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announcements.
For County Burvoyor.
or 1 County Suroy
subject to the democratic primary of June
Tor County Commissioner.
Editor Call : Please announce that I
am a candidate for re-election for County
Oommiaeioner, subject to the action of the
democratic primary, and will be glad to
bare the support ot all the voters.
J. A J. TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
County Commissioner, subject to the dem
ocratic primary. If elected. I pledge my
self to an honest, business-like administra
tion of county affairs in the direction of
lower taxes. R. F. STRICKLAND.
J hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner, subject to the
democratic primary to be held June 28,
next. If elected. I pledge myself to eco
nomical and business methods in conduct
ing the affairs ot the county pUTRAL
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democr itic primary
of June 28d. W. W. CHAMPION.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the office of County Commls
sioner of Spalding county, subject to the
democratic primary to be held on June 28,
1898. My record in the past is my pledge
for future faithfulness.
D. L. PATRICK.
11 y For Representative-
' To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary of the
democratic party, and will appreciate your
support. J. P. HAMMOND.
Editor Call: Please announce ray
name as a candidate for Representative
from Spalding county, subject to the action
ot the democratic party. I shall be pleased
to receive the support of all the
if elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Roll.
Tor Tax Collector.
I respectfully announce to the citizens
of Spalding county that I am a candidate
for re-election to the office of Tax Collec
tor of this county, subject to the choice of
the democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all votes given me.
T. R. NUTT.
For County Treasurer.
To the Voters of Spalding County : I
announce myself a candidate for re-elec
tion for the office of County Treasurer,
subject to democratic primary, and if elect
ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. C. BROOKS.
For Tax Receiver.
I respectfully announce myself as a can
didate for re-election to the office of Tax
Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the
action of primary, if one is held.
S. M. M’COWELL.
Tor Sheriff.
I respectfully inform my friends—the
people of Spalding county—that 'I am a
candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject
to the verdict of a primary, if one is held
Your support will be thankfully received
and duly appreciated.
M J. PATRICK.
I am a candidate for the democratic
nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask
the support of all my friends and the pub
lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be
my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of
fice as fhithfhlly as in the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
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BEGINNING HOUSEKEEPING
and furnishing her home, the Easter bride
finds a pleasant task, if she has such a
handsome and up-to-date stock of new de
signs and rich upholstering in Furniture
to choose from at such prices as we are
selling our parlor, diningroom and bed
room suits at. • ,
CHILDS# GODDARD,
Low Bates to Baltimore, Md„ Kay 4 29
—IB9B.
Account of the quadrennial general con
ference M. E. church, south, Baltimore,
May 1-28, the Southern Railway will sell
tickets May S, 8,4, with final limit May
81,1898, at half rates—one fare round trip.
Choice of routes, vis Washington,, all rail,
or via Norfolk and steamer.
For fttll particulars address,
“8. H. Hardwick,
» A. G. P. A., Atlanta.
Rahdall Cliftox,
„ T. P. A.’, Macon.
C. 8. White, T. A., Griffin.
Notice to Tax Payers.
All city tax fi fas have been placed
in my hafeds for collection, and levies
will be made atone# unless settlement
is promptly made.
E. J. Isoir,,
-Chief Police.
- THE LIGHT OF LIFE.
® DR. TALMAGE PORTRAYS THE BLESS
e INGS OF MISFORTUNE.
People Who Are Blind to the Brich*
Light In the Clonda —Earthly Bereare-
[ meats Eaaential to Heavenly Welcome,
r Glory Su.ceeda Gloom.
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, [Copyright, 1898, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Washington, April 84.—This sermon of
Dr. Talmage will have a tendency to take
the gloom out of many lives and stir up a
1 spirit of healthful anticipation; text,
r Job xxxvii, 21, “And now men see not the
bright light which is in the clouds.”
Wind cast. Barometer falling. Storm
J. signals out. Ship reefing maintopsail.
‘ Awnings taken iyi. Prophecies of foul
weather every where. The olouds congre
gate around the eun, proposing to abolish
3 him. But after awhile he assails the flanks
3 of the olouds with flying artillery of light,
, and hero and there is a sign of clearing
- weather. Many do pet observe it. Many
- do not realize it. —> ‘ And now men see not
the bright light which is in the clouds.'*
In other words, there are 100 men looking
for storm where there is one inan'looking
for sunshine. My object will be to get
you and myself into the delightful habit
’ of making the best of everything.
You may have wondered at the statistics
that In India In the year 1876 there were
over 19,000 people slain by wild beasts,
I and that in the year 1870 there were In
? India over 20,000 people destroyed by wild
■ animals. But there is a monster in our
5 own land which is year by year destroying
, more than that. It is the old bear of mel
: ancholy, and with gospel weapons I pro
pose to chase it back to Its midnight cav
erns. I mean to do two sums—a sum in
subtraction and a sum in addition—a sub
traction from your days of depression and
an addition to your days ot joy. If God
[ will help me, I will compel you to see the
> bright light that there is in the. clouds
) and compel you to make the best of every
' thing.
In the first place, you ought to make
the very best of all your financial misfor
tunes. During the panic a few years ago
i you dll lost money. Some of you> lost it
! in most unaccountable ways. For the
question, “How many thousands of dol
lars shall I put aside this year?’’ you sub
i stltuted the question, “How shall I pay
my butcher and baker and clothier and
landlord! 1 ” You had the sensation of row
ing hard with two oars and yet all the
time going down stream.
You did not say much about it because
it was not politic to speak much of flnan
i cial embarrassment, but your wife knew.
Less variety of wardrobe, more economy
at the table, self denial in art and tapes
try. Compression, retrenchment. Who did
not feel the necessity of it? My friend,
did you make the best of this? Are you
aware of bow narrow an escape you made?
Suppose you had reached the fortune to
ward which you were rapidly going? What
then? Yon would have been as proud as
Lucifer.
What Is Success?
How few mon have succeeded largely in
a financial sense and yet maintained their
simplicity and religious consecration I
Not one man out of 100. There are glorious
exceptions, but the general rule is that in
proportion as a man gets well off for this
world he gets poorly off for the next. He
loses his sense of dependence on God. He
gets a distaste for prayer meetings. With
plenty of bank stocks and plenty of gov
ernment securities, what does that man
know of the prayer, “Give me this day my
daily bread?” How few men largely suc
cessful in this world are bringing souls to
Christ or shewing self denial for others or
are eminent for piety? You can count
them all upon your eight fingers and two
thumbs.
One of the old covetqus souls, when he
was sick and sick unto death, used to have
a basin brought in, a basin filled with
fold, and his only amusement and the
only relief he got for bis inflamed hands
was running them down through the gold
and turning it up in the basin. Ob, what
infatuation and what destroying power
money has for many a man! Now, you
were sailing at 80 knots the hour toward
these vortices of worldliness—what a
mercy it was. that honest defalcation I The
same di . ine hand that crushed your store
house, your bank, your office, your insur
ance company, lifted you out of destruc
tion, The day yon honestly suspended in
business made your fortune for eternity.
“Ob,” you say, “I could get along very
well myself, but I am so disappointed that
I cannot leave a competence for ray chil
dren!” My brother, the same financial
misfortune that is going to save your soul
will save your children. With the antici
pation of large fortune, how much indus
try would your children have, without
which habit ot Industry there is no safety?
The young man would ray, “Well, there’s
no need of my working. My father will
soon step out, and then I’ll have Just what
I want” You cannot hide from him how
much you are worth. You think you are
hiding it He knows aH about it He can
tell you almost to a dollar. Perhaps he
has been to the county office and searched
the records of deeds ana' mortgagee, and
he has added it all up, and he has made
an estimate of how long you will probably
stay in this world, and is not as much
worried about your rheumatism and short
ness of breath as you are. The only for
tune worth anything that you can give
your child is the fortune you put in his
head and heart Os all the young men
who started life with 840,000 capital, how
many turned out well? I do not know
half a dozen.
Inspiring Inheritance.
The best inheritance a young man can
have is the feeling that he has to fight his
own battle, and that life is a struggle into
which be must throw body, mind and soul
or be disgracefully worsted. Where are
the burial places of the men who started
life with a fortune? Some of them in the
potter's field, some in the suicide’s grave.
But few of these men reached 85 years of
age. They drank, they smoked, they gam
bled. In them the beast destroyed the
man. Some of them lived long enough to
get their fortunes and went through them.
The vast majority of them did not live to
get their inheritance. From the ginshop
or house of infamy they were brought
home to their father’s bouse and in de
lirium began to pick off loathsome reptiles
from the embroidered pillow and to fight
back imaginary devils. And then they
were laid out in highly upholstered parlor,
the casket covered with flowers by Indul
gent parents, flowers suggestive of a resur
rection with no hope.
As you sat this morning at your break
fast table and looked into thefaoesof your
children perhaps you said within your
self: “Poor things! How I wish I could
start them in life with a competence!
How I have been disappointed in all my
expectations of wbat I would do for
them!” Upon that scene of pathos I break
with a po*an nt Congratulation, that by
your financial losses your own prospectafor
heaven and the pror.pi.ct for the heaven of
your children nre mightily improved. You
n ay have lost a toy, but you bare won a
palace.
“How hardly shall they that have riches
enter into the kingdom of God!” "It la
easier for a camel to go through a needle's
eye than for a rich man to enter the king
dom of heaven.” Wh'at does that mean?
It means that the grandest blessing God
ever bestowed upon you was to take your
money away from you. Let me hero say,
in passing, do not put much stress on the
treasures of this world. You cannot take
them along with you. At any rate, you
cannot take them more than two or three
miles. You will have to leave them at
the cemetery. Attila had three coffins. So
fond was he of this life that he decreed
that first be should be buried in a coffin of
gold, and that then that should be inclosed
in a coffin of silver, and that should be in
closed In a coffin of iron, and then a large
amount of treasure should be thrown in
over his body. And so he was buried, and
the men who buried him were slain so
that no one might know where he was
buried and no one might thero interfere
with his treasures. O men of the world
who want to take your money with you,
better have three coffins!
Profit by Bereavements.
Again, I remark you ought to make
the very best of your bereavements. The
whole tendency is to brood over these sep
arations, and to give much time to the
handling of mementos of the departed,
and to make long visitations to the ceme
tery, and to say: “Oh, I can never look
up again! My hope is gone. My courage
is gone. My religion is gone. My faith
in God is gone. Oh, the wear and tear
and exhaustion of this loneliness!” The
most frequent bereavement is the loss of
children. If your departed child had lived
as long as you have lived, do yon not sup
pose that he would have had about the
same amount of trouble and trial that you
have had? If you could make a choice for
your child between 40 years of annoyance,
loss, vexation, exasperation and bereave
ments and 40 years in heaven, would you
take the responsibility of choosing the
former? Would you snatch away the cup
of eternal bliss and put into that child’s
hands the cup of many bereavements? In
stead of the complete safety into which
that child has been lifted, would you like
to hold it down to the risks of this mortal
state? Would you like to keep it out on a
sea in which there have been more ship
wrecks than safe voyages? Is it not a
comfort to you to know that ' that child,
instead of being besolled and flung into
the mire of sin, is swung clear into the
skies? Are not those children to be con
gratulated that the point of celestial bliss
which you expect to reach by a pilgrimage
of 60 or 60 or JO years they reached at a
flash? If the last 10,000 children who had
entered heaven had gone through the av
erage of human life on earth, are you sure
all those 10,000 children would have final
ly reached the blissful terminus? Besides
that, my friends, you are to look at this
matter as a self denial on your part for
their benefit. If your children want to go
off in a May day party, if your children
want to go on a flowery and musical ex
cursion, you consent. You might prefer
to have them with you, but their jubilant
absence satisfies you. Well, your departed
children have only gone out in a May day
party, amid flowery and musical entertain
ment, amid joys and hilarities forever.
That ought to quell some of your grief,
the thought of their glee.
Glorious Welcomes.
So it ought to be that you could make
the best of all bereavements. The fact that
you have so many friends in heaven will
make your own departure very cheerful.
When you are going on a voyage, every
thing depends upon where your friends
are—if they are on the wharf that you
leave or on the wharf toward. which you
are going to sail. In other words, the
more friends you have in heaven the easier
it will be to get away from this world.
The more friends here the more bitter
goodbys. The more friends there the more
glorious welcomes. Some of you have so
many brothers, sisters,children, friends, in
heaven that I do not know hardly how
you are going to crowd through. When
the vessel came from foreign lands and
brought a princo to our harbor, the ships
were covered with bunting, and you re
member bow the men-of-war thundered
broadsides, but thero was no joy there
compared with the joy which shall be
demonstrated when you sail up the broad
bay of heavenly salutation. The more
friends you have there the easier your own
transit. What is death to a mother whose
children are in heaven? Why, thero is no
more grief in it than there is in her going
into a nursery amid the romp and laugh
ter of her household. Though all around
may be dark, see you not the bright light
in tho olouds, that light tho irradiated
faces of your glorified kindred?
So also, my friends, I would have you
make the best of your sicknesses. When
you sec one move off with elastic step and
in full physical vigor, sometimes you be
come impatient with your lame foot.
When a man describes an object a mile off
and you cannot see it at all, you become
impatient of your dim oye. When you
hear of a well man making a great achieve
ment, you become impatient with your de
pressed nervous system or your dilapidat
ed health. I will tell you how you can;
make the worst of it. Brood over it—
brood over all these illnesses—and your
nerves will become more twitchy, and
your dyspepsia more aggravated, and your
weakness more appalling. But that is tho!
devil’s work to tell you how to make the
worst of it. It is my work to show you a
bright light in the clouds.
Which of tho Bible men most attract
your attention? You say, Moses, Job,
David, Jeremiah, Paul. Why, what a
strange thing it is that you have chosen
those who were physically disordered!
Mpses—l know he was nervous from the
clip he gave the Egyptian. Job—bis blood
was vitiated and diseased and bis skin
distressfully eruptive. David—he bad a
running sore, which he speaks of when bo
says, “My sore ran in the night and ceased
not. ” Jeremiah had enlargement of the
spleen. Who can doubt it who reads Lam
entations? Paul—he bad a lifetime sick
ness which the commentators have been
guessing about for years, not knowing ex
actly what the apostle meant by “a thorn
in the flesh.” I do not know either, but it
Was something sharp, something that
stuck him. I gather from all this that
physical disorder may, be the means of
grace to the soul. You ray you have so
many temptations from bodily ailments,
and if you were only well you think you
oould be a good Christian. While your
temptations may be different, they are no
more than those of the man who has an
appetite three times a day and sleeps eight
hours every night.
No More Pain.
From my observation, 1 judge that in
valids have a more rapturous view of the
next world than well people and will have
higher renown in bcs.ven. The bust view
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of the dck< table mountains Is through the
lattice qf the sickroom. There are trains
running every hour between pillow and
throne, between hospital and mansion,
between banilnces and robes, between
crutch and palm branch. Oh, I wish some
of you people who are compelled to cry:
“My bead, my head! My foot, my foot!'
My back, my back!” would try some of
the Lord's medicine. You are going to be
well anyhow before long. Heaven is on
old city, but has never yet reported one
ease of sickness or ono bill of mortality.
No ophthalmia for the eye. No pneu
monia for the lungs. No pleurisy for the
side. No neuralgia for the nerves. No
rheumatism for the,muscles. “The In
habitants shall never say, I am sick.”
“There shall bo no more pain.”
Again, you ought to make the beet of
life’s finality. Now, you think I have a
very tough subject. Yon do not see how I
am to strike a spark of light out of the
flint of the tombstano. There are many
people who have an idea that death is the
submergence of everything pleasant by
everything doleful. If my subject oould
close in the upsetting of all such precon
ceived notions, it would close well. Who
can judge best of tho features of a man—
those who are close by him or those who
are afar off? “OH, "you say, “those oan
judge best of tho features of a man who
are close by him!”
Now, my friends, who shall judge of
the features of death—whether they are
lovely or whether they are repulsive? You?
You are too far off. If I want to get a
judgment as to what really the features of
death are, I will not ask you. I will ask
those who have been within a montffibf
death, or a week of death, or an hour of
death, or a minute of death. They stand
so near the features, they oan tell. They
give unanimous testimony, if they are
Christian people, that death, instead of
being demoniac, is cherublo. Os all the
thousands of Christians who have been
carried through the gates of tho cemetery,
gather up their dying experiences, and
you will find they nearly all bordered on a
Jubilate. How often you have seen a dy
ing man join in the psalm being sung
around his bedside, the middle of the verse
opening to let hie ransomed spirit free,
long after tho lips could not speak look
ing and pointing upward.
Some of you talk as though God had ex
hausted himself in biuldlng this world,
and that all the rich curtains he ever made
he hung around this planet, and all the
flowers be ever grew he has woven into the
carpet of our daisied meadows. Na This
world la not the best thing God can do.
This world is not the best thing that God
has done.
Season of Blossoms.
One week of the year is called blossom
week—called so all through the land be
cause there are more blossoms in that
week than in any other week of the year.
Blossom week! And that is what the fu
ture world is to which the Christian is In
vited—blossom week forever. It is as far
ahead of this world as paradise is ahead
of Dry Tortugas, and yet here we stand
shivering and fearing to go out, and we
wank to stay on tho dry sand and amid
the stormy petrels when we are Invited to
arbors of jasmine and birds of paradise.
Ono season I had two springtimes. I
went to New prleans in April, and I
marked the difference between going to
ward New Orleans and then coming back.
As I went on down toward New Orleans
the verdure, the foliage, became thicker
and more beautiful. When I cams back,
the farther I camo toward home the less
the foliage and less and less it became un
til there was hardly any. Now, it all de
pends upon the direction in which you
travel. ’lf a spirit from heaven should
come toward our world,ho is traveling from
June toward December, from radiance to
ward darkness, from hanging gardens to
ward icebergs. And one would not be
very much surprised if a spirit of God sent
forth from heaven toward our world
should be slow to come. But bow strange
it is that we dread going out toward that
world when going is from December to
ward June, from the snow of earthly
storm to the snow of Edenio blossom,
from the arctics of trouble toward the
tropics of eternal joy!
Oh, what an ado about dying! We get
so attached to the malarial marsh in which
we live that we are afraid to go up and
live on the hilltop. We are alarmed be
cause vacation is coming. Eternal sun
light and best programme of celestial min
strels and halleluiah, no inducement. Let
us stay here and keep cold and ignorant
and weak. Do not introduce us to Elijah
and John Milton and Bourdaloue. Keep
our feet on the sharp cobblestones of earth
instead of planting them on the bank of
amaranth in heaven. Give us this small
island of a leprous world instead of the
Immensities of splendor and delight. Keep
our hands full of nettles and our shoulder
under the burden and our neok in the
yoke and hopples on our ankles and
handcuffs on our wrists. “Dear Lord,”
we seem to ray,“keep us down here where
we have to suffer instead of letting us up
where we might live and reign and re
joice.”
Amazing Infatuation.
I am amazed at myself and at yourself
for this Infatuation under which we all
rest. Men you would suppose would get
frightened at having to stay in this world
instead of getting frightened at hating to
go toward heaven. I congratulate any
body who has a right to die. By that I
mean through sickness you oannot avert
or through accident you oannot avoid—
your work consummated. “Where did
they bury Lily?” said one little child to
another. -“Oh,” she replied, “they buried
her in the ground. ” “ What I In the cold
ground?” “Ob, no, noj not in the cold
ground, but in the warm ground, where
Ugly seeds become beautiful flowers!”
“But,” rays some one, “it pains me so
much to think that I must lose the body
with which my soul has so long compan
ioned.” You do not lose it. You do more
lose your body by death than you lose your
watch when you send it to have it re
paired, or your Jewel when you send it to
have it reset, or the faded picture when
you send it to have it touched up, or the
photograph of a friend when you have-it
put in a new locket. You do not lose
your body. Paul will go to Rome to get
his, Payson will go to Portland to get hie,
President Edwards will go to Princeton to
get bis, George Cookman will go to the
bottom of the Atlantic to get his, and we
will go to the village churchyards and the
city cemeteries to get ours, and when we
have our perfect spirit rejoined to our per
fect body then we will be the kind of men
and women that the resurrection morning
will make possible.
So you see you have not made out any
doleful story yet. What have you proved
about death? Wbat is the case you have
made out? You have made out Just this—
that death allows us to have a perfect
body, free of all aches, united forever with
a perfect soul, free from ail sin. Correct
your theology. What does it all mean?
Why, it means that moving day is coming
and that you are going to quit cramped
apartments and be mansioned forever-
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Thp horse that stands at the gate will not
be the one lathered and bespattered, cirry.
Ing bad news, but it will be tbo horse that
St. John saw in Apocalyptic vision—tho
white hone on which the King comes to
the banqqot. The ground around the pal
aeo will quake with tho tires and hoofs
ot colostiol oQuipagOt and thoao {lbrlatians
who in this world loot their friends and
toot their property and loot their health
afid loot their life wjlt find out that God
wof aiweye kind, and th* l *U things
W£r)ys together for good, and that
IhooeWere the wjsolt phMJe On earth who
made the eoSt Qf tmrrtb 1n g. See you not
now the brigfiTjight Id the ojooda?
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,** AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRAM MARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHERS CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now £ljeTlt
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHERS CASTORIA,” which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought - I JT"*
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher it
President.
March 8,1897.
Do . Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may cser yo
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought**
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF
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any office In the state. When you want job printing
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call Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Out of town orders will receive jj
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J. P. & S B. SawtdL
Tin* mftioritv sis LHa 1 A
can lepnblioa, if .|| of
them, scoordiDg to the reports of con
tho Ulnstates in peudinj on
pleaaantoera; Deverthelem, there io
not one of the little "one hooe” repub*
lies but will look to Uncle Bans and
tbo Monroe doctrine io protect them
from European aggroeoion tbo fint
time they got into trouble. “Blood
will tolL"
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