The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, August 25, 1898, Image 5
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ORLD'S PROGRESS.
DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS DUE TO
CHRISTIANITY.
The Great Divine I)Im iikimh» the Oriciu of
Sian — Denoniiees the Kvolutlon Theory
aa Dure Infidelity ami Contrary to
Scientific Facta.
fCopyriKht, 1808, by Amcrkxtn Pn.i« Aseo-
ciatlon.J
Wasuington, Aug. 21.—The qnos-
tiou of human origin, so prominent now
in scientific and religions circles, is
discussed in characteristic style by Dr.
Tulmage in this discourse, in which ho
also advocates the theory that all the
world’s progress has oome through
Christianity; text, I Timothy vi, 20,
“O Timothy, keep that which is com
mitted to thy trust, avoiding opposi
tions of science falsely so called. ”
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same Qod
who by the hand of prophet wrot^ on
parchment by tho hand of the storm
wrote on the rock. Tho best telescopes
and microscopes and electric batteries
ajnd philosophical apparatus belong to
Christian universities. Who gave us
magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse,
a Christian. Who swung the lightnings
under the sea, cabling the continent*;
together? Cyrus W. Field, the Chris
tian. Who discovered the aua^sthetical
properties of chloroform, doing more
for the relief of human pain than any
man that ever lived, driving back nine-
tenths of the horrors of surgery? James
Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, as eminent
for piety as for science; oo weekdays
in tho university lecturing on profeund-
est scientific subjects and on Sabbaths
preaching the gospel of JestM Christ to
the masses of Edinburgh. I saw the
universities of that city draped in
mourning for his death, and I heard bis
eulogy pronounced by the destitute pop
ulations of the Cowgate. Science ami
revelation aro the Iwss aiuf soprano of
♦ho same tune. The whole world will
yet acknowledge the complete harmony.
Bnt between what my text describes as
science falsely so called and revelation
there is an uncompromising war and
one or the other must go under.
At tho present time the air is filled
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution, and it is high
time that the people who have not time
to make investigation for themselves
understand that evolution in the first
place is up and down, out and out in
fidelity; in the second place it is con
trary to the facts of science, and in tho
third place that it is brutalizing in its
tendencies. I do not argue that this is
a genuine book, I do not say that tho
Bible is worthy of any kind of credence
— those aro subjects for other Sabbaths
—but I want you to understand that
Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire
do more thoroughly disbelieved the
Holy Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe In evolution.
And when I say scientists of course I
do not menu literary men or theologians
who in essay or in sermon and without
giving their life to scientific investiga
tion look at tho subject on this side or
that. By scientists I mean those who
have a specialty in that direction and
who through zoological garden and
aquarium and astronomical observatory
give their life to tho study of the phys
ical earth, its plants and its animals,
and the regions beyond, so far as optical
instruments have explored fbem.
Kvolutlon I* Infidelity.
I put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists—
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hux
ley, Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On the
witness stand, ye men of science, living
and dead, answer these questions: Do
you believe tho Holy Scriptures? No.
And so they say all. Do you believe the
Bible story of Adam and Eve in tho
garden of Eden? No. And so they say
all. Do you believe tlie miracles of tho
Old and New Testaments? No. And so
they say all. Do you believe that Jesus
Christ died to save tho nations? No.
And so they say all Do yon believe in
tho regenerating power of the Holy
Ghost? Nu And so they say all. Do
you believo that human supplication
directed heavcnwR r d ever makes any
difference? No. And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only address
he made in this country, in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical ail
ments to fate, and the authorized re
port of that address begins the word
fate with a big “ F. ” Professor Heckel,
in tho very first pago of his two great
volumes, sneers at the Bible as u so called
revelation. Tyndall, in his famous
prayer test, defied the whole of Chris
tendom to show that human .supplica
tion made any in the resnk
of things. John Stuart Mill wrote elab
orately against Christianity, and, to
show that his rejection of it was com
plete, ordered this epitaph for his tomb
stone, “Most Unhappy.” Huxley said
that at tho first reading of Darwin’s
book be was convinced of tho fact that
teleology had received its deathblow at
the hand of Mr. Darwin. All the load
ing scientists who believe in evolution,
without one exception the world over,
aro infidel. I say nothing against infi
delity, mind you. 1 only wish to define
the belief and the moaning of tlie rejec
tion
Now, I pot opposite to each other, to
show that evolution is infidelity, the
Bible account of how the human race
atarted and the evolutionist account of
how the human ruae started. Bible ac
count: "God said let os make man in
our image. God created man iu his own
image; male and female entiled be
them.” He breathed into him the
breath of life, the whole story setting
forth the idea that it was not a perfect
kangaroo or a perfect orutfig cubing,
but a perfect man. That la the Bible
account The evolutionist account:
l A way back iu the ages there won* four
Jur five primal germs or seminal sporea
(from which all the living creatures
have been evolved. Go away back, and
there yon will find a vegetable stuff
that might be called a mushroom. This
mushroom by innate force develops a
tadpole, the tartfcrde by innate force do- ;
velops r. polliwog, tkc polliwog develops
a fish, the fish by natuinl force develops
into a reptile, the repfMe develops into
a quadruped, the quadruped develops
into a baboon, tho baboon develops into
a man.
SoIentirtH Don’t Know.
Darwin says that ihe human hand is
only a fish’s fin developed. He says that
tho human lungs are only a f vim blad
der showing that we once floated or
were amphibious. He says the human |
ear could once have been moved by force
w will just as a horse lifts its ear at a
frightful object Ho says tho human
race were originally webfootod. From
primal germ to tadpole, from tadpole to
fiich, from fish to reptile^ from reptile to
wolf, from wolf to chimpanzee and
from chimpanzee to man. Now, if any
body says that the Biblo account of the
starting of the human race and the ovo
hitionist account of tho starting of the
human race are the same accounts he
makes an appalling miertpresentation.
Prefer, if you will, Darwin’s‘‘Origin
of the Species" to the book of Genesis,
but know you are an infidel. As for my
self, as Herbert Spencer was not present
at tho creation and tho Lord Almighty
was present, I prefer to take tho divine
acoouut as to what really occurred on
that occasion. To show that this evolu
tion is only an attempt to eject God and
to postpone him and to put him clear
out of reach, I ask a question or riva
The baboon made the man, and the wolf
made the baboon, and the reptile made
tho quadruped, and the fish made the
reptile, and the tadpole made the fish,
and the primal germ made tlie tadpole.
Who made the primal germ? Most of
the evolutionists say, ‘‘We don’t know.”
Others say it made itself. Others say it
was spontaneous generation. There Is
not one of them who will fairly and
openly and frankly and emphatically
say, ‘‘God made it”
The nearest to a dim* answer is that
mode by Herbert Sjieocer in which be
says it was made by the great, "unknow
able mystery. ” But here comes Huxley
with a cup of protoplasm to explain the
thing. This protoplasm, he says, is
primal life giving qcality with which
the race away bock hi the ages was
started. With bin protoplasm he pro
poses to explain everything. Dear Mr.
Huxley, who made the protoplasm?
To show you that ©volution is infidel
I place the Bible account of how the
brute creation was started opposite to
tha ovolutioni»«*s account of the way
the brute creation was started. Bible
account: You know the Bible telle how
tha( the birds were made at one time,
and the cattfe nttde at another time,
and the fish made at another time, and
that each brought forth after ite kind.
Evolutionist’s aaocunt—From four or
five primal germs or seminal spores all
the living creatures evolved. Hundreds
of thousands of species of insects, of
reptiles, of beasts, of fish, from four
germs—a statement flatly contradicting
not only the Bible, but tho very A B
C of acicuoe. A species never develops
into anything but its own species. In
all the ages ami iu all tho world there
has never been an exception to it. Tho
shark never comas of a whale, nor the
pigeon of a vofys*; ivor the butterfly of
a wasp. Species never cross over. If
there be an attempt at it, it is hybrid,
and the hybrid w always sterile and
has no descendants.
How Woal'is Are Ma-ie.
These men of sdehee tell us that
100,000 species camo from four, when
the law all sktidugh the universe is
that, starting iu one species it keeps on
iu that species, and there would be only
four now* if Umsm had been four at
starting. If I should say to you that tho
world is fiat, and Unit a circle and a
squaw are the assaio, raid that twice 2
make 15, I would come just as near
the truth as y#uw ttieee evolutionists
toll you that 100,000 species came from
four. Evolution would have been left
out of question, with its theory flatly
contradicting all observation and all
science, had not its authors and their
disciples been so set ou ejecting God
from the universe and destroying the
Biblo that they will go to any length
though it lead Ilian kilo idiotic absurd
ity. You som \vkM Ihe Bible touches iu
regard to it I have shown you also
what evolution teaches iu regard to it.
Agassiz says that he found iu a roof
of Florida the remains of insects 50,000
years old—not 3,000, but 80,000 years
old—and tbot they were just like the
insects now. There has been no change.
All the facta of unu Juilogy and zoology
and ichthyology and oonchology, but
an echo of Generis first and twenty-
first, "Every winged fowl after his
kind. ” Every creature after its kind.
When ootnuKOi .(ft*w»ation aad science
corroborate the Bible, I will uot stulti
fy myself by surrendering to the elab
orated guesses of evolutionists.
To show that evolution is infidel I
place also the Bible account of how
worlds were made opposite the evolu
tionist’s account of how worlds were
made. Bible account: God made two
great lights—the one to rule the day,
the other to rule the night. He made
tho stars also. Evolutionist account:
Away back iu tbo ages, there was a fire
mist or star dust, and this fir© mist
cooled off into granite, and then this
granite by earthquake and by storm and
by light was shaped into mountains
and valleys and seas, and so what was
originally tiro mist became what wo
call the earth.
Who made the fire mist? Whose! the
fire mist to vtirkl fkiag? Who tooled
off the fire mist Into granite? You have
pushed God soma 00, $00,000 or TO, 000, •
000 miles from the earth, but he is too
near yet for tlie hsalth of evolution.
For a great while the evolutionists
boasted that the}* had found the very
stuff out of which thin world and all
worlds were made. They lifted the tele-
scope and they sow it, the very material
out of which worlds made themselves.
Nebula of simple gua. They laughed in
triumph because Ifoey had found the
factory where the worlds were manu
factured, and there was no God auy-
where around the fitetory! But in an |
unlucky hour for infidel evolutionists
tho sptctroscopos of Fraunhofer and
Kirchoff were invented, by which they
saw into that nebula and found it war-
not a simple gas, bnt was a compound,
and hence had to be supplied from some
other source, and that implied a God.
and away went their theory shattered
into everlasting demolition.
IuG<l«l GnvhHirs.
So these infidel evolutionists go wan
dering up and down guessing through
the universe. Anything to push away
back Jehovah from his empire and make
tho one book which is his great com
munication to tho soul of the human
race appear obsolete and delusive, but 1
am glad to know that, while some of
these scientists have gone into evolu
tion, there are many that do not believe
it, among them the man who by most
is considered the greatest scientist wo
ever had this side of the water—Agassiz
—a name that makes every intelligent
man the earth over uncover.
Agassiz says: “The manner in which
the evolution theory in zoology is treat
ed would lead those who are not special
zoologists to suppose that observations
have been made by which it can be in
ferred that there is in nature such a
thing as change among organised beings
actually taking place. There is no such
thing ou record. It is shifting tho
ground of observation from one field of
observation to another to make this
statement, and when the assertions go
so far as to exclude from the domain of
science those who will not be dragged
into this mire of mere assertion then it
is time to protest. ”
With equal vebomenoe against the
doctrine of evolution Hugh Miller,
Farraday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson and
hundreds of scientists in this country
and other countries have made protest
I know that the few men who have
adopted the theory make more noise
than the thousands who have rejected
it. The Bothnia of the Ounahl lino took
500 passengers safely from New York
to Liverpool. Not one of the 500 made
any excitement But after we had been
four days out one morning, we found
on deck a man’s bat and coat and vest
and boots, implying that some one had
jumped overboard. Forthwith we all
brgan to talk about that one man. There
was more talk about that one man over
board than all the 500 passengers that
rode on in safety. "Why did ho jmnp
overboard?” ‘‘I wonder when be jumped
overboard?" "I wonder if when he
jumped overboard he would liked to
have jumped back again?" "I wonder if
a fish caught him or whether he went
clear down to the bottom of tho sea?”
And for three or four days afterward
we talked about that poor man.
A Glorlou* Theory.
Here is tho glorious and magnifioent
theory that God by his omnipotent pow
er made man, and by bis omnipotent
power made the brute creation, and by
his omnipotent power made all worlds,
and 500 scientists h»ve taken passage
on board that magnificent theory, but
10 or 15 have jumped overboard. They
make more talk thou all tho 500 that
did uot jump. I am politely asked to
jump with them. Thank yon, gentle
men, I am very much obliged to you. 1
think I shall stick 6u trie old Cuuarder.
If you want to jump overboard, jump
and test for yourselves whether your
hand was really a fish’s fin, and wheth
er you were webfooted originally, and
whether your lungs aro a swim blad
der. And as in every experiment there
must be a division of labor, some who
exjieriment and some who observe, you
make the experiment and I will observe.
There is one tenet of evolution which
it is demanded wo adopt, that which
Darwin calls "natural selection," and
that which Walluoe called the‘‘survival
of the fittest" By this they menu that
the human race and tho Irute creation
aro all tho time improving because tho
weak die and the strong live. Those
who do not die survive bccauso they are
the fittest. They say the breed of sheep
and cattle and dogs and men is all tho
time improving, naturally improving
No need of God or any Bible or any re
ligion, but just natural progress.
You see the race started with “spon
taneous generation,” and then it goes
right on until Darwin can take us up
with his "natural selection,” and Wal
lace with his "survival of tho fittest,”
and so we go right ou up forever.
Beautiful 1 But do tho fittest survive?
Garfield dead in September—Guitean
surviving until the following June.
"Survival of the fittest?" Ah, no! Tho
martyrs, religious and political, dying
for their principles, their bloody perse
cutors living ou to old age. "Survival
of the fittest?” Five hundred thousand
bravo northern men marching out to
met 500,000 brave southern men and
dio on the battlefield for a principle.
‘Hundreds of thousands of them went
down into the grave trenches. We
staid at home in comfortable quarters.
Did they die because they were not as
fit to live as we who survived? Ah, no,
uot the "survival of tho fittest." Ells
worth and Nathaniel Lyon falling ou
the northern side. Albert Sidney John
ston and Stonewall Jackson falling ou
tho southern sidu. Did they full be
cause they were not as fit to live as tho
soldiers and the generals who came
back iu safety? Nu Bitten with tho
frosts of the second death bo the tongue
that dares utter it It is uot the "sur
vival of the fittest."
FltUrat Do Not Si>ttI»».
How has it been in the families of the
world? How was it with the child
physically the strongest, intellectually
the brightest, in disposition the kindest?
Did that child die because it was not as
fit to live as those at your family that
survived? Not "the survival of the fit
test" In all communities some of tho
noblest, grandest men dying in youth or
in midlife, while some of the meanest
and most contemptible live ou to old
S«e. Not "the survival of the fittest”
But to show you that this doctrine is
antagonistic to the Bible and to common
reuse 1 have only to prove to yon that
there has been no natural progress
Vast improvement from another scarce.
but mind you. no naturil progress.
Where is tho line horse iu any at our
parks whose picture of eye and iirnno
and nostril and neck and haunches is
worthy of being compared to Job’s pic
ture of a horn* as he, tboucands of
years ago, heard it paw and neigh and j
champ its bit for tho battle? Pigeons of J
today not so wise as the carrier pigeons (
of 500 years ago—pigeons that carried |
the mails from army to army and from
city to city, one of them flung into the
sky at Romo or Venice landing without
ship or rail ti-.ru in London. Look at j
the great animals that walketh the earth |
in oldivn times—animals compared with j
which in size our elephant is a cat;
monsters of olden times that swam the
deep, compared with which our whale
is a minnow. Conies have learned noth
ing about climbing and the hounds
nothing about hunting and the ostrich
nothing about hatching and tho condor
nothing about flying and tho owl noth
ing about musical cadences for 6,000
years. Not a particle of progress.
And, as to the human race, so far as
mere natural progress is concerned, once
there were men 10 feet high; now the
average is about 5 feet 6 inches. It
started with men living 200, 400, 800,
900 years, and now 30 years is more
than the average of human life. Mighty
progress we have made, haven’t we? I
went into the cathedral at York. Eng
land, and the best artists iu England
had just been painting a window in that
cathedral, and right bo.ide it was a
window painted 400 years ago, and
there is not n man on earth but would
say that tho modern painting of tho
window’ by the best artists of England
is not worthy of being compared with
the painting of 400 years ago right be
side it. Vast improvement, as I shall
show you iu a minute or two, but no
natural evolution.
Trend of Kvolutlon.
Look at China, where evolution has
had full swing for thousands of years
uninterrupted by anything except here
and there a mission station with this
defunct book, the Bible, but through
tbo most of the realm uot interfered
with. What has evolution done for>
China? Christian civilization goee in
and builds a railroad; they tear it up.
For 1,000 years the Chinese nation,
where it is not invaded by the gospel,
has not made oue-five-hundrcd-milliouth
part of an inch of advancement They
worship the aotne gods of red paint.
Just as always, they drown the female
children as a nuisance. Just as always,
they eat with chopsticks. So iu India,
so iu Arabia, so in Turkey, so every
where where the gospel has uot made
an invasion.
I tell you, my friends, that natural
evolution is not upward but it is always
downward. Hear Christ ’s account of it.
Fifteenth Matthew and nineteenth
verse, "Out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornica
tions thefts, false witness, blasphe
mies.’’ That is what Christ said of evo-
, lution. Give natural evolution full
j swing in our world and it will evolve
j into two hemispheres of crime, two
i hemispheres of penitentiary, two hem-
I ispheres of lazaretto, two hemispheres
of brothel. New York Tombs, Moya-
! incusing prison, Philadelphia, Seven
Dials, Loudon and Cowgate, Edinburgh,
only festering carbuncles ou the face
and neck of natural evolution. See
what the Bible says about tho lienrt
and then what evolution says about the
hoart. Evolution says "better and bet
ter and better gets the heart by natural
improvement.” Tho Bible says: “The
hoart is deceitful above all - things and
desperately wicked. Who can know it?"
When you can evolve fragrance from
malodor, and can evolve an oratorio
from a bazzsaw, and can evolve fall
pippins from a basket of decayed crab
apples, then you cun by natural evolu
tion from tho human heart develop
goodness. Ah, my friends, natural evo
lution is always downward; it is never
upward.
A Galvanized Corpoe.
What is remarkable about this thing
is it is all the time developing its dis
honesty. In our day it is ascribing this
evolution to Herbert Spencer and
Cbnrlei Darwin. It is a dishonesty.
Evolution was known and advocated
hundreds of yours before these gentle
men begun to bo evolved. Tho Phoeni
cians thousands of years ago declared
that tho human race wabbled out of tho
mud. Democritus, who lived 460 years
before Christ—remember that—knew
this doctrine of evolution when ho said:
"Everything is composed of atoms, or
infinitely small elements, each with a
definite quality, form and movement,
whose inevitable union and separation
shape all different things and forms,
laws and efforts and dissolve them
again for new combinations. The gods
themselves and the human mind orig
inated from such atoms. There are no
casualties. Everything is necessary and
determined by the nature of the atoms
which have certain mutual affinities,
attractions and repulsions." Anoxi-
mander centuries ago declared that the
human race .started at the place where
the sea saturated the earth. Lucretius
developed long centuries ago in his
poems the doctrine of evolution.
It is an old heathen corpse set up in
a morgue. Charles Darwin and Herbert
Spencer have tried to galvanize it.
They drag this old putrefaction of
8,000 years around the earth, boasting
that it is their originality, and so won
derful is the infatuation that at the
Delmonioo dinner given in honor of
Herbert Spenoer some 15 years age
there were those who ascribed to him
this great originality of evolution.
There the banqueters sat around the
table in honor of Herbert Spencer, chew
ing beef and tnrkcy and roast pig, which,
according to their doctrine of evolution,
made them eating tbeir own relations.
Slicing op their own cousins I Driving
a carving fork into their beloved kin
dred) Dashing Worcestershire nance,
bedaubing mustard over their uncles
and aunts I And while Herbert Spencer
read a patronizing lectnre to Americano
the banqueters sat around the table
fith their hands np, saying, "Dear
mo, it is the voice of a god and not of ,
a man. ’’
A Clorloufl D<M-tr!r.e.
There is only ©no thing worse than
English snobbery, and that is Ameri
can snobbery. I like democracy and I
like aristix racy, but there is one kind
of ocracy in this country that exciter
my lontempt, and tiiat is what Charles
Kingsley, after he had witnessed it
himself, cnlled snobocrucy. Now, I say
it is a gigantic dishonesty when they
ascribe this old heathen doctrine of
evolution to any modern gentleman.
I am uot a pessimist, but an optimist.
I do not believe everything is going to
destruction; I believe everything is go
ing on to redemption. But it will not
bo through the infidel doctrine of evolu
tion, but through our glorious Chris
tianity which has effected all the good
that has ever been wrought and which
is yet to reconstruct all the nations.
What is that in the offing? A ship
gone on the rocks at Cape Hatterus.
Tho hulk is breaking up, crew and pas
sengers are drowning. The storm is in
full blast and tho barometer is still
sinking. What does that ship want?
Development Develop her broken
masts. Develop her broken rudder. De
velop her drowning crow. Develop her
freezing passengers. Develop the whole
ship. That is all it wants. Develop
ment. Oh, I make a mistake. What
that ship w*anta is a lifeboat from tho
shore. Leap into it, you men of the life
station 1 Pull away to the wreck! Steady
there I Bring the women and children
first to the shore I Now the stout men!
Wrap them up in flannels, and between
their chattering teeth you can pour res
toration.
Well, my friends, our world is on the
rooks. God launched it well enough,
but through mispilotage and the storms
of 6,000 years it has gone into the
breakers. What does this old ship of a
world want? Development? There is
enough old evolution in the hulk to
evolve another mast and another rud
der and to evolve all the passengers and
evolve trie ship out of the breakers.
Development? Ah, no^ my friends,
what this old shipwreck of a world
wants is a lifeboat from the shore. And
it is coming. Cheer, my lads, cheer. It
is coming from the shining shore of
heaven, taking the crests of ten waves
with ooc sweep of the shining paddles.
Christ is in the lifeboat Many wounds
on hands and feet and side and brow,
showing be has been long engaged iu
the work of rescue, but yet mighty to
save—to save one, to save all, to save
forever. My Lord and my God, get us
into tho Hfeboat! Away with your rot
ten, deceptive, infidel and blasphemous
evolution and give ns tho Bible, saliva
tion through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Salvation 1 Let the echo fly
The spaetons earth around,
While all the unuiea of tho shy
Conspire to raise tho sound.
Queen Victoria’s Money.
Queen Victoria is tho first sovereign
of England who ever had anything to
leave, says The Chautauquan. All of
her predecessors upon the throne be
queathed fine assortments of debts to
their posterity, whicli parliament was
called upon to pay, and while Victoria
permitted tho people to be taxed to set
tle trie private obligations of her uncles,
George IV and William IV, she herself
paid the debts of her father, the Duke
of Kent, with full interest, and has sev
eral times settled tho liabilities of the
Prince of W’ales to the extent of several
millions of dollars.
There is a great deal of gossip and
speculation in England as to the dispo
sition tho queen has made of her im
mense property. Tho bulk of it will un
doubtedly go to tbo Prince of W’ales,
and it is supposed trial her best estates
are entailed upon her successors with
tho condition that they shall never be
mortgaged or alienated iu any way. It
is also assumed that tho palace at Os
borne and a liberal amount of bonds
and leases will bo left to her favorite
daughter, the Princess Beatrice, who is
also expecting to inherit tho fortune of
Empress Eugenie, whose son, the ill
fated prince imperial, was to have been
her husband. Princess Louise, tbo wife
of the Marquis of Lome, has no chil
dren, and her husband will inherit tho
immense estates of tho Duke of Argyll,
so that she will be well provided for.
Scrofula, a Vile
Inheritance.
Scrofubiis the most obstinaleof blr**!
troulrtes, and is often the result of an
inherited taint in the blood. S. S. S.
is the only remedy which goes deep
enough to reach Scrofula; it forces ont
every trace of the disease, and cures
trie worst cases.
My aon, Charlie, wm aflMctM from Infancy
with Scrofula, and he suffered so that it
Impossible to dress him
tor three years. His
head and body were a
mass of sores, and Ms
eyesight also became
affected. No treatment
was spared that we
j thought would relieve
, him. but he grew worse’
until his condition was'.
Indeed pitiable. 1 hud,
almost despaired ol his ■
ever being cured, when
by ihe advice of a friend
wc gave him 8. S. 8.
(Swift's Specific). Ade-
slded improvement was the result, and after
be had taken a dozen bottles, no one who knew
af his former dreadful condition would have
recognized him. All the sores on bis body
have healed. Ms skin.is perfectlv clear awol
itnnoth, and he has been restored to perfect
health. Mr*. S. S. >Ubet.
SCO EHm St.. Macon, G*.
For-yeal blood troubles it is a waste
time to expect a cure from the doc
tors. Blood diseases are beyond their
ikill. Swift’a Specific,
SSS/tL Blood
reaches all deep-seated cases whicli
bthor remedies have noeffeot upon. It-
is tlie only blood remedy guaranteed
purely vegetable, and contains no pol
ish, mercury, or other mineral.
Books mailed free to any address by
Swift Specific Go., Atlanta, Ga.
Im Cream In N«w York.
"Ten million quarts of ice cream are
annually sold in New York," said a
prominent manufacturer, "most of
which, os you may surmise, is con
sumed during Ihe hot weather. At pres
ent the daily consumption is no loss
than 65,000 quarts per day. Oocasion-
ally the fignros soar much higher. They
ascend with the mercury. It is nothing
for ooc of the throe or four great ice
cream manufactnrers to dispose of 85,-
000 quarts a day in this weather. In
winter there is a great dropping off in
tho consumption. Not more than 11,000
quarts make the daily average.
"The value of the annual output is
some hundreds of thousands over the
$3,000,000 mark—a sum equivalent to
tbo entire commercial activity of many
small inland cities. Of course when I
quota these figures I take into consider
ation all the small dealers who muna-
facture for their own use.
"The capital directly invested in ice
cream making iu New York is in the
neighborhood of $1,00(L000. This busi
ness gives employment yirectly and in
directly to at least 8,600 persona"—
New York Herald.
Look) A Stitch hi Time
Haves nine. Hughes' Tonic (new Improved,
las*- pleasant), taken In early Spring and
Fall prevents Chills, Dengue and Malarial
Fevers. Acts on the liver, tones up the sys
tem. Iletter than ((uluiuc. Cuarantved.
Try it. At Druggists. jOc and fl.UO bottles.
w
Ituy your sins'taeles In Kpartanbn*’''from
11. K. tioodell, scientific optician, (exami
nations of the eye free.
Valuable to Women.
Krf>eeia]ly valuable to womeu i* Brown*
ines llillcra. Backache vuuutier, heu'luchc
•litappears, strength takes the place of
weakness, and tin* glow of li*-alth readily
1 i > s to tin- pnllhl cheek when this won
derful remedy ii tnki-n. For sickly children
oroverworkrd men it hasnoequi.l. No home
should lx; without this himouii 1 remedy,
ffrowus’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
FURMAN - UNIVERSITY,
GREENVILLE, S. C.
Thorough courses leading to the degrees-
of B. Lit., B. S.. B. A., and M. A. The Fac'dKy
has been enlarged. Especial attention to-
English. Elocution, and Pedagogics. New
courses In Biology, History. Latin. Modern
Languages, and physics. A new Gradnttfo-
Department. Early application for rooms in.
the Mess Halls should be made to Prof. B. E.
GEEH, Secretary of the Faculty, Ca-sar’K
Head. S. C.
Address
7-2l-2mo
A P MONTAGUE.
Greenville, 5. C-
Piedmont Saving and investment Co.
Greenville, S. C.
IwOlV-ISSs*.
The loan plan of this company wii! he
found far more deslrcahle in every way than
tho plans of Building & Loans Associations.
Our plan is a definite contract at reosonn t
rates. Loans made an approved property.
J. C. JkfFEMES.
Local Attorney. Gaffney. S. C’.
CLINE BROS. & CO.,
Livery Feed and Sale Stables.
Opposite National Bank.
First-class turnouts: prompt »(0qr/'.;oct,
and courteous attendants.
fWWe solicit your patronage.
THOMPSON & WARREN,
Blacksmithing and Repairing.
Horseshoeing a Specialty.
Shops and oflice on But ledge StrotfL First-
class work at living prices.
The Pearl
Steam Leandi?
Is operating on full time and turning out,
first-class work. Kcniember us when yon
want work done. We will rail for youi-
packagu. We also have in operation
A First-Class Grist Mill.
We respectfully solicit your patronage
and ask the people out of town to tirinf
thclr corn along when they come In to do
their shopping. Will make your meal
while you are busy here and you will low
no time.
Richardson Bros.
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