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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. H. 1). SMITH. EDITOR. POULAN. ....... .i C -J r. o i :il Bruise. rx rxro-grocrrr'X- xrv rrv CM JOAOAXUJUUJ.>AJ,MAA*-VA- Was thought to be a fa'se report , but was found io be true. News broke cut among the people of Worth county that MeGirt & McPhaul Were selling Goods cheaper than any other merchants in the county , which was investigated and found correct . Now we ash the people of Worth and adjoin ng counties to come and examine our line of General leMise. We Carry a Side Line of Wash Pots, Dinner Pots, Stoves, Stove Furniture, Plows* Plow (tear AM All Fanil Utessils. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! FURNITURE! Crockery —AND ALL— Heavy Groceries. CLOTHING! We have a large lot o) Clothing selected for the Fall Trade, and we want to sell them rapidly. We have pu them at very low prices. We can save you enough of money on one suit of Clothes to pay you for coming io Poulan. When you want Hats, come to see ns. When you want Shoes, come tc see us. When you want Suits, come tc see us. When you want Harness, come to see us. When you want Groceries, come to see ns. When you want Stoves, come to see us. When you want Furniture, come to see us. We have good and polite salesmen, so that when you come to see us, goods will be thrown down to you for your examination. We carry everything in the HAB.D- WARE LINE from a handsome File to a Grind Rock. tob acoo. Everything from a pinch of Snuff tc a box of Tobacco. Call ami examine our Goods and get prices, We will take pleasure in showing you. of the best RICE We have one MILLS in the country. Rriug your rough rice and let us hall it. Have yonr corn ground here. We will gin your cotton for yon and then buy it or ship it from our ware¬ house free of dravage. Turn your face this way and make our store headquarters for trade. NIcGirt & McPhaul. RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS. sermon by Key. mm, ii. Lewis OK BRIDGEPORT, (OJUN. Kev Wttltrtiii It. l.-ivlrt, „f Bridgeport, t’onii., Dlarourai's Upon “The Gift of iicllgiou- ('onm lousiic.i," w All Men Arc Possessed bl Spiritual Capacity, Tim Now York Herald 1ms offered a prize of ifli'OO for tin’ best sermon, nml three subsidiary tional prizes aggregating ,* 100 (i addi¬ for tho three next best sermons. Ministers of all denominations have linen invited to compete for those prizes, and the sermons offered In competition will appear in the Herald’s Sunday edition, llev. Will¬ iam 11. Lewis, 11, D-., whose name is ap¬ pended of John's, to tiie initiator'' m-fmon, is rector able St. Episcopal the largest (a Ikiilgeport, and most fashion¬ Conn., and is considered parish ablest one of tiie preach¬ ers. His subject isi '"The Gift of In Religious Consciousness, follows: and tlio sefinoil tall is as. Text: “And another came, saying. Lord, hobbit); laid here Is thy pound, which I have kept tip tu a napkin, for I feared thee, because thou art an austere man. * * * And he saith up to him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked ser¬ vant.”—St. Luke six., 20-22. The lord of tho parable, about to go away into, a j'fnr country,” had given to each of lils servants it certain amount to make use of while lie was away: l ? oi- these three the amount given is specified, but to all his servants lie gave something. “To each man.” the parable says, "according to his several ability. Only throe arc spe¬ cially designated, because they highest, serve as sufficient illustrations of the the medium and tlio lowest gift. Eachreeeivor seems to have known that the amount handed him was not a gift outright, but a trust, and that his lord would uvonluaily come back and make an accounting, Each, therefore,treated he his trust lord. according to the opinion held bf his , Tits sitbstance bf the parable is evidently this—that in certain cVery man living there Is im¬ planted it spiritual capacity of ability; that men have ttds capacity in de¬ gree, so that one has clear and distinct ideas of God and his duty, another lias less, and anotberalmost none at all. But the trust of a spiritual instinct or conscious¬ ness, and of a conscience which recognizes this consciousness, belongs to all. None is so low in the sente of humanity that the thought of God does not somehow enter into liis life; and whoever lms tills gift has also the intelligence to know that he has it, and to ask himself, at least once in ht9 life, if only once, what lie shall do with It. With tliis consciousness of God and this conscience there comes a sense ot respon¬ sibility; and with that there comes a cer¬ tainty of judgment. Wo when Indorse tho rea¬ soning of tho parable saying wo excuse the man does of small capacity by that that ho lie not know have any better; of another, and ought to known better, of a third, that he did know better; nnd tint With popular judgment according condemns bis each gift man of capacity, a severity his his to educated conscience, or uneducated Sense of the value of the gift Which determines his use of it, and the very worst Sin of all In the popular judgment is to have made no ttse of tiie gift. I t wits tint servant who knew his gift and ills lord, Cven though he knew him wrongly, excited and then made no use ot his gift, who his lord’s anger; Mako much of thd thought, for it has much in it. If we grant the universal con¬ sciousness of God nnd tiie universal con¬ science, then everyone is bound to conduct himself always under pressure of the thought that’one day lie will be called upon to answer to God for Ilia use of these capacities. If a man only recognizes God by taking His name in vain, that is n recog¬ nition. And in actual fact there are many people who excuse themselves in their neg¬ lect of religion on tiie very grounds on which tliis man of the parable rested his defence—viz., harsh and distorted ideas of God and religion. They do not see that logically a man witli harsh ideas of God ought to be the stricter iff his life for that, if be shapes his conduct by his theory and if he expects God to judge him by his own confession. If my whole idea of religion Is that it is such a straight and narrow way that I cannot walk in it without help from above, anil, knowing I that I must walk iu it if I wou Id bo saved, have yet never sought that help, shall I care to plead this neglect ns an excuse when I come to stand napkin before a which righteous judge? Whether the in we tie up our religious consciousness be clean and white with the starch and bluing and ironing of u gelf-satisiled morality or filthy with the stains of every self-indulgence will make no difference with the fact tlint we tied it up and buried it. When capital what combines to for selfish purposes we know say of it; when an anarchist wants a division of capital for his own benefit we can deal with him. But when a man nuts his thou¬ sands in an old stocking and hides it under his chimney hearth we simply call him a miser—a miserable one. He may plend condemn that he had no faith in banks, Dut we him nevertheless. Again tho common judgment illustrates the pnrnble. In some shops you may find a device to keep check upon business transactions. A litUedlse springs up in full sight of buyer, seller and employer, records tlio price and drops out of sight again. But at the close of tho day, when the accounting is made, the registry is there and tho balance must agree with that. A man’s conscience is like this— every thought of God and duty that comes into mind is on record there a good thought, or a mistaken thought, or a had thought, it held up its signal eared for to a look moment and in the presence of all who made its unnlteraldo record of what was done. When the time comes the judges— Gotland conscience, and even tho popular judgment—will bo at the count, as daring they now are at tiie transaction, lie is a thief who with these three looking on can try to take money out of the box nnd throw up a blank. Every thought of God and duty is a talent, a pound, bringing with It a demand for interest upon the original capital of God’s first gift of spiritual con¬ day sciousness and conscience, When the ot reckoning comes we shall he condemned by every opportunity we have had to know and to do better. No belief can possibly of warrant neglect. Whatever we think God we are bound to do something. Wm. H. Lewis, D. D. Hector 8t. John’s Church,Bridgeport,Conn. THE SHELLS IN THE BIBLE. Dr. Talmage Draws nti Interesting Les¬ son From Timm, Dr. T. De Witt Talmage delivered iu Washington a sermon on “God Every¬ where.” The subject of the sermon God Among was "Conchology of tiie Bible, or the Shells,” as found in the text, Exodus xxx., 34: "And tiie Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and onycha.” noticed the shells of You may not have the Bible, he said, although in this early part of the second book God calls you to consider and employ them, ns lie called Moses to consider aud employ them. The onveha ot my text is a Hindi found on the hanks ot the lied 8ea, and Moses and his army must have crushed many of them un¬ der foot as they crossed the bisected waters, onycha on the beach and onycha in the un¬ folded bed of tiie deep. beautiful I shall speak of this shell as a and practical revelation of God. and as true as the first chapter of OenVsIs and the last chapter of Revelations or every¬ thing between. Not only Is this shell, the onycha, found in the Red Sea, but In the waters of India. It not only deleetateg the eye with its convolution of beauty, white and lustrous, and seriated, but blesses the nostrils with apungeut aioma. I spoke to you l last Sabbath of God iu the great, now sp$ak of God in the small, God in the In¬ finite, and God in the infinitesimal. ASHBURN. WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2fi. 18!>;. It Is a secret that you may keep for me, that lit all the realms of the natural world there is nothing for me so fascinating, divine so Suggestiverii’ss eerttplateijr absorbing, (lit it rtlttflh so full What? of More bntertetning than 4 bird, Wlitclt Can sing, when rf shell cannot sing? Well, there you made rt great mistake. Flok up the tmvctia frotti llifl banks Ot the Had Sort, or pick Atlantic up' a Ocean, bivalve And from listen, Hid una bench you Hoar of the a whole ohqir of marine Voices - bass, alto, Soprano—in H Unknown tongue, but seaming to rhnn(, and ns I put made then! It.” to mv oar, "Tilt) sea Is Ills He As tlm shell Is only tlie house and the wardrobe of Inslgnlfleaut animals of the deep, why all the wonder and beauty of construction? God’s care for them Is the only reason. And If God provide so munif¬ icently wardrobe for them, and wilt lie not see that and you have shelter? Wardrobe Shelter fora periwinkle; shall there not he wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would God give a Coot of mail for the defense of a Nautilus and leave you no defense against the storm? Does He build a stone house for it creature that lasts a season and leave without hOmd rt soul that takes hold on fceiuiuie- and moils? this pointed Hut While jroii get lesson of providential dt rare from the shelled crea¬ tures the deep; notice ill their construc¬ tion that God helps them to lyolp them¬ they selves. This house of stone In wide It around live is not dropped on them and is not exudes built them. The material for it from their own bodies and Is adorned with a colored fluid front the pores of their own liock: It Is rt most interesting tiling to see these etitsttieeiiil itrtliriills fflsliion their own homes out of eafhduittd of lliilo rtud irleiii- brano. And nil of this is a mighty lesson to those who are waiting for others to build their fortunes, when they ought to goto work and, like tho mollusks, build their own fortunes out of their own Drain, out of their own sweat, out of t heir own indus¬ tries. Not a moliusk on all tiie beaches of nil the seas would have a house of shell if It had not itself built one. Do not wait for others to shelter you or prosper you. All (lie flrttstaccous creatures of tho earth, from every flake of their covering and from every ridge of their tiny castles tm Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean coasts, say: “Help' yourself, while God helps yob to from help only yourself,” two' persons—Odd Have great expectations and yourself. the onycha of text Let my become your preceptor. I examine shells, tho Hut tho more the more I am impressed that God Is a God of emotion. Many scoff at emotion, and seem to think that God is a God of cold geometry, and iron laws, and eternal apathy, imd enthroned stoicism. No, nol The shells with overpowering emphasis deny it. While law and order reign in the universe, you have |mt to sen the lnvish- ncss of color on tho Crustacea, all shades of crimson from tho faintest blush to blood of hattle-lleid, all shades of blue, all shades of green, all shades of all colors from deepest black to Whitest light, order just called out on the shells with no more than a mother premeditates or calculates how many kisses and lings she shall give her babe waking up in tho morning sun¬ light. Ye»; My God is an emotional God, And He Says: “We must have colors and let tho snn paint all of them oil the scroll of that shell, and wo must have music, and hero is a carol for the robin, and a psalm for man, and a doxology for the Seraphim, and a resurrection trumpet for tho archangel. Aye, He showed Himself a God of sublime emotion when He flung Himself on this world iii the personality Of Christ to' save it, without regard to the tears it wo it Id take, or tho blood it wobld oxhnust, Ot the agonies it would crush out. Wlion I See the Louvres and the Luxembourgs and tho Vntieans of divine painting strewn along tho eight thousand miles of coast, and I hear, in a forest, on a summer morning, in a sical academics and Handel sociolies of full orchestras, 1 say God is a Gori of emo¬ tion, and if Ho observes mathematics, it is mathematics set to music, and His llgures are writtou not in white chalk on black¬ boards, but written by a Anger of sunlight on walls of jasmine and trumpet-creeper. In my study of the conchology of the Bible,this onycha of tho text also impresses mo with the fact that religion is perfume. What else could God have meant when He said to Moses: "Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and onycha. Moses took that shell of the onycha, put it over the tire, and as it crumbled into ashes, it exhaled an odor that bung iu every curtain and Ailed the ancient tabernacle, and its sweet smoke escaped from the sacred precincts and satu¬ rated the outside air. Perfume! That is what religion is. But, instead of that, some make it a mal-odor. They servo God in a rough and acerb way. They box their child’s ears because ho iloes not properly keep ,Sunday, instead of mak¬ ing Sunday so attractive tho child could not help hut keep It. chapter They make him learn by heart a difficult in t.hn Hook of Exodus, with nil tiie hard names because lie has been naughty. there How rnuny disa¬ greeable good people are. No one doubts heaven, their they piety, will and they will fixed reach but have to get up before they go there, or they will mako trouble by calling out to us, "Hoop off that grass!" “What do you mean by plucking that flower?” "Show your tickets!” Ob, how many Christian people need to obey my text, and take into their worship and their behavior and their consociations and presbyteries aud general assemblies and conferences more onycha. But what thrills me with suggestiveness is tiie material out of which all pearls are made. They are fashioned from the wound of the shellfish. The exudation from that wound is fixed and hardened und enlarged into a pearl. fashioned The ruptured vessels of the water animal tho gam that now adorns finger or earring, or sword hilt or king's crown. Ho, out of the wounds of earth will come the pearls of heaven. Out of the wound of conviction tho pearl of tlio pardon. pearl Out of of the wound of bereavement solace. Out of tho wound of loss tlio pearl of gain. Out of the deep wound of the grave pearl of resurrection joy. Out of the wounds of a Havlour’s death, the rich, the radiant, tho everlast¬ ing pearl of heavenly gladness. “And the twelve gates were twelve pearls.” Take the consolation all ye who have been hurt —whether hurt in body or hurt in mind or hurt In soul. Get your troubles sanctified. If j ou suffer with Christ on ourth you will reign with Him in glory. 'The tears of earth are the crystals pearl.” of heaven. "Every several gate was one OMNIBUS AS POSTOFFICE. Kept in Ihe VI i 1 1,1J r ■ or the Koarl X! l.rml. to Litigation. A novel question regard!ng a postoffice In Die middle of the road came up bet ore Judge Paul In tiie United Htates Court at , Abingdon, Va. Thomas I’ayne, Pastrmwtor at Pilot, Montgomery County, complained that tiie owners ot all the lands within a radius of one mile of his office had refused to rent or sell a site on which he might open his office. He procured an omnibus, which he placed in the road and used as an office. B. M. Guerrant sued out In tho County Court a writ of unlawful detainer, but Judge Paul, on the petition of injunc¬ Post¬ master Payne, issued a temporary tion restraining Guerrant. nnd the tho deputy sheriff from Interfering witli Postmas¬ ter and his omnibus postoflftcc of tho Unit¬ ed Htates. A rule lias been issued against the same Postmaster’s opponents, requir¬ and ing them to appear before tho court show cause why the temporary injunction should not he perpetuated. No More Football at Girard. President Felteroif, of Girard College. Philadelphia, has issued an order against iootball. The order was the result of a boy having his leg broken In a practice game. English Weather Observers. Distributed all over Great Britain ure about 3000 observers, who send up to Lou¬ don periodical reports of the local weather, A MONEY CONSIDERATION WAS IN THE BARGAIN. INSURGENTS REFUSE TO ACCEPT. 1* A ml o' tortimlSnlWifyi fly ftiwiioo to {'miry Out Pi'ografti Dirt Wiofo Dismal Fill!tiro. A special of Monday from Havana, via Key West, says: General Panilo, ns recently cabled by the Associated l v ess, started by train from this city on Saturday last In order, according tooffieial announcement, to take charge of tire e/iiopflign against the insurgents. He was accompanied by his full stuff mid w as escorted by it company of ar¬ tillery, I5nt flifft it is stated on very good authority Gfenhrnl l’ando has been commissioned by Marshal Blanco, the captain-general, to enter intd Com¬ munication with the insurgent, leaders with the view of arranging for peace. Thi* statement is based on accurate knowledge of flit the facts lit the case. General l’ando did not leave ftfitll he hud taken steps calculated fa further the object which Marshal BltlncO basin view. General Panilo, after a consul¬ tation with the captain-general, first brought about the release from con¬ finement of Damian Caballere, who has been confined on the Isle of Pines for seine time past, for, it is alleged, acting fls spy for the insurgents anil bringing about a disaster of the Span¬ ish (rttags at Cacao, General Pflndo's official peace emissary was also furnished documents em¬ powering him to act for the Spanish commander, and from Manzanillo Caballero made his way secretly to the .Tiguani hills, where General Haiti lias his headquarters. General l’ando in¬ structed Caballero to offer General Haiti a high rank in the Spanish army ami a large sum of money to lie dis¬ tributed among the other insurgent leaders of that part, of Cuba and in ad dition a large amount of money for himself in the event of his succeeding in arranging terms for peace. Besides this, Caballero was instruct¬ ed to inform the insurgent leaders that the Spanish authorities undertook to honestly establish the new autonomist regime if the leaders of the insurgents would accept, the proposition made them. Although Caballero 1ms not re¬ turned from Santiago do Culm, confi¬ dential advices which have reached the Spanish officials at Havana seem to in¬ dicate that. Caballere has so far been unsuccessful. it. is Understood that General Ilahi has replied that, he be¬ lieves a successful ending of the war in favor of the insurgents is approach ing; that the Cubans with the aid of the United States will gain their inde¬ pendence and that, therefore, he pro fers to continue fighting the Spaniaids till the final victory is won. Caballere also negotiated with Gen¬ eral Duvalon, the French leader of the insurgents. There seems to lie no in¬ timation as to the result of Caballere’s negotiations with General Duvalon, although it may be judged from the attitude assumed by General Ilahi that the peace negotiations are likely to fall flat in Santiago de Cuba. Insurgents Arc Itelncbllft. In some quarters it is believed that (he reluctance to accept the overtures of General l’ando is due to the fact that the insurgents are anticipating some strong steps in their favor when the United States congress meets, it is generally admitted that Geneva! l’ando is somewhat mortified witli the non-success of his plans up to tho present, and has so informed the three ex-insurgent leaders referred to. He directly gave them to understand that he was of the opinion that they were opposed to the sovereignty of Spain over Cuba, and had no desire to assist the Spanish authorities in their efforts to bring about a peaceful settle¬ ment of the troubles. The Cubans protested that they were sincere and repeated the excuses they had already made for their non-eouqdiunce with tli • requests of the Spanish general. The latter, although somewhat disap¬ pointed, it is understood will continue liis efforts to come to an understand¬ ing with the insurgents, and tho mili¬ tary authorities believe that the best way to do this is to inflict on the en¬ emy a signal defeat which General l’ando hopes to accomplish. BROTHERS BURIED TOGETHER. Kdltor Hrann Warned and IfI h Home Guarded by ID* Friend*. The bloody duel between Colonel Gerald and the Harris brothers at Waco, Texas, has been the sole topic of discussion in that usually quiet city. Editor J. W. Harris, who was so terribly wounded, died Katurday and his body was buried Sunday beside that of his brother, W. A. Harris,who was killed while the battle was at its fiercest. Editor W. C. Braun, of the Icono¬ clast, whoso discussion with Baylor uniAersity was the origin of the trouble, was warned anonymously Friday night and friends guarded bis resi¬ dence, but no trouble occurred. MONUMENT TO YANUE. Grand Lodge of Mason* of North Carolina IVill Lay the Corner Atone. A special from Asheville, N. O., saps that Grand Master Moore, at the request of Masons of North Carolina, will call a special communication of the grand lodge to assist in laying the corner stone of the monument to the late United States Senator Vance ut Asheville. The ceremonies will occur early iu Lfi^ember. PLUNGED INTO A CREEK. Train Wrecked Had ltilrnrd -Only One Drnlli, Hut Many Injured. Train 2 on the Kansas City, Fort Scott ami Memphis, which left Rir- miiigliam, Ala., Wednesday evening for Kansas City, was derailed west of WalIlford, Ark., at it o’clock Thurs¬ day morning. The combination coach, chair car and sleeper went over the bank, tho combination car going into Spring river. The chair car and sleeper were both consumed. Ono passenger was fatally injured, dying shortly afterward, and about thirty others more or less seriously hurt. It is believed none of the lat¬ ter will die. No. 2 is a fast t lirongh train from the flonth. Between Williford and Hardy tho Memphis tracks parallel the Spring river, a little stream run¬ ning out of Mammoth Springs. Wlieu near Williford the engineer felt the train leap forward and found that it had parted between the two day coaches. The last three cars bumped over the ties, tho chair oar and sleeper turning over on their sides and the combination car finally going into the liter, The engineer backed tip the front part of the train and the Work of res¬ cue was immediately begun. The ter¬ ror of the passengers who had gone down into the stream with the combi¬ nation car was heightened by cries of alarm from which the chair car and sleeper, both of soon took fire, The intense darkness added to the confu¬ sion and it was some time before an organized effort at rescue was put into effect by the train crew and those of the passengers who had been able to extricate themselves without aid. Tiie passengers in tho burning cats were luckily rescued before the firo liml reached its height, and but few in those cars were injured. The wreck is the first one of a seri¬ phis ous nature in the history of the Mem¬ road, and according to the state¬ ment of General Passenger Agent ,T. E. Lockwood, Mr, Hoover is the first passenger ever killed while riding on a train on that road. REPORT OF SECRETARY IfUSS, Document Shotvn Work of Interior D«* pari motif, For Pant Voar. Secretary of tho Interior Bliss, in his annual report made public Thurs¬ day night, submits ostimates aggregat¬ ing §156,5:12,41'.! for appropriation by congress for tlio fiscal year ending Juno HO, 18117. Discussing pensions he says 200,- 000 pension claims are awaiting adju¬ dication nnd it is estimated that 40 or 50 per cent of those will be finally ad¬ mitted. If they are rapidly adjudi¬ cated they will swell the pension roll from §5,000,000 to §7,000,000. When, however, these claims are adjudicated and the first payments made thereon, the amount of the pension roll w ill de¬ crease very rapidly, possibly to $125,- 000,000 oi $130,000,000 the first year. The total Indian population of the United States exclusive of tho Now York Indians and the five civilized tribes, approximates 177,178, located on 177 reservations, which contain approximately 33,404,837 acres. Of these, 4,545 have accepted allotments of )am> which aggregate 644,147 acres. Hecretary Bliss says while the opening of the Wichita reservation in Okla¬ homa to white settlement would great¬ ly promote the development of that country, yet, in view of the unsettled, condition of tho questions affecting their rights, until there is further leg¬ islation he does not see how it can ho done without causing groat injury and distress. To guard against this recommendation is made that tiie Dawes commission be authorized to investigate questions as to their righis and claims and report recommendations from speedy and just bo .tlement. DISASTROUS PRAIRIE FIRES. Three ThouHimri Hlieep Humeri in Text** Counties. A terrific prairie tire hcia passed through Lubbock, Hale and Crosby counties, Texas, doing great damage to the ranges. It originated east of Crosby county, burned eastward through Crosby be¬ fore a severe west wind. 'Die /lames made a fire ten miles wide, which traveled at great speed. At least 400 square miles of territory were burned, Cattle suffered and many were burned to death. Three thousand sheep were burned in one Hock and many farmers lost all their winter feed. PARIS HAS RIG EIRE. FltvntttK H|iruatl Over Two Acre* am! 1.0** Amount* To 400,000 Franc*« A special dispatch from Paris says that a destructive fire started Saturday afternoon in a shop in the Rue des Py¬ renes, in tiie northern section of tha city. The /lames spread rapidly and before the fire was under control a large number of small houses and workshops were destroyed. The burn¬ ed district covers an area of about two acres. The loss is placed at 400,000 francs. After a six-hour battle with the fire, the members of the fire brigade were utterly, exhausted and were relieved by a force of 260 soldiers. HUNTING THE AUTHOR. Ttilmfco JVfillioniiira (-'onnectfid With a I'mmc Hunrulttl. A special from Winston, N. C., says: The millionaire tobaeco manufacturer of Twin City, whose name has been connected with a scandal that has reached almost a national circulation within tin* past few days, has author¬ ized the statement that lie will give half liis tremendous fortune us a re¬ ward to the mau who will discover the originator of the story, which is a base fabrication from beginning Dr. J. F. Physician and Siirprcon. ( alls Answered Promptly DAY AND NIGHT. Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Residence at the Hicks place. ASHBURN, GEORGIA. DU. J. F. GREGORY k CO., SPECIALISTS. Rupture, Catarrh, Rectal Diseases, Hemorrhoids (Piles), Fistulas Cured. NO KNIFE, NO PAIN. Room No. 1, Heard Building, Cordele, Ga. 167 Cotton Ave,, Macon, Ga. WARREN L. STORY, Physician and Burgeon, SYOAMOBE, OA. Diseases of Nose and Throat. UK. W. J. TURNER, Physician and Burgeon, ASHBUBN, OA. Special Attention Givon to Diseases of Women and Children. Office in Room No. 2, Retts Build- ing. Residence: W. A. Shinglor’s. CallB Answered Day or Night. Telephone No. 18. DR. T. H. THRASHER, Physician and Surgeon, Ashbuiin, Georgia. General Practice Solicited. Office rn the Christian Building. 0. E. WALKER, Physician and Surgeon, Hvcamobe, Georgia. GEO. W. COOPER, DENTIST, Asiimhin, Georgia. Office, Room No. 4, Betts Building. W. II. CONE, D. D. 8. I Mako a Specialty of Crown, Bridges and Replantations. Teeth Extracted Without Puiu. Asiibubn, .•. Georgia. W. T. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law. Land and Collections. Syoamoke, Georgia. A. J. DAVIS, Attorney at Law, Ahhhuun, Georgia. Real Estate and Collections. Prompt attention to all business plneed in our hands. B. B. WHITE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Asiiiiijrn, Georgia. Will practice in alt the Courts, State and Federal. ,1. (1. POLE 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 eare. John V. Powell, J. W. Powell, Vienna, fla. Ashburn, Ga. JNO. F. POWELL & HON, 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. FRANK PARK, Attorney - at - Law, Pour, an, Georgia. B. W. ADKINS, Attorney at Law, Collections a Specialty, Poulan, Georgia. Lanier & Dekle, DEALERS IN Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Saddles, liaby Carriages, Express Wagons and Poflins and Caskets, CORDELE. GA- VOL. VI. NO. 16. I Ul •J • m DEALERS IN... Yellow Pine Liber, Ash burn, Ga. V N# uixuuumononuu^ ># ill Orta lor <%■ Laths , Shingles , Staves , Car Sills , Bridge Stuff, Flooring , Moulding , Brack¬ ets , Ceiling, Etc ., Will Receive Prompt Attention. We oarry a well selected and assorted stock of Dry Goods, Hardware, Groceries, Etc. If in need of anything in CLOTHING, Such as MEN'S AND BOYS' SUITS , We Can Fit You. WE HAVE A NICE STOCK OF LADIES’ DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS would ho pleased to show the ladies of Ashhurn ami sur¬ rounding country. II L OUR BANDIES • • • Are Fresh and Fine. Flour, SMS Meat, Grits, Rice, Sugar, 5 MS Coffee, Meal, And in fact any and everything that is kept in a first-class Grocery House can be had at our Large Brick Store aa cheap a* the cheapest. f We Carry a Fall Line of PURNITURB. UP STAIRS Onr Stock of SHOES is Complete, with a Specialty or Ladies’ and Chil¬ dren’s Fine Sunday Wear. We also handle the best brands of Cigars Tobacco , Snuff, Etc. , Foil 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 onr stock. We have a Wagon Yard and Stella, Feed Troughs, etc., for the convani- ouoe of our oustomer® especially. Respectfully, J, S. BETTS & CO.