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Vol. XXIX.
The Beauty of Death.
I wood not live in a world that
bore no witness that material tilings
are transitory. Tragedy ? Is death
tragedy—or wholesale death more
tragic than individual death? A
single blossom falls from the tree.
Then the puff of wind comes out
of the north and shakes the tree
and a hundred blossoms follow.
The one is not more tragic than
the other. You and I know that
we all have to die, one by one. Why
more tragic to die hundred by bun-
dred than one by one? No, it is not
death that is tragic ; it is life. And
we need the lesson which nature is
ever teaching us. For though the
blossom falls and the bud decays and
the grass withers and the mountains
are rent and broken and the great
earthquakes shake the solid earth
and cyclones come out of the Meav
ens and sweep the solid structures
trom us, still we do not believe the
world is transitory ; at least we live
as though it were eternal. Death?
What is it? We are in the theater
and one comes upon the stage and
speaks his part and goes off, and
then another, and then another, and
by and by the curtain falls and the
pla> stops—and then true life be¬
gins. For death is life, come when
and how and as it will. And we
need be reminded that all things
earthly are transitory, and yet, de¬
spite destruction, do not learn the
lesson.—Lyman Abbott
CANCER CURED BY BLOOD
BALM.
All Skin and Blood Diseased Cured
Mrs. M. L. Adams, Fredonia,
Ala., took Botanic Blood Balm
which effectively cured an eating
cancer of the nose and face. The
sores healed up perfectly. Many
doctors had given up her case as
hopelesi, hundreds of cases of can¬
cer, eating sores, supperating
swellings, etc., have been cured by
Blood Balm. Among others, Mrs.
B. M. Guerney, Warrior Stand,
Ala. ller nose and lip were raw
as beef, with offensive discharge
from the eating sore. Doctors ad¬
vised cutting, but it failed. Blood
Balm healed the sores, and Mrs.
Guerney is as well as ever. Botan¬
ic Blood Bolm also cures eczema,
itching humors, scabs and scales,
bone pains, ulcers, offensive pim¬
ples, blood poison, carbuncles,scro¬
fula, risings and bumps on the
skin and all blood troubles. Drug¬
gists, $1 per large bottle. Sample
of Botanic Blood Balm free and
prepaid by writing Blood Balm
Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trou-
ble and special advice sent in seal¬
ed letter. It is certainly worth
while investigating such a remark¬
able remedy, as Blood Balm cures
the most awful, worst and most
deep-seated blood diseases.
Mr. Hawks was g.Cvted with a
large audieuce. It was an appre¬
ciative one and u.a ,y a spontaneous
laugh went up a, ti;o lecturer i-old
a funny anecdote. Sometimes lie
would tell a pathetic sto»-\ and
then the tenr^ wo ..Id cone, but the
anecdotes prcdomiuunteu »nd there
were more laughs than tears.—
Dublin, Ga., Dispatch.
Fortune Favors a Texau.
“Having distressing pains in
head, back and stomach, and being
without appetite, 1 began to use
Dr. King’s New Lite Pills,’ writes
W. R* VV hitehead of Kennedale,
Tex., “and soon felt like a new
man.” t infallible c ii*» t in stomach 1 and
liver troubles. Only J 25c ' at E. R.
Davis & Co.
The Toccoa
Toccoa, Georgia, September 12 1902.
A Splendid Showing.
President Spencer of the South-
ern Railway makes a very favora-
ble showing in his report of the
year ending June 30, 1902. The
gross earnings for that period were
$37,712,248, an increase of $3,051
766; operating expenses and taxes,
$26,846,837, an increase of $2,503,-
212; net earnings, $10,865,411, an
increase of $548,554; other income,
$824,509, and increase of $325,803 ;
the surplus, $2,100,897, an increase
of $960,397; dividends paid 011 pre-
ferred stock,$1,500,000, an increase
of $300,000. An increase of 37
miles is reported in the total mile-
ag« of the Southern railway sys-
tern, which is now a little more
than 6,765 miles,
A Boys Wild Ride For Life.
With family around expecting
him to die, and a son riding for life,
18 miles, to get a bottle Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, W. II. Brown,
of Leesville, Ind., endured death’s
agonies from asthma, but this won¬
derful medicine gave instant relief
and soon cured him. He writes :
t < I now sleep soundly every night.”
Like marvelous cures of Consump¬
tion, Pneumonia, Bronchitis,
Coughs, Colds and Grip prove its
matchless merit for all Throat and
Lung troubles. Guaranteed bot¬
tles 50c and $1. Trial bottles free
at E. R. Davis & Go’s, drug store.
The Durham, N.C., Sun perper-
trates this : “One of our subscri¬
bers who presumes that editors
know everything writes to ask :
‘Why don’t the man in the moon
marry?’ Because he makes only
four quarters a month and can’t
afford it. 1 •-
A Parson’s Noble Act.
“I want all the world to know,”
writes Rev. C. J. Budlong, of
Asha way,R. I., “what a thorough¬
ly good and reliable medicine I
found in Electric Bitters. They
cuied me of jaundice and liver
troubles that had caused me great
suffering for many years. For a
genuine, all-round cure they excel
anything I ever saw.” Electric
Bitters are the surprise of all for
their wonderful work in Liver,
Kidney and Stomach troubles.Dont
fail to try them. Only 50c. Satis¬
faction guaranteed by E. R. Davis
& Co.
Cartersville, Ga., March 1. 1899.
To the Public.—I have frequent¬
ly listened to, laughed at and en¬
joy the renditions of A. W. Hawks.
His fun and philosophy leave a
good taste in his mouth and I am
always ready for more of the sort
he gives. Sometimes he makes
me cry, but whether 1 laugh or cry
I enjoy every word he say*, and his
ugly faces makes me laugh myself
sore, lie is naturally pretty, but
artificially ugly. Best of all he is
an all arounc good ft How. '
Sincerely yours, Sam P. Jones.
Cured his Rheumatism.
Mr. John Chick of Los Angeles,
Cal., writes: “1 feel very grateful
to your for inducing me to use
Rheumatic Cure— LRICSOL. I
had suffered intensely for two years
using all kinds of remedies, inter-
nal and external, without the least
benefit. UR1CSOL curedSne.”
It also cures all Bladder and
Kidney troubles caused bv uric
acid. Send stamp for book of par-
ticulars to the Lamar & Rankin
Drug Co., Atlanta Ga., or URIC-
SOL* Chemical # Co., Los Angeles,
Cal. Druggists sell it at $1 per *
bottle, , or six , bottles for $5.
“Good Will to All Men.’
A Certain Cure for Dysentery and
Diarrhoea.
•‘Some years ago I was one of a
party that intended making a long
bicycle trip,” says F. L. Taylor, of
New Albany, Bradford county,Pa.
‘•I was taken suddenly ill with
diarrhoea,and was about to give up
the trip, when Editor Ward, of the
Laceyvilie Messenger, suggested
that I take a dose of Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem-
edy. *1 purchased a bottle and took
two doses, one before starting and
one on the route. I made the trip
successfully and never felt any ill
effect. Again last summer I was
almost completely run down with
an attack of dysentery. I bought a
bottle of this same remedy and this
time one dose cured me.” For sale
by E. R. Davis & Co.
If there is any truth in that story
that the populist farmers of South
Dakota made a concerted attempt
to prevent President Roosevelt’s
son from shooting prairie chickens
there like any one, it shows that
that brand of populist is no wiser
than he was supposed to be.
Josh Westhafer of Loogootee,Ind
is a poor man,but he says he would
not be without Chamberlain’s Pain
Balm if it costs five dollars a bottle
for it saved him from being a crip¬
ple. No external application is
equal to this liniment for stiff and
swollen joints, contracted muscles,
stiff neck, sprains and rheumatic
and muscular pains. It has also
cured numerous cases of partial
paralysis. It is for sale by E. R.
Davis & Co.
The only wound ever sustained
by Lord Kitchener during his long
term of miittary service was re¬
ceived in the Soudan, where a bul¬
let from an Arab’s gun struck him
in the cheek. The bullet after re¬
maining in the flesh for some time,
fell into his plate at a London
restaurant.
< i I am using a box af Chamber¬
lain’s Stomach & Liver Tablets
and find them the best thing for my
stomach I ever used,” says T. w.
Robin&on, Justice of the Peace,
Loomis, Mich. These tablets not
only correct disorders of the
stomach but regulate the liver and
bowels. They are easy to take
and pleasant in effect. Price 25
cents per box. for sale by E.R.
Davis & Co. Druggists.
To Cure a Cold In one Day•
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it fails to
<JUre. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each
box. 25 c.
Over-Work Weakens
^ Your Kidneys.
Unbealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
I kdiL The kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fil-
//£/}) ter out the waste or
im P urit ies in the blood.
If they are sick or out
of order, they fail to do
their work.
Pains, aches and rheu¬
matism come from ex¬
cess of uric acid in the
trouble. blood, due to neglected
kidney
Kidney trouble ceuses quick or
heart art beats, beats, and and makes makes one one feel feel as as though thrmc4»
they had heart trouble, because the heart is
over-working in pumping tt.ksk, kidney-
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
It used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin-
ning ning in in kidney kidney trouble. trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. It stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing
dr-ggis*
cent andone-dollar siz-
es ‘ T 0 ?j ay have X
sample bottle ^ », by mail Home of Swamp-Hoot, --
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Dt.
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y.r
Successor to Toccoa Times and Toccoa News.
Mother
“My mother was troubled with
consumption for many yezrs. At
last she was given up to die. Then
she tried Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
and was speedily cured.”
D. P. Jolly, Avoca, N. Y.
No matter how hard
your have cough had or how Ayer’s long
you it,
Cherry Pectoral is the
best thing you can take.
It’s too risky to wait
until you have consump¬
tion. If you are coughing
today, get a bottle of
Cherry Pectoral at once.
Three sizes : 25c., 50c., $1. All druggists.
Consult your doctor. If he says take it,
then do as he says. If he tells you not
to take it, then don’t take it. He knows.
Leave it with him. We are willing.
J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.
BARNUM ON THE DEFENSIVE
The Great Showman and Three Curl
osiiies of His Museum.
Mr. Barnum’s innate and exuber-
ant love of a joke, which wa* a trait
maternally inherited, and his fre¬
quent habit of self depreciation were
not always quite understood by the
public. He therefore suffered some¬
times from too much of liis own dis¬
paraging frankness. His first auto¬
biography, issued in 1855, was not
meant to be taken as literal truth,
but it was so taken, and the criticism
of it was very bitter. The soberer
matter of fact public of that day
did not see the Pickwickian sense
and the orientalism of statement
that pervaded it. The cold type
could not carry with it the twinkling
of the author’s eye.
The three things, however, which
brought upon him the sharpest crit¬
icism were the three curiosities of
his show which were called Joyce
Heth, the Woolly Horse, and the
Fee Gee Mermaid. The first of
these was said to he Washington’s
body servant and was given an in¬
credible age; the second oi 0> was a
real colt that was a freak; 4*
was probably of Japanese manufac¬
ture. Mr. Barnum constructed
neither the second nor the third,
but bought them from exhibiters,
and he was himself fooled at first
by the certificates of Joyce Heth’s
history.
Barnum frankly admits in his bi¬
ography that he employed two of
them to advertise his museum and
was not trying to make their his¬
tory too exact in announcing them.
He romanced somewhat, he says re¬
gretfully, in describing the horse,
born in Indiana, as a curiosity dis¬
covered by Colonel Fremont in the
Rocky mountains, but did this to
call attention to a museum of cu¬
riosities of which it, with the other
two, was merely a fractional part.
He said he should not do this again,
and expressed a wish that it had not
been done at all. The best pallia¬
tion he could plead for these
schemes was that without them he
did give a big money’s worth to all
who visited his museum. No per-
fectly ethical defense beyond this
was offered.—Joel Benton in Cen-
tury.
Both Thought Alike.
Jones and Smith were two old
bachelors who lived on the most in¬
timate terms, constantly dined to-
• “
ge tner and smoked it,, the peaceful . ,
, „ - - pipe -
an d occasionally went off « A to-
gether for a week’s holiday by the
sea. But a change came over the
spirit of Smith’s dream. Well on in
. fifties . _ he .
his “ ie got married, and on
return from the honeymoon in-
vited Jones to come and dine with’
tun and be a witness of his happi-
ness.
The dinner over, the old friends
sa t down in front of the fire after
Mr-. Smith had pone unstairs.
This signature is on everybox of the gwinin*
LaxatrVe BromO-QuMlIie Tablets
^ remedy that cures a cold in
No. 3s
edict, ‘‘Well,Thy dear Jones," said Ben¬
“now tell me quite candidly
what do you think of my dear wife?"
Jones hesitated for a moment,
then replied:
“Well, Smith, if I must speak
quite candidly, I don’t think much
of her."
Smith patted him on his knee as
he replied confidentially:
“Neither do I, my dear Jones."
When George Raised Tobacco.
The Wills Tobacco company of
Bristol, England, says a London cor¬
respondent, cherishes an autograph
letter from George Washington to
the original of Wills’ firm, written
while the Father of His Country,
was still a grower of tobacco. It
runs as follows:
Virginia, 23th November, 1759.
Gentlemen—Some time this week 1 ex¬
pect to get on board the Cary for your
house fifty hogsheads of tobacco of my
own and Jno. Parke Custls’, which please
to Insure In the usual manner. I shall
also by the same ship send you ten or
twelve hogsheads more if I can get them
on board in time, but this, I believe, will
be impracticable If Captain Tulman uses
that dispatch In loading which he now
has in his power to do. I am, gentlemen,
your most obedient, humble servant,
G. WASHINGTON.
She Was 80 Pleasant X
Oliver Wendell Holmes related a
little incident as occurring in his
own life which had no little effect on
him.
“Many years ago," he said, “in
walking among the graves at Mount
Auburn, I came upon a plain, white
marble slab Which bore an epitaph'
of only four words, but to my mind
they meant more than any of the
labored descriptions on other monu¬
ments: ‘She was so pleasant/ That
one note revealed the music of a life
of which I knew nothing more."
Pleasant For the Baby.
A Canadian firm recently placed
with the Montreal and Toronto
newspapers an advertisement of a
new and nursing bottle it had patented
was about to place on the mar¬
ket. After giving directions for
use, the ad. ended in this manner:
“When the baby is done drinking,
it must be unscrewed and laid in a
cool place under a tap. If the baby
does not thrive on fresh milk, ft
should be boiled."
ou Know What; You are Taking
Tome JFHen because yqu t*k« the Grove's forts*!* la Tasteless plainly print¬ Chill
X ed ota on and every Quinine bottle shoiyfwg in tasteless tb*t It is simply
No Pay. a form. No
re. flOo.
BLUSHING.
It Is Caused by Nerve Action on the
Blood Circulation.
Not every one would consider that
to blush indicates special intelli¬
gence, yet blushing is an eminently
human attribute, and Darwin says
that “it would require an over¬
whelming amount of evidence to
make us believe that any animal
could blush. Idiots, too, rarely
blush."
It is a fact that the nerves have
an effect even on the circulation of
the blood, and the very pulse at our
wrist is not due only to the heart
throbs, but to an organism called
the vaso motor system—threadlike
nerves distributed to the walls of
the blood vessels and making a reg¬
ular pulsing motion as they force
the blood along.
These blood vessels are related
closely both to the cerebro spinal
and the sympathetic systems; hence
the reason for the effect of sudden
shock, of the pallor produced by
fear, the crimson blush of shame
and the flush of rage. These are
really psycho phenomena and indi¬
cate the remarkable vascular changes
caused by feelings of the mind.
Blushing really is a sort of mo¬
mentary paralysis or suspension of
the vaso motor nerve influence, and
the opposite emotion of fear either
stimulates the contractors of the
tiny capillary vessels or sometimes
permits the action by suspending
the cerebral influence. — Philadel¬
phia Bulletin.
Stop t he Cough and Work off the
cold.
gold Laxative Bromo Quimna Tablota our* *
in •*• day. X 0ox«, Mo ray. Pfto*
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