed
to Mohammed when in epileptic fits, and
resuscitated from these fits, lie dedicated
it to scribes. Yet it is read to-dav by
more people than any other hook ever
written. Mohammed, the founder of the
religion, a polygamist, with superfluity of
wives, the first step of his religion on the
body, mind and soul of woman, and no
wonder that the heaven of the Koran is
an everlasting Sodom, an infinite seraglio,
about which -Mohammed promises that
each follower shall have, in that place
aeventy-two wives, in addition to all
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1894.
the wive* he had on earth, but that
no woman shall ever enter heaven.
When a bishop of England recently
proposed that tho best way of saving
Mohammedans was to let them keep their
religion, but engraft upon it some new
principles from Christianity, he perpe
trated an ecclesiastical Joke, at which no
man can laugh, who has ever seen the
tyranny and domestic wretchedness which
always appear where that religion gets
foothold. It has marched across conti
nents. and now proposes to set up its filthy
and accursed banner in America, and
what it has done for Turkey, it would
like to do for our nation. A religion that
brutally treats womanhood ought never
to be fostered in our country. But there
never was a religion so absurd or wicked
that it did not get disciples, and there are
enough fools in America to make a large
discipleship of Mohammedism. This cor
rupt religion has been making steady
progress for hundreds of years, and not
withstanding all the splendid work done
by the Jessups, and the Goodells, and the
Blisses and the Van Dykes and the
Posts and the Misses Bowens and the
Misses Thompsons, and scores of other
men and women of whom the world was
not worthy, there it stands, the giant of
sin, Mohammedanism, with one foot on
the heart of woman, and the other on the
heart of Christ, while it mumbles from
its minarets this stupendous blasphemy:
“God is great, and Mohammed is his
prophet.” Let the Christian printing
presses at Beyrout and Constantinople
keep on with their work, and the men
and women of God in the mission fields
toil until the Lord crowns them, but
what we are ail hoping for is something
supernatural from the heavens, as yet un
seen, something stretched down out of
the sides, something like an arm un
covered, the bare arm of the God of na
tions !
There stands also the arch demon of
alcoholism. Its throne is white, and
made of bleached human skulls. On one
side of that throne of skulls kneels in
obeisance and worship, democracy, and
on the other side republicanism, and the
one that kisses the cancerous and gan
grened foot of this despot the oftenest
gets the most benedictions. There is a
Hudson River, an Ohio, a Mississippi of
strong drink roiling through this nation,
but as the rivers from which I take my
figure of speech empty into the Atlantic
or the Gulf, this mightier flood of sick
ness, and insanity and domestic ruin,
and crime, and bankruptcy, and woe,
empties into the hearts, and the homes,
and the churches, and the time and the
eternity of a multitude beyond all
statistics to number or describe. All na
tions are mauled and scarified with bale
ful stimulus, or killing narcotic. The
pulque of Mexico, the cashew of Brazil,
the hasheesh of Persia, the opium of Chi
na, the guavo of Honduras, the wedro of
Russia, the soma of India, the aguardiente
of Morocco,* the arak of Arabia, the mas
tic of Syria, the raki of Turkey, the beer
of Germany, the whisky of Scotland, the
ale of England, the all-drinks of America
are doing their best to stupefy, inflame,
dement, impoverish, brutalize and slay
the human race. Human power unless
reinforced from the heavens can never ex
tripate the evils I mention.
Much (food has been accomplished bv
the heroism and fidelity of Christian re
formers. but the fact remains that there
are more splendid men and magnificent
women this moment going over the Niag
ara abysm of inebriety than at any
time since the first grape was turned
into wine, and the first head of
rye began to soak in a brewery. When
people touch this subject they are apt to
give statistics as to how many millions
are in drunkards’ graves, or with quick
tread marching on toward them. Tho
land is full of talk of high tariff aud
low tariff, but what about tho highest of
all tariffs in this country, the tariff of
nine hundred million dollars which rum
put upon the United States in 1891. for
that is what it cost us. You do not
tremble or turn pale when I say that.
The fact is we have become hardened by
statistics and they make little impression.
But if someone could gather into one
mighty lake all the tears that have been
wrung out of orphanage and widowhood;
or into one organ diapason all the groans
that have been uttered by the suffering
victims of this holocaust; or into one
whirlwind all the sighs of centuries of
dissipation; or from the wicket of one
immense prison have look upon us the
glaring eyes of all those whom
strong drink has endungeoned,
we might perhaps realize the appal
ling desolation. But, no, no, the sight
would forever blast our vision; the sound
would forever stun our souls. Go on with
your temperance literature; go on with
your temperance platforms; go on with
your temperance laws. But we are all
hoping for something from above, and
while the bare arm of suffering, and the
bare arm of invalidism, and the bare arm
of poverty, and the bare arm of domestic
desolation, from which rum hath torn the
sleeve, are lifted up in beggary and sup
plication and despair, let the bare arm of
God strike the breweries, and the liquor
stores, and the corrupt politics, and the
license laws, and the whole inferno of
grog-shops all around the world. Down,
thou accursed bottle, from the throne!
Into the dust, thou king of the demijohn!
Parched be thy lips, thou wine cup, with
fires that shall never be quenched!
But I have no time to specify the mani
fold evils that challenge Christianity.
And I think that I have seen in some
Christians and seen in some newspapers,
and heard from some pulpits, a disheart
enment, as though Christianity were
so worsted that it is hardly worth while
to attempt to win this world for God,
and that all Christian work would col
lapse, and that it is no use for you to
teach a Sabbath-class, or distribute
tracis, or exhort in prayer-meetings, or
preach in a pulpit, as Satan is gaining
ground. To rebuke that pessimism, the
gospel of smash-up, I preach this sermon,
showing that you are on the winning side.
Go ahead! Fight on! What I want to
make out to-day is that our ammunition
is not exhausted ; that all which has been
accomplished has been only the skirmish
ing before the great Agmageddon; that
not more than one of the thousand foun
tains of beauty in the king’s park has be
gun to play that not more than
one brigade of the innumerable hosts to
lio marshalled by the Rider on the White
Horse has yet taken the field; that what
God has done yet has been with arm folded
in Bowing robe; but that the time is
coming when he will rise from his throne,
and throw off that robe, and come out of
the palaces of eternity, and come down
the stairs of heaven with all-conquering
step, and halt in the presence of expect
ant nations, and flashing his omniscient
eyes across the work to be done, will put
back the sleeve of his right arm to the
shoulder, and roll it up there, and for the
world's final and complete rescue make
bare his arm. Who can doubt the result
when according to my text Jehovah does
his best; when the last reserve force of
Omnipotence takes the field; when the
last sword of eternal might leaps from its
scabbard. Do you know what decided
the battle of Sedan? The hills a thousand
feet high. Eleven hundred cannon on
the hills. Artillery on the
heights of Givoune, and twelve
German batteries on the bights of
La Moncello. The Crown l’rlnee of Sax
ony watched tlie scene from the hights of
Mairy. Between a quarter to 6 o'clock
in the morning and 1 o'clock in the after
noon of Sept. 3, 1876, the hills dropped
the shells that shattered the French host
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in the valley. The French Emperor and
the 86,000 of bis army captured by the
hills. So in this conflict now raging be
tween holiness and sin "our eyes are unto
the hill*.” Down here in the valleys of
earth we must be valiant soldiers of the
cross, but the commander of our host
walks the hights, aod views the scene far
better than we can in the valleys, and at
the right day and the right hour all
heaven will open its batteries on our side,
and the commander of the hosts of un
righteousness with ail his followers will
surrender, and it will take eternity to
fully celebrate the universal victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ. "Our
eyes are unto the hills.” It is so certain
to be accomplished that Isaiah in my text
looks down through the field-glass of
prophecy, and speaks of it as already
accomplished, and I take my stand where
the prophet took his stand, and look at it
as all done. “Hallelujah, ’tis done.”
See! Those cities without a tear! Ikxik!
Those continents without a pang! Be
hold! Those hemispheres without a sin!
Why, those deserts, Arabian desert,
American desert, and Great Sahara des
ert. are all irrigated into gardens where
God walks in the cool of the day. The
atmosphere that encircles our globe float
ing not one groan. All the rivers and lakes
and oceans dimpled with not one falling
tear. The climates of the earth have
dropped out of them the rigors of the
cold and the blasts of the heat, and it is
universal spring! Let us change the old
world’s name. Let it no more be called
the earth, as when it was reeking with
everything pestiferous and malevolent,
searleted with battle fields and gashed
with graves, but now so changed, so aro
matic with gardens, and so resonant with
song, and so rubescent with beauty, let
us call it Immanuel's Land, or Beulah, or
Millennial Gardens, or Paradise Regained,
or Heaven! And to God the only wise,
the only good, the only great, be glory
forever. Amen.
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Item* Gathered Here and There
Among the Shipping.
Capt. George Rines, the former master
of the schooner Martie A. Holmes, but
latterly of the schooner John G. Bergen,
arrived in the city yesterday. Capt.
Rines has been engaged to assist in rig
ging the schooner Holmes, which is being
refitted for sea by the Savannah Transfer
and Lighterage Company. It is expected
that the vessel will be ready and equipped
in about eight weeks, and Capt. O’Don
nell, the former master of the schooner
Annie Bliss, will command her, while
Capt. Rines will probably go as first mate.
The bark New Light, which went
aground on Reeky Island on Jan. 12, and
returned to New Castle leaking, sailed
from the latter port for Savannah on last
Friday.
The schooner General S. E. Marwin,
Capt. Sneed, arrived yesterday, five days
from New York, with a cargo of guano
consigned to the agents of the Central
railroad and Savannah, Florida and
Western railway. The vessel is con
signed to George Harriss & Cos.
The Norwegian bark Emigrant, Capt.
Jacobsen, arrived yesterday in ballust,
forty-five days from Barcelona. She is
consigned to J. F. Minis & Cos.
The German bark Ernst, Capt. Geeds,
arrived at Tybee yesterday in ballast,
fifty-three days from Rio Janeiro. She
had had sickness on board, one man hav
ing died during the passage, and Dr. Gra
ham, the quarantine physician, ordered
the vessel to proceed to the United
States quarantine station at Sapelo.
The British steamship Tafna, having
finished discharging 1,000 tons of Pyrites
for the Commercial Guano Company,
sailed yesterday for Fernandina, where
she will load with phosphate rock for
Europe.
Saw Her Savior Near and Died.
Thomaston, Ga. Jan. 21.—Mrs. Julia
Ann Bethel, wife of Thomas F. Bethel,
who died about seven years ago. died yes
terday, and her funeral was held this af
ternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. D. J. My rick
officiated. She was 84 years old and had
been a member of the Methodist church
sixt.y-one years and was a model Chris
tian. Her last words were: “Jesus is
near.” She leaves many to mourn her
loss.
HoocTj Cures
Mr. J. H. Stillman
“ I am Truly Thankful
For Hood’s Sarsaparilla. In the war I con
racted typhoid fever and fever and agile,
leaving me with mnlnrial anil nirrrii
rinl poisoning from which I have suffered
ever since, in neuralgia, rheumatism, ner
vouo prootration and general debility.
Since Ibegan taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla I
have not lost a dav's work In 3 months, and
am In better health than anv time since the
war.” J. H. Stillman, Cheltenham, Pa.
Hood’s Rills cure Liver Ills. 25c.
NOTICE
In Regard to the Assessment of Property
in the Extended Limits.
City Treasurer's Office. I
Savannah. Ga., Jan. 21,1891. f
The Assessment Book containing valua
tions of real estate and Improvements of
every kind tn what is commonly known as
the extended limits of the city of Savannah,
being the property covered by the act of the
Legislature of Georgia approved Sept. 21.
INKS, as amended, is now open for* inspection
in this office, and notice Is hereby given to
all concerned to hie their objections, if any
they have, within thirty days from this date,
otherwise the assessments therein contained
will be llnal and conclusive as establishing
the value by which to estimate the tax to be
collected. Objections must be made in writ
ing and addressed to the Assessment Com
mittee and left with the Clerk of Council.
C. S. HARDEE. City Treasurer.
AT THE~FI NEST DRUG STORE IN THE
SOUTH,
Infanta Eulalia Cigars,
In the following sires:
Perfectos,
Rothschilds,
Conchas Especial*.
Also the celebrated tlve-cent cigars,
I.r Panto
and
Mendor-a.
SOLOMONS & CO.'S BRANCH,
Bull and Charlton streets.
NOTIdST
All bills against the British steamship
CUMERIA, New, master, must be presented
at our offlee by or before 12 m. THIS DAY,
Jan. 22, or payment thereof will be debarred.
J. F. MINIS & CO.,
Consignees,
MEDICAL.
BkiTHrJM
THE OLD FRIEND
with red Zon every package It’s the King
of Liver Medicines, is better than pills, and
takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. Take
nothin* ottered you as a substitute. J. H.
Z El LIN & CO , proprietors. Philadelphia.
INV IT 6 HO N S.
GODBOLD—The friends and acquaintance
of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Godbold are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral of their
daughter, Minnie, from their residence, No.
21 Lincoln street, at 10 o’clock THIS MORN
ING.
IK KALB LODGE No. 9, I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will beheld
THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock, in Odd Fellows'
Hall.
Tbe First Degree will be conferred.
Visiting brothers are invited to meet with
ns. JOHN RILEY, N. G
,Tno. W. Smith. Secretary.
BARTOW MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
The first regular monthly meeting will be
held TO-NIGHT at armory of First Georgia
Regiment at 8 o’clock.
Punctual and full attendance is requested.
W. S. ROCKWELL, President.
S. E. Treus, Sec’y and Treas.
STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.
Southwestern Railroad Company’s Office.
Macon.Ga . Jan. 5, 1894.—The regular annual
meeting of stockholders of this company will
be held at the company's office in this city on
THURSDAY. February 8, 18V4 at 11 o'clock
a m.. for the election of a president and seven
directors for the ensuing year.
Stockholders will be passed free over this
road, coming to the meeting, on February 6, 7
and 8, 1894. and returning from the meeting,
on February 8. 9 and 10. 1894. on presenting
their stock scrip to the conductors.
The Central Railroad will pass stockholders
to the convention on the 7th and Bth, and re
turning on Bth and Bth of February.
W. S. BRANTLY,
Secretary and Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
LE PANTO PROVERBS.
[Read them as they appear on Sundays,
Wednesdays and Fridays—put them in your
scrap books.]
Lamentations will not recover lost time, but
energy and will may remodel the future
Every one. however humble, has a mission
to perform; therefore aim high.
Pluck is the chief element in the character of
every successful man.
A weak soul dares not follow In the track of
vigor and decision.
No man repents the diligence of his youth.
Think that time has golden minutes if dis
creetly used.
Opportunities occur tor improvement, which,
if missed, may never be recovered.
The LE PANTOS are the best cigars sold
at nve cents each. They are to be had In
half and quarter boxes and singly at a nickel
each of FIRST-CLASS GROCERS, DRUG
GISTS and CIGAR STORES throughout the
city and country.
HENRY SOLOMON & SON,
Distributing Agents,
Savannah, Ga.
CHIPS.
SARATOGA CHIPS.
RED AND GREEN PEPPER SAUCE.
HORSE RADISH.
• PICKLED ONIONS.
FINEST COFFEES.
FINEST TEAS.
FRESH PRINT BUTTER 35c PER POUND.
201bs. NEW ORLEANS SUGAR FOR *l.
FINEST GOODS, LOWEST PRICES,
—AT—
WM. O COOPER’S,
28 Whitaker Street
NOTICE
In Regard to New Improvements, Etc.,
Made During the Year 1893.
City Treasurer’s Office. Jan. 5, 1894 —The
Assessment Book containing yaluations of
real estate and improvements and property
of every kind not previously assessed, new
buildings erected and additions and improve
ments made since the last regular assessment,
(not including property in the extended
limits) is now open for inspection in this of
fice and notice is hereby given to all con
cerned to file their objections, if any they
have,within thirty days from this date, other
wise the assessments therein contained, will
be final and conclusive as establishing the
value by which to estimate the tax to be col
lected. Objections must be made in writing
and addressed to the ASSESSMENT COM
MITTEE and left with the Clerk of Council.
C. S. HARDEE.
Ci ty Treasurer.
HARRIS LIT HI A WATER,
A water that is superior to any other water
in the United States, which is shown by the
following analysis;
Its specific gravity is 1.0014 at 60“ F.
Calcium Sulphate (Imp. gallon) moo 463
Potassium Sulphate 0 624
Sodium Sulphate 0 700
Sodium Chloride o!918
Sodium Bicarbonate 2 917
Lithium Bicarbonate 2 861
Magnesium Bicarbonate 3 674
Iron Bicarbonate 0^392
Silica a'()29
Phosphoric Acid Trace.
Loss on Ignition 18.651
134.229
Solid dried at 266“ F .. .118 778
Carbonic Acid in Bicarbonate . 4.038
122.816
The water is clear, odorless, and slightly
acid. Analysis made by R. Ogden Doremus,
M. D., LL.D., Professor of Chemistry and
Physics, College City of New York. October
7th. 1891,
This water has no equal in the United
States for Curing Dyspepsia. Constipation
Liver Complaints. Nausea. Dropsy Gout
Rheumatism, Diseases of the Kidney and
Bladder. Hg>maturia. and Catamenial De
rangements. Diseases of the Blood.
For sale by all druggists.
EST. 8. w. BRANCH, Agents.
ANTI
RHEUMATIC
RING
FOR
SALE.
J. GARDNER,
NOTICE TO MY CUSTOMERS.
When my driver calls at your house again
for orders and you are needing laundry soap,
tell him to send the SEA FOAM SOAP, and
no other. This will now be my leading flve
cent soap. Now. .try It once and you will
always want it.
WM G. COOPER,
Whitaker and Broughton street lane.
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
MONDAY7JAN. 22.
Grand Farewell Tour of
me nut Musin Grand ken Cos.,
Composed of the following eminent solo
artists:
OVIDE MCSIN, the world-renowned
Violin Virtuoso.
Assisted bv
ANNIE LOUISE TANNER-MUSIN, the
American Nightingale
BESSIE BO NS ALL, the Phenomenal Con
tralto.
EDUARD SCHARF, a Superior Solo
Pianist.
FREDERIC W ELLIOTT, America's
Greatest Tenor.
Box sheet for subscribers will open at Liv
ingston's on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1891. Box
sheet for the general public on Friday, the
19th.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
NIGHT AND MATINEE,
==TUESPAV I jIAN. 23.
Do Nothing TIU You Have Seen
GOOD-BYE, SWEETHEART"
AND
LILLIAN LEWIS,
Then say as others do, IT IS “The best play,
the biggest production, and the greatest
HIT of the PRESENT DAY.”
IT IS Spectacle and Ballet.
Comedy and Drama. IT IS!
The Beautiful Dance of the Mazurka:
The Big Electric Storm 1
The Shower of Prismatic Sparks!
The Vision of Heaven:
The Siberian Tableau.
The Conflagration of St. Petersburg!
A beautiful production of a beautiful play
by a beautiful actress.
Seats on sale at Livingston’s drug store,
Jan. 20. Next Attraction, Alvin Joslin, Jan. 24.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
ONE NIGHT JAN. 24.
I6th=ANNUAL TOUR=l6th
L. DAVISsfcS-
The pre-eminent Yankee comedian. In the
funniest of all plays,
ALVIN JOSLIN!
The play that has amused millions.
180 Laughs in 180 minutes.
GRAND SCENERY:
A Great Company, with all the original stage
effects.
Seats at Livingston's drug store, Jan. 22.
Next Attraction—Warde-James Combina
tion, Jan. 26 and 27.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
DIVIDEND.
Office Savannah Gas Light Company, )
Savannah. Jan. 17, 1894. f
A dividend of Three Per Cent, on the capi
tal stock of this company has been declared,
payable on and after Saturday, the 20th inst.
A. G. GUERARD,
President.
UjN CONSULTING OPTICIANS
' Mi
A STARTLING FACT.
That very few persons have perfect eyes. It
must be evident that It requires both knowl
edge and skill to know what the eyes need
and to fit them properly with glasses Those
who trust this work to uninstrueted 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
York and learned the latest and best methods
of ascertaining the different defects of the
eyes and their proper correction, so that I
can fit you properly with glasses that will
Strengthen and Improve your eyesight Instead
of rapidly ruining It, as poorly fitted glasses
Will always do. No charge for examination.
DR. M. SCHWAB A SON,
Graduated Optlc!an%
_Nsu 23 Bull Street.
PROPOSALS.
City of Savannah. Offlee Clerk of Council, I
Savannah. Ga., Jan. 16. 1894. f
Bids will be received at the offlee of the
Clerk of Council until 12 o'clock m. TUES
DAY. Jan. 23. for renovating the mattresses
at the Police Barracks. For information as
to the condition of mattresses apply to Chief
of Police.
The city reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
By order of the Committee on Police.
F. E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
ONION SETS.
Peas, Beans, Cabbages, and all other Vege
table Seeds, warranted fresh and true to
name; Flower Seeds, with full direction for
planting, just received.
SOLOMONS A CO.
Use Phosphatique for the nerves,
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
City Treasurer's Offlee, I
Savannah, Jan. 1, 1894 f
Licenses of all kinds for the year 1894 are
now due. viz: LIQUOR LICENSES and
BUSINESS LICENSES; also LICENSES
for DOGS. HUCKSTERS, and VEHICLES
and CARRIAGES of every description used
for hire or for the purpose of delivering
goods, viz; WAGONS, DRAYS, TRUCKS
CARTS, OMNIBUSSES, HACKS and
STREET CARS, for which badges will be
furnished by the treasurer. Street railroad
companies are required to indicate whether
the cars are open or closed.
On LICENSES of all kinds (except retail
liquor licenses) a disoount of ten per cent,
will be allowed it payment is made within
thirty days after January first.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
~~ RAILROADS.
—RICHMOND AND
R . R .
The Greatest Southern System.
IMPROVED schedules. Through first-class
coaches between Savannah and Asheville
N. C.. for Hot Springs and other Western
Carolina points.
Also to Walhalla and Greenville, S. C., and
intermediate points via Columbia.
Quick time and improved service to Wash
ington, New York and the East.
Only line in the south operating solid vesti
buled limited trains with Pullman dining cars.
World s Fair tickets via this route allow
stopovers going and returning west of Tryon
N. C. Buy one ticket and visit both Western
North Carolina and the World s Fair
W. A. TURK. G. P. A.. Washington. D. C.
S. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A . Atlanta, Ga.
PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS.
GEO. N- michols,
PRINTING,
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS*
83* Bay SL SaPißoak
SHOES.
MM
Will buy any pair of
ItfSiSte
in our store of the celebra*
ted make of
B.C.YOCNG&CO
This make of shoes has
been sold by us for 8 years
at $6 and $6 50.
SO FAKE—
■BONA FIDE SALE,
Come early’ before sizes
are broken.
bugFbFos.;
17 1-2 WHITAKER ST,
BANKS.
S avann ah Savings Bank,
CORNER ST. JULIAN AND WHITAKER
STREETS.
PA Y 3
5 0
o
ON DEPOSITS.
W. K. WILKINBON, President.
C. S. ROCKWELL, Treasurer.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital $500,000.
Transacts a general banking business
Maintains a Savings Department and al
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.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST GO.
SAVANNAH. GA.
INTEREST AT
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART.
MEM.
Collections on Savannah and all south
ern points, we handle on the most favora
ble terms and remit at lowest exchange
ra.es on day of payment. Correspond
ence solicited.
JOSEPH D. W EED, President.
JOHN C. ROW LAND, Vice President.
JAMES 11. HUNTER. Cashier.
SPECIALIST.
Dr. Broad foot,
„ SPECIALIST,
Has passed the experimental and is
now acting with full knowledge of what be
can do. His straightforward course has rec
ommended him to the public and his marvel
ous success in the treatment of tho most deli
cate diseases which are peculiar to men and
women and are private in their nature, has
made him a reputation as a true specialist. His
successs has
aCJ va'te. sk?n,
blood ana
call atUa of
fice write to him and he will send you symp
tom blank No 1 for men: No. 2 for women: No.
3 for akin diseases, from which your case can
be properly understood. If possible call at
his office. Consultation coats you nothin*
and terms of treatment are within reach ol
all. Address or call on
MR. BROADFOOT.
138 Broughton St.. Savannah. Oa.
Hours—B to 12. 2to 5, and 7to 8. Sundays.
10 to 1, _
for”sale.
Empty Syrup Barrels
FOR SALE BY
C.M. GILBERT & CO.,
Corner Bay and Wast Broad auraata