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Vol. XXIX.
A Letter to a Bride.
In these days when the April
breeze is freighted with th« odor
of orange blossoms and a peal of
wedding bells comes from over the
hills, »^*re is an especial appropri-
atf-nes* in a letter sent to 1 recent
bride. Its author is unknown, but
it was written «*ver thirty years
ago—and lia» been treasured by a
grand—mother with silver hair to
present to her grand daughter on
her wedding morn. It is worth
re reading :
*
“I am holding some pasteboaid
in my hands—three stately pack¬
ings from the brush of ceremony. I
am gazing upon a card, ami upon
a name—a name with which your
gentle life began—a name with
which your throbbing heart was
lost ; but there is nothing struige
about the card. The maiden’s sign
still looks up from it, calm and
customary, ms it looked on many a
friendly visit, as it lies in many a
foiuutl basket. 1 am gazing, too.
upon a card where the nearer pa¬
rent tells the world she will be at
home one day, and that is nothing
new. But there is another card
whose mingling here puts a tongue
of tire into thin speechless card-
board enamelling fate on common
placc. It tells us that feeling is
maturing into destiny and that
these cards are but the pale herald*
of a coming crisis, when a hand
that lots pressed bunds and plucked
flowers, shall choose one perfect
flower. The three great stages ol
Viur being are: the birth, the bridal
and the burial. To the first we
bring only weakness, to the last
we leave nothing but dust. But
here at the altar when life joins
life, the pair come up to the holy
mun, whispering the deep vow*
and promising to help each other
in life’s struggle of care find duty,
The beauty will be ihc-re, borrow-
ing new beauty from il«e scene, the
guv and the frivolous, thoy and
their flounces will look solemn for
once. And youth will come to
gaze on all its sacred thoughts and
age will totter up to hear the old
words repealed that to their liv*h
have given the charm, Some will
laugh over it as if it were a joke
and some will weep over it as if it
were a tomb, but two must s!and
by it—for it is fate, not fun, this
eveilasting locking of lives. And
now can you, who have queened it
over so many bending forms, can
you come down at last to the fru¬
gal diet of a single heart ?
to you have been aclpck. giving
your time to the whole world, now
you are a vvatefi buried in one par¬
ticular bosom, warming only his
breast, making only his home sod
ticking only to the beat of his
heart whose time shall be in unison
until these lower ties are lost in
that higher wedlock, where ail
hearts are united around the great
central heart of all. Hoping that
calm ntf>£ehine mny hallow' your
clasped signature.” hands, 1 sink silently into
A tramp stul« a bottle of Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. Whan
he appeared in court he expl* ; ned
that he fr«*w in the advertisement
it was 4 s easy to take. * 9 so lie
took it. ♦* Discharged, 9 t said the
judge. .. l will go and take
my»elf.” It is easy to take and
a p 1 tect laxative. Sold by all
, druggists.
Dr. Davis’ Nervine.
Will cure Indigestion, Constipa-
tio j. Billiousness, Nervousness and
tlenefai Debility. For sale by all
drtggists. 9-27-oiyr.
The Toccoa Record.
Toccoa, Georgia, May 2, 1902.
Patient Endurance.
Geo. H. Hepworth’s Sunday sermon in
the New York Herald;
Hut 1 st patience have her perfect work.
(St. James, i., 4.
Patience is generally clashed
among the minor virtue*, but so
much of life’s happiness and use*
fulness depends on it that we ought
to give it a more prominent place,
To patiently end ire an environ¬
ment which includes suffering and
hardships is nothing less than hero¬
ism, and there are unseen and un-
lecorded instances in which incri
and women have even shown the
courage of the martyr.
Patience is always yoked with
other high qualities of character.
Its nearest ally is self-control arid
self-control is as important when
you are building a character as a
rudder is when a ship is launched.
It is literally the steering apparatus
which keeps us clear of the rocks
and shoals of an impetuous and
reckless temper, I would rather
have patience with perfect self-
control tban to have genius, for
while genius is erratic and often
unbalanced, these other qualities
give us poise and epoilibrium.
Patience is grounded on resigna-
tio11 to the inevitable, which results
in a calm endurance under exasper-
atirig circumstances, and in the cou
viction that it is safer to bear the
ills we have than to fly to others
that we know not of. When a
man cultivates patience, therefore,
he becomes master of himself and
master of whatever may possibly
happen. It is kingly, a royal vir-
tue, and more depends on its pos-
session than we are apt to think,
You can reckon its value by con-
sideting its opposite. Impatience
is a dangerous quality. It con-
statitly places your self-respect and
your relation to your dearest friends
in peril. Moreover, it makes un-
happy circumstances more unhappy
still. You can’t rebel against your
surroundings with a complaining
heart without rendering yourself
weak 10 oppose or change *hem.
Look your life over calmly and im¬
partially and you will find that
where you have been at odds with
your lot you have made that lot so
much the worse and more difficult
to get away from, whereas it you
had accepted the bitter experience
and made the best of it you would
have reaped a benefit otherwise im¬
possible. It is equally true that
where you have been impetuous of
speech you had cause for regret,
while a curbed tongue has bsena
cause for rejoicing. W hen you
have been silent you have done bet¬
ter than when you have spoken .
A biiter word suppressed strength¬
ens the character while a reckless
utterance is like a bomb, which it
sure to injure if it does not kill a
friendship.
It is uu inexorable law that three-
quarter* of the world must drudge
in order to live. You may wonder
why this should be so, but you will
find no solution of the puzzle. The
simple, stubborn fact faces you,and
it ends all controversy. Moreover
all the world, without exception,
must sooner or later bear heavy
burdens of sorrow and bereave-
m0nt - The normel condition of
is to be a burden bearer, and
I i)*d almost said it is the only
healthy condition. There is no
smooth road laid down on the
chart of life. We all trudge
tlsvougfta storm and sunshine. Pov-
sickness, trouble, death are to
found everywhere. Kings and
“Good Will to All Men.’
peasants alike have their sorrows.
It it the common lot.
There is only rne question to be
asked and answered : How small
we make these expriences contri-
bute to strength of character, and
potsibly to our welfare? Not, sure-
ly, by a restless controversy with
the inevitable and the inexorable,
^ miudonly aggravates
the evil without even the shadow
of a good result. It is your atti-
tude of mind and heart which de-
cides your happiness or misery.
Fight fate and you will surely be
defeated; not only defeated, but
souced. On the other hand, make
the best of the worst, calmly and
putiently use events, and extract
from them whatever of good they
inuy contain, and your days will
bwing along with a smoothness
that will surprise you. More and
better thau that, your calmness and
patience will have a tendency to
draw to you the help of the other
world, and if you and the other
worid come to a harmonious under-
standing the very complexion of
your adverse circumstances will
change.
In a word, the soul which fol¬
lows in the footsteps of the Christ
and in poverty and hard work and
misfortune bravely meets and nobly
endures will find light in unexpec¬
ted places and joys where only
fears were looked for. There is a
subtile law here, and if we can dis¬
cover it and be guided by it the
clouds will have a silver lining
and even our sorrows will prove a
blessing.
God is still with us and so are
the angels of God. With patience
and courage we may fit ourselves
for their kind services, and so make
good use ot the roughest places over
which we must travel to the rest
and reward of the glorious future.
A Cashier Testifies.
Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, Ill.
Gentlemen :—After twenty years
of aches and pains caused by con¬
stipation brought on by sedentary
habits, I have found more relief in
two bottles of Dr. Caldwell’s Sy¬
rup Pepsin than all of the hundreds
of other remedies I have tried, and
I take pleasure in giving you this
testimony, believing you have the
finest preparation made for stomach
troubles.
Very truly yours, D. F. Lange.
Cashier Wabash R. R. East St.
Louis.
Sold by all druggists.
The first salt was produced in
the United States prior to 1620
and in the various reports of the
Federal census meutiou is made
of not less than thirty-two States
in which salt has at some period
been produced in considerable
quantities. In 1899 Utah produced
235,671 barrels of salt equivalent
to 1,178,355 bushels, nearly all of
which was made by solar evapora-
tion.
Knightuville, Inch, April 22 d, lSie*.
Pepsin Syrup Co., Moutieeilo, Ill.
Gentlemen :—I have been selling
Dr. Gntidwell’s Syrup Pepsin ever
«ncr it Hot introduced to the
trade. , . T. It is • the best . seller I, 1 ,1 ha ve
ever had on my shelve* and gives
the best satisfaction to mv
mers of anything 1 ever offered
them. Where I sell it once they
inviMuatfiy return for more. As a
laxative or as a physic it is par ex-
cclieuce, the inoat pleasant and
satisfactory preparation I have ever
sold.
Yours, etc., G. H. Came.
Sold by all diuggtstt.
Successor to Toccoa Times and Toccoa
The President is Scourged by the
Bishop of Savannah.
Stinging and caustic were al-
lusions to President Roosevelt and
General Miles made by Rev. B.
j. Keiley, bishop of the Catholic
diocese, in t>is memorial address
before the confederate veterans last
night, April 27. His references to
the president and General Miles
were ;io tollows :
“It is true thui tlie gentleman
who now happens to bit in the
presidential chair at Washington
lias written of President Davis* :
Before Jefferson Davis took his
place among arch traitors, etc.,
it was not unatural that to dishon-
esty he shoui add treachery to the
public. The moral difference
between Benedict Arnold, on the
one hand, and Aaron Burr and
and Jefferson Davis took Ins place
among arch t aitors, etc, it was not
unnatural that to dishonesty lie
should add treachery to the public,
The maral difference be: ween Ben
edict Arnold, on the one hand, and
Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis
on the other is the difference be¬
tween a politician who sells his
vole for money and one who sup¬
ports a bail measure to get. high
political position.
4 i When Mr. Davis was living
and a prisoner a fellow named
Miles, placed shackles ou him in
prison, though there was no neces¬
sity for it, and no one but a brute
would have done it. But I have
never heard that Miles after Mr.
J )avis’ death maligned ins character
—that species of the envenomed
malice was reserved for the recre¬
ant son of a southern woman—‘the
rough rider’ of republican politics,
t ( lf . accidency of 1902, the lightning
change artist of the white .house,
who can hobnob with the Kaiser’*
brother and sit cheek by jowl
an Alabama negro; who can in¬
dulge in meaningless platitudes
while the south, on the bravery and
common heritage of southern hero¬
es and denounce them before ttie
Grand Army us anarchists; who
can profess a broad American
spirit, which brands sectionalism
as a crime, and laud the loyalty of
our vet runs of 1861-65 to the con¬
stitution and reunited country,
w hile the damning evidence of his
own written word shows that he
compared ‘the noblest Roman of
them all’—Jefferson Davis—to a
Benedict Arnold.
•**Jefferson Davis was a states¬
man, a soldier a man of high char¬
acter, a senator, a cabinet officer, a
president, not put in office by a
bullet, but by ballot.
“Theodore Roosevelt’s title to
immortal fame will rest 011 shoot—
ing beasts and profiting by the
murderous act of a reprobate who
shot a man. j >
how’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for uny case of - Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall’s
Catarrh Cure.
* J* Ghinnea &. Co , I rops.,
Toledo, O. We, the undersigned ’
‘* stve known F. J. Cheney tor the
Iast ‘5 >’ ears ’ ;,nd beheve llim P er
fectly honorable in all business
transact ions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by
their firm.
West & Thu ax, Wholesale
Druggist. Toledo, O. Walding
Kinnan & Marvix, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo. O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure it taken in-
ternaily, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Price 75c. per bottle.
Sold by ail Druggists. Testimonials
tree.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
No. 18
“Yes or No. 11
The efforts on the part of rnein-
hers of the house to piu one another
d^wn to direct answers reminded
Representative Capron, of Rhode
Island—one of the beet storytellers
in the house, by the way—of an
experience in the last campaign.
Mr. Capron was very much bother¬
ed while making a speech by a
man »n the audience who insisted
ou asking questions to which he de¬
manded either ‘‘yes” or *'no ,: for
an answer.
t« But there are some questions, j »
tiually remarked Mr. Capron,
** which cannot be answered by ‘yes’
or * no ’. ’ ’
4 4 I should like to hear one,”
scornfully commented Ins annoyer.
“Well,” said Mr. % run, “I
think I can prove it. ive you
quit beating your wife, Answer
‘yes’ or ‘no. »>»
The crowd saw at once that Mr.
Capron had the man in n trap. It
he said “yes * it was a confession
mat he had been beating iiis wife,
if he had say “no” it was an ad¬
mission that he was still indulging
in the pastime.
i s Yes’* or “no” shouted
body in the hull, and in the midst
of the confusion the man made his
escape.—Washington Post.
Cures Eczema, Itching Humors,
Pimples and Carbuncles.—Costs
Nothing to Try.
B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm)
is now recognized as a certain and
sure cure for eczema, itching skin,
humors, scabs, scales, watery
blisters, pimples, aching bones or
joints, boils carbuncles, prickling
pain in skin, old, eating sores,
ulcers, etc. Botanic Blood Blum
taken internally, cures the worst
and most deep-seated cases by en-
ri ching, purifying and vitalizing
the blood, thereby giving a healthy
blood supply to the skin. Botanic
Blood Balm is the only cure, to stay
cured, for these awful annoying
skin troubles. Heals every sore
and gives the rich glow of health
6 ) the skin. Builds up the broken
down body and makes the blood
red and nourishing. Especially
advised for chronic, old cases that
doctors, patent medicines and hot
springs fail to cure. Druggists $1.
To prove that B. B. B. cures,
sample sent free and prepaid by
writing Biooi Balm Co., Atlanta,
Ga. Discribe trouble, and free
medical advice sent in sealed letter.
A bill recently passed into the
Massachusetts Legislature required
th'fc licensing of cats. The fee is
fixed at fifty cents, and it is provid¬
ed for that any who shall keep a
cat contrary to the provisions of
the act shall be fined five dollars,
one half to fio to the informer and
the one half to the city or town
treasury. Between July 1 and 10
of each year the chief executive of
each city or town is required to
is-,ue warrants for the execution of
all unlicensed felines.
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
l!ure8 Constipation. Sold by all
druggist.
Il ’ s a to break
old bachekr to the matrimonial
harness, but when he is broken he
is the tamest of them all.
The Rev Thomas Dixon says he
lias discovered by reading the Sou¬
thern newspaper* ot 1865 and
thereabouts that Booker T. Wash-
ington’s platform of negro educa-
tion can be found in the speeches
of the Confederate generals to the
negroes, after they got home from
the war.