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Ten Thousand Churches In the United States have u^ed the Longman <k Martinez .’ure Paints. Every Ohurch will be given a liberal quantity henever they paint Don’t pay$l. 50 a gallon for Linseed oil (worth (JO cents) which you do when you buy thin paint in a can with a paint label on !t. 8 to G make 14. therefore when you want fourteen gallons of paint, buy eight gallons of L & M., and mix six gallons of pure linseed oil with it. You need only four gallons of L. & M. Paint, and three gallons of Oil mixed therewith to paint a good sized house. House* painted with these paints never grow shabby, even after 18 years. These celebrated paints are sold by our agents, Smith Hardware Oo., Gaffney ; Cole & Turner, Blacksburg. ; ■** / n ALMAGE ^RMON *, By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, D.D., Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby- teria.n Church, Chic&.£a In Greater New York the average number of children io Protestant families is 1 85 in Catholic families '2 08, and in Hebrew families 2 54. lures Blood, Skin Troubles. Cancer, Itlood Poison. Greatest Blood Purifier I-ree . If your blood is impure, thin, dis used, hot or foil of humors, if you lave blood poison, cancer, carbun- iles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema, tching, risings and luro ps, scabby, limply skin, bone pains, catarrh, henmatisin, or ar.y blood or skin lisease, take Botanic Biood Balm (B. ). B ) according to directions. Soon ,11 por- s heal, aches and pains stop, he blood is made pure and rich, saving the skin free from every erup- ion, and giving the rich glow of per- ect health to the skin. At the sutre ime, B B B. improves the digestion, ures dyspepsia, strengthens weak lidneys. Just the medicine for old leopie, as it gives them new, vigor- ius blood. Druggist!, $1 per larg. lottle, with directions for home cure, iample free and prepaid by writing Hood Balm Co., Atlanta. Ga. De- cribs trouble and special free medi- iai advice also sent in sealed letter i. B. B. is especially advised for hronio, deep-seated cases of impure Good and skin disease, and cure- ifter all else fails. It is very selfi-b of a girl to wear harp hatpins when she has got to ay good night to the man who uritigs ler home. A Good Name. From personal experience I testify j that DeWitt’s Little Early Riser! are unequaled as a liver pill. They are rightly named because they give strength and energy and do tneir work with ease—VV. T. Easton, Boerne, Tex. Thousands of people are using these tiny IGGh p ,n preference to ail diners, hocauai. mej are so pleasant and effectual. They cure biliousness, torpid liver, jiun- dice, sick headache, constipation, etc. They do not purge and weaken, but cleanse and strengthen 8old by Cherokee Drug Co. A f ter a man has tried to get sotn* 1 thing and failed, his next ambition i- j to try to keep his friends from.gettin. it. lie Could Hardly list |)p. I*. H. Duffy, 'it Ashley, III., writes “This is to certify that I have tskt-n two bottles of Foley'3 Kidney Cure and it h«s helped me more than any 01 her medicine. I tried many adver ti«ed r •raedi'*s. but none of them gave mo any relief. My druggist recommended Foley’s Kidney (’ure | and it has cured me. Before com > mencing its use J was in such a shape that I cou'd hardly get up when once d nvn.” Cherokee Drug Co. ^ Sour Stomach No appetite, loss of strength, nerrou* oeaa, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. Kodot cures indigestion. This new discovery repre sents the natural Juices of digestion as they exist in a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstrpctive properties. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure does not only cure Indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy cures all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. , Mr. S. S. Ball, of Rivenswood. W. Va.. aays — rlES* tro ^ blod wl,h J • our stomach for twenty years ter taby 1 "®' 1 mo ,nd we ar8 now ««*"« •* to mlh Kodol Digests Whet You Eat. Bottlea only. $1.00 Size holdlne 2M times the trW •tea, which sells for 50 cents, by r O. OeWITT * OO., OHIOAOO For Hiil« l»y Clioiokev Druit Gompitny. TRY SOME OF OUR Fine double-ground, celebra ted Sausage, ground by engine power. NoneJ better. I sell it for 10c. The up-to-date market, L. W. McGUjINN. FOLEYSHONBY^TAR farmkUdrmmt •«/•• Jr# Mol Dyspepsli •to what you la Cure Chicago, Nov. 21).—In this sermon the preacher takes us into the forests and ■from the life and death of the wood land luonarclis draws an eloquent les son that is rich in natural beauty and full of spiritual helpfulness. The text is Ecclesiastes ii, 8, “In the place where Cue tree falleth there it shall be.” Every intelligent student has been impressed with the inexorable se quences of natural causes. If a man should allow his rowboat to be pushed out into the middle of the roaring, rushing river which dings itself over Niagara i'alls, no human power on earth could save him. Why? The hu man arm is not powerful enough to stem that awful current. The onsweep- ing rush of death is stronger than the would be rescuer’s will. If a man standing upon the top of the Eiffel tower in Baris should leap from its summit, his body would ho whirled round find round until it was at last dashed into a mangled heap of un recognizable flesh when it struck the earth below. Why? The attraction of gravitation *\vhich dragged that body down could not be overcome by the vibrating arm as it Is by the wings of a bird, which, launched from such a height, could arrest its fall in midair and fly higher and higher until it dis appeared Into the blue sky of the heav ens’ dome. There is an inevitable se quence in nature’s laws. There is a natural sequence in spiritual laws. If a man plants the right seed for a spir itual harvest, lie will reap a spiritual harvest. If In* plants sinful seeds, he shall reap a sinful harvest. Further more, by the same kind of reasoning, after a man's earthly life's work is done, whether it he well or badly done, it is done forever. It is like a tree whieli inis fallen to the north or to the south. "In the place where the tree falleth there it shall be.” The Study of Tree*. 1 am going to use for my pulpit the trunk of a fallen tree upon which we have rested in our wanderings through the woods. 1 do not care whether this tree lies upon the steep mountain side covered with moss and creeping ivy, whether it spans some brook or wheth er it lies at the foot of a great precipice over which it Inis tumbled. The only tiling 1 do care about is that this trunk should have fallen of its own accord. By that 1 mean it lias not been cut down by a woodman's ax. When we study the laws of nature as symbols of the spiritual life we must study them in their simplicity. We must study them as nature was studied by King Solomon, who evidently spent as much time roaming over the Judean hills as he did in the Jerusalem palace. A tree may live to be very old; but, after all, there must come a time when the tree’s life shall cease to exist. Then, after it totters and falls, it is al ways a dead tree. What has been done by that tree has been done forever. Some trees have been known to live 100. 500, l,ooo and some are even sup posed lo have lived 5,000 years. Dr. Adamson has declared that the baobab tree of Africa sometimes lives to be 5,000 years old. The explorer Do Can dolle has estimated that the Taxdium distiebum lives even to a greater age than that. A tree's age can be esti mated by sawing the trunk in two and counting the rings that are found in the wood, every ring representing a year. But. though the tree may live 5,(MX) years or even longer, there comes a time when that tree must fall. Then a fallen tree is always a dead tree. So there must come a time when a man's earthly life is done, and it is done for ever. “in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be.” A Stnrtlliin: Thouffht- Is it not a startling thought that aft er a man's heart once ceases to beat he cannot change anything in his past life? Is it not a startling thought that a man who is president of the United Stales, with an army and navy and llfty millions of people back of him, as Abraham Lincoln had, can within a few hours be a cold corpse and unable to utter a word? One night sitting In Ford’s theater; a short time afterward with Edwin Stanton bending over him and saying “He is gone; we must leave his work to be Judged by the cen turies!” 1ft it not an overwhelming fact that a man with all the mental powers of a Gladstone cannot arrange his pa pers after he Is on£e dead, but had to leave them all to his literary executor? Oh, how often we have heard this sen tence in a house where there has lately been a sad funeral: “If I could only bring him back for a few moments to ask him what he would like me to do about this matter!” But the fallen tree Is a dead tree. What that tree has done is done forever and can never he undone. What lias been left undone Is left undone forever. A dying man's last gasp is even more significant and overwhelming than a newborn baby’s llrst cry. One is the rising, the other the setting, sun. The one is the tirst word of a story which Is about to he told and may be told well; the other Is the last word of the last sentence of the last page, when the story is elided. One is the reveille sounding the call to arms; the other is a tattoo beaten upon a mufllcd drum by the side of .in open grave. One la the spring blossom, the other a falling snowflake. One is a bird’s note sung among the growing leaves; the other Is the snapping of a trunk when the old tree is about to make Its last pluug>- and go down with a crash Living man may once have been us strong as ihe great tree for whose life George i*. Morris pleaded with eio- queui verse, but when the human being is dead he cannot even lift himself imo the coffin which may have been made from the tree trunk which his own hands hewed down. lie cannot even walk out to nis own grave, but has to be carried ibere like a helpless log be- { ing dragged to the dam. On*? second after the pulse has ceased to beat be j cannot raise bis little finger one inch j or change one word in ins last will and testament any more than a fallen tree | trunk, if it had the power of thought, could lift itself and stand upon the ragged stump which the buried roots are still anchoring in the ground and I live its life over again. Choice may be | given to the living man—choice to live | right or wrong; choice to reach after | the higher or the lower life—but the j time will come when man, like the tree, which may live many centuries | beyond the age of man, shall fall. 1 Then there will be no power of choice. ( What has been done by him is done ; and never can be changed. What has | been left undone by him will be left undone and will never, never be done ' by him as long as eternity lasts. A | fallen log symbolizes it. The fallen tree is a dead tree, which nearly always falls in the direction it I has grown. I say nearly, because there are exceptions, which, though rare, do occur. Once in a great while a tree does not fall in the direction in which it has grown. A city merchant, loving nature’s wildest haunts, might go into j the woods to build there a little cottage. The site is selected near the hank of a I running stream. When the foundations ; are laid the architect finds that an old tree is leaning dangerously toward the ! rising walls. The merchant would like to have the virgin beauty of the trees untouched, but fearing lest the tree might fall upon his future home and Injure some one, he gives orders to the workmen to cut the tree down. The ropes are tightly twisted about the branches and tied to other trees grow ing in an opposite direction from the , house. The sharp ax begins to bury its head into the wood. The workmen pull. With mighty groan the old for- j est monster falls where it never seem- ' ed likely to go. Or a tornado sweeping up the valley might push the tree over in a direction toward which it had never leaned. But these exceptions are ( very rare. They are as exceptional as the man who has always lived a bad | life and at the last moment is convert ed by a deathbed repentance and who is j thereby able to fall, when the clock is ! striking 12, into the outstretched arms I of a loving Christ. Most trees—indeed, it might be said practically all trees— ' when they die fall In the direction in which they have grown. About Ihe j tree’s trunk and above the tree's ; branches and underneath the tree’s roots are the great ever influencing laws of specific gravity. If a tree leans a little to the right, it almost invari ably falls to the right; if to the left, it fails to the left. Swlftlli-MH of 1*4-11 f It. When a man comes to die, as u rale. | the only thing he can do is to die. t When the messenger comes, he has not any inclination to think about any thing else but dying, if the fatal dis ease gnaws at the vitals for many | months and perhaps years, the doctors ! and nurses and loved ones conceal the truth from the patient for fear of de pressing him. Or death comes like a stroke of lightning out of a clear sky. It comes, as it did to my father, one moment clear brained and on a preach ing tour, the next upon a deathbed and unable lo speak a word. It comes, as it came lo Robert G. Ingersoll, a dizzi ness, n fainting tit, and he Is gone. It comes by an accident, as it came to that young man on the night he was attend ing a religious meeting. The minister urged and entreated him to make u de cision for Christ, but he refused. "You must make up your mind one way or the other.” “Then.” answered the young man, “If I must, I refuse Christ for tonight.” That night on his way home, while riding on horseback, his brains were dashed out by an over hanging bough. Death often comes suddenly—as a thief, as a watch in the night. A man dies as a tree falls. He dies as he has lived. Among all the Bible records there is hut one exception to this rule. The pages of the Bible contain only one account of a deathbed repentance. “Oh,” said a young man in my IMtts- burg church, “I am so sorry you said there are no deathbed repentances.” “No.” answered an elder, “he never said that. He said that though you might want to repent upon your death bed in all probability you will have no time to repent. You will have only time to die. You might repent If you would, but you will not.” Death bed repentances are as exceptional among the human race as it Is for a tree lu the forest untouched by human hand to fall in a different direction from the way it has grown. "He that is unjust shall be unjust still. He that Is iilthy shall he flltby still. He that is righteous shall be righteous still. He that is holy shall be holy still.” A fall en log symliollzes it. The Uinlying Fruit. The fallen tree Is a dead tree, the In fluence of whose past life never dies. Trees have an earthly mission. They are mighty factors in the planet’s daily life. In the celebration of Arbor day by the schools and educational institu tions It would be appropriate, although it Is not especially enjoined by statute, to couple with study of trees lessons on our birds and the great Importance of their protection. The young peoph cannot have too great an appreciation of nature or too keen a sense of the re lation betwe< ii her many beauties and utilities. Atmospheric changes are more or less Influenced by trees Droughts and freshets are often ctius -o by the lack of trees. Many eonnfeie- of the far ••list have been absolniei- miiud by ihe ruthless destruction of t! • i.avsis. I Tom an inhabitable coun- trv .hey i ii’ e been changed into great wastes of of a hi a never <i.e-. and on. i n; fallen. Ear'hlj d lug if when while upon him. But lives on a- .rid deserts. So the influence e life, like that of a tree. It' gtyid er evil lives on ng ell t ihe human aee ba^ mise would not lie appall- .< nun ail'd the bad he did the earth should die with the trouble is that the bad well as the good. The won derful book of Eugene Sue called “The Wandering Jew" is founded upon o well known Roman legend. It runs that when Christ had been condemned in i Mate's judgment hall the Jewish doorkeeper struck at him and cried: "Move on. man! Move on faster! Why dost thou linger? Move on!” Will) that the condemned Christ turned and said. “I will go, hut thou shall remain until I come.” And so, says the legend, the brutal Jewish doorkeeper wanders up and down the world, begging God for death, but he cannot die. He can not die. Though that is only a legend, it is a solemn truth that every good word we have spoken or evil deed we have do “s on after we are dead. It lives on in the lives of others with whom we come in contact. We live on in the good we have done. Then we are like that beautiful ireo mentioned in an Easter fable whose branches were laden with apples of solid gold and its leaves covered with silver bells. When the leaves of that tree were shaken by the soft winds those bells would begin to chime the sweetest music, and that would be the signal for the poor and the starving to come and gather ihe falling fruit. Or we shall live on after we are dead in the evil we have done to our neighbors. Down through the centuries has the evil been perpetuated of that first sin. when a tempted man and woman plucked the fruit hanging from the branch of a tree. So through all time the influence of our lives for good or evil shall go on bringing forth fruit. An tli<- Tree Grown, So It Fnlla. There is another significant reason why the dead tree nearly always falls in the way il has grown—the direction is determined by the influences which were at work upon ns younger life. The proverb declares that "old trees cannot he transplanted.” The knots are too big. The trunk is too bent. The branches are too heavy. The roots are too wide to be lifted and moved. The imperfections of trees may be the more readily recognizable in their old age, hut the influences which caused the tree to grow to the north or to the soutli nearly always do their work for good or evil when the trees are hardly more than small saplings. If this fact be true, is it not of utmost importance that parents should carefully look after the work of rearing their children? A middle aged man said to me, some time ago: “The most awful realization that I have of life’s duty is that I am a fa ther. When I look hack and see the influence my parents had upon my life, and when 1 see my boys every day copying me in dress, in speech, in ac tion. in wanting to wear clothes as 1 wear mine and do things because I do them, it makes me tremble.” Yes, par ents, the most important part of your earthly influence is that which you are now exerting over your children. You are now influencing them at the critical time of their lives. They are now young trees, to be easily bent a_s you will, and if you set the wrong kind of an example before them, as did that parent who one day saw his hoys play ing that they were intoxicated, as their father often was, you will destroy those young lives as easily as a herd of swine can root up a sagebush. A Woril to tli*- Youiik. Young people, I would like to speak just one word to you. You are apt to think that the period of youth does not amount to much. 1 want to tell.you that you are now fortning the habits that will grow stronger and stronger as the years roll on. The hark of the tree is the place where the life is sup posed to exist. Rut if the inside of the tree, or the wooden part, is allowed to be tunneled by a worm the inside of the tree will soon he eaten out. Then the whole tree will soon totter and full. Oik* small sinful habit can destroy the human heart. One little tug in youth in the wrong direction can pull off the brandies of truth and purity and love and honor and make a lopsided tree. What you do now will decide the moral character of your future. Trees l.OOfl years old are neither more nor less than the fully developed and expanded perfections and imperfections of a tree only four, live, ten, twenty, thirty years old. Nearly all the hardened criminals who spend most of their lives in the penitentiary committed their first crime when they were nothing more than boys under twenty years of age. Many a murderer has started on a quick Journey for the gallows by whet ting his taste for blood when as a child he tortured a dog or a caged rat. Old trees bear the scars upon their sides from the wounds Inflicted in youth. These sears can be seen upon the tree even after the tree has tumbled to the ground and Is dead. The Tree of Life. But though a fallen tree is a dead tree, which nearly always falls In the way it has grown, a living tree, no matter how young or old, can become an Ingrafted tree. Grafting may be accomplished In many different ways. In budding grafting a bud is selected. Then a strong young brunch Is cm crosswise with a sharp knife. Then the bud Is placed upon the bare brauen and the four pieces of bark are Joineil at the bud’s ham* and the wound Is cov ered over with Japanese matting. So the young human trees may be ingraft ••d. They can have Christ’s perfections- In nil their freshness and frngra" • made to grow into them. They « n grow Into the Christian life so grail • ally and sweetly that they will not '•'* able to tell the exact moment of w>< .i | conversion. They will be like that young girl who was asked on joining the church when she commenced to love the Lord Jesus. "Why,” she an swered, “I never commenced to love the Saviour. I feel that I have always loved him.” Rut there is another way of grafting. There is the sprouting grafting. By this process whole limbs will be cut off and new limbs from other trees will he placed into the fork shaped crotches. ; If necessary nothing need be left but the trunk of the old tree. This was the way Christ’s life was ingrafted into Raul’s. This was the way Baxter ! and Bunyan and Jerry MeAuley and Harry Monroe and the seven-deviled Mary of ancient and modern times ! have been converted. Whole branches ; of sin. which have been growing for many years upon these sinful trunks, have been cut off. Gnarled and worm eaten and disease producing branches, | which have only produced poisonous leaves of sin, have been lopped off, and ! into those sinful trunks have been in- grifted the long, heathy, growing I branches of the tree of life. Over=Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unheal ihv Klineys Make Impure Blood. : er. from the oldest and the weakest 1 and the poorest and the most twisted of human trees there is still hope that j the branches of the beams of the cross | can be ingrafted in them if they are j only willing to have chopped off their ! branches of sin and to let Christ do the ingrafting. The G4>ni>4*I Invitation. But there is one thought of my text which ought to be emphasized. I do not believe many people have stopped to fully consider it. All fallen trees are dead trees. Yes. But some trees which are not fallen may be dead trees also. As we have said, the whole life of tin* tree is in the bark or the outside of the tree. There the sap flows up and down. There the connection is made between the roots of the tree and the leaves. If'that bark can be once broken so that the sap cannot flow, then the tret? dies. A short distance from my late country home a farm hand became angry at bis employer. One night he took a knife and went into the orchard and cut a circle of the hark off each tree. In one night the man killed between fifty and sixty trees. For this crime he was sent to jail. And, oh. my brother, can it be that some one whom 1 am now addressing shall soon la* a dead tree to Christ, although he is not a fallen tree? Can il he Unit, though receiving the gospel invitation again and again, you arc going to let Satan take a knife and circle about the hark or tin* heart of your f-piiitual life? Then, indeed, you will he i 1 aid to all heavenly pleas. You will In* Mead to all the calls of the Holy Spirit. You will have no conscience left. Would that instead of being a dead tree to Christ we could become a liv ing tree in God! Arboriculturists de clare that the roots are just as wide and strong underneath the ground as the branches of the tree growing over head. 1 myself in climbing a moun tain have seen a tree which by the strength of Its roots has been able t<* grow upon the side of a precipice. Lot us as living trees sink our roots deep and fasten them about the Calvary Rock. Let us lift our branches high, that our leafy hands may be cleansed with showers of heavenly benedictions. Then when the time comes for the hu man tree to fall Christ will lift us up and carry us above to become one of the pillars of the heavenly temple, as he once carried his own cross toward Calvary. Upon that cross he died for our sins. [Copyright, 1903, by Louis Klopach.] All toe bV'jci in your body passes through your kidn vjs o r .oe every three minutes. The kidneys are your blood purifiers, they fil ter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, achesand rheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected 1 kidney tr -eble. Kidney ‘rouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats ond makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is ove*- working in pumping thick, kidney- I poisoned biocd through veins and arteries. 1. used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin- ; ning : n kidney trouble. If you an- sicK you can make no mistake My broth- by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, ihe great kidney remedy is soon rea..zed. it stands the highest for Us wonderful cuies of the most distressing cases and is s^id on its merits by al! druggists in fifty-, cent and one-dollar siz-j es. Yoj may have a sample Dcct'e by mail Home of Swamt>-R<>ot. free, a.so pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when v/riting Dr. Kilmer 8t Co., Binghamton. N. Y. KIDNEY DISEASES are the most fatal of all dis eases. cm CV’C KIDNEY CURE III rULtl 0 Remedf or money refunded. Contains remedies recognized by emi nent physicians as the best for Kidney and Bladder troubles. PRICE 50c. and $1.00. Gr<-nt 1‘rofiiN la IleKKinK. A woman was arraigned for hogging and vagrancy In tin* Essex Market po lice court in New York a few weeks ago who had among her belongings a heavy bundle tied in a large colored handkerchief, in which was found I over $70 in pennies and other small i coin, the whole mass weighing more I than fifteen pounds. This, according I to the woman’s own story, she had col- 1 leeted in two weeks, seated on the curb I at a certain corner on the Bowery with \ a plate in her lap. And still more interesting was the disclosure made by a bank book of a i savings bank in Syracuse, N. Y„ in her J possession, showing an account to the } woman’s credit of over $1,000. It appeared also that the woman had , three grown up children living in Syra- i cuse who were able to care for her. Yet so woebegone and poverty stricken did the woman appear when arraigned in court that not until her hoardings | were disclosed would even a police court shyster take up her case.—Leslie’s | Weekly. Trolley or Man Horse. I As a result of the introduction of ! trolley ears into Japan over 2.000 rick 1 ahaw boys have given up the struggle with the electric car and have decided ■ to emigrate to the Hokkaido to engage in the fisheries and other callings. The Japanese "kuruma-ya” in physique form almost a class apart. They are tough, hardy little fellows and were a valuable asset in Japan’s military sys tem in the war with China. In a coun try where horses are poor and scarce man power traction was formerly a necessity. The little kuruma-ya. be tween the thills of his tln> go-cart, would run all day long almost without tiring. Kadlam’s HCnerfcy. Professor J. J. Thomson’s latest sug gestion on the subject of the source of the energy emanating from radium Is that there are a few atoms in each mass “In a condition In which stability ceases and which pass into some other configuration, giving out as they do very large quantities of energy.” Tin- energy of the radiations of this sub stance Is so great that one of tin* elec irons thrown off by It, If set in chase el' n Mauser bullet, would'pass through it u:< though it were standing still. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ » ^ We believe thoroughly in advertising. To prove it we axe going to use this space for our own pur poses. We have advertis ing space to sell, and we know it will pay a good return upon the price we charge for it if it is prop erly used. Our paper goes into the best homes in this community. It has been going week after week and year after year until each issue is welcomed as an old friend of the family. The news it brings is news of neighbors, of per sonal affairs in which all have more or less of a com mon interest. If one of our readers called upon you, a merchant, you would do the best you could to con vince him that what you had for sale was the best he could buy. You would show him the new things you had got in recently. You would tell him why he should have them and why they were better than he coul d procure elsewhere. You probably would make a sale. Your effort, however, would be fined to one person. You could tell the same story just as efiectively to every reader of this paper in each issue. You do not believe it would have the same ef fect? If you told the story in the same way it would. 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