The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 23, 1898, Image 5
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. JUNE 23, 1898.
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GOOD AND RAD SPORT.
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON ABOUT THE
AMUSEMENTS OF THE HOUR.
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When the ISlintl Old Giant Simmon \V»<*
Called Forth to Aniline the Wicked of
Gaza — The Christian Who Recreates
Wisely—The Ileadly “Good Time.”
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ciation.]
Washington, Juno 19.—From an un
usual standpoint Dr. Talinaga in this
discourse discusses amusements and ap
plies tests by which they may be known
as good or bad. The text is Judges xvi,
25, “And it came to pass, when their
hearts were merry, that they said, Call
for Samson, that he may make us sport.
And they called for Samson out of the
prison house, and he made them sport.”
There were 3,000 people assembled in
the temple of Da son. They had come
to make sport of eyeless Samson. They
were all ready for the entertainment.
They began to clap and pound, impa
tient for the amusement to begin, and
they cried: “Fetch him out! Fetch him
out!” Yonder I see the blind old giant
coming, led by the hand of a child into
the very midst of the temple. At his
first appeara>ce there goes up a shout of
laughter and derision. The blind old
giant pretends ho is tired and wants to
rest himself against the pillars of the
house, so he says to the lad who leads
him, “Bring mo where tho main pillars
are.” Tho lad does so. Then the strong
man puts his hands on one of tho pil
lars, and, with the mightiest push that
mortal ever made, throws himself for
ward until tho whole house comes down
in thunderous craah, grinding the audi
ence like grapes in a wine press. “And
so it came to pass, when their hearts
were merry, that they said, Call for
Bamson, that ho may make us sp irt.
And they culled for Samson out of the
prison house, and he made them sport. ’ ’
In other words, there aro amusements
that aro destructive aud bring down dis
aster and death upon the heads of those
who practiee them. While they laugh
and cheer they die. Tho 3,000 who per-
ishe4 that day in Gaza are nothing com
pared with the tens of thousands who
have been destroyed, body, mind and
soul, by bad amusements and by good
amusements carried to excess.
In my sermons you must have notiowl
that I have no sympatliy with ecclesias
tical straitjankets, or with that whole
sale denunciation of amusements to
which many are pledged. I believe the
church of God has made a tremendous
mistake in trying to suppress tho sport
fulness of youth and drive out from men
their love of amusement If God ever
implanted anything in us, he implanted
this desire. But instead of providing
for this demand of our nature the church
of God has for tho main part ignored it.
As in a riot tho mayor plants a battery
at the end of tho street and has it fired
off, so that everything is cut down that
happens to stand in tho range, the good
as well as the bad, so there aro men in
tho church who plant their batteries of
condemnation and tiro away indiscrimi
nately. Everything is condemned. They
talk as if they would like to have our
youth dress in blue uniform, liko the
children of an orphan asylum, and
march down tho path of life to the tune
of tho dead march in “Saul.” They
hato a blue sash, or a rosebud in tho
hair, or a tassolisd gaiter, and think a
man almost ready for the lunatic asy
lum who utters a conundrum.
Young Meu’s Christian associations
of the country are doing a glorious
work. They have fine reading rooms,
and all tho influences are of the best
kind, and aro now adding gymnasiums
and bowling alleys, where, without any
evil surroundings, our young men may
get physical as well as spiritual im
provement. We aro dwindling away to
a narrow chested, weak armed, feeble
voiced race, when God calls us to a
work in which ho wants physical as
well as spiritual athletes. I would to
God that tho time might soon come
when in all our colleges and theological
seminaries, as at Princeton, a gymna
sium shall be established. We spend
seven years of hard study in preparation
for tho ministry and come out with
bronchitis and dyspepsia and liver com
plaint, and then crawl up into the pul
pit, aud the people say, “Doesn't he look
heavenly!” because he looks sickly.
Let tho church of God direct rather
than attempt to suppress the desire for
amusement. Tho best men that the
world ever knew have had their sports.
William Wilbcrforco trundled hoop
with his children. Martin Luther helped
dress tho Christmas trio. Ministers have
pitched 1 quoits, philanthropists have
gone a-skating, prime ministers have
played ball
Our commanities are filled with men
and women who have in their souls un
measured resources for sportfulness and
frolic. Show mo a man who never
lights np with sportfuluess aud has no
sympathy with tho recreations of oth
ers, and X will show you a man who is
a stumbling block to the kingdom of
God. Such men are caricatures of reli
gion. They lead young people to think
that a man is good in proportion as he
groans end frowns and looks sallow,
aud that tho height of a man’s Chris
tian stature is in proportion to the
length of his faca I would trad* off 600
such men for one bright faced, radiant
Christian on whoso face aro the words,
“Rejoice evermorel ,r Every morning
by his cheerful (ace ho preaches 60 ser
mon a I will go further and say that
I have no confidence in a roan who
makes a religion of his gloomy looks.
That kind of a man always turns out
badly. I would not want him for the
treasurer of an orphan asylum. The or-
ins would suffca
imong 40 people whom I received
tho church at one communion there
was only one applicant o* whoso piety
1 was suspicious. He had the loogeet
story to tell, had seen the most visions
aud gave an experience so wonderful
that all the other applicante were die*
couraged. I was not surprised the year
after to learn that he had run off with
tho funds of the bank with which ho
was connected. Who is this Mack angel
that you call religion—wings black,
feet black, feathers black? Our religion
is a bright angel—fri t bright, eyes
bright, wings bright—taking her place
in tho soul. She pulls a rope that
reaches to the skies and sets all the
b<. Us of heaven a-chimiug. There aro
some persons who, when talking to a
minister, always feel it politic to look
lugubrious. Go forth, O people, to
your lawful amusement! God means
you to be happy. But when there are so
many sources of innocent pleasure, why
tamper with anything that is dangerous
and polluting? Why stop our ears to a
heaven full of songsters to listen to tho
hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from
the mountain side, all a-bloom with wild
flowers aud a-dash with the nimble tor
rents, and with blistered feet attempt
to climb the hot sides of Cotopaxi?
Now, all opera houses, theaters, howl
ing alleys, skating rinks and all styles
of amusement, good aud had, I put on
trial today aud judge of them by cer
tain cardinal principles. First, you
may judge of any amusement by its
healthful result or by its baneful reac
tion. There are people who seem made
up of hard facts. They are a combina
tion of multiplication tables and statis
tics. If you show them an exquisite pic
ture, they will begin to discuss tho pig
ments involved in tiie coloring; if you
show them a beautiful rose, they will
submit it to a botanical analysis, which
is only the post mortem examination of
n flower. They never do anything more
than feebly smile. There are no great
tides of feeling surging up from the
depth of their soul in billow after bil
low of reverberating laughter. They
seem as if nature had built them by
contract and made a bungling job out
of it. But, blessed bo God, there are
people in the world who have bright
faces and whose life is a song, an an
them, a p:ran of victory. Even their
troubles aro like the vines tha4 crawl
up the side of a great tower on the
top of which the sunlight sits and
the soft airs of summer hold perpetual
carnival. They arc the people you like
to have come to your house; they are
the ]>eople I like to have come to iry
house. Now it is these exhilarant and
sympathetic aud warm hearted people
that are most tempted to pernicious
amusements. In proportion as a ship is
swift it wants a strong helmsman; in
proportion as a horse is gay it wants r.
strong driver, and these people of ex
uberant nature will do well to look at
the reaction of all their amusements. If
an amusement sends you Lome at uight
nervous so you cannot sleep, aud you
rise in the morning, not because you
are slept out, but because your duty
drags you from your slumbers, you
have been where you ought not to have
been. There are amusements that send
a man next day to his work bloodshot,
yawning, stupid, nauseated and they
are wrong lauds of amusements. There
are entertainments that give a man dis
gust with the drudgery of life, with
tools because they are not swords, with
working aprons because they t:re not
robes, with cattle because they are not
infuriated bulls of thu arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing for
a life of romance and thrilling adven
ture, love that takes poison ami shoots
itself, moonlight adventures and hair
breadth escapes, you may depend upon
it that you are the sacrificed victim of
uusanctified pleasure. Our recreations
are intended to build us up, aud if they
pull us down as to our moral or as
to our physical strength, you may come
to the conclusion that they are obnox
ious.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead into expenditure be
yond your means. Money spent in recre
ation is not thrown away. It is all folly
for us to come from a place of amuse
ment feeling that wo have wasted our
money and time. You may by it have
made an investment worth more than
the transaction that yielded you ?100
or 11,000. But how many properties
have been riddled by’ costly amuse
ments? The table has been robbed to
pay the club. The champagne has
cheated the children’s wardrobe. Tho
carousing party has burned up tho hoy’s
primer. The tablecloth of the corner
saloon is in debt to the wife’s faded
dress—excursions that in a day make a
tour around a whole mouth’s wages;
ladies whose lifetime business it is to
“go shopping” have their counterpart
in uneducated children, bankruptcies
that shock tho money market and appall
the church and that send drunkenness
staggering across the richly figured car
pet cf the mansion and dashing into the
mirror and drowning out tho carol of
music with tho whooping of bloated
sous come homo to break their old
mother’s heart. When men go into
amusements that they cannot afford,
they first borrow what they cannot
earn, and then they steal what they
cannot borrow. First they go into em
barrassment aud then into theft, aud
when a man gets as far on as that ho
does uot stop short of the penitentiary.
There is uot a prison iu tho land where
there are not victims of nnsanctificd
amusements. How often 1 have hod
parents come to me aud ask me to go
aud Log their boy off from the conse
quence of crimes that ho had committed
against his employer—the taking of
funds out of the employer’s till or tho
disarrangement (jt tho dccounts. Why,
he had salary enough to pay all lawful
expenditure, but uot enough salary tc
moot his sinful amusements. Aud again
and again i have gone aud implored for
the young man—sometimes, alas, the
petition unavailing!
How brightly the path of unrestrain
ed amusement opens! Tho yimug muu
says: “Now I am off for a good time.
Never mind economy. I’ll get money
somehow. What a fine mad! What a
beautiful day for a ridel Crack tho
whip, aud over the turnpike! Come,
boys, fill high your glasses I Drink 1
Long life, heTTlth, plenty of rides just
like this!’’ Hardworking men hear the
clatter of the hoofs and look up and say:
“Why, I wonder where those fellown
get their money from. Wo have to toil
and drudge. They do nothing. ” To
these gay men life is a thrill ami an ex
citement. They stare at other people
and u. turn are stared at. The watch
chain jingles. The eup foams. The
checks flush. The eyes flash. The mid
night hears their* guffaw. They swag
ger. Ihiw jostle decent men off the side
walk. They take the name of God in
vain. They parody the hymn they
learned at their mother’s knee, and to !
all pictures of coming disaster they cry
out, Who cares!” and to the conns;:!
of some Christian friend, “Who are |
you?” Passing along the street sonic |
night you hear a shriek in a grogshop, j
the rattle of tin* watchman's club, the
rush of the police. What is tho matter t
now: Oh, this reckless young man has
been killed in a grogshop fight. Carry
him homo to his father's house. Parents !
will come down and wash his wounds
and close his eyes in death. They for- ;
give him all he ever did, though he can- j
uot in silence ask it. The prodigal has 1
got home at last. Mother will go to her
little garden and get tho sweetest flow- J
ers and twist them into a chaplet for ;
the silent heart of the wayward hoy aud ,
push buck from the bloated brow the i
long locks that were once her pride. !
And tho air will he rent with the fa
ther’s cry, “Oh, my sou, my son, my
P»or sou; would God I hail died for
thee, oh, my son, my sou!”
Ton may judge of amusements by
their effect upon physical health. Tho
need of many good people is physical
recuperation. There are Christian men
who write hard things against their im
mortal souls when there is nothing the
matter with them but an incompetent
liver. There are Christian people who
seem to think that it is a good sign to
be poorly, and because Richard Baxter
and Robert Hall were invalids they
think that by the same sickness they
may come to the same grandeur of char
acter. I want to tell Christian people
that God will hold you responsible for
your invalidism if it is your own fault
and when through right exercise and
prudence you might be athletic and
welL The effect of the body upon the
soul yon acknowledge. Put a man of
mild disposition upon the animal diet
of which the Indian partakes, aud in a
little while his blood jvill change its
i chemical proportions. It will become
like unto the blood of tho lion or tho
tiger or tho bear, while his disposition
will change and become fierce, cruel
aud uurelei*tiug. The body has a pow
erful effect upon the soul. There aro
people whose ideas of heaven aro all
shut out with clouds of tobacco smoko.
There aro people who dare to shatter
the physical vase in which God put tho
jewel of eternity. There aro men with
great hearts aud intellects in bodies
worn out by their own neglects. Mag
nificent machinery capable of propelling
a great Etruria across tlio Atlantic, yet
fastened in a rickety North river pro
peller. Physical development which
merely shows itself a fabulous lift
ing or iu perilous rope walking or iu
pugilistic encounter excites only our
contempt, but we confess to great ad
miration for the man who has a great
soul in an athletic body, every nerve,
muscle and bone of which is consecrated
to right uses. Oh, it seems to :no out
rageous that men through neglect should
allow their physical health to go down
beyond repair, spending the re st of their
life uot iu some great enterprise for
God and the world, hut in studying
what is tho best thing to take for dys
pepsia. A ship which ought with all
sails set and every man at his post to Lo
carrying a rich cargo for eternity, em
ploying all its men in stopping up leak
ages. When you may through some of
the popular and healthful recreations of
our time work iff your spleen and your
querulousness and one-half of your
physical and mental ailments, do not
turn your hack from such a grand med
icament
Again, judge of the places of amuse
ment by tho companionship into which
they put you. If you belong to an or
ganization where you have to associate
with the intemperate, with the un
clean, with the abandoned, however
well they may he dressed, iu the name
of God quit it. They will despoil your
nature. They will undermine your
moral character. They will drop you
when you aro destroyed. They will not
give one cent to support your children
when you aro dead. They will weep
not ouo tear at your burial. They will
chuckle over your damnation. Burthe
day comes when the men who have ex
erted evil influence upon their fellows
will ho brought to judgment. Scene, the
last day. Stage, the rocking earth. En
ter dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns.
No sword. No tinsel. No crown. For
footlights, the kindling flames of a
world. For orchestra, the trumpets
that wake the dead. For gallery,, the
clouds filled with angel spectators. For
applause, the clapping floods of the sea.
For curtains, the heavens rolled togeth
er as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom of
the destroyed. For farce, the effort
to servo the world and God at the
same time. For tho last scene of tho
fifth act, the trump of nations across
the stage—some to the right, others to
the left.
Again, any amusement that gives you
a distaste for domestic life is bud. How
many bright domestic circles have been
broken np by sinful amusements? The
father went off, the mother went off.
the child went off. There are all around
us the fragments of blasted house* olds.
Oh, if you have wandered uw<9, 1
would like to charm you back by the
sound of that one word, ‘‘home!” Do
you uot know that you have but little
more time to give to domestic welfare?
Do you uot sio, father, that your chil
dren are soon to go out into the world
and all the influence for good you are
to have over them yon must have now?
Death \rill brquk in on your conjugal
rdutioulr and alas if you have to stu^d
over the grave of one who perished from
your neglect!
I saw a wayward husband standing at
the deathbed of his Christian wife, and
I saw her point to a ring on her finger
aud heard her say to her husband, “Du
you s;e that ring?” Ho replied, “Yea,
I see it.” “Well,” said she, “do you
remember who put it there?” “Yes,”
said he, “I put it there.” And nil the
past seemed to rush upon him. By the
memory of that day, when in the pres
ence of men aud angels youpromis*. d to
be faithful in joy and sorrow aud in
sickness and in health; by the memory
yf those pleasant hours when you sat to
gether in your new house talking of a
bright future; by the cradle and the ex
cited hour when one life was spared and
another given; by that sickbed, when
the little one lifted up the hands aud
called for help and you knew he must
die, and he put one arm around each of
your necks aud brought you very near
together in that dying kiss; by the lit
tle grave iu tho cemetery that you
never thing of without a rush of tears;
by the family Bible, where iu its stories
of heavenly love is the brief hut express
ive record of births and deaths; by the
neglects of the past and by the agonies
of the future; by a judgment day when
husbands and wives, parents and chil
dren, in immortal groups will stand to
bo caught up iu shining array or to
shrink down into darkness—by all that,
I beg you to give to home your best af
fections. I look in your eyes today, and
I ask you the question that Gehazi ask
ed of the Shunammite: “Is it well with
thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it
well with thy child?” God grant that
it may bo everlastingly well!
Let mo say to all young men your
style of amusement will decide your
eternal destiny. One night I saw a
young man at a street comer evidently
doubting as to which direction he had
better take. He had his hat lifted high
enough so you could see ho had an in
telligent forehead. Ho had a stout
chest; he had a robust development
Splendid young man. Cultured young
man. Honored young man. Why did
he stop there while so many wen* going
up and down? The fact is that every
man has a good angel and a bad an
gel contending for the mastery of his
spirit And there was a good angel
and a bad angel struggling with that
young man’s soul at the corner of the
street
“Como with me,” said the good an
gel, “I will take you home. I will
spread my wing over your pathway. I
will lovingly escort you all through
life. I will bless every cup you drink
out of, every couch you rest on, every
doorway you enter. I will consecrate
your tears when you weep, your sweat
when you toil, and at the last I will
band over your grave into tho hand of
tho bright angel of a Christian resur
rection. In answer to your father’s pe
tition and your mother’s prayer I have
been sent of the Lord out of heaven to
bo your guardian spirit. Come with
me, ’' said tho good angel in a voico of
unearthly symphony. It was music like
that which drops from a lute of heaven
when a seraph breathes on it. “No,
no,” said tho bad angel, “come with j
me. I have something better to offer, j
The wines 1 pour are from chalices of
bewitching carousal. The dance I lead
is over floor tessellated with unrestrain- |
ed indulgences. There is no God to |
frown on the temples of sin where I !
worship. The skies are Italian. The j
paths I tread are through meadows
daisied aud prhnrosed. Como with
me.” Tho young man hesitated at a
time when hesitation was ruin, and tho
had angel smote tho good angel until it
departed, spreading wings through the
starlight upward and away, until a
door flashed open in the sky and forever
tho wings vanished. That was tho turn
ing point iu that young man’s history,
for, the good angel flown, he hesitated
no longer, hut started on a pathway
which is beautiful at tho opening, but
blasted at the last.
Tho bad angel, leading tho way,
opened gate after gate, and at each gate
the road became rougher anil the sky
more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as
the gate slammed shut it came to with
a jar that indicated that it would never
open. Passed each portal, there was a
grinding of locks and n shoving of
bolts, and the scenery on cither side tho
road changed from gardens to deserts,
and the June air became a cutting De
cember blast, and the bright wings of
the had angel turned to sackcloth, and
the eyes of light became hollow with
hopeless grief, aud tho fountains, that
at tho start had tossed wine, js ured
forth bubbling tears and foaming blood,
and on the right side of tho road there
was u serpent, and the man said to the
bad angel, “What is that serpent?” and
the answer was, “That is the serpent
of stinging remorse.” On tho left side
of the road there was a lion, and the
man asked the bad ungel, “What is that
lion?” and tho answ’er was, “That is
the lion of all detouring despair.” A
▼ulture flew through the sky, and the
man asked the bad angel, “What is
that vulture?” and the answer was,
“That is tho vulture waiting for tho
carcasses of tho slain. ” Aud then tho
man began to try to pull off of him the
folds of something that had wound him
round tmd round, and he said to the bml
angel, •What is it that twists me iu
this awful convolution?” aud tho an
swer was, “That is the worm that never
dies, “ aud then the man said to the bad
angel: “What does all this mean? 1
trusted in what yon said at the comer
of the street that night. I trusted it all,
and why have you thus deceived me?”
Then th^iast deception fell off the
charmer, and it said: “I w’as sent forth
from the pit to destroy your soul. I
watched my chance for many a long
year. When you hesitated that night on
the street, I gained my triumph. Now
you are bore. Hu, ha! You are hero.
Come, now, let ua fill these two chaUneii
of fire aud drink together to darkness
and woe and death. Hail, hail!” Oh,
young man, will tho good angel sent
fqfth by Christ or the bud angel scut
forth by sin gat the victory over ypnr
soul? Their wings are interlocked this
moment above you, contending for your
destiny, as above the Apennines eagle
and condor fight midsky. This hour
may decide your ’destiny. God help you.
To hesitata is to die.
The Kaiser’s Wardrobe.
The kaiser’s wardrobes occupy a su’-
of live rooms iu tho old castle at Ber
lin. They aro massive aud of oak. In
the middle of ouo of tho rooms is a
large table for spreading out the uni
forms. There is a sixth room in which
small repairs aro undertaken. Here a
tailor is permanently employed, for
Kaiser Wilhelm does not throwaway
clothes until they aro well worn. Ho
keeps about lb pairs of white military
gloves in use. These aro cleaned and re
paired from time to time. The glover
receives a small yearly sum for his serv
ices. Each pair is supposed to have a
certain “life.” Should tho leather show
any defect it is returned to the unlucky
glover with a peremptory demand for
an explanation.
When a suit is ordered, woo be to the
tailor should it uot fit like a glove,
though a “try on” is never permitted.
Directly a suit has been taken off it is
returned to the wardrobe and there sub
jected to the closest scrutiny. Tho or
ders and decorations are kept in an iron
safe and represent in value about 1,500,-
000 marks.—Ball Mall Gazette.
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Wine of Cardul has now demon
strated that nine-tenths of all the
cases of menstrual disorders do
not require a physician’s attention
at all. The simple, pure
V«doi
•
taken In the privacy of a woman’s
own home insures quick relief and
speedy cure. Women need not
hesitate bow. V/ine of Cardul re
quires no humiliating examina
tions for its adoption. It cures any
disease that comes under the head
of “femab troubles’’—disordered
menses, falling of the womb,
“whites,” chanof life. It makes
women beautiful by making them
well. It keeps them young by
keeping them healthy. $1.00 at
the drug store.
For advice in eases requlrlnfr special
directions, eddress, giving symptoms,
the ” Ladies’ Advisory Department.”
The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chatta
nooga, Tina.
V. I. ADDISON, M.D., Cary, Mils., says:
•‘I use Wir.e of Cerdui extensively In
my practice and find it a most excellent
preparation for female troubles."
CAROGI
T. E. McGEHEE,
Contractor and Builder,
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Plans uml specifient ions furnished on ap-
| niii.-itirm. ItuUftlnir niHteri;il furnished
■ promptly and itt reasonable prices. 4-7-3ru
CLINE BROS. & CO.,
Livery Feed and Sale Sfrb’es,
Opposite National Bank.
First-class iunionist prompt attention;
und courteous attendants.
faf"We solicit your patronage.
Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co.,
era
T l METABLKof t he Ohio River ami Charles
ton Railway Company, coiijunctly with
the South Carolina and (Georgia Railroad.
SciiEUt't.K in effect May liith. 1S'>.
NORTH
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Eastern Time.
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Trains north of (.'amden run daily except
Sunday.
Trains between Charleston and Kingsville
run daily.
For in form at ion as to rates. Clyde Lino
Sailing, etc., call on local contracting and
traveling agents of l>i>tli roa is. ot
L. A. EMERSON. T. M., E. I .(.RAY.
S. C. & (j. U. R.. Traffic Manager.
Charleston. S. C. CincliiDuti. Ohio.
S. B LCMPKIN.
Gen'l. !• reight and Pass. Agent,
Blacksburg, S. C.
Syrilp
t heritage of rich and poor, has saved
many a life. For Throat and Lung affections
it is invaluable. It never fails to cure Cough,
Cold, Croup and Whooping-Cough. DR. BULL’S
COUGH SYRUP is the best. Price 25 £ents.
Chew LANGE'S PLUGS. The Great Tobago AntVoteJOc. Dealers or ■aii.A.C.Mejer A Co., BaiU). l Md.
CANDY
CATHARTIC
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CURE CONSTIPATION
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