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I an ORIENTAL WELt. I TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON FROM p* A RUSTIC SCENE. I *‘ nd Th ‘ r * ®* I g , From tb® Sheik’® Daughter. I m Presa Ase °' I te «ffiNGTON, May B.—From a rustic I V«-ne Dr. Talmage In thia sermon I Xtlcal and Inspiring lessons for K drt ’2*am of people. The text la Exodus I Moses kept the flock of ■ I Bi.ro. his father-in-law, the priest of I , the southeastern part of Arabia a I nis sitting by a well. It is an arid g ntrv and water is scarce, so that a B iis of great value, and flocks and herds I' * driven vast distances to have their 11. uJTslaked. Jethro, a Mldianite sheik I goriest, was so fortunate as to have If *7andaughters, and they are practical If Jikuand yonder they come driving the B and cattle and camels of their father g watering. They lower the buckets K ad then pull them up, the water plash- B mon the stones and chilling their feet, I ,nd the troughs are filled. Who is that ■ *” Q ou t there sitting unconcerned and ■ Asking on? Why does he not come and ■ X the women in this hard work of T * Swing water? But no sooner have the K - Slips aOd panting nostrils of the flocks I begun to cool a little in the brimming IF trough of the well than some rough Bed- I onto shepherds break in upon the scene, |: .mi with clubs and shouts drive back the || animals that were drinking and affright P tbw® B lrl ® until they fly in retreat, and I» the flocks of these ill mannered shepherds I driven to the troughs, taking the Ii places of the other flocks. Now that man sitting by the well begins to color up, and bls eye flashes with indignation, and all the gallantry of his nature is aroused. It is Moses, who naturally had a quick tem per anyhow, as he demonstrated on one oocaoion when he saw an Egyptian op ttweing an L6raelitq.and gave the Egyp- H, n a sudden clip and buried him in the nod, and as he showed afterward when h« broke all the Ten Commandments at oaoe by shattering the two granite slabs on which the law was written. But the Injustice of this treatment of the seven girls sets him on fire with wrath, and he takes this shepherd by the throat and poshes back another till he falls over the trough and alma a stunning blow between the eyes of another as he cries, “Begone, you villains I” and he hoots and roars at the sheep and cattle and camels of these Invaders and drives them back, and, hav ing cleared the place of the desperadoes, he told the seven girls of this Midianlte sheik to gather their flocks together and bring them again to the watering. An Oriental Well. Oh, yon ought to see a fight between the shepherds at a well In the orient as I saw It In December, 1890. There were here a group of rough men who had driv en the cattle many miles and here anoth er group who had driven their cattle as many miles. Who should have precedence? Such dashing of buckets! Such hooking of hornet Such kicking of hoofs! Such vehemence In a language I fortunately | could not understand! Now the sheep L with a peculiar mark across their woolly K backs were at the trough and now the » sheep of another mark. It was one of the most exciting scenes I ever witnessed. An f old book describes one of these contentions I at an eastern well when it says: ’‘One day the poor men, the widows and the orphans met together and were driving their cam els and their flocks to drink and were all standing by the waterside. Da ji came up and stopped them all and took possession of the water for his master’s cattle. Just then an old woman belonging to the tribe of Abs came up and accosted him in a sup pliant manner, saying: ‘Be so good, Mas ter Da jl, as to let my cattle drink. They are all the property ! possess, and I live by their milk. Pity my flook; have com passion on me. Grant my request and let them drink.' Then came another old woman and addressed him: *Oh, Master Daji, I am a poor, weak old woman, as you see. Time has dealt hardly with me. It has aimed its arrows at me, and its daily and nightly calamities have de stroyed all my men. I have lost my chil dren and my husband, and since then I have been in great distress. These sheep are all that I possess. Let them drink, for I live on the milk that they produce. Pity my forlorn state. I have no one to tend them. Therefore grant my supplica tion and of thy kindness let them drink.* Bat in this case the brutal elavq, so far from granting this humble request, smote the woman to the ground. ” A like scrimmage has taken place at the well in the triangle of Arabia between the Bedouin shepherds and Moses champion ing the cause of the seven daughters who had driven their father’s flocks to the wa tering. One of these girls, Zipporah, her name meaning “little bird,” was captured by this heroic behavior of Moses, for, how ever timid woman herself may be, she al ways admires courage in a man. Zipporah became the bride of Moses, one of the mightiest men of all the centuries. Zip porah little thought that that morning as she helped drive her father’s flocks to the well she was splendidly deciding her own destiny. Bad she staid in \ the tent or house while the other six daughters of the sheik tended to their herds her life would probably have been a tame and un eventful life in the solitudes. But her in dustry, her fidelity to her father’s inter est, her spirit of helpfulness, ‘brought her into league with one of the grandest char acters of all history. They met at that famous well, and while she admired the courage of,Mdses he admired the filial be havior of Zipporah. , Cures of Home. The fact that it took the seven daugh ters to drive the flocks to the wall Implies that they were Immense flocks and that her father was a man pf wealth. What was the use of Zlpporah'a bemoaning her ■clf with work when she might have re clined on the hillside near her father’s tent •nd plucked buttercups and dreamed out romances and sighed idly to the ' winds and wept over Imaginary songs to the brooks? No, she knew that work was honorable and that every girl ought to have something to do, and so she starts •vith the bleating and lowing and bellow ng and neighing droves to the well for watering. Around every home there are flocks and droves of cares and anxieties, and every daughter of the family, though there be ••ven, ought to be doing her part to take care of u )e flocks. In many households o“iy la Zipporah, but all her elaters, without practical and useful employ ®ents. Many of them an waiting for for and prosperous matrimonial alii •boe, but some lounger like themselves will oome along and after counting the number of father Jethro’s sheep and w- camels will .make proposal that will be ac cepted, and neither of them having done anything more practical than to chew chocolate caramels tho two nothings will staxt on the road of life together, every stepmoreaud more a failure. That daugh ter of thcJMidianitish sheik will never find her Moses. Girls of America, imitate Zipporah I Do something practical. Do something helpful Do something well. Many have fathers with groat flocks of absorbing duties, and such a father needs help in home or office or field. Go out and help him with the flocks. The reason that so many men now condemn them selves to unaffianced and solitary life is because they cannot support the modern young woman, who rises atbalf past 10 In the morning andreiiresafter midnight, one of the trashiest of novels in her hands most of the time between the late rising and the late retiring, a thousand of them not worth one Zipporah. There are questions that every father and mother ought to ask the daughter at breakfast or tea table, and that all tho daughters of the wealthy sheik ought to ask each other: “Wbat would you do if the family fortune should fail, if sickness should prostrate tho breadwinner, if tho flocks of Jethro should bo destroyed by a sudden excursion of wolves and bears and hyenas from the mountain? What would you do for a living? Could you support yourself? Can you take care of an invalid mother or brother or sister as well as your self?” Yea, bring it down to what any day might come to a prosperous family. “Can you cook a dinner if the servants should make a strike for higher wages and leave that morning?" Every minute of every hour of every day of-every year there are families flung from prosperity into hardship, and, alas, if in such exigency the seven daughters of Jethro can do nothing but sit around and cry and wait for some one to come and bunt them up a situation for which they have no qualifi cation. Get at-something Useful; get at it right away! Dp not say, “If I were thrown upon my own resources, I would become a music teacher.” There are now more musie teachers than could be sup ported if they were all Moaarts and Wag ners and Handels. Do not say, “I will go to embroidering slippers.” There are more slippers now than there are feet. Our hearts,tiie everyday wrung by the story of elegant women who were once affluent, but through catastrophe have fallen help less, with no ability to take care of them selves. Idlers Should Work. Our friend and Washingtonian towns man, W. W. Corcoran, did a magnificent thing when he built and endowed the Louise home for the support of the un fortunate aristocracy of the south—-the people who once had everything, but have come to nothing. We want another W. W. Corcoran to build a Louise home for the unfortunate aristocracy of the north. But institutions like that in every city of the land could not take care of one-half the unfortunate aristocracy of the north and south whose largo fortunes have failed and who, through lack of acquaint ance with any style of work, cannot now earn their own bread. , There needs to be peaceful yet radical revolution among most of the prosperous homes of America by which the elegant do nothings may be transformed into practical do somethings. Let useless wom en go to work and gather, tho flocks. Come, Zipporah, let me introduce you to Moses. But you do not mean that this wan affianced to this country girl was the great Moses of history, do you? You do not mean that he was the man who after ward wrought suelrwondere there? Surely you do not mean he whose staff, dropped, wriggled into a serpent and then, clutched, stiffened again into a staff? You do not mean the challenger of Egyptian thrones and palaces? You do not mean he who struck the rock so hard it wept in a stream for thirsty hosts? Surely you do not mean the man who stood alone with God on the quaking Sinaltlo ranges, not him of that most famous funeral of all time, God com ing down out of the heavens to bury him? Yes, the same Moses defending the seven daughters of the Midianitish sheik,'who afterward rescued all nations. Why, do you not know that this is the way men and women get prepared for special work. The wilderness of Arabia was the law school, the theological semi nary, the university of rock and sand from which he graduated for a mission that will balk seas, and drown armies, and folk w the cloud of fire by nighty and start the workmen with bleeding backs among Egyptian brick kilns toward the pasture lands that flow with milk and the trees of Canaan dripping with honey. Gracious God, teach all the people this lesson. You must go into humiliation and retreat and hidden closets of prayer if you are to be fitted for special usefulness. How did John the Baptist get prepared to become a forerunner of Christ? Show me hie wardrobe. It will ba hung with silken socks and embroidered robes and attire of Syrian purple. Show me his dining table. On it the tankards a-blush with the richest wines of the vineyards of Engedi, and rarest birds that were ever caught in net, and sweetest venison that ever dropped antlers before the hunter. No, we are di rectly told “the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair,” not the fine hair of the camel which we call camlet, but the long, coarse hair such as beggars in the east wear, and his only meat was of insects, the green locust, about two Inches long, roasted, a disgusting food. These insects were caught and the wings and legs torn off, and they were stuck on wooden spits and turned before the fire. The Bedouins pack them in salt and carry them in sacks. What a menu for John the Baptist! Through what deprivation he came to what exultation 1 Victory of Bndeavors. And you will have to go down before you go up. From the pit into which his brothers threw him and the prison in which his enemies incarcerated him Jo seph rose to be Egyptian prime minister. Elijah, who was to be the greatest of all the ancient prophets; Elijah, who made King Ahab’s knees knock together with the prophecy that the dogs would be bls only undertakers; Elijah, whoso one pray er brought more than three years ot drought, and whose other prayer brought drenching showers, the man who wrapped up his cape of sheepskin into a roll and with it cut a path through raging Jordan for just two men to pass over, the man who with wheel of fire rode over death and escaped into the skies without mortu ary disintegration, the man who thou sands of years after was called out of the eternities to stand beside Jesus Christ on Mount Tabor when it was ablaze with the splendors of transfiguration—this man could look back to the time when vora cious and filthy ravens were, bls only ca terers. You see John Knox preaching the cor onation sermon of James VI and arraign ing tjueen Mary and Lord Darnley in a public discourse at Edinburgh and telling the French embassador to go home and call hb king a murderer, John Kdox making an Christendom feel his moral power and at h>s burial the Earl of Mor ton saying, “Hero licth a man who in his life never feared the face of man.” Where did John Knox get much of his schooling for such resounding and ever lasting achievement? He got it while in chains pulling at the boat’s oar in French cap tivity. So the privations and hardships of your life may on a smaller scale be the preface and introduction to usefulness and victory. See also in this call of Moses that God has a great memory. Four hundred years before he bad promised tho deliverance of the oppressed Israelites of Egypt.* The clock of time has struck the hour, and now Moses is called to the work of rescue. Four hundred years is a very long time, but you see God can remember a promise 400 years as well as you can remember 400 minutes. Four hundred years includes all your ancestry that you know anything about and all the promises made to them, and we may expect fulfillment In our heart and life blessings that were predict ed to our Christian ancestry centuries ago. You have a dim remembrance, if any re membrance at all, of your great-grandfa ther, but God sees those who were on their knees In 1698 as well as those on their knees in 1898, and the blessings be prom ised the former and their descendants Have arrived or will arrive. While piety is not hereditary It is a grand thing to have bad a pious ancestry. Sa God In thip chapter calls up the pedigree of tho people whom Moses was to deliver, and Moses is or dred to say to them, “The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob bath sent me unto you.” If that thought be divinely accurate, let mo ask, Wbat are we doing by prayer and by a holy life for the redemption of the next 400 yean? Our work is not only with the people of the latter part of the nineteenth century, but with those in the closing of the twentieth century, and the closing of the twenty first century, and the closing of the twen ty-second century, and the closing of the twenty-third century. For 400 years, if the world continues to swing until tbat time, or if it drops, then notwithstanding the influence will go on in other latitudes and longitudes of God’s universe. For Good or Evil. No one realizes how great he is for good or for evil There are branchings out and rebounds and reverberations and elabora tions of influence that cannot be estimat ed. The 50 or 100 years of our earthly stay is only a small part of our sphere. The flap of the wing of the destroying angel that smote the Egyptian oppressors, the wash of the Red sea over the beads of the drowned Egyptians, were all ful fillments of promises four centuries old. And things occur in your life and in mine that we cannot account for. They may be the echoes of what was promised in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Ob, the prolongation of the divine memory! Notice also that Moses was 80 years of age when he got this call to become the Israelltish deliverer. Forty years he had lived in palaces as a prince. Another 40 years he had lived in the wilderness of Arabia. I should not wonder If he. had said: “Take a younger man for this work. Eighty winters have exposed my health. Eighty summers have poured their heats upon my head. There are 40 years that I spent among the enervating luxuries of a palace, and then follow the 40 years of wilderness hardship. lam too old. Let me off. Better call a man in the forties, or fifties and not one who has entered upon the eighties.” Nevertheless he un dertook the work, and if we want to know whether he succeeded ask the aban doned brick kilns of Egyptian taskmas ters, and the splintered chariot wheels strewn on the beach of the Red sea, nnd the timbrels which Miriam clapped for the Israelites passed over and the Egyp tians gone under. Do not retire tod early. Like Moses, you may have your chief work to do after 80. It may not be in the high places of the field. It may not be where a strong arm and an athletic foot and a clear vision are required, but there is something for you yet tv Co. Perhaps it may be to round off the work you have already done, to demon strate the patience you have been recom mending all your lifetime. Perhaps to stand a lighthouse at the mouth of the bay to light others into harbor. Perhaps to show bow glorious a sunset may come after a stormy day,. If aged men do not feel strong enough for anything else, let them sit around in our churches and pray, and perhaps in that way they may accomplish more good than they ever did in the meridian ot their life. It makes us feel strong to see aged men and women all up and down the pews, their faces showing they have been on mountains of transfiguration. We want in all our churches more men like Moses, men who have been through the deeps and climbed up the shelled beach on the other side. We want aged Jacobs, who have seen ladders which let down heaven into their dreams. We want aged Peters, who have been at Penteoosts, and aged Pauls, who have made Felix tremble. There are here and there those who feel like the woman of 90 years who said to Fontenelle, who was 85 years of age, “Death appears to have forgotten us.” “Hush,” said Fontenelle, the wit, put ting his finger to his lip. No, my friend, you have not been forgotten. You will be called at the right time. Meantime be holily occupied. Labor a Preservative. Let the aged remember that by increased longevity of the race men are not as old at 60 as they used to be at 50, not as old at 70 as they used to be at 60, not as old at 80 as they used to bo at 70. Sanitary pre caution better understood; medical sci ence further advanced; laws of health more thoroughly adopted; dentistry con tinuing for longer time successful masti cation; homes and churches and court rooms and places of business better venti lated —al] these have prolonged life, and men and women in the close of this cen tury ought not to retire until at least 15 years later than in the opening of the cen tury. Do not put the harness off until you have fought a few more bagties. Think of Moees starting out for his chief work an octogenarian; 40 years of wiider ness life after 40 years of palace life, yet just beginning. There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng land, one of the most wonderful men that ever lived since the ages of time began their roll. He is the chief citizen of the whole world. Three times has be prac tically been king of Great Britain. Again and again coming from the house of com mons, which he had thrilled and overawed by his eloquence, on Saturday, on Sunday morning reading prayers for the people with illumined countenance and brim ming eyes and resounding voice, saying; “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of' heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.” The world has no other such man to lose as Gladstone The church has no. other such champion to mourn over. X shall never cease to thank God that on i ' ' Mr. Gladstone invitation I visited him at Hawarden and beard from bls own Bps and the grandenrs of tho world to come. At his table and in tho walk through bls grounds I was impressed ns I was never before, and probably will never be again, with the majesty of a nature all oonse entted to God and the world’s betterment. In the presence of such a man what have those to say who profess to think that our religion is a pusillanimous and weak and cowardly and unreasonable affair? Match less William E. Gladstone! Still further watch this spectacle of gen uine courage. No wonder when Moses scattered the rude shepherds he won Zip porah’a heart. What mattered it to Moses whether tho cattle or the seven daughters of Jethro were driven from the troughs by the rude herdsmen? A sense of justice fired his courage, and the world wants more of the spirit that will dare almost anything to see others righted. All the time at Wells of comfort, at wells of joy, at wells of religion and i.t wells of litera ture -there are outrages practiced, tho wrong herds getting the first water. Those who have the previous right come in last, if they come in at all. Thank God we have hero and there a strong man io set things rightl I am so glad tbat when God has an especial work to do be has some one ready to accomplish it. Is there a Bible to translate, there is a Wyc lif to translate it; if there is a literature to be energized, there is a Shakespeare to energize it; if there is an error to smite, there is a Luther to smite it; if there is to be a nation free, there is a Moose to free it. But courage is needed in rellgkre, fn literature, in statesmanship, in all heroics to defend Jethro’s seven daugh ters and their flocks and put to flight the insolent invaders. And those who do the brave work will win somewhere high re ward. The loudest cheer of heaven is to be given c“ to him that overcometh.” God Knows You. „ . . Still further, see in this cal! of Moses that if God has any especial work for you to do he will find you. There was Egypt and Arabia and Palestine with their crowded population, but the man the Lord wanted wax, at the southern point of the triangle of Arabia, and he picks him right out, the shepherd who kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest and Sheik. Ho God will not find it hard to take you out from the 1,600,000,090 of the human race if he wants you for anything especial. There was only just one man qualified. Other men bad courage like Moses, other men bad some of the talents of Moses, other men had romance in their history, as had Moses; other men were impetuous like Moses, but no other man had these different qualities in the exact proportion as had Moses, and God, who makes no mistake, found the right man for the right place. Do not fear you will be overlooked or that when you are wanted God cannot find you. He knows your name, your features, your temperament and your characteristics, and in what land or city or ward or neighborhood or bouse you live. He will not have to send out scouts or explorers to find your residence or place of stopping, and when he wants you he will make it as plain that he means you ah be made it plain that he needed Moses. He called his name twice, as afterward when be called the great apostle of the gentiles he called twice, saying “Saul, Saul,” and when he called the troubled housekeeper be called her twice, saying “Martha, Martha,” and when be called -the prophet to his mission he called him twice, saying “Samuel, Samuel,” and now when he wants a deliverer ho calls twice, saying “Moses, Moses.” Yes, if God has any thing for us to do he will call us twice by name. At the first announcement of our name we may think it possible that we misunderstood the sound, but after he calls ua twice by name we know he means us as certainly as when he twice spoke the names of Saul or Martha or Samuel or Moses. You see, religion is a tremendous per sonality. We all have the general call of salvation. We hear it in songs, in ser mons, in prayers. We hear It year after year. But after awhile, through our own sudden and alarming illness, or the death of a playmate, or a schoolmate, or a col lege mate, or the decease of a business part ner, or the demise of a next door neighbor, we get the especial call to repentence and a new life and eternal happiness, and we know that God means ua You have no ticed the way in which God calls us twloe? Two failures of investments, two sick nesses, two persecutions, two bereave ments, two dlsappolntmenter'fWo disas ters. Moses I Moses! Character of Moms. Still further, notice that the call of Moses was written in letters of fire. On the Sinaltio peninsula there is a thorn bush called the acacia, dry and brittle, and it easily goes down at the touch of the flame. It crackles and turns to ashes very quickly. Moses, seeing one of these bushes on fire, goes to look at it. At first no doubt it seemed to be a botanical curiosi ty, burning, yet crumpling no leaf, part ing no stem, scattering no ashes. It was a supernatural fire that did no damage to the vegetation. That burning bush was the calk Your call will probably come in letters of fire. Ministers get their call to preach in letters on paper or parchment or type written, but it does not amount to much until they get their next call in letters of fire. You will not amount to much in usefulness until somewhere near you find a burning bush. It may be found burn ing in the hectio flush of your child’s cheek. It may be found burning in busi ness misfortune. It may be found burn ing in the fire of the world’s scorn ar hate or misrepresentation. But harken to the crackle of the burning bush! Oh, what a fascinating and inspiring character this Moses! How tame all other stories compared with the biography of Moses! From the lattice of her bathing house on the Nile, Thermutis, daughter of Pharaoh, sees him in the floating cradle of papyrus leaves made water tight by bitu men ; his infantile cry is heard among the marble palaces, and princesses hush him with their lullabies; workmen by the road side drop their work to look on him when as a boy he passed, so beautiful was he; two bowls put before his Infant eyes for choice to demonstrate his wisdom, the one bowl containing rubies and the other con taining coals of fire, sufficiently wise was he to take the gems; but, divinely direct ed, he took the coals and put them to his mouth, and his tongue was burned, and he was left a stammerer all his days, so that be declared, in Exodus iv, 10, “I am slow of speech and of slow tongue;” on and on until be set firm foot among the crumbling basalt, and bis ear was not deafened by the thunderous “Thou sbalt not” of Mount Sinai, the man who went to the relief of the Israelites wbo were scourged because without chopped straw they were required to make flrm bricks, the story of their oppression found chisel ed on the tomb of Roechere at Thebes, and when his armies were impeded by venom-j •J. ous serpents eent crates of Ibises, the snake destroying birds, to clear the way so tbat his host could march straight ahead, thus surprising the enemy, who thought Gley must take another route to avoid thd rep tiles; the whole sky an aquarium to drop quails for him and the hosts following; the only man in all ages whom Christ likens to himself; the man of whom it is written, “Jehovah spoke unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend;” the man who bad tho moot wondrous funeral of all time, the Lord coming down out of heaven to bury him. No human Bps to read the service. No choir to chant a psalm. No organ to roll a requiem. No angel alighting upon the scene, but God laying him out for the last sleep, God up turning the earth to receive the saint, God smoothing or banking the dost above the sacred form, God, with farewall and bene diction. closing the sublime obsequies of law giver, poet and warrior. “And no man knoweth of bis sepulcher unto this day.” Get your eye on him Instead of try ing to imitate some smaller example. A great snowstorm came on a prairie in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh was lost, but after awhUe struck the track of another sleigh and felt cheered to go on, since he had found the track of anoth er traveler. He heard sleighbells preced ing him and hastened on and caught up with bis predecessor, who said, “Where are you going?” “I am following you,” was the answer tbat came back. Tho fact is tbrt they were both lost and bad gone round and round in a circle. Then they talked the matter over and, looking up, saw the north star, and toward the north was their home, and they started straight far it Ob, instead of imitating men like ourselves and circling round and round, let be look up and take some starry guide like Moses and follow on until we join him amid the “delectable mountains.” You say you cannot reach his character. Ob, na Neither can you reach the north star, but you can be guided by its heaven ly pointing. 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 TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now on 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 0/2 and has -the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of ivhich Chas. H. Fletcher is Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo” (because he makes a few more pennies on JQ, the in gredients of which even he docs not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE GF J| Insist on Having | The Kind That Never Failed Tou. 1 THC C«T»V« COMMMY, TT MUMMY »T««T. H«W YOM «TV. ANNOUNCEMENTS. For County Surveyor, I hereby announce myself a candidate or County Surveyor, of Spalding county, subject to the democratic primary of June 28rd, A. B. KELL. For County Commissioner. Editor Call : Please announce that I am a candidate for- re-election for County Commissioner, subject to the action of the democratic primary, and will be glad to have 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 texes. B. F. STRICKLAND. 1 hereby announce myself. a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the democratic primary to be held June 28, next. If elected, 1 pledge mysezr to eco nomical and business methods in conduct ing the affairs ot the .county. W.J.FUTBAL. ' I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner of Spalding county, subject to the Democratic primary of June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION. To the Voters of Spalding County: I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commis sioner of Spalding county, subject to the democratic primary to be held on Jnne 23, 1898. My record in the past is my pledge for future faithfulness. D. L. PATRICK. For Representative- To the Voters of Spalding County: I am a candidate for Representative to the legislature, subject to the primary ot the democratic party, and will appreciate your support. J. P. HAMMOND. Editor Call; Please announce my name as a candidate for Representative from Spalding county, subject tq the action I-* ... ;■ , SPRING REMEDIES For “that tired feeling,” spring fever and the general lassitude tbat comes with warm days, when the system hasn’t been cleansed from the impurities that •winter nag harvested in the blood, you will And in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters. For purifying the blood and giving tone to the body they are unexcelled! N. B. DREWRY fe SON, 28 Hill Street Notice to Owners of Real Estate. The City Assessors having completed the assessments-for the present year and turned the books over to this office, parties are hereby notified to examine the and file application for reduction if they so desire. THO 9. NALL, April 29,1898. Clerk and Trees. To Core Constipation Forevor. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic too or fSc. i! C.C. C. fall to cure, druggiaU.refund mopes. oi the democratic party. I shaff be pleased to receive the support of all the if elected will endeavor to represent the interests of the whole county. J. B. Bull. For Tax Collector. I respectfully announce to the citizens of Spalding cotfnty that lam 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. B. NUTT. For County Treasurer, To the Voters of Spalding County: I announce myself a candidate for reelec 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. a BROOKS. For Tax Beoeiver. Editor Call : Please announce to the voters of Spalding county that I am a can didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub ject to the Democratic primary of June ' 23rd, and respectfully ask the support Os 1 all voters of this county. Respectfully, R. H. YARBROUGH. I respectfully announce myself as a can-feg 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. For 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 7 pATEICK I am a candidate for the democratic nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask the support of all my friends and the pub. lie. If nominated and elected, it shall be my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of- I. o '-' ■■ ’’ lei ■ ■ . - -