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IN TIME OF LEISURE.
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE IN *LU
ENCE OF THE CLUB.
He Shows the Effect of Bad Clubs—The
Tee* of Merit of a Olnb-The' Struttie
Acalott Bril Habits and How to Con.
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[Copyright, 1898, Press Asao
■Washington, Jan. 9.—This discourse of
Dr. Talmage will be helpful to those who
want to find places with healthful and im
proving surroundings and to avoid places
deleterious. His text is II Samuel 11,14,
“Let the young men now arise and play
before us.”
There are two armies encamped by the
pool of Gibeon. The time hangs heavily
on their hands. One army proposes a game
of sword fencing. Nothing could be more
healthful and Innocent. The other army
accepts the challenge. Twelve men against
12 men, the sport opens. But something
went adversely. Perhaps one of the swords
men got an unlucky clip or In some way
had his Ire aroused, and that which opened
in sportfulness ended in violence, each one
taking his contestant by the hair and then
with the sword thrusting him in (he side,
so that that which opened in innocent fun
ended in the massacre of all the 24 sports
men. Was there ever a better illustration
of what was true then and is true now,
that that which is innocent may be made
destructive?
At this season of the year the clubhpuses
of our towns and cities are in full play. I
have found out that there is a legitimate
and an illegitimate use of the clubhouse.
In the one case it may become a healthful
recreation, like the contest of the 24 men
in the text when they began their play;
in the other case it becomes the massacre
of body, mind and soul, as in the case of
these contestants of the text when they
had gone too far with their sport. All in
telligent ages have had their gatherings
for political social, artistic, literary pur
poses—gatherings characterized by the
blunt old Anglo-Saxon designation of
“chib.”
Famous Clubs.
If you have read history, you know
that there was a King’s Head club, a Ben
Jonson club, a Brothers’ club, to which
Swift and Bolingbroke belonged; a Liter
ary club, which Burke and Goldsmith and
Johnson and Boswell made immortal; a
Jacobin club, a Benjamin Franklin Junto
club—some of these to indicate justice,
some to favor the arts, some to promote
good manners, some to despoil the habits,
some to destroy the soul. If one will write
an honest history of the clubs of England,
Ireland, Scotland, France and the United
States for the last 100 years, ho will write
the history of the world. The club was an
institution bora on English soil, but it
has thrived well in American atmosphere.
.Who shall tell how many belong to that
kind of club where men put purses togeth
er and open bouse, apportioning the ex
pense of caterer and servants and room,
and having a sort of domestic establish
ment—a style of clubhouse which in my
opinion is far better than the ordinary
hotel or boarding house? But my object
now is to speak of clubhouses of a differ
ent sort, such as the Cosmos or Chevy
Chase or Lincoln club of this capital, or
the Union Leagues of many cities, the
United Service club of‘ London, the Lotos
of New York, where journalists, drama
tists, sculptors, painters and artists from
all branches gather together to discuss
newspapers, theaters and elaborate art,
like the Americus, which camps out in
summer time, dimpling the pool with its
hook and arousing the forest with its stag
hunt; like the Century club, which has
its large group of venerable lawyers and
poets; like the Army and Navy club, where
those who engaged in Warlike service once
on the land or the sea now come together
to talk over the days of carnage; like the
New York Yacht club, with its floating
palaces of beauty upholstered with velvet
and paneled with ebony, having all the
advantages of electric bell, and of gaslight,
and of king’s pantry, one pleasure boat
costing |B,OOO, another $15,000, anoth
er $30,000, another $65,000, the fleet
of pleasure boats belonging to the
club having cost over $2,000,000; like
the American Jockey club, to which
belong men who have a passionate fond
ness for horses, fine horses, as had Job
when, in the Scriptures, he gives us a
sketch of that king of beasts, the arch of
its neck, the nervousness of its foot, the
majesty of its gait, the whirlwind of its
power, crying out: “Hast thou clothed his
neck with thunder? The glory of his nos
trils is terrible; he paweth in the valley
and rejoiceth in his strength, he salth
among the trumpets ha! ha! and he smell
eth the battle afar off, the thunder of the
captains, and the shouting,” like the
Travelers’ club, the Blossom club, the
Palette club, the Commercial club, the
Liberal club, the Stable Gang club, the
Amateur Boat club, the gambling clubs,
the wine clubs, the clubs of all sizes, the
clubs of all morals, clubs as good as good
can be and clubs as bad as bad can be,
clubs innumerable. During the day they
are comparatively lazy places. Here and
there an aged man reading a newspaper,
or an employee dusting a sofa, or a clerk
writing up the accounts, but when the
curtain of the night falls on the natural
day then the curtain of the clubhouse
hoists for the entertainment. Let us
hasten up now the marble stairs. What
an imperial hallway I See, here are par
lors on the side, with the upholstery of the
Kremlin and the Tuileries, and here are
dining balls that challenge you to mention
any luxury that they cannot afford, and
here are galleries with sculpture and
paintings and lithographs and drawings
from the best of artists, Cropsey and
Blerstadt and Church and Hart and
Gifford—pictures for every mood, whether
you are Impassioned or placid; shipwreck
or sunlight over the sea, Sheridan’s ride,
or the noonday party of the farmers under
the trees, foaming deer pursued by the
hounds in the Adirondacks or the sheep
on the lawn. On this side there are read
ing rooms where you find all newspapers
and magazines. On that side there is a
library, where you find all books, from
hermeneutics to the fairy tale. Coming in
and out there are gentlemen, some of
whom stay ten minutes, others stay many
hours. Some of these are from luxurious
homes, and they have excused themselves
for awhile from the domestic circle that
they may. enjoy the larger sociability of
the clubhouse. These are from dismember
ed households, and they have a plain lodg
ing somewhere, but they come to this club
room to have their chief enjoyment. One
blackball amid ten votes will defeat a
taan’s becoming a member. For rowdy
ism, for drunkenness, for gambling, for
any kind of misdemeanor, a member is
dropped out. Brilliant clubhouse from top
to bottom. The chandeliers, the plate, the
furniture, the companionship, the litera
ture, the social prestige, a complete en
chantment.
But the “eveuing is passing on, and so
we hasten through the hall and down the
steps and into the street ang.from block
to block untit we come to another style of
clubhouse. Opening the door, we find the
fumes of strong drink and tobacco some
thing almost intolerable. These young
men at this table, it is easy to understand
what they are at from the flushed cheek,
the intent look, the almost angry way of
tossing the dice or of moving the “chips.”
They are gambling. At another table are
men who are telling vlle’stories. They are
throe-fourths intoxicated, and between 12
and 1 o’clock they will go staggering,
hooting, swearing, shouting on their way
home. That is an only son. On him all
klpdness, all care, all culture has been be
stowed. Ho is paying his parents in this
way for their kindness. That is a young
married man who only a few months ago
at the altar made promises of kindness
and fidelity, every ono of which ho has
broken. Walk through and see for your
self. Here are all the implements of dissi
pation and of quick death. As the hours
of the night go away the conversation be
comes imbecile and more debasing. Now
it is time to shut up. Those who are able
to stand will get out on the pavement and
balance themselves against the lamppost
or against the railings of the fence. The
young man who is not able to stand will
have a bed improvised for him in the club
house, or two not quite so overcopne with
liquor will conduct him to his father’s
house, and they will ring the doorbell, and
the door will open, and the two imbecile
escorts will introduce into the hallway the
ghastliest and most hellish spectacle that
ever enters a front door—a drunken son.
If the dissipating clubhouses of this coun
try would make a contract with the inferno
to provide it 10,000 men a year, and for
20 years, on the condition that no more
should be asked of them, the clubhouses
could afford to make that contract, for
they would save homesteads, save fortunes,
save bodies, minds and souls. The 10,000
men who would bo sacrificed by that con
tract would be but a small part of the
multitude sacrificed without
But I make a vast differencewbetween
clubs. I have belonged to four clubs—a
theological club, a ball club and two liter
ary clubs. I got from them physical re
juvenation and moral health. What shall
be the principle? If God will help me, I
will lay down three principles by which
you may judge whether the club where
you are a member or the club to which
you have been invited is a legitimate or
an illegitimate clubhouse.
First of all I want you to test the club
by its influences on homo, if you have a
home. I have been told by a prominent
gentleman in club life that three-fourths
of the members of the great clubs of these
cities are married men. That wife soon
loses her influence over her husband Who
nervously and foolishly looks upon all
evening absence as an assault on domes
ticity. How arc the great enterprises of
art and literature and beneficence and
public weal to be carried on if every man
is to have his world bounded on ono side
by his front doorstep and on the other
side by his back window, knowing noth
ing higher thari his own attio or nothing
lower than his own cellar? That wifo
who becomes jealous of her husband’s at
tention to art or literature or religion or
charity is breaking her own scepter of
conjugal power. I know an instance
where a wife thought that her husband
was giving too many nights to Christian
service, to charitable service, to prayer
meetings and to religious convocation.
She systematically decoyed him away un
til now he attends no church and is on a
rapid way to destruction, his morals gone,
his money gone and, I fear, his soul gone.
Let any Christian wife rejoice when her
husband consecrates evenings to the serv
ice of God, or to charity, or to art, or to
anything elevated, but let not men sacri
fice home life to club life. I can point out
to you a great many names of men who
are guilty of this sacrilege. They are as
genial as angels at the clubhouse and as
ugly as sin at home. They are generous
on all subjects of wine suppers, yachts and
fast horses, but they are stingy about the
wife’s dress and the children’s shoes.
That man has made that which might be
a healthful recreation a usurper of his
affections, and he has married it, and he
is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this
process the wife, whatever her features,
becomes uninteresting aifd homely. He
becomes critical of her, does not like the
dress, decs not like the way she arranges
her hair, is amazed that he ever was so
unromantic as to offer her hand and heart.
She is always wanting money, money
when she ought to be discussing Eclipses
and Dexter and Derby day and English
drags with six horses, all answering the
pull of one “ribbon.”
Clubbed to Death.
I tell you there are thousands of houses
in the cities being clubbed to death. There
are clubhouses where membership always
involves domestic shipwreck. Tell me
that a man has joined a certain club, tell
me nothing more about him for ten years,
and I will write his history if he be still
alive. The man is a wine guzzler, his
■wife broken hearted or prematurely old,
his fortune gone «r reduced and his home
a mere name in a directory. Here are six
secular nights In the week. “What shall I
do with them?” says the father and the
husband. “I will give four of those nights
to the improvement and entertainment of
my family, either at home or in good
neighborhood. I will devote one to chari
table institutions. I will devote one to the
club.” I congratulate you. Here is a
man who says: “I will make a different
division of the six nights. I will take
three for the club and three for other pur
poses.” I tremble. Here is a man who
says, “Out of the six secular nights of the
week I will devote five to the clubhouse
and one to the home, which night I w ill
spend in scowling like a March'squall,
wishing I was out spending it as I had
spent the other five. ” That man’s obitu
ary is written. Not one out of 10,000 that
ever gets so far on the wrong road ever
stops. » Gradually his health will fail
through late hours and..through too much
stimulus. He will be first rate prey for
erysipelas and rheumatism of the heart.
The doctor, coming in, will at a glance see
it is not only present disease he must fight,
but years of fast living. The clergyman,
for the sake of the feelings of the family,
on the funeral day will only talk in reli
gious generalities. Then men who got his
yacht in the-eternal rapids will not be at
the obsequies. They will have pressing
engagements that day. They will send
flowers to the coffin lid and send their
wives to utter words of sympathy, but they
Will have engagements elsewhere. They
never come. Bring me mallet and chisel
and I will cut on the tombstone that man’s
epitaph, “Blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord.” “No,” you say, “that would
not be appropriate.” “Let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my last end
be like his.” “No,” you say, “that would
not be appropriate.” Then give me the
mallet and the chisel and I will cut an
honest epitaph, “Here lies the victim of a
dissipating clubhouse. ”
1 think that damage is often dona by
the scions of some prlitoorat’o family who
belong to ono of these dissipating club
houses. People coming up ‘rom humbler
classes feel it an honor to. belong to the
same club, forgetting tho fa -t that many
of tho sons and grandsons of the largo
commercial establishments of the last gen
eration arc now, as to mind, imbecile; as
to body, diseased; as to morals, rotten.
They would have got through their prop
erty long ago if they had hod full posses
sion of it, hut the wily ancestors, who
earned the money by hard knocks, foresaw
how it was to be, and they tied up every
thing in tho wilt Now, there is nothing
of. that unworthy descendant but bls
grandfather’s name and roast boef ro
tundity. And yet how many steamers
there are which feel honored to lash fast
that worm eaten tug, though it drags
them straight into tho breakers.
Another test by which you can find
whether your club is legitimatoor illegiti
mate—the effect it has on your secular oc
cupation. I can understand how through
such an institution a man can reach com
mercial successes. I know some men have
formed their best business relations
through such a channel. If the club has
advantaged you in an honorable calling,
it is a legitimate club. But has your
credit failed? Arc bargain makers more
cautious how they trust you with a bill of
goods? Have the men whose names were
down in the commercial agency Al before
they entered the club been going down
ever since in commercial standing? Then
lookout! You and I every day know of
commercial establishments going to ruin
through tho social excesses of one or two
members, their fortunes beaten to death
with ball players’ bat, or cut amidships
by the front prow of tho regatta, or going
down under the swift hoof: of the fast
horses, or drowned in largo potations of
cognac and monongahela. Their club
house was the “Loch Earn. ” Their busi
ness house was tho “Villo du Havre.”
They struck, and the “Villo du Havre”
went under.
A Test of Merit.
A third test by which you may know
whether the club to which you belong, or
tho club to whose membership you are in
vited, is a legitimate club or an illegiti
mate club is this: What is its effect on
your sense of moral and religious obliga
tion? Now, if I should take tho names of
all tho people in any audience and put
them on a roll and then I should lay that
roll back of the organ and 100 years from
now some one should take that roll and
call it from A to Z, there would not one
of you answer. I say that any association
that makes me forget that fact is a bad
association. Now to many of the cities
th-ye are two routes, and you can take the
Pennsylvania railroad or the Baltimore
and Ohio; but suppose that I hear that on
one route the track is torn up, and the
bridges are tern down, and the switches
are unlocked? It will not take me a great
while to decide which road to take. Now,
here are two roads into the future, the
Christian and the un-Christian, the safe
and the unsafe. An institution or any as
sociation that confuses my idea in regard
to that fact is a bad institution and a bad
association. I had prayers before I joined
the club. Did I have them after? I attend
ed the house cf God before I connected
myself with the club. Since that union
with the club do I absent myself from re
ligious influences? Which would you rather
have in yoqr hand when you come to die,
a pack of cards or a Bible? Which would
you rather have pressed to your lips in the
closing moment, the cup of Belshazzaroan
wassail or the chalice of Christian com
munion? Who would you rather have for
your pallbearers, the elders of a Christian
church or tho companions whose conver
sation was full of slang and innuendo?
Who would you rather have for your eter
nal companions, those men who spend
their evenings betting, gambling, swear
ing, carousing and telling vile stories or
your little child, that bright girl whom
the Lord took? Oh, you would not have
bepn away so much nights, would you, if
you had known she was going away so
soon? Dear me, your house has never been
the same ulaco since. Your wife has never
brightened up. She has not got over it;
she never will get over it. How long the
evenings are; with nb one to put to bed
and no one to tell tfie beautiful Bible story I
What a pity it la that you cannot spend
more evenings at home in trying to help
her bear that sorrow I You can never
drown that grief in the wjno cup. You
can never break away ffgjri the little arms
that used to be flung around your neck
when she used to say, “Papa, do stay home
tonight—do stay home tonight.” You
will never be able to wipe away from your
lips the dying kiss of your little girl.
The fascination of a dissipating club
house is so great that sometimes a man
has turned his back on his home when his
child was dying of scarlet fever. He went
away. Before he got back at midnight the
eyes had been closed, the undertaker had
done his work, and the wife, worn out
with three weeks’ watching, lay uncon
scious in the next room. Then there is a
rattling of the night key in the door, and
the returned father comes up stairs and
sees the empty cradle and the window up.
He says, “What is the matter?” In God’s
judgment day he will find out what was
the matter. Oh, man astray, God help
you!
The influence which somo of the club
houses are exerting is the more to be de
plored because it takes down the very best
men. Tho admission fee sifts out the
penurious and leaves only tho best fellows.
They are frank, they are generous, they
are whole souled, they are talented. Oh,
I begrudge the devil such a prize! After
awhile the frank look will go out of the
face and the features will be haggard, and
when talking to you, instead of looking
you In the eye, they will look down, and
every morning the mother will kindly ask,
“My son, what kept you out so late last
night?” and he will make no answer, or
he will say, “That’s my business." Then
some time ho will come to the store or the
bank cross and befogged, and he will neg
lect some duty, and after awhile he will
lose his place, and then with nothing to
do he will come down at 10 o’clock in tho
mprnlng to curse the servant because tho
breakfast is cold. The lad who was a clerk
in tho cellar has got to be chief clerk In
the great commercial establishment; the
young man who ran orrands for the bank
has got to be cashier; thousands of the
young men who were at the foot of the
ladder have got to the top of the ladder,
but here goes the victim of the dissipating
clubhouse, with staggering step and blood
shot eye and mud bespattered hat set side
wise on a shock of greasy hair, bls cravat
dashed with cigar ashes. Look at him!
Pure hearted young man, look at him!
The clubhouse did that. I know one such
who went the whole round, and turned
out of the higher clubhouses went into the
lower clubhouses, and on down, until one
night be leaped out of a third story win
dow to end his wretchedness
A Terrible Straggle-
Let me say to fathers who arc becoming
dissipated, your sons will follow you.
You think yo xr son .does not know. Ho
knows all about it. I have heard men
who say, “I am profane, but never in the
presence of mv children.”.. Your children
know you swear. I have heard men say,
“I drink, but never in the presence of my
children.” Your children know you
drink. I describe now what occurs 'in
hundreds of households in this country.
Tho tea hour has arrived. Tho family are
seated at the tea table. ' Before the rest of
tho family arise from the table the father
shoves bock his chair, says ho has an en
gagement, lights a cigar, goes out, cornea
back after midnight, and that is the his
tory of 865 nights of the year. Docs any
man want to stultify himself by saying
that that is healthy, that that la right,
that that is honorable? Would your wife
have married you with such prospects?
Time will pass on, and the eon will be
16 or 17 years of ago, and you will be at
the tea table, and ho will shove back and
have an engagement, and he will light his
cigar, and he will go out to the clubhouse,
and you will hear nothing of him until
you hear tho night key in the door after
midnight. But bls .physical constitution
Is not quite so strong as yours, and the
liquor he drinks is more terrifically drug;
ged t han that which you drink, and so he
will catch up with you on the road to
death, though you got such a long start of
him, and so you will both go to boll to
gether.
The revolving Drummond light in front
of a hotel, in front of a locomotive, may
flash this way add flash that upon the
mountains, upon tho ravines, upon the
city, but I take the lamp of God’s eternal
truth, and I flash It upon all the club
houses of theso cities, so that no young
man shall be deceived. By th&e teste try
them, try them I Oh, leave the dissipat
ing influences of the clubroom, if the in
fluences of your clubroom are dissipating!
Paid your money, have you? Better sac
rifice that than your soul. Good fellows,
are they? Under that process they will
not remain such. Molluscs may be found
200 fathoms down beneath the Norwegian
seas; Siberian stag get fat on the stinted
growth of Altaian peaks; hedysarium
grow dmld the desolation of Sahara; tufts
of osier and birch grow on the hot lips of
volcanic Sneehattan, but a pure heart and
an honest life thrive In a dissipating club
house—never!
Tho way to conquer a wild beast is to
keep your eye on him, but the way for you
to conquer your temptations, my friend,
is to turn your back on them and fly for
your Ufa
Oh, my heart ache! I* see men strug
gling against evil habits, and they want
help. I have knelt beside them, and I have
heard them cry for help, and then wo have
risen, and he has put one hand on my
right shoulder and the other hand on my
left shoulder and looked into my face with
an infinity of earnestness which the judg
ment day will have no power to make me
forget, as he has cried out with his lips
scorched in ruin, "God help me!” For
such there is no help except in the Lord
God Almighty. I art going to make a
very stout rope. You know that some
times a ropemaker will take very small
threads and wind them together until after
awhile they become ship cable. And lam
going to take some very small, delicate
threads and wind them together until
they make a very stout rope, t will take
all the memories of the marriage day, a
thread at laughter, a th r °ad of light, a
thead of music, aibread bf banqueting, a
thread of congratulation, and I twist them
together and I have one strand. Then I
take a thread of the hour of the first ad
vent in your house, h thread of the dark
ness that preceded, and ’a thread of the
light that followed, and? a thread of the
beautiful scarf that little child used to
wear when she bounded but ave¥entide to
greet you, and then a thread of the beau
tiful drtSs in which you laid her ayray for
the resurrecton. And then L twist
theso threads together, and 1 have another
strand. Then I take a thread^-the soar
let robe of a suffering Christ, and a thread
of tho white ralxnent of your loved ofres
before the thrond, and a string of the harp
cherubic, and a string of thdharp seraphic,
and I twist them all together, and I have
a third strand. “Oh, you say, “either
strand is strong enough to hold fast a
world!” No. I will take these strands
and I will twist them together, and one
end of that rope I will fasten, pot to the
commuajqp table, for it shall be removed,
not to tho pillar of the. organ, for that will
crumble in tho agos, tut 1 wind it round
and round tho cross of a sympathizing
Christ, ahd having fastened one end of
SO ropq to tho cross I thrdw the other ond
you. Lay hold of it! Pull tor your life I
Pull for heaven!
Women Balked Senate Confirmations.
Presidents havo not been fortunate in
nominating members of tholr cabinets to
the United Stated supreme bench. Twice
since tho wax tho senate has refused to
confirm the nomination of an attorney
general to he a justice. One nomination
of a cabinet officer to the bench led to a
grievous scandal, which is part of the his
tory of Washington official Ufa The nom
ination was no sooner made than there
began to circulate anonymous letters in
tended ho effect the rejection. These jot
ters were sent to senators and to members
of the supreme court. They did not im
pugn the character of the cabinet officer
who haa been nominated. They assailed
his Wife. They contained charges such as
if true must array the other justices and
their families agqinst the proposed mem
ber. The supreme court circle is as much
a part of Washington society as the su
premo court is of Washington official Ufa
A nominee for the bench teres badly at the
hands of me senate if ba or his wife is
persona hon grata to the court or the court
circle. Senators listen to the judgment
of'the justices upon the qualifications of
the man who is about to join them if con
firmed. These anonymous letters were as
vile and vengeful as only a woman could
make them. They were traced by a third
woman, who prided herself on her detect
ive powers, to the socially jealous wife of
another member of the cabinet. To this
day no ono can tell how far those letters
exercised influence to the rejection which
followed.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Nana to Match.
“Have you any neckties?” inquired a
dandified young man addressing the pro
prietor of the Cedarby corner store. Then
turning to his companion he said, with a
slight lisp: “I have a fad for getting neck
ties as souvenirs of every place I visit It’s
my own idea, you know.”
“What color do you want, young man?”
inquired the proprietor, surveying his cus
tomer through a pair of Ison bowed spec
tacles.
“Oh—ah—l’m very fond of having
them to match the color of my eyes,” said
the young man languidly, opening his
small orbs to their widest extent.
“Haven’t got any neckties that’ll do,
then,” said the proprietor, shaking his
head decidedly. “I’ve got plain blue ones,
real pale blue, but none with pink edge*. ”
—Youth’s Companion.
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JOB PRINTING
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The Morning Call Office, J
We have just supplied our Job Office with a complete line of Stationer* J
kinds and can get up, on short notice, anything wanted in the way ot
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LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS.
STATEMENTS, IRCULARB,
ENVELOPES, NOTES,
MORTGAGES, PROGRAMS,
J ARDS, POSTERS ■
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DODGERS, £70., SIL
We c*rvy ue l xet inc of FNVEJXIFEf) TO : this trade.
An aitracnvc POSTER cf any sue can be issued on short notec. <■
Our prices for work of all kinds will compare favorably with those obtained *o»
any office in the state. When you want job printing otjany dctcripticn uve us
call Satisfaction guaranteed.
ALL WORK DONE
With Neatness and Dispatch. . |
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Out of town orders will receive
prompt attention
J. P. & S B. SawteU.
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further information apply to
B. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager, Savanaah, Ga.