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COMMON PEOPLE AND CHRIST.
TOO MICH TIME SPFA'T TV TWIST
IMG GAIILAMIS FOB LEADEHS.
Vast Majority of People Not Destined
to 1)0 Anything Remarkable —lle-
lfKlon for Orilinnry People the
Need of the Worlil To-day—Woman
Heroic in Her Sphere Vnionn the
Care* of the Household —The Dif
ferent Decrees of Grace >ceile.l by
Men of Largo and Small Business
Affairs.
Washington. Feb. 13.—Dr. Talmage, in
this discourse calls the roll of faithful
men and noble women in all departments
who are unrecognized and unrewarded,
and sounds encouragement for those who
do work in spheres inconspicuous. Text,
Romans 16: 14-15: "Salute Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermas. Patrobas, Hermes,
Philologus and Julia."
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam
Clark, Thomas Seolt, and all the com
mentators pass by these versos without
tuiy especial remark. The other twenty
people mentioned in the chapter were dis
tinguished for something and were there
fore discussed by the illustrious extiosl
tors: but nothing is said about Asyncri
tus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas. Hermes,
(Philologus. asd Julia. Where were they
born? No one knows. When did they die?
There is no record of their decease. For
what were they distinguished? Absolute
ly nothing, or the trait of character would
liave been brought out by the Apostle. If
they had been very intrepid; or opulent,
or hirsute, or musical of cadence, or crass
of style, or in any wise anomalous, that
feature would have t>een Jaught by the
apostolic camera. But they wire good
people, because Paul sends to them his
high Christian regards. They were ordi
rsary people movins in ordinary sphere,
attending to ordinary duly, and meeting
ordinary resixms .f lies.
What the world wants is a religion for
ordinary people. If there be in the Uni
ted States people, there are cer
tainly no: more than 1.000,000 extraordi
nary; ar.d then there are 69,000,000 ordi
nary. aod we do well to turn our backs
for a little while upon the distinguished
and conspicuous people of the Bible and
consider in our text the seven ordinary.
We spend too much of our time in twist
ing garlands for remarkables. and build
ing thrones for magnates, and sculpturing
warriors, and apotheosizing philanthro
pists. The rank and tile of the Lord's sol
diery need especial help.
The vast majority of people will never
lead an army, will never write a state
constitution, will never electrify a senate,
wlil never make an important Invention,
will never Introduce anew philosophy,
will never decide the fate of a nation.
You do not expect to; you do not want to.
You will not be a Moses' to lead a nation
out of bondage. You will not be a Joshua
to prolong the daylight until you can shut
five kings in a cavern. You will not be a
St. John to unroll an Apocalypse. You
will not be a Paul to preside over an ai>os
tollc college. You will not lie a Mary to
mother a Christ. You will more probably
be Asyncritus, or Phlegon, or Hermas, or
Patrobas, or Hermes, or Philologus, or
Julia.
Many of you are women at the head of
households. Every morning you plan for
tli£ day. The culinary department of
the household is in your dominion. You
decide all questions of diet. All the sani
tary regulations of. your house are under
your supervision. To regulate the food,
and the apparel and the habits, and de
cide the thousand questions of home life
is a tax upon brain and nerve and general
health absolutely appalling, if there be
no divine alleviation.
It does not help you much to be told
that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things
amid the criminals at Newgate. It does
not help you much to be told that Mrs.
Judson was very brave among t|je Borne
aian cannibals. It does not help you very
much to be told that Florence Nightin
gale was very kind to the wounded in the
Crimea. It would be better for me to tell
you that the divine friend of Mary and
Martha is your friend, and that he sees
all the annoyances and disappointments
and abrasions, and exasperations of an
ordinary housekeeper from morn till night
and from the first day of the year until
the last day of the year, and at your call
he is ready with help and reinforcement.
They who provide the food of the worm
decide the health of the world. You have
only to go on some errand amid the tav
erns and the hotels of the United States
and Great Britain to appreciate the fact
that a vast multitude of the human race
are slaughtered by inaompetent cookery.
Though a young woman may have taken
lessons In music, ani may have taken les
sons In painting, and lessons in astron
omy, she is not well educated unless she
has taken lessons in dough! They who
decide the apparel of the world, and the
food of the world, decide the endurance
of the world.
An unthinking man may consider it a
matter of little Importance—the cares of
the household and the economies of do
mestic life—but 1 tell you the earth is
strewn with the martyrs of kitchen and
nursery. The health-shattered womanhood
of America cries out for a God who can
help ordinary women in the ordinary du
ties of housekeeping. The wearing
grinding, unappreciated work goes on, but
the same Christ who stood on the bank
of Galilee in the early morning and kin
dled the Are and had the fish already
cleaned and broiling when the sportsmen
steppe chilled and hungry, will
help every woman to prepare breakfast,
whether by her own hand, or the hand of
her hired help. The God who made inde
structible eulogy of Hannah, who made a
coat for Samuel, her son, and carried it
td the temple every year, will help every
woman in preparing the family wardrobe
The God who opens the Bible with (he
Story of Abraham's entertainment by the
three angels on the plains of Mamre will
help every woman to provide hospitality
however rare and embarrassing. it Is
high time that some of the attention we
have been giving to the remarkable wo
men of the Bible—remarkable for their
virtue, or their want of It, or remarkable
for their deeds—Deliorah and Jezebel and
Herodias and Athalia, and Dorcas and the
Marys, excellent and abandoned—it is high
time some of the attention we have been
giving to these conspicuous women of (he
Bible'be given to Julia, an ordinary wo
man. amid ordinary circumstances, at
tending to ordinary duties, and meeting
ordinary responsibilities.
Then there are ail (he ordinary business
men. They need divine and Christian help’
When we begin u> talk about business life
we shoot right off and talk a bun men who
did business on a large scale, and who
Bold millions of dollars of goods a year
and the vast majority of business in. n do
not sol! a million dollars of goods, nor half
a million, nor quarter of a million, nr the
eighth part of a million. Vat all the bus
iness men of our cities, towns, villages,
end neighborhoods side by sick', and you
will llnd that they sell less than a hun
dred thousand dollars worth of goods. All
these men In ordinary business life want
divine help. You see how the wrinkles are
printing on the countenance the story of
worriment and care. You cannot tell how
old a business man Is by looking at him.
Gray hairs at thirty. A man at forty
five with the stoop of a noriogenarinn. N'o
time to attend to improved dentistry, the
grinders cense because they arc few. Act.
nally dying of aid age et forty or fifty,
when they ought to be at the meridian!
Many of these business men have bodies
like n neglected clock ip which you come,
and when you wind it up, it begins to buzz
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The only lulls to take with flood’s Sartaparili*
:nd roar, and then the hands start around
very rapidly, and then the clock strikes
five or ten, or forty, and strikes with
out any sense, and then suddenly stops. Sa
is the body of that worn-out business man.
It is a neglected clock, and though by some
summer recreation it may be wound up,
still the machinery is all out of gear. The
hands turn around with a velocity that
excites the astonishment of the world. Men
cannot understand the wonderful activ
ity. and there is a roar, and a buzz, and
a rattle about those disordered lives, and
they strike ten when they ought to strike
five, and they strike twelve when they
ought to strike six. and they strike forty
who tv they ought to strike nothmg. and
suddenly they stop. Post-mortem exam
ination reveals the fact that all the
springs, and pivots, and weights, and bal
ance wheels of health are completely de
ranged. The human clock is simply run
down. And at the time when the steady
hand ought to be (minting to the Industri
ous hours on a clear and sunlit dial, the
whole machinery of body, mind.and earth
ly capacity stops forever. Oak Hill and
Greenwood hate thousands of business
men who died of old age at thirty, thirty
five. forty, forty-five. _
Now, what is wanted is grace—divine
grace for ordinary business men, men who
.are harnessed from morn till night and
all tile days of their life—harnessed irr
business. Not grace to lose u hundred
thorsand, hut grace to lose ten dollars.
Not grace to supervise two hundred at and
fifty employes in a factory, but grace to
su| stvise the bookkeeper, and two sales
men. and the small laoy that sweeps out
the store. Grace to invest not the eighty
thousand dollars of net profit, but the
twenty-five hundred of clear gain. Grace
not to endure the loss of a whole shipload
of spices from the Indies, but grace to
endure the loss of a pa|er of collars from
tlie leaktige of a displaced shingle ah a
poor roof. Grace not to endure the tar
diness of -the American Congress in pass
ing a necessary Jaw. but grace' to endure
the tardiness of an errand boy stopping
to play marbles when he ought to de
liver the goods. Such a grace as thou
sands of business men have to-rlay—keep
ing them tranquil, whether goods sell or
do r.ot sell, whether customers pay or do
not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is
down, whether the crops are luxuriant or
e dead failure— calm in all circumstances,
and amid all vicissitudes. That is the
kind of grace we want.
Millions of men want it, and they r.ir.y
have it for the asking. Some hero or hero
ino comes to town, and as the procession
Passes through the street the business men
come out, stand on tiptoe on their store
step and look at someone who in Arctic
clime, or in ocean storm, or in day of bat
tle, or in hospital agonies, did the brave
thing, not realizing that they, the enthu
siastic spectators, have gone through trials
in business life that are just os be
fore God. There are men who have gene
through freezing Arctics and burning tor
t ills, and awful Marengoes of experiences
without moving five miles from their door
step.
Now, what ordinary business men need
ts to realize that they have the friendship
of that Christ who looked after the re
ligious interests of Matthew, the custom
house clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatlra
to sell the dry goods, and who opened a
bakery and fish-market In the wilderness
of Asia Minor to feed the seven thousand
who had come out on a religious picnic,
and who counts the hairs of your head
with as much particularity as though they
were the plumes of a coronation, and who
took the trouble to stoop down with his
finger writing on the ground, although the
first shuffle of feet obliterated the divine
caligraphy, and who knows just how many
locusts there were in the Egyptian plague,
and knew just how many ravens were
necessary to supply Elijah's pantry by l he
brook Cherith, and who, as floral com
mander, leads forth all the regiments cf
primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyaclntns
and lilies which pitch their tents of beauty
and kindle their camp-fires of color all
around the hemisphere—that that Christ
end that God knows the most minute af
fairs of your business life and, however
inconsiderable, understanding all the af
fairs of that woman who keeps a ihread
and-needle store as well as all the affairs
of a Rothschild and a Baring.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
We talk about agricultural life, and we
immediately shoot off to talk about Cin
cinnatus, the patrician, who went from
the plow to a high position, and after he
got through the dictatorship, in twenty
one days went back again to the plow.
What encouragement is that to ordinary
farmers? The vast majority of them—
none of them will be patricians. Perhaps
none of them will be senators. If any of
them have dlctatorshiiis it will bo 1 over
forty, or fifty, or a hundred acres of the
old homesteud. What these men want is
grace, to keep their patience while plow
ing with balky oxen, and to keep cheerful
amid the drought that destroys the corn
crop, and that enables them to 'restore the
garden the day after the neighbor’s cattle
have broken in and. trampled out the
strawberry bed, and gone through the
Lima bean patch, and eaten up the sweet
•corn in such large quantities that they
must be kept from the water lest they
swell up and die.
Grace In catching weather that enables
them, without imprecation, to spread out
the hay the third time, although again,
and again, and again. It has In-on almost
ready for the mow. A grace to doctor
the cow with a hollow horn, and the sheep
with the foot rot, and the horse with the
distemper, and to compel the unwilling
acres to yield a livelihood for the family,
and schooling for the children and little
extras to help the older boy in business,
and something for the daughter’s wedding
outfit, and u little surplus for the time
when the ankles will get stiff with age,
and the breath wlil be a little short, and
the swinging of the cradle through the
hot harvest field will bring on the old
man’s vertigo. Better close up about
'Cincinnatus. I know fi ;e hundred farm
ers just as nohle as he was. What they
want is to know that they have the friend
ship of that Christ who often drew his
similes from the farmer’s life, as when he
said: "A sower went forth to sow," as
when he built ills best parable out of the
scene of a farmer boy coming back from
his wanderings, and the old farmhouse
shook that night with rural Jubilee; and
who compared himself to a lamb in the
pasture field, and who said that the eter
nal God is a farmer, declaring: "My
Father is the husbandman."
Those stone masons do not want to
hear about Christopher Wren, the archi
tect, who built St. Paul’s Cathedral.
would be better to tell them how to carry
the hod of brick up the ladder without
slipping, and how on a cold morning with
the trowel to smooth off the mortar and
keep cheerful, and how to he thankful to
God for the plain food taken from the
pail by the roadside. Carpenters stand
ing amid the adze, and the bit, and the
plane, and the broad ax, need to be told
that Christ was a carpenter, with his own
hand wielding saw and hammer. Oh, this
is a tired world, and it is an overworked
world, and it is an under-fed world, and
it is a u:ung-out world, and men and wo
men ic Jl to know that there is rest and
recuperation In God and in that religion
which was not so much Intended for ex
traordinary people as for ordinary people,
because there are more of them.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies, and Its Abernethys, and
its Valentine Motts, and its Willard Park-
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1898.
ers; but the ordinary physicians do the
most of the world’s medicinlng. and they
need to understand that while taking diag
nosis or prognosis, or writing prescrip
tion, or compounding medicament, or
-holding the delicate pulse of a dying child
they may have the presence and the dic
tation of the Almighty Doctor who took
the case of the madman, and, after he
had torn off his garments in foaming de
mentia, clothed him again, body and
mind, and who lifted up the woman who
for eighteen yenrs had bten bent almost
double with the rheumatism into graceful
stature, and who turned the scabs of
leprosy Into rubicund complexion, and who
rubbed the numbness out of paralysis,
and who swung wide open the closed win
dows of hereditary or accidental blind
ness. until the morning light came stream
ing through the fleshly casements, and
who knows all the diseases, and all the
remedies, and all the herbs, and all the
cathoiicons, and Is monarch of pharmacy
and therapeutics, and who has sent out
ten thousand doctors of whom the world
makes no record; but to prove that they
are angels of mercy, 1 invoke the thous
ands of men whose ailments,they have as
suaged and the thousands of women to
whom in crises of pain they have been
next to God in benefaction.
Come, now, let us have a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in occupa
tions. in agriculture, in the household, in
merchandise, in everything. I salute
across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus,
and Julia.
First of all, if you feel that you are or
dinary, thank God that you are not ex
traordinary. I am tired and sick, and bor
es! almost to death with extraordinary
people. They take all their time to tell
us how very extraordinary' they really
are. You know as well as I do, my broth
er and sister, that the most of the useful
work of the world is done by unpreten
tious people who toil right on—by people
who do not get much approval, and no
one seems to say, "That is well done."
Phenomena are of but little use. Things
that are exceptional rannol be depended
on. Retter trust the smallest planet that
swings in its orbit than ten comets shoot
ing this way and that, imperiling tha
longevity of worlds attending to their
own business. For steady illumination
better is a lamp than a rocket.
Then, if you feel that you are ordinary,
remember that your position invites the
lews attack. Conspicuous pe;op!e—how they
have to take it! How they' are misrepre
sented and abused, and shot at! The high
er the horns of a roebuck the easier to
strike him down. What a delicious thing
it must be to be a candidate for Governor
of a state or President of the United
mates. It must be so soothing to the
nerves. It must pour into the soul of a
candidate such a sense of serenity when
he reads the blessed newspapers!
I came into the possession of the abu
sive cartoons in the time of Napoleon I,
printed while he was yet alive. The re
treat of the army from Moscow, that army
buried In the snows of Russia, one of U-e
most awful tragedies of the centuries, rep
resented under the figure of a monster
called Gen. Frost shaving the French Em
peror with a razor of icicle. As Satyr and
Beelzebub he Is represented, page after
page, page after page. England cursing
him, Spain cursing him. Germany cursing
him. Russia cursing Idm, Europe cursing
him, North and South America cursing
him. The most remarkable man of his
day. and the most abused. All those men
in history who now have a halo around
their name, on earth wore a crown of
thorns. Take the few extraordinary rail
road men of our time, and see yvhat abuse
comes upon them, while thousands of
stockholders escape. New Y'ork Central
Railroad had 9,265 stockholders. If any
thing in that railroad affronted the people
oil the abuse came down on one man and
the 9,264 escaped. All the world took after
Thomas Scott, president of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, abused him until he got
tinder the ground. Over 17,000 stockhold
ers in that company. All the blame cn
one man! The Central Pacific Railroad
two or three men get all the blame if any
thing goes wrong. There are 10,000 in that
company.
1 mention these things to prove it is ex
traordinary people who get abused, while
the ordinary escape. The weather of life
is not so severe on the plain as it is on the
high peaks. The world never forgives a
man who knows, or gains, or does more
than it can know, or gain, or do. Parents
sometimes give confectionery to their
children as an inducement to take bitter
medicine, and the world’s sugar plum pre
cedes the world's aqua-fortis. The mob
cried in regard to Christ, ‘‘Crucify him,
crucify him!” and they had to say it twice
to be understood, for they were so hoarse,
and they got their hoarseness by crying a
little while before at the top of their voice
"Hosanna.” The River Rhone is foul
when it enters Lake Lemon, but crystal
line when it comes out on the other side.
But there are men who have entered the
bright lake of worldly prosperity crystal
line and come out terribly riled. If, there
fore, you feel that you are ordinary! thank
God for the defenses and the tranquility of
your position.
Then remember, if you have only what
is called an ordinary home, that the gn at
deliverers of the world have all come from
such a home. And there maybe seated,
reading at your evening stand, a child who
shall be potent for the ages. Just unroll
the scroll of men mighty in church and
state, and you will find they nearly all
came from log cabin or poor homes.
Genius almost always runs out in the
third or four generation. You cannot find
In all history an instance where the fourth
generation of extraordinary people amount
to anything. In this country we had two
great men, father and son, both Presi
dents of the United States; but from pres
ent prospects there never will be in that
genealogical line another President for a
thousand years. Columbus from a weav
er’s hut, Demosthenes from a cutler’s cel
lar, Bloomfield and Missionory Carey from
a shoemakers's bench, Arkwright from a
barber’s shop, ond He, whose name is high
over all in earth, and air, and sky, from a
manger.
Let us all be content with such things H a
we have. God is Just as good in what he
keeps away from us as in what he gives
us. Even a knot may be useful if it is at
the end of a thread.
At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb
asylum, one of the children wrote upon
the blackboard words as sublime as the
Iliad, the Odyssey, and the “Divina Corn
media," all compressed in one paragraph
The examiner, in the signs of the mute
language, asked her: "Who made the
world?” The deaf ttnd dumb girl wrote
upon the blackboard, “In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth.”
The examiner asked her, "For what pur
pose did Christ come into the world?”
The deaf and dumb girl wrote ui>on the
blackboard: “This is a faithful saying
and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sin
ners.” The examiner said to her, “Why
were you born deaf and dumb, while I
hear and speak?” She wrote upon the
blackboard: "Even so. Father; for so it
seemeth good In thy sight.” Oh. that we
might lie baptized with a contented spirit.
The spider draws poison out of a flower,
the bee gets honey out of a thistle; but
happiness is a heavenly elixir, and the
contented spirit extracts It, not from the
rhododendron of the hills, but from the
lily of the valley.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
Ths fat- /J
THE SPRING OF ETERNAL YOUTH
Carlsbad may be truly termed
the Spring of Eternal Youth.
For centuries the famous Sprudel
has been used as the best natural
remedy for constipation, catarrh
of the stomach, dyspepsia and
liver and kidney complaints,
diabetes, etc. Best taken when
out-door exercise can be had.
lie sure to buy the genuine im
ported article only, which must
have the signature of “ Eisner &
Mendklson Cos., Sole Agents,
New York,” on every package.
DESIGNS FOB CARD-HACKS.
Card Player* Prefer the Familiar
Ikaek—Suiierntitlon About Y r u
One*.
From the Now Y'ork Sun.
The making of designs for the backs of
playing cards is one line of artistic work
in which novelty and originality count for
little. Something fresh and striking that
is practicable as well is welcomed eager
ly in all other fields of designing. The car
pet, wall paper, cloth, and tapestry manu
facturers are always on the lookout for a
novelty, but the playing card manufac
turer looks askance at a now design, no
matter how artistic and taking.
"We have a dozen or more orders to give
out for prosperous clubs throughout the
country during the year,” said a leading
card manufacturer, "and, outside of this,
we may possibly buy twenty or twenty
live original designs—just because they are
too good to let slip, but that’s about all
there is in the business for the card artist.
We pay SIOO or more for a club design that
suits us, one that introduces the club col
ors and catch words cleverly and has gen
uine merit. The wealthy clubs are liberal
when they went anything done that is out
of the ordinary. Since the craze for popu
lar sports, golf, bicycling, and tennis, has
struck the country’ we occasionally have
orders for a number of individual packs,
with the backs sketched out in that sort of
rig, with sticks and bails and wheels and
all that. ’ The mining men out West will
buy cards sometimes that have on the
backs some of their peculiar accoutrements
and symbols, and so will the ranchmen and
cowboys. They like a design with spurs and
a quirt and lasso put in somewhere, or a
saddle and high-heeled boots. These de
signs we have made to order by artists
whom we know, but the outside artist who
offers designs does not sell a dozen a year.
Now here is a design we bought yester
day. You see it is really interesting. But
terflies, buttercups, grasshoppers, a daisy
field, the very thing for people to take
with them for a camping-out trip, but we’ll
make only a few packs from it, and they
will be a drug in the market. How do I
know? Oh, I’ve seen it tried too often.
I’ve got out beautiful polo backs and foot
ball backs, yachting, hunting, and what
not, and never had return for the invest
ment. People put cards like that, with
backs that are interesting, on a side table,
or else tuck them away in some convenient
place, to be dragged out and shown as
curiosities when the main business of the
evening is over, but, when card lovers,
those who play in earnest, sit down for a
rubber they use the style of pack they
are familiar with and accustomed to.
Whether the buyers who come here to me
hail from San Francisco, or Kansas City,
or Mexico, or Chicago, they all teil the
same tale. Their patrons all want new
cards of the same pattern backs that they
have always bought.
“ ‘ Yes . that’s admirable, genteel-looking
artistic, and. all that’ they say when I
show them anew design, but it would be
money thrown away for me to buy it. It
wouldn't sell. A San Francisco man told
me the other day that his folks were used
to the angel backs and there was no use
trying to sell them any other sort. They
wouldn’t think of sitting down to a game
using cards with new-style backs it
would spoil the luck. Often, in the'well
established clubs out there, he says you
will see a veteran player pull out a ’pack
of angel backs from his pocket, insisting
on using them in place of the club cards
no matter how handsome. That middle
angel on the angel backs looks to you like
a goat? Well, so it does, and it is a goat
with a beard, but the cards are called an
gel backs all the same. ‘The lily’ back is
another design in high favor. We turn
out stacks Of those, and they seem never
to tiro of them.
"Look over this sample book,” he added
opening a ponderous leather-back volume’
”In here are all the designs that have
died and the very few that have lived I
have been in the business exactly twenty
eight years, and know a thing or two
about card manufacturing. These high
colored florid backs are Austrian, and Rrs
sian, and German cards. Some of them
are as pretty and well done as miniatures
the crowned, heads, men and women es
cutcheons of great houses and all tlia
There are a lot of mythological subjects
all interesting, but none of them go in
the trade. Abroad, as in this country
there are a few original models and sam
ples bought to look at and admire and
a thousand ordinary, hackneyed designs
regarded as standbys and used all over
the kingdom. Go into any of the taverns
and assembly rooms in foreign countries
where the card players are really absorb^
< and in a game, and you will find the sober
conventional backs in use. Those with the
royal personages on them and the beauti
ful maidens and garlanded oxen are stuck
away out of reach somewhere and forgot
ten.
"They say that superstition is dead and
that people no longer helieve In hick and
unseen influences and all that, but it ijn’t
so in our business. A man may not be
troubled if he has to begin anything on a
Friday, and may not take the pains to
change his position before he looks at the
new moon, but when he has a skilled op
ponent at a game of cards he is particular
about the backs of the pack he uses. Ger
man or Austrian or American, it’s all the
same.
“It looked as though the bottom had
dropped out of the playing card business
a couple of years ago,” the manufacturer
went on. "Too much competition and va
rious other conditions got us in a pretty
tight place. We really ran the factory for
nearly two years merely to keep the op
eratives together, not for any profit. Our
machinery Is so perfect that it pays us
better to make the full number of packs
than not. .We had boxes piled tip with
fine goods in expectation of the good time
coming. Things are picking up again now,
and we’re doing a fair business, but things
are not likely to brighten for the card de
signer. There's an ingrained prejudice
against new designs that it will be nurd
to rub out, and we won’t have to change
our machinery often, sq far as the card
backs are concerned.”
SPECIAL NOTICES.
DONATIONS FOR THE PORT SOCIETY
All who are desirous of making dona
tions of fancy or artistic work, or other
articles which may bo sold, for the benefit
of the Port Society, are requested by the
ladles' Auxllllary to send them to-day to
the Port Society building at Lincoln and
St. Julian streets.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
City of Savannah. Office Clerk of Coun
cil, Feb. 10, IS9S.—Parties owning dogs and
vehicles are hereby notified that if badges
for the year 1898 are not, taken out for same
by the 22d day of February, 1999. they will
he placed uimn the information docket
without further notice and tines enforced.
,WM. P. BAILEY', Clerk of Council. |
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
SHEPPARD.—The friends and acquaint
ances of John M. Sheppard, Julian V. Da
din, G. S. Masters, Henry J. Heyman,
Lyman J. Sheppard, Alexander S. Martin
and J. K. P. Carr, and their families, are
respectfully requested to attend the funeral
of the former, from his late residence, 521
Henry street, west, at 4 o'clock p. m. to
day.
MEETINGS.
A regular communication of this A
lodge will be held at Masonic Tern
pie- this (Monday) evening at 8
o'clock.
Members of sister lodges and visiting
brethren are cordially invited to meet
with us. DANIEL T. ELLIOTT, W. M.
WARING RUSSELL, JR., Secretary.
CALAXTHE LODGE NO. 2S, K. OF P.
A regular convention of this
lodge will be held this (Monday) lifjStyiS
evening at 8 o’clock.
The Rank of Esquire will be
conferred.
Members of sister lodges and visiting
knighls are cordially invited.
I. HELLMAN, C. C.
D. S. GREENBAUM, K. of R. & S.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The annual meeting of this society will
be held this (Monday) evening, Feb. 14, 8
o’clock, at Hodgson Hall.
H. W. JOHNSON,
Recording Secretary.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of the Ger
man Friendly Society will be held this
(Monday) evening in K. of P. Hall at 8
o'clock. Election of officers for the pres
ent year.
M. G. HELMKEN, President
A. HELLER, Secretary.
THE SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER
GIABDB.
The regular monthly meeting of this
military corporation will be held at the
Arsenal on the second Monday, to wit:
this evening, at 8:15 o'clock.
Active, honorary, associate and all other
classes of members permitted by the rules
to participate are notified to be present.
By direction of the Commanding Officer
and ex-officio President.
J. FERRIS CANN, Secretary.
FLORIDA CENTRAL AND PENINSU
LAR RAILROAD CO.
Notice of Annual Stockholders Meet
ing:.
•The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Florida Central and Peninsular
Railroad Company will be held at the of
fice of the company, in the city of Jack
sonville, Fla., on Thursday, March 3, A.
D. 1898, at 3 o’clock p. m., for the election
of directors and the transaction of such
other business as may be brought before
the meeting.
Transfer books will be closed from Feb.
16 to March 7, 1898, both inclusive.
H. R. DUVAL, President.
E. R. HOADLEY, Secretary.
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 4, 1898.
SPECLYL NOTICES.
rCABD?~
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 13, 1898 —We, the
undersigned, to whom was referred as a
board of honor the circumstances leading
up to and resulting in the unfortunate
affair between Mr. John M. Bryan and
his son, Mr. Stein Bryan, on the one part,
and Mr. John F. Flournoy, Jr., of the
other part, on Friday last, certify that the
parties having respectively complied with
the requirements of this board, all matters
between tnem have been honorably ad
justed and the affair ended.
G. M. SORREL.
W. DUNCAN.
W. W. MACKALL
YOB WANT
The Standard Color Paste to Color
Ice*, Cake*, Jelly, etc., same kind as
u*i‘d by Mis* Andrew* at her cook
ing exhibition.
Pare Spices, Olive Oil and Mustard.
Prepared Almond Meal for
Chapped hands and Inflamed skin.
It is used ns a soap.
SOLOMONS & CO.
LEVY’S
DISCOUNT NOTICE.
YOU MILL SAVE
TEX PER CENT.
By paying your bills on or be
fore the 10th fast.
B. H. LEVY A BRO.
CITY OF SAVANNAH POCKET MAP,
50 CENTS EACH.
PRINTED IN TWO COLORS.
NICELY BOUND IN CLOTH AND
STAMPED IN GOLD ON SIDE.
For sale by
MORNING NEWS.
EVERY DAY THIS WEEK
A most delightful lunch will be
served at
THE GEM
Congress and Whitaker.
And every day our patrons will be
served with the finest liquors nnd
beer.. GEO. C. SCHWARZ.
Telephone 2534.
Central of Georgia Incomes. ~ ’
Southwestern Railroad Stock.
State and City Bonds.
And other securities.
Bought and sold.
Real Estate Loans Negotiated.
AUSTIN R. MYRE3.
22 Bryan street, East.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
THE ORICINAL
JAMES E. PEPPER
WHISKEY
This Is tlie genuine article. All
bottle* bear the name of James E.
Pepper—which consumers shoalil re
member.
HENRY SOLOMON A SOX.
M kolesalc Agent*.
OUR CLEARANCE
SHOE SALE
Continues unabated. Don’t buy Shoes until you see what we
are doing in the way of cut prices. Don’t come in a month
from now and say you saw our price advertised so and so,
but come now. READ:
Ladies’ Finest Vici Kid Buttons, welt goles, silk
stitched, patent leather tip, low heel, B, C, D ft/) Pr
and E widths, worth $4.00, now wZiDO
Ladies’ Vici Sort Kid Button, Philadelphia toe, •
patent tip, low heel, handsomely trimmed,
welt soles, B, C and D widths, regular $4.00 ft/) rn
shoes, cut to uZiull
Ladies’ Cloth Top and Kid Top, button or lace,
opera heel, medium toe, patent leather and kid ft Z) ip
tips, C and D widths, usual $3.00 shoe, now.. Q £, j
Ladies’ Cloth Top and Kid Top Lace Shoes,
patent trimmed, latest kid tip, all sizes and ft I ftn
widths, worth $2.50, price clipped to Q |* Q?!
Boys’ Lace and Button Shoes (a big mixed lot,
some ot these are $2, $2.50 and $3 shoes), ft I i
splendid wearers, our price Q 4|.|j
Men’s Tan and Black Shoes, double soles, latest
style toe, 4 rows stitching, great wearing ft /) ftp
shoes, regular $4.00 grade, now J) ZiUtl
The above is only a sample. Ail through our store the
prices have been clipped a third or more. Now is your
chance.
AMUSEMENTS.
gAVANNAH THEATER.
Seats can be secured through the tele
phone No. 2193.
One Night OnIy—FRIDAY, FEB. 18,
DANIEL FROHMAN’S SPECIAL CO.,
In Hia Greatest N. Y. Lyceum Successes
‘The Prisoner of Zenda’
By Anthony Hope Hawkins.
Interpreted by the following superb play
ers: Howard Gould, R. F. McClannin,
Robert Elliott, Benjamin Monteith, Fan
chone Campbell, Grace Reals, Vaughan
Glaser, Robert Conners, Duncan Harris,
and others. *
Seats now on sale. Prices 25c, 50c, $1 and
$1.50.
gAVANNAH THEATER
Seats can be secured through the tele
phone No. 2195.
One Night Only—Wednesday, Feb. 16.
First presentation in this city of
HOYT'S Greatest Effort and Funniest
Comedy,
I CONTENTED lit”
Presented here with all its wealth of
elaborate scenery, gorgeous costumes, ex
travagant stage accessories and me
chanical effects. Identically the same in
every detail as given at Hoyt's Theater,
New York, and with the strongest cast
ever organized, headed by Belle Archer.
Seats now on sale. Prices—2se, 50c, 750
and sl. Coming—Stuart Robson, Feb. 19,
matinee and night.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
“ARTIE,”
the finest
5c
Cigar
of the year,
can be
found in
every store.
A STRAIN
On the eyes is a tax which may impair
the sight permanently. No one can af
ford to take such a risk. Fbrtunately, 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 trilling matter.
DR. M. SCHWAB & SON,
47 Bull Street. !
N. B.— Oculist prescriptions filled same
day received. Repairing of all kinds at
short notice.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
FURNITURE
CIIANDISE STORAGE.
Can be had at the District Messenger and
Delivery Company’s warehouse, 32 to 36
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. t Pianos and furni
ture packed for shipment and removed
Kith care. Telephone 2.
LEGAL NOTICES.
SOifniEmrTAiDrWVHrSTATE
OF GEORGIA,
DEPARTMENT OF SAVINGS.
' NOTICE OF CHANGE IN RULES.
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 12, 1898.
After March 31, 1888, interest on balances
and deposits in this department will be
reduced one-half of one per cent, below
the rates stated in the Second of the Rules
now governing the Department of Savings.
By order of the Board,
JAIMES SULLIVAN, Cashier.
| THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital, $500,000.
I Transacts a general bunking busi
ness. .Maintains a Savings Depart
ment anil allows INTEREST AT 4
PER CENT., compounded quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, Arms,
banks and corporations are solicit
j ed.
With onr large nnmber of corres
pondents in GEORGIA, ALABAMA,
FLORIDA and SOUTH .CAROLINA wo
are prepared to handle collection,
on the most favorable terms. Cor
respondence invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, President*
31. H. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FItEM VN, Cashier.
THE CHATHAM BANK,
SAVANNAH, 6A.
Transacts a general banking
business, ninintatns a liberal sav
ings department.
Foreign and Domestic Exchange a
specialty.
Having n large number of Interior
correspondents, we can bundle col
lections at very reasonable rates.
Correspondence solicited.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
COTTAGES ON EASY PAYMENTS.
COTTAGES SIOO CASH. 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: Cas£ SIOO, balance, from $12.50 ta
$lB per month (according to cost of cot
tages) foe 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. SOLOMON 9,
Secretary and Treasurer,
No. 14 East Bryan street.
BEFORE PURCHASING
A Typewriter seo the Improved Reming
ton Typewriter, No. 6. It has no equal.
DEARING & HULL.
Sole Dealers lor Savannah,
6 Drayton street.
CATERING TO THE BEST TRADE.
Serving best Punta Gorda Oysters.
Handing out best Coburger Beer.
Selling the best Cigars.
Mixing the most delightful drinks.
At BECKMANN'S CAFE.
112 and 114 Whitaker street.
TELFAIR ACADEMY
OF \
ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Open to Visitors daily, except Sunday.
From 10 a. m. to S p. m.
Single admission 26 cents. Annual tick
ets Ji.oo.