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J Coughed
U1 hid a most stubborn cou|h
I for mmy years. I* toprfo* me
of Sleep and I grew very thin. I
then tried Ayer'. Cherry Pectoral,
id wn quickly cured. 0
R. N. Mann, FallMilla.Tenn.
Sixty years of cures
and such testimony as the
j above have taught us what
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
I will do.
We Know it’s the great
est cough remedy ever
i made. And you will say
! so, too, after you try it.
There’s cureineverydrop.
Tiiree dies: 25c., 5Sc., II. All <m|IKi.
rmisult your doctor. If lio »aj» take it,
I thro do ai be »»Ji. If be UU. you not
to i‘-.then_<lon£«ake _lt. i He know*.
COMMUNICATED.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? YES-NO.
Editorial Olimpsea ani Clippings-
President Roosevelt’* message reads
like Talmage’s sermons.
Half of the regular army is in the
Philippines. How thoroughly pacified
hose possessions must ba.
A fall agreement has been reached
letween Denmark and the United
Elates for the sala of the Danish
Vest Indies. The price fixed ia be
seen $4,000,000 and $5,000,000.
It, seems to have been decided that
United States will buy the Danish
Test Indies. What they will do with
fceiLV-.titer having bought them,
luite another question.
Hon. James D. Richardson haring
Ijain been selected as minority leader
fthe house of representalires, the
leraociatic party in congress is sure of
i able and conservative management
|n the floor of the house.
The Central railroad has our thanks
lor one of its large office calendars, for
1902. They are large, convenient,
Ind useful. You can get one by send-
It® six cents in stamps, to Mr. J. C.
Haile, general passenger agent, Suvan
Itali, to pay the postage.
Judge. Joseph S. Turner, chairman
the Prison Commission, dentes the
Jeport that he expects to resign for
purpose ol entering the race for
Ihe judgeship of the Oomulgee Circuit,
jfe says that there is no truth what-
per in the report, that he had never
pen contemplated entering the race
lor the judgeship.
Senator Hacon returned a few days
l»o Irom a trip to the Philippine is-
|»mls. He expresses the opinion that
It will be a long tithe before the inhabi
tants there will submit to the authority
1 the United States. They want in-
pependence and unless they get it they
neessantly annoy and attack our
loldiers. A strottg torce is necessary
|o keep them subjugated.
jdo*
The secretary ot the treasury 1ms
fansmitted to congreas the estimate ot
Ippropriations required lor the govern*
pent services for the fiscal year end*
ng June 20, 1903, furnished by the
leads of the several executive depart*
(tents. The total appropriations asked
|or i 3 $610,827,688 which is $6,000,*
less than the estimates for 1902
|nd $4,000 more than the appropria-
|ion9 lor that year.
The following from President Roose-
hlt's message to congress should be
lasted in every man's hat:
‘‘When all is said and done, the rule
brotherhood remains as the indis*
fcnaable prerequisite to success in the
of national life for which we
RF've. Each mart must work for him*
l e 'h and unless he so works no outside
pip can avail him; but each man must
remember also that he is indeed his
P rc, iher’s keeper, and that while no
fcnn who refuses to walk can be car-
ltd with advantage to himself or any
r De else, yet that each at times stum-
lbs or liults, that each at times needs
I 0 }>ave the helping band outstretched
''m. To be permanently effective,
J'd tiirist always take the form ot help*
!l " « man to help himself; and we can
b best help ourselves by joining to-
dbir in the work that is ol common
Rfr-st to all,”
How often has that question been
seriously asked by thousands, and acted
upon according to decision given.
We see it daily in hundreds we .meet
in our life’s intercourse. We see it in
those struggling with disease which
only meuna time when their physical
system can stand the strain no longer
and death comes to their reliet. We
see it in those worried with care,
trouble and sorrow with no silver lin*
ing to their hopes, exertions or desires,
We see it ib those who say that death
would be a blessing at any time, but
fear to make the individual leap to the
grave and to rest. They wait and suf
fer.
Wo see it it i» those who tired of
lile as a burden too heavy to be borne,
ns a course to them mentally and phys*
ioally like Samson of old, null down
the temple of their existence, and bury
themselves with ail of the eneuties of
disease, care, trouble, sorrow, dis-
appointments and heartaches, amid the
ruins. •
SAMSON—HIS DEATH.
Who can blame blind Samson frees
ing himself from slavery and blindness
in self destruction. The bible tells us
of many who sopght suicide who lost
battles, or sought death upon the battle
field rather than taee defeat. The old
philosophers ol Greece and Rome
thought nothing ol making an end oi
their lives when tired of it. An old
philosopher said, “1 had but one way
to come into this life, bat I can find
many ways to get out. ot it.”
Every one carries thair own happi
ness or sorrows about with them. They
daily weigh them, and say by living:
My hsppiness is too sweet to give up,
I huve much to live for und enjoy. Lite
has a charm 1 cannot divorce myself
from, and will await my hour of death
with regret. 1 do not like to think ot
death, the grave,'thecoffiuand the sleep
1 fear immortality more or less, for 1
cannot grasp or comprehend it. I pre-
fer pain, disease, disappointment and
sorrows every time to death. So rea
son those who attach great importance
to living under all environments.
TIIE CHRISTIAN
Full of faith and hope, who feels that
there are treasures laid up in some
brighter land, should be indifferent to
death per se. It may be for others they
would like to live, tor love and atfec*
lion are the strong ties which hold us
to earth. As my dear old. mother said
near sixty-tbree years ago: ‘*1 do not
fear to die, but 1 desire to live lor my
children’s sake.” Thousands feel that
way, but death knows no iriends, age.
or conditions,
THE MATERIALIST
Should care nothing for death; for
with him, death,'is at best but a friend
who puts him to sleep in the solitude
and gratitude of a dreamless bed. If
life has its charms for him of course he
does not feel willing to go; but if life is
filled with cares and sorrows, why
should we care to live?
OLD MAN.
The old man who has reached the
three score and ten mile stone of his
lite, if he has any sweet faith and de
lightful hopes ol a future life, should
meet death with a cordial shake of the
hand and say:
“I would not live alway,
I ask not to stay.
Where storm after storm
lttsas dark o’er tha way.
The Tew lurted mornings
That dawn on u» here,
Are enough for life’s woes.
Full enough for Its cheer."
If he has not a faith of that sort, but
believes that what is universal and a
fixed law of natare must bean univer
sal good, and has so lived with hie con*
•cieace ae to be on the best of terms
with it, and take pleasure iu carrying
it about with him, he will say without
lear or doubting:
If death fe all, then peace through death
attains.
If not, tor me immortal life remains.
Sad is the man who dies with re
grets, who teels that lie has not acted
well his part upon the theater of life.
Have done things that down in the
secret recesses ol his conscience he re
grets and is a shamed to let the world
know what he did. He may take that
conscience with him and explain as
best he cun in another world his deeds.
IK A WORD
Life is worth living all the time,
when it is useful, helpful, beautiful up-
lilting. meritorious, and scatters smiles
and sunshine all around. With such a
life, age counts nothing, but makes age
more charming and inviting. But a
sweet old age, how sweet it is.
“But an old age serene and bright
Ann lovely as a Lapland ni»rht
Shall lead thee to thy grave.’’
But when cares like a wild deluge
comes oyer me, arid ail Is dark, forbid*
ding and hopeless, then comes death
as a pleasant friend aid says come go
with me, but they who would draw
baok make life more dreary and dark.
How many like Samson have sought
oomfort and freedom in
blessing? Who will say be did wrong?
It is said that Napoleon carried poison
on his person to take wken misfortune
overtook him. but it such is the tact he
was too cowardly to use it when he
found that his star of destiny had set in
darkness and aight. Like a caged
tiger, he snapped and snarled, and fret
ted himsell to death behind the bars ol
St. Helena, Uulike Hannibal who took
poison, beoause he was tired of life und
hated his enemies, he was all the time
talking about his personal grievances
and his departed ambition. Such was
Napoleon. 1 admired his genius, but
detest his mean character, tor he was
mean in many respects. Self wss his
ruling passion, and he never had a
generous impulse outside of his selfish
ness.
SUICIDE,
I do not advocate suicide, but I do
not see the pleasure in one living when
the light and hope ot joy has goue out
ot his lile—when to live is a llbor, a
burden, and a trial. An aching tooth
is soon gotten rid of. All
CHRISTMAS
SUGGESTIONS
The Following is a Partial List of The Many
Items We Have For Christmas«
L * '
Card Cases and Purses, 50c, to $6.00.
Chattelain Bags. Shopping Bags, Bill Books, $1,25 to $3.50.
Whisk, Hat, Cloth and Bonnet Brashes, $1.25 to $4.50.
Silver Back and AUnminutn Dressing Combs, 15c. to $1 25.
Shaving Mugs and Powder Puff Stands, $1.25 to $4.00.
Novelties for the Desk and Toilet Table 15o. to $4.00.
Gold and Pearl Pen Holders with gold points $1,00 to $5 50.
FOUNTAIN PIS $1.50 TO $6.00.
Complete line of Files, Hooks, Shoe Horns, Paper Knives, Seals,
Nail Polishers, Emeries, Book Marks, Match Safes Darners, Bag
Tags, Pen and Pencil Holders, Blotters, Hat Marks, Viniagrettes,
Shaving Brushes, Cork Screws, Garters, Jewel Boxes, Ink Stands,
&o., ranging in prices from 15c. up.
Fine Umbrellas,
and Walking Canes. Toilet Sets, general line of Watches, Chains,
Jw ®^' Table Silver, Piotnres and many other things;not space to
"™" enumerate.
Call and let ns help yon make you Xmas selection.
Number 24.
COTTON CROP SHORT.
Statistician’s Estimate a Big
Surprise.
Washington, Deo. 3 The statistic
ian of the Department ot Agriculture
reports 9,674,000 bales as the proba
ble cotton production of the United
States in 1901-02. The area picked
or to be picked is estimated at 26,802,-
239 acres, a reduction of 730,216 acres,
or 2 6 percent. Irom the acreage plant*
ed.
The total production of lint cotton is
estimated at 4,529,954,000 pounds, an
average ot 169 pounds per acre picked
or to be picked,
Dixon Williams.
Saves Two From Death.
“Our little daughter lmd an almost
fatal attack of whooping cough and
bronchitis,” writes Mrs. W, K. Havi*
land, of Armonk, N. Y., “but when all
other remedies foiled, wo saved her life
with Dr. King’s New Discovery, Our
niece, who lmd Consumption in an
advanced stage, also used this wonder
ful medicine and to-day site is perfectly
well.” Desperate tlirout and lung di
seases yield to Dr. King’s New Die-
covery as to no other medicine on
earth. Infallible for Coughs and
Colds. 50c and $1.00 bottles guar
anteed by Culver & Kidd, Trial bot
tles free.
aches that medicins can reach is ap
plied, then why the struggle lo live
and a wild hunt alter health here, there,
everywhere? Hope is such a cheerlul
friend we do not wish to let him leave
us. He is suoh a ruse with the sweet
est words imaginable und talks of to
morrow, tomorrow, all the time,
But we bear the ills we have rather
than fly to those we know not of, as
Shakespeare says. But lile is made
up of:
“That best portion of a good man's life
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.’’
"It. is not a sin to wish the spirit free
From the dull bondage of this suffering
clay.
When every joy, that charm'd it once
must be
A hated thing from which it turns
away,
R. M. O.
A WAR STORY.
Capture of the One Hundredth Ohio
Regiment Described by Dr. Snead.
In the early part of Sept., 1868,
Capt. Waters of the 16th Georgia
Battalion, with a detachment of 50
rangers was encamped for the night in
the court house square in Jonesborough,
Tenn., within one hundred yards of the
depot. Just before day a train with a
thousand Federals rolled up to the de*
pot and put off a part of the soldiers,
who commenced firing on our camp.
We were soon mounted and in line,
paihs and ] The train started to move on, and
Cut this out and take it to Geo.
Case’s drug store and get a free sample
of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver
Tablets, the best physic. They cleanse
and invigorate the stomach, improve
the appetite and regulate the bowels
Regular size, 25c. per box.
Hot Rolls.
hot muffins, hot cakes,
made with Royal Baking
Powder may be freely
eaten without fear of
indigestion.
and Captain Waters told me to take
8 men and beat them to Carter’s Sta
tion, if possible, and notify Capt,
Page, who was there with one section
of his battery. If we failed in
this, we were to tear up the track,
that the train could not retnrn
turn. I soon found that my own horse
and that of H. D. Welsh, of Putnam,
were the only ones which could make the
trip, so I told Joe Glawson, ot Jones, to
take the other men and, alter the train'
passed, fix the road so that the train
could not return. We reached the sta
tion and while I was reporting to
Capt. Page, we heard a train coming.
He told me that we had a train that
had started down, and he did not
know whether it was our own train re
turning or the Yanks’, but to beat them
to Zoilicoffer and report to our com*
mandt which was there. We reached
Zoilicoffer just as our train got buck
there. I was ordered to leave my
horsa with Welch, get? on the train
and go to Bristol and report to Gen.
Jackson, who would be telegraphed to
meet me at the depot.
When I made nty report to the Gen
eral, I asked when another train would
go down to Zoilicoffer, and he said
that a train was not going down, but I
could stay at a convalsecent camp there.
I went to the camp, got a horse and
started back. When I got back to
Zoilicoffer. our command had gone
to the front. I went on to Cart
er’s Station, and Capt. Puge told me
that soon after 1 left the Yanks
came and stopped just out of range of
his guns, and sent in by flag, an order
signed Burnside, to surrender at once
or take the consequences. He replied
be was sent there to hold that position
and he proposed to do so. Alter re
maining a short while they disappeared.
Just before I reached Johnston Sta
tion (now Johnston City) I came upon
the wreck of the train. Glawson had
done a splendid job. He had drawn
all the spikes on a long and high em
bankment and left the rails in position
as i( all were right. When the train
struck if, the spreading of the track
sent them tumbling down the embank
ment.
Before I overtook tha command
they had come up with the enemy and
had a running fight to Limestone creek,
where they got them rounded up in a
blockhouse,and where a few shots from
our needle gun soon made them show
the white feather. They proved to be
the One Hundreth Ohio Regiment, and
were splendidly armed and equipped as
cavalry, and sent up from Knoxville
to upper East Tennessee to mount
themselves. But we gaye them free
transportation “onward to Richmond”
and saved the citizens their horses.
We had several killed and wounded.
Among the latter was my friend J. F.
Dumas, of Jones county, who I found
on his bunk witli his right arm shat
tered. When I remarked that his arm
had not been attended to, he said—
“No, these — doctors say it must
be cut oil, but I told them I would
shoot the first one that touched it un
til you came.” He lias still got his
arm, and he and Welch, are among
the surviving remnant of our old Bat
talion, who are still fighting the battle
of life alone, without the touch of a
comrade’s elbow. But pensions or no
pensions, they will get there all the
same, tor they are built that way. But
our Iriend Glawson, with the bulk oi
the command, has • ‘crossed over the
river and rept under the shade.”
Washington is already one of the
most beautiful cities in tka United
States, It is stated to bn the purpose
ol the aathorities to make it one of the
most beautiful in tbe world, and an im
proved system of parks, paving and
railway system is now under conside
ration with that eud iu view. It is
predicted that within ten years the
American cupital can just lay claim to
being the world’s handsomest city.
SsreS HU
“I wish to say that I teel I owe my
lite to Kodol Dyspepsia Cure,” writes
H. C. Chrestenson of Hayfield, Minn.
“For three years I was troubled with
dyspepsia so that 1 could hold nothing
on my stomach, Many times I would
be unuble to retain a morsel ot food.
Finally I was confined to my be^.
Doctors said I could not lire. I read
one of your advertisements of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure and thought it fit my
case and commenced its uie. I began
to improve from the first bottle. Now
I atn cured and recommend it to all.”
Digests your food. Cures nil stomach
troubles, For sale by C. F. Barrett.
Controlling republicans will not
permit a president of their faith and
order to be greater than their party.
This prevents the growth of Roosevelt
in true statesmanship.
“On Fame’s eternal camping 1 around
Their silent tents are spread
And glory guards with solemn round
The blvouau ol the dead.”
C.’ W. Snead.
Dovedale, Ga.
One Minute Cough Cure
Fop Coughs, Colds and Croup.
Dr- Ball's Baby Syrup for Teeth*
ing Babies. Full size bottle 10 cents.
Cures Wind Colic, Diarrhoea, Loss ot
Sleep, Griping Pains, Sour Stomach,
Fever, Cholera Infantum, etc. Dr.
Bull’s Baby Syrup promotes the baby’s
digestion, regulates the atomach and
bowels, removes the cause of pain and
sickness, soothes and comforts tbe baby.
It is safe and sure. Sold by Culver &
Kidd.
WHAT WE HAVE DONE.
We have placed an artistic shoe within reach of all—and a shoa
that ia more than artistic in appearance—it is artistic in its touch.
No shoe ever fitted, like
Queen Quality the Famous Shoe for Women*
A beautiful, serviceable, up to-
date shoe—and 80 EASY! Com
fort from the first minute, and
tho most graceful lines ever put
into a woman’s shoe.
ALL STYLES,
House, Dress, Street
•anil
Kibo Enamel
Calf. •
Very Heavy
Welted Sole, Extensile
Edge, Rope Stitch.
Eiict Reproduction ot this Style Shew '
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