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. ‘.I TALMAGE SERMON * By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D., Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby* terian Church, Chicago Chicago, July 13.—From the example of martyrs and great sufferers in the cause of Christ Rev. Frank De Witt TaImage draws lessons of encourage- inent and fortitude for afflicted mem bers of Christ's church; text. Philip- plans iv, 22, “All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's house hold.’’ Pope Leo XIII. was one day giving an audience to some foreigners. Turn ing to a gentleman present, lie asked, “How long have you been in our city?" “Three days,” was the answer. “Then.” said the pope, "you have been here long enough to practically know all about Rome.” He asked another gentleman, “How long have you been in Rome?” “Three months,” was the answer. “Then,” said the pope, “you have been here long enough to know that you have just begun to see Rome.” He asked a third gentleman the same question. “1 have been here three long years,” was the answer. "Then." said the pope, “you have been here long enough to know that, though a man may live in Rome a hundred years, he can never live long enough to fully ap preciate Rome.” The longer one lives under the shadow of the Coliseum the more he realizes how much of history, of conquests and defeats, of culture and ignorance, of purity and vice, of justice and injustice, clusters about the seven hills of the Kternal City. Rut, though the most marvelous achievements and the most startling happenings may be panoramaed in that one word, "Rome,” yet without doubt to the Christian student the most ab sorbing and intense of all Roman eras is that which includes the history of Nero's reign. Then the persecutions against the early Christians became the most virulent, inhuman and fatal. Then the brutalities and mercilessness of the fiendish monster, Nero, out- Heroded even bloody Herod. Then the lowest dungeons of the inferno were filled with pandemoniums of satauic joy. “For then,” wrote the historian, "the Christians were covered by the skins of wild beasts and torn to pieces by the dogs. Then they were crucified. Then they were smeared with pitch and combustible materials and burned in the imperial gardens at night. Then at last from a horror stricken nation there arose pity for the condemned, since they were not put to deatli for the public good, but to gratify the cru elty of one man.” Yet Paid wrote about this time that, in spite of all these persecutions and martyrdoms, there still remained In Rome men and women who were true to the Christian faith. In the darkest days of the his tory of the early church there were Christians ready to testify for Jesus Christ, though they wore the uniforms of the Roman emperor and though, on account of that testimony, they knew they had to die. A Modern Epistle. Now, as Paul sent the salutations of the saints in Caesar’s palace to the members of the Philippian church for their encouragement, 1 am going to bring the salutations of the saints who live In Caesar's modern palaces for the encouragement of every man. woman and child. 1 am going to declare to the young and the old. the rich and the poor, the high and the low alike, that, though some of you are having a hard time to maintain your Christian Integrity against the bombardments of seemingly overwhelming worldly diffl- culties. yet there are men and women who are maintaining their Christian In tegrity against troubles infinitely greater than yours. There are meu and women true to Cod today who have shouldered upon their backs a whole mountain range of misfortunes and sorrows and pains, while you. com paratively speaking, are going forth Into the gospel tight weighted down only with a little knapsack. There are Christian men who. figuratively speak ing, have been tiling overboard mid- Atlantic and told to swim ashore, while you have only a shallow brook to cross. There are Christian men who are ankle deep, knee deep, waist deep, shoulder deep, chin deep In the quicksands of difficulties who can yet look up aud see the face of (Jod. while you. com paratively speaking, have only a stony path to climb. If the saints in Caesar’s ancient and modern palaces could be true to their gospel faith, surely their spiritual examples ought to rouse ev ery one of us to better and truer and purer and nobler efforts, no matter what our mental or physical or Inci dental difficulties may be. I would encourage those Christians, in the first place, who are struggling against the physical depressions of ill health. Life even under the brightest of conditions Is an awful struggle. Al exander Pope once compared the cease less struggle of life to a continuous Journey over the bridge of time. Up on one end of this bridge the Knglish poet started the different generations. Then he kept them moving on and on and on. never allowing the tired and footsore and hcadaching and heart- aching traveler to halt for an instant. He kept them moving on and on over the bridge of time until every boy ami girl or young man and young woman or middle aged man and middle aged woman or sexagenarian or octogena rian or tottering centenarian had tum bled through the broken planks of that bridge into the dark waters of the riv er of death Mowing below. Uut though Ilf* Is *ucb ao awful struggle for the broad chested and the stout limbed and the powerfully phy- slqued, yet, wonderful to say, some of the mightiest Christian heroes and heroines have been men and women who were physical weaklings. Some of the most famous mental and spir itual giants of the ages have been those whose physical frames were so frail that they could have been de stroyed almost as easily as a dew- drop could be tying from the surface of a leaf or a humming bird’s life could be crushed out between the thumb and the forefinger of a man’s hand. John Summerlield’s body was so frail that it withered away under the touch of consumption while ho was yet a boy. John Summerfield died when he was but twenty-seven, yet he lived long enough, with that frail body, to bring the gospel mes sage to the whole English speaking race of his time. Fanny Crosby, the inspired hymnologist, who has written over 5.000 hymns, by means of which many thousands of souls have nestled “Safe In the Arms of Jesus” (which Is perhaps her most popular hymn), has such a weak, frail little body that there seems to be nothing to her phys ically, and in addition to her other physical infirmities God put out the light of her two eyes. And there she sits, in the darkness of her own room, in order that with her eyeless sockets she may better see the face of Jesus Christ. Frances E. Willard in all prob ability never saw a perfect well day in thirty years, yet with her weak body she headed one of the mightiest reform movements of her time. With her devoted companions she toured up and down this land, speaking in every town and city of 10.000 inhabitants or over. When she became too feeble to travel. In order to keep her from work ing her friends sent her across the seas. Yet even there, under the shall ow of the trees, she would write her letters, which roused all the women of Christendom to better deeds for God and humanity. To show what power this sickly little woman was able to exercise, a male auditor gave his impression of her to a friend in this way: “When she com menced to speak, I felt sorry for her. Sfie seemed to be such a wee little bit of a sickly woman, so very frail and helpless, but when Frances E. Willard had been speaking a short time this wee little bit of a woman seemed to me to grow nine feet tall, and she seemed to have in her hand a battering ram with which she was pounding up on the door of my heart until I had to open it and let the Saviour in.” To show what was the influence of this frail little woman and the work which she did I would quote a statement made by Wendell Phillips. He turned to a young man, who was complaining that there were no great reformers to day, because there were no great re forms to champion, and said: "Young man, did you hear Frances E. Willard speak tonight? If you did, in that frail, little sick body you saw one of the mightiest powers for good this world lias ever seen. You also saw her denouncing, ’perhaps, the mightiest curse of all ages, the curse of intoxi cants. Go and do as the sickly Frances E. Willard is doing.” The MnliitntlouB of the Saint*. Now, to you who are sitting before me today with the pale face of an in valid I bring the salutations of the saints who have lived in the Ca*sarea» palaces of physical infirmity. I would toll you to do something for God in spite of your bodily pain, as blind John Milton did: as Bella Cooke, who has been bedridden for over forty years, is doing; as Paul did. who was “in bodily presence weak.” Your very physical sufferings ought to bring you closer to Christ. Your very sicknesses ought to make you the more anxious to do some thing for the Saviour now that your time on earth may be short. They ought to make you as anxious to do something for Christ us was the dying president of Union college, who. when his physician told him he had but one hour on earth to live, said, "Then place me upon my knees, that 1 may spend that hour in prayer with God, pleading for the salvation of sinful souls!” Would that today, in the presence of these saints who have lived in the modern Cmsur's palaces of physical torture, we might all consecrate our frail as well as our well bodies to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ! I would encourage those Christians also who are trying to maintain their Christian Integrity in spite of an evil past. By this statement I mean those Christians whose past sins have been heralded over the world, even ns Cain’s sin was known by the black mark which had been stampefl upon the murderer's brow. If it'is hard for a young girl lo be good and pure and true when she is living In • Christian home and has practically never been out of her mother's care, how much harder must it be for a young girl to be good and true and pure when she has hail her feet cut and lacerated by treading the crooked and stony path way of sin and has hail her fair name blackened by the condemnations of a dissolute life! If it is difficult for a young man to bold an honorable posi tion In society when his record Is clean and good, how much more diffi cult must It, be for a man to attain an honorable life when he has served out his time In a felon’s cell or has had his hair cropped by the convict’s shears and his clothes striped with the marks of the penitentiary! If It Is difficult for a Christian to live right whose nearest neighbors can find nothing but good to say of him and his past, bow much more difficult must It Im* for a man to live a good life who has been a drunkard, a libertine, a thief, a so cial outcast! Would you. O Christian merchant, today be willing to have re formed ex-convicts as occupants of your office? Would you. O mother, al- Inn reformed servants In your home whose past lives have been dissolute? “No,” In all probability you would both answer in an un-Christian way “I do not boar such people any ill will, but I would prefer not to have them around my person. They might steal or perhaps they might lead my chil dren astray, and were such among my help I would dismiss them at once.” Some time ago 1 stood in the store of a personal friend. While there a gen tleman who was a member of the Chi cago detective force entered to buy some goods. This officer sharply looked at one of the clerks. Then he came over to the merchant’s side and said: "Mr. So-and-so. that clerk is an ex- convict. He served a term In Joliet penitentiary. You had better keep an eye upon him.” Although that ex-con vict was a good clerk and had been In the employ of my friend for nearly two years, he was immediately dis charged. When I spoke up in his favor and begged that he he retained and given a chance to live a good life, my friend answered: “No, Mr. Tal- mage; that man is able to steal every year thousands of dollars without my knowing it. 1 cannot run the risk.” So the poor clerk was driven out of that store aud perhaps driven Into a future of crime. Sinking an Evil Past. But though it is so difficult for a man to lead a Christian life who has had an evil past, yet if there are any such here today I bring to you the salutations of the saints in Ca'Sar’s palace. I want to encourage you with the fact that, just as some of the greatest of moral heroes have been physical weaklings, so some of the greatest of Christian heroes have been those who have sinned even worse than you have sinned. Harry Monroe, who for years has run the Pa cific Garden mission of Chicago and who lias been instrumental in saving thousands of souls, was—what? A college graduate? A member of a Christian church and a Christian home? No. He was a converted gam bler. Jerry McAuley of New York, who did so much for the slums of New York, was a drunkard and a prize fighter. John Newton was once vilely dissolute and depraved, though in after life he wrote the noted hymn: I saw One hanging on a tree In agony and blood. Who fix<-d his languid eyes on me As near the cross 1 stood. Sure never till my latest breath C’an 1 forget that look; It seemed to charge me with his death, Though ne’er a word lie spoke. John Newton said that when he first saw Christ hanging there upon the cross he himself was wallowing in the lowest depths of sin. John Runyan the dreamer was John Runyan the blasphemer. John Summer-field the saint, about whom we have already spoken, was John Sumuiertield the de praved. Saul the chief of sinners be came Paul the martyred saint. Oh, my brother, if the grace of God could come into such sinful lives and recreate and sustain them, surely the grace of God is sufficient to recreate and sus tain us. no matter how black may have been our dissolute past. And I bring to you who have an evil past this message from the saints in Cjesar’s palace, because the man who has publicly sinned, the man who lias been loathsomely vile, is the man who has an especial mission to save souls for Jesus Christ. You know as no one else knows how awful is the power of temptation. You know as no one else knows how difficult it is for one who lias been a social outcast to try to live again among respectable social sur roundings. You can speak as Mary Magdalene could speak. You can plead as St. Delia could plead, who was once the noted Blue Bird, the fiend of the New York slums. Although St. Della hud such an evil past, yet her life, un der tiie power of the Holy Ghost, be- eame si pure and sweet and influen tial that the rich and the poor, the pure and tin* depraved alike, the old as well as the young, sobbed over her casket. You can speak from the heart, as John B. Gough spoke to the drunkards, be cause you yourself have seen the phan toms of delirium tremens moving them selves aright in the cup until at last they would bite like a serpent and sting like an adder. Struggling Christians, you who have had an evil past, you can plead for Christ In the highways and the hedges of sin as the saints who had an evil past could speak in Caesar's palace. Those saints today are now placing their hands of holy or dination upon your head that you may go forth and save your sinful fellow men. Eucouraimiient For Ihe l’nfortunate. I would also encourage today those Christians who are compelled by force of circumstances to live and work with evil associates. Perhaps the young man who is standing behind the same counter with you in the store is an lu- tidcl: perhaps some of your classmates at school or in college are out and out scoffers against the word of God; per- haps your own father and brothers are unbelievers aud every day your faith in Jesus Christ Is made an object of ridicule; perhaps, what is the worst of all, you find that you are married to a man who never neglects an opportu nity to ridicule your Bible. You have found qut also that your husband Is having a pernicious and spiritually de stroying influence over your children. What are you going to do—leave these evil associates? Sometimes such a course is possible; sometimes it is not. It evidently was not possible for the ancient saints to have left Ctesar's pal ace, else they would have done so. It Is most natural to suppose that those saints would have instantly fled from the Roman capital during the time of Nero’s persecution if they could have run away with honor and self respect. But in all probability most of those saints said to themselves something like tliis: "No; 1 cannot. I will no(. go! It would he cowardly for me to desert my Lord and Master. I will stay here and keep on testifying for Christ. If need lie, until my body Is burned at the stake or eaten by the wild beasts In one of the arenas. And stay In Rome these saints did, and die a mar tyr's death most of them also did. So it may lie your Christian duty to keep on living for Christ and testifying of ids love in a place of persecution and among companions who make Christ an object of daily ridicule, as did the persecuted young Roman otiicer whose epitaph can still lie road in one of the Roman cemeteries In these words: "He lived long enough to shed his blood for Christ.” Now, I want you, my Christian friends, you who are experiencing these daily persecutions, to fully real ize that not one drop of blood which fell from the Christian martyrs of Caesar’s ancient palace was ever shed In vain. From those persecutions the great influence of the church of Jesuu Christ was started. From those per secutions were lighted the gospel torches which are today shedding their glorious rays ail round the world. From those persecutions came not so much Paul's death and the death of the saints in Ca-sar's palace as the eternal life of millions upon millions of immortal souls. So if you, O per secuted Christian, only keep true to the gospel faith in the difficult places where you are stationed you may not only win your father and mother and husband and children for God, but you may win thousands upon thousands of immortal souls for Christ — beings whose names you have never read and whose glowing faces perhaps you shall never see until you look upon them among the redeemed before the great white throne. FaniiHnr Faee.t In Caesar's Palace. So, l rej eat. this glorious text brings the salutations of the saints in Ctesar’s palace to the rich and the poor, the higli and the low, the old and the young alike. It brings its salutations to the rich and the great men. There were many great men and women in Caesar’s household who were without doubt members of the household of faith. Nero’s household, intellectually and financially, was the noted court, of its day. And some of the saints in Ciesar’s palace must have been num bered among the princes and prin cesses of the realm and among the great commanders of the Roman le gion, the cabinet officials and the mem bers of the privy council. So we find today, among the great aud Ihe fa mous of the earth, there have been saints in Caesar's palace. Witness Wil liam McKinley, shot down by an as sassin's bullet, calmly turning his face toward his invalid wife, saying, “God’s will, not ours, lie done.” Witness Stonewall Jackson, leaving his army hat outside of his tent as a sign that he did not wish to be interrupted because he was then on his knees to God in prayer. Witness Neal Dow and Fred erick Robertson and William E. Glad stone and Thomas Chalmers and John Knox and a whole army of earthly saints of whom the world was not worthy. These are some of the famous modern saints who have already won immortal fame by laying down their lives for Christ. But 1 also find that In Nero’s ancient palace there were slaves as well as rich nobles. There were menials who had to perform the most humble serv ices, as well as generals who command ed Nero's armies or prime ministers who decided the international policies or financial ministers who levied the taxes. There were Uie cooks and the chambermaids. There were the porters and the gardeners and the messengers, the private guards and the negro serv ants, as well as the white servants. There were the scullions, as well as the Indies In waiting, who stood by the empress’ side, aud the saints in Csesar's palace were in all probability found in the kitchen as well us in the parlor, iu the servant’s livery as well as iu the courtier’s uniform. All of which proves that God is ready to honor the man of one talent, If he is a saint, just as much as he honors the man of ten tal ents who makes spiritual use of his genius. My hearers, no matter what our walk of life may be, will you today be a saint of God and throw yourself upon the pardon aud the mercy of Christ? Will you here and now dedicate your life to the Saviour even If that dedica tion means the shedding of your life’s blood? Will you be willing to suffer for Christ as well as to have the pleas ure and the Joys that come from the Christian life? Are you ready to shoul der for Christ the heavy burden. Are you ready, for him, to have the feet ache, the hands ache, the back ache, the bead ache and the heart ache? I would plead with you to lie willing to make these sacrifices for Christ, as did the saints in Ctesar's palaces, be cause it Is on account of their sacri fices that Jesus is going to reward you iu another place which he lias budded for you. not in Rome, but upon the golden boulevard of heaven. It is only a step from the palace of perse cution into the palace of reward. It Is only a step from Ciosar's throne when the saint of God is condemned to earthly death by the power of sin to the throne of God. whore the re deemed saint is given everlasting life. It is only a step from the Roman are na. where the ancient saints were torn to pieces by the wild beasts. Into the green pastures by the side of the still waters, where the glorified saints shall forever dwell with the Lamb. It Is only a step—a short step. Are we ready to live for Christ in a plaee where we may ultimately take that step, although to take It we shall pass through the fires of earthly persecu tion? It is such a short step for the saints of God from the palaces of Nero to the palaces which Christ has pre pared for his own that It does seem as though the palaces of persecution are but the vestibules of the palaces of reward. May God help each one of us to he true to his faith while we dwell for a little while on earth In one #f Ctrsar’s earthly palaees! ICopyrlght, 1902, by Louis Klopsch.] Announcements : ^ the Senate. I ht-reby minounep myself a candidate f^r State Senator, subject to the rules of tbe Democratic primary. Thos. B. Bptlek 1 hereby offer myself as a candidate for re- eiection to the State Senate, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. - R. C. Sauratt^ The friends hf Dr. John O. Black annouuce him a candidate to represent Cherokee couu- tv in the State Senate. For House Representatives^ I announce myself a candidate for the Mouse of Representatives, subject to the action of the county Democratic primary election. J. E. Oaci/t. At the earnest solicitation of numerous friends I have consented to make the race for the Legislature, and therefore announce myself a candidate, subject to the action of tiie Democratic primary. C. W. WmSONAN'T. I am a candidate for the Legislature, sub- ject to tiie Primary election. J. C. Otts. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the Mouse of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. __ Edward A. Trescot. 1 announce myself a candidate to repre sent Cherokee county in the Legislature anr pledge myself to abide by the action of the Democratic primary. W. Judson Sarratt. Having tiie best interests of tiie people of Cherokee county at heart and feeling sure that I could benefit them were I in a position to do so, I respectfully offer myself for their consideration as a candidate for the House of Representatives and beg them to give me their support, subject to the action of tin- Democratic primary election. Respect luhy. W. I). KlHBV. For Clerk of Court. Having endeavored at all times and on all occasions to do my full duty and give en tire satisfaction to the public at large, i hereby announce myself a candidate for re- election to the offi'-e of Clerk of Court ol Clierokee county, subject to the Democratic primary, and 1 promise, if re-elected, to con tinue to render tiie same efficient service that I have so endeavored to do in the past. J. KB jErVEHIKH. I hereby announce myself a candidate for tiie office of Clerk of the Court for <'herof.ee county, subject to the action of the Demo- crath- primary. W. W. <t akenky. J hereby announce myself a candidate for office of Clerk of the Court of Cherokee county subject to action of the Democratic primary, J. C. H. Duvr. Tiie many friends of W. II. Ross, recogniz ing his ability and Integrit v. hereby present ids name as a suitable and cfflcientcandidute for the office of Clerk of Court of Cherokee County, subject to tiie action of the Demo cratic primary. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Clerk of Court of Clierokee County and respectfully solicit the support <>f tiie voters of tic* county In tin* apnroach- Ing I emocratlc primary. Bex F. Bonnkm. For Treasurer. i hereby announce myself as a candidate for Treasurer of Clierokee county subject to tiie action of the Democratic primary election. Wit.i, M. McChaw. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Clierokee county, subject to tiie Democratic primary election. _ John E. Jkffkhiks. 1 hereby declare myself a candidate for tiie office of County Treasurer, subject.to t he action of the Democratic primary. W. Harry <; loom xii. I hereby announce rnysel for Treasurer of Cherokee as u candidate county, subject to the action of tiie primary election. W. Ernest Feeder. For County Supervisor. for I hereby announce myself a candidate Supervisor of Cherokee county. _ Wm. (Chris) I'hm.t.iiw. 1 hereby announce myselt a candidate for tiie office of Supervisor of Cherokee County subject to tin* action of the Democratic pri mary. James J. Oamteky. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to tiie office of county Supervisor of Clierokee county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. J. V. VVHKI.IHKL. I hereqy announce myself a candidate for tin-office of Supervisor of Cherokee county, subject to tiie action of the Democratic primary. W. U. ACSTELD. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for Supervisor of < herokee county subject to tiie action of tiie Democratic primary. D. C.’PhJ'Dpips. Tin- many friends of K. M. Jolley earnestly request him to run for the office of Super visor of Cherokee Comity, believing him to be well qualified for tiie place, ami that, it will be to tiie interets of the public, to elect him. and believing lie will take a pride iu making good roads. Many Voters. For Sheriff. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for nomination for the office of Sheriff of Clierokee county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. K. IV Scktooh. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Sheriff of Chero kee county, subject to the action of tiie Democratic prlrnarv. VV. VV. Thomas. At the solicitation of friends I hereby an nounce myself a candidate for tiie office of Sheriff of Clierokee county, subject to the rules governing the Democratic primary. B. Frank Camp. For Auditor. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee county, subject to the action of tiie Democratic primary. WlMSKYO. HtTSKKY. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee county, subject to tiie action of tiie Democratic election. Georok VV. Brown. Having been assured by my friends that I have given general satisfaction and having a clear conscience of having done my duty since I have been in office. I hereby an nounce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Auditor for Cherokee county. Thanking my friends for their confidence and support in the past and most respectfully asking a continuance of their confidence and support* I shall strive never to betray or impair the confidence imposed In me. vv. n. camp. For Probate Judge. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of I*robate Judge of Cherokee county, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary and respectfully solicit tiie support of • he good |ieople of Cherokee. Wii.i, D. Thomas. I am a candidate for re-iiorulnatlon foi Probate Judge of Cherokee county, subject to tiie Democratic primary, and respectfully solicit your suffrage, J. F.. VVicsteh. Supt. of Education. I hereby announce myself a candidate for tbe office of Huperintendent of Education, subject to tiie decision of the Democratic party. .1. L. Wadeer. I announce myself as a candidate for re election to the office of Superintendent of Education, subject to the action of the De mocratic primary. VV. F. McArthur. Coroner. At the request of my friends I hereby an nounce myself a candidate for Coroner of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary election, and If elected will always strive to do my duty. J. II. Rf ' PPK. The many friends of R. G. Ray hereby an nounce him a candidate for the office of Coroner, knowing him to lie competent in every respect to discharge tiie duties of said office and that lie will la- governed by therules of the Democratic primary election. Many Voters. At the solicitation of many friends I an nounce myself a candidate for the office of Coroner of Cherokee county, subject hi the rules of the Democratic primary. T. S. Webber. lama candidate for Coroner of Cherokee county aud will lie governed by the rules of the Democratic party. Bert Hai.i.man, I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Coroner of Chero kee county, subject to the rules of the De mocratic party. John S. Vinesett. I respectfully announce mtself a candi date for tiie office of Coroner of Cherokee county, subject to the Democratic primary, and I promise, if elected, to faithfully dis charge the duties of the office. R. F. Spencer. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Coroner of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of tiie Democratic primary. J. Mat Allison. I hereby atmounce myself as a candidate for Coroner of Cherokee county, subject to tiie rules of the Democratic primary Preston Wood. Tbe many friends of M. C. Parker hereby present his name as a suitable and efficient candidate for the office of Coroner of Chero kee county, subject to the action of the De mocratic primary. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food. 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