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PRINTING PRESS AND PULPIT.
TALMAGE TF.LI.S OF THE PI BI.ICA
TION OF 11IS SI'.HHO\S.
Story ol How Hie Cnxtom of filTina
Them Out Hail It' Or gin— Tlie
Newspaper Drilnrnl Hu' Great
Educator of the Nineteenth Cen
tury—Venire the Hirthplr.ee of tlie
Jienaiinpcr—The Early struggle
Against Superstition unit Tyranny.
Washington, Feb. 20.—For the first time,
Dr. Tu'.msge in this discourse, tells in
what way his sermons have come to a
multiplicity of publication such as has
never in any other case been known since
art of printing was invented. Text:
Nahum 2:4: They shall seem like torches;
they shall run like the lightnings.
Express, rail train and telegraphic com
munication are suggested if not foretold
in this text, and from it I start to preach
a sermon in gratitude to God and th>- news
paper press for the fact that I have had
the opportunity of delivering through the
newspaper press two thousand sermons or
religious addresses, so that 1 have for
many years been allowed the privilege of
jweaehing the Gospel every week to every
neighborhood in Christendom, and in many
lands outside of Christendom. Many have
wondered at the process by which It has
come to pass, and for the first time in pub
lic place I state the three causes. Many
years ago, a young man who has since
become eminent in his profession, was
then studying law In a distant city. He
came to me, and said that for lack of funds
hp must stop his studying, unless through
stenography I would give him sketches of
sermons, thnt he might by the sale of
them secure means for the completion of
his education. I positively declined, be
cause it seemed to me on impossibility,
but after some months had passed, and I
had reflected upon the great sadness for
such a brilliant young man to be defeated
in his ambition for the legal profession, I
Undertook to serve him; of course, free of
charge. Within three weeks there came
a request for those stenographic reports
from many parts of the continent. Time
passed on, and some gentlemen of my own
profession evidently thinking that there
was hardly room for them and for myself
In this continent began to assail me, and
became so violent in their assault that the
chief newspapers of America put special
correspondents In my church Sabbath by
Sabbath to take down such reply as X
might make. I never made reply, ex
cept once for about three minutes, but
those correspondents could not waste their
time and so they telegraphed the sermons
to their particular papers. After a while,
Dr. Louis Klopsch of New York, systema
tized the work into a syndicate until
through that and other syndicates he has
put the discourses week by week before
more than twenty million people on both
aides the sea. There have been so many
guesses on this subject, many of them in
accurate that, I now tell the true story. I
have not improved the opportunity as I
ought, but I feel the time has come when
os a matter of common Justice to the news
paper press. I should make this statement
tn a sermon commemorative of the two
thousandth full publication of sermons,
end religious addresses, saying nothing of
the fragmentary reports, which would run
up into many thousands more.
There was one incident that I might
mention in this connection, showing how
an insignificant event might influence its
for a lifetime. Many years ago on a Sab
bath morning on my way to church in
'Brooklyn, a representative of a prominent
newspaper met me and said: “Are you
soing to give us any points to-day?” I said,
“What do you mean by ‘points?' ” He re
plied, “Anything we can remember.” I
said to myself, ought to be making
‘po nts’ all the time in our pulpits and not
deal in platitudes and Inanities.” That
one interrogation put to me that morning
started in me the desire of making points
all the time and nothing but points.
And now, how can I more appropriately
commemorate the two thousandth publi
cation than by speaking of the newspaper
press as an alls' of the pulpit, and men
tioning some of the trials of newspaper
men.
The newspaper is the great educator of
the nineteenth century. There is no force
compared with it. It is book, pulpit, plat
form, forum, all in one. And there is not
an interest—religious, literary, commercial,
scientific, agricultural, or mechanical—
that is not within its grasp. All our
churches, and schools, and colleges, and
asylums, and art galleries feel the quak
ing of the printing-press.
The Institution of newspapers arose in
Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was
published, and monthly, during the time
Venice was warring against Solymnn the
Second in Dalmatia, it was printed for the
purpose of giving military and commer
cial Information to the Venetians. The
first newspaper published in England was
in 1588, and called the English Mercury.
Who can estimate the political, scientific,
commercial and religious revolutions rous
ed up in England for many years past by
the press?
The first attempt at this institution In
France, was in 1631, by a physician, who
published the News, for the amusement
and health of his patients. The French
nation understood fully how to appreciate
this power. So early as in ]S2R there were
in Paris 169 Journals. But in the United
States the newspaper has come to unlim
ited sway. Though in 1775 there were but
thirty-seven in the whole country, the
number of published journals is now count
ed by thousands; and to-day—we may as
well acknowledge it as not—the religious
and secular newspapers ure the great ed
ucators of the country.
But, alas! through what struggle the
newspaper has come to Its present devel
opment. Just as soon as it began to dem
onstrate its power, superstition and tyr
anny shackled it. There is nothing that
despotism so much fears and hates as the
printing-press. A great writer in the
South of Europe declared that the King
of Naples had made it unsafe for aim to
write on any subject save natural history.
Austria could not bear Kossuth's journal
istic pen pleading for the redemption of
Hungary. Napoleon I, wanting to keep
liis Iron heel on the neck of nations, said
that the newspajier was the regent of
kings, and the only safe place to keep an
editor was In prison. But the great oat
tle for the freedom of the press was fought
in the court rooms of England and the
United States before this century began,
when Hamilton made his great speech in
behalf of the freedom of J. Peter Zcti
ger’s Gazette in America, and when Ers
kine made his great speech in behalf cf
the free-lorn to publish Paine’s Rights of
Man iu England. Those were the Mara
thon and the Thermopylae where the bat
tle was fought which decided the freedom
of the press in England and America, and
all the powers of earth and hell will never
again be able to put upon the printing
press the handcuffs and the hopples of
literary und political despotism. It is re
markable that Thomas Jefferson, who
wrote the Declaration of Independence,
also wrote these words: “If I had to
choose between a government without
newspapers, and newspapers without a
government, I would prefer the latter.”
Hood’s
Are gaining favor rapidly, ngv ■ ■ ■
business men and travel- • m Ia
iers carry them in vest 111
pockets, ladies carry then ® ■ li B saw*
in purses, housekeepers keep them iu medicine
closets, friends recommend them l*> friends. 25c.
Stung by some new fabrication in print,
we come to write or speak about an "un
bridled printing-press.” Our new book
ground up in unjust criticism, wo come to
write or speak about the "unfair printing
press.” Perhaps through our own indis
tinctness of utterance we are reported as
saying just the opposite of what we did
say, and there is a small riot of semicol
ons and hyphens and commas, and we
come to write or talk about the "blunder
ing printing-press,” or we take up a news
paper full of social scandal and of eases
of divorce, and we write or talk about a
“filthy, scurrillous printing-press.” But,
this morning. I ask you to consider the
immeasurable an.l everlasting blessing of
a good newspaper,
1 find no difficulty ip accounting for the
world's advance. What has made the
change? “Books,” you say. No, sir! Tie
vast majority of citizens do not read
books. Take this audience, or any other
promiscuous assemblage, and how many
histories have they read? How many
treatises on constitutional law, or political
economy, or works of science? How many
elaborate txtems or books of travel? Not
many. In the United States the people
would not average one such book a year
for each individual! Whence, then, (his
intelligence, this capacity to talk about
all themes, secular and religious; this ac
quaintance with science and art; tills
power to appreciate the beautiful end
grand? Next to the Bible, the newspa-
I*er, swift-winged and everywhere present,
flying over the fence, shoved under the
door, tossed into the counting-house, laid
on the work-bench, hawked through the
cars! All read it; white and black. Ger
man, Irishman, Swiss, Spaniard, Ameri
can, old and young, good and bad, sick aid
well, before breakfast and after tea, Mon
day morning, Saturday night, Sunday and
week day. I now declare that I consider
the newspaper to be the grand agency by
which the gospel is to be preached, igno
rance cast out, oppression dethroned,
crime extirpated, the world raised, heaven
rejoiced, and God glorified. In the clank
ing of the printing-press, os the sheets
fly out, I hear the voice of the Lord Al
mighty proclaiming to all the dead na
tions of the earth, "Lazarus, come forth!”
and to the retreating surges of darkness:
“Ijet there be light!” In many of our city
newspapers, professing no more than sec
ular information, there have appeared
during the past thirty years some of the
grandest appeals in behalf of religion, nf:d
some of the most effective interpretations
of God’s government among the nations.
There are only two kinds of newspapers
—the one good, very good, the other bad,
very bad. A newspaper may be started
with an undecided character, but after it
has been going on for years everybody
finds out just what it is; and it is very
good or it is very bad. The one paper is
the embodiment of news, the ally of vir
tue, the foe of crime, the delectation of
elevated taste, the mightiest agency on
earth for making the world better. The
other paper is a brigand among moral
forces; It is a beslimer of reputation, It
is the right arm of death and hell, it is
the mightiest agency in the universe for
making the world worse and battling
against the cause of God. The one an
angel of intelligence and mercy, the other
a fiend of darkness. Between this Arch
angel and this Fury is to be fought the
great battle which is to decide the fate of
the world. If you have any doubt as to
which is to M victor, ask the prophecies,
ask'God; the chief batteries with which
he would vindicate the right and thunder
down the wrong are now unlimbered. Tha
great Armageddon of the nations is not to
be fought with swords, but with steel
pens; not with bullets, but with type;
not with cannon, but with lightning
fecting presses; and the Sumters, and the
Moultrie®, and the Pttlaskis, and the Gib
raltar.' of that conflict will be the edi
torial and reportorial rooms of our great
newspaper establishment. Men of the
press, God has put a more stupendous
responsibility upon you than upon any
other class of persons. What long strides
your profession has made in influence and
power since the day when Peter Shelter
invented east-metal type, and because two
books were found just alike they were
ascribed to the work of the devil; and
books were printed on strips of bamboo;
and Rev. Jesse Glover originated the first
American printing press; and the Common
Council of New York, in solemn resolu
tion, offered two hundred dollars to any
printer who would come there and live;
and when the Speaker of the House of
Parliament in England announced with
indignation that the public prints had
recognised some of their doings, until in
this day, when we have in this country
many thousands of skilled stenographers,
and newspapers sending out’copies by the
billion. Tile press and the telegraph have
gone down into the same great harvest
field to reap, and the telegraph says to
the newspaper: “I'll rake, while you
bind;’’ and the iron teeth of the telegraph
are set down at one end of the harvest
field and drawn clean across, and the
newspaper gathers up the sheaves, setting
down one sheaf on the breakfast table in
the shape of a morning newspaper, and
putting down another sheaf on the tea ta
ble in the shape of an evening nowspaiwr;
and that min who neither reads nor
takes a newspaper would be a curiosity.
What vast progress since the days wheri
Cardinal Wolsoy declared that either the
printing press must go down or the
church of God must go down, to this time
when the printing press and the pulpit
are In glorious combination and alliance
One of the great trials of this newspaper
profession is the fact that they are com
pel led to see more of the shams of the
world than any other profession. Through
every newspaper offlee, day by dav, go the
weakness of the world, the vanities that
wunt to lie puffed, the revenges that want
to be wreaked, all the mistakes that want
to he corrected, nit the dull speakers who
want to he thought eloquent, all the mean
ness * hat wants to get its wares noticed
gratis iu the editorial columns in order to
save the tax of the advertising column,
all the men who want to be set right who
never were right, al! the crack-brained
philosophers, with story ns long as their
hair and as gloomy as their finger-nails,
all the itinerant bores who com< to stay
live minutes nnd stop an hour. From the
editorial and reportorial rooms all the fol
lies and shams of the world are seen day
by day, and the temptation is to believe
neither in God, man, nor woman. It is no
surprise to me that in your profession
there are some sceptical men. 1 only won
der that you believe anything. Unless an
editor or a reporter has in his present or
in his early- home a model of earnest char
acter, or he throw himself upon the up
holding grace of God, he nyty make tem
poral and eternal shipwreck.
Another great trial of the newspaper
profession is. inadequate compensation.
Since the days of Hazlitt, and Sheridan,
and John Miiton, and the wallings of
Grub street, London, literary toil, with
very few exceptions, has not been properly
requited. When Oliver Goldsmith receiv
ed a friend In his house, he (the author),
had to sit on the window, because there
was only one chair. Linnaeus sold his
splendid work for a ducat. De Foe, the
author of so many volumes, died penni
less. The learned Johnson dined behind a
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1898.
screen because his clothes were too shab
by to allow him to dine with the gentle
men who, on the other side of the screen,
were applauding his works. And so on
down to the present time literary toil is a
great struggle for bread. The world seems
to have a grudge against a man who, as
they say, gets his living by his wits; and
the day laborer says to the man of lirer
ray toil: "You come down here and shove
a plane, and hammer a shoe-last, and
break cobble stones, and earn an honest
living as I do, instead of sitting there in
idleness scribbing!" But there are no
hurder-worki'd men in all the earth than
the newspaper people of this country. It
is not a matter of hard times; it is char
acteristic at all times. Men have a bet
ter appreciation for that which appeals to
the stomach than for that which appeals
to the brain. They have no idea of the
immense financial and intellectual exhaus
tion of the newspaper press. Oh, men of
the press, it will be a great help to you,
if when you get home late at night, filled
out and nervous with your work, you
would just kneel down and commend your
ease to God, who has watched all the fa
tigues of the day and the night, and who
has promised to be your God and the God
of your children forever!
Another great trial of the newspaper pro
fession fa the diseased appetite for un
healthy intelligence. You blame the news
paper press for giving such prominence to
murders and scandals. Do you suppose
that so many papers would give promi
nence to these things if the people did not
demand them? If I go into the meat mar
ket of a foreign city, and I find that the
butchers hang up on the most conspicuous
hooks meat that is tainted, while the
meat that is fresh and savory is put away
without any special rare. 1 come to the
conclusion that the people of that city
love tainted meat. You know very well
that great mass of people in this
country get hold of a newspaper, and there
are in it no runaway matches, no broken
up families, no defamation of men in high
position, they pronounce tire paper insipid.
They say, ‘‘lt is shockingly dull to-night.”
I believe it is one of the trials of the news
paper press, that the people of this coun
try demand moral slush instead of healthy
and intellectual food. Now, you are a re
spectable man, an intelligent man, and a
paper comes into your hand. You open
it, and there are three columns of splen
didly written editorial, recommending
some moral sentiment, or evolving some
scientific theory. In the next column there
is a miserable, contemptible divorce case.
Which do you read first? You dip into the
editorial long enough to say, “Well, that’s
very ably written,” and you read the di
vorce case from the "long primer’’ type at
the top to the “nonpareil” type at the
bottom, and then you ask your wife if she
has read It! Oh, it is only a case of sup
ply and demand! Newspaper men are not
fools. They know what you want, and
they give it to you. I believe that if the
church and the world bought nothing but
pure, honest, healthful newspapers, noth
ing but pure, honest and healthful news
papers would be published. If you should
gather al! the editors and the reporters of
this country in one great convention, and
ask of them what kind of a paper they
would prefer to publish, I believe they
would unanimously say, "We would pre
fer to publish an elevating paper.” So
long as there is an iniquitous demand,
there will be an iniquitous supply. I make
no apology for a debauched newspaper,
but I am saying these things in order to
divide the responsibility between those who
print and those who read.
Another temptation of the newspaper
profession is the great allurment that sur
rounds them. Every occupation and pro
fession has temptations peculiar to itself,
and the newspaper profession is not an
exception. The great demand, as you
know, is on the nervous force, and the
brain is raokied. The blundering political
speech must read well for the sake of the
party, and so the reporter, or the editor,
lias to make it read well, although every
sentence were a catastrophe to the English
language. The reporter must hear all
that an inaudible speaker, who thinks it
is vulgar to speak out, says; and it must
be right the next morning or the next
night in the papers, though the night be
fore the whole audience sat with its hand
"behind its ear, in vain trying to catch it.
This man must go through killing night
work. He must go into heated assem
blages and into unventilated audience
rooms that are enough to take the life
out of him. He must visit court rooms,
which are almost always disgusting with
rum and tobacco. He must expose him
self at the fire. He must write in foetid
alleyways. Added to all that, he must have
hasty mastication and irregular habits.
To bear up under this tremendous nervous
strain, they are tempted to artificial
stimulus, and how many thousands have
gone down under their pressure God only
knows. They must have something to
counteract the wet, they must have some
thing to keep out the chill, and after a
scant night’s sleep they must have some
thing to revive them for the morning’s
work. This is what made Horace. Greeley
such a stout temperance man. I said to
him: “Mr. Greeley, why are you more
eloquent on the subject of temperance
than any other subject?” He replied: "I
have seen so many of my best friends in
journalism go down under intemperance."
Oh, my dear brother of the newspaper
profession, what you cannot do without
artificial stimulus, God does not want
you to do? There Is no half-way ground
for our literary people between teetotalism
and dissipation. Your professional suc
cess, your domestic peace, your eternal
salvation, will depend upon your theories
in regard to artificial stimulus. I have
had so many friends go down under the
temptation, their brilliancy quenched,
their homes blasted, that I cry out this
morning in the words of another: “Look
not upon the wine when it is red, when it
giveth Its color in the eup, when it moveth
itself aright; for at the last it bitclh like
a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder.”
Another trial of this profession is the
fact, no one seems to care for their souls.
They feel bitterly about it, though they
laugh. People sometimes laugh the loud
est when they feel the worst. They are
expected to gather up religious
ings. and to discuss religious doctrines in
the editorial columns, but who expects
them to ho saved by the sermons they
When the children are
hungry, what do you give
them? Food.
When thirsty? Water.
Now use the same good
common sense, and what
would you give them when
they are too thin? The best
fat-forming food, of course.
Somehow you think of
Scott’s Emulsion at once.
For a quarter of a century
it has been making thin
children, plump; weak child
ren, strong; sick children,
healthy.
50c. and SI.OO, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
Most Women’s Troubles
are caused by a disordered stom
ach. The genuine Carlsbad Spru
del Salt is a positive remedy for
a disordered stomach. It clears
the complexion and purifies the
blood. Best results when out
door exercise can be had. Se
cure only the genuine imported
article, which must have the sig
nature of “Eisner & Mendel
son Cos., Agts., New York,” on
every package.
stenograph, or by the doctrines they dis
cuss in the editorial columns? The
world looks upon ihem as professional.
Who preaches to reporter.- and editors?
Some of them came from religious homes,
and when they left the parental roof, who
ever regarded or disregarded, they came
off with a father’s benediction and a
mother’s prayer. They never think of
those good old times but tears come into
their eyes, and they move through these
great cities homesick. Oh, if they only
knew what a helpful thing it is for a man
to put his weary head down on the bosom
of a sympathetic Christ! He knows how
nervous and tired you are. He has a
heart large enough to take in ail your in
terests for this world and the next. Oh,
men of the newspaper press, you some
times get sick of this world, it seems so
hollow and unsatisfying. If there are
any people in all the earth that need God,
you are the men, and you shall have him,
if only this day you implore his mercy.
A man was found at the foot of Canal
street. New York. As they picked him
up from the water and brought him to the
morgue, they saw, by the contour of his
forehead, that he had great mental capac
ity. He had entered the newspaper pro
fession. He had gone down in health. He
took to artificial stimulus. He went down
further and further, until one summer
day, hot and hungry, and sick, and in de
spair, he flung himself off the dock. They
found in his [>ocket a reporter’s pad, a
lead pencil, a photograph of someone
who had loved him long ago. Death, as
sometimes it will, smoothed out all the
wrinkles that-had gathered prematurely
on his brow, and - as he lay there his face
was as fair as when, seven years ; K-fore,
he left his country home, end they hade
him goodby forever. The world looked
through the window of the morgue, and
said: “It’s nothing but an outcast;” but
God said it was a gigantic soul that per
ished, because the world gave him no
chance.
Let me ask all men connected with the
printing-press that they help us more and
more in the effort to make the world bet
ter. I charge you in the name of God, be
fore whom you must account for the tre
mendous influence you hold in this coun
try, to consecrate yourselves to higher en
deavors. Y*ou are the men to fight back
this invasion of corrupt literature. Lift up
your right hand and swear new allegiance
to the cause of philanthropy and religion.
And when, at last, standing on the plains
of judgment, you look out upon the un
numbered throngs over whom you have
had influence, may it be found that you
were amongst the mighJiest energies that
lifted men upon the exalted pathway that
leads to the renown of heaven. Better
than to have sat in editorial chair, from
which, with the finger of type, you de
cided the destinies of empires, but decided
them wrong, that you had been some dun
geoned exile, who, by the fig... of window
iron-grated, on scraps of a New Testa
ment leaf, picked up from the earth, spell
ed out the story of him who taketh away
the sins of the world. In eternity, Dives
is the Beggar! Well, my friends, we will
all soon get through writing and printing
and proof-reading and publishing. What
then? Our life is a book. Our years are
the chapters. Our months are the para
graphs. Our days are the sentences. Our
doubts are the interrogation points. Our
Imitation of others the quotation marks.
Our attempts at display a dash. Death
the period. Eternity the peroration. Q
God, where will we spend it? Have you
heard the news, more startling than any
found in the journals of the last six
weeks? It is the tidings that man is lost.
Have you heard the news, the gladdest
that was ever announced, coming this day
from the throne of God, lightning couriers,
leaping from the palace gate? The lie vs!
The glorious news! That there is pardon
for all guilt and comfort for all trouble.
Set it up in “double-leaded" columns and
direct it to the whole race.
And now before I close this sermon,
thankfully commemorative of the “Two
Thousandth” publication, I wish more
fully to acknowledge the services rendered
by the secular press in the matter of evan
gelization. All the secular newspapers
of the day—for I am not speaking this
morning of the religious newspapers-—all
the secular newspapers of the day discuss
all the questions of God, eternity and the
dead, and all the questions of the past,
present and future. There is not a sin
gle doctrine of theology but has been dis
cussed in the last ten years by the secu
lar newspapers of the country. They
gather up all the news of ail the earth
bearing on religious subjects, and then
they scatter the news abroad again.- The
Christian newspaper will be the right wing
of the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder
of the Christianized printing press will be
the front wheel of the Lord’s chariot. I
take the music of this day, and I do not
mark it diminuendo—F mark it crescendo,
A pastor on a Sabbath preaches to a few
hundred or a few thousand people, and on
Monday, or during the week, the printing
press will take the same sermon and
preach it to millions of people. God
speed the printing-press! God save the
printing press! God Christianize the
printing press!
When I see the printing press standing
with the electric telegraph on the one side
gathering up material, and the lightning
express train on the other side waiting for
the tons of folded sheets of newspaper. I
pronounce it the mightiest force in our civ
ilization. So I commend you to pray for
ail those who manage the newspapers of
the land, for all typesetters, for all edi
tors, for all publishers, that, sitting or
standing in positions of such great influ
ence, they may give ail that influence for
God and the betterment of the human
race. An aged woman making her liv
ing by knitting unwound the yarn from
the ball until she found in the center of
the ball there was an old piece of news
paper. She opened It and read tin adver
tisement which announced that she had
become heiress to a large projierty, and
that fragment of a newspaper lifted her
up from pauperism to affluence. And I
do not know, but as the thread of time
unrolls and unwinds a little further,
through the siient yet speaking news
paper may lx- found the vast inheritance
of the world's redemption.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive Journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
llnrville Found Guilty,
Athens, Go., Feb. 20.—The verdict in the
case of Alexander Harvlile, charged with
the nssassinatlon of Edward Weight last
year at Winder, was rendered this morn
ing at Jefferson. It was a verdict of guil
ty. with a recommendation to mercy. The
attorneys for the defense are not satisfied
with the verdict, and will carry the case
to the supreme court.
WEDDING A SECRET FOR MONTHS.
Youthful Husband Flnnlly Informs
flis Futiier-iu-Laiv.
Waycross, Gu., Feb. 20.—1 t was announc
ed this morning that James W. Reynolds
and Miss Eva McCulley were married, the
ceremony having been performed one day
last July by Rector J. F. Mllbank of Grate
Episcopal Church, and kept secret until
now.
Mr. Reynolds went to the resilience of
the bride's father, W. W. McCulley, a
prominent merchant, last night, and pre
sented his marriage certificate to the as
tonished father-in-law and claimed his
bride. He explained that the marriage had
been kept secret for fear that objections
would be made by the bride’s father on
account of the youth of the contracting
parties.
Mr. McCulley was surprised, but he ex
pressed no displeasure.
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are domiciled st
the home of the bride’s father. They
have been i>opuiar in Waycross society,
and when (he news of their marriage be
came public, congratulations -were sent by
scores of friends.
Mr. Reynolds is a law stenographer, and
Is 20 years of age, while his bride is 18, ar.d
is a very beautiful and accomplished young
lady.
FI MUM. I\VI IATIONS.
MADDEN.—Friends and acquaintances
of Mr. William Madden, are respectfully
invited to attend his funeral, this morning,
at 10 o'clock, from 301 Broughton street,
east.
MEETINGS.
cidNTONnLOIMHr^NOr^UF^&^CrM.
A special communication of this A
lodge will be held at Masonic Tem
pie this (Monday) evening at 8 / xr\
o’clock.
The E. A. Degree will be conferred.
Members of sister lodges and visiting
brethren are cordially invited to meet with
us. DANIEL T. ELLIOTT, W. M.
WARING RUSSELL, JR., Secretary.
SAVANNAH YACHT CLUB.
A meeting of the Savannah Yacht Club
will be held at the Club House Monday,
Feb. 21 inst., at 5 o'clock p. m. The con
stitution and by-laws as adopted at last
meeting will be presented for confirma
tion. A. S. BACON, Commodore.
W. H. CRANE, 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. IS9B, 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.
MILITARY ORDERS.
georgiaTiussarsl’
Savannah, Ga„ Feb. 21, 1898.
The troop will assembfe JSs, jl
at the armory on Tuesday,
22d inst., at 9:30 a.m. sharp, -
in regimental uniform,
campaign hats and canvas
leggins, to proceed to \ J
Avondale range for target
practice. The carbine and
pistol medals, together with other prizes,
will be contested for. The country, vet
eran, pay and honorary members are cor
dially invited to join with us and contest
for prizes offered in their class.
BEIRNE GORDON,
Captain Commanding.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO SUPERIOR COURT JU
RORS.
All petit jurors, including those empan
eled on the case of Wrenn vs. Savannah
Grocery Company, are hereby further dis
charged from Monday morning, 21st int.,
until Wednesday morning next.
By order of His Honor Judge Fnlligant.
This (19th) nineteenth day of February
1898. JAMES K. P. CARR.
Clerk S. C. O. C.
THE DANCE
OF THE CRESCENT SOCIAL CLUB
will positively come oft to-night at the
Hibernian Hail. Music will be furnished
by Leon’s Orchestra.
J. A. McGRATH, President.
YOU WANT
Tlie Standard Color Paste to Color
Ices, Cakes. Jelly, etc., same kind as
used by .Miss Andrews at her cook
ing exhibition.
Pure Spices, Olive Oil nnd Mnstnrd.
Prepared Almond Meal for
chapped linnds nod inflamed skin.
It is used ns a soap.
SOLOMONS & CO.
CITY OF SAVANNAH POCKET SIAP,
GO CENTS EACH.
PRINTED IN TWO COLORS.
NICELY BOUND IN CLOTH AND
STAMPED IN GOLD ON SIDE.
For sale by
MORNING NEWS.
FURNITURE AND GENERAL HER.
CHANDISE STORAGE.
Can be had at the District Messenger and
Delivery Company’s warehouse. 32 to 36
Montgomery street, on reasonable terms.
The building lias been thoroughly over
hauled and repaired, and now otters 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.
THERE'S NOTHING NICER
Than Steamed Gorda
Oysters. Have you tried them?
Coburger Beer on the side is fine.
At BECKMANN’S CAFE.
Central oI Georgia Incomes.
Southwestern Railroad Stock.
State and City Ronds.
And other securities.
Bought and sold.
Real Kstate Roans Negotiated.
AUSTIN R. MYHEB,
32 Bryan street, Bast.
AMUSEMENTS.
gAVANNIAH THE A TER,
JAMES YOUNG,
The popular young Southern actor, will
present the High Comedy of
"DAVID GARRICK,”
Monday night, Feb. 21. and Tuesday matinee
Feb, 22.
Tuesday Night—“LADY" OF LYONS.”
Seats now on sale. Prices, 25c, 50c. 75c and 81.
Bargain Matinee— 25c and 50c, anywhere in
house.
Coming—Feb. 23. Wednesday night. “Shore
Acres. ” Feb 21. Thursday night, -Courted In
to Court.” Feb. 25, Friday matinee and night,
Innes Band.
gAVANINAH THEATER
Seats can be secured through the tele
phone No. 2195.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23.
First time in this city,
JAMES A. HERNE,
In his famous comedyxjrama,
“SHORE ACRES.”
Guaranleed the entire New York com
pany, scenery and properties or money re
funded. Prices—2sc, 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.30.
Seats now on sale.
Coming.
‘ COURTED INTO COURT,’*
FEB. 24.
INNES’ BAND,
MATINEE AND NIGHT, FEB. 25.
TELFAIR ACADEMY
OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Open to Visitors daily, except Sunday.
From 10 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Single admission 25 cents. Annual tick
ets SI.OO.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
JUST ARRIVED,
LARGE STOCK OF 1808 CLEVELANDS
PRICES—SSO, $65 and $75.
14 reasons why the Cleveland is the best
cycle:
1. The Cleveland Model No. 39 is designed
by the leading cycle mechanic of the
world.
2. It is the leader of the world, because
the other cycle makers acknowledge that
the master mind of the industry makes the
Cleveland,
3. It is constructed in factories that have
more ingenious machines to make perfect
cycles than any other factories in the
world.
4. It is made from material inspected by
experts from the time the raw product
enters the mills until it is sent out as a
part of a splendid machine.
5. It has the Cleveland hardened block
and pin chain.
6. It has Cleveland cross-thread fabric
tires.
7. The Cleveland is fitted with the fa
mous original Burwell dust-proof bearings,
8. It is fitted with self-oiling hubs.
9. It is fitted with Cleveland dust-proof
pedals.
10. It has mathematically ground bear
ings (not polished).
11. It is fitted with front and rear flang
ed sprockets.
12. The threads are turned on all axles.
13. Cleveland hubs are machined with
balls in position same as in complete bi
cycle.
14. The Cleveland is made conscientious
ly from the best material, by expert me
chanics, in factories equipped for high
grade work only.
FRED MYERS. JR.,
344 Buil Street.
Under Guards Armory.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION ON
FEB. 22 AT 12 O’CLOCK.
MARY PICKERD, Record 2:20.
Standard bred and registered. Papers
certifying her breeding at saie. This is
an extra fine road mare, fearless of all
objects. Will be driven and shown to the
public by W. M. Griffin.
Note—This is no cheap one, but a high
class animal. Ac
YOUNGLOVE & SIPPLE'S STABLE,
West Broad and Broughton streets.
HOMES FOR THOSE WHO PAY*
MONTHLY RENTAL.
The Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company have a beautiful tract of
land south of Anderson street on which
they will erect homes.
To those who wish to own their little
homes on a monthly rental in preference
to paying rent to the landlord, they will
serve their own interest by seeing Mr.
Solomons.
All the corners on Price street are taken,
but two.
Call at the office or see a representative
on the ground daily between 2 and 4 o'clock
M. J. SOLOMONS,
Secretary and Treasurer.
NOTICE.
I have appointed Mr. W. S. Boyd my
agent to collect and receipt for all ac
counts due to the estate of Dr. M. L. Boyd,
deceased. All persons are requested to
make payments to him.
LAURA J. BOYD,
Executrix M. L. Boyd, Deceased.
DR. ARTHUR F. BOYD,
Recently of Bulloch county, has re
moved to Savannah.
Office 111 Liberty street, west.
NOTICE.
Savannah, Ga„ Feb. 18, 1898.—The firm
of Prs. Duncan. Charlton & Boyd was dis
solved Feb. 9, 1898, by the death of Dr.
M. L. Boyd. The firm Drs. Duncan &
Charlton will still continue.
ALL THE LEADING BRANDS
of good palatable stuff to go
with lunch every day
—AT THE GEM
Congress und Whituker streets.
I
BEFORE PURCHASING
A Typewriter see the Improved Remlng.
ton Typewriter, No. 6. It has' no equal.
DEARING & HURL,.
Sole Dealers (or Savannah,
t Drayton street
MARK
00WP4
SHOE
SALE.
All the regular prices arc blotted out la
this sale. Stock must be pruned closely
Everything out that shouldn’t be in. Win
ter goods specially. Every shoe sacr::. e.l
to that end.
Ladies’ Cloth Top or Fine Kid Top B ut .
ton and I-ace Boots, patent tip and kid
tip, ordinarily sell for $2.50, at $i 7 0
Ladies' Fine Vici Button, patent tip
toes, extended solos, up to date in sty.,-,
reduced for this sale from $3 to j
Ladies' Finest Vici Button, patent lip
handsome soles, coin toes, fine sty],
widths B. C, D and B, usual $4 shoo n ..w
$2.55.
Misses’ Vici Button and Lace (some with
cloth tops), our regular $1.75 shoe, for this
Sale
Youths’ School Shoes, splendid quaiiiy
(you always pay $1.50 for this grade), price
clipped to
The Public
Know We
Advertise
Only Facts.
Cor. Wfcltakwi
BUSINESS NOTICES.
THE ORIGINAL
JAMES E. PEPPER
WHISKEY.
THIS IS THE GENUINE ARTICLE
All Rattles bear the name of
James E. I’epper—which consume a
should remember.
HENRY SOLOMON & SON,
Wholesale Agents.
”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 cosu
nothing. Our low prices make cost jf
glasses a trifling matter.
DR. M. SCHWAB & SON,
47 Bull Street.
N. B.—Oculist prescriptions filled sama
day received. Repairing of all kinds at
short notice.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital, §500,000.
Transact* u general iiuuking
ne*s. Maintain* a SnvingN Depart
ment and allow* INTEREST AT I
PER CENT., compounded quarterly*
The account* of individual*, firm**
hank* and corporation* are solicit
ed.
With our large number of corres
pondent* ill GEORGIA, ALABAMA,
FLORIDA and SOUTH CAROLINA we
arc? prepared to handle collection*
on the in out favorable terms. Cor
respondence invited.
DHANTI.EY A. DENMARK, Preside*'
NI. 11. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FRENI AIN, Cashier.
THE CHATHAM BIS
SAVANNAH, GA.
TranMUct* a geucrul baiU iU *
business, maintain* u liberal
litAt * department.
Foreign and Domestic Exchange *
specialty.
Having a large number of Interim
eorreipoiulenta, we can linndle co*
lection* at very reasonable rate**
Correspondence solicited*