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Bulloch Times.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
STATESBORO, GEORGIA.
J. K MILLER, Efiitor and Pllislicr,
Entered at the Pest Office at States¬
boro as second-class mail matter.
The woman suffragists have a flag
with a single star—Wyoming.
Co-operative or joint stock fariflifg
f» being conducted on a large scale m
the region of the Dombe3 lying between
Rourg-Enbresse and Lyons, France.
-“Plantations, drainage, artificial fertil¬
isers have in twenty years reduced thg
area of marsh land by two-thirds, in¬
creased the population by one-third, and
in the same proportion diminiahed mor¬
tality.” ~_ ,
Creameries are now at work ?in Ten¬
nessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, South
Carolina, and North Carolina, and there
no good reason why this should not
he the case in all the Southern States,
«ays the Shippers’ Gazette, which ' fur¬
ther adds: In the Southern mountains
the business may be carried on every
day in the year, and butter of the finest
quality may be there made for less cost
4J»san elsewhere iu the world.
“Wales,” says a Western Welshman,
has given three Presidents to the United
States—Jefferson, Adams and Monroe.
JEhomas Jefferson was pure Welsh, too,
and the Welshmen of New York are
now organizing a movement to erect a
grand monument to him. There are
1,000,000 Welsh and their immediate
descendents in this country, and over
1,200,000 pure Welsh and their first
descendents. The Welsh, Irish and
Scotch are, in my opinion, all off-shoots
of the little band of Aryans that passed
»yer fTom Little Brittany and settled on
what are now the British Isles.”
When John Jacob Astor died in 1848
worth $25,000,000 he left $10,000,000
more than the richest American before
him. But in the last ten years at least
two men, W. H. Vauderbilt and the
second John Jacob Astor, have died
with fortunes twice that size, and John
J). Rockefeller is ordinarily estimated to
be also worth $100,000,000. It is es¬
timated that there are only seven Amer
*an fortunes of over $30,000,000, Hunt
iegton, Sage, William Rockefeller,
Stanford, Mrs. Green and William As¬
tor; six over $20,000,000, D. O. Mills,
Amour, Searles, Charles Crocker’s es
tate, Henry Hilton and the L. S. Hig¬
gins estate. Of fortunes over $10,000,
000 there are seventeen.
The report of the Government’s special
agent in Alaska on the salmon fisheries
does not,in the opinion of the San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle, encourage the belief that
the supply of that region will be long
maintained. According to the state¬
ment of the agent the men fishing on 8
large scale and the Indians are eqnal
offenders against the laws, and are ap¬
parently indifferent whether their actions
result in diminishing the supply or in
treasing it. Not oniy does the agent
tell the story of the defiance of the large
fisheries, but he broadly intimates that
unless some salutary restraint is placed
upon them in a very short time the In¬
dians, who depend very largely upon the
salmon for their food supply, will either
starve to death or become an expensive
charge upon the Government.
Captain Bower, the Thibetan explorer,
has arrived in London, with a mass of
valuable information concerning that
little known country, which he has col¬
lected primarily for the benefit ot the
Indian Government. In the course of
fifteen months of travel across the wildest
part of the country he learned many
curious and interesting facts about the
inhabitants, II.s joUi-. w was made
during lSi*l and 1892, and his route
was almost due west to east, starting
fruin Leb or Lo bri; and crossing the
track of some otae.- exp’ >rers who had
traversed the couitry from north to
south. He crossed, among others, the
route followed by M. Bonvalot, the
French explorer, an 1 his companion,
Prince Henry of Orleans, but, like all
Other travelers in recent times, be found
?t impossible to enter Lbassa. His
nearest point was about 150 miles from
the holy city. The priests are practi¬
cally supreme in the country, but no
where did he meet with hostile treat¬
ment from the natives. The Sikkim
war has had a wholesome effect, and the
Englishman traveling in Thibet is now
in no danger. Some idea of the diffi¬
culties and hardships of the journey may
be gathered from the fact that much of
the road was from fifteen to eighteen
thousand feet above the level of the s;ea,
and that for weeks together he and his
companions did not meet a single human
beinir.
The United States have a less per
centage of blind people than any other
country in the world.
The Chicago Times avers that the latt
E. H. Clark, of Newburg, N. Y., an
amateur fruit grower, had on bis city
lot a pear tree on which be grew nearly
100 varieties of pears.
Walter B. Harris and R. G. Cunning¬
ham-Graham,two Londoners, assert that
they encountered in Southern Morocco,
at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, a
dozen or fourteen men, none of whom
were over four feet and a half tall, who
are believed to belong to a tribe who in¬
habit the upper range of the mountains.
No Sooner have European aeronaut?,
improved their balloons almost to the
point of perfection for military uses than
along comes a Russian scientist with an
apparatus which captures the rays of the
sun and employs them to burn the bal¬
loons. A Russian paper states t\jat the
balloons can be burned when at a dis¬
tance of five kilometers from the person
handling the apparatus.
According to a poll taken a few days
^go there are in the House of the West
Virginia Legislature thirty-six farmers,
ten lawyers, six merchants, two phy¬
sicians, two editors, three miners, one
manufacturer,one contractor, one miller,
one clerk, one teacher. In the Senate
there are eleven farmers, seven lawyers,
one capitalist, one liveryman, one gtaie
dealer and one manufacturer.
The Russian Government issued or¬
ders that the one hundredth anniversary
of the second partition ot Poland should
be celebrated in that part of the country
by general fetes and services in all the
churches, by parades of the troops and
by grand balls. General Gourko, the
Russian Commander, gave a ball in honor
of the event, and “invited” all the
leading members of the Polish nobility
to attend. Many of them took to their
beds and said that they were sick, and
some openly refused to attend, Such
measures on the part of Russia will hard¬
ly lend to make the Poles conteatetj
with their subject conditions.
The experiment of au electric street
railway postal car, which had been tried
in St. Louis, has been such a success a?
to warrant its use in other cities, note?
the New York News. The St. Louis
postmaster reports that the results have
been eminently successful in every par¬
ticular. The car is twenty-eight feet
long, including the front and rear plat¬
forms, and eight and one-half feet wide.
It is fitted up inside somewhat like a
railway postoffice, and is operated by a
double dynamo, with a capacity of
twenty-five miles an hour. The city and
suburban route over which it travels is
eighteen miles long, and the number of
pieces of local mail received and deliv¬
ered, at a saving of from four to five
hours each, has been 300 to 500 daily.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks “it
would be an easy matter to collect sta¬
tistics showing that we are destroying
the forests more rapidly than they grow.
The demand for timber is greater than
the supply, and the end must come, un¬
less we take steps to reforest the country.
We need the annual growth of 400,
000,000 acres of timber to supply the
home demand for one year, and
timber area is only 500,000,000
One-third of this area is of no value,
thousands of acres are destroyed by fire,
and the shipments of lumber to foreign
countries cut our supply short, But
there are other evils. Countries without
timber suffer from droughts, arid winds,
etc. The famine in Russia was caused
by deforestation. The inspector general
of Egyptian telegraphs says in bis last
report that the country between the Nile
and the Red Sea is a dreary desert. Yet
jess than 2000 years ago it was able to
support troops of rovmg cavalry who
picked up their living with ease in spots
where a lizzard would starve to-day.
Palestine is now a great waste, but in
Biblical times thousands of horses, chari
ots and men moved about over the coun
try finding sustenance everywhere. But
the Arabs allowed their camels to devour
the young trees in the valleys and
others were cut down and converted into
charcoal. , it.'- In tms way .'ii. tue land was
turned into a waterless desert. We ha vs
th» once .le.cnbod , , the , cU-.t,,, ,
mere
‘“ d ““ of Fmc dsfor
is ,hte,,eo5i
with similar trouble from the same cause,
In fact, our entire country is iu danger
of the consequences following the loss o;
its forests. Without reforestation, we
may expect the south Atlantic slopes in
time to be denuded of their productive
soil, and only barren aud rocky wastes
will remain, while the rivers, swollen
tremendously by every rainfall will men¬
ace and perhaps destroy the cities on
their banks. Tue man who plants a tree
is a public benefactor. We need more
of this work--organize), systouatic for¬
and there is nc time to be let.'..’’
REV. Dlf TALMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
Sermon.
Text "And the priests that bare the
of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on
dry ground in the midst of the Jordan,
and all the Israelites passed over on
ground, until all the people were passed
clean over Jordan "—Joshua iii,, IT.
Washington crossed the Delaware when
crossing was pronounced impossible, but he
did it by boat. Xerxes crossed the Hel¬
lespont with 2.030,000 men, but he did it by
but bridge. the The Israelites crossed the Red Sea,
same orchestra that celebrated the
deliverance of the one army ^pouhded the
strangulation of the other. Tlfis Jordanic
passage differs from all. There was no sac¬
rifice of human life—not so much as the loss
of made a linchpin. The vanguard of the host,
up of priests, advanced until they put
their foot at the brim of the river, when im¬
mediately the streets of Jerusalem ware
no It more dry land than the bed of that river.
was as if all the water had been drawn off,
and then the dampness had been soaked up
with a sponge, and then by a towel the road
had been wiped dry.
Yonder goes a great army of Israelites—
the hosts in uniform. Following them the
The wives, people the look children, at the the flocks,”the herds.
of the Jordan up they crystalline/ wall
as pass and think what
an awful disaster would come to them if be¬
fore they got to the opposite bank of that'
Ajalon And wall thought that wall should fall on them.
the makes the mothers hug
their children close to their hearts as they
swiften their pace. Quick, now! Get them
all up on the banks—the armed warriors,
and the wives and children, flocks and herds’
let this wonderful Jordanic passage be
completed forever.
Sitting on the shelved limestone, I look off
upon that Jordan where Joshua crossed 1111
der the triumphal arch of the rainbow
woven out of the apray; the river which af¬
terwards became the baptistry where Christ
was sprinkled or plunged; the river where
the ax—the borrowed ax—miraculously
swam at the prophhet’s order; the river il¬
lustrious in the history of the world for he¬
roic faith and omnipotent deliverance and
life typical and of mine—scenes scenes yet to enough transpire to in your
from the the make us,
sole of foot to the crown of the
head, tingle with infinite gladness.
Standing on the scene of that affrighted
fugitive river Jordan, I learn for myself and
for you, first, that obstacles, when they are
touched, vanish. The text says that when
the<e water—the priests came of down and touched the
edge parted. the water with their feet
—the water They did not wade in
chin deep or waist deep or knee deep or ankle
deep, but as soon as their feet touched the
water it vanished. And it makes me think
that almost all the obstacles of life need only
be approached in order to be conquered.
Diflieulties but touched vanish, it is the
trouble, the difficulty, the obstacle far in the
distance, that seems so huge and tremend¬
ous.
The apostles Paul and John seemed to dis
like cross dogs, for the apostle Paul tells us
in Philippians, the “Beware of dogs,” and John
seems to shut gate of heaven against all
the canine species when he says. “Without
are dogs. ’ But I have been told that when
those animals are furious, if they come at
you, if you will keep your eye on them and
advance upon them they will retreat.
Whether that be so or not I cannot tell, but
I do know that the vast majority of the mis
fortunes and trials and disasters of your life
that hounds your steps, if you can only get
your eye on them, and keep your eye on
them, and advance upon them, and cry,
F “Begone,” There is they will slink and cower.
a beautiful tradition among the
American Indians that Manitou) was travel
Sng in the invisible world, and one day he
came to a barrier of brambles and sharp
thorns which forbade his going on, and
there was a wild beast glaring at him from -
the thicket, but as be determined to go on
his way he did pursue it, and those bram
bles were found to be only phantoms, and
that beast was found to be a powerless
ghost, him rushing and the impassible river that forbade
to embrace the Yaratilda
proved Well, to be only a phantom river.
great my friends, the fact is there are a
many things that look terrible across
our them, pathway, only which, when we advance upon
are the phantoms, only the ap
pantions. culties only the delusions of life. Dim
touched are conquered. Put your
feet into the brim of the water, and Jordan
retreats. You sometimes see a great duty
You to perform. It is a very disagreeable duty.
say, “I can’t go through it; I haven’t
the courage, I haven’t the intelligence, to
go through it.” Advance upon it, Jordan
will vanish.
1 always sigh before I begin to preach at
the greatness of the undertaking, bat as
soon as I start it becomes to me an exhilara
tion. And any duty undertaken with a con
fldent spirit becomes a pleasure, and the
higher Difficulties the touched duty the higher the pleasure,
are conquered. There
are death a great many people who are afraid of
in the future. Good John Livingston
once, New on York, a sloop coming from Elizabethport
to was dreadfully frightened be
cause be thought he was going to be drowned
as a sudden gust came up. People were sur
prised at him. If any man in all the world
was ready to die, it was good John Living
sto*.
- So there are now a great many good peo
ple who shudder in passing a graveyard,
and they hardly dare think of Canaan be
cause of the Jordan that intervenes. But
once they are down on a sick bed, then all
tbeir fears are gone—the waters of death
dashing voice on the beach are like the mellow
of ocean shells—they smell of-the bios
soms of the tree of life. The music of the
heavenly choirs comes stealing over the
waters, How and to cross now is only a pleasant
sail. long the boat is coming 1 Come,
Lord Jesus, come quickly. Christ the Priest
advances ahead, and the dying Christian
goes over dry shod on coral beds and flowers
of heaven and paths of pearl,
Oh. could we make our doubts remove—
't hese gloomy doubts that rise—
And view the Canaan that we love
With uubeclouded eyes!
Cou.d we but climb where Moses stood
Nor'jotdan’s str^n^nordeath’s cold flood
Could fright us from the shore.
t he *00 m p teten^ Everythin g^tSat * God
haSIt 1 wolTd^Tvl
becnnMjou ™* would have gwagUto
und abou t, and that great devastation
would have taken place, but when (tod put
the dam in front of the river He put a dam
on the other side of the river, so’ that, ac
cording to the text, the and water overflowing halted and
rearea and stood there not
"Sdt.L thou-M ib.t, it th.
Israelites might have marched through it
and have come up on the otner bank with
their clothes saturated and their garments
like those of men coming ashore from ship
wreck, and that would have been as wonder
tula deliverance, but God does something
better than that. When the priests' feet
touched the waters of Jordan and they were
drawn off, they might have thought there
would diave been a bed of mud and slime
through which the army should pass.
Draw off the waters of the Hudson or the
Ohio, and there would be a good many days,
and perhaps many weeks, before the sedi
ment would dry up, and yet here m an in
staut, immediately, God provides a path
through the depths of Jordan. It is so dry
the passengers do not even get then-feet
damp. Oh. the completeness of everything
that God does! Does He make a universe?
It is a perfect clock, running ever since it
was wound up, the fixed stars the pivots, the
constellations the intermoving wheels, and
swinging ponderous laws the weights and mighty
dome of night pendulum, striking the the stars midnight, in the and great the
sun, with brazen tongue, tolling the hour of
noon.
The wildest comet he s a chain of law that
it cannot break. The thistle down flying
before the schoolboy’s breath is controlled
by the same law that controls the sun and
the planets. The rosebush in your window
is governed by the same principle that
governs the tree of the universe on which
the stars are ripening fruits, and on which
God will one day pat His hand and shake
down the fruits—a perfect universe. No
ment. astronomy has ever proposed an amend¬
If God makes a Bible, it is a complete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and dee
lightful truths, you seem to be in the midst
•f an orchestra where the wailings over
sins, anti the rejoicings over pardon, and the
martial strains of victory make the chorus
like an anthem of eternity. This book
seems to you the ocean of truth, on every
wave of which Christ walks—sometimes in
the darkness of prophecy, again in the
splendors In this with which He walks on Galilee.
book apostle answers to prophet,
Paul to Isaiah. Revelation to Genesis—glori¬
ous midnocn light, turning midnight sorrow into the
tempest. joy, dispersing Take this every book; flog, hushing the kiss
every it is
of God upon the sou! of lost man. Perfect
Bible, complete Bible! No man has ever
proposed God any improvement.
provided a Saviour. He is a com¬
plete Saviour—God-man—divinity and
selup humanity united in the same person. Ho
the starry pillars of the universe and
the towers of light. He planted the cedars
and the heavenly Lebanon. He struck out
of the rock the rivers of life, singing under
the trees, singing under the thrones. He
quarried the sardonyx and crystal and the
topaz of the heavenly wall. He put down
the jasper for the foundation and heaped up
the amethyst for the capital and swung the
12 gates which are 12 pearls. In one instant
He thought out a universe, and yet He be¬
came a child crying for His mother, feeling
along the sides of the manger, learning to
walk.
Omnipotence sheathed in the muscle and
flesh of a child’s arm; omniscience strung in
the optic nerve of a child’s eye: infinite
love beating in a child’s heart; a great God
appearing in the form of a child 1 year old,
5 years old, 15 years old. While all the
heavens were ascribing to Him glory and
honor and power on earth, men said, “Who
is this fellow?” While all the heavenly
hosts, with folded wing about their faces,
bowed down before Him crying, “Holy,
holy,” on earth, they denounced Rocked Him boat as a
Gennesaret, blasphemer and a sot. He it is that in a undirked on
and yet
the lightning from the storm cloud and dis¬
masted Lebanon of its forests and holds the
five oceans on the tip of His finger as the
leaf holds the raindrop.
Oh, the complete Saviour, rubbing His
hand over the place where we have the pain,
yet the stars of heaven the adorning gems
of His right hand. Holding us in His arms
when we take our last view of our dead. Sit¬
ting down with us on the tombstone, and
while we plant roses there He planting con¬
solation in our heart, every chapter a stalk,
every verse a stem, every word a rose. A
complete Saviour, a complete Jordanic Bible, a com
plete universe, a complete God does is complete, passage,
Everything that this Jordanic
Again, I learn from passage
that between us and every Canaan of suc
cess and prosperity there is a river that
must be passed. “Oh, how I would like
to have some of those grapes on the other
side 1” said some of the Israelites to Joshua,
“Well,” says Joshua, “why don’t you cross
over and get them? 1 ' There i<j a river of
difficulty between us and everything that is
worth knowing. That which costs nothing
is worth nothing.
God didn’t intend this world for an easy
parlor, through which we are to lie drawn
m a rocking chair, but we are to work our
passage, climb masts, fight battles, scale
mountains and ford rivers. God makes
everything valuable difficult to get at, for
the same reason that He put the gold down
in the mine and the pearl clear down in the
sea—to make us dig and dive for them. We
acknowledge this princip|e in worldly things;
oh, knowledge that we it were in religious only wise things! enough to ac
You have scores of illustrations under
your own observation where men have had
the hardest lot and been trodden under foot,
and yet after awhile had It easy. Now their
homes blossom and bloom with pictures,
and carpets that made foreign looms winds laugh
now embrace their feet; the summer
lift the tapestry about the window gorgeous
enough for a Turkish sultan; door, impatient their
steeds paw and neigh at the car
riages moving through the sea of New York
life a very wave of splendor, ft
Who is it? Why, is a boy who came to
New York with a dollar in his pocket and
all his estate -»ung over his shoulder in a
cotton handkerchief. All that silver on the
dancing span is petrified sweat drops; that
beautiful dress is the faded calico over
which God put His hand of perfection, silk; turning dia
it to Turkish satin or Italian those
monds are the tears which suffering of difficulty froze as
they fell. Ob, there is a river
between us and every earthly achievement.
You know that. You admit that,
You know this is so with regard The ancient? to
acquisition of knowledge. Jupiter
used to say that Vulcan struck on
the head and the goddess of wisdom jumped
out. illustrating the truth that wisdom
comes by hard knocks. There was a river
of difficulty between Shakespeare, door the London boy,
holding the horse at the of the
theatre, and that Shakespeare, the great
dramatist, winning the applause of all au
diences by his tragedies. There was a river
between lien jamin Franklin, with a loaf of
bread under his arm. walking the streets of
Philadelphia, and that same Ben amin
Franklin, the philosopher, just outside of
Boston flying a kite in the thunder-storm,
An idler was cured of his bad habit by
looking through the window, night after
night, at a man who seemed sitting at his
desk turning off one sheet of writing after
another until almost the dawn of the morn
jng. The man sitting there writing until
morning was industrious Warier Scott; the
man who looked at him through the window
was Lockhart, his illustrious biographer
afterward. Lord Mansfield, pursued by the
press and by the populace, because ot a cer
tain line of duty, went on to discharge the
jmy, and while the mob were around him
hrifa^tlnfh^face‘of the^mot? and 'said!
“Sirs, when one’s last end comes, it cannot
come too soon if he fails m defense or iaw
And so there is, my WendM v^thr ou^h
which every man mu£ gobefore.he
“b. wise enough to ap.
ply it in religion. Eminent Chnst.anchar
acter 13 “"‘J haoDened to ~et ~ood
passage, M hy does no man that man jus IP; _ n ,,,.7 h ri 10Ilt
riding , R] , .
wnue you were reauiu* a novel. He was on
& tu&., TUhln while
OMMUUJM p»,h
«n«ttl » tt»
m tears ® rs over over sffi sin, t^rs tea.s over Zion’s desolation,
tears ow made, the i npen , \ ^ that
graves are }j i
passed. . . M ;
man had the brow
and There --------’
and withers the ha , are mourn
mg garmente to toe wa^robe, , Mdtoere , there are are
deaths in every family record, all arouna a
the relics of the Red ot
rhe Christian ^ S P t he sea
trouble, and yet he thirds there . ^ ua^Jorqan Jordan
of death n J*f t T? e “ h t j or!an ^n ofdeath losT and
^ how many have there.
maIvtipht ^Ldtois was ex Dionne afl the Jordan
)n ^ lest, ^ ? e S tlrnTr brats knocked Shere to
Piff^ t e J^f R n d^th; a whohIve yw Atlantic gone down and
m the river oi aeai . the
Pacific have not swallowed so many.
an awful thing to make shipwrecks on the
rock of ruin—masts falling, hurricanes
flying, death coming, graanings in the
water, the meanings In the wind, thunder in
ning, sky, while all God, with the finger of light ¬
writes over the sky, “1 will tread
them in My wrath, and I will trample them
in The My fury.”
Christian comes down to this raging
torrent, he and he knows he must pass out. and
as comes toward the time his breath gets
shorter, into and his last breath leaves him as he
steps the stream, and no sooner does he
touch the stream than it is parted, and he
goes through their plumes, dry shod, while ‘“O all death, the waters where
is wave thy sting? O crying: is victory?”
grave, where thy
God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes, and there and shall there shall be no more weeping,
be no more death.
Some of your children have already gone
up the other bank. You let them down on
this side of the bank; they will be on the
other bank to help you up with supernat¬
ural strength. The other morning at my
table, all my famiiy present, I thought to
myself how pleasant it would be if I could'
put all in a boat and then go in with them,
.and we could pull across the river to the
next world and be there altogether. No
family parting, no gloomy obsequies. It!
wouldn’t cake five minutes to go from bank 1
to bank, and then in that better world to be ‘
together forever. Wouldn’t it be pleasant
for blessed you to take all your family into that]
I country if you could all go together? 1
remember my rootner in her dying hour'
said to my father, “Father, wouldn’t it be
pleasant if we could all go together?” But
we cannot all go together. We must go one
by one. and we must be grateful if we get
there at all. What a heaven it will be if.
we have all our families there to look:
around and see all the children are present!;
You would rather have them all there, and!
you go with bare brow forever, than that
one should be missing to complete the gar¬
lands ot heaven for your coronal. The Lord
God of Joshua gave them a safe Jordanic
passage. dry shod. ,j
Even children will go through
Those of us who were brought up in the
country remember, when the summer was
coming on in our boyhood days, we always
longed for the day when we were to go
barefooted, and after teasing our mothers
in regard to it for a good while, and they
consented, we remember the delicious sensa¬
tion of the cool grass whea we put our un*
covered foot on it.
And the time will come whan these shoes
we wear now, lest we be cut of the sharp
places of this world, shall be taken off, and
with unsandied foot we will step into the
bed of the river; with feet un trammeled,
free from pain and fatigue, we will gain
that last journey, when, with one foot in
the bed of the river and the other foot on
the other bank, we struggle uDward. That
will be heaven. Oh, I pray for all mv dear
people a safe Jordanic passage! That is :
what the dying Christian husband felt when j
he said; "How the candle flickers, Nellie! j
Put it out. I shall sleep well to-night and i
wake in the morning.” this subject for
One word of comfort on
all the bereaved. You see, our departed
friends have not been submerged, They have have not
been swamped in the waters.
only crossed over. These Israelites were
just as thoroughly alive cu the western
banks of the Jordan as they had been on the
eastern banks of the Jordan, and our de*
parted Christian friends have only crossed
over—not sick, not dead, not exhausted, with not
extinguished, not blotted out, but
healthier respiration, and stouter prospects— pulses,and
keener eyesight, and better
crossed over, their sins, their physical and
mental disquiet, all left clear this side, au
eternally flowing, impassable obstacle be¬
tween them and all human and safcanic pur¬
suit. Crossed over! Oh, I shake hands of
congratulation with all the bereaved in the
consideration that our departed Christian
friends are safe!
Why was there so much joy ; in certain
circles in New York wtien people heard
from the friends who were on board that
belated steamer? It was feared that vessel
had gone to the bottom of the sea, and when
the friends on this side heard that bad the,
steamer had arrived congratulate safely in Liverpool, the people in
we New not York a right that to tbeir friends had got safely
across? And is it not right this departed morning
that I congratulate you that your
friends are safe on the shore of heaven?
Would you have them back again? ; Would
you have those old parents back again? You
know how hard it was sometimes for them to
get their breath in the stifled atmosphere of
the summer. Would you have them back in
this weather? Didn’t they use their brain
long enough? Would you have your chil¬
dren back again? Would you have them
take the risks of temptation which throng
every human pathway? Would you have
them cross the Jordan three times? In ad¬
dition to crossing it already, cross it again
to greet you now and then cross back after¬
ward? For certrinly you would not want to
keep them forever out of heaven.
Paaee and weep, not for the freed from pam,
But that the sigh of love would bring them back
again.
I ask a question, and there seems to come
back the answer in heavenly echo: “What,
will you never be sick again?” “Never—
sick—again.”-—“What, will you never be
tired again? 1 ’ “Never — tired — “Never again.”
“What, will you never weep again?”
—weep—again.” “What, will you never
die again?” “Never—die—again.” kindrei, hail
Oh, ye army of departed Wait for we when
you from bank to bank! us Come
the Jordan of death shall part for us.
down and meet us half way between the
willowed banks of earth and the High palm Priest groves
of heaven. May our bruised great feet touch the go
ahead of us, and with words
water, and then shall be fulfilled the
of my text, “All Israel went over on dry
ground until ail the people were gone clear
through Jordan.” shall be the glad hymn
If 1 ask you what would
of this morning, I think there
be a thousand voices that would choose the
same hymn—the hymn that illumines so
many death chambers—the hymn that has
been the parting hymn in many an instance
—the old hymn:
On Jordan s stormy banks I stand
And cast a wistful eye
To Canaan’s fair and happy land.
Where transporting, my possessions rapturous he. seen,.
Oh, the sight!
That rises on my living
Sweet fields arrayed in greeu,
And rivers of delight.
They Wanted Doll Rags.
A policeman in Central Park, New
York City, the other day noticed
two little girls dodging busily about
through the crowds, and suspecting that
they were up to some mischief followed
them. Presently a -woman stopped him
and said that there had been a piece cut
out of her dress. Two other women im¬
mediately discovered that their dresses
had been similarly mutilated. The po¬
liceman thereupon arrested the girls,and
found that each had a th^t pair of scissors,and
several bits of cloth they had cut
from different dresses, p. man who said
that he had seen one of them cut at his
wife’s dress, went with 1 im to the sta¬
tion house to lodge a cdmplaint. The
girls, who were very much frightened,
said in the most iunoce it manner that
they wanted some rags t f make clothes
for their dolls, and that is they did not
know how else to get thbm they decided
to cut them out of ladiei’ dresses. The
gentleman concluded not to make a com
plaint, and the girls wei e taken to their
mothers, who were advised to keep a
better watch on them i a the future.—
New Orleans Picayune.
The respective ages of a bride and
groom, recently married i1 Arthur, Ind.,
were eigbty-one and sev< nty-nine years.
For RentV
Plantation nine miles below Statesboro,
eood dwelling and barn. Enough land
for one or two horse farm. Apply to
tf S. L. Moobe, Jr. Statesboro, Ga.
UVSUKK 10UK STOCK
Parties desiring to have tbeir live stoes S
msuied can do so by applying to the un
dersigned, as he is the representative of
the Southern Live Stock Insurance Cota
pany of Atlanta, Ga., for this sections
This company has a cupital stock of^
$50,000. Act wisely and insure your
horse as you would y&ur house.
A. J. BRINSON,
Rocky Ford, Ga.
'or uaie.
I have on ha. . large lot of cypress
shingles for sale Cheap for cash.
W. S. Pkertoirans.
J. C. WHITE, M. D.
STATESBORO. GEORGIA V
W. T. SMITH,
Livery, Feefl & Sale Mas J
StateslDo.ro, Ga.
i. W. (Media, I. D.
STATESBORO, GA.
HAIL’S HOTHL, 91
Statesboro, Ca.
Come and enjoy yourselves. Rooms
comfortable, porters polite and table well
furnished.
W. N. HALL, Proprietor.
I. J. McLEAN,
-r—\ I J — Hi rvi —iv —r- a" JL i t JL e , rc,
STATESBORO, GA.
D. L. WATERS,
Pliotograplier.
1*1 Congress ot. Savannah, Ga.
Moultungs. Laige Assortment I of Frames and
guarantee the best work
for the least money. When in need of
anything In my line call on me.
Horses and Mules for Sal^
I have a fine lot of horses and mule*,
just arrived, for sale. Come at once and
take your choice before they are picked
over, It is the best lot ever brought to
this market.
W. T. SMITH.
tf
W. W. WATERS,
DOVER, GEORGIA
Healers in Ciprs aid Tobacco’s
aiMeMieiit Generally, i
The Public is invited to
call and see me when at
Dover.
GUANO BUYERS,
TAKE NOTICE!
I am Agent for the following
standard Brands of Guano and
would be pleased to furnish same
either at Statesboro or anywhere
else desired. I can sell yon Bald?
win’s Dissolved Bone at $25.00
a Ton. I also have fo^Mle
Chatham Guano, Eclipse Guano,
and Kainit frill.
HIRAM FRANKLIN,
Statesboro, Ga.
NANCY-HANKS ROUTE.
M. S. DIY.
No. 1, Nancy Hanks, arrive.., 8 44 am
“2, “ “ ‘ ... 6 30 pm
“ 5, mail train, arrive 11 55 am
...
•« fi it (( ««<f .3 00 pra
J ^ ^
“ 3, night passenger.-, ...11 25 pm
“ 4 <i <« 8 00 am
...
SOUTH CAROLINA DIV.
No. 14, mail, arrives.......... 8 37 am
“ 2, “ “ .6 »5 pm
.....
“ 4, night train, arrives..r. 11 dflffim
“ 1, “ “ Uives..... 8 80 am
“ 13, mail train, leaves 6 40 pm
“ 3, night train, leaves 3 40 am
Savannah to Atlanta, 6 hours and 45
minutes.
Try “Nancy Hanks” Route.
H. M. COMER, Receiver.