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Subscription $1 Per Year. 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* POU*.