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Young Men,. Send for our catalog. It tells about a trade you can learn in a few months and which will pay you from $40 to $50 a month to start on. Southern School of Telegraphy, Newnan, - Georgia. Box 214. Land of Promise (Continued from pngp 2.) genealogy, Joseph appears as the son of Hell, who was really Mary’s father.’ According to this view all difficulties dissolve and disap pear. Both Joseph and Mary be longed to the same tribe. Mary inherited property in her own name, and when Joseph married her his name had by law to be sub stituted for hers in the genealogy of her family. This explains the necessity of Mary’s personal ap pearance at Bethlehem.’’ One other thing we need to call special attention to, and that is, on their arrival at the Inn of Bethlehem, by reason of the un usual crowd of strangers brought thither by the Roman decree for taxation, it is not strange they found “there was no room for them in the inn” (Lk, 2:7). They were not given accommodations in the upper story of the caravansary J. T. tian Powers were terminating such possibilities both revolting and scandalous to Christendom There is the chapel of the Praesepiutn, or Manager, in the angle between the south flight of stairs and the grotto side, the place of the man ger on the west side being now represented by a marble trough, the real Praesepium having been carried to Rome and placed in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, where we saw it on our way later across Europe. Turning to the other side of the Grotto we see the Station of the Wise Men. We visit the various other points of in terest in the building and its vici nity, especially the altar and tomb ' of St. Eusebius (not the historian, I however); the tombs of St. Paula the estimate by the agent, and her daughter (St. Eustachia), CENTRAL OF GEORGIA mimmiioN , Supt. RAILWAY Dim I, fib, April 25, 1005. Mr. W. A. Malone, Agent, Savannah, Ga. Dear Sir:—Policy 184,00,4 was written for the undersigned by 1800, under the 20 pay, 5 year plan. Distribution first and second your Company in dividends exceeded I have just received notice of the third dividend amounting devoted followers of St. Jerome, to $722,50, which is left optional to be either withdrawn or allowed to remain with the the tomb of whom is just opposite; to the study of Jer-j Company. I was informed when the policy was first written that if the dividends ne- then ascend ome of so much interest to lovers and students of the Bible, now us ed as a chapel with altar on the eruing on this policy were left over with the Company that thet •e would pro! >ai>l v h me itii a viiiiacii y . , , | | . simply because others preceeded east s,,le over wh,ch 18 an old P'oeilOUgli surplus to the credit of this policy to issue a paid-up policy at the end of the 14t! ture of the saint writing with a ■ ■ Ataaa Peniston’s Drug Store Crane's Spring Mndioine. Crane's Kidney [and Backache Cure. Crane’s Cough Cure. Crane’s Hendache Relief. Crane's Cholera acdJDinri liocu Mixture. Crane’s Family Liniment. Crane's Eczema Cure. Crane’s Liver Powders. Crane’s Pile Salvo. Crane’s Liver Pills. Crane's Female Relief. These arc Standard Prepara tions and are Sold and Recom mended at L Peniston’s Drug Store. 'V" Get a Shave -AT- them, taking up all the room avail able, and not at all because they were too poor to pay for such ac commodation. The necessary re sult was, that Joseph, having tried to no avail to get better charters, was obliged with bis wife to occu py the lower floor, or grotto-like quarters, beneath the caravansary, and make themselves comfortable as best they could, with the beasts of burden in the same place as before dessribeu. It is no wonder therefore tint when Jesus the Messiah was born of Mary he was cradled in the manger in which his mother had made her bed. That the present grotto or cav cm under the Church of the Na tivity in Bethlehem is identical with that connected with the Inn of Chimham seems beyond doubt. So convinced of this fact was the venerable church father Jerome that he made his abode in a near by cave while translating the Holy Bible into the Vulgate, assigning as his reason his desire that the Written Word should go forth to the world from a cave close to the one in which the Eternal Word had become manifest in the fl.*sh. “Alter all that has been said, or can be said against it, there re mains the remarkable fact that the spot was reverenced by Christians as the birthplace of Christ, two centuries before the conversion ot the Roman empire—before that burst of local religion, which is commonly ascribed to the visit of Helena.” (Dean Stanley). “This is indeed the ancient and constant tradition of both the Eastern and the Western churches, and it is one of the few to which we may attach a reasonable probability.” (Canon Farrar.) “It may be— nay, it seems likely—that this, to which the most venerable tradition points, was the sacred spot of the world’s greatest event.” iDr. Ai fred Edersheim ) We do not think it is saying too much that in the Church of tire Nativity, erected over this sacred spot, we have “the oldest and the most venerable church on the whole earth!” As one approaches this great building, it looks well-nigh like an immense fortress. Before us stands the Greek Church of St. Mary backed by the Latin Church of St. Catharine, while underneath the former is the Grotto of the Nativity (lit up with gold and sil ver lamps) but connected with the latter also. In this pile of build ings the Greeks, the Latins and the Armenians have their several monasteries and chapels and schools and altars. In the Chapel of the Nativity at the east end we see a semi-circular apse, the “holy place” indeed with a marble slab An Idle Je»t. f ... Pa, what Is un idle jest?’ ” m the pavement bearing in its cen- One that the newspapers haven’t tre a l ar g e gold star and the Latin words—“Hie de Virgine Maria year, lion at his feet. Here also is shown the Altar of the Innocents with a picture over it representing their slaughter, and said to mark the spot where 20,000 children who were murdered on Herod's order, were buried; also the Chapel of Joseph, where he is said to have retired at the moment of the birth 1 now ( ] 0 j n g business, of Jesus. We were exceedingly interested in the ancient frescoes | boon entirely and friezes and columns in the Church of the Nativity, but much disgusted at the ecclesiastical per formances o’er this sacred area. I One will not soon forget the old ChurCh of St. Helena with its 44 columns of vari colored marble (red and dark), crusader font, and where Baldwin was crowned King of Jerusalem, the mixture of priests and people of all classes,the clouds of incense and chanting and obeisance to the Greek High l’riest. Hence we took a good iook into the best of the bazaars, where are manufactured and sold antiques and fancy articles made of mother- of-pearl, coral, stinkstone (lime mild g(>t of 1 lie I lib year that I do not hesitate* m*> The Company notified mo promptly at the end a paid-up policy and discontinue payments if 1 desired to do so. I ommeiiding the .Etna Company to any person who may desire this kind of insurance, as 1 have always, and still believe it to he one o( the most economic,al Insurance Companies 1 he results of several policies which I hold in your Company have atisfactory. Hoping you success in your new undertaking, Ymm I beg to remain, truly, | Signed | .). T. IOIINNON. F. M. BRYANT, District Manager, Aetna Life Insurance Company Newnan, Georgia. mixed with bitumen) from the Dead Sea, and olive-wood. Here and perhaps that vary night, at all events early the next day, Mary ami iho ^ailey’s Barber Shop and you’ll continue to get shaved there. The same is true of hair-cuts, shampoos, etc., Throe white bar bers are employed, and the service is first-class. Drop into Railoy’s White Barber Shop Opera House Building, Newnan, - - - Georgia. Brooks as the Just What Everyone Should Do. Mr. .1. T. Barber, of Irwinville, Ga., always keeps a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand ready for instant use. Attacks of colic, cholera morbus and diarrhoea come on so suddenly that there is no time to hunt a doctor or go to the store for medicine. Mr. Barber says: “I have tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy which is one of the best medicines I ever saw. I keep a bottle of it in my room as I have had several attacks of colic and it has proved to be the best medicine I ever used.” Sold by Holt & Cates, druggists, New nan, Ga. we lay by a store of things to take 1 child were removed to a oomfortahlo home with 11s. The pearl orna ments are exceedingly pretty, but quite goodly-priced, and made into many ingenious designs, even to rosaries, crosses, stars, paper cut ters, etc. Here may be seen peasants and Bedouins, many of whom come from the vicinity of the Dead Sea to this as a market-place. Christ mas is the great festival season in Bethlehem, the Latins beginning their festival on Dec. 25th, while the Greaks commence theirs 12 days later, following the old Julian calendar. Thus while in America and Great Britain Christmas comes but once a year, in Bethlehem it comes twice. We were also given an opportunity to see the so-called Field of the Shepherds in the midst of which is the Grotto of the same name: and had pointed out to 11 h the Milk.Grotto, in which it is said a drop of Mary’s milk once dropped on the floor, and ever after that any moth er or even animal might have their milk increased by going thereinto. The so- called Field of Bouz also had a place 10 the view. Who cannot bestirred with in his soul os he looks out o’er the re gion in which the shepherds keeping watch by night o’er their flocks had the angel of the Lord to come upon them and tiie glory of the Lord to shine round about them, as they were brought glad tidings of great joy to be to all people through the birth in the,city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord, and hade them go to the young child in the manger, as they did, and went out to make Him known to others und glorify and praiHe the Lord for what they hud heard and seen. “Were Mary and the babe with Jo seph left in the cave-stable where the Saviour had been born? We would love to think of the mother and the babe re maining in the cave for a few days, hut i Jesus Christus Natus Est”. (“Here it does not seem that such was the case. "No fool was ever so foolish but Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin . For when the Wise Men came from the Ak. .-V, * V> I m nlal'OP ! .. TS.. . t _ A* I .11. I I.. I Candor. "Good gracious!” exclaimed the mint sauce. “1 should think you’d he asham ed to masquerade as ‘spring lamb.’ ” "Well,” replied the roast, "it does make me feel rather sheepish."—Cath olic Standard and Times. home where every want was supplied until the forty days of her purification were passed.” (Otis). Again we take our carriages mid are whirled away to camp outside the walls | of Jerusalem, passing from the City of j fhe Nativity to the City of the Crucifix- j ion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus the Christ. More the words of Phillips have a new significance to us night draws on apace: O little town of Bethlehem, How still we soo thee lie! Ahovo thy deep and dreamless sloop The silent stars go by ; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The Everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight! For Christ is born of Mary; And gathered nil above, While, mortals sleep the angels keep Their watch of wond’ring love. O morning stars! Together | Proclaim the holy birth, And praises sing to God the King, And pence to men on earth I Ifow silently, how silently The wondrous gift is giv’n! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of Ills lieav’n. No ear may hear his coming; But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him still, The dear Christ enters in yet got hold of and worked to death. —Cleveland Leader. some oue thought him clever. Sprained Ankle, Stiff Neck, Lame Shoulder. Mary”). But, strange to say, in this Grotto of the Nativity a Turk ish soldier always stands guard to keep these various sects and their These are three common ailments for which Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is leaders from flying at each Other’s especially valuable. I promptly applied j Croats in deadly animosity. In it will save you time, money aud suffer- lg such a gcene q{ b j oodshed ing when troubled with any one of .. . these ailments. East, of whom Matthew tells, bringing their gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh, to l>ay their hornuge to the ‘De sire of all nations’, they did not find the mother and the child in the stable, but in the house. What house? It was a particular house iu Bethlehem. It seems that as soon as it was known in the city that this wonderful babe had beeu born O Holy Child of Bethlehem, Descend to ns, we pray; Cast out our sin and enter in,— Be born in us today! We hear the Christinas angels The great glad tidings fell,— Oh, come to us, abide with us, Our Lord, Emmanuel I (To be continued.) Huge Task. It was a huge task, to undertake the | cure of such a bad case of kidney dis ease, as that of C. F. Collier, of Chero kee, la., but Electric Bitters did it. He writes: "My kidneys were so far gone, I could not sit on a chair without, a cushion; and suffered from dreadful 1 backache, headache, and depression. In Electric Bitters,however,I found a cure, and by them was restored to perfect health. I recommend this great tonic medicine to all witli weak kidneys, liver or stomach. Guaranteed by J. T. Summer Excursion Rates via Central of Georgia Railway Summer excursion tickets at, greatly reduced rales are now on sale at all coupon ticket offices, to Mountain and seashore roHorls in tin North, East and South, via all-rail routes and via Sa vannah and steamship lines. For rates, schedules, routes, descriptive matter etc., apply to your nearest ticket, agent. J. C. HAILE Cencral Passenger Agent. Ilffif lllill—I —H—fI Savannah, Cfi. That Job of Printing== For sale by Holt & j did occur * and ma V a g ain in a mo * in a stable in the inn, a hospitable home “ d Dr ' Paul Fe,liHtou - dru KK i « , «- Have it done at this shop, and—if the quality of the stock and the work is not satisfactory, or if the price is not as reasonable as first-class print ers anywhere charge for first-class work—the job will not cost you a cent. That’s a fair and reasonable proposition—a proposition we could not afford to make if we didn’t have 1I1 facilities, the workmen and the will to “make good.” If it’s any th) g in printing, you should try The N ws shop before giving an order. Cates, druggists, Newnan, Ga. i ment. It is high time the Chris* i was opened to receive tlio holy family; Price 50c. I