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®he Icralrt and ^dpcrtiser ; . Newnan, Ga., Friday, March 9, 1888. RELIGIOUS READING. Advice to a Christian Capitalist. Christian Examiner. Dear Sir and Brother: You are accustomed to receive circulars, in which is submitted to you for consideration some advantageous way of investing surplus funds. Tho presentation may be of hank shares, or railroad shares, or mining stock, or manufacturing inter ests, or debenture bonds, or any one of a dozen other things. The person who sends the circular makes no apology for so doing, nor do you expect any. lie assumes that he is contemplating your profit as well as his own. Indeed, if he were your friend, and knew of “a good thing” where you would be sure of 10 or 12 per cent., and did not advise you of it, it would generate a coolness be tween you. So now we appear before you with this, We come to you in a purely business way (albeit we saj not unto you, how you owe all to Christ). Regard this as a business suggestion. As such, pass your opinion upon it. If it commends itself, give it your consid eration; if it fails, then pass it over to the waste-paper basket, along with other ignored circulars. Let it stand or fall on its intrinsic merits. We ask you to invest money in the kingdom of God; we ask you to do it now, purely as an investment aud as a paying investment of infallible gain, as we shall now try to show. A REAL INVESTMENT. I. Money and talent and resources can as truly and really be invested in the kingdom of God as in any mine, or bank, or railroad, or joint stock compa ny, or in any state or kingdom of earth. For what constitutes an investment? It is putting money, or the results of one’s labor, in a place where it will bring in some regular stated income to be enjoyed by the person investing. That is what the Scriptures teach can be done in the kingdom of God. We shall cite none but the highest authori ty in proof. Christ says, “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” Mark you! not for himself, but for yourself. And he is not talking now in general about good conduct and good deeds, as some suppose, but about money,— money that is carried in a purse or hid away in a strong box. He tells you not to lay it away for yourself in a bank vault, but in heaven itself; for there thieves never get in, dishonest cashiers are never found, moth and rust do not corrupt; there are no depreciated shares, no watered stock, no unforeseen losses, no costly wear-and-tear, no ex pensive repairs. Therefore, put your 'money up there. It will be cosy, then, to become heavenly-minded, for ycu love your money; and if you put your money in heaven, your heart will be sure to follow after it. Now, does Christ teach this, or does he not teach it ? Settle the fact before you go a step further. You have the book; read for yourself. Surely, you admit that Christ never talked at ran dom. He meant everything He said. He meant to teach his disciples that they could save their money by putting it in the kingdom of God. Is not that so? If he had never uttered another word, this alone would be a full and sufficient reason for all we now sug gest. The Christ is still more specific. “Provide for yourselves bags that wax not old.” A bag that does not wax old is one that never gives out. It always has something in it. It i6 the very kind of an expression to denote a fixed and regular income. And again he as sociates it with laying up treasure in heaven where there are no thieves. And still a third time does he come back to the subject, “Make to your selves friends of mammon of unright eousness, that when ye die they may receive you into the everlasting habita tions.” To all this we must add the strong expression of Paul, where he tells Tim othy to charge rich men “to lay up in store for themselves a good founda tion,” or a good hoard, or a good pile, as it may be defined, against the time to come. These things all teach the possibility of making investments of property' in heaven, or they mean nothing at all. Try to make anything else out of them and they become unintelligible. Read for yourselves the passages and see. DIVIDENDS ARE CERTAIN. II. Dividends attend heavenly in vestments as true and real as ever at tend any kind of earthly investments whatsoever. There is only one feature of difference. Here, each begets its kind, copper begets copper, silver be gets silver, gold begets gold. There it is different. A lower order of invest ment here begets a transcendent order of dividend there. It is as if copper begot silver, and silver begot gold, and gold begot diamonds. You invest nickels, and you draw double eagles. You invest glass beads, and you draw Kohinoor diamonds. I ou sow the ma terial, and you reap the immaterial. You sow the earthly, and you reap the heavenly. It is marvelous, the system of exchange between earth and heav en. They do not pay dividends in gold —gold is too cheap; they pave streets with gold over there. Dividends are paid in joy, in ecstacy, in soul satisfac tion, in thankfulness, in bliss unuttera ble, and in expanded capacity forspirit- ual delight, It is an income of joy, a revenue of bliss, an income that never gives out, a revenue that never falls short. It is “a bag that waxes not old.” Even after millions and millions of years have passed away you will still be seeing and rejoicing over the spiritual results there of a material in vestment made here when you were on earth. You have the word of Christ for it that if you give only a cup of cold water to a disciple you shall not fail of your dividend of reward. Can you believe him ? All this is over and above your own salvation; that is sup posed to be already secured to you through pure grace and the sovereign gift of God. I am not speaking of that now. Christ has saved you personally, and now he tells you to save your prop erty while you have control over it. And he tells you how to do it. He ini tiates you into the secrets of the heav enly stock-board. He gives you all the “points” you need. Will you heed them ? LARGER TITAN ARE OFFERED ELSE WHERE. Now we will take a glance at compar ative dividends, and see what kind of investn^ent—earthly or heavenly—pays best in the long run. There is a man with si00,000. He can lend it to a railroad company,'.or he can lend it to the Lord. Suppose he does the former and gets 8 per cent. lie Adds the 88,000 interest to the principal, and goes on to add and to heap up- gold, gold, gold; coupons, coupons, cou pons—till the end of his days. Sudden ly he and his money are parted. A shi ner saved by grace, he rises to the com pany of the redeemed. Welcome, brother! but what did you do with your property ? Left it all behind me, in railroad shares, locked up in the safe deposit company in New York or Bos ton-gone forever—left behind—more than enough to support my family, more than enough to ruin my children, but not enough to satisfy the lawyers already fighting over my will. As time rolls along no redeemed person, fresh from earth, ever comes up to him to say. Thank you for the help you gave me dow r n there. No one ever says, Thank you for that cup of cold water that came from a fountain you set up; thank you for that cheer that came from a fund you provided. No new joy from any such source as that; no revenue of sweet thankfulness from well-spent resources on earth. Suppose, on the other hand, after having made a wise and comfortable provision for his family, which God blesses because he is not selfish, that h§ invests the remainder in the king dom of God, or what is immeasurably better, gives it as he goes along. It goes into a Christian college or a semi nary, or to help a score of feeble churches, or to supply destitute regions with the gospel, or to send missiona ries abroad, or to circulate Christian books, or to help suffering Christian families and cheer up the feeble, stag gering saints. He dies and goes to heaven, saved by grace, as was the oth er. But, then, what a difference as re gards that treasure left on earth ! Af ter him come one and another of the redeemed. After the burst of thanks giving to the adorable Savior, they have a word to say to him,—But for you, as an instrument in the hand of God, I never could have been here. In your school I found the Saviour. The help you gave built me up just as I was dropping out of the way. The mission ary you sent started the gospel in our city, and now there are tens of us here and hundreds on the way, and thou sands that will be following in the years to come. What an everlasting revenue of joy! What gratitude to God for putting means in his hands to achieve such lofty results ? But it is not in heaven alone that re sults will be seen. Here on earth the God of heaven is setting up a kingdom. The time will come when the saints of the Most High will possess the king dom. Meanwhile, a thousand forces are at work, ten thousand agencies are contributing towards that result. Dur ing the civil war multitudes of men in vested their dollars by the thousand and the ten thousand, to preserve the nation. They succeeded. Their mon ey has been assimilated into the life of the republic. Among men, no one is able to tell what his particular dollar acromplished. But when the kingdom of God comes to be established, God will know, and will show to each man just how much his beneficence effect ed. Blessed in that day will be the man that put money in the kingdom! Sor rowful the man who had the means of a rich man, yet put in only the pittance of the widow! Mining shares and government bonds will pass away, but the kingdom of God endureth forever. The children of Israel, men and wo men, invested their gold and silver and fine linen ;in the tarbemacle, and it became the glory of Israel. The early Christians and the apostles invested the proceeds of their “houses and lands” in the newly founded kingdom, instead of in the corner lots in Jerusa lem, and now their names are written on the foundation of the city of God, and they will be there to behold and to enjoy it forevermore. THE SHARE LIST. You are accustomed to look over “the quotations” in your morning paper. The share list always interests you. Some dozens of different kinds of shares are there. The closing rates are al ways given. The value of each kind of stock is set before you. It is “Erie” .and it is “Hudson River,” and it is i “New York and New Haven,” and “Boston and Albany,” and “Central Pacific,” and “Northern Pacific,” and “Southern Pacific,” and what not. Now, though it does not appear in the market reports, yet there is a share- list of the kingdom of God as really and truly as there is a Wall street or a State street share-list in your morning paper. There is the home church share-list and the city mission share-list. And there are shares offered to you in schools and colleges and seminaries, and in feeble country churches, and charitable institutions, and in helping poor saints’to God in affliction and dis tress, and in great and new interests struggling for existence, and in home missions beyond the Rocky Mountains, and in mighty foreign missions, even to the uttermost part of the earth. They are, every one of them, duly certified by the Master and recognized by him as shares in his kingdom. Divi dends are certain, as certain as the promise and assurance of a Savior who cannot lie. He indicates the truth with an exactness of detail that, when we come to look at it fairly, takes the breath away from us. Dividends are on the grandest scale. It is never less than a hundred-fold in any case. When did Wall street ever pay a hundred per cent., or Western Union, or any other kind of stock? He who invests in a cup of blessing to righteous man shall get a righteous man’s dividend, and if to a disciple he shall get a disciple’s dividend. He who invested the pro ceeds of his old fish-nets and sail-boats, and followed Christ in the regenera tion, shall sit on a throne, judging the tribes of Israel. Those who entrust their means to Christ, and invest them in any of the ways he has pointed out, will get his dividend, pressed down heaped up, and running over, when Christ’s dividend day comes round. Either that, or else there is no truth in New Testament teaching on the sub ject. So we come back to the original ad vice, Invest! Invest! Invest! Invest! while you have the control of your money. When y6u cross over Jordan it will be too late. William Ashmore. Through Line to China. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago railroad men are engineering a stupend ous scheme. It is to build a railway from the twin cities via Bismarck, Brit ish Columbia and Alaska to Pekin, Chi na, and Irkoutsk, in the Russian empire. The Minneapolis and Pacific, the Aber deen, Bismarck and Northwestern, and the Canadian Pacific propose to carry the road to Victoria. Thence a line will be built to Cape Prince of Wales, on Behring Straits, a distance of about 1,100 miles. This body of water, separating *the America continent from Asia, is but thirty-five miles wide, and midway if dotted with islands. The water is on ly twenty or twenty-five fathoms deep, and can ultimately be bridged, though temporarily a crossing will be made in boats. On the opposite side in Asia is East Cape, whence a road will be con structed to Pekin, China, Yeddo, Japan, and other points in the Russain and Chinese empires. A road is already be ing constructed by the Russian govern ment to Irkoutsk, and it is expected that this will be extended to form a juncture with the line from East Cape to Pekin, about 1,600 miles from the straits. This is what a St. Paul dispatch says: This project looks huge, and a few years ago would have been deemed a crazy idea and impossible of execution. But scarcely a better country for rail roading could be found, with compara tively small exceptions. Through Brit ish Columbia a passage is easy. The weather is never severe, and travel is never impeded by snow. There is Jbut one port on the coast that does not re main free of ice during the winter, and that is Westminster, which is some times filled with floating cakes. Coal is plentiful, and timber inexhaustible. In Alaska there is but one section where cold weather would prove a drawback, and that in no worse than on the Canada Pacific. In most of the territory traversed the temperature scarcely ever falls be low zero. The extreme upper part of Siberia is almost uninhabitable, but the road will enter that land in about latitude 62, and the country below that is rich in minerals, timber, agricultural productions, furs, etc., and every mile of the road can be made to pay. The distance between Cape Prince of Wales and Pekin is but a little over 1,600 miles, making the whole route from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Pekin but 5,169 miles. Trains are expected to run through in ten days. The time to Yeddo, Japan, will be^about the same as to Pekin. Strange as it may appear, it is usually a cold day for a man when he is “fired.” Consumption Surely Cured. To TnE Editor—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have Wen permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my reme dy free to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and post office address. Respectfully, T. A SLOCUM, M. C., 1S1 Pearl street, New 1 ork. Cegai Ztotices. Leiters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County : C. A. and J. P. Russell, administrator of Jas. Russell, late of said county, deceased, having applied for lettersofdismission from their said trust, all persons concerned are required U> show cause in said Court by the first Monday in June next, if any they can, why said ap plication should not be granted This March i, lihss. W. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, *5.00. Ordinary. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA.—Coweta County : H. .T. Lasseter. administrator of .T. M. S. Smith, late of said county, deceased, having applied for letters of dismission from his said trust, all persons concerned are required to show cause ir said Court by the first Monday in May next, if any they can, why said app'i- catioii should not be granted. This February 92,188S. W. II- PERSONS, Prs fee *5 00. Ordinary. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County: C. A. Bolton, executor of Peter Owens, late of said county, deceased, having applied to the Court of Ordinary of said county for let ters of dismission from his said fust, all per sons concerned are required to show cause in this Court by the first Monday in April next, if any they can, why said application should not be granted. This January <>. 1KSS. W. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, $5.<X). Ordinary. Application for Year’s Support GEORGIA—Coweta County: The return of the appraisers setting apart twelve months’ support to the widow of Judtre Puggs, deceased, having been filed in my office; all pe-sous concerned arc cited to show cause by the second day of April, is8s, why said application for twelve months’ sup port should not be granted. This March 1, 18SS W.H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, $3.00. Ordinary. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA—Coweta County: All persons having demands against the es tate of Cortes Lazenby, late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned, according to law; and all persons indebted to said es tate are required to make immediate pay ment. This 10th day of February, 1888. T. G. DICkSON, Administrator Cortes Lazenby, dec’d. Printer’s fee, $3.00. Notice of Indenture. It being made known to me by the petition of L. B. Gurley, that Arthur Lee Willingham, of the 992d district, G. M., of said county, is a minor, the profits of whose estate are insuffi cient support and maintenance, and the pa rents of said minor reside out of said county: All persons interested are required to show cause before jne, at my office, at 10 o’clock, A. M., on the 9fh day of March, 1S88, why said minor should not be bound out in terms of the statute in that case made and provided, at which time and place I will pass upon the same. This February i>, 1888. W. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, $3.75. Ordinary. Administratrix’s Sale. GEORGIA—Coweta County: Under and by virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of Coweta county, Ga., I. as ad ministratrix on the estate of John K. Sim.-, late of said county, deceased, will sell to the highest bidder for cash, between the legal hours of sale, on the First Tuesday in April, 188S. belore the Court-house door in the city of Newnan, in said county, nine shares of the capital stock of the Georgia Railroad aud Banking Company. Sold as the property of said estate. This March 1st, 1S8S. Prs.fee $3.18. BARTOW SIMS, Administratrix of John R. Sims. Administrator’s Sale. GEORGIA—Coweta County: By virtue of an order from the Ordinaiv ot said county, will be sold on the First Tuesday in April next, before the Court-house door in said countv, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, the remainder Interest In the sixty acres of land in the northeast corner of lot of land number one hundred and eleven, in the original Eighth, present Cedar Creek district of said county, bounded as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of said lot, running south twenty chains, thence east thirty chains, thence north twenty chains, thence to be ginning point twenty chains, the same be ing the dower lands set apart to Amanda Moigan, widow of John Morgan, deceased. Sale made to pay debts of the estate. This March 1st, 1888. E. W. MORGAN, Prs. fee, $4.41. Adm’r John Morgan. THOMPSON BROS. newnaN, ga. FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE AT PRICES— SlierifTs Sales for April. GEORGIA—Coweta Couktt: Will be sold before the Court-house door In Newnan, said county, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in April, 1888, the following described property, to-wit: One house and lot in the eastern part of the city of Newnan, in “Chalk Level,” bounded south by Jake Rutledge, north by Harriet Walker, east by Oliver Craw and west bv Maria Street, containing one half acre of land more or less. Levied on as the property of Paul Wilkinson to satisfy a fl. fa. Issued from the Justice Court, 64tith District G. M.,in favor of Frank E. Block vs. said Paul Wilkinson. Lew made and returned to me by J. T. Holmes, L. C. Prs. f«*e $3.15. Also, at the same time and place, one store house and lot, lying and being in the town of Haralson, 1393d District G. M.. said county, containing 17 rods of land, more or less, and bounded on the east and south by J. G. Cagle and west and north by Wm Taylor, being the store-house whtrein defendant, G. D. Floyd, sold goods during the year 1887. Lev ied on as the property of G.D. Floyd to satisfy a fi.fa. issued from the Justice Court, 1393d Dis trict. G. M., in favor of Howard Manufactur ing Company vs. said G. D. Floyd. Levy made and returned to me by M. **. Htndsman, L. C. This March 1st, 1888. Prs. fee,$4.35. GEO. H. CARMICAL, Sheriff. It is related that a woman of Logans- port thought that she saw bear tracks in the snow under her hired girl’s win dow, and not wishing to alarm the fam ily, set a big steel trap there without saying a word to anyone. She had hardly retired for the night when she was startled by a series of vigorous yells, and upon investigating, found her hus band hopping around on one leg with the bear trap hanging to the other. During the year 1S87 one hundred and twenty-three persons were lynched in the United States. This is the strongest possible proof of the laxity delay and uncertainty which character izes the administration of justice in our courts. KNIVES AND SCISSORS. Not cheap goods, but first- class. Suitable for presents or for persons desiring a superior article. These goods are not the kind kept at other stores and are higher priced, yet cheap. W. E. AVERY. BERMUDA GRASS SEED. We offer Fresh Crop by Mail, #2 OO per pound. Price for large quantities on appli cation. Send for our GENERAL SEED CATALOGUE. J. M. TH0RBURN & CO. 15 JOHN ST - NEW YORK, SAVE YOUR EYES By being properly fitted with good specta cles. If one eye is different from the other, or if near-«lghted, or If old age is creeping upon vou, I have llie “specs” you need. Glasses, "Framesand all parts. Remember, I have the only complete stock of everything in the spectacle line is Newnan. Also, Pebbles, Chrystals. Dude Glasses, Microscopes, etc. Also, gold, silver, nickel and steel frames. W. K. AVERY, the Jeweler. THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE, Bio- stock of Chamber suits in Walnut, Antique Oak, and Cherry, and Imitation suites. French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to $125.00. Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward. Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward. Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00. Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set. Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot. Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00. Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents. Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low. Picture Frames on hand and made to order. f SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS Low, for cash or on the installment plan. Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, night or day. THOMPSON BROS., NEWNAN, GA. FURNITURE! I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices: A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00. A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00. A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00. A Good Single Lounge, $5.00. A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00. A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50. A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50. A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00. A Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00. A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00. A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00. A Fine Book Case, $20.00. A Good Office Desk, $10.00. A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00. A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00. A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00. I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices. A. G. RHODES, 85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH, 36 AND 38 PEACHTREE STREET, ATLANTA, GA. » DEALERS IN Stoves, Heating Stoves, Hall Stoves, Parlor Stoves, Office Stoves, Cooking Stoves for everybody, Ranges, Furnaces, Marbelized Iron ana Slate Mantels, Mahogony, Walnut, Cherry, Oak and Ash Mantels, Tile Hearth, Tile Facings and Vestibule Tile, Plain Grates, Enameled, Nickel and Brass Trim med Grates. Just received, a beautiful line of Brass Fenders, Andirons, Fire Sets, Coal Vases, Coal Hods and Tin Toilet Sets, that in quantity, quality and designs cannot be sur passed in the city, Gas Fixtures, Chandeliera and Pendants, Plumbers, and Steam Fitters, Supplies, Water Closets, Bath Tubs, Pumps, Rubber Hose, Brass Goods, Steam Cock6 and Gauges, Tin Plato, Block and Galvanized Sheet Iron, Wrought Iron Pipe for steam. gas and water. Practical Plumbers, Steam Heaters and Gas Fitters, Architectural Galvanized Iron Workers and Tin Roofers. Agts. for Knowles’ Steam Pumps, Dunning’s Boilers, Morris & Tasker’s Wrought Iron Pipe for steam, gas and water, Climax Gas Machine*, gyPlans and specifications furnished on application. Call and examine our stock or write for price list and circular. You will re ceive prompt attention and bottom prices. HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH. MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON, WHOLESALE GROCERS, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes) Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour, y Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese, FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE* Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt remittances Hand dr* r«t rmnf.i, ■ age. Excellent facilities for the care of perishable good*. UOOd ’ dly * r*V-proof B«Or* Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman. geJ3fT y . REFEKENCKS: Gate *»Uonal Bank.aad»e,eb*«t.andbMkm of Atlanta