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CHANGES IN HEAVEN.
pR. TALMAGE TELLS OF CELESTIAL I
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Great Growth In l*opnInti«>n and In-
erenHed Knotiledse — I'erfectlon
AuKinented — Alwayn llriulit mid
Jojfnl.
[Copyright, ISOS, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Washington, Oct. 30.—All out of
the usual liue of seriuouiziuK is this
story of Dr. Talruage concerning the
next world, and it may do good to see
things from a novel standpoint. The
text is Revelation xxi, 1, “And I saw a
new heaven. ”
The stereotyped heaven does not make
adequate impression upon us. Wo need
the old story told in new style in order
to arouso our appreciation. 1 do not
suppose that we are compelled to the
old phraseology. King ^1^8’ trans
lators did not exhaust all the good and
graphic words in the English diction
ary. I suppose, if we should take the
idea of heaven and translate it into
modern phrase, we would find that its
atmosphere is a combination of early
June an 1 of the Indian summer in Oc
tober—a place combining the advan
tages of city and country, the streets
standing for the one, and the manner
of fruits for the other; a place of music
al entertainments — harpers, pipers,
trumpeters, doxologics; a place of won
derful architecture—behold the tem
ples, a place where there may be the
higher forms of animal life—the beasts
which wore on earth beaten, lash whip
ped and galled and nublaukcted and
worked to death, turned out among the
white horses which the book of Reve
lation describes as being in heaven; a
place of stupendous literature—the
bonks open; a place of aristocratic and
democratic attractiveness—the kings
standing for the one, all nations for the
other; all botanical, pomological, or
nithological, arborescent, worshipful
beauty and grandeur.
But my idea now is to speak chiefly
of the improved heaven. People some
times talk of heaven as though it were
an old city, finished centuries ago, when
I have to tell you that no city on earth
during tbo last 50 years has hud such
changes as heaven. It is not the same
place as when Job and David and Paul
wrote of it. For hundreds and hundreds
of years it has been going through peace
ful revolution, and year by year, and
moutb by month, and hour by hour, and
moment, by moment it is changing and
changing for something better. Away
back there was only ono residence in
the universe—the residence of the Al
mighty. Heaven had not yet been start
ed. Immensity was tbo park all around
about this great residence, but God’s
sympathetio heart after awhile over
flowed in other creations, and there
came all through this vast country of
immensity inhabited villages, which
grew and enlarged until they joined
each other and became ono great central
metropolis of the universe, streeted,
gated, templed, watered, inhabited.
One angel went forth with a reed, we
are told, and ho measured heaven on
one side, and then he went forth and
measured heaven on the other side, and
then Sit. John tried to take the census
of that city, and ho became so bewil
dered that he gave it up.
A Vnat Population.
That brings me to the first thought
of my theme—that hoaven is vastly im
proved in numbers. Noting little under
this head about tho multitude of adults
who have gone into glory during the
last 100 or 500 or 1,000 years, I remem
ber there are 1,000,000,000 of people in
tho world, and that tbo vast majority
of people die in infancy. How many
children must have gone into heaven
during the last GOO or 1,000 years! If
New York should gather iu one genera
tion 1,000,000 population, if London
should gather iu one generation 4,000,-
000 population, what a vast increase 1
But what a mere nothing as compared
With tbo 500,000,000, tho 2,000,000,000,
tho “multitado that no man can num
ber’’ that have gone into that city! Of
course all this takes for granted that
every child that dies goes as straigut
into heaven as ever tho light sped from
a star, and that is one reason why heav
en will always be fresh and beautiful—
tbo great multitude of children iu it.
Put 500,000,000 children in a country.
It will be a blessed and lively country.
But add to this, if you will, tbo great
multitude of adults who have gone into
glory and how tho census of heaven
must run np! Many years ago a clergy
man stood in a New England pulpit,
and said that ho believed that tho vast
majority of the race would finally bo
destroyed and that not moie than one
person out of 2,000 persons would be
finally saved. There happened to bo
about 2,000 people in the village where
ho preached. Next Sabbath two persons
were heard discussing the subject and
wondering which one of tbo 2,000 pim
ple iu the village would Anally reach
hoaven, and one thought it would be the
minister, and the other thought it
would bo tho old deacon. Now, I have
not much admiration for a lifeboat
which will go out to a ship sinking
with 2,000 passengers and get one off
in safety and let 1,090 go tc the bot
tom. Why, heaven must li:i\o been a
village when Abel, tho first soul from
earth, entered if, us compared with the
present population of that great city!
Grontti In KnotYl<-<l;c«‘.
Again, I remark that heaven has vast
ly improved in knowledge. Give a man
40 or 50 years to study ono Bcionoo or
all sciences, with all tho advantages of
laboratories and observatories and phil
osophic apparatus, ho will bo a marvel
of information. Now, into what intelli-
gi mo mu'-t heavt n mount, angelhood
ami sainthood, not ufh'r studying for
40 or 50 years, but for thousands of
years—studying God and tho soul and
} immortality and tbennivi rsol How the
V Intelligence of that world must sweep
on and on, with eyesight farther reach
ing than telescope, with power of calcu
lation mightier than all ham,'in mathe
matics, witli powers of analysis sur
passing all chemical laboratory, with
speed swifter than telegraphy! What
must heaven learn, with all these advan
tages, iu a month, iu a year, iu a cen
tury, in a millennium? The difference
tetween the highest university on earth
and the smallest class iu a primary
school cannot be a greater difference
than heaven as it now is and heaven as
it once was. Do you not suppose that
when Dr. James Simpson wont up from
the hospitals of Edinburgh into heaven
he knew more than ever the science of
health, and that Joseph Henry, grad
uating from the Smithsonian institution
into heaven, awoke into higher realms
of philosophy, and that Sir William
Hamilton, lifted to loftier sphere, un
derstood better the construction of the
hnman intellect, and that John Milton
took np higher poetry in the actual
presence of things that on earth he had
tried to describe? When the first saints
entered heaven, they mnst have studied
only the A BO of the full literature
of wisdom with which they are now
acquainted.
Again, heaven is vastly improved in
its society. During your memory how
many exquisite spirits have gone into
it? If you should try to make a list of
all the genial, loving, gracious, blessed
souls that you have known, it would be
a very long list—souls that have gone
into glory. Now, do you not suppose
they have enriched the society? Have
they not improved heaven? You tell of
what hoaveu did for them. Have they
done nothing for heaven? Take all the
gracious souls that have gone out of
your acquaintanceship and add to them
all the gracious and beautiful souls that
for 500 or 1,000 years have gone out of
all the cities and all the villages and
all tho countries of this earth into
glory, and how the society of heaven
must have been improved I Suppose
Paul, the apostle, were introduced into
your social circle on earth; but heaven
has added all the apostles. Suppose
Hannah More and Charlotte Elizabeth
were introduced into your social circle
on earth; but heaven has added all tho
blessed and tho gracious and tho holy
women of the past ages. Suppose that
Robert MacCheyne and John Summer-
field should be added to your earthly
circle—but heaven has gathered up all
the faithful and earnest ministry of the
past. There is not a town, or a city, or
a village that has so improved in society
in tho last 100 years as hoaveu has im
proved.
Always I’erfeet.
But you say, “Hasn’t heaven always
been perfect?” Oh, yes, but not in tho
sense that it cannot bo augmented! It
lias been rolling on iu grandeur. Christ
has been there, and he never changes
the same yesterday, today and for
ever; glorious then and glorious now
and glorious forever. But I speak now
of attractions outside of this, and I have
to tell you that no place cm earth has
improved in society as heaven lias with
in the last 70 years, for the most of you
within 40 years, within 20 years, with
in live years, within one year—in other
words, by the accessions from your own
household. If heaven were placed in
groups—an apostolic group, a patri
archal group, a prophetic group, group
of martyrs, group of angels, and then
a group of your own glorified kindred—
which group would yon choose? You
might look around and make compari
son, but it would not take you long to
choose. You would say: “Give me back
those whom I loved on earth; lot mo
enter into their society—my parents,
my children, my brothers, my sisters.
Wo lived together on earth, let us live
together iu heaven.” Ob, is it not a
blessed thought that heaven has been
improved by its society—this coloniza
tion from earth to heaven?
Again, I remark that heaven has
greatly improved in tho good cheer of
nunoauced victories. Where heaven re
joiced over one soul it now rejoices over
a bundled or a thoasand. In tho olden
times, when tho events of human life
were scattered over four or live cen
turies of longevity and tho world moved
slowly, there were not so many stirring
events to bo reported iu heaven; but
now, I suppose, all the great events of
earth are reported in hoaven. If there
is any truth plainly taught in this Bible,
it is that heaven is wrapped up in sym
pathy with human history, and we look
at those inventions of the day—at teleg
raphy, at swift communication by
steam, at all these modern improve
ments which seem to give one almost
omuipresence, and wo see only tho coc-
ular relation, but spirits before tbo
tbroue look out and see the vast and tho
eternal relation. While nations rise and
fall, while the earth is shaking with
revolution do you not suppose there is
arousing intelligence going up to the
throne of God and that the question is
often asked before tho thruuc, “What
is the news from that world—that world
that rebelled, but is coming buck to its
allegiance?” If ministering spirits, ac
cording to the Bible, are sent forth to
minister to those that shall be heirs of
heaven, when they come down to us to
bless us, do they not take tho news
back? Do the ships of light that come
out of tho celestial harbor into the
earthly harbor, laden with cargoes of
blessing, go back uufreighted? Minister
ing spirits not only, but our loved ones
leaving us, take up the tidings. Sup
pose you were In a far city and had
been there a good while, and you board
that same <»o had arrived from your
native place—some ono who hud recent
ly seen your family and friends—you
would rush up to that man and you
Would ask all about the old folks at
home. And do yem not suppose when
your child went uptoGod your glorified
kindred in heaven gathered around and
asked about you, to ascertain us to
whether you were getting along well
in the st aggie (if life; t.j find out
whether you were in any especial peril,
that with swift and mighty wing they
might come down to intercept your
perils? Oh, yes! Heaven is a greater
place for news than ituned to lie—news
sounded through the str. i ts, news ring
ing from tho towers, news heralded
from tho palace gate. Glad news I Vic
torious news!
A Glorlona Day.
But the vivacity and sprightliness of
heaven will bo beyond all conception
when tho final victories come in, when
the church shill bo triumphant every
where. Oh, what a day iu heaven it
will bo when the last throne of earthly
oppression has fallen, when the last
chain of serfdom is broken, when the
last wound of earthly pain is healed,
when the last sinner is pardoned, when
the last nation is redeemed! What a
time there will be in heaven! Yon and
I will be in the procession. Yon and I
will thrum a string iu that great orches
tra. That will be the greatest day in
heaven since the day when the first
block of jasper was put down for the
foundation and the first hinged pearl
swung. If tnero is a difference between
heaven now and heaven as it was, oh,
the difference between heaven ae it
shall be and heaven as it is now! Not a
splendor stack fast, but rolling on and
rolling on, and rolling up and rolling
up, forever, forever.
Now, I say these things about the
changes in heaven, about tbo new im
provements iu heaven, for three stout
reasons. First, because I find that some
of yon are impatient to be gone. You
are tired of this world and you want to
get into that good laud about which
you have been thinking, praying and
talking so many years. Now be patient.
I could see why you would want to go
to an art gallery if some of the best
pictures were to be taken away this
week or next week, but if some one tells
you that there are other beautiful pic
tures tocomo—other Keusetts, Raphaels
and Rubenses—other masterpieces to
be added to the gallery—you would
say: “I can afford to wait. The place
is improving all the time.” Now, I
want you to apply the same principle
in this matter of reaching hoaven and
leaving this world. Not one glory is to
bo subtracted, but many glories added.
Not one angel will be gone, not one
hierarch gone, not ono of vor.r glorified
friends gone. By the long practicing
the music will be better, the procession
will be longer, tire rainbow brighter,
the coronation grander. Heaven, with
magnificent addenda! Why will you
complain when you are only waiting
for something better?
AIiy.'IJH llrliflit.
Another reason why I speak in regard
to tho changes in heaven and tho now
improvements in heaven is because I
think it will ho a consolation to busy
and enterprising good people. I see very
well that you have not much taste fora
heaven that was all done and finished
centurios ago. Alter you have been ac
tive 40 or 50 or (!0 years it would bo a
shock to stop you suddenly and forever,
but here is a progressive heaven, an
ever accumulative heaven, vast eutor-
pri.so on foot there before tho throne of
God. Aggressive knowledge, aggressive
goodness, aggressive power, aggressive
grandeur. You will not have to come
and sit down on tho banks of the river
of life in everlasting inoccupation. Ob,
busy men, I tell you of a heaven where
there is something to do! That is the
meaning of the passage, “They rest not
day nor night” in the lazy sense of rest-
mg.
I speak these words on tho changes iu
heaven and the new improvements iu
heaven also because I want to cure some
of you of the delusion that your depart
ed Christian friends have gone into
dullness and silence and unconscious
ness. They are in a stirring, pictur
esque, radiant, ever accumulative scene.
When they left their bodies, they only
got rid of the last hindrance. They are
no more in Gakwood, Laurel Hill or
Mount Auburn than you iu holiday at
tire, having seated yourself at a ban
quet, can bo said to be in a dark closet
where you have left the old apparel
that was not lit to wear to the banquet.
A soldier cannot use a sword until lie
has unsheathed it, and tho body of your
departed was < nly the sheath of a bright
and glittering spirit which God has
lifted and is swaying in tho heavenly
triumph. According to what I am tell
ing you at present, your departed Chris
tian friends did not go so much into
the company of the martyrs, and the
apostles, on l the prophets, and the po
tentates of heaven as into the company
of grandfather and grandmother, and
the infant sister that tarried just long
enough to absorb your teudercst affec
tion, and all tlio homo circle. When they
lauded, it was not as you laud iu Ant
werp or Hamburg or Havre, wandering
up a strange wharf, looking at strange
luces, asking for a strange hotel. They
lauded amid your glorified relatives,
who were waiting to greet them.
No Kroxen Spli-niltir.
Oh, docs not this bring heaven nearer?
Instead of being far off, it comes down
just now, and it puts its arms around
our necks and we feel its breath on our
luces. It melts the frigid splendor of
tho conventional heaven into a domestic
scene. It comes very dose to us. If we
had our choice iu heaven, whom would
wo first see? Rather than look at tho
great potentates of heaven we would
meet our loved ones. I want to see
Moses and Paul and Joshua, but 1
would n great deal rather see my father,
who went away 30 years ago. 1 want
I to seo the groat Bible heroines, Deborah
and Hannah ami Abigail, hut I would
rather see my mother than to seo tho
archangel.
1 do not think it was superstitious
when, ono Wednesday night, i stood by
a deathbed within a few blocks of tho
church where I preached, and on the
same street, and saw one of tho aged
Christians of tho church going into
glory. After 1 had prayed with her 1
said to her: “We have all loved you
very much and will always cherish your
memory in tho Christian church. You
will see my sou before I see him, and I
wish yon would give him our love. ”
She said, “I will, I will," and iu 20
minutes she was ill heaven—tho last
words she over spoke. It was a swift
message to tho skies. If you hud your
choice between riding in a heavenly
chariot and occupying the grandest pul-
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ace in heaven, and sitting on the throne
next highest to the throne of God and
pot seeing your departed loved ones, and
on tho other hand dwelling in the
humblest place in heaven, without
crown or throne, and withont garland
and without scepter, yet having your
loved ones around you, you would
choose the latter. I say these things be
cause I want you to know it is a do
mestic heaven, and consequently it is
all tho time improving. Every one that
goes up makes it a brighter place, and
the attractions are increasing month by
month and day by day, and heaven, so
vastly more of a heaven, a thousand
times more of a heaven, than it used to
be, will be a better heaven yet. Oh, I
say this to intensify your anticipation!
The Jubilee.
I enter heaven one day. It is almost
empty. I enter the temples of worship,
and there are no worshipers. I walk
down the street, and there are no pas
sengers. I go into the orchestra, and I
find the instruments are suspended in
the baronial halls of heaven, and the
great organs of eternity, with mnlti-
tudinous banks of keys, are closed. But
I seo a shining one at the gate, as
though he were standing on guard, and
Isay: “Sentinel, what does this mean?
I thought heaven was a populous city.
Has there been some great plague sweep
ing off the population?” “Have yon
not heard the news?” says the sentinel.
“There is a world burning, there is a
great conflagration out yonder, and all
heaven has gone out to look at the con
flagration and take the victims out of
the ruins. This is the day for which all
other days are made. This is the judg
ment! This morning all tho chariots,
and the cavalry, and the mounted in
fantry rumbled and galloped down the
sky.” After I had listened to the sen
tinel I looked off over the battlements,
and I saw that the fields of air were
bright with a blazing world. I said,
“Yes, yes, this must be the judgment,”
and while I stood there I heard the
rumbling of wheels and the clattering
of hoofs, and tho roaring of many
voices, and then I saw tbo coronets and
plumes and banners, and I saw that all
heaven was coming back again—coming
to the wall, coming to the gate, and the
multitude that went off in tho morning
was augmented by a vast multitude
caught up alive from the earth,
and a vast multitude of tho resur
rected bodies of the Christian dead,
leaving the cemeteries and the ab
beys and the mausoleums and the
graveyards of the earth empty. Proces
sion moving in through the gates. And
then I found out that what was fiery
judgment day on earth was jubilee in
heaven, and I cried: “Doorkeepers of
heaven, shut the gates! All heaven has
come in! Doorkeepers, shut tho 12
gates, lest the sorrows and tho woes of
earth, like bandits, should some day
come up and try to plunder the city !”
Her Kur Cape** First Ontlntf.
An old lady got on a Walnut street
car yesterday morning wearing an old
fashioned astrakhan fur capo with an
immense bearskin collar. Evidently,
the morning being cool, she had hur
riedly taken it from a chest filled with
moth balls, for tho odor of them was
almost unbearable. The car being
crowded, she was compelled to stand.
Consequently every time she swayed
from side to sido tho tiny glistening
particles of insect destroyer that were
still in the fur would sprinkle every
ono near.
Directly the car gave a particularly
bad lurch, and something fell from the
cape into the lap of a lady near by.
That something proved upon a close in
spection to be a tiny mouse, not yet
able to look aboot. Following closely
came several more sprawling on the
floor in their blind helplessness. It did
not take over a half minute lor every
woman iu that car to grab her skirts
and get on the seats, tho overflow tak
ing refuge on the platform.
Meanwhile the innocent cause of all
this trouble calmly unfastened her cape
and shook out the remains of a nest,
which had been snngly built by some
motherly mouse in the long fur. The
owner of tbo capo seated herself as
calmly as you please and tho other
women subsided.—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Snioklnx New Guinea.
Snioking is common all through the
possession, the natives using tho wild
tobacco leaf, but preferably the manu
factured “trade” article when procur
able. The pipe, or buubau, is a very
different instrument from that iu use
among white people and is far more
economical. It is usually a piece of bam
boo, from one foot to two feet long and
over an inch in diameter, one end being
partially open, the other closed by be
ing cut off close to the joint. Near tho
closed end is a small hole, like tho aper
ture of a flute. Into this the native
places his tobacco, which is rollod up
in tho leaf of a particular tree—or iu
paper if procurable—lights it and draws
at the open end of the pipe until it is
filled with smoke. He takes a fow
whiffs, and thou tho pipe is passed
round to all who desire it, the smoker
in most oases swallowing tho smoke..
In this way a little tobacco goes a long
way.—Queenslander.
Have T!ii-«m* llroonia.
One broom in a )io j i o i.'- 1 at least two
brooms too fow. There is use for at
j least three brooms every day—the new,
i pliant broom for tho carpet, tho partly
worn broom for the kitchen and halls,
tho “stubby broom” for tho woodshed
and steps and an occasional brush of tho
gravel paths. A broom used for tho
kitchen and wood shed should not bo
Trued on tho carpet.—Exchange.
• •
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is the remedy
on which you 011 depend for tin*cure
of a prot racted cough or luegallVcl ion
brought on by exposure to cold. It
is the most excellent uudicine sold.
A bottle costs only 25 its.
Try Panther Creek Headache Pemcily.
a po.iitivr ninl liiii iMli's-, i'un- for |H*ii(hu'lir.
A1 >*. li. Crawley m Co's. Drugstore, luio-yil
ftoDllnic by tho Tall.
An amusing story tells how a belated
hunter dropped into a hollow tree, in
tending to “bunk” there for the night,
but fell so many feet that he became
alarmed, fearing he rhonld never get
out. Toward morning a bear began de
scending the hollow trunk sterufore-
most. The hunter grasped tho bear’s
tail, and the frightened animal, scram
bling out, drew the man after him to
tho exit. In Colonel Inman's descrip
tion of “The Old Kanta Fo Trail” there
is a story which illustrates the fact that
a tail hold is a safe hold.
One of tbo Kansas pioneers, the Hon.
R. M. Dodge, started out ono day with
a stage driver named Harris to hunt for
buffalo. They were hungry for fresh
meat, but buffalo were scarce, and after
hunting all day they were returning
without having seen one.
Suddenly an old buffalo bull jumped
up from a sand hollow, and both hunt
ers emptied their revolvers into his
body. The bull, though bleeding and
staggering, stood on his legs defiantly,
as if waiting attack. Harris dismount
ed, that he might hamstring the ani
mal, which had finally lain down. The
cut of his knife brought tho bull to his
feet, and with lowered head he went
round the sand bill.
Harris, a tall, lank fellow, had caught
bold of the bull’s tail as be rose, and
in a moment bis legs were flying higher
than his head. He did not dare let go
his hold on the bull’s tail. Round and
round they went. Finally tho old bull
weakened. Slower and slower l.o circled
ronnd, and Harris succeeded in cutting
the bison’s hamstrings.
“I feared,” said Harris when the
beast went down, “that his tail would
pull out. Then I knew I should be a
goner.”
Oratory anil DyMi»<>|i»la.
Postprandial oratory is responsible,
wo believe, for more dyspepsia and suf
fering than even the excessive long
drawn out feeding and drinking. The
poor martyrs cast for parts in the dreary
farce to come can neither eat calmly
nor digest well on account of tho ter
rors that approach, and the poor hear
ers know they have to suffer fur tho de
lights of the haiiiiuet by later listening
or by an impolite escape through tho
side door. AH are impaled and must
suffer at tho hands of a tyrannous and
senseless fashion.
Very few men aro capable of enter
taining an audience with spontaneous
wit, and even these, if we but knew it,
spend a sleepier previous night pre
paring and memorizing the bright ex
tempore things that are struck out—
i. e., lugged in by tho horns, as flashes
of tho jolly esprit do corps all pretend
to fuel. We are as kind as wo cun be.
We laugh—at lea>t we applaud most
loudly to encourage ihe trembling, wrig
gling fellow who, when he sits down,
does so with many an inaudible “Thank
heaven, that’s over!’’
Apropos of which our genial contem-
porary, Tho Practitioner, makes a most
valuable and praiseworthy suggestion
that as our singing is by artists hired
for the purpose, why should not also
our speaking bo done for us by hired
orators. Verbum sap!—Philadelphia
Medical Journal.
A Trout FInIiIiiu Froir.
A very singular incident was brought
to my notice during a visit to Lake
Vyruwy, in North Wales. A year or
two ago tho breeding ponds were being
cleaned out, and when there was but lit
tle water remaining the man iu charge—
from whom I heard the story—observed
a peculiar looking fish swimming nbont.
It was captured with the aid of a laud
ing net and proved to be a trout of near
ly half a pound iu weight. Clasped
firmly around its back and shoulders
was a live frog of ordinary size. Tho
belly of the frog rested on the back of
tbe trout, just behind the gills, and its
legs were extended round and under tho
fish, gripping it closely.
Considerable force had to bo exerted
iu order to separate tho pair, when the
frog hupped away and the trout died a
few seconds later. Tho scales of tho
trout vrero dark and discolored where
this novel Old .Man of the tiea had rest
ed, tracing out distinctly its shape. So
it is probable that tho fish had been
troubled with this unusual incumbrance
for several days. Tho habit.) of frogs
aro peculiar in various respects, and
students of natural history may find
food for reflection in this incident. My
informant is an exceedingly intelligent
man, on whose word 1 place implicit re
liance.—St. James Gazette.
D yspepsia is the cause of un
told suffering. By taking Hood’s
Sarsaparilla the digestive organs are
toned and dyspepsia 13 CURED.
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Elbanoe M. Tippell,
1711 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia.
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A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
does a general Bankingnml Exchange
business. Well secured witli Burglar-
I’roof safe and Automatic Tunc Lock.
Safety Deport Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buys and sells Stocks andBonde.
Buys County and School Claims.
Your business solicited.
CLINE BROS. & CO.,
Livery Feed and Sale Stables.
Opposite National Bank.
First-i-ln-s turnouts; prompt utteutJun;
uiid courteous utti-iHluntx.
pr-'We M,licit your patronage.
The Pearl
Steam Laundry
Is opernt lug on full time and turning out
tirst-class work. Itenienilx-r u* when you
want work done. We will cull For yuiir
package. We also Imve In operation
A First-Class Grist Mill.
We respectfully solicit your patronage
and ask the people out ol town to tning
their corn along when they ionic in to do
their sliiippliig. Will make your meat
w hile you are busy here and you will lose
no time.
Richardson Bros.
You should
keep posted on the issues
of the day- Don't worry
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months, or 25c for thm
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DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S. C.
Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store
In office from 1st to 20th of 1 ach
month;
At Blacksburg Thursday n: - ,inj
each wo!., n.iurning to office : ’
J. E. WEBSTER,
A^ttonioyiVt- w®
FtFceInFourtHouse.(Fr.iiatu.Iadii 1 :f.;
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices In all tin-courts. Coile'.-
tlons u specialty.
This niaclill. is yitaraltl■ cd 1 r .iveyeais
by M I. AliNiniiler. the di.ih r in I’lunns
Hint Organs. Greenville. S. <
Send mi n y t i theIciIji r liy l!v,> 1 "
Mim y Oi.ici- mid the umc'.dne i.'lll h 1 '
nhil p ■ n ten days trial. If in.vhlii*' is
nui sat •,l’;i. lory we will (my tit..in trilght
amt refund the money.
DR. S. H. GRIFFITH,
Physician and Surgeon
Iu addlt iou !o a general prnct Ice. 1 ■ es .
specialty of dlv.'uses peculiar to in' «/c,
ear. no>e oid thro;.;; Is fully pro ! 01 1
equipped tor (terformlng all oiieruti " • eot).-
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and opthit, 1 ile surgery. G lasses li ' ■, i»|ti»
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Office over I. K. Tollcsou'a store,
■Chotio No. 71/