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POMOLOGY OF THE BIBLE.
T.VLMVGE PREACHES ON GOD
AMONG THE ORCHARDS.
The Divine Hand Found in All the
Dominion* of the \ntnrnl World.
Religion Presented in it* Most Ra
diant Attractiveness in This
Week's Sermon—First I-ifting of
tlie Veil liter the Creation of Par
ndise Present* the Flower* and
the Fruit.
Washington, Nov. 14.—Dr. Talmage finds
the Divine hand in all tin dominions of
the natural world, and this sermon pre
sents religion in its most radiant attiac
tiveness. The text is Genesis 1:11: The
fruit tree yielding fruit after liis kind."
It is Wednesday morning in Paradise.
The birds did not sine tiieir opening piece,
nor the fish take their first swim until
the following .Friday. The solar and lu
nar lights did not break through the thick,
chaotic fog of the world's manufacture
until Thursday. Before that there was
’ light, but ii was electric light or phos
phorescent light, not the light of sun or
moon. But the botanical and pomologieal
productions came on Wednesday—first the
flowers, and then the fruits. The veil of
fog Is lifted, anil there stand the orchards.
Watch the sudden maturity of the fruit!
In our time pear trees must have two
years before they bear fruit, and peach
trees three years, and apple trees five
years; but here, Instantly, a complete
orchard springs Into life, all the branches
bearing fruit. The Insectile forces, which
have been doing their worst to destroy the
fruits for six thousand years, had not yet
begun their invasion. The eurculio had
cot yet stung the plum, nor the caterpillar
hurt the apple, nor had the phylloxera
plague, which has devastated the vine
yards of America and France, assailed the
grapes, nor the borer perforated the wood,
nor the aphides ruined the cherry, nor
tiie gruh punctured the nectarine, nor the
blight struck the pear. There stood the
■ first orchard, with a perfection of rind,
and an exquisiteness of color, and a lus
ciousness of taste, and an aflluence of pro
duction which it may take thousands of
years more of study of the science of
fruits to reproduce.
(Why was the orchard created two days
before the fish and birds, and three days
before the cattle? Among other things,
to impress the world with a lesson it is
too stupid to learn—that fruit diet is
healthier than meat diet, and that the
former must precede the latter. The
reason there are in the world so many of
the imbruted and sensual is that they have
not improved by the mighty, unnoticed
fact that the orchards of paradise pre
ceded the herds, and aviaries, and fish
ponds. Oh, those fruit-bearing trees on
the banks of the Euphrates, and the
Gihon, and the Hiddekel! I wonder not
that the ancient Romans, ignorant of our
God, adored Pomona, the Goddess of
Fruits, and that all the sylvan deities were
said to worship her, and that groves were
set apart as her temples. You have
thanked God for bread a thousand times.
Have you thanked him for the fruits
wfiich he made the first course of food in
the menu of the world’s table? The acids
of'{hose fruits to keep the world’s table
from being insipid, and their sweets to
keep it from being too sour?
At this autumnal season how the or
chards breathe and glow', the leaves re
moved, that the crimson, or pink, or saf
fron, or the yellow, or brown may the
better appear, while the aromatics tilt the
air with invitation and reminiscence. As
you pass through the orchard on these
autumnal days and look up through the
arms of the trees laden with fruit, you
hear thumping on the ground that which
is fully ripe, and, throwing your arms
around the trunk, you give a shake that
sendg down a shower of gold and fire on
ail sides of you. Pile up in baskets and
barrels and bins and on shelves and tallies
the divine supply. But these orchards
have been under the assault of at least
sixty centuries—the storm, the droughts,
the winters, the insectivora. What must
the first orchard have been? And yet it
is the explorers evidence that on the site
of that orchard there is not an apricot, or
an apple, or an olive—nothing but desert
and desolation. There is not enough to
forage the explorer's horse, much less to
feed his own hunger. In other words,
that first orchard is a lost orchard. How
did the proprietor and the proprietress of
all that intercolumnlation of fruitage, let
the rich splendor slip their possession? It
■was as now most of the orchards are lost;
namely, by wanting more. Access they
had to all the fig trees, apricots, walnuts,
almonds, apples—bushels on bushels—
and were forbidden the use of only one
tree in the orchard. Not satisfied with
all but one, they reached for that, and lost
the whole orchard. Go right down through
the business marts of the great cities and
find among the weighers and clerks and
subordinates, men who once commanded
the commercial world. They had a whole
orchard of successes, but they wanted just
one more thing—one more house, or one
more country seat, or one more, store, or
one more railroad, or one more million.
They clutched for that and lost all they
had gained. For one more tree they lost
a whole orchard. There are business men
all around us worried nearly to death.
The doctor tells them they ought to stop.
Insomnia or indigestion or aching at the
base of the brain or ungovernable nerves
tell them they ought to stop.- They really
have enough for themselves and their
families. Talk with them about their
overwork, and urge more prudence and
longer rest, and they say: “Yes, you are
right; after I have accomplished one
more thing that 1 have on my mind, I will
hand over my business to my sons and go
to Europe, and quit the kind of exhaust
ing life I have been living for the last
thirty years." Some morning you open
your paper, and, looking at the death col
umn, you find he suddenly departed this
life. In trying to win just one more tree,
he lost the whole orchard.
Yonder is a man with many styles of in
nocent entertainment and amusement. He
walks, he rides, he plays ten-pins in pri
vate alleys, he has books on his table, pic
tures on his wall, and occasional outings,
concerts, lectures, base ball tickets, and
the innumerable delights of friendship.
But he wants a key to the place of disso
lute convocation. He wants association
■with some member of a high family as
reckless as he is affluent. He wants, in
stead of a quiet Sabbath, one of carousal.
He wants the stimulus of strong drinks.
He wants the permissions of a profligate
life. The one membership, the one bad
habit, the one carousal robs him of all the
possibilities and innocent enjoyments and
liobie Inspirations of a lifetime. By one
mouthful of forbidden fruit he loses a
whole orchard of fruit unforbidden.
You see what an expensive thing is sin.
It costs a thousand limes more than it is
worth. As some of all kinds of quadru
peds and all kinds of winged creatures
passed before our progenitor that he
might announce a name, from eagle to bat,
and from lion to mole, so I suppose there
wa re in paradise specimens of every kind
of fruit tree. And in that enormous or
chard there was not only enough for the
original family of two, but enough fruit tell
ripe to the ground, and was never picked
up, to supply whole towns and villages If
they had existed. But the infatuated
couple turned away from all these other
tW * faCed ,hiH tr ‘ e: 311,1 ,ruit of that
aeij.se 111 haVC though u cc>s t them all par-
Hiis story of Eden is rejected by some
Stimulate the stomach, ■ ■ ■
rouse the liver, cure bilious- Hj B P H
ness, headache, dizziness, 111
soar stomach, con ■' cation. *■ * ■ ■
etc. l’ric" is cents. Sold i,y all drnggists.
Tint only I’ll Is to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla
as an improbability, if not an impossibil
ity, but nothing on earth is easier for me
to believe than the truth of this Kdentc
story, for I have seen the same thing in
this year of our Lord 1837. I could call
them by name, if it were politic and right
tons to do so. the men who have sacrificed
a paradise on earth and a paradise in heav
en for one sin. Their house went. Their li
brary went. Their good name went. Their
field of usefulness went. Their health
want. Their immortal soul went. My
friemis! there is just one sin that will turn
you, out of paradise if you do not quit it.
Yoti know what it is, and God knows, and
you had better drop the hand and arm lift
ed toward that bending bough before you
pluck your own ruin. When Adam stood
on tiptoe and took in his right hand that
one round peach, or apricot, or apple satan
r ached up and pulled down the round,
beautiful world of our present residence.
Overworked urtist, overwrought mer
chant, ambitious politician, avaricious
s|’Culator. better take that warning from
Adam’s orchard and slop before you put
out for that one thing more.
But I turn from Adam’s orchard to
Solomon’s orchard. With his own hand
ho writes: “I made me gardens and
orchards.” Not depending on the natural
fall of rain, he irrigated those orchards.
Pieces of the aqueduct that watered those
gardens 1 have seen, and the reservoirs
are as perfect as when thousands of years
ago Ihe mason's trowel smoothed the
mortar over their gray surfaces. No or
< hard of olden or modern time, probably,
ever had its thirst so well slaked. The
largest of these reservoirs is f>B2 feet long,
2<i7 feet wide, and &0 reet deep. These
reservoirs Solomon refers to when lie says;
"I made me pools of water, to water
therewith the wood that bringeth forth
trees.” Solomon used to ride out to that
orchard before breakfast. It gave him an
appetite and something to think about all
the day. Josephus, the historian, repre
sents him as going out “early in the morn
ing from Jerusalem to the famed rocks
of Etam, a fertile region, delightful with
paradises and running springs. Thither
the king, in robes of white, rode in his
chariot, escorted by a troop of mounted
archers chosen for their youth and stature,
and clad in Tyrian purple, whose long
hair, powdered with gold dust, sparkled
in the sun.” After Solomon had taken his
morning ride in these luxuriant orchards
he would sit down and write those won
derful things in the Bible, drawing his il
lustrations from the fruits he had that
very morning plucked or ridden under.
And, wishing to praise the coming Christ,
he says; "As the apple tree among the
trees of the wood, so is my beloved.” And
wishing to describe the love of the church
for her Lord, he writes: “Comfort me
with apples, for I am sick of love,” and
desiring to make reference to the white
hair of the octogenarian, and just lrefore
having noticed that the blossoms of thq
almond tree were white, he says of the
aged man; “The almond tree shall flour
ish.” The walnuts and the pomegranates,
and the mandrakes, and the figs make
Solomon's writings a divinely arranged
fruit basket.
What mean Solomon’s orchards and Sol
omon's gardens? for they seem to mingle,
the two into one, flowers under foot, and
pomegranates over head. To me they sug
gest that religion is a luxury. All along,
the world has looked upon religion chiefly
as a dire necessity—a lifeboat from the
shipwreck, a ladder from the conflagra
tion, a soft landing-place after we have
been shoved off the precipice of this plan
et. Asa consequence so many have said:
"We will await preparation for the future
until the crash of the shipwreck, until the
conflagration is in full blaze, until we
reach the brink of the precipice.” No
doubt religion is inexpressibly imt>ortant
for the last exigency. But what do the
apples, and the figs, and the melons, and
the pomegranates, and the citron, and the
olives of Solomon's orchard mean? Lux
ury! They mean that our religion Is the
luscious, the aromatic, the pungent, the
arborescent, the efflorescent, the foliaged,
the umbrageous. They mean what Ed
ward Payson meant when he declared: "If
my happiness continues to increase I can
not support it mugh longer.” It means
what Bapa Padmanji, a Hindoo convert,
meant when he said; “I long for my bed,
not that I may sleep—d lie awake often
and long—but to hold communion with my
God.” It means what the old colored man
said, when he was accosted
by ' the colporteur, "Uncle Jack,
how are you?” “I is very painful
in my knee, but, thank my heavenly Mas
ter, I’m cause to he thankful. My good
Master just gib me nuf to make me hum
ble.” "And do you enjoy religion as much
now, Uncle Jack, as when you could go
to church and class meetings?” “Yes, I
'joys him more. Den 1 truss to de people,
to de meetings, to de garment; and when I
hear de hymn sing and de pray I feels
glad. But all dis ain’t like de good Lord
In de heart, God's love here.” It means
sunrise instead of sundown. It means the
Memnon statue made to sing at the stroke
of the roornig light. It means Christ at
the wedidng in Cana. It means the “time
of the singing of birds is come.” It means
Jeremiah's “well-watered garden.” It
means David’s oil of gladness. It means
Isaiah’s “bride and bridegroom.” It means
Luke’s bad boy come home to his father's
house. Worldly joy killed Leo X when he
heard that Milan was captured. Talva died
of joy . when the. Roman senate
honored hint. Dingora died of
joy because his throe sons were
crowned at the Olympian games.
Sophocles died of joy over his literary suc
cesses. And religious joy has been too
much for many a Christian, and his soul
has sited away on the wing of hosannas.
An old and poor musician played so well
one night before his king that the next
morning when the musician awoke he
found his table covered with golden cups
and plates, and a princely robe lying across
the hack of a chair, and richly caparison
ed horses were’pawing at the doorway to
take him through the street in imposing
equipage. It was only a touch of what
comes to every man who makes the Lord
his portion, for he has waiting for him,
direct from his King, robes, banquets,
chariots, mansions, triumphs, and it is
only a question of time when he shall wear
them, drink them, ride in them live in
them, and celebrate them.
You think religion is a good thing for a
funeral. O, yes. But Solomon’s orchard
means more. Religion is a good thing
now, when you are in health and prosper
ity and the appetite is good for citrons,
and apples, and apricots, and pomegran
ates. Come in without -wasting any time
in talking about them and take the luxu
ries of religion. Happy yourself, then you
can make others happy. Make just one
person happy every day. and In twenty
years you will have made seven thusand
three hundred people happy. I like what
Wellington said after the battle of Water
loo, and when he was in pursuit of the
French with his advance guard, and Colo
nel Harvey said to him: "General, you had
better not go any farther, for
you may be shot at by some
straggler from the bushes.” And
Wellington replied: “Let them fire
away. The battle Is won and my life Is
of no value now." My friends, we ought
never to be reckless, but if, through the
pardoning and rescuing graw of Christ,
you have gained the victory ever sin and
death and hell, you need fear nothing on
the earth or under the earth. Lot all the
sharpshooters of perdition blaze away
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1897.
you may ride on in joy triumphant. Re
ligion for the funeral! O, yes; but re
iigion N for the wedding breakfast; religion
for (by brighterl\spring morning and au
tumn's most gorgeous sunset. Religion
for the day when, the stocks are
tip Just ns much as wnen stocks i.re
down, -Religion when respiration Is easy,
as well os for the last gasp; when the
temperature is normal, as well as when it
reaches 104. It may be a bold thing to
say. lint I risk It, that if all people, with
out rdfcpect to belief or character, at death
passed into everlasting happiness, religion
for tlys world is such a luxury that no
man on woman could afford to do without
it. Why was it that in the parable qf the
prodigal son the finger ring was ordered
put upon the returnee wanderer's hand be
fore JheAihoes were ordered for his tired
feet V A tf‘ not shoes more important for
our comfort than finger-rings? O, yes;
but it was to impress the world with the
fact that ryligion is a luxury as well as a
necessity. "Put a ring on his hand and
shoes on his feet." If In sermonic, or ex
hortatory, or social recommendations oif
religion we put the chief emphasis on the
fact that for our safety we must have It
when the door of the next world Is opened,
poor human nature will take the risk and
say : "I will wait untjl the door begins to
open.” But show them the radiant truth,
that the table of God’s love and pardon
is now laid with all the fruits which the
orchards of God’s love, and pardon, and
helpfulness can supply, and they will
come in and sit down with all the other
banqueters, terrestrial and celestial. O!
fetch on. the citrons, and the apples, and
the walnuts, and the pomegranutes of Sol
omon's orchard.
But having introduced you to Adam's
orchard and carried you a while through
Solomon’s orchard, I want to take a walk
with you through Pilate’s orchard of three
trees on a hill seventy feet high, ten min
utes' walk from the gate of Jerusalem.
After T had read that our great grand
father and great grandmother had been
driven out of the first orchard, I made up
my mind that the Lord would not be
defeated in that way. I said to myself
that when they had been poisoned by the
fruit of that one tree, somewhere, some
how, there would be provided an antidote
for tlie poison. I said: "Where is the
other tree that will undo the work of that
tree? Where is the other orchard that
will repair the damage received in the first
orchard?" And I read on until I found
the orchard, and Its center tree as mighty
for cure as this one had been for ruin;
and us the one tree in Adam's orchard
had its branches laden with the red fruit
of carnage, and the pale fruit of suffering,
and the spotted fruit of decay, and the
bitter fruit of disappointment, I found in
Pilate’s orchard a tree which, though
stripped of all its leaves and struck
through by an iron bolt as long as your
arm, nevertheless bore the richest fruit
that was ever gathered. Like the trees of
the first orchard, this was planted, blos
somed, and bore fruit all In one day. Paul
was Impulsive and vehement of nature,
and he laid hold of that tree with both
arms, and shook it till the ground all
round looked like an orchard the morning
qfter an autumnal equinox; and careful
lest he step on some of the
fi-uit, gathered up a basketful of
it for the Galatians, crying
out; "The fruit of the spirit is love, Joy,
peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance." The other
two trees of Pilate’s orchard were loaded,
the one with the hard fruits of obduracy
and the other with the tender fruit of re
pentance, but the center tree (how will I
ever forget the day I sat on the exact
place where it was planted!)—the center
tree of that orchard yields the antidote for
the poisoned nations. There is in old
England the hollow of a tree where n king
hid, and there is in New England a tree in
which a document of national Importance
was kept inviolate; and there have been
trees of great girth and immense shade
and vast wealth of fruitage, but no other
tree had such value of reminiscence, or
depth of root, or spread of branch, or in
finitude of fruitage as the center tree of
Pilate’s orchard. Before I pass this day
from under it I would like to drop on both
knees and, with both hands outspread and
uplifted towards the heavens, cry out With
all the nations of earth and heaven: “I
believe In God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of Heaven and earth, and In Jesus
Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was
conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the
Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pi
late, was crucified, dead, and buried. He
descended into hell. The third day he rose
from the dead. He ascended into heaven,
anil sltteth onJthe right hand of God the
Father Almighty. From thence lie shall
come to judge the quick and the dead.”
Now, in this discourse of the Pomology
of the Bible, or God amid the orchards,
having shown you Adam’s orchard, and
Solomon’s orchard, and Pilate’s orchard,
1 now take you into St. John's orchard;
and 1 will stop there, for having seen that,
you will want to see nothing more. St.
John himself, having seen that orchard,
discharged a whole volley of Come!
Come! Come! and then pronounced the
benediction: ’The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
Then the banished evangelist closes the
book), and the Bible is done. The dear
old book opened with Adam's orchard
and closes with St. John’s orchard. St.
John went into this orchard through a
stone gate, the black basalt of the Isle of
Patmos, Jo which he had been exiled.
That orchard which he saw was and is
in heaven. One person will eTr In speak
ing of heaven as all material, and another
person describes heaven as all figurative
and spiritual, and both are Heaven
is both material and spiritual, as we are
both material and spiritual. While much
of the Bible account of heaven is to be
taken figuratively and spiritually, it is
plain to me that heaven has also a mate
rial existence. Christ said: "I go to pre
pare a place for you.” Is not a place
material? God; who has done all the
world-building, the statistics of stars so
vast as to be a bewilderment to telescopes,
could have somewhere In his astronomy
piled up a tremendous world to make the
Bible heaven true, both as a material
splendor and u spiritual domain. Ido
not Irelleve God put all the flowers, and
all the precious stones, and all the bright
metals, and all ihe music, and all the
fountains, and all the orchards in this
little world of ours. How much was
literal and how much was figurative, I
cannot say; but St. John saw two rows of
trees on each side of a river, and It dif
fered from other orchards in the fact that
the trees bore twelve manner of fruits.
The learned translators of our common
'Bible say it means twelve different kinds
of fruit in one year. Albert Barnes says
it means twelve crops of the same kind of
fruit in one year. Not able to decide
which is the more accurate translation, 1
adopt both. If it means twelve different
kinds of fruit, it declares variety in
heavenly joy. If it means twelve crops of
the same kind of fruit, it declares Abund
ance in heavenly joy, and they are both
true. Variety? O, yes. ’Not an eter-
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nlty with nothing but music; that Ora
torio would be too protracted. Not
an eternity of pro -cssion on white
horses; that wMilfl is too long in the stir
rups. Not an eterai y of watching the
river; that would be too much of the pic
turesque. Not an eternity of plucking
fruits from the tree of life; that would be
too much of the heavenly orchard. But
all manner of, varieties, and 1 will tell you
of at least twelve of :hose varieties; Joy
of divine worship; joy over the victories of
the Lamb who was slain; Joy over the
repentant sinners; joy of recounting our
own rescue; joy of embracing old friends;
joy at recognition of patriarchs, apostles,
evangelists, and martyrs; joy of ringing
harmonies; joy of reki i: i ng broken friend
ships; joy at the exi lan u-.on of Providen
tial mysteries; joy at walking the boule
vards of gold; joy at looking at walls green
with emerald, find blue with sapphire, and
crimson with jasper, and uflash with ame
thyst, entered through swinging gates,
their posts, their hire s, and their panels
of richest peaj’l'.fjoy that there is to he no
subsidence, ho‘reaction, no terminus to
the felicity. All that makes twelve, differ
ent joys, twelve manner of fruits. So much
for variety. But if you take Hu- other in
terpretation, and say it rm-ansNwelve crops
a year, I am with you *ti!l, for that means
abundance. That will lie the first place
we ever got into where there is enough of
everything. Enough of health, enough of
light, enough of supernal association,
enough of love, enough of knowledge,
enough of joy. The orchards of this low r er
world put out all their energies for a few
days in autumn, and then, having yielded
one crop, their banners of foliage are drop
ped out of the air, and all their beauty Is
adjourned until the blossoming of the next
May time. But twelve crops in the heav
enly orchard during that which on earth
we call a year means abundance perpet
ually.
While there is enough of the pomp of
the city about heaven for those who like
the city best, I thank God there is enough
in the Bible about country scenery In
heaven to please those of us who were
born in the country and never got over it.
Now you may have streets of gold In
heaven: give me the orchards, with twelve
manner of fruits, and yielding their fruit
every month; and the leaves of the trees
are for “the healing of the nations; and
there shall be no more curse, but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be
in it; and his servants shall serve him; and
they shall see his face, and his name shall
he In their foreheads;’ and there shall be
no night there, and they ne<w no candle,
neither light of the sun, for the Lord God
glvcth them light; and they shall reign for
ever and ever.” But just think of a place
so brilliant that the noonday sun shall be
removed from the mantle of the sky be
cause it is too feeble a taper! Yet, most of
all, am I impressed with the fact that I
am not yet fit for that place, nor you
either. By the reconstructing and sancti
fying grace of Christ we need to be made
all over. And let us be getting our pass
ports ready if we want to get into that
country. An earthly passport is a personal
matter, telling our hlght, our girth,
the color of our hair, our features, ovr
complexion, and our age. I cannot get
into a foreign port on your passport, nor
can you get in on mine. Each one of us
for himself nedds a divine signature, writ
ten by the wounded hand of the Son of
God, to get into the heavenly orchard, un
der the laden branches of which, in God’s
good time, we may meet the Adam of the
first orchard, and the Solomon of the sec
ond orchard, and the St. John of the last
orchard, to sit down under the tree of
which the Church in the Book of Canti
cles speaks when it says: “As the apple
tree among the trees of the wood, 60 is
my beloved among the sons. I sat down
under his shadow with great delight, and
his fruit was sweet to my taste;” and
there it may be found that to-day we
learned the danger of hankering after one
thing more, and that religion is a luxury,
and that there Is a divine antidote for all
poisons, and thil 1 We had created in us
an appetite for heaven, and that it was a
wholesome and saving thing for us to
have discoursed on the promology of the
Bible; or God Among the Orchards.
IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.
Where Grass nml Flowers Are
Flourishing anil There Is no Snow.
Extract from Letter to the Lockhaven
(Pa.) Evening Express.
It is just four weeks this morning since
we landed in <siir new southern home. As
we entered the harbor I was surprised to
see so many different steamers from all
parts of Europe, awaiting their lading of
cotton, oils, turpentine, wood, etc. We
were received at the pier by my son-in
law, who soon- ushered us into our in
tended home. We were agreeably disap
pointed, as we found everything much
better than we anticipated. Savannah is
certainly a handsome city. I don't think
that 1 could have been better pleased at
any other place. There is a great deal
here to interest me, and the climate is so
very pleasant. We know nothing about a
winter as yet, as all outdoor flowers are
in full bloom, and trees have their green
foliage, making it so pleasant in the fine
park, which is adorned with many mon
uments and fountains, only four blocks
from our house. The electric street ear
system is perfect, so is the police depart
ment. Policemen are nil dressed in good
.uniforms on foot, on bicycles and on
horses. The fire department is also good,
and the best of all is our good drinking
water, as clear as crystal, which is sup
plied by artesian wells. Our ice is man
ufactured out of this water, and sells at
15 cents per hundred pounds. Our market
is well supplied with the best meats, poul
try, fruits, green vegetables, etc. Now
you may know that your old friend, John
F., can be well contented at his southern
home without shoveling any snow.
John F. Lindlg,
312 West Duffy Street, Savannah, Ga.,
Nov. 8, 1897.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship
Atlantic must lie presented at our office
before 12 m. this day, or payment thereof
will be debarred.
STRAIN!AN & CO., Consignees.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship
Weybrldge must be presented at our office
before 12 in. this day, or payment thereof
will be debarred.
fix KACHAN & CO., Consignees,
FISEBAL INVITATIONS.
friends of Mrs. Mary VY.
Black, W. A. Black, P. H. Black, Mr.
James TANARUS, Parker, Mrs. Sarah E. Woods.
W. M. Black, H. G. Black and families
arc rt spectfully invited to attend the fun
eral of the former from the residence of
the latter. No. 317 Lorch street, this aft
ernoon at 4 o’clock. Services at St. Paul
Episcopal church. Interment at Laurel
Grove cemetery.
G-LOVBR.—The relatives, friends and ac
quaintances of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B.
Glover are requested to attend the funeral
servicer of the former at their residence,
205 York street, east, this morning at 11
o'clock.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE OIJD FELLOWS’ BAZAR
Will Continue One Week Longer.
For the accommodation of the school
children the bazar will open every after
noon at 4 o’clock.
Let the little ones come and enjoy the
beautiful sights.
The voting contests at the different
b'ooths will close Friday night at 10
o’clock.
There are many valuable and beautiful
articles that will positively be sold, and
bargains can be secured.
Do not forget that every visitor, chil
dren as well as adults, will receive a cou
pon ticket FREE, entitling the holder to
a chance at the cash prize of $25.00, to be
given away the last night.
Artistic music by a first-class orchestra
every evening.
Dancing from U to 12.
Have you visited the Queen of Palmis
try, iMlle. Rita? Don’t lose the oppor
tunity.
Oysters, hot lunches or a first-class sup
per at short notice and at reasonable
prices.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
AT NEW STORE,
131 BROUGHTON STREET, EAST.
Electric Light and Bell Wiring.
Electrical supplies of all kinds on hand.
WORK DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.
NORTON FRIERSON, SR,
Telephone 486,
SAFETY APPLIANCES.
Notice is hereby given that the Geor
gia and Alabama railway has applied to
the interstate commerce commission for an
extension of time beyond Jan. 1, 1898,
within which they are required to equip
their freight cars with automatic coup
lers and power or train brakes, under
sections 2 and 3 of an act approved March
2, 1393, relating to the equipment of cars
used in interstate commerce with such
safety uppliances, and that a hearing upon
said application will be had at the office
of the commission in Washington, D. C.,
on Dec. 1, 1897, at 10 o’clock in the fore
noon.
At that hearing all persons interested for
or against the granting of the relief pray
ed for will be heard either in person or by
attorney, and they may file with the com
mission affidavits, statements or argu
ments for or in opposition to said petition
on or before such date.
By order of the Commission.
EDW, A. MOSELEY”, Secretary.
LEVY’S
DISCOUNT NOTICE.
YOU WILL SAVE
TEN PER CENT,
ny paying your hills on or be
fore the Xstli Inst.
B. H. LEVA’ & BRO.
HAVE YOU SMOKED
“LA CAROLITAf”
THE ONLY CLEAR HAVANA
CIGAR FOR A NICKEL.
OCR LARGE CHRYSANTHEMUMS
are all sold. Fine Roses, Carna
tions and \ iolets. Floral designs to
order. Agency, Solomons & Cos.,
Bull 3treet store.
WOLF & CO., Florists.
BEFORE PURCHASING
A Typewriter see the Improved Reming
ton Typewriter, No. 6. It has no equal.
DEARING & HULL,
Bole Dealers for Savannah,
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Neither the master nor consignees of the
Norwegian steamship TJomo will be re
sponsible for any debts contracted by the
crew.
feTRACHAN & CO.. Consignees.
AMUSEMENTS.
gqVANNrtH THEATER.
ONE NIGHT ONLY—MONDAY, NOV. 15.
RMarteJUkingle's GEORGIUS
In mighty union with
OPERATIC MINSTRELS
Billy Kearsands, the Great Gauze. Will
iam Slay, Diamond Quartette, James
White, Rattle Robinson, Allie Brown,
Williams Bros., Geo. Titchner. and 40 Star
Artists. Watch for the parade by two
bands at 11:30 a. m. Free concert at 7:15
p. m. in front of the Theater by our two
bands consolidated. Entire balcony re
served for colored people.
Coming—Nov. 22 & 23, "Human Hearts.”
BUSINESS NOTICES.
A STRAIN
On the eyes is a tax which may impair
the sight permanently. No one can af
ford to take such a risk. Fortunately, no
one need do so, as the remedy is easily
obtained. Our examinations (which are
free) determine just what the eye needs
to preserve it from injury, correct de
fects, and strengthen the optic nerves.
It’s exceedingly unwise to neglect the pre
caution of an examination which costs
nothing. Our low prices make cost of
glasses a trifling matter.
Dr. M. SCHWAB & SON,
47 Bull Street.
N. B.—Oculist prescriptions filled same
day received. Repairing of ail kinds at
short notice.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
AN 1807 1?73 BICYCLE FOR 940-
TIIINK OF IT.
It will be some time yet.
We mean before we can get even sam
ples of 1898 wheels, probably five to six
weeks more.
So now is your time to invest in the few
1897 models still on hand almost at your
own prices.
We have several Remingtons, a few
Barnes, Keatings, Warwicks and Unions.
The Union $75 1897 model we are having
large sales on at S4O, and whilst you can
buy only a few more of these from us you
are wise to come at once.
We have only four ladies’ and ten gents’
left out of the contract for 100. Don’t
miss the chance.
How can you allow such an opportunity
to escape you? It Is Sure that you will re
gret it all the season if you do not possess
one of the Union wheels at only S4O.
Cold weather is about to come upon us,
and another thing we must remind the
public of, and that is don’t wait to buy or
put up your stoves and heating apparatus
until the first cold day.
We can handle all business entrusted to
us nicely when given some time, but, Oh
my! when about 50 orders come in a single
day, where are we?
You can avoid all this by sending or
coming down at once.
R. D. & WM. LATTIMORE.
IN ORDER TO ASSIST THE ODD FEL
LOWS OF SAVANNAH, G%.,
We will donate to their bazar
ONE-HALF CENT
on every Collar and Cuff laundered
by ns daring this coming week.
Yon can assist a worthy cause, re
ceive the finest laundry work In the
city, by sending your work to
SAVANNAH STEAM LAUNDRY CO.,
11 Congress street, west.
’PHONE 383.
COTTAGES ON EASY PAYMENTS.
COTTAGES $1(1) CAiSH. COTTAGES AT
$12.50 TO $lB MONTHLY.
The CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY will erect
cottages on Anderson and on Price streets
south of Anderson, on the following
terms: Cash SIOO, balance, from $12.50 to
$lB per month (according to cost of cot
tages) for a period of ten years.
It is the company’s purpose to meet
the needs of a frugal class of our people,
whose means will not permit them to build
more expensive homes. The site selected
for the erection of these is most con
veniently situated, well drained, and has
all modern conveniences. Apply to
M. J. SOLOMONS,
Secretary and Treasurer
No. 14 East Bryan street.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The Southern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph Company Is now prepared to fur
nish anew system of party lines, which
assures privacy. Rates for residences $1.50
to $3 per month; for business $2.50 to $4
per month. Equipment first-class In ev
ery particular. Inquiries to the manager
will be promptly answered.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH COMPANY,
R. H. POLK,
Alana,ej: Savannah Exchange.
The Latest^
In Shoes.
Here is one that will Interest you
greatly. They are our latest pro
duction.
Shoes That Don’t
Let in the Wet.
Bnllt to keep the feet dry anrl
warm. A comfortable, stylish and
reliable shoe for winter wear
Not
Expensive
Either.
Have a Pair?
BYCK’S,
SHOE TAILORS,
Corner Broughton and Whitaker streets.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital, 3500,000.
Transacts a general banking bus
iness. Maintains a Savings Depart
ment and allows INTEREST AT 4
PER CENT., eomponnded quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, Arms
hanks and corporations are solicits
cd.
With onr large number of corres
pondents tn GEORGIA, ALABAMA,
FLORIDA and SOUTH CAROLINA n
are prepared to handle collections
on the most favorable terms Cor
respondence Invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, President,
M. B. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
THE CHATHAM BANK,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Transacts a general banking
business, maintains a liberal sav
ings department.
Foreign and Domestic Exchange
a specialty.
Having a large ntimber of Interloo
correspondents, we cna handle col
lections at very reasonable rates.
Correspondence solicited.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
IF YOUR
CLOTHING NEEDS CLEANING
DETERSIVE FLUID
will make them look like new.
Large bottles 25c each.
SOLOMONS & CO.,
Congress Street and Ball Street
Branch Store.
CITY OF SAVANNAH TOCKET MAPS,
OO CENTS EACH.
PRINTED IN TWO COLORS.
NICELY ROUND IN CLOTH AND
STAMPED IN GOLD ON SIDE.
For sale by
MORNING NEWS.
FURNITURE AND GENERAL MEIU
CHANDISE STORAGE
Can be had at the District Messenger ami
Delivery Company's warehouse, 32 to 3£
Montgomery street, on reasonable terms.
The building has been thoroughly over
hauled and repaired, and now offers un
surpassed facilities for storage of all
kinds, furniture vans, express wagons and
messengers furnished. Pianos and furni
ture packed for shipment and removed
with care. Telephone 2.
BECKMANN’S CAFE.
OYSTERS served in any style at
short notice. Imported Beer on
draught. The finest chewing and
smoking tobaccos, French Briar
Pipes.
TELFAIR ACADEMY
OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Open to Visitors daily, except Sunday.
From 10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Single sfinaission 25 cenu. Annual tic**
tu. 11.00.