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' A SEEMON FOR SUNDAY
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AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE
REV. M. W. STRYKER.
# "Democracy and Christianity," the Subject
of a Forceful Argument by the
President of Hamilton College, Clinton,
N. Y.?The People's Day Advances.
New York City. ? "Democracy and
Christianity'"' was the subject of a forceful
sermon by the Kev. Dr. M. W. Stryker,
President of Hamilton College, Clinton. N.
Y.. in the Brick Presbyterian Church, Sunday
morning. Dr. Stryker sai'd:
It is not always remembered that, on its
human side. Moses founded a republican
* form of government. It was to be main
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faOure was in Israel, not in the idea. When
Samuel anointed Saul he did it under solemn
protest. It was a relapse from privilege.
Kings were a makeshift and it turned
out badly...
r * Seeking a sound philosophy of man and
his affairs, and distinguishing humanity
from its utensils and furniture, I would
earnestly attempt the connotation of the
two words which state?each in its own
way, but with the strongest mutual bearing?the
whole hope of mankind: Democracy,
Christianity. You may run out, in
their reach and width, the many propositions
which I can now only utter, not amplify.
I have only time for the broadax
and the adz.
I used the word "mankind"?that is,
. man-kinned ? related, cousined, brothers.
When Paul, the apostle, speaks (literally)
of "the whole fathcrdom in heaven and
earth"?he affirms the broad and elemental
gospel theorem of the common origin,
the common opportunity, the common concern
of all humanity. "God hath made of
one blood"?"In one spirit all baptized
into one body"?such phrases characterize
this whole new covenant and contemplate
the rearrangement of the world.
A unity of privilege, duty, affection?a
common derivation, development and goal
?the doctrine of the essential solidarity of
, man. To affirm this is the instinct, the
infrangible purpose of the gospel. Either
tftis mutuality, tins conesive ana integrating
impulse, working its way steadily, nowever
Slow its stages, or at last a sterile race
ana a shattered star!
Economics? It is the law of the world's
housekeeping. Politics?it is man's common
citizenship. Philanthropy, equity, law,
ethics, religion?these are tne bonds that
transcend race and region and date. Before
their scope provincialism passes into
insignificance. History is the record of
the painful but steady evolution of human
unity?homogeneity. Sociology is ethics.
This is the "increasing purpose" of time.
Man's nature involves society. He is environed
by his fellows. He is born into
and constructed for their close relation.
This is his irrevocable constitution?the
means toward it, better or worse, are but
by-laws. The one inevitable, the others
provisional and tentative. These are
cnanged and snaken, tnat remains. rne
definition and practical ordering of this
relation, whether by means better or
worse, the assertion of partnership and
federation, in whatever degree of wisdom
?the assertion of a common weal (or woe)
?this is government.
However they have blundered, or stuttered,
or fumbled, the experiment toward
the organizing of human life and its activities
have been experiments in search of
fair and fruitful-terms under which men
4 may live together. Perceived or unseen,
the ends of government are to secure the
weU being of men as men, and that must
be the best government which most effectually
seeks the utmost welfare of all
within its control?which 6eeks a right
.'' and equitable society. As & means to tnis
end it is strong and sacred, as a means to
any other ends it is stultified.
Itijeoncerns es, then, at once to note the
names and essential implications of the
several schemes and forms of government
(or ways of getting on together) which
men have attempted and exhibited.
Autocracy?the rule of one man, centering
all power in his own person and
responsible only to himself. "L'etat e'est
mou" Absoluteism?an imperfect man
cannot, a perfect man would not; for
either way individually is frustrated. Despotism
is misanthropic.
Monarchy?which ordinarily implies a
degree of consent and delegation of power,
and has wide limits according as the
subjects have great' or small influence.
The forms of monarchy are not inconsistent
with real popular power, only then
their terminology is an anachronism and
their retention a superfluous and absurd
expense.
Plutocracy is the rule ef wealth?the
power of money holders as such. It is
subtle and subversive of men. That it
goes by "community of interest," by silent1
arithmetic, does not indeed necessitate,
.but makes possible oppressions not
less actual because insidious and unavowed.
It has ruined great peoples. For
"community of the interested" is -widely
diverse from the interest of the community.
The peoples also "cannot serve God
and mammon." Plutocracy is not a commonwealth.
Weal itself is not mere
wealth. The word "wealth" begs the
question. Plutus was blind!
Oligarchy, the "few" in power, whr. her
a clique, a bureau, a "machine," or a ring,
and by whatsoever means installed and tolerated.
Its selectness and separateuess
and virtual assumption is its odium. Its
irresponsibilitv is its vice. Its selfishness
is its defeat. It refuses to share.
Aristocracy, literally the rule by the
best, ideally an excellent term and thing,
practically, however, the self-elected at
their own rating?what one nas caliea the
fine irony of an entailed nobility!" Hereditary
privilege tainted with pride and
superciliousness and snobbery and the dry
rot of these?a non-sequitus, still exploiting
the many for the few, class prerogative
and the non-human proscriptions of
caste. The "best" should rule in the in
terests of what is good, but the self-styled
best, nursing their own exclusiveness, may
become the worst.
Anarchy! Contradiction in terms! The
law of lowlessness, the rule of caprice and
all violence, denying authority in that
license which is the parody and ruin of
true liberty! Freedom crushed under the
nbsoluteism of the mob! ? .
Theocracy ? the reign of God, actual
while God is God. truly realized in universal
recognition of Him "the first and the
last and the living one;" but never delegated
to any vicegerent, installed in the
common consent of free consciences and
when usurped b}* kingcraft or priestcraft
the- basest perversion of the highest truth.
Democracy: Self-government by the
people. The dignity of the people is the
intention of their Creator. He who is the
source of this self-rule, is also its only security.
Each man with, not apart from,
every other, directlv and iointnr responsible
to God. The highest law final?man
absolved from all usurpations, and, as a
man, secured in the perfect freedom of
the largest obedience. Democracy may be
a name for the mere tyranny of the multitude?a
subservient mass a prey to passion
and. to schemers who are its panderer6?
/Ia T?nf t nan
JLiautciiii^ mt* ucp auv. uui/ men
the "rule'' is lost, and the demos is by
his means thwarted of his ends. Democracy
is ideal when it meets all the conditions
of total responsibility to God?
when in the high peerage of that loyalty
of creature to Creator all neighbors love
all neighbors as one family of the highest!
Love, vertical and lateral, is its law?the
"perfect law of liberty."'
Therefore, I hold both that Christianity
intends democracy, and that only in its
reality can democracy thrive or endure.
Other foundation it cannot lay. If the
Son of Man shall make the peoples iree
they shall be free indeed, and not otherwise.
His autonomy is theirs. His valuation
exalts them. His rights secure
theirs. In Him, who is all in all, they are
comply.
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republic is a democracy conveniencing
its self-rule by representatives who are
its agents. These are but trustees a-nd
stewards?accountable to the people'6 intelligent
will. Other, they are defaulters.
Believing that under God man shall not
fail, I believe utterly in democracy a? the
final experiment of time, up to which all
others have led. If this idacL is bankrupted
all goes down. Only as it reasons deeply
as to the source of its rights and the
scope of its duties shall it avert failure
and cataclysm. God, or the deluge!
I believe in democracy because I hold
that man is not a mechanism but a mechanic?that
every individual soul of the
race is sacred, that the probation of mankind
lies in the full consent to human
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which that involves. HeFe stands the last
bulwark against tyranny. This must be
the method, if there be any, before which
a false subordination and a fake insubordination
are both to be banished. The
salvation of the peoples is in a divine human
society which at last shall realize the
whole purpose of Jesus Christ. It has
not yet been seen; but "to this bear all
the prophets witness'"?a society feeling
all its common responsibilities, and "each
for all" fulfilling every relation?this, and
because it is "ideal," is the finality. In
it democracy and Christianity would
meet, and righteousness wed peace!
To conquer this ideal into actuality is
the task and travail of time?to doubt
that it can be is to sin-render tne cause of
mankind.
There is now in some quarters a sickly
ana sentimental dissent from the goal of
democracy, and a cowardly whispered
preference against the eubstantiye cl^ipi
of man ?<? man. This reluotancv from the
burden of the problem and disregard of
the good of me manv is ordinarily traceable
to a selfish and absentee spirit. It
assumes to distrust what love of ease dislikes,
and what comfortable and complacent
apathy would postpone. Its investments
are all in the present, as it is, and
it will take no stock in the future as it
should be. It interprets the major considerations
of life by the minor. The offense
of the cross is not ceased.*' But it
is crucifixion that leads to resurrection.
Away vritk this droning and whining pessimism!
And, on the other hand, there are those
who applaud democracy without reckoning
its principles and its foundations. Between
it and absolutism there is, in time's
long run, no logical half way. Can man
learn that democracy brings no one down,
but every one up? Can man learn its
reciprocities and its emancipations? Will
man see the basilar doctrine of the inherent
value and birthright of each several
soul?value to itself, to all others and to
the one God of all?
If not, then all falls apart and a society
not made up of a bulk of subservients and
a few preferred creditors is a fatuity and
a dream, and the .Nazarene was a dreamer.
But that way lies the madness of anarchy.
Any government is, at a given time,
strong, as the ratio is of its people (or
parts) who believe in it and are ready to
back that belief. Ultimately it is as
strong as it has principles worthy to be
believed in. The bottom idea of democracy
is the utmost diffusion of two
things: (a) authority, (b) responsibility.
Both of these. Neither goes well or far,
or can stand fast, alone. These balanced
centrifugal and centripetal forces main-,
tain the orbit. All the phases and hopes
of a genuine and rational democracy are
reducible to the balance of this double
idea. The duality is critical.
By this as a definition I will stand?
that true democracy is a government in
which everj' whole man, ana because a
man, counts one. Persons are the units,
and government of, by and for these is
the sum of all its parts. Its spirit is as
great as the number of spirits that share
it, and as good as the number of good
spirits that share it. Its division exactly
equals the dividend, and the quotient is
one.
"Division of labor," which is made to
mean "you labor and I divide," is not
democracy. Since, in this long division
of "authority and responsibility" every
man should be fitted to count one. Democracy
menaces itself, denies its raison
d'etre, when it for a moment neglects to
seek this fitness of its merits. Representation
is of these fit merits. The proxy
is Valid only in this. The ballot affirms
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ified intelligence and its unmolested freedom
is its safety, that always it shall be
counted as one, and never more or less.
Less or more is the suppression somewhere
of manhood; less, it were tyrannized;
more, it were tyrannical. To corrupt, to
seduce, to intimidate or to suppress it is
to violate democracy. Democracy alone
causes the rights of a minority to feai a
majority. For all and by all this recognition
of man declares that because every
man should count one he shall! No other
method of government declares this, or
attempts to realize it. Resting its case
upon the right assessment of what constitutes
human value," it implies that
rights and duties are strictly correlative
and reciprocal. It studies its rules in the
daylight of its principles. Our Supreme
Court is governed by this overruling equity.
Democracy is its test and its dictum.
It is the ultimate national refuge of the
people. It gives the higher law.
The distributive assignment of government
is the radical end of democracy, not
descending to man, but ascending with
him. It is not paternal, but fraternal.
Human ethics rising from loyalty to
one mere tribe or clan ? Ishmaelitish!?
rises toward" the comprehensren of manright.
The history of this growth of human
institutions, making and remaking
themselves, discovers that they move with
the instinct of a generic human life. The
impulse strengthens as if by hydrostatic
pressure. That great democrat, Lincoln;
that splendid representative of the fine
old aristocratic familv of man, said well,
in 1856. what has tne broadest possible
application: "They who deny fx^eedbm
to others deserve it not for themselves,
and under the rule of a just God cannot
long retain it." The paramount doctrine
of equal rights is that each soul has a divine
right, a kingly and knightly right,
to all tne liberty he can use. and has the
right to stand un. in his Maker's image,
to show what he,can use. Its formative
proposition is that a just society lies in
the good of all its elements, and that this
good lies in the removing, by pick or
powder, of all avoidable hindrances to
the affirmation of social personality, lies
in its enabling and ennobling (so far as
circumstances can) eacn unitary .being to
live the fullest possible life.
All ''liberty" nas social limitations, and
its problem is to reduce these limitations
to the lowest terms necessary to and consistent
with its own utmost diffusion.
Freedom also is law.
It is not the commercial, the strategic,
bearings of the Monroe doctrine that
makes' it strong in our American hearts
and determination, but its immense moral
meaning that democracy shall not have its
providential arena narrowed, nor its 6cope
thwarted by the imposition of another
theory of the people. America (noble
America) is the vantage ground and. the
oulwark of popular free government, and
to maintain this high theory of man unendangered,
we will fight if need be
(though God forbid the need) if all the
seas are to run red! It was this tremendous
instinct in which, in one of the noblest
wars of time, we rose up to lift Cuba
irom under the bloody heel of the line of
Philip II. and of Alva. The people's day
advances.
I come, therefore, to assert that which
i have tried to approach, and this it is:
fha'; the aim of a true democracy is in
the most complete accord with the aims
of the gospel. Both are emancipative.
Their implications are mutual. They alike
stand or fall upon the proposition of the
universal spiritual rights of all men as men.
i^ach breaks down all "middle wall of
partition." and unlooses "the yoke of
bondage," opens the gates of day to
"every creature under heaven!" Each
seeks the greatest quantity of the highest
quality. Christianity, truly measured,
comes (in the strong words of Henry
Nesh. in that splendid little volume, "The
Genesis of the Social Conscience"): "To
make the best the world knows native to
the humbiest."
"In His name?"Son of Man"?the great
Emancipator has "authority to execute
judgment" upon all oppressions. He is
man's Man! His authority intends the
commonalty of all souls yielding to Him
a supreme loyaltv. His church is the
democracy of freed men. Abolishing barriers.
rending divisive artificialities, leveling
up. not down. He introduces the autonomy
of those He redeems from every
inhuman bondage, and recalls every child
of Adam, every "prisoner of hope." to be
in his true birthright a prince and a
priest. AH for each and each for all is
the bold and beautiful charter to which
W1.2 cioma + nvo i< civon and wViif-h is Sfflled
with the sign of the cross! Under it all
"snffer jind rejoice together/'
Democracy is not :<the multitude in
power, with no adequate ideal to elevate
and to guide;" for that is not rule; but
it is the people bound in a fraternity, an
equity, a unity, in which all are common
shareholders in an uplifted and celestialized
manhood.
Democracy, justly conceived, is indigenous
to Christianity?Christianity implies
democracy and nothing short of it.
Dependence (upon God); independence
(of all insalutary duress); interdependence
(as members of one great human
body); these are the three august watchwords
of what the Son of Man prepares
and will perform. They are cardinal. All
temporizing expedients will fail. They
are dozv*and brittle. Paresis stamps
tnem. They are judged.
All the real progress in the idea of what
a genuine democracy includes, and what
it excludes, has been, consciously or not,
an appreciation and incorporation of
Christ's ideas of man. It has been a
painful process, slowly penetrating the
intricate processes and sodden politics of
the world, attended by harsh parodies and
bitter tanures; but it lias Deen continuous
and culminating, and at last it will conquer.
The errors and follies of men in the sacred
name of mankind have been appalling.
Liberty has been declaimed i * those who
were "themselves^ the servants of corruption."
but the very currency of the counterfeit
is a testimony to the value of the
true coin.
Timid souls shrink back from the bfjrthpangs
of change. The near-sighted and
ease-loving refuse to think large enough
to see what lies in that proposition, in
which the evangel is cognate with the law
of liberty?that every man is a man. But
the virgin's magnificat is the ennunciation
of a new society. It is a prophecy. An
apocalypse is folded in it, "He hath put
down the mighty from their seats and exalted
them of low degree."
That cause of the people, which by the
utmost widening of responsibility engages
and educates the largest number, grows
with each latest day. Before its "awful
rose of dawn" the lantierns of groping
years are superseded. The law of the
spirit of life, as Christ, the people's Man.
interprets it, making all classes "dangerous
classes," and those the most so who
must absent themselves from the concern?
of men at large; it instills the convictior
that an actually human relationship yield?
to no "adverse possession" of privilege,
and that the dynasty of tne minoritj
must pass.
For democracy America stands. To i'
we are shut up. This is the people's land.
Tlv Phrlotinnitv rlprruvrar-v shall statu
and by naught else. If it denies the lan
of Christ, it denies that which begat it
A divinely human society, from God and
through men, with the two great and last
commandments as its pillars, is that to
which we are summoned if we are to
keep faith with men and God.
Signally, befqre the envious nations, we
are to chasten, uphold, defend that idea,
wide as the earth is. We cannot evade
the duty, and we must not sell the blessing.
To retreat or to retract would be to
relinquish that opportunity of which
America is the trustee?not io exploit a
continent, but to implead a world. New
and emphatic providences thrust this double
faith upon us.
The cause of the peoples?of all the people,
the cause of mankind and of every
man, specially the lowest and the least?
is the cause and the only cause of democracy,
and it also is the cause of Him
whose errand was liberation, and who. as
the eternal deliverer, lives to accomplish
all His invincible decree.
Hail, Thou* Son of Man! Let all the
people praise Thee! Then shall the ea~th
yield her increase! The enlargement of
all the sons of men is Thy supreme argument
and evidence. They shall walk at
liberty because they seek Thy precepts.
If Thou shalt make us free we shall be
free indeed. Love is Thy law and the fellowship
of love its answer. Unto Thyself
earn Thnn thia Amprica.
Well did Grover Cleveland say this
. sprin g at St. Louis: "It is a solemn
tHing to belong to a people favored of
God/'
They Trusted God.
There was a knock at the door of Aunt
Fanny's pleasant kitchen one morning,
and on the 6teps stood a little girl with
a basket on her arm.
"l)on't you want to buy something?"
she asked as she came in. "Here are some
nice home-knit stockings."
"Surely yen did not knit these stockings
yourself, little girl?" said Aunt
Fanny.
"No, ma'am; but grandma did. She is
lame, and so she sits still and knits the
things, and I run about to sell them;
that s the way we get along. She says
we are partners and so I wrote out a
sign and put it over the fireplace: 'Grandma
& Maggie.'"
Aunt Fanny laughed and bought the
stockings, and as she counted put the
money to pay for them Maggie said: "This
will buy tne bread and batter for supper."
"What if you had nbt sold anything?"
asked Aunt Fanny.
"You see, we prayed* 'Give us this day
ur daily bread.' and God has promised
to hear when folks pray; so I guess there
wasn't any 'if about it. When He says
things, they're sure and certain."'
Happiness in Work. '
Some people dream of happiness as
something tney win come to dv ana oy,
at the end of a course of toil and struggle.
But the true way to find happiness is as
we go on in our work. Every day has its
own cup of sweetness. In every duty is
a pot of hidden manna. In every sorrow
is a blessin? of comfort. In every burden
is rolSd up a gift of God. In all life
Christ is with us, if we are true to Him?
If we nave learned this secret, even the
things that seem unpleasant and disagreeable
yield joy in the doing. A traveler in
South Africa saw some boys playing marbles,
using pebbles. One of these Tolled
to the traveler's feet, and, picking it up, j
it seemed to him only a rough stone, j
without beauty or worth. But as he turned i
it over a gleam of light flr.shed from one
spot of it. It was a diamond. Duties
seem dull and dreary to us, unattractive, I
nard. but they infold secrets of happiness
which we find when we accept them with
love and do them cheerfully.?Rev. J. K.
Miller. * *
A New Note.
Make up your minds that definite and
settled opinions in theology, if not within ]
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worthy of intense inquiry. Shake off this
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mighty confidence that, the first time now
that Christian theology clears her trumpet
and utters a not uncertain note, the voice
of Channing will be the dominant of the
strain.?Henry W. Bellows.
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near Lancaster, Pa.
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"Two years ago my hair was |
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Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111.
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no reason why you must
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woman ol Jacksonville, na., aaugnter 01 >f
Recorder of Deeds, West, who witnessed |1|
her signature to the following letter, praisesf i
Lydia E. Pinfcham's Vegetable Compound. |
u Dear Mrs. Pinxham : ? There are but few wives and mothers who | -:p
have not at times endured agonies and such pain as only women know,
I wish such women knew the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable.
Compound. It is a remarkable medicine, different in action from any -||
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"I have seen cases where women doctored for years without permanent
benefit who were cured in less than three months after taking your
Vegetable Compound, while others who were chronic and incurable
came out cured, happy, and in perfect health after a thorough treatment
Willi II11S Hieail'lLie. X liavc uevci uacu. lb mj ocix iriuiuuv gauuug
benefit. A few doses restores my strength and appetite, and tone? up
the entire system. Your medicine hag been tried and found true, henc^Jlja
I fuUv endorse it."?Mrs. R. A. Anderson, 225 Washington St, .Jacksonville,
Fla.
Mrs. Reed, 2425 E. Cumberland St, Philadelphia,Pa., says:
w Dear Mrs. Pinkham:?I feel it my duty :-iJ
jm, ^ to write and tell you the good I have received
from Lydia E. Pinkham'g Vegetable Com- ;
pound.
|W "I have been a great sufferer with female ?)
llB'S trouble, trying different doctors and medicines
mflH ^ ^ n with no benefit Two years ago I went nnder
9 an operation, and it left me in a very^weak g?
w rtrtrirltf'tAn T ha/1 cfnm?/?H tmnhlp :3SH
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nerT0Us; in fact, I ached all over. I fin<L&J|
IP -v \^j7 yours is the only medicine that reaches f
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In (? 1 5* ^ it v ommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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When women'are troubled with irregular or painful menstruation, weak*
ness, leucorrhcea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-dovn*
feeling, inflammation of the oraries, backache, flatulence, general debility, -^
indigestion, and nerrous prostration, they should remember there is one tried _ |
and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once 3ja|
- removes such troubles.
The experience and testimony of some of the most notetf ~:^
women of America go to prove, beyond a question, that JLydia S? .
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will correct all such trouble at ^
once by removing the cause and restoring the organs to a healthy
and normal condition. If in doubt, write Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass, as thousands do. Her advice is free and helpfuL
No other medicine for women in the world has received such widespread
and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a
record of cures of female troubles. Refuse to buy any substitute.
ApflAA FORFEIT if WO cannot forthwith produce tho original letters and signatuteaaC jg|
\nllllll Above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. SB
OJUUU Lydia ?. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Xia
OR. THAQHER'S if
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I gains after eating, liver trouble, sallow skin and dizsiness. When your bowels don't move I c
regularly you are sick. Constipation kills more people than all other diseases together. It
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substitute for and superiorto mustard or fj, // T w *?8ll3u
any other plaster, and will not blister the S Removes all swelling in 8toa?
most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and I days; effects a permanent cure
curatlvequalities of thisarticle are wonder- \ in 30 to 60 davs. Trial treatment '"y
fuL It will stop the toothache at once, and given free. Nothingcan be fairer -7^-4
relieve headache and sciatica. We recom- SpafaaagWMp write Dr. H. H. Green's Soot, *
mend it as the best and satest external 1 Specialists, Box B Atlanta, tth
counter-irritantknown,alsoa8anexternal ; . ' )
remedy for pains in the chest aud stomach |||r ATrm Frock Varb*A >1
Andallrheumatianeuralgicandgoutycem- lit# L 11 L L L U iTcSn raCKGflUraOgcS
plaints. A triai will prove what we claim f f I U I I L_ II S1.75 PER BOX f.o.h.
for". *nd vinv^onl^tav"fit?f^ 4t Kissimmee from now until December 20th.
in tbo household. Many peoplesa> it is who Cssh with order
best of all of your preparations." Price 1* WAKTED-20,000 oounds Dressed Cat-Pish 'M
cts.. at all druggists or other dealers, or by daily. Correspondence solicited. v_
sending this amount to us in postage stamns We pay the Highest Cash Price for Otter
^ kv* NVrttcJe Furs, Raccoon Skins and Alligator Hides.
snonld*>e accepted by the public unless the Ship ag your furs
same carries our label, as otherwise it is not ... ? _ . __
genuine. CHESBBROUOH MFQ. CO., | W. B. HAKINSON CO.. JUS3jMM?L FU
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