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New Garden Seeds. MR,»’ ' All fresh from the best growers. Genuine Eastern Irish Potatoes. Prescriptions carefully compounded. I J N - HARRIS & SON - Fresh Garden Seed! '—O' ■ ■■ ■ Buists, Landreth’s, Mays. We are selling them cheap. Eastern grown Seed Irish Potatoes. N. B. DREWRY & SON. . 1111 CQPTF.'n WE HAVE SOME EXTRA FINE GRADES OF COFFEE. WE HAVE SEVERAL KINDS OF BLENDED GOODS, WHICH MAKE A VERY FINE DRINK. WE HaVE ALSO ROASTED AND GREEN BIOS. WHEN YOU WANT A GOOD COFFEE TRY US ONE TIME. G. W. CLARK & SON. Wholesale and Retail Grocers. BARGAINS IN FURNITURE, fox, CROCKERY, LAMPS, CUTLERY, ETC., ETC., MANGHAM BROS. Morning~Call. E'. ' GRIFFIN, GA., MARCH C, 1808. 0 Rice or er Darts' Hardware Store TELEPHONE NO. M. . PERSONAL AND LOCAL DOTS ••*>*;> A.’ ■ -f . . Officer R. A Gorden spent yest&rday in Vaughn Rev W. W. Wadsworth, of Atlanta, waa in the city yesterday. Prof. Jack Moore, of Liberty Hill, spent yesterday in the city. Miss Eunice Edwards spent yester day with friends in Atlanta. Frank Greer Lake, of Atlanta, is " mending today with relatives in this city. A false alarm of fire last night about 8 o’clock brought out the department with a whirl. Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Garland left yes terday«to spend a few days with rela tires at The Rock. Wilbur McDonald, of Atlanta, is spending today with relatives and friends in thin city. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. T. Smith and son, Master Richter, of Concord, spent yesterday with friends in this city. Miss Roselyn Reid left yesterday for Thomaston, where she will spend sev eral days visiting relatives and friends. There is nothing better than Thrash's Lung Restorer for Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe and all Lung Troubles. 50c bottle. Roswell H. Drake and family reach ed home last night from Memphis, Tenn., where they bad been to attend Mardi Gras. E. J. Flemister returned last night from New York City where be spent several days purchasing a large stock of spring dry goods. Miss Jeannie Hsmmond.of Atlanta, returned home yesterday after spend ing several days in this city with ber sister, Mrs. D. J. Bailey. Mrs. Dr. Gilbert, of East Point, who has been in this city for several days as the guest of Mra. J. D. Boyd, returned home yesterday. Mra. C. I. Stacy, of Macon, returned home yesterday after spending some time in this city with ber parent*, Capt. and Mrs. Geo. R. Niles. E. E- Carlisle leaves this morning for his old home in Roanoke, Ala., where he will spend some time with ■relative*. His many Griffin friends wish him a pleasant trip. Officers Pbefps and Gurdon arrested Will Holloway, colored, Friday night i upon instructions from the sheriff of i Crawford county. Holldway is want ’. ed for misdemeanor and will be car ried to Crawford thia morning. Alec Copeland, a negro brakeman on the Southern, while coupling cars at the Southern freight depot yester day morning, had the first finger of his right hand so badly mashed as to render amputation necessary. Dr. J. M Thomas, the roads surgeon, re moved the disabled member. Col. M. P. Hall is one among the youngest and most intellectual mem bers of the bar in Georgia. Though he : has been a resident of our city hardly a year, be has won himself straight to the hearts of our people by his gentle*, : manly and courteous bearing. We have beard it rumored that bis friends , are desirous of having him make the race for representative of Butts in tbe next election.—Jackson Argus. That dreaded disease, Cohsump ! tion, cured with Thraah's Lung Re storer and Consumptive Cure. AJI druggists, 50c bottle. > —. THE WAR CRY Steady and Rapid Preparations Are Being Made ■ Every day the wai cloud thickens and everything points to the inevitable , conflict. , Spain is making rapid and extensive preparations by purchasing war vessels and sending litem to Cubsn waters. There is an increased activity on tbe Atlantic coast, furnishing all forts with ammunition and mounting heavy guns io protect the cities. L. The government has contracted for the transportation of thirty car loads 1 of heavy guns to Pensacola, Fort Pick ens, Galveston and other points. A 67,000 pound cannon passed through Atlanta last night bound for Pensacola, while Charleston and Sa vannah are being provided with means of protection. The opinion is gradually obtaining throughout thj country that a war is inevitable. Can Griffin See It? Augustin Daly, of New York, is making a tour of the*Scutb presenting one of tbe most popular comedies of the day. Mr. C. W. Williams, the advanced agent of Mr. Daly spent yesterday in our city, and said that tbe play could be seen at the Olympic Friday night next if an $l5O house was guaranteed. Tbe comedy is “One Night Off,” and was presented in New York for one hundred consecutive nights to crowded houses. There is no doubt but this will be tbe beet show ever seen in the Olym pic, if it can be secured. Manager Patterson says be cannot afford to take chances, but if patrons of tbe opera bouse will secure tickets enough tomorrow to protest him against loss be will contract for its presentation on Friday night. A can vas will be made tomorrow to decide tbe question. Tbe lovers of good shows should subscribe for tickets al once and see something at home as fine as could be seen in any city of the State. City Court The city churl of Griffin will con vene Monday morning at 10 o’clock, Judge E. W. Beck presiding. AH par lies at interest will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly. ■■ ■ -v< : - GOD AS A PITYING FATHER ... BY V. B. Ho UARCY. 1 God ia that perfect being of whom man ia the likenhaa and image We cannot penetrate the bidden myateriea of the unseen lands, nor comprehend the personalities, or even things,which are to be found there How far then must we fall abort of comprehending the nature of the greatest of all its be* inga—God. We can only look at the likenesses and the symbols and th" images as they are revealed to ue and then imagine what must be the great personality they represent. Especially ia thia true of God. We know that man was made io His im age, and we know that God must be the perfect one, faintly shadowed in the representation of true manhood. God, in speaking of the relative posi tion of man to His own ways and thoughts, says: “As the heaves are higher than the earth, so are my ways i higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Bui fortunately for us in the matter we have in band today, God himself has permitted a comparison of himself with man. We apeak now of the pitying side of His nature. He says: “Like as a father pityetb bis children,so the Lord pilieth them that fear Him ; for He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.” The comparison is plain and simple. “Like as a father pitieth His children” is the standard of measurement that God himself sets up by which we may determine faintly the extent of His pity for man. We have had an opportunity of knowing something of parental pity. For upwards of thirteen years we have reported the criminal trials of this sec tion, and on occasions like these the heart manifests itself truly. We have seen tears flow, hearts break and beard low, aad waih of anguish that could touch a heart of stone. That same pity that man has for bis children God has for those who fear Him. Some have tried very bard to make God out as an austere being, ready to inflict the most grievous punishments for the most trivial things ; but such is not the character that Revelation gives us of our Father, nor is it the character we see manifested in nature. God is not after punishing people, but is after mending them up and saving them. Everywhere in nature we see the processes of healing and saving. If we cut a tree, we are not surprised to find after a time that a great effort has been made to heal over the wound* Job tells us what we already know— that “there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout out again, and that the tender branches thereof will not cease.”—Job 14 :7. God’s efforts are still greater for us. He heals our broken hearts, binds up our wounds, pities our misfortunes, hears our cries of distress and succors us in times of trouble, and bends all the spirit powers of heaven and earth to rescue us. He is all the time help ing ue, and mending up our broken places, and if we just turn our faces heavenward we catch the sunshine of His love, just as the heath flower when it turns its disk to the sun catches the rays ol that benificent orb. We will now give a couple of Bible incidents which show our idea of God more clearly than we have words to portray. The first is God’s dealings with Ninevah. Ninevah was a great city, but a very wicked one God sent his prophet there with thia message: “Yet forty days and Ninevab shall be overthrown” (Jonah 3:3). Ninevah heard the ominous message, and put on saccloth and ashes, and fasted as men have seldom fasted, either before or since, for “man, beast and flock tasted nothing.” Now, that was a wonderful spectacle. How did God meet it? “And God saw their works, that they turned from an evil way; and God repented of the evil that He said He would do unto them ; and He did it not” (Jonah 3 :10). The prophet was angry because his prophecy had failed, but God exhibited His pity <nd love to man as a far higher and nobler attribute than dire punishment,though greatly deserved. Our second illustration is that of Hezekiah. When he lay upon his couch of sickness one day he was doubtless surprised to receive a visit from Isaiah, the prophet, who came in with this message: “Thus eai’.h the Lord, set thine house in order; for thou shall die and not live.” Hezekiah turned hie face to the wall and wept sore and prayed earnestly to God and touched the pity of the great fctber, who sent laiah back again, with thia message: “I have beard thy prayers, I have seen tby tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years” (Isai ah 3:8) Are there not living witnesses all over the world who can testily that they were sick unto death, and God heard their prayers and pitied and healed them? If God hears such prayers as these in behalf of the ani mal nature, will he not bear alro the appeals of the dying for a healing of their spititsT When we think that it was a thief whom men loathed, and* who wis being crucified with Christ to dishonor Him, who was the first fruit of tbe sabrilice nf the cross, may we not take courage ? Rest assured God saves every man in this world He can save, just as an earthly father would save all his chil dren. The only limitation put upon this promise is this: That His pity is manifested to “those who fear Him.” Solomon said : “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”—surely it is the basis of His pity. Let us fear and obey the Lord, with tbe full assurance that He pities our frailties and judges us in love and mercy. We believe there are millions in Paradise today whom the uncharit able opinions of men have consigned to the regions of the damned. “O deem not they are blessed alone Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep; For God who pities man hath shown A blessing for the eyes that weep. “God has marked each sorrowing day, And numbered each secret tear, And heaven’s long‘age of bliss shall pay For all his children suffer here.” WOMAN’S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. BY THE SECRETARY OF THE GRIFFIN DISTRICT. A vague idea of the supreme being may be obtained from nature. God may be discerned in the flowers, for ests, streams and lofty mountains up on earth and in the sun, moon and stars that inhabit the sky. “Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.” But right conceptions of the deity are not ob tained from tbe handiwork of God alone. Socrates and Plato, with all their wisdom, could see only as “through a glass darkly” into tbe “hidden secrets of the Most High.” Seneca and Cicero and other Roman moralists discoursed divinely upon topics relating to virtue. Virgil’s Aeneas was “pious” because he was faithful and true to bis kindred and friends amid many trials and be reavements. Contact with nature and their inner consciousness, or feeble in stinct, gave the ancients such impres sions of the deity and religion as to constitute an artful system of super stition and idolatry. Thus we see that man when left alone, even under the most favorable circumstances, with all his resources of wisdom and reason, cannot without direct revelation from heaven, know the true and living God. The Bible contains this revelation. It is the on ly book that shows the true relation between man and his maker. It is the only book that teaches that a“change of heart” is necessary to fit mankind for heaveu Tbe revealed word pioclaims tbe truth that salvation comes by hearing. Following hard upon this statement are the logical questions : How can people hear without a preacher? How can a preacher preach unless he be sent? When the Bible quits asking questions, we may continue the inter rogations : How can the preacher be sent unless we raise money for him? How can he be kept in the foreign field unless we keep up systematic or ganization for bis continued main tainance and support by means of something like the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society? How many of tbe good members of the Methodist church in Griffin will read these paragraphs and make up their minds to attend a meeting of the auxiliary society, to be held at the Methodist church next Monday after noon at 3 o’clock? All are cordially invited to attend. H.P.EADY&CO. IN HILL BUILDING, Buggies, Wagons and Hamess. We give good prices for your old' Buggy and Harness in exchange for new ones. All kind of repair work promptly done. H. P. EADY * CO. WAR DECLARED ! ; . '-A ' ‘ - ■; --- V.... D On All FaH and Winter Goods. BASS BROTHERS HAVE ISSUED THIS PROCLAMATION—THAT ALL WINTER GOODS MUST GO AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NOW AND SOON TO BE ARRIVING NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. - Few more pair of those 50c. Blankets left Come early if yon want a pair. All wool Blankets worth $6, will go for $3.25. Cloaks and Oapee at less than half their value. We do not want to carry these goods over and will save you big money in this line. FLOOR COVERINGS. —If you want anything in Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, etc., you will find it to your interest to see us this week. Clothing, Clothing! ‘ *' • All winter suits and odd pants will be sacrificed to make room for new spring and summer purchases that will soon arrive. If you want a fine suit cneap, very cheap, come to see us. New spring and summer samples for Clothing have arrived. It you want a new stylish suit, made to fit you, at prices,{ see our new samples and get our prices. New Spring Goods. You are invited to call Monday and every day thiri week at our store and ask to see the new Percals, new Sateens, new Embroideries, new Laces, new full line of Embroidery Silk, new Braids, new Crochet Silk at sc. spool, new Chambry, new black brocade Dress Goods. These are beauties and you should see them. . . ’ Just received new black Satins, handsome quality. SHOES, SHOES. First invoice of new spring and summer Shoes just received from Drew Selby & Co., also H. C. Godman. Ask to see these when you visit our store. For style, quality and price we are sure to please the most fastidious. A HINT TO YOU. WATCH OUR REMNANT COUNTER. WATCH OUR SAMPLE SHOE COUNTER. w WATCH OUR SAMPLE HAT COUNTER LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST AND WE WILL MAKE IT TO TOUR INTEREST BY GIVING YOUGOOD VALUES THE COMING WEEK. BASS BROS. TXT'. I=- 21 Hill Street—at Scheuerman Store. COME IN TO SEE OUR NEW LINE OF SHIELDS BATS. JUST IN RANGING FROM 20c. UP TO $2.00.| STILL SELLING CALICO AT 2Jc., 4c. AND 4jc. YARD. BEST A. C. A. TICKING 10c. YARD. BLACK, BLUE AND WHITE DUCK AT 7c. YARDS. FOR ONE WEEK MORE THE WILLIAMS STOCK GOES AT COST. A TRIAL gWILL PROVE A CONVINCING ARGUMENT. W. P. HORNE. P. S DON’T FORGET’ TO GUESS AT THE JAR OF BEANS. RACKET STORE PRICES! LOW FRIGES ON COOD MERCHANDISE IS THE LEVER THAT TURNS THE MERCANTILE WHEEL AND KEEPS BUSINESS GOOD. BY THIS METHOD WE WILL CONTINUE TO MERIT A JUST PORTION OF YOUR TRADE. 1 paper of Pins, Ic. 1 good lead Pencil, Ic. 1 card Hook and Eyes, Ic, 1 card Hook and Eyes with hump,3< 1 quire of good Note Paper, 4c. 1 package of good Envelopes, 3c. 1 package large square “ sc. 1 spool Coats Thread, 4c. 2 spools King Thread, 2CO yds, sc. All grades of Linen Collars 10c. Celuloid Collars, sc, The prices we have placed on Shoes are moving them out, to be replaced by our spring goods. EDWARDS BROS. Silk Club Ties 10c.—dont pay 25c. , ' Best yard wide bleached Domes tic, 6c. •c Best Prints, 4c. and sc. Splendid black Hose, 10c. The best Toilet Soap in the world, absolutely pure, sc. and 10c. Yard wide Pereals,. best goods, 9c- Yard wide Sea Island, 4ic. A. C. A. Feather Ticking, 10.