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TALMACE EHHS PULPIT
“Tbe Unman Face" i&e Subject ol His
Honing Discourse.
The Text Taken From Ecclesiastes.
Nothin* More Wonderful in All the
Works of God Than the Human
Countenance—The Changes Which
Make Each of the 1,600,000,000 Per
sons in the World Distinguishable
From the Others.
Brooklyn, Feb. 25.—1n the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this forenoon. Rev. Dr. Tal
mage chose for the subject of his sermon.
“The Human Face." and held his great
audience fascinated with the charm of his
eloquence, as he discoursed on a subject of
universal interest. The text was .Eccle
siastes viii, 1: “A man's wisdom maketh
bis face to shine and the boldness of his
face shall be changed," or. as it may be
rendered, "the sourness of his face shall
be sweetened."
Thus a little change in our English
translation brings out the better meaning
of the text, which sets forth that the
character of the face is decided by the
character of the soul. The main features
of our countenance were decided by mo
Almighty, and we cannot change them ;
but unuer God we decide whether we
shall have countenances, benignant or
baleful,.sour or sweet, wrathful or genial,
benevolent or mean, honest or scoun
drelly, impudent or modest, coura
geous or cowardly, frank or sneak
fag. In all the works of God there is
nothing more wonderful than the human
countenance. Though the longest face is
less than twelve inches from the hair line
of the forehead to the bottom of the chin,
and the broadest face is less than eight
inches from cheek bone to cheek bone,
yet in that small compass God hath
wrought such differences that the 1,600,-
000,000 of the human race may be dis
tinguished from each other by their facial
appearances The face is ordinarily the
index of character. It is the throne of
the emotions. It is the battle-held of the
passious. It is .he catalogue of charac
ter. It is the map of the mind. It is the
geography of the soul. And while the
Lord decides before our birth whether
we shall be handsome or homely, we are
by the character we form deciding
•whether our countenances shall be pleas
ant or disagreeable. This is so much
so that some of the most beautiful
faces are unattractive, because of
their arrogance or their deceitful
ness, and some of the most rugged and
irregular features are attractive because
of the kindness that shines through them.
Accident, or sickness, or scarification
may veil the face so that it shall not ex
press the soul, but in the ma.ority of
cases give me a deliberate look at a mans
countenance, and I will tell you whether
he is a cynic or an optimist, whether he
is a miser or a philanthropist, whether
he is noble or ignominious, whether he is
good or bad. Our first impression of a
man or woman is generally the accurate
impression. You at the first glance make
up your mind that some man is unworthy
of your friendship, but afterward by cir
cumstances t eing put into intimate asso
ciation with him, you come to like him,
and trust him. Yet, stay with him long
enough, and you will be compelled to re
turn to your original estimate
of his character, but it will
be after he has cheated you out
of everything he could lay his
hands on. It is of God's mercy that we
have these outside indices of character
Phrenology is one index, aud while it may
be carried to an absurd extent, there is
no doubt that you can judge somewhat of
a mans character by the shape of his
head. Palmistry is another index, and
while it may be carried into the fanciful
and necromantic, there is no doubt that
certain lines in the palm of the hand are
indicative of mental and moral traits.
Physiognomy is another index, and while
the contour of the human face may some
times mislead us, we can generally, after
looking info the eye and noticing the
curve of the lip, and the spread of the
nostril, and thecorrellation oi all the feat
ures, come to a right estimate of a man’s
character. If it were not so. how would we
know whom to trust and whom to avoid!
Whether we will or not. physiognomy de
cides a thousand things in commercial,and
financial, and social, and religious do
mains. From one lid of the Bi ile to the
other there is no science so recognised as
that of physiognomy, and nothing more
thoroughly taken for granted than the
power of the soul to transbgure the face.
The Bible speaks of the “face of God."
the "face of Jesus Christ,” the "face of
Esau," the "face of Israel," the “face of
Job,” the "face of the old man,” theshin
fag "face of Moses," the wrathful "face
of Pharoah,” the ashes on the
face of humiliation, the resurrec
tionary staff on the face of the
dead child, the hypocrites disfiguring
their face, and in ray text the Bible de
clares, "A man's wisdom maketh his face
to shine and the sourness of his face shall
be sweetened.” If the Bible has so much
to say about physiognomy, we do not
wonder that the world has made it a
study from the early ages. In vain the
English parliament in the time of George
II ordered publicly whipped and im
prisoned those who studied physiognomy.
Intelligent people atwavs have studied it
and always will study it. The pens of
Moses, and Joshua, and Job, end John,
and Paul, as well as of Homer, and
Hippocrates, and Galen, and Aristotle,
and Socrates, and Plato, and Lavater
have been dipped into it. and whole libra
ries of wheat and chaff have been gar
nered on this theme.
Now, what practical religious and eter
nal use would I make of this subject 1 I
am going to show that while we are not
responsible for our features, the Ixird Al
mighty having decided what they shall be
pre-naUli.v, as the Psa.rnist ‘declares
•when be wirtes: “In my book all my mem
bers were written which in continuance
were fashioned when as yet there was
none of them,” yet the character which
under God we form, will chisel the face
most mightily. Every man would like to
have been made in appearance an Alci
biades. and every woman would like
to have been made a Josephine. We all
want to be agreeable. Our useful
ness depends so much upon it mat I con
sider it important and Christian for every
man and woman to lie as agreeable as pos
sible. The slouch, the sloven, the man
who does not care how ho looks, all such
people lack equipment for usefulness A
minister who has to throw a quid of to
bei to out of his mouth before he begins
to preach, or Christians with beard uu
trimmed, making them to look like wild
beasts come outof the lair, yea, unkempt,
uncombed, unwashed, disagreeable men
or women, are a hindrance to religion
more than a recommendation.
Now. my text suggests how we may, in
dependent of features, make ourselves
agreeable: "A man’s wisdom maketh his
lace to shine and the sourness of his face
sliull be sweetened." What Isay may come
too late for man v.,Their countenance may,
by long years of hardness have been
frozen into solidity; or by long years of
cruel behavior they may have HerodizeJ
all the ma liinery of expressiou; or by
long years of avarice they may have been
shyiocked until their faee is as hard as
the proeious melai they are hoarding; but
lain in time to help multitude s If the lxird
will. That it is possible to over orac dis
adiaiitugi so: physiognomy was in tills
country mightily illustrated by one whose
life re. entl.v closed after having serve 1
fa the presidential cabinet at Washing
ton Hy accident of Urs in childhood his
fa* e had been more piteously scarred
thuu fiv liuinnii visage that i ever saw
•* hard stud / h t ise from tning a poor
**J to too very higul.uf profession
and when an attorney general for the
United State* was needed he entered the
presidential cabinet. What a triumph
over destroyed human counte
nance: I do not wonder that when
an opposing attorney in a Philadelphia
: court room, cruelty referred to this per
sonal disfigurement, Benjamin F. Brew
ster replied in these words: “When I was
a babe i was a bea itiful blue eyed child.
I know thisreecause mv dear dead mother
told me %o . but I was one day playing
with my sister, when her clothes took fire,
and I ran to her relief, aud saved her, but
in doing so my clothes took fire, and the
fire was not put out until my face was as
black as the heart of the scoundrel who
has just now referred to my disfigure
ment.” Heroism conquering physical
disabilities. That scholarly regular fea
tures are not necessary formaking power
ful impression. witness Paul, who photo
graphs himself as in "bodily presence
weak;” and George Whitefieid, whose
eyes were struck with strabismus; and
Alexander H. Stephens, who sat with pale
and sic.-i face in invalid chair while ho
'hriliid the Amert an congress with bus
eloquence; and thous.n s of iuviiii
preac iers, and S ,oa.h s. bool tca'Her.s.
and Christian work rs. Aye. the most glor
ious Being the world ever saw was fore
seen by Isaiah who described his face
bruised aud gashed, and scarified, and
said of him: "His visage was so marred
more than any man." So you sea that
the loveliest face in the universe was a
scarred face.
And now 1 am going to tell you of some
of the chisels that work for the disfigura
tion or irradiation of the human counte
nance. One of the sharpest and most de
structive of those chisels of the counte
nance is cynicism. That sours the dispo
sition and then sours the face. It gives
a contemptuous curl to the lip. It draws
down the corners of the mouth and in
flates the nostril as with a malodor.
What David said in haste they say in
their deliberation: "All men are liars;”
everything is going to ruin. All men and
women are bad, or going to be. Society
and the church are on the down grade.
Tell them of an act of benevolence, and
they say he gave that to advertise him
self. They do not like the present fashion
of hats for women, or of coats for men.
They are opposed to the administration,
municipal and state, and national. Some
how, food does not taste as it used to and
they wonder why there are no poets, or
orators, or preachers as when
they were boys. Even Solomon,
one of the wisest, and at one time one of
the worst, of men falls into the pessimis
tic mood, and cries out in the twenty-first
chapter of Proverbs. “Who can find a
virtuous woman?” If he had behaved
himself better and kept in good associa
tion, he would not have written that in
terrogation point implying the scarcity
of good womanhoot. Cynicism, if a habit,
as it is with tens of thousands of people,
writes itself all over the features: hen e
so many sour visages all up aud down the
street, all up and down the church and
the world. One good way to make the
world worse is to say it is worse. Get a
depressed and foreboding opinion of every
thing take possession of you for twenty
years, and you will be a sight to - behold.
It is the chastisement of God that when a
man allows his heart to be cursed with
cynicism his faee becomes gloomed, and
scowled, and iachrymosed, and blasted
with the same midnight.
But let Christian cheerfulness try its
chisel upon a man’s countenance. Feeling
that all things are for his good, and that
God rules, and that the Bible boing true,
the world's tlorali. atiou is rapidly ap
proaching, aud the day when beer-mug
and demi.ohn, and distillery, and bomb
shell. and rifle-pit, and seventy four
pounders, and roulette tables, and corrupt
flook and satanic printing press will have
quit work, the brightness that comes
lrom such anticipation not only gives .est
to,his work. but shines in his eyes und
glows in his cheek and kindles a morniug
in his entire countenance. Those are the
laces l look for in an audience. Those
countenances are sections of millennial
glory. T ley are heaven impersonated.
They are the sculpturing of God's right
haud. Tuey aie hosannas in human flesh.
They are halleluiahs alighted. They
are Christ reincarnated I do
not care what your leatures are
or whether you look like your
father, or your mother, or look like no
one under the heavens—to God and man
you are beautiful. Michael Angelo, tho
sculptor, visiting Florence, someone
showed him In a back yard a piece of
marble that was so shapeless it seemed of
no use, and Angelo was asked if he could
make anj thing out of it, and if so was
told be con Id own it. The artist took the
marble, and for nine months shut himself
up to work, first trying to make of it a
statue of David with his foot on Goliath,
but the marble was not quite long enough
at the base to make the prostrate form of
the giant, and so the artist fashioned the
marble into another figure that is
tamous for all time because of its expres
siveness. A critic came in and was asked
by Angelo for his criticism, and he said
it was beautiiul. but the nose of the
statue was not of right shape. Angelo
picked up trom the floor some sand and
tossed it auout the face of tbe statue,
protending he was using his chisel
to make the improvement suggested
by tbe critic. “What do vou thin* of it
now?” said the artist. "Wonderfully im
proved, ’ said the critic. "Well.” said
the artist, "I have not changed it at all.”
My friends, the grace of God comes to the
heart of a man or woman and then at
tempts to change a forbidding and pre
judicial face into attractiveness. Per
haps the face is most unpromising for the
Divine Sculptor. But having changed
the heart it begins to work on the counte
nance with celoslial chisel, and into all
the lineaments of the face puts a gladness
and an expectation that changes it from
glory to glory, and though earthly
criticism may disapprove of this
or that in the appearance of the
face, Christ says of the newly
created 'countenance that which 1 ilate
said of Him "Behold the man I”
Here is another mighty chisel for the
countenance, nni you may call it revenge,
or hate, or malevo once. This spirit
having taken-posse>sion of tho heart it
encamps,seven devils under the eye-brows,
it puts cruelty into the compression of
the lips. You can tell from tho mans
looks that he is pursuing someone and
trying to get even with him. There are
suggestions of Nero, and Robespierre, and
Diocletian, and thumbscrews aud rac .s
all up aud down the features. Infernal
artists with murderers’ daggers have
been cutting away at that visage. The
revengeful heart has built Us perdition
in the revengeful countenance. Disfig
uration of diabolic passion!
But here comes another chisel to shape
the countenance, and it is kindness. There
came a moving day, and into her soul
moved the whole family of Christian
graces, with all the children and grand
children, and the command has tome
forth from the heavens that that wo
man’s lace shall be made to correspond
with her superb soul. Her entire face
from ear to ear becomes the canvas on
which all the best artists of heaven begin
to pul thoir finest strokes and on the small
compass of that face are put pictures of s in
rise over the sea, and angels of mercy
going up and down ladders ail a-flash. and
mountains of t runs tig urn lion and noon
da vln lies veil. Kindness! It is the most
magnificent sculptor tnat ever touched
liu.r.an countenance. No otic could won
der at the unusual geniality in the face of
William Windoin, Secretary of the Treas
ury of the United Stales, after seeing him
at the New York banquet just le'ore he
dropped dead, turning ills wine g.ass up
side down, sit.ving "1 may bv doing tins
o lend some, but by not doing it. I might
damage mativ.” lie kind to your friends
lie kind to .vour enemies lie kind to tho
VOUiig he Kind Ui the old ite kind to
your rulers lie kind to your servants
ft" kind to your sopiriors Ile kindle
.0 if horse, lie kind to your dog. U
THE MORNING NEWS; MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2K, 1894.
kind to your cat. Morning, noon and
night be kind, and the effec s of it will bv
written in tbe language of your face.
That is tne guspet of physiognomy.
A Bayonne merchant was in the south
of Europe for his health, and silting on
the terrace one morning in his invalidism,
he saw a rider flt.ng from a horse into the
river, and without thinking of his own
weakness the mer. hant flung off his in
valid's gown and leaped into the stream
and swam to the drowning man.and clutch
ing him as he was about lo go down the
last lime, bore him in safety to the bank,
when glancing into the face of the rescued
man. he cried. "Mv God! I have saved
my own son!” All kindness comes back
to us in one way or another; if not in any
other nv then in your own face. Kind
ness. ,->i; . to others, for the time may
I come waeu you may need it yourself. Peo
'pie laugh' i at the lion because he spared
i the mo',* that ran over him, when by one
motiou in his paw the monster could have
crushed the insignificant disturber. But
|it was well that the lion had mercy on
i the mouse, for one day the lion was
caught in a trap and roared fearfully be
cause he was held fast by ropes. Then
i tbe mouse gnawed off the ropes and let
i the lion go free. You may consider your
| self a lion, but you cannot afford to sde
! spine a mouse. When Abraham Lincoln
i pardoned a young soldier at the request
' of his mother, the mother went down the
! stairs of the white house, saying, "They
I have lied about the President's heing
homely; he is the handsomest man I ever
saw.” All over that President’s rugged
face was written the kindness which he
so well illustrated when he said: "tome
of our generals complain that I impair dis
cipline and subordination in the army by
my pardons and respites, but it makes me
rested after a bard day's work it. I can find
some good excuse for saving a mans life,
and I go to bed happier as 1 think of how
joyous the signing of my name will make
him and his family.” Kindness! It
makes the fare to shine while life lasts,
and after death puts a summer sunset be
tween the still lips and the smoothed
liair, that makes me say sometimes at ob
sequies: "She seems too beautiful to
bury.”
But here comes another chisel, and its
name is hypocrisy. Christ with one ter
rific stroke in his sermon on th* mount
described this character: "When ye fast
be not as the hypocrites, of a sau counte
nance; for they disfigure their faces that
they may appear unto men to fast.” Hy
pocrisy having taken possession of the
soul it immediately appears in the coun
tenance. Hypocrites are always solemn.
They carry several country graveyards in
their faces. They are tearful when
there is nothing to cry about, and in
their prayers they catch for their breath,
and have such a general doiefulness that
they disgust young people with religion.
We had one of them in one of my churches.
When he exhorted he always de
plored the low state of religkm in other
people, and when he prayed it was an
attack of hvsteria, and he went iuto a
paroxysm of ohs and alls that seemed to
demand resuscitation. He went on in
that way until we had to expel him from
church for stealing the property entrusted
to him as administrator, and for other
vices that I will not mention, and he
wrote me several letters not at all com
plimentary from the west saying that ho
was daily praying for my everlasting de
struction. A man cannot have hypocrisy
in his heart without somehow showing it
in his face. All intelligent people who
witness it know it is nothing but a
dramatization.
Here comes another chisel, and that be
longs to the oid fashioned religion. It
first takes possession of the whole soul,
washing out its sins by the blood of tbe
Lamb and starting heaven right there
and then. Tins done deep down in the
heart, religion says, “Now let me go up to
the windows and front gate of the lace and
set up some signal that 1 have taken pos
session of this castle. I will celebrate the
victory by an illumination that no one can
mistake. 1 have made this man happy
and now I will make him look happy. I
will draw the corners of his mouth as far
up as they were drawn down. I will take
t le contemptuous curl away from tho lip
and nostril. 1 will maae his eyes flash
and his cheeks glow at every mention of
Christ and heaven. I will make even the
wrinkles of his face look like furrows
plowed for the harvests of joy. I will
make what we call the ‘crow’s feet’
around his temples suggestive that the
dove of peaee has been alighting there.”
There may be signs of trouble on that
face, but trouole sanctified. There may
be scars of battle on that face, but they
will be scars of cumpai ns won.
"Now," says someone, "1 know very
good people who have no such religion in
their faces." My friend, the reason prob
ably is that they were not converted until
late in life. Worldliness and sin had been
at work with their chisels on that face
for thirty or forty years, and Grace, the
divine sculptress, has been busy with her
chisel only five or ten years. Do not be
surprised that Phidias and Greenough,
with their fine chisels, cannot, in a short
while, remove all the marks of the stone
mason's crowbar, which has been busy
there tor a long while. I say to all the
young, if you would have sympathetic
face, hopeful fsA-e. courageous face, cheer
ful face, kind face, at tne earliest possi
ble moment, by the grace of God have
planted in your soul sympathy, and hope,
and reurage. and good cheer, and kind
ness. No man ever indulged a gracious
feeling, or was moved by a righteous in
dignation, or was stirred by a benevo
lent impulse, but its effect was
more or less indicated in the
countenance; while David noticed
the physiognomic effect of a bad
disposition when he said, ‘A wicked man
hardenetu his lace,” and Jeremiah must
have noticed it when he said of the cruel,
"They have made their faces harder than
a rock.” Oh, the power of the human
face! I warrant that you have known
faces so magnetic and impressive that
though they vanished long ago they still
hold you with a holy spell. How loug
since your ih id went? "Well,” you say,
"if she had lived she would have been ten
years old now, or twenty, or thirty
years.” But does not that infaut face
still have teuder supremacy over your en
tire nature? During many an eventido
does it not look at you! In your dreams
do you not see it! What a sanctifying,
hallowing influence ft lias been in your
1 life. You can say in the words of the
poet: "Better to have loved aud
lost than never to have loved at
all.” Or, it may have been a
sister's face. Perhaps she was the
invalid of the family. Perhaps she
never went out except on very clear days,
and then she had to be varied down the
siairs to the piazza, or for a short ride,
but she was so patient and cheerful under
it all. As that face looks at you through
Uie years with what an elevated and
heavenly emotion .you are filled. Or.Avas
it a father's faqet The storms of life had
somewhat roughened it A good deal of
the brightness of the eye had been
quenched, aud the ear was turned with
tho band behind it in order to hear at all.
But you remember that face so vividly
that if you were an artist you could put
it on canvas, and it would mean to you
more thau any face that Rembrandt ever
sketched. That faee though long ago
veiled from human sight is as plain in
.vour memory as though you this mointnt
saw it, moving gently forward and back
warti in the rocking-chair by the
stove in the old farm-house. Or,
was It your mother’s face! .A good
mothers face is never homely
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have a joy sud that face did not respond
to it! Did you ever have a grief and r.o
tears trickle down that maternal cheek I
Did you ever do a bad thing and a shadow
did not cross if Oh, it was.a sweet face!
The spectacles with large, round glasses
through which she looked at you. how
sacredly they have been kep t in bureau or
closet! Your mother s face, your mother s
smile, your mother's tears! What an
overpiowering memory! Though you have
come on to mid-life, or old age, how you
would like just once more to bury your
face in her lap and have a pood cry.
But I can tell you of a more
sympathetic, and more tender, and more
loving face than any of the faces I have
mentioned. "No, you cannot." says some
one. I can. aud 1 will, it is the face of
Jesus Christ as he was on earth and is
now in heaven. When preparing m.v Life
of Christ, entitled "From Manger to
Thryvne,” I ransacked the art galleries
and portfolios of the world to find a
picture of our Saviour’s face that might
be most expressive, and I saw it as Fran
ces o Franeia painted it in the sixteenth
century, and as the emerald intaglio of
the sixth century presented it, and as a
fresco in the catacombs near Rome pre
served it, and as Leonardo da Vinci
showed it in "The Last Supper,”
and I looked in the Louvre, and
the Luxembourg, and the Vatican,
and the Dresden, and the Berlin, ana
Neapolitan, and London galleries for the
most inspiring face of Christ, and many
of the presentations were wonderful for
pathos, and majesty, and power, and exe
cution ; but although l selected that by
Ary Scheffer as in some respects the most
expressive, I felt as we all feel, that our
Christ has never yet beta presented
either in sculpture or painting, and that
we will have to wait until we rise to the
upper palace, where we shall see him as
he is. What a gentle face it must have
been to induce the babes to struggle out
of their mothers' arms into his arms!
What an expressive face it must have
been when one reproving look of it threw
stalwart Deter into a tit of tears! Wbat a
pleasing face it m ust have been to lead the
Psalmist in prayer to say of it, "Look upon
the face of Thine Anointed.” W T hat a
sympathetic face it must have been to en
courage the sick woman who was beyond
any help from the doctors to touch the
hem of his garment! Whas a suffering
face it must have been when suspended on
the perpendicular and horizontal pieces of
the wood of martyrdom, and his antago
nists slapped the palid cheek with their
rough hands, and befouled it with the
saliva of their blasphemous lips! What a
tremendous fuceit must have been to lead
Saint John to describe it in the coming
judgment as scattering the universe when
he says, '‘From whoye face the earth and
the heaven fled away.”
Ch, Christ! Once the Nazarene, but
now the Celestial! Once of Cross, but
now of Throne! Once crowned with sting
ing bramble, but now coroneted with tbe
jewels of ransomed empires. Turn oq us
thy pardoning face and forgive us; thy
sympathetic face and console us; thy
su taring face and have thy atonement
avail for us; thy omnipotent face and
rescue us. Qh. what a face! Soscarred.
so lacerated, so resplenden .sooverwhelm
ingly glorious that the seraphim put wing
to wing, and with their conjoined pinions
keep off some of the luster that is too
mighty even for eyes cherubic or archan
geiic; and yet this morning turned upon us
with a sheathed splendor like that
with which he appeared when he
said to the mothers bashful about
presenting their children. "Suffer them
to come;” and to the poor waif of the
street, "Neither do I condemn thee;”aud
to the eyes of the blind beggar of the
wayside, “Be opened." I think my
brother John, the. (returned foreign mis
sionary, dying summer before last at
Bound Brook, caught 6 glimpse of that
face of Christ when in bis dying Hour my
brother said, "i shall be satisfied when I
awake in his likeness ” And now unto
him that loved us, and washed us from
our sins in his own blood, and hath made
us kings and priests unto God and his
father, to him be glory and dominion,
forever and ever, amen and amen! Amen
and amen!
MEDICAL.
Both Cured
by Hood’s
Dy9popsia, Headache, Etc.
Baco, Mateo.
“C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mas3.:
"For years I have liad dyspepsia, grow
ing worse, and becamo so discouraged that
I thought of selling ir.y farm and going to
California. Added to my misery were the
painful effects of a fracture on the end of
my backbone, which resulted from a coast
ing accident when a hoy. I happened to
read about Hood’s Sarsaparilla and decid
ed to take two bottles, and before the last
one was gone, I could eat a hearty meal
without any distress. The fracture of my
backbone is also healed and I do not have
any lameness. I can truly say lam now
well, and X believe Hood's Sarsaparilla
Savod hly Life.
It has also been a great benefit to my wife,
who had distress in the stomach and
severe headaches. She said tho first dose
Hood’SpSii Cures
of Ilood’s Sarsaparilla seemed to go to tho
right spot. Now she onjoys good health.”
Elijah Buck, Bex 4.x, Saco, Maine.
Hood’s Pills cure slckhcadacho, bil
iousness, and all liver ills. 25 cents.
SFECIAL NOTICES.
Savannah, Ga. , 88 Bull Street, 1
Feb. 21. 18*4. )
Students on “Roll of Honor' for tho fifth
scholastic month averages over 90 per cent.
In conduct and studies:
CLAYTON PUB
JOHN A. THOMSON.
HOKACF P SMART, Jr.
JOHN TALIAFERRO. Principal
LIQUOR LICENSES.
City of Savannah, Office Clerk of Council, I
February K>. 18 4. f
“he following applications for permission
to retail liquor during Ihe soar 1814 were re
feried to the remu.ittee of the whole at meet
tug cf Feb. It i*ji
O. 11. Poe corner Duffy and Cemetery sta
O B Poo, *7 -t. Julian at . tetween Alont
gomerr and Weat liro<l sta.
M Sohoen n. w ior. idwlnv and ,st. Caul sta,
M L McCarthy, u. e. cor. Wheaton and
Ke\ aolds sta.
Berman Miller, a w. cor. Eaat Broad and
M- Douoogn ata
John h Kosen week n. e. cor Tenth asd
UuU sta
r 8. HKHAKKK
_ Clerk of council.
IS!ED CAL
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR
THE OLD FRIENO
with red 7. on every package. It’s the Kin*
of Liver Medicines, is tetter than pills, and
lakes the place of Quinine and Calomel. Take
nothing offered you as a substitute. J. H.
Zell,lN' A CO.. ;<y. irietors. Philadelphia.
MEET NGS.
DE KALB LODGE No. 9,1. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will beheld
THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock, in Oud Fellows'
Hall.
Visiting brothers are invited to meet with
us. JOHN RILEY. N. G
■Two, W. Smith, Secretary.
CITIZENS’ SANITARY ASSOCIATION.
Savannah. Ga. Feb. 25, 1894.—The annual
meeting of the Citizens' Sanitary Association
of savannah will Le held at tho office of the
Association, No. 5 Drayton street, second
floor (entrance one door lrom roithwest cor
ner Bay lar.ee at Bp.m„ Fob. Xu. 1894
The Medical Director of the Assoclatisn
will read an interesting report on the yellow
fever epidemic of Brunswick.
The annual election of officers will occur at
the same time.
MAXIME J. DESVERGERS.
Acting Secretary.
THE FERTILE LE PANTO.
No five cent cigar la as fruitful in enjoy
ment ms this deserved and popular fa
vorite. The LE PANTO yields more
pleasure to the majority of smokers than
any that have been sold at the price tn
many years. Do not fall to get some, and
buy them In half boxes Or at five cents
each of E. J. KIEFFER.
NOTICE IN REGARD TO ASSESSMENT
OF CERTAIN PROPERTY NORTH OF
ANDERSON STREET EXTENDED.
City Treasurer's Office, Savannah, Ga.. Jan.
29, 1894.—Notice is hereby given that the
assessment look filed In this office Jan. 12.
1894, and covered by the resolution of Council
passed Jan. 17. 1894. contains valuations of
real estate aad improvements not heretofore
assessed foe taxation, lying t etween Ander
son street, as extended, and Wheaton street,
and east of the tracks of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad Company, the
same being in the wards known as the At
lantic. Johnston. Kelly, Haywood. Schley,
Weed. Padelford and Telfair wards. This
assessment, for the property mentioned In
this notice, is open for inspection in this
office, and notice Is hereby given to ail con
cerned to file their objections, if any they
hove, within thirty days from this date.
Otherwise the assessment mentioned will be
final and conclusive as establishing the value
by which to estimate the tax to be collected
for the year 1894. Objections must be made
in writing and addressed to the assessment
commlt.ee, and left with ihe clerk of council.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
NOTICE TO OWNERS OF GROUND
RENT LOTS.
Ctty Marshal s Office Savannah. Ga., Feb.
14. 1894 —Executions against all persons In
arrears for taxes ou what is known as
GROUND RENT LOTS, for the vear 1893,
have been placed in my hands and levied.
ROBERT J. WADE.
City Marshall.
LAST NOTICE IN REGARD TO WATER
RENTS.
City Treasurer's Office, I
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 24, 1894. I
In accordance with section lo of the rules
and reg lations of the Water Works Depart
ment the Turn Cock has received orders to
shut oft the sunnly of water, WITHOUT
FURTHER NIT.CE. from all premises In
arrears for water rent due and payable on the
first of January last.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
TURKEYS.
Very choice lot Dressed Turkeys. Must be
sold.
STRAWBERRIES.
Fresh Florida berries, only 25c a basket.
—AT—
WM. G. COOPER’S,
28 Whitaker Street.
PROCLAMATION.
City of Savannah. Mayor's Office, I
i euruary 15, 1894. f
The city of Savannah will pay the snm of
Two i undred and Fifty Dollars for the ar
rest and delivery to the Sheriff of Chatham
county of the person of ABE sM ALLS, col
ored. charged with the commission of th3
crime of murder in the city of Savannah.
Fo.*. 10. 1894.
Given under my hand end the seal of the
city cf Savannah this 15th day of February,
1894.
[seal] GEO. J. MILLS. Acting Mayor.
Attest: F. E. Kebaueu, Clerk of Council.
FERFUMED SOAP
FOR THE LAUNDRY.
Washing riot lies with SEA FOAM SOAP
cleanses, beautifies and perfumes them,
therefore !t surpasses all other soaps. Do
not be without some of it at the low price
of five cents for a big cake.
M. W. SULTER,
Corner Price and Gordon Streets.
CONSULTING OPTICIANS.
A STARTLING FACT,
That very few persons have perfect eye*. It
must 1* evident tiiat It requires both know!
edge and skill to know what the eyes need
and to at them properly with glasses. Those
who trust this work to uninstructed dealers
are criminally careless of the most valuable
of all the senses, their sight. In addition to
graduating in Germany and my thirty years'
praetliai experience I have taken a course
and graduated in a school of optica in New
York and learned the latest and I e,t methods
of ascertain!!* the dlfferani detects of tbe
eyes and their proper correction, so that I
can at you properly with glasses that will
strengthen and Improve youreyeatgbt Instead
of rspldly.ruinlng It as poorly utled glasses
wUI always do No charge for examination.
DU. M. MHWAII * SON,
Graduated UpUctao%
Msßltiill ninth
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH theater.
TUESDAyTfEB. 27.
Extraordinary Event—Special engagement of
the Champion of the World.
JA$. J. CORBETT!
To appear in the elaborate revival of
WM A BRADY’S
■AFTER DARK S
20-PLAYERS—2O.
Famovs points of Interest in London real
istically reproduced. Each a marvel of
scenic magnificence.
Incidentally Mr. Corbett will spar four
frten :lz and scientific rounds with Prof. John
Lonaldson. A Grand Production.
Seats at Livingston s. Feb. 24.
Next Attraction Natali Operatic Com
pany Feb. 28.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
ONE NIGHT ONLY—FEB. 28.
THE NATALI GRAND OPERA CO.
Louise Natali,
The Peerless Operatic Soprano.
Emuiy Myron,
The Accomplished Dramatic Contralto.
Mr. William Stephens,
The Brilliant Young Tenor.
Mr. William Mertenn,
Tho Incomparable Baritone.
Fierre Deiasco.
The Great Basso.
Mr. Jacques Friedberger,
Piano Virtuoso and Musical Director.
THREE COMPLETE ACTS OF
“! L TROVATORE,”
In full costume Snd with adequate stage ac
cessories. Preceded by a programme of in
strumental and vocal numbers. Seats at Liv
ingston s Feb 26. Next attraction. DAN
SULLY, March 1 and 2.
fU p |1 STAR COURSE ENIERTAINIENT
I •nla U.n. At Masonic Hall,
FEB. 26, 8 p. m., by th©
SCHUBERT MALE QUARTETTE
Single admission 50c; reserved seats 25c.
Box sheet open at Y. M. C. A.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Anslytlcal and Consulting Chemist.
General analytical work solicited. Special
attention given commercial fertilizers and
chemicals used in their manufacture; also,
crude phosphate rock. Laboratory—Room
No. 31. Provident Building, Savannah. Ga.
References, by permission—Dr. H. C. White,
Chemist. Athens. Ga : Mr. Joseph Hull, of
Comer. Hull & Cos., Manufacturers of Com
mercial Fertilizers, Savannah. Ga.
TEN YEARS’ SIX PF.R CENT. COUNTY
BONDS.
Notice Is hereby given that under an act of
the General Assembly of the State of South
Carolina entitled, “An act to authorize the
Issue and sale of certain bonds of Beaufort
county, the expenditure of the proceeds there
of and the redemption and payment of the
same.” approved Dec. 23, 1893, the under
signed will receive at Beaufort, S. C., until
the fifteenth day of March, 1894. at 12 o'clock
m . sealed bids for any part, of 521.00 J of cou
pon bonds of said county. Issued under said
act. In denominations of (100, |SOO and 81,000,
payable in ten years after date, with Interest
at 6 per cent, per annum, payable on March 1.
Bonds not taxable for town and county pur
poses and coupons receivable for county
taxes.
A special annual levy of one mill, producing
$1,5.0, Is directs 1 by said act to pay the inter
est and to provide a sinking fund for payment
of principal.
Bidders will state amount wanted and price
offered. No bids below par can be accepted.
R. B. FULLER,
„ County Treasurer.
rva CURTICE BLUE LABEL
f J KETCHUP.
A Fine Table ReUsh.
Ii Made from Whole Red Ripe
F J Tomatoes, seasoned with Pure
M Prepared and guaranteed by
1 CURTICE BROTHERS CO.,
EmMyyßgj Rochester, N. Y.
HjSjQUHj Trade supplied by
ESajpßfjl HENRY SOLOMON & SON,
CROOCET sets,
70c. SI and 81.50.
Second-hand books bought, sold and
exchanged.
J. GARDNER.
NOTICE.
The undersigned have formed a copartner
ship for tne pra.t.ce of general medicine, un
der the Aim name of DUNCAN, CHARLTON
& BOY’D, to take effect from and after Feb.
28, 1894. For the present our respective
places of business will remain unchanged.
Savannah, Ga Fen. 23. 1894.
W DUNCAN, M, D.
ti o v j. Charlton, m. and.
MOaTAGUE L. BOYD, M. D.
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 Phoephatique for the nerves.
RAILROADS.
HICHMOHO and
Or DANVILLE R. R,
The Greatest Southern System.
IMPROVED schedules. Through first-class
coaches between Savannah snd Asheville,
N. C.. for Hot bprings and other Western
Carolina points.
Also to vVaihalla and Greenville, S. C., and
Intermediate fo.nts via Columbia.
Quick time and unproved service to Wash
lDgton New York und the i asi.
l nly line In the south opeiattng solid vestl
buled limited trains with i-ulunan dining cars,
Lou. le duly lusi trams i c.weeu New York,
Philadelphia Baltimore Washington. Char
lotte. Columbia, savannah, and Jacksonville
and Tampa, Fla., carrying Pullman chawing
room cars between Savannah und New York
on all through trains Ago dining cars be
tween Savannah and Washington ou trains 37
and 38
W A. TURK <}. P A. Washington. D. G
S. H. HARD WICK, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, da
fcEO. M. KICHOLS,
PRIMTINGg
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS
87| Boy It ftawuaafe*
SHOES.
THE BALANCE of m stock of
~Musl fie Turned Into Cash
AT ONCE. Everything 1 will be sacrificed. Now is the
time to lay in a stock of Footwear for nearly nothing.
Everything must be sold prior to our removal shortly to
our new store, southeast corner Broughton and Whita
ker streets.
BYCK BROS., WHITAKER STREET
SHOES!
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital $600,000.
Trauiiarti a general banking: business.
Maintains a having:* Department and al<
lovrs INTLIiEST AT 4 PJKK CENT., com
pounded quarterly.
The accounts of Individuals, firms, banks
anil 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.
IJKAMTLEI A. DENMARK, President
yi. B. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN. Cashier.
Savannah Savings Sank,
PAYS
ON DEPOSITS.
Send or write for our
literature.
IV. K. WILKINSON, Presldeafc
C. 8. ROCKWELL, Treasurer.
SAVANNAH BANK
ANO TRUST CO,
SAVANNAH, GA.
INTEREST AT
4%
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART.
MKNT.
Collections on Savannah and all south
ern pointu, we handle on the most favora
ble terms and remit at lowest exchange
ra.es on day of payment. Correspond
ence solicited.
JOSEPH D. WEED, President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Vice President
JAMES H. HUNTER. Cashier.
SPECIALIST.
WHEN OTHERS FAIL
CONSULT
Dr. Broadfoot,
If skk and despondent, the . est medical
help is none too good. Whv not consult a
specialist of estar’dished reputation and an
cuestlo ei reliability, such as Dr. Hroadfoot’
whatever opinion is Riven by him you tan
relv upon it as beinjj true. He is a trje geuu*
in si ecialist In all diseases peculiar to men
and women.
& Special at
the following
Nervous dis
eases nd ail
its attending
ailments of
younr and
middle aed
men. the aw
ful effects of
negle c t ed
and impropj
cases, pro
due in* weajy
Ruling menu
t res'll'*
sjmpto In*.
unfitting one for stuffy or busmos. Blood
and Skin Diseases. Sores. Tumor Pimple*.
Tetter, rlczema UUers !,,.* of Hair. Serof .la
and Blood poison of every nacre, primary
and secondary, promptly and permanently
eraffl.aind Unnatural diseha-ges prompilT
cured la a few dav* (juiek, sure nd >*
Mall irea’meni given by srndln* for symp
tom blank*. No I for mon, No. 2 finr women,
No 3 for bkln diseases All corr. wponaen
answered promptly, u sines* stilctly c■
fideuttal Fntlre troaimmt sent free trod
o; servaunn to all parts of the country. A*
dress or call on
.1 It HO AI > FOOT, M. Dm
136 Bruughloa street mpslalrsk
Savannah. OS