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^Tashington, Jan. 12.—In this dis-
rfrnrse Dr. TaImago urges thougbtful-
.•>’^8 for others and shows how such a
?;» nlgnant spirit may he fostered; text,
T Peter 11, 8. "Be courteous.”
fji an age when bluntncss has been
canonized as a virtue It may be use-
fnl to extol one of the most beautiful
nf all the royal family of graces—
♦.'i>nrtesy. It is graciousness. deference
>o the wishes of others, good manners,
usability, willingness to deny our-
«eives somewhat for the advantage of
*N*bjers, urbanity. But what is the use
-if my defining the grace of courtesy
•'• lien we all know so well what it is?
Ilie botanist might say some very in-
f.ivsting things about a rose, and the
^iaomist might discourse about water
or light, l»ut without ever seeing a
tnitanist or a chemist we know what
rose is and what water and light
jj'o. Do not take our time in tolling
u.* what courtesy is. Only show us
>. .w we may get more of it and avoid
vrhat are its counterfeits. Mark you.
r cannot be put on or dramatized suc-
♦'*»ssfully for a long while. We may
Le full of bows and genu flections, and
*;iiiles and complimemary phrase, and
i. jve nothing of genuine courtesy ei-
r,nf-r in our makeup or in our de-
• j<eanor. A backwoodsman who never
s- w a drawing room or a dancing mas-
or a caterer or a fold of drapery
i..iay witli his big soul and bard band
.nd awkward salutation exercise the
•.race, while one born under richest
'■ ; holstery and educated in foreign
•■•rLioois, and bothered to know which
«»•.'. ten garments he will take from a
yal wardrobe, may be as barren ol
T::e spirit of courtesy as tiie great Sa-
i u*a desert is of green meadows and
tossing fountains.
Christian courtesy is born in the
ii 'art by tbe power of the Holy Ghost,
who has transformed and illumined
u::d glorified one’s nature. Mark you.
7 am speaking of the highest kind ol
i aurtesy, which is Christian courtesy,
ir/.niething like it—ordinary politeness
-may grow up with us under the dl-
re-ction of intelligent and watchful
•; vi rent age, but 1 am not speaking of
iuxt which is merely ngreeableuess of
»v;nversation and behavior. All that.
. j;ay be a matter of tutelage and fine
cirrounding and show itself in lifting
tiie hat to passersby and in a graceful
way of asking about your health and
sending tin- right kind of acceptance
xvben you can go and tin* right kind of
regrets when you cannot go and under
standing all the laws of preference at
table and parlor door, all of which is
well. 1 am speaking of a principle of
courtesy so implanted in one’s nature
tLat his suavity of conversation and
manner sliall b«* the outburst of what
?:>.» feels for the happiness and welfare
others, a principle that will work
ia the next world as well as In this
and will be ns appropriate in the man
sions of heaven as in earthly dwelling
5»Laces.
I'ndeMlrnhle People.
Now, you know as well as I do that
Rome of the most undesirable people
Irnive been seeming incarnations of
courtesy. In our early American his
tory there arose a man of wonderful
talent, an impersonation of all that
can charm drawing rooms and culti
vated circles. Aged men who knew
#\im in their youth have told me that
ha was the most irresistible man they
‘ vc- • r>t, ids voice silvery, his smile
cv. Acaing, his glove immaculate, his
r ye piercing, his high forehead wreath
ed in curls, his attire a fascination.
He became vice president of the Unit-
-jd States and within one vote of being
president. Men threw away their for
tunes to help him in his political aspi
rations and to forward him in a con
spiracy to overthrow the government
of the United States, he trying to do
in America what Napoleon at that
very time was trying to do In Europe—
(establish a throne for himself. But he
was immoral and corrupt. He was
♦Jie serpent that wound its way into
cnany a domestic paradise. lie shot to
•death one of the greatest of Americans
— Alexander Hamilton. The world
found out long before he left it that
Ihe offender 1 speak of was an embodl-
inent of dissoluteness and base ambl-
lion. He was tbe best illustration that
I know of of tbe fact that a man may
Slave the appearance of courtesy while
within he is all wrong.
Absalom, a Bible character, was a
specimen of a man of polish outside
ind of rottenness Inside. Beautiful,
brilliant and with such wealth of hair
hat when it was cut In each Decern-
:>er as a matter of pride he had It
'weighed, and It weighed 200 shekels.
He captured all who came near him.
But, oh, what a bean he had—full of
•reacbery and unfllial spirit and base-
'less! He was as bad as he was al-
uring and charming.
In the famous Athenian Alcibiades
history discourses of the same splendor
of manner covering utter depravity.
Noble pedigree, transcendent abilities,
/radiant personality, eloquent tongue,
riumphant warrior, victor at Olympic
games, but a debauchee and an Im
personation of all the vices. Alas, that
ill up and down history and clear on
'nto our day there are so many of
▼hat Christ calk'd “wolves In sheep’s
Nothing” — “whitewashed sepulchers,
hall of dead men’s bones and all un-
cleanr.esal” Gilded abominations, walk
ing lazarettos, attired In vermilion and
gold. .Perdition hanging out the ban
ners of heaven. As far as possible are
they removed from nil genuine cour
tesy.
Heart Conrteiiy.
I like what J.^.n Wesley said to a
man when their carriages met on the
road. The ruffian, knowing Mr. Wes
ley and disliking him, did not turn out.
but kept the middle of the road. Mr.
Wesley cheerfully gave the man all the
road, himself riding into the ditch. As
they passed each other the rutfian said.
“I never turn out for fools,” and Mr.
Wesley said, “I always do.” I like the
reproof which a Chinaman in San
Francisco gave an American. The
American pushed him off the sidewalk
until he fell into the mud. The China
man on rising began to brush off the
mud and said to the American: “You
Christian; me heathen. Goodby.” A
stranger entered a church in one of
the cities and was allowed to stand a
long while, although there was plenty
of room. No one offered a seat. The
stranger after awhile said to one of
the brethren, “What church is this?”
The answer was, “Christ’s church, sir.”
“Is lie in?” said tbe stranger. The of
ficer of the church understood wlint
was meant and gave him a seat. We
want more courtesy in the churches,
more courtesy in places of business,
more courtesy in our homes.
But heart courtesy must precede
hand and head and fo ,t courtesy. Cul
tivation of it should begin in the fa
ther’s house. You often notice that
brothers and sisters are often gruff
and snappy and say things and do
things that they would not have the
outside world know about. Rough
things are sometimes said in house
holds which ought never to be said at
all — teasing and recrimination and
faultfinding and harsh criticisms, which
will have their echo thirty and forty
and fifty years afterward. In the sleet
driven by that cast wind no sweet
flowers of kindness and geniality will
grow. Let children hear their parents
picking at each other, and those chii-
dfen will be found picking at each
other, and far down the road of life
will be seen the same disposition to
pick at others. Better than this habit
of pieking at children, which so many
parents indulge in. would be one good,
healthy application of the rod. Better
a shower that lasts a few minutes
than the cold drizzle of many days.
We never get over our first home, how
ever many homes we may have after
ward.
Cnltlvnte Christ Inn Grace.
Let us ail cultivate this grace of
Christian courtesy by indulging in the
habit of praise instead of the habit of
blame. There are e\ ils in the world
that we must denounce, and there are
men and women who ought to lie chas
tised. but never let us allow the op
portunity of applauding good deeds
pass unimproved. The old theory was
that you must never praifce people lest
we make them vain. No danger of
that. Before any of us got through
with life we will have enough mean
and ignoble and depreciating and ly
ing tilings said about us to keep us
humble. God approvingly recognizes
a system of rewards as well as of pun
ishments.
When you hear a good sermon, stop
after the benediction and tell the pas
tor, though you never saw 1dm before
that day. "Your sermon did me good.”
When a mechanic does a good piece of
work, tell him it is well done. When
a physician brings you out of a peril
ous illness, stop him in the street and
say. “Doctor, you saved my life.”
When you hear of a business man in
some heavy stress of financial weather
helping frailer craft into the harbor,
go into his counting room and say, "1
hoar you have been helping your fel
low business man to outride the tem
pest of Ji panic, and 1 came in to thank
you for the good advice you gave and
to let you know that all good citizen^
appreciate what you have been doing.”
Go down the street tomorrow and
thiink somebody. There are hundreds
of people who never get thanked at all.
Plenty of severe criticism, plenty of
faultfinding, plenty of misinterpreta
tion, plenty of depreciation, but as to
gratitude—that is a market in which
the supply does not equal the demand.
In the cultivation of this habit of
Christian courtesy let us abstain from
Joining in the work of defamation.
Every little while society takes after
a man, and it must have a victim. If
you had a roll of ail the public men of
this generation or of any generation
who have been denounced and despoil
ed of their good name, it would take
you a long while to call tbe roil. It is
a bad streak in human nature that
there are so many who prefer to be
lieve evil instead of good concerning
any one under discussion. If a good
motive and a bad motive have been
possible in the case in band, one man
will believe the conduct was Inspired
by a good motive, and ten men will be
lieve it was inspired by a bad motive.
Tbe more faults a man has of bis own
the more willing is be to ascribe faults
to others.
Speak Well of One Another.
What a curse of cynics and pessi
mists afflicts our time, afflicts all time!
There are those who praise no one un
til he is dead. Now that he is clear
under ground and a heavy stone is on
top of him there is no possibility of his
ever coming up again as a rival. Some
of the epitaphs on tombstones are so
fulsome that on resurrection day a
man rising may, if he reads the epi
taph, for the moment think he got in
to the wrong grave. Speak well one
of another, and if you find yourself in
circles disposed to slander and abuse
be for the time as dumb as the sphinx
which, though only a few yards away
from tl.J overshadowing pyramid of
Egypt* has not with its lips of stone
spoken one word In thousands of
years.
There are two sides to every man’s
chuructcr — a good side and an evil
side. The gord see only the good and
the evil only the evil, and the proba
bility is that a medium opinion Is the
riirht opinion. Most of the people whom
I know are doing about ns well ns they
can under the circumstances. When I
see people who are worse than I am, I
conclude that if I Laid the same bad
Influences around me nil my life that
they have had I would probably have
been worse than they now are. The
work of reform is the most Important
work, but many of the reformers,
dwelling on one evil, see nothing but
evil, and they get so used to anathema
they forget the usefulness once in
awhile of a benediction. They get so
accustomed to excoriating public men
that they do not realize that never
since John Hancock in boldest chirog-
rnpliy signed tie Declaration of Inde
pendence, nev<*r since Columbus pick
ed up the floating land flowers that
showed him he was coming near some
new country, have there been so many
noble and splendid and Christian men
in high places in this country as now.
You could go into the president’s csibl-
net or the United States senate or the
house of representatives In this city
and find plenty of men capable of hold
ing an old fashioned Methodist prayer
meeting, plenty of senators and repre
sentatives and cabinet officers to start
the tune and kneel with the penitents
at the nlti'r. In nil these places there
iire men who could, without looking at
the book, recite the sublime words, as
did Gladstone during vacation at Ha-
warden, “I believe in God, the Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ,” and from the sen
ate and house of representatives and
the presidential cabinet and from the
surrounding offices «nnd committee
rooms, if they could hear, would come
many voices responding “Amen and
amen!”
“If Yon Please.”
Christian courtesy I especially com
mend to those who have subordinates.
Almost every person has some one un
der him. How do you treat that clerk,
thsit servant, that assistant, that em
ployee? Do you accost him in brusque
terms and roughly command him to do
that which you might kindly ask him
to do? The last words that the Duke
of Wellington uttered were, "If you
please.” That conqueror in what was
in some respects the greatest battle
ever fought in his last hours, asked by
ids servant if he would take some tea.
replied, "If you please.” his last words
an expression of courtesy. Beautiful
characteristic iu any cliiss. The day la
borers in Sweden, passing each other,
take off their hats in reverence. There
is no excuse for boorishness in any cir
cle. As complete a gentleman as ever
lived was the man who was unhorsed
on the road to Damascus and beheaded
on the road to Ostia—I’aul, the apostle.
I know that ho might be so character
ized by the way in* apologized to Ana
nias, the high priest. I know it from
the way he complimented Felix as a
Judge and from the way lie greets the
king, “I thank myself. King Agrippa.
because I sh.-tll answer for myself this
day before thee touching all the things
whereof I am accused of the Jews, es
pecially because I know thee to be ex
pert in all customs and questions
which are among the Jews.” I know
that I’aul was a gentleman from the
way lie opened his sermon on Mars
hill, not insulting his audience, as King
James’ translation implies, but saying.
"Ye ipen of Athens. I perceive that in
all things ye are very devout.” I know
he was a gentleman from the fact that
when lie. with others of a shipwreck,
on the island of Melita visited the gov
ernor of the island lie was most im
pressed with the courtesy shown them
and reported that visit in these words:
“In the same quarters were posses
sions of the chief man of the island,
whose name was Publius, who receiv
ed us and lodged us three days cour
teously.” And then see those words of
advice which he gives: “Bear ye one
another’s burdens;” “In honor prefer
ring one another;” “Honor all men.”
What a mighty means of usefulness
is courtesy! The lack of it brings to
many a dead failure, while before
those who possess it in large quantity
all the doors of opportunity are open.
You cau tell that urbanity does not
come from study of books of etiquette,
although such books have their use,
but from a mind full of thoughtful
ness for others and a heart in sym
pathy with the conditions of other*. If
those conditions be prosperous, a glad
ness for the success, or if the condi
tions be depressing, a sorrow for the
unfavorable circumstanees. Ah, this
world needs lighting up! To those of
us who are prosperous it is no credit
that we are In a state of good cheer,
but in tbe lives of ninety-nine out of a
hundred there is a pathetic side, a tak
ing off, a deficit, an anxiety, a trouble.
By a genial look, by a kind word, by
a helpful action, we may lift a little
of the burden and partly clear the way
for the stumbling foot. Oh, what a
glorious art It is to say the right word
In the right way at tbe right time!
How reprehensible the behavior of
those who pride themselves on the op
posite quality and have a genius for
saying disagreeable things, using sar
casm and retort not for lawful pur
poses, but to sting and humiliate and
hurt! “Didn’t I take him down?”
“Didn’t 1 make him wince?” “Didn’t
I give it to him?” That is the spirit
of the devil, while the opposite is the
spirit of Christ.
Make Others Happy.
Alexander the Great won the love of
his soldiers on foot by calling them
fellow footmen. Rehobonm lost the
ten tribes through his discourtesy.
More thoughtfulness for otliers—let us
nil cultivate it. That spirit was well
illustrated when the Birkenhead was
wrecked on the rocks and all knew
she must go down. Many soldiers
were on board. The drum sounded,
and the soldiers fell into line. The
women and children were got off in
the boats. Then the commander of
the ship said, "Let ail those who cau
swim strike out for the boats.” "No,”
said Captain Wight of the Ninety-first
highlanders; “If you do that, you will
sink the boats in which the women
and children are,” The brave men
kept to their post, and Just ns the ship
was about to make Its Inst plunge
they fired a salute to those in the
boats. What sinking of self in thought
fulness for others!
Many years ago two men entered the
Inr” , *st locomotive workshops in I’hil-
ndi^ihia. They were treated in a very
indifferent way and were allowed to
depart without any show of courtesy.
They went into other shops, and no
especial attention was given them.
After awhile the two men entered a
snmller shop, and the overseer took
great pains in showing them every
thing and how they wrought and on
what plan the shops were run. The
two visitors were agents of the czar
of Russia, and those shops were trans
ferred to St. Petersburg, and that po-/
lite man that bestowed such attention
was calif ! to build the locomotives for
all the railroads of Russia and hud for
tune after fortune roll in upon him.
Courtesy is a inigfity force in temporal
things as well as in spiritual tilings.
Let us start each year, each month,
each day, with the question. What can
I do to make others happy? On our
way to office or store or shop or rail
triiin let us lie alert for heaven de
scended opportunities.
What the World Xeedn.
The time must come w’ on the world
will acknowledge inter tional cour
tesy. Now courtesy between nations
is chiefly made of rhetorical greeting,
but as soon as there is a difference of
interest their ministers plenipotentiary
are called home, and the guns of the
forts are put in position, and the army
and navy get ready. Why not a cour
tesy between nations that will defer
to each other and surrender a little
rather than have prolonged acrimony,
ending in great slaughter? Room for
all nations of the earth and all styles
of government. What the world wants
is less armament and more courtesy,
less of the ’spirit of destruction and
more of the spirit of amity. This cen
tury Isas opened with too many armies
In the field and too many men-of-wair
on the ocean. Before the century closes
may the last cavalry horse be hitched
to the plow and the last warship be
come a merchantman.
There is nothing worthy in the
thought that the earth will get too
crowded with population if vast multi
tudes are not destroyed by war. When
our old world is full of inhabitants,
it will have fulfilled its mission, and it
will ite put aside like an old ship turned
into a navy yard and dismantled and
the world’s inhabitants transferred to
some other constellation. The angels
in the song celebrated this coming in-
ternatiounl courtesy when In the Beth
lehem starlight they chanted, "Good
will to men.”
Divine Grace In tin* Heart,
If others lack courtesy, that is no
reason why you should lack it. Re
spond to rudeness by utmost affabili
ty. Because some one else is a boor
is no reason why you should be a boor.
But how few show urbanity when bad
ly treated! Human nature says, “An
eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, re
tort for retort, slander for slander,
maltreatment for maltreatment.” But
there have been those you and I hsive
known who amid assault and carica
ture and injustice have maintained the
loveliness of blossom week in spring
time. Nothing but divine grace iu the
heart can keep such equilibrium. That
is not human nature until it is trans
formed by supernal influences. To put
it on the lowest ground you cannot af
ford to be revengeful and malignant.
Hatred and high indignation are stages
of unhealth. They enlarge the spleen;
they weaken the nerves; they attack
the brain. Rage in a man is one form
of apoplexy. Every time you get mad
you damage your body and mind and
soul, and you have not such a surplus
of vigor and energy that you can af
ford to sacrifice them.
So 1 applaud Christian courtesy. 1
would put it upon the throne of every
heart iu all the world. The beauty of
it is that you may extend it to others
and have just as much of it—yea, more
of it—left in your own heart and life.
It is like the miracle of the loaves and
fishes, which, by being divided, were
multiplied until twelve baskets were
filled with the remnants. It is like a
torch, with which fifty lamps may be
lighted and yet the torch remain as
bright as before it lighted the first
lamp.
But this grace will not come to its
coronal until it reaches the heavenly
sphere. What a world that must be
where selfishness and jealousy and
pride and acerbities of temper have
never entered and never will enter!
No struggle for precedence. No rival
ry between cherubim and seraphim. No
ambition as to who shall have the
front seats in the temple of God and
the Lamb. No controversy about the
place the guest may take at the ban
quet. No rivalry of robe or coronet.
No racing of chariots. No throne look
ing askance upon other thrones, but
all the Inhabitants perfectly happy and
rejoicing in the perfect happiness of
others. If I never get to any other de
lightful place, I want to get to that
place. What a realm to live in for
ever! All worshiping the same God,
all saved by the same Christ, all expe
riencing the same emotions, all ascend
ing the same heights of love and exul
tation, all celebrating the victories
Courtesy there easy, because there will
he no faults to overlook, no apologies
to make, no mistakes to correct, no dis-
agroeuhloness to overcome, no wrongs
to right In ail the ages to come not
a detraction or a subterfuge. A per
fect soul in a perfect heaven. In that
realm, world without end, it will never
be necessary to repeat the words of
my text, words that now need oft rep
etition. "Be courteous.”
ICopyrli'ht, 1902, Louts Kl pach, N. Y 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Ttnie*y Suy geatlous Which If Followed
Will Produce Good Keaolts.
iCorrespondence of Tt.e Ledger.)
Asbury, Jan. 14.—A Happy New
Year to all!
In the joy of the present the sor
rows of the past seem always de
parted and the hope of the future
always gleams brightly in the misty
far-away, yet to be with tbe advent
of the new year it is not enough to
simply wish you all a happy new
year, which of course we do, but it is
pertinent to the occasion to urge up
on you all serious thoughts as to how
it may be made more prosperous;
how your business may not only be
increased, but profits correspondingly
augmented.
Resolves are as naught if made
only to be broken. Wishes are the
weapons of laggards, actions the
broad sword of the conqueror. Let
push be the motto for action, honesty
the key to your character, enterprise
the arch of your triumph, and indus
try the lever of your progress. Use
all diligence; learn from the humb
lest. Be a student forever that you
may the sooner be a teacher. Let
every effort be your best. What if it
does strain every nerve, tax every
muscle, weary the brain and fatigue
the body. In this work!, paradoxi
cal as it may seem, we go fast to go
slow; we overwork to rest, when later
on when life runs slowly out, when
the candle of our existence burns at
both ends, when the mind becomes
dull, the eyesight dim, the steps tot
tering, once a man twice a child, and
iu the sere and yellow when child
hood comes, be happy in the reflec
tion, bitter as it may seem, that
those you most love will be good to
you if for no otber reason than that
you have money. Romance and po
etry are sweet, and gentle real life a
fierce experience and awful fact.
Facts prove that lambs treasured in
tneir infancy grow indifferent to the
comforts of the aged progenitors
when old. age makes its stamp of
helplessness upon them.
To esitch Datue Fortune's golden smile
Assidiously wait, upon t,er.
And gather good by every wile
That's justified by honor.
! Not to hide’it in a hedge,
Not for a train attendant.
But for the glorious privilege
Of being independent.
Ran.
Mayor’s Court.
There is not much doing in the
mayor’s court these days, but when
everything else fails “Aunt Mary’s"
restaurant can furnish a scrap. One
came up from this tony dive Wednes
day morning in which Al. Petty, a
negro of good fighting qualities, who
is better known as “Peg,” played the
leading part. “Peg” is a good fighter
and is sometimes credited with doing
work, but this time he used a knife
on a colored brother ana made a
strong effort before His Honor. It
was however not equal !o his effort at
“Aunt Mary's,” so “Peg” went
and accepted a position on the good
roads train and will be a useful citi
zen tor the next thirty days.
Another rather tony looking negro
was also before His Honor just for a
“plain drunk.” He was given a
small fine and paid it, and now has
time to reflect upon the goodness of
his State Jwhich furnishes booze for
jags and makes them pay for botfl.
A passenger train from New York
collided with the Cincinnati express
Sunday. The dining car was wrecked
and two men injured.
A Lite ut Slake.
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of Foley’s Hcney and Tar you would
never be without it. A dose or two
will prevent an attack of pneumonia
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For sale by Cherokee Drug Company.
It is expected that free mail deliv
ery service in South Carolina will be
considerably extended this year.
Stop It!
A neglected cough or cold may lead
to serious bronchial or lung troubles.
Don’t take chances when Foley’s
Honey and Tar affords perfect secu
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Few people die of love although
lots of young folks are dead in love.
Tbe prevention of consumption is
entirely a question of commencing
the proper treatment iu time. Noth
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and Tar. For sale by Cherokee Drug
Company.
Many a man who travels on the
right road is headed the wrong way.
To Cure a Cold la Oae Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig
nature is on each box. 25c.
The average monthly salaries of
men teachers in Illinois is $01.69,
and of women $53 51.
—Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cents,
the great tonic and blood purifier.
S. B. Crawley <fc Co.
Superstitious people consider it a
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—Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cents,
the Twentieth Century Medicine.
Some people are too weak to turn
over a new leaf.
VneuuiuulH aud LaGrlppe.
Coughs cured quickly by Foley’s
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For sale by Cherokee Drug Company.
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Mrllca *r Btidda*.
Some genuine remains of Buddha, la-
eluding Lis ashes, have been dlscover-
*k! in the course of some recent exca
vations in the neighborhood of the pre
viously Identified birthplace of tb#
prophet. Some of the relics were
4>und In a casket Inscribed in charac
ters not later than the third and possi
bly even the fourth century B. C. Ex
perts who have examined them pro-
uounce them to be genuine. It will be
remembered that Buddha’s remains
were said to Lave been divided after
tbe cremation into eight portiori8 ( and
distributed among sections of the Sak-
ya clan, which inhabited this region.
The ashes have been presen^ftf to the
king of Siam, the only royal Buddhist
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Advertising With Kite*
Kiteflying lias become a mania with
enterprising firms in New York, who
would placard their wares on the
clouds, if possible. Half a dozen of
them floated over Battery park and
Bowling Green office buildings recent
ly, each with an appeal for the public
to buy. The highest kite had a soap
ad. to its tail. One Just below contain
ed a Bible text. Thus was the natural
order of things maintained, cleanliness
being next to godliness, although hav
ing a little the better of it.—Kansas
City Star.
Killed His Son-in-Law-
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 1G.—A ScimN ^ I
tar special from luka. Miss., reports .yf
the killing in Hardin county of New
port Braddy by his father-in-law,
named Leith, the result, it is alleged,
of bad feeling that had existed be
tween them for some time.
Municipal Election at Eastman.
Eastman, Ga., Jan. 1G.—The follov-
Ing ticket, which was nominated last
Monday, was elected today without op
position: For mayor, L. M. Peacock;
f tr aldermen, J. C. Rawlins, J. H. Rob
erts, J. D. Herman and W. J. Williams.
Had Fit and Fell In Fire.
Cuthbert, Ga., Jan. 16.—Viney El
lington. a well known negro woman,
who was subject to fits, fell in the fire
at her home and w?s so badly turned
that ‘die died from the effects Once
before shs fell in the fire.
Fatal kidney and bladder troubles
can always be prevented bv the use
of Foley’s Kidney Cure. For sale by
Cherokee Drug Company.
“Fortune knocks at every man’s
door once in a life time,” but in a
good many cases the man is in a
neighboring saloon and does not hear.
—Don’t miss this chanco to get/
Sore Cure Sarsaparilla. S. B. Crawley
A Co.
A German tourist in Korea writes
that the bill of fare consists of dog
meat, rice and beans.
They Work While You Sleep.
While your mind and body rest Cas-
carets Candy Cathartic repair your
digestion, your liver, your bowels,
put them in perfect order. Genuine
tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold
in bulk. All druggists, ioc.
The man who is sandbagged and
robbed of every penny is knocked
centsless.
Lv.-ry llonlthy Hoy
likes to got himself into phu es of danger.
Hence bruisos, strains and sprains. Mother
scolds and brings out the bottle of Perry
DavB’ Pain Killer and rubs it on the in
jured spots with an energy jmd frequenfcffi,
depending on the seriousness of the case.
There is nothing like Pain Killer to tuko
out the soreness. There is but one Pain
killer, Perry Duvis’. Price 20c. aud OOo.
Every man should sit on his self
conceit.
Educate Year Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c. 26c. If C C. C fa>l, druggists refund money.
i WATCH
Your label and the date,
Ami pay before Tis too late.
Equal
Partners
“ Equal Partners, ” by Howard
Fielding, will be our next serial.
This is a story of mystery. Tho
interest aroused in tbe first
chapter is admirably sustained
to the end. A beautiful actress
is found in her room in New
York dangerously stabbed, with
one chance in a million for her
life. Wha stabbed her? The
reader forms opinions to quickly
abandon them as the story rap
idly unfolds. The identity of
the criminal is so skillfully veiled
that it is not discovered until
the end. Our readers who airf
good at solving mysteries, in
stories will find something
worthy of their powers in
M EQUAL PARTNERS.” Don’t
miss the first chapter.
This story will be commenced in
next Friday’* issue of The Ledger.
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