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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. II. I). SMITH, EDITOR. POULAN m. X#Kix>vv>;nM«'Uxa.«oM% mGxaxcrtwcormxeeeo-'Vfl**. m to 1 merer ise. Was thought to he a false report , but was found to be true. flews broke out among the people of Worth county that McGirt & McPhaul Were selling Goods cheaper than any other merchants in the county , which was investigated and found correct. flow we ask the people of Worth and adjoining counties to come and examine our line of We Carry a .Side Line of Wash Pots, Dinner Pots, Stoves, Stove Furniture. Plows, Plow Gear Ail All Faming Utensils. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! FURNITURE! _ — f —AND ALL— Heavy Groceries. CLOTHING! We have a large lot oj Clothing selected for the Fall Trade, and we want to sell them rapidly. We have put them at very low prices. We can save you enough of money on one suit of Clothes to pay you for coming to Poulan. When you want Hats, come to see ns. When you want Shoes, come to see us. When you want Suits, come to see-ns. When you want Harness, come tc see us. When you want Groceries, come to See us. When you want Stoves, come to pee us. When yon want Furniture, come pee US, We be™ B oo,1 ,»d polite ««le.me», eo that when you come to see goods will be thrown down to you for your examination. ' WARE LINE from a handsome Tile to a Grind Rock. TOU <YCCO. Everything from a pinch of Snuff a box of Tobacco. Call and examine our Goods and prices. We will take pleasure showing you. We have one of V the £ host MILLS in « the country. Bring rougli rice and let ns bull it. Have vour corn ground here ' ■u’o Aye will -u.-ill gin rn n vmir your p„tf cotton r „ for f jou , then buy it or ship it from our bouse free of drayage. ’ ^iutn Turn vour your face race this tins way wnv and nn,7 q:.t store headquarters for trade. jJIcGii't j A M) -mg- _ ASH BURN, WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER l? 1897 . REV. DR. TAIMAGE. THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN- DAY DISCOURSE. The Different Lives Men Lead—Why Sonic Are Successful am) Others Fail —A Life of Sin anil Worldly Tntlulgcnre is a Dire Failure—Tlie Life Worlh Living, Text; “What is your life?”— James lv„ 11 . If we leave to the evolutionists to guess where we came from and to the theologians to prophesy where wo are going to, we still have left for consideration the important fact that we are here. There may be some doubt about where the river rises aud some doubt about where the river empties, but there can be no doubt the fact that wo are sailing on it. So t am not surprised tliat everybody asks the question, "Is life worth living?” Solomon, in liis unhappy moments, spirit',” says it is good,” not, "Vanity,” “vexation of “no are iiis estimate. The fact is that Solomon was at onetime a polygamist and that soured his disposition. One wife makes him wretched. a man happy; more than one makes But Solomon was converted from polygamy to monogamy, aud the last words lie ever wrote, as far as we can read them, were the words “mountains of spices.” But Jeremiah says life is worth living. In a book supposed to be doleful and lugu¬ brious and sepulchral aud entitled "Lamen¬ tations,” he plainly intimates that the blessings of merely living is so great and grand a blessing that though a man have piled on him all misfortunes and disasters lie has no right to complain. The ancient prophet cries and out in startling intonation to all lands to all centuries, "Wherefore doth a living man complain?” A diversity of opinion in our time as well as in olden time. Here is a young man of light hair and blue eyes and sound diges¬ tion and generous salary and happily affia'nced and on the way to become a part¬ ner in a commercial linn of which ho is an important clerk. Ask him whether life is worth living. He will laugh in is your face and say: "Yes, yes, yes!” Here a man who has come to tho forties, He is at the tiptop of the bill of life. Every step has been a stumble and a bruise. The people he trusted have turned out deserters, and the money he has honestly made he has been cheated out of. His nerves ave out of tune. He has poor appetite, and the food lie does eat does not assimilate. Forty miles climbing up the Hill of life have been to him like climbing the Matterhorn, and there are forty miles yet to go down, and descent is always more dangerous than as¬ cent. Ask him whether life is worth living, aud he will drawl out in shivering and inbuhrious no!” and appalling negative, “No, no, decide How are we to this matter right? oously and intelligently? You will And tlie same man vacillating, oscillating in his opinlou from dejection to his exuberance, and if he be very mercurial in temperament it will depend very much on which way the wind blows. If tlie wind blow from the northwest and you ask him, be will say “Yes,” and if it blow from the northeast and you ask him he will say, "No.” How are we, then, to get the question all righteous¬ ly answered? Suppose we call nations together in a great convention on eastern or western hemisphere, and let all those who are in tho affirmative say, "Aye,” and all those who are in the negative hundreds say, “No.” While there would be of thou¬ sands of those who would answer in the nf- ilrmativo, there would the lie more millions Who would answer in negative, and because of the greater number who have sorrow and misfortune and trouble tlie noes would have tt, The answer I shall give will bo different from either, and yet it will commend itself to all who hear ir.o this day as tim right answer. If you ask me, "Is life worth living?" It answer, “I all depends upon the kind of life you live.” In the IIrat place, I remark tliat a life of mere money getting is always a failure, be- cause you will never got as much (;s yqq want. The poorest people is in this country scissors are tlie millionaires. There not a grinder on tlie streets of New Y’ork or Brooklyn who is so anxious to make money as these men who have piled up fortunes year after year in storehouses, ii) Govern¬ ment securities, in tenement houses, in whole eity blocks. You ought to see them jump when they hoar the fire bell ring, You ought to see them in their excitement when a bank explodes. You ought to see their agitation when tariff. there is Their proposed a reformation in the nerves tremble like harp strings, but no music in the vibration. They read the reports from Wall street in the morning with a concern¬ ment tliat threatens paralysis or apolexy, or more probably they have a telegraph or telephone in their qv/n houses, so they catch every breadth of change In tl(6 money market. The disease of accumulation hits eaten into them—eaten into their heart, into their lungs, into their spleen, into their liver, into their bones. Chemists have sometimes analyzed much the human body, aud they say it is so magnesia, so much lime, so much chlorate of potassium, I? some Christian chemist would analyze one oi those financial be¬ hemoths, lie would And ho is mndo up ot copper and gold and silver and zinc and lead and eoal and iron, That is not a life worth living. There are too many earth¬ quakes in it, too many agonies in it, too many perditions in it. They build their castles, and they open their picture gal¬ leries, aud they summon prime donnas, ami they offer every inducement tor happi¬ ness to come and live there, but happiness will not aome, They send footmanned and postliioned equipage to bring her. She will not ride to their door. They send princely escort. Hhe will not take* their arm. They make their gateways trium¬ phal arches. She will not ride under them. They set a golden throne before a banquet. golden plate. }>jate. She unu turns luruM away away from ixDii* the gy-g of those who have had large ftccum- j a ji ure ulation. into considers- And then you roust take SS ss.%tuft of affluence. It is esti- ting fall far short of hun¬ mated that only about two out a dred business men have anything worthy the name of success. A man who financial spends his life with one dominant idea of accumulation spends u life not worth liv- ms, S Vmhm7tV , , . be d most unfortunate Every four years the two men in this country are the The two men reservoirs noro- mated for the Presidency. and malediction Of abuse and diatribe g ra q U ally All up, gallon above gallon, hogs- head above hogshead, and about mtdsum- mer these two reservoirs will be brimming full, and a hose will be attached to each one an ,; j t w m p ] a y away on these two nominees, and they will have to stand it and take the abuse and tbo falsehood, and the caricature and the anathema, and the cftterwauIIng an q the filth, and they will be rolled in it and rolled over and over in it until they are choked and submerged at by all the bounds oi political there parties from ocean to ocean. And yet are a hundred mon to-day struggling for that privilege, who and helping there them are thousands struggle. of men are in tho Now, that is not a life worth living. You can gel slandered and abused cheaper thau that. Take it on a smaller scale. Do not he so ambitious to have a whole reservoir rolled over on you. Hat what you see in the matter of high political in preferment you see for In what every is called com¬ munity the struggle social position. Tens of thousands of peo¬ ple trying to get into that realm, and they are under tevriilc tension, What is social position? it is a difficult 1 bin# to tiefliio, but we all know what It is . (ukhI morals and intelligence arc not necessary, but wealth, or a shew of wealth, is absolutely Indispensable. There aro mon to-day as notorious for their libertinism as the night is famous for its darkness wiio move In what is cailod high social position. There are hundreds of out and out rakes In American society the whose names aro men¬ tioned among distinguished guests at tho great levees. They have annexed all tile known vices and are longing for other worlds of diabolism to conquer. Good morals are not necessary in many of the ex¬ alted circles of society. Neither is intelligence necessary. You find in that realm men who would not know an adverb from an adjective If they met it a hundred times in a day, and who eould not. write a letter of acceptance or regrets without the aid of a secretary. They buy anxious their libraries to have by the the binding square Russian. yard, Their only ignorance is positively disreputable. sublime, making And English grammar ill most yet the finest parlors open before them. Good morals and intelligence are not neces¬ sary, but wealth or a show of wealth is positively indispensable. It does not make any difference how you got your wealth, tf you only got it, The best way for you to get into social position credit, is for you to buy a largo amount on then put your property in your wife’s name, have a few signment. preferred creditors, Then disappear and then from make the an as¬ com¬ munity until the breeze is over and come back and start in the same business. Do you not see how beautifully that will put out all the people who are in competition with you and trying to make an honest liv¬ ing? How quickly it will get you into toiling high social position? What is the use of forty or fifty years when you can by two or three bright strokes make a great fortune? Ah, iny friends, when you really lose your money bow quickly they will let you drop, and the higher you get the harder you will drop. There aro thousands to-day in that realm •who are anxious to keep in It. There aro thousands in that realm who are nervous for fear they will fall out of it, and there are changes going on every year, and every month, and every hour which involve heart¬ breaks that are never reported. High so¬ cial life is constantly in a butter about the delicate question as to whom they shall let in and whom thny shall push out, and tho battle mirror, is chandelier going on—pier against mirror chandelier,wine agaiust pier cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe against wardrobe, equipage against equipage. Un¬ certainty and insecurity dominant in that realm, wretchedness enthroned, torturo at a premium apd a life not worth living! A life of sin, a life of pride, a life of in¬ dulgence, voted a life of the worldliness, flesh and a life devil, de¬ to tho world, tho is a failure, a dead failure, an inflnito failure, I care not how many presents garlands you send to that cradle or how many you send to that grave, you heed to put right under tho name on the tombstomo this inscription: "Better for that man if be had never been born.” liqt I shall show you a life t.fiat }s worth living. A young man Bays; "! am ], f , ro . I am not responsible for my ancestry. Others decided that. Iam not responsible for iny temperament. God gave ine that, Jiul here I am in the evening of the nineteenth century, at 1 twenty years qf qgo. I am here, and must take an account Of stock, lien: I have a body, which is a divinely con¬ structed engine. I must put it to the very best uses, and f must allow nothing to damage this rarest of machinery. Two feet, and il;ey mean locomotion. Two eyes, and they mean capacity und they to pick out tel¬ my own way. Two ears, are ephones of communication with all the out¬ side world, and they mean capacity to catch the sweetest music and the voices of friendship—the with infinity yery of best articulation. music. A tongue, Yes, almost hands with which to lyoleomo or resist or lift or smite or wave or bless—hands to holy mys«|f and help others, "Hereis a world which after(1000 years of battling with tempest and accident is still grander than any architect, human or an¬ gelic, could have drafted. I have two lamps to light me—a golden lamp and a silver lamp—a golden lamp set on tho sapphire mantel of the day, a silver lamp set on the jot mantel of the night. Yea, I have that at twenty of age which defies all inventory qf valuables—a soul with capac¬ ity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to loye or to hate. Plato says it is immortal. Seneca says it i , immortal. Conlqciqs says it is immortal. An old book among the family folios, a book witli leathern cover almost worn out and pages almost obliterated by oft I perusal, Immortal. joins the I other books in saying am hnveejqhty years for a lifetime, live Sixty years yet to live, I may not an hour, but then and I for must long lay out life. my Hixty plans intelligently added the twenty a I have already' years lived—that to eighty. I will bring me to must remember that these eighty years are only a brief preface to the live hundred thousand mill¬ ions of quintiilions of years which will be my chief residence and existence. Now, I sponsibilities, understand my If opportunities is and my re¬ there any being in the universe all wise amt a!! beneficent who can help a man in such a juncture, I want him.” The young man enters life. Ho is buf¬ feted, he is tried ho is perplexed. A grave opens on this side and a grave opens on that side. He falls, but h« rises again. He gets into a hard battle, but he gets the vic¬ tory. The main course of his life is in tlie right direction. Ho blesses everybody be comes in contact’ with. God forgives his mistakes and makes and everlasting recorder his holy endeavors, qt the close of it God says to him; "Well done, good and faithful'servaut. Enter into the joy of thy Lord,” whether My Xirother, my dies Ulster, 30. I do not 30, care that man at 40,50, 70 or 8Q years of age; you can chisel right under his name on tho tombstone these Words. "His life was worth living,” Amid ihe hills of New Hampshire, In olden times, there sits a mother. There are six children in the h'msohnid four boys and two girls, Small farm, Very rough, hard work to coax a living out of It. Mighty tug to make the two ends of the year meet. The boys go to school in winter and work the farm in summer. Mother is the chief presiding spirit. With her hands she Units ail the stockings for tlie little feet, and she is the maDtua maker for the boys, and she is the milliner for the girls. There is only one musical Instrument (n tho house, the spinning wheoi. The food is very plain, but it is always well provided. The winters are very cold, but are kept out by the blankets she quilted. village On Sunday, when she appears in the church, her children afgund her, tip; minister looks down and is reminded of the Bible descrip¬ tion of a good housewife. "Her- children arise and up and nail her blessed; her husband also, hepraiseth her,” Some years go by, and education, the two oldest boys want a collegiate and the household economics are severer, and the calculations are closer, and until those two boys get their education there Is a bard battle for bread. One of these boys eaters tlie university, and preaches stands in righteousness, a pulpit widely in¬ fluential judg¬ ment and temperance, and thousands dur¬ ing Ids ministry are blessed. Tho other lad who got the collegiate education goes Into the law, and tlieaeo Into legislative balls, and after awhile he commands listening senates as ho makes a plea for tho down¬ trodden and the outcast. One of the younger ing the boys foot becomes of the ladder, a merchant,, but climbing start¬ at on up until Ills success and Ills philanthro¬ pies are recognized all over the land. The other son stays at homo because tie prefers farming life, and then lie thinks lie will be able to take euro of father and mother when they get old. Of the two daughters, when the war broke out, one went through the hospitals of Pittsburg 1,muling and Portress Monroe, cheering up tho dying and the homesick and taking tho last message to kindred far away, so that every time Obrlst thought oi her lie said, as of old: "The same is my sis¬ ter and mother.” The other daughter has n bright home of her own, and in the after noon- the forenoon having been devote to her household -she goes forth to bun up the siek and to encourage the dlscon aged, leaving smiles and benediction all along the way. But oue day there start live telegrams from the village for these dangerously live absent ones, saying. "Come, mother Is 111.” But receive before another tlioy can telegram, be ready to start they saying, "Come, mother is dead." farmhouse The old neighbors gather in the old to do the last office of respect. But as the farming son and the olorgyman, the and tho daughters Senator and the mer- ohnnt and two stand by the casket of the dead mother taking the last look, or lifting their little children to see onoe more the face of dear old grandma, I want to ask that group around the casket oue question, “Do you really think her life was worth living?” A life for God, a life for others, a life of unselfishness, a useful life, a Christian life, is always worth living, I would not find it hard to persuade you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making glue for a living, and then amassing a great fortune until be could build a philanthropy which has had Its echo in 10,00(1 philan¬ thropies all over tho country—I would not tlnd it hard to persuade you that bis life was worth living. Neither would I flint it hard to persuade you that the life of Sus¬ annah Wesioy was worth living. Hhe sent out one son to organize Methodism and the other son to ring his anthems all through tho ages. .1 would not find it hard work to persuade you tliat the life of Frances Deere was worth living, ns she established in England a school for the scientific nursing of the sick, and then When the war broke out; between France and Germany hands scraped went to the front and with her own the mud off the bodies of the her soldiers weak dying -standing in the trenches and with arm one night in dier tho hospital—pushing to bis ooueh, all hack frenzied a German with sol his - as. wounds, lit; rushed to tbo door nAd said, "Bet mo go, lot me go to my liobe mutter,” —major generals standing back to lot pass tills angel of mercy. Neither would l have hard work to per¬ suade yon that Grace Darling lived a life worth living- the heroine of the lifeboat. You are not wondering that the Duchess of Northumberland came to see her and that people of all lands asked for her lighthouse and that tho proprietor of the Adolphl theatre in London offered her $100 a night just to sit in the lifeboat while some ship¬ wreck seene was being enacted, But I know the thought in tbo minds of hundreds of you lived to-day. You say, "While I know all these lives worth living, I don't think my life amounts to much." Ah, my friends, whether you live a life conspic¬ uous or inconspicuous, It Is wortli living, if you Rve aright, And 1 want my next sentence to go down Into the depths of all your souls. You are to lie rewarded not according to the greatness of your work, but, according to the holy industries with which you employed the talents you really possessed, Tho majority of tho crowns qf heaven will not be given to peo¬ ple with ten talents, for mast of them were tempted only to servo themselves. The vast majority tlie of people tho crowns of heaven talent, will be given to who had one but gave it all to Go 1, And remember that our life here is introductory to another. It Is the vestibule to a palace, but who despises tlie door of a Madeleine because there are grander glories witiiiu? Your life, if rigidly lived, is tile first liar of an eternal oratorio, and who desplaes the llrst. note of Haydn’s symphonies? And the lire you live now Is all the more worth living be¬ cause) U opens Into a life that shall never end, tho and tlie last letter of the word "lime” Is first letter of tlie word "eternity!” WHEAT QBOP SITUATION. Estimated Deficiency of 14,000,000 Quar¬ ter# In the World's Supply, Tho Mark Lane Express, of London, re¬ viewing "The th« weather ordp situation, lias been says: adverse to Urn completion tity of of tlie out harvest, is and the quan¬ “The grain still considerable. French wheat crop Is estimated at 31,000,000 quarters By the chief writers of the l’aris press. Correspondents of Eng¬ lish business Arms state that the crop will amount to from 33,OOb,QOO to 33,000,000 quarters. The Austro-Hungarian crop is stated tq be X?,000,000 quarters. If this is true, it adds greatly to the gravity of the situation. “Tim American crop is reckoned by care¬ ful judges to be 63,500,000 quarters, or 11,- 000,030 quarters improvement, to offset a decline of 9,000,000 quarters in Uiissia and 3,000,000 to 10,000,000 quarters in France. "All the figures point, therefore, to a de¬ ficiency in the world's supply of 11,000,000 quarters. Should tho demand be actually as large qs tills, the stores of old wheat will be used up, and a erisls of groat serious¬ good ness will only be prevented by generally prospects fqr the spring of 1S91. VVe are nof, however, entitled to argue that such prospects will be more than the av*-r- HER SPECIALTY IS TWINS. A Colored Wife, Under Eighteen, Hu» Given lilrth to Four I'alr*. Not yet eighteen years old and the moth¬ er of four pairs of twins! This is the record made by Pearly Brad¬ ford, a colored woman of East Ht. Louis, Hi. Tim remarkable young mother asked Dr. Woods, Supervisor of tlie Poor, ior food to keep herself and children from starving. She has Lean a resident of East St. Louis 3v<jyears, she says, having come there bom New Orleans, where her hus¬ band Is now trying to g<-t employment. All but throe of her children are dead The live ones are healthful and strong, though quite young. Bradford Mrs. is very black. She will not be eighteen years old, she nays, until November 35 next, and is again approach¬ ing child. motherhood, She was married when a Dr, Woods made « careful investigation into the statements made by Mrs, Brad¬ ford and found them to be correct and the woman honest aud truthful. Dr. J. F. Gardner, i’hysicinn and Surgo<ui. Calls Answered Promptly DAY AND NIGHT. Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Residence at the Hicks place. ASH BURN, GEORGIA. DR. J. F. GREGORY A CO., SPEC’I AGISTS. Rupture, Catarrh, Rectal Diseases, Hemorrhoids (Files), Fistulas Cured. NO KNIFE, NO PAIN. Room No. 1, Heard Buildiug, Cord el e, Ga. 167 Cotton Ave., Macon, Ga. WARREN L STORY, Physician aud Surgeon, 8YOAUORH, GA. Diseases of Nose and Throat. DR. \V. J. TURNER, Physician and Surgeon, ASHBURN, GA. Special Attention Given to Diseases Women and Children. Office in Room No. ‘i, Betts Build- ing. Residence: \V. A. Shinglor’e. Calls Answered Day or Night. Telephone No. 18. DR. T. H. THRASHER, Physioian and Surgeon, Ashburn, Grobgja, General Practice Solicited, in tlie Christian Building. C. B. WALKER, Physician und Surgeon, Hycamomb, Georgia. GEO. W. COOPER, DENTIST, Aahdobn, Gbougia. Office, Room N«. 4, Betts Building. W. B. CONE, D. D. 8. I Make a Specialty of Grown, and Replantations. Teeth Extracted Without Puiu. Ashbubn, .Georgia. W. T. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law. Land and Collections. Sycamore, Georgia. A J. DAVIS, Attorney at Law Abhbukn, Georgia. Real Estate and Collections. Prompt attention to ail business placed in our bands. B. B. WHITE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, AHiiiti KN, Gkoiuma. Will practice in all the Courts, State and Federal. J. G. PDLH1LL, Attorney at Law, Sylvester, - - Georgia. Practice in all the Courts. Patronage Solicited. w7 A HAWKINS, Attorney at Law, e Building, Rooms 4 and 5. Corbel*, Georgia. Prompt attention given Vo all business intrusted to iny oare. John F. Powr.i.L, J. XV. Powatn, Vienna, Ga. Anhburn, Ga. JNO. F. POWELL A HON, Attorneys at Law. We practice in all the courts. Im¬ mediate and careful attention given to business placed in onr bunds. Em¬ ploying one secures services of both. Business solicited and inquiries promptly answered. ‘PARK, ~ FRANK Attorney - at - Law, PouiiAN, Georgia. B. W. ADKINS, Attorney at Law, Collections a Specialty, Poulan, Georgia. VOL. VI. NO. (5. i III • • • DEALERS IN... 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All kinds of STOCK FEED M REASONABLE PRICES. The citizens of Ashburn aud sur¬ rounding country are cordially invited to cull aud inspect our stock. We have a Wagon Yard and Stalls, Feed Troughs, etc., for the conveni¬ ence of our customers especially. Respectfully, J. 8. BETTS & CO.