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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. li. D. SMITH, EDITOR. " I I .4 ~~1 . i I ATE PRICEM’O WN "ZERO. UNLESS THE CUSTOMER IS SATISFIED WE ARE NOT. @DON ”I ’ T L ET THIS 0 PFC TU i TY ESCAPE I A ~——’/ . . gs _”/./ \, There is a reason, and a solid one, that 0111' store is always crowded with customers. We offer them reliable bargains. We cut prices, never quality. Our ambition is to run a perfect store. You may help us if you will point out the bad features---sh0uld you find any. Everything as Advertised. Every Promise Lived Up To. ‘ We 11111111 11111 1111111111 Hundreds 11 1111111111 111111111 111 NEW SPRING 1100118 111 111111 Department. 11111111 1111111 us 11111 11111 111111 £111 111 1111 1111111 11 1111 . v ‘ y g 2 ~ ‘- 1 1/. _‘ ' { " 101} e 00000000000000000 ASHBURN. WORTH CO., GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1897. store. We II'antueinoiist11mers added to our list. Read. This Big Offer. To each customer trading $10.00 01' more, railroad fare to Tifton free. To each customer trading $20.00 or more, railroad fare to Tifton and re- turn free, or 10 per cent. discount from regular prices. Your choice of these 0f- fers. The railroad fare not to exceed 10 per cent. of the purchase Never in the mercantile world'has firm made liberal above; any a more offer than the :33: h 2:21;:i?::‘:f::13“;;;ta‘::3:12:11.::t%“"::—:i:: way for 53:31:33: the same in different The above ofl‘er good 60 days from April last ’ HATS, LTXDEBWEAB, SHIRTSa &c.>‘Eve‘ryt)1}1ing up-to~date. Over 100 (102' bhirts, AND including F1 FTH. all the styles. blzes 1” to 18' FOURTH On these floors 3mm; ‘ou will see FURNITURE of almost. all kinds. Beam tiful ROCKERS OAK SUITS, CABPETS MATTINGS BUGS, SAD’DLES, ’ ’ HARNESS, &c. Picture Frames Made to Order. We £1ng Cu anfid . piice areaches every nook corner, touches every and article in our ALSO OUR MILLINERY DEPARTMENT who : “’hich £??é:i:fi?j§$: is in charge ingiifngfieérdigitlz of MISS MARY BIRKHEAD, 32%;???Pilge'l‘gijilfinhgmge: of Baltimore, has g3; care. Send desci‘iption of Dress and shé, will execute your order 3: the latest style, at any price named. THIRD. This floor we carry GENTS’ FU RN ISHING GOODS. Here you Will find a new stock of Fine and Medium Grain SUITS, FIRST Baselnent’ Whm‘: CANNED “.8 cm'rv CASE GOODS of all MATERI’AL, kinds GLASS'WARE, CROCK- ERY, GOODS, \VAGON HAY, CORN, OATS, BEAN! &c. _ . SECOND Dlflill FIOOI‘. , - Ogggggfiu “"111 . End a geneml hue . Of Small Artie - I E 111' it 11 0111‘ . , es. ‘0 men 5 "00' Shoes, Groceries, Dry Goods, Jewelry, muons, Stationery Glasswqre, and Crockery. Fancy G00d81 Hardware, PADRICK BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE. TIFTTON, GEORGIA.'.'.'.'l"'_'_'_'_'.'.'.'.'.'_"'_'.'_'.'_'"_'.'I'.'_‘_'.'_‘_‘_’_'.'_'.‘.‘"_‘.'_’_'_'.‘_'l'.'_‘.'".‘.'.'_'.'.‘:_'_‘:_‘_’_':_' :::::::::::::::::::::::::::_Originators Of LOW Prices. TIFTON, GEORGI A. REV. DR. TALMAGE. TliriitTHn DIVINE'S SUNDAY DU»- COUKNK. Subject: “Pray for Those In Author¬ ity." Text: "I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, Intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men. for kings and for all that are in authority.”—I Timothy, 11., 1. That which Loudon is to Euglnnd, Paris to France, Berlin to Germany, Rome to Italy, Vienna to Austria, St. Petersburg to Russia, Washington is to Mm United States republic. The people who live hero see more of tho chief men of the Nation than any who live uuywhere else between Atlantic and Pacific oceans. If a Senator or Member of the House of Representatives or Supreme Court Justice of Secretary of tho Cabinet or repre¬ sentative ot Foreign Nation enters a public assembly in any other city, his coming and going are remarked upon, and unusual de¬ ference is paid to him. In this capital there are so many political chieftains in our churches, our streets, our halts, that tltelr coming and going make no excitement. The Swiss seldom look ap to tlm Matter¬ horn or Jungfrau or Mont Blanc, because those people arc used to the Alps. walk So wo at this capital are so accustomed to among mountains of official and political eminence novelty. that they are not to us n great Morning, noon and night we meet the giants. But there is no place on earth where the importance of the Pauline injunction to prav for those in eminent place ought to he better appreciated. At this time, when ov.r public men have before them appalling the rescue of our National Treasury from de¬ ficits, mid the Cuban question, and tho arbi¬ tration question, and in many departments men are taking impv lut positions which are to them new and untried, I would like to quote my text with a whole touuago of em¬ phasis—words written by tho scarred mis¬ sionary to the young theologian Timothy. “I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, sup¬ plications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and for all that are in authority.” If I have the time and do not forget somo of them before I get through, I will give you four or five reasons why the people of the United States ought to make earnest and continuous prayor for those in eminent place. First, because that will put us in proper attitude toward the successful men of the Nation. After you have prayed for a man you will do him jnstice. There is a bad streak in human nature that demands us to assail those that are more successful than ourselves. It shows Itself in boyhood, when thelads, all running to get thoir rido on the back of a carriage, and ono gets on, tboso fa ' ng to get on shout oil the driver, "Out I hind!" Unsuccessful men soldom like those who in any department nro successful. The cry Is, “He is a political accident,” or, “Ho bought liis way up,” or, “It just hap¬ pened so,” and there is an impatient waiting for him to come down more rapidly than he Tho best cure for such cynicism is prayor. Aft',- wo have risen from our knees wo will bo wishing the official good instead of evil. We will be hoping for him benediction than malediction. If he makes a misiake, wo will call it a mistake instead of sance in office. And, oh, how much hap¬ pier we will bo. for wishing ono evil is dia¬ bolic, but wishing ono godlike! good When is saint¬ the ly, is angelic, is Lord drops a man into depths beyond which there is no lower depth, he allows him to be put on an investigating committee with the or hope of finding something wrong. In eral assemblies of the Presbyterian /jtircli, church, in in conventions conferences of of the tho Methodist Episcopal church, in House of Representatives fand Senate of the United States, there are men always glad to be appointed on tho commit¬ tee of malodors, while thorn are those who are glad to tie put on the committee of eulogiunis. After you have prayed, In tho words of my text, for all that are in author¬ ity, you will say, “Brethren, gentlemen, Mr. Chairman, excuse mo from serving on the eommitteo of malodors, for last night, just before I prayed for those in eminent posi¬ tions, I read that chapter in Corinthians about ehurtty which ‘hopotli all things’ and ‘thinketh no evil.’" The committee of mal¬ odors is an important committee, but I hero now declare that those are important for its work who have, not in spirit of convention- alty, but in spirit of ournest importunity, prayed for those in high position. Bernard I cannot better help it, but I do like a 8t. than a bloodhound, and I would rather be a humming bird among honeysuckles than a crow swooping upon field carcasses. Another reason why we should pray for those in eminent place is because they huvo sucb multiplied perplexities. This city at this time holds hundreds of men who are expectant of preferment, and United States mail bags ns never before are full of ap¬ plications. Lot mo say I have no sympathy with either the uttered seekers." or printed sneer If I had at what aro called "office not alreadj’ received appointment the high as court minis¬ of ter plenipotcntuirv from of the gospel has heaven—as every minister —and I had at my back a family tor whom 1 wished to achieve a livelihood, would there is no employer whose service I sooner seek than city, State or United States Govern¬ ment. Those Governments are the promptest in their payments, paving just as well in bard times as in good times and during sum¬ mer vacation as during winter work. Bo- sides that, many of us have been paying taxes to city and State and Nation for years, and while we are indebted for the protection of Government the Government is indebted to us for the honest support we have rendered it. Ho I wish successto all earnest and competent men who appeal to city or Stale or Nation for a place to work. But how many men in high place in city and State and Nation are at their wits’ end to know what to do, when for somo places there are ten applicants and for others a hundred. Perplexities petitions arise without from the fact that citizens sign reference to tho qualifications of the appli¬ cant for the places applied applicant for. You is sign the application because the your friend. People sometlJbes want that for which they have “I no qualification, angel” as wo when hear people sing want to bo an they offer the poorest material possible for angelhood. Boors waiting to be sont to for' Ign palaces as embassadors, and men without be any business qualification and illiterates, wanting to consuls to foreign ports, cnpable in one letter of wrecking all the laws of orthography and syntax, desiring to be put into positions where most of the work is done by correspondence. If divine help is needed in any place in the world, it is in those places where patronage is distributed. In years gone by awful mistakes have been made. Only God, who made the world out of ebaos. could out of the crowded pigeon¬ holes of public men develop symmetrical re¬ sults. For this reason pray Almighty God for all those in authority. Again, prayer to God for those in authority Is our only way of being of any practical service to them. Our personal advice would be to them, for the most part, an impertin- ence. They have all the facts as we cannot have them, and they see the subject in all Its bearings, and we can be of no help that to them except through the supplication our taxi advises. In that way wo may bo infinite re-enforcement. Tho migbtest thing you can do for a man Is to pray for him. it tho old Bible be true—and it it is not true it lias been the only Imposition that ever blessed the world, turning barbarism Into civiliza¬ tion and tyrannies into republics—I say, if the old Bible bo true, God answers prayer. Yon may inek get a letter and through forgetful¬ ness or of time not answer it, but God never gets a genu (no letter that he does not child’s make reply. letter Every genuine prayer is a to his Heavenly Father, and he will answer It, and though you may get many letters from your child before you respond some day you say. “There! I have leocivcd ten letters from my daughter, and I will an¬ swer them all now and at once, aud thougU not in just the way that she hopes for I will doit in the best way, and though she asked me for a sheet or music 1 will not give it to her. for I do like the music spoken of, hut I will send her a deed to a house and lot, to bo hers forever.” tto God does not in all eases answer In the way those who sent the wlmf prayer hoped asked for, but He In all eases gives Is for or something bettor. So prayers went up from the North and the South at the time of our Civil War, and they were nil answered at Gettysburg. You can¬ not make me believe that God answered only the Northern prayers, for there were just as devout prayers answered south of Mason and Dixon's line as north of it. and God gave what was asked for, or something as much more valuable as a house and lot are worth more than a sheet of music. There is not n good an intelligent man between the Gulf ot Mexico and the St. Lawrence River who does not believe that God did the bos' thing possible when He stood this Nation down in 1865 a glorious unity, never to bo rent until the waters of the Ohio aud the Sa¬ vannah, the Hudson and the Alabama, are licked up by the long, red tongues of it world on lire. Yen, Ood sometimes answers pray¬ ers on a large scale. In worse predicament nation never was than the Israeliiish nation on the batiks of the Bod Sea, the rattling shields and the clattering hoofs of an overwhelming host close after them. An army could just ns easily York wade through tho Atlantic Ocean from New to Liverpool ns the Israelites could have waded through tho Red Sea. You need to sail on Us water to realize how big tt is. How was the crossing effected? By fraver. Exodus xlv.. 15: “Aud the Lord said unto Moses; Wherefore crlest thou unto Me? Speak unto tho children of Israel, that they go forward”—that is, ".Stop pray¬ ing and take the answer." And then the water began to be agitated and swung tills way and that way, and tho ripple becamo a tallow, and the billow climbed other billows, and now they rise into walls of sapphire, mi l Invisible trowels mason t'.em Into firmness, and the walls become like mountains, topped and (arreted and domed with crags of crys¬ tal, aud God throws an Invisible chain around the feet of those mountains, so that they are obliged to stnnd still, and there, right before the Israolltish army, is a turn 1 pike road, with nil the emerald gates swung wide open. The passing host did not even get tlni’r fe-t wet. They passed drysho.l, the bottom or tho sea as hard as tlm pave¬ ment of Pennsylvania avenue to Now York’s Broadway or London’s Strand. Oh, wlmt a God they had! Or 1 think I will change that aud say, "Wlmt a God wo have 1 " What power puis It hands upon astron¬ omy in Joshua’s time and made the sun an t moon standstill? Joshua x., 12, “Thou spoke Joshua unto the Lord." Prayer? As a giant will taketwo or four great globes, an I In n<- tounding way swing them Mils way or that, or hold two of them at arm’s longih, so the Omnipotent does as He will with constellations the great orbs of worlds, with wheeling and circling galaxies, swinging easily Star around star, star tossed after star, or sun anil moon held out at arm’s length and per¬ fectly still, as in answer to Joshua’s prayer. To God the largest world is a pebble. Another reason why we should obey the Pauline injunction of the text and pray for all thut are in authority is that so very much of our own their prosperity and happiness aro Involved In doings. A selfish rea¬ son, yen say. Yes, but a righteous selfish ness, like that which leads you to take care of your own health and preserve you own lire. Prosperous government means a prosperous people. Damaged government means a damaged people. Wo all go up together, or wo all go down together. When we pray for our rulers, we easier pray for ourselves, for our homes, for the gain¬ ing of a livelihood, for better prospects for our children, for the hurling of these hard times so far down the embankment they can never climb up again. Do not look at any¬ thing that pertains to' pubito interest as hav¬ ing no relation to yourself. We are touched hy all the events in our national hlslory, by the signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower, by the small ship, the Halt Moon, sailing up the Hudson; by the treaty of William l’enn, by the hand that made the “Liberty bell” sound Its first stroke, by Old Ironsides plowing the high seas, and. If touched by all tho events of past America,cer¬ tainly hy nil tho events of the present day. Every prayer you make for our rulers, if the prayer be of tho right stamp and worth any¬ thing, has a rebound of benediction for your own body, rnind and soul. obedience text Another reason for to my is that the prosperity of this country Is com¬ ing, and we want a hand in helping on Its coming. At any rate I do. ft Is a matter of honest satisfaction to a soldier, after some great battle has been fought and some great victory won, to be able to say: "Yes, I was there. I was in the brigade that stormed those heights. I was in that bayonet charge that put the enemy to flight.” Well.the day will come when all tho financial, political and moral foes of this republic will prosperities be driven back and driven down by tho that aro now on their way, but which come with slow tread and in “fatigue dress” when we want them to take “the double quick,’ By our prayers we may stand on the moun¬ tain top and beckonthem on and show them a shorter cut. Yea, in answer to our pray¬ ers the Lord God ol Hosts may from the high hoaveus command them forward, rwider than mounted troops ever took tho field at Eylau or Austerlitz. In 1872 Holland was assailed. ships Her people prayed mightily. The of her enemies waited for the'high tides on which to come in. In answer to the prayers offered the tide, as nevor before, was detained twelve hours, and before that twelve hours had passed a hurricane swooped upon the enemies’ ships and destroyed them, and Holland was saved. If God delaine i the high tide in answer to prayer, will He not hasten it in answer to prayor? Hurelyit has been low tide long enough. May the Lord hasten the high tide of nationnl wel¬ fare. American citizens, our best hold Ison God. We have all seen families In prayer and church*. in prayer. Wlmt we want yet to sen is tills whole Nation on its knees. The most of them are dead—those who in 1851 moved in that procession of Washington that marched down from the city hall Louisiana avenue to Seventh street and then through Pennsylvania avenue to the north gate of yonder Capitol of to Cauitol. lay the cornerslone The presi¬ of the extension that dent who that day presided and dedication solemnly struck that stone three times in long ago quit earthly scenes, and tho Ups of the great orator of that hour are dust, and the grand master of that occasion long ago put down the square arid the level and 1he plumb with which for the Jast time he pro- uounced a cornerstone welt laid. But what most interests mo now fs that inside that cornerstone, in u glass jar, hermetically VOL. V. NO. 116. senleil, is n ilocumont of nationnl import, thoiiL'h in poor poiim iishlp. It is the pan- nniiisblp tho ot Daniel WVMur, which almost ruinctl pmimnnship of this country for many years, liee.iti.se umny thought If they iuiil Daniel Woh ler’s poor penmanship it might imlicato tltoy ha I Webster’s genius. Tluulocuraent mails as follows: ‘‘If it .shall It reafier he the will of Ood that tl;is struct tiro shall fall from its huso, that poslt its foumlHliou brought he upturuo I ami thisiie- tm to the eyes of men, bo it then known that on this tiny tho Nation of tho United States of America stands firm; Unit their constitution still exists unim¬ paired ami with all its original usefulness and glory, growing every day stronger and stronger in the uITertiou ot the great body of the American people and attracting more ami more the a tmiration of the world, and all hero assembled, whether belonging to public, life or to private life, with hearts de¬ voutly thankful to Almighty (lod for the preservation of the liberty and the happi¬ ness of tlm country, unite in .sincere and fervent prayers that this deposit arid the wal s and arches, the domes and towers, the columns and entablature, now to be erected over it may endure forever. Ood save tho United States of America! Daniel Webster, Secretary of State of file United States.” That was beautiful ami appropriate at the laying of the cornerstone ol the extension of tin) Capitol ilfty-elght years after the coruer- stoue of tlm old Capitol had been laid. Yet the ooruorstouo ot our Republic was first laid in 177li and at the ro-est dillshmont of our National Government was laid again in 1885. But are wa not ready for the laying of tlm cornerstone of a broader and higher National life? Wo have as a Nation received so much from Ood. Do w« not owo now consecration? Are wo uot ready to become a bettor Sabbath-koeplng, God-worshiping peace-loving Nation? vir- itie-honoring, Are we not ready for such a cornerstone laying? Why not now lot it take place? With long procession of prayers, moving from the north and the south, tho oast and tho west, lot the scene bo made august beyond comparison. Tho God of nations, who hath dealt with usas with no other people,will proside at lovol the solemnization, liy tho sqtinrn and the and tho plumb of tho everlasting right let tho corner stone be adjusted. Let that of cor nerstone be tho masoning together the two granite tables on which tho law was written when Sinai shook with tho oarth- rptaku, and insldo that cornerstone put the sermon on the mount and a scroll containing the names of all the men and women who have fought and prayed and tolled for tho good of mis nation, from the ilrst martyr of the American Revolution down to the last woman who bound up a soldier’s wounds in the Hold hospital. And let some one worthy the to do so strike the stoiio three times with gospel hammer in tho name of God the Father, God the Sou and God the Holy wall Gaost. Then lot tho building rise, one laved by tlm I’aciMo ocean and tlm other washed of the Atlantic, until its capstone shall be laid amid Urn shouting of all nations, by that time as tree as our own divinely founded, divinely constructed, and divinely protect!) I republic, the last throne of oppression having fallen flat Into the dust and tho last shackle of tyranny been liung up in museum us a relic ol barbaric agos. The prayer that tho great expounder wrote to bo put in the cornerstone at the extension ot the Capitol I ejaculate as United our own States suppli¬ of cation, "God save tlm America,” South only adding the close words Ills with which Robert was apt to sermons, whether delivered before the Court at Christ-Ohurch chapel or in Westminster Abbey, at anniversary of restoration of Oli¬ ver Cromwell ami It be worst tempest that ever swept over England; "To God be ren¬ dered and ascribed, as is most due, all praise, might, majesty and dominion, belli now and forever. Amen.” TRAPPED BY A LAWYER, The Witness Was All Right, Only He For¬ got All About tho Almanac. The story of Abraham Llnco'ln'8 con¬ founding an opposing witness with an almanac record of the moon phases, finds parallel in the case of Waterson, recently acquitted on a charge of mur¬ der in an Iowa court. The main witness against him was one Delafleld, who swore he was working just outside the window of the accused on the day of the alleged crime, and saw Waterson open a cupboard and take down a bot¬ tle, move about as if preparing a por¬ tion, and then administer the draught to Mrs. Waterson, who died in great agony later in the day. A lawyer named Bradford, for the defense, had asked the jurymen on ex¬ amination of them as to their compe¬ tence, if they had faith enough in the weather bureau reports to attach cred¬ ence to them, and had found every man on the panel believed the records were fair and reliable. The state had not understood the drift of these questions, but had not objected. When It came to cross-examining, Bradford asked the witness, Delafleld, what he was doing outside Waterson’s window, and he said he was digging a cistern. “When did you oogin digging that cistern?” “November 11, the day Mrs. Waterson died.” “How much did you dig that day?” “Oh, about three feet.” “What tools did you use?” “A shove)." | “And a pick?” “No, the ground was mellow.” “Work in an overcoat?” “No; in my shirt sleeves. The day was warm.” “Have anything to drink?” “Had a little pail of water on the ground within reach.” “Didn’t it freeze?” “No.” The witness smiled scorn¬ fully. Then Bradford offered in evidence a certified copy of the weather bureau re¬ port for November 10 and 11, and showed that the temperature had been below freezing the first day and below zero the day of the alleged crime. The jury accepted the official docu¬ ment, and to that extent regarded the witness as impeached, for Waterson was acquitted.—Chicago Times-Herald. A cargo of coal was recently re¬ ceived at San Francisco from Ton¬ kin, China. Pacific freights being eh-no enough to make the venture profitable.