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/ T TALMAGE SERMON * By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D., Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby terian Ohurch, Chicago Chicago. Sept. 7.—By a vivid, star tling parallel Rev. Frank De Witt Tal- mage portrays the evil of sin and its remedy. His text is II Kings, v, 1, "But lie was a leper.” The best blood in all Europe flows into the army. The keenest of brains are covered by the soldier’s cap. The peasantry are overtaxed and brow beaten and flung under the iron heel of oppression in order that the gilt laced officer, who is the scion of an aristocratic family, may have a soft couch upon which to sleep and a clean limbed thoroughbred upon which to cavort while he salutes the reviewing officer during dress parade. Every civilian is at the beck and call of the military—from the innkeeper's daugh ter. flirting with the sergeant or the young corporal, up to the princess smiling at the favorite staff officer of her father, the king. The German shopkeoiier will turn his back upon you in an instant if the clank of the sword is heard and the glitter of the shoulder strap is seen in the doorway. On account of this foolish adoration by a cringing populace the foreign officer or private soldier lias grown arrogant and conceited and snobbish and super cilious and petulant and spoiled. The Syrian nation was a military na tion, with all that the word implies, and Captain Naaman was the com mander in chief of all its armies, the headquarters of which were to be found in the Damascus capital. But Naaman wielded a higher influence than that which belongs even to the greatest soldier of a military kingdom. The phrase used by the inspired his torian, “a great man with his master, and honorable,” implies that he held a position more powerful in the king dom than the head of the privy council, the prime minister or the secretary of state or secretary of the treasury, and he may have held, through the prestige of his military successes, some or all of these offices in his own person, ns great pashas often do in oriental lands, lie occupied practically the same posi tion in the Damascus capital that the Duke of Wellington occupied after the battle of Waterloo. The Duke of Wel lington. by the overthrow of the Na poleonic dynasty, not only became the prime minister of England, but for awhile the most influential statesman In all Europe. Naaman had in Damas cus an influence similar to that of Ju lius Cmsar wlien he returned to Rome from his foreign victories or which Na poleon held in the French nation when he was first consul as well as the com mander of the French legions. Naa man was as mighty in influence as was the French cardinal who used to over awe his king in the council chamber, when he would stamp up and down the room, crying: “It shall be done! 1 say it shall be done! I am Richelieu who says it. and it shall be done.” And when the great French statesman would thus speak the frightened king dared not answer a word. The Symbol of Sin. But after I have shywn you Naaman’s fame and power in the Syrian nation; after 1 have figuratively piled stone upon stone and height upon height and mountain upon mountain in setting forth this pyramid of human greatness, the whole structure tumbles into ruins when I speak the words of my text I bring the mightiest human influence of the Cast down to the lowest depths of earthly misery. I bring Naaman down from his high pedestal until even the poor beggar in the street might have cause to pity him. I bring him down uuti} not one physically well man in all the world, no matter how low he might be in the social scale, would ex change places with him. Naaman was a prince. Naaman was a mighty mil itary potentate, a statesman, a ruler. He was practically greater than a king, “but lie was a leper." The disease of leprosy has often been Biblically used as the symbol of sin. It is a most impressing and appalling symbol. We in America cannot realize all that is implied by comparing any man’s spiritual condition to this horri ble disease. In the far east I have seen with loathing some of the awful rav ages of this disease. I would describe In symbol some of the horrors of sin by telling what my own eyes have seen and what my own ears have beard among those poor creatures physically doomed. Leprosy, humanly speaking, Is an In curable disease. Scientists ever since history began have been studying the onward march of this fatal destroyer. Although most prevalent in the east it is confined to no climate and Is pe culiar to no age, race or condition. Nearly 2,000 years before Christ was born in Bethlehem we read that Mir iam. who led the Hebrew maidens In the triumphant dance when Pharaoh’s host was submerged in the Red sea, was afflicted with leprosy because she became sinfully Jealous. Miriam was jealous because her brother Moses, eighty years of age, fell in love and wanted to take a wife. Clear back in 1516 Holbein, the artist painted a pic ture of Elizabeth distributing bread to the unclean lepers of Augsburg. Lep ers among the Iceberg* of the north, lepers basking in the torrid beats about the equator, lepers In Europe, lepers in Asia, lepers In Africa, lepers in Amer ica, lepers In the islands of the seas! But though leprosy has been found by the uclentlsts everywhere, yet one fact Is universally recognised about the dis ease—It is Incurable. A man who has the leprous poison In his system has no hope from mediciye. He must grow worse and worse until he comes to the grave. It is as incurable as that disease which we call cancer and which is only n little less fatal in its hideous and repulsive results than lep rosy. When General Grant was suf fering from an affection of the throat, the family physicians feared a can cer. But, to be upon the safe side in their diagnosis, they took to a special ist a small part of the excrescence from the throat. “Now,” the doctors said to that specialist, “this excres cence is from a man of very great na tional influence. We will not tell you his name, as it might bias your judg ment.” The specialist placed the ex crescence under the microscope. After carefully examining it he said: “It is a fatal cancer. Who's throat did it come from?” “General U. S. Grant’s,” was the answer. “Then,” said the great bacteriologist, "General Grant is doom ed. He must die.” The Soul’a AUIictlon. How terrible are these diseases that physicians confess themselves unable to cure! How startling, then, is the divine statement that the soul may be afflicted with such a disease similarly beyond human medicament. Sin is a leprosy. Sin is the cancer of the soul gnawing at its vitals. Sin is the fore runner of eternal death. There are men today within the sound of my voice who in their own strength have been fighting sin for the last twenty or thirty years. But as you grow weaker the power of your sin is grow ing stronger. God have pity upon you, for you are a doomed leper. Tou are doomed by leprous sin. But though from our standpoint lep rosy is incurable, yet the leprous scales were cleansed by a divine power. Therefore it is to Christ and to Christ alone that we must look for the cure of sin. The moral leper may go with confidence to Christ, who cured the physical lepers by a word. When the ten lepers came to the Saviour plead ing for help. Christ turned and said: “Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass as they went they were cleansed.” Naaman, the great captain, was helpless in the hands of ids human physicians. On account of his wealth and fame Naaman—like General Grant, afflicted with cancer- must have had the best doctors the royal court of Damascus could sum mon; but .vhen Naaman, obedient to the divine command through Elisha, went and dipped seven times in the river Jordan his flesh became like the flesh of a little child. O my brother and sister, you who are cursed with leprous sin, will you not come to the divine fountain? Will you not bathe in Christ’s blood? Will you not today by the Calvary cross seek supernatural medicament? Leprqsy may take a very long time in which to fatally develop, although such is not always the way the dis ease progresses. Sometimes the scourge in a few months may change a beauti ful body into a hideous corpse, but the quick result is the exception and not tiie rule. At this first touch of lep rosy usually there may only be a hard ness, or rather a numbness, of the skin in a spot about the size of a ten cent piece. The skin at that one place merely turns as white as snow. If you know nothing about the disease, you may not worry about it. You may. for a long time, be indifferent to the numbness. Then, some day when you are in a physician's office seeking advice for some other cause, you may turn to the doctor and say: “By the way, doctor, I have a very peculiar something the matter with my hand. It does not hurt me, but it is numb in one place.” Then the physician with a grave face will look at your hand. Then he will take a pin out of the lapel of his coat and prick that spot. Then he will turn and say: “You are a leper! You are already doomed, al though death may be many years away.” The Fntnl White Mark. When going through one of the leper hospitals of Calcutta, I saw standing in one of the wards a beautiful flaxen haired baby boy. He was only atiout six or seven years of age. He was one of the healthiest looking and pret tiest children I ever saw. He was the son of an English soldieu. He was such a lovely boy, and while his great big eyes were looking at me he was standing there with ids thumb in his mouth sucking it as some of us per haps have sucked our thumbs when we were children. 1 turned and said to the lovely boy, “Why are you here?” “Got tin.* disease,” he answered. “Where?” said 1 as the great tears be gan to tain down my cheeks. The lad raised one of his pretty bare legs. Then, pointing to the ball of his foot, be said, “There it is.” As 1 looked I could hardly keep back my sobs. I saw in the ball of his foot the fatal white mark. It was like a beautiful snowflake. The child was doomed. He was a leper! But, though leprosy may come in a seemingly harmless way, the disease for four, five, ten, even fifteen years will keep on steadily spreading. It will spread until the fingers fall off from the hands and the toes from the feet. It will keep on spreading until the skin bloats and cracks and the hair falls out. So leprous sin. coming in a seemingly harmless way. will keep on spreading until it makes the face hideous, the body deformed. It may keep on spread ing for years until at last the fatal leprous sin will destroy the body as well as t|e soul. It Is related that a young English artist desirlng*to paint the figure of “Innocence,” used as a model the face of a lovely little child. The eyes, the lips and the smile of his model were the most beautiful beever saw. All Eng land came to admire the picture. Many years afterward, when the artist had attained to great fame, he decided to paint a companion picture to the one he had painted in his youth. He wanted call the corn; anlcn p'rture “Deprav ity " He waiideivd up and down the i. iinlan slums until at last he found a nkleous looking m r*::l. a man who seemed to be a mo; slcr without a soul. After tin* artist had used this hldeou model and finished his companion pic ture he found, to his astonishment, that the two models were the same. The model of "Depravity” was the nice beautiful child, who bad become depraved by the fatal disease of lep rous sin. which had wrought the hor rible transformation in face and fig ure, in body and soul. So, my broth er, though this disease of leprous sin may take many years to develop, yet it will surely permeate the mind and soul until both perish in horrible and loathsome corruption. Leprosy is an infectious disease. It is infectious as the scarlet fever germ is infectious. It is spread throughout a community only by the leprous germ of one physical body being brought in to contact with another physical body when the latter is in a condition favor able for the development of that lep rous germ. Thus in the lazar house established in New Brunswick, Can ada, in 1SG3, it was found by investi gation that every one of the ninety patients confined within that leprous hospital had contracted the disease of leprosy within a radius of seventy miles from the point whore the first case of Canadian leprosy was discov ered. Convinced of its infectious char acter. Dr. Emerson, who was for many years in the employ of the Hawaiian government, gave as bis testimony that it is utterly useless to fight the leprous disease in an}’ other way than by iso lation. The Terror* of Eeprouy. To isolate the lepers of the Hawaiian Islands, Molokai, the leper reservation for the islands of the Pacific, was es tablished. In the Holy Land the Jews and gentiles alike drive their own lep rous kith and kin from their sides into Isolation. They exclude them from the cities and the towns. As you travel through the east those lepers, some with their arms and teeth gone, some on crutches, some sightless, some with cracked and bleeding lips, come down the mountain side and in hoarse, pip ing voices beg for food and money. It seems to be a very heartless metbod thus to isolate the lepers, but the ori entals say, “Better that a few men and women starve and die, better that a few infectious lepers be exiled from civilization, than that a whole commu nity sicken and be destroyed.” The poet has well described the iso lation of the infectious lepers in the east lest the rest of the community might be stricken: “Room for the leper, room,” and as he came The cry passed on, "Room for the leper, room." And he went forth alone, not one of all The many whom he loved nor she whoso name Was woven In the fibers of his heart to come and speak Comfort unto him. Yea, he went forth his way Sick and heartbroken and alone to die. For God had cursed the leper. As tiie disease of leprosy Is fatally infectious, so are the leprous germs of sin. The evil which is within us is very apt to become the evil which shall dwell within others. Tiie wrongs we do against our own selves are truly apt to become the sins which others shall do unto themselves also, and as this infection implies that to scatter the germs of sin we must come in contact with others is it not a star tling reflection that the people whom we are most liable to destroy by our sins are those who may be nearest and dearest to us? It will be the mother, herself stricken with the leprosy of sin, who will destroy her own daugh ter; the father his owu son. the broth- r his own brother, tiie wife her sis ter. Kindred ties and companionship will only serve to facilitate the trans mission of the deadly infection. There fore should we not feci as did Robert E. Lee when lie was one winter morn ing walking over the snows of Arling ton? As be looked back be saw his ten-year-old boy trying to stretch his legs to step in bis father’s tracks, Then said the greatest man tiie south lias produced for many a year, “If my boy is going to try to wrflk in the patli 1 am walking in, I must be very care ful that I always walk in the path of purity and truth and honor and right’ If our dear ones, those closest to us In life, are those most in danger of infec tion from our spiritual leprosy, there is another reason why, for their sakes If not for our own. we should seek the divine germicide, to have the cleansing which Naaman, the leper, received when, at God’s command, he dipped seven times in the river Jordan and his flesh became like unto that of a little child. The Infection of Sin. May none of us ever experience the remorse a broken hearted father felt nijjny years ago. He was bending over the bleeding body of his only sou, who had Just been brought home in a dying condition from a drunken carousaL “Oh, my child!” he cried. "Why did you do this? Why have you broken your mother’s and father’s hearts?” The dying boy cruelly looked up Into the face of bis weeping parent and answered: “Why, father, what are you crying for? I am dying as the result of your sins as well as mine. You first taught me to drink at your own table. You are as much to blame as I.” Yes, the infectious results of our own lep* rout sins are evidenced in the temporal and eternal destruction of those who ought to be nearest and dearest to our affectionate hearts. Leprosy Is to be found In the homes of the rich and the poor alike; In the palace and In the hovel; at the king’s banquet table, as well aa in the beg* gars’ gutter. For many yean the world supposed that leprosy was able to thrive only in the pestilential alleys and filthy dens of the east That supposl tion waa totally wrong. Leprosy may originally start among the low social outcasts, but the leprous germs can live and thrive under the dazzling ligbts of a brilliant ballroom as well as in the stilling air of the dark hovel of a criminals’ retreat. By handling the coin which is publicly used in India a traveler may become infected with lep rosy. some leper having handled the same coin. By simply touching a rock at tiie foot of which a leprous beggar had crouched a prince, arrayed in all the brilliant robes of royalty, may be come a leper. A few years ago the most influential man of tiie king’s court in the Sand wich Islands was supposed to be an eccentric individual because he always wore a glove upon bis left hand, but one day that courtier was compelled to take off his kid glove, and he was found to be a leper. The Indifference of the Rich. The last people on earth to believe that they can be destroyed by the lep rous germs of sin are the rich, tiie af fluent and the honored. It is easy enough to persuade tiie poor outcast, despised for her sins by the whole human race, that she needs Christ. It is easy enough to persuade the poor drunkard, writhing in tiie fatal clasp of delirium, that be needs supernatural aid; but, ob, it is hard to persuade tiie rich man, the honored, the respectable man, to feel that the leprous germs of sin may lie imbedded in bis own flesh. Affluence and worldly lioi(>r some times seem to make men indifferent to all that is vital for time and eternity. They are blinded to their sins and scoff at the warning that their owu fate may yet be that of the multitudes who, in the palaces of tiie rich and the great, have perished from the same in difference. Reckless and indifferent was the atti tude of the people of London during the great plague about two centuries ago. Ainsworth, the historian, tells us that during those harrowing and grew- some months the London stores wore nearly all closed. Tiie doors of the pri vate homes were nearly all barred and bolted save when they were opened at the approach of tiie bell ringer who was seated upon a pile of sienehful corpses because lie was out driving the dead cart and collect: .g the different bodies of the dead. Ye. at that time in London there were i ten and women who whistled and lar^bed and danced and sang and blasphemed under the very shadow of thes* horrors. But, though the h irosy of the soul, like the leprosy of ,e flesl., be a dis ease beyond the re. ch of the human soul, 1 would again draw your atten tion to the fact that it yields to the touch of the Divine Physician, as the affliction of Naaman yielded at the Jor dan waters. And there are especially two or three incidents about the phys ical cure of Naaman with which 1 would drive this truth home and lead you to tiie fountain of life. The first was that he was induced to travel from Damascus to the homo of the Prophet Elisha through the influence of a little captive Jewish maiden who was a slave of Nrr.nan’s wife. I can imagine the little Jewi.sli slave lying awake upon her humble couch as night after nffiht she Imrs th.* great Syrian general tramping up and down in his palace rooms. She beats him groan when he is awake. She hears him moan in bis sleep b- cause be is a hope less leper. She bears him toss restlessly about upon ids bed. She lici.rs him the more readily because she is sleep ing in a nearby room, at the foot of Naaman’s wife’s bed. or in an adjacent room to her mistress. Then site hears the general and bis wife talking of tiie cause of Naamun's trouble. So one clay she timidly pulls at her mistress’ skirts and says: “Mistress, why do you not have nnint°r seek the prophet of Israel? He would cure him of his leprosy!” Then the horses were hitch ed to the* chariots. Then the journey was taken to the faroff prophet’s home. The Clirlatiun’* Duty. Here, my brother, is the Christian’s duty. The humblest child of God can perforin it. Tiie service rendered to the great general by this captive child you can render to the moral lepers around you. I am doing no more than this from tliis pulpit. I am telling you where there is a cure for this fatal dis ease. However great you may be, if you have in your nature the germ of sin, I say, as did the Hebrew maid, “Would God you would go to Jesus, for he would restore you.” I cry to you as did that humble preacher who, one stormy day, started Charles II. Spur geon upon his glorious work when he cried: “Young man, afflicted with doubts and troubles, look to Jesus! Look! Look!” Will you bathe in Christ’s blood? Will you bathe now? Will you go to Christ and be spiritually cured? The second fact about the cui’e of the leper Naaman w-iyi which 1 would impress you was that Elisha, the prophet, told him to go and bathe in the river Jordan. He did not tell Naa man to go and bathe in a pool. He did not tell him to wash out of a small basin. Elisha told Naaman to go and dip in the Jordan. There he would have plenty of room. That river was so wide and deep that Naaman could wade into it up to his thighs, bis shoul ders, his chin. He could dip into it again and again and again. So today, as with Naaman, I would bid you who are covered with the scales of leprosy to wade down into the river of life. I would bid you to dip Into that river which flows from out of the throne of the Lamb because It Is a wide rl-rer. It is a river so wide and deep that all of us can enter it at once side by side and there will yet be enough water to cleanse us all from our sins. I would have you wade today into the river of life because I want to take your hand In mine, and, as your pastor and friend, I want to enter this Saviour's river so that I also can be cleansed of my own sins by your side and have my flesh and yours, like Nasman's, become as rare as s little child’s. My dear fiienda, leprous with sin, will you let me lead you to the river of eternal cleansing? [Copyright, UOI, Louts Klopsch, N. Y.] NE W JERSEY ROADS. MANY SPLENDID HIGHWAYS IN THE GARDEN STATE. Permanent ItoatlH and What It Coat* to Keen Them la Repair—Hoto the State Aid I.nw Provide* For High- tvay Improvement. In the matter of permanent road im provement New Jersey has taken a leading part. Having in what is called the metropolitan regions, the sections within forty miles of New York and Philadelphia, many growing cities and towns, the conditions were such as to compel attention and demand a solu tion. After much discussion the pres ent state law was finally enacted and. with slight changes, has remained on the statute book for nearly ten years. In accordance with the provisions of this law permanent roads have been constructed and are petitioned for in many counties of the state, says a writer In the Good Roads Magazine. “But,” it will be remarked, “do not such ri/ads get out of repair and are they not then harder on horse and wagon and traveler than dirt roads?” Of course all good things that are used will show wear, and a stone road will be used far more than it was before it was improved. People will go out of their way in order to enjoy the com fort of it. Tills is especially the case In winter, when parallel roads are cov ered with mud. Then, too, the strain Is the greatest, for the sharpened calks of the horses’ shoes tear up the surface more than at other times, and on hills, especially where heavy loads are drawn, this will be particularly notice able. But, after all is said, the road Is far better than any dirt road could pos sibly be under the same usage. If this heavy wear is allowed to continue sev eral years, the road will begin to be somewhat rough, and of course travel over it will not be quite so pleasant. The cost of repair will then seem to be quite an item. But we do not let or dinary roads go without repairs; much less should we withhold care from thorn after they are improved. The law provides that tiie contractor shall keep the road in repair one year after its completion, and a percentage of the cost is withheld to Insure compliance with this condition. Tiie first winter will very likely show the weak places, if any should appear, and the hollows that form must be filled and the sur- Ilewwre of the Knife. No profession has advanced more rapidly of late than surgery, but it should not be used except where ab solutely necessary. In cases of piles, for Vxumple, it is seldom needed. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cures quickly and permanently. line* qualed for cuts, burns, bruises, wounds, skin diseases. Accept no counterfeits. “I was so troubled with bleeding piles that I lost much blood and strength,” says J. 0. Phil- lids. Psris, III. ‘‘DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured me iu a short time.” Soothes and heals. Chero- kt-e Drug Co. Good manners are tiie settled me dium of social as specie is of com mercial, life; returns are equally ex- peered from Doth; ar • people will no more advance their civility to a bear man ihwir money ro u barkrupt. Water Cure for Chronic Constipation. Take two cups of nut water half an hour before each meal and just before going to bed, also a drink of water, hot or cold, about two hours after each meal. Take lots of out door exercise—walk, ride, drive. Make a regular habit of this and in many cases chronic constipation may be cured without the use of any med icine. When a purgative is required take something mild and gentle like ''Jhamberlain’s Stomach and Liver 1 ablets. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. It is probable that the temperature of the moon’s surface at its midday is 753 degrees Fahrenheit. The drop at night is probably 1,000 degrees to 250 degrees' below. ^ ~ —f— - A ItOAD IN NEW JEKSEY. face put in good condition before the road is finally accepted. To secure the best results a light dressing of sand or finely broken stone should be applied each spring, all loosened stones being first removed. This covering will wear down in a few weeks, leaving the sur face as smooth and as pleasant to ride over as before. The cost of this should not be greater than tiie cost of “work ing” an ordinary road, and when you are doing it you are not putting soil on the surface to make mud when it rains and dust when it is dry. The state aid law provides that when a road is improved it becomes there after a state road and is to be kept in repair by the county. The expense of such improvement is divided into three parts: One part, 10 per cent, is appor tioned by commissioners among the owners of the property along the road, according to tiie advantage tiie road is likely to be to them. In very few com munities would a farmer be assessed more than i am told, unless he was a very large land owner. A sec ond part. R.” 1-R per < cut. is paid by the state, and the remainder, 50 2-0 per cent, is i ..iu by the county. This is the portion of cost that becomes a direct tax upon all taxable property of the county. Everything of value costs, and that which costs least at the first is not necessarily cheapest. The man who buys a machine too light for the work it is intended to do because It is cheap is very likely to find that the cost of repairs and the loss of time resulting therefrom soon eat up the amount saved iu the beginning. Cauie Near Being a Cripple. Josh Westhafor, of Loogootee, Ind., is a poor man, but he says be would not be without Chamberlain’s Pain Balm if it cost five dollars a bottle, for it saved him from being a cripple. No external application is equal to this liniment for stiff and swollen joints, contracted muscles, stiff neck, sprains and rheumatic and muscular pains. It has also cured numerous cases of partial paralysis. It is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Some people save up money by do ing without something they want in order to be in position to purchase something they don’t want. Lingering Summer Cold*. Don’t iet a cold run at this season. Summer colds are the hardest kind to cure and if neglected may linger along for months. A long siege like, this will pull down the strongest con stitution. One Minute Cough Cure will break up the attack at once. Safe, sure, acts at once. Cures coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. The chil dren like it. Cherokee Drug Co. All women want to live to a ripe old age, yet the majority of them are ashamed to acknowledge their years. A Had Dl*appulutment. Ineffective liver medicine is a dis appointment, but you don’t want to purge, strain and break the glands of the stomach and bowels. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers never disappoint. They cleanse the system of all poison and putrid mutter and do it so gently that ooe enjoys the pleasant effects. They are a tonic to the liver. Cure biliousness, torpid liver and prevent fever. Cherokee Drug Co. The Road Question In Kansas. Mr. Eugene Ware, the new' commis sioner of pensious, has been much In terested, in the construction of roads in his adopted state of Kansas, says the Saturday Evening Post Recently Mr. Ware was asked, “How do the farmers In Kansas stand on the good rood question?" “Up to their knees,” was the reply. A Tennssso* Conntr to Issns Bonds. Hamblen county, in Tennessee, has voted to issue bonds to the amount of $50,000 for the Improvement of roads. Hamblen is one of the smallest coun ties in the state, but It Is not too small to set a good example to the largsr counties and perhaps to the state. Sprinkling Preaerrea Banda. Sprinkling not only makes travel over the road more pleasant, but it pre serves the surface. The rock gets loose when the surface becomes dry and dusty, and the damage from Mo tion la great That serpent in the Garden of Eden wasn’t in the LL D. class, but be understood human nature all right. Cured lleuiurrhaK«* of the Lung*. ‘‘Several years since my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages,” writes A. M. Ak«. of Wood, Ind. ‘‘I took treatment with several physicians without any bei'e- fit. I then started to take Foley’s Honey and Tar and my lungs ute now us sound as a bullet. I recom mend it iu advanced stages of lung trouble.” Cherokee Drug Co. Vindications are all right, but a man should not get into the habit of seeking them regularly. A New Jer*ey Editor’* Tenilmoulul. M. T. Lynch, editor of the Fhillips- burg, N. J.. Daily Post, writes: ‘‘I have used many kinds of medicines for coughs and colds in my family, hut never anything so good as Foley’s Honey and Tar. I cannot say too much iu praise of it.” Cherckee Drug Co. About 8000 tourists visited Cairo, Egypt, during the past winter season. A Communication. Mk Editor—Allow me to speak a few words in favor of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. I suffered for three years with the bronchitis and could not sleep at night. I tried several doctors and various patent mediciues, but could get nothirg to give me any relief until my wife got a bottle of this valuable medicine, which bee completely relieved me. — W. 8. Brockman, Bagoell, Mo. Tbli rem edy is for tale by Cherokee Drug Co. Wt>eu » man is long on schemes he is usually short fioancially. Foley’s Hooey aod Tar le peculiarly adapted for chronic throat troublee, and will positively cure bronchitis, hoarseness aod *11 bronchial diseases. Refuse eubetltutee. Cherokee Drug Co. California has 62 000 acres of prune trees. Foley’s Kidney Core inekes the diseased kidneys soond so they will eliminate the poisons from the blood. Cherokee Drag Co.