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Fruit.
[Geo. H. Hepworth’s Sunday Sermon
in the New York Herald.}
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
—[St. Matthew, vli., 16.
If we wish to get at the man
who hides inside of the man and
find whether he is well tempered
steel or only poor iron, we must
listen to his actions rather than his
speech.
Talking is a good deal easier
than doing, and one naturally
paints a fair picture when describ¬
ing himself. But if you look at
the cold facts of a man’s daily life
you see at a glance whether he is
saint or sinner, for deeds have a
habit of telling the truth without
favoritism.
If we could be saved by what we
believe, or what we profess to be
lieve, we should forge our way in¬
to heaven without anyjgreat diffi¬
culty. But that is not the law. We
must work our way there or not
get to heaven at all. In a word,
we must earn heaven before we
can enjoy it. No one can make
us a present of it. We must win
it Jby deserving it. My creed will
t not buy it, but my life will. We
must take to the Lord the deeds we
have been doing during these years
of temptation, and they will de¬
cide our future, as they are now
deciding our present. You can’t
get something for nothing in the
spiritual any more than in the phy¬
sical world.
And it is unsafe to depend on
what is called deathbed repentance
which is well enough in its way,
because it is better than no repen.
tance at all, but a very poor sub¬
stitute for an honest life. I do not
believe you can have God’s ap¬
proval by simply saying you are
sorry for what you have done when
the time comes that you can have
your own way no longer. It is
wiser to look at things in the stroug
light of common sense ; and refuse
to do wrong rather than do it and
then see that you have made a mis¬
take.
What I call religion, therefore,
is rather a serious thing. You can¬
not do as you please in any such
world as this. There is a law
which will not be blinked out of
sight. Neither can it be bribed to
look on you more favorably than
on others. Build on sand, and
the house falls; build on rock, and
it stands. A child once asked me
if two and two always made four.
I answered, 4 s Yes, my son, and if
you never forget that fact you will
be saved many a regret.”
Religion must not be mistaken
for a frothy sentimentalism which
operates in some magical way to
swing the pearly gales wide open.
On the contrary, it i? sturdy, mus¬
cular athletic, giving you in the
autumn the result of your labor in
the spring and summer. Its pur¬
pose is to so educate and develop
your soul that you will be happy
and contented in whatever planet
you find yourselt, because you have
earned the right to be contented
and happy.
Religion is not primarily an
emotion, but rather a thought, a
conviction, a faith. It is like a
bridge which is new to you. You
try it doubtfully at first, not know¬
ing whether it will bear your
weight cr not. But the further
you go the more you trust it, and
at last you feel sure that it will
conduct you to the other shore.
There are many things in religion
which we do not understand, some
The Toccoa Record
Toccoa, Georgia, June 2 O 1902,
which puzzle us very greatly. But
the things we see clearly lead u» to
have confidence even when we
caunot see at all. I do not under*
stand the mariner's compass, but
experience teaches me to put im¬
plicit faith in it even in the storm
and tempest.
But some one will remind me
that men and women have led the
purest lives and still repudiated
Christanity. I know of a marble
quarry which would be very valu¬
able were it not for the iron rust
which has percolated through it.
Nevertheless I have seen several
large blocks of marble from that
quarry which were as white as
white as December snow, The
quarry, however will not pay for
the working.
Christianity is a series of the
highert possible thoughts, and we
have learned that noble thoughts
make noble lives. The thought of
God, of immortality, of duty, of
obedience to law, are creative
thoughts. They cannot enter your
guest chamber without making the
whole household radiant. The sun
shines in every life where these
thoughts dwell. The natural fruit¬
age of faith in them is a harvest
rich in good grain, and. on the
other hand, the aatural fruitage of
doubt is discontent. The farmer
who prefers poor seed to good is
not wise,and why should he choose
the lesser good rather than the
greater ?
Religion brings peace, resigna¬
tion,happiness. Therefore we want
it. The Master leads in the smooth¬
est road from earth to heaven.
Therejore we follow Him- I
religion gives us the grace to live
and the grace to die, comfortable
in *he thought of eternity and re¬
union, then we call for it, as we
call for food when we are hungry.
The Providence (R. I.) News
remarks : “Let us not forget that
in our own posessions—Hawaii—
we have two volcanoes.” The
News should remember that Teddy
the Terrible is equal to a half-
hundred volcanoes himself, and
will probably resent this saying
that that there is only two in all
our posessions.
Mrs. Maggie Hooper bends a
Message.
Jefferson, Ind., May 15, 1900.
Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello. Ill
Dear Friends :—I was bothered
with stomach Trouble and Dys¬
pepsia for years. Nothing helped
me until I tried your grand Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, and now
I feel like a new woman, You
may publish this, that all others
may learn of the great benefit ot
your grand cure.
Sincerely yours, Mrs. Maggie
Hooper. Sold by all druggists.
The first mention of shaving is
in Genisis, XII., when we read
thut Joseph, on being summoned
before the King, shaved himself
Stoutsville, Mo., May 5, 1900.
Gentlemen :—I have been troubl¬
ed with Indigestiou and Constipa*
tion for the last two years, and
hive .ried every remedy known,
but hud never received any relief
until I was handed a trial bottle of
Dr, Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin,
through our druggist, J. W. Wat¬
son, which gave me immediate re¬
lief, and I afterward bought a fifty
cent bottle, which I can truthfully
say has given me more relief than
anything I have ever tried—R.
A iri S>llb/ ail druggists.
“Good Will to All Men.’
Tom Watson, the brainiest man
in Georgia, is quoted as saying
that if he is spared be will write a
history of the United States in
which he will give the south its full
share of glory in the late war
between the states and the causes
that led up thereto, If Tom Wat-
son sets his head to give us such a
history, it will be worth studying.
A Traveling Man
confided to us the other day that
he used Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin in his family and needed
no other remedy, as it seemed to
keep the entire family so perfectly
from Constipation, Indigestion,
Sick Headache and Stomach
Troubles. Sold by all druggists.
8aved His Money.
Did he threaten to commit sui¬
cide when she said it could never
be? Well, hardly. He got up,
brushed the dust from the knees of
his trousers with a silk handker¬
chief and said:
“I feel that you have made a rich
man of me.”
“Made a rich man of you!” she
exclaimed. “How ?”
“I shall never marry,” he replied.
Sweet Breath
i« a companion to a well ordered
stomach. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin keeps the stomach in order
—the breath pure and sweet. Sold
by all druggists.
Brother Dickey’s Philosophy.
Never min’ ’bout de spots on de
sun. It’s de dark spots on de airth
what needs polishin’.
De Bayin’ is dat good folks is lone¬
some in dis worl’; but dat’s heap
better dan havin’ company in hell.
Some folks is all time cryin’ fer
jestice fer de yuther feller, but if
jestice ever knocked at dey own
door deyM holler fum half way up
de chimbley dat dey ain’t at home.
I half suspects dat de real race
problem what’s a-worryin’ folks so
much is how to keep ten miles ahead
er de bill collector.—Atlanta Con-
atitution.
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
cure* Constipation, Sold by all
druggist.
W« see it in the Charleston Post
that Gov. Jeff Davis of Arkansas
wat expelled fjom membership in
the Little Rock Baptist Church on
these among other charges:
Drunkenness (three charges) ;
drunkenness and gambling;
drunkenness and misconduct;
drunkenness and treaty negroes;
gross sins aganst the Church. 11
Gracious, but the ;r.»n was lucky!
It’s a wonder they didn’t hang him.
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
• There is a disease prevailing in this
country most dangerous because so decep-
JF —; III ILK L~hJCjr~ I hvft- deaths Many sudden
are caused by
it — heart disease,
1 pneumonia. heart
failure or apoplexy
r- are often the result
i of kidney disease.
Ii kidney trouble is al-
lowed to advance the
L_ kidney-poisoned
blood will attack the
vital organs or the
, kidneys , themselves break down and
waste
away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles most always result from
a derangement of the kidneys and a cure is
obtained quickest by a proper treatment of
Site, SJZ finite
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Successor to Toccoa Times and Toccoa News.
SCENT IN BIRDS.
Feathered Things Lack the Animals*
Acute Srr.eliing Power.
Animals follow their noses with
unerring instinct. A dog identifies
his master by smelling him. A goat
picks her kid from an inclosure of
hundreds with her nose. After a
Separation a cow is never satisfied
with her calf until she has thor¬
oughly smelled it.
The feathered family are so defi¬
cient as to smell and taste that they
go anywhere and eat anything. 1
have seen birds contentedly brood-
ing about slaughter houses and sew-
er discharges where the air wa9 so
contaminated that my horse would
turn up its nose, draw its lips back
from its teeth and groan, and I
could only secure my material by
working with a cloth dipped in dis-
infectant bound over my lips and
nostrils. The birds eat unspeaka-
ble things. It is nothing to find
them raking the river banks for
worms at the very mouth of a sewer
discharge.
Some of our golden noted, gaylv
plumaged birds that have been sung
bv poets and painted by artists may
be found in the fields complacently
picking the undigested corn from
the droppings of the herds they fol¬
low. Beyond all question the birds
have sight and the animals scent,
but where each is defective in one
of these senses it seems compensat¬
ed for by the greater degree in
which it possesses the other.—
“Sight and Scent In Birds and An¬
imals” in Outing.
Got His Money’s Worth.
A short time ago two highway
robbers attacked an old Scotchman,
with the intention of-robbing hkn
of all he had.
The Scotchman, being a strong,
powerful man, “let out” right and
left and knocked the two ruffians
into the road; but, they being two
to one, he was soon overpowered
and his money taken. .
After they had got clear away
one thief said to the other:
“I’m jiggered if he ain’t nearly
broke my jaw.”
“I reckon,” replied the other,
“that he’s broken one of my ribs at
least. But never mind. How much
did yer get off ’im?”
After searching among the hand¬
ful of buttons the reply came:
“Great Scott! Only two ha’pen¬
nies !”
“Crikey!” exclaimed the other,
holding his ribs. “If he’d fight like
that for two ha’pennies, how would
he ha’ fought for sixpence ?”
She Was Not Interested.
A humorous illustration of the
fatuousness of parochial litigation
comes from Norway. A widow in
poor circumstances, being in want
of relief, became chargeable to the
rates, and thereupon the city of
Christiania went to law with a
neighboring commune concerning
the question of its liability to con¬
tribute. The case was carried from
one court to another, and after
much legal wrangling and hundreds
of pounds being wasted in costs a
finai decision was recently arrived
at. When it occurred to those con¬
cerned to make inquiry for the poor
°l of d all \adv the whoJmd litigation, been it the occasion found
was
that she had been dead and buried
f or J years!
—-—
Cale b Cushing’s Reading,
^ Caleb Cushing s decisions , . . while ...
a
justice of the supreme court of Mas-
sachusetts were the admiration of
fi ar b u t lawvers wondered at
his familiarity with the reports
know ing that he had been long out
of practice. A writer in Green Bag
explains this familiaritv by the
statement that Mr. Cushing on be-
ing appointed to the bench prepared
himself by reading in nineteen days
fifty-seven volumes of Massa-
chusetts reports. His habit was to
read every book, pamphlet or peri-
odical that seemed likely to gratify
his intense thirst for knowledge.
Stop the Cough and Work off the
cold.
Laxative Brouo guimne Tablets cure a
oohl in one dav. h Cart, No Pay. Prw
m cents.
No. 25
So Tired
It may be from overwork, but
the chances are its from an in¬
active LIVER.
With a well conducted LIVER
one can do mountains of labor
without fatigue.
It adds a hundred per cent to
ones earning capacity.
It can be kept in healthful action
by, and only by
Tiitfs Pi ZS5
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.
A son of Erin appeared at the
money order window of the postof-
fiee recently and said that lie wanted
to “sind some money to ould 0ire-
land.”
“Fill out this form,” said the
clerk, handing the applicant one of
the forms used on such occasions.
“An* phwat is that?” asked Jer-
ry.
“It’s a form that every applicant
for a money order uses.”
“An’ phwat has a letther of ad¬
vice got to do wid me eindin’ 50
shillings to me ould mother?”
“A letter of advice to the post¬
master where the money is to be
paid must always go with a money
order.”
Jerry went away from the win¬
dow, grumbling and mystified.
After haff an hour of painful ef¬
fort at a high desk provided for the
public at one end of the room Jerrv
returned to the window and handed
in this “letter of advice” to the
postmaster at Ballycarney:
Dear Moikr- Oi’m tould Oi must give
yez a bit uv advice before yez'11 be able
to pay me ould mother the 50 shillings
Oi'rn sindin’ along with this. So, Mike,
Oi would advise yez to come to Ameriky
an' git a job at kapin* postoffice, for It’s
illigant post offices they has here, an’
Ol’ve no doubt the pay is tin toimes what
it is wid yez. and any fool can do the
work. So now be sure an’ pay me ould
mother the $10, for Oi’ve done as the law
says and sint yez a letther of advice.
—Kansas City Independent.
A Moment of Suspense.
Professor Oscar Browning, writ¬
ing in The Century of “The Royal
Family of England,” tells this anec¬
dote of Queen Victoria:
One can imagine a privy council
at which the new ministers had to
be enrolled. The admitted members
stood round the room. The novices
knelt in the center. The queen
looked wistfully at those who were
technically her servants, but who
were really her masters, wondering
what her relations with them would
be and whether they were fit to bear
the burden intrusted to them. Borne
who accept office are perhaps sur¬
prised at the details of the cere¬
mony. One whose duties necessi¬
tated that he should be for some
time absolutely alone with the queen
in a small room without a single at¬
tendant wondered what she would
say to him and he reply to her. The
difficulty was solved by his saying
nothing and the queen only remark¬
ing when she had to sign his com¬
mission, “What a tremendously long
way they have put thw ink off!”
Gothic Architecture.
Gothic architecture, so familiar
to us, leaves the impression of as¬
cendant aspiration. The tendency
is upward. Heedless of weight, it
breaks through the weight, The
nave rushes upward from the aisles,
the tower upward from the nave,
the spire upward from the tower
1 he support is lateral to allow of
the upward tendency, buttresses
euoport the sides, the aisles support
the nave, flying buttresses hold up
the roof. The wall is destroyed, be¬
ing pierced hv window and arch,
The arch takes the thrust off from
the pillars and the capitals become
mere bands. . he windows point
upward. The arch points upward,
The weight, without being denied,
a3 in the Moresque, is thrust aside,
i s distributed over the lateral sup-
port to a p ow the upward tendency,
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