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Everything in FURNITRRE Pianos, Organs, Violins, Guitars, Banjos, and all kinds of Mus- l| DEPOT ST. PR. T. B DAVIS. Rfi«idt*no»‘ ‘I’hon* Land of Promise. (TO AND FROM.) By RkV. C. O’N. M AKTINDAI.K. i ARTICLE XXI. TU RKKY [Continued [61 Syria: The Lebanons and Baal bek (Heliopolis). Leaving the city of Bey rout we take modern continental compart ment cars to ascend, cross over, and descend the Lebanon Moun tains into the beautiful and extern sive vale of Coele Syria between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges. As we star.d on the heights of Bey rout and look north ward up the coast, our eyes, if they could follow the coast line, would rest notably upon Tripoli, with its 26,000 people, well built and picturesque of position, where a great trade in soap, and a fair business in silk, fruit, and sponges, All surgical and medical cases: are done, and on the whole the taken, except contagious diseases j best starting-place whence to make ical Instru ments. YOUR CREDIT’S GOOD. E. O. REESE , NEWNAN. 6A. OR W. A. TURNER RtwidenoM Th*.ne64. Davis & Turner Sanatorium, Corner College and Hancock Sts., Newnan, Ga. High, central and quiet location. Trained nurse constantly in at tendance. Rates $5 per day, $25 per week. Private offices in building. 'Phone 5-two calls. Davis & Turner Sanatorium. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RV. Iu Effect May, 1SHM. West lit,tml. DAILY K»M Bound. Wo. 1*! No. 1! PM 1 AM 1 No. 2 I'M No. 10 AM & :vi 10 oO Lv.. ... Grittin .... -A r M s no S f>« 10 If. .. VHUKbaii .. :: H (• 111 ti 2<> 11) Hfr .. .SenoiH.... 1 4<i 7 ;ir 7 02 11 11, ...NcwniTi J <♦* 0 NS ? 0“ 11 Wli!t».**b*m-, • 1 u « '20 7 V. 12 Of. ■ ..('Hrrollton.. •' 1 Ifl 1 ftr ... im-tnrii .. 12 1 . 10 II 2. 2 OS- .. .. Knllll' — Id 41 -t;;’ . Hullnud .. III "2 !< .'1*'. " .. .. Ivi-r'v.... 1 uv .. .. V 40 .. .. i u; •*.. <1 •*»:»' • .. .■Mill, 1 1 Villi' . ..Trimi.... b :i2 0 22 1 is .LuKuy* h M r. IB • . Li«‘knfiTi. v»it ^ in v» .-\r. p >1 1 ol> dt-.imiii,1:11. l.v for 1 ufurinetli 11 as in Ki l‘t«* . iidilrovv <} w. rHKAKS, y, .1. KORIN.-* N. lUv. Pass A Kent I'hattsnxnKii, Ti-nn. J>. A. NOJ.AN, A Kent. Nowuhii. Oh. Atilt. G. 1*. A.. RBvniinal). on. .1. r, haim:. Gen). l’«-:s A (tent, SaviitmtOi. Oh Hocjansville Election. Hooansvii.j.k, Jan. f»—llogans- v ill** lift Id its annual municipal election yesterday. S. A. Davis, P. }. Daniel, C. T. Hightower, W. JL Ileid.. W. D. Zachry, H. B. Holder, were elected couno-ilin-ui, defeating opponents throe to on**. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Ab solutely Harmless. The fact of Riving children medicine containing injurious substances, is some times more disasterous tlmn the disease from which they are suffering. Every mother should know that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is perfectly safe for chil dren to take. It contains nothing harm ful and for coughs, colds and croup is unsurpassed. For sale by Holt & Cates. Rock Spring. A happy and prosperous new year to you all Mr. Frank Parrott made a business trip to Newnan on Tuesday last. Miss Kate Coggiu opened her school at Rock Spring last Monday with very good attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Willie McGee spent sev eral days with relatives near Moreland last week. Misses Mattie ind Zeuobia Thurmond visited the family of Mr. M. D. Thur mond last week. Messrs, M. W. Daniel and J. H. Hall spent Wednesday Inst in Newnan. Miss Lucy Thurmond is the guest of relatives in Palmetto this week Mrs. Tom Daniel and mother. Mrs. Daniel, of Palmetto, were the guests last Saturday of Mrs. M. W. Daniel of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Posey, ol More- laud, visited their parents hero Xmas. Rev. W. A. Davis failed to till bis ap pointment at Rock Spring hist Saturday and Sunday. Miss Odessa Ellison, of Fayette ('n., was the guest of the Misses Smith last Sunday. Jim McDonold and Miss Ida Hell Hall, both of this placo, were quietly married last Sunday night at the home of Mr. Jenkins, J. P. .Miss Minnie Lee Thurmond returned home lust Saturday, after ten days most pleasantly spent with friends in Atlan ta, and attended the Shropshire-Bentley nuptials. Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Thurmond visited the family of M. W. Swanson, in Fay ette county last, weed. £ fi FELT LAYERS A AS SOFT AS (FMJFFY DOWN Royal Elastic Felt Mattress. Is the concentrated downy effect of six layers of felted cotton of selected quality. In the concen tration there is no hardness. They are soft at first, arid remain so through years of constant use. Write for free booklet, “The Royal Way to Comfort. If vour dealer hasn’t it, write 11s. PRICE We prepay PRICE SI5,OO ihe {rel k' ht - $15.00 ONE MONTH'S TRIAL FREE. »- - \\ S- i-r r \\ b)*L ELASTIC MATTP.ESS CO ooldsbckw Stomach Troublesand Constipation •Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets are the best tiling for stomach , troubles and constipation 1 have ever .-.old," says J. R. Cullman, a druggist of | Potterville, Mich. They are easy to take | and always give satisfaction. 1 tell my ! customers to try them aud if not satisfac- : tory to come buck and get their money, j but have never had * complaint.” For ! sale by Holt & Cates. WANTED—CORRESPONDENTS. j Tilt* News wauls a competent, j hustling correspondent in every ! town,'village and community in Coweta county. To the right per son in each community The News will makea proposition guaranteed j to secure immediate attention, i ; Persons interested should call on or w rite to The New- at once tor Du 1 h**r part iculnrs. Old correspondent s of The \c.v-*. who wi.-li to continue to ivpr<-~Hij the pa per, -in > 11 Id also cemniinii- eate with 11-; a- tln-y will thereby h*urn of something of gp-at i:■ 1 <• r- the excursion to the far-famed | “Cedars of L.ebancn," about 5,000 feet above the sea. The range of Lebanon reaches its highest point I in the snowy crest at the northern i extremity of the basin of Syria and behind which lie the cedars. This grove, now scarcely a half mile in circumference, has about 400 trees in the middle of a vast recess in the central ridge of Leb anon at the bead of the Wady Kadisha; and not more than a dozen of the most ancient cedars remain, o^e or two of which are upwards of 40 feet in girth; the rest being not more than 5 feet in diameter. From this, down to tender nurslings, are trees of every size, for the most part so crowded together on the different knolls as to have interfered with one another's growth. “Still, no one can enter the grove without being aroused to feelings of the highest admiration. Alone in their glory, with scarcely a vestige of other vegatation in sight, these beautiful, grand, and noble trees with their fan-like branches, in terlacing boughs, gnarled and knotted trunks, and sombre shade, cannot fail to impress every eye that beholds them. And when we think of their antiquity, their anci ent glorv, their world wide fame, and the sacred uses to which the ‘Cedars of Lebanon’ wi-re placed, we can comprehend the wonderful magnetic attraction which has for centuries drawn pilgrims to this lonely (snowy) spot. Besides the immortal honour which links them to the erection of God’s great Temple in Jerusalem(I Kgs. v, vi; Ezra iii. 7) the-‘Cedars of Leban on’ are constantly celebrated in the sacred poem:', of Hebrew min strels as symbolic of majesty, no bility, power, and strength, and even as emblematic of religious worship (Psa. io4:i6;also 29:4,5; 92:<2;Isa. 2:12,13; 37:24; Ezck. 31:3-10; Amos. 2:9). Onethingis certain, in ancient days the cedar- groves of Lebanon must have been of immeasurably vaster extent and quantity than they are at the pres ent day. Besides the cedars above described, and those at the con vent of Mar-Sarkis, there are smaller and less notable groves to he found on the higher slopes of Lebanon.” Beyond Tripoli, still on tin; coast-line, we come to Ladikiyeh Laodicea with population ol about 6,000, the seaport ol a fertile district, tobacco, silk, and sponge being the principle articles of trade. Yet further northward we come to Antakiyeh (Antioch. Syrian , on the left bank of the Orontes, in easy communication with the sea, in a situation worthy of a royal city, and in a plain of wondrous fertility, endowed with every natmal requirement. The modern town stands on the level gtound at the N. W. angle of the Ancient city. Little now remains of the former glory of ‘‘the proud capital of the Seleucidae, the third city in the Roman empire, famous for the splendour of its palaces,the richness of its architecture, the vastness of its wealth, and the luxurious refinement of its people, it is now nothing more than a wretched little Arab town of less than 6,000 inhabitants. It was here that the disciples were first called Christians [Acts 1 r.26j; here Barnabas ministered to the earliest converts |ibid. i9-24);here Saul was introduced by him to the Church [ibid. 25, 26]; here Aga- bus prophesied a forthcoming famine, in prospect of which the Christian community contributed for the relief of their brethren in Judaea [ibid. 27-301; here Paul and Barnabas received their great im pression, which led them to enter upon the first missionary tour (ibid. 13:1-4); hither they returned to report their progress to the brethren [ibid. i4:26-28];and hence they set out for Jerusalem, for the first general council of the Church, which was summoned on account of disputes in Antioch [ibid. xv ). The Church thus planted by the apostles continued to flourish and increase, until Antioch was at pressed coal b'oeks to fire wiht, having good relay stations. Some of the finest engineering in the world is on this line, strong and artistic masonry work at sides and over ravines to avoid damage from rains and melting-snow streams abound, the roadbed being so in genuously arranged as to give the train .1 opportunity for holding its purchase on gained ground as the Lebanon is ascended, The highest station and nearly the highest point on the line is Bai dar, 487X feet, reached through a bleak and barren region and tw.» tunnels, the atmosphere getting cooler and colder as wc enter the snow line, now somewhat on the melt, in April. At Reyak we change cars to those going to Homs by Baalbek, the other cars proceeding on direct to Damascus. The cogged-wheel engine is only used on the Lebanon section. Revak is 6 miles beyond Xahleh Mu’allaka on the plain of the Beka'a, one of the most beautiful and fertile in the world, like fine- prairie land. On the way we've seen sheep and shepherd, goats and herder, cultivated fields and barren rocks, large herds of cattle* grazing, towns here and there alb along, with the names of the sta tions in up-to-date English as well as in Arabic. The Beka’s abounds in plentiful springs, probable “streams from Lebanon," the nar row entrance to this great vale be I ing at its northern extremity length regarded as the capital of Christendom. Amongst the long roll of bishops and patriarchs of Antioch, the most illustrious was the sainted Ignatius, who was car ried hence to Rome, under the Emperor Trajan, and thrown to the Hons in the Colosseum. Down to the present day the patriarchate of Antioch has been retained by the Greek, Latin and Armenian churches.” Through the hands, of Persians, Byzantines, Greeks, Saracens, Crusaders, Moslems,and through the throes of earthquakes where is the very considerable town of Hamah, the ancient Ham ath; and spoken of in Scripture as “the entrance of Hamath,” th<r northern limit of the Promised Land which God gave to Israel [Sg. of Sol. 4:15; Num. 34:8; Josh •3:5; Jud. 3=3. I Kgs. *.-65; 2 Kgs 14:25; Ezck. 47:16.] The wernff Beka'a means “cleft,” so-called be cause it seems to have been liter ally cleft between the mountains by some terrible natural convulsion in som .- remote age, the probable result of a-‘fault’' as in the case of loo, the city has passed, until to- j the Jordan and the Nile Valleys, clay it presents the lesson, so often j Hence the name given by the set forth in numerous illustrious Greek of "Eoele-Syria,” meaning olden cities. “Hollow Syria,” or “the Basin of “Self-abasement paved the way For villain bonds and despot sway” Syria.” And yet it is a tableland rather, about 3,000 feet above sea fertile and favored by nature and lown of the 1 in days gone by, it suffers as does many another part of this empire To the northward and westward ! level, the watershed being near from Antioch is the way to Tar-1 Baalbek, the streams to the south sus, the birth-place of Saul who | contributing to the Leontes, | Nahr became Paul the mighty apostle to Litany]; and those to the north to die Gentiles, whose inspired rea- *-he Orontes (Nahr Asi). However sonings in the Scriptures are pow erful to the tearing strongholds of Satan Transferring our vision again to I ^ rom the curse of a corrupt goi our starting-point, Beyrout, we' ernment an(1 careless peasantry; make ready to take our train over though there are some exceptions the Lebanon to Baalbek. And as ; hcr 9 anfl the re in the way of care we face the Lebanon range with ! an ^ cultivation to profit, the sunlight sparkling o’er the “As the train winds its way up snowy coronet, we understand how mountains, the laughing waves the church of former days as it. of tht -‘ Mediterranean are behind looked up to the lofty brow of the us - antl scenes of diversified beauty mountain, whose highest point,' are before us ’ ° n the one hand Sannin, is .0,000 feet above thc I we behold pictures of majesty and . * . . .! glory; on the other we arc charm with ravishing glimpses of terraced vineyards, whose vines twine themselves gracefully around huge stones; hovels with qtieerly con structed roofs are nestling upon the mountain-side; we are saluted by Syrian peasants of rustic health land quaint beauty; while to the left are the snow-capped peaks of ; Lebanon, like royal thrones above ' our heads.” You may not know it, but the word “Lebanon” signifies “white”—from the higher peaks of the mountain being white with snow the greater part of the year, just, as in other countries the names of the highest mountains,, such as the Sierra Nevada, the Himalaya, and Mont Blanc, are- gained from the fair mantles bor rowed from the skies beyond. “I very mile ol soil is new, and every native face is strange, s«* we 1 < ’ouiimiei.l mi tit li l J njjt*-. 1 sea, could employ its calm and j on the other we are charmed immovable majesty as an emblem of the Great Redeemer of man- i kind, saying “His countenance is as Lebanon”! and the prophet’s I question comes home with a new reality, ‘Shall a man leave the snow of Lebanon?" And after one has got a glimpse of “the Land of the Book” and “the Land of Bondage,” sve have an explana tion of Moses'ardent desire: “I pray Thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jor dan, that goodly mountain, even Lebanon!” | Sg. of Sol. 5:15; Jer. 18:14; Isa. 35:2; Deut. 3:25.] We pass a beautiful driveway, fine terraced lands, the mulberry, the vine, the olive, in great culti vation, over hard rock and marbly, also a soft whitish-yellow lime stone formation, on a cog-wheel rail wn v, the on !r.c- , on win-. 0 um: