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THE WEEKLYi'LEBGEir: GAFFNEY, S. C., MARCH 12, 189G.
A SUBLDFE THE3IE.
“AMERICA
CR GOD”THE SUBJECT OF
DR. TALMAGL'S SERMON.
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Plan of C .miia’.
Arc Devoted to Art and
l.mt America Rhall Eo Tor
Zlw.it Eo Oiercome.
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canrso p *.:tp r
of until;!!:.1 in,
.i,ircli 8.—This dis-
,. 1 liino thomo and is
itanco, and coming
from the capital cf thonation must have
a stirring eucct throughout tho land.
Dr. Tahuago choao for his text Revela
tion xiii, 11, “And I beheld another
beast coming up cut cf tho earth, and
he had two horns liko a lamb, and ho
ppako as a dragon. ”
Is America mentioned in tho Ciblo?
Learned and consecrated men who have
studied tho inspired books of Daniel and
Revelation more than I have and under
stand them Letter agree in saying that
the leopard mentioned in tho Bible
meant Grecia, and tho bear meant Me-
do-Persia, and the lien meant Babylon,
and tho beast of tho text coming up out
of tho earth, with two horns liko a lamb
and tho voice cf a dragon, means our
country, because among other reasons it
seemed to come up cut of the earth
when Columbus discovered it, and it
has been for the most part at peace liko
a lamb unless assaulted by foreign foe,
in which case it has had two horns
strong and sharp and tho voice of a
dragon loud enough to make all nations
hear tho roar of its indignation. Is it
reasonable to suppose that God would
leave out from tho prophecies of his book
this whole western hemisphere? ]So, no!
“I behold another beast coming up out
of tin earth, and he had two horns liko
a lamb, and ho spake as a dragon.”
Germany for scholarship, England
for manufactories, Franco for manners,
Egypt f-..r antiquities, Italy for pictures,
but America for Gcd.
I start with the cheering thought that
the most popular book on earth today is
the Bible, the most popular institution
on earth today is tho church, and the
most popular namo on earth today is
Jesus. Right from this audience hun
dreds cf men and women would, if need
be, march out and riio for him.
Am I too confident in saying, “Amer
ica for God?” If the Lord will help me,
I will show tho strength and extent of
the long line of fortresses to ho taken
md give you my reasons for saying it
oan ho done and will he done. Let us
decide, in this battle for God, whether
we are at Bull Run or at Gettysburg.
There is a Fourth cf Julyish way of
bragging about this country, and tho
most tired and plucked bird that ever
flew through tho heavens is the Ameri
can eagle, so much so that Mr. Gladstone
said to mo facetiously at Hawarden, “I
hoar that tho fish in your American
lakes aro ::o largo that when one of them
is taken out the entire lake is percepti
bly lowered,” and at a dinner given ia
Paris an American offend for a senti
ment, “Hero is to tho United States—
bounded cn tho north by tho aurora bo
realis, on tho south by tho procession of
tho equinoxes, on the cast by primeval
chaos and on tho west by tho day of
judgment.” Tho effect of such grand
iloquence is to discredit tho real facts,
which are so tremendous they need no
garnishing. Tho worst thing to do in
any campaign, military cr religious, is
to underestimate an enemy, and I will
have no part in such attempt at tolittle-
meut.
To Eo Taken For God,
This land to ho taken for God, ac
cording to Hassel, tho statistician, has
14,21 ( J,0G7 square miles, a width and
a length that none but tho Omniscient
can appreciate. Four Europcs put to
gether and capable of holding and feed
ing, as it will hold and feed, according
to Atkinson, tho statistician, if tho
world continues in existence and does
not run afoul of some other world or get
consumed by tho fires already burning
in tho cellars of tho planet—capable, I
say, of holding and feeding moro than
1,000,000,000 inhabitants. For you must
remember it must bo hold for God as
well an taken for God, and tho last
500,000,000 inhabitants must not bo al
lowed to swamp the religion of the first
500,000,000. .Not much use in taking
tho fortress if wo cannot hold it. It
must be held until the archangel's
trumpet bids living and dead arise from
this foundering planet.
You must remember it is only about
7 o’clock in tho morning of our nation’s
life. Groat cities aro to flash and roar
among what aro called tho 4 4 Bad Lands’ ’
of tho Dakotas and tho great “Colum
bia plains” of Washington state, and
that on which we put our schoolboy fin
gers ou tho map and spelled out as the
“Great American desert” is, through
systematic and consummating irriga
tion, to bloom liko Chatsworth park and
bo made moro productive than those re
gions dependent upon uncertain and
spasmodic rainfall. All those regions,
as well as those regions already culti
vated, to bo inhabited! That was a sub
lime thing said by Henry Clay while
crossing tho Alleghany mountains, and
ho was waiting for tho stage horses to
bo rested, as he stood ou a rock, arms
folded, looking off into tho valley, and
somo cno said to him, “Mr. Clay, what
aro you thinking about?” Ho replied,
44 I am listening to tho oncoming tramp
of tho future generation of America.”
Have you laid our homo missionary
scheme on such an infinitude of scale?
If the work of bringing one soul to God
is so great, can 1,000,000,000 be cap
tured? lu this country, already planted
and to bo overcome, paganism has built
its altar to Brahma, and tbo Chinese
aro already burning incense in their
temples, and Mohammedanism, drunk
in other days with the red wine of hu
man blocd at Lucknow and Cawnpur
and now fresh from the diabolism in
Armenia, is trying to get a foothold
here, and from tho miunrets of her
mosques will yet mumble her blasphe
mies, saying, “God is great, and Mo
hammed is his prophet.” Then there
aro tho vaster multitudes with no reli
gion at all. They worship no God, they
live with nc consolation, and they die
with no hope No star of peace points
down to tho manger in which they are
born, and no prayer is uttered over the
grave into which they sink. Then there
is alcoholism, it.-; piled up demijohns
and beer barrel; and hogsheads of fiery
death, a barricade high and long as tho
Alleghanies and Rockies and Sierra Ne-
vadas, pouring forth day and night their
ammunition of wretchedness and woe.
When a German wants to take a drink,
ho takes beer. When an Englishman
wants to take a drink, ho takes ale.
When a Scotchman wants to take a
drink, ho takes whisky. But when an
American wants to take a drink he takes
anything ho can lay his hands on.
I'ocs to He Overcome.
Plenty of statistics to toll how much
money is spent in this country for rum,
and how many drunkards die. But who
will give us tho statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under tho heel of this
worst demon of tho centuries? How
many hopes blasted? How many chil
dren turned out cn the world accursed
with tho stigma cf a debauched ances
try? Until the worm of (lie distillery
becomes the worm that never dies and tho
smoko of tho heated wine vats becomes
tho smoko of tho torment that ascomleth
up forever and ever! Alcoholism, swear
ing—not with hand uplifted toward
heaven, for from that direction it oan
get no help, but with right band stretch
ed down toward the perdition from
which it came up—swearing that it
will not cease as long as there aro any
homesteads to despoil, any magnificent
men and women to destroy, any immor
tal souls to damn, any more nations to
balk, any more civilizations to extin
guish.
Then there is what in America we
call socialism, in France communism
and in Russia nihilism, tho three
names for one and tho same thing, and
having but two doctrines in its creed.
First, there is no Gcd; second, there
shall bo no rights of property. One of
their chief journals printed this senti
ment: “Dynamite can bo made out of
tho dead bodies of capitalists as well as
out of hogs.” One of tho leaders of com
munism left inscribed on his prison
wall, where ho had been justly incar
cerated, these words: “When once you
aro dead, there is an end of everything.
Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever
you can—only don’t let yourselves be
grabbed. Amen.” There aro in this
country hundreds of thousands of these
flaming evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue
of a race submitted to courtroom filled
with howling miscreants, and to a mar
tyrdom at tho sight of which tho sun
fainted and fell back in the heavens,
and then treading the clouds homeward,
like snowy mountain peaks, till heaven
took him back again, moro a favorite
than ho had ever been; but, coming
again, bo is on earth now, and the na
tions arc gathering to his standard. Fol
lowing him were the Scotch covenanters,
the Theban legion, tbo victims of tho
London Haymarket, tho Piedmontese
sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, tho Hu
guenots, and uncounted multitudes of
tho past, joined by about 400,000,000 of
tho present, and with the certainty that
all nations shall huzza at his chariot
wheel ho goes forth, tho moon under
his feet and the stars of heaven for his
tiara—the mighty leader, he of Drum-
clog and Bothwcll Bridge and Bannock
burn and the one who whelmed Spanish
armada, “Coming up from Edom, with
dyed garments from Bozrah, traveling In
the greatness of his strength, mighty to
save,” and behind whom wo fall into
lino today and inarch in tho campaign
that is to take America for God. Hosan
na! Hosanna! Wave all tho palm
branches! At his feet put down your sil
ver and your gold, as in heaven you
will cast befero him your coronets.
The Ecailrr Assures Victory.
With such a leader, do you not think
wo can do it? Say, do you think wo can?
Why, many ramparts have already been
taken. Where is American slavery?
Gone, and tho south, as heartily as the
north, prays, “Peace to its ashes.”
Where is bestial polygamy? Gone by tho
fiat of tho United States government,
urged on by Christian sentiment, and
Mormonism, having retreated in 18I50
from Fayette, N. Y., to Kirkland, O.,
and in IS.'IR retreated to Missouri, and
in 18-1(1 retreated to Salt Lake City, now
divorced from its superfluity of wives,
will soon retreat into the Pacific, and
no basin smaller than an ocean could
wash out its pollutions. Illiteracy go-
scoundrels. Honest men deplore
it when they cannot get work, but those
cf whom I speak will not do work when
they can get it. I tried to employ one
who asked mo for money. I said,
“Down in my cellar 1 have some wood
to saw, and 1 will pay you for it.” For
a little while I heard the saw going, and
then I heard it no more. I went down
stairs and found tho wood, but tbo
workman had disappeared, taking for
company b th buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean, “1\. j \\ ieked to acknowledge God
:d too la
to cam a
livinr.
and
among the mightiest obstacles to be over- |
come are those organized elements of
domestic, social and political ruin.
Myriads of Eattlesacuts.
There also aro the fastnesses of infi
delity and atheism and fraud and politi- j
cal enrruptien and multiform, hydra
headed, million armed abominations all |
over the land. While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth aro
good and healthful newspapers and good
and healthful books and oar chief de
pendence for intelligence and Christian
achievement is upon them, what word
among the more than 100,000 words in
cur vocabulary can describe the work cf
that archangel of mischief, a corrupt ;
literature? Y»hat man, attempting any
thing for God and humanity, has escaped
a stroke of its filthy wing? What good
canso has escaped itshindermeut? What
other obstacle in all the laud so appal
ling? But I cannot name more than one-
half tho battlements, tbo bastions, tho
intrenchments, tho redoubts, tho fortifi
cations to be stormed and overcome if this ,
country is ever taken for God. Tho sta
tistics aro so awful that if vve had noth
ing but tbo multiplication table and tho
arithmetic tbo attempt to evangelize
America would be an absurdity higher
than tho tower of Babel before it drop
ped on the plain of Shiuar. Where are
tho drilled troops to march against those
fortifications as long as the continent?
Where are the batteries that can bo uu-
limbored against these walls? Where
aro the guns of large enough caliber to
storm these gates? Well, let us look
around and see, tho first of all, who is
our lender and will be our loader until
tbo work is done. Garibaldi, with 1,000
Italians, could do more than another
commander with 10,000 Italians. Gen
eral Sherman, on one side, and Stone
wall Jack sun, on the other, each with
10,000 troops, could do moro than some
otlu r g( ucrals with 20,000 troops. The
rough boat in w hich Washington crossed
tho icy Delaware with a few half frozen
troops was mightier than tho ship of
war that during the American Revolu
tion camo through tl’.o Narrows, a gun
at each porthole, and sank in Hell Gate.
Gur leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, and it
was an humble home, about live miles
from Jerusalem. Those who were out of
doors that night said that there was
stellar commotion, and music that came
out of the clouds, as though tho front
door of heaven had been sot open, and
that tho camels hoard his first infantile
cry. Then ho came to tho fairest boy
hood that mother was ever proud of,
and from 12 to !J0 years of ago was off
in India, if traditions thero are accu
rate, and then returned to his native
land, and for three years had Ids path
way surrounded by blind eyes that ho
illumined, and epileptic patients to
whom he gave rubicund health, and
tongues that he loosed from silence into
song, and those whose funerals he stop
ped that ho might give back to bereaved
mothers their only boys, and those
whose fevered pulses lie had restored
into rhythmic throb, and whoso paralyt
ic limbs ho had warmed into healthful
circulation—pastor at Capernaum, hut
ing down under the work of Slater and j
Peabody funds and Sabbath schools of
all tho churches of all denominations!.
Pugilism, now made unlawful by con- |
grtssional enactment, tho brutal custom j
knocked out in tho first round! Corrup
tion at tho ballot box, by law of regis- j
tration and other safeguards, made al
most impossible! Churches twice as
large as the old ones, tho enlarged sup
ply to meet tbo enlarged demand ! Ni
hilism, getting a stunning stroke by the
summary execution of its exponents after
they had murdered tho policemen in
Chicago, received its deathblow from
tho recent treaty which sends back to
Russia the blatant criminals who had
been regurgitated on our American
shore. The very things that have been
quoted as perils to this nation aro going
(o help its salvation. Great cities, so
often mentioned as great obstacles—the
center of crime and tho reservoirs of all
iniquities—aro to lead in tho work cf
gospolization. Who give mozt to home
missions, to asylums, to religious edu
cation, to iill styles of humanitarian
and Christian institutions? Tho cities.
From what places did the most relief
go at tho time of Johnstown flood, and
Michigan fires, and Charleston earth
quake, and Ohio freshets? From tho
cities. From what place did Christ send
out his 12 apostles to gospolize the world?
From a city. What place will do moro
than any other place, by its contribution
of Christian men and women and means,
in this work cf taking America for God?
Now York city. Tho way Paris goes,
goes France. Tho way BeVliu goes, goes
Germany. Tho way Edinburgh goes,
goes Scotland. Tho way London goes,
goes England. Tho way Now York and
a couple other cities go, goes America.
May tho Eternal God wake us up to tho
stupendous issue!
Joy of Givlus.
Another thing quoted pessimistically
is tho vast and overtopping fortunes in
this country, and they say it means
concentrating wealth and luxurionsness
and display and moral ruin. It is my
observation that it is people who have
but limited resources who make the
most splurgo and I ask you. Who aro en
dowing colleges and theological semi
naries? Did you over hear of Peter Coop
er and James Lenox, and sainted Wil
liam E. Dodge, and tho Lawrences,
Amos and Abbott, while I refrain from
mentioning living benefactors who,
quite as generous aud Christian, are in
this assembly at this moment planning
what they can do in these days, and in
their last will and testament in this
campaign that proposes taking America
for God? The widow’s mite, honored of
the Lord, is to have its part in this con
tinental capture, but wo must have
moro than that, and moro right away.
Many of tho men that expect to get tho
blessing for bestowing the widow’s mito •
will not get the blossing. In tho first
place, they aro not widows, and in the
next place, they have no “might. ”
Tho time is coining—hasten it, Lord
—aud I think you aud I will see it,
when, as Joseph, tho wealthy Arima-
thaeau, gave for tho dead Christ a costly
mausoleum, tho affluent men and wom
en of this country will rise in thoir
strength aud build for our King, one
Jesus, tho throno of this American con-
; tineut.
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment, but which I quote for encourage
ment, is foreign immigration. Now that
from Castle Garden wo turn back by
tho first poor ship the foreign vagabond
ism, we aro getting people, the vast
1 majority of whom come to make an
honest living, among them some of the
bravest and tbo best. If you should turn
back from this laud to Europe tho for
eign ministers of tho gospel, aud the
foreign attorneys, and tho foreign mer
chants, and tho for' ign philanthropists,
what a robbery of our pulpits, our court
rooms, our storehouses aud our benefi
cent institutions, and what a putting
1 back of every monetary, merciful, moral
and religious interest of tho land ! This
commingling hero of ;j)ll nationalities
( under tho blessing of (iod will produce
: in 75 or 100 years the most magnificent
stylo of man and woman the world ever ‘
saw. They will have the wit of ouo race,
tbo eloquence >f another race, tho kind- |
ness of another, tho generosity of anoth
er, the aesthetic taste of another, tho high
moral character of another, aud when
that man aud woman step forth, thoir
brain aud nerve and muscle an inter
twining of tho fibers of all nationalities,
nothing but tho new electric photograph
ic apparatus, that can see clear through
body, mind and coni, can take of them
an adequate picture. But the foreign
population of America is less than one-
eleventh of all our population, and why
all this fuss about foreign immigration?
Eighty-nine born Amoricans to 11 for
eigners! If 89 of us Now Jerseymcn or
89 of ns New Yorkers or 89 of us
Ohioans or 89 of us Georgians or 89 of
us Yankees aro not equal to 11 foreign
ers, then we are a starveling, lilliputinn
group of humuucnli that ought to bo
wiped out of existence.
Weapons of tho Eord.
But now what are tho weapons by
which, under cur omnipotent leader,
tho real obstacles in tho way of our
country’s evangelization, the 10,000
mile Sovastcpols, nro to bo leveled? Tho
first columbine!, with range enough to
sweep from eternity to eternity, is the
Bible, millions cf its copies going out,
millions on millions—this, the monarch
of books, that has made all the differ
ence between China aud the United
States, between Africa and America; a
Uyok declaring in every stylo of phrase
ology that all nations aro to bo convert
ed, and does not that iuclnd 1 ' our na
tion? If tho Apocalyptic nngcl is to fly
across tho continents, will ho not fly
across this continent? Tho worst insult
I could offer you would bo to doubt your
veracity, and shall wo doubt God’s
promise? Then there aro nil the gospel
batteries, manned by 70,000 pastors and
homo missionaries, over tho head of
each ouo cf whom is tho shield of di
vine protection, and in tho right hand
of each the gleaming, two edged sword
of tho Infinite Spirit! Hundreds of
thousands of private soldiers for Christ,
marching under tho one starred, blood
striped flag of Emanuel! They aro
inarching on ! Episcopacy, with tho su
blime roll cf its liturgies; Methodism,
with its battlccryof “Tho sword of tho
Lord and John Wesley;” tho Baptist
church, with its glorious navy sailing
up our Oregons and Eacramontos and
Mississippi, and Presbyterianism, mov
ing on with tho battlecry cf “Tho
sword of tho Lord and John Knox.”
And then, after awhile will come the
great tides of revival, sweeping over
tho land, tho 500,000 conversions in
1857 eclipsed by tho salvation of mil- i
lions in a day, and the four American
armies of the Lord’s host marching
toward each other, tho eastern army
marching west, the western army march
ing east, tho northern army marching
south, tho southern army marching
north. Shoulder to shoulder! Tramp,
tramp, tramp! Until they meet mid- ;
continent, having taken America for
Gcd!
The thunder cf tho bombardment is
already in tbo air, and when tho last
bridge cf opposition is taken, and the
last portcullis of satan is lifted, and tho
last gun spiked, aud tho last tower dis
mantled, aud the last charger of iniquity
shall have been hurled back upon its
haunches, what a time of rejoicing! We
will see it, not with these eyes, which
before that will bo closed in blessed
sleep, but with strong and better vision,
when tho Lord once in awhile gives us
a vacation among tho doxologics tocomo
down and sco the dear old land which
I pray may always bo the lamb of the
text, mild and peaceful, inoffensive, but,
in case foreign nations assail it, having
two horns of army and navy strong
enough to hook them back and book
them down aud a voice louder than a
dragon, yea, louder than ten thousand
thunders, saying to the billows of Asi
atic superstition and European arro
gance, “Thus far shnlt thou go, and no
farther, and hero shall thy proud waves
bo staid!”
Senator Perttlns’ Dilemma.
A Washington gossiper tells bow Sen
ator Perkins of California is in a heap
cf trouble, owing to certain rash prom
ises that ho once made. Fifteen or six
teen years ago ho was elected governor
cf California, and a remarkably popu
lar sort of governor ho proved to bo. So
popular, in fact, that bouncing baby
boys wero called by his namo in each
county. Governor Perkins heard of ev
ery ouo of these incidents. The fond fa
thers and mothers imagined the rich
young governor was generously giving
up hundreds of dollars in recognition of
all these compliments. But instead of
settling on tho spot, Mr. Perkins wrote
letters to every pair of proud parents,
in which ho said all manner of nice
things, and ended with a flourish of
promises as follows: “When George
Perkius Smith is grown, let me know,
aud I will send him to college. ” He
never imagined that lie was going to he
a senator from Claifornia, with ambi
tions for re-election, 15 or 16 years la
ter. But there ho is, and those letters
aro coming home to roost. Already four
young men named George Perkins
Smith, Jones or something else have
put in their claims for a college educa
tion at tho expense of tho former govern
or. “I expect there are 20 or 80 more
of them,” soys the senator, “aud I’ll
have to honor their drafts, even if it
bankrupts mo.”
DAIRYING IN THE SOUTH.
Advocated by tlie Chief of the Dairy Divi
sion of the Department of Agriculture.
Natural conditions i.iv r the keeping
of more cows in the southern states. In
large part tho south i:; a good grazing
country. Where pastures arc insufficient,
good forage corps can ho easily grown
for green feeding or fer the silo system.
There is an abundance of good water.
Moderate and inexpensive shelter is
needed, compared with tho most active
dairy states, and tho stabling and feed
ing season is correspondingly shorter.
As a whole, tho south is a good cattle
country, and wherever dairying has been
introduced by intelligent men it has
proved a success.
Dairying is an improver of tho farm
: and a conserver of farm fertility. Tho
; transportation of products is a burden to
tho farm. In consequence of this, bulky
! products have but small value ou tho
| farm. Dairying comes in as a great pro- |
! moter cf economy in marketing prod- j
nets. Condensing bulky products for ;
market is necessary to success. Hay, |
j stalks and grain should be transformed !
into meat and milk. Animals arc trans- j
j ported at less cost than bay, stalks and !
grain. Tho dairy products aro still a j
I greater condensation.
The two branches of dairying to be
! encouraged in the south aro tho prodne- ]
tiou of milk for the abundant supply of
towns and cities and tho making of but
ter. Cbcescmaking, in largo quantities, !
will coma later, if at all. Dairy prod
ucts constitute a “money crop,” which
may bo made to yield regular returns
throughout tbo year. Most of the cities i
and large towns report larger surplus of
j local or country made hu'.ter than ever
before. And this is fast improving in
quality. In most cases, however, this
' butter s!i!l sells at a price considerably -
lower than the creamery butter from
! the north.
The introduction of tho creamery sys
tem should bo advocated ns tho host form
of developing tho dairy interest in tho
i south. This should be by neighborhood
1 effort, on the eo-opi rative plan, free
from the influence of “proprietors” and
j “creamery promoters. ” Tho creamery
system is by far tho most economical
j method of butter making. Upon tho co-
! operative plan all tho profits aro month
ly divided among the owners of tho
cows. Tho local markets all through
! the southern states aro open to the men
and tho neighborhoods first adopting tho
creamery system of supplying tho dairy
! products which arc increasingly requir
ed and ccnsumcd.
i That mill; aud butter can be produced
in the south at exceptionally low cost
there can be no doubt. The luxuriant
growth cf the corn plant in nearly all
this section and the case with which
peas, beans and ether leguminous crops
can bo grown need only to bo men
tioned. Add to there a moderate ration
of cotton seed, and tho raw materials
are complete for tho economic pr< auc
tion of milk and butter most satisfac
tory in quantity and quality.
The foregoing is from a paper written
by Major Alford, chief of the dairy di-
visicn c.f the United States department
of agriculture, aud appearing in Tho
Southern Cultivator.
Mr. Henry Roth, of 1848 South 9th
Street, St. Louis, was giver, the usual
mercurial treatment for contagious
blood poison. He was twice pronounc
ed cured, but the disease returned each
time, he was seized with rheumatic
pains, and red lumps and sores cov
ered his body.
“I was in a hor
rible fix” he
says, “and the
more treat
ment I receiv
ed. the worse I
seemed to get.
A New York
specialist said
he could cure
me, but his
treatment did
me no good
stiff and full of
was useless so
to do even the
M
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yi
w hate ver. I was
pains, my left arm
that I was unable
lightest work. This was my condition
when I began to take S. S. S., and a
few bottles convinced me that I was
being benefitted. I continued the
medicine, and one dozen bottles cured
me sound and well. My system was
under the effects of mercury, and I
would soon have been a complete
wreck but for S. S. S.”
S. S. S., {(juaranteed purely vegetable)
is the only cure
for real blood dis-
e ases. The mer
curial treatment
of the doctors al
ways does more
harm than good. Beware of mercury!
Books on the disease and its treat
ment mailed free to any address by
Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
A. N. WOOD.
BANKER,
ocr a
general Banking and Exchange
business
1’roof sa
Safetv !
. Well secured with Burglar-
ic and Automatic Time Lock.
)epo.-:it Boxes at moderate
r*
i.uys aiui
in vs r
(itiuiy
11s Stocks and Bonds.
:nd School Claims.
Y.
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Crain and Provision Market.
FOR
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The ?>ctv Hog.
As compared with years ago, wo have
a new hog. Ho is new in his make up,
lives fast and dies early for profit, and
henco is handled differently from tho
way ha used to be. Tho demands on him
aro now also. Instead cf 1 •*> years old, ho
must mature in seven or eight months,
A writer on this subject says, in Tho
Farmers’ Review, that now tho feeding
weight of tho hog of commerce is 175 or
200 pounds, instead of 300 or 350 as
formerly. This writer says that hogs of
300 pounds of dead weight and upward
could hardly be produced without their
being wintered over. This took all tho
gilding off tho ginger bread, unless
prices were abnormally high. But hogs
weighing 175 to 200 pounds can ho
brought to salable maturity in Iho
course of ouo season. An early spring
litter of them can ho fitted for market
before cold weather begins to make feed
ing unprofitable. Then when tho young
pigs aro sold off there is only tho breed
ing sow, or possibly two of them, to
keep over winter, and she or they can
roam tho barnyard, picking up waste
grain, working over manure and taking
comfort beside tho straw stack.
G?.f?ney,
Soulier Rmlwe
[L^
A Farm Convenience.
It is often desired to weigh out small
lots of loose hay, and when this is the
case the arrange
ment of a repo in
the form shown
herewith is most
convenient.
Farm Journal
tells all about it
as follows:
Make a loop of
a long rope and
stretch it out
TO WEIGH LOOSE HAY. thus doubled Oil
tho barn floor. After tho bay lias been
thrown upon it, gather tho two ends o?
tho loop and pass ouo through the other
as shown and hook tbo upper part into
tho hook of tho steelyards.
Afflicted for Years.
Mr. R. B. Goodman, Marietta. Ga.,
says: “I was troubled with rheumn-
tism, which the doctors called sciat
ica, for a number of years, doctoring
with everything I could hear of.
without benefit, until I commenced
with Dr. King’s Royal Gormetuer,
which cured mo sound and well. I
was at times, for several months, sol
could not walk at all I hawe now
been thoroughly well of it for four
years, and think there is no medicine
that can equal Germctuer.” Write
to The Atlanta Chemical Co., Atlan
ta,, Ga., for 48 page hook, free. New
package, large bottle, 108 doses, $1.
For sale by W. B. DuBre.
N«!T78 aud Notes.
Butterine is no longer recognized by
tho treasury department. In enforcing
tho interstate revenue tax ou hog butter
tho officials now require that it shall all
bo known as oloo.
Judged by official reports, tho crops
of 1890, excepting corn, aro likely to
have moro favorable weather and to bo
larger than those of tho droughty year
of 1895.
Celery can be kept in the cellar with
out wilting by setting tho roots in sand
and keeping the roots, not tho tops,
damp.
Flour made from Kaffir corn is be
coming a popular product in Oklahoma
aud Now Mexico.
Thero is much land in Texas where
fertilizers aro neither used nor needed
for staple crops, but thero is much laud
where it is needed.
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