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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. AUGUST II, 1898. IfOXEST BEFORE G0I>. DR. TALWAGE DECRIES RUINOUS MODES OF GETTING MONEY. Temptation* Under Whleh Great Men Have Fallen Kvll* of Hrlhery In PnMI« Life and Ilishocesty In UukIdom Thingn Which Undermine the Soul. (Copyright, 1S98, by American Press Asso ciation. 1 Washington, Aug. 7.—Dr. Talraage in this discourse urraigue the various tnotlcs by which some people get money that does uot belong to them ami com mends the fair dealing that succeeds best at last; text, I timothy vi, 9, “They that will be rich fall into a temptation and a snare ami into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in de struction and perdition.” That is the Niagara falls over which rush a multitude of souls—namely, the dcteriniuation to have the money any how, right or wrong. Toll me how a man gets his money and what he does with it, and I will tell you his character and what will bo his destiny in this World and the next. I propose to speak today about the ruinous modes of get ting money. In all our city, state and national elections large sums of money are used iu bribery. Politics, from being the science of good government, has often been bedraggled into the synonym for trnculency and turpitude. A mon ster sin, plausible, potent, pestiferous, has gone forth to do its dreadful work iij all ages. Its two hands are rotten with leprosy. It keeps its r'ght hand hidden iu a deep pocket. The left hand is clinched and with its ichorous knuc kle it taps at the door of the courtroom, tho legislative hall, the congress and the parliament. The door swings open and the monster enters and glides through the aisle of theeouncil chamber as soft ly as a slippered page, and then it takes its right hand from its deep pocket and offers it in salutation to judge or legis lator. If that hand be taken, ar l tho palm of tho intruder cross the m of the official, the leprosy crosses from palm to palm iu a round blotch, round as a gold eagle, and the virus s reads, aud the doom is fixed, and the victim perishes. Let bribery, accursed of Clod aud man, stand up for trial. The Bible arraigns it ags a aud again. Samuel says of his two sons, who became judges, “They took bribes aud perverted judgment.” David says of some of his pursuers, “Their right hand is full of bribes.” Amos says of some meu iu his day, "They take a bribe and turn aside the poor in the gate.” liliphaz foretells the tnuhin’g blows of God’s indignation, declaring, “Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.” No Light Temptation. It is relight temptation. The mighti est have fallen under it. Lord Bacon, lord chancellor of England, founder of our modern science, author of “Nevum Orgauum” and a whole library of books, tho loading thinker of his cen tury, so precocious that when a little child ho was asked by Queen Elizabeth, “How old are you?” he responded, “I am two years younger than your maj esty’s happy reign;” of whose oratory Ben Jonson wrote, “The fear of every man that beard him was lost he wh-mld make eu end,” having an income which you would suppose would have put him beyond the temptation of bribery*—- 000 a year and Twickenham Court, a gift, and princely estates in Hertford shire—yet, under this temptation to bribery, falling fiat into rniu, and on his confession of taking bribes, giving as excuse that all his predecessors took them, ho was fined $200,000—or what curres^rinds with our $200,000—and imprisoned in London Tower. Tho black chapter in English, Irish, French and American politics is the chapter of bribery. Some of you remem ber the Pacific Mail subsidies. Most of you remember the awful tragedy of the Credit Mobilier. Under the temptation to bribery Benedict Arnold sold the fort iu the Highlands for tins sin Gorgey betrayed Hungary, 1 phel forsook David and Judas ki.vet Christ. When I see so many of tho illustrious going down under this temp tation, it makes me think of the red dragon spoken of iu Revelation, with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns, drawing a third part of the stars of heaven down after him. The lobbies of the legislatures of this country control tho country. Tho land is druuk with bribery. “Oh,” says someone, “there’s no need of talking against bribery by promise or by dol lars, because every man has his price 1” I do not believe it. Even heathenism and the dark ages have furnished speci mens of incorruptibility. A cadi of Smyrna had a eaho brought before him on trial. A man gave him 500 ducats in bribery. The case c me on. Tho briber had many witnesses. The poor man on the other side had no witnesses. At the close of the case the cadi said: “This poor man has no witnesses, ho thinks. I shall produce in his behalf 500 witnesses against the other side. ” Then, pulling out tho bag of ducats from un der the ottoman, he dashed it down at the feet of the briber, saying, “I give my decision against you.” Epaminou- das, offLMjl a bribe, said, “I will do this thing fi it be right, and if it be wrong all your goods cuuuot persuade me.” Invitation* to Kribvry. The president of tho American con gress during the American Revolution, I eneral Reed, was offered 1(3,000 fTinens by foreign commiiuiouers if he would betray this country. He re plied, “Gentlemen, I am a very poor man, but tell your king he is uot rich enough to buy me.” But why go so far, when you and I if we move iu honora ble society know men aud women who by all the forces of earth and hell coaid not,be bribed. They would no more bo bribed than yon would think of tempt- iugkn angel of light to exchange heaven for Jbe pit To offer a bribe is villouj)’, but it is u very poor complimout to the man to whom it is ottered. I have not much fa«i in those peoplo who go about braggfw;! !>ow much they could get if they would only mil out. Thuao women who complain that they are very often insulted need to under stand that there thing in their carriage to invite insult. Tlvere are men at Albany, aud at Harrisburg, and at Washington who would no more bo ap- proachisl by a bribe than a pirate boat with a few cutlasses would dare to at tack a British man-of-war with two banks of gnus ou each side loaded to the touchhcle. They are incorruptible men, aud they are the few men who are to save the city aud save tho land. Meanwhile my advice is, keep out of politics unless you aro invulnerable to this stylo of temptation. Indeed if even you aro naturally strong, you need re ligions buttressing. Nothing but the grace of God can sustain our public men aud make them vrhat wo wish. I wish that there might come an old fash ioned revival of religion, that it might break out in congress and the legisla tures and bring many of the leading Republicans aud Democrats down on the anxious seat of repentance. That day will come, or something better, for the Bible declares that kings aud queens shall become nureiiig fathers and moth ers to the church, and if the greater in authority then certainly the less. My charge also w parents is, remem ber that this evil of bribery often be gins in the home circle, and in the nursery. Do not bribe your children. Teach them to do that which is right, aud uot because «f the 10 cents or the orange which job win give them. There is a great difference between re warding virtue and making the profits thereof the impelling motive. That man who is honest merely because “honesty is tho best policy” is already a moral bankrupt. My charge is to you, in all depart- metits of life, steer clear of bribery, all of you. Every mail mid woman at some time will be tempted to do wrong for compensation. The bribe may not be offered in money. It may be offered iu social position. Let us remember that there is a day ertning when tho most secret transaction of private life and of public life will come up for public rep rehension. Bo Rv!be4L Wo cannot bribe death, we cannot bribe sickness, we ettunot bribe the grave, we cannot bribe the judgments of that God who timmVrs against this sin. “Fie,” said Ci|rdinal Beaufort, “fie! Can’t death bo bribed? Is money nothing? Must I die, aud so rich? If the owning of the whole realm would save me, I could g( t ithy policy or by purchase—by monav. ’Mws; death would not be bribed tiffin. Rif-wj^l- not bo bribed now. Men ut lisa world often rc- grst that they havq^dCJ^ic'tkeir money here when they go away from the world. Yon can tell from what they say iu their lust hours that one cf their chief sorrows is that they have to leave tlmr money. I break that delusion. I tell that bribi takw tfcut he will take his money with Mm. l?od will wrap it up in your shrpnd or put it iu the palm of your hand iu resurrection, and there it will lie, not tLe cool, bright, shining gold as it vva:: on the day when you sold your v^ti^lufe^Mtii’ fnoral prin ciple, but there it will lie, a hot metal, burning and consuming your hand for ever. Or if theaoVl ftirtfl'gti of it for u chain then it will full over tho wrist, clanking the fetters of an eternal cap- ti vfty. The l *U c ii» lift t*vorl;wtii^*g pos- sc smuu. You take it for timtf, yon ft&u it inr eternity. Srjjm duy jn tho nest world, when you are longing for sym pathy, you w ill feel on your cheek u kiss. Looking up, acw W'iU find it to be Judas, who took w Of silver as a bribe mid finished tho bargain by put ting an infuimiu* pure chock of his Divine Master. Another wroifgvtarfUitf piouoy is seen in the abuse of Irust funds. Nearly every man during the course of his life, on a larger or- smaller scale, has the property of others committed to his keeping. He is so far a safety deposit. He is an administrator and holds in his hand tho interest of tho family of a de ceased friend, or he is an attorney, and liigh liis custcriy the payment froniffHdpr to treditur, or lie is tho collector for u b§siue*i house, which compensates him for the responsibility, or he is treasurer for a charitable insti tution, and he holds alms contributed for the suffering, ur he is an official <J the city or the stnfo COT file nation, and taxes and subsidie-e and salaries and supplies are in hbi&kcpi#g. It is as solemn a trust as God can make it. It is concentered and multi plied confidences. Ou (bat man depends the support erf a bsmsehold or the morals of right move- mem of a thousum wheels of social mechanism. A man may do what he will with his own, but ho who abuses trust funds in tbat cue act commits theft, falsehood, perjury, aud becomes, in all the intensity of tho word, a mis creant- How many widows aud orphans there Ato with nothing between them and starvation but a sowing machine or held up out of tho vortex of destruction simply by tho thread of a needle, red with their own heart’s blood, whoa lit tle while ago hud, by father aud hus band, left them u competency! What is tho mutter? Tho administrators or the executors have sacrificed it, running risk with it that they would uot have dared to encounter iu their own private affairs. ,J I Ustrayed Trait*. How ofhsi ft hi ^ufto Man will earn a livelihood by the sweat of his brow and then die, and •flHbln a few months all the estate go«« to*o the stock gam bling rapids of Wail street! How often is it that you have known the man to whom trust funds weve oonimitted tak ing them out <4 thp (sw ing* Lank aud from trust companies and administra tors, turning old bBtnetarads into hard oush and then paitaag the entire estate into the vortex of speculation? Embez zlement is an «w«7 werd to pronounce, but it Las 10,004 wwfftiiti)>ns. There is not a city that has not suffered from the abuse of trust funds. Where* is the 1 courthouse or ftie city hall or the jail i cau Rtlr fmt of hou(W oa the postoffioe or the hospital that m too account cf public creditors waiting to building of it has uot kad a political demand what is due to them. ” Yet at ; job? Long before the new courthouse in the v<ir y tiaie tbe FreIlch r>oasantry New York ciiy was completed it cost Wtre valuables to him to over *12,000,000. Five million six hun- kl ,. p> A celebrated writer says of the dml and sixty-throo thousand dollars transaction: “Nothing can be grander for furniture! For plastering » I1( i r( ’; , or more, nobly original than this admis- pairs, $2,870,000. For plumbing and Hiou This old soldier, after 80 years’ gas works, $1,231,S17. For awningp, service, this iron man and victorious $£.*,553. The billri tor thn o mont • general, «*fctabliBhe<liiian eiirmy’a eouu* coming to the nice little fciun of v •».* try at the head of an immense army, in ; 151,198.39. There was not au honest t f ra i,i 0 f bis creditors. This is a kind brick or stone or lath or nail or foot < i ,. f hag troubled cou- plumbing or inch of plastering or ink- querors and invaders, and I doubt if the stand or doorknob in tho whole cstub- annals of war present anything coinpar- i Bshnient. able to its sublime simplicity. ” That bad example was followed in ! liUhonesty m Trade, many of tho cities, which did not steal J oh> is it , lot high time thiit wo proach quite so much because there was not so the moral8 of tho gospel right beside the much to steal. There ought to be a elos- fuith of tho gospel v Mr. Froude, the er inspection, and there ought to be less celebrated English historian, has writ- opportunity for embezzlement. Lest a tt>n of hiH owu c „ uutry these renmrka- man shall take a •> cent piece that <.o ( ‘K i,j 0 words: “From tho great house in not belong to him the conductor on tho , tjjg city of London to tho village grocer city horse car must sound his bell at ev- , tlio commercial life of England has been ery payment, and we are very cautious ^ turat ,. a with fraud. So deep has it about small offenses, but give plenty of g' 01ie ( ka t a strictly honest tradesman opportunities for sinners on a large scale cuu hardly hold his ground against coni- to escape. For a boy wbo steals a l ;at petition. You can no longer trust that of bread from a corner grocer, to keep j aU y article you buy is tho thing which his mother from starving M ^ ; jt prti U;ud»to be. We have false weights, prison, but for defrauders who abscond ^ measures, cheating aud shoddy ev- with $500,000 a castle on tho Rhino, er y where. Aud yet the clergy have seen or, waiting until the offense ia forgot- ; alI tlli8 grow up iu absolute indiffer- ten, a castle on tho Hudson! euca Many hundreds of sermons have I Beware of Temptation. heard in England ou the divine mission Another remark needs to be made, and of the clergy, ou bishops aud on justifi- that is that people ought not to go into cation, and the theory of good work* places, into business or into positions aud verbal inspiration, aud the efficacy where tho temptation is mightier than of tho sacraments, bat during all these their character. If there be large sums 20 wonderful years never one that I of money to be haudled and the man is can recollect ou common honesty. ” not sure of his own integrity, you have Now, that may be au exaggerated no right to run an unsenworthy croft in statement of things iu England, but I a hurricane. A man can tell by the aiu very certain that iu all parts of the sense of weakness or strength in the earth we need to preach tho moralities presence of a bad opportunity whether of the gospel right along beside tho faith he is in a safe plaoe. How many par- of the gospel euts make an awful mistake when they My hearer, what aro you doing with put tkeir boys iu banking houses and that fraudulent document iu your pock- stores and shops and factories and places My other hearer, how ar« yon get- of solemn trust without once discussing ting along with that wicked scheme whether they can endure tho tempta- you have now ou foot? Is that a “pool tion! Yon give the boy plenty of mou- ticket” you have in your pocket? Why, ey aud have no account of it aud make G young man, were you last night prac- the way*down become very easy, and ticing in copying your employer’s sig- yon may put upon him a pressure that nature? Where were you last night? he cannot stand. There are men who go Are yonr habits as gc^d us when you into positions full of temptation, am- left your father’s hoase? You had a sideriug only that they are lucrative Christiau ancestry perhaps, and you positions. have had too many prayers spent on yon An abbot wanted to bny a piece of to go overboard. Dr. Livingstone, the ground, and tbe own^r would uot sell ! famous explorer, was descended from it, but the owner finally consented to i the highlanders, and he said that one let it to him until he could raise one of his auce-stors, one of the highland- crop, aud the abbot sowed acorns, a crop its, one day called his family around of 200 years! Aud I toll you, young Mni. The highlander was dying; he man, that tbe dishonesties-which you hud his children around his deathbed, plant iu your heart aud life will seem HoYuid: “Now, my lads, I have looked to be very insignificant, but they will * all through our history as far back as I grow up until they will overshadow can find it, and I want yon to under- yon with horrible darkness, overshadow stand you inherit good blood. You have all time and all eternity. It will not bo : uo excuse for doing wrong. My lads, a crop for 200 years, but a crop for ever- be honest. ” lasting ages. lie Honest Before God. I address many who have trust funds. Ah, my friends, bo honest before It is a compliment to you that yon have God, bo honest before your fellow mm, been so intrusted, but I charge you, in be honest before your soul! If there lie the presence of God and the world, he '■ those who have wandered away, come careful, be as careful of the property of : back, come home, come now, one and qthers as you are careful of your own. all, come into the iingdem cf God. Above all, keep your own private uc- j I am glad some cue has set to music count at the bun^ s^xiraty from your that scene In August, when a account us trustee of an e*fote or .trustee 1 young girl saved from death a whole of an instittitium That is the point at t rail train of passengers. Some of you which thousands of pedple make*!,ip- j remember that out west ifi that year on wreck. They’get tho prupetty*of juli'ers . a stoyity night a hurricane blew dgwu I mixed up with their own property, ' p:ut"cf a railroad bridge. A freight they put it Into investment, and uway*» train ca.ae ulofig and it crashed iuto the all goes, and they cannot return that ,ruin, and th* engineer and conductor which they borrowed Then comes the poysbui. T^ktc was a girl living in explosion, and tho money market id , lather’s.dabin* near the disaster, shaken, and tho press denounces, and : and she heufd Jlic.ciash of tho fiei^it the church thunders expulsion. 1 train, aud she knew that in a few'ngi- Ybn have no right to use the property , incuts au express was duO; Shailglited others except for their Advantage, | a lantern and clambered \fp oi| Ruyinp Rvpnrtro In C«B|[r»ra. i In the Fifty first congress there was a tilt between Germ nil Spinola and Eli jah Adams Morv*? tbat was entertaining. The general always worn an enormous standing collar. It was so largo that it Is said that Tim Campbell approached him one day and tupped the collar with the ferrule of his cane, apologetically asking, “Is General Spinola within?" Mr. Morse was making a sort of a pro- bihition speech against the sulo cf in toxicating liquors in army canteens. General Spinola hud interrupted him several times, and in reply the Massa chusatt* statesman finally twitted *. m upon the size of his collar. It »tuug he general to the quick. Taking the fl »or some minutes afterward, he c alled atteu tion to Mr. Morse’s language. "My col lar," said he, “ unlike the gentleman from Massachusetts, is Immaculately clean, and if it was twice as high as it is and was placed around tho nock of the gentleman from Massachusetts it would uot serve to hide his ears ” The general was a political enrio. He had a striking face and a martial air In the Fifty-first congress he threw the house into convulsions by pointing to the painting representing a scene at the siege of Yorktown and gravely accusing Speaker Reed of counting the Hessians therein to make up a quorum.—Boston Herald. of others except nor without consent unless they arc minors. If with' their consent you in vest their property as well as you cun and it is all lost, you are not to blame. You did tho bc^t you could. Bnt do not ion, which has ruined thinking because a •4biiig is id bssc-ksioa therefore it is theirs. 1 ta solemn trust that come into tlj so many ing is in s theirs. God has In any comnuftHrfy there may be some wbo have misagplopriated trust funds. Put them back, or, if you have so hope lessly involved them that you canuct put them buck, confess the whole thing to those whom you have wronged, and you will sleep better nights, and you will have the better chance for your soul. What a sad thing it would be if after you aro dead your administrator should liud out from the account books or from tho lack of vouchers that you were uot only bankrupt in but that you lost your soul I Small Swindle*. A blustering young man arrived at a hotel in the west and ho saw* a man cn tho sidewalk whom he supposed to be a laborer, and iu a rough way, as no man has a right to address a laborer, said to him, "Garry this trunk upstairs.” Tho man carried tho trunk up stairs and came down, and then the young man gave him a quarter of a dollar which was clipped, and instead of being 25 cents it was worth only 20 cents. Then the young man gave his card to the la borer and said: “You take this up to Governor Crimea I want to see him.” “Ah,” said tho laborer, “I am Gov ernor Grimes!” “Oh,” said tho young man, “you—I—excuse me!” Then the governor said: “I was much impressed by the letter you wrote mo asking for a certain office in my gift and I bad mad* up my mind you should have it; but a young mail wh6 will cheat a la borer out of five cents would swIndio the government of the state if he got his hands on it I don’t want you. Good morning, sir.” I do not MappoM) there was ever a bet ter specimen of hnncNty than was found iu the Dnke of Wellington. He marched with his army over the French frontier and the army was suffering, and he scarcely kucw how to get along. Plenty of plunder all about, but he commanded none of the plunder to be taken. He writes home these remarkable words, “We are overwhelmed with debts, and beam of the wrecked bridge Qg th<v main bridge, which was trfrt!ey.S5rk, nud started to cross amkl £1ja tlsn^tlet and the lightning of the and the raging of tha»turrent beieki^ix Oho misstep aud it would have been 1 death.^ 'Amid all that horror the lantern yffenty our. Crawling sometimes und'scunctimes walking over tho slippery rails the trestiework she came to the other side of the river. Mho wanted to get to the telegraph station, where the express train did not stop, so that tho danger might bo telegraphed to the station where the train did stop. The train was duo iu a few minutes. She was one mile off from the telegraph station, but fortunately tho fcwiu was late. With cut aud bruised feet she flew like the wind. Coming up to the telegraph sta tion, pauting with almost deadly ex haustion, she hud ouly strength to shout, “The bridge is down!” whan o dropped unconscious aud could rdly be resuscitated. The message was sent fivoui tbat station to the next station aud the train halted, and that night that brave girl saved the lives of hundreds of passengers and saved many homes from desolation. But every 1 street is a truck, aud every style of busiuess is a track, and every day is a track, and every night is a track, and multitudes under the power of tempta tion come sweeping on and sweeping down toward perils raging aud terrific. God help us to go out and stop the train I Let us throw some signal. Let us give some warning. iy*tbe throne of , God let us flash some influepce to stop the downward progress. Beware! Be ware! The bridge is down, the qjiasm | is deep, and the lightnings of God set all the night of sin ou fire with this worn mg, “He that, being often re proved, hardeneth his neck, shall sud- ; detily be destruytal, aud that without remedy.” «• • Zola ou Koatllnf. i Emile Zola has been drawn out by a : young German woman, who has been writing to several authors of books not intended for the young, such as Ibsen aud Hauptmann, to ask which of their , works they think suitable for young girls to read. Zola’s answer was: , “Young girls should read ouly what ! their parents allow thcmi to. Au author bus no authority to point out which of his bocLi should be forbidden and which permitted. ” Shot th* Way the Dog Came at aim. The other day Ole Hanson had trou ble with a bellicose dog that belonged to his neighbor, a Russian of the name of Havva Dreukovitskey. The Swede shot the dog as soon as he discovered that ho was not friendly to him, and the sequel found lodging iu a justice’s coqrt. When Ole was propounded interrogato ries by the attorney for the prosecution, he evidenced a sense of justice in fram ing replies that Is rarely witnessed. “What sort of a gun did you have, Hanson?’’ inquired the attorney. “Es var two hole shotgun.” “Double barrel?" “Yah, das et. ” “Well, don’t you thiuk you could have scared him away?” “Aye might ef aye had not bane scare so lak deckeus maesul. ” / “Why didn’l jou take the other end of the gun and scare him away?" “Val, master lawyer, vy dedn’t de dog com for nine Oder end first ef bae vaut to do det vay?” Tbe lawyer is still wondering if there wasn’t extenuating circumstances con nected with the shooting.—Denver Times. Sleight of Hand la Church. Many years ago, when Joseph MarS- deu lived in Hawaii, he attended church ou Sunday morning iu Hilo. Mr. Mars- deu was then noted for his skill in leg erdemain. When Dr. passed arcuucl tho contribution bag at a Sunday serv ice, Mr. Marsden held up a $10 gold piece between his thumb and forefinger so that Dr. could plainly see it. He then placed his hand ever the bag, palmed the goldpieeo and dropped iu a silver quarter. Dr. returned to the table with bis collection. After the service he emptied the bag on u table, but could pot find the $10 goldpiece. lie shook Tbe bag i^peatcdly, turned over the small pile of contributions, got down ou the iloor and looked under the tahlR, walktd down fte aisle, looking closely at the cracJpi in the floor, felt in his own pockets, Tearing that ho bad made some mistake, atid then went home wondering^ at the strange loss of tho goldpiece. feomy time afterward tho deceiver quietly'd&it tho goldpiece tb <bo churcht—Pdcitic Gcimnercial Ad vertise!. * r Any Onu Wonfld Do. Thshop Lawrejye of Massachusetts tflftifll good ston^m himself and Fresi- '““Iffet of Harvard. Wheii Phillips :fced bishop, ^President tfreuce, who was then Theological school- laid to hwH: “The greatest mistake of las the pivot around |u Boston. Now you over the state. Any on» 8,0 tibiib for bishop. ” Ytmfe after; when Phillips Brooks had gono to his reward and Dean Law rence had been chosen iu his place, he met President Eliot in tbe stmt again The latter was warm iu his congratula tions. “My dear bishop,” he'said, “I must congratulate you. Tho church couldn’t have made a better selection. I thought you should have been tho choice when Brooks was chosen. ”, I Got Off Em?. A friend of Richard Mansfield- says tbat ono day a would be playwright bBought th the actor a play for him to read. It was execrably bad. The writer, by diplomacy more artful than anything iu his play, reached the actor’s presence and demanded a verdict. Mr. .Mansfield felt it a kindness to point ont to tho fellow tho mistakes ho had made. Bat tho tyro waxed wroth. “Do you know that play cost mo a year’s hard )abor>” he exclaimed. Mr. Mansfield, with imperturbable grace, replied: “My dear man, you are fortunate. A moro just judge would have made it ten .years. Ho really; would.”* Pookutsin ladies' dresses first appear ed in Euglat-d during the reign of Ed ward III Look! A Stitch in Time Saves nine, fiutrhet'Tonic (new laiproved, t**u'pleiifiiiil). tiikeu in early Snrliu: unil Kail preveutH Chill*. Dengue anif Malarial Fevers. Aets on the liver, tonus up the sys tem. Better than quinine. Guaranteed. Try It. At Dnugdst*. C^ic and fl.uu bottles. — ♦ Huf your siieetncles In Hpartunburir from fl. K liisslell, Kctentlilc optician. Exami nation* of the eye free. • A \VonS« rial DSeavrry. , The last quarter of n century record* wonderful discoved'* in medicine, bit', none that have arcouiplffclicd more for humanity thnu that ttcrling old household remedy, Iltajvtia’ Iron Hitter*. It Mem* to * eon tit in the very (lemeui* of good health, • id neither man, mouiku or child ran lake ■t -rilbnut deriving the greatest lieuetit. * ilrowas’Iran Lhttira U cold by ull dealcra. Oh, the Pain of Rhenmatism! Rtouiuatiamoften oausms tho-most in- iBWa-t su^-sYing. Many havo for years vainly sought nnhef from this disabling CiisutMi, anvi aro to-day worse* off than over. Btimumnhijm is a blood di^ensp, and flwvPl’sRpaciflc is th«o»*ly eaYe. be- oanao it is tb* only mnedy which can raach swch d*«cp-R< ated disonswi. A Snr r«*rs ago I wa.« UX*n wtUi Wiftri-mrno- •ory '..tatafc'.anitfu, WA*:h Lwo*r!*! an in Louie tiki* I i*m tor vector unable to wait. I tried several prominent physi cians and kv>k ih«t r trea^ mer.t faithfully, t/ut -.vas unable to tf-st Ui* tlighV est relief. In feet, ny ^au dition soemed to 'grow worse, tbe dls*e«« spread over my eotiee body, and from November to Ifarch. I suffered *|rony. I tried rar.ny potent »etf:eincs, but none relrrved me. Upon the advice of a friend I d'-cWod to try B. S. S. litfore allowing me to late it. how ever. aoy guardian, who was a enemist. ana- lyz-d tho »*medy, and pronounced it free of or mercury. I felt eo much better after king two bottles, that 1 continued the rem edy, aud In Vivo months I was out*deoarpletely. The cure was permanent, for I have never sine© had a touch of Khouiaacism 'though many time* espesed to dump and cold weatMr Elea Noa M. Tty fell, 0711 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia. D«r’tffcJRir longer with RJvmimatism. Throw aefcte your oils and Ifmvrtf nts, as th<jy aw not reach yonr troabte. Don’t exuarfcment with doctors—their potash and mereary will add to yocr disabil ity and completely destroy your diges- tiou. The BlOOd Jill sure perfectly and permanently. Jfcto poamnteed purely vegetable, and ooatoiBS bo potash, mercury, or other OftfteraL * Books mailed free liy Swift Specific Go., Atlanta, Ga. FURMAN - UNIVERSITY, GREENVILLE, S. C. 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