The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-02-14
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A Book tiiat Is Cheating sensation In
France.

a Book that Is Creating sensation u
France.
atlanta Constittstion.
The world is still perplexed as,ou
Adam and Eve. Darwin hasn't sjttlee
it, nor DR.. Woodrow. Mark Twain
thought he fount: the grave Of Off illus
trious ancestor, but according to late dis
coveries he shed hid tears OH the wrong
side.a The book Of learned Frenchmar
has come to the front and created a sen.
sation in France. He says that father
Adam was 1923 feet high, and Mother
Eve only Eve feet lower, and that ever
since they evolu,ed into existence the
human race has been OH the down grade,
getting shorter and shorter, and smaller
and smaller, as the centuries roll on.
Well, it does look rlAsohable that folks
900 years old should be 800 years big,
but.they were not. The. largest men are
not the longest. liyerfa in ,eour, day. In
fact, they DO not live as long as the
medium .si2zs. Among animals, we
know, that q goose that is. not Of much
consequence, lives FIVE times as long as 9
horse, and turtle lives longer than q
whale, Iwish we did know mofe about
our. frat parents. I wish that Moses
had told us more. He gave us thirteen
chapters about the history Of Joseph and
only two about tho creation. Twas talk.
ing to, 8 scientific gentleman about this,
and he said he supposed that Moses told
all be knew, and that he could not have
known yely, liucB aboht what happened
before the Aood, fot there wefs no books
nor; writings, and allthat be knew was BY
uncertain traditions that came along
down The centuries aud gathered some
and lost some on. the journey. BE said
he thought it. very. probable that the
people who lived before the food were OF
very large statue, for Moses raid there
were giants in those days.
Well, 1T is astounding. how men OF
science ignore the Bible-notall. of them,
but most of them. They do admit that
there was flood, and an ark. and Adam
and Eve, and Noah, and they got that
from the Bible, but they depend upon
science to unrasel all the mysteries and
tfhat Science does no! pfdva they do not
consider proved even though Moses
wrote it. They do not believe in mira.
cles although the movement of the hand
or the growth of a flower is miracle.
Now, here is this new theory that Mother
Eve was 1873 feet high and large in pro-
portion. This beats the old preacher
that Henry Grady told about in bis
speech at the banquet, for he made Eve
only 80 cubits high and lined inside and
out with pitch.
I asked my scientific friend ifhe didn't
think that such great height was 7ery
iinconyenient to Adam about tieing bis
shoes and walking through the forests
aeh, no." said he; "tbe trees were larger
and taller in proportion, something like
the redwooda in the Yosemite valley
that are from l5O to 300 feet to the first
limb" "But how about the animals
said 1.-the horses and COWS. How would
Adam manage to ride one of our horses
( or r. even milk one Of our Jersey cows
he smiled and said, "Well the animals
we're no doubt Of a corresponding size te
the lords of creation, elephants and
camels and girafes too.'' said I. 90
course" said he" boa constructors
and rattle snakes" said /. eyes," sale
/ he-but I thought he was weakening 8
little. "How about that ark" said /
shat was only 80 cubits high and had
three stories ten feet each, how did those
huge creatures get in there 2" "oh,
suppose" said he," "that those cubit'
were gerry different from our ,cubits..". q
He reminded me of the fellow, who
came backsfrom his travels inithe une1
plored west, and said among other mar
velous things that he got on the borders
of valley where everything was petrihet
turned to stone-and. he did not dare
to venture in for he saw stone horses ane
buHaloes and goats and serpents ane
panthers and beara-in fact everything
was petrifed; even to the trees ane
grass, and he saw hunter who hae
strayed in there unaware, and he VA
standing stock stone still with his gul
pointed to an angle in the air and tht
hunter and his gun and the eagle were
all petrifed-all turned to stone.
"Oh, pshaw,. Jim, that won't do," sale
one Of his hearers. "Don't you know
that gravity would have pulled that eagle
down."
"Gravity, the dickens" said he, "wh,
gravity was petrified harder than any
thing. 1 saw streak Of it hanging
down from the eagle to the ground"
But our Frenchman says that ever.
generation fell off few feet, and SO W
must suppose that as Adam lived to se'
Lamech, of the ninth generation, it wa
like Gulliver. in his travels, when Adam
wanted to talk to .Lamech and tell hin
about the Garden of Eden and the apple
tree, and about Cain and Abel be ..didn'
stoop down but just lifted the little fel
low up on his little finger and set him o.
his shoulder and told him all about il
How scared Lameeh must have been TO
fear that he would fall into that grea
mouth that was Eve feet wide, or int
that ear that looked like cave with boo
gers in it. And just to think what
time they had in burying the old gentle
man when he died; what long, wid
deep grave and what q coffin, for be mus
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