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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 THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. JANUARY 11. 1893. 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 ' i; W<*lll<> <n 1, nrxl 1,........... 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. 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P., Prickly Aih, Poke Root »ad Po:,-. < w /j 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 11