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PRAISE FOR GREECE.
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON A SUBJECT OF
WORLDWIDE INTEREST.
He Shows What Wo Owe tho Greeks—A
Debt In Language, Art,. Heroism aud
Medicine—Tho Best Way to Pay tho
Debt.
WASHINGTON, March 28.—As Dr. Tal-
mago’s sermons are published on both sides
tho ocean, this discourse on a subject of
worldwide interest will attract universal
attention. His text was Romans i, 14, “I
am debtor both to tho Greeks and to the
barbarians.”
At this time, when that behemoth of
abominations, Mohammedanism, after
having gorged itself on thocarcassos of
100,000 Armenians, is trying to put it3
paws upon ono of the fairest of all na¬
tions, that of the. Greeks, I preach this
sermon of sympathy and protest, for ev¬
ery intelligent person on this side of tho
sea, as well as tho other side, like Paul,
who wrote the text, is debtor to the Greeks.
Tho present crisis is emphasized by tho
guns of the allied powers of Europe, ready
to be unlimbered against the Hellenes, and
I am asked to speak out. Paul, with a
master intellect of the ages, sat in bril¬
liant Corinth, tho great Acro-Corinthus
fortress frowning from tho height of 1,080
feet, and in tiie house of Gaius, where he
was a guest, a big pile of money near him,
which ho was taking to Jerusalem for tho
poor.
In this letter to the Romans, which
Chrysostom admired so much that ho hud
It read to him twice a week, Pam practi¬
cally says: “I, the apostle, am bank¬
rupt. 1 owe what I cannot pay, but I will
pay as large, a percentage as lean. It is
an obligation for what Greek literature
and Greek sculpture and Greek architec-
ture.and Greek prowess have done for mo.
I will pay alii can in installments of evan¬
gelism. I am insolvent to the Greeks.”
Hellas, as the inhabitants call it, or
Greece, ,as we call it, is insignificant in
size, about a third as large as the state of
Hew York, but what it lacks in breadth it
makes up in height, with its mountains
Cylene and Eta and Taygotus and Tym-
phrestus, each over ,7,000 feet in elevation,
and its Parnassus, over 8,000. Just the
country for mighty men to be born in, for
in all lands the most of the intellectual
and moral giants were not born on the
plain, but had for cradle the valley be¬
tween two mountains. That country, no
part of which is more than 10 miles from
the sea, has made its impress upon the
world as no other nation, and it today
holds a first mortgage of obligation upon
all civilized people. While we must leave
to statesmanship and diplomacy the settle¬
ment of the intricate questions which now
involve all Europe and indirectly all na¬
tions, it is time for all churches, all schools,
all universities, all arts, all literature, to
sound out in the most emphatic way the
declaration, ‘ ‘ I am debtor to the Greeks. ’ ’
The Greek Language.
In tho first place, we owe to their lan -
guage our New Testament. All of it was
first written in Greek, except tiie book of
Matthew, and that, written in the Ara-
mteun language, was soon put into Greek
fey our Saviour’s brother James. To the
Greek language we owe the best sermon
ever preached, the best letters ever writ¬
ten, tho best visions ever kindled. All tho
parables in Greek. All the miracles in
Greek. Tho sermon on the mount in
Greek. The story of Bethlehem and Gol¬
gotha and Olivet and Jordan banks and
Galilean beaches and Pauline embarka¬
tion and Pentecostal tongues and seven
trumpets that sounded over Patmos have
come to the world in liquid, symmetrical,
picturesque, philosophic, unrivaled Greek,
instead of tho gibberish language in which
many of the nations of the earth at that
time jabbered. Who can forget it, and who
can exaggerate its thrilling importance,
that Christ and heaven were introduced to
us in the language of the Greeks, the lan¬
guage in which Homer had sung and
Sophocles dramatized and Plato dialogued
and Socrates discoursed and Lycurgus leg¬
islated and Demosthenes thundered his
oration on “The Crown?” Everlasting
thanks to God that tho waters of life were
not handed to the world in the unwashed
cup of corrupt languages from which na¬
tions had been drinking, but in the clean,
bright, golden lipped, emerald handled
chalice of the Hellenes. Learned Curtins
wrote a whole volume about the Greek
verb. Philologists century after century
have been measuring tho symmetry of that
language, laden with elegy and philippic,
drama and comedy, “Odyssey” and “Il¬
iad, ” but the grandest thing that Greek
language ever accomplished was to give, to
the world the benediction, the comfort, the
irradiation, tho salvation, of the gospel of
the Son of God. For that we are debtors
to the Greeks.
And while speaking of our philological
obligation let me call your attention to
the fact that many of tiie intellectual and
moral and theological leaders of the ages
got much of their discipline and effective¬
ness from Greek literature. It is popular
to scoff at the dead languages, but 50 per
. cent of the world’s intellectuality would
have been taken off if through learned in¬
stitutions our young men had not, under
competent professors, been drilled in Greek
masterpieces, Hesiod’s “Weeks and Days,”
or tho eulogium by Simonides of the slain
in war, or Pindar's “Odes of Victory,” or
“Tho Recollections of Socrates,’’ or “Tho
Art of Words,” by Corax, or Xenophon’s
“Anabasis.”
History and tho Greeks.
From tho Greeks the world learned how
to make history. Had tliero been no He¬
rodotus and Thucydides there would have
been no Macaulay or Bancroft. Had there
been no Sophocles in tragedy there would
have been no Shakespeare. Had there been
no Homer there would have been no Mil-
ton. The modern wits, who are now or
have been put on the divine mission of
making the world laugh at the right time,
can be traced back to Aristophanes, the
Athenian, and many of the jocosities that
are now taken us new had their sugges¬
tions 2,300 years ago in tho 64 comedies
of that master of merriment. Grecian
mythology has been tho richest mine from
which orators and essayists have drawn
their illustrations and painters the themes
for their canvas, and, although now an ex¬
hausted mine. Grecian mythology lias done
a work that nothing else could have ac¬
complished. Boreas, representing the
north wind; Sisyphus, rolling tho stone
up the hill, only to have the same thing to
do over again; Tantalus, with fruits above
him that he could not reach; Achilles,
with his arrows; Icarus, with his waxen
wings, flying too near the sun; the Cen¬
taurs, half man and half boast; Orpheus,
with his lyre; Atlas, with the world on
his back—all theso and more have helped
literature, from the graduate’s speech on
commencement day to Rufus Choate’s eu¬
logium on Daniel Webster at Dartmouth.
Tragedy and comedy were bom in the fes-
tivnls of Dionysius at Athens. The lyrio
and elegiac and opio poetry of Greece 500
years before Christ has its echoes in tho
l’ennysons, Longfellows and Bryants of
1,800 and 1,000 years after Christ. There
is not an effective pulpit or editorial chair
or professor’s room or cultured parlor or
intelligent farmhouse today in America or
Kuropo that could not appropriately em¬
ploy Paul’s ejaculation and say, “I am
debtor to tiie Greeks. ’ ’
Tho fact is this—Paul had got muoh of
his oratorical power of expression from
the Greeks. That he had studied their lit¬
erature was evident when, standing in the
presenco of an audience of Greek scholars
on Mars hill, which overlooks Atlions, ho
dared to quote from one of their own
Greek poets, either Cleanthus or Aratus,
declaring, “As certain also of your own
poets have said, ‘For wo arc also his off¬
spring.’” And lie made accurate quota¬
tion, Cleanthus, one of the poets, having
written:
For wo thine offspring are. All things that
croep
Aro hut tho echo of tho voice divine.
And Aratus, ono of thoir own poets, had
written:
Doth care perplex? Is lowering danger nigh?
We aro his offspring,, and to Jove wo fly.
It was rather a risky thing; for Paul to
attempt to quote extemporaneously from a
poem in a language foreign to his and be¬
fore Greek scholars, but Paul did it with¬
out stammering and then acknowledged
before the most distinguished audience on
the planet his indebtedness to the Greeks,
crying out in ids oration, ” As one of your
own poets has said.”
Grecian Architecture.
Furthermore, all the civilized world,
like Paul, is indebted to the Greeks for
architecture. Tho world before tiie time of.
tiie Greeks had built monoliths, obelisks,
cromlechs,sphinxes and pyramids, but they
were mostly monumental to tho dead
whom they failed to memorialize. Wo are
not certain even of the names of those in
whose commemoration architecture the pyramids were
built. But Greek did most for
the living. Ignoring Egyptian precedents
and borrowing nothing from other na¬
tions, Greek architecture carved its own
columns, set its own pediments, adjusted
its own entablatures, rounded its own
moldings and carried out ns never before
the three qualities of right building, called
by an old author “flrrnitas, utilitas, veuu-
stas’—namely, firmness, usefulness, beau¬
ty. Although the Parthenon on the Acrop¬
olis of Athens is only a wreck of the
storms and earthquakes and bombard¬
ments of many oenturies, and although
Lord Elgin took from one side of that
building, at an expense of $250,000, two
shiploads of sculpture, ono shipload going
down in tho Mediterranean and the other
shipload now to be found in the British
museum, the Parthenon, though in com¬
parative ruins, has been an inspiration to
all architects for centuries past and will
bo an inspiration all the time from now
until the world itself is a temple of ruin.
Oh, that Parthenon! One never gets over
having once seen it. But wliat must it
have been when it stood as its architects,
Ikltnos and Kallikrates, built it out of
Pentelioan marble, white as Mont Blanc
at noonday and as overwhelming. Height
above height. Overtopping the august and
majestic pile and rising from its roof was
a statue of Pallas Promachus in bronze,
so tail and flashing that sailors far out at
sea beheld tiie plume of her helmet. With¬
out the aid of the eternal God it never
could have been planned, and without the
aid of God the chisels and trowels never
could have constructed it. 'There is not a
fine church building in all tho world, or a
properly constructed courthouse, ora beau¬
tiful art gallery, or an appropriate audi¬
torium, or a tasteful borne, which, be'*, use
of that Parthenon, whether its style or
some other style be adopted, is not direct¬
ly or indirectly a debtor to the Greeks.
But there is another art in my mind—
the most fascinating, elevating and in¬
spiring of all arts and tho nearest to the
divine—for which all tho world owes a
debt to the Hellenes that will never bo
paid. I mean sculpture. At least 650 years
before Christ the Greeks perpetuated the
human face and form in terra cotta and
marble. What a blessing to the human
family that men and women, mightily use¬
ful, who could livo only within a century
may be perpetuated for fivo or six or ten
centuries! How l wish that some sculptor
contemporaneous with Christ could have
put his matchless form in marble! But
for every grand and exquisite statue of
Martin Luther, of John Knox, of William
Penn, of Thomas Chalmers, of Wellington,
of Lafayette, of any of the great statesmen
or emancipators or conquerors who adorn
your parks or fill the niches of your acad¬
emies, you are debtors to the Greeks. They
covered the Acropolis, they glorified the
temples, they adorned the cemeteries with
statues, soiuo in cedar, some in ivory,
some in silver, some in gold, some in size
diminutive and some in size colossal.
Thanks to Phidias, who worked in stone;
to Clearehus, who worked in bronze; to
Dontas, who worked in gold, and to all
ancient chisels of commemoration. Do you
not realize that for many of the wonders
of sculpture we are debtors to the Greeks?
The Art of Healing.
Yea, for the science of medicine, the
great art of healing, we must thank tho
Greeks. There is the immortal Greek doc¬
tor, Hippocrates, who first opened the door
for disease to go out and health to come
in. He first set forth the importance of
cleanliness and sleep, making the patient
before treatment to be washed and tako
slumber on the hide of a sacrificed beast.
He first discovered the importance of thor¬
ough prognosis and diagnosis. Ho formu¬
lated the famous oath of Hippocrates
which is taken by physicians of our day.
He emancipated medicine from supersti¬
tion, empiricism and priestcraft. He was
the father of all the infirmaries, hospitals
and medical colleges of the last. 23 cen¬
turies. Ancient medicament and surgery
had before that been anatomical and phys¬
iological assault and battery, and long
after the time of Hippocratos, the Greek
doctor, where his theories were not known,
tho Bible speaks of fatal medical treat¬
ment when it says, “In his disease he
sought' not Asa to the slept Lord, with but his to fathers. the phy¬
sicians, and
And we read in tho New Testament of the
poor woman who had boon treated by in¬
competent doctors, who asked large fees,
where it says, “Sho had suffered many
things of many physicians and bad spent
all that she had and was nothing better,
bpt rather grow worse.” For our glorious
saicnee of medicine and surgery—more sub¬
lime than astronomy, for we have more to
do with disease than with the stars; more
beautiful than botany, for bloom of health
In the cheek of wife and child is worth
more to us than all the roses of tho garden
—for this grandest of all sciences, the sci-
enoe of healing, every pillow of recovered
invalid, every ward of American and Eu¬
ropean hospital, may well cry out: “Thank
God for old Dr. Hippocrates. I, like Paul,
am indebted to the Greeks.”
Furthermore, all the world Is obligated
to Hellas more than It can ever pay for Its
heroics in the causo of liberty and right.
United Kuropo today had not better think
that tho Greeks will not light. There may
bo fallings back and vacillations and tem¬
porary defeat, but if Greece is right all
Kuropo cannot put her down. Tho other
nations, before they open t he portholes of
their men-of-wnr against that small king¬
dom, had better read of thebuttloof Mara¬
thon, where 10,000 Athenians, led on by
Mlltlados, triumphed over 100,000 of thoir
enemies. At that time, in Greek council of
war, five generals were for beginning the
battle and five were against it. Callimach¬
us presided at the council of war, had tho
deciding vote, and Miltiades addressed
him, saying: Callimachus,
“It now rests with you,
either to enslave Athens, or, by insuring
her freedom, to win yourself an immor¬
tality of fame, for never since tho Athe¬
nians were a people were they in such dan¬
ger ns they are in at this moment. If they
bow tiie kneo to these Medes, they are to
be given up to Hipplns, and you know
what they will then have to suffer, but If
Athens comes victorious out of this con¬
test she has it in her power to become tho
first city of Greece. Your vote is to decide
whether we are to join battle or not. If we
do not bring on a battle presently, some
factious intrigue will disunite the Athe¬
nians, and tiie city will be betrayed to the
Medes, but if wo fight before tliero is any¬
thing rotten in the state of Athens I be-
iievo that, provided the gods will give fair
field and no favor, wo are able to get the
best of it in the engagement.”
Greek Heroes.
That won the vote of Callimachus, and
soon the battle opened, and in full run the
men of Miltiades fell upon tiie Persian
hosts, shouting: “On, sons of Greece!
Strike for tho freedom of your country!
Strike for the freedom of your children
and your wives, for tho shrines of your fa¬
thers’ gods and for the sepulchers of your
sires!” Wfeilti only 193 Greeks fell 0,400
Persians lay dead upon the field, and many
of the Asiatic hosts who took to the war
vessels in tiie harbor were consumed in
tho shipping. Persian oppressiou was re¬
buked, Grecian liberty was achieved, tho
cause of civilization was advanced, and tho
western world and all nations have felt the
heroics. Had there been no Miltiades
there might have been no Washington.
Also at Thermopylae S00 Greeks, along
a road only wide enough for a wheel track
between a mountain and a marsh, died
rather than surrender. Had there been no
Thermopylro there might have been no
Hunker Hill. Tho echo of Athenian and
Spartan heroics was heard at the gates of
Lucknow, and Sevastopol, and Bannock¬
burn, and Lexington, and Gettysburg.
English Magna Chuj'tti, and Declaration of
American Independence, and the song of
Hubert Burns, entitled “A Man’s a Man
For a’ That,” were only the long contin¬
ued reverberation of what was said and
done 30 centuries bofore in that little king¬
dom that the powers of Europe are now
imposing upon. Greece having again and
again shown that 10 men fin the right are
stronger than 100 men in tho wrong, the
heroics of Leonidas and Aristides and Tho-
mistoclcs will not cease their mission un¬
til the last man on earth is as free as God
made him. There is not on either side of
tho Atlantic today a republic that cannot
truthfully employ the words of the text
and say, “I am debtor to the Greeks.’t
Debt to the Greeks.
But now comes the practical question,
How can we pay that debt or u part of it?
For wo cannot pay more than 10 per cent
of that debt in which Paul acknowledged
himself a bankrupt. By praying Almighty
God that he will help Greece in its present
war with Mohammedanism and the con¬
certed empires of Europe. 1 know her
queen, a noble, Christian woman, her face
the throne of all beneficence and loveli¬
ness, her life un example of noble wile-
hood and motherhood. God help those pal¬
aces in these days of awful exigency! Our
American senate did well the other day,
when, in that capitol building which owes
to Greece its columnar impressiveness,
they passed a hearty resolution of sympa¬
thy for that nation. Would that all who
have potent words that can be heard in
Europe would utter them now, when they
are so much needed! Let us repeat to them
in English what they centuries ago de¬
clared to the world in Greek, “Blessed are
those who are persecuted for righteous¬
ness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. ”
Another way of partly paying our debt
to the Greeks is by higher appreciation of
the learning and self sacrifice of the men
who in our own land stand for all that the
ancient Greeks stood. While here and there
one comes to public approval and reward
the most of them live in privation or on
salary disgracefully small. The scholars,
the archaeologists, the artists, the literati
—most of them live up three or four
flights of stairs and by small windows that
do not let in rile full sunlight. You pass
them every day in your streets without
any recognition. Grub street, whore many
of the mighty men of the past suffered, is
long enough to reach around the world.
No need of wasting our sympathy upon
the unappreciated thinkers and workers of
the past, though Linnteus sold his works
lor a single ducat, though Noah Webster’s
spjelling book yielded him more than his
dictionary, though Correggio, the. great
Painter, recoiling lor long continued
work payment of §39, died from overjoy;
though when' Goldsmith's friends visited
him they were obliged to sit in the win¬
dow, as he had but one chair; though
Samuel Boyse, tho great poet, starved to
death; though the author of “Hudibras”
died in a garret, though “Paradise Lost”
brought Rs author only §25 cash down,
with promise of §50 more if tho sale war¬
ranted it, so that §75 was all that was
paid for what is considered the greatest
poem over written. Better turn our atten-
tion to the fact that there are ut this mo¬
ment hundreds of authors, painterB, sculp¬
tors, architects, brain wofkers, without
bread and without fuel and without com¬
petent apparel. As far as you can afford it,
buy their sculpture, read their books, pur¬
chase their pictures, encourage their pen,
their pencil, their chisel, their engraver’s
knife, their architect’s compass. The world
calls them "bookworms” or “Dr. Dryas¬
dust,” but if there had been no book¬
worms or dry doctors of law and science
and theology there would havo been no
Apocalyptic angel. They are tho Greeks of
oup country aud time, and your obliga- ■
tion to them is infinite.
Way to Pay the Debt.
But there is a better way to pay them,
and that is by their personal salvation,
which will never come to them through
books or through learned presentation, be¬
cause in literature and intellectual realms
they are masters. They can outargue, out-
quote, outdogmatize you. Not througli the
gate of tho head, but through the gate of
the heart, you may capture them. When
men of learning and might aro brought to
God, they are brought by tho simplest
story of what religion can do for a soul.
They have lost children. Oh, tell them
how Christ comforted you when you lost
your bright boy or blue eyed girl I They
have found life a struggle. holped On^ all hem
how Christ has you b way
through! They are in bewilderment. Oh,
tell them with how many bands of joy
heaven beckons you upward! “When
Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of |
war,” but when a warm hearted Christian
meets a man who needs pardon and sym-
puthy and comfort and eternal life then
comes victory. If you can, by some Inci¬
dent of self sacrifice, bring to such schol¬
arly men aud women what Christ has dono
for thoir eternal rescue, you may bring
them in. Where Demosthenic eloquence
and Homeric imagery would fall a kindly
heart throb may succeed. A gentlomati of
this city sends mo tho statement of what
occurred a few days ago among tho mines
of British Columbia. It seems that Frank
Conson and Jem Smith were down in tho
narrow shaft of a mine. They bad loaded
an iron bucket with coal, and Jim Hems-
worth, standing above ground, was haul¬
ing the bucket up by windlass, when the
windlass broke, aud tho loaded bucket was
descending upon the two miners. Then
Jim Hemsworth, seeing what must be cer¬
tain death to the miners beneath, threw
himself against the cogs of tho whirling
windlass, and though his flesh was torn
and his bones were broken he stopped tho
whirling windlass and arrested the de¬
scending bucket and saved tho lives of tho
two miners beneath. Tho superintendent
of tho mine flew to the rescue and blocked
the machinery. When Jim Hemsworth’s
bleeding and broken body was put on a
litter and carried homeward and some one
exclaimed, “Jim, this is awfull” ho re¬
plied, “Oh, what's the difference so long
as I saved the boys?”
What an illustration it was of suffering
for others, and what a text from which to
illustrate the behavior of our Christ, limp¬
ing and lacerated and broken and torn
and crushed in the work of stopping the
descending ruin that would have destroy¬
ed our souls! Try such a scene of vicarious
suffering as this on that man capable of
overthrowing all your arguments for the
truth, and ho will sit down and weep.
Draw your illustrations from tho classics,
and it is to him an old story, hut Leyden
jars and electric batteries and telescopes
and Greek drama will all surrender to tho
story of Jim Hemsworth’s “Oh, what’s
the difference so long as I saved the hoys?”
Then, if your illustration of Christ’s
self sacrifice, drawn from some scene of
today, and your story of what Christ has
done for you do not quite fetch him into
the right way, just say to him, "Profess¬
or—doctor—judge, why was it that Paul
declared he was a debtor to the Greeks?”
And ask your learned friend to take his
Greek Testament and translate for you, in
his own way, from Greek into English,
the splendid peroration of Paul’s sermon
on Mars hill, under the power of which
tho scholarly Dionysius surrendered—
namely, “Tho times of this ignorance God
winked at. but now commandeth all men
everywhere to repent, because he hath ap¬
pointed a day in the which he will judge
the world in righteousness, by that man
whom lie hath ordained, whereof he hath
given assurance unto all men in that he
hath raised him from the dead.” By the
time ho has got through the translation
from tiie Greek I think you will see his
lip tremble, and there will come a pallor
on Lis face like tho pallor on the sky at
daybreak. By the eternal salvation of that
scholar, that great thinker, that splendid
man, you will have-done something to help
pay your indebtedness to the Greeks. And
how to God the Father, God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost be honor and glory
and dominion and victory and song, world
without end. Amen.
Hypnotism at a Fire.
The professional hypnotist who has been
in the city for several days had an oppor¬
tunity the other night of demonstrating
his power beyond contradiction and in a
manner that caused physicians to look
amazed and interested. Just about the
close of a performance at the opera house
last Dight the fire alarm was sounded, and
r. lady and a gentleman attending had left
their babe at the house which was burn¬
ing. When the father discovered the house
on fire, he seemed to have lost his reason
and frantically ran to the place and kicked
through a large window light, cutting his
shoe in three or four places and getting an
ugly gash in his foot. He then made a
dive through the window, regardless of
glass or sash, and ran into the burning
room, from where it took four men to carry
him, and assurances by them that his only
babe was safe in a house just across the
street were unheeded by him.
They then carried him by foroo, which
required the combined strength of four
strong men, to whore the child was; but
be evidenced symptoms of convulsions and
was placed upon a bed, and it seemed that
scarcely enough men could get to him to
hold him there. In the struggle the bed¬
stead was torn down. A prominent physi¬
cian began preparation of a medicine to bo
administered. Meanwhile a boy had gone
for tho hypnotist, who came up, request¬
ing those holding the gentleman to release
him, remarking, “He is only sleepy.”
Then, gently placing his hands on Lis
head, he said: “You are almost asleep.
You are going to sleep. Now, when I
count three, you will sleep).” The man
ceased his struggling and slept. He vr;;3
allowed to remain quiet for only a few
minutes, when the hypnotist began to talk
to him, assuring him that he would soon
awake and would know nothing about
what had happened, which he did at the
operator’s command and in amazement
asked how he came to be there and what
hud soiled his clothes. The babe was
brought to him, and the hypnotist quietly
slipped out of the crowd and departed.
Skepticism in regard to hypnotic power is
a back issue here, and tho most learned
men are the ones most interested and puz¬
zled.— Palestine (Tex.) Letter in Galveston
N ews.
A New Book Canvasser,
Here is a picture of the Roman book
canvasser, The snow white Mauritanian
steeds, with the heaving flanks, the pn :
ed ears, the crimson nostrils, are re! .1
up.. From tho chariot descended tho roas¬
ter, who, giving his flowing toga an extra
graceful fold, entered a house on the Via
Aurelia. Presently a Scythian slave fol¬
lowed Ms lord, bearing in his sturdy arms
a precious fassieuius, fully illustrated, up
to date and superbly bound in Persian
cloth. It was a Pliny in 10 volumes, a sub¬
scription book. Such were the methods of
the canvasser iu the palmy days of Rome.
If we aro to credit a recent florid descrip¬
tion in a leading literary review, tho Ro¬
man method is the way of a certain kind
of book agent of today. Ho ridos iu his
own coupe, drawn by what tho French
call a steppnre. The princely canvasser
never would debase his calling by carrying
the book he offers himself. His servant in
livery totes it. Tiie book lie works for costs
from §1,000 to §2,600 a copy. It is a vol¬
ume which common people may not ,buy
It is only offered to “shahs, maharajahs,
emperors, kings, presidents." Here aro in¬
deed the heroics of tho subscription book '
business.
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So Florida Ry.
tsuwanef e to Florida.
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soil l H HOUND. I N.m i i. hound.
No. 5, | N... g. | .no. I. | ' f.l lO.NM. I N N . 4. , So. (i.
........I 7 50 pm | 7 JUumilLv AHoutu Ar 8 Oapml 40pmj 7 46ami 15am!
........*11 18pm 1 11 00am|jAr Macon Lvl...... 4 4
4 27pmjll 28pm 11 lOamjLv Macon Ar:...... 4 ‘J7pmj | 4 05am 1110am
8 7 OSpiuj 55pm 3 1 47«m 06am| 3 1 Si 05pm pm Ar Tiftou Cordele Lv Lv 12 2 55pmil‘2 16pm 1 47 20am am 8 6 32am 40am
30pmj vr 1
10 4 45am 4 52pmjAr Valdosta Lv ;11 03um;10 30pm 5 00am
........ 5 50am; 6 00pm Ar Jasper Lv 9 56«m 9 23pm
........ 6 50am! 7 00pm Ar L’ke Oty Lv 8 58am 8 25pm
........ 9 50am 10 00pm i Ar P.ilatka Lv 6 00 im 5 30pm
j ] Tf 3 lOamj 10am 3 4 45prn lOpmjLv Ar Waycr’ssLv Tilton Ar 12 10 46pm 40amj 11 9 55pin 40pm
I 8 OOamill 50pm 1 Ar Jac’ksnv’l Lv 8 20nm 7 00 pm
7 30amI 50am| 3 20pmjLv i’ifton Lv......| Ar ...... Ill OOatnl 6 30pm
8 4 20pmlAr Fitzg’rld 9 SOaml 5 00pm
11 32pm 12 83pm Lv Valdosta Ar 4 12pm 4 03am
11 12 59pm, SOaml 1 153pm.......lAr 05pm.......j.Ar Tho’svil Quitman Lv Lv 3 2 40pm 45pm 3 2 35am 48am
........ 10 155pm; 50amj 11 AOptnlLv 35amiAr Sanford Falatka Lv Ar| I I 5 2 00am| OOamj 4 1 40pm| 25pm|
........ 3
........ 3 6 30pmj 30pm 6 9 50am;Ar 30am! Ar Orlando Lakel’nd Lv| Lv il2 I 9 40pm 15am 11 9 30nm| 55amj
........ Lvj i
........ 7 40pim)10 50am)Ar Tampa | 8 00pm 8 00amI
10 55um Lv Falatka Ar 4 50pm
12 56pm .. . j Ar Bockl’dg Ormond Lv 2 45pm
3 34pm .. . Ar Lv 12 06pm
8 05pm .. . ArW.PalBchLv ! 7 30am
10 30pm ... (Ar Miami Lv 5 00am
Operates Pullman Buffet sleepers the year round between Nashville,
Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla., via Macon aud Tifton on trains Nos. 3 and 4.
Operates Local Sleepers the year round between Macon, Ga., and Pa¬
latka, Fla., via G. S. & F. direct on trains Nos. 3 and 4.
Operates Pullman Buffet Sleepers betweeu St. Louis, Mo., and Jackson¬
ville, Fla., via Macon and Tifton on trains Nos. 1 and 2.
Direct line to Fitzgerald Soldier Colony via Tifton.
No. 1—Dinner, Tifton; Supper, Lake City. No. 2—Breakfast, Lake
City; Dinner, Tifton. No. 3—Breakfast, Lake City. No. 4—Supper, Lake
City. No. 5—Supper, Cordele. No. 6—Breakfast, Cordele.
Winter tourist tickets on sale to all Florida points, commencing Novem¬
ber 1st, 1896.
D. G. HALL, T. P. A., W. H. LUCAS, F. P. A.,
12 Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga. 7 Hogan street, Jacksonville, Fla.
C. B. RHODES, Soliciting Passenger Agent, Macon, Ga.
J, LANE, General Superintendent. G. A. MACDONALD, Gen. Pass. Agt
Tifton and Mortlicastorn Ri R.
“SOLDIER’S COLONY ROUTE."
Local Time Table No. 5.
No. 7INo. 3 No. II Effective February 9.T89L No. 2|No. 4 No8.
P.M. P.M. A.M.j A.MJP.M. OOi P.M.
4 00; 4 00 7 30 Leave.... Tifton, Ga .... Arrive 12 45! 7 15 7 15
4 12 4 13 7 45 . ,f Brighton, Ga. .. 11 7 00 7 00
4 20 4 22 7 55 . .f Harding, Ga... jll 36 6 51 6 51
4 40 4 48| 4218 15 .. f Pinetta, Ga,... 11 16(6 31 6 31
4 45 4 8 31 .... Mystf.,, Ga,... llO 11 10(6 25 6 25
4 56' 5 0()| 8 43 f Fletcher, Ga... 59 1 6 13 6 13
.. : • ■ *
- .1 5 loi 5 15j 9 00|Arkive., Fitzgerald, Ga...Leav<-|l0 4o| 6 00 6 00!.....
Trains Nos 1, 2. 3 and 4 rnn daily, i-r^ept Similar. Trains Nos. 7 and
8 run on Sunday only, (f) Flag Station. Trains step only on sigi al. All
trains make connection with the Plant System and Georgia Southern and
Florida at Tifton, and the Georgia and Alabama at Fitzgerald.
F. G. BOATRIGHT, Traffic MnApger.
H. H. TIFT, President. W. O. TIFT, Vice- Pr ah J gut.
General Offices: Tifton, Geoiigia.
W. A. DYE. P. D. FRANKLIN
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This most indispensable adjunot to every well-regulated household will
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