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THE ASHBDRN ADVANCE. H. D. SMITH. EDITOR OULAN ::;uC\I Mf, !i; ir S3 iso. £ CJ f 'as thought to he a rt, but was found io be ue. Eews broke out among the of Worth county that & MePhaul JB ... (jOOuS n i chocipcr i dh anu other merchants in the Untlj , which WCIS investigated and adjoin ng counties • We Carry a Side Line of Pots, Dinner Pots, Stoves, Stove Furniture, - Plows, Plow Gear t All Farii Utensils. 1 -and ALL- eitvy Groceries. . CLOTHING! kng have a large .lot of selected jar the Fall ’ and we want to sell y: rapidly. . ,, ... We have , put , “ n at very “ low ^ prices. We for coming to Poulan. ; ' hen you want Hats, come to IS - hen you ' want Suits, come to is. hen you want Harness, come to is. ken you want Groceries, come to IS, yon want Stoves, come to IS. Ren you want Furniture, come to is. s e carry everything in the HARD- IE LINE from a handsome File Grind Rock. AOCO. -errtbinsr from a pinch of Snuff to s of Tobacco. 11 and examine our Goods and get . s We will take ' pleasure in ‘ing you. RICE e have one of the best LS in the country Brim? vonr ‘ h rice and let us hull it. ive your corn ground here. e will gin your cotton for you and irn vour face this way and make store headquarters for trade. i ,Girt & MePhaul • ASH BURN. WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1897. SHERMAN’S TALK COMMENTED ON IN YHiOROPS EDITORIALS. OUR SECRETARY DECLARED SENILE A Strong Intimation Given Out That the English People Are lteady Por War at Any Time. New Commenting on the interview of the York World with Secretary Sher¬ man, the St. James Gazette (London) in its Monday afternoon issue, says: ‘Senator Sherman’s utterances afford no material for denial by his friends of the statement that he is suffering from senile decay. But, after all, Mr. Sherman repre¬ sents America, and we are sure all interna¬ tional courtesies will he observed.” Continuing, the Gazette refers to the Kalnoky incident, when it says: “Austria properly severed diplomatic re- Jations with Great Britain until Mr. Glad- stone apologized for his attack upon dual monarchy,” and asks why there is one law in Europe and another in America. In conclusion The Gazette repeats its recent warning that this is a dan- g^ms line of policy to follow and upon Washington to “back up its S#* self of the idea that Uncle Sam is going to boss the show, either on tho gold fields or in the fisheries. We are not ready to follow every quarrel with blows, but when we strike we strike hard, and the idea of our being afraid of a third-rate naval power like the United States could only have occurred to a lunatic or to Mr. Sherman. Judging from his latest performance, we may chari¬ tably assume that the rumors that Mr. Sher¬ man is suffering from mental disturbances is correct. ” The utterances attributed to Secre¬ tary Sherman upon which the com¬ ment of the London papers is based are as follows: “England is a great country, but it is not always safe to assume that she is ready to follow lip every quarrel with blows. She quarrels oftener than she lights. It would bo exceedingly difficult for her to fight us all alone about our seal catching. Russia and Japan are in a similar position,and any quarrel bet ween the United Ktntes and Eng¬ land on this score would in all probability involve those other two countries.” (JOURTS CLASH. State of Kansas Comes In Conflict With Uncle Sam’s Tribunal. A special from Topeka, Kan., says: The long threatened clash between the United States courts and the authori¬ ties of the state of Kansas came Mon¬ day when Attorney General Boyle, acting upon the advice and with the concurrence of the state administration took action in the state courts in open defiance of the federal authorities. This action is the outcome of an in¬ junction issued on July 29th by United States District Judge John A. Williams, of Arkansas, at Colorado Springs, Col., dSSSS and Attorney General Boyle, of Kan- sas, from bringing any proceedings whatever under the state laws to pre- vent the Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany from doing business in Kansas. Mutual Life Insurance Company to compel that corporation to appear be- fore the state supreme court and show by what authority it is transacting Attorney General Boyle having done precisely what the injunction of Judge NVilliams forbade him doing, the pre- sumption is that the federal judge will cause his arrest and imprisonment for contempt. application for writ In this event a of habeas corpus will be made at once to the United States supreme court, and in such a proceeding the attorney of the general would have the support tion. _____ SHERMAN IN WASHINGTON. Secretary Says Sewall Was Not Instructed to EKtabliftli Protectorate. Secretary Sherman arrived in Wash- ington Friday afternoon from a rest on Uong Island. He appears to have denied lm- proved. Secretary Sherman Francisco .ecent statements from San that Minister Seuall had luitruo to establish a protectorate over Hawaii j? tLe eveut ^ate failed to ratify ‘ke annexation treaty. Secretary Sherman said that the United Sta'es Hawan ond Ja P a11 if tIje decision of tho arbitrators were against the former. 1 hat was a matter between the coun- tries interested. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Now Iiuliutiio. Kntitbll.lioil In the South IIuvIub the l’imt Week. Business continues active and south¬ ern manufacturers and dealers report the volume of trade as being large for the season with most encouraging prospects for the fall and winter. A marked increase is noted in inquiries for machinery, indicating a large num¬ ber of new plants under construction and enlargement of those already es¬ tablished. Developments in tlio oil regions of the south are especially aotive, and, in the line of manufacture, cotton seed oil and lumber are attracting consider¬ able attention, as evidenced by the in¬ crease in the number of oil and lum¬ ber mills reported during the past few weeks. Iron and steel continues in good demand, favorable conditions in this industry in the south being most marked just; now in tho Uirmiuglmm district. Mining troubles bid fair to reach an early settlement, and all indications point to a business year of unusual prosperity. Among the most important new in¬ dustries reported for the week are the following: The Peck City Coal and Fuel Co., capital $10,000, Henrietta, Tex.; a cotton compress at Jackson, Tenn.; a roller flouring mill and grist mills at Laurens, S. C.; a 50-ton ice and cold storage plant at Charleston, S. C.; the Griffin & Barnes Machinery Co., capital $10,000, Galveston, Tex., and the Last Chance Mining and Pros¬ pecting Co., capital $50,000, Batesville, Ark. The Blue Ridge Oil and Devel¬ opment Co., capital $400,000, has been chartered at Kingwood, W. Va., and the Central West Virginia Oil Co., maximum capital $100,000 at New Martinsville, W. Va., and the Jackson Oil Co., at Ravenswood, W. Va. The Prosperity Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Co., capital $15,000, has been incorpo¬ rated at Prosperity, 8. C., and oil mills will also be erected at Cross Hill, S. C., and Big Island, Va. The Eldo- rado Falls Cotton Mill Co., capital $250,000, has been organized at Eldo¬ rado, N. C.; a $15,000 knitting mill will be built at Athens, Ga.; a $20,000 furniture factory at New Orleans, La., a $50,000 lumber mill at Boliuger, Ark., and other woodworking plants at Bagdad, Fla., Clarksville, Ga., and Logan, tV. Va.—Tradesman (Chatta¬ nooga, Tenn.) GOVERNMENT PLANT _ T„r the Manufacture , . of . Armor . „„„ lla.o Itelng Considered Ity Committee. The special naval board appointed by J Acting Secretary Roosevelt for the purpose of preparing ioi the lnfoi ... ma- tion of congress estimates of the cost of establishing and operating a gov- eminent plant for the manufacture of armor plate met at the navy depait- ment at Washington Monday. All the members wei e present. 1 Be- fore proceeding .. with the ,, work I, of or- ganization, the members of the board called upon Acting Secretary Iloose- veil « l 0 " f t.a wi«. W» ™- specting the undertaking before them, The acting secretary expressed his views as ‘ to the intention of congress, and , the , boaid , was ready i f for work, , after a room had been secured. THIS MELON FOR BRYAN. Fitzgerald . „ Soldiers' . Colony „ Semi* ..... the Ne- braskan An JSIglity-One Founder. The champion watermelon of the the m old ,”**. soldiers colony, "weighing °v “ eighty-one and one-half pounds, was sent off Monday J morning addressed- \\ llliarn Jennings x Bryan, o the .1 next x president of the United States, Lin- coin, Neb. Compliments of The Fitz- geialii _____.j t Leader. nn ,i n « >> The crate in which the melon was shipped was beautifully painted in silver aluminum with the following inscription: ... “From the old soldiers’ (federal) colony, Fitzgerald, Ga. “You shall not .. „i___„ place upon the brow of la > a crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.’” SAGASTA THE NEXT VICTIM. Reported That Anarchist* Have Selied- nled Hit Heath Before August 30. A special l cable dispatch received at London _ , Monday from t Madinl m v • i says n the , Spanish government was aware that a meeting J. of anarchists was held early m ■ July T , 1 at which « it it unu was decided decided to to murder Senor Canovas del Castillo be- fore August 15 and to assassinate Se- nor «*«»•• a "h»« DIVIDENDS DEC EARED. A Number of Insolvent Bank* Return Money to Depositor*. The comptroller of the currency at Washington has declared dividends in faVor G f the creditors of the following j nso Ivent national hanks: Fifteen per cent, the First National bank. Tyler, Tex. Twelve and one-half per cent, the Merchants’ National bank, Ocala Fla. Twenty per cent, the Citizens' Na- bank, SanAngelo, lex. Five per cent, the American Nation- a ] Bank, New Orleans. Ten per cent, the City National Lank, Fort Worth, Tex. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUCUST 15. (a'Ssoh Tnt: “Abstaining For (ho Suko of Others,** T Cor, vlll., .1-13 (A Temper¬ ance Lesson)—Golden Text*. Unmans, viv., 7—Commentary by Kev. Stearns. 1. “Now ns touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowl¬ edge. Knowledge it. uufToth no, hut charity odilleth.” The V. 1ms for the List clause, “Love edilloth, or bulldeth uf>.” The words “Now as touching” introduce ns to a new section of the epistle. Compare chapters vlt., 1; xib, 1; xvb, 1. This section seems to reach to the end of chapter xl., and might he summed up in the words of ehnp- tor x., 81, “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory ot God." The great Incentive to tills i9 i “Remembrance of Him till Ho come" (chapter xi., 24 26). 2. “And if any man think that ho knoiv- eth anything, lie knowetli nothing yet as he ought to know.” It is said that “to know our ignorance is the llrst step to Story knowledge.” knew nothing The g rent men of tlvo Bible told by God. Noah except as tuny »wn knew nothing concern¬ ing the ark, nor even when to enter It or leave It, except as God told him. Moses kne,w nothing concerning the tabernacle, nor the Journeyings of Israel, except as God told him. The prophets, and even our Lord Jesus Christ, were told by God what to say (Ex. iv., 12; Dent. xvJil., iH; .Tor. h, 7). 8. “But If any man love God, the same is knowuof him.” Tho Lord knowoth them that are IDs, and thoso who know His name will put their trust in Him. We love Him because He first loved us. He so loved as to give His only begotton Sou, and the Son of God loved me and guve Himself for me. Unless His great love so takes hold of me and constrains me that I give myself wholly only to Him to serve and please Him I do not know His love as I should. Love seeks not its own. and is not provoked; hut suffereth long, and Is kind and benreth and all things (chapter it xiii., 4-7). God Is love, will manifest in us. 4. “We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.” This is fully set forth In Isa. xli., 24; xliv., 9-20: “Ye are worse than nothing, and your work worse than of a viper. An abomination ehooseth you.” “They that make a graven image are all of them vani¬ ty, and their delectable things shall not They profit, and they are their own they witnesses. see not nor know; that may be ashamed.” But the people of God are wlt- nesses.tiiat lie is the living and true God, and that there is none beside Him i Isa. xlv., g). 5, 6. “For though there he that are called gods, to us there Is hut one God, tho Fath¬ er, of whom arc all things and we in Him, ami one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and wo by Him.” All things wire created by Him auil for Him, and He 1 h before ail tilings, and by Him all things consist fCol. L, 16, 17), From Rev. iv., 11, and I Pet. iv., 11, wo may learn to say, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, ami 1 am for Thy pleasure, that God in all things may bo glorified through Jesus Christ.” 7. “Howbeit, there is not hi every man that knowledge." There arc those to-day, as there were those at Corinth, who bear tlic name of Christ and yet offer tliolr time and strength *, and money to the tdols of faBh , on ai pleasure and the vain things of tills world, and think it all right so to do. If you ask, Are they truly Christ's people? wo ca, ( ° n| y au »«; er ‘ ha ‘ if they are they are not truly serving him, As to this being His, chapter ill., 11,15, and v.,5, soem to nuggest that poB«lbIy they may he, uml they may be saved as by lire, just bare'y T^But meat commenileth us not to God.’* What wo eat or do not eat Is a small qu«s- tion, oxeent as regards the body’s health. kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost (Rom. xiv., 17). Our Lord lllm- self said, “Whatsoever thing from without entereth into tho man, it cannot deflle him; salvation of tho soul depends wr* wholly the llnished work of the Lord Jesus, upon and we mo accepted by God as His children eu- tirely upon the merits of Christ. Wo do- serve nothing hut punishment for our sins, Yet, coming as sinners, we are Justified freely by His grace (limn, Hi., 24). Tho same grace, and that alone, makes accept- able what we do unto Him. 9. “But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to them that arc weak,” Liberty is always out of place when It hurts others. Love question Is not, How will xrcsssrtt: this that affect or me, but how will it affect Him and His <a “ 8 « for whom I am living here? We are on the witness stand all the day long, and we are either true or false witnesses unto Him by and the books places we read, the company We we keep the we frequent. are either pointing people to Christ like and draw- ing them to Him, or we are Naomi, sending some Orpah back to Moab and idolatry, 1°. “Through iv- - thy . knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died.” As Christ died for all, thon all who will may come to Him and he saved. But if I, a Christian, am seen in tho idol’s tem- pie, the theatre, the ballroom, the card party, enjoying and there is present some poor soul these things because he knows of nothing better, yet hungering for some¬ thing Ue has not and cannot Hud, although isfy, possibly having heard that Christ can sat¬ and he sees me In such a place, then he may well say or think that there Is nothing | u p j for, H( . et these Christians lire just nJ. hungry Id, as I am for the pleasures of this w ®5 12. „_ “But . when , ye sin . so against . . the ., brethren and wound their weak conscience ye sin against Christ.” Ail that Is done for or against a child of God is done for or “gainst ^ h God and His Christ. The “Inns- m o ot Math, xxv., 40, 45. is always ap- piicable. nloek over A whom Christian some may unsaved be a stumbling soul may works, but lead others so that their works will perish too. This will be avoided if we remember that we are embassadors for Christ and that we are here in Ills stead to say and do what Ue would If He were here (1 L c l or fr^!l; ;,X:v‘5 0 b < Z . .. cr t0 0 I wiH eat flesh world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.” One says that whatever hurts do do. lianici U utaStwt to as to was a great ro- trainer. He refused the dainties and seem Hei^. ! a Rsci re- Dick—One is so apt to lose sight of one’s friends. Harry—That's not necessary, Mine stick to me with touching fidelity. Dick—How do you mauage it? Harry—Oh, 1 borrow money of them. 1 I *) • « i DEALERS IN • • t Yellow Fine Lrater, Aslilmrn, Ga. 411 Orta It * * Laths, Shingles, Staves, Car Sills , Bridge Stuff, Flouring, Moulding, Brack¬ ets, Ceiling, Etc., Will Receive Prompt Attention. We carry a well selected and assorted stock of Dry Goods, Hardware, Groceries, Etc. If in need of anything in CLOTHING, Such as MEfl’S AND BOYS’ SUITS, We Can Fit You. WE HAVE A NICE STOCK OF LADIES’ DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS would he pleased to show the ladies of Ashlmrn and sur¬ rounding country. j OUR DANDIES • • • Are Fresh and Fine. Flour, Meat, Grits, Rice, 9 Meal, And in fact any and everything that is kept in a first-class Grocery House can be bad at onr Large Brick Store as cheap as the cheapest. We Carry a Full Line of FUHNITUHB. UP STAIRS Onr Stock of SHOES Is Complete, wifh a Specialty of Ladies’ and Chil¬ dren’s Fine Sunday Wear. We also handle the best brands of Cigars , Tobacco , Snuff, Etc. Full line of the best makes of STOVES NOW ON HAND. All kinds of STOCK FEED at REASONABLE PRICES. The citizens of Ashburn and sur¬ rounding country are cordially invited to call and inspect our stock. We have a Wagon Yard and Stalls, Feed Troughs, etc., for the conveni¬ ence of our customers especially. Respectfully, J. S, BETTS & CO . VOL. VI. NO. 1. Dr. J. F. Gardner, Physician and Surgeon. (fills Answered Prom idly DAY AND NIGHT. Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Residence at the Hicks place. AS11BURN, GEORGIA. DR. J. F. GREGORY A GO.. SPECIALISTS. Rupture, Catarrh, Rectal Diseases, Hemorrhoids (Biles), Fistulas Cured. NO KNIFE, NO 1’AIN. Room No. 1, Heard Building, Cordele, Ga. 1417 Cotton Ave., Macon, Ga. wa hhi^Tlstory” Physician and Surgeon, SYCAMORE, GA. Diseases of Nose and'Throat.. DR. W. J. TURNER, Physician anil Burgeon, ahhburn, ga. Special Attention Given to Diseases of Women ami Children. Office in Room No. 2, Betts Bnild- i HR- Residence: W. A. Shiugler's. Calls Answered Day or Night. Telephone No. IH. DU. T. H. THRASHER, Physician and Surgeon, Ahuburn, Georgia. General Practice Solicited, (lllice in the Christian Building. C. E. WALKER, l’liysician aud Surgeon, Sycamore, -:- Georgia. GEO. W COOPER, DENTIST, Ahhiujrn, Georgia. Office, Room No. 4, Beils Buil ding. W. B. CONE, D. D. S. I Make a Specialty of Crown, Bridges aud Replantations. Teeth Extracted Without 1’uin. Ahhiiurn, Georgia. W. T. WILLIAMS, Attorney at. Law. Land and Collections. Sycamore, Georgia. A. J. DAVIS, Attorney at Law Ashkcrn, -:- Georgia. Real Estate aud Collections. Prompt attention to all business placed iu our hands. B. B. WHITE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Ahhbuhh, Georgia. Will practice in all the Courts, State and Federal. .1. PI>L11 ILL, Attorney at Law, Sylvester, - - Georgia. Practice in all the Courts. Patronage Solicited. W. A. HAWKINS, Attorney at Law, e Building, Rooms 4 and 5. Cordele, Georgia. Prompt attention given to all business intrusted to my care. F. Powell, J. W. Powell, Vienna, Ga. Ash burn, (in. JNO. F. POWELL SON, Attorneys at Law. We practice in all the courts. Im¬ mediate and careful attention given to business placed in our hands. Em¬ ploying one secures services of both. Business solicited and inquiries promptly answered. ~ “ I BANK PARK, Attorney - at - Law, Poulan, Georgia. B. W. ADKIXS, Attorney at Law, Collections a Specialty, Poulan, Georgia.