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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE.
H. D. SMITH. EDITOR.
POULAN a
Tin Imlatlirii City I
fPas thought to be a false
report , but was found to
true.
News broke cut among the
people of Worth county that
McGirt &
MePhaul
Were selling Goods cheaper
than any other merchants in the
county , which was investigated
and found correct.
Bow we ask the people of
Worth and adjoin ng counties
to come an l examine our line
n noise.
j A
We Carry a hide Line of
Wash Pots,
Dinner Pots,
Stoves,
Stove Furniture,
Plows,
Plow Gear
Aid ill Fanning Utensils.
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
-FURNITURE!
< 03 ro*ol?L ery
—AND ALL—
Heavy Groceries.
CLOTHING!
We have a large lot of
rinihinri LLOinilly oUtLLtm wIprtM /u 10r the Fall
Iraae, ana nnrl we i n/> n\nr)t warn tW uwbiu Roll
them rapidly. We have pu f
them at very low pr.ces. 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. want bnoes, rxrxmQ come c
Whe i|pyou
see us. Suits, come tc
When you want
see us. come tc
When you want Harness,
see ns. Groceries, come to
When von want
- pe us Stores, come to
When you want
see us. Furniture, .. come to
When you waut
BP ’have jT<wd and polite salesmen,
Mohave xv*« go* 1
that wK n y otl como t0 fiee ’ ld i
SO be thrown down to you for
_ nn j, nomination. w iJ)
^Fncw L,
TTprtRE LINE from, M ° a e i° nanclsoniG m “??• I il€
-o a Grind Rock.
T013 ACCO.
Everything from a pinch of Bnnrf tc
ft Lot of Tobacco
Call r. ii and i examine ^ onr Goods iml and ml gel
prices. ti e will take pleasure in
showing you. best RICF
ti- have pne nnn of n f the fi.p nest ujui
MILLS m the epuntiy. bring yo it
rough rice and let ns hull it. j
Have vonr corn ' ground here. n/1
We -ertll gin ■ your _ cotton fo -Art ,
,
then buy it or ship it from our ware-
house “ free of dravage. end mnkfl i
Turn your face this way and make
our store headquarters for trade. I
& MePhaul. ;
McGirt ;
REV. DR. TALMAGF,
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN
DAY DISCOURSE.
Story of (lie Three Taverns—Tlin Itnlrt
Wrought by t lcimir—t'l'lutsOrt IVrtve of
Dissipation lias Destroyed Store Sails
ors Than llic Ocean—Mankind's Curse.
Text: “They camo to meet us ns far ns
Acts Appit xxviiiit Forum 15, and the Three Taverns.”—
Seventeen! veilcks south of Rome, Italy,
there way tl village of unfortunate name
and bibulous suggestion; A tavern is it
is~vu teirt of or ttid bntelrttjTiiatijm; oiltindalumont and..Id «iur provision time,
is a
of intoxicants. One such place you would
thin!; would liava been enough for that
Italian village. Jfol There were three of
tlleiii, lliiil bbfilsefttldm with d'dors cl pc it fob vutoftiitnmcut lldS tie
'tlio wdud tel
liiitk-ed si luntlating drinks. You remember
the condition of Noah on one occasion,
and of Abigail’s husband, Nabal, and tbo
story,if the BaisitAfhsac's Mri.bjU.MMj Mast; And BeiilidJnd;
Slid h'eV Wine In prohibition AIM WUKtc
t’braktit |)!l8 Oh enactment
thousands of years before Neal Dow was
born; and infbimmafcoiWliqiBd no doubt there, were Whole
shelves.Of tele tne lit.these lie:
w’o!ill gAV:i name to the village
where Pan I’s friends came to meet him;
namely, the Three Taverns. In vain I
Search ancient geography for somo satis¬
fying account of tlult village, Two uidem i-oadii tin?
came from tile sea epast to tlult
one from A'tlilm and tlfc other frdm I’m
oli, tile Inst to:'.I hWin,^ llidoiie whlcii Paul
iravWltbl, liibre were, no doubt, in that
Viilago chanics' houses of meroUandlse and me¬
shoes and professional effl,ees; Imt
hothing is kllpwn ef thdmi All tVd lihOW Of
thrlt Village ts that it had a profiision of
Lllls -tbo Three Taverns; Paul did not
cheese any one of thesC thycnis its tIt,I
place to moM BIS ltiolids; Ho certainly
Wan Very abstemious, but they made the
selection. He had enlarged about keeping
the body mule!-, though once he ut-eScHlxid
for a young tlieOlogldM btlldputA stimu¬
bat lating Cobdial for a stomachic disorder;
ho told him to take only a smalt doso—
"a little wine for thy stomach’s sake.”
Ono of the worst things about these;
temptaUqU Three Taverris tor was thepd that ntffid they hitd liii'4 jtist eSpeciil
come
MliofS, Fedpie who had just landed at
Aetium or- ruteoli were soon tempted by
these three hotels, which were only a little
Way Up from the beach; Those who arc
disordered Of thesoit (fob it is a physical
disofgArtiaei'), gradual instead of waiting for tlio
apt take return artificial of physical equipoise, arc
to means to brace up;
Of the one million sailers itpW tin Did sett,
the how Three few of Taverns! tlldiU Coiningasiiore will escape
After surviving hurri¬
canes, of cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many
them are wrecked in harbor. I warrant
that if a calculation sailors Were made Of Hid Com*
pitrsiive mint her a? lost at sea ami
lest ashore, those drowned by tlio crimson
Wave those of dissipation would far outnumber
drowned by the sitlt wdtCr.
Alas! down Unit to the * he mfjje majority of those who
twice go sea in ships should have
Before to they pass the Three Taverns, namely:
go out and after they come in.
That fact was what aroused Father Taylor,
the great sailors’ pt:eilChf'f, at Hid Kaflors’
Bethel, Charlestown Boston, ho said, and at “All a public the meeting at
tlie drunkard-making, soill-de.strrtyiito machinery of
business is in perfect rumd'lg Older, from
the low grog holes on Hie docks, kept open
to Establishments ruin itljt poor sailor hoys, to the great
in Still House Square, and
When we ask men wiiat is to be (lone about
it, they say ‘you can’t help it,’ and yet
there is Bunker Hill, and you say you can’t
stop it; and up might there dnMVCi are Loxlngfdit add
Concord,” We Father Tay¬
lor’s romnrl* by saving, “Tbo trouble is not
that Wd Can’t stop it, hut that we won't
Stop it.” We must have more generations
slain before the world will fully wake up to
the evil. That which tempted tlio travel¬
ers of old who came up from thd seaports
of Aetium and Fnteoii is now the i'Ufn of
seafaring men as they come up from tlio
coasts Three of all Hie continents, namely, the
Taverns.
There are streets in seme Of our cities
Where there arc three or four taverns on
every is Mooli; aye, where every the other house
a tavern. You can take Arabic num¬
eral of my text, the three, and put on the
right hand side of it ono cipher, and two
ciphers, and four ciphers, and that re-in-
forcement of numerals will not express the
statistics of American rummerics. Even If
it were a good, healthy superbly business, nutritious, supplying
it a necessity, is an article mightily overdone, and
a business
there are three, taverns whoro there ought
to The b» wily one. another
fact is, there are, in sense,
Three Taverns now; tlio gorgeous tavern
for tin; affluent, the medium tavern for the
working classes, aud the tavern of the
slums, and they stand in line, and many
people, beginning with the first, come
down, through the second, and come out
at the third. At the first of the tliFeO tav¬
erns, tins wines are of Celebrated vintage,
and tin whiskies are said to be puro, and
they al'e quaffed from cut glass, at marble
Side-tables, under pictures pull approaching off their
master-pieces. The patrons
kid gloves, and hand their silk hats to tlio
waiter, and push back their hair with a
hand on one fin K°r of Which is a cameo
But those patrons are apt to stop visiting
that place. It is not the money that a man
paya f0[ . , h . ink!>i for wlult nr e a few hundred
Sey emmg^taverntand they 'come do arc w n
£^0°^$ tlio small table rougher and tlio castor
is
standing on it is of German silver and the
air has been kept over from the night be¬
fore and that which they .sip from tlio
pewter mug has a larger percentage of ben*
zine, ambergris, creo.-ote, henbane,strych* piaster
n i Qei prussic acid, coculus indicus, The
of pan’s, copperas, and nightshade. day,
patron may be seen almost every
and perhaps many times the same day
at this tavern the second, but lie is pro.
paring to graduate. Brain, liver, imart
nerves, are rapidly giving way. in his
tavern the second has its dismal echo
business destroyed and family scattered
anil woes that choke one’s vocabulary.
and besotted group inside. He will bo
( ] ra( -p f .j 0 „t 0 f ,i 00 rs about 2 o’clock in the
morning and left on tlie sidewalk, because
the bartender wants to shut up. The poor
victim has taken the regular course in the
college of degradation. He lias his blotched diploma
written on liisswoilen, bruised, and of
physiognomy. Ho is a regular graduate
seem to ruin bio with two roils of thunder,
one of which says, “Look not upon the
wine when it is red. when it moveth itself
aright in the cvp, for at the last it biteth
like a serpent and stingetb like an adder.”
The other thunder roll says, “All drunkards
sha11 have tbeir place in the lake that
burneth with fire and with brimstone.”
f nm ,, )aiJ to )!nd jn th)3 BCe ne of tho
text that there is such a thing as declining
successfully great Tavernlan temptations. and did
I can see from wiiat Paul said
after ho |iad trav ,. Icd the following had aeven-
teen miles of his journey, that J ■ re-
ceived no damage at the Throe Taverns.
How much he jvas tempted I superior know not. to
Do not suppose that he was
temptation. That particular the temptation grandest,
h as destroyed many of
mightiest, noblest statesmen, philosophers, of and
heroes, ,,j* clergymen, ‘7f apostles and law religion.
me<J1 ne ari : ,„ v ,. r „ment
Paul was not it physically not in well mock un'i^r deprecia- any eir-
cumstances; was bod ft
tionthat he said he was “in v presence
weak. ’ It seems that his eyesight through was so
poor thatdie did his writing an
ASH BURN, WORTH CO., GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2!). 1897.
anjamionsis, llllng for lie mentions It Is Epfsltl?; somb-
the remarkable fintt Ms •lnwtoit
manship, one to 1’lillomon, was in tils own pen¬
With saying: Ham):’’ "I, Paul, have boon written thrown it
from my own lto lutil
lii.s horse, lid liad blhui •'lothnl.' ltd
had been oiulungoonod, lie had had Ills
nerves Athens pulled the on by prenehlhg Noliotavly at
to .most nu-
Ititlt jilpndo fe d( th»j all most the brilliantly earth, ibid ptofligutti at Our-
assemblage, ami bcnii llbV.led ilpnii !,d (lid
Ephesian worshipers of Diana, tried for
his life before Felix, charged by Fe.stus
witli being insane, and crawled up on the
boacli drenched In Urn shipwreck, nnd
Jittfeh i'f file lime had lui ij'Qp ha: idea it oil
his wrist. itnd'.if any man with innbat''fimnlus, t)i* j'li'sloal
Paul needed it, lint (ill
exhaustion, ho gel ppst the Three Taverns
mnfam.agm], and stpnpnd ilrdcfll into Homo all.
ready tor the iremeieuidd to which,
he wits subjected. Oh! How many mighty
men. feeling that they must brace up after
extraordinary service, and prepare them*
selves for other a«yt(ic", have culled on tbo
spirit ot wire for inspiration, litpl.sin. itltirr a few
years have been saeridod on the of a
Moloch, who sits on a throne of human
carcasses. Shall I call the names of fifty
pf the victims, al! of them Illustrious ii>
Articidciiii histerft *,01 ,Tt would,,noj! fli«»t bo
wise, or kind, or Christian to call
names ip public, but Oh, you, call .thorn spkqvdtd out of
your own memory. jf-'t how mn,ny
tiiri; " 'i'M t(,U pirat Mb' Three Taverns,
Long ago an arch (lend arrived in ovit
world, and ho built an invisible cauldron
of temptation. He built that enuMroii
strong and stout for all ages and all nations.
First hr. 8f squeezed the into cauldron of .paradise: the
juices, forbidden fruit dl-HillntiiW
then he gathered fo.i ; If. ti £rb;n
the harvest llebls and the orchards of thd
hemispheres; then lie poured into this caul¬
dron capsicum and logwood and assault and
biitttpT and vitriol nn.1 opium and rum and
murder and sviluliuric riciu aud tlh'ft and
potitsh and .cochineal and red carrots and
pdyerty Bdiilpothid, drid dcuith and il' Hops; Bu(, it was a
di : y .'bid lrhMfi JG* iholstened arefi
and it must he liquefied, and the so the
fiend poured into the. cauldron blood of
tweiitV thousand indk. Assassinations, ii ehdvel Uiat And lie then
the Redd had
brought iip from the furnaces beneath, add
ho put the shovel into this great: cauldron
and began to stir, and the cauldron began
to heave and. rock and boll and sputter and
Hiss nnd ft .smoke, and the nations gathered
firdiliid With Cups duel tJdknrds ar\d
demijohns and kegs, and there was enough
for all, and the arch fiend cried: “Aha!
Champion fiend ami! Who has done more
than I have for coffins and graveyards and
pfisdiis world? And and the populating tips of Is the emptied lost
when badldroti
I’ll fill it again,, and dud I’ll stir it again'., and it
will,smoke (idothetf firiidke-. rtgtitii ilie .siridke tlipt S:xidke tofiiipnt—' will join
of
that a.scendeth for ever and over. [ drove
fifty ships on the rocks of Newfoundland
and the Skerries and the Goodwins, I
have ruined more Senators than councils. will gather
lieKt wirttor in thd riatloual [
have ruined more Lords, thrtn will be
gathered in .the House dwllnaGly of Peers. df'irik . The cup
oiit bleilclied ,whi‘*n I. i.<i it
human skull, and the upholstery
of my palace is so rich a crimson because
it is dyed in human gore, and the mosaic of
my floors is made up of the hones of chil¬
dren dashe l to death by drunken parents,
and my favorite music, sweeter than To
Deuni <u* triumphal daughters march—my turned favorite
music is the cry of oiitat
midnight on tlio street bdemise .father lias
come hUnared-voiced home H : .mi d edrovisdl. tint! thd seven-
shriek, of the sinking
steamer because the captain was not him¬
self when ho put the ship on tlio wrong
course. Champion fiend am T! I have
kindled more fires, I have wrung out more
agonies, I have stretched out more mid¬
night shadows, f. luivn opened more Gol-
gcth.lS, I I,uve; rolled morn Juggernauts, f
have damned more souls, than tiny other
emissary of diabolism. Champion fiend am
I. Ha! ha! ha! ha!”
But what: a glad time when tlie world
comes to its last Three Taverns’for the
sate of intoxicants. Now there are so many
ol thorn that statistics nre only a more or
less accurate glions as to their number,
We sit with Intif-ciosed eyes and undis¬
turbed nerves Hi. it.nd tllefd hear tiiilt Hint ill 1872 hi tlie
4840 Veiled lit Os were |uv\yerie!»,
distiildrios, aud 171,000 retail dealers,
and that truthfully possibly by this time these llgures
may be doubled. The fact is
that those establishments arc innumerable,
and the discussion is always dishearten¬
ing, and the Impression is abroad that tha
plague is so mighty and universal it can
never he cured, nnd the most, of sermons
on tills subject closo with tha Book ot
Lamentations, and not with tlio Book of
Revelations. Excuse me from adopting
any such infidel theory. The Bible reiter¬
ates it until thoro is no more power
in inspiration to make it plainer
that the earth is to he, not. half,
deemed. or three-quarters, that but wholly re¬
On rook I take my
triumphant stand and join in the cho¬
rus of Hosannahs.
One of tlio most advantageous move*
fflents la the fight direction is taking this
tvhoie subject into the education of the
young. On tlio same school-desk with the
grammar, the geography, the arithmetic
nro books tolling tlio lads and lasses of ten
and twelve and fifteen years of ago what
are drink, the physiological does with effects of strong
what it the tissue of the
liver and tho ventricles of the brain: and
whereas other generations did not realize
tlie evil until their own bodies were blasted,
we are to have a generation taught what
the viper is Indore it stings them, what the
hyena is before it rends them, how deep is
the abyss before it (swallows them. Oh)
boards of education, teachers in schools,
professors in colleges, Legislatures, am]
Congresses, widen and augment that work,
and you hasten tho complete overthrow of
this evil.
It will go down. I have tlie word of Al¬
mighty God for that in tho assured extirpa¬
tion of all sin. But shall wo have a share in
tlie universal victory? Tho liquor saloons
will drop from tho hundreds of thousands
into thousands the score of intothe thousands, and then from
tlie hundreds, and then
from the hundreds Into the tens, and from
tho tens to Three. The first of these last
three taverns will be where tho educated
and philosophic and the high-up will take
their dram, hut that class, aware of the
power of the example they have bedn set-
ting, will turn their hack upon tlie evil cus¬
tom and be satisfied with two natural bev¬
erages that God Intended for the stimulus
of the race—tbo Java coffee plantations
furnishing the best of the one and the Chin¬
ese tea fields the best of the other. And
somo day tlie barroom will be crowded with
people nt the vendue and tho auctioneer’s
mallet will pound at tho sale of the appur¬
tenances.
The second of these last three taverns
will take down its flaming sign and ex¬
tinguish its red light aud clos ■ ils doorc,for
the working class will have concluded to
buy their own horses and furnish their own
beautiful homes and replenish finely the
wardrobe of their own wives and daugh¬
ters, instead of providing selling tlie with distillers, wardrobes the
I,rowers, and liquor
and mirrors and carriages. And the next
tiinetlmt second tavern is opened it will be
a drug store, or a bakery, or adry goods
establlshmeut^r a school. Then there will
bo only one mire of the Three dissipating
Taverns left. I don’t know in i^vol what coun¬
try, or city, or nelghberhoo i be, hut
look at It, for it fs the very last. The last
Inebriate will have staggered up to ils
counter nnd put down hi- pennies for Ids
dram. Its last horrible adulteration xvill
be and mixed inflame and the quaffed brain. to Th^last eat out tin; drunkard vitals
will have, stumbled rlowRts front steps.
The last spasms of delirium tremens can* ed
by It will be struggl 'd through. The old
rookery will torn down, and with its
demolition will close the earth’s ifi einlna-
The last of the dissipating Three
of all the world will be in thor¬
oughly blotted out aa were the Three
Taverns of m v text.
Tn this battle the visible troops are not
so mighty Q3 the invisible. The Gospel
eampiiigd began with till) supernatural—
the miolog!;* chant that woke tint shop-
lierdf*, the the |tu«d)>ct ptituuil sert,,;^: IfjM b'efjt’bo'rn 1 eyesight wilL'ont given
whore obiilefifteif
tint pptte nevve, the sun grhvlfii frgirf
the nyondby loosing heavens, the law of
don )*■“ gulp as Christ ascended:
and us tile Gospel eatapritgU began With with
tlio supernatural, it will close the
supernatural; ami tlm and lightnings the winds ami the nnd earth¬ tile
waves
quakes will eouio In on the right side nnd
agaitief 'lto vjrong #<li Vide'; and (lift- as*
coudod world champions return, iib{ whether them.
tlio sees thorn or does ?Ce
Ido not think tiint those great souls de¬
parted are going to do nothing hereafter
Imt slug psiflitls, ttnd ami plav walk lmrps, and of
breads' frankincense sea« lrtfssjthl
glass re!ri;*i«"t w'itlf fri lire. tlio The
they fullllled wlilid body will lie
eclipsed by their post-mortem 1 Mb'-dori,’
With fecrtUies quickened and volooitieif
multiplied; lliiil * f niify have boon to that
our dying reformer rofoiTtfa When 1m said:
'■J long to be free!” There may bo bigger
worlds than ffbp'p'iimitiottis tills to h i redeem; overthrown 1, and more
(Rgantlp leld weriit C'Vely sfyd to (« itrid discip¬
than hero Wtil* hV firolirrtjhtirj' dtp,
line gotten may ifVi'ni;
drill for a campaign in some other
nnd erqwm'cfBoroos perhaps*'.no other constellation. Hut
the mol lioroines, because
spheres, of tliplf’ tffmatSf will riot it fotgoi jltfeypineiito this old in greater World
whdrC they t’jHireli prayed arid siilWed ibid tri¬
umphed.' militant hnd‘ Church
triumphant, biif twfi dfvlstofijs Of tire same
army right wing and left tvififf;
One army of the living God,
At Ilia command we bow.
Part of the host have crossed the flood
And part ate crossing now.
THE COLDEST COUNTRY.
In WHi'chOjansli. Ninety fregfe?s Siberia, Bo!ew the Mercury Zero.
Drops to
Symon’s MeteoroiOKieal Maftil/.liie
gives an intcre«tlnfe Hccwnnt of ‘’Life
in (lie Coldest Country in tile Wnrld,"
wliich’bas been taken froir the bttlle-
ttn of tlie Ko^at Dcotri’aphtcnf Society
of Iriitsk. The name of llic tdoce is
Werchojansk, in Siberia, longitude Fik
degrees 51 minutes east., latitude 07
degreo H4 minutcR north, where the
lowest temperatufS tit minus Du do
grees Fahrenheit has been olwdi’*'<’»
and (lie mean of January is minus is
degrees Fahrenheit. It is Inhabited by
about i0;50<) perfkma of the Jakut nnd
Lamat. races;
In a liirge paid of this region, accord¬
ing to Professor Kot'alik, the sir is so
dry and the winds are so rare that (Tic 1
intensity of the cold cannot be fully
realized. In tlio most distant part of
Ihe East, there are sometimes terrible
stormfii which are most fatal to life
in their eonseqUciicf’S. Dlirlftg tin* sum¬
mer time the temperature ocasionallV
rises to St! degrees Fahrenheit in the
shade, while il freezes at night.
The latter part, of the season is often
marked by Copious rains and extensive
inundations. Which invariably lav
waste a VaSl ocrekgo hf land and prove
to lie a serious obstacle to tllfi culti¬
vation of the '-nil. Vegetation is very
scarce. There are practically no trees
only wide, open meadows. The peo¬
ple hunt fur-bearing animals, fish and
raise cattle arid reindeer. Jr requires
about eight cows to support, ii fathilyi
four being milked in the summer and
two in the winter. The cattle are very
small in size, and are fed liny in the
winter, Occasionally they are allowed
to go out. when there if! the slightest
break in the weather, hut their teats
are always carefully covered up. Milk
is the principal food: This is some¬
times supplemented with hares, which
are quite abundant, hut not very rei-
isliable.
The houses are constructed of wood,
covered with clay, and as a rule, con¬
sist of only one room, in which Ihe
people and (ttilmnln live together. The
upper and wealthier classes .'ire better
provided with lodgings and food. Ad
a race they are excessively punctilious
concerning points of honor, such us
tlie place at. the table and the proper
place at festivals.
Clocks for the Deaf.
One of the interesting Items of the
State expense charges for July, says
the St. Paul Globe, appears in I he cur¬
rent lists of the State school for the
deaf at Faribault. It is an Item of
.$25” for a clock, which is remarkable
in more elements than in that of its
expensive character.
But this mechanism is certainly a
wonder, for it is so aranged that is
calls the pupils’ attention to the school
programme and the calendar, in spite
of the fact that they are all deaf and
the usual alarms do not affect (.hem in
the least.
Of course one clock would riot be
visible to all the pupils, so there are
ten secondary clocks, with Id-inch
dials, which tel^ the teachers and
scholars ^vho cannot see the main
dock wli'yLifi in fractions mathematics Fs i
now due cqgH^Hbio up on
fingers, scholars in Mi.g-
lish grartt^^^^ml iMk their lesson
leaflets. clooW
The secondary arc incliK
in the original item of $252, as are i
5-inch fire-gongs, tlie utility of which
in a school for the deaf has aroused
the curiosity of some of the State de¬
partments, which fear that the prece¬
dent. thus established may result, in the
establishment of the purchase of
Meissoniers and Bougtiereans for the
dormitory in the school for the blind,
and standard works on the Integral
calculus in the school foi^bi 4^!
minded library.
Water Hyacinth*|nd W’mtens Drainage.
A new danger t from liie
prevalence of Uu water hyacinth in
Florida rivers. Many of the larger
towns in the state have their new< r
outlets in the rivers, and the plant!
cheek the passage of the sewage to the
giving rise to fears that this m.ty
result in malarial troubles, or worse,
Whtle tlie people might have patlene':
to await the efforts of the hyacinth-
navigation, considerations rot ». tr
own health and for trie reputation of
the state as a winter sanitarium
prompt them to urge radical measured
for the abatement of the nuisance,
even to the employment of drags and
tug boats to tow the plants out to sea.
THIS SA1S1UTM SCIIOOI.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR OCTOBER 31.
t.essnn Text: “Paul's Voyage and Ship*
wreck," Acts xxvtf., I if-dd—Golden
Text: .4er* xxvtl., !t5-Ponmii*nkirr on
tlie Pay's f.esk.Vwl'v Kev. I>. M. Stearin.
1 : 1 . “And when the ftouffi blew soft¬
ly, supporting that they had obfitlrwi their
purpose, looking thence they sailed close
i>V Ctri- Paul, with Aristarchus, a
to nner # felio W HhWoT r. and afterward a
fellow prisoner (A Us Ah*..- (-‘>1. iv., 10),
is now at son on Ills way* to Home. They
touched at sidom and thence uOrtr Cyprus Asia
to Myra Oil the mainland of Lyeiu. L 11
Minor. There lie ty.w transferred to a ship
of Aloeri’U'iltiiti bound fot Italy, arm .after
many days Ot sailing routldod the tuwt
end «)f Creto ami rdrtdhoo the' Fair Havens,
Op. *ho south coast of Cftftub (tdtlwed Mere they
sptmt muPlf time until Pnul them
jiot to venture if/f*M»er on account of the
•mason, but the master tfr>d owner ami tim
mrtjufdl.v advised t>> try and reTit'b tbo port
of f’lUudfC, a little farther west: lu Proto,
and il liifof, there. Ho with a liglu v^iud
they started, kVVphif? as uaar the land tin
possible. Paul is in Ifw hands, humaulv
speaking, oftho.se who knott* t>**t (hv I, hut
NO is redlly in the bands of God titi 4 ertii
Mim tet mutingt*. hunt
14, 15. A fhl^htv wind from the
nro.se,’'against WldUMihe Compelled ship could not hear
l!|” Piril fhey with to let: Jior run
before i(. Ift^ this di'Ifett of God or t he devil that
they were thus out to'sort? We know
that Satan is the prince <if Yhe power of the
air, nnd that lie caused the wfild that blew
(}(»W 11 the house upon Job's child reft find
killed them (Job!., 12. PG.but ho could net
do It vMHitot! nngeirf God's permission. control the winds, God con¬ and
trols the ^Ift* wind word
even the siormy toUllls His
(Uev. vii., 1; Ps. cxlviii., H). must see
God alone. *
id, 17. Tlio storm increased. Under thd
]ee of |,IM island of (llauda they get the
small boat on bottfd which had evidently
lpe»i» tile tpwiug itsteru. lower Tliey sonehow sail and under- let
gird ;altlp itmier f fltotl tlio
luvr drive b'/ifU poles. What, about the
tlje condition of the prtsrfiUigefrt among
271’ ‘ ? odhr supposi'd on board? ( Verse 87.) Hrtilors are
not io f* m'I anything, never to
know they are sick 111! tb«y are dead, i»ut
many ordinary people do get awfully sick »ad
in a storm. This must have been ft
Shn»: And yet there were some on it very
(.leaf tn the i.ord Jesus,
1H, 1!). “ib\cV;edbigly iiO tO08od with a word tem¬
pest.” Well, there is rtf»« to say a
about this unless you have t/dett hi such
circumstances yourself, it was a I.Htd case,
MUti many doubtless wished Mint there Wit#
no tfhJfrt sea (Rev. xxb, 13. Yet even under
6udti ein'urn.staiices the Prineeof Peaeeean
epntr-d one’s heart. In health or sickness,
life -h- death, we can be quiet in Ills loving
care. should saved
20 . “All hope that U'H bo
was then taken awny.” Hurfily tbay flmce in
at their wits’ end (Ps. evil., 27), - or, awn!-' an
the margin, “All their wisdom , was
JowcM up." The case was, as far as human
ityen could think see, Utterly Shiner hopeless. having It makes hope
one of the no
and without tid'd ill the "without World (Kpli. il., 12),
or, as in Horn, v., (J, laHt strength.” only
Jhit there is a Havlour for the t end
for such, lie said, “I came not to call the
righteous, ''ll"t but sinners, to roptuitaneo.” stood
21; after long abstinence Paul
fori H hi the midst of them.” They had
fasted for fourteen day# (verso 88), and
in a d have felt fori of n indeed and ready for
a word o! (hj;Ufort from ijny one Who might
have it -for them. None but God could
help or comfort them, and Gi* servant is
ready to be the messenger, ife is the leather
of me/vies and the God of all comfort (II
(Jor, i.. Gin/ 8), but we cannot fully appreciate)
it or till We get into strait places.
22. “And now f exhort you to bo of good
cheer, for there sllilll be no loss of any
man’s life among you, hut at tlio ship.” shall
lie emphasized it by adding, “There of
not an hair fall from the head o*f any
you,” and he took broad and gave thanks
to God in the presence of them all and be¬
gun to eat (vei'fie.M 84, stood 8f>). this night
28, “Tor there by me and I
e angel <d God, whose 1 flip Whom
rye.” This and the next two verses ar<)
_ MM’ t he very heart of this lesson. Take
— e words, included. "God, whose I)la J am,” and which think
of what is property, Ills Child,
He will certainly care for, whom
lie will certainly see to, loved by i f10 Lord
Jesus as the father loves Him (John xV.,
0 ), b Might with the precious blood of
Christ, and therefore as precious to (Jod as
that blood is; a part of Christ Himself, a
member of His body. We need not hesi¬
tate la May, iteavbri "The most enrtji, high God, the pos¬ and
se,.sou of find is owns me,”
take nil the comfort there for us. Then
consider “whom i serve,” and remember
that we cannot servo God and Mammon;
j .either can we serve Christ and please
men (Math, vi., 24; Gal. i., 10).
21. “Haying, Fear not, Pauli Thou
must be brought before C'fcsar, and, lo,
God hath given time all them that sail
witht hee,” This is a confirmation of the
.Lord’s testimony to him in Jerusalem
“Thou must bear witness at Rome "musts” (chap¬
ter xxili., Jl). The Lord's
are as sure as God Himself, whether
“ye must be born again” or "all
things must be fulfilled.” Every pur¬
pose of tlio Lord shall be performed,
and /ill His thoughts shall come to
pass (Jer. II. 21); Isa. xfv., 24). it was the
Lord's purpose that Fail! should ho His
witness at Rome, and therefore it was as
good as done, although in this storm every¬
thing seemed against it. How blessed are
the "fear nots”m God from the first one
Jn Gen. xv., 1, to the last in Revelation!
iiis perfect Jove casts out all fear, and the
soul that rests in Him can truly say,
“What time i am afraid I will trust in
Thee. “Wherefore, I will trust and not,he he of afraid.” good cheer,
25. sirs,
for J believe God, that if; shall ho even as
it was told me.” Verso 44 savs, “And so It
came to pass.” Whatever God says is as
sure as if it. had already cornu to pass, so
v/o should say continually, "I believe God."
The iir-i, “believe” in the Bible is in Gen.
xv., (5, where it Is said of Abraham, “He
believed in the Lord, and Ho counted it to
Him for righteousness.” It might bo lit¬
erally translated "Abraham arnened God,”
dr said nrxrcft to God. Ho did Jeremiah
hRig nUerwurd. Hee Jer. xf., 5, in the mar-
gin. It becomes u: to bo ever saying, "Even
so, Lather, or, as Marysald, word." “Bo it unto me
according to Thy bo
2 (i. “Mowbeit we must cast upon a
certain island?” Thorn must have bemi a
good reason for that also or it would not
U^L'i fo been so. it is written in Ezek. xiv.,
f hout pith life ‘Thou of cause the shaft a child God’s Lord know all of God.” that God that is I and I Everything beforehand have have Jils not done highest done ar¬ in in
ranged for glory
good. Let us not seek to Introduce addi¬
tions of our own, but be content witJi I It l
Lesson Helper.
Meat Cooked by Cold.
Any one who has ever picked up
with u ban hand a piece of Intensely
cold iron Knows that the touch hums
a | rnoK f !lg badly as if the metal were
red hot. Indeed, the action of great
i.rtat. and (xtreme cold arc so similar
that< p ,. ( . 0 rding to London Tid-Biis. a
Ilungailiin chemist has turned the lat-
fer to ,. wount to prepare meats for
jj f . subjects the meat to 00 dc-
gr „ pK cf froBt anf , then seals it up in
ail . t j g i lt fan8 . The result is that‘tlm
” wlU kcftp any time and “T*' can \Z be
paten with very little further prepora¬
,_
Last year was unusually fatal to
T'nited States pensioners; 31,000 of
them died
l)r. J. F. Gardner,
riiysiciun and SnrRCon.
('alls Answered Promptly
I)AY AND NiailT.
Special attention givon to diseases
of women and children.
itesideaoo at the Hioks place.
ASHBURN, GEORGIA..
Dlt. .T, F. GREGORY CO.,
8 PE 01 ALI 8 TS.
Rupture, Catarrh, Rectal Diseases,
Hemorrhoids (Biles), Fistulas Cured.
NO KNIFR, NO l’AIN.
Room No. 1, Hoard Building,
Cordele, Ga.
1 (57 Cotton Ave., Macon, Ga.
WARREN L. STORY,
rhysioinn and Surgeon,
SYCAMORE, OA.
Diseases of Nose and Throat.
DR. W. J. TURNER,^
Physician and Surgeon,
ASmilTRN, OA.
Spociul Attention Given to Diseases of
Women and Children.
Oflieo in Room No. 2, Betts Build*
Ing.
Residence: W. A. Shingler’s.
Calls Answered Day or Night.
Telephone No. 18.
DR. T. H. THRASHER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Ami iiurn, Ohoroia.
General Practice Solicited, 0(11 co
in the Christian Building.
0. E. WALKER,
Physician and Suvgoon,
Sycamore, Georgia.
GEO. W. COOPER,
DENTIST,
Aswitjrn, Ghoroia.
Office, Rocm No. 4, Betts Building.
W. B. CONE, D. D. S.
I Make a Specialty of Crown, Bridges
nnd Replantations. »■*
Tcotli Extracted Without Pain. *
AsnmiRN, Georgia. X *
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W. T. WILL IAMB,
Attorney at Law.
Land nnd Collections.
Sycamore, Ohoroia.
A. J. DAVIS,
Attorney at Law,
Asiiriirn, Gkoroja.
Real Estate nnd Collections.
Prompt attention to all business placed
in our hands.
IS. IS. WHITE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
AsmiuRN, Gf.oroia.
Will practice in all the Courts, Htnto
and Federal.
J. G. POLHILL,
Attorney at Law,
Sylvester, - - Georgia.
Practice in nil the Courts. Patronage
Solicited.
\V. A. HAWKINS,
At torney at Law,
e Building, Rooms 4 nnd 0.
Cordele, Georgia.
Prompt attention given to all business
intrusted to my care.
Jons KPowell, J, W. 1’owell,
Vienna, Ga. Ashburn, (hi.
JNO. F. POWELL k BON,
Attorneys at Law.
We practice in all the courts. Im¬
mediate and careful attention given to
business placed in our hands, Em-
ploying ono secures services of both.
Business solicited and inquiries
promptly answered.
FRANK PARK,”
Attorney - at - Law,
Poulan, Georgia.
B. W. ADKTNB,
Attorney at Law,
Collections a Specialty,
Poulan, Georgia.
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