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REV. DU. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “ In Jerusalem. ”
Tent: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
lei my right hand forget her cunning."—
Psalm exxxvii., 5.
Paralysis of his best hand, the withering of
its muscles and nerves, is here invoked if the
author allows to pass out of mind the gran¬
deurs of tho Holy City where once he dwelt.
Jeremiah, seated by the river Euphrates, Afraid I
■wrote this psalm, and not David.
am of an I veiling understand that approaches how imprecation, who
and yet can anv one
has ever been at Jerusalem should in enthu¬
siasm of soul cry out, whether he be sitting
by the Euphrates, or the Hudson, or the
Thames, “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, You let
my right hand unlike forget her others cunning!”
see it is a city all for topog¬
raphy, for history, for significance, for style
of population, for water works, for ruins,
for towers, for domes, for ramparts, for lit¬
erature. for tragedies, for memorable birth¬
places, for sepulchers, for conflagrations and
famines, for victories and defeats.
I am here at last in this very The Jerusalem,
and on a housetop, just after dawn of
the morning of December 3, with an old in¬
habitant to point out the salient features of
the scenery. “Now,” I said, “where is Mount
Zion?” “Here at your right.” “\YhereisMount
Olivet?” “In front of where you stand?’
"Where is the Garden of Gethsemane?” “In
yonder valley.” “Where is Mount Calvary?”
Before he answered I saw it. No unpreju¬
diced mind can have a moment’s doubt as
to where it is. Yonder I see a hill in the
shape of a human skull, and the Bible says
that Calvary was the “place of a skull."
Not only is it skull shaped, but just be¬
neath the forehead of the hill is a cavern
that looks like eyeless sockets. Within
the grotto under it is the shape of the in¬
side of a skull. Then the Bible says that
Christ was crucified outside the gate, and
this is entside the gate, while the site form¬
erly selected was inside the gate. Besides
that, this skull hill was for ages the place aud
■where malefactors were put to death,
Christ was slain as a malefactor.
The Saviour’s assassination took place be¬
side a thoroughfare along which people went
“wagging their heads,” and there is the an¬
cient thoi oughfare. skull 1 saw hill, at Cairo, Egypt,
a clay mould of that made by the
late General Gordon, the arbiter of nations.
While Empress Helena, eighty years of age,
and imposed upon by having three grosses
exhumed before her dim eyes, as though
they were the three crosses of Bible story,
selected another site as Calvary, I all recent
travelers agree that the one point out to
yoo was without doubt the scene of the most
terrific and overwhelming tragedy this
planet ever witnessed
There were a thousand things we wanted
to see that third day of December, and onr
dragoman proposed this and that and the
other journey, but I said: “First of all show
us Calvary. Something might happen if we
went elsewhere, and sickness or accident
might If hinder our seeing the sacred mount. and
we see nothing else wo must see that,
see it this morning.” Some of us in carriage
and some on male back, we were soon on the
way to the most sacred spot that the world
.has ever seen or ever will see. Coming to
the hase of the hill we first went inside the
skull of rocks, it is called Jeremiah’s grotto,
for there the prophet wrote his book of
Lamentations. The grotto side is thirty-five malachite, feet
high, and its ton and are
green, brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from begin those to pictured climb the subter¬
raneous passages we steep
aides of Calvary. As wo go up we see cracks
and crevices in the rocks, which 1 think were
made by the convulsions of nature when
■’.Ffcsus died. On the hill lay a limestone rock,
SThlto, but tinged purity with crimson, the crimson tho white of so
suggestive of and sac¬
rifice that I said, “That stone would be beau¬
tifully appropriate for a memorial wall in
my church, bow building in America; and
tho stone now being brought on camel’s back
from Sinai across the desert, when put under
it, how significant of the law and the gospel! speak
And these lips of stone will continue to
•of justice and mercy long after all our living
lips have uttered their last message.”
So I rolled it down the hill and trans¬
ported it. When that day comes for which
many of you have prayed-*-tho dedication
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the third iin-
xnecse structnre we have reared in this
city, and that makes it somewhat difficult,
being the third structure, a work such as
ao other church was ever called on to un¬
dertake—we invite you in the main en¬
trance of that building to look upon a me¬
morial wall containing the most suggest*
ive and solemn and tremendous antiquities the
ever brought together—this, rent with
earthquake at the giving of the law at
Sinai, the other reLt at ttaa crucifixion on
Calvary. Impossible for to realize what
It is you gathered
our emotions were as we a group
of men aud women, all saved by the blood
of the Lamb, on a bluff of Cavalry, just
wide enough to contain three crosses. I
said to my family and friends: “I think
here is where stood the cross of the impeni¬
tent burglar, and there the cross of the
miscreant, and here between, I think, stood
the cross on which all our hopes depend.” John
As I opened the nineteenth chapter of
to read a chill blast struck the hill and a
cloud hovered, the natural solemnity im¬
pressing the spiritual solemnity. 1 read a
little, but broke down. I defy any emo¬
tional Christian man sitting upon Gol¬
gotha to read aloud and with unbroken voice,
•or with any voice at all, tho whole of that
account in Luke and John, of which these
sentences arc a fragment: “They took Jesus
and led Him away,and He.bearing His cross,
went forth into a place called the place of a
skull, where they crucified Him aud two oth¬
ers with Him, on either side one, and Jesus
in the midst;” “Behold thy mother!” “I
thirst;” “This day shalt thou be with Me in
Paradise;” Father, forgive them, they know
not what they do;” “If it be possible, let this
cup pass from Me.” What sighs, what sobs,
what tears, what tempests of sorrow, what
surging oceans of agony in those utterances!
While we sat there the whole scene came
before us. All around the toD and the sides
and the footof the hill a mob raged. clinched They
gnash their teeth and shake their
fists at Him. Here the cavalry horses champ
their bits and paw the earth and snort at the
smell of the carnage. Yonder a group of
gamblers are pitching up as to who shall have
the coat of the dying Saviour. There are
women almost dead with grief among the
crowd—His mother and His aunt, and some
whose sorrows He bad pardoned. Here a
man dips a sponge into sour wine, and by a
stick lifts it to the hot and cracked done lips.
The hemorrhage of the five wounds has
its work. such the
The atmospheric conditions are as
the world saw never before or since. It wai
•not a solar eclipse, such as astronomer:
record or we ourselves have seen. It was 8
bereavement of the heavens! Darker! until
the towers of the temple were no longer visi¬
ble. Darker! until the surrounding hills dis¬
appeared. Darker! until the inscription illegible.
above the middle cross becomes
Darker! until the chin of the dying Lord falls
upon the breast, and He sighed with this last
jsitrh the words, “It is finished !”
As we sat there a silence took possession of
us, and we thought, this is the centre from
wniob continents have been touched, and all
the world shall yet be moved. Toward this
hill the prophets pointed forward. Toward
this hill the apostles and martyrs pointed pointed down¬
backward. To this all heaven
ward. To this with foaming execrations
perdition pointed upward. Round it circles
all history, all time, all eternity, and with
this scene painters have covered the might¬
iest canvas, and sculptors cut the richest
marble, and orchestras rolled their grandest greatest
oratorios and churches lifted their
doxologies and heaven built its highest
thrones. of
Unable longer to endure the pressure
this scene we moved on and into a garden of
olives, a garden which in the right season is
tun oi flo wers, aud here is the reputed tomb
or Christ. You know the Book says, “In the
midst of the garden was a sepulchre.” I
think this was the garden and this the
I -sepulchre. It is shattered, of course. About
four steps down we went into this, which
seemed a family tomb. There is room in it
for about five bodies. VVe measured it and
found it about eight feet high and nine feet
wide and fourteen feit long. Tho crypt
where I think our Lord slept was seven feet
long. I think that there once lay the King
wrapped in His last slumber. On some of
these rocks the Roman government set its
seal. At the gate of this mausoleum on the
on the first Easter morning the angels rolled
'•he stone thundering down the hill. Up these
steps walked the lacerated feet of the Con¬
queror, and from the-e heights He looked off
upon the city that had cast Him out and
upon the world He had come to redeem and
at the heavens through which He would soon
ascend.
But we must hasten back to the city.
There are stones in the wall which Solomon
had lifted. Stop here and see a startling
proof of the truth of the prophecy. In
Jeremiah, thirty-first chaper and fortieth
verse, it is said that Jerusalem shall be built
through the ashes. What ashes, people have
been asking. Were those ashes put into the
prophecy to fill up? No! The meaning has
been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now
being built out in a certain direction where
the ground has been submitted to chemical
analysis, and it has been found to be the ashes
cast out from the sacrifices of the ancient
animals. temple—ashes There ef wood and ashes of bones of
are great mounds of ashes,
accumulation of centuries of sacrifices. It
has taken all these thousands of years to dis*
cover what Jeremiah meant when he said,
“Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord,
that the city shall be built to the Lord from
the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the cor¬
ner, and the whole valley of the dead bodies
and of the ashes.” The people of Jerusalem
are at this very time fulfilling that prophecy.
One handful of that ashes on which they ar8
building is enough to prove the the divinity of
the Scriptures 1 Bass by place where laid the
corner stone of the ancient temple was
three thousand years ago by Solomon.
Explorers have been digging, and they be¬
found that corner stone seventy-fiva feet
neath the surface. It is fourteen feet long,
and three feet eight inches high, and beauti¬
fully cut and that shaped, supposed and near have it was an
earthen jar was to con¬
tained the oil of consecration used at the
ceremony of layingfthe corner stone. Yon¬
der, from a depth of forty feet, a signet ring
has been brought up inscribed with the
words “Haggai, the Son of Shebnaiab,”
showing it belonged to the Prophet Haggai,
aud to that seal ring he refers in his prop-
phecy, saying, “I will make thee as a signet.” and I
I walk further on far under ground,
find myself in Solomon’s stables, and see the
places worn in the stone pillars by the hal¬
ters of some of his twelve thousand horses.
Further on, look at the pillars on which
Mount Moriah was built. You know that
the mountain was too small for the temple, pil¬
and so they built the mountain out on
lars, and I saw eight of those pillars, each
one strong enough to hold a mountain.
Here we enter the mosque of Omar, a
throne of Mohammedanism, where we are
met at the door by officials who bring slip¬
pers that we must nut on before we take a
step further, lest our feet pollute the sacred
places. A man attempting to go in without
these slippers would be struck dead on the
spot, xnese awkward satiains adjusted as
well as we could, we are led to where we see
a rock with an opening in it, through which,
no doubt, the blood of sacrifice in the ancient
temple rolled down and away. At vast ex¬
pense the mosque has been built, but sosom-
Der is the place I am glad to get through it,
and take off the cumbrous slippers and step
into the clean air.
Yonder is a curve of stone which is . part of
a bridge which once reached from Mount
Moriah to Mount Zion, and over it David
walked or rode to prayers in the temple.
Here is the waiting place of the Jews, where
for centuries, almost perpetually, during the
daytime whole generations of the Jews have
stood puttiug their head or lips against the
wall of what was once Solomon’s temple.
It was one of the saddest and most solemn
and impressive scenes I ever witnessed to see
scores of these descendants of Abraham, with
tears rolling down their cheeks and lips trem¬
bling with emotion, a book of psalms the open
before them, bewailing the ruin of an¬
cient temple and the captivity of their race,
aud crying to God for the restoration of the
temple in all its original splendor. Most
affecting scene! And such a prayer as that,
century after century, I am sure God will
answer, and in some way the departed gran-
deur wilt return, or something better. 1
looked over tho shoulders of some of them
and saw that they were reading from the
mournful psalms of David, while I have been
told that this is the litany which some chant:
For the temple that lies desolate,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the palace that is destroyed,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the walls that are overthrown,
We sit in solitude and mourn:
For our majesty that is departed,
We sit in solitude and mourn:
For our great men that lie dead,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For priests who have stumbled,
We ait in solitude and mourn.
I think at that prayer Jerusalem will come
again to more than its ancient magnificence;
it may not be precious stones and architec-
tural majesty, but in a moral splendor Solo- that
shall eclipse forever all that David or
mon saw the housetop where
But I must get back to
I stood early this morning, and before the
sun sets, that I may catch a wider vision of
what the city now is and once was. Stand-
ing hereon the housetop I see that the city
was built for military safety. Some old
warrior. I warrant, selected the spot. It
stands on a bill 2000 feet above the level of
the sea, and deep ravines on three sides do
the work of military trenches. Compact miles as
no other city was compact. Only three
journey round, and the three ancient towers,
Hipnicus, Phasaelus. Manamne, frowning
death upon the approach of all enemies.
As I stood there on the housetop in the
midst of the city I said. “O Lord, 'reveal to
me this metropolis of the world that I may
see it as it once appeared.” No one was with
me, for there are some things you can see
more vividly with no one but God and your-
self present. Immediately the mosque of
Omar, which has stood for ages on Mount
Moriah, the site of the ancient temple, disap- of
peared, and the most honored structure
all the ages lifted itself in the light, and I
saw it—the temple, the ancient temple! Not
Solomon's temple, but something grander but
than that. Not Zerubbabel's temple,
something more gorgeous ttaas that. It was
Herod’s temple, built for the one purpose of
eclipsing all its architectural predecessors.
There it stood, covering nineteen acres,
and ten thousand workmen had been forty-
six years in building it. Blaze of magnifi- and
cenee! Bewildering range of porticos Corin¬
ten gateways and doub ; e arches and
thian capitals chiseled into lilies and acan¬
thus. Masonry beveled and grooved into
such delicate forms that it seemed to tremble
in the light. Cloisters with two rows of Cor¬
inthian columns, royal arches, marble steps
pure as though made out of frozen snow,
carving that seemed like a panel of the door
of heaven let down and set in, the facade of
the building on shoulders at each end
lifting the glory higher and higher,
and walls wherein gold put out the
the silver, and the carbuncle put out
gold, and the jasper put out the carbuncle,
until in the changing light they would all
seem to come back again into a chorus or
harmonious color. The temple! The temple! raft¬
Doxology in stone! Anthems soaring in
ers of Lebanon cedar! From side to side
and from foundation to gilded pinnacle the
frozen prayer of all ages! the December after¬
From this housetop on direction, and I
noon we look out in another and
see the king's palace, covering a hundred
sixty thousand square feet, three rows of
windows illumining the inside _ brilliance,
the hallway wainscoted with styles of colored
marbles surmounted by arabesque, vermilion
and gold, looking down on mosaics, music of
waterfalls in the garden outside answering
the music of the harps thrummed by deft
fingers inside; banisters over which princes
and princesses leaned, and talked to kings
and queens ascending the stairway. O Jeru¬
salem, God! Jerusalem! Mountain city! City of
than Gibraltar Joy of the whole earth! surely^ Stronger if
and Sebastopol,
never could have been captured!
But while standing there on the housetop
that December afternoon I hear the crash Of
the twenty-three mighty sieges which have
come against Jerusalem in the ages past.
Yonder is the pool of Hezekiah and Siloam,
but again and again were those waters red¬
dened with human gore. Yonder are the
towers, but again and again they fell. Yon¬
der are the high walls, but again and again
they are leveled. To rob the treasures from
her temple aud palace and dethrone this
queen David city of the earth all nations Hebron plotted.
that taking the throne at decides
be must have Jerusalem for his capital,
and coming up from the south at the head of
two hundred and eighty thousand troops h«
of captures Jerusalem! it. Look, here comes another siege
The Assyrians under Sennacherib, en-
siavaa nations at ms cnarioc wneel, having
taken two hundred thousand captives in his
one his feet, campaign; Egypt Phoenician trembling cities the kneeling flash his at
at of
sword, comes upon Jerusalem. Look, an¬
other siege! The armies of Babylon under
Nebuchadnezzar come down and take a
plunder from Jerusalem such as no other city
ever had to yield, and ten thousand of her
citizens trudge off into Babylonian bond¬
age. Look, another siege! and Nebuchad¬
nezzar and his hosts by night go through
a breach of the Jerusalem wall, and the
morning finds some of them seated tri¬
umphant in the temple, and what they could
not take away because too heavy they break
un-mo brazen sea. and the two wreathed
pillars, Another Jachin and of Boaz. Jerusalem, and Pornpey
siege which
with the battering rams a hundred
men would roll back, and then, at full run
forward, would bang against the wall of the
city, and catapults hurling the rocks
upon the people, left twelve thousand dead
and the city m the clutch of the Roman war
eagle. Look, a more desperate siege of Je¬
rusalem! Titus with his tenth legion on
Mount of Olives, and ballista arranged on
the principle of the pendulum to swing great
bowlders against the walls and towers, and
miners digging under the city which, making gal¬
leries of beams underground and set hu¬ on
fire, tumbled great masses of houses
man beings into destruction and death. All
is taken now but the temple, and Titus, the
conqueror, wants to save that unharmed,
but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls a
torch into the temple and it is consumed.
Many strangers were thousand in the city captives at the time
and ninety-seven were
taken, and Josephus says one million one
hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this house top, the siege
that most absorbs us is that of the Crusaders.
England and France and all Christendom
wanted to capture the Holy Sepulchre and
Jerusalem, then in possession of the Moham-
meclans, under the command of one of the
loveliest, bravest justice and mightiest done men him, that though ever
lived; for must be
he was a Mohammedan—glorious Europe, Saladinl under
Richard Against him came the armies King of of England;
Coeur de Lion,
Philip Augustus, King of France; Taucred,
Raymond, Godfrey and other valiant men,
marching on through fevers and plagues and
battle charges and sufferings as intense as
the world ever saw. Saladin in Jerusalem,
hearing of the sickness of King Richard, his
chief enemy, sends him his own physician,
anu from the walls of Jerusalem, seeing King
Richard afoot, sends him a horse. With all
the world looking on the Jerusalem. armies of Europe
come within sight of
At the first glimpse cf the city lift they fall on
their faces in reverence and then anthems
of praise. Feuds and hatreds among them¬
selves were given up, and Raymond and
Tancred, the bitterest rivals, embraced while
the armies looked on. Then the battering
rams rolled, and the catapults swung, and the
swords thrust, and the carnage raged. God-
frey, wall, of Bouillon, is the first to mount the
and tho Crusaders, a cross on every
shoulder or breast, having taken the city,
march bareheaded and barefooted to what
they suppose t# be Jerusalem the Holy Sepulcher, and of
kiss the tomb. the possession
Christendom. But Saladin retook the city,
and for the Iqst four hundred years it has
been in possession of cruel and polluted
Mohammedanism!
Another crusade is needed to start for
Jerusalem, a crusade in this Nineteenth
Century greater than all those of the past
centuries put together. will march. A crusade A crusade in
which you and I
without weapons of death, but only the
sword of the Spirit. A crusade tnat will
make not a single wound, nor start one
tear of distress, nor mcendianze one home-
stead. A crusade of Gospel Peace! Aud
the Cross again be lifted on Calvary, but signal not
once an instrument o*. pain, a
ot invitation, and the mosque of Omar
shall give place to a church of Christ, and
Mount Zion become ihe dwelling place Jerusa- not
of David, but of David s Lord, and
Jem, purified of all its idolatries, and taking
back the C hnst she once cast out, shall be
1 made a worthy typ5 of that heaving city
which Paul styled -l the mother of us all,’’and
which St. John saw, “the holy Jerusalem
descending out of heaven from God.”
Through its gates may we all enter when our
work is done, and in its temple, greater than
all the earthly temples piled in one, may we
worship. Russian pilgrims lined all the roads around
the Jerusalem we visited last winter. They
had walked hundreds of miles, and their feet
bled on the way to Jerusalem. Many of
them had spent their last farthing of to get
there, and they had left some those who
; started with them dying or dead by the road-
| side. An aged woman, exhausted with tha
long way, begged her fellow pilgrims Holy not to
I let her die until she had seen the City.
j As she came to the gate of the city she could
iot take another sten. but she was carried in.
fi then said. * ‘Now bold ray bead up till I cap
look in upon Jerusalem,” and her head lifted,
she took one look, an i said: “Now I die con¬
tent; I have been it! I have seen it. Some
af us before we reach the heavenly Jerusalem
may be as tired as that, but angels the o,. temple mercy
will help us in, and one glimpse of
Df God and the Lamb, and one goo 1 look at
the “kin° r in his beauty,” will more than
compensate for ail the tolls and tears and
heartbreaks of the pilgrimage. Hallelujah!
An’vnl ___
AQUATIC LOAFERS.
The Idlest Social Group in tho
World.
On one of the most charming of the
many wonderfully picturesque little
beaches on the Pacific coast, near Mon¬
terey, Cal., is the idlest if not the most
disagreeable social group in the world.
Just off the shore, further than a stone's
throw, lies a mass of broken rock. The
surf comes leaping and laughing in, send¬
ing up, above the curving green breakers
and crests of foam, jets and spirals of
water which flash like silver fountains in
the sunlight. These islets of rock are the
home of the sea lion. This loafer of the
coast congregates here by the thousand.
Sometimes the rocks are quite covered,
the smooth rounded surface of tho larger
one presenting the appearance at a dis¬
tance of a knoll dotted with dirty sheep.
There is generally a select knot of a doz¬
en floating about in the still water under
the lee of the rock, bobbing up their tails
and flippers very much as black drift¬
wood might heave about in the tide.
During certain parts of the day members
of this community are off fishing in deep
water; but what they like best to do is to
crawl up on the rocks and grunt and bel¬
low. or go to sleep in the sun. Some of
them lie half in water, their tails floating
and their ungainly heads wagging. These
uneasy ones are always wriggling the out or of
plunging in. Some crawl to tops stuffed
the rocks aud lie like gunny fags broken
with meal, or they repose on the
surfaces like masses of jelly. When they
are all at home the rocks have not room
for them, and they crawl on and over
each other, and lie like piles of undressed
pork. In the water they are black,
but when they are dry in the sun
the skin becomes a dirty light
brown. Many of them are huge
fellows, with a body as big as an ox. In
the water they are repulsively graceful;
on the rocks they are as ungainly as bone¬
less cows, or hogs that have lost their
shape in prosperity. Hummer and win¬
ter (aud it is almost always summer well on
this coast) these beasts, which are
fitted for neither land nor water, spend
iheir time in absolute indolence, except
when they are obligod to cruise around
in deep water for food. They are of no
use to anybody, either for their skin or
for their flesh. Nothing could be more
thoroughly disgusting and uncanny than
they are, and yet nothing more fascinat¬
ing. One can watch them—the irre¬
sponsible, formless lumps of intelligent tiring. I
flesh—for hours -without
scarcely know what the fascination is. A
small seal playing by himself near the
shore, floating on and diving under
breakers is not so very disagreeable, es¬
pecially if he comes so near that you can
see his pathetic eyes; but these brutes in
this perpetual summer resort are disgust¬
ingly attractive. Nearly everything
about them, including their voice, is re¬
pulsive. Perhaps it is the absolute idle¬
ness of the community that makes it so
interesting. To fish, to swim, to snooze
on the rocks, that is all, forever and ever.
No past, no future. A society that lives
for the laziest sort of pleasure. If the/
were rich, what more could they have?
[s not this the ideal of a watering-place
life?—[Harper’s Magazine.
Albatross Skin.
The most valuable part of the albatross,
however, is its plumage, says Forest and
Stream. The neck, breast and body are
5n»w white, shading delicately into gray
and dusky brown at the sides and back,
and the feathers are so curled and elastic
that the skin with the plumage on it is
an inch or an inch and a half thick. No
liner material can be had for muffs, cuffs,
collarettes, capes or the trimming or lin¬
ing of cloaks and robes. It is very
light, vet exceedingly warm, while for
appearance its dovelike smoothness and
purity cannot advantage, be excelled.
It has the too, of being very
durable, the natural oil of the bird pre¬
serving the skin and feathers for many
years, while the characteristic musky
odor is easily overcome by camphor. It
is a wonder that some enterprising fur¬
rier or modiste does not set. the fashion
of wearing albatross plumage, and send
to Antipodes or the Crozets for a season's
supply. There would be money in it,
not only by its novelty, but by its use¬
fulness. At the same time I hope it will
not be done, because if once the skin of
the albatross acquired a commercial value,
and the ruthless hand of fashion were
laid on its smooth white neck, the poor
bird would soon be driven from its se¬
cluded haunts, and might even be in
danger of extermination.
May the day be far distant when the
trader shall invade the home of the al¬
batross or the pot-hunter disturb its
ancient, solitary reign.
New Beacon Lights
The objections to the intermittance ol
electric light signals have been partly
overcome by the use of a duplex current,
but a still steadier flame is obtained bv a
method which an Italian journal de¬
scribes as a “clock-work pouring down
every thirty seconds ten centigrams of
powdered magnesium, brilliant producing a
smokeless aud extremely light.”
In clear weather the flashes of the ap¬
paratus in question are said to be visible
at night from a distance of fourteen
F.uglish miles.—[New York Voice.
CHEflP^ MONEY.
I am prepared to negotiate loans .
or eight per cent interest, as parties **
desire. Money can be repaid at an
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ALLIANCE DIRECTORY
COUNTY ALLIANCE.
Rev. G. W. White, president.
R. H. Culverhouse, vice-president
S. B. Causey, secretary.
L. C. Futrell, treasurer.
Jeff D. McGee, lecturer.
Frank Danielly, assistant lecturer
J. W. Hammock, sentinel. J
Meets first October. Thursday in January * r
July and * * a
KNOXVILLE ALLIANCE.
R. H. (julverbouse, president.
M. F. Parry, vice-president.
B. F. Causey, secretary.
J. S. Sandifer, treasurer.
J. D. McGee, lecturer.
C. G. Power, assistant lecturer.
Jeff Wright, sentinel.
G. S. Bryant, assistant sentinel.
Meets first and third Saturdays in
month. ti
NOTICE,
Copartnership.
We have formed a copartnership 3
der ttpj name of the George W. Gret
Company, refcil 4 for the ^ business purpose of in carrying Trianga
a r 7 g 00
block, Macon, Georgia.
J. H. Timbeklake.
Geokge W. Greexe.
Homer N. Wright,
Dan Coffey,
George W. Coates.
4t
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1 —a ■A
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Big stock of CLOTH
FURNISHING GOODS il
HATS. We carry the best*
lection to be seen in Mam j
all odds. It is pretty just
look at, so drop in and ca
your eye about.
As usual, we are selling
great many FANCY CHEVII
SUITS. Our popular pm
made possible by a large |
growing custom, are the dri
ing card.
We believe that a firm m
sells honest goods at prim
bit lower than its competim
is bound to “get there.' 3 Hai \
Asher Engel, W. H.
and John Baskin will wait I
you when you call.
J. H. HERTZ
YXTANTED—BY A NICE, REFES
VV gentleman a young lady romrf “I
dent between the ages of 16 * D
years. Object amusement. Brunette)
ferred, or blonde either.
“Bachelor,” Knoxville, Ga.
CUM II. IIIIIEi
General House Foraiste
572 CHERRY STREET, MACON.
CROCKERY,
glassware,
STOVES & RANG
Every article warranted. Call
me.
DR.W~.~F. BLASINGA
DHicrTie» ,r ’
Knoxville, - . Ceori
I respectfully tender my •*** L . -j
Practice of Dentistry to tbe *
Knoxville and surrounding c0 \
will spare no effort to secure WJE
competent work and perfect »
^“Charges ReasaRfcfele-