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THE SUNNY SOUTH
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
DISCOURSE BY REV- T. DeWITT
TAX MAGE, ON. SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 13.
the plaguz narcotic.
“I will at this time tend all my plagues upon
thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon
thy people.”—Exodus ix., 14.
Upon the cleanest, the most fertilo, the
richest, and the wisest nation of the ancient
world the ten pleguea dropped. Plague the
first: The river Nile, which was the source
of Egyptian fertility and an object of wor
ship, was incarnadined, and rolled its crim
son currents amid a horror-stricken popula
tion, the reservoirs and the costly water
works putrid with destroyed animal life.
Plague the second: The frogs innumerable
croaking in the marshes of the Nile, move up
and take possession of the hemes of a nation
which dressed in white and was fastidious for
cleanliness, the storks, the vultures and the
cranes swooping ujon their prey. Plague the
third: The gnats and mosquitoes buzzed and
bit and stung the people into wild delirium.
Plague the fourth: The gadflies became in
tolerable, or the beetle,an imitation of which
you often see on a gentleman’s finger, cut in
the shape of scaral aeus, or Egyptian beetle.
Plague the fifth: Distemper seized upon the
cattle until they went bellowing with pain,
and epizooty ui on the horses, and trichi! ae
upon the swine. Plague the sixth: Car
buncles and elephantiasis inflamed the skin
of multitudes. Piague the stventh: Hail
storms with their icy hammers smote the
earth, and at a season of the year when the
cattle were all grt zing in the fields,and hence
were unsheltered from the peltirg. Plague
the eighth: Locusts, which, according to
naturalists, march in companies and regi
ments and battalions, con manded by cap
tains and colonels and generals, marched
across the land until every green thing in
orchard and vineyard and garden was de
stroyed. Piague the ninth: Darkness dropped
on all the land, and it was as black at 12
•’clock at noon as at 12 o’clock at night.
Plague the tenth: lr. every Egyptian home,
the oldest, whether on the mother’s lep or
seated at the table, tcck on the last pallor
and expired. Draw a curtain over every
home in Egypt. These ten Egyptian plagues
alt passed off the earth,but our modern cities
have their ten plagues, blasting, destiuctive,
and deathful, and it is my object in a series
of Babbath morning discourses to describe
them.
The first plague that I shall mention is the
plague narcotic. In all ages the world has
sought cut some flower, or herb, or weed to
stimulate its lethargy or to compose its grief.
A drug ealltd nepenthe war widely used
among the ancient Greeks and the ancient
Egyptians for narcotic purposes. The The
ban women knew how to compound it. You
had but to chew the leaves, and your sadness
was whelmed with hilarity. But nepenthe
passed cut from the consideration of the
world. Next came hasheesh, w hich is made
from Indian hemp. It is manufactured from
the flowers at the top, or workmen in leatLern
clothing walk through the field of hemp, and
the exudation fnm the hemp adheres to the
leathern garments, and then this txudation
'a scraped off, prepared with aromatic, di ugs
and becomes an intoxicant for the people.
Whole nations have been stimulated, na.cot-
ized, and made imbecile with this accursed
hasheesh. The visions kindled by that drug
are said to be gorgeous and magnificent be
yond all description; but it finally takes
down body, mind and soul in horrible death.
I knew one of the most brilliant men of his
day. Whether he appeared in magazine or
in book, or in newspaper column, he was an
enchantment. He could in the course of an
hour’s conversation produce more wit and
strange infoimation than almost any man 1
ever talked with. But he chew ed hasheesh.
He did so first as a matter of curiosity, to see
whether the powers ascribed to it really be
longed to it. He put his hand into the crea
ture’s den to see whether it would bite, and
he found out to his complete undoing. His
father, who was a minister of the gospel,
prayed for him and crunseled him, and ob
tained for him the best medical prescription
of the best physicians in New York, Phila
delphia, Paris, London, Edinburgh and Ber
lin. He said he could not stop. A large
circle of friends put their wits together to ti y
to rescue him; but he went on down. First,
his body gave way in pangs and convulsions
of tittering; then his mind gave way, and
he became a raving maniac; then his immor
tal soul went blaspheming God into a starless
eternity He was only abcut thirty years
of age. Behold the r: vages of this Persian
and Egyptian weed called hasheesh.
Opium demands emphatic recognition. It
is made, as you know, from the white poppy.
It is not a new discovery. We read of it
three hundred years before Christ, but it was
not until the seventeenth century that it be
gan its death march, passing out from tLe
medicinal and curative, and by smoking and
mastication becoming the scourge of nations.
In theyecr 1861 there were imported into this
country 109,000 pounds of opium, but last
year 533,000 pounds of opium. It is estima
ted that in the year 1876 there were in thi.-
country 225,000 opium consumers, but I saw
a statistic yesterday ibat said there are pre b-
ably now in the United States at least 500,000
opium consumers. The fact is appalling.
Do not think • that they are merely bar
baric fanatics who go down under that
stroke. Read the great De Quiucey's ‘‘Con
fessions of an Opium-eater. ’ He says he
went on until be took three hundred and
twenty grains a day, He says for the first
ten years it gave him the keys of Paradise.
But it takes his own powerful pen to describe
the hoirors consequent, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, after cot.tfuering the world with
bis pen, was corqnered by opium. The most
magnetic and brilliant lawyer of this century
fell its victim, and there are thousands of
men and women—but more women than men
— who are being bound body, mind and soul
to this terrible habit. There i; agreatmys
tery about some families. You do hot know
w hy they do not get on. The opium habit is
so stealthy, so deceitful, so deathful. You
can cure a hundred drunkards easier than
you can cure one opium-eater. I have heard
of cases of reformation, but I never saw any.
I hope there are cases of genuine reformation.
I have seen men who for forty years had
been the victims of strong drink thoroughly
reformed; but the rpium-eaters that I have
seen go on and go down. Their cry in the
last hour of life is not foi God, nor tor pray
er, nor for the Bible, but for opium. Per
haps there are only two persons outside the
household who know what is tl.e matter—the
physician and the pastor—the physician call
ed in for physical relief, the pastor called in
for spiritual relief; but they both fail. The
physician acknowledges bis defeat. The
minister of religion acknow ledges his defeat,
for it seems as if the Lord dpes not answer
prayer for opium-eaters. O niai.,0 woman,
are you tampering with this habit? Have
you just begun? Are you, for the assuage
ment of physical distresses or mental trouble
making this a regular resource? I beg you
stop). The ecstasies at the start will not pay
for the horrors at the last. The paradise is
followed too soon by the 1 andenonium.
Morphia is a blessing from God for the relief
of sudden pang or acute dimentia, but was
never intended for prolonged use. And
what the peculiar sadness of it is, it comes to
pteople in their weak moments. De Qoincev
says, “I toe k it for rheumatism.” Coleridge
say 8,“I took it for insomnia,or sleeplessness.’"
What do you take it foi ? Do not take it 106
long. What is remarkable, they are going
down from the highest and the wealthiest
classes and from the most fashionable circles
of New York and Brooklyn—going down by
hundreds and by thousands. Over 20,000
opium-eaters in Chicago; over 20,000 opium-
eaters in St. Louis. In the same proportion,
that would make over 70,000 in New York
and Brooklyn. The clerk of the drug-store
says, ”1 can tell them when they come in;
there is something peculiar about their com
plexion. something peculiar about their ner
vousness, something peculiar about the look
of their eye that immediately reveals them.”
In some families chloral is taking the place of
opium, Physicians prescribe it for sleepless
ness. The patient keeps on because be likes
the efiect. Whole tons of chlroral manufact
ured in Germany. Baron Leibig says that
he knows one chemist in Germany who man
ufactures a half ton of chloral every week.
There are multitudes befog taken down by
this habit. Look out for hydrate of chloral! <
But I am under this head sp>eakfog chi- fly of
opium. You never heard a sermon against
opium, but it seems to me there ought to be
ten thousand pulpits turned into quaking,
flaming, thundering Smaisof warning' against
this plague narcotic. The devil of morphia
in this conntry will be mightier than the dev
il of alcohol. But nepenthe, and hasheesh,
and opium, and chloral shall not have all the
field to h-m ti ca. Th re s-p u :g up in Yuec-
tan, on this continent, a weed which has be
witched the world. It crossed the Atlantic
Ocean in the fifteenth ceDtury and captured
Spain. Then it captured Portugal, and then
the French Embasssors took it to Paris, and
it captured the French Empire. Then Wal
ter Raleigh introduced it into England, The
botanists ascribe it to tbe genus nicotiana;
but you all know it as the inspiring, the ele
vating, the emparadising, the radiating, the
nerve-shattering, the dyspepsia-breeding, the
health-destroying tobacco. I shall not be of
fensively personal while I speak on this sub
ject, because you all use it, or nearly all! In
deed, I know from personal experience how
it soothes and roseates the world and kindles
sociality, and I know what are its baleful re-
ults. I know what it is to be its slave, and.
thaDk God, I know what it is to be its con
queror. 1 have no expectation that I will
persuade tbe great masses of you to change
your habits upon this subject, but I thought
i might help you in some advice to your chil
dren. I Dotice that fathers who chew and
smoke generally <io not want their boys to
chew and smoke, and I have thought we
might profitably for a few moments discuss
how we ought to advise our young people.
You snv, “Didn’t God make tobacco?” Oh !
yes. You say, “1: t Glod goou:’ O u , yes.’
You say, “Then God, when He created to
bacco, must have created it for some purposes
Oh! yes, it is good for a groat many thing s
tobacco is. It is good to kill moths in t' e
wardrobe, and tick in sheep, and to strangu
late all kinds of vermin, and to fumigate pea
tiferous places, and like all 01 her poison ,
God created it for some particular use. So
He did henbane, so nux vomica, so coppers*-,
so belladonna, so all those poisons which He
directly created or had man to extract. Bu*
the same God who made tbe poisons also cre
ated us with common sense to know how to
use them and how not to use them. “Oh!”
say seme of my friends, “don’t people use it
without seeming hai m to themstlves, and are
there not cases of plethora which absolutely
need this depletion?” Oh! yes. Skilfulland
prudent physicians have sometimes pre: crib
ed it, just as they sometimes prescribe arse
nic, anfi they prescribe it well There can be
no doubt about its being poisonous. There
was a case reported in which a little child lay
upon its mother’s lap, and a drop from her
pipe fell on the child’s lip, and it went into
convulsions and into death. But you say.
* Don’t people live on to old age who indulge
in this habit?” Yes; so I have seen an in
ebriate seventy years old. There are
some persons who in spite of all the
outrages to their physical system live on to
old age. In the case of the man of the jug—
he lasted so long because he was pickledl In
the case of the man of the pipe—he lasted so
long because he was turned into smoked liver!
But, my friends, what advice had we better
give to our young people? I say in the first
place, let us advise them to abstain from this
habit because all the medical fraternity of
the United States and Great Britain pro
nounce it tbe cause of widespread and terrific
unhealtb. Dr. Agnew. Dr. Hamilton, Dr.
Alcott, Dr. Barnes, Dr. Woodward, Dr.
Rush, Dr. Hosack, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Mott—all
tbe medical fraternity—allopathic, bon ce >-
pathic. hydropathic, eclectic—denounce the
habit and warn the community against it.
One distinguished physician says: “This
habit is the cause of seventy different styles
of disease. This habit is the cause of nearly
all the cases of cancer of the mouth.” What.
is the testimony of the late Dr. John C.
Warren, of BostOD, than whom there is no
higher authority ? He says: “For more than
thirty years I have been in the habit of in
quiring of patients who come to me with can
cer of the tongue and lips whether they used
tobacco, and, if so, whether they chewed or
smoked, and, if they have sometimes answer-
ed in the negative as to the first question, 1
can truly say that, to the best of my knowl
edge and belief, such cases are exceptions to
the general rule. When, as is usually the
case, one side of the tongue is affected with
ulcerated cancer, it arises from the habitual
retention of the tobacco in contact with this
part.” Dr. Hosack says: ‘ The alarming
fn quency of apoplexy and palsy and epilep- 1
sy, and other diseases of the nervous system,
is attributable in part to the use of tobacco. ”
Dr. Ferguson says: “I believe that no one
who smokes tobacco before the bodily powers
are developed ever makes a vigorous man.”
Dr. Waterhouse says: ‘‘I never observed
such pallid faces and so many marks of de
clining health, or ever knew so many hectical
habits and eomsumptive affections as of late
years, and I trace this alarming inroad upon
young constitutions principally to the perni
cious cu-tom of smoking cigars.” Dr. John
son says: “Where one inveterate smoker
will bear testimony favorable to the practice
of smoking, ninety-nine are found to declare
their belief that its practice is injurious, and
1 scarcely ever have met one habitual smoker
who did not in his candid moments regret
his commencement of the habit.” Dr. Gib-
bms says: “Tobacco impairs digestion, poi
sons the blood, depresses the vital powers,
causes the limbs to tremble, and weakens and
otherwise disorders the heart.” Their united
testimony is that it depresses tha vitals of
tbe system, and brings on nervousness and
dyspepsia, and takes off twenty-five per cent,
of tbe physical vigor of the people of this
country, and, damaging this generation,
damages the next, tbe accumulated curse go
ing on to capture other centuries. Why is
it that the Turkish nation can stand before
no other nation? They go into battle always
for defeat. Why ? Tobacco has bedwarfed
them, has enervated their muscular sys
tem, has thrown them into perpetual stupe-
far tion. Tobacco not only injures the
body, but it injures the mind. Dr.
Prince, for a long white superintendent
of the insane asylum at N01 tham; to 1,
Mass., says: “Fully half of the patients
who have come to our asylum for treatment
are the victims of tobacco. ” It is a sad
thing, my brother, to damage the body; it is
a worse thing to dam. ge the mind, and any
man of common sense knows that the 1. -
vous system immediately acts up'n the
brain. More than that, nearly a'l refer: ers
will tell y in that it tends to drunkenness, >t
creates an 1 nnatural thirst. There are iLO-r
who use this narcotic who do not drink, but
nearly all who drink use the narcotic, so that
shows there is an immediate affinity between
the two drugs. It was long ago demonstrat
ed that a man cannot reform from strong
drink unless he gives up tobacco. In nearly
all the cases where men having been reform
ed have fallen back, it has been shown they
have first touched tobacco and then surren
dered to intoxicants. The broad avenue
leaning down to the drunkard’s grave and
the drunkard’s hell is strewn thick with to
bacco leaves. A man is not thoroughly con
verted to God until not only his heart is made
clean, but his mouth is clean. I have known
peop’e trying to be cod e Christians for many
years, and they failed miserably, simply be
cause thfcy could not give up this baleful nar
cotic. Hear the testimony of Dr. Rush. He
says: “A desire is excited by tobacco for
strong drinks,and these lead to drunkenness.”
Hear Dr. Woodward. He says: 'I have
supposed tobacco was tie common stepping-
stone to that use of sp ritacus liquors that
leads to intemperance.” Nearly all wise
men of all professions give advice against it.
What did Benjamin Franklin say? “I never
saw a well man fo tbe exercise cf common
sense who would say that tobacco did him
any good.” What did Thomas Jefferson say
when arguing against the culture of tobacco?
He8aid: “It is a culture productive of in
fiuite wretchedness. The cultivation of
wheat is the reverse in every circumstance.
Besides clothing the earth and helping with
herbage and preserving its fertility, it feeds
the laborers plentifully, r> quires from them
only a moderate till except in the harvest,
raises a great number of animals for food
and service, and diffuses plenty and happi
ness among the whole. We find it easier to
make a hundred bushels of wheat than
thousand weight of tobacco and they are
worth more when made.” Horace Greeley
said of it: “It is a profane stench.” Daniel
Webster said: “If those men must smoke,let
them take the horse-shed.” Oae reason why
there are so many victims of this habit is
because tfc, r a e so m ny ministers 1 f relig
ion who smoke and chew. They smoke until
they get the bronchitis, and the dear people
have to pay their expenses to Europe. Thev
smoke until the nervous system breaks down.
They smoke themselves to death. I could
name three eminent clergymen who died of
cancer in the mouth, and in every case tbe
physician said it was tobacco. There ha-
been many a clergyman whose tombstone
was all covered up with eulogy which ought
to have had the honest epitaph,' ‘Rilled by too
much Cavendish 1” Some of them smoke until
the room is blue, and their spirits are blue,
and the world ia blue, and everything
is blue. Time was when God passed b>
such sins, but it becomes now the duty
of the American clergy who indulge fo tbi-
natrotic to repent. How can a man preach
temperance to the people when he is himself
indulging in an appetite like that! I have
seen a cuspadore in a pulpit where the min -
ister would drop his cud before he got up to
read “blessed are the pure fo heart,” and to
read about “rolling sin as a sweet morsel
under the tongue 1” and in Leviticus, to read
about the unclean auimals that chew tbecuo.
1 have known animals that chew the cud. 1
have known presbyteries and general assem
blies aud generally synods where there was a
room set apart for the ministers to smoke in.
I have seen ministers of religion, ti eii beards
anointed not with holy oil such as ran down
Aaron’s beard, but with poisonous saliva.
Oh! it is a sorry spectacle, a consecrated mao,
a holy man of God looking around for some
thing, which you take to be looking for a
larger fitld of usefulness. He is not looking
for that at all. He is only looking for a place
where he can discharge a mouthful of tobac
co juice! 1 am glad the Methodist Church
of the United States in nearly all its confer
ences, has passed resolutions against this
habit, and is time we had an anti-tobacco re
form in the Presbyterian Church, and the
Episcopal Church, and the Bapt s. Jhun h.
and the Congregational C; Urcb. About sixty
years ago a young man graduated from And
over Theological S minary into the ministry.
He went straight to the front. He had an
el' qdence and personal magnetism before
which nothing could stand; but he was soon
thrown into the insane asy lum for twenty
yer- c , and the doctor said it was tobacco that
sent nim there. According to tbe custom
then in vogue, he was ailuwed a small portion
of tobacco every day. After he had been
there nearly twenty years, walking the floor
one day he had a sudden return of reason,
and he reallzad what was the matter.* He
threw the plug of tobacco through the iron
grate, and said: “What biought me here?
What keeps me here? Why am I here* To
bacco! tobacco! OGodt help! help! and I’ll
never use it again.” He was rt stored. He
was brought forth. For ten years he
successfully preached the gospel of Jesus
Christ, and then went into r blis.-ful immor
tality. There are ministers of religion to
day indulging in narcotics, dying by inches,
and they do not know what is the matter
with them. I might in a word give my own
experience. It took ten cigars to make a ser
mon. I got very nervous. Oue day I awa
kened to the outrage 1 was afflicting upon
my st if. 1 was about to change settlements
and a generous wholesale tobacconist in
Philadelphia said he would, all the rest of my
life, provide me with cigars free of charge,
i said to mvself, if, in these wartimes, when
cigars are so costly aud my salary small, 1
smoke more than I ought to, what would J
do it 1 had gratuitous and unlimited supply?
And then and there, twenty years ego, I
quit once and forever. It made a new man
of me, and though I have since then done
es much hard work as any one, I think
I have had the best health God ever
blessed a man with. A minister of religion
cannot 0 fiord to smoke. Put fo my hand the
moneys wasted in tobacco in Brooklyn, and
I will support three orphan asylums as grand
and as beautiful as that to w hich y ou have
tnis last week been contributing. Put into
my hand the moneys wasted fo tobacco fotbe
Unitea States of America, and I will clothe,
feed and shelter all the suffering poor on this
continent. The American church gives one
million dollars a year for the evangelization
of the heathen,and American Christians spend
five million dollars in tobacco. Which is the
mightier influence from England upon China,
the opium trade or the m.ssionaries ? The
opium trade, it is one of the greatest Obsta
cles, this habit, to the progress of t he Gospel.
A member of 'he American Board of Foreign
Missions sayt at, during the last two hun
dred years, there has beeu no idol so hard to
creak, and no obstacle so great as tobacco.
Now, 1 stand this morning not only in the
presence of my God, to whom I must give an
account for what I say to-day, but I stand in
the presence of a great multitude of young
men who are forming their habits. Between
seventeen and twenty-three there are tens of
thousands of y u g men damaging them
selves irretrievably by tobacco. You either
u-e very good tob. cco cr cheap tobacco. If
yon use cheap tobacco, I want to teil y ou w hy
it is cheap. It is a mixture of burdock, lamp-
black, sawdust, colt’s-foot, plantain leaves,
fuller’s earth, lime, salt, alum, and a li tie to
bacco. You enrnu t afford, my young broth
er, to tak. such a mess as ttiat bet we n y our
lips. If, on tie other hand, you use costly
tobacco, let me say I do not think you can
afford it. You take that which you expend
and will expend, if you keep the habit all
your life, aud put it aside, aud it will buy
you a house, aud it will buy you a farm, to
make you con: t r ble in the afternoon of
life. A merchant ot New York gave this
testimony : “In early l fe I smoked six cigars
a day at six and a half cents each; they av
eraged that. I thought to myself one day,
‘ I’il just put aside all the money I am con
suming in cigars, and all I would consume if
I k pt on in the habit, and I will see what it
will come to by compound interest.’” And
he gives this tremendous si atisiic : “Last J uly
completed thirty nine years since, by the
grace ot God. I was emancipated from the
tiltuy habit, and tbe saving amounted to the
enormous sum of $29 102.03 by compound in
terest. We lived in the city, but the children,
who bad learned something o f toe enjoyment
of country life from their annual visits to
their grandparents, longed for a home among
the green fields. I found a very pleasant
place in The country for sale. The cigar
money now came into r< quisition, and I found
that it amounted to a si ffiiieut sum to pur-
el a-e tbe place, and it is mine, i wish all
American boys couid see how my children
enjoy their home as they watch the vessels
with their white sails that course along the
Sound. Now, boys, you take your choice,
smoking without a home, or a home without
smoking.”
L’sten to that, young man, and take an
Other thing into consideration, and that is
vast amounts of property are destoyed every
year indirectly by this habit-. An agent of
an insane insurance company says : ‘O ae-
half our losses ccme from the spark ot the
pipe or the cigar." One young man threw
away his cigar in one of the cities, and with
it he threw away three millions of dollars’
worth of the property of others that blazed
up fro— that. Harper’s splendid printing es
tab. hm9 .i years ago was destroyed by a
plumo<-., who, having lighted bis pipe, threw,
the match away, and it fell into a pot of ctra-
phene. The whole building was iu flumes.
F.ve blocks went down. Two thou aud em
ployes thrown out of work, and more whan a
million d iliars’ worth of property destro;. ed
But I am speaking of higher values to-day.
Better destroy a whole city of stores than
destroy one man. O! my young friends, if
yon will excuse the idiom, I will say, stop
before you begin. Here is a serfdom which
has a shackle that it is almost impossible *to
break. Gigantic intellects that could over
come every other bad habit have been flung
in this and kept down. S ime one was seek
ing to persuade a man from the habit. The
reply was: “Ask me to do anything under
the canopy of heaven but this. Tnis 1 cannot
give up, and won’t give up, though it takes
seven yeare iff my life.” A minister of the
gospel made this lamentation: “I have tried
a thousand times to stop, and I will never try
again.” Ou! my young friends, steer clear
of that Dry Tortugas. I must have a word
also with all those of my friei.ds whom it
does not hurt, who can stop any time they
want to, and who can smoke most expensive
cigars. MyJChristian brother, wbat is your
ii flu •nee fo the matter? How much can you
afford to deny yourself for the good of oth
ers? It was a great mystery to many people
why Governor B. iggs, of Massachusetts, woe
a cravat but no collar. Some people thought
it was an absurd eccentricity. Ah! no. This
was the secret: Many years before he was
talking with an inebriate and telling him that
his habit was unnecessary, and the inebriate
retorted upon him and said, “We do a great
many things that are not necessary. It is
not necessary for you to wear that collar.’’
“Well," said Governor Brigg-, “I never will
wear a collar again if you won’t drink ” “A-
greed,” said the inebriate. Governor Briggs
never wore a collar. They both kept their
bargain for twenty years. They kept it to
1 heir death. That ia the reason Governor
Briggs did not wear a collar. That is simply
raaguificent. That is the gospel of the Son of
God. Srif-denial for the good and the rescue
of others. O i! my brother, we • ight by ef
fort now and then"save a man. By how little
r by how much self denial are we willing to
be influenced ? I stop at this point because 1
nave no mire time to pursue the subject, al
though I have much more to say upon it. I
stop at this point by throwing all the pas
sions of my soul into one pray ei: God help us!
3ieuralgine.
This specific for neuralgia and headache is
offered to the public not as a king cure all,
but only as good for neuralgia and headache.
For these troubles it is unfailing. Every
bottle guaranteed if taken according to di
ections. Hutchinson & Bro , Proprietors,
Atlanta, Ga. For sale by ell druggists.
A Great Premium List.
THE.^EW YORK WEEKLY
EXPRESS*, established in 1865, is not on-
ly one of the Oldest and Cheapest but
Rest of the New York Weekly family
Newspapers. It is now making a great and
successful effort to reach a larger and more
general circulation than any Weekly News
paper fo the United States, aud to this end
is offered an attractive list of substantia!
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subscribers. The loug established reputa
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he New York Daily cxprissisa stfficien
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German, French, English and American fancy
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ent designs, ou receipt of a stamp for postage
They are not advertising cards, but large, fine
picture ebromo cards, on gold, silver and tinted
grounds, forming the finest co 1 lection iu the
world. We wib also enclose a confidential price
list of our large and small chromes. Address F
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THE BEST AND MOST CELEBRATED
Pianos and Organs
IN GREAT VARIETY OF STYLES.
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80 to 30 per cent saved to every pur
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
SEEEl' MUSIC, MUSIC EOOKS
BEST ITALIAN STRINGS,
And everything pertaining to FIRST
CLASS MU: 13 HOUSE.
20 to 30 per cent Saved
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G. O. ROBEY SOX A CO.
234-ly Augusta, Ga.
0 any suffering with Catarrh]
cr Bronchitis who earnesth'j
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means of Permanentand Pos- [
ilive Cure. A Home Treatment, j
No charge for consultation by]
mail. Valuable Treatise Free.]
“His remedies are the outgrowth I
of Lis own experience: they are I
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Rev. T. P. CHILDS. Trov. 0 J
Painless Eye-Water
Relieves inflamed or weak eyes at once. Cures in
a few hours. For granulated lids nothing better.
Ask for it and have no other. X)s. J. A Dickey.
roprietor, Bristol, Tenn. 319 6m
Dentists.
nRS. 3. P- A- W, R. HOLMES,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Special Notice to Dentists.
Publishers of the Dental Luminary. Proprie
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s ma
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A YEAR and expenses to
agents. Outfit free. Address P
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No, 2023
Price, $297.50
INCLUDING ELEGANT COVER, STOOL; BOOK* MUSIC.
,THIS SQUARE GRAND PIANO New Style No. 2023 has all modern Improvements. Mag.
;-ineent Koseufooa f ase. 3 unisons in Treble, 7^ Octaves. Ail round Corners, Carvrd Legs anil Lyre;
j r P^J? ne back and front finished alike. Be tty's Best Iron Frame, Improved
Fedal, Overstrung Hiss, Agraffes, French Grand Action, Double Capped Hammers.
Length, 7 ft. Width, 3 ft. 6 8ns; Weight about I OOP ibs.
HOLIDAY OFFERS, Now is your time to order PIANOS and ORGANS.
Having largely increased rav facilities lor manufacturing, my Holiday Offers for 18^1 2
are decidedly the lowest I have ever made. Send for full particulars. Special Low-
Prices riven on one hundred different instruments. ORGANS, $30 to $li*00, 2 to 32
Stops. Have you seen “BEATTY’S BEST” PARLOR ORGAN i It is a magnificent
Instrument, price, only $107.75; “BEATTY’S BEST CHAPEL ORGANS, S97.75:
The “LONDON,” IS Stops. 5 lull sets Reeds,' only $05; THE “PARIS” now offered for
85. Other desirable new styles Now Ready. PIANOS, Grand, Square and Upright
125 to $1,GOO. Every instrument is fully warranted. Satisfaction guaranteed
or Money refunded, alter the instrument has been in use a year. Nothing can b&
fairer than tO OrdCT,
RFMTT by POST OFFICE MONET ORDER, Bank Draft, Registered Letter or by
Express Prepaid. Money refunded and freight charges paid both wa ys by me, if not
as represented. fcS--“Beat<y’s are tile HEST."-!'-.'
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Coupons for Non-Bondholders
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Cincinnati, O., with the amount required in cash as stated in the Coupons, will be honored by
the shipment to any address of the article called for. Without the Coupon accompanies the order,
the goods will not be shipped, and money will be returned, as the prices quoted will only
be accepted in connection with the Coupons. No more than four of the above Coupons will
be honored If sent in by one person, but there is no restriction as to which four the sender shall
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ATTENTION. AGENTS
We otter Great Inducements
to Agents wishing to engage in a pleas
ant, profitable and permanent business. Our
business is painting LARGK POR
TRAITS FROM IMulLRKO
TI PKS, A XIII ROT I FF*, PRO-
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a Small Picture. All civil! zsd people like to
look upon and admire good pictures. What,
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We want at least one Reliable person
in everv county not already occupied, fo
TAKE OAK oi OCR ATTRAC
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take orders for the same.
We GUARANTEE A TREE copy
of the picture sent us to enlarge from and
the return ot the sm 1 picture.
Experience in, or ’ n iwledge of our busih
ness is not necessary—for the agent.
We want YOU to engage w ith us if pos
sible. You cannot possibly lose anything by
trying it. Write for full particulars. Ad
dress, Southern Art Association,
Thurman’s Block, Whitehall streeet.,
3o4 iy Atlanta. Ga.
Hot Springs, Arkansas.
DRS.VAUGHAN & BLAYDES,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
HOT SPRING!?, ARKANSAS.
All forms of Chronic Diseases successfully
treated— Blood and Skin diseases especia.ly.
Office opposite the Brick Bath House. Circulars
sent on application, Box 98, P. O. 296-ly
Hr. J. XI. ARXISTROAG’S
HEALTH INSTITUTE,
JOSESBORO, I.A.
Wonderful Cures Made Without Pills
on patients coming here from all other places,
and as tbe last resort from drugs and drug
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Wesleyan Female College,
MACON, GEORGIA,
W ILL begin Forty-fourth Annual Session
Sept. 21. A full Faculfy of experienced
t achers. Advanced course of study. The
best ; dvantages in Music, Art, Literature
and Science. Careful attention to all the
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312 St REV. W. C. BASS. D.D.. Pres’t.
GARFIELD;
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of president Garfield. A.
complete, failhfui histo
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by the eminent biographer, CoL Couwell.
Books all ready for dedvery. An elegantly il
lustrated volume. Endorsed edition. Liberal
terms Agents take orders for from 20 to 50 cop
ies daily. Outsells any other book ten to one.
Agents never made money so fast. The book
sells itse!. Experience not necessary. Failure
unknown. All make immense profits Private
terms free. George Stinson <fc Co .
Portland, Maine.
BAYAJU) TAYLOR, Poet & Travelt
Said : “I take great pleasure In recommend
ing to parents the Academy oi Mr. Swithin 0.
Sbortlidge.”
Hou. FERNANDO WOOD, M. C-,
Said (1880): “I cheerfully consent to tbe use of
my t ame as reference. My boys will return
to you (for their fourth year) after their vaca
tion.”
For new Dlustrated Catalogue address
SWITHIN C. SHOKTUIIGE. A.»., Har
vard Graduate, Media, Pa., 12 miles irom
Philadelphia. 313 8t
Due West Female College.
■».-XERCISES in this Institution open First
“> Monday in October Dext. Cost of Board
and Regular Tuition for year, ti62- {4 r ‘
niture. Faculty complete. French table.
German taught. For catalogue, address
J P. KENNEDY. President,
316 lOt Due West, Abbeville. Co., 8. C,
pTKE’g BEARD WJgh* ^
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HABIT
CURE
By B. M. WOOLEY,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Sellable evidence given
and reference to cured pa
tients and physicians.
Send for mv bsok on the
Habit and Cure. Free.
Office 33% Whitehall St.
Atlanta Georgia
DANDRIFUGE
Eradicates Dandruff, prevents its return, arrests
falling out of the hair, stimulates new growth,
and prevents it from turning gray. The best hair
dressing in the world. Ask the druggist for it.
Dr J. A. Dicket, proprietor, Bristol, Tenn.
319 6m
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