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Half-Sick “ I first used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla in the fall of 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring as a blood-purifying and nerve-strength ening medicine.” — S. T. Jones, Wichita, Kans. If you feel run down, are easily tired, if your nerves are weak, and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand ard family medicine— Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It’s a nerve lifter, a blood builder. $l.00abottle. AH druggists. Ask your doctor what he thinks of this grand old family medicine. Follow his advice and we will lie satistied. To hasten recovery, keep the liver active and the bowels regular with Ayer’s Pills. All vegetable. J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass, ...SAME OLD STAND... 365 days in the year I stand by you. and have for six years, and work is my motto in busi ness 1 sell Fine Beef, Pork, Sausage-- meats of all kinds when they can be had. Fresh Fish Friday and Saturday Country Produce, Vegetables, t Fine Seed Irish Potatoes, Onion Sets, Plent Sour Kraut, —.... Cabbage, Apples, Northern Fruits, Heavy and Fancy Groceries. All orders delivered promptly on time, soon and late. Come, or phone No. 60, Burnett block. We know our business and at tend to it. Yours for business, L. W. McGUINN. Wanted -fat cattle and ureen hides. FOLEYSHONEY^TAR for children/ cafe, sure* No opiatoo KIDNEY DISEASES are the most fatal of all dis eases. Cm CV’Q cure it i iULli O Guaranteed Remedy or money refunded. Contains remedies recognized by emi nent physicians as the Lest for Kidney and Bladder troubles. PRICE 50c. and $1.00. Things We Like Best Often Disagree With Ue ^ Because we overeat of them. Indl* gas. in follows. But there’e a way to eaotpesuoh consequences. A dose of a good digestant like Kodol will relive you at once. Your stomach it simply too weak to digest what you eat. That’s all Indigestion is. Kodol digests the food without the stomach’s aid. Thus the stomach rests while the body is strength ened by wholesome food. Dieting is un necessary. Kodol digests any kind of good food. Strengthens and invigorates. Kodol Makes Rich Red Blood. Prepared only by E. C. DkWitt&Oo., Chicago* She a bottle contains 2 times the Mo. slae, Administrator’s Notice. All persons holding claims against the estate of Charles A! Petty, deceased, are hereby notified to present the same to the undersigned, duly attested, on or before the 1st day of May next, and all persons indebted to said estate are requested to settle the same at once with the under signed administrator. T. C. Petty, Adm’r Estate Chas. A. Petty, Dec’d. 4-3-3l J ’s notice to the Stockholders of the Chero kee Falls Mfg. Co. At a Special Meeting of the Directors of the Cherokee Falls Mfg. Co., held at the Company’s office* on the and day of April 1903, the following Resolutions were adopted and recommended to the Stockholders of said Company for their consideration and action at their annual meeting May 13th 1903. 1st—Resolved, That the present Char ter of this Company be surrendered, and a new Charter taken increasing the Capi tal Stock to 10,000 shares of the par value of fiioo.oo per share, or $1,000,000. 2nd—Resolved, That the Capital Stock when so increased may Ik* divided into ▲two classes—viz,, preferred and common. 3rd—Resolved, That the preferred stock shall not exceed 3,000 shares, or $300,000, ami shall have preference over the com mon stock, both as to assets in case of final liquidation and to an accumulative dividend of 7 per cent per annum, paya ble January and July of each year, said dividend to Ik* a first lien on the net profits of the Company. S. M. McNkkl, W. M. Faulkner, Jos. F. Wallace, Jno. F. Wilson, J. A. Carroll, S. S. Ross, F. G, Stacy, talmage SERMON * By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D., Pastor of Jpfferson Par’x Presby terian Onurch, Chicago J. C. Plonk, R. P. Roberts, Directors. |pril-i(j iaw-4t RHEttKlDNEYCURE ■ak.a KldMya and Bladder Right One RHniiie Gough Cur* For Cougha, Colds and Croup. Chicago, April 19.—In this sermon the preacher draws a realistic picture of the numerous class that dallies with evil indulgence, making a mock of dan ger and heedless of admonition until it is too late. The text is Proverbs xiv, 9, “Fools make a mock at sin.’’ There are times when hints and deli cate phraseology are inadequate for useful purpose, and when the kindest and wisest course is to use plain, out spoken characterization shot forth on arrows of denunciation and excoria tion. 80 in my text Solomon says plainly that the man who mocks at sin is a fool. When the human body is slowly hut surely being eaten up by a cancer, it is time to use the surgeon’s knife. The gangrened limb needs am putation, not balms or plasters or poul tices or fragrant ointments. And when men and women with wide open eyes deliberately place themselves in a posi tion where they may inhale the fetid atmosphere, reeking with the deadly germs of that contagious and fatal plague called sin, it is high time that some one should be hold enough to stigmatize them by an appropriate name. They are not misguided chil dren who are merely lost in the crook ed byways of life's journey. They can see the evil results of sin everywhere they go if they will only look as they are capable of looking. They are not mental weaklings who have been con fined behind the iron bars of a lunatic asylum. They can think, and clearly think, if they will and do what they ought to do. Such men and women are displaying suicidal folly, and the only appropriate name for them is that which Solomon applies to them; they are fools. Going to destruction by their own choice and volition, mocking at victims who have already been de stroyed, heedless of the fate impend ing over their own heads, they are as foolish as would be a sea captain who in midocean and in the grip of a hurri cane broke bis rudder chains, threw his chart overboard and smashed his com pass. When a gigantic sin is working evil to the body politic and is endangering our national well being, Solomon’s method is demanded. President Roosevelt evi dently thought so when, a short time ago, referring to a common sin, he wrote: “I do not know wdiether I most pity or despise the foolish and selfish man or woman who does not under stand that the only tilings really worth having in life are those the acquire ment of which normally means cost and effort. The man or the woman who deliberately avoids marriage and has a heart so cold as to know no pas sion and a brain so shallow and selfish as to dislike having children is in effect a criminal against the race and should be an object of contemptuous abhor rence to all healthy people.” Why Mockerit Are Koolu. The same kind of warning against sin Hugh Latimer gave when he sent to Henry VIII., his king, the present of a New Testament, with these pun gent words written in plain letters up on the fly leaf: “For this ye know that no unclean person hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” The same kind of warning against sin In high places John Knox used to give when as court preacher he would look down from his pulpit.and denounce the sins of his ruler until the beautiful Mary, queen of Scots, would grit her teeth and turn pale and clinch her tiny fists in paroxysms of rage. Let me show you why the mockers at sin are fools; also why men and women in the daily walks of life should kneel every morning and evening and ask the Heav enly Father to protect and guide and save them from the evil temptations which beset them everywhere they go. Evil temptations invariably are intro duced to their victim in a seemingly harmless way. They seek your com panionship at first as friends, and not as enemies. They do not approach you glaring and convulsively working their claws and leap at you, as the man eat ing monster might try to get at your throat when In all his fury he is caged in the zoological gardens of Calcutta. But temptations come to you at first with the soft fur and the purring salu tation of the little kitten which might nestle In your lap. They come insid iously, ns the cholera germs might reach you wrapped In the beautiful garment which Is sent to you from far- off India. They come with all the fra grance of the poisonous leaf which brings death to every creature that touches it. Dr. Cuyler once gave a wonderful description of one of the poisonous trees, aptly called the Judas tree. He said that the blossoms of this tree are of a brilliant red. From far and near the fatal beauty of those flowers attracts the insects. Yet “ev ery bee wandering In search of honey that alights upon the blossoms Imbibes a fatal opiate and drops to the earth. Beneath this enticing tree the earth Is strewn with the victims of its fatal fascination." That fatal plant Is a vivid symbol of the way deadly sin first appeals to its victims. Sin in the beginning fascinates the eyes as with the brightest of floral colors. It fasci nates the ear as with the sweetest of harmonies. It soothes the sense of touch as with the velvety softness of a tiger's paw, while beneath Is concealed the sharp claw. It first wooes its vic tim to pillow his head upon the lap of a beautiful Delilah, and while the sinner sleeps his lips are parted in a smile as he dreams the happiest of dreams. IIoxt Temptnllnn C'om«*ii. “Sin is a sweet poison,” once wrote Anthony Burgess. "It tickleth while it stahbeth. The first thing it does is to bewitch, then to put out the eyes, then to take away the sense of feeling.” It is when the temptation is concealed and hidden among attractive surround ings that it has its greatest danger. The mighty furred bruin of the Rocky mountains is not caught by the steel trap lying unconcealed in the opened pathway. He shambles along, sniffs it, pushes it aside with his paw. moves round it or leaps over it, but when that trap is concealed under the green grass a short distance from the tempting meat then the mountain bear has need for fear. No sooner is the great paw placed upon that harmless looking cov ering than the steel teeth of that trap spring shut. The massive limb is held in a vise, and the groat beast is as help less as the murderer about to be exe cuted in the prison yard. The wild turkey will not stoop down of his own accord and enter the small aperture of the fatal trap, but after the hunter has scattered along the forest path the many grains of corn this wild fowl will lower his head and eat and eat until he is confined within the wire screens from which ho will he taken out to his death. My brother and sister, are you among those whom King Solomon des ignates as fools? Do you mock at sin merely because it comes around in a harmless way? The mere fact that the highwayman crouches behind the rock makes his sudden attack the more dan gerous; the mere fact that the quick sands look to the unpractlced eye as strong as the rock under your feet makes their invitations to step upon them the more fatal. Evil temptations should not be de rided. They assail a man at his weak est points of character. They do not try to assault his impregnable citadel or attack him at those points of his na ture that are protected by massive walls, so high and thick that the heav iest of battering rams can only make the slightest Indentations, but they try to destroy their victims by strategy, by throwing them off their guard; wounding Achilles not through the breastplate, hut in the heel; conquering Alexander the Great not with the sword, hut with the wine cup; destroy ing Charles Stewart Parnell not with a man's gruff voice, but with a woman's gentle arm; making Thomas Cranmer sign his recantation not by the power of argument, hut by the power of fear. It only needs a comparatively light blow between the eyes to stun the most powerful animal which was ever driv en into the Chicago slaughter houses. It only needs one small sinful tempta tion to appeal to us in the right way to destroy any man unless he is upheld by a divine panoply. Sin Strlk«*n tlie Weakest Point. Evil temptations always assail their victims at their weakest points. Is there any man foolish enough to think that his character is so perfectly form ed that there is no weak point in his moral armor? A constructor who would not try to strengthen his sag ging girder is a criminal. Awful was the catastrophe when a few years ago a great bridge across the river Seine broke under the feet of the multitudes merely because one of the iron links snapped. Poor is the general who would not be vigilant about the weak est part of his fortifications. It was after the famous mine was explod ed under the earthworks of Peters burg that the Federal troops were able to drive back Robert E. Lee’s forces into Richmond. And can it be that with all your brain and force and past experience you do not realize there is some helplessness, some weakness, in your nature? Have you never been tempted in the past and overthrown? Can you not realize that you may be tempted again in the future and over thrown in the same way? By being aware of and trying to strengthen our weaknesses we are able to supplement our strength. A well known and thrilling story is told that the engineer of the Holland dikes was one night invited to a party. That aft ernoon an awful storm arose. As the hour drew near for the festival the engineer wavered, but at last he said: “No; I will go to the dikes, where my duty calls. My services may be need ed there.” When he arrived upon the dikes, he found that under the cease less bombardment of the seas some of the stones in one place had become loosened and a little water was begin ning to trickle through. That little stream was gradually growing larger. Over the wails the engineer went. Ue tried to stop that hole first with stones. Then he took off his coat and jammed It Into the loosened rocks. “More clothes!” he shouted. “More clothes!” And he made his men take off their garments, and at last the dikes were saved. Had that water been allowed to trickle on and had not the weak part of the wall been strengthened all the dikes would have been swept away, «nd thousands of men, women and children would have been drowned. Solomon well said that when a man with his moral weaknesses scoffs at sin he Is a fool. I heard the reformed John Gough, after he had been forty years a teetotaler, say; “Rather than eat a piece of mince pie flavored with brandy I would cut off my right arm. I would no more touch It, knowing my physical and moral weakness for drink, than I would be willing to touch a lighted match to a keg of gunpowder.” It Is sometimes more manly to run from sin than It Is to fight sin. God gave us two feet as well as two fists. That means there are certain times when we should flee from temptation; that we should never allow ourselves to be placed In a position where we may be tempted. Temptation always fiendishly strikes its victim at his weak est point. Therefore “let him that thinketh he standoth take hood lest he fall.” F.flfeotn of Evil InilnlaeneeB. Evil indulgences should not be derid ed. They dull the moral sensibilities. Their sinful effects cannot be seen so much in the wasting away of the moral tissues, as Bright’s disease might wreck the kidneys or tuberculosis might eat away the lungs. But evil indul gences have a hardening or a dulling effect, as cirrhosis hardens the liver or as paresis affects the cell tissues of the brain. It is said that when a man's right side is benumbed through the ef fect of a paralytic stroke the doctor can take a pin and drive it into his limb and the patient is oblivious to the sense of pain. So when a human being is suffering under the paralyzing ef fect of sin ho loses his moral sensibili ties. What appeared to him once as wrong now appears to be right, and what was once right now does not ap pear to have any special significance in his life. The gradual dulling or the paralyzing of the moral sensibilities by the touch of sin may be seen in the life of a coun try hoy who has come to live in our large cities. When that young man left home, he was as pure as his sister or his mother. He had a delicate, spir itual touch. He could distinguish right from wrong as readily as a trained artist’s eye can tell the har mony of colors or a musician’s ear can be shocked at the slightest discord. But after awhile that young man al lows himself to be led into question able enjoyments. When he first saw enchanting sin. a fiery blush mantled bis check. But after awhile his per ceptions are dulled: evil is no longer re pulsive to him; he begins to believe that the theater may have a beneficial influence. He can argue for it with a clear eye and a steady heartbeat. Aft- er awhile he can go and with absolute ly no qualms or upbraidings of con science can sit and listen to the vilest of talks which are being uttered upon the stage; sit there with a young girl by his side who is no more ashamed of what she sees and hears than is her masculine escort. The fact that the young man is able to argue with you and that ho sees no wrong in watching a sinful play proves beyond a doubt that he has cirrhosis of the soul, a hardening of the moral sensibilities, an inability to spiritually distinguish right from wrong. What color blindness is to the locomotive engineer who is un able to distinguish warning signals alongside the railroad track spiritual color blindness is to the sinful soul. After awhile by the touch of sin the sinner loses his capacity to distinguish right from wrong and, like the eyeless ground mole, is unable to tell the brightness of midnoon from the dark ness of midnight. Hardening the Moral Sennibilitlen. I have seen, more than once, this hardening of the moral sensibilities by sin. Within a few blocks of my old Chicago home there was a sinful place, where most of the victims caught were young boys of fifteen or sixteen years of age. That evil place, thank God, has since b* *n closed. In the windows of that poolroom were hung up a great number of lewd pictures. Again and again I have seen young men come up to that place for the first time. When they would do it, they would stagger back as though stunned. Then they would look around the street as though they were thieves about to rob a house. Then at those lewd pictures in the windows they would look again, with glassy eye and (lushed face. But aft erward those same boys, who at first were ashamed to look, would become bold faced and vile tongued. They would stand around that corner, smok ing filthy cigarettes and insulting young girls as they would pass by. Witbin the walls of my own church I have seen this paralyzing of the moral sen sibilities by sin. I have seen a man who once led a noble woman to the marriage altar not only sacrifice him self, but sell his own child into sin, for the gratification of quenching a drunk ard’s thirst. My brother and sister, with such examples before you of the metamorphosing power of sin, can you afford to run the risk of scoffing at sin? Are you not afraid that, as in Circe’s palace, you may be changed into the form of a human brute? Are you not afraid that by the touch of sin your conscience may become so hardened that you shall have no moral sensibili ties left? Evil temptations should not be de rided. The depths of human misery Into which they can fling their victims this side of the grave are unfathoma ble. It is upon the dark side of the re sults of sin I would speak. The trou ble with many o our so called Chris tian teachers is that we put a halo over sin. We picture temptation as a crea ture of beauty seated upon a silver cloud lined with gold. She holds in one hand a pack of cards and In the other a goblet of wine. The color of her cheek, the flowers caught In the folds of her garment, clinging about her lithe form, make her look so innocent one cannot help loving her even though she may be bad. But I would tear away the beautiful robe, and under the rim of that cloud I would show you n crouching demon whose only mnslc is the agonizing cry of those whom he has got in his dutches, whose only joy is In tantalizing those whom he Is de stroying and whose frightened, plead ing eyes have no more effect upon his stony heart than the cry of the help less fawn upon the boa constrictor who Is wrapping its colls about the trem bling body for the fatal hug. First Steps to Destroetlom. The first steps to moral destruction may wind through a garden, but that floral pathway soon changes Into the billy road covered with jagged rocks and running by the side of yawning precipices. The bracelets of gold are aoon changed Into the handcuffs of uteel. The merrymakers will soon hoar the echoes of their laughter in the shrieks ol the doomed and the lost. There is no permanent happiness In sin. Mark that, my brother —no real happiness in s<'n! Tell me, <) drunkard, that you are happy? No, no! Any one who has heard John B. Gough describe the mis eries of his past life knows that no drunkard is happy. Tell me that the libertine is happy when by his crimes he lost the respect of all good men and women? Tell me that the gambler is happy? No. no! When he sat at the gaming table, he not only lost his hon or, but his home, his business, his all. He cannot even buy a pair of shoes for his feet or a coat for his back. Thom as Guthrie once described the cup of sin as a beautiful chalice filled with wine, but at the bottom of the eup lay coiled a serpent. And so after we have sipped for a little while 4he cup of pleasure, then the evil serpent will ap pear and sting us and bite us as we put the chalice to our lips. Let no man consent to be a mocking fool by sup posing that an evil life ever brings hap piness this side of the grave. But how much more awful must be the evil results of sin on the other side of the grave! Can a tiger change his striped fur? Can a wolf have his hair bleached into the white wool of a lamb? Can a man born i”. sin. reared in sin and living In sin and dying in sin be emancipated from sin merely be cause his body sleeps for a little while in the tomb? Oh, no! The soul that sinneth is the soul that must suffer the results of its sins unless Christ forgives those sins and washes them clean in the blood of the Lamb. And whenever there is sin. whether in this world or the next, there is agony. I do not care whether you call the place of eternal punishment a “lake of fire and brim stone,” a great, heaving, molten sea of burning lava, a dungeon or the haunt ing caverns of memory. The sinner dying unrepentant must suffer and suf fer and suffer forever. The Bible de clares it. We must believe it Suicidal Eolly of the Sinner. The suicidal folly of the sinner who year by year adds to the long record of his sins was vividly and impressively compared by Mr. Spurgeon to a black smith, who at the command of an ori ental tyrant forged for him a long chain. The blacksmith at his forge worked week in and week out, mouth in and month out; then he brought the chain to the fiend and said, “Here is the chain which thou didst order.” “Make the chain longer,” said the ty rant; “longer, make it longer.” When at last the blacksmith answered, “1 cannot make the chain any longer, for I have used up all my material,” the tyrant said to his slaves, “Take It and bind the blacksmith with his own chain and cast him into a furnace of fire.” So Satan as a demon by the power of sin and by a man’s own acts will not only destroy a man’s life for this world, but also for the next. My brothers and sisters, who have heretofore been mocking at sin as I have been painting for you a picture, with the dark background of warning, will you not let me paint in the bright foreground a sweet, divine love? Will you not let me describe for you the Christ who is ready to stand between you and all future temptation, the Christ who will not only forgive the past, but by his power will keep you in the future? Who is ho? The Un changing Rock, the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star, the One who is altogether lovely, the One who is now standing by your side. Will you receive him? Will you not let Christ come into your heart? Ye mockers at sin, I would plead with you also. Come to the fountain of which if one drink he shall never thirst again. I would plead as I have never pleaded before. Why? Because I know that under your sneers and laughter you have a breaking heart. I know that you are at heart weary of your sin and dread its punishment. Come, then, and let Christ save you. Dj not be kept back by the thought that you are too bad to be saved. You are invited and Christ assures you that none that come to him shall be cast out. I tell you this invitation is for all. Yes, it is for all. It is for you Just as it was for that poor drunken loafer who crawled up to the altar in Pitts burg many j’cars ago. “What Is the good of trying to save him?” some men said to Francis Murphy. “No good,” answered Murphy, “for me to try to save him, but it is good to let God try.” And God did save. He put his divine, loving, forgiving arm about Captain Barbour and the mocker at sin became a redeemed child In the King’s palace. Oh, my sinful, sorrowing friends, will you cease to follow sin? Will you here and now surrender your life, your broken life, into the hands of the Di vine Master? Then, at that glad mo ment, all the celestial chimes will ring out the tidings that an immortal is born again! You are redeemed, but not with silver, You are bought, but not with gold, Bought with a price, the blood of Jesus, Precious price of love untold. [Copyright, 1903, by Louis Klopsch.] Baby Cries by Telephone. A West Philadelphia druggist who recently became the proud father of his first baby was called to Baltimore the other day on a business trip. Early in the afternoon the telephone bell in his home rang, and his wife answered the call. Hubby was at the other end in Baltimore. “It seemed so funny not to hear the baby crying,” came the voice over the wire, “that I couldn’t stand it any longer. Can’t you bring him to the phone so I can hear him?” Wifey woke the child up out of a sound sleep, and he very accommodatingly began to bawl at the top of bis lungs into the receiver while his mother held him in her arms. This continued until the baby had cried 80 cents’ worth over the long distance wto, when the happy father rang off.—Philadelphia Hftoord. A l>eninnNtn*tlon of What ChaiiilM>rlaln’N Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Kcniedy Can Do. 'One of our customers, a highly respected citizen of this p ace, had been for ten years a sufferer from chronic diarrhoea,” writes Walden & Martin, druggists, of Enterprise, Ala. ‘He bad used various patent prepar ations and been treated by physicians without any permanent benefit, A few months ago he commenced taking <'hamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and in a short rime wa* entirely cured. Many citi zens of Enterprise who know the gen tleman will testify to the truthfulness of this statement ” For sale by Cherokte Drug Co. 1 here is alive in France today a woman who has been asleep for the last twenty year- 1 . Recently an abscess appeared on one arm. and this had to be lanced. Dr. Charlieu performed the operation. The sleeper seemed ro feel the incision and for the first time in twenty years was observed to move, making a slight twitih of the arm. Cures Hloud PoDon.Cancer, Ulcers, Eczema Carbuncles, Etc. Medicine Free. Robert Waid, Maxey’s, Ga., says: “I suffered from blood poison, my head, face and shoulders were one mass of corruption, aches in bones and joints, burning, itching, scabby skin, was ail run down and dis couraged,Jbut Botanic Blood Balm cured me perfectly, healed all the sores and gave my skin the rich glow of health. Blood Balm put new life into my blood and new ambition into my brain.” Geo. A. Williams, Rox- bury, face covered with pimples, chronic sore on back of head, sup purating swelling on neck, eating ulcer on leg, bone pains, itching skin cured perfectly by Botanic Blood Balm—sores all healed. Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs and scales, pimples, running sores, car buncles, scrofula, etc. Especially advised for all obstinate cases that have reached the second or third stages. Improves the digestion; strengthens weak kidneys. Drug gists, .$1. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co,, Atlanta, Ga Describe trouble and free medi cal advice sent in sealed letter. “Big Ben,” the world famous clock in the tower of the Houses of Par liament, London, is being lit by elec tricity, so that its time may be read during the occasionally clear nights. It is unreliable, however, not having been cl aued since 1888, and its weekly winding tases two men twelve hours. Caution! This is not a gentle word—but when you think how liable you are not to purchase the only remedy univer sally known and a remedy that has had the largest sale of any medicine in the world since 1868 for the cure and treatment of Consumption and Throat and Lung troubles without losing its great popularity all these years, you will be thankful we called your attention to Boschee’s German Syrup. There are so many ordinary cough remedies made by druggists and others that are cheap and good for light colds perhaps, but for severe Coughs, Bronchitis, Croup—and es pecially for Consumption, where there is difficult expectoration and c .ugh- ing during the nights and mornings, there is nothing like German Syrup. The 25 cent size has just been intro duced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all druggist. G. G. Green, Woodbury, N. J. For several years past suicides have been increasing in Chicago at a ratio far in excess of the increase in nopulation. Three hundred and fifty six suicides in 1900 were followed by 399 in 1901 and 439 last year. EVERY CHURCH or institu tion supported by voluntary contri bution will be given a liberal quantity of Longman & Martinez Fure Faints whenever they paint. Note: Have done so for twenty- seven years. Sales: Tens of millions of gallons; painted nearly two mil lion houses under guarantee to re paint if not satisfactory; The paint wears for periods up to eighteen years. Linseed Oil must be added to the paint, (done in two minutes). Ac tual cost then about $1.25 a gallon. Samples free. Sold by our agents. Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney; Cole & Turner, Blacksburg. A monument to the cadet battalion which fought in the battle of New Market Va., will be unveiled during the commencement exercises of the Virginia Military Institute next June. Maitland, Fla. The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen :—I have'^b&d eczema over thirty years, have tried many remedies prescribed by various physi cians, but to nothing has the disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul phur. I think if used properly it is undoubtedly a specific for eczema. I have prescribed it for others with most satisfactory results. I consider it the best remedy for cutaneous affections I have ever known, and re gard it as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Respectfully yours. W. A. Heard, M. D. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co The wrist contains eight hones, the palm five, the fingers have four teen. The surest and safest reimdv for kidney and bladder diseases is Fo ley’s Kidney Cure. Sold by Ch* ro- ket Drug Co. J