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Is a Fact, Says the JS'cw Tori The immortality of man is a fact j with me. I discuss no subject met ^physically. Metaphysics and mur- ! caphysics are synonymous terms with j me. I believe in an eternal heaven and an eternal hell; I believe that a big part ot' the inhabitants of both countries are furnished from this world, and from my standpoint I fear the latter country will receive most of our emigrants. I have a simple, un swerving faith in all the doctrines and truths of Christianity. I have three good reasons for my faith in the im mortality of the soul. First, my Bible says: "We shall live, forever, even those who are in their graves shall come forth, they that have done good to the resurrec tion of life and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation." : I believe the old Book from lid to lid: I believe it is an inspired hook; I be lieve it is not only truth, but inspired truth. Its mysteries make me believe it the more; because no man ever un derstood or ever will understand the Bible convinces ?ne that some one greater than man wrote it. However, its mysteries do not worry me much; it is Che parts of the Bible that I un derstand that give me trouble. The ' hardest, slickest, steepest hill I ever tried to pull is the page of the Bible where the Ten Commandments are re corded:. A fellow who believes only what he understands has a very long head or a very short creed. The sci ences of theology and botany have uever claimed much of my time, but I do- love to miugte with flowers and good people. The best proof of all the truth? uf the Scripture to me is the fact that wherever ana whenever I have had opportunity and facility to test any truth of the Bible I have al ways found it true. Then I would be a great fool to claim that it ip not tree somewhere else and further along where I hav? not had opportunity and . facility to test it. I feel a good deal like the old woman when the infidel ' told her that he could. prove to her own eyes that the Bible was a lie. "Law," she said, "I would believe the Bible before I would my own eyes." "What do you mean by that ?" said the infidel. She answered: "These old eyes of mine have failed me a thousand times, but the blessed old Book has never failed me at a single point/1 I believe that the whale .swallowed Jonah, and if the Bible had ?aid that Jonah swallowed the whale, ?. should bave expected to have met -Jonah some day with girth expanded, i have no patience with higher criti cism, so called, nor the insidious her esies which are born of agnosticism.' . When we go beyond the sweep of the telescope and below the end of the geologist's pick one man knows as much as another about the beyond and the below. If the Bible teaches any thing clearly, unmistakably, it teaches the immortality of the soul. Second, the testimonials of good men, living and dying, have long since convinced rae of the immortality of man. I have seen the emaciated con sumptive, when death had stripped him of his flesh and robbed him of 'vitality until there seemed to be noth ing left scarcely to bury, and yet when death walked into the chamber to strike him the last fatal blow in a vital spot I have seen him lift his hands and shout with his last breath, ."Life, life, eternal life !' * There is no testimony stronger, better, than thc piled up volumes from the lips of our blessed dead. When Dr. John B. MoFarrin, the master of southern Methodism, was spending about his last day on earth, his son, who also was a preacher, walked up to his couch and said: "Father, ought I to go to my appointment in the country and preach to-day and leave you; I might not be here to tell you good bye?" The dying father looked up into the face of his boy and said: "Go, son, and preach thc gospel to your people, if your old father slips off while you are gone you know where to find me." Sisho? Haygood, of our church, said to me ouce that he sat by the side of Bishop Pierce and talked with him up to the edg". of eternity. His mind, said he. was olear, his eye bright; he was counselling me about ? his Indian mission work. Two or three times in this last conversation with him he seemed to have swept out of the body and was gone, then again his eye would light up and he would talk with me, and all at once he was gone. He did not die; like St. Paul, only the time of his departure had <ome. Third, I believe in thc immortality of the soul because I want to live for ever. The fact that I want to live forever is one of the best proofs that I shall live forever, for God never made a fish with fins until he had made an ocean for it to swim in; God never made a bird with wings until he had made an atmosphere for it to fly in. I do not believe that God ever implanted the instincts and longings of immortality in the human soul until he had first prepared a glorious, un ?ALITY 3 Rev. Sam Jones. ; Journal. ending heaven to meet the desires and give gratification to the immortal soul. I not only believe in the immortality of the soul, but I believe in the im mortality of the body. The world never looked upon nor listened to a greater man than Saul of Xarsus, Sr. Paul the divine. In head and heart and culture he had few peers and no superiors. In breathing forth the supreme desire of his great manhood he said: "Oh, that I may know Him aud the power of His r?surrection." Some doubt the immortality of the j body and the resurrection of the dead because of some questions that are asked. When one asks, "Suppose that a man's leg is buried in Virginia and his body in Georgia; suppose his body has been cremated and only the few ashes in the urn remain; suppose that he died at sea and his body has been fed to the fishes, how can the body be brought forth from the grave?" A German chemist passing through his laboratory with some friends on one occasion turned aside and picked u? a beautifully engraved eup and said: "Gentlemen, this is a present I prize very highly." In handling the eup by accident one of tue friends dropped it; it fell into a jar of acid and melted away like snow that had fallen in water. "Oh," said the un fortunate friend, "see what I have done; I have dropped your cup and it fell into the jar of acid and has melted and disappeared forever, and how I regret it." "Sorry it happened," said the chemist, "but not so bad as you think, my friends." He stepped to one of his shelves, took down a jar, and picked out a piece of mineral and dropped it into the jar of acid, and all the silver which composed the cup immediately settled to the bottom of the jar. He took out the silver again and said: . "It is all right, my friend; I will send it hack to the manufactory and have it more beautifully engraved than it was before." So, then, I say, bury the limb in one State, and the body in another, or burn the body to ashes, or feed it to the fishes in the seas. God has a mineral in the laboratory of the skies which, when he drops it down upon this old earth on the morning of the resurrection, bone will come to bone sinew to sinew, and immortal man will stand forth more beautiful in symme try, more glorious in character-im mortal soul and body. The North American Indian hoped and believed that by good conduct bo would be transferred to the "happy bunting grounds." The gods of the heathen, which they admitted were stocks and stones, were but mediums through which they could talk to the great im mortal Spirit, and their effort has been always not only to appease deity here, but to look to rewards from deity hereafter. A religion without immortality could not survive the spiritual life of its author; a religion that does not com prehend the immortality of the soul is neither divine nor human nor devilish-it is simply brutish-lives and stays with that which is below man, the brute creation. When a religion or an individual closes up the Bible and turns away from its teachings on the subject of immortality I care not what science or philosophy or reasoning he may ap proach or employ, then he goes to a teacher who is as ignorant as himself and to a school whose curriculum does not embrace or teach him anything more than he knew the first day he was born into tho world. Science can name and number the stars, science can break rocks, trace the courses of our rivers, give altitude and longitude to the topography of the world: sci ence can stretch its wires across con tinents, climb up and dig down, but this world with its wisdom will find that God is past finding out through such channels. Newton found that when bc humbly knelt before his God he saw more and knew more of his God and got closer to Him than he could with his most powerful telescopes looking toward thc heavens. No wonder men doubt; mankind stands inverted now in the presence of the angels. We have put gold ubuve (>od, chattels above char acter and Mammon above manhood, until, as tho old fellow says, "we arc in the bed wrong end foremost, our head ou the footboard and our heels on the pillows." Speculation on immortality is like theorizing outside of the bible on the origin of man. Involution weighs no more with inc than the doubts of the doubters on the subject of immortal ity. I no more believe that we will go to nothing and nowhere than 1 be lieve we came from monkeys and tad poles. If a fellow can demonstrate thc fact that humanity had an origin like that he might convince sensible men that it would wind up in nothing. The doctrine of immortality is so much a part of ray being and thoughts that I would almost say that I had rather go to hell when 1 die than to go nowhere and be nothing. W. C. T. ??. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by tho ladies of the W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. Hard Times. "Boy at the head of the class, what are we paying for liquor as a nation?" "Nine hundred millions annually." "Step to the blackboard, my boy. First take a rule and measure this sil ver dollar. How thick is it ?" "Nearly an eighth of au inch." '.Well, sir, how many of them can you put in an inch?" "Between eight and nine." "Give the benefit of the doubt; call it nine. How many inches would it require to pile these nine hundred millions in ?" "One hundred million inches." "How many feet would that be?" "Eight million three hundred aud thirty-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three feet." "How many rods is that?" "Five hundred and five thousand and fifty rods." . "How many miles is that ?" "One thousad five hundred and seventy-eight miles." "Miles of what?" "One thousand five hundred and seventy-eight miles of silver dollars, laid down, packed close together, our national liquor bill would make. This is only one year's grog bill." Header, if you need facts about this temperance question, nuil this to a post and read it occasionally. It would take ten men with scoop shovels to throw away money as fast as we are wasting it for grog.-Observer. mm 4? mm The shrewd saloon-keeper will not employ a drinking young man for bar keeper. He prefers a total abstainer He is a money-maker and wants all there is in it. He knows that a man under the influence of liquor is not a safe person behind the bar. It pays him to have a barkeeper who can mix drinks, but doesn't swallow them. Lever, mmt m mm God is silently but surely sifting the American people into two classes -home defenders and saloon defend ers. There are only two classes. To which do you belong?-Patrol. Jefferson Knew. "Here is a curious error," said the schoolboy, as he laid down his "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and turned to the en oyolopedia. "The author uses the expression 'All men are horn free and equal/" "Well, what is the matter with i * that ?" inquired the schoolboy's uncle. "Why, the quotation should be, 'All men are born equal/ There is no 'free' in it." "Bo you mean to tell mc that Jeffer son didn't write -free and equal' in the declaration ?" "That's what he didn't. "I will betysu-" "Don't do it, uncle. Bemember you have a family to- support, and they will need all your money. The word 'free' does not occur there; see." And he plaeed the big book befare his misguided relative. "Oh, I know better. I will get a copy of the coastitution in one of my old books. I have heard that quoted so often I know what I am talking about." "You have heard it quoted wrong every time you heard the 'free' in it." After they had found the good and reliable old book and all the rest of the authorities, the unole ungracious ly gave up. But he hated to do so. It seemed impossible to- correct that wrong impression. Thc boy was right. Yet people go on indefinitely making a "free" and inaccurate quotation. Pittsburg Nae*. Chronic Diarrhoea Cored. This is to certify that I have had chronic diarrhoea ever since the war. I got so weak I could hardly walk or do anything. One bottle of Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured me sound and well^ J. II. BIBBS, Fincastle, "I a. I had chronic diarrhoea for twclvo years. Three bottles of Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera and diarrhoea Remedy cured me. S. I?. S il AV EB, Fincastle, Va. Both Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Shaver are prominent farmers and reside near Fincastle, Va; They procured tho remedy from Mr. W. Fi. Casper, a druggist of that place, who is well acquainted with them rind will vouch for the truth of their statements. Tor sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co - Perhaps the oldest Confederate soldier in the world is Seymour Garner, who lives in Wilcox county, Alabama. Though 10S years old. he is still alert and remarkably well preserved. Indigestion is thc direct cause of diseases that kill thousands of per sons annually. Stop the trouble at the outset with a little Prickly Ash Bitters: it strengthen- thc stomach and aids digestion. Sold hy Kvans Pharmacy - A cynical bachelor says that if a young woman talks only when she really has something to say there is something wrong with her. . DeWitt's Little Karly Bis?is per manently cure chronic constipation, biliousness, nervousness and worn-out feeling: cleanse and regulate thc entire system. Small, pleasant, never gripe or sicken-"famous little pills." Kvnn? Phnrmacv. Home Coming- Soldiors. At a dinner party up-town the other night .several former Union soldiers and one ex-Confederate sat down. The latter had ridden with J. E. B. Stuart. He is now "riding" about fora northern concern. The talk turn ed on the home-coming of military heroes and the southern man said: :!I was asked the other day in Pitts burg as we watched thc welcome of the people to the Tenth Pennsylvania back from the Philipines what sort of reception we Johnny Piebs got when we went home after the civil war. Whipped soldiers are not often rennir ed *o march in bodies when they go home. The Confederates did not as a whole. They did not in any way so far as I ever heard. They went back in twos, or threes, but oftener oue ata time. You will know some day that the civil war was unlike any other war of history. When the Confeder ates realized they were whipped they were heartbroken. I am not making any argument for the cause. But you must consider thc temperament of a southern mau to understand what de feat meant to him. "You people in the north would have recovered if the north had been whipped. You would have been at Kiehmond, if we had succeeded,. with your Yankee inventions and schemes. You would have got the contracts for; the Confederate States public works. You would have had the contracts for building our navy, for makiDg. our guos. You would have revived your industries from our coffers. You would have become partners in our commerce. All this would have been characteristic of you. * "With the southern man it was dif ferent, rle waa whipped, but he waa sullen. He moped and would not play. You people had the advantage of the play, of course, but you might have given the sulker a show for his white alley if he had shown a disposi tion to let you inside his yard. But he barred the gate and scowled at you through a knot hole. And thia trait clung to him f*r years, and he awoke one morning to find some of you folks in his field, and on his plantation workirgjiis soil, ./hile he was starving. T en he quit looking back and went' to work. And now when you have a trade with a southern man you do not take advantage of him as you did. "But just after the surrender he wag in no mood to be received. The bown from which he had enlisted was in no condition to turn out in welcome and burrah, even if a regiment had return ed, or any body of men. Gentlemen, believe me there wai not a healthy hurrah in the whole south after Lee's surrender. It was nothing to brag about for sometime before that. Some of us saw the handwriting six months before tho meeting of Grant and Lee at Appomattox. "Your soldiers returned home in companies, battalions and regiments They were received by the populaoe, as we are now receiving our returning soldiery from the Philipines, and as we recently received them from Cuba. But the Confederate sneaked back, not because he was ashamed of what he had done, for to this day wo are mighty sensitive on. that point, but because he had been whipped. It takes a brave man to acknowledge a licking such as yon gave ns* Wo ac knowledged it all right to you, and at home, but wo did not want any hurrah made about it. Our people were in no mood to ring the hells or fife tho guns when wc went home. A man going into his old home in the night, climb ing the back fence and going through the garden, making peace with the dog, knocking at the kitchen door, is not an inspiring spectacle. That's the way most of us went back. "Ver^ of tau there were no bells to ring, i'ou Yankees shot them out of thc church stee ples, or our people had to molt them for ammunition. We were mighty short toward the last There were few house guns in the south durin? the war. "Occasionally a Confederate return ed to find his town so battered that he did not know it. He mot strange faces in thc streets. Familiar land marks had disappeared. Sometimes be found thc foundation of his old home, and it was overgrown with grass. Whole towns disappeared, and communities removed, in some sections of thc south during the war. "I know many ex-Confcdcratcs to day who were never mustered out. They bunched us and told us to go, and wc scattered in every direction. I kuow a man in my State who is hold ing a Federal oflicc who nover surren dered, and who was never discharged from thc Confederate service. Xo war ever had as many strange situa tions, as many curious results ;v> that war.'-Ne"' York '/'inns. - The average man, living for 51) years, consumes between 14 and 15 tons of bread in a lifetime. The weight of solid food of all kinds he consumes aggregates the starving to tal of a fraction less than 55 tons, while on the basis ol' three pints per day he consumes Iii; tons of liquid. Thinkof thc woman's toil in preparing this amount of food and drink. - Thc furniture van is always on thc move. Bugs in the Liquor. "A certain promoter, who is now in Cuba,*' said a New Orleans sugar mau, ';was thc victim not a great while ago of what he describes as thc most contemptible outrage ever perpe trated upon a gentlemen in Louisiana. The outrage occurred in my private office, and 1 blush to say I was an ac cessory before the act. You see, this promoter had been making himself very free with the premises, and l'ked especially to drop into our back office, where there was always a bottle of good rye on the sideboard. At first he only 'joined us' on invitation, but finally he glided into the habit of helping himself whenever he happen ed in, which averaged about twice a day. One afternoon my partner, Billy, was in a confectionery store, and happoned to see a lot of candy made in the shape of fantastic bugs, beetles and lizards. It at once occur red to him that here was a chance to entertain our unbidden guest, so he brought them to the office, where he waited patiently until he heard thc promoter's voice in the outer room, and then emptied thc collection in the bottle of rye. As usual he proceeded to help himself to a nip, and was smacking his lips when Billy wheeled suddenly around at his desk. 'You didn't drink anything out of that bot tle, did you?' he demanded, sharply. 'Why-er-yes,' said the promoter, looking startled. 'Why?' 'Good hea vens!' yelled Billy, 'I was using that to preserve a lot of bugs and liaards from Guatemala! The right w.xiskey is in the cabinet.' "Our friend grabbed up the bottle, and held it to the light, and? there, sure enough, was a four-inch stratum of horrible-looking blue and yellow monsters, all tangled up together. 'Oh, Lord,' he gurgled, turning ashy. 'I thought it tasted queer; I'm pois oned sure.' With that he shot out of the office. We intended to tell him it was only a joke, but he got away too quick, and about an hour later we re ceived a visit from a doctor wo wanted, to know exactly what kind of bug? were in the bottle. He said Col. was a very sick man. We put him on and he went away snickering. That was the last we saw of the Colone1:, but he swears he will have oar gore if he ever catches us outside of New Or leans._ - The prairie dogs in Texas are being destroyed by means of a new device for catching them, which has been adopted by a large number of the ranchmen and farmers. On one large ranch over 12,000 were captured and killed last week. Tho trap is placed over the animal's mound and makes it a prisoner when it emerges from the hole. This pest has beeu destroying over 50 per cent, of the growing crops and grass in Texas annually. The greatest danger to life in the city ls not the car with its clanging gong, bat those silent invisible foes, the germs of disease. The prevalence of consumption iu cities is stated to be largely due to the frequent expectoration of diseased per sons,, whose Bi dried sputa mixed with the dust and blown into the air, is inhaled by some luckless man or woman. Sanita tion may mini mise these perils but can never obliterate them. The essential thing is to edu cate every per son to thc knowledge that the germ can find no permanent lodg ment in a healthy bod)'. Keep the blood pure, the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition in sound health, and you are practically germ proof. This disease resisting condition is ob tained by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It purifies the blood, strengthens the stomach, nourishes the nerves, and heals thc lungs. Even when. ?iere is obstinate cough, bronchitis, spitting of blood and other conditions,, which, if neglected, lead to consump tion, the faithful use of Golden Medical Discovery will, in almost every instance, effect a cure. "I was taken sick tn July last year, arni was ?Ot able to do any kind ol work until Novem ber," writes Mr. r?oel W. Orvin. of Langley, Aiken Co., S. C, " Had been coughing up small, hard lumps of phlegm for about a year before I was taken down. I then called ou a doctor, who said that one-half of my left lung was. gone, and advised me to leave my home and go to the country. I wrote to you for advice. I took four bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery : which I sincerely believe has done me more coon than all thc other medicines I lia vc ever taken." The People's Common Sense Mediad Adviser, Jtw, on receipt of stamps to cover expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for thc lxjok in paper covers, or ;,r stamps for cloth binding. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo. M. Y" Valuable City Property for Sale. BY virtue of tho power vested iu rn? by Deed of Tru*t duly executed by ? M. viurpby, and recorded in Clark's office, Book ? FF, if not sold at private (?ale before that time. 1 will sell to the highest bidder before tho Court Hons? door at Anderson, S. C., at the asnal hours ol' public sales, on Hnliwdny iu Oc tober noxt. the llouso and I,ot situated on South Main Stroot, in tbe < ity of An derson, containing one-half aero, more or less, adjoining lotK of tho ("itv of An derson, M TH. E. J. McGrath. L. H. ?feel and Main Street. Torms of Sale- ( 'ash. Purchaser to pay ni tra for papers and stamps. For fur ther information cali on .1. li. TRIliiiT.E Trustee, or P. Id. MURPHY. Sept (!, ISHl ll I Desirable Plantation for Sale. AHoUT :k)0 a<-rea ol'Land, ou Three and Twenty Creek, two and one half miles east of Pendleton, on the road leading toPeker, is ollsred for sale. There aro about 25 acres ol' bottom land. The place is well watered and well adapted to stock-raising, and bas between ?50 and 7.") acras of forearts. For further information apply to J. MTLK9 PIOKENS, s-::m Pendleton, S. C. .$k W/ sm m mk T M mm W m& W Tile Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has bceu in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and lias been made under his per .fflf-jp* sonni supervision since its infancy. . .&4ufU44 Ajlow aio ono to deceive you in this. ' All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex. periments that trifle with and endanger thc health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment., What is CASTOR!A Castoria is a substitute for-Castor Oil,. Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It contains neither Opium,. Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wind . Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and' natural sleep? The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend.. CEWUBNE ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The KM M tel Atop Bought In Use Far Over 30 Years. TMC CCffTAUH <OMMNf? .77 ?ORB?? BTUCtT, N t W YO RR CIT*. Is Anderson, the Leading HARDWARE and IMPLEMENT market af the State ? Because in Anderson: ardware Garry the Stock and gire the Prices to attract tue trade. They do the business. Builders' Hardware, Rubber and Leather Belting, Machine Supplies, Seasonable Shelf and Heavy Steel! and Iron Goods Now to the front ms The Wonderful Rife Hydraulic Engine. Information JPree. An early contract enables us to keep down prices .for awhile on THE POPULAR OLIVER CHILLED PLOWS. Dealers may talk, may blow, but the "Oliver" speaks for itself the world over. It is a world beater. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO AT A BARGAIN ! One 50-Saw Ii Cotton Gi, Fee?er anil Mm.. BRA AO SEW. ALSO, a few Second hand Gins. The Hall Gin is given up to be the . best Gin now built. Nothing cheap about it but the price. I still handle the BRENNAN CANE MILL-the only Self-Oiling Mill now sold. EVAPORATORS and FURNACES, SMOKE STACKS for Engines, ore., at bottom prices, manufactured of Galvanized Iron. CORNICE a?d FUNNELS, TIN ROOFING. GUTTERING and PLUMBING of all kinds. Also, GRAVEL ROOFING and STOVED of the best makes. CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, FRUIT JAR?J-WHITE RUBBERS the best. TINWARL at any price to suit tho wants of our customers. For any of tut above will make you pri:es that you will buy ol' aie, ami ask your inspection of Goods and prices. Thanking all my friends, and cns- - terners for their liberal patronage, Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRISS. P. S.-Bring your RAGS. o J:II)M?O?I & BRO. FLOUR FLOUR !( 500 BARS ELS. GOT every grade you are looking for. We know what you want, am; we've got the pri?es right. Can't give it to yoe, but we will sell you high grade Flour 25 to :>?c cheaper than any competition. Low grade Flou? 13.00 per barrel. Car EAR CORN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Buy. while it is cheap advancing rapidly. We know where to btiv and git ?ood, sound Corn cheap. OATS, HAY and BRAN. Special prices by the ton. We wnnt your trade, and if honest dealings and low pi ices count wi will get it. Yours tor Business, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Now is your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing ont odds ano ends in Caddies. _._ * ? ?