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'BEY. EE. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S
DAT SERMON.
Subject: “Worth Living.”
Text , Whorefom doth a living mr.n
tdaln?"—-Lamentatloni ill., 89.
If we leave to the evolutionist* to guos*
whom wr came from, and to tho theologian*
fc bare prophesy left for where consideration w« are gotnsr ihe to, Important we still
fact that wo are her**. There may t>o
doubt about where the river rise*, nnl
some doubt abont where the river empties,
but there can be no dou'rt About the fact
that we are stilling on it. Hoi am not sur¬
pris'd life that living?" everybody ask* th i question, “I*
worth
Ho’omon in his unhappy moment* « iv* it
Is not. "Vanity,” “vexation of spirit,’’
wool,” are hi* eetlmHte, Tho fact is that
Solomon wn* at one tlmn a polygamist, an 1
that soured his disposition. Oan wife makes
wr<*tehed. a man happv; more than on« makes him
But Solomon was converted from
polygamy be wrote, to monogamy, hr and tho road last words
wero ever tho words a* “mountain* ns wo oan spiee*.” thorn,
of But
Jeremiah says in my te.\t life Is worth living.
In a book supposed to be doleful and
lugubrious nnl sepulchral and entitled
"Lamentations’ he plainly intimates that
th« blessing of merely living Is so great and
•grand a blessing that though a man hnv)
piled has on him right nil to misfortunes complain, Tim nn I ibiusters
ne no author of
ntv test crim out in startling intonation to
all land* and to all csoturie*, “Wherefore
doth a living man com plain A diversity
of opinion In our time a* well a* in olden
time. Hero is a young man of light hair
and blue aye* an I sound digestlou and
.In generous the salary and happily affianced and
wav to become the partner in a com¬
mercial firm of which he i* an important
elerk. Ask him whether life is worth living.
He will laugh In your face an 1 sriy, “ Ves,
yes, y«s!” Here i* a man who has eorno to
tho forties, ir • is at thotlptop of tho hill of
life. Every step lias Imen a stumble and a
bruise. The people lie trusted havo turned
out de*"rters, ho and the money ho has honestly
made has been eheatod out o’, iris
nerves are out of tune. Hu has poor
appetite, and all tho Ion I ho lie-* eat does
not assimilate. Forty miles climbing up the
hill of life have been to him like climbing
the Matterhorn, and there are forty miles
yet dangerous to go down, and descent is always more
than ascent. Ask him whether
life is worth living, and lie will drawl out in
shivering and- lugubrious and appalling
negative, “No, no, no!”
How are we to decide this matter right
oously and intelligently? You will find the
same ion from man vacillating, oscillating in his opin¬
I dejection to exuberance, and if ho
o very mercurial in ids temperament it will
depend wind blow*. very much upon which wav tho
If tho wind blow from tho
northwest, “Yes," and if you blow ask him, ho will say,
and it from tho northeast,
and you ask him, ho will say “No." How
ur« we, then, to got tho question righteously
answered? Bupposo wo call all nations to¬
gether in a great convention on eastern or
western In tho hemisphere and lot all those who
are affirmative) say “Aye,” and all
those who arc in tho negative say “No.”
While there would bo hundreds of thou¬
sands who would answer In tho affirmative,
there would bo more millions who would
answer in the negative, and because of tho
greater number who have sorrow and mis¬
fortune and trouble the “nous’ would havo
it, Tho answer I shall give will bo different
from either, and yet it will commend itsell
to nil who hoar me this day as the right an
ewer, if you ask me, “I lire worth llvli
I answer, it all depends pon the kin 1 0 ilfo
you live.
In the first place, l remark that a life ol
more money getting is always a failure, be¬
cause you will never get ns much ns you
want. Tho poorest people in this countrj
nro the richest, and tho next to thorn those
who are half as rich. Thorn is not a scis¬
sors grinder on the streets of Now York ot
Brooklyn these who is so anxious to make money
as men who have piled up fortunes
yonr after year in storehouses, In govern
rnent securities, in tenement houses, in
Whole city blocks.
You ought In see thorn jump when they
hoar the flrcheli ring. You ought to see
them in their excitement when some hntik
explodes. You ought to sec their agitation
when there iu proposed a reformation in
tho tariff. Their nerves tremble like harp
strings, the but no music in tho vibration. They
read reports from Wall stroot in the
morning with a concernment that threatens
paralysis or apoplexy, or, raoro probably,
they have a toiograph’or a telephone in thoir
heuse, so they catch every breath of change
In the money market. The disease of accu¬
mulation lias eaten into them—eaten into
their heart, into (hair lungs, fnto their
•pleen, Chemists Into their liwor, into their bones.
have sometimes analyzed the hu¬
man body, and they s ty it is so much mag¬
nesia, so much lime, so much chlorate of po¬
tassium, If some Christian chemist would
analyze would one of these financial behemoths, lie
find he is made up of copper and gold
and stiver and zinc and lead and coal and
Iron. That is not a life worth living. There
MO too many earthquakes in it, too many
agonies in it, too many perditions in it. They
build their castles, and they opou their pict¬
ure) galleries, and they summon prima don¬
nas, and they offer every inducement for
happiness to come and live there, but happl
nose will not come.
They send footmanned and postillionoA
their equipage door. to bring hor; she will not rule to
wlli They send princely escort ; she
not lake their arm. They make their
gateways ride triumphal arches; she will not
under them. They set a golden throne
before a golden plate ; * he turns away front
the banquet. They e s 11 to her from up¬
holstered balcony ; she will uot listen. M irk
vou, this Is the failure of those who have had
largo accumulation.
And then you must take into consideration
that the vast majority of those who make the
dominant Idea ot life money getting fall tar
short of affluence, it is estimated that ouly
al»out two out of a hundred business meu
nave A anything worthy the name of success.
man who seen is his life with one domi¬
nant Idea ot financial accumulation spends a
life not worth living,
80 the idea of worldly approval. If that
bo dominant In a man's life, he is miserable.
The two mo*t unfortunate men In this coun¬
try for the six months of next presidential
campaign will l*e the two men nominated
for the presidency. The reservoirs of abus \
and diatribe and malediction will gradually
AH up, gallon above gallon, hogshead above
hogshead, and about uutumnthesotwo reser¬
voir* will be brimmiug full, and a hose will
be attached to tuieh one, and it will play
away on those nominees, and they will have
to stand It and take tho abuse, and tho false¬
hood, and the caricature, and the anathema,
and the caterwauling and the filth, and they
will be rolled iu it ha «1 rolled over and over
in it until they are choked and submerged
and strangulated, and at every sign of re¬
turning consciousness they will be barked
at by ail the hounds ot political parties from
ocean to ocean,
And yet there are a hundred men to-day
struggling for that privilege, and there arc
thousands of men who are helping them In
the struggle. Now, that is not a life worth
living. You can get slandered and abused
cheaper aoale. Do than that! Take it on a smaller
not be so ambitious to have a
whole reservoir rolled over on you. But
what you see in the matter of high politi¬
cal preferment you see iu every com¬
munity in the struggle for what is called
social position.
Ten* of thousands of people trying to get
iato that realm, and they are under terriflo
- What is social position? It is a
difficult thing to define, but we alt kuow
what it k. Good morals and intelligence are
not necessary. but wealth or the show ot
wealth to absolutely indispensable. There
are men to-dar as notorious for their liber
* intern as the night is famous for its dark
who move in what Is called high social
position. There are hundreds of out and out
rakes in American society whose names are
mentioned among the distinguished guest*
at the great levees. Th<y havo annexed all
the known human vices and are longing tot
other worlds of diabolism to conquer. Good
morals are not necessary in many of the ex
•Ned circles of society.
Neither is intelligence necessary. You find
in that realm men who would not know an
adverb from an adjective if they met it a
hundred times a day and who could not
writ s a letter of acceptance or regrets without
the aid of a secretary. They bay the‘r Ubrarinx
by the square yard, on'v »n*Lni, i 0 have the
""fading Russian. Their Ignorance to pos'
clnsr English grammar al¬
and yet tbs finest parlors
^H|Wuw open before them. (lool morale an*! fn
»r.’ not necessary. but wealth or a
•how It does of wealth is positively difference Indispensable. how
not make any you
got your wealth If j'ou only get It. The best
way for yon to get Into •oclal position la for
yon to buy a large amount bn credit, then
pat yonr property in your wife’* name, have
a few preferred creditors and then make an
assignment. Then disappear from the com¬
munity until the breeze la over and then
come back and start In the same business.
Do you not see how beautifully that will put
out all the people who are In competition
with you ana trying <0 make an honest liv¬
ing? How quiokly it will get you into high
social position ! What is the use of forty or
fifty yonrs of hard work when you can by
two or three bright strokes make a great
fortune? Ah, my friends, when you really
lose yonr money how quick they will let you
Will drop, drop. ana tne nigner you get rnatranor you
There are thousands to-day in that realm
who are anxious to keop in it. There are
thousands In that realm who are nervous lor
fear they will tall out of It, and there are
changes going on every year and every
month and every hour which involve heart¬
breaks that are never reported. High soolal
life Is constantly in a flutter about the deli¬
cate question they as to whom they shall let in
and whom shall push out, and the bat¬
tle is going on-~-pler mirror against pior mir¬
ror, chandelier agalust chandelier, wino cel¬
lar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equipage against equipage, Un
certainty and insecurity dominant in that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at a
premium ami a life not worth living.
A life of sin, a life of pride, a life of indul¬
gence,a life of worldlness.a life devoted to the
woric, dead failure, the nosh and tae devil ts a failure, a
an infinite failure, I care not
how many presents you sent to that cradle,
or how many garlands you send to that
grave, you need to put rigut under tho namo
on the tombstona this inscription, “Better
for that man if he had never been bora."
But I shall show you a life that is worth
living. A young man says : "I am here. I
am decided not responsible for my ancestry. Others
that I am not responsible for my
tomperamont; I God gave me that. But hero
am, in the afternoon of the nineteenth cen¬
tury. at t wenty years of age. I am here, and
I must take an account of stock. Hero I
have a body which Is a divinely constructed
engine. I must put it to the very best uses
and I must allow nothing to damage this
rarest of machinery. Two feet, nnd they
menu locomotion. Two eyes, and they menu
capacity aud to pick out my own way. Two
ears, they are telephones of communioa
tiou with all tho outsido world, and they
mean capacity to catch swoetest music anl
the voices of friendship—tho vary best music.
A tongue, with almost infinity of articula¬
tion. Yes. hands with which to welcome or
resUt or lift or smite or wave or bless—hands
to “Hero help myself nnd help others.
is a world which, after 6000 years
of battling with tempest and accident, is still
grauder thau any architect, human or an¬
gelic, could have drafted. 1 have two lamps
to light me—a golden lamp and a silver
lamp—a golden lamp set on the sapphire
mantel of tho day, a silver lamp set on the
jet mantel of the night. Yea, I have that at
twenty years of age which defies all in¬
ventory of valuables—a soul with capacity to
choose or reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to
love or to hate. Pinto sayR it Is immortal.
Seneca says it Is immortal. Confucius says
it is immortal. Au old book among the fam¬
ily relics, a book with leathern cover almost
worn out and pages almost obliterated by oft
perusal, Immortal. joins tho I other have eighty books in saying I
am years for a
lifetime, live hour, sixty years yet to I live. I may not
an but then must lav out- my
plans intelligently tbe and for long life. Sixty
years added to twent I havo already
lived—that will bring me to nighty. I must
remember that these eighty years aro only a
brief preface to tho five hundred thousand
millions o! qulntilUons of years which will
be my chief residence nn 1 existence. Now I
understand my opportunities nnd my re¬
sponsibilities.
11 If there Is any being in tho universe nil
wise and all benolloent who can help a man
book in such found a juncture, I family want him. The old
among the relics tolls mo
thero is a tio 1, and that for the s'.ke of Ills
Bon. ono Jesus, He will give help to a man.
To Him I appeal. God help me! Hero I
havo yet sixty years to do for myself and to
do for others. I must develop this body by
all industries, by all gymnastics, by all sun¬
shine, by all fresh air, by all good habits.
An l tills soul I must have swept and garn¬
ished nnd illumined aud glorified by all that
I can do for it and all that I can get God to
do for it. It shall bo a Luxemburg of fine
pictures. harmonies. It It shall shall bo be an a orchestra palace for of God grand and
righteousness to reign in. I wonder how
many kind words I can utter in tho next
sixty years. I will try. I wonder how many
coo l deeds I can do in the next sixty years?
I will try. God help me !”
That young man outers life. He is
buffeted; lie is tried; hois perplexed. A
grave opens ou this side, and a grave opens
on that side. He falls, but he rises again.
He gets into Tho a hard battle, of but his he life gets the
victory. direction. main course He blesses is iu
tho right with. everybody
he comes in contact God forgives his
mistakes and makes everlasting record of
his holy endeavors, nu l at the close of it
God says *0 him, “Well done, good nnd
faithful servant; ontor Into the joys of thy
Lord.” My brother, my sister, I do not care
whether that man dies at thirty, forty, fifty,
sixty, seventy or eighty years of age. You
can chisel right under liis name on tho
tombstone these words: “His life was
worth living.”
times Amid thero the hills ot mother. New Hampshire There in olden
sits a are six
childreu iu the household—four boys and
two girls. Small farm. Very rouch ; hard
worx to coax a rrvm.g out ot it. Mighty tug
to make tho two ends ot tbeyear meet. The
boys go to school in winter and work the
farm in summer. Mother is tho chief pre¬
siding spirit. With her hands she knits all
the stockings for the little foet, and she is
the mautua maker for the bo\*s, and she is
the milliner for the girls. Thera is only one
mqsical instrument in the house—the spin¬
ning wheel. The food is very plain, but it
is always well provided. The winters are
very cold, but are kept out by the blankets
she quilted. Ou Sunday, when she appears
iu tho village church, her children around
hor, the minister looks down and is remind¬
ed of the Bible description of a good house¬
wife . “Her children arise up and call her
blessed. Her husband also, and he praiseth
Some years go by, and the two eldest boys
want a collegiate education, and the house¬
hold economics are severer, and the calcula¬
tions are closer, and until those two boys get
their education there is a hard battle for
bread. One of these boys enters the univer¬
sity, stands in a pulpit widely influential
and preaches righteousness, judgment and
temperance, istry and thousands during his min¬
are blessed. The other lad who got the
collegiate education goes into the law, and
thence into legislative halls, and after a
while he commands listening senates as he
makes a plea tor the downtrodden and the
outcast. One of the younger boys becomes
a merchant, starting at the foot of the lad¬
der, but climbing on up until his success and
his philanthropies ore recognized all over the
land. The other son stays at home because
he prefers faming life, and then he thinks
he will be able to take care of father and
mother when they get old.
Of the two daughters, when the war broke
out burg one Landing went through Fortress the hospital of Pitts¬
and Monroe, cheer¬
ing up the dying and homesick' and taking
the last message to kindred far away, so that
every time Christ thought of her He said, as
of old. "The same is My sister and mother."
The other daughter has a bright home of her
owu. nnd in the afternoon of the forenoon
when she has been devoted to her household
she goes fortii to hunt up the sick and to
encourage the discouraged, leaving smiles
nrd benediction all along the way.
But one day there start five telegrams from
the village for these five absent on* s, saying,
“Come; mother is dangerously ill.” But be¬
fore they can be ready to start they receive
another tele-cram, saying, “Come : mother is
doad.” The old neighbors gather in the old
farmhouse to do the Inst office* of respect.
But as that fnrmlng sor. and the clergyman,
and the senator, nnd the merchant, aud the
two daughters stand by tbe casket or tits
dead mother, taking the last look or lifting
their little children to see once more tho
face ot dear old grandma, I want to ask
fhat group around tho casket one question,
“Do you really think her file was woYth liv¬
ing?" A Hie for God. a life for other*, a
life of unselfishness, a useful life, a Chris¬
tian life. Is always worth living.
I would not On I it bar 1 to persuade you
that tbe poor lad. Peter Cooper, making glue
for a Hving an 1 then amassing a great for
tnne until h e could build n phtianthrophy
which ha* ha 1 ita echo in 10,000 philanthro¬
pies ail over the country—! would tot And
It hard to persuade you that bis life was
worth living. Neither would I find It hard
to persuade you that the life of Susannah
Weeley was worth living. She sent out one
son to organize Methodism and the other son
to ring his find anthems all through the ages. I
would not It hard to persuade you that
the life of France* Leere was worth living,
as she established in Eogland a school for
the scientific nursing of the sick, and then
when the war broke out between France and
Germany went to the front, and With her
own hands scraped the mud off the
bodies of the "soldiers dying In the
trenches with her weak arm, standing one
night in the hospital, pushing back a Ger¬
man soldier to his couoh as, aLl frenzied with
his wounds, he rushed toward the door and
said: “Let me go! Let me go to my ‘liebe
mutter.* ” Major-Generals standing back to
let pass this angel of mercy.
Neither would I have hard work to per¬
suade you that Grace Darling lived a life
worth living—the heroine of the lifeboat.
You are not wondering that the Duchess of
Northumberland came to see her, and that
people of all lands asked for her lighthouse,
and that the proprietor of the Adelphl The¬
atre, In London, offered her $100 a night
just to Sit in the lifeboat while some ship¬
wrecked scene was being enacted.
But I know the thought in the minds of
hundreds who read this. You say. “While
I know all these lived lives worth much.” living, I
don’t think my life amounts to Ah,
my friends, whether you live a life con
spicious or inconspicuous, it is worth living
if you live aright. And I want my next sen¬
tence to go down into the depths of all
your souls. You are to be rewarded, not
according to the greatness of your work,
but according to the holy talents industries
with which you employed the you
really possessed. The majority of the
crowns of heaven will not be given to people
with ten talents, for most of them were
tempted only to serve themselves. The vast
majority of the crowns of heaven will be
given to people who had one talent, but gave
it all to God. And remember that our life
here is introductory to another. It is the
vestibule to a palace, but who despises the
door of the Madeleine because there are
grander glories within? Your life if rightly
lived is the first bar of an eternal oratorio,
and who despises the first note of Haydn’s
symphonies? And the life you live now is
all the more worth living because it opens
into a life that shall never end, and the last
letter of the word “time” is tho first letter
of the word “eternity! ’
WILL OPEN AGAIN.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S DISPENSAR¬
IES TO RESUME BUSINESS.
Governor Tillman Issues a Proclama
mation to That Effect.
A Columbia special says: Gov
erner Tillman promised in bis cam¬
paign speeches a few days ago to re¬
open tbe dispensaries the 1st day of
August. Monday ho issued tho fol¬
lowing proclamation:
“State of South Carolina, Executive
Chamber.—Whereas, under the pro¬
visions of an act to prohibit the manu¬
facture and sale of intoxicating liquors,
as beverage, within the state, except as
herein provided, approved December
24, 1892, the state assumed control
of tho legal liquor traffic in Sonth
Carolina, commencing July 1, 1893;
and, whereas, the said policy and pur¬
pose of the state to permit the sale of
liquor by and through the state’s offi¬
cers ouly, was reaffirmed by an act,
approved December 23, 1893, entitled
‘An Act to Declare the Law in Refer¬
ence to and Further Regulate the Use,
Sale, Consumption, Transportation and
Disposition of Alcoholic Liquids or
Liquors Within tho State of South
Carolina, and to Police the Same;’ and
Whereas, the supremo court of the state
of South Carolina, by a decision ren¬
dered tho 19th of April, 1894, de¬
clared tho first act, above mentioned,
unconstitutional, except one small
proviso of one section, the execu¬
tive, in obedience to what he conceiv¬
ed to bo the will of the court, closed
all the dispensaries and discharged the
constabulary. In a subsequent decis¬
ion, the court still ignoring the act of
1893 above mentioned, constructed
its decision to mean ‘there can be no
legal sale of liquor by license,’ but
has seemingly on purpose omitted to
mention or construe the act of 1893 :
and, whereas, tho state of South Caro¬
lina acting in good faith through tho
executive branch of the government,
and relying upon the decision of
the supreme court in the case of
Hoover vs. the Town Council of Ches¬
ter, in which it was declared that tho
act of 1892 ‘was in effect an act to
regulate the sale of spirituous liquors,
the power to do which is universally
recognized,’has invested large sums of
money in liquors for sale under the
provisions of the two acts mentioned;
and, whereas, this liquor is now being
held at heavy expense, while the state
is flooded with contraband whiskey,
sold without authority of law.
“Now, therefore, I, B. R. Tillman,
governor of the state of South Car¬
olina, in exercise of my discretion, as
executive, do issue this my proclama¬
tion and declare that the said supreme
court, having adjourned without in
any wise giving expression in regard
to the act of 1S93, that the said act is
of full force and effect, and will be en¬
forced in accordance with my oath of
office, until the court shall have passed
upon the same, or until the legislature
shall have repealed it.
“ The county dispensers in the va¬
rious counties will open their dispen¬
saries on Wednesday, August 1st. All
persons interested, including public
carriers, are notified that the importa¬
tion of liquors will be at the risk of
seizure and prosecution, and all con¬
traband liquors found in the borders
of the state will be seized and confis¬
cated according to law.
“In testimony whereof, I have here¬
unto set my hand and caused the great
seal of the state to be affixed, at Colum¬
bia, this 23d day of July, A.D., 1894,
and in the one hundred and nineteenth
year of the independence of the United
States of America.
“B. R. Tillman.
“By the Governor,
“ J. E. Tindall, Secretary of State*.’'
MAY CAUSE TROUBLE.
It is generally thought that this re¬
opening of the liquor excitement is
going to cause serious trouble all
over the state in the next few months.
Pleading for Debs.
A motion was made before,. Judges
Wood and Grosscup in the United
States court at Chicago Monday morn
ing to dismiss the charges of contempt
of court agaipst President Debs, Vice
President Howard, Secretary Keliher
and Director Rogers, of the American
Railway Union. The case was argued
at great l ength, but not finish ed.
An Anarchist Warning.
Placards have been posted in various
portions of Paris predicting a series
of bomb explosions and other acts of
retaliation in revenge for the execu
tion of anarchists Yaillant, Henry and
«th“T«
LATEST TELEGRAMS
CONDENSED INTO SHORT AND
BREEZY PARAGRAPHS,
And Giving the Gist of tide News Up to
the Time of Going to Press.
At a meeting of the local American
Railway Union at Butte, Mont,, the
strike on tbe Montana division •was
declared off. It was tho last road in
the state to hold out. The Northern
Pacific and Union Pacific are in full
operation, though trains are running
under military escort.
The Chicago express No. 12, on the
Big Four, collided with a freight en
gine at Griffiths, O., killing the fire
man ou the freight engine and two
tramps on the head end of the mail
car; also badly injuring Engineer Duf¬
fer on the jfreight engine. Several
passengers were also injured.
The Southern Railway and Steam¬
ship Association'at a meeting at Coney
Island, resolved to increase the rate on
first-class freight between New York
and Atlanta, Ga. The rate has been
60 cents since i he spring meeting of
the association. It has now been fixed
at $1.14 per hundred. The meeting
adjourned until August 22.
The Allen Paper Car Wheel Com¬
pany started up its works at Pullman
Monday morning. Only two of the
fifty employes of the Allen company
returned to work. The managers of
the works say they are not discouraged
by the failure of mere men to report
for work, and insist that the men have
been restrained from reporting at tho
opening hour through fear of violence.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: Mr.
William J. Burns, of the secret service,
and special agent appointed to confer
with the governor about the special
warrants, lias arrived in the city. After
learning that the who le matter had been
submitted to Secretary Carlisle by Gov¬
ernor Stone, through. Senator George,
ho has nothing to say jn the matter,
but will await'the decision of the sec¬
retary.
The southbound passenger train
from Dallas, over the Text .sand Pacific
road, due at Texarkana, Ark., at 7:15
o’clock p. m., Monday, was wrecked
near Queen City, Tex., shortly before
6 o’clock. It is reported that seven
people were killed as a result of the
accident. Among those who met
death were the engineer, fireman, ex¬
press messenger and a negro porter.
Three passengers were also reported
killed.
The American Protective Association
is beginning to cut a very important
figure in the political situation ut Chat¬
tanooga. At first the organization was
ridiculed and no attention was paid to
it, but now the fact has developed that
it has over one thousand members in
tho city, which is sufficient, to decide
the county elections either way. A
ticket is being formulated by the
American Protective Association lead¬
ers and it will receive the full vote of
tho body.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES
Which Happen From Day to Day
Throughout the Busy World..
It is officially announced that in
consequence of the prevalence of chol¬
era the mobilizing of the reserves and
the customary autumn military ma¬
neuvers in tho vicinity of St. Peters¬
burg, Russia, will not take place this
year.
Late in the day Thursday foreign
bankers of New York announced that
they had received orders to forward
additional amounts of gold to Europe.
In consequence steamers will probably
take out between two and three mil¬
lion dollars of the metal.
The Italian government has received
information from Africa that a battle
was fought Tuesday between a force of
Malidists 300 strong and a detachment
of Italian troops near Kassala. The
Mahdists were defeated and the Italians
took possession of Kassala, which they
occupy. Tho Italian loss was slight,
The big shops of flic Atlantic and
Pacific railroad, in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, have closed down, throwing
out of employment about 400 men.
General Superintendent Gabel says:
“The unfortunate financial condition
that the receivers of this company find
themselves in as a direct result of the
recent strike of the American Railway
Union, makes it necessary that we
close the works at this point indefi¬
nite! v.” ,
A terrible accident, resulting in the
death of seven men, occurred at Ports¬
mouth, England, Thursday. The
Trinity house boat, having a crew of
seven trained wreckers on board, was
engaged in blowing up the wreck of
the yacht Asalia in the Solent, as tho
wreck was dangerous to navigation.
In some manner, which will never be
known, a dynamite cartridge exploded,
killing the seven men aud shattering
the boat.
A New York dispatch says: Charles
Broadway Rouss, the millionaire mer¬
chant, has decided to give a competitive
prize to art students of southern birth,
who have been resident in Paris not
longer than two years. Mr. Rouss is
a southerner and he limits the compe¬
tition to those born south of the Ma¬
son and Dixon line. The prize will be
sufficient to maintain tho winner for
two years, by whieh time he is expected
to prove his ability, if he has any.
Mayor Pardee, of Oakland, Cal., bae
issned a proclamation in which he or -
ders the crowds off the streets, and re¬
quires the people to keep in-doors,
leaving home only in pursuit of their
legitimate business. The- reason for
the proclamation is stated by the may¬
or to be the condition of affairs in
Oakland, threatening the destruction
of the property, the disturbance of the
peace and the interference of travel by
railroad trains, and the cessation of
commerce.
An Immigration Meeting.
The executive committee of the
Southern Immigration and Industrial
Association will meet at Chattanooga
■Wednesday, August I. The meeting
will be a very important one and will
have representatives from all states in
the union.
TO DEVELOP THE SOUTH.
Southern States Exchange Establish
Headquarters in New York.
Temporary quarters have been York en¬
gaged at No. 23 Park Row, New
city, for the “Southern States Ex¬
change Association,” which is the
name of the organization formed by
the committee appointed by tho re
oent Fifth Avenue hotel conference.
The officers of the association are
Hugh R. Garden, president; Stuy
vesant Fish, vice president; R. Wayne
Wilson, secretary and general man¬
ager, and John H. Inman, treasurer.
The committee for each state has
been instructed to at once organize
his forces, and, through his state
press, invite associate membership and
inform the people of the service the
association is now prepared to render.
Some interesting facts and figures
havo been furnished by Richard H.
Edmonds, of the Manufacturers’ Reo
ord. Ho says that it has been demon¬
strated to the world that in iron, cot¬
ton and lumber manufacture it is no
longer a question as to whether the
south can competo with other sections,
but it is a question as to whether other
sections can hold their own against the
south. Southern cotton mills practi¬
cally monopolize the coarse goods
trades and are rapidly pushing into
the production of finer goods. Ala¬
bama is making iron at less than $6.00
a ton, and able experts have recently
reported that the Carolinas can pro¬
duce the best grades of Bessemer iron
for steel making at less than $3 a ton.
In 1880 the south had total farm as¬
sets of $2,314,000,000; by 1890 they
had increased to $3,181,000,000, an in¬
crease of 37 per cent., while during
the same period the increase in all
other states and territories was only 30
per cent. This, it should be remem¬
bered, was accomplished by the south
without immigration, while the west
had the benefit of nearly 5,000,000
toreigners who settled there within
fhat period.
Ten years ago the south’s agricul¬
tural and manufacturing and mining
products aggregated in value about
$1,000,000,000; now they are nearly
$2,000,000,000, and are annually in¬
creasing. The increase in population
during that period was only 15 to 20
per cent, as the eouth has no heavy
immigration to swell its growth.
So, practically the same people who
ten years ago were producing $1,200,
000,000 a year are now, by reason of
being more fully employed, able to
turn out nearly $8,000,000 a year more
than they were then doing. They h vo
more than doubled their railroad mile¬
age and trebled and quadrupled the
traffic; they have more than quadrupled
their cotton bill, added $2,000,000,
000 to the assessed value of their prop¬
erty and $3,900,000,000 to its true
value, and more than doubled their
banking capital. Such is the record
of the last ten years, worked out in
spite of almost overwhelming obstacles.
Mamma—Remember, Johnnie, it is
the soft answer that turneth away
wrath. Never raise your hand against
a boy you dislike. Have you today ?
Johnnie—No, ma’am. I gave Tommie
Taddles my new ball bat to lick a fel¬
low for me.
No One Mourns tbe Loss
Of the treacherous, long abiding, deceptive
symptoms of kidney complaint. But tho re¬
turn of regularity is hailed when, with the
aid of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the wise
disciple of common sense who mes it per¬
ceives a return of regularity. Use the Bitters
in malarial, kidney or dyspepsia trouble, dis¬
order of the bowels, nervousness or debility.
Trust in the Lord for a good crop, but don’t
neglect tho cultivating
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet Laboratory and Binghamton, Consultation free.
N. Y.
The best testimonial of an employer to an
employe is a voluntary increase of salary.
The Lndles.
The plea c ant, effect and perfect safety with
which ladies may use the California liquid lax¬
ative. Syrup of Figs, under a'l conditions
makes it their favorite remedy. To get tho
true and genuine article, look for the name of
the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near the
bottom of the package.
them. Cigarettes don’t kill the person who smokes
They merely hasten his death.
The Best of All.
kidney McMinnville, Tenn., Nov. 15, 1893—1 had
trouble for over twenty yearn and had
tried everything I could hear of, without ben¬
efit. Two bottles of King’s Royal Germetu°r
cured me, and I have not bad any trouble for
six months and believe I am cured. I certainly
think it the finest remedy I ever raw, and
have recommended it to many friend* for fe¬
their vers, stomach, kidney and bowel been tronb'es,and
use of Germetuerhas satisfactory
In every instance. H. H. Faulkner.
Good Character Important.
Besides the happy good satisfaction that a clear
conscience and character bring to every
heart, it has a commercial value that it to well
to take into consideration. For instance, B. F.
Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va., are adver¬
tising in opportunities this paper, and offer of specially character good
business to men and
standing in their rt spective cotnmumties.They
want parties to woik all or part of their time,
as may suit their convenience.
Attention, Tonri*t.
The mo*t pleasant and cheapest way to
reach Boston, New York, and tbe East is via
Central The R til road is and $42.30 Ocean Steam-hip Com
Ti*nv. rate for the round trip,
$24.00 straight. Ticket* inc’ude meal* and
stateroom. Table* supplied with all the deli
cacte- of the season. For infortna ion call on
or address any agent of Central R. R.
Every Woman Should Bead This.
To the Editor: Please say that I will
gladly cured tell any suffering woman how 1 was
of female weakness after lonv suffering.
I have nothing to “ell. Address with stamp
Mrs. B. Falkner, 72 Martin St., Atlanta, Ga.
Do you desire a clerkship in the city or with
a railroad? If so s°nd ut roar n»m’. State
qualifications. ladies We finl situations for both
and gentlemen, % Addres-s Business, Sa¬
vannah, Gl
If it Only Helped a Little.
It would be worth 50 cents. One hour’s free¬
dom from the terrible irritating itch of tetter
is worth more than a whole box of Tetterine
costs. It will cure—sure acd it’s the only
thing by th at will cure. 50 cents at drug stores,
or mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.
flnll'.* Catarrh Care
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
In Hot Weather
Something is needed to keep up tho appetite,
assist digestion and giva "ood, healthfut
sleep. For these purpose Hoo i’s S iranp i
rilla ie peculiarly adapted. As a blood pur
Sarsa -
parilla
and power Ifler it it is to ha* chiefly mako no eqn*l, by pure its Cures
blood that it has won
such fame as a cure for scrofula, salt rheum
and other similar diseases. Get Hood’s.
llocil’i Pill* cure headache and Indigestion.
The Best Things
to Eat
Are made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER
bread, biscuit, cake, roils, muffins, crusts, and the va
rious pastries requiring a leavening or raising agent.
Risen with ROYAL BAKING POWDER, all these
things are superlatively light, sweet, tender, delicious
and wholesome.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER is the greatest of
time and labor savers to the pastry cook, Besides, it
economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes
the food more digestible and healthful. \
BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
j. 7 ____
Our War Potentiality.
The United States has been said to
be a warliko nation without being a
military nation. Its war potentialities
are vast, indeed. It showed that
thirty years ago, when with only a
little more than half its present popu¬
lation it mustered more than 3,000,
000 men under arms in tho Union and
and Confedorato forces. There are
now in America the enormous total of
9,900,000 men of military age oligiblo
for military service. No other civil¬
ized country in the world could place
such a gigantic host of men iu the
field in an emergency.
Of course, tho actual number of or¬
ganized, drilled and uniformed citizen
soldiers is only a small fraction of this,
but the real available military strength
of the United States is only inade¬
quately appreciated by tho uverago
American. The military spirit which
the civil war engendered has not died
out among the American youth. On
the contrary, it has amply held its
own, if it lias not increased. Never
before was the national guard of tho
several states so strong in numbers, so
well armed, so excellently disciplined.
There aro 112,190 of theso volun¬
teers in all, representing infantry,
cavalry and artillery. Thoir efficiency
widely varies, being high as a rule iu
the old, rich and populous states, and
less satisfactory in the newer and
Bparsely settled communities.
New York heads the list in numbers
with a well equipped force of 12,810
officers and men—as large as a fighting
army corps of the rebellion. Penn¬
sylvania lias a force of 8,014, whoso
mettle was tried two years ago at
Homestead; Ohio has 6,125, and Mas¬
sachusetts 5,666. As it happens, tho
states in which the recent strike cen¬
tered are woll prepared for such an
emergency. Illinois’ militia body
musters4,777 men; Indiana’s, 2,633;
Iowa’s, 2,351; Missouri’s, 2,415, and
Michigan’s, 2,801. Illinois is particu¬
larly fortunate in the character of its
fine city regiments.
The entire organized militia of the
United States is subject to the orders
of tho president, and can bo moved
and concentrated whorever occasion
for its presence arises. When to this
great army of 100,000 men are added
the 25,000 regular and 2,000 or 3,000
blue jackets and marines of tho war
ships on the home station, it is obvi¬
ous that there is something more than
the policeman’s club between tho
American people and anarchy .—Boston
Journal.
People who go to grand hotols have
much to put up with, and they who
ride in crowded street cars havo to
stand a great deal.
A NO-T O-BAC MI RACLE.
PHYSICAL PERFECTION PREVENTED
BY THE USE OP TOBACCO.
An Old Timer ot Twcnty-tlirco Yonrs’ To¬
bacco Chewing and Smoking Cured, nnd
Gains Twenty Pounds In Thirty Days.
Laxe Geneva, Wis., July 21— Special.—
The ladiek of our beautiful little town aro
making an interesting and exciting timo for
tobacco-using husbands, since the Injurious
effects of tobacco and the ease with which
It con be cured by a preparation called No
To-Bae, have been so plainly demonstrated
by the cure of Mr. F. C. Waite. In a written
statement he says : “I smoked and chewed
tobacco for twenty-three years, nnd I am
sure that my case was ono of the worst in
this part of tho country. Even after I went
to bed at night, if I woke up I would want
to chew or smoke. It was not only killing
me but my wife was also ailing from tho in¬
jurious effects. Two boxes of No-To-Bac
cured me, and I have no more desire for to¬
bacco than I have to jump out of the win¬
dow. I have gained twenty pounds In thirty
days, my wife is well, and wo are indeed
both happy to say that No-To-Bac is truly
'worth its weight in gold’ to us.”
The cure nnd improvement in Mr. Waite’s
case is looked upon as a miracle—iu fact, it
is the talk of the town and county, and it is
estimated that over a thousand tobacco
users will bo using No-To-Bac within a few
weeks. The peculiarity about No-To-Bac as
a patent medicino is that the makers, the
Sterling Remedy Company, No. 45 Randolph
street, Chicago, absolutely guarantee the
use of three boxes to cure or refund the
money, and the cost, $2.50, is so trifling as
compared with the expensive and unneces¬
sary use of tobacco that tobacco-using bus
bands have no good excuse to offer when
their wives insist upon taking No-To-Bac
and getting results in the way of pure, sweet
breath,, wonderful Improvement in their
mental and physical condition, with a prac¬
tical revitalization of their nicotized nerves.
Porter’s Business College of Macon,
Ga., leads the south iu business educa¬
tion. A department of business prac¬
tice and practical banking has lately
been opened, under the management
of E. S. Curtis, late president of the
Atlanta Business University. A cir¬
cular giving special summer rates will
be mailed to any address.
HALF RATES TO WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Via Ibe Southern Railway Company Lines
(Piedmont Air-Line.)
Ticket* on sa'e August 23 to 28. Good until
Sept. Pythiss 6 th, returning. For theorems on Knights
of Conclave. The # fficial and o-dy
direct route. Pullman vestibule trains with
dining See ears. Fa.*t mail trains.
that your ticket* read via tie Southern
Individual By., and know tickets lhat yon have the best route.
sold to everybody.
Fr*r pa ticulars apply -to nearest ag’t South¬
ern W. Ry. C«. Turk. P. '
A. G. A. Washington, D. C.
S. H. Hakdwick. Aos’t G. P. A., Atlanta,Ga.
Karl’* Clover Ho it, the great b’ood purifier,
gives ion freshness and clearness to the complex¬ J
and cures constipation, » ctg„ 50 eta., $1.
Novelties in Jewelry.
Nepluue’s spear, each prong of
which is set with small pearls, is a
popular brooch.
A silver pen knife with a eignr-cut
ter attached, to bo worn as a charm, is
a late corner.
A successful method of displaying
enamel jewelry to advantage is by
placing the articles on white satin
A sphere of dark hematite, bearing
similarity cluster to black pearls, arranged
in a of diamonds makes an at¬
tractive hair ornament.
A dazzling laco pin is a gold snail
whose shell is mounted with a large
pearl. The outstretched neck is stud¬
ded with diamonds and rubies.
A singularly descriptive silver liquor
is one bearing the inscription “Dry
as a Fish.” A sea bass etched on its
side carries out tho idoa.
•
One of tho noticeable results of the
widespread popularity of tho “Golden
Cornelian” is the partial retirement of
chrysoprnso which is losing favor.
“5S
ASSIST NATURE
a little now and then,
Six with a gentle, cleans
mSS. ing laxative, offonding thereby
removing from the
matter ach and bowola, stom¬ and
I toning up and invigo¬
•0 : - rating the liver and
quickening its there¬ tardy
action, ana you
• i by remove the cause
-wrnti.— or a multitude of dis¬
tressing tion, biliousness, diseases, skin such diseases, as headaches, boils, carbun¬ indiges¬
cles, piles, fistulas and maladies too numerous
to mention.
If peoplo would pay more attention to
properly els, they regulating would havo the less action frequent of their occasion bow¬
to call for thoir doctor’s services to subdue
attacks of dangerous diseases.
this That, of all known agents Pleasant to accomplish Pellets
purpose, Dr. Pierce’s
aro unequalled, is proven by tho fact thot
once used, they are always in favor. Their
secondary effect is to keep tho bowels open
and regular, not to further constipate, as is
the case with other pills. Hence, thoir great
popularity with sufferers from habitual con¬
stipation, piles and indigestion.
W. $3 L Douglas
SHOE NO IS SQUEAKING. THE BEST.
pif $5. CORDOVAN,
r FRENCH& ENAMELLED CALF.
*4.*3.5P FlNEGAlf&KMOl
PI POLICE, 3 SOLES.
•r-'-r jl $2.*!/5BoysSchoolShoes.
wm * LADIES •
II^SEND ip FOR DOUGLAS CATALOGUE
r w L* ,
BROCKTON, MASS.
Yon cun anvo money by wearing tho
W. L. Doutpas $3.00 Shoe.
Been 11 *e, wo nro the largest manufacturers of
this grade of shoes in tlio world, and guarantee their
valuo by stamping tho name and price on tho
bottom, which protect you against high prices and
tho middleman’s profits. Our shoes equal custom
work in style, easy fitting and wearing qualities.
Wo havo them sold everywhere atlowcr price* for
tho value given than any other make. Take no sub¬
stitute. If your dealer cannot supply you, we can.
EDUCATION The Business Ga-Alabama College
Macon, Ga., conceded to be the largest and
most practical Shorthand, in the South is Telegraph giving a Bus¬
iness, Normal, or
Pen-Art course for $25.00 and board at
$9.00. Also giving to one worthy boy or
in each county a full course pnrr
Write at once,enclosing stamp r 1 K r r
particulars.
Buyers ol Machinery, Attention!
Deal directly with manufacturers and
write us for prices.
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS,
Grist Millls, Cane Mills, Cotton
Gins and Presses,
anything wanted in the machinery line.
IRON WORK*,:!!acon.Ga.
MMON’SiE affoNic Pellets.
-TREATMENT SACS2E
ali Kt or r>j mail 35c. doubts boi; 5 double boxes
W. IIKO YVA CRy.
HALMSjt^gG!!ewin|6uni
*• Cures nnd Prevent* KbeirniaMsm, Indigestion, ••
f a I>yapep-,ta, Heartburn, Cat,firm and Asthma. A
* Useful In Malaria and Fevers. Cleanse* ti.e T
Teeth an 1 Promotes the Appetite. Sweetens A
theRrtiith. Cures the Tobacco tlnblt. Endorsed V
: by the Medical Kucu ty. 8end for 10, 15 or 25 ••
cent pack*? •. Silver Stamp* or Foetal Note. A
GKO. K. HALM, 140 West 2vth St., New York. W
For Engines, Boilers, Saw
Mills and Machinery, all
kinds, write MALLARY
BROS. & CO., Macon, Ga.
SmITH&WESSONI? S5E5™“t
AUTCMATIC
EXTfttf s«u.
'
Consumptive* and people ■Am 1 :
who have weak lungs or Asth¬
ma, should u*e P iso‘a Cure for
Consumption. It has eared
thonnand*. ft hM not injur¬
ed one. It is not bad to take,
it ts tbe beet cough syrup.
Sow everywhere.
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