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\[\\. Dll. TALMA OK.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Snl»ji*cl: “Hev ihinn of < reeds
Tkxt: ‘‘IjOOKf him. nnd irt 70."—John
xi U
My Bibb* i>*-, at the place of Urn text, writ
ten all over with lead pencil marks ina/ie
last. I)ef;erat*'r at Bethany on the ruins of
the house of Mary and Martha and I a/^iru
WediamnnnM from our hor ses on the way
up from Jordan to the Dead Ke». Bethany
was the Kumiwr evening relreat of Je iu
Af ter «j>endmg the day in the hot < ;}y »d
.lenisalem II" would come out there almost,
every evening Vo the houaf’ of Hi* three
friends. I think th' ocrupant - of tha* hou-e
were orphan* for the father and mother arc
not in<*ntinned But the son and two daugh
tnuit have inherited property for
it Tim*t hav*? tmm. judging trow what. I
H!IXV f t li- ff;■ i?. lion • u nd t ii" -)/•■ o' * i"
room*, an opulent honi" L;i/aru the
brotVier. wji* nit* the tu*ad *>( th" ho'i* *tiol«l
and li drpfiililwl Oft him ftfid w<-re
proud of him, for he very pqxi.'ai and
f veryi. dv ik#» l him arid girl* V. *•! "
hjiimidid girh Martha n Hr*t rate In
k»*up"i an ! Mary n nirittieile. so .*n»
dn-a.i. v. bid affiN'f ionat<*. arid a* g'*»d a girl
■ I i found in all PatentiiH*
day \. r»/:- r rt it dr The Hint w.*re 1!
sU-rmit ion !’aflier gone and niotlu r
they feel y ir )e they IfMe the:
brother al !>ir"fi " did it qin? w
Ho V t him 4 ovi 1 Ih
j me »rmt that ho,. - i*^*u at all.
otlierwrnue d.**
tha •epared the
i main nd enintmg diahes o‘
t< u «PP it.. i,t the nfferer. but
I a • - i and hi dile'd Wii/a • and worse
I •us, until the doct/»r mitiounees
n do no in<»i Tie* hi in el 1 hnt
n 11: household when th" las
lied h * *n drawn and tlie two Hi.dor
h i l»v ;• viHiiaf Inzer- into the ad
joining < i mi i imagine who
have hadn own hearts broken
Bn*, why I I) )U m* tl il If" HO Of t<*11
in the eountry districts
110' ei hi' ';, huw mifoi tun
at ti ti> it I >oeb»r had not
in Bethany,
VV Il¬ ia: ."tinny Laza
ha day-- and dih»olu
l Iii that rliuioT'*
bmd hir d) I
It. immediately
Iw" i.i’je 1 into
t hav ail llull he wok
if
i >1 1 home
V' weritd stimulant
(v id rear cd No' Four days
< 11 *u ■ J the door of the sepulcher iw it
crow '*t>h s . but tii" three most mernor
able t lu* fmitily frwMi'l,
and the (w *c VV «* went into
f lie iiti ml tomb in December, and it is
id dark, and with torches wo
d it W " found it i*U quirt that aftcr
lion 11 ovjr vi«it, but tha day spoken of in
tin* Ihhtc there wan pr*»w*nt an "xcited mult i
titdr I wonder what Jckuk will do. Hu
urdui s thi* door of the grave removed, and
then lift begins to descend the steps
Mary and Martha elosn after Him. and
the crowd after thoiu. Tim !>e«q>er down into Jcmus th«
shadow* and dc<*|H*r! not b'arw of
roll over lit*: checks and plash upon the back
of Bis hands. Were there ever no many nor*
row s csouipressod into so small a upare ,lH 1,1
that group presNing on down after Christ, all
’he tiui" bemoaning that He had not come
tiefore Now all the whispering and shuttling all the
<Tying and all the wound of
feet, are stoppinl. Death It conquered, Is the silence but of the ex¬
pect anev has now
vanquisher awful of death hush confronted of the the tomb scene the
A mid the
familiar name which Christ had often
had upon LID lips in the hospitalities o the
village home came hack ulmightiness to Ills tongue of and
with resurrection « |mthc»8 and of an tha last shall Ilk* which only
the day
an echo, He cries: “I*azarus! come forth f*
The eyes of Uteuhtmberer open and ho ri-^as
and comes to the foot of the steps and with
great difficulty Is'gius to ml for. and ♦it"
n >uni
5 , *vt are tftnt and hi* hands are fast and
,io impediments to all his movements are so
great that Jesus commands: “Take off these
.xerenleiita, remove these hindrances; unfa*
i.ef» these grave clothes, loose him and let
him go! Oh. I nrn ho glad that after the U>rd
raistsl latrariUR lie went on and commandfsl
the loosening of the oonls that bound his
feet, bo that he could walk, and the breaking
.*flf of the eerement that bound liis hands s<*
that he could stretch out his anus m snluta
t-ion, and the tearing off of the bandtigo
from Wlmt around his i*eisurrect4Hl jaws so that life he c«>uld been apeak.
would have to
t .arjiriiN if he had not been freed from nil
thosi* crippleineuts of his body' 1 I am glad
that t'hrGt cmuiuanded his complete email
< ipation, say m ‘‘1km*m* him, mid let hr
go. The unfei
mmt* thing now is Unit so many
<'hnM win* an* only half liberated Eh-’ V have
beau raised tram the death and burial of sin
nto spiritual lit**, but they yet have
tl inn v a re
ii of til! tomb, bound hand
1 the ol of th Herman
je: and t ree their
tJ: com
; very mi er
is him,
id and toot bv HIS
me ns
its I at or ten of t h nil
a e h1
a iTtvhI about g* en
in \ ( 0t*d \ •met Hiii; that
;*r it la* written or
IA I*i IS 11
il g
Ui it won a tut
>t J 11 m Other iiiHut
u i am with neither
iiart v lui vistiou 1 want titu
f >n iv luesthm i
lurlxd a The I did not
luiulrr iis mail ring the pardon nd
the comfot pul to nil mm and the
Wrttoimsi Confession has not interfetwl
w ith tne • minute But now tin* electric
tichu hav I •n t mutvl on 11: imperfections
of »h*t rt and ever thine that man tush
US put tK* Did i twi rc
spectfui! v lo and get a brand new one.
It is imp i pie who lived hun
tlivnis of louid fashion un appro
priote crJ till; Kdm C«lvin w as
a man but he
«hrv * HU
ago The study done have
oome and have
t hen v it ns wc lux vo the
world i . <* w hat
ton k*u*w the
j<ubse«pnM nt s naviguti aud
go hack t- the inventor of
Uic art of i 4 - vt all mod«ru
when ?
or t hr t and
IV i
fiongtiu U» tii * all th
exogViC t ic* th* *
higtans
six vtiar
a utury d
t nentv
T*rvstm stew of religion who c id
svuake a * i man John Calvin,
Nuifri y oU|?ht not tv* to* ual! 11
ait at t -<|i ie Sixteen til
“But," ; 4 d Bible,
and John *U as th
♦nt stU'iei Y
*be oaiu" v .1
Ur.ra It h‘i to mai
sa Id wit
urv it h ne to
trie
S * it
but tu" or
in ter pit* 1-*.
that during t; iUlUvl l rears
vn*r\i>' have ir meamne and »
of !'■ ■* *i'e at do
not tiur.K Xi; s' • John t x.vin f-ieved. as K'me
THE DEMOCRAT, CRAWFORDVTLLE. GEORGIA.
say n» mil. m tne aamnanon or nmxotK. aw
though some of the recent hot diaputr, would
seem to imply that there ia such a thing a»
the damnation of infants.
A man who believe* in the damnation of
Infanta himaelf deserves to lose heaven I i
do not think any good man could admit
mch a possibility. What Chriat will do with
all the liabies in the next world I conclude
from what He did with the babi*** in Daie*
tine when He hugged them and kissed them,
When some of vou grown people go out of
ttiu woral your douotfu* (imtiny will t to an
emljarraa^ment to ministers officiating at
your obsequies who will hav" to \>* oautiou#
HO M not to hurt surviving friend- But
when the darling children g-» there are nc
“ifs ’or “huts'* or guesses We must re
member that good John Calvin was * logi
• inn and a metaphysician and by the pr -Cii *
ities of his nature put sf.:ue thing-* in an un
loriunate way. Ixzg jj. has its ure and iir-ta
physic** ha*- its us.*, but they are not go-xl at
making cree/h A gardener hands you a
hl^iming i o*«* dewy fresh, but a severe
Isitanist come to you with a rose
and says: Iwiil show you the structure
of this rose." Arid he pr's*eed c to take
it apart and pulls off the leaves and
he says: “There the anther- are the petals,” and “Just he
take- out and ho says
look at the wonderful structure of these
floi at pillar ; and tlvui he cuts the stem to
show you the juices of the plant So logic
.» metaphy- ta!•.»*- the aromatic- rose of
1 he ( ’hri'-t la'i religion and --ays: “1 will just
o>v hoiv llii rose of religion wa
fashion'* i and it nulls off of it a mere and
iff v That, is the human vvol. and another
!> will. and an
: “Thi: . .“reignfv.
atnl .ay • I'hi- is fret .
agene tin. and that h that And
land looking at the fragrr of
the re »-• pulled apart, one whom th 4 * Mary*.
; oi a gar-Icner rorneH in and presents me .
w it li a criunvin r reyl as blood, mid nay .:
Inlia the swee sot thi*. wearitonvrmr
hi 1 ■ and wear it forever I must it) fO:
i o e in full bloom tf> the r< •
\ i tune we Jia\e had with the uogma
ijes, lie* pologeties ami the hennencufius. that
The fiefeet ill some of f he <t(vx\h is they
fry to tell mall about- the deerees of (iod.
Now the only hunmn bein' 4 that, wa-. ever
(•omoetent to handle that ruhteef caul.
Jje would not have l>een eo il hatl
tl" it l»er*n in oired. t beli:*ve in the
\ • iy.it y of tb*f| and 1 believe i?i man
Hgeue Rot v, but no one can harmonize tl *(5 two. It *
neo . arv that lie harmonize them, liBvry
. .niem that I have ever beard that at
tempted !<•/*’ sii<‘h harmoni;/. ition was to me as
, a i Loudon fog, n. dear its mud. My
brother of the nineteenth century, ray
brother iip ixteenth century, gi v • us
I'aul .H atat-ement an i on our own,
Better one of ’alviuVin.stituH- dmpt.er of Caul on able that and subject honest
than nil 1 i .
p. nr I might are. lio not trv to
measure either the throne >f Cod or t ho
thunderbolt* of God with vou little steel
WII. U hat do von know about Un decree ■-'?
Vou cannot prv open tho door of God s
eternal counsel.* You cannot explain
the raystericH QtxVft government I
now. much h‘8i the : n \ fei • of i is
g »v ermuent five hundred ()uintillion of vears
ago I MMivc tor u ci-i'.-'l fur all our tlemcni
nat ions made out ol Hcriptura quotations
pure nn 1 'That simple, That would take the earth
for God w ml.l !»• .mpiMgiml.l.-•gainst
infidHitv and A|«.llyonic assanll. Tnnt
would hit bevnttd human criticism. The dc
nomination, whatever its name be, that can
ri«« up to that will be the church of the mil¬
lennium, will swallow up all other denomi¬
nations and 1>" the one that will be the bride
when the Bridegroom plainer eometb. Let us make into
it huh pier and for people to got
Hu* kingdom of God. Do not hinder people elected. by
t he idea that they may not have been
I) not tug on to the one essential of faith in
Christ any of the innumerable nonessentials.
A mini who heartily accepts Christ is a
Christ ian and the man who does not accept
Him is not a (>hristian, and that is all there t»
of it He need not believe in election or r*q>
robation. He need not believe in the eternal
generation of the Son. He nets! not believe
in everlasting punishment. He need not be¬
lieve in infant, oaptisin. Ho need not believe
in plenary inspiration. Faith in Christ
ia tne criterion, is the tost, in the pivot,
in the indispensable. But there are those
who would add unto the testa rather than
fubfrnd from them. There are thousand*
who would not accent, persons into church
membership if they drink wine or if they
smoke cigars or if they'attend the theater
nr if they play cards or if they drive a fast
liorse. Now 1 do not drink wine or smoke or
attend the do theater, drive never fast, played horse, a although game of
cards ami not a
‘ would if I owned one. But do not
substitute tests which the Bible does
not establish. There is one pas sago of
Scripture wide enough to let all in
who ought to enter and to keep out «*ill who
ought to |w» kept out: “Believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” Get
a man s heart right ami his life will 1«*
right But. now that the old ere** Is have
been put under public scrutiny, something
radical must Ik* done. Some would would split
them, some would carve them, some
elongate them, some would abbreviate them.
At tin* present moment and in the present
shape they are a hindrance. Lazarus is
dive, but hampered with the ohl grave
dot hen If you want one glorious church
and unencumbered takeoff the cere.muds
of old ecclesiastical vocabulary her,
ami let her
are t iinstians who are tmler
and hindered and hoppled
b Ml and tear ind ; •ins long ago ve¬
What they need is to understand
ae ms of God Th soend
IUO! r h’i
t rv hav
mg U' New to
wrote
Do t love
n I
i / vou >u n<
find out • WOl'i t >d ;i nd v on v» ill
T n > man woo ts all he
mjr puts * and looking a'
U‘ f* w ier it is coated 1,4 me >rb:d
oann l>e phvsuoaUv well. The dtK’tor
k> out mto the frosh air and into
fe, mid stop thinking of voi mi and
you \V|: cet well and strong.” 1 there are
w are watchiiiff their IS uritual
sympti MS and they call flelf-ettau lion
and they g> weaklier and si *r m tne r
faith nil the titn< Go out and do some tUin~
nobly i hrurt an lake holv **xei\ iso and
then examine yourself, and, instead of New
ton’s saturnine and bib ms hytnn that l first
4UO * 1 . Am.ts.is vou w ill cm.M*, sing huw Newton’s mvtvt the other sound Hymn;
:
r » wretch like me!
1 bu now am • Uftvl
\\a now 1
W hat tunny of you Chris ans most ne» v d
n \ *ur rave cloths l rejotca
th vou nave Ikhui brought from the ath
u to the life of the Gasp !. but yon imi
to et vour Uan l loose an vour feet loos?
and voui and vour soul loose.
the Bib tud
and t ,s tho sin •*: unite
and that is w matter wit ! Vv>U.
ih v \ new what \
IV and liv l hav
<d, ‘Uni tiui’ win*
-> IlA't ut hr iftM'." Then I think
y v?urs< the chief of sim
tv *.ad you hit utx Gist term, u I have
a i»i
w he M’tV »r
ii iabmn
a A M was si Saul
d is a
i wor so
in t world to sax
f whom 1 oh .e? Mark th
WE am
«a’,s and l 1 will take
»u StkM r ii
tul said to tin first
s-*d dv> not i
hut will guar
Th * New
Vll w uud vie 1
t a vou m TV
N,
tiers. w 1 l iirist is
U
the temple. lie ui.mtx\i to the L>p o; Mount
olivet. He climbed to the top of the
cliffs about Nazareth He climbed
of Golgotha. And ... to the ,
to the top of
top of the bills and the mountains your
tranagrewrion He is ready to climb with par
don for every one of you. The groan or Gal
vary in mightier than the thunder oi Hinai.
Full receipt is offered for all your indebted
neas. If one throw a stone at midnight into
a bush where the hedgebird roost*, it lm
mediately begins to sing; and into the mid
night hedges of your awaken despondency anthem, these words
f hurl, hoping to you to
Drop the tunes in the minor key and tn*e
the major. Do you think it pleases the Lord
for you to be carrying around with you the
debris and carcasses of old transgression.-N
You make me think of some ship that has
had a tempestuous time at sea, and now that
jt propose* another voyage, keeps tbesplin- on its
davits the damaged iife-boat*L and
ters of a shivered mast, and the broken
glass of a smashed skylight, M y advice is:
Hear the decks, overboard with ail the darn
igmi rigging, brighten up the salted smoke
»ta ckk, <»j>eu a new boox. Haul m
the planks, lay out a new course and set sail
for heaven. \ou have hail the please spiritual the
dumps long enough. You will
Bora more by being happy than by being
miserable. Have you not sometimes started
out in the rain w ith your umbrella and you
busy thinking ami you did not no
tiee that the rain had stopped, and though it
had cleared off you still had your umbrella.
tip, and when you discovered what you
were doing you felt silly enough? That is
what some of you are doing in religious sadness
things. You have got so used to
that though the rain has stopped you still
have your umbrella u?>. Come out o! the
snaaow. Ascend tne stairs or you:*
sepulcher. Step out into the broad help light of
noonday. We come around you to re¬
move your grave clothes, and a voice from
the heavens, tremulous but omnipotent,
commands: “Loose him, and advtV lei him go.
Again, my text has good con rn
inu any Christian hampered and bothered
and bound bv fear of his own dissolution. To
such the boo!: refers when it speaks of those
who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage. The most of us,
even if we have the Christain hope, are
o . . ds about death, if a plank falls how from a
afVol*ling and just grazes our hat, pa!*»
we look. If the Atlantic Ocean plays with
the steamship, pitching it suddenly it toward drop, how the
heavens and letting
the (’hrisli/m passengers pestor the stow -
ard or stewardess as to whether there fat any
danger, and the captain, who has been all
flight on the bridge and chilled thrown,
r uning in for a cup of coffee, is asskiled witV
a whole battery of questions as to what I*
thinks of the weather. And many of the
BksI peopleare, as Haul says,throughout their
lifetime in bondage by fear of death. 'J''
\u >t hers and sisters, if wc made full use of our
we would soon get over this. Backed
up by the teachings at your Bible, just look
through tbo telescope worlds uome bright uight and and
see how many there arc re
d'-ct that all you have seen compared
with the number of world? in existence are
!<>ss thin the -'ith fingers all the of your lingers right of the hand ltu
us cu'.npared How foolish then think
man r.te for us to
that ours is the only vvoral fit for us to stay
in. I think that all the stars ure inhabited
auM by beings like the human race ia feelings
and wutiuients and ‘ lie difference is fit lung
r • •iration ami heart beat and physical eon
birmation, their pay .cal conformation lit
b* r th« climate of tl.-ir world and
our climate physical of conformation world. So fit for shall the
our we
feel at homo in sicaJ any limitations of the stellar having'ceased. neighbor¬
hoods, our pin
One of our first J think, realizations will be that in getting this out world of
this world, in
\v<- were very much pent up and had cramped
apartments and were kept on the limits. The
most even of our small world ia water, and
the water says to the human race: “J Don’t
come hero or you will drown.” A f"w thou
so ml feet up the atmosphere is unin¬
habitable, and the atmosphere says
to the human race: “Don’t come
up here or you cannot breathe.” A
few miles down the earth is a funmoor*ff fire,
and the tiro says: “Don't come here* you
will burn.” The caverns of the mof* ains
are full of poisonous gases, and the rr r,
* ‘Don’t come here or you wif he isp »vi, look ed.
And, crossing a rail track, you must out
or you will he crushed. And, standing by will a
steam boiler, you must look out or you
be blown up. And pneumonias and pleurisies
and consumptions Hocks, and droves, apoplexies herds, go across and it
this earth in in in
i« a world of equinoxes and cyclones and
graves. Yet we are under the delusion that
it it the only place fit to stay iu. We Want
to stick to the w*ct plank ’mid ocean while
the great ship, ‘‘the City of God,” of the
Celestial line, goes sailing past, and would
gladly take ih tip in a life boat. My Chris¬
tian friends, let me tear off your desponden¬
cies and frights about dissolution. My I/>rd
commands me regarding you, saying.
“Loose him, and let him go.”
Heaven h ninety-live per cent, better than
thjs million world, a thousand p?r cent, bettor, a
per cent, better. Fake the gladdest,
brightest, most jubilant days you ever had
on earth and compress them all into our*
hour, and that hour would bo a requiem, a
with fasr day, tne a poorest gloom, hour a horror, they as have compared had in
heaven since Us first tower was built or its
first gates swung or its first song caroled*
“Oh,” you say, “that may be true, but I am
s* af raid of crossing over from this world
t the next, and 1 fear the snapping of the
between .soul and body.” Wei
a “ th eons and physicians and
* that t i'0 no pang at
•ting of t he body and soul, and all ihe
!>•>$ at the closing hour of
s involuiita n i8".*as€* all. And
re?* with ''
eon' irmtsl bv the fact persons wn<»
w re drowned» r M until ail
isidousness departed a l were afterward
i' 4 l i \ decla that * sensation of
into than uaerMscloustii distressful, yS The as pleasurable
a eage oi
the body has a floor eft si h am t
when that door of t p *ysio ■a
th ml simply puts out it> wi
“But,” you say i H'liast* the
future is sr nv Well, I will
tell vou h >w ti trml the myst The
have tv'ft'v 1 bothering me, for I
as t of your courts often uo.
They hear all “I the will argument in the eav -aiu)
then say; take thes pa: and gt vo
you my decision next week.” So l have
heard all the arguments in regard to
t next world, and some things are
uncertain and full of mystery. and so
l fold up tilt* pap *rs and reserve until th*
next world nn decision about them. I «in
there study ail the mysteries to better ad¬
vantage, for the light will bo letter and my
faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christain
phdv >opa*i s who have had all the ad van
tagea o heaven for centuries, to help me,
m i 1 mav permit myself hu nblv to ask the
. *rd. amt l 'hulk'?u *re w hi i.**? only one my.>
ry left, and that will be how one so uu
v*. thv as myself got into such an enrap
V. up out of the sepulchral
If you an? not ChrGt.ans by
l£ in Christ come no into the light;
if at ly like Lazarus,
auiumteii. but Slav vour g hes
1 tin The command is;
and let him go,” The only part
my r nt jurt OH really drea^*
alt! ;h I d sav much about it l»efore
was the landing a: J oppa. That is
entrance i iolv f^aud. and
a anv rocks ugh weather
.'HI! *t land st * s taking
an K'is must
that >bes.bout
v feet a i mi an
oarsman an unexp* audlmudn as s ae
times been fatal s c.avv* perished
Shir'S tha- s we
■t Sa.v nmg b an trav T
ft: wind is just
roach landing at Joppa ; indeed. 1 thing
you will not t ? able to : all The
as that wi >ur Mediterranean
steamer and for shore anc in small Joppa boat,
we put ou; the
its* water was as still as though it i;ad been
Ad as.eeo a hundred rears, and we landed
as I came on this platform Welt
vour fears have pictured ror you an ap
ixiihug arrival at the end of your voy¬
age of Ufe, (ini tbrr sav the seks
wui rim nigR ane K.at tne Dreai cars
will trwaiiow you up. or that it you reach
Canaan at ail it will tie a very rough
landing. The very opposite will be true il
Your vou have the eternal God for your portion. land
disembarkation for the promised
will be as smooth a n was ours at Palestine
last December. Christ will meet you far out
at sea and pilot you into complete safety,
and you will land with a hosanna on one side
of you and a hallelujah on the other.
■‘hand ahead its fruits arc waving
O’er the hills of fadeiees erects
And the living vatere laving
Shores «here heavenly forms, are seen.
lirs k* and storms I'd fear no more
Wheu on that e'ernsi shore:
Drop the anchor : fur; the sail!
Jam safe within the yei 1!
CANNIBAL COMBATS.
Desperate Conflicts Among Aus¬
tralian Aboriginals.
Carl Lumholtz. in liis book about Hie
cannibals of central Queensland. description Aus¬ of
tralia, gives a graphic inccting for contest,
“a borboby,” or trii.es asseniltle set¬
where tlie various to
tle their disputes bv combat.
The i;a:i-.es having rubbed them-dvc
aii over will, red and veiiou earth pa mi.
and fillcu th'-:r h:i;r WiGi bc --w;iA
it .-t-udsou; tin- it. huue tufts that glitter in
fiio '! rep: ir t ! - <' on j
•' r 11 •*. ' ' ; ; !’•' S' ;,';j
- 1 '
1 ii q n\ i 1 .j : . ; 1 1 '' m 11 \\iii .1 ■ ■'' ■ ‘ ■
.
L;:;.<i ! I * ; 1 1
When ] • h ei r;.m . i.* :<^Ii t*. cool In-*
pa-. • r c v.r.rlike :ir.lor hestojqx-d r£gr.: nec.r me.
I;;™, |! ;:VS
in long streaks do .vu his bice. Around
his bead he wore a very beautiful brew
band, for which 1 oflered him ft s tick ol
tobacco, and lie immediately untied b
and gave it to me. li was au extraordi
iiarily licet pi- :<*e of w ork, like tii.: lines!
net, four inch. - wide, aud made ol plant
fibre, forming ;i debcafe and regular tex
lure. The whole was painted red.
“.Meanwhile the cntluisiastic
from whom 1 had purchased the brow
band was again busy taking great leaps:
gruduallv the convcrsfitiou l.ecainc more
lively, the wurli art. lor increased, ami
all held th -ir wc: ]>on in readiness. Sud
denly an old man ttli red a terrible war
cry and swung his i.undh* ol spcti: s ovei
les head. This acted as il were, like an
electric shock on nil oi I dem.
oil i gathered together, shouted with nil
their mitrht. and iai-ed shields with their
left hands, winging swords, spears,
hooiiKinuips iiml nolla-nollas in themr.
“Then they all resiled with a savage
war-cry tiirougli i lie grove ot gum trees
and marched In a /S/ ag route against
their enemies, wi;o were standing lar
away on the other side ot the plain. and At
ev<‘iy new turn they stopped terrific were
silent for a moment, then with a
howl started afresh, until at the third
turn they stood in the middle of the
plain directly opposite their opponent^
where they remained.
* ‘‘A« soon as our men had halted,
men from the hostile ranks came forwad
in ti threatening manner with shields in
their left hands and swords held perpen¬
dicularly in their right, Their heads
were eoVered with the elegant yellow and
white top-knots of the white cockatoos.
Each man won* at least forty of tins *,
which were fastened in his hair with
beeswax and gave the head the appear¬
ance of a large aster.
‘•The three men forward approached with long ours elas¬ very
rapidly, running jumped
tic leaps. Now and then they down
high in the air like oats and fell
behind their shields, so well concealed
that, we saw but little of them above the
high grass, This intinivuvre was repeated
until they came within about twenty
yards of our men ; then they halted in an
erect position, the large shields before
them and the points ot their swords
resting on the ground, ready for the tight.
The large crowd of strange tribes fol¬
lowed them slowly.* Now the forward duels from were
to begin; three men came
our side and accepted the < hallc!igi\ Ine
rest remaining quie t for th present.
“Whilethe JiiM three pairs wi r lighting
others began to exehung Blows. There
was no regularity it* the tight. The due!
usually began with spears, then they came
neater to uch other and took to their
swords, bo met the matter was
cub'd at a distant xxmieran.ff n . 11 ; t
nolla irown Mean.
the shields.
•‘The nativ w l ; I f, ,i
in |tarrying, tl n
wounded by the two
weapon, On the i
easily penetrate i ami then
iiiitiro tlie Bearer. \vn repna
lisoualitiud aim mil t declare him: If
There were always >n :* com
iu the field, fre* lit
eight pairs at b
were continually
••The women r ui the weapons
and when a warrior l»a> to ♦: -::“e in
several duels his wives «-ontinually sup
ply him with wtr, ;ts. The other womea
:dand and l<H»k ou , watching the conflict
v\ ;th the greatest alt -lition. for they have
much at stake, Many a one changes hus
hands on that nisrht. As the natives
frequently rob acu other of tluir wivi
■outliets uris : n" from this ausc ate
s< tiled by borboby. the victor retaiuinir
the woman.
“The obi women also take par? m the
fray. They stancLbehinfi the i ^oraBatants
with the same kind of sticks ;>.> those
used for digging up roots. Tl hold
ttiO stick with both hands i 11.
jrr iuud hard with it. anil jump uj ami
di’wn in a state wiki excitement. 1 1
cry to the men, egging a urging them
ou. four or five i fre.juontlv sv.rioundiug
man ttnu ac eric
Tl men become Xi it
iiersplratic aai
c\ • tncins* s to tin* u »t
i i.ie men is conquer, d tne <
jguther arouuu Lira an l protect
tin-.r sticks, parrying ti I Mows
i i.S >P1 oaent, cot tant aoatinj,
“ Do no? kill him ! Do n •t kiiiiiini:
The riiik-■c’i'-tan Club of Vienxi i‘
nna. giug for a.i iut< r. a > u;'- c
station c cpoaiti. n tii ri * m IMG. lue
v, ,ir ltftO was e * s : bo a tie i’ vi.i
L«ai be just Af*? due > rs J. , ssiucc* , for p ;e r
sramps were into y
tin tRev .am ■ ui " uwftn u-—anu
ten vea s ainee the eiub vas o;;ua d
»ih -‘e Li idon ari.l ta'^ i^ lu u.e
Au-trhn ladustr^l Muie.ru. A cv.m
m-ttee •: tire is oiyaniziw; it.
DRUGS, FURNITM, Ef C.
We Are Now Opening and Receiving Our Fall Stock of
Drugs. Furniture, Matresses,
All Kinds of Chairs. Bedsteads,
Lamps, Lamn-Fixtures and Oils.
And a fine line cf Drug Notions, Chemicals, Fancy Soaps, Tobacco, Cigars and
of drugs and patent medicines. * PRESCRIPTIONS and family
Pipe-. Full line pure
receipts carefully compounded.
Thanking our many customers for past patronage, we are now prepared liberal to share sell
petter and cheaper Goods at Kock-bottoin Prices for Cash, We solicit a
OF THE FALL THADE
GEO. W. BB0W1N & CO •1
Sliaron, Georg ia.
S B a a gg a ai
BrOSQ . Cts .
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Door Below Campbell, Up Stairs LOVE It L. A. It. REAB’S.l
\V Have Gained Two Strong T Points v • the , Change, r-, ibt
e in
Much Lower Rent, and, Away Above High Water Mark.
We invite all who want to purchase CARPETS AND IIOUSE FURNISHING
GOODS to call and see us, as it is our aim to sell goods at Exceedingly Low Pkices;
NO MISREPRESENTATION. Velvet, Brussels and Ingrain Carnets; Matting,
Window Shades, Lace Curtains, Window Poles, Cornices. Hearth Hugs, Door Mats,
crumb Cloths, Brooms, Brushes, Wall Papers and Borders and Decorations: fcteeJ En
gravings, Paintings and Cnromos.
JAMES g. bailie & sox, acts, Augusta, Georgia
WW a. ’ St 1% 111®!
i- ii MACHINERY BROKER
: - i AND
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,f!v COMMISSION MERCHANT.
i f i r~i 38 Reynolds St., Augusta, Ga
m\ •DEALEll IN
m e Steam Engines, Stationary,
Portable and Agricultural.
tSF’Steavi Boilers, all sizes and style-, Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Feed and Cotton Seed
Mills, Turbine Water Wheels; and keep in slock a full line of Steam Fittings, Cocks,
Valves, Inspirators, Piping and Fittings, Belt, Mose, Etc., Etc.
EAGLE COTTON GINS With or without Feeders and Condensers.
- The Best in the World.
COTTON PRESSES, For Either Hand
____or Horse Power.
W WOOD WORKING M AC Ii IN KR V of all kinds. AGRICULTURAL IMPLE¬
MENTS, the very latest improved.
C»U at my office or wr ; to for illustrated circulars and special nriees Which will be Riye(
-TO SUIT CUSTOMERS.--
Large Machine Outfits a Specialty*
tl. N. REID, 7.^8 Reynolds St., Augusta. Ga.
Barrett’s Cologne! A
Most Refreshing:, Fragrant and Lasting.
All sizes from 10c. to$i. per bottle. One trial will convince
you that it is the best cologne on earth.
* SSL Mil
A
The best on earth for Constipation, Billiousness and Malarial
Diseases; purely vegetable and guaranteed to give satis¬
faction. Price 25c. per box. Sold by all merchants.
rgrTlie eminent divine, Dr. Lansing Burrows, pastor of 1st Baptist Ghurch, H-H-F, Au*
..usta Ga.. writes ot ;he celebrated Southern medicine. H. H. I*. “1 have used
in my family tor disordered years and stomach on myself and for it lias costiveness, given universal sick headache satisfaction. and all 1 troubl| woultt
arisiu" from a it friends and acquaintances.’ H. H. ir. 14
not be without it and recommend to my
sold by all druggists.___
ijrxTI here preparations are manufactured and guaranteed
by the Barrett Drug Co., Bugusta, Ga.
WHOLESALED AND RETAILED BY
HAMMACK, LUCAS & C0-.
Crawfordville, Ga. AND Wasliingtotou, Ga
-—AUGUSTA— -
r»* STEAM LAUNDRY.:
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-Main Office and Works,—•
012 Jackson St., Augusta, Ga.
First Goss Work Guaranteed.
WorK turned ovei to the Democrat w*l j
ie sent down. For further Imformation
ee the Editor. aprlOtf
AGENTS *d our their Corrugated B R monei* a s s
, REFLECTING SiFEI? LAMP.
Can b« sold in every family. Gives
thi re lit?! t than three ordinary t Express Dmp*=. for
Full si/t-i Lauip sent > best
v ceata. V,e ai*o have the
V. Ainu iotfee l*ot in the U. b.
^ Send FOHfHEE for illustrated McMASIN,Cincinnati circul ars to ,0
W &
can makesSToTper
Uav profit selling our the
ALBUMS. We beat
Wo:: 1 f - le
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HU> PHOTOGRAPH
X K‘- i ai*u Sitlc?. KO.U eases, exteu
Sion cla u?p, bolding 5 .' pair •e-t ot Cabinet and Card
pictures, x-nt for $1 « r ' ails for bound al.«2
in Japanese Morocco. Liustrated circulars FRE 1 !
^liPALBUMS
-LADIEb and GENIV
l IZZ CREAM
PARLOR.
Xo. 8 Vi. Hunter St.,
Atlanta, - - Georgia.
Meals at All U'-urs. Repulars Dinne
r 9 ard , Fish _. .
Oysters in every Game
I m scasca.
FOUTZ’S POWDERS
WORSE AND CATTLE
1 me it'
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Ho Horn wffl die of Colic. Bots or Luxe F*
rxx. If Fontt'* Powder* are uaed in time.
Fontz’s Powders will core and prevent Hoe Chot.ira*
Foutt*» Powders will prevent Gams in Fowl*.
Foou's Powders will Increase the quantity of xnllx
and oream twenty per cent., and make the butter hra
^FoaarsVowflert Horse* will core and or ( prevent attle almost subject. xn**v
Diskah to which are
Fotrrx’a Pown^ss will air* Satisfaction.
So.d everywhere.
DAVID 2 . rOUTZ, Proprieto*.
BALTUffOUS. MO.
FOR SALE BY
Hammack, Lucas & Co., Dtuggists.
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