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PUBLISHKl) TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. RY Ed. H. DeCamp. The Ledger is not responsible for tbe views of correspocdepts. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Obituaries will be published at five cants a line. Beading notices will be published a« ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. AN IM.MIGRATION SOCIETY. The population of Cherokee county is nothing like it should be, and the alarming condition of the towns being populated at the expense of the country districts stares us in the face and confronts us with the fact that if we are to prosper and go forward something must of necessity be done to increase the rural population. It is also true that the colored popu lation, which we have largely depend ed upon for labor, is diminishing. They are leaving the country and migrating to the towns and to other states and adopting other pursuits than that of agriculture. With their departure from the farm and a large number of our white people coming to the mills there must necessarily be something done to repopulate tbe country districts, else our farming interests must suffer and finally de cay. No longer than last week wo observed two big,black bucks lounging around, and one said to the other: ‘‘I haven’t struck a lick of worit in eleven years and I never intend to work again, so long as I got sense enough to make a living without work.” That nigger was telling a lie. He does work, and he is about one of the best negroes we have ever known. What he meant was that he had not done any farm work in eleven years; that he had found, what was to him, an easier manner of making a living. A great many negroes are leaving the farm, and while there are a few good ones left, as a whole those who remain are mighty trifling and only stay there—we are speaking of those who rent and work land on the shares—because they are not smart <enough to make a living in any other way. And practically the same thing may be said of the poorer class of whites. Of course there still remain on the farm some good negroes who have acquired some property and there still remain on the farm some whites 'who have acquired some property, and may God bless them, for they are the salt of the earth, and they are not to be classed as trifling or indolent, but as a rule the only really good people remaining on the farm are those who have acquired something or are trying to do so. Now, this state of affairs will sooner or later ruin any country. The farm is tbe backbone of the universe. It is God’s great storehouse of production, and the more it is depopulated tbe worse for everybody concerned. It is certain that the negro cannot be retained as a laborer. As a rule he is unreliable. Many of them do not hesitate to leave a crop when it most needs their services. All that a large per cent, of them care for is to pitch a crop and get a lien on it, eat up tbe lien and leave the landlord and the merchant to hold tbe bag. There is a remedy for this state of affairs, and we believe it lies in an organized movement on tbe part of the leading people of this county to induce the thrifty Germans and Irish and Poles and Swedes who are ofigrating to this country by the thousands to settle among us. No man can become a fixture in a community unless he have something to make a fixture of him. It would be worse than useless to try to induce immigrants to this country to work for a stipend, but if they could be induced to come among us and become a fixture by purchas ing small tracts of land there would be no difficulty in retaining them. In one year they would become ac quainted with our magnificent cli mate, would realize the possibilities of our soil, and, having purchased land, would become a fixture. Cherokee county could make no greater stride forward than to go after this class of Immigration in a strictly business way. They can be induced to come here. They would do us good and we would do them good. Tbe Ledger throws out this sugges tion for what it is worth and invites an expression of the views of its read ers on tbe same. Do not wait for some one else to write but send us a letter on the subject. What we need is more people. Cherokee county could easily support ten to twenty times the number of people that now reside withing its borders, and it only remains for some effort to get the people here. We have the finest county on earth, the best people in the world, and there is no good reason why the county should not be de veloped and why other good people should not share our blessings. QLets us organize an immigration society. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Habit of industry is a sure estate and frugality is a fortune. It is much easier to conquer by the principle of love than that of force. Tbe following excuse was received by a Yancey (N C ) county school teacher from the mother of one of her pupils : “Respected miss: Please excuse Willie for absents. He fell down stairs just before school time and we fered his internal insides was hurt at first, but they ain’t. The doctor sars that no part of bis anattomy is hurt but brewzing of tbe eppydermis of tbe outside bide and also his h ; pp hurt some. But be narrowly escaped fatal death. 80 kindly excuse.” And yet some people object to a school tax! My ! my ! my ! ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It occurs to us that it would not be well for Mr. Cleveland to be made tbe standard bearer of Democracy for the next campaign, not that; we do not think him a fit candidate, but for'the simple reason that his candidacy would be very distasteful to a large number of the regulars. The party, however, would make no mistake in adopting as its platform the princi ples to which Mr. Cleveland has been so loyal. Still, if he should be named by the convention it will be our pleasure to honor ourself by casting a vote for him. A PLEASANT MEETING. A Ledger Man Kiiuk t'p on an Old Friend at the Reunion. While in Columbia last week attend ing the Confederate reunion, one of the most oleasant events with us was the meeting of our old friend, Corporal Henry Pastell Grady, of Carlisle, Union county, but were pained to see tout instead of the hard, withy, indomitable youth of the six ties, he is now partially paralyzed, but is still possessed of the stony will and patriotism that made him one of the bravest and hardest fighting soldiers we ever knew. And tbe sight of him reminded us of many incidents in h;P war life. He was a member of Company A.,Palmetto Sharpshooters and always at his post when fighting was to be done. One night during the campaign of 18G4, two or three companies of Jenkins’ brigade two of them beingCapt. Quattlebaum’s com pany and Company A. of the Sharp shooters, captured the 10th New Jersey regiment and its,colors. Henry, always generous as he was brave, began a conversation with tbe prisoners before they were well in hand. One of them, not quite willing to surrender, knocked him down with the butt of his gun and by tbe time he recovered, all had submitted and he had no chance to fight. As the prisoners were being carried to the rear, some of them seeing the small number that had captuted them be came restless and began to hesitate about going. Henry thought he recognized in this party the man who had hit him, and he being one of the most demonstrative of the crowd, Henry stepped up and said, “If he don’t want to go let him alone and I will soon fix him so he ctn stay here d d easy.” A Tribute to Mrs. Carroll. On Thursday morning, the 14th inst, the many relatives and friends of Mrs. Henderson Carroll were deeply grieved to hear of her sudden death at her home near Blacksburg Being afflicted and suffering for some time past, she did not murmur, but bore it all with a Christian spirit. She was faithful in her home; ever ready to help the poor and needy; a devoted wife and fond and loving mother. She was a member of Antioch Baptist church, having brought her membership there at the time of her marriage. Mrs. Carroll’s maiden name was Bostic, and she was born and reared near Rutherfordton. She was the mother of six childrem all of whom survive her. They are: Mrs. John Bird, of Smyrna; Mrs. Wm. Phillips of Gaffney; Mrs Juhn Gold, of Latti- more. N. C.; Miss Martha Carroll, Mr. J. B. Carroll and Mr. Johnson Carroll, of Blacksburg Her remains were taken to Antioch cemetery for Interment, followed by a large con course of sorrowing relatives and sympathizing friends. A good woman has gone from us— “The memory of the just is blessed.” A Friend. Krenh Cot Just Received. We have just received a fresh lot of “Clifton” flour, guaranteed to be tbe best patent flour in tbe market, and will keep it In stock regularly in the future. Try a sack of “Clifton” next time. W. J. Wilkins <&Co. TOUGHING TRIBUTE TO DEAD HEROES Memorial Address Delivered at Elbethel BY COL. JAMES L. STRAIN The Time-Honored Custom of Memorial Day Ceremonies Extolled—DoIiik the Work that God is Doing for Thousands of Unknown Graves. The following memorial addr ss was delivered before the memorial associ ation at Elbethel Saturday, May 9,by that gallant Confederate veteran, Col. Jas. L. Strain, ar d is published, not only by the request of the association, but because of its beautiful senti- ments and splendid devotion to the “Lost Cause.” It is easily understood why the people of our Southland, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and from the Gulf to the Mason and Dixon line should meet in the beautiful spring time while all nature is clothed in her royal attire and flowers of the most delightful hues and sweetest fra grance are giving forth their pleasant odors to the gentle breeze to be wafted on tlie wings of the wind to cheer all na ture's living beings. Then it is that we repair to the “city of the dead,” and amid memories both sad and pleasant strew flowers upon the graves of men who died, many of them, more than a generation ago. It must be some unusual sentiment that animates our people to thus meet and decorate these graves. Whose graves are they? might be asked. There is only one reply, they are heroes who lived and died for their country. They died for you and me and the thousands who are today pay ing theirs, this same grateful tribute. They fought, bled and died for what was true, just and right. Their memories are enshrined in our heart of hearts and we will never forget them, and these floral tributes will never he forgotten nor discon tinued as long as patriots live and gener ations are taught to venerate the cause for which they died. We have, ladies and gentlemen, gath ered together to pay grateful and loving tribute to the memory of those brave sol diers who went to their death in a vain but heroic struggle. Although more than a generation has passed since she star of the Confederacy went down in the gloom of defeat, yet our remembrance of their supreme sacrifice is tenderly and sacredly cherished. The great majority of their comrades who strove and battled with them and yet who, in the providence of God, were spared their fate, have since crossed over the river to rest with them under the shade of the trees—they, too, have passed through the valley of the shadow of death and “On fame’s eternal camping ground Their silent tents have spread, While glory guards with love profound The bivouac of the dead.” Most of the survivors of that grand ar my have passed the summit of the moun tain and are fast making their descent into the dark shadows of the valley beyond. Those of us who with these brave men essayed to establish a separate and inde pendent republic, which we hoped would find an abiding place among the nations of tlie earth, have taught or tried to teach our children that no stain of treason, nor blighted faith, nor broken vows dim the lustre of their fame or soil the bright es cutcheon of their honor. The task will soon be theirs to defend from all imputa tions of crime the nation which died in its infancy, and yet lived long enough to illustrate all the glories of human endeav or, which with its institutions, circum stances and powers, utterly perished yet left behind it the remembrance of valiant deeds and noble performances, which will be reverentially celebrated in song and story as long as the ICnglish language will he spoken and understood. The great Civil War was the most stu pendous of all the ages. It did not find its genesis in criminal conspiracy or trea sonable design. The Southern States in withdrawing from the Union were exer cising a power which had been claimed from the very adoption of the Federal Constitution. In the early days of the republic the theory was recognized by American statesmen with substantial una nimity that the constitution was but a compact between sovereign States entered into for their mutual welfare; that because of this sovereignty any State could law fully ami peacefully withdraw from the compact whenever in its judgment, its interest required it to do so; that the gov ernment created by the constitution was a federation jiossessnig only delegated pow ers and that it did not possess the power to coerce the action of the States, and that if a State chose to withdraw from the union it was entitled to do so without control, question or molestation. It was our love for the institutions our ancestors had founded, and under which we had met with so much prosperity, which made manifest the form of govern ment provided for the Confederate States of America. The Confederate constitu tion, with few exceptions, was the same as that of the United States. The adminis trative features of the new government were practically tke same as those of the old. No thought of dictatorship or mili tary rule on the one hand, nor of lawless ness on the other, entered the minds of any. True to the principles of the Revo lution and the Declaration of Independ ence, it provided safeguards for personal liberty and local self-government. Dur ing the whole of that desperate struggle, and amidst hardships and privations al most indescribable and without a paral lel, law and order were everywhere main tained. The legislatures of the States as sembled and enacted such laws as were from time to time deemed necessary; courts of justice were opened for the en forcement and maintenance of the rights of person and property. An attempt to described with what valor, fortitude and heroic endeavor the armies of the South maintained themselves during those four years of strife and bloodshed is alto gether unnecessary. We know, and all the world knows and admits, that the magnificent leadership of our armies and the splendid courage of our soldiers have illustrated in the sublimest manner pos sible the martial spirit of the American people. The twenty-seven hundred (2,700) bat tles that were fought liefore our cause went down; the two million, six hundred thousand men who were needed to con quer us; the pension rolls of the govern ment, which contain the names of nearly one million beneficiaries ; the ' eautiful cemeteries where rest the dead heroes of the Union armies; the monuments of mar ble and bronze erected all over the laud to perpetuate the names and fame of their great captains—all these go to make up a memorial of the skill, prowess and un yielding courage of our people, to which the history of the ages cannot find a par allel. The end came as might have been expected. Our resources were so limited in comparison with those of the Northern States that persistence on their part was all that was necessary to bring defeat ami disaster to the Southern caust. When it came we accepted the settle ment as final and irrevocable in so far as the futher agitation or advocacy of the right to secede was concerned. No mat ter what may have been the right or wrong of the contention in 1861, we have admitted since 1865 that the Union is in dissoluble,'and that the allegiance of all the people of this great republic is due primarily and fully to the United States of America. Hut while admitting this, we do not and never will admit that the result of the great strife was due to a wrong interpretation of the Constitution on our part. The force of arms may be such as to set a controversy at rest by precluding its further agitation, and that as to the power of a State to secede, was undoubtly terminated by the triumph of the Union armies, it by no means carries with it the conviction that we were wrong. I have simply attempted to present the evidence that at the beginning of our government State rights was commonly entertained and that it was in no sense sectional—that it had not been conceived in secret or expressed in whispers; it was openly proclaimed upon the house tops at all times and under all circumstances. The judgment of the impartial his torian can never be that in contending for our interpretation of the Constitution even to the extent of maintaining it by force of arms, we made ourselves rebels and traitors. When the present generation shall have passed away and when calm, dis passionate and impartial inquiry is made into to the cause which led up to it, I have an abiding faith that this stigma will he taken from our heroic and devoted people. No man can now be heard to impugn the lyoalty of the South. There has never been a moment since the sur render at Appomattox w hen there was the slightest ground for questioning it. We knew, but for a long time it seemed that others could not understand that the results had been accepted by us as final and irrevocable. We knew that our destiny was to be the same as our breth ren of the North; and we had no ambi tion left save to preserve our honor un tarnished; to build up the waste places; to restore law and order; to help bind up the nation’s wounds and to contribute what we could to its greatness and grandeur. We cherished no malice against the men whose armies had been triumphant. We have not come together here to excite anew the fierce patriotic passion which once filled the breast of every true Southern man and woman. Nor is it our intention to say ought that is disloyal to the great Union which now protects us all. Thank God, the day has come when a part of the sad memories and bit ter animosities of the past are being ab sorbed in the quickened public sense of the importance of business relations be tween North and South; but the day has not come and will never come when we can forget the brave men who died the death of martyrs in fighting for their con victions. In all time and ages he who has been willing to offer his life as an evidence of the faith that was in him has been deemed worthy of a place among the heroes of history. Without the fear ot successful contradiction we assert that this position should he accorded to every man who wore the gray. The beautiful flowers we so tenderly and lovingly place upon the graves of our Confederate dead 011 this memorial day give forth their fragrance for awhile and then, like many of the joys of earth, wither and are gone forever. But the tender, loving, thoughtful deed remains and the seeds sown from which a bountiful harvest of flowers bloom forth upon these graves, for here you have so thoughtfully inaugurated a cus tom to annually decorate the graves of our honored dead This time-honored custom is beautiful, indeed, for in this coming here amid the flowers of May to pay tribute to the heroes of the past we are not only think ing God’s thoughts after Him, hut we are doing for the graves of those whom we knew and loved what God Himself is doing today Jor the thousands of unknown graves scattered all over our South land. So let not your hearts be troubled with the thoughts that perchance some comrade may he resting unobserved upon a distant mountain side far removed from these flowers and tears, for God knows, and at His bidding earth and air, wind and water, awake and join hands to decorate these unknown graves and up- springing immortelles and forget-me- nots, running vines and creeping moss mark the spot sacred in His sight, with out whose knowledge not even a spar row falls unnoticed to the ground. Nations die and races expire, but truth is immortal and principles based upon truth live forever, and those who launch them forth upon the world pass their allotted time in life and then fade from view, but the principles they have incul cated live on in the lives and destinies or those who come after them. The principle of local self-government for which these heroes contended will live on forever. No cause is lost which in its losing forms the bed rock and cor ner stone of liberty. In “Lochiel’s Warning” Thomas Campbell wrote these words: “ Tis the sunset of life that gives me ^mystical love.” And after twenty years he finished the verse by adding: “Coming events cast their shadows be fore.” The great conflict of 1861 that shook a continent and made a nation tremble as an aspen leaf, cast its lengthening shad ow almost a century before—back to the very hall in which our Federal constitu tion was framed. It was there that the conflcting ideas clashed and continued to grow and be intensified until hostile cannons V oomed, and gleaming swords flashed, and fraternal blood ran like wa ter. The conflict was over the reserved rights of the States, and as to what rights and powers were ceded to the general government upon a State becoming a member of the Federal compact. It was Patrick Henry who saw this shadow as distinctly as did Stonewall Jackson see the substance when he said at First Ma nassas: “Sir, we will give them the bayonet.” Mr. Henry wanted it placed in the con stitution of his country in black and white so there could lie no coutroversy about it, that all the rights, powers and prerogatives not expressly ceded to the general government were reserved by the respective States. His argument was met with the sentiment that “of course” the powers and prerogatives not expressly granted were reserved. Then it was that the rgrand old statesman, the father of ou independence, whose eloquence had electrified the colonies and made liberty certain and the constitution a possibility, stood upon the floor of the hall with the shallow of inevitable conflict falling fully upon his mind and heart, tears coming down his wrinkled cheeks, with proph etic vision sweeping the space of a com ing century, when he said: “I see it, I feel it. I see the beings of a higher order anxious concerning our decision. When I see beyond the horizon that j bounds human eyes and look at the final j consummation of all human things ; and see these intelligent beings which inhabit etherial mansions viewing the political decisions and revolutions which in the progress of time will happen in America, ami the consequent happiness or misery of mankind. I am led to believe that much of the account on the one side or the other will happen on what we de cide.” Our own happiness alone is not effected by the event; unborn generations are interested in it. At what fearful cost did it become the unwritten law of our constitution that the rights and preroga tives not expressly reserved by the States are granted upon a State’s becoming a member of the Federal compact. In contemplating thia fearful cost my mind goes back to the bloody fields of Big Bethel, Bull Run, Leesburg, Draues- ville, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Gaines’ Mill, Cold Harbor, Savage Station, Frazier’s Farm. Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Shiloh, Corinth, Fort Donaldson, Island No. 10, Murfreesboro, Stone River, Per- ryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Atlan ta, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Franklin, Tenn., Knoxville, Nashville, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Wilderness, Spot tsyl vania, Second Cold Harbor, Beverly Ford, Trevillion Station, Deep Bottom, Fort Harrison, Brandy Station, around Richmond, Petersburg, our grand old Charleston, and last, but not least, Appomattox and Greensboro, where men fell likejleaves in autumn; where the pride and chivalry of the nation rushed will ingly into the very jaws of death, yield ing up their lives for what each thought was right, and I think of how many happy homes were made desolate, how many mother’s hearts were broken, how many aged fathers trembled as the wind- shaken reeds when the reports came from these bloody fields, where wives were made widows, and children father less. Some darling son or loved brother had fallen for a principle he thought was right. All this might have been avoided had the thirteen words contended for by Mr. Henry been added to the Fed eral constitution—only one word for erch of the thirteen original colonies, to-wit: “Rights not expressly ceded to the general government are reserved by the States.” Turning again to the subject which brings us together today and which is a strange mixing of joy and grief, happi ness and misery, and we are forced to conclude that no trust more sacred ever fell into the keeping of any people than that which was committed to Southern women at the close of the bloody war in which so many brave and true men died for the land they loved and the cause for which they laid down their lives to save and honor. For fully one-third of a cen tury ladies’ memorial associatioas have lovingly and tenderly commemorated the patriotism and valor of ou- Confederate dead by strewing upon their graves the fairest flowers our Southern land pro duces. They have discharged this trust in the recall of their own bereavements and in sympathy with those who were mourning like themselves. But they also sought to disclose by their annual tender observance of Memorial Day how greatly they prize the chivalric character of the noble Southern men who are sleep ing the last sleep of the brave in the heroes’ graves. These impressive annual ceremonies have had an influence which has been preserved and strengthened in the truest and most exalted virtues in the lives of the generations that have arisen since the Confederate war, while they have contributed beyond calculation to the patriotic spirit of our countrymen everywhere. For these and other satis factory reasons we think that a full rec ord should be made of the noble work for perpetual preservation. Such history should not he permitted to remain unre corded, not that we seek our personal glory, but because posterity should know the character of Southern womanoood and emulate it. We would have the transactions of all memorial associations collected, compiled and preserved in some permanent manner. We feel that you will enter most heartily into the spirit of this movement and therefore, without hesitation we lay before you the sugges tion that you direct your secretary or some equally competent person to write a full account of your organization and also an historic account of the work it has done in observing Memorial Day, in car ing for the soldiers’ graves and in all other patriotic affairs rendered in memory of our Confederate dead or in aid of Con federate living. The organization of me morial associations should be sacredly preserved because it is in itself a monu ment to the memory of our heroes and because its work is as sacredly tender as ever. Its peculiar and singular work of caring for the graves of our brave soldiers is as imperatively needed as ever, and its long coutinuance in that duty only heightens the desire that it shall perpet ually observe Memorial Day. After all these years of devotion and faithful ser vice you should gather together the work of all sister organizations in one memo rial volume as a tribute to the “heroes from the heroines of the South.” Bright angels looking from.the skies Behold no holier sinit of ground, Thau where defeated valor lies By woman’s love and beauty crowned. Of our gallant dead whose graves we are to decorate with flowers and water with our tears we will say: Sleep on, brave heroes of the past, How sacred is this spot; Although no marble marks the place You’ll never !>e forgot. Like gems of flowers hid away Within old mother earth, The marhl» waits the sculptor’s hand To speak it into birth. The grass kept green aliove your heads Through all these weary years, And loving hands have garlands spread And watered them witli tears. Soft winds have sighed their lonely lay, The bending skies have wept, Since you have fallen in the fray, Crowned heroes you have slept. Some day a granite marble shaft In granders here shall rise; 10 tell how fought Carolina’s sons Beneath their native skies. Let stars their silent sentinel keep, And dews of heaven descend, Upon the graves of those who fell. Home altars to defend. It matters not though stately spire Should never here arise; llieir deeds will live in every heart— True valor never dies. Sleep on, brave heroes of the past, ^ There is no holier ground 1 ban where defeated valor rests. And heroes sleep uncrowned. Ladies, I will add nothing more, only I hope God will bless you, and you may rest assured that men will always love and adore you. / TUCAPAU JOSSERS. They I’ut It On to .the Gaffney liraveit In Great Style. Aoout thirty-five people went over to Spartanburg last Saturday to see the Indians trom Tucapau scalp the braves of Cherokee, and they did it in great, style to the tune of 10 to 2. It was a walk-over for the Indians from the start. Be it said to the credit of the Gaffney team that they put up a brave fight. Hopper pitched for Gaffney and his work was of a high class. Tbe field work of the Gaffney team was at times good and at other times ragged. The weak spot was the back-stop. Webster did his best and was game to the last, hut it is no discredit to him to say that he can’t hold Hopper, for the latter is one of the strongest pitchers in tnis 9»ction. Credit is due the boys and thoae wiio accompanied them for their mag nificent behavior when away from home. Although they lost they did not murmur or kick, and they had a right to object to at least two de cisions of the umpire. The Tucapau team was composed of a clever sit of boys, who also be haved admirably. Mr. Hill, mana ger, and Mr. Brumby, the umpire, were two as clever gentlemen as one generally comes across. Tlie Wagea Family. The following endorsements of the Wages Family, who are to appear at the Bijou Theatre at Blacksburg on next Friday night, and at the Star Theatre in this city next Monday night, will give amusement lovers an idea of the high class entertainment given by this wonderful musical family: I expected much from tbe Wages Family in a musical way, but their work was far beyond expectations. . Geo F. Sims, t To Whom It May Concern : It gives me great pleasure to say that the entertainment given at Edge- field ^by the Wages Family was a grand success, and no entertainment given here this season has met with such favorable comment. I com- mond it to all lovers of music. J. F. Entzminger. Edgefield, S. C., May 12. The beauty of an openwork stock ing depends on what is in it. Letter to Sheriff TIioiiihm. Dear Sir: Messrs. Leachman & EdeJin, Grafton, W. Va., had been selling a paint which they thought well of; and this had occurred. They had sold a cuitomer 18 gal lons of it to paint his house. A few years later, they sold the same man Devoe lead-and ziuc the same number of gallons to paint the same house. He had 7 gallons left. The point of the tale is: 11 gallons Drvoe paints an 18-gallon house. Of course, that isn’t all. Why does 11 gallons Devoe go as far as 18 gallons of other paint? Be-’ cause it is all paint, all true, no sham, and full measure. But that isn’t all Devoe lasts longer No, no; you haven’t got to wait ten years to find that out. Ten thousand people know it. We’ve got their names. Our agents know them; they think a heap of Devoe. There’s no difficulty in showing your towns people what to expect of Devoe. $10 will paint a $15 house; and the paint 11 last twice as long Yours truly, 3 F W Devoe & Co { In order that your physician may be justly treated and that your own interest may be protected, it is necessary that the druggist who compounds the prescription lie as carefully chosen as the physician who wrote it. Take it to a store that makes a specialty of its pre scription department—a store where graduate or registered pharmacists only are employed and where the compounding will he done by scientific methods. We can assure you that ours is. such a store. CHEROKEE DRU6 CO. Prescription Druggists, Limestone and Frederick Streets.