DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "Tlie Coining: Century"—Wlmt the
New Cycle Will Usher In—Need* of the
New Age—The - End - of - the - Century
Watch Night.
TEXT: "The children of Issachar, which
were men that liad understanding of the
times, to know what Israel ought to do."—
Chronicles xii., 32.
Great tribe, that tribe of Issachar! When
Joab took the census, there were 145,000 of
them. Before the almanac was born,
through astrological study, the.v knew from
steller conjunctions all about the seasons
of the year, Before agriculture became an
art thev were skilled in the raising of
crops. 'Before politics became a science
thev knew the temper of nations, and when
ever thev marched, either for pleasure or
war. they marched under a three colored
flag— topaz, sardine and carbuncle. But
the chief characteristic of that tribe of
Issachar was that they understood the
times. They were not like the political
and morul incompetents of our day, who
are trying to guide 1898 by the theories of
1828. They looked at the divine indica
tions in their own particular century. So
we ought to understand the times, not the
times when America was tWirteen colonies,
huddled together along the Atlantic coast,
but the times when the nation dips one
hand in the ocean on one side the continent
and the other hand in the ocean on the
other side the continent: times which put
Now York Narrows and the Golden Horn of
the Pacific within one flash of electric
telegraphy; times when God is as directly,
as positively, as solemnly, as tremendously
addressing us through the daily newspaper
and the quick revolution of events as He
ever addressed the ancients or addresses
us through the Holy Scriptures. The voice
of Goil in Providence is as important as
tho voice of God in typology, for in our
own day we have had our Sinais with thun
ders of the Almighty, and Calvaries of sac
rifice. and Gethsemanes that sweat great
drops of blood, and Oliyets of ascension,
and Mount Pisgahs of farreaching vision.
The Lord who rounded this worid 6000
years ago and sent His Son to redeem it
near 1!)00 years ago has yet much to do
with this radiant but agonized planet. May
God niak» us like the children of Issachar,
"which were men that had understanding
of the times, to know what Israel ought
to do."
The grave of this century will soon be
dug. The cradle of another century M ill
soon be rocked. Titers is something mov
ing this way out of the eternities, some
thing that thrills me, blanches me, appalls
me, exhilarates me, enraptures me. It
will wreathe tho orange blossoms for mil
lions of weddings. It will beat the dirge
for millions of obsequies. It will carry the
gilded banners of brightest mornings and
the black flags of darkest midnights. The
world will play the grand march of its
heroes and sound the rogue 3' march of its
cowards. Other processions may halt or
break down or fall back, but the procession
led by that leader moves steadily on and
will soon bo here. It will preside over
coronations and dethronements. I hall it.
I bless it, I welcome It.the twentieth cen
tury of tho Christian era.
What may we expect of it, and how shall
we prepare for it, are the momentous ques
tions I propose now to discuss. As in fami
lies, human nativity is anticipated by all
sanctity and kindliness and solemnity and
care and hopefulness, so ought we prayer
fully, hopefully, industriously, confidently
prepare for the advent of a new century.
The nineteenth century must not treat the
•twentieth century on its arrival as the
eighteenth century treated the nineteenth.
Our century inherited the wreck of revolu
tions and the superstitions of ages.
Around its cradle stood the armed assas
sins of Old World tyrannies; the"reign of
terror," beque thing its horrors; Robes
pierre, plottinf Ms diabolism- the Jacobin
club, with its wholesale massacre; the
guillotine, chopping its beheadmeiits. The
ground quaking with the great guns of
Marengo, Wagram and Budsjos. All Eu
rope in convulsion. Asia iu comparative
quiet, but the quietness of death. Africa
in the clutches of the slavo trade. Ameri
can savages in full cry, their scalping
knives lifted. The exhausted and poverty
struck people of America sweating under
the debt of $300,000,000, which the Revolu
tionary War had left them. Washington just
gone into tho long sleep at Mount Vernon,
and the nation in bereavement; Aaron
Burr, tho champion libertine, becoming
soon after the Vice-President. The Gov
ernment of the United States only an ex
periment, most of the philosophers and
statesmen and governments of the earth
prophesying it would be a disgraceful fail
ure. No poor foundling laid at night on
thecold steps of a mansion, to be picked
up in the morning, was poorer ofT than this
century at its nativity. The United States
Government had taken only twelve steps on
its journey, its Constitution having been
formed in 1789, and most of the nations of
the earth laughed at our Government in
its first attempts to walk alone.
The birthday of our nineteenth century
occurred in the time of war. Our small
United States Navy, under Captain Trux
ton, commanding the frigate Constitution,
was in collision with the French frigates
La Vengeance and L'lnsurgente, and the
llrst lnfunt cries of this century were
drowned in the roar ot naval battle, and
political strife on this continent was the
hottest, the parties rending each other
with pantherlne rage. The birthday pres
ent of this nineteenth century was vitupera
tion, public unrest, threat of national
demolition, and horrors national and Inter
national. I adjure you, let not the twen
tieth century be met in that awful way, but
with all brightness of temporal and re
ligious prospects.
First, let us put upon the cradle of the
new century a new map of the world. The
old map was black with too many barbar
isms and red with too many slaughters und
pale with too many sufferings. Let us see
to it that on that map so far as possible
our country from ocean to ocean is a
Christianized continent—schools, colleges,
churches and good homes in long line
from ocean beach to ocean beach. On that
map Cuba must be free. Porto Rico must
be free. The archipelago of the Philip
pines must be free. If cruel Spain expects
by procrastination and intrigue to get
back what she has surrendered, then the
warships lowa and Indiana and Brooklyn
and Texas and Vesuvius and Oregon must
be sent back to Southern waters or across
to the coast of Spain to silencethe Insolence
as decidedly as last summer they silenced
the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and
Maria Teresa and Vizcaya. When we get
those islands thoroughly under our pro
tectorate, for the first time our missionaries
in China will be safe. The atrocities im
posed on those good men and women in
the so-called Flowery Kingdodi will never
be resumed, for our guns will be too near
Hong Hong to allow the massacre of mis
sionary settlements.
On that map must be put the isthmian
canal, begun if not completed. No long
voyages around Cape Horn for the world's
merchandise, but short and cheap commu
nication by water instead ot expensive
communication by rail tmln, and more
millions will be added to our national
wealth and the world's betterment than I
have capacity to calculate.
On the map it must bo made evident that
America is to be the world's civillzer und
evangelizer. Free from the national re
ligions of Europe on the one side and from
the superstitions of Asia on the other side,
it will have facilities for the work that no
other continent can possibly possess. As
near as I can tell by the laying on of the
bands of the Lord Almighty, thfs continent
has been ordained for that work. This
is the only country in the world where *ll
religions are on the same platform, and
the people have free selection for them
selves without any detriment. When we
present to the other continents this assort*
ment of religions and give them unhin
dered choice, we have no doubt of thsir
selecting this religion of mercy and kind
ness and good will and temporal and eter
nal rescue. Hear itl America is to take
this world (or Qod!
On the map which we will put on the
cradle of the new century we must have
very soon a railroad bridge across Bering
Strait, those thirty-six miles of water, not
deep, and they are spotted with Islands
capable of holding the piers of a great
bridge. And what with America and Asia
thus connected and Siberian railway, and
a railroad now projected for the length ot
Africa, and Palestine and Persia and India
and China and Burmah intersected with
railroad traoks, all ot which will be done
before the new century is grown up, the
way will be open to the quiok civilization
and evangelization of the whole world.
The work of this century has been to get
ready. All the earth Is now free to the
Gospel except two little spots, one In Asia
and one In Africa, while at the beginning
of the century there stood the Chinese wall
and there flamed the fires and there glit
tered the swords that forbade entrance to
many islands and large reaches of contin
ent. Boineslaji cruelties and Fiji Islands
cannibalism have given way, and all the
gates of all the continents are swung open
with a clang that has been a positive and
glorious invitation for "Christianity to en
ter. Telegraph, telephone and phonograph
are to bo consecrated to Gospel dissemina
tion, and instead of the voice that gains
the attention of a few hundred or a few
thousand people within the church walls
the telegraph will thrill the glad tidings
and the telephone will utter thuin to many
millions. Oh, the infinite advantage that
the twentieth century has over what the
nineteenth century had at the starting!
In preparation for this coming century
we have time in the intervening years to
give some decisive strokes at the seven or
eight great evils that curse the world. It
would be an assault and battery upon the
coming century by this century if we
allowed the full blow of present evils to
fall upon the future. We ought somehow
to cripple or minify some of those abomina
tions. Alcoholism is to-day triumphant,
and arc we to lot the all devouring monster
that has throttled this century seize upon
the next without llrst having filled his ac
cursed hide with stinging arrows enough
to weaken and stagger him? We have
wasted about twenty-live years. How so?
While wo have been waiting for the law of
the land to prohibit intoxicants wo have
done little to quench the thirst of appetite
in the palate and tongue of a whole gen
oration. Where are the public and enthu
siastic meetings that used to be held thirty
years ago for the one puryo3e of persuad
ing the young and middle aged and old
that strong drink is poisonous and damn
lug? When will we learn that we must
educate public opinion up to a prohibitory
law, or such u law will not bo passed or If
passed will not be executed?
Seven or eight years ago on the anni
versary platform of the National Temper
ance Society In New York I deplored the
fact that we had left politics to do thut
which moral suasion only could do and
said on that occasion, "If some poor
drunkard wandering along this street to
night should see the lights kindled by this
brilliant assemblage and should come in,
and finding the character of the meetiug,
should ask for a temperance pledge, that
he might sign it and begin a new career, I
do not believe there is in all this house a
temperance pledge, and you would have to
take out a torn letter envelope or a loose
scrap of paper for the Inebriate's signa
ture." I found out afterward that there
was one such temperance pledge in the
audience, but only one that I could hear
of. Do not leave to politics that which
cau be done now in 10,000 reformatory
meetings all over the country.
Oh, save the young man of to-day and
greet the coming century with a tidal wave
of national rodemptlonl Do not put upon
the cradle of the twentieth century a moun
tain of demijohns and beer barrels and rum
jugs, and put to its Infant lips wretched
ness, disease, murder and abandonment in
solution. Aye, reform that army of ine
briates. "Ah," you say, "it cannot be
done!" That shows that you will be of no
use in the work. "O ye of little faith!"
Away back in early times President Davies,
of Princeton College, one day found a man
in utter despair because of the thrall of
strong drink. The president said to him:
"Sir, be of good cheer. You can be saved.
Bign the pledge." "Ah," said the despair
ing victim, "I have often signed tho pledge,
but I have always broken my pledge!"
"But," said the president, "I will be your
strength to keep the pledge, j will be your
friend, and with a loving arm around you
will hold you up. When your appetite
burns, und you feel that you must gratify
it, come to my house, sit down with me iu
the study or with the family in the parlor,
and I will bo a shield to you. All that I
can do for you with my books, my sym
pathy, my experience, my society, my love,
my money, I will do. Vou snail forget your
appetite and master It." A look of hope
glowed on the poor man's face, and he re
plied, "Sir, will you do all that?" "Surely
I will." "Then I will overcome." He
signed the pledge and kept it. That plan
of President Davies which saved one man,
tried on a large scale, will save a million
men.
Alexander the Great made an imperial
banquet ut Babylon, and, though he had
been drinking the health of guests all one
night and ail next day, the second night
he had twenty guests, and he drank the
health of each separately. Then calling
for the cup of Hercules the giant, a mon
ster cup, be filled and drained it twice to
show his endurance; but, as he finished the
last draft from the cup of Hercules the
giant, he dropped in a lit, from which he
never recovered. Alexander, who bad con
quered Sardis and conquered Halicurnassus
and conquered Asia and conquered the
world, could not conquer himself,and there
is a threatening peril that this good land
of ours, having conquered all with whom
it has ever gone into battle, may yet be
overthrown by the cup of the giant evil of
the land—that Hercules of Infamy, strong
drink. Do not let the staggering and
bloated and embruted host of drunkards
go into the next century looking for insane
asylums and almshouses and delirium tre
mens and dishonored graves.
It has been a custom in all Christian
lands for people to keep watch night as
an old year goes out and a new year
comes in. People assemble in churches
about 10 o'clock of that last night of the
old year, und they have prayers and songs
and sermons and congratulations until the
hands of the church clock almost reach
the llgure 12, und then ull bow in silent
prayer, and the scene is mightily Impres
sive until the cloak In the tower of the
church or the clock in the tower of the
city hall strikes 12, and then all rise and
sing with smiling face and jubilant voice
the grand doxology, and there is a shaking
of huuds all around.
But what a tremendous watch night the
world is soon to celebrate! This century
will depart at 12 o'clock of the 31st of De
cember, of the year 1900. What u night
that will be, whether starlight or moonlit
or dark with tempestl It will be such a
night as you and I never saw. Those who
watched the coming in of the nineteenth
century long ago went to their pillows of
dust. May we all be living on earth to see
the solemnities and join in the songs and
shake hands in the congratulations of that
watch night; or, it between this and that
any of us should be off and away, may we
be inhabitants of that land where "a thou
sand years ara as ono dav," and in the
presence of that angel spoken of In the
Apocalypse, who at the end of the world
will, stundlng with one foot on the sea and
the other foot on the land, "swear by Htm
that ltveth forever and ever, that time shall
be no longer."
A
Ii Chtua Ketrogadlnc?
The Chinese Government has no ifled all
applicants for military sertlce that they
will hereafter be examlaed In archery and
stone slinging.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
An Abstinence Alphabet—A Railroad
Man's Reasons Fur Thinking That
"This Treating; Business" lias Got to
Stop—A Non-Treating Society.
A stands for Alcohol; deathlike Its grip.
B for Beginner, who takes just one sip.
C for Companion, who urges him on.
I) for the Demon of drink that is born.
E for Endeavor he makes to resist.
F stands for Friends who so loudly insist.
G for the Guilt he afterward feels.
H for the Horrors that hang at his heels.
I his Intention to drink not at all.
J stands for Jeerings that follow his fall.
K for his Knowledge that he is a slave.
L stands for Liquors his appetite craves.
M for convivial Meetings so gay.
N stands for No that he tries hard to say.
O for the Orgies that then come to pass.
P stands for Pride that he drowns in his
glass.
Q for the Quarrels that nightly abound.
R is the Ruins that he sees all around.
S stands for Sights that his vision bedims.
T stands for Trembliug that seizes his
limbs.
U for his Usefulness sunk in the slums.
V for the Vagraut he quickly becomes.
W for Waning of life that's soon done.
X for his Xlt regretted by none.
Youths of this nation, such weakness is
crime.
Zealously turn from the tempter in time!
—Dr. Cyrus Edson, in North Amerlcun He
view.
The Custom of Treating.
A prominent railroad man says: "Tho
men of our profession know every Tom,
Dick and Harry from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. We go into a placa to get a drink,
and before we can leave wo have had half
a dozen or more drinks that we have had
totako as a treat, or join iu as a treat to
others." The consequence is that they get
"full" without previous intent, simply out
of good fellowship, and others get "full"
with them for like reason. This good fel
lowship, therefore, loads to excessive
drinking and drunkenness all around. Nor
can this be avoided so long as treating is
recognized as the expression of courteous
treatment and good will among friends
and chance acquaintances. Every railroad
man feels that, so long as this cus
tom prevails, he cannot main
tain his standing among his boon
companions and business associates
without following it. To refuse to "stand
treat" would belittle him in the eyes of his
fellows, make him appear small and
stiugy, whereas railroad men are among
the most generous men iu the world, and
justly pride themselves on their large
hearted generosity. Nothing hurts a
generous man like the charge of meanness
and stinginess.
What is thus true cf railroad men is true
of men, more or less, in the various ranks
of business and of social life. From the
country men goto the village or 3ity, and
"get full" solely because they have met
acquaintances there with whom they have
passed the compliment of good will too
frequently. Had they drank only as
their personal Inclination prompted, they
would have returned home comparatively
sober, if not wholly so. In the city, after
the day's work is ended, men go "down
town" for recreation or shopping, with no
thought or purpose of a carousal, aud be
fore midnight are beastly drunk, fighting
crazy, or maudlin foolish—all as the fruit
age of the treating custom. Young men
everywhere are led into habits of drink
through this method of induction, and
even boys find this the entrance door into
the wider Melds of dissipation.
Three things rasult: Money is worse
than wasted that otherwise might have
been put to some beneficial and commend
able purpose; lives are wrecked that
otherwise might have been saved and
made a blessing to the world; families are
blighted that otherwise might have been
ornaments in society; hence, out of it
comes evil and ouly evil. Why, then, con
tinue such a custom? If it be essential to
express good fellowship, let it be expressed
in some other way. Or, if we must treat
our friends, associates and chance ac
quaintances to something, let us treat
them to something that, at least, will not
be ruinous to them, their families and to
society. We ought to make men better,
and not worse. It may be that wo think
we individually have a personal right to
take au occasional glass of strong drink;
but that cannot exculpate us from the
woe pronounced upon him that "giveth
his neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle
to him, aud maksth him drunken also."
Well might this railroad man, already rs
ferred to, say that "This treating business
has got to stop." Wisely has he organized
a non-treating society among the agents
concentrating in Chicago. Wisely does he
propose to push it until it has a chapter In
every large city from Maine to California.
Cheering is the success with which it is
meeting. Five thousand buttons and cards
wore issued withlu the first few days; ten
thousand more were ordered; and up to the
present time the demand has exceeded the
supply. Surely the time seems to bo ripe
for the movement. Why, then, not push
it? Assuredly every lover of humanity
ought to lend it a helping band. And why
stop with railroad men? Why not include
every business man, professional man,
social man, young man, men of every class
where treating prevails and the curse of
excessive drink extends? Who can say
anything against a movement of this kind?
Do away with the custom of treating, an:t
more than half of the present drunkenness
will c«ase. Who, then, will speak aud act
for It? Will you?— Christian Work.
A Fatal Remedy.
There was recently in the jail In New
Brunswick, N. J., a woman who was arrest
ed while participating in wild drunkeu
orgies with a gang of tramps in the woods
near the town. She appears to-day noth
ing but a besotted hag, but was only a
short time ago the dutiful wife of a respec
table man and tho mother of three beauti
ful children. Her father, who is said to be
living in a Tillage in New York State, is a
highly respected minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Her ohildren are in an
asylum, and her husband Is a wanderer in
the West. Tho cause of her ruin was beer,
prescribed for her by the family physician
as a tonic. At first she refused to take it,
having always been a teetotaler, but per
suaded to obey the physician, she soon ac
quired a taste for the drink that speedily
developed Into the overmastering appetite,
which has brought her and hers to this sad
condition.
A Ruinselier's Confession.
A man who bad been rumselllng for
eleven yenrs made this confession: "I have
sold liquor long enough for me to see the
beginning and end of its effects. I have
>een a man take his first glass of liquor in
my place, and afterwards fill the grave of
a suicide. I have seen man after man,
wealthy and educated, come into my sa
loon, who cannot now buy his dinner. I
can recall twenty customers worth from
SIOO,OOO to $500,000 who ure now without
money, place or friends."—Baptist Argus.
Notes About the Crusade.
The death of each drunkard means the
drafting of another boy to tho ranks of the
saloon.
The Royal Commission appointed by the
British Parliament to investigate the rum
business has finished taking evidence. It
examined 160 witnesses.
The temperance question is co-extensive
with human weakness, and at the most un
expected times and seasons occasions arise
to help others by word and deed.
A parliamentary paper just issued shows
that there are in Belgium no fewer than
183,000 liquor establishments of all kinds,
or one to every twenty-uine of the popula
tion.
Tka Merrlmac's Flif.
Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hob
son, in his personal story of"The
Sinking of the Merrimac" in the Cen
tury, says:
With regard to the ensign, I had
asked Captain Miller about the ensign
of the Merrimac. He said that he had
already considered the matter, buthnd
found that the strippers had taken off
the ensign and the contents of tho
signal-chest, and even the signal-hal
yards. In fact, the men L"d been so
keen for relics and souven'-s, that
nothing seemed to have escaped. He
said that he had, however, an enor
mous flag, blue field, or background,
with "Maine" across it in large let
ters, which he proposed to have bent
on. But I was particularly anxious
for a large national flag, and put it
down on the list of items for the ex
ecutive officer to get us on the New
York. I was a little afraid they would
not let us have the flag, so I a.'ked the
executive officer not to say anything
about it to the captain until we were
gone, and told him that I should not
hoist it while running in, or while do
ing so could in any way affect the suc
cess of the effort, but that I did wish
very much to hoist it after firing the
torpedoes as the vessel sank. The
executive officer was not convinced,
and his instinct of the risk involved
was true; for though the captain let
mo have the flag without asking auy
questions, and it was bent on the hal
yards at the bridge ready for hoisting,
it was never hoisted, for after the work
was done, and the Merrimac was sink
ing, and a strong impulse set into
have the flag flying, it was clear, lying
at the muzzles of the enemy's guns,
that any move to hoist it would betray
our position and cost the life of all.
Responsibility for the group forbade
the attempt.
A Preacher on Fire.
At Chacombe Church, 1 ~ibury,
during the havvest thanksgiving ser
vices on a recent Sunday evening, ac
cording to the Westminster Gazette,
the vicar, the Rev. G. J. Hammon,
while holding forth with his usual
stirring eloquence, was suddenly
disturbed by several members of
the oongregation rising from
their seats and exclaiming- "You're
on fire, sir!" On putting out
the lire with his hand the reverend
gentleman thanked his informers and
then proceeded with his discourse as
if nothing had happened. Afterward
it was found that the long lawn sleeve
had been burned, the reporter pa
thetically adds, "beyond repair.'
Congratulations were accorded to the
vicar on his escape. The flames
nearly reached his head before he dis
covered the cause of alarm.
Julius I'tvsar Caught Scorching.
The announcement that Julius
Caasar was summoned for scorching
on a bicycle must cause a smile upou
the most serious face. There were
many smiles at the Haywards Heath
Petty Sessions.
Julius Cajsardid not appear at first,
and the historic name seemed more
out of place when bawled by a leather
lunged constable outside the court.
People began to think that a wag
gish cyclist had been playing larks
with the rural constable, and had
give a wrong name, but presently a
young gentleman stepped into the
box and all smiles ceased. "Are yon
Julius C®sar?" quoth the clerk.
"Yes, sir," replied the scorcher.—
Sussex (England) News.
The Triumph of the Scuvon.
A crop of sprains anil bruises is harvest©.]
from outdoor sports. Tho cure is the crop
St. Jacobs Oil delights in a 9 the triumph o."
the season, the one that boats the record.
In olden times the English ate but three
meals a day.
Knock* Coughs and Cold*.
Dr. Arnold's 'Jough Killer cures t'oushs and
Colds.Prevents Conßumution.AU druKKisls.^k.-
Business failures iu the United States foi
the past week numbered 178.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation torever
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money.
Trial by jury will be established in Si
beria by recent ukase of the Czar.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Hromo Quinine Taoieis. All
Druggists refund money If it fails lo cure. 25c.
The first expedition to the South Pole
took place in 1567.
After six years' suffering I was cured by Pi
so'S Cure.—JlAHV THOMSON. Ohio Avt
Alleghany, Pa., March lit, 18U4.
Many thousands of persons in Chicago
wear wooden shoes.
Cough* Lead to Conauiuption,
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Goto your druggist to-day and get
a sample bottle rree. Sold in 25 and 5!)
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
gerous.
There are some tollgates still in Phila
delphia, Penn.
To tUI-0 VouallpiALloU vorflvflr.
Take Cascai-ets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c
It C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Clubs for the study of the French lan
guage have been organized in Chicago.
Biliousness
"I have naad your valuable CASCA
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A calculation has been made showing
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the United Statei but $215,000,000.
Southern lt'y Dining: Car Service.
Commencing November 23d. additional Din
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way U. S. Fast Mail trains daily the year
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wav, via Washington, to Florida, Atlanta,
New Orlop ns. and points South and South
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flamed vou have a rumbling sound or imper
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caused by catarrh, which is nothing butan in
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The movement of wheat i> ad other bread
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Lanc'ii Family Medicine.
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