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THE PAST A The Old Centm t ? A. JE. JDunning, L Thc Metropelitnn Tabornaole, in Mast Londou, where Charles Spurgeon preached, wai opened "in 18yl. Re ceotly it was burned; The new build ing on the same aile was' dedicated last autumn. Forty-five minutes were required in lighting the old Taberna c|e. The new Tabernacle, with its four hundred and twenty-seven sleo ifio ?lobes, can be ?guied in vorty-tivo ?ccmds. The chungo in the time taken and in the method and material used, illustrates the advance made in almost every dopar?ai?ui or humas life in the nineteenth century and tho legacy it bequeaths to thc century we are entering. In 1?74 the streets of Boston were first lighted with oil lamps, which were then a new inven tion, and gas was first burned in that city in 1823. But practically during thc last century ' the civilised world has passed from the tallow dip, through thc smoky oil lamp, the gas jet and petroleum burner, to the incandescent s*c li?-*. It may truly be eaid that in the nineteenth century civilized man bas come to know the universe, the world he lives in, and himself. It -may also be paid that the knowledge be has gained is not only the expansion of what he possessed before, bot largely a new kind of knowledge, conclusions uuir discovered facts taking the plaoe of theories based on guesses. At the beginning of the century the wiseat scholars, as well as the com mon people generally, believed that the universe sprang into being about six thousand years sgo. In the year 1799 the Marquis de Laplace brought oat the first of the five voiames of the M?canique Gel?ste, discussing thc possibility that a vast gaseous moss, under the laws of gravitation and celestial mechanics, would in time condense into worlds round a central body-that is, that a solar systems would be evolved. It was the work of later years to discover that worlds ex ist whose light has required many times six thousand years to travel to tbis earth. Net till less than forty years ago was it revealed, through the spectroscope that gaseous masses are all the time going through the procesa of world making in all stages of con densation. These arje stops in the great discovery of the last century, that ?: cation is ? continuous process extending baok through nnmeaanred .TODS of time. Within a hundred years the four-inch Icu B of the tele scope has grown to the four foot lens; the number of stars in view bas in creased from one million to a hundred millions, and by means of other in struments the stare have been weigh ed and measured and their component parts described. The microscope, the geologist's hammer, and other instruments, have brought out no less wonderful discov eries in this earth on which we live. Condensed from a gaseous mass, it was once too hot for any* kind of life to ex ist on it. Bat from myriad minute atoms forms of life have developed, ever growing more complex in their structure and functions through un measured periods of time. From the gaseous masses out of which worlds >re in process of making, through all forms of life up to man, thc ?nergy of the universe is ever being evolved ip continuous creation. This is the new knowledge which the. nineteenth cen tury bequeaths to the twentieth. We can better appreciate the results of the application of discovered laws in inventions io increase our powers ?nd add to our enjoyment. Only the nore important of these oan be men tioned here. The means of communi cating theaght have inoreased amaz* ingly. The goose quill began to bo displaced by tho steel pen in 1823; ont this has been followed by thc fountain pen, the typewriter, and ?the mimeograph. Tho hand printing press ?ss developed into the perfecting Press; the hand-placed types are being POBhed out by . the lineotype. Tho ?aventeen daily and two hundred week If newspapers in tho United States in 1801 have inoreased to about two thousand two hundred, dailies and fif teen thousand weeklies, whoso com ??ned osculation ia more than three ?nd a quarter billions of copies per Jc?r. The first nae of envelopes for ?"ters in 1838, and of postage stamps ?> 1840, was followed by the telegraph ,? 1844, tho ocean cable in 1866, the telephone in 1866, and now by Ms.r coo? with his. wireless telegraphy; .hile even the dead continue to speak brough the phonograph. Our moans of travel have developed 1,0 less wonderfully. From the slow Progress of the itorso end'the os, oar ?J?,HERA P?8sed to the first railroad in 1830. Tho first city pasaengor rail s'-* w?8 opentd for business in Phila delPhia in 1858. To-day the electric fosare spreading themsolv?s as a ..Hwork^?* all the laud, what ND FUTURE. .y and the New. >. If., in For ward. changes will be made itt the new Cen tury through the use of the bioyclo and the the automobile we oannot as yet prophesy. Is ?SOO, sailing shina crossed the Atlantic in'six weeks. In 1807, Fulton's steamboat first sailed up the Hudson; in 1811, steamboats began to ply the Ohio and Mississippi rivera; in 181u; the Srsi steamship crossed the Atlantic in twenty-six days, and now steamers 'make the pas sage io less than six days. The com ing century will probably see ships traversing the air far more swiftly than those on the sea, and railway trains running by electricity at tw;oe their present speed. OT implements to lessen labor and increase its effectiveness have surpass ed the wildest dreams of the beginning of the nineteeui h century. The cast iron mold-board plow, patented by Jsbes Weed is 1318, has unfolded in to the steam plow, the seythe into the mowing machine, the sickle into tho harvester, the hand loom into the great cotton and woolen mills, the sewing and knittiog needles into the sewing and knitting machines. In 1833 the tinder box gave way to the friction match; but to-day vast areas nightly flash into light at the touch of a button. Tho implements of war Lave ad vanced in murderous power from the flint look on the musket to the percus sion look in 1825, and on to the breech loading Maxim and Mauser rifles. Gunpowder has been followed by ni troglycerin, and the old man-of-war by the marvelous mechanism of the modern battleship. But the means of preserving life have increased as rapidly as have the implements for destroying it. Chloro form, first applied as an anaesthetic in 1847, sulphurio ether, cocaine, and an tiseptic suffering and lessened the perils of disease. When we tu? n to the history of the nineteenth century we find that it has been the greatest nation-building peri od e:nce the time of the Crusades. When Napoleon crossed the Alps in 1800 Europe and America composed the active hiatorio world. Two maps of Europe are before me, one repre senting lt in 1815, the other the Eu rope of to-day. In the first are no .countries of Italy, Germany, Auuiro Huogary, Greeee, Bulgaria, Servia, Roumanie, or Belgium. In the seo ond all those countries appear, while Turkey has shrunk to much ' smaller dimensions and Russia has much en larged. The population of Europe has nearly doubled, in . the century; and looking at the map of the world we find vast areas brought under the control of western civilisation, includ ing Afriea, a great part, of Asia and Australia. Of the fifty-two million square miles of the earth's surface twenty-two million twe hundred and eighty-eight thousand are under colon ial or protectorate forms of govern ment. One-third of the ono billion five hundred million people in the world are included in ene hundred and twenty-five colonies, protectorates, or dependencies, while ali the governing countries are in the north temperate zone. Great Britain leads all tho nations.in Colonies. In 1880 she gov erned about five million square miles. To* day her authority extends over eleven million two h^dred'thousand square miles, one-half of all the de pendent territory in the world with considerably more than "half of its population. At the beginning of the century fifteen million people spoke the English language. To-day it is spoken by one hundred and thirty million?, Sod more than seventy-six millions of these live in the United States. The Anglo-Saxon rations control four-fifths of the world's ooean traffic, produce nearly four-fifths of the world's gold, silver, oopper, iron, steel, coal, wool, and cereals, send three-fourths of the letters through the world's mails, and control four fifths of the world's railroads and tele graphs. In one hundred years our own coun try bas grown from a little nation to one of the greatest of the world pow ers. Its five million three hundred thousand people have increased .fiC teesfold. Since the purchase of L )u{isiana from France in 1803 it has added Florida from Spain, a lafge part i of its west, and southwest territory ' from Mexico, and Alaska from Russia. Thomas Jefferson predicted that our vaat interior eossiry would not bo peopled for a thousand years. Fifty years ago it was marked on tho maps "Unexplored Regions." Fremont's exploration, in 1842, of the unknown land which is now great States of tho Union was praised by the chief scien tific organizations of Europe and Amer ica. I have seen tho buffalo, tho an telope, and the elk, roaming over it; and I have since seen large portions ot it 5GV6?CM with farme sad dotted with i.ifltBiso abd cities. Io government^ d?mocratie- ideas have expanded until they have ban ished slavery from civilisation and changed the character of finrope. Federation, i?aslrcied in Our union of States and just began at the open ing of the last century, has been fol lowed by Switzerland, Germany, Can ada, and Australia, and promises soon to bind Great Britain and her colonies in one vast British empire. - Oar own nation, evolving from the union of almost independeht States with diverse interests into a mighty nationality which possesses tho patri otic loyalty of all its citizens, suggests the ties which may in coming years draw together the Anglo-Saxon race. The strongest tie that binds these peoples to ono another is a common religious faith. The last century sur passes uu others in tho spread of Christianity. All the great mission ary societies of Great Britain and America, oxcept five, havo been or ganised Hinco ?SIO. AU lands now hear the gospel of Christ, while a hun dred years ago Christian light bad hardly begun to penetrate the dense darkness of heathenism. Christians of all denominations arc uniting more and wore effectively in common work. The British and Foreign Biblo Socie ty, beginning in 1804, and the Ameri can Bible Society, in 1816, have been followed by the Young Men's Chris tian Association in 1844, tho Evangel ical Ali ia nee and the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, the last named bringing five millions of young people into organized Christian fellowship. The modern Sunday Schoo; belongs essentially to this cen tury. An expanding pop dar intelligence is the key which explains all this won derful progress. Few nations had any exact.educational data in 1800 by which comparisons can be made. In our own oouctry the first census to gather information concerning illiter acy was in 1850. But there were co universities in the United States a hundred y oars ago, no system of effi cient free schools, hardly any provis ion for the education of women. Our public Behool revenue has grown from a few hundreds of thousands of dollars to one hundred and seventy millions and what were perhaps five hundred thousand pupils have inoreased to over fifteen millions, with four hundred and fifty colleges and universities hav ing nearly six hundred thousand stu dents. The new century opens with all this inestimable inheritance from the past. What it infolds would requiro a bold prophet to predict. But the future is wrapped up in the past and the pres ent, as the oak is held in the acorn. The deeper our insight into the mean ies of h um a u history the more accur ately we can forecast the future. Ma terial development, starting from thc veal th of inventive product we no? possess, will certainly be immense. Within the new century we may cross the ocean in a day, may send the ha man voice round the globe, and maj see with our eyeB what is transpiring on tho other side of it. Who cat measure man's achievements with th< tamed lightning at his command? Humanity will have a new meamn; in the coming century. Within a fe* years a line of railway, already fullj surveyed, will be opened from Nev York to Buenos Ayres, another fron London to South Africa, another fron St. Petersburg to South China. Peo pies that hardly have heard of on; another will bo brought into close oon taot. A better understanding betweei nations and a'fraternal spirit will en sue. If universal peace be not estab libbed the civilized nations will crest a strong police force to promoto it Religious fsith, based on oleare knowledge, will promote a moro tolei ant and fraternal, spirit; and Jean Christ, who was lifted up oh the eros to save the world, will draw all mc unto him. He abides. This esrth and the universe ( which it is a part will pass throug changes we cannot foretell. "They all shall wax old as doth a gai ment; And as a mantle shalt thou roll thei up, As a garment, and they shall be chanj ed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail." Remarkable Cores of Rheumatism. Vindicator, Ruthcrfordton, JV. C. The editor of the Vindicator has hi occasion to test the efficacy of Chao berlain'a Pain Balm twioe wit the most remarkable results in eao case. First, with rheumatism in tl shoulder from whioh he suffered e: oruoiating pain for ten days, whit was relieved with two applications > Pain Palm, rubbing the parts affliot< and realizing instant benefit and ci tiro relief in a very short timo. Se ond, in rheumatism in thigh join almost prostrating him with seve pain, which was relieved by two a plications, robbing with the lioime on retiring at night, and getting t free from pain. For salo by Hill-C Drug Co. .mm . 0mm> - It isn't always safo to tell a m who is twico as far around as he long that he carrier? all before him. Headache often results from a d: ordered condition of the stomach ai constipation of the bowels. Adose two of Chamberlain's Stomach ai Liver Tablets will correct these dis< ' ders and caro the headache. Sold ' Hill-Orr Drug Co. Story of a Cherokee Chicken. Engineer Lee, o? the South Caro lina and Georgia Extension railroad, had quite a race after a ehioken Sun day. Ho jumped the fowl just out of Blacksburg and oaught it in Rook Hill. Here ia the way it happened: Just as the train was going out of Blacksburg, a frightened ohioken, that attempted to cross the traok ahead of tj*e> engftfe, alighted on the pilot sod stopped there. After awhile Mr. Lee decided that he may as well have that ohioken as not, so he crawl ed out to the pilot and made a grab for it. As Mr. Lee grabbed, the ohioken darted down underneath tho engine, loaving in his hands a bunch of tail feathers. Mr. Lee orawled back into his cab and thought sc mere of the matter. Whilo ciliog his engine at Kock Hill, he was suprised to see tho ohicken again, sitting upon a truok, to all appearances is as good trim as ever, except that it was minus a tail: This time he approaohed with moro caution and was successful in landing his gamo. Mr. Lee turned .thc fowl over to a train hand; but as to whether the trainband carried it Daok to Cherokee and turned it loose at the point where it first got on the engioo doos not go aa a part of this story.-Yorkville Enquirer. mm? ? W-; A Good tough Medicine. have so hesitancy in recommend ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," says F. P. Moran, a well known and popular broker, of Petersburg, Va. ''Wc have given it to our children when troubled with bad coughs, also whooping cough, and it has always given perfect satisfaction. It was re commended to me by a druggist as the best cough medicine for children as it oontained no opium or other harmful drug." Sold by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - After a recent ?hower in Joitet, 111. j tho ground ia various par ts of tho city was strewn with white tish. They wero even found on tho roofs of houses an indioation that they must have fallen from the clouds. - There was nover but ono original mao, and that was Adam. The others were imitations. - The silk industry of China em ploys, it is estimated, from 4,000,000 to 0,000,000 people. - Evil fasteus on us only because it flods affinity in us. - No baby under a year old can never take tho place in a man's heart of setter pup. - There arc more republics in tho world than monarchies. - Nothing except the mint can m?ke sjency without advertiseing. - Learn to labor and to wait, not forget that labor comes first. Do Evans Pharmacy, Spooial Agents. Cabbage Fiants The right age and size, now ready for putting ont. Also And all ONION SETTS, IRISH POTATOES, FIELD and GARDEN SEED. EVANS' PHARMACY. D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. VAN DIVER Yandi ver Bros. GENERAL MERCHANTS - AND - JOBBERS OP GROCERIES. NOT BRAGGING, but giving you cold facts when we say that we can sell you that bill of1-1 Flour, Molasses, Oom, Tobacco, Coffee and Hay p If j ou give us a reasonable chance. DRY GOODS, SHOES and HATS At mighty interesting prices. Big line of extra choice Sample Shoes and Oxfords soon to arrive. Be sure to see them. Yours for Trade, VANDIVER BROS. E. O EVANS, JR., * CO PENDLETON, 8. C. FULL LINE OF Buist's Garden Seeds, .. Paints, ??, Varnishes, Gasoline, Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals, . , -Faney and Toilet Articles, M*jHP Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, Sponges, etc. A supply of Peruna, Manalin and Lacupia on band. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded. A Well Furnished Home Is not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S band e?me, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay. Not that we deni in knocked-together, ma tie-to sell sort, but because we are content with- a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yours truly, G. P. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, S. C. House Furnishing Goods Of A.11 Kinds. New Stoves Exchanged for Old Ones. Respectfully, ny JOHN T. BURK18S. P. S.-All those who owe me for Stoves and Accounts must positively come in and settle. If 1 have to send to see you it will be at your expense. Hope to see you at once. JOHN T. BURRISS. I House Work is Hard Work without GOLD DUST. "ll MIHI ll IUI TIIIIIJMII h.11 nilli lu 1,11 Mil ?ii Will?.Ill I.ll.????in 3 FARMERS, FARMERS! Prepare for the coming Flowing Season by filling your Blacksmith Shop with good Tools, such as ------- - Anvils, Hammers, Clevers, Vises, Forges, Bellowses, Etc., Of which wo carry u. full line, and can sell them at prices that every one can afford to buy. We can supply you in the best GALVANIZED BARBED WIRE, Six-inch or four-inch, at the market price. Also, Galvanized Poultry Wire, any height, from 30-inch to 6 feet, all at a low price. Come and see us before you buy. BROCK BROS, Anderson, S. C. FRBO. G. BROWN, Pres. & Treas. FRANK A. BURBBIDUB, Supt. H. E. Buuniss, Sec. 0FF.cE OF ANDERSON FERTILIZER CO., CAPITAL STOCK $100,000.00, Shipping S'o?ui t west Anderson, S. C ANDERSON, S. C., Jan. 18,1901. As we promised you in our last advertisement that we would be running in January we now, wish to inform our friends that we are now turning out the following brands of GoodB, all of which have been registered at Clemson Col lege according to law : Ava. Arno. Anderaon Spocial Fertilizer. 8 3 Anderson High G rad? Fertilizer. 8 2 4 Anderson Cotton Fertilizer. 84 2 Anderaon Soluble Guano. 8 2 Anderson XXXX Bone Potash.10 - Anderson XX Bone Potash.10 - Anderson Phosphate with Potash.10 - Anderson Super Phosphate.16 - Anderson High Grade Dissolved Bone.13 - Anderson Dissolved Bone.12 - Anderson Kain it (Imported).- - We are ni HO importers of Nitrate of Soda and Muriate of Potash which we keep in stock. We are making a special run on our "Super Phosphate" 16 per cent avail able Phos. Acid. We make this from Florida and Tennessee Rock combined, which is the highest grade rock on the market. We also call your attention to our ' Special Fertilizer," 3-3-3, and ask you to at leaat try some of it. It costs you more money, bnt vou get botter results and less troight to haul. You will now Und us Installed tn our now office over fowell Bros. 8tore; next door to Ligon ct liOdhetter. Call and get our prices and wu wiii trv to please you. Your? truly, ANDERSON FERTILIZER CO. FRED. G. BROWN, President. Pot. 3 1 2 1 4 S 1 12 Now is the Time to Buy You a . New Cookin WE can give them to you at any price, and any kind that you want. We have a good No. 7 Stove with 27 piecea of ware for $7.75. We have a big lot of IRON KING and ELMO STOVE8 which you know are thebeBt Stoves on the market. Now we just want to speak to you one word about our HEATIISTGr STOVES, Especially about our Air Tight Heater, which you know is the greatest heater on earth. If you would see one of them in use or try one of them, you would not have anything else. And just look at the price-they cost almost noth-^ ing-only $1.75 up to $6.00. We want to call your altem ion to our big Stock of Tinware, Glassware and Crockery ?llfit Now wo have just got too much of this nnd it must be sold, eo we want you to come and look and let us price you through. We have some of the prettiest pieces of Odd China you oversaw. Would make nice Wedding, Birthday and Christmas Presents. Now we are just opening up the biggest line of TOYS V?U ?ver saw We want you to come round and bring the children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Goods muet be told at some price be tween now and the 25th day of December. Come now while you can get a good selection of everything. Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. CH 0 2 S'S a o* S M td . ? 0 < H M H GD. ? < _ fe ? H M H CO ft ? ? S ? S P > d S I ii H ? *1 W H Q ^ CO . O O 3 m OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN. Three Thousand Bushels of TP^XAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. Ono Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) The only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars of fino FEED O VTS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Cars of RICE FLO?K fur fattening your hogs, and it comes much cheaper than any other feed and is much hotter Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDER8QN & BRO.