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•f tjr*. Cl THE DYING CENTURY. RIV. DR. TALMAGE MAKES A CHEER FUL PROPHECY. Ho t!io Arltlevcmcnt* of (!ic llun- «lro«l Vcarj About cio^lti" Grcut Piob- re»n In Art, Hcienoo anil Ilrllclou Work Well Done. V/ASiuxaTOM, Nov. EO.—('onaidoring tho timo and placa c f iM dolivrry, thiH ■onHoii of Dr. Talmnj'o is of absorbing and startling intorost. It is not only na tional, but iuternutioual in its rignili- cauco. His subject van “Tho Dying Century” and tin* toxt, II Kings xx, 1, "Thus saith tin* Lord, Kot thino bouso in order, for thou shalt dio and not live." No alarm bell do I rii:,'j in tho uttor- : frncoof this text, f< r in tho healthy glow of your countenances I find cause only ! for cheerful prophecy, hut I shall apply tho toxins spoken in tho ear of Ilezo- kiah, down with a bad carbuncle, to tho nineteenth century, now closing. It will take only four more long breaths, each year a breath, and tho century will ex pire. My themo is "Tin* Dying Cen tury.” I discuss it at an hour v hen our national legislature is about to assemble, | Bomocf the members now hero present | and others soon to arrive from tho north, south, east and west. All the public con- . veyancet coming this way will bring iin- ] portaut additions of public men, so that when on Deo. 7, at high noon, tho gav els of Hcuuto and house of representa tives shall lilt and fall, tho destinies of this nation, and through it tho destinies of all nations struggling to ho free, will ! bo put on solemn and tremendous trial. Amid such intensifying cirenmstanccs I stand by the venerable century and ad dress it in tho words of my text, “Thus saith the Lord, Get thino house in order, for thou shalt dio and not live." Plain Talk. Eternity is too big a subject for us to understand. Gome one lias said it is a groat clock that says in ,ono. century and "Tack.l.” ; ju another. But we era liot ier understand old time, who has many children—and they are tho centuries—and many grandchildren— and they are the years. With the dying nineteenth century we shall this morn ing have a plain talk, telling him some of the good things he has done, and then telling him so mo of tho things he ought to adjust before hoqnits this sphere and passes out to join tho eternities. Y/o generally wait until people are dead before wo say much in praise of them. Funeral culogimn is generally very pa thetic and eloquent with things that ought to have been said years beforo. We put on cold tombstones what wo ought to havo put in the warm ears of the living. Wo curse Charles Sumner while ho is living and cudgel him into *pinal meningitis and wait until, in tho rooms where I have been living tho last year, ho puts his hand on his heart and cries ‘‘Oh!’’ and is gone, and then wo make long precession in his honor, Dr. Sunderland, chaplain of the American senate, accompanying, stopping long CMiAugh to allow tho dead senator to lie in state in Independence hall, Philadel phia, and halting at Boston statehouse, where not long before damnatory reso lutions had been passed in regard to him, and then move on amid tho toll ing hells and tho boom of minute guns until wo bury him at Mount Auburn and cover him with flowers five feet deep. What a pity ho could not have been awako at his own funeial to hour the gratitude cf the nation! What a pity that one green leaf could not have been taken from each one of the mortuary garlands and put upon his table while ho was yet alive at tho Arlington! What a pity that out of the great choirs who chanted at his obsequies one little girl, dressed in white, might not havo sung to his living ear a complimentary solo! Tin po.:t mortem expression contradict ed tho antemortem. Tho nation could not have spoken tho truth both times about Charles Sumner. Was it before or after his decease it lied? No such in justice Ghall bo inflicted upon this von- erablo nineteenth century. A Century’a Invention!*. Before ho goes wo recite in his hearing some of tho good things ho has accom plished. What on addition to tlio world’s intelligence ho has made! Look at the old solioolhouse, with tho snow sifting through tho rocf and tho filthy tin cup hanging over the water pail in tho cor ner, and the little victims on tho long benches without backs, and tho illiterate schoolmaster with his hickory gad, and then look at our modern palaces of free schools, under men and women nulturor mid refined to tho highest excellence, so that, whereas in our childhood we had to bo whipped to go to school, children now cry when they cannot go. Thank you, vcncrablo century, while at tho *nme timo wo thank Clod! What an ad dition to tho world's inventions—with in our century tho cotton gin, the agri cultural machines for planting, reaping and thrashing; tho telegraph; tho pho nograph, capable of preserving a human voico from generation to generation; the typewriter, that rescues tho world from worse and worse penmanship, and ste nography, capturing from the lips of the swiftest rpeakcr more than SCO words a minute. Never was .( kt amazed at tho facilities ct our timo ns when, n few days ago, I telegraphed from Washing ton to New York a long and elaborate manuscript, and a few minutes after, to show its nocuracy, it was read to mo through tho long distauco tclephono, mid it was exact down to tho last semi colon and comma. What hath God wrought! Oil, I am so glad I was not born sooner! For tho tallow candle tho electric light; for the writhings of the surgeon's tabio God given anu-sthetios, uud the whole physical organism ex plored by sharpest jiislruimuit and giv ing not so much pain ai the taking of a splinter from and. ra chilli’s finger nail; for tho lumbering stagecoach the lim- itKl express train. And there is tho spectroscope of FrauuliofiT, by which our modern scientist feels the pulse of Qtl.tsr worlds throbbing with light. TilK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 3, 1890. Jenner's nnvrt by inoculation of on<* cf tho world’s worst plagues. Dr. Koeley’*' cm a i ic. i put ion fur Inebriety. In timation that tho virus of maddened canine and cancer and consumption tiro yet to be balked by magnificent medical treatment. The eyesight of the drirtor sharpened till he can look through tid' k flesh and find the hiding place of tho ballet. What advancement in geology, or the catechism of tho mountains; chemistry, or the catechism of tho olc- tn ’its; astronomy, or tho catechism ot the stars; electrology, or tho eatrrhism of tho lightnings! What advancement in music! At tho beginning of thiscontury, confining itself, so far as tho great masses of tho peopln were concerned, to a few airs drawn out on accordion or massacred on church bass viol, now on- obantingly dropping from thousands of fingers in Handel’s “Concerto In B Flat" or Guilmaut’s "Sonata In D Minor." Thanks to you, O century, before yen dio, for tho asylums of mercy that yon havo founded—tho blind seeing with their fingers, tho deaf hearing by tho motion of your lips, tho born imbecile by skill ful object lesson lifted to tolerable in telligence. Thanks to this century for the improved condition of most nations. Tho reason that Napoleon made such a successful sweep aorois Europe at the beginning of tho century was that most of tho thrones of Europe wore occupied either by imbeciles or profligates. But most of the thrones of Europe are today occupied by kings and queens compe tent. Franco a republic, Switzerland a republic, and about 50 free constitutions, I am told, in Europe. Twenty million serfs of Russia manumitted. On this western continent I can call the roll of many republics—Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay, Honduras, New Granada, Venezuela, Petu, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentine Republic, Brazil. The once struggling village of Washington to which the United States government moved, its entire baggage and equip ment packed up in seven boxes which | got lost in tho wuoiLi near this, .pbico.J. now tho architectural glory of tho con tinent and admiration *of tno world. Good Word For Nowcpap«r*. The money power, so much denounced and often justly criticised, has covered this continent with universities mid free libraries and asylums of mercy. The newspaper press, which at the be ginning of the century was an ink roller, by bund moved over one sheet of paper at a time, has becomo the miraculous manufacturer of four or five or c.ix hun dred thousand sheets for one daily news paper’s issue. Within your memory, Q dying century, has been the genesis of neayly all the great institutions evangel istic! At London tavern, March 7, 1802, British and Foreign Bible society was born. In 1810 American Bible society was born. In 1824 American Sunday School union was born. In 1810 Ameri can hoard of commissioners for foreign missions, which has put its saving hand on evry nation of the round earth, was | bom at a haystack in Massachusetts. ; The National Temperance society, the ! Woman’s Temperance society uud all the other temperance movemcuM Itfvrn in thi* century. Africa, hidden to other ; ccntuHes, by exploration in this cent ary lias b en put at the feet of civilization, to ho occupied by commerce and (Jliri.-:- j tinnity. Thc Chineso wall, onooau impassablo barrier, now is a useless pile of stono and brick. Our American nation at the opening of this century only a slice of land along the Atlantic coaat, now tho whole continent in possession of our schools and churches and missionary stations. Sermons and religions intelli gence which in other times, if noticed at ail by the newspaper press, were al lowed only a paragraph of three or four lines, now find tho columns of tho secu lar press in all tho cities thrown wide open, and every week for 20 years, with out the omission of a single week. I have been permitted to preach one entire gospel sermon through tho newspaper press. I thank God for this great oppor tunity! Glorious old century! Yon shall not be entombed until wo have, face to face, extolled you. You were rocked in a rough rradle, and tho inheritance you received was for the most part poverty and s’rugg'e r.nd hardship and poorly covered graves of heroes and heroines, of whom the world had not been worthy, and atheism and military despotism and the wreck cf tho French revolution. Yon inherited the influences that result ed in Aaron Burr’s treason, and anotlu r war with England, and battle of Lake Erie, and Indian savagery, and Lundy’s Lane, and Dartmoor massacre, and di - sension hitter and wild beyond mea; ■ ! uromont, and African slavery, which was yet to cost a national hemerrk: ■ j of four awful years and a million pre j cioua lives. Yes, dear old. century, you had an awful start, and you have done : more than well, considering yourpuiv:!- i tage and your early oirmorment. It i ; i a wonder you did not turn out to ho tho vagabond century of all time. You had a bad mother and a bad grandmother. Some of the preceding centuries were ni t fit to live iii—their morals were se bad, their fashions were so outrageous, their ignorance was so dense, their in humanity so terrific. Voar* of J’rogreM. O dying nineteenth century, b f i ■ you go we take this opportunity of fi l ing you that you are the best and th* mightiest of all the centuries of tlr* Christian era except the first, which gave us tho Christ, and you rival that century in the fact that you, more than all the other centuries put together, mo giving the Christ to all the world. One hundred and twelve thousand dollars *t one meeting a few days ago contribute d for tho world’s evangelization. Look u r what you haM done, O thou abused and ! tl< predated cvntniy. All the Ihieifio ' ! isles, barred and bolted against the g-is* pel win n you began to reign, row all open, anil some of them more Christian ized than Aiiioriiu. No more, as onco | written over the rlmivh doors in <’i) > Colony, "Doga and Huttento: j not ad mitted." Tint late Mr. Darwin cm- j tributing ||25 to thy Southern Idta-U aionary r-c ioty. C uinihnUsm driven off tho face of the earth. The gates of r.ll until ii wide opan for the gospel entranee when the church shall give up its Intel lectual diindyinm and quit fooling with n month, ions boys turn in and give Mm a lift.” "Do all tho boys help him?" o'ked the reporter. " Yes, sir. When they ain't got no job themselves, mid Jim g ts one, they turn in and help Mm, eritici-iii and plunge into tho for ho ain't strong yet, you sto.” "How hi"' J! work « - at a iif" savingstat ion tho crew pull out with tlio lileboat to take tho Bailors off a i hip going to pieces in too skerr: i. 1 thank yon, old and dying century; all hrm-n thanks you, ami auivly all the nations of the earth ought to thank you. I put before your eyes, soon to be dim for tho last Bleep, the fu-sH tremendous. I take your wrinkled o!d band and shako it in congratula tion. I bathe your fevered brow aud fresh'n your pan. In d lips from tho foun tains of eternal victory. Tliiuir* t<» lie Don**. But my text suggests that there are Goin -thii :. that this Century ought to do before ho leaves us. "Thus saith the Lord. Ret thine house in order, for thou Biialt dio and not live. We might not to !• t this century go before two or three things tin k t iu order. For one thing, thi • quarrel between labor and capital. The nil) tceiith century inherited it from the ••!;(!)' nth century, but do not Ft tliis nin i -enth century bequeath it to the twentieth. "What we want," says labor, “to sot us right is more strikes and morn vigorous work with torch aud dynamite." "Wlmt we want,” sayu capital, “is a tighter grip on the work- in:; clna-i s and compulsion to take what wag- s we choose to pay without refer ence to their needs. ” Both wrong as sin. Both defiant. Until the day of judgment no k ttlcnirnt of tho quarrel, if you leave it to British, Russian or American v, i!i :i. The religion of Jesus Christ ought to come in within the next four y a i and take tho hand of capital and iMjhyp.c and say: “You have tried everything elec and failed. Now try tho gosp: 1 of kindness. ” No moro oppres sion ami no ncra strikes. The gospel of Jesus Christ will sweeten this acerbity, or it will go ou to the end of time, and tho lirca that burn the world up will cr: 'Lie in the cars of wrathful prosper pv till cluti hing at each other’s throaty. B ‘fore tliis century sighs its last breath I would that swarthy labor and easy i mb uco would come up and let tho ( .vpeuti rof Nazareth join their hands o pledge of everlasting kindness and i one.'. When men and women arc dy ing, they arc apt to divide among their children mementos, and one is given a watch, and another a vase, and anotlier a pictni'', and another a robe. Let thin vet ran century, before it dies, hand Gv r r to tho human race, with an im- pro..ness that shall last forever, that old family keepsake, tho golden keep sake which nearly 1,900 years ago was handed down from the black rock of tho mount of beatitudes, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men Fhor.ld do to you, do yo oven so tothem, for tliis is the lav/ and tho prophets." Saving the World. Aiif4her tiling that needs to ho set in ord-r before the veteran century quits us is inoi'o thorough aud all embracing plan for th" world’s g.irdcnizatiqu. We L! (*vu Irving to Ettve flic world frem tho It 1 top, and it cannot he done that way. :. i got to he saved from the bottom. Th. c it:* di ought to bo only a West Point to drill soldiers for outside battle. W!::.!■ if a military academy should ka p i. s sf u i '.its from age to age in tho mess- room anti tho barracks? No, no! They a’-’ warned at Montezuma and Chapul- t ; o and South Mountain and Mission ary Itidge, and the church is noplace f ir a Christian to stay very long. Ho is wanted at (ho front. He is needed in the i!icrate charge of taking the panf- pei s. The last great battle for God is not to he fought on the campus of a col lege or the lawn of a church. It is to be ii glit at Missionary Ridge. Before this century quits ns let us establish the hab it of giving the forenoon of tho Subbath i ) th" churches and tho afternoon and tier i veiling of tho Subbath to gospel work in the ■ balls and theaters aud t in vt - and fields and slums aud wiidor- n 1 , of sin and sorrow. Why do Chris tians who have stuffed themselves with "the sirong meat of the word" aud all tg.qi. i viands on Sabbath forenoons want to i ome up to a second service and etuff E: or- elves again? Those old g or in and- at the gospel feast need to get i;.t . nnfi’ i 'r work with the outdoor gos- p i thd was preached on the banks of tho J. i lan aud on the fishing smacks of J. L > ( diloe and in tho bleak air of As- syri-iu mountains. I am told that fi ■ .. heat all onr American cities the h- ■! Sabbath service iu tho majority of chun hts is sparsely—yea, disgracc- i:: iy—at teadi d and is tho distress of the c i-vated and eloquent pastors who b n.:, their learning and piety before p ghastly for their inoccnpancy. is the providential meaning? The g’ ..fi t of all evangelists since Bible ti’ it nvently suggested that the oven- r : rvh in all tho churches be turned hito ’ inoit popftlar style of evangel- i db'meetings for outsiders Surely that is ■ ocpennient worth making. If that do. u r succeed, then it does seem to : .'i! 1 the churches which cannot seeme i i .'iint evening audiences ought o that up their buildings at night and go T h'; flu j oplo are and invito them to come to tho gospel banquet. IIftp One Anotlirr. Let the Christian souls, bountifully !• 1 in the morning, go forth in tho nft- eni j in and evening to food tho mnlti- fi.ui" i of outsiders starving for tiiu bread of \ hid) if man eat ho shall never ifi-.u:; hunger. Among these clear down t < spi! would make more rapid con* qui t than among those who know so n il' ll and have so much that God can- i • t a ii nr help them. In those lowe r il ptL i pFudid follows in the rough, like the shoeblack that a reporter saw )• ar New York city ball. Ho asked a L y t ; black his boots. Tho boy canto up to hi v/urk provokingly slow mid had jc f b. gun, when a largo boy shoved him undo and began tho work, and the I'd ''i fir repipved him as being a bully, r; u the boy replied; "Oh, that's all I'hiht! 1 uia going to do it for Mm. You tfi'., he s been sick iu tuQ hospital muru'u much percentage does ho givo you? said tho reporter. Tho bny replied: "I don't keep none of it. I ain't no pnrli sneak r.s that. A" the hoys gdvo up what they git on his job. I'd like to patch any f< Her Hiicaking on a nick boy, I would!'' Tie reporter gave him a 25 cent ph co and Raid, ‘ ‘ You ki cp 10 rents for jouiKi lf and giv * tho m;t to Jim.” “Can't do it, sir. It's his customer. Hi re, Jim." Such hig souls as that strew all the lower (t. jitliH of tin* cities and, get t.hi'iu converted to God, this would !> ' the last full century of tlio world'.; Hin, and but little work of evan gelization would he lift for tlio next century. Before tliis century expires let tlier* ho a combined effort to ruvo the great cities of America and Great Brit ain and of ail Christendom. What an awful thing it would he fur you, O dying century, to bequeath to tho coin ing century, us yet innocent and unseal'- r'd with a single rwi or burdened with a single.M)i*'ow, tlio blasphemy. Mu’ law- le.B ness, the atle ism, the profligacy and the wot3 of great cities still uncvangel- izt d! What wo ought to nee, O dying ce:t- tiny, is a revival of religion that would wrap the continents in conflagrations cf religious awakening, and that would make legislation and merchandise and all sryles of worldly bnpinch's w ait awhile at tlio teh graph offices and tho tele phone offices because they ore occupied witli fi lling the utory of cities and na tions born iu a day. Nearly all the ccu- tnries closed with something tremen dous. Why may not this century close in the salvation of America? I do not know Whether our theological friends who have Ktmiicd tho subject more than I have are right or wrong when they way Christ will c mo in p; rson to set up his kingdom in tl*G ixflrld; but, though wo wouJiV-Yid fiverwIn imcdW^Y-Uil^J 1,1 * y- kn’ufo WYSthnio.sH, I would like to see Chi deRccnd from heaven inoiieof tiro clouds of this morning and pluming his feet on this earth, which he came centuries ago to save, declare his reign of love and mercy and salvation on earth begun. Aud what more appropriate place—I say it reverentinlly—ft r such n divine land ing than (lie capital of a continent nevi r cuiti d by the tyrannies and supersti tion;; of tiio old world? tVoaifi-rful Sights. What has this dying nineteenth cen tury to toll us before be goes? Wo all love to hear septuagenarians, oclogena- riuus, nonagenarians aud centenarians talk. Wo gather around tho m’mehair and listen til! it is far on into tho night and never weary of hearing their expe riences. But Lord Lynn hurst at 88 years of ago pouring into tho cars of tho houso cf lords in a four hours’ address tho experiences of a lifetime, and Apol lonius at 100 years of ago recounting his travels to thrilled listcuers, and Charles Macklin at 107 years of ago absorbing tho attention of his hearers, and Ralph Farufcam of our country at 107 year* telling the Princo of Wales fhe story of Bunker Hill, can create m Hinallor wheels, which aio tho minntoa, aud those <19 luinut s turn Gill siniillei whi t hi, winch are tho r condo. And all of tliis vast i lack i;"!y in j.''|i tuul motion and jhikih *: i>. i n nnd on to-,vard the great cl mity v/h 'e lUn.rs will, ct 12 o'i'hi'k i f ll)'!'.\i i; r night !."l v * u the year JDOvi cu'.l tl • year 1901, open before me, th dr : >• rcntiiry. 1 quote from tiio till: in ■ I' niioi;:! over the thno doeru of-i !• ■ ■ ia| «f Milan. Ovt r one door, i lured ro.as, I r uni, ph asm is but f r a aunt bet iloor, i r . I n ail, ‘All that but for a mo ii nt a ith f | All t!iat vide 1 ) n.ament. ’ Gver d ar n!pt;:;e.i evoan, hich ti .'uhies ua is Hu door over ;!ie. central 1 rend,‘ l hat only i i importi .it which is eternal. ’ O eternity, iterni'.y, eternity!” My hi art r/, nr, thoninefi ontli rentmy was bora v.-l ilo tl • fnc • i f thi i m was yet wet with tear.* because if tho fatal horsebmk rido that Waaliington took out her. nt. ce*it; through a December n.mvsforr.i, I wi h the n< :.t century might he L m nt a time wh< n flu* fare i)f t!)is iiation shall l o wet witii the tears cd thu literal < rtpirifual arriv al of the Great Ilf liver; r of Ifiitions, of whom i-d. Jolri wrote witii apO'Mlyp.io pm, “And I horse, und he how, {'.ml a r and ho w < i it conquer. ’ ’ it i" :• iw, and 1 hold i that sat on him row ii v/nu git nr’.;' fortli conquering Cure I'r ivc t'a ■ ni'i .t f IIihhI's Hnri*»|B»rllIa-* POib li\r, )' i fi ct, JM'I IHIllM'Ilt Cliri'S. Cures "f ila la iM'viTi'st fitrniM, like goitre, * we Hist neck, running Horen, lilp ill . use. sores I i the eye*. CurCS of Salt Ulietim, willl its Intense llcllillg ami InirnitiK, seaM head, tetter, etc. Cures of I loll*. I'huples and all Ollier ITMIR* tions due to illipuro Mood. Cures ,f l>ysi<''|>sia and other trouldes wIuto a good stomach tonic **as needed. Cures of Klieum.'ithim.wliere |iatients were mi- alile to work or walk for w eeks. Cures of Catarrh hy evixdlliig the Imimritlus wliieli cause and sustain the disease. Cures of Nervousness by properly toninghik! feeding the nerves iiiriii pure blood. Cures of That Tired reeling by restor ng strength. Send for Iwrok of eures I y i. Sarsaparilla loC. |. Hood & Co., I’roprietors, I.ow elt, Tdasa. Hood’s Pills are the te st .'ifler- linner lulls, aid digestion, zoo. A. N. WOOD, such interest as this dying oentenariau if lio will only speak. Toll us, O nineteenth century, before you go, in a score of sentences, somo of the things yon have hoard and seen. The veteran turns upon ns and Kays: “I paw Thomas Jefferson riding iu unattended from Monrirtdlo, only a fow steps from where you stand, dismount from his horse and hitch the bridle to a post, and on yonder hill take tho oath of tho presi dential office. I Raw yonder capital nblaZo with war’s incendiarism. I saw the. puff of tho first steam engino in America. I hoard tho thunders of Wa terloo, of Sevastopol and Sedan ui.fi Gettysburg. I was present at all the coronations of tho kings and queens and emperors and empresses now in tho world’s palaces. I have seen two billows roll across this continent and from ocoau to ocean; a billow of revival joy in 1807, aud a billow of blood in 1804. I have seen four generations cf tho human race march across this world and disappear. I saw their cradles rocked and their graves dug. I have hoard tho wedding bells and the deathkuclls of near a hun dred years. I have clapped my bauds for millions of joys aud wrung them in millions of agonies. I saw Mueready and Edwin Forrest act and Edward Fay- son pray. I heard tho first chime of Longfellow’s rhythms, and before any cue else saw them I read tho first line of ‘Bancroft’s History,’ and the first verso of Bryant’s ‘Tbauntopsis, ’ aud the first word of Victor Hugo’s almost Super natural romance. I heard the music of all tho grand marches and tho lament of all the requiems that for nigh ten decades uiado tho cathedral windows shake. I have secu more moral and spir itual victories than all of my predeecs sors put together. Admonition ami llenodictiou. “For nil you who hear or read this valedictory I have kindled all tho do mestic firesides hy which you ever sat and roused all tho halloos and ronmle i lays and njer-imeuts you have ever heard and unrollei. all the pictured sunset und starry banners of the midnight hcav- ! ons that you havo ever gazed at. But ; ere I go take fiiis admonition aud bene diction of a dying eoutury; The longest ! life,like mine, must close. Opportuni ties gone never como back, ns 1 could prove fi'im nigh a hundred years of ob servation. The eternity that will soon take me will soon take you. Tho wicked : live not out .':ulf their days, ns I havo Bi t ii in 10,000 instances. "Tho only influence for making the world happy is at* influence that I,tho nineteenth century, inmuitcd from tho 1 first century of the Christian t ra—tho Christ of all tlio centuries. Bo not do- ceived hy tho fact that I havo lived s > long, for a century is a largo wheel that terns 100 smaller wheels, which arc tlio 1 years, uud each mio of those years turn.; 805 smaller wheels, which uru tho days, ami each one of tho 8il5 day* turns 24 j smaller wheels, which arc the hours, aud each one of thpse 24 hfiVT* **m'«i *0 A SP C ANDLUUG n u- A c A FXIF1C BANKE P l l, Of % n?,-- js I'. •; geiieral Ban king:;! i i Ex a j v.. t - ; ;,. j ! :u b..s. \\’c!i st eurctl v id) I: vir;dar- TRCUDL>ir>, i’. > ■!' safe ami Aufoiii.itiv ’1 ii;; ; Lode. ct 7 : af'.'j - Deposit Boxes : I nioJerato PPCTOtvLL 1 *•*•»* f 1 * ■ I. i . l»i:n s an 1 sells Stovks 3 Gilt* Bands. », I tlio j i i] n, l’ t tiuaty ami .’eliooi a m 'lit is ',avo Chti: I'S* lor :n ■^TT"I! r.S lull :nl I l:l Ui!:oii wuv not lidi l .:t) V 'V ; . . .4 ' 4';"v i ■ A.' - ■ ■ 1)10, but, i: J ST *it(» t'f i:is attot'danro, T got Ilo 1 ') •Her. 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