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GOD AMONG
THE BIRDS.
Dr. Talmage Draws Many Lessons
from the Fowls.
Surprising Frequency of Allu
sions to Birds in Scripture.
Our Theology is Surely a Divine ■
Science.
’■’"yigLTN, Jan. B.—Dr. Taiumge tnis
morning continued the course of sermons
begun a few Sabbaths ago. Having I
preached about the "Astronomy of the |
Bible; or, God Among the Stars,” and the |
“Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among
the Centuries,” this morning he discoursed I
on the "Ornithology of the Bible; or, God I
Among the Birds.” The text was Mat
thew vi, 26, "Behold the fowls of the air!”
There is silence now in all our January
forests, except as the winds whistle through
the bare branches. Our northern woods
are deserted concert balls. The organ lofts
in the temple of nature are hymnless. Trees
which were full of carol and chirp and
chant are now waiting for the coming buck
of rich plumes and warbling voices, solos,
duets, quartets, cantatas and Te Deums.
But the Bible is full of birds at all seasons,
and prophets and patriarchs and apostles
and evangelists and Christ himself employ
them for moral and religious purposes.
My text is an extract from the sermon on
the mount, and perhaps it was at a moment
when a flock of birds flew past that Christ
waved his bund toward them and said,
“Behold the fowls of the airl” And so, in
this course of sermons on God everywhere,
I preach to you this third sermon concern
ing the Ornithology of the Bible; or, God |
Among the Birds.
ORNITHOLOGY IS DIVINE.
Most of tiie other sciences you may study
or not study as you please. Use your own
judgment; exercise your own taste. But
about this science of ornithology wo ha\ e
no option. The divine command is posi
tive when it says in my text, "Behold the
fowls of the air!” That is, study their bab
bits. Examine their colors. Notice their
speed. See the hand of God in their con
struction. It is easy for me to obey the
command of the text, for I was brought up
among this race of wingsand from boyhood
heard their matins at sunrise and their ves
pers at sunset.
Their nests have been to me a fascina
tion, and my satisfaction is that I never
robbed one of them, any more than I would
steal a child from a cradle, for a bird is a
child of the sky, and its nest is the cradle.
They are almost human, for they have
their loves and hates, affinities and antipar
thiea, understand joy and grief, have conju
gal und maternal instinct, wage wars ami
entertain jealousies, have a language of
theirown and powers of association. Thank
God for birds and skies full of them. It
is useless to expect to understand the Bible
unless we study natural history.
Five hundred and ninety-three times does
Bible allude to the facts of natural his
and 1 do not wonder that it makes s
SHnany allusions ornithological. The skies
fjWind the caverns of Palest ine are friendly t ■
winged creatures, and so many fly an.’.
gßroost und nest and hatch in thatregi t;..i:
writers do not have far to go to
ornithological illustration of <1; . ine
There are over forty speciesof bird:
in the Scriptures. Oh, what a
■■variety of wings in Palestinel
The dove, the robin, the eagle, the a»r-
or plunging bird, hurling itself
Sjß.rom sky to wave and with long beak
its prey; the thrush, which esj e
dislikes a crowd; the partridge; tbd
bold and ruthless, hovering head s
.■vindward while watching for prey;m<>
■j van, at Lome among the niarshesjß he
■vith feet so constructed it can walk iflml
water plants; the raven, tltn the
■wing, malodorous, and in the Bi lie lap
'■ jounced as inedible, though it has ejile de
■dmary headdress; the stork, the oyitraor
■that always had a habit of
the turtle it had lifted aurfping on a
> ■it for food, and on one occaJad so killing
, ■the bald head of Alchylu£>ion mistook
■po«t, for a white stone a s , the Greek
■turtle upon it, killing the/nd dropped a
cuckoo, with crested Greek,
and wings and crimson
build Its, own button lazy
and so having tin
. ■jjßrradeposituig its eggs in nests b.lure
uopvmtuuft 111 uciung-
I Ing to other birds; the blue jay, the grouse,
the plover, the magpie, the kingfisher; the
pelican, which is the caricature of all the
feathered creation; the owl, the goldfinch,
jthe bittern, the harrier, the bulbul, the
psprey; the vulture, that king of scav
engera, with neck covered with repul
sive down instead of attractive feath
ers; the quarrelsome starling, the swal
low, flying a mile a minute and some
times ten hours In succession; the
heron, the quail, the peacock, the ostrich,
the lark, tbe crow, the kite, the bat,
the blackbird and many others, with all
colors, all sounds, all styles of flight, all
habits, all architecture of nests, leaving
nothing wanting in suggestiveness. They
were at the creation placed all around on
the rocks and in thetreesand on theground
to serenade Adam’s arrival. They took
their places on Friday, us the first man was
made on Saturday. Whatever else he had
or did not have, he should have music. The
first sound that struck the human ear was
a bird’s voice.
THERE IS A CHRISTIAN GEOLOGY.
Yea, Christian geology—for you know
there is a Christian geology as well as an
infidel geology—Christian geology comes
in and helps the Bible show what we owe
to the bird creation. Before the human
race came Into this world the world was
occupied by reptiles and by all styles of
destructive monsters —millions of creatures
loathsome and hideous. God sent huge
birds to clear the earth of these creatures
before Adam and Eve were created. The -
remains of these birds have been found im
bedded In the rocks, The skeleton of one
eagle has been found twenty feet in height
and fifty fest from tip of wing to tip of
wing. Many armies of beaks and claws
were necessary to clear the earth of crea
tures that would have destroyed the human
race with one clip. I like to find this har
mony of revelation and science and to
have demonstrated that the God who made
the world made the Bible.
Moses, the greatest lawyer of all time and
a great man for facts, had enough senti-
Went and poetry and musical taste to wel
come the ilium' ted wings and the voices
divinely drilled Into the first chapter of ;
Genesis. How should Noah, the old ship
carpenter, 600 years of age, find out when i
the world was fit again for human residence ■
after the universal freshet? A bird will
tell, and nothing else can. No man can
come down from the mountain to invite
Noah and his family out to terra firma, for
the mountains were submerged. As a bird i
first heralded the human race into the ! 1
world, now a bird will help the human race ■
back to the world that had shipped a sea ; 1
that whelmed everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning at the
window of the ark, in his hand a cooing , 1
dove, so gentle, so innocent, so affectionate, i
and he said, “Now, my little dove, fly away i 1
over these waters, explore and come back
and tell us whether It is safe to land.” After :
a long flight it returned hungry and weary ‘ ,
and wet, and by its looks and manner. said
to Noah and his family, “The world is not i
fit tpr you to disembark.” Noah waited a : ,
■<eek, and next Sunday morning he let the j ,
duva Av amua tot’ a atuaUu ■•h- r a l ahC . .
Bunday evening is came
that had the sign of just having been
plucked from a living fruit tree, and the
bird renorted the world would dp tolerably
well torn bird to live tn, btlt notyetsum
ciently recovered for human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next
Sunday morning he scut out the dove ou
the third exploration, but it returned not,
tor it found the world so attractive now it ,
did not. want to be caged again, and then ;
tho emigrants from the antediluvian world
| landed. It was a bird t hat told them when |
to take possession of tho resuscitated planet. ;
I So the human race were saved by a bird’s {
wing—for, attempting to land too soon, they
would have perished.
ISAIAH ON THE DOVES.
Aye, here comes a whole flock of doves—
i rock doves, ring doves, stock doves—and
I they make Isaiah think of great revivals
; and great awakenings when souls fly for I
1 shelter like a flock of pigeons swooping to
| the openings of a pigeon coop, and cries
i out, "Who are these that fly as doves to
their windows?” David, with Saul after |
him and flying from cavern to cavern,
compares himself to a desert partridge, a
bird which especially haunts rocky places,
and boys and hunters to this day take after
it with sticks, for tho partridge runs rather
than flies.
David, chased and clubbed and harried
of pursuers, says, “I am hunted as a par
tridge ou the mountains.” Speaking of his
forlorn condition, he says, “1 am like a
pelican of the wilderness.” Describing his
loneliness, he says, "I am a swallow alone
on a housetop.” Hezekiah, in the emaci
ation of his sickness, compares himself to a
crane, thin and wasted. Job had so much
trouble he could not sleep nights, and he ,
describes his insomnia by saying, “I am a
companion to owls.” Isaiah compares the ,
desolations of banished Israel to an owl 1
and bittern and cormorant among a city's ,
! ruins.
Jeremiah, describing the cruelty of par- !
' ents toward children, compares them to
the ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the sand
uncared for, crying, “The daughter of my
people is become like the ostriches of the
wildnerncss." Among the provisions piled
on Solomon’s bountiful table the Bible
speaks of “fatted fowl." The Israelites in
the desert got tired of manna and they had
quails—quails for breakfast, quails for din
ner, quails for supper, ami they died of
quails. The Bible refers to the migratory
habits of the birds and says, “The stork
knoweth her appointed time, and theturtle,
and the crane, and the swallow the time if
their going, but my people know not the
judgments of the Lord.”
Would the prophet illustrate the fate of
the fraud, he points to a failure at incu
bation and says, "As a partridge sitteth on
eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave
them in the midst of his days and at his
i end shall be a fool.” The partridge, the
I most careless of all birds in choice of its
place of nest, building it on the ground
and often near a frequented road, or in a
I slight depression of ground, without refer
ence to safety, and soon a hoof or a scythe
or a cart wheel ends all. So says the
I prophet, a man who gathers under him
dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no
peace, no satisfaction, no happiness, no se
curity.
What a vivid similitude! The quickest
way to amass a fortune is by iniquity, but
the trouble is about keeping it. Every hour
of every day some such partridge is driven
off the nest. Panics are only a flutter of
partridges. It is too tedious work to be
come rich in the old fashioned way, and if m
man can by one falsehood make as much M
by ten years of hard labor, why not tell Jr,
I And if one counterfeit check will
a genuine issue
it'
to bli t ..
F live solely by one’s |, .Z thus
and
' Ma! build your house crater:
I , go to sleep on the bosopi of an avalanche.
. | The volcano will b!ai« and the avalanche
' i will thunder. There/ are estates which
' have been coming togdt her from age to nge.,
| Many years ago ttyn estate started in a
I husband’s industry and u wife’s economy.
’ ' It grew from generation to generation by
, . good habits and high minded enterprise.
i Old fashioned industry was the mine from
[ which that gold w.s dug, and God will
; keep the deeds o* such an estate in his
■ buckler. Foreclose your mortgage, spring
I your snap judgments, plot with acutest in-
I trigue against a family property like that,
] and you cannot do it a permanent damage.
Better than warrantee deed and better than
lire insurance is the defense which God’s
’ i own baud will give it.
J I THE EVIL WILL COME TO LIGHT.
But here is a man today as poor as Job
’ after be was robbed by satan of everything
\ but his boils, yet suddenly tomorrow lie is
a rich man. There is no accounting for his
sudden affluence. He has not yet failed
■ often enough to become wealthy. Noone
! pretends to account for bis princely ward
j robe, or the chased silver, or the full curbed
steeds that rear and neigh like Bucephalus
in the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
to a sudden inheritance? No. Did hemake
a fortune on purchase and sale? No. Every
body asks, Where did that partridge batch?
The devil suddenly threw him up and the
devil will suddenly let him come down.
That hidden scheme God saw from the first
conception of the piot. That partridge,
swift disaster will shoot it down, and the
higher it flics the harder it falls. The
prophet saw, as you and I have often seen,
the awful mistake of partridges.
| But from the top of a Bible fir tree I hear
i the shrill cry of the stork. Job, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah, speak of it. David cries out, “As
for the stork, the fir tree is her house.”
This large white Bible bird is supposed
without, alighting sometimes to wing its
way from the region of the Rhine to Africa.
As winter comes all tbe storks fly to warm
er climes, and the last one of their number
that arrives at the spot to which they mi
grate is killed by them. What havoc it
would make in our species if those men
were killed who are always behind! In
oriental cities the stork is domesticated,
and walks about on the street and will fol
iow its keeper.
In the city of Ephesus I saw a long row
of pillars, on the top of each pillar a stork’s
nest. But the word “stork” ordinarily
means mercy and affection, from the fact
that this bird was distinguished for its
great love for its parents. It never forsakes
them, and even after they become feeble
protects and provides for them. In mi
grating, the old storks lean their necks on
the young storks, and when the old ones
give out the young ones carry them on their
back. God forbid that a dumb stork
, should have more heart than we. Blessed
is that table at which an old father and
| mother sit; blessed that altar at which an
: old father and mother kneel.
What it is to have a mother they know
best who have lost her. God only knows I
the agony sh® suffered for us, the times she j
wept over our cradle and the anxious sighs i
her bosom h saved as we lay upon it,'he '
sick nights when she watched so long after [
every one was tired out but God and her- ,
self. Her lifeblood beats in our heart and
her image lives in our face. That man is
graceless as a cannibal who ill treats his par
ents, and be who begrudges them daily
bread and clothes them but shabbily—may
God have patience with him; I cannot. I
heard a man once say, “I now have my old
mother on my hands.” Ye storks on your
way with food to your aged parents, shame
him!
THE TORMENTED BIRD.
But yonder in this Bible sky flies a bird
that is speckled. The prophet describing thd
church cries out, “Mine heritage is unto me,
-■a anrj-kfird tJril ; a.i/iu ahout arc
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against her.” So It was t non; so it is now. |
Holiness picked at. Consecration picked ]
at. Benevolence picked nt. Usefulness
nicked at. A speckled bird is a peculiar
bird, and that arouses tne imtipa. ny or an
the beaks of the forest. The church of God
is a peculiar institution, and that isenough
to evoke attack of the world, for it is a
speckled bird to be picked nt. Tho incon
i sistencies of Christians are a banquet on
; which multitudes get fat. They ascribe
everything you do to wrong motives. Put
1 a dollar in the poor box, and they will say
I that you dropped it there only that you
J might hear it ring. Invite them to Christ,
and they will call you a fanatic.
Let there be contention among Chris- j
tlans, and they will say: “Hurrah! The :
church is in decadence.” Christ intended
that his church should always remain a
speckled bird. Let birdsof another feather
I pick at her, but they cannot rob her of a ’
single plume. Like the albatross, she can
sleep on the bosom of a tempest. She has ;
gone through the fires of Nebuchadnezzar’s j
, furnace and not got burned, through the
waters of the Redscaand not been drowned, ■
through tlfe shipwreck ou the breakers of
Melita and not been foundered. Let all [
jarth and hell try to hunt down this spec- I
kled bird, but far above human scorn and
Infernal assault It shall sing over every
mountain top and fly over every nat ion, and
her triumphant song shall be: “The church
of God! The pillar and ground of the
truth. The gates of hell shall not prevail
against her.”
But we cannot stop here. From a tall I
cliff, hanging over the sea, I hear the eagle
calling unto the tempest and lifting its
wing to smitetbe whirlwind. Moses, Jero
| rniah, Hosea and Habakkuk at times in
I their writings take their pen from the
i eagle’s wing. It is a bird with fierceness in
| its eye, its feet armed with claws of iron,
I and its head with a dreadful beak. Two or
three of them can fill the heavens with
clangor. But generally this monster of the
air is alone and unaccompanied, for the
reason that its habits are so predaceous it
requires five or teu miles of aerial or earth
ly dominion all for itself.
The black brown of its back, and the
white of its lower feathers, and the Are of
its eye, and the long flap of its wing make '
one glimpse of it as it swings down into the '
valley to pick up a rabbit, or a lamb, or a
child and then swings back to its throne ou I
the rock something never to be forgotten.
I Scattered about its eyrie of altitudinous
i solitude are the bones of its conquests. But I
! while the beak and the claws of the eagle •
I are the terror of all the travelers of the air,
the mother eagle is most kind and gentle |
to her young.
God compares his treatment of his people
to the eagle’s care of the eaglets. Deuter
onomy xxxii, 11, “As an eagle stirreth up
her nest, fluttereth over her young, spread
. ing abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth
' them on her wings, so the Lord alone did
1 lead.” The old eagle first shoves the young
one out of the nest in order to make it fly,
■ and then takes it on her back and flies with
it, and shakes it off in the air, and if it
1 seems like falling quickly flies under it and
1 takesit on her wing again. So God does
1 with us. Disaster, failure in business, oi
• appointment, bereavement, is only God’s
way of shaking us out of our comfortab
' nests in order that we may learn how to fly.
■ You who are complaining that you have
: no faith or conruge or Christian zeal have
r hud it too easy. You never will learn to fly
1 in that comfortable nest. Like an eagle,
f carried usoti his back. At times
' AMMHaAuii suakelt off, mid wlien we w<
be came under ur. again and
of Bloomy l ” *“«
s i ! ’Li ll - Never an eagle brooded
roug . us , lre ovcr [ u l . y Ol!I ig as
o sunny mountMj|a . u » A( . ro;; ,
® , wlt } BUcb luV we have gone m
? God s wings have l^ htv wi , ;
what oceuiis of
safety upon the Alm
’ what mountains of sin we
and nt times Lave been borne up far
■ ; Ibe guns hot o; the World and the arrow of
the devil!
p I When our time on earth is closed, on
1 these great wings of God we shall speed
, with infinite quickness from earth’s moun-
* tains to .biaven's hills, and as from the
■ eagle’s circuit mrl .r tho sun men on the
ground seem small and insignificant as
lizards on a rock, so all earthly things shall
' dwindle info a speck, and the raging river
of death so far beneath will seem smooth
; and glassy .i Swiss lake.
MUI'M'ING AS THE EAGLEH.
It was thought in ancient times that an
' i eagle could not only molt its feathers in
o I*l age, but that after arriving algreat age
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i. v.eui't renew its strength and become
hl < u< ::. ly ot t:;; aj’t’.in. To this Isaiah al
huh s I’.-.i be “They that wait on the
Lord : i ..•■.■! r<: ( ih-.'r strength; they shall
’ mount. up with wings of eagles.” Even so
’ the ,;,.;i in old age will renew his
s ep ii.ual i.iii-u'jtli, Ileshallbe young iu
I ardor and entbuaiasm for Christ, and as
1 tbe body toils the ion! will grow in elas
ticity till at death it will spring up like a
, : gladdened child into tbe bosom of God.
‘ Yea, in this oruithologieal study I see that
* Job says, “His days Ilyas an eagle that
- hasteth to its prey.”
■ ' The speed of a hungry eagle when it saw
. i its prey a score of miles distant was unim
' aginable. It went like a thunderbolt for I
’ i speed and power. So fly our days. . Sixty
; i minutes, each worth a heaven, since we as
' I sembled in this place, have shot like light
; ning into eternity. The old earth is rent
• and cracked under the swift rush of days
’ and months and years and ages. . “Swift as
' an eagle that hasteth to its prey,.” Behold
the fowls of the air! Have vou considered
that they have, as you and I Have not, the
I power to change their eyes st/ that one min
-1 ; ute they may be telescopic and the next
I microscopic? Now seeing something a mile
' away, and by telescopic eyesight, and then
1 | dropping to its food on the ground, able to
j see it close by, and. with microscopic eye
| sight.
But what a senseless passage of Scripture
that is until kou know the fact, which says, j
“The sparrow hath found a house and the |
swallow attest for herself, where she may
lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord j
of hosts, my king and my God.” What has |
the swallow to do with the altars of the '
temple at Jerusalem? Ah, you know that
swallows are all the world over very tame, ;
and in summer time used to fly into the
windows and doors of the temple at Jeru
-1 salem and build a nest on the altar where
the priests were offering sacrifices.
These swallows brought leaves and sticks
and fashioned nest's on the altars of the
temple and batched the young sparrows in
those nests, and David hail seen the young
birds picking their way out of the shel' j
while the old swallows watched, and no j I
one in the temple was cruel enough to dis- ;;
turb either the old swallows or the young I ’
swallows, and David bursts out in rbap- '
tody, saying, “The swallow hath found a -I
nest for herself, where she may lay her 1 !
young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, j
| my king and my God!” 1 1
Yes, in this ornithology of the Bible I j
! find that God is determined to impress ;
[ upon us the architecture of a bird’s nest , ’•
and the anatomy of a bird’s wing. Twenty
i times does the Bible refer to a bird’s nest: i
“Where the birds make their nest,” “As ;
a bird that wandereth from her nest”— ;
“Though thou set the nest among the stars,” 9
“The birds of the air have their nests,” and i J
so on. Nests in the trees, nests on the I1
rocks, nests on the altars. Why does God i
call us so frequently to consider the bird’s
nest? Because it is one of the most won- »
drous of all styles of architecture and a _
lesson of providential care, which is the •,
most Important lesson that Christ in my |
text conveys.
Why, just look at the bird’s nest and see I
' what La the oio.-mcct that God is goimz to i
u.,',3 v.ua ,-.t ycu. Mere tuc
neat under the eaves of the house. Here is
the biowu thrasher’s nest in a bush. Here
is the bluejay’s nest in the orchard. Here
is the grosbeak's nest ou u true branch
hanging over the water, so as to be free
from attack. Chickadee’s nest in the stump
of an old tree. Oh, tho goodness of God in
showing the birds how to build their nests!
What carpenters, what masons, what
weavers, what spinners the birds are! Out
of what small resources they make so
exquisite a home, curved, pillared,
wreathed. Out of mosses, out of sticks,
out of lichens, out of horsehair, out of
spiders’ web, out of threads swept from the
door by the housewife, out of the wool of
tho sheep in the pasture field. Uphol
stered by leaves actually sewed together by
its ow n sharp bill. Cushioned with feath
ers from its own breast. Mortared to
gether with the gum of trees and the saliva
of its own tiny bill. Such symmetry, such
adaptation, such convenience, such geouie- i
try of structure.
THE DIVINE PLAN IN NATURE.
Surely these nests were built by sonic
plan. They did not just happen so. Who
drafted the plan for the bird’s nest? God!
And do you not think that if be plans
such a house for a chaffinch, for an ori- I
ole, for u bobolink, for a sparrow, he will
see to it that you always have a home?
“Ye are of more value than many spar
rows.” Whatever else surrounds you, you
can have what the Bible calls “the feathers
of the Almighty." Just think of a nest
like that, the warmth of it, the softness of
it, the safety of it—“tho feat hers of the Al
might y.”
No flamingo outflashing tho tropical sun
set ever had such brilliancy of pinion; no
robin redbreast ever had plumage dashed
with such crimson and purple and orange
and gold—"the feathers of the Almighty.”
Do you not feel the touch of them now on
forehead and cheek and spirit, and was
there ever such tenderness of brooding—
“the feathers of tho Almighty?” So also
in this ornithology of the Bible God keeps
impressing us with the anatomy of a bird’s
wing.
Over fifty times does the old Book allude
to the wing—“ Wings of a dove,” “Wings
of the morning,” “Wings of the wind,”
I “Sun of righteousness with healing hi his
’ wings,” "Wings of the Almighty,” “All
j fowl of every wing.” What does it all
i mean? It suggests uplifting. It tells you
|of flight upward. It means to remind that
you yourself have wkigs. David cried
j out, “Oh, that 1 had wings like a dove that
! I might Uy away and be at rest!" Thank
: God that yon have bettor wings than any
5 dove of binge-C or swiftest flight. Caged
I now in bars of flesh are those wings, but
the d: y comes when they will be liberated.
Git ready for useinsioii! Take the words
■of the I hymn tied to the tune unto which
. that liymu is married sing:
1. ■■. my m« il, and stretch thy wing;
'1 iiy bolt r i’ alien trace.
Up out. of t lowlands into the heavens
of hight-r -Xj lienee and wider prospect.
But Low shall wo rise? Only as God’s
holy io .ives us strength, lint that is
i coming now. Not as a condor from a
i Chin:boi.izo peak, swooping upon the af
frighted vailey, but as a dove like that
which | it its soft brown wings over the
wet l icks of Christ at the baptism in the
I Jordan. Dove of gentleness! Dove of peace!
to.. ■. holy spirit, heavenly dove,
V. iili al! i y quit kening j ewers;
Com . !i< <1 ii iroa l a Havlour's love,
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iutunuatimi I nun thehi-h^tauthorities A f
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* A Sooted Divine Save:
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I for Ityspepala, Weak Rtomnch r.nd
i | t'oKtiveneaH. with vrtiich X Uavelouc
( I'l-rn ulfileted.
Tsrff’p P'?h
; ARE A SPECIAL BLESSIfIS.
If no ver hadl do ct*e xn nch
‘ . fi recrommend t/> ail m
ilae rttedicine
F. ». OSGOOD, Mew York.
SCLD EVEBYWHEHE.
'"or, i-joip 144 Washington St., K. Y
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EURES ALL SKIN
AND
BLDno DISEASES.
J’hyil- iAL* u oozrtbln alien,
and pmtriba it with pre#t fiction for tbt cure« of 11l
* '.yh nnd of p imnrr, Srcmdary and Tertiary
ryptllli, Syphilitic Khcuinatliir.. Scroioltina Wears and
I Sorei, (Jlaud-ilar flwdlings tihaunmlbui, Malaria, old
i Chronic L'lcara that have raaktod a!| trar-tnsat, Catarrh,
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C'lln hlfas-its, •.'Xe,',.a, CiHcr.in 1
curia! Polxon, Tatter, ,*< n!d H«sd, etc., t »tc.
P' P. P- I* a powerful tome, »nd rd rrcallant artiritgßr,
j buLd;:>g v.m vb* >y*iem .apimy.
Ladlea v hcia »r«ten;c ire pollened and whore blood In ia
ts. hiipura C'.n-h' 1 c.,_<iua_' i .-•( ar a
RB FF cures’
.K MALARIA
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pocuHarly i u.i.p.tcd by IU wonJerlbl took ar.d l.oad
c sanji g pr<.p»rt»-e* cl P, P. P., Prickly Aih, Poke Root
»ad Po:,-. <
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LIPI-'MAW
Druggists, Lippman’s Block, bAVANfiAH ; dA>
A IR !l ll* V an(l Opium Habits
SM M MIV » I W cured at home wlth
iw O b Rr I outpain.Book of par
iV u I SSK«h?l’ San I tlcularseentfßEE,
W ty B3»SMBHIMBSME3H.M.WOOI.LEY ) M.I>.
si u Atlanta. Ga. Office IWit Whitehall St.
es
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy ami agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FSANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KV. NEW YORK, N.V.
How are
Your
Shirts?
I
Ten to one you need a new lot.
In taking stock we find eev
eral broken lines in fine
, Shirts. Some have sold as
*: high as $3. All are good
value at $2. You may have
your choice of these for
’, $1 25. We haven’t a full
i: line of sizes, so you had
better call early.
We have al 1 sizes,however, incur
98c. Shirt. This is our
pride. It is the best thing
in the way of a shirt ever
seen in Augusta. It fits,
it wears*, it looks well.
Hats
We have hatM'b re-order a
half dozen tjmes, Justnowwe
have an entire new line of
, Hats. /
hats > ! 2°-
that are
SOO
—I
D O R. R,
Tailor, Hatter, Outfitter.
MN 7 WHITE
SETS. KEO
We are jobbing these
at Philadelphia
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BUSTS’ GARDEN SEED
OUR LARGE WHOLESALE
FRESH STOCK .JUST IN.
LOWEST PRICES. SHALL
WE MAIL YOU SEED LIST?
IBfiDSllHOffiGO.
DRUG and SEED JOBBERS.
GET IN YOUR YEAR’S I
STOCK OF MEDICINES. |
WE CAN SUPPLY ALLI
YOUR WANTS IN DRUGS
AND INSTRUMENTS.
HBHHnacoj;
GLASS, GLASS, t
CARLOAD IN ALL SIZES £
OF WINDOW AND SHOW
CASE GLASS; WILL GUT
ANY SIZE.
Green & Flint. Prescription Ware in
Car Lots at Baltimore Prices.
- THE --
HOWARD & WILLET DRUG CO.
WANTED. —Two students this month
at Carolina telegraph school, Wil
liamston, 8. C. Students limited. Apply
at once. Satisfaction guaranteed.
PERSONAL.
A CAROLINIAN desires to correspond .
wth lady of good breeding of twenty to 1
twenty five years of age. Address Henry |
l.'smawlH. Raadixur Ala 1
IIIIK. ill!
The entire season we have led the
town ou Cloaks, now, when closing
out commences, we intend to set the
pace—let others follow.
Monday Morning,-
from 8 to 9,
we will sell
Cloaks worth $2.50 for 50c.
CLOAKS WORTH 84.50 AND
85, NOW WHILE THEY
LAST 83.
$7.50 & $6.50 Cloaks now $4.
Cost is uo consequence. We wish
to turn Cloaks into Cash so as to
invest in
Spring Goods.
33 pairs 10-4 White Blankets, worth
81.50, now 65c.
Comforts at 35c. on tte Dollar.
Children’s Undershirts!
Size 16 at Bc.
Size 18 at 10c.
Size 20 at 12c.
Size 22 at 14c.
Size 24 at 16c.
Size 26 at 18c.
Size 28 to 34 at 20c.
Chronicle Sunday Puzzle: A father
gave two sons eggs, one fiftjGdozen, the
other ten dozen, witlrjj|ft|MMb to sell
same to f:( y :fe same
ki* /■'' .-1 parties at thMM
per dozen, a.niA bring him
I each the same amount! of money. They
| did it. *How? )
I
Gent’s Gray Undershirts sold at 75c.,
Now 41 Cents.
Dress Goods.
Remnants in this Department
will be closed out Monday.
Ladies’
Muslin
Underwear.
As usual, January the first, we re
ceived au entire new line of Muslin
wear for ladies. Improvement being
the order of the day, the line is
larger and more select this year than
usual. Whilst out shopping this week,
call and inspect. See what are.
The Novelties,
EMBROIDERIES.
Monday the handsomest, largest,
daintiest, prettiest, newest Edges and
Insertings ever shown in Georgia will
be ready for your inspection. If you
are an admirer of the beautiful we
can please you.
MillaiWaiH
"The Hustlers,"
810 Broad Street
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