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1 * TALMAGE *% By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAQE. D.D.. Pailor of Jefferson Perk Pretby- teriaLn Church, Chicago among the crews. The war with the vrhlch are lifting their signals of dls- ih-y i f Algiers was started ia the tress. WhyV itecanse distress and same way. The Mediterranean pirates | i g i V e a man an i.iall‘liable clahn on Mi.‘ helji of his brother. Nowhere is that claim rerogi ized so surely and so promptly as on the high seas. A sailor on the ocean will never turn a demanded money from our govern ment, with the threat that otherwise they would molest our shipping. The United States government finally not only refused to pay, but sent over if (.nr <„ a booming gun or shut his armed vessels to maintain the honor , ( , v ,, s to an inverted flag or to a white cM'ago, July ID.—The glories of the sea and its moving panorama of white *alls furnish a theme for the preacher at this season, when the multitudes are leaving the heated cities for seashore and lake. The text is Psalm civ, 2fi, “T/here go the ships.” jfl always feel sorry for one who has Batgfseen lullabied to sleep by the low ^moaning song of the sea. Fenimore <Jooper loved to write about the moun tains and woods and streams and wa terfalls and rivers, to whose deer licks the fawns and the does came down to drink. But there is a beauty, too. in the sand dunes and the seabeach and the broad expanse of the mighty dee;) ■which wc can love also. Fascinating is the seashore on ac count of its endless variety. The ocean's beauty is never twice the same. Sometimes its colors are a white foam or a light green or a dark emerald or blue or black. Sometimes its surface ia covered with broad highways oi gjold, when the light of the rising sun tfilds it. or with that other highway of ailver, when, in the midnight hour, the flush of the moon is reflected upon it. /Sometimes the sea will do nothing bur smile. Like a golden haired baby, its cheeks are dimpled and wrinkled, as though it is trying hard to keep hack a hearty laugh. It will look as harm less as some innocent lake cuddled up In the huge lap of a crooked backed mountain. Then the sea gulls, as white doves of peace, will hover over It. Then the fisherman's boat will be come the cradle in which the tired merchant will have the many cares of the store gently rocked out of his over burdened mind, as he anxiously watches the line which catches the golden prize of health as well as the finny treasures. Sometimes the sea becomes as wrath ful as the wild beasts in the Spanish arena, stung with sharp darts, before 'Which the attendants wave the red gar ments. It rears. It plunges. It lashes Itself into fury until at last it is crim soned with its own blood. The blazing phosphorescences make it look like the river Nile struck with the Mosaic rod in the famous Egyptian plague. The seaajaore a monotonous place to pass thWbummer? It is uninteresting only to those whose love of nature is so un developed that they .cannot under stand the language of the sea. The Human Ship. But, after all, one of the most absorb ing diversions of the summer tourists living by the seashore is to watch the and power of its flag by the mouths of their cannon. Had not Abraham Lin coln and William H. Seward been brave enough to defy popular clamor and surrender the Confederate com missioners, Messrs. Slidell and Mason, who had been taken forcibly from an English ship by an American man-of- war, they would certainly have in volved this country in a war with Eng land which would have destroyed the unity of our government. A civilized nation always claims an Imperial do main over the ship’s deck above which flutters its flag. Now, my brother, as a human vessel, to what overruling power have you rendered your allegiance? To what power do you look for protection ? “Oh,” you answer, "I claim the pro tection of the English or the American flag. I am a native of London or of New York.” Ah. my friend, that is not enough. As a human vessel, you are going to meet dangers from which mo earthly government can protect you. Your voyage of life not only goes over the sea of time, but also of eternity. Everywhere are the satnnlc pirates of temptation ready to run up their black flags. Have you been registered in the Lamb's Book of Life? Have you today the protection of that Christ who once trod upon the rolling billows of Lake Galilee .anil saved the sinking boat of Ike disciples, when he said to the angry winds, “Peace, be still?" A Valuable Carno. Each human vessel always carries a very valuable cargo. Have you stopped to consider why a great Cnnard or White Star transatlantic steamer spends as much time by her dock as in traveling the high seas? T4s true some of that time must be given to clean ing up the ship, but most of it is spent in loading and unloading .the cargoes. The massive walls of a building rest upon deep foundations. The huge masts and upper decks of a great steamer must have a deep hull. This hull must be filled with ballast, or else the ship would soon topple over. This ballast is composed of boxes filled with merchandise or hundreds of bags of mail, of steel from Birmingham works and linens from the Irish mills, silks from France and wines from Italy, art treasures as well as expensive furni ture and clothes. Then footl must be provided for the passengers and the crew and huge car- j goes of coal to keep the engines In mo tion. One is amazed at the thousands of tons of coal which a ship like the Kaiser Wilhelm II. carries at the be ginning of its passage across the At lantic. The great stomachs of the fur- i I naces seem to be insatiable. Their him-1 ger is never satisfied. Relays of dust bofcrimed stokers are shoveling the coal i day in and day out. But what about the enormous mass of food which must be provided for the .hungry human pas sengers and crew? Those who live above and below a great ship's deck passing of the ships. For over a quar ter of a century my privilege was to an , not t0 j )e numbered by the scores, spend every summer by the Atlantic but by the hundreds. On the last voy age 1 made from England there were nearly 2,000 human beings aboard. Then there may he millions of dollars' worth of bullion aboard. The clearing houses of the two continents are eou- tinually adjusting claims. Money from America going to Europe. Gold and sil ver from Europe coming to America. The average steamer plying the Atlan tic is not to be despised. Its successful voyage means life to hundreds. Its de struction may mean death alike to pas sengers and crew and destruction to all the freight. SafeKiiardB of the Voyage. Does not each human craft carry a valuable cargo? What about the money which is intrusted to a man’s care? If the cashier of a bank ab sconds and the bank has to close its door who suffers? Is it not the poor widow and orphan, the old man who has trustfully placed in the bank the savings of a lifetime so that he can have something in his old age and money enough to buy him a casket and a grave when he is dead? What hap pens when a human craft founders and sinks into the great sea of sin? Does it not nearly always destroy many hu man lives which are dependent upon its existence? What became of nearly all the ships’ crews and passengers which were sunken at sea? What be came of those who set sail from Charleston, S. C., in the boat which carried the beautiful daughter of Aaron Burr, who was never heard of again? Those ships not only went down, but they took most of their pas sengers and crews with them. Oh, I know lifeboats and life preservers are provided by law on every boat to guard against accidents. But, as a rule, they do but little good. By the time the hurricane has completed Its work the lifeboats are splintered, and by the time the tornado of sin has wrecked a human craft It not only de stroys a father and a husbauJ, but also all those whose existences are depend ent upon his life. One of the bravest scenes ever witnessed was that in Sa moa harbor, when a few years ago the famous cyclone destroyed many lives. When an English man-of-war was able to get up enough steam to head«out to sea, the American gailors of a sinking ship began to cheer their English that nation must answer for the insult cousins. It was a brave cheer. When to the flag which Is flying above the those sailors cheered they knew they ■tern of the outraged vessel. Th« Flag of Protection. Many a war has been started because coast. My father’s country home was near the end of Long island, at a small town called East Hampton. There, ipon the sand dunes, I used to lie hour after hour, watching the great steam ers and the sailing craft heading to ward New York Narrows or starting upon their long trips to the distant har bors of the world. I used to watch them just as the psalmist did when he cried out in the words of my text, “There go the ships.” How like those voyages are. with their unknown inci dents, their calms and their storms, their successes and. alas, their wrecks, to human lives! Who can tell as he looks at an infant calmly sleeping in its cradle whether the voyage of its life will be like the ship skillfully steered safe into harbor or like the ship care lessly navigated that strikes the sunken h rock or by collision with another ship ’Is shattered and sunk Into the depths of the sea? Let us see this morning what those points of resemblance are— what kind of a ship each human being ought to be, what kind of a cargo he Is carrying and toward what kind of a port he should be heading. The ships! The ships! There go the ships! There go the ships! Every human vessel should be dis tinguished by some flag. Going down to New York harbor and examining the shipping, you will find the name of each vessel clearly marked upon the stern. You will also find the name of the city in which that vessel is regis tered. Such names as these can be read: John Milton of Glasgow, the Auraniu of Liverpool, the Paris of New York. And if upon the high seas two ships approach each other, one captain Will put the trumpet to his Ups and 'call: “Ship ahoy! Ship ahoy! What ship Is that?” Then the other captain will call back: “The Kensington of Antwerp, bound for New York! What ip Is that?” The meaning of aU Simply that when a ship Is reg- sred In a certain country that gov ernment pledges itself to protect that ■hip. A British ship is under British protection; a French ship Is under French protection; a German ship Is under German protection; an American ship is under American protection. Therefore, if a nation dares to molest any foreign ship upon the high seas, the sacrodncsH of a ship’s deck has been violated. The war of 1812 with England really had Its origin in the English claim that she could stop any American vessel and take off her decks all tin* English born sailors found were on a sinking ship, and therefore most of them would be drowned. Let us, as human crafts, beware how we allow ourselves to sink Into the sea of sin and destroy those loved ones who are standing upon our upper decks. The Signal of Distress. The human vessels should be willing •> stop and help those sister crafts handkerchief or cloth fluttering over a raft or a derelict. No sooner does the i lookout cry. “Ship on starboard bow. and I believe it a wreck!” than the cap tain and the mates and the boatswains and the common sailors will turn their anxious faces toward the blaok object floating upon the edge of the horizon. If there should lie but one human be ing aboard that doomed craft, five, ten. fifteen—aye. 1 believe practically all the members of the crew will be willing to risk their lives to save that one life. I never yet read of a ship upon the highways of the sea that would not go. If possible, to rescue the crew of a sink ing ship. I never yet heard of any sea captain compelling his sailors to go to the rescue. All that the mates have to do under such conditions is to call for vol unteers and every lifeboat will be man tied and every oar held in a firm grip. Oh, my dear friends, why is not a hn- man being upon the land ready to an swer signals of distress raised by his fallen brethren, as the sailors upon the sea try to help those who are in dis tress? Do not the whirlwinds of disas ter shriek and howl and sweep up the streets of a great city as well as among the archipelagoes of a Mediterranean? I When, some years ago. a dark, funnel shaped cloud swiftly approached St. Louis and in an instant broke and de ll myed wfiole streets and buried many n corpse under the debris, did it wreck liny more lives than do the cyclones of sin which are dally destroying the hundreds and thousands of young men yiid women? Every city has its two sides—its light side and dark side; its pure side and its morally diseased side; its .Christian side and its infernal side; its happy side and its despairful side. Shall we who profess to love God and are living in health and strength have nothing to do with those who are fly ing the signals of distress? A Providential Heaene. Be not afraid, my brother, that you will never have amopportunity to save men and women upon the land who are flying signals of distress. If yon will once consecrate your lives to his serv ice God will reveal them to you. the same as he led old Captain Pendleton, many years agof to save the passengers and the crew of a sinking ship. The old captain was a neighbor of my fa ther’s and a friend of my childhood. He had upon his wall a picture com memorative of this rescue. He again and again told me this wonderful story, lie had been to the far east. After a ^>yage of many months he was nearing New York harbor. He was only two or three days from home. Suddenly, as he lay in his cabin, a strong and even imperative command came to him from on high. He seemed to hear a diviae voice saying: “Go back! Go back! About ship and go back!” He was not in the least a man given to vagaries. He ahook himself and went upon the deck. The ^ars were shining above. The sea was ea'm. The wind was brisk, and the sails were well fill ed. He went down to his cabin and again tried to sleep. Again came that strange command: “Go back! Go back! About ship aud go back!” So forcibly did this second command come that Captain Pendleton gave the command to about shij). The piates and sailors thought he was going crazy. He said nothing, but sailed on for two hours, I think, when, lo, a sinking ship hove in sight, and lie was able to rescue majiy lives. That picture upon the wall was presented to the old captain by the res cued men and women. So God. if we consecrate our lives to his service, will lead us in strange and devious ways. He will so guide us that we may be able to save immortal men and women from sin upon the land as old Captain Pendleton rescued those men and wo men from a watery grave. The human vessel in order to reach the harbor for which Christ Intended him to sail, must be able in one sense to make the voyage ot life alone. I mean by that that he must steer his own course irrespective of what other hu man vessels may do. A great harbor like New York’s always teems with life. The many trees which cover the moun tain sides do not seem 1t> the imagina tive eye to be denser than the forests of masts which are crowding about the docks. When the great steamer Is being pulled out of her wharf the little tugs shriek and puff and grunt. The multitudes who have come to bid their friends goodby wave their handker chiefs. The river boats salute the huge ship as she slowly moves down the bay. But after awhile the surrounding ships become less and less in numbers. Then if yon are sailing upon the Pa cific, or even upon the Atlantic, you may go days and weeks and not sight another craft. If you are on a sailing ship you will get head winds as well as those from the stern. Then you, as a sailing master, will have to tack and beat up against those head winds. You will have but one purpose—always working ahead toward the harbor, al ways pressing toward tfee one destina tion to which you wish to go. The voyage of the Christian’s life is very similar to a sailing ship’s journey across the seas. The Lone Jfavlffator’a Friend. Similarly in reference to its solitari ness. When we start out we have plenty of friends. But if we deter mine to do right, if we are set in our purpose to follow the course which Christ has laid out for us, we shall find that our friends will often leave us, one by one. We shall be as much alone as for many years Christopher Columbus was alone in his attempts to prove the circumnavigation of the globe; as William Haney, the great Loudon physician, physiologist and anatomist, was alone in believing In the circulation of the blood; as Georgo Whltcfleld was alone, when, ns ii pul piteer. he was looked upon as a mounte bank and an ecclesiastical clown; ns Paul was alone when he had to flee for his life over the Damascus wall, and as Jesus Christ was alone when, scoffed aud spit upon, he was hurried up the rocky heights where he was to he crucified between two thieves. Similarly in reference to the head winds anil side currents which ' .ive to bo fought against. It would nut be so bad If in the voyage of life fie human vessel had to make its jo noy alone, and that was all. But u.» sooner do our friends begin to h ive our sides than ilie hurricanes of abuse and the undercurrents of slim .or begin to work against us. When a noted reformer at the end of his life was given a great popular demo .- ration of approval and presented with a beautiful gold watch he s' ><■ l looking at It with em- barrastinen’ Then he said, with a smile. “Fr ! nds, if it had been a brick bat or n b id egg hurled at me I would know v mt to do. but this beautiful \vat« 'i in my hand absolutely takes away my breath.” Ah. my Christian WILL TRY TO REBUILD A MAN Omaha to Ltiaip \ ictlni of Whlakr With Artificial FinKcra. The Douglas county commissioners In Nebraska are going to try the ex periment of rebuilding a man Iv Ohe hope of ridding themselves of a County charge, says an Omaha dispateft lo tho Chicago Inter Ocean. John Wiese of Millard came before them recently minus eight fingers, but well equipped with arguments why the A Nurglt-al Operation is always dangerous—do not submit to the surgeon’s knife until you have tried DeWitt’s Wltjh Hazel Salze. It will cure when everything else fails it has done this In thousands of cases Here is one of them : I suffered from bleeding aud protruding piles for twenty years. Was treated by differ ent specialists aud used many reme dies, but obtained no relief until I usea DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. 1 wo boxes of this salve cured me county should provide him a new set of 1 eighteen mouths ago and I have not had a touch of the piles since.—H. A. Tisdale, Sumraertou, S. C. For Blind, Ble'ding, Itching and Protruding Piles no remedy equals DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by Chero kee Drug Co. In an official statement issued at St. Petersburg regarding the pro posed Hebrew petition, it is said that the czir would not think of forward ing an anti-lynching petition to the United States digits. “I’m no good as I am,” he protested, holding up two stumps of hands for Inspection, “but If the board will fit me out with artiflcinl fingers I can make a good living.” Wiese explained that with celluloid fingers he can milk cows, pick fruit, hftndle a pitchfork or a spade or even sew tidies If necessary. “The fingers will cost $50,” he said, “but If you don’t buy them you’ll have to keep me at the poor farm, and board and lodging will be even more expen sive.” “The idea makes a hit with me,” ac knowledged Commissioner Harte, “be cause there will be at least one of the brethren, with such loneliness which people out at the poor farm who can’t must be endured aud with such hurrl- ] plead inability to work on account of canes of abuse which must be fought against, no human craft trying to fol low tho right course is safe unless Jesus Christ, as the divine captain, is guiding it and treading upon Its quar ter deck. No human ship can ever be sailed safely over the troubled sea of time into a harbor of a blessed eternity unless it has the magnetic needle of tlie cross for a sompass and the great harbor of peace for its destination. Do you wonder that I declared every hu man vessel should be under the domin ion of Jesus Christ? The prssing ship is like the Chris tian's life in the close of its voyage. The harbor of peace will be entered gladly as soon as the earthly journey is ended. Have you ever taken a long trip away from home? Have you been gone three, five, ten months or a year? Have you ever l>«en so far away that if a cablegram was sent you that one of your loved ones was dying you knew that you could not reach the bedside of the sufferer, or even see her face again after she was dead? Well, I have. I pray God you may never know what such separation means. Kml nf (he Voyage. Then, after a long journey of many months, have you ever felt in head and heart, in all parts of youf being, mental, physical and spiritual, the ex blistered fingers. Let’s spend the $50.” Wiese used to live at Millard. One freezing night last winter he fell by the wayside Returning home and was bad ly frostbitten. All his Ungers were lost. Wiese has ponding In the district court a $20,000 suit against four saloon men at Millard for selling him the liquor that resulted in his being frozen. Maitland, Fla. The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Cc., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen :—I have had eczema over thirty years, have tried many remedies prescribed by various physi- ciaus, but to nothing has the disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul phur. I think if used properly it is undoubtedly a specific for eczema. I have prescribed it for others with most satisfactory results. I consider it the best remedy for cutaneous affections I have ever known, and re gard .t as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Respectfully yours, W. A. Heard, M. D. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co The porte denies that the Turkish troops are being massed along the All foreigners who hereafter are Bulgarian frontier prepatatory to war. granted naturalization papers must Subscribe to a new fbrm Of oath drawn rrertt 'our Ktilneyn for Rheumatism, up according to provisions made by When you are suffering from rheu- congress soon after the assassination matism, the kidneys must be attend- of President McKinley, says the Chica- e< i to at once so that they will elimi- go Chronicle. The now form is now nate the uric acid from the blood. Foley’s Kidney Cure is the most ef fective remedy for this purpose. R. T. Hopkins, of Polar, Wis., says, “After unsuccessfully doctoring three years for rheumatism with the best doctors, I tried Foley’s Kidney Cure and it cured me. I cannot speak too highly of this great medicine.” NEW OATH FOR FOREIGNERS All Muat Swear on Naturalization Not to Favor Annaznination. being prepared by County Attorney Sims, who has decided to adopt uni form papers for all the various courts. The foreigner must swear he is not opposed to "organized government, that he is not a member of or affiliated with any organization teaching disbelief in or opposition to nil organized govern ment, that he docs not advocate or Cherokee Drug Co. teach the duty, necessity or propriety . — of the unlawful assaulting or killing " meeting held at Dublin to con- of any officer or officers, either of spe- approaching visit of King ultant joy of heading toward home? clfic individuals or of officers generally I’-^^ard w^as broken up by members Oh. then the bliss and yet the long of the government of the United States hfthe anti-English party who sang drawn out impatience as the journey comes nearer to its close! The old ship's propeller will not revolve fast enough. You hang around the chart which is daily posted in the ship s cabin to tell you how ’mauy miles the ship is sailing. You hither the cap tain every time you meet him, saying, “Captain, will we be able to get in by Friday night?” Then i' 1 the ship is de tained. as ours was all night long in a fog just outside of New York harbor, oh, how the time does drag! 1 never slept a wink that last night on my journey around the world. I walked or of any other organized government because of his or their official charac ter and that la* has not violated any of the provisions of the act of the sec ond session of the Fifty-seventh con gress of the United States of America entitled ‘An act to regulate the Immi gration of aliens into the United States,’ approved March 3, 1903.” ‘God Save Ireland. A Case of Interpretation. “What shall we do with the prison er?” demanded the spokesman of the mob. “Do thou, O royal chamberlain, By taking a thorough course of Rbeumacide you rid your system of the poisons that cause rheumatism. A permanent cure is the result. It is the standard rheumatic remedy, laxative and tonic. At Druggists. A prominent Cincinnati doctor in Mobile failed to battle upon the mos quitoes and died from yellow fever. A. R. Bass, of Morgantown, Ind., bad to get up ten or twelve times in haste to the presence of his majesty , U* 6 night, and had a severe backache up and down the deck, up and down, and learn his wish.” 1 wondered if the telegram had been flashed to my folks from Barnegat lighthouse that the Etruria had been sighted. 1 wondered if they would be down at tin* docks to greet me. And, though it was a stormy day when we went up the Narrows. I stood out near tin' how. I was alone, entirely alone, without kitli or kin for a traveling companion; yet, when I saw my dear ones upon the dock, I nudged the man nearest to me and cried out: “There they are! There are my folks! There are father and my sisters! Yes, there they all are.” And the tears of joy rolled down my cheeks. That is the way the Christian voyager shall enter the harbor of peace. The physical ship in which he sails may be bruised and battered by many a storm, but that will amount to nothing. Then all our loved ones will come down to meet us. Oh, how many, many, many dear ones are there! They shall all come down to the hanks. I wonder if we will know them at once. I wonder if they will cry when we wave back. The Bible says there are no tears in heaven, but 1 do not think that state ment is literally true. I do not believe we can sec our own dear ones for the , first time without crying Just a little. But, mark you, In that great welcome they will only be tears of joy and not i tears of sorrow. Thus, my dear friends, as voyagers upon the great sea of life, today I greet you. I signal you with the warmest feelings of Christian Joy stirring my heart. I feel that it is due to the provi dence of God that we have been brought together, and therefore we have been brought together for a Chris tian purpose. The sea of life is so wide that many of us only meet each other 1 this once before we sail Into the harbor of peace. When'a vessel becomes a wreck ! and floats about upon the seas as a i derelict It sometimes takes months and even years for It to be found and de stroyed. It may take all that time, no matter how many ships may be hunt ing for it. Therefore, what I am to say to you I must say quickly. Human vessels voyaging over the sea of life, never allow any sinful current to turn your prow from your Chrlstly destina tion. Never allow your sails to be stretched for a popular wind. Never allow your reckoning to be made from any star but that which once gleamed over the Bethlehem manger. And never feel, Christian voyagdr, that the storm of persecution will founder you If you have Christ In the hinder part of the ship. Christian voyager, if .we should never meet again this side of the harbor of peace, I send you my Christian salutation and love —“Hail and farewell!” [Copyright, IMS, by Louis Klopsch.] The royal chamberlain hurried to the presence and bowed himself thrice to the floor; then he asked the monarch’s pleasure regarding the desperate out law. “Away with him!” said the king in a loud. Ikarsli voice. But the chamberlain was something of a humorist, and when he returned to the mob he laughingly announced that in regard to the misdoings with the prisoner the king had said only that it was “a way with him.” Whereupon the mob reluctantly re leased their quarry. But in trying to explain the joke to the obtuae king the royal chamberlain becama confused and completely lost his bacid.—Baltimore American. and pains in the kidneys Was cured by Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee Drug Co. When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.—Bulwer. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25c. No man ever did a designed injury to another but at the same time be did greater to himself.—Home. Sound kidneys are safeguards of life. Make the kidneys healthy with Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee Drug Co. Color of Judaa* Hair. In very early times all pictures of Judas were shown with great shocks of red hair fulling down well on the shoulders. This and the fact that the Judas in the “Miracle Plays” was pro vided with a red hirsute worked the superstitious people of the middle ages up to such a degree that it was actual ly unsafe for a red haired person to ap pear in company. Seeing that things were coming to a serious pass, writers of all classes began to rebuke and de nounce “the senseless prejudice against those of lively colored hair.” When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing he has one good rea son for letting it alone.—Thomas Scott. Hancocks’s Liquor Sulphur will give you immediate relief and per- manetly cure all such diseases as Eczema, Pimples, Tetter, Herpes, Ringworm, Dandruff, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns, Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. Hun dreds of cases of skin diseases have been permanently cured by the use Cyrano of Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur after de Bergerac in his “States and Em pires of the Sun” boldly praised and glorified the despised color in the fol lowing words: “A brave head covered with red bulr is nothing else but the sun in the midst of his rays, yet many speak 111 of it because few have the honor to he so." Free to You If yoa art not well and want to know the truth about your all other remedies failed, by the Cherokee Drug Co. For sale Fire destroyed the plant of the Hammond Packing company at St. Joseph. Mo. Value of the plant and stock $3 000.000. trouble, send for my free booklets and self examination blanks. No. 1, Nervous Debili ty (Sexual Weakness), No. 3, Varicocele, No. 3, Stricture, No. 4, Kid ney and Bladder Com plaints, No. fi, Disease of Women, No. 0, The Poison King (Blood Poison), No. 7, Ca tarrh. These books Should be in the hands FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. 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