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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1887
THE OLD YEAR-
BY TAM Alt ANNE KEKMODE.
The old year soft v passes along,
Softly pisses with solemn tread;
Tne wlntrj sky Is dull and gray,
And clouds hangover his lonely way,
The path that leads to the slleni dead.
Many a hope has be trampled down,
Under his feet as he strode along;
And many i life has n-lt his frown,
As proudly wearing Youth’s beautiful crown,
He walked In his spring-time hale and strong.
Joy has been with him, band In band,
And often be met with smiles and tears;
Trouble and care with their sorrowful baud,
Have followed him ever from strand to strand,
And whispered their tales m his careless ears.
And now he ha« come to his journey’s end,
His form Is bent and his locks are white;
And our changeful thoughts we sadly blend,
"With keen regret for our dying friend.
As be fl >ats away with the stormy night.
A Little of This, That and the Other.
Dear Mother Hubbard: You were kind and
good to me and gave my letter such a nice
place at the top of column and before any of
the older or more interesting members, that, if
1 felt sure you were an old lady, I would offer
to kiss you for it. If you are young and pret
ty, I will not object to so rewarding you any
way—but hold on; I said I was timid and
bashful, and I am.
I feel a little hurt. And you want to know
why, don't you? Well, the older members (I
don’t recollect all their names) are in the
habit, I have noticed, of warmly welcoming
all new members to the Household. As yet,
however, not one has said a word of welcome
to me. 1 suppose they thought I was too poor
a specimen of the “Lords of Creation” for
them to notice. So, Mother Hubbard, I am
here again despite them—and I am here to
stay I And, though I wield no ready pen, nor
am I a versatile or talented writer, I shall
represent the male side of every question to
the best of my ability.
I give you girls fair warning—shall make it
warm for the one who dares misrepresent us
boys. But seriously, I have no fears upon that
point, because the members of the Household
are too sensible for anything of that sort.
I am glad to see Musa Dunn, Ira Jones and
Rosa Alba back again. They seem old friends
to me, for, through the Household, I have
known them so long. To be a woman, Musa,
you do exceedingly well in “writing up” fairs.
I am a journalist and know something of the
work it requires. You made your article real
interesting, and that is more than a great
many can say.
Ah! Kosa Alba, would there were more wo
men like youl Women who believe “to make
home the sweetest, brightest place on earth,
is woman’s highest mission" are few. You
are right, Kosa, “the failure is sometimes an
other’s fault,'I am sorry to acknowledge.
Man is such a poor thing, after all, that he de
serves to be pited. And from women, noble
women—
“Fairest of creation, last and best
Of all God’s works, creature in whom excell’d
Whatever can to right or thought be form’d
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet”
alone, of all God’s earthly creatures, can come
pity equal to the case. With thy holy, divine
attribute, thou art well qualified “to temper
man,” for surely—
“There’s in you all that we believe of heaven;
Amazing brightness, purity and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.”
Kosa Alba, you have put me to thinking
“thusly” by your remarks to Butterfly: If
they benefilted her as much as they did my
own mind, you can well afford to rest con
tent with your quiet “drop in.”
Jessie, you say you often wonder what the
harvest of life will be—whether you will see
it “rich with the blessings of harvest, or
nothing but the parched, withered growth of
a wasted life.” If you are a Christian trying
in an humble way to do your duty, such a
thought is unworthy. “This life is what we
make it,” I believe firmly, surely. And if so,
we can make the harvest glorious with the
sheaves we have garnered while we are wait
ing till He comes to reward us according to
our works. In the great harvest home I do
not expect to find “nothing but leaves’’ as a
result of my labors. And it is not permitted
us to draw aside the veil of futurity and se6
what the end is. Do you not think it is well
such is our condition? Have you ever read
the beautiful story, so pathetically set to
rhyme by Hunt, of a maiden who was
“Walking in the spring-time, in the morning-
tide of life,
Little reckoning of the journey, of its peril and
its strife’’—
to whom all things were beautiful and bright
and life was a “tale untold.” But she was
not satisfied with all this. She desired to
draw aside the veil that rolled along just be
fore her feet and shut out all visions of the fu
ture she so eagerly wished to behold. In the
story this is granted her. One by one the
scenes are shifted until the awful, complete
panorama of life was unfolded to her startled
vision. And then she craved to see the end of
her family, and this is also granted. After
she had seen all, she says: c
“But I’ve nothing left to hope for now, with all
things known before;
1 can never taste a present joy, for coming ills I
scan;
It is Mercy’s band that screens from view the future
years of man.
Conld we behold the years to came and read their
troubled tale.
The boldest glance wou’il shrink appall’d and the
Rtoutest heart would quill.
Oh! I wish, I wish I had not looked behind the
veil.”
Now, Jessie, don’t you agree with me that
it is better for us not to see the future? Your
slang is forgiven—for this once! You will be
graduated in the art of cooking, or I am
badly fooled. I stand by what I have said;
your volley of saicssm has not succeeded in
dislodging me yet. Yes, you must pin a towel
around our necks and feed us with a spoon
and bowl. You must take us upon your knee,
draw our little heads up to your shoulders and
then—why—we will cry at first, but you’ll
kiss us, wipe our tears with your dimpled fin
gers and you have us completely won. Are
you satisfied! Your calling me a North Caro-
linean (of which I am very proud) reminds
me that I 3m the sole representative of the
“Old North State;” God bless her! I feel my
littleness when I realize it. But I shall do all
I can for the Sunny South, the Household,
Mother Hubbard, and the cousins, and the
best thing for all is to stop. Claude.
Greenville, N. C.
Dear Mother Hubbard: It has been four long
months since I last paid the Household a visit.
That is long enough to stay away, isn’t it?
Ah, Nixy, who would have dreamed of find
ing merry, iun-loving Flaxie Frazzle in Nixy
of the Household? Will I have you for a
friend? With all my heart. I will be only too
glad to claim you as such. Truthfully, you
have occupied a big, warm corner in my heart
for ever so long.
Lita Vere, dear Lita Yere, please forgive me
for not answering your question sooner. The
delay has been unavoidable. I will write to
you with pleasure—the greatest pleasure. I
felt strangely drawn to you when I read your
first letter a year ago. Now please send me
your address right away. Dear old Alabama
is the land of my birth, and I love her and her
grand, warm-hearted people with all my South
ern heart.
Viva, how glad I am to see you in our
Household again! Do come often.
Musa Dann, we feel like we have been to the
Texas Fair since reading your description.
Your pen brought it all before us. Tell us all
about Texas. Every word from there is read
with interest by this friend. There is one who
dwells in the Lone Star land dearer than
Ah, what am I saying? Goldie, you know the
balance of that sentence. Did you get my pri
vate letter, sent in care of “University,” my
“sweetheart girlie”?
Beautiful, bright Gate City Girl, have you
deserted us forever and aye? Don’t, please.
Immutable, glad you have come again. I
recognized Dauntless at once. It is impossible
to hide yourself under new noms. Stir up the
Household, won’t you? Throw a “dynamite
bomb” into it or send an “infernal machine”
to somebody. Do something to get the inter
est of all the members aroused and make things
lively.
E’.oile, welcome! Don’t be so brief next
time.
Johnson Esse, I thought yon were a man;
but now you call your “chum” Nina, so you
must be a girl.
Princess, give us another story as interest
ing as “Destiny.”
Yes, Hemlock, I sincerely hope we may be
good friends.
How many of the Householders are admirers
of George Eliot? While reading a work of ters
a few days since I was deeply impressed with
these words: “What mortal is there of us
who would find his satisfaction enhanced by
an opportunity of comparing the picture he
presents to himself, of his own doings, with
the picture they make on the mental retina of
his neighbors?” We are poor plants, buoyed
up by the air vessels of our own conceit. Alas
for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us
of that windy, self subsis;ence. The very ca
pacity for good would go eut of us. For, tell
the most impassioned orator, suddenly, that
his wig is awry, or his shirt lap hanging out,
and that he is tickling the people by the oddity
of his person instead of thrilling them by the
energy of his periods, and you will infallibly
dry up the spring of his eloquence. That is a
deep and wide saying that “no miracle can be
wrought without faith”—without the worker’s
faith in himself as well as the recipient’s faith
in him. And the greatest part of the worker’s
faith in himself is made np of the faith that
others have in him. Let me be persuaded that
my neighbor Jenkins considers me a block
head, and 1 shall never shine in conversation
with him any more
Thank Heaven, then, that a little illusion is
left to us to enable us to be useful and agree
able; that we don’t know exactly what our
friends think of us; that the world is not made
of lookiDg-glass, to show us just the figure we
are making and just what is going on behind
our backs. By the help of dear, friendly illu
sion we are able to dream that we are charm
ing, and oar faces wear a becoming air of self-
possession; we are able to dream that other
men admire our talents, and our benignity is
undisturbed; we are able to dream that we are
doing much good, and we do a little.
Hark! what noise is that? To arms, friends,
to arms I “Behold! the cor quering hero
comes!” Hatchet to right of us! Hatchet to
the left of us! ’Tis Billy Cucumber, “armed
to the teeth,” (with a hatchet and almanac)
come to prune and make ns “blossom like the
rose and flourish like the garden.” Peace,
Billy; be not over exquisite! Pluck out the
motes in your own eye before you look for the
mote in your brother’s eye.
“Let such teach who themselves excel,
And censure freely who have written well.”
Grandma Love, Leal Kimmer, Busy Bee
and all of you deserters, come back, we en
treat you.
Lita Vere, now do write to the Household
and me.
Love to the L. B and Household all.
Ma Belle Cabmen.
Box 18, Powder Springs, Ga.
Dear Household: Here I am at your win
dow, almost, if not “entirely gentle,” beating
to pieces my poor little wings, trying to gain
entrance into your warm, bright room.
’Twas not only the December winds and the
heavy rain that has caused me to fly to your
window this bleak night. I was attracted by
the bright light and merry chatter, sounding
like a drove of black birds, and being but a
poor drenched Snow Pick, I’ve come for a
warm nest and a few crumbs of comfort. May
I not have them? And then I’ll give you a
wee bit of a song, and sing it myself. And
now, Dear Household, be kind and let me
Hope as no unwelcomed guest
At your warm fireside, when the lamps are
lighted,
To have my place reserved among the rest,
Now staud as one unsought and uninvited.
P. S.—Don’t throw this in the waste-basket,
you’ll break my heart if you do.
Yours with love, Snow Pick.
Opelika, Ala.
Family Faro.
Cut rhubarb stems into inch lengths, with
out pealing. Put the pieces in an earthern
dish, sprinkled over with sugar. Cover tight
ly and cook in an oven for a few moments.
The skins will have resolved themselves into
beautiful, claret-colored juice. This rhubarb
is delicious in early spring before the advent
of berries.
An excellent meat sauce is made of one pint
of vinegar, two spoonfuls each of mustard
seed and grated horse radish, two finely cut
onions, a tea-spoonful red pepper, and a little
salt. Put this in a class can, and set it away
for a week or so. If auy scum is on the top
when it is opeaed, remove it.
An appetizing dish is “smothered heart with
lemon sauce.”
Cook slic id beef heart in a very little water
until tender, then dip in flour and nicely brown
in butter. Make a sauce of flour, butter and
hot water, flavored with lemon. This dish is
an entree to a hearty dinner, or may be the
piece de resistance at a modest luncheon.
Kolly-poly pudding may be deliciously filled
with cranberries, first stewed in as little water
as possible, so that the juice will be jelly-like.
Sweeten them, and let boil a moment or two
after the sugar is put in.
Oatmeal gingerbread is good for children or
dyspeptics. Take any simple gingerbread
recipe, only substitute oatmeal instead of flour.
Mahogany may be beautifully polished with
a mixture of sweet oil and beeswax.
Simmer together for several hours, with oc
casional stirring, one pound each of washing
soda, soft soap, and whitening. Apply hot to
marble surfaces, and let it remain for one
week Wash off with hot water and a scrub
bing-brush, and stained marble will he clean
aud white as Dew.
Clean gilding with a cotton rag dipped in
sweet oil. To keep flies from soiling it, wash
it in early spring with water in which two or
three onions have been boiled.
Send to W. D Beatie, Atlanta, Ga., for his
large illustrated catalogue of Fruit Trees,
Grape Vines, small fruits, roses, flowering
shrubs, shade and ornamental trees.
Young housewife—What miserable little
eggs again! You really must tell them, Jane,
to let the hens sit on them a little longer.
The Holidays
And the colder winter weather is now rap
idly approaching. The joyful season is ea
gerly anticipated by young folks in thousands
of homes; but in nearly all there are one or
more older ones to whom the cold waves and
the storms mean renewed suffering from rheu
matic hack or limbs. It is not claimed that
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a positive specific for
rheumatism; we doubt if there is or cin be
such a remedy. But the remarkable success
Hood’s Sarsaparilla has had in curing th s af
fection is sufficient reason for those who are
suffering to try this peculiar medicine.
of C&ougfjt.
Education is the leading of bnman souls to
what is best, and making what is best out of
them.—Buskin.
It is an irrefragable law of mind that moral
efforts become definitely easier by repeti
tion.—Carolina Fox.
There is no joy like the joy of resolved vir
tue.—0. Dewey.
We can use every part of our nature—con
science, intellect, heart and will—so as to re
affirm the old verdict that all is vanity and
vexation of spirit; or we can give ourselves up
to the divine possibilities within, and, living
in them, find our relationship to the Infinite
Life that has no limits.—T. G. Milsted.
Every man takes care that his neighbor
shall not cheat him. But a day comes when
he begins to care that he does not cheat his
neighbor. Then ail goes well. He has changed
his market-cart into a chariot of the snn.—Em
erson.
Those who have no ear for music must be
very careful how they speak about ihe mys
terious world of thrilling vibrations which are
idle noises to them. And so the true saint can
be entirely appreciated only by saintly na
tures.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Tenderness makes a woman grateful; a no
ble manhood compels all her deep instinct of
love.— Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
The setting of a great hope is like the set
ting of the sun. The brightness of our life is
gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and
the world seems but a dim reflection, itself a
broader shadow. We look forward into the
coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into
itself. Then stars arise, and the night is
holy. —Longfellow.
The woman must not belong to lnrself; she
is bound to alien destinies. But she performs
her part best who can take freely, of her own
choice, the alien to her heart, can bear and
foster it wi;h sincerity and love.—Richter.
Ql/RPllLPlT
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
Curious fact#.
Fifty railroad ties, each eight feet in length
and 0x10 inches thick, were cat from one pine
tree of Dooly county, Ga.
To her litter of three kittens a Kansas cat
added two young rabbits, and later three
young raccoons, all of which she is nursing
devotedly.
A little Michigan girl has without assistance
placed and mounted on cards, and exhibited
at a church fair, 2,125 specimens of four-leaf
clover.
A man in the duchy of Anhalt has wagered
2,000 marks that within two years he can copy
the whole of the Bible, punctuation and all,
without a mistake.
Matches are so cheap now that in the prin
cipal cigar stores when a customer asks for a
match he gets a box. Very good matches of
the Swedish kind cost less than half a cent a
box.
A Buffalo canary has a miniature well in
its cage, with a bucket, the chain of which
reaches to its perch. When it wants a drink
it draws up the bucket, much to the delight of
the children in the neiguborhood.
Surveyors going over the line between
Washington and Green counties, Pa., found
one house so situated that the husband eats
his meal in Washington while the wife eats
hers in Greene, and they sleep with their heads
in one county and their feet in the other.
A colossal stick of lumber from Paget Sound
has been contributed to the mechanics’ exhibi
tion at San Francisco. Its length is 151 feet,
and it is 20x20 inches through. It is believed
to be the longest piece of lumber ever turned
out of any sawmill
An apple tree on the farm of Capt. T. J.
Williamson in Pleasants county, V., which
has borne fruit for a number of years, has
never been known to blossom. This year the
tree is again full of fine, large apples, the
strangest thing about which is that the fruit
has neither core nor seed.
Laborers, digging a cut for a railroad near
Canterbury, uncovered an almost perfect cir
cular well built of flints. Local antiquaries
say that it is the opening to some subterrane
an passage used by the Romans when they
camped there. The workmen had previously
found near the same spot the remains of two
Roman soldiers.
There is an English precedent for the Paris
physician who secured a part of the skin of
Pranzini, the executed murderer, and had it
made into two card-cases. In the Scotland
Yard “Chamber of Horros” is a portion of the
skin of one Bellingham, who murdered a Mr.
Perceval, tanned into leather. It originally
belonged to the surgeon who dissected the re
mains of Bellingham after his execution.
In the large plains called “Liandees,” in
south-west France, the people use stilts as a
matter of course. These plains are generally
flooded, though not to a sufficient depth to
enable people to get about in boats. The
stilts are not held in the hands, like those we
are accustomed to see, but are firmly strapped
to the side of the leg. The person wearing
them carries a long pole to balance himself,
and aid him in walking. This pole has usual
ly a cross-piec8 at one end, so that, by putting
it at a slant on the ground behind him, the
person on stilts can sit down on it and rest.
It is a common occurrence in that country to
see men and women sitting and knitting in
this exalted position, while the sheep they are
tending wander about the plain. They wear
their stilts all day long, putting them on when
they go out in the morning, and taking them
off only when they return home at night.
@i£toricaI.
Modern needles first came into use in 1645.
Kerosene was first used for lighting purpo
ses in 1826.
The first steam engine on this continent was
brought from England in 1763.
Sir Humphrey Divy, the inventor of the
safety lamp for mines, was born in 1778 and
died in 18211
The great Thames Tunnel in England, the
work f Sir I. Brunei, was begun in 1826 and
finished in 1843. *
A mechanic in England as late as the reign
of Charles II. worked for a shilling (twenty-
four cents) a day, and oftentimes was com
pelled to take less.
The antiquity of cities was, in order,
Meroe, Syene, Thebes, Memphis, Bubastes,
Byblos or Babylon, Damascns, Sidon, etc., all
built before the year 2,500 B. C.
Italy ceased to be the centre of the Roman
world with the removal of the capital from
Rome to Byzantium (Constantinople) by Con
stantine, in the fourth century.
The treaty of Westphalia, which was made
in 1648, is one of the most important compacts
of its kind in the history of Europe, includ
ing as it did the great Thirty Years’ War.
For a time the Puritans during the reign of
Elizabeth reunited themselves with the church
of England, but as they subsequently refused
to be bound by the act of supremacy and of
uniformity, they became hnown as non-con
formists.
A Valuable Medical Treatise.
The edition for 1888 of the sterling Medical
Annual, known as Hostettsr’s Almanac, is
now ready, aud may be obtained, free of cost,
of druggists and general country dealer in all
parts of the United States, Mexico, and indeed
in every civilized portion of the Western
Hemisphere. This Alamnac has been issued
regularly at the commencement of every year
for over one-fifth of a century. It combines
with tho soundest practical advice for the pre
servation and restoration of health, a large
amount of interesting and amusing light read
ing, and the calender, astronomical calcula
tions, chronological items, £o., are prepared
with great care, and will be found entirely
accurate. The issue of Hostetter’s Almanac
for 1888 will probably be the largest edition of
a medical work ever published in any country.
The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter & Co.,
Pittsburgh, Pa., on receipt of a two cent stamp,
will forward a copy by mail to any person who
cannot procure one in his neighborhood.
The fellow who asked a hotel waiter what
they fed mock tnrtles on is the same chap who
blew out the gas.
Consumption, Scrofula, General Debility,
Wasting Diseases of Children, Chronic Coughs
and Bronchitis, can be cured by the use of
Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphites. Prominent physicians use it
and testify to its great value. Please read the
following: “I used Scott's Emulsion for an
obstinate Cough with Hemorrhage. Loss of
Appetite, Emaciation, Sleeplessness, &3. All
of these have now left, and I believe your
Emulsion has saved a case of well developed
Consumption.”—T. J. Findley, M. D , Lone
Star, T-xas.
Brookltn, December 11.—To night the Rev.
T. DeWitt TalmJge, D. D , preached at the
tabernacle, this city, on “Too Much Ado
About Small Tilings.” His text was: “Ye
blind guides, whiali strain at a gnat and swal
low a camel.”—Mathew 23:24. The eloquent
preacher said:
A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge
in chunks, a library in a sentence, the elec
tricity of many clouds discharged in one holt,
a river put through a mill race. When Christ
quotes the proverb of the text, He means to
set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who
make a great bluster about small sins and
have no appreciation of great ones.
In my text a small insect and a large quad
raped are brought into comparison—a gnat
and a camel. You have in museum or on tie
desert seen the latter, a great awkward,
sprawling creature, with hack two stories
high, and stomach having a collection of res
ervoirs for desert tiavel, an animal forbidden
to the Jews as food, and in many literatures
entitled “the ship of the desert.” The gnat
spoken of in tho text is in the grab form. It
is born in pool or pond, after a few weeks be
comes a chrysalis, and then after a few days
becomes the gnat as we recognize it. But the
insect spoken of in th6 text is in its very
smallest shape, and yet it inhabits the water—
for my text is a mis-print and ought to read,
“strain out a gnat."
My text shows you the prince of inconsist
encies. A man after long observation has
formed the snspicion that in a cup of water he
is about to drink, there is a grub or the grand
parent of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or
strainer. He takes the water and pours it
through the sieve d the broad light. He says:
“I would rather dq^ny thing almost than drink
this water until thv^arva be extirpated.” This
water is brought Slider inquisition. The ex
periment is successful. The water rushes
through the sieve pad leaves against the side
of the Bieve the grab or gnat. Then the man
carefully removes the insect and drinks the
water in placidly. But going out one day,
and hungry, he devours a "ship of the desert,”
the camel, which the Jews were forbidden to
eat. The gastrometer has no compunctions
of conscience. He suffers from no indiges
tion. He puts the lower jaw under the camel’s
forefoot, and his upper jaw over the hump of
the camel’s back, and gives one swallow and
the dromedary disappears forever. He
strained out a gnat, he swallowed a camel.
While Christ’s audience were yet smiling at
the appositeness and wit of His illustration—
for smile they did in church, unless they were
too stupid to understand the hyperbole—
Christ practically said to them, “That is you.
Punctilious about small things; reckless about
affairs of great magnitude. No subject ever
withered under a surgeon’s knife more bitter
ly than did the Pharisees under Christ’s scal
pel of truth. As an anatomist will take a hu
man body to pieces and put them under a mi
croscope for examination, so Christ finds his
way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and
cuts it out and puts it under the glass of in
spection for all generations to examine. Those
Pharisees thought that Christ would flatter
them and compliment them, and how they
must have writhed under the red-hot words
as he sail: “Ye fools, ye whited sepulchres,
ye blind guides, which strained out a gnat and
swallow a camel.”
There are in our day a great many gnats
strained out and a great many camels swal
lowed, and it is thf. object of this sermon to
sketch a few persons who are extensively en
gaged in that business.
First: I remark, that all those ministers of
the Gospel are photographed in the text who
are very scrupulous about the conventionali
ties of religion, but put no particular stress
upon matters of vast importance. Chnrch ser
vices ought to be grave aud solemn. There is
no room for frivolity and religious convocation.
But there are illustrations and there are hy
perboles like that of Christ in the text that
will irradiate with smiles any intelligent audi
tory. There are men like those blind guides
of the text who advocate only those things in
religious service which draw the corners of
the mouth down and denounce all those things
which have a tendency to draw the corners of
the mouth up, and these men will go into in
stallations and to presbyteries, and to confer
ence and to associations, their pockets fall of
fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in
their own churches at home every Sunday,
there are fifty people sound asleep. They
make their churches a great dormitory, and
their somniferous sermons are a cradle, and
the drawled out hymn a lullaby, while some
wakeful soul in a pew with a fan keeps the
flies off unconscious persons approximate.
Now, I say it is worse to sleep in church than
to smile in church, for the latter implies at
least attention, while the former implies the
indifferences of the hearers and the stupidity
of the speaker. In old age, or from physical
infirmity, or from long watching with the sick,
drowsiness will sometimes overpower one; but
when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon
an audience and'finds healthy and intelligent
people straggling with drowsiness, it is time
for him to give out the doxology or pronounce
the benediction. The great fault of church
services to-day Js not too much vivacity, but
too much somnolence. The one is an irritat
ing gnat that may be easily strained out; the
other is a great, sprawling and sleepy-eyed
camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbath
schools, in all our Bible classes, in all our
pulpits we need to brighten up our religious
message with such Chrlst-like vivacity as we
find in the text.
I take down from my library the biographies
of ministers aDd writers of past ages, inspired
and uninspired who have done the most to
bring souls to Jesus Christ, and I find that
without a single exception they consecrated
their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah
used it when he advised the Baalites, as tney
could not make their god respond; telling
them to call louder, as tbeir god might be
sound asleep or gone a hunting. Job used it
when he said to his self-conceited comforters,
“Wisdom will die with you.” Christ not only
used it in the text, but when He ironicaliy com
plimented the putrefied Pharisees, saying,
“The whole need not a physician,” and when
by one word He described the cunning of
Herod, saying, “Go ye and tell that fox.”
Matthew Henry’s commentaries from the first
page to the last coruscated with humor as
summer clouds with heat lightning. John
Bunyan’s writings are as full of humor as they
are of saving truth, and there is not an aged
man here who has ever read “Pilgrim's Prog
ress” who does not remember that while read
ing he smiled as often as he wepk Chrysos
tom, George Herbert, Robert South, John
Wesley, George Whitfield, Jeremy Taylor,
Rowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney,
and all the men of the past who greatly ad
vanced the Kingdom of God consecrated their
wit and their humor to the cause of Christ.
So it has been In all the ages, and I say to
these young theological students, who cluster
in these services Sabbath by Sabbath, sharpen
your wits as teen as scymitars, and then take
them into tJIs'holy war.
It is a very short bridge between a smile
and a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to lip,
aHd it is soon crossed over, and a smile is some
times just as sacred as a tear. There is as
much religion, and I think a little more, in a
spring morning than in a starless midnight.
Religious work without any humor or wit in
it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that
raw, and no condiments, and no dessert suc
ceeding. People will not sit down at such a
banquet. By all means, remove all frivolity
and ail pathos and all lightness and all vulgar
ity—strain them out through the sieve of holy
discrimination; but, on the other ha’d, be
ware of that monster which overshadows the
Christian church today, conventionality, com
ing up from tie great Sahara desert of eccie-
siasticism, having on its back a hump of sanc
timonious gloom, and vehemently refuse to
swallow that camel.
Oh, how particular a great many people are
about the infinitesimals, while they are quite
reckless about the magnitudes. What did
Christ say? Did He not excoriate the people
in His time who were so careful to wash their
hands before a meal, hut did not wash their
hearts? It is a bad thing to have unclean
hands; it is a worse thing to have an unclean
heart. How many people there are in our
time who are very anxious that after their
death they shall be buried with their feet to
ward the east, and not at all anxious that dur
ing their whole life they should face in the
right direction so that they shall come np in
the resurrection of the just, which ever way
they are buried. How many there are chiefly
anxious that a minister of the gospel shall
come in the line of apostolic succession, not
caring so much whether he come from Apos
tle Paul or Apostle Judas. They have a way
of measuring a gnat until it is larger than a
camel
Again, my subject photographs all those
who are abhorrent of small sins while they are
reckless in regard to magnificent thefts.
One so careful that he would not take a yard of
cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter
without paying for it, and who if a bank cash
ier should make a mistake and send in a roll
of bills five dollars too much would dispatch a
messenger in hot haste to return the surplus,
yet who will go into a stock company in which
after a while gets control of the stock and then
waters the stock and makes one hundred thous
and dollars appear like two hundred thousand
dollars. He only stole one hundred thousand
dollars by the operation. Many of the men of
fortune made their wealth in that way. Oiie
of those men, engaged in such unrighteous
acts, that evening, the evening of the very
day he watered the stock, will find a wharf-
rat stealing a newspaper from the basement
doorway, and will go out and catch the urchin
by the collar, and ” twist the collar so tightly
the poor fellow cannot say that it was thirst
for knowledge that led him to the dishonest
act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter,
saying, “I have been looking for you a long
while; you stole my paper four or five times,
haven’t you? you miserable wretch!” and
then the old stock gambler, with a voice they
can hear three blocks, will cry out, “Police
police!” That same man, the evening of the
day in which he watered the stock, will kneel
with his family in prayers and thank God for
the prosperity of the day, then kiss his chil
dren good-night with an air which seems to
say, “I hope you will all grow up to be as
good as your father.” Prisons for sins insec-
tile in size, but palaces for crimes dromeda-
rian. No mercy for sins animalcule in pro
portion, but great leniency for mastodon in
iquity. A poor boy slyly takes from the has
ket of a market woman a choke pear—saving
some one else from the cholera—aud you
smother him in the horrible atmosphere of
Raymond Street jail or New York tombs,
while his cousin, who has been skillful enough
to steal fifty thousand dollars from the city,
you will make him a candidate for the New
York Legislature.
There is a great deal of uneasiness and ner
vousness now among some people in oar time
who have gotten unrighteous fortunes, a great
deal of nervousness about dynamite. I tell
them that God will put under their unright
eous fortunes something more explosive than
dynamite, the earthquake of His omnipotent
indignation. It is time that we learn in Amer
ica that sin is net excusable in proportion as
it declares large dividends, and has outriders
in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdi
tion, postilion ahead and lackey behind. To
steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat; to
steal many thousands of dollars is a camel.
There is many a fruit dealer who would not
consent to steal a basket of peaches from a
neighbor’s stall, but who would not scrapie to
depress the fruit market; and as long as I can
remember we have heard every summer the
peach crop of Maryland is a failure, and by
the time the crop comes in the misrepresenta
tion makes a difference of millions of dollars.
A man who would not steal one peach basket
steals fifty thousand peach baskets. Go down
in the summer time into the mercantile libra
ry, in the reaidng rooms, and see the news
paper reports of the crops from all parts of the
country, and their phraseology is very much
the same, and the same men wrote them—
methodically and infamously carrying out the
huge lying about the grain crop from year to
year and for a score of years. After awhile
there will be a “corner” in the wheat market,
and men who had a contempt for a petty theft
will burglarize the wheat bin of a nation and
commit larceny upon the American corn crib.
And some of the men will sit in chorches and
in reformatory institutions trying to strain out
the small gnats of scoundrelism, while in their
grain elevators and their storehouses they are
fattening huge camels which they expect after
awhile to swallow. Society has to be entirely
reconstructed on this subject. We are to find
that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it is
great.
I know in our time the tendency is to charge
religious frauds upon good men. They say,
“Oh! what a class of frauds you have in the
church of God in this day!” And when an el
der of a church, or a deacon, or a minister of
the gospel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath
school turns out a defaulter, what display
beads there are in many of the newspapersl
Great primer type; five-line pica. “Another
Saint Absconded,” “Clerical Scoundrelism,”
“Religion at a Discount,” “Shame on the
Churches,” while there are a thousand scoun
drels outside the church to where there is one
inside the church; and the misbehavior of those
who never see the inside of a church is so great
it is enough to tempt a man to become a Chris
tian to get out of their company. Bat in all
circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency
is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mam
moth. Even John Milton in his “Paradise
Lost,’’ while he condemns Satan, gives such a
grand description of him yon have hard work
to suppress your admiration. Ohl this strain
ing out of small sins like gnats, and this gulp
ing down great iniquities like camels!
This subject does not give the picture of one
or two persons, but is a gallery fn which thou
sands of people may see their likeness. For
instance, all those people who—while they
would not rob their neighbor of a farthing
appropriate the money and the treasure of the
public. A man has a house to sell, and he
tells his customer it is worth twenty thousand
dollars. Next day the assessor comes around,
the owner says it is worth fifteen thousand
dollars. The Government of the United States
took off the tax from personal income, among
other reasons because so few people would tell
the truth; and many a man with an income of
hradreds of dollars a day made statements
which seemed to imply he was about to be
handed over to the overseer of the poor. Care
ful to pay their passage from Liverpool to
New York, yet smuggling in their Saratoga
trank ten silk dresses from Paris and a half
dozen watches from Geneva, Switzerland, tell
ing the custom-house officer on the wharf,
“ThArn in nnt.liinff ir» fVmt fmnlr Kut
lay np treasures in heaven? the question, How
shall I pay my debts to man? greater than the
question, How shall I meet my obligations to
God? the question. How shall I gain the world?
greater than the question, What if I lose my
soul? the question, Why did God let sin come
into the world? greater than the question.
How shall I get it extirpated from my nature?
The question, What shall I do with the twenty,
or forty, or seventy years of my sublunar ex
istence? greater than the question, What shall
I do with the millions of cycles of my pist-
terrestrial existence? Time, how small it is!
Eternity, how vast it is! The former more in-
significent in comparison with the latter than
a gnat is insignificant when compared with a
camel. We dodged the text. We said: “That
doesn’t mean me, and that doesn’t mean
me,” and with a ruinous benevolence we are
giving the whole sermon away.
But let us all surrender to the charge. What
an ado about thiBgs here. What poor prepa
ration tor a great eternity. As though a min
now were larger than a behemoth, as though
a swallow took ' wider circuit than an alba
tross, as though a nettle were taller than a
Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater
than a camel, as though a minute were longer
than a century, as though time were higher,
deeper, broader, than eternity. So the text
which flashed with lightning of wit as Christ
uttered it, is followed by the crashing thunder
of awful catastrophe to those who make the
questions of time greater thau the quest ions of
the future, the oncoming, overshadowing fu
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“Darling,” he muttered hoarsely, “I re
formed for your sake; because you asked me
I have forsworn the saloon and its pleasures.
Still you avoid me and keep me at a distance.”
“I am sure, Charlie, you were quite heroic
in doing so much for me.”
“Then why do you draw haughtily away
from me?”
Because I can’t bear the smell of cloves.”
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“Do yon recollect Shakespeare’s famous re
mark that ‘all the world’s a stage?’ ”
“Yes.”
"Did you ever notice that it applies to chick
ens as well as to people?”
“To chickens!”
“Yes. They have their entrees and their
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There is nothing in that trunk but wearing
apparel,” and putting a five dollar gold piece
in his hand to punctuate the statement.
Described in the text are all those who are
particular never to break the law of grammar,
and who want all their language an elegant
specimen of syntax, straining out all the inac
curacies of speech with a fine sieve of literary
criticism, while through their conversation go
slander and innuendo, and profanity and false
hood larger than a whole caravan of camels,
when they might better fracture every law of
the language and shock intellectual taste, and
better let every, verb seek in vain for its nom
inative, and every noun for its government,
and every preposition lose its way in the sen
tence, and adjectives and participles and pro
nouns get into a grand riot worthy of the
fouith ward on election day, than to commit a
moral inaccuracy. Better swallow a thousand
gnats thau one camel.
Such persons are also described in the text
who are very much alarmed about the small
faults of others, and have no alarm about their
own great transgressions. There are in every
community and in every church watch dogs
who feel called upon to keep their eyes on
others and growl. They are full of suspicions.
Tiey wonder if that man is not dishonest, if
that man is not unclean, if there is not some
thing wrong about the other man. They are
always the first to hear of something wrong.
Vultures are always the first to smell carrion.
They are self-appointed detectives. I lay this
down as a rale without any exception, that
those people who have the most faults them
selves are most merciless in their watching of
others. From scalp of head to sole of foot
they are full of jealousies and hypercriticisms.
They spend their life in hunting for musk-rats
and mud turtles instead of hunting for Rocky
mountain eagles, always for something mean
instead of something grand. They look at
their neighbors’ imperfections through a mi
croscope, and look at their own imperfections
through a telescope upside down.
Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them
so much as one fault of somebody elss. Their
neighbors’ imperfections are like gnats, and
they strain them out; their own imperfections
are like camels, and they swallow them.
But lest some might think they escape the
scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you that we
all come under the divine satire when we make
the questions «f time more prominent than
the questions of eternity. Come now. let us
all go into the confessional. Are sot all tempt
ed to make the question, Where shall I live
now? greater than the question, Where shall I
live forever? How shall I get more dollars
here? greater than the question, How shall I
UailroaDsf
lAlLRdABTIMtTABLE
Showing the arrival and departure of all trains from
Atlanta. Ga.—Central time.
EAST TKNNEt-SEE. VIRG1NI » & GEOKG1A R.R.
ARRIVE.
‘Day Express from Sav’h
& Fla. No. 14. 7 20 am
RomeExpress Irom North
»Cin. ft Mem. Ex. from
North, No. 11. 3 25pm
* Day Express from North
No. 13 6 45 p m
‘Day Ex. from Savannah,
Brunswick, and Jack
sonville No. 16 1010 p m
•From New York, Knox
ville anuAiaDama points
No. 15. 6 00 am.
No. 12, from Hawkinsville
and Macon..*.. 11 40 am
LIETaBL.
‘Day Express North, E.
andWest No 14, 7 40 am
•For Rome, Knoxville.
New York,Cincinnati ana
Memphis, No. 12.. 105 pm
‘Fast Express South toi
S’vhftFla. No. 13. 7 05 pm
•For Savan’h, Brunswick
and Jacksonville No 15
610 am
‘New York T.im. North
N. Y. Phils, etc. No. It
10 20 pr
No. 11. for Macon and
Hawkinsville.. 5 00 pm
central railroad.
From Savannah* 7 15 am
“ Bam’av’lif 815 am
“ Bar’av’lef.. e to am
“ Macon* 115 pm
“ Hapevlllef.. 140pm
“ Macon* 10 35 pm
'* Savannah*.. 540 p-
To Savannah* 6 50 am
To Macon*...-— 10 03pm
To Hupevilltf ..12 01pm
To Macon* 2 30 pm
To Savannah* ... 715 pm
To Barnesvulef.. 3 00 pm
To Barnesvulef. 6 (0 pm
vVFSTEBN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD.
From Chata’ga* 9 50 pm
*• Marietta... 8 35 am
“ Rome 11 05 am
“ Chata’go* .. 6 30 am
" Chata’ga*.. 146pm
“ Chata’ga*.. 6 48 pm
To Chattanooga* 7 50 am
To Chattanooga* 140 pm
To Rome 8 45 pm
To Marietta.... 4 40 pm
To Chattanooga* 5 50 pm
To Chattanooga* 1115 pm
ATLANTA AND WES'
From M’tgo’ery* 6 13 am
“ M’tgo’ery* 1 57 pm
“ West P’t» 10 10 am
r POINT RAILROAD.
To Montgo’ery* 1 15 pm
To Montgo’ery* 11 80 pm
To West P't*.... 4 55 pm
GEORGIA
From Augusta* 6 30 am
“ Covington* 7 55 am
** Decatur... 1015 8m
“ Augusta**. 1 00 pm
Clarketon.. 2 20 pm
" Augusta.*.. 5 45 pm
“ Decatur .. 4 55 pm
CAILROAD.
To Augusta*.... 8 00 am
To Decatur 9 00 am
To Ciarkston.... 1210 pm
To Augusta*..., 2 45pm
To Covington... 6 15pm
To Augusta*.... 9 0 i pm
To Decatur 4 p0 pm
RICHMOND AND DANV1LLL RAILROAD
From Lola........ 825 pm I To Charlotte*... 7 40 am
“ Charlotte* 12 20 pm To Lula 4 30 pm
“ Charlotte* 9 40 pm | To Charlotte*... 6 00pm
Georgia pacific railway.
From Bir'g’m*.. 5 45pm | To Birming’m*. 125 pm
“ Tallapoosa 8 50 am I To Tallapoosa.. 5 00 pm
“ Srarfcvllle* 6 15 am I To St«rkvllle*. 10 00 pm
'Daily—fDaiiy except Sunaay—^Sunday only. All
other train* daily except Sunday. Central time.
I F YOU INTEND TO TRAVEL WRITE TO JOh
W. White, Traveling Passenger Agent Georgii-
Railroad, for lowest rates, best schedules auc
quickest time. Promptattention to all commumc-t •
lions.
T HE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
QEOBOIA UAILBOAD COMPACT,
Office General Manager.
Augusta. Ga.. Sept. 17.1887.
Commencing Sunday, 18.h Instant, tne following
passenger schedule will be operated•
Trains run by 90th meridian time.
FAST LINE.
NO. 27 WEST-DAILY. I NO. 28 EAST-DAILY.
L’ve Augusta 7 45am I L ve Atlanta 2 45pn
L’ve Washington.7 20am 1 “ Gainesville..m ncam
“ Athene .7 45am Ar. Athene 7 20pnc
“ Gainesville.. 5 5oam I Ar. Washington.. 7 20pm
Ar. Atlanta 1 00pm I “ Ansneta —8 15pn
DAY PASSENGER TRAINS.
NO. 2 EAST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta -..8 00am
Ar. Gainesville....8 25pm
“ Athens 5 05pm
“ Washington....2 20pm
“ Milledgeville...4 13pm
“ Macon 6 00pm
“ Augusta 3 35pm I
NO. 1 WEST-DAILY.
Lv'e Augusta 10 45en
“ Macon 7 loan
“ Milledgevilie.9 13.in
” Washington. 11 2uan
“ Athens... — 9 (Man
Ar. Gainesville... 8 25pu
Atlanta 5 45pn
NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAIL.
NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. | NO. 8 WEST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta 9 00pm L’ve Augusta 10 15 m
Ar. Augusta 5 00am I Ar. Atlanta —.6 3 Jam
DECATUR TRAIN.
(Daily except Sunday.)
L’ve Atlanta.—•-9 27am . L’ve Decatur.—9 46an
Ar. Decatnr 9 30am I Ar. Atlanta —.10 15an
COVINGTON ACCOMMODATION.
L’ve Atlanta—--6 15pm I L’ve Covington 5 40en
Decatur 6 6lpm
Decatnr.
..T 28au
Ar. Covington .8 05pm I Ar. Atlanta T 55am
CLAKKSTON TRAIN.
(Daily except Sunday.)
L’ve Atlanta 12 10pm 1 L’ve Clarketon 1 25pm
“ Decatur —.12 42pm I “ Decatur...— 1 48pm
Ar. Clarketon 12 57pm I Ar. Atlanta 2 20pm
MACON NIGHT EYPRES8 (DAILY).
NO. 31—WESTWARD
Leave Camak..... 1 30 am I
NO. 32-EAST WARD.
Leave Macon...... 6 30 pm
Arrive Macon.... 7 30 am I Arrive Camak....11 00 pn
Trains Noe. 2,1, 4 and 8 will, if signaled, atop at an]
regular schedule flag station.
No connection for Gainesville on Sundays.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passengers tt
and from the following statione onjy:Grovetown,Har
lem, Hearing, Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford-
ville. Union Point, Greeneeboro, Madison, Bntledge
Social Circle. Covington. Conyers, Lithonia. Stone
Mountain and Decatnr. Thie train makes close con-
necton for all points east, southeast, wtst, southwest,
north aud northwest.
Train No. 28 will stop at and receive passengers tt
and from the following stations only: Grovetown, Har
lem, Dearing, Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford-
ville, Union Point, Greeneeboro, Madison, Bntledge.
Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, Stone
Mountain and Decatur.
No, 28 etope at Harlem for supper.
I. W. GREEN, E. B. DORSEY,
Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Pass. Agant.
JOE W WHITE,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Augusta, Ga
piEDMONT AIR-LINE ROUTS.
RICHMOND ft DANVILLE B. B CO.
CONDENSED SCHEDULE IN EFFECT SEPT. 4, 188T.
Trains run bv 75th Meridian time—One hour faster
than 90th Meridian time.
Northbound. No. #i! ,AII ' r ‘ No. in.
Leave Atlanta *6 00 pm 7 40 am
Arrive Gainesville 913 pm 10 36am
“ Lula 9 37 pm llo3am
“ Toccoa 10 39 pm 12 06 n’n
“ Seneca li 37 pm l 03 pm
“ Easley 12 36 am 2 ll pm
“ Greenville 101am 2 34 pm
“ Spartanburg...... 2 13 am 3 46 pm
Leave Spartanburg 2 40 am ssopm
Arrive Tyron 4 07 am 6 57 pm
“ Saluda - 4 57 am 7 no pm
“ Flat Rock - 537am 740pm
“ Hendersonville .... 6 53 am g 07 pm
“ Asheville - 700 am a 49 pm
“ Hot Springs 900am
Leave Spartanburg 2 13 am 346 pm
Arrive Gaffney 300am 431 pm
“ Gastonia ........ 4 17 am 5 42 pm
“ Charlotte 605am 6 25pm
“ Salisbury 6 44 am 8 02 pm
“ Raleigh 2 10pm t 6 35am
“ Goldsboro, ...... 4 35 pm t 11 45 am
“ Greensboro’ 828am 9 40 pm
“ Danville - - - 10 10 am 11 29 pm
11 Richmond - -- -- -- 3 45 pm 6 15 am
“ Lynchburg ------ 115 pm 2 00 am
“ Charlottesville - -- - 3 40 pm 4 10 am
“ Washington 8 23 pm 8 10 am
“ Baltimore 11 25 pm 10 03 am
“ Philadelphia 3 00 am 12 35 pm
" New York ------- 620 am 320 pm
Southbound. No . 60 daily - No . 62 .
Leave New York 12 15 n’gt 4 30 pm
“ Philadelphia 7 20 am 6 67 pm
“ Baltimore .... 9 45 am 9 42 pm
“ Washington 11 24 am 11 00 pm
“ Charlottesville - - - - 3 35 pm 3 00 am
“ Lynchburg 5 50 pm 6 20 am
“ Richmond 3 10 pm 2 30am
“ Danville - 8 50 pm 8 05 am
“ Greensboro’ 10 44 pm 9 48 am
“ Goldsboro’ - -- -- - 5 30 am j 8 10 pm
“ Raleigh 5 50 pm flooam
“ Salisbury 1237 am 1123am
“ Charlotte 225 am 100 pm
“ Gastonia 3 21 am 142 pm
“ Gaffney’s 4 40 am 2 51 pm
Arrive Spartanburg 6 28 am 3 31 pm
Leave Hot Springs 7 00 pm
•• Asheville 9 49 am 8 10 am
“ HendersonAllle - - - - 11 07 pm 9 58 am
“ Flat Rock 11 23 pm 10 18 am
“ Saluda - -- — — — 1153 pm 10 55am
“ Tyron 12 34 am 1 p 68 am
Arrive Spartanburg ------ 2 00 am 2 10 pm
Leave Spartanburg 5 28 am 3 34 pm
“ Greenville - 6 43 am 4 48 pm
“ Easley - 7 08 am 514 pm
“ Seneca 8 24am 612 pm
“ Toccoa 9 29am 708 pm
“ Lula 10 35am 8 22 pm
“ Gainesville 11 04 am 8 46 pm
Arrive Atlanta - - 1 20 pm 10 40 pm
* City rune. t Daliy except Sunday,
i Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
SIxEEPING-CAR SERVICE.
On tTalnsSO and 51 Pullman Buffet Sleeper be
tween New York and Atlanta.
On trains 52 and 53 Pullman Buffet Sleeper be
tween Washington and Montgomery; Wasblbgtoh
and Augusta. Pullman Sleeper between Greens
boro’ and Rlcbmond; Greensboro’ and Raleigh.
Through tickets on sale at principal stations, to
all points. For rates and Information apply to any
agent of the Company, or to
SOL. HAAS, JAS. L. TAYLOR,
Traffic Manager, Gen. Pass. Ag’t,
WASHINGTON, 1). O.
L. L. McCLESEEY. Div. Pass. Agent,
ATLANTA, GA.
^TLANTA ft NEW ORLEANS SHORT L1NH.
VICKSBURO AND SHREVEPORT, VIA MONTGOMERY.
ATLANTA & WESTPOINT RAILROAD Co.
Only line operating douoie dally trains and PnP-
man Buffet Sleeping Cars between Atlanta and New
Orleans without change.
Takes effect Sunday, Oct. 23d, 1887.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 50.
No. 62.
Daily.
Dally.
Leave Atlanta
1 15 pm
11 30 pm
•• Newnan
2 IB pm
l 3H am
“ LaGrange
3 28 pm
2 54 am
•• West Point
4 05 pm
3 32 am
M Opelika
4 50 pm
4 22 am
Ar. Columbus, Ga.
6 20 pm
ll 35 am
Ar. Montgomery
7 15 pm
7 oo am
Ar. Pensacola
5 00 pm
2 00 am
Ar. Mobile
2 15 am
l so am
Ar. New Orleans
7 10 am
7 20 pm
Ar. Houston. Tex.
9 40 pm
2 45 am
TO SELMA, VICKSBURG
AND SHREVEPORT.
(Via Akron and Q. & C Route.)
Ar. Selma
9 35 am
12 40 pm
•* Akron
6 32 pm
“ Meridian
ll oo pm
“ Vicksburg
1030 km
“ Shreveport
815 pm
LAGBANGE ACCOMMODATION*
Down.
Up.
4 E5 pm Leave Atlanta-
-Arrive
10 10 am
7 4b pm Ai rive L&Grarge—Leave
7 14 am
NOBTH BOUND .
No 51.
No 63.
Laily.
Dally.
Lv. New Orleans
8 10 pm
8 06 am
“ Mobile
1 00 am
l 25 pm
“ Pensaoola
10 20 pm
105 pm
“ Akron
7 oo am
“ Selma
1 45 pm
“ Montgomery
8 00 am
1025 pm
“ Columbus
8 40 am
12 oo pm
Lv. Cpelika
10 Siam
237 am
“ West Point
1016 am
2 35 am
“ La Grange
ll 46 am
3 17 am
“ Newnan
12 53 pm
4 35 am
“ Atlanta
1 67 pm
6 13 am
THROUGH CAB SERVICE.
Pullman Bnffet Sleeping car, No. 50, Atlanta to
New Orleans.
No. 51, Pullman Ballet Sleeping cars New Orleans
to Atlanta, and at Atlanta to New York.
No. 52, Pullman Bnffet Sleeping car, Washington
to Montgomery, and Pullman Parlor car, Montgom
ery to New Orleans.
No. 53 Pnllman Parlor car, New Orleans to Mont
gomery, and Pnllman Buffet Sleeping oar Mont*
gomery to Washington.
CECIL GABBKTT, CHAS. H. CROMWELL,
General Manager. Gen. Passenger Agent.
Montgomery, Alabama.
A. J. ORME, Gen. Agt. JOHN A. GEE, Pass. A.
Atlanta. Geurgi°
BEAST!
Mexican
Mustang
Liniment
CURES
Sciatica,
Scratches,
Contracted
Lumbago,
Sprains.
Muscles,
Rheumatism,
Strains,
Eruptions,
Burns,
Stitches,
Hoof Ail,
Scalds,
Stiff Joints,
Screw
Stings,
Backache,
Worms,
Bites,
Galls,
Swinney,
Braises,
Sores,
Saddle Galls,
Bunions;
Corns,
Spavin
Cracks.
Files.
THIS GOOD OLD STAND-BY
accomplishes for everybody exactly what Is claimed
forlc. One of the reasons for the great popularity ofi
the Mustang Liniment is found in its iluivcrs&l
applicability* Everybody needs such a medicine.
The Lumbernian needs it in case of accident.
The Housewife needs it for generalfamlly use.
The Canaler needs it for his teams and bis men.
The Mechanic needs it always on his work
bench.
The Miner needs it in case of emergency.
The Pioneer needs it—can’t get along without It.
The Farmer needs it in his house, his gtables
and his stock yard.
The Steamboat man or the Boa man needs
It In liberal supply afloat and ashore.
The Horse-fancier needs it—it is bis best
friend and safest reliance.
The Stock-grower needs It—It will save him
thousands of dollars and a world of trouble.
The Railroad man needs It and will need It so
long as his life is a round of accidents and dangers.
The Backwoodsman needs it. There is noth
ing like it as an antidote for the dangers to liffeb
limb and comfort which surround the pioneer.
The Merchant needs it about his store among
his employees. Accidents will happen, and when
these come the Mustang Liniment is wanted at once,
Keep a Bottle in the House* Tis the best oS
economy.
Keep a Bottle In the Factory* Its immediate
use in case of accident saves pain and loss of wages.
Keep a Bottle Always in the Stable for
when wanted*
587-lyr
Dr. J. A. Link,
DENTIST.
• ... •• .
Office: Cor. Broad and Hunter Streets,
Atlanta, Georgia.
624 6t