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THE BANNER-WATCHMAN, ATHENS, GEORGIA, MARCH 19, 1889
a vA. HOLY REBUILDING/
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DR. TKLMAGE APPLIES THE EXAMPLE
.OF NEHEMIAH TO CHRISTIAN LIFE.
A Read Cl*y—Xi liomlab, • Captive, tiongi
i to Bebnild tl»e Homo ot Ilia Fathers.
{, Moonlight Ride—Why and How the
I Heart of Man Moat Re Reconstructed.
' Brooklyn, March 17—At the tab
ernacle this morning the Rev. T. De
"Witt Talmage, D. D., expounded the
seventh chapter of Ecclesiastes. He
afterwards gave out the hymn begin
ning,
Grace! ^1* a charming sound.
Harmonious to Uie oar.
which was sung by the vast congre
gation with magnificent etfecL The
subject of Dr. Talmage’s sermon was
“The Moonlight Ride,” and the texL
Nclieniiah ii, 15: “Then l went up in
the night by the brook, and viewed
the wall, anu turned back, and entered
.by the gate of the valley, and so re
lumed.’ He said:
- A dead city is more suggestive than
a living city—past Rome than present
Rome—mins rather than newly fres
coed cathedral. But the best time to
visit a ruin is by moonlight. The
Coliseum is far more fascinating to the
traveler after sundown than before.
You may stand by daylight amid the
monastic ruins of Melrose Abbey, and
study shafted oriel, and rosetted stone
and muilion, but they throw their
strongest witchery by moonlight
Some of you remember what the en
chanter of Scotland said in the “Lay
of the Last MinstrcL”
Wouldst thou view fair Melrose aright,
I Go vksit it by the pale moonlight.
Washington Irving describes the
Andalusian moonlight upon the Al
hambra ruins as amounting to an en
chantment. My text presents you
Jerusalem in rains. The tower down.
The gates down. The. walls down.
Everything down. Nehemiah on
horseback, uy moonlight looking upon
the ruins. While he rides, there are
some friends on foot going witli him,
for they do not want the many
horses to disturb the suspicions of
the people. . These people do not know
tho secret of Kehemiah’s heart, but
they are going as a sort of body
guard. I near the clicking hoofs of
the horse on which Nehemiah rides,
as he guides it this way and that, into
this gale and out of that, winding
through that gate amid the debris of
once great Jerusalem. Now the horse
comes to a dead bait at the tumbled
masonry where he cannot pass. Now
ho shies oil' at the charred timbers.
Now lie comes along where the water
under the moonlight flashes from the
mouth of tho brazen dragon after
which the gate was named. Heavy
hearted Nehemiah! Riding in and
out, now by his old home desolated
now by the defaced temple, now amid
the scars of the city that had gone
down under battering ram and confla
gration. The escorting party knows not
what Nehemiah means. Is he getting
crazy? Have his own personal sor
rows, added to the sorrows of the na
tion, unbalanced his intellect? Still
the midnight cxplor&tion goes on.
Nehemiah on horsebaek rides through
the lish gate, by the tower of the fur
naces, by the king’s pool, by the
dragon well, in and out, in and out,
until the midnight ride is completed,
and Nehemiah dismounts from his
horse, aud to the amazed and con
founded and incredulous body
guard, declares the dead secret
of his heart when ho says, “Come,
now, Ict us build Jerusalem.” “What,
Nehemiah, have you any money?”
“No.” “Have you any kingly author
ity?” “No.” “Have you any elo
quence?" “No.” Yet that midnight,
moonlight ride of Nehemiah resulted
in the glorious rebuilding of the city
of Jerusalem. Tho people knew not
how the thing was to be done, but
with great enthusiasm they cried out,
“Let us rise up now and build the city.”
Some people laughed and said it could
not be done. Some people wore in
furiate aud offered physical violence,
saying the thing should not bo done.
But the workmen went right on, stand
ing onthe wall, trowel in one hand,
sword in the other, until the work was
gloriously completed. At that very
time, in Greece, Xenophon was writing
a history, and Plato was making phil
osophy, and Demosthenes was rattling
his rhetorical thunder, but all of them
together did not do so much for tho
world as this midnight, moonlight
ride of praying, courageous, homesick,
close mouthed Nehemiah.
ve find him on horseback, in
he .midnight, riding around the
ruins. It is through the spectacles of
this scene that we discover the ardent
attachment' of Nehemiah for sacred
Jerusalem, which in all ages lias been
the type of the church of God, our
Jerusalem, which we love just as much
as Nehemiah loved his Jerusalem.
The fact is that you love tho church
of God so much that there is uo spot
on earth so sacred, unless it is your
own fireside. The church has been to
you so muchcomfortandillumination
that there is nothing that makes you
so irate as to have it talked againsL
If there have been times when you
have been carried into captivity by
sickness, you longed for the church,
our hojy Jerusalem, just as much as
Nehemiah longed for his Jerusalem,
and the first day you came out you
came to the houso of the Lord. When
the Teniple.w'fls in. ruins as ours was
years ago, like Nehemiah, you walked
around and looked at it, and in the
moonlight you stood listening if you
could not near.the voice of the tfead
organ, tho psalm of the expired Sab
baths. What Jerusalem was to Nehe
miah, the church of God is to you.
Skeptics and infidels may scoff at the
church as an obsolete affair, as a relic
of the dark ages, as a convention of
goody goody people, but all the im
pression they hav^ ever made on your
mind against the church of God is
absolutely nothing. You would make
more sacrifices for it today than for
any other institution, and if it were
needful you would die in its defense.
You can take the words of the kingly
poet as he said, “If 1 forget thee, 0
Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
her cunning.” You understand in
your own experience the |%thos. the
homesickness, the courage, the holy
enthusiasm of Nehemiah in his mid
night, moonlight ride around the ruins
of his beloved Jerusalem.
feet farce if there is no ruin. “The
whole need not a physician, but they
that are sick.” “If any one, though
be be an angel from ueaven, preach
any other gospel than this,” says the
apostle, “let him be accursed.” There
must be the midnight ride over tho
ruins before Jerusalem can be builL
There must be the clicking of the
hoofs before there can be the ringing
of the trowels.
( UPBUILDING OF ZION.
i My subject first impresses me with
the idea what an intense thing is
church affection. Seize the bridle of
that horse and stop Nehemiah. Why .
are you risking your life here in tho
night? Your horse will stumble over
these ruins and fall on you* Stop this
useless exposure of your life. No;
Nehemiah will not stop. Heat last
tells us the whole story. He lets us
know he was an exile in a far distant
land, and he was a servant, a cup
bearer in the palace of Artaxerxes
Longimanus, and one day, while he
was handing tho cup of wine to the
king, the king said to * him,
“Wnat is the matter with you?
You are not sick. I know
you must have some great trouble.
What is the matter with you?” Then
he told the king how that be
loved Jerusalem was broken down:
how that his father’s tomb had
been desecrated; how that the
Temple had been dishonored and
defaced; how that the walls were
scattered and broken^ “Well," says
King Artaxerxes, “what do you want?”
“Well," said the cup bearer Nehemiah,
“I want to go home. I want to fix up
the grave of my father. I want to re
store the beauty of the temple. I want
to rebuild the masonry of the city wall.
Besides. I wantpassportssothatlshall
pot be hindered in my journey. Aud
besides that,” as you will Gnu in the
context, “I want an order on the rnau
who keeps your forest for just so much
timber as l.mj “ ' "
ing of the city, ____
bo gone?” said the king. The time of
absence is arranged. In hot haste
tins ^ seeming adventurer comes
to Jerusalem, aud in my . text
reconstruction of the heart.
Again, my text impresses me with
the fact that before reconstruction
there must be an exploration of ruins.
Why was not Nehemiah asleep under
the covers? Why was not his horse
stabled in the midnight? Let the po
lice of the city arrest this midnight
rider out on some mischief. No.
Nehemiah is going to rebuild the city,
and he is maxing the preliminary ex
ploration. In this gate, out that gale,
east west, north, south. All through
the hums. The ruins must be explored
before the work of reconstruction can
begin. The reason that so many peo-
S lo in this day, apparently converted,
o not slay converted is because they
did not first explore the ruins of their
own heart The reason that there are
so many professed Christians who in
this day lie and forge and steal, and
commit adultery, and go to the peni
tentiary, is because they first do not
learn the ruin of their own heart
They have not found out that “the
heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked. ” They had an idea
that they were almost right and they
built religion as a sort of extension, as
an ornamental cupola. There was a su
perstructure of religion built on a sub
stratum of unrepented sins. The
trouble with a good deal of modern
theology is that instead of building on
the right foundation, it builds on the
debris of an unregenerated nature.
They attempt to rebuild Jerusalem be
fore, in the midnight of conviction,
they have seen the ghastiliness of the
ruin. They have such a poor founda
tion for their religion tliat the first
northeast storm of temptation blows
them down. I have no faith in a
man’s conversion if he is not con
verted in the old fashioned way—John
Bunyan’s way, John Wesley’s way,
John Calvin’s way, Pauls way,.
Christ’s way, God’s way. A dentist
once said to me, “Does tliat hurt?”
Said I, “Of course it hurts. It is in
your business as in my profes
sion. WVliave to hurt before we
can help,” You will never un
derstand redemption until you
understand ruin. A man tells me
that some ono b a member of the
church. It makes no impression on
my mind at all. I simply want to
know whether he was converted in the
old fashioned way; or whether he was
converted in the new fashioned way.
If he was converted in the old fash
ioned way he will stand. If he was
converted in the new fashioned way
he will not stand. That is all there is
about it. A man conies to me to talk »
about religion. The first question I
ask him is, “Do you feel yourself to
be a sinner?’’ If he say, “Well, I—
yes,” the hesitancy makes me feel tliat
that-man wants a ride on' Nehemiali’s
horse by midnight through the ruins
—in by the gate of his affections, out
by tho gate of his will; and before he
has got through with that midnight
ride ho will drop the reins on the
horse’s neck,, and. will take his right
hand and smite on his heart aud say:
“God be merciful to mo a. sinner;”
and beforo ; he has stabled liis,horse he
will take his feet out of the stirrups,
and he will slide down on the ground,
and he will kneel, crying, “Have
mercy on me, 0 God, according to thy
loving kindness, according unto the
multitude of thy tender mercies; blot
out my transgressions, for I acknowl
edge my transgressions and my sins
are ever before thee. ” Ah, mv mends,
you see this is not a complimentary
gospel. That is what makes some peo
ple so mad. It comes to a man of a
million dollars and impenitent in his
sins and says, “You’re a pauper.” It
comes to a woman of fairest cheek,
who. has never repented, and says,
“You’re a sinner." It comes to a man
priding himself on his independence
and says, “You’re bound hand and
foot by the devil.” It comes to our
entire race and says, “You’re a ruin,
a ghastly ruin, an illimitable ruin.”
Satan sometimes says to me, “Why
do you preach that truth? Why
don’t you preach a gospel with
no repentance in it? Why don’t
you flatter men’s hearts so that you
make them feel all right? Why don’t
you preach a humanitarian gospel
CHRISTIAN PERSEVERANCE.
Again. My subject gives me a speci
men of busy and triumphant sadness.
If there was any man in the world
who had a right to mope and give up
everything as lost, it was Nehemiah.
You say, “He was a cup bearer in the
palace of Shushan, and it was a grand
place." So it was. The hall of that
palace was two hundred feet square,
and the roof hovered over thirty-six
marble pillars, each pillar sixty feet
high: and the intense blue of the sky,
and the deep green of the forest foli
age. and the white of the driven snow,
all nung trembling in the upholstery.
But, my friends, you know very well
that fine architecture will not put
down homesickness. Yet Nehemiah
did not give up. Then when you s6e
him going among these desolated
streets, ana by these dismantled tow
ers, and by the torn up grave of his
father, you would suppose that he
would have been disheartened, and
that he wsuld have dismounted from
his horse and gone to his room and
said: “Woe is me! My father’s grave
is tom up. The Temple is dishonored.
The walls are broken down. I have
no money with which to rebuild. I
wish i had never been born. I wish
1 were dead." Not so says Nehemiah.
Although he had a grief so intense
that it excited the commentary of his
king, yet that penniless, expatriated
Nehemiah rouses himself up to rebuild
the city. He gets his permission of
absence. He gets his jiassports. He
hastens away to Jerusalem. By night
on horseback he rides through the
ruins. He overcomes the most fero
cious opposition. He arouses the piety
and patriotism of the people, and in
less than two months, namely, in
fifty-two days, Jerusalem was rebuilt
That’s what I call busy and triumph
ant sadness.
My friends, the whole temptation is
with you, when you have trouble, to
do just the opposite to the behavior of
Nehemiah, and that is to give up. You
say, “I have lost my child and can
never smile again.” You say, “I have
lost my property, and I never can re
pair my fortunes.” You say, “1 have
fallen into sin. and I never can start
little girl looked up. while holdin^lier I,
dead mother’s hand, and said, “On, I
do wish that God had made more light
for poor folks.” My dear, God will be
your light, God will be your shelter,
God will be your home. Are you
borne down with the bereavements of
life? Is the bouse lonely nbw tliat
the child is gone? Do not give up.
Think of what tho old sexton said when
the minister asked him why he put so
much care on the little graves in the
cemetery—so much more care than on
the larger graves, and the old sexton
said, “Sir, you know that ‘of such is the
kingdom of heaveu,’ and 1 think the
Saviour is pleased when he sees so
much white clover growing around
these little graves." But when the
minister pressed the old sexton for a
more satisfaetory answer, the old sex
ton said, “Sir, about these larger
graves, I don’t know who are the
Lord’s saints aud who are not; but
you know, sir, it is clean different,
with the bairns.” Oil, if you have
had that keen, tender, indescribable
sorrow that comes from the loss of a
child, do not give up. The old sex
ton was righL It is all well with the
bairns. Or, if you have sinned, if
you have sinned grievously—sinned
until you have been cast out by the
church, sinned until you have been
cast out by society, do not give up.
Perhaps there may he in this house
one that could truthfully utter the
lamentation of another:
Once 1 was pure as the snow, but I fell—
Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to hell—
Fell, to be trampled as filth in the Street-
Fell, to be scoffed at, spit on and beat;
Praying, cursing, wishing to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
WHERE COMFORT IS FOUND.
Do not give up. One like unto the
Son of God comes to you today, say
ing, “Go and sin no more,” while he
cries out to your assailants, “Let him
that is without sin cast the first stone
at her.” Oh! there is no reason why
any ono in this house, by reason of
any trouble or sin, should give up.
Are you a foreigner, and in a strange
land? Nehemiah was an exile.
Are you penniless? Nehemiah was
poor. Are you homesick? Nehe
miah was homesick. Are you broken
hearted? Nehemiah was broken heart
ed. But just see him in the text, rid
ing along the sacrilcged grave of his
father, and by the dragon well, and
through the fish gate, and by the
king’s pool, in and out, in and out, the
moonlight falling on the broken ma
sonry, which throws a long shadow at
which the horse shies, and at the same
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again for a new life.” If Satan, can I t ime tliat niooiuglit kindling up the
make you form that resolution, and
make you keep it, he has ruined you.
Trouble is not sent to crush you, but
to arouse you, to animate you, to pro
pel you. The blacksmith does not
thrust the iron into the forge and then
blow away with the bellows, and then
features of this man till you see not
only the mark of sad reminiscence,
but the courage, the hope, the enthu
siasm of a man who knows that Jeru
salem will be rebuilded. I pick you
up today out of your sins and out of
your sorrow, and I put you against
bring the hot iron out on the anvil and I ^ wat ™ heart of Christ" “The eter-
beat with stroke after stroke to ruin na * God is thy refuge, aud underneath
are the everlasting anus.”
our forest for just so much with uo repentance in it, saying noth*
may need for the rebuild- ing about the ruin, talking all the
■ty. “How lon^ shall yon time about redemption?” Isay, “Get
av
thee behind me, Satan, ” I would
rather lead five souls the right way
than twenty thousand tho wrong way.
The redemption of the gospel is a per-
the iron, but to prepare it for a better
use. Oh that tho Lord God of Nehe
miah would rouse up all broken
hearted people to rebuild. Whipped,
betrayed, shipwrecked, imprisoned
Paul went right oil The Italian
martyr Algerius sits in his dun
geon writing a letter, and he
dates it “From the delectable
orchard of the Leonine prison." That
is what I call triumphant sadness. 1
knew a mother who buried her baby
on Friday and on Sabbath appeared
in the house of God and said: “Give
me a class; give me a Sabbath school
class. I have no child now left me,
and I would like to have a class of little
children. Give me real poor children.
Give me a class off the back, street.”
Tliat. I say, is beautiful. Tliat is tri
umphant sadness. At 3 o’clock this
afternoon, in a beautiful parlor in
Philadelphia—a parlor pictured and
statuetted—there will be from ten to
twenty destitute children of the street.
It has been so every Sabbath after
noon at 3 o’clock for many years.
These destitute children receive relig
ious instruction, concluding with
cakes and sandwiches. How do I
know that that has been going on for
many years? I knew it in this way.
GREED CURED BY CHRISTIAN WORK.
That was the first homo in Philadel
phia where I was called to comfort a
g reat sorrow. They had a splendid
oy and he had been drowned at Long
Branch. The father and mother al
most idolized the hoy, and the sob and
shriek of that father and mother as
they hung over the coffin resound in
my ears today. There seemed to be
no use of praying, for when I knelt
down to pray, the outcry in the room
drowned out all the pray. But the
Lord comforted that sorrow. They
did not forget their trouble. If you
should go on tho snowiest winter af
ternoon into Laurel Hill you would
find a monument with the word
“Walter” inscribed upon it, and a
wreath of fresh flowers around the
name. I think there has not been an
hour all these years, winter or sum
mer, when there was not a wreath of
fresh flowers around Walter’s name.
But the Christian mother who sends
those flowers there, having' no child
left, Sabbath afternoons mothers
ten or twenty of the lost ones of tho
street. That is beautiful That is
what 1 call busy and triumphant sad
ness. Here is a man who has lost uis
roperty. He does not go to hard
king. He does- not destroy his
He comes and says: “Har
ness me for Christian work. My
money’s gone. 1 have no treasures
on earth. I want treasures in heaven.
I have a voice and a heart to serve
God.” You say that that man has
failed. He has not failed—he has
triumphed. Oh, I wish I could per
suade all the people who liavs any
kind of trouble never to give up. I
wish they would look at the midnight
rider of the text, and that the four
hoofs of that beast on which Nehemiah
rode might cut to pieces all your dis
couragements and hardships and
trials.. Give up l Who is going
to give up, when on tho bosom
of God he can have all his
troubles hushed? Give up I Never
tiiink of giving up. Are you borne
down with poverty? A little child
was found holding her dead mother’s
hand in tho darkness of a tenement
house, ancl some ono coming in, the
own life.
Height of the Tower of Babel.
The reputed height of this structure
has at times been greatly exaggerated,
some Javvish authorities fixing it at
twelve miles and Jerome quoting con
temporary assertions for its being four
miles high. These estimates, how
ever, give way to the sober testimony
of Strabo, who states the height at 600
feet, which is the figure generally ac
cepted. The distinction of forming the
remains of the. tower of Babel has been
claimed for three masses of ruins in or
near Babylon; hut the majority of
competent antiquarians have declared
in favor of Birs Nimroud, which stood
in Borsippa, a suharb of Babylon,
eight miles distant from that city; Sir
R. K. Porter showed that the summit
had been exposed to intense vitrifying
heat which must have been the result
of fire operating from above, probably
in the form of lightning, thus con
firming the tradition of its destruction
by fire from heaven. Sir H. F. Raw-
linson discovered that it consisted of
seven stages of brick work on an
earthen platform, each stage being of
a different color. Its ruins still . rise
153 feet above the level of the plain.
According to Herodotus the tower of
Babel was adorned by colossal images
and statues of solid gold, the value of
which he rated at twenty-one millions
sterling, probably as great an exaggera
tion of their worth as twelve miles
was of tho height of the structure.—
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LotJa Crabtree’s Age.
A prominent Federal office holder
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ago when he passed Miss Lotta Crab
tree. “Isn’t it a pity,” said he, “that
that chipper young woman, in whose
cheeks you see no wrinkles, whose
brown eyes, fresh with the light of
genuine youth, and whose step is as
agile as a fawu’s, should he saddled
with tho stigma of olck age—for it is a
stigma to professional women—only
because she was an infant prodigy and
went on the st&ge in her early years?
Tho statements recently printed about
Lotto’s owning up to 40, and being in
realitv 46, are amusing to people who
have known her nearly all ner life, as
I have. I knew her father Tor a quar
ter of a century and was familiar with
the estate he left Mrs. Crabtree, in
f jvernmenl bonds, for Lotto. In 1872
was present at the transfer of these
bonds from Mrs. Crabtree to Lotto, the
former stating to me then, as the rea
son for the assignment: ‘My daughter
is now of lawful age.’ Lotto’s exact
woiyls on that occasion were: ‘I have
now become of age, and 1 agree with
mamma that it is best L. should
toko control of my estate. ? That
makes Lotto exactly 38 years old how,
aud to that age I am willing to make
an affidavit.”—New York World.
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C l EORGIA, CLARKE COUNTY—Whereas G.
T W. Rush, administrator of the estate of
John Eherhart, late of said county, deceased,
lias appli d to me In terms of the law for a dis
charge from said administration These are
therefore to cite and notfy all concerned to
show . ause at the regular term of the Court of
Ordinary *o be held in and for said county on
the first Monday in May next, why such dis
charge should not be granted and said adminis
trator dismissed.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this 3lst day of January, !889.
2-5oam-3m S- M. HERR NGTON, Ordinary.
/ \ EOB^TA— f L*RKBCOUN’ i Yr-Wb.Teaa Cal-
VTUe Vat he'* s widow Of Robert D.- Mathews
'ftto of said county deceased, *pplirs to me for
permanertle te*s of ndministra'ion in the tes
tate ot said deect sad. Tht.se era therefore to
cite and adrnniih all concerned to ahow cause
**t the reculaT term ot the court of ®aid county
to b i held iaand tor s*1d county in March next,
why said letters shcul: b • gn-nhd. Liven under
my hand at offi e. this 3rd. day of Januar* .
ASA. M. JACKSON.
•* - Ordinary.
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A Blast Effective Combination.
This weU known Tonic and Nervine Is gaining
great reputation o-i a core f or Debility, Dyspep-
aia, and Nhltv ors disorders. It relieves all
languid and debilitated conditions of the aj«-
tern ; strengthen* the intellect, und bodily functions;
buildsupwprn out Nenrea: aids digest ion ; re-
* tor f?' r ?Paired or lost Vitality, and brings hack
youthful strength and vigor. It is pleasant to thi
taste, and used regularly braces the System again*
the depressing influence of Malaria? ■
Price—$1.00 per Bottle of 24 ounces.
FOB SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Many BaUdtng Associations.
From the present outlook I venture
to say that in the course of three or
four years St. Louis will be properly
styleu the foster city of building as
sociations. At present there are about
ninety associations in this city doing
well, and there is a constant demand
for stock in them, which necessitates
the forming of a new association every
month or two.—St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
Ladies
Do Your Own Dying at Home With
PEERLESS DYES.
They will dye everything. They are sold every
where. Price 10 cents a package—1 colors.
They have no equal for strength, Brightness,
Amount in Packages, cr fo- Fastness of-• olor,
or non-Fading qualities. They do not crock or
smut. For sale by G. w. Kush & to.'
wade & Sledgf.,
. ' E S. Lyndon,
Druggists,
'Athens, Ga.
First. It is just as nei
sary that fertilizer should
in good mechanical conditu
and throughly assimilated
order to obtain the best
suit from its use as it
necessary that the soil
prepared thoroughly bef<
planting, if one would mi
a good crop.
Second. When one
a fertilizer the first quest!
should be not how much
moniathe manufacturergna?|
antees, but whether tbe
monia is thoroughly assimi!
ed and ready to act immei
ately on the plant. This
will know by examining
complete and absolutely
moniated fertilizer, like tl
ASHKPOO or the BUTAHJ
where the component parts
so united as to from a
feet whole. The field test
such goods will bring abo
the most profitable results.
Third. As one is largelj|
dependent upon the intej
ty of the manufacturer
should buy fertilizers fi
a house known to be absolul
ly reliable and . who would!
only handle goods made bf|
absolutely first cli
manufacturers. Thus
will avoid paying out moi
ey for inferior goods
w r ould probably yield no pi
tical returns.
Fourth. Messrs. fiO
EllT, TAYLOR & AVI
LIAMS of Charleston, S. C
are the sole general agents i
the Ashepoo Phosphlite C»
of Charleston. The mechas!
cal condition of the ASHE
POO EUTAW and CHBO
LINA FERTILIZERS,tte
throng assimilation
their complete availability
probably cannot he surpass
ed by the product of any fac
tory in America. They
only the \ ery purest
best ammoniates in the
facture of their goods
their object is not to r
the .CHEAPEST but to
make the BEST AM
MOST PRODUCTIVE
FERTILIZER FOR COT
TON AND GRAIN
Fifth. He is not the
they are looking for who #
pects to buy the supers 1
brands, the ASHEPOO, EE
TAW AND CHROLUA
at the same price fob whic|
ANY COMMERCIAL MANt®
CAN BE PURCHASED.
Sixth. Messrs. J.
RITHERS & CO. of Atbetf
Ga.,will have on a hand
large lot of FERTILIZES*
the present season as tMj
have ha£ heretofore, &
Everyone will find it to
interest to see them bet'
making purchases.
Millions of Fruit Trees, W
FOR SALE
f r November delivery. We want
man in every section to sell only on ^
yon'S
Terms. We will send contract to•*“+
that can give bond. Large comffl
Address, „ju Vnri tr?'
J. C. LIXDT.KV 8i V-KO-. >
GREENSBORO,
Scoff Ski®
Atlanta. Co.
and Whiskey Hab<
tta cured at homo with
out pain. Book of par
ticulars sent FREE.
B. M.WOOLLEY, M.D.
unico <m!4 Whitehall EL
Eczema, Itchy,
menV ,S witliout'any t:
of
■SWAl£*
B,ldn|
I iicii owes, x impl s Eczema,
Skin Eruptions, do matter howoMJJji
standing. It is potent, eflltcct.ve,
ii.te,
