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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MAY 20, 1897.
UTR ABUSED LIVERS.
RZV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE HEALTH
i OF THE BODY.
A Sormon That niouMy Coacprim This
T.ife, Vet Spiritual aud I’liyMical Crnd'*
tiuuH Are Largely Dcpcmlcnt Upon Kach
Other.
Washington, Ll.iy ir>.—Dr. Tal-
Biagc's Ecruiou cf today liaa more to do
v itli this iifo than tlio iifo to como and
Nvili bo a warning against all forms of
dissipation. Text, Proverbs vii, 2u,
“Till a dart strike through his liver.”
Solomon’s anatomical and physiolog
ical discoveries were so very gnait that
he was nearly 8,000 years ahead of the
scientists cf his day. He, mere than
1.000 years before Christ, seemed to
know about the em ulation of the blood,
which Harvey discovered 1,019 years
after Christ, for when Solomon in Ec-
clesiastes, describing the himian body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fountain he
evidently means the three canals lead
ing from the heart that receive the*
blood like pitchers. When he speaks in
Ecclesiastes of the silver cord of life, be
evidently means the spinal marrow,
about which in onr day Drs. Mayo and
Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and
Brown-fc'eqnard have experimented.
And Solomon recorded in the Bible,
thousands cf years before scientists dis
covered it, that in his time the spinal
cord relaxed in old age, producing the
tivmoro cf hand and head, ‘‘or the sti
ver cord be loosed.”
In the text he reveals thofact that he
had studied that largest gland of the
human system, the liver, not by the
electric light of the modern dissecting
room, but by t!:e dim light cf a com
paratively dark ago, and yc t had seen its
important fune.ions in the God built
castle of the human body, its selecting
and secreting power, its curious cells,
its elorgatod branching tubes, a divine
workman'■hip in <vmral and right and
left lobe and the hepatic artt ry through
which f.ov the crimson tides. Oh, this
vital organ is like the eye cf God in
that it never si -eps!
bolcmon 1 at v of it and had noticed
either in vr.i ,<fion or postmortem
what awful ana- In; sin and dissipatk;,
make up< nit, until the iiatof Almighty
God bids t' • i !v and sou! separate,
am! f' '* i ennouends to the grave
and the • the ;• it ; mis to judgment. A
javelin of n * r.- it .on. not glancing off
or niakin.T:» s igh wound, but piercing
it from side to si.to “till a dart strike
tLr.v.’gh his liv. • ”
Gai n and Jiippf crates aseritm to the
liver the nic.-t«! the world's moral de
pression, uin! tl:o weui melancholy
means black bile.
1 preach ta j u tiio gospel of heaifh.
In talcing :i diagund;; *.< dis 'a-es of the
1 vnu mu 1 e - :* take a diagnosis t'*’
di-
y u mu ■
K".i f!i!:e st ilt.i
AM'S < f t i.
!y. An if to
, I’le: v.!
k of the N
t. was wri’
< .i ; iy a phy-ie:
a liit-iii' a.
i. , and in: i
much cf the i :e,il ami
he tells of t! e ge -1 f-amarjf.in's nnd-
ieatinn of tii" wo.r-.r ' y pouring in oil
and v.iue, and ;••.<<• aizt. l unger ns .i
liiudranen t-» !•• .r tl. • c< •■{' 1, so '.‘in*
the ( v,( so i d iie nl-o record the
«p;tr-e diet ( i t!. ■ pro ligal away iren.
heme and t’n gni-insl * v dglit of
the beggar b • weyside, and h-ts us
know of the , 1-. .re i f tin* v onmls
of the dying • h : :-t at.o tin* mini -till us
post mortem r ufitiee. Any i-Mi-
uiatoof the Kpitim- i itim tion timt do« s
not include as.-o t. e j hy.-:e;;i •.v.indi:. u
is incomplete.
J'.-n-rt .c.p«1 Mvrr.
s When the dor ! per cf eongn «s fell
dead from cm -ive j- y 1 < .u-- Bur
goytse had srrr. ml.-n d ; t if:.- ;.nd
Philip V of Bprin lircpncl di:: l ;.r tie
news of bis c-untry’s defeat in b.rtle,
and Cardinal V.'. !-< y faded away a - the
result of HturyVlli’s anat!" ir.a. it vw;^
demonstrated that ♦he beiiyai.d * 1
at9 Siamese twins, and when you thrill
the one with joy ov sorrow ypu thrill
the other. We may a - well r< eogniae I h<
tremendous fact that tlieio i-.i!' two
mighty fortre -nin the huiaan body, t :«•
heart and the liver, th<* heart the for
tress of tlio graces, the liver the fortn -s
of tho furies. Yen may have tiie he id.
filled with all nm lleotualitii-s, and tie-
car with all ini-ieal appreciation, and
the car with all musical appr uat ion.
and tho mouth with all eloqmure, aim
the hand with all industries, and the
heart with all generosities, and yet “a
dart strike through the liver.”
First, let Christian people avoid tho
mistake that they are all wrong with
God because they suffer from dep:
eiou of spirits. Many a consecrated man
has found his spiritual sky hetoggfd
and liis I’.opo of hr aven blotted out and
himself plunged chin deep in the slough
of despond and has said: ‘‘My heart is
not right with God, and I think I must
have made jt mistake and instead of be
ing a child of light I am a child of
darkness. No one can feci as gloomy as
I feel and bo a Christian.” And lie has
gone to hi:; minister for consolation, and
he has collected Flav. 1's books and (Jo-
oil’s books and Baxter’s Looks and read
and read and read and prayed and pray
ed and prayed cud wept and wept and
wept and groaned and groaned and
groaned. *. 1 y brother, your tioublo is
not with the heart; i'. is a gastric disor
der or a rebellion of the liver. Yon
need a physician more than you do a
clergyman. It is not sin that blots out
yotr hope of heaven, hut bile. It not
only yellows your eyeballs, and furs
your tongue, and makes your head ache,
but swoops upon your soul in dejections
and forebodings, ‘inedevil it; after you.
He has failed to despoil your character,
and lie docs tho next best thing for him
—iie rnilles your peace of mind. Wlr u
he unys that you arc notuinrgiveu soul,
when he Rays you are not right with
God, when he Bays that you will never
r ^ heaven, he lies. If you are in
Christ vou aro^ust as sure of heaven ms
thoughVouwere there already. But Ka
tun, liufling that he cannot keep you
out of tho promised land of Canaan,
has determined that tho spies si,all not
bring you any cf the Esehnl grapes bo-
forehand, r.ud that you shall have noth
ing but prickly pear and crabapplc.
Yon are just as much a Christian now
under tho cloud as you were when you
were accustomed to rise in the morning
at 5 o'clock to pray and sing “Hallelu
iah, ’tis done!”
I.Iy friend, Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Jones
of Philadelphia, a translated spirit now,
wrote a book entitled, “Man, Moral and
Physical,” in which he shows how- dif
ferent tho sumo tlii.igs may appear to
different people. He says: “After tho
great battle on the Mineio ip 1859, be- j
tween the French and the b'ardinians
on the one side and the Austrians on
the other, so disastrous to the latter,
the defeated army retreated, followed
by the victors. A description of the 1
march of each army is given by two
correspondents of the Loudon Times,
cue cf whom traveled with the success
ful host, the other with tho defeated.
The difference in views and statements I
cf the same place, scenes and events is i
remarkable. The former are said to be
marching through a beautiful and lux
uriant country during the day and at
night encamping where they are sup
plied with an abundance of the best
previsions and all sorts of rural dain
ties. There is nothing of war about the (
proceeding except its s»iinulus and ex
citement. On tho side of the poor Aus- ,
trians it is just the reverse. In his let-
ter of the same date, describing the
same places and a march over tho same
road, the writer can scarcely find words ,
to set fortli the suffering, impatience
and disgust existing around him. What ,
was pleasant to the fi rmer was intolcr- j
able to the latter. What made all this ,
difference? asks the author. ‘One coirli- I
tion only. Tlio French are victorious,
the Austrians have been defeated.’ ”
Result of Black Bile.
So, my dear brother, the road you are
traveling is the same you have been |
traveling a long while, but the differ- j
euoc in your physical conditions makes 1
it look different, and therefore tho 1
two repents you have given of yourself
are as widely different as the reports in ;
the London Times from the two cor- j
respondents. Edward Pay son, some
times so far up on the mount that it
s< < rued as if the centripetal force of
earth could no longci hold him, some
times through a physical disorder was
so far down that it seemed as if tho
in tlier world would clutch him. Poor
William Cov.pcr was a most excellent
Christian ami will bo loved in the
Christian church as long as it sings his
hymns beginning, “There is a fountain
filled with Mood,” “Oh, for n closer
walk with Go;!,” “What various hin
drances wo. meet” and “(Sod moves in
a mysterious way. ” Yet woo he so over
come of melancholy or black bile that it
was only through tho mistake of the
ca'n driver who took him to a wrong ,
place, instead cf the river bank, that
he did not commit suicide.
t'p'it itaul condition so mightily affect- |
ed by the physical state, what a great
opportunity this give:- to tho Christian j
pii.> sieian, lor he can reel at the same
tin e l oth tlie pulse of tho body and the |
pah'* el - the soul, and he can administer 1
to L< ih at me.', and if medicine is need
ed he can give that, and if spiritual '
<. aii -ol is »:> (diil he can give that—an |
catthly t: d a divine prescription at the |
saute tinu—ami call on not only the I
upoiliica.ry i f earth, hut tho pharmacy '
c? In • :n Ah, that i ■ the kind of doc
tor 1 want at my brd-ide. one that can- I
not i uJv count oat the right number cf i
(!;. j s but who cun aisn pray. That is |
tli* kind of dorn r 1 have had in my |
in win it Mi.'Lai ss or death came. I ;
do not w.»n: any of your p^ei! gate or ;
at' ' i tie <!<r n is ;at .ml my loved ones !
v.. u i he balances of life are trembling. ■
A <etor win has gone through the j
in. h i ul ct ii- ;fc and in nissi cting room
ba< r .veir •! t!; -wi nders of the human ;
ne ■•laiiisia nml iouia! no God in any of ■
tin lalyrnitl.s is a tool and cannot doc- j
t< i iiic i t nine. Bur. oh, the Christian
iio< to!; ’ \Vla*f, a n !!ii<irt they have been j
in many el i in* bousoholds! And they '
ought to hiivt a wan.i place in our pray- j
ers ;h well as prai e i n our tongues.
I I e ss tied that the net'll e,- of Chris- !
tinu ph' e inns :s niullip!yingund some
of tin-stud'.its of the It.cdieal eoikgi s
are hero ted ty, and 1 hail you and cr-
dnin you to the tetidi r, l enutiful, Imav-
• ii di si • mil ii work of a I'iivisfiitn phy- i
ficiun, and v n< n you fake your diploma
In in tin* meiiieal eolJrg • to loul: aftC!
the ]h rtshahle ts dy I e sin ■ ul'-fi to g-1 a
diiilouia frum the ska tn loo!: afii r the
imperishal le -onl Let nil ChriHlia!i
physicians unite w ith miuisti rn of Hie
gospel in persuading gi m) |n'0|i!o that it
is not hir:iU"Go4l .s agnin’t them tli.it
ttr y sometimes (■ 1 deprerMil, but he-
ca.uno of tin ir ili»eio('d hodi'-s IsupiioK,*
David tin' psalmist was im more pious
when he cull'd on en rything human
and aiigeli'’, animate mid in. mo.
even from Mimvfh.ke to Inn) leaiie, ti
praise (iiai than when he mi id, "ii.it of
the depths of lu ll have 1 era d unto
thee, O Lord,” or tlmt Ji ri iiiiuh \v;im
more pious when he wri te hia pr< i !e < y
than when lie wrote his Lam nta
tions, cr Job when he mud, "I I now
that my Redeemer livet!i,“ thiin v, l ":i
covered over with the pustal <
phautiusiR as he sat ui tl.ei > . i.iteh-
ing the seal s off with a I n !e u pnee of
pottery, or that Ah xaiider Ciud'u, the
coueortlDt, was ;» tetter mar. v. !;. a L>
compiled the I'.ok that has h' liMii
10,900 students of the |;ih!i ih.iu w hen
under tlio imwi r of j Ii;. > t a! oi na r he
was ha ude it Hi d and strait wuet.'Mted
in tiethmilGn en I mane asylum “• Hi."
KuyHBonieChristian mart, “no one « ngiit
to allow physicul diso:ihrR to'h press
h soul. lie ought to live mi neat G*«l
as Hi be always m tlm suiisbine. ” Y< ,
tbat is good advice, but 1 warrant Mint
you, the man who giv< t! • advn e, has
a tound liver. Tliauk tied lor a le lib-
fnl In patio eoiidilioii, lor uu oertaluly
ns you lose it you will Momeilm< s, like
Divid, and lil.;< .11 rein I uli, nrd like
Ctiwper, mud like Ah kauiler t 1‘lldeM,
and like 10,000 other invalids, he | lay
ing n (h ud man h «'it the same i.iggu
With which now you play u i tan .no,
Alrsltll'iiu* r«.o|ilr.
My object ut this point i not < uly (g
emolliatc tliw criticisms of these iugood
liealtli against those in poor health, hut
to show Christian people who are atra
bilious what is the matter with them.
Do not charge against the heart thu
crimes of another portion of your organ
ism. Do not conclude that because the
path to heaven i; not arbored with ns
line a foliage cr the banks beautifully
snowed with exquisite chrysanthemums
as once, that therefore you are on the
wrong road. The road will bring you
out at tin* same gate, whether you walk
with the stride cf tsa athlete or come
up on crutches. Thousands of Chris
tians, morbid about their experiences
and morbid about their business and
morbid about the present and morbid
about the future, need the sermon 1 am
now preaching.
Another practical use of this subject
is for the young. The theory is abroad
that they must lirst sow their wild oats
and afterward Michigan wheat. Let
me break the delusion. Wild oats are
generally sown in the liver, and they
can never be pulled up. They to preoc
cupy that organ that there is no room
for the implantation of a righteous crop.
You see aged men about us at 80 erect,
agile, splendid, grand old men. How
much wild oats did they sow between
18 years and .'10' None, absolutely none.
God ciocy not very often honor with old
ace those who have in early life sarri- |
fiel d swiiio on the altar of the bodily
temple. Remember, O young man, that, J
while in after life and after years cf |
dissipation you may perhaps have your
in art chauptid, religion dots not change
the liver. Trembling and staggering
along these streets today are men, all !
bout and decayed and prematurely old
for the reason that they are paying for
liens they put upon their physical estate
before they were 80. By early diasip-a- !
tion they put on their body a first mort- !
gage and a second mortgage and a third ;
mortgage to the devil, and these inert- !
gages are now being foreclosed, and all '
that remains of their earthly estate the
undertaker will soon put out of sight.
Many years ago, in fulfillment of my
text, a dart struck through their liver,
and it is there yet. God forgives, but '
outraged physical law never, never,
never. That has a Sinai, but no Cal
vary. Solomon in my text knew what
he was talking about, and ho rises up
on his tlmme of worldly splendor to
shriek out a warning to all the cen
turies.
Stephen A. Douglas gave tho name
of “squatter sovereignty” to those wh >
went out wist and took possession e.f
lands and held them by right of preoc- ;
eupatiou. Let a flock cf sins settle on
your liver before you get to 25 years cf
age, and they will in all probability
keep possession of* it by an infernal !
squatter sovereignty. “I promise to pay
at the bank §500 six n ouths from
date,” says the prcuiDsory note. “I
promise to pay my life 80 years from
date at the lank of the grave,” says
every infraction of the laws of your
physical being.
Liver Conijitalats.
What? Will a man’s body never cora-
pl. iely recover from early dissipation !
in tins world? Nevir. Hmv about tho i
world to come? Perhaps God will fix it ;
up in the resnrr. ctiou body s:o that it j
will in ; have to go limping through all
eternity. But gee the liver thoroughly
damaged, and it will stay damaged as
long as you are lure. Physicians call it
cirrho-is c.i the liver cr inflammation
of the liver or fatty dcgch*. ration cf tho
livir, but Solomon puts all these pangs
into one figure and says, “Till u dart j
strike through his liver.”
Hcsit d seemed to have some hint of
this when he leprescuti d PinmethcmiJ
for his crimes fastened to a pillar and
an eagle feeding on his liver, whi-h
was renewed again each night, so that j
the devouring went on until finally
Hercules slew the c-nglo and rescued !
Prcmi thea.s. And a dissipated early life
asstuvs a ferocity pecking aw^y and
clawing away at tin* liver year iu and i
year eat, ana death is the only Hereulc:< !
who can break the power of its beak ci t
unclench its claw. .So, also, others
wrote fables about vultures preying ■
upon the liver, but there are those hen ;
with whom it is no fa Lie, hut a teirilh |
reality.
. That young man smoking cigarettes !
and smoking cigars lias no idea that he
is getting for himself smoked liver, j
That young man has no idea that he
has by early dissipation so depleted his ,
i nergies that ho will go into the battle
only half armed. Here is another young |
man who, if he put all his forces j
against the ngimeut of youthful temp
tations in the strength of God, might |
drive them bad:, but he is allowing ;
tl ::i to b ■ re-i uforced by the whole
tuiay cf midlife temptations, and what
bar immortal dcluit can await him?
nil, my yeiu.g brother, do not make ;
tb • uii tnke that thousands are making
in <[ ring t ic hat tie against sin too
late, p r tbk'Wi rid too lute, and for the j
v.i ilc to eouie too lute! What hiiugs
th t ixjit'y train from Ht. Louis into
.1 i < ,< ( ny tliiro hours lute? They lest
15 m.i.e: i early on the route, and that
afo Ti d tin in all the way, and they had
to ! • s" Hi bed off In re and switched off
tl i to and di tained hue and detained
tl le, ai d the man who loses time and
sin ngth in the curlier pint of the jcur-
ui y < f life w ill Mifii r fur it all the way
liumigh, tin* nrct W years of life dam
aging ih< following 80 years.
• ace juits ago u scientific lecturer
went ilirougi: the eMiintry exhibiting on
/v ..t rum., i dirter nt parts of the liu-
iiiun biuly when healthy and the sumo
parts win ii di iced. And what the
wc. lil wnntK now In some eloquent aci-
"•••• t t:- g., ri.c.v.iistry, ‘■how-
lug to ear > ii g |h ej le on hla/iug eau-
vie the drill.hard'ii liver, tho idler's liv
er, the lilii iiih 'm livr, tho gambler’s
llw P i ..;| s the m|hetui'lo might stop
►' ' i; ■ I. ..U l' f< le he conies to the
cuiactrojihe mu the dart Ntnkesthrough
his liver.
r.|dHi|»hii.
.My hi n< r, tIiim is tlio first Rcrmou
you Imte le ml oil the pe js l hi-alth,
end it ina.' ! • tlie Inst you will ever
i; nr ' ii tlmi »t;1 jict, and I cliurgo you
ti. (in Uuii.e < f liu*l and Christ and use*
fclncst and eternal destiny t ike lette:’
care cf your health. When rome of ye,a
die, if your fricudn put on your tomb
stone a tnnbfal epitaph, it will read,
“Here lira the victim of late suppers,”
cr it will hi, “Bi iicld what lobster sal
ad at midnight will no for a man,” or
it will he. “Ten cigars a day closed my
earthly existence” cr it will be,
“Thought I could do at 70 what I did
at 20, and 1 am here,” or it will be,
“Hire is the consequence of sitting a
half day with wet feet,” or it will be,
“This is where I have stacked my har
vest of wild oats,” or instead of words
the stone cutter will chisel for an epi
taph on the tombstone two figures--
namely, a dart and a liver.
Tlu re is a kind of sickness that is
beautiful when it cornea from overwork
for God, or one’s country, or cue’s own
familv. I have seen wounds that were
glorious. I have seen an empty sleeve
that w s mere beautiful than the most
muscular forearm. I have seen a preen
shade over tno eye, shot out in battle,
that was more beautiful than any two
eyis that had passed without injury. I
have seen an old missionary, worn out
with the malaria of African jungles,
who leaked to me more radiant than a
rubicund gymnast. I have seen a moth
er, after six weeks’ watching over a
family of children down with scarlet
fever, with a glory around her pale and
wan face that surpassed the angelic. It
ail depends on how you got your sick-
mss and in what battle your wounds.
If wc must get sick and worn out, let
it be iu God’s service and in the effort
to make the world good. Not in rho
service of sin. No, no! One of the most
pathetic scenes that I ever witness, and
I often see it, is that of men or women
converted in the fifties or sixties cr sev
enties want ig to be useful, but they so
served the world and satau iu the ear
lier part of their life that tin y have no
physical energy loft for the service cf
God. They sacrificed nerves, muse lee,
lungs, heart and liver on the wrong al
tar. They fought on the wrong side,
and now, when their sword is all hack
ed up and their ammunition all gone,
they enlist for Emmanuel. When the
high mettled cavalry horse, which that
man spurred into many a cavalry charge
with champing bit and flaming eye and
nock clothed with thunder, is worn cut
and spavined and ringboued and spring
halt, he rides up to the great Captain
cf our salvation on the white horse and
offers his services. When such persons
might have hern, through the good hab
its of a lifetime, crushing their battle-
ax through the hclmeted iniquities,
they are .‘ pending their days and nights
in discussing the best way of curing
their indigestion, and quieting their
jangling nerves, and rousing their lag-
gurd appetite, and trying to extract the
dart from their outraged liver. Better
converted late than never. Oh, yes, lor
they will get to heaven! But they will
go afoot when they might have wheeled
up the steip hills of the sky in Elijah’s
chariot. There is an old hymn ’hat wo
used to sing in the country meeting
bouse when I was a Ley, and I remeui-
bi r how the old folks' voices tiviuMed
with i motion while they sang it. 1 have
forgotten ail bat two lines, but thoso
lines are the peroration of my sermon:
Twill m;vi' us froia a tfiousand anurca
To mind religion yuan..:
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This ought to hi* a lucky year, for it |
has ho few (clip* s. In fact only two of (
tln.se shadowy phenomena ceeur during |
1897, and both affect tie: light of tho
sun, but in each case the moon happen:; ,
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earth where the moon appears crossing j
riiit cfly over the center of the sun the j
edge of the latti r projects from bihin:] |
the moon on all sides, like a blazing:
ring or annulus, recalled Monday aft- !
ernoon, Feb. 1. But evm if the sky had j
been clear at the time very little of the j
eclipse would have been seen here, no
more, iu fact, than the mere edge cf i
tie.' mcon jusr notching the disk of th; 1
sun. One would have had to go to .
South America i r to the r mth Pacific :
ocean in order to see the sun turned iu- j
to u fiery circle.
The second annular eclipse and the
only ether eclipse of tho year occurs on
the morning cf July 29, when a better |
o] pertuuity will be afforded us to be
hold the black globe of the moon partly
covering the sun. On that occasion tho
ring will he visible iu Mexico and some
of the West India islands.
Astronomers pay comparatively little '
attention to annular eclipses, because j
they do not reveal those marvelous
streams and banners of glowing gas or
electrified particltssurrounding the sun
which become visible only during tho
darkness of a total eclipse.
On the Either hand, supcrst.tior.s peo- ;
pie, who think total eclipses are por
tents of evil, ought to i»*jnice over a
year which has only annular eclipses,
displaying their golden ring in the
heavens as if fora real “bridal of tho
earth and sky. ”—G. P. Ss. iu New York
World.
••To \Vall<»i».”
This verb, ru the sense of to boat or
thrash, is coimrou in the northern
counties and also iu Scotland. Hens
h igh Wedgwood says that “tho use of
wallop in low language iu tho sense of
beating seems to be taken from compar
ing the motion of the arm to the action
cf water dashing to and fro (cf. pot
walloper, one who boils u pot). Norm,
vloper, to thrash (rouser). Dr. Char-
nock, iu “Verba Nominalia,” assigns a
different origin to the word. He says
that Mr. John Gough Nicholas derives
the word from an ancestor of the Earl of
Portsmouth, one Sir John Wallop, K.
G., who-in Henry VUI’i time distin
guished himself by walloping the
French. Dr. Brewer, in his “Diction
ary of Phrase and 1 ,“gives the j
Htiuic derivation and says that Sir .)• a
was sent to Normandy to make ropri- 1
sals because the French fleet hud burn
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Say the main thing* to do is to keep the stomach, liver fid bowels in
order if you want to live long and keep Weil. Good physicians say
the same thing, tco. The remedy called
RIPANS TABULES
while not mysterious or miraculous in its caraiivc qualities i:; a sin pie
formula prescnbt d l y the best physicians lor ni-oraer--of me digestive
organs. Just little tablets, easy to t.ike, easy to buv ai i! quick lo aci. if
vourtroublei*Dyspeps a, IJifii usnrss. Diizir< s«. Ihai’ailn, Constipation,
Heartburn, and the like, no need 3 cnliittg a piqsici.in. Kipans 1'abule*
contain exactly what he would tell you to take,
ONE TABtLE GIVES RELIEE.
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