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Subscription $1 Per Year. Vol. XXIX. * Temptation. For God cannot be tempted with evil’ neither tempteth he any naan —St. James, h, 1». TherlT^ e very few people who l ave not been sore tempted to do w hat neither reason nor conscience would approve. To resist is to add fiber to your character and tojyield is to lose what it is very difficult to regain—your self-respect. Temptation never comes out in¬ ti* the open and never argues fairly. It iloes not dare to tell the whole truth, but presents a subject in the light of false logic, gilds u bad ar¬ gument until it looks like gold and always leaves its victim to im¬ measurable regret. A despotic conscience which tines not know how to surrender is the safest guide we can have, for then one can look^heaven and earth in tlie face ;but if for some promised good or pleasure we bid our con- science vacate its throne, happiness and peace of mind take their de- part ui e. There is. therefore, noth- ing on the planet of so much worth as a clean conscience. If you have it for a bedfellow your sleep will not be disturbed. I have watch the subtle processes of temptation iti myself and other*. It comes in the guise of good ad¬ vice m order the more easily to ac complish your ruin, It sneers at your moral sense, assures you that we are here to enjoy ourselves in whatever way opportunity may of¬ fer and declures .that your scruples have no solid foundation. If you do not grasp the offered advantage some one else will, therefore do not hesitate. You are only too willing to listen, and while you do so your inorai sense is being dulled. Reiter- ation of this false reasoning still further undermines your rectitude, and after a while you pretend to be convinced, but it is only a pre¬ tence. The deed is done and then you wake up to find that while you have gained someth ng you have lost still more. You have gained a well-filled purse or you have in¬ dulged in some demoralizing pleasure, but you have lost a well tilled heart and learned wh*t it is to hate yourself. It is somewhat curel world, be¬ cause fulse estimates of what con¬ stitutes happiness have thrown so many temptations m our way. There is an overvaluation of money and an undervaluation of moral principle. The race is so eager, so wild, so intoxicating that we lor- get everything except to get ahead of our competitors, and the means take , ' ... . . we to accomplish this are ju*t- itied, we think, by the fact of win- mug. As a ’consequence ihe tone of life is lowered and we measure a man by what he , h«*. , t.o. by , what , lie is. The bank account rather than the character excites our envy P ; , es and the pursuit of riches are the ba>es ol orderly society,pro¬ vided riches- and rectitude are inter- wo veil ; but riche* without the recti* tude are of no benefit io unv one. Men and women are too ready to pay a thoghtiess, a reckless price to, the Moods they CO,, vet fame is worth something, and so is putation, if it is honestly but if you compromise vour honor you are practically n selling .... your soul. What we need in this generation is h heroic dose ot that old fashion¬ ed collective—moral principle. '1 he only real man, the on.y man who is recognized in heaven, is the upright and downright man. It may be hard to per**iude the public The Toccoa Record Toccoa, Georgia, May q, 1902. of thin, truth, but it is the truth nevertheless, or cannot be evaded or ignored, If a nation oj an indi- viduai is to live comfortable it must live virtuously. Fals standards mean false and wretcned lives, and the logic of events will make that fact known with terrific emphasis. Honesty comes first and after that anything you can get. When you give up the honesty, the purity of heart, in exchange for anything else you suddenly find that you have been cheated out of your be6t self The object of life is not to acpuire, noi that solely, unless it be to acquire character. Your temptation to gash your conscience is based on a promise which will never be kept, or if the worldly goods are delivered you will be robbed of something worth a great deal more. Stiffen your conscience until it will not feel the force of temptation, and then you will be ready for life, for death and for any other world to which you may go when your term on earth expires. The only thing to set men right and keep them right is the Sermon on the Mount. It is the thought of others which consecrates the thought of self. A staff and scrip with a clean heart will do more for human happiness than whatever else you may desire, and until we get back to that fact and to a full appreciation of it we shall tail in the great essentials. A Cashier Testifies. Pepsin iSyrtip Co., Montieello, 111. 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 thi- 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. H. Clay Evans, the United States pension commissioner, who for *evera 1 years made it extremely uncomfortable fur the pension sharks, and whose resignation was demanded by Teddy at the instance of the nothern carpet-bagger*, ha* been appointed consul general to London. A nice berth, but H. Clay was of more service to his country in the position he occupied when an assassin’s bullet killed ^' e man, McKinley, and £ placed the Brancho Buster in of* How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh ’ tb-t Ci , nnW be cured bv Hall’* Catarrh Cure. F. ]. ChennEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned. have know, F. J. Cheney for the fectlv honorable m all business transaction* and financially able to out any obligations made by their firm. ^ KST ^ VV holoale rInnan ' &° Marvi'k. Wholewle Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure it taken in- ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Brice 75c. per bottle. Sold by ail Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall’s Family Pill* are the best. Dr. Davis’ Nervine. Will cure Indigestion, Constipa¬ tion, Billiousness, Nervousness and drtggistc. General Debility. For sale by all 9-27-oiyr. “Good Will to All Men.’ The Egg Famine. Hat a hen any human intelligence is what we should like to find out. Pinto, or some other old party, dfiened man to be “ a two legged animal without feathers,” and why may not a hen be a human with feathers? She certainly acts like it in the matter of eggs, Under our beautiful tariff there is a duty of five cents per dozen on eggs imported into this couu- try. Just how the tariff maker* made out that the business of «gg laying is an “infant industry” which ahould be protected we are are not able to say. When Pilgrims landed at Plymouth we’ve no doubt they brought hens with them, and their decendunts have been engaged in the business ot every since so that there seems no good ground for considering thu among infants which needs protection, The ostensible objects of the tariff was to prevent our own hens being driven out of business by the downtrodden fowls of Canada. It was represented that Canadian hens could nianu- facture eggs much cheaper than our stock could do, and that less the latter were protected the country would be flooded and deludged with the result of cheap foreign labor in the shape of free trade egg*. The duty was put on. and now we see the inevitable result. The confounded hens have formed a trust and put the price up beyond the reach of any body but millionaires and, to make the matter worse, they have evidently gore on a general strike and de¬ termined to lay only when they please. That is the human in the hens. They are following in the lead of the two legged animals without feathers, and we dont like it a little bit. What do we care if Canada can lay over us in the matter of egg of egg production ? What is it to us whether their liens are free bom or are subjects of a monarchy ? We want eggs and want them bad and we don't care whether they are made in Canada or Kalamazoo There is neither sense nor reason in the way the hens are acting, and we believe they know it. Right at this time there is an un¬ usual demand for that kind of food. Thousands of good people refrain from eating meat during Lent and eggs form a good sub¬ stitute but what do the hens care They know that this is the season j when they ought to be on double duly to f supply the demand, l*u. they instead just of loal rising around to doing the occasion nothing j j and don’t seein 10 care a load's blessing whether there are any eggs or not. j And there* no us* Lying ! coax or force them to go to work, () , ie might „ well try to induce a “ ^ensuckt.n to drink nothing but water as to try to influeuce a hen ju*t now. Feed her on red pepper, and she only winks her other eye t y OU . Fill her up on bone du*t, “ na she sU '^ * round i,s if she owned the e >rth. and even sings you a lullaby. Even red albumer fails to make her come down. She knows sue holds the trumps takes 11 uieau advantage of the fact. \\ ill some enterprising individual dig a tunnel under the Canada lines and let in a lew mii- lions? Hang it all! We want eggs! —Montgomery Advertiser. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin cures Constipation. Sold by all druggist. Successor to Toccoa Times and Toccoa News. Elegant Dining Cars. New Service Inaugurated on the Iron Mountain Route The Iron Mountain Route has inaugurated a new dining car ser- ' ice on its last daily trains from St. Louis, Memphis and interine- diate points to Texas. 1 hese cars have just been turned out Pullman shop* and are models of fkilifu! workmanship. 1 hey are handsomely fitted up. thoroughly equipped with the latest appliances and lighted with electricity. They are also supplied with electric fans, Meals are served a la carte from dainty Hnviland china. Libby cut glassware and elegant silverware. This is tiie only line running dining Cars from St. Louis to poiu v& in Southern Missouri, Arkansas und Texas. It has a triple daily service between St. Louis and Tex- as and a double daily service be- tween Memphis and Texns of Pullman sleeping cars with electric lights, ians and ail up— o-dat* up- piiances. Knightsville. It id *, April 22 < 1 , 1898 . Pepsin Syrup Co., Montieello, 111. Gentlemen:—I have been selling Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin ever since'it was first introduced to the trade. It is the best seller i have ever had on my shelves arid gives the best satisfaction to my custo— mers of anything 1 ever offered them. Where I seli it once they invariably return for more, An -a laxative or as a physic it is par ex¬ cellence, the most pleasant and satisfactory preparation 1 have ever sold. Yours, efc.. G. H. Came. Sold by all druggists. Texas. The Land of many Crop* best reached via Memphis and the Iron Mountain Route two trains daily, reclining chair cars (seats free) and standard "Pullman Sleeping Car* through to Dallas, Ft. Worth, El* paso etc. This also reaches Arkansas, Oklahoma. Indian Ter¬ ritory, Arisona, New Mexico and California. Books and pamphlets descriptive of the western state* free. A postal card will do it, write, I. S. Rehlander, T. P. A. Chattanooga, Tenn. 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, pun pi es, aching bones or joints, boils carbuncles, prickling pain in skin, old, eating sores, ulcers, etc. Botanic Blood Blam taken internally, cures the worst and most deep-seated cases by en- ricliing. purifying and vitalizing fbe blood, thereby giving a healthy Dlood su „p!y to the skin. Botanic Blood Balm is tire only cure, to stay Curct j, for these awful annoying >k in troubles. Heals every sore uiu j ^j ve > the rich glow of health so t be skin. Builds up the brokeu down body and make, the Woo -‘ re j an d nourishing. Especially advised for chronic, old case* that doctors, patent medicines and hot springs fail to cure. Druggists $1 ’ To prove that B. B. B. cures 9 sample sent free and prepaid by writing Blool Balm Co., Atlanta, G.i. Discribe trouble, and free medical advice sent in sealed letter, ---- O.IL- way 10 get a girl to love you is to make her think some other girl does No. 91 Senator Iierando D. Money, oi Mississippi, is the orator at David- son college. North Carolinia, this year. The commencement exercise Ust trom Sunday, May 25th, to Wednesday, the 28th which is Commencement Hay proper. The Baccalaureate address is delivered by Dr. R. P. Keer, of Richmond , and the sermon before the Y. M. (J. A. Association by Dr. Egbert \V. Smith, of Greensboro N. C. Davidson is owned and controlled by the Pretbytenau; of Georgia, in conjunction with ihose of North Caroliuia, and South Caroliuia and Florida. Special commencement ra»e* have been granted trom those towns 111 Georgia where the Trusteess res¬ ide viz; Mt. Vernon, VaKlostaof Greensboro, Conyers, and Gaines¬ ville. A tramp stole a bottle of Drt Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin. When he appeared in court he expla’iicd that he saw in the advertiseinen. that it was “easy to take,” so lie took it. “Discharged,” said the judge. ‘T will go aud take some myself.” It is easy to take and is a perfect laxative. Sold by all druggists. £»ow 'B.aUs \o K of P Excursion. To California viaMissoun Pacific Ry. tickets on sale to wither San Frauscisco or Los Angeles and re¬ turned at very low rate's Augusi 1st. to August 7th. Fiual tetuiu limit Sept. 30th. San Franscisco and Log Angeles and Return. Very low rates via Missouri Pacific Ry.,May 26th, to June 7th, with limit of sixty days on tickets Diverse routes and stopovers al¬ lowed. Low Round Trip Rates to Port. Sand Oregon. May 26th., to June 7th ¥9 via Missouri Pacific Ry. Through scenic Colorado. Limit of tickets sixty days. Low Rates to Califorinia. May 6th., to 20th., via Missouri Pacific Ry., and Denver and Rio Grande. Scenic line of the world. Low Round trip Rates to Colorado in June. Via Missouri Pacific Ry., and R io Grande. Less than One Fare. For the round trip to Portland, Seattle and and Tacoma via Mis¬ souri Pacific Ry. Tickets on sale July 15th., to 20th., with final limit of Sept. 15th., Diverge route* and stopover* allowed, Thi* line take* you through the heart of the Rockies. A golden opportunity to vi»it Pacific Coast. Send for maps pamphlets etc, to L E. Rehlander. T. H. A. Chatauoogu, Tenn. Seuutor McLaurin of South Carolina has refused to abide by h. v *he primary of the democratic P* rt y * n ! ^ ut an ^ Wi ^ no d° u bt bodily join the republican*. ^ 1 TTJ wIlTbe inovidedfw * ^ Bron 'ho Buster is the saddle. Amos J. Cummings, of New York, one of the oldest and most honorable member* of Congress, died a few days ago, after a short ilines*. Mr. Cummings wa» for many years an active member of the printer’* union and since go- mg to congress ha* beeu an honor- afy member 0 f that body, which is the strongest and most conservative labor organization in the world.