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Ci pep per ; TreuMirer, John S. Morris C Jnty Hfitlth Utlicerrf. Dr. J. K OOd! Boord of Etluciiiion, J. T. Davis, J. DJ. t miner, A Jues. sutieriiitendaut I. N, Meekins V XI If you are young you nat urally appear so. If you are old, why ap pear so? rveep young mwaruir wc h . s f . uill look ancr iuc wui- w u wardlv. You need not worry longer about those little streaks, of gray; advance agents of sgt. rill surety restore -color to gray hair: and it will also give your nair all the wealth and gloss of early life. Do not allow the falling of your hair to threaten you longer with baldness. Do not be annoyed with dandruff. U'e will send you our book on the Hair and Scalp, free upon request. Yrltm to thm Doctor. It you do r.ot obtain all th bea flta too eip"tel I mm tbm of tb Vlror. write the doctor aboat It. jTnbablr tbaro la aotna difficulty wtib yoor rnral Titta wbica BEUT b rtlllT remOTM. , . , A4JrM. D1C J. C. AVER. , LowcU. Maaa., 0 kl a i DDif wipr ELIZABETH CITY, ,N. C FRIDAY. JUNE X, 1898. -f , CHRIST BY IT DELIVERED ALL MEN FROM BONDAGE. Kmt Dr. Tat f Cloth mn Old Story In Xw Uafiag 8acrifloa of the pefenae 1 Dm Two Dlrda of Ancient Jem- ICopyrUtbt. VS by American Press Aaso- - . elation. 1 TVAsncraTOX, May 29. From a scene of old DrJ Taln&age in this sermon pre sents the old gospel under another phase; text, Leviticus ariv, 5-7: "And the sriesf shall command that one of the birda bo killed 'in an earthen Teasel, oyer running water. As for the living bird, ho shall take, it and the cedar . wood, and the scarlet, ad the hTsson and shall din them and the liv- incr bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to 1 cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce Mm clean and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.!! The Old Testament to very man people is a great slaughterhouse strewn with the blood and bones and horns and hoofs of butchered animals. It offends their shrht: it distrusts their taste; actnallr nauseates the stomach. But to the intelligent Christian the Old Testa meat is a magnificent corridor throng which Jesus advances. As he appears at the other end of the corridor we ' can only see the outlines of . his . character coniinjr nearer, wo can descry the fea tures. - But when at last he steps upon the niatfann of the New Testament, amid the torches of - evangelists and aDostles. the orchestras of heaven an noun co Mm with a blast of. minstrelsy that wakes un Bethlehem at midnight. There were a crreat many cages of hirda hronchfc down to Jerusalem for sacrifice sparrows, pigeons and . turtle doves. I can hear tnem now, wmstiing, caroling, and singing all around about the temple. - When a leper was lo be cured -of. his lenrosT. in order to his cleausinr two of these birds were taken. 1 Ona of them was slain over an earthen vessel of running water that is, clear, fresh water and then the bird was kill ed. . Another bird was then taken, tied to a hyssop branch and plunged by the nriest into the blood of the first bird, and then, with this hyssop branch, bird tipped, the priest would sprinkle the lener seven times, then untie the bird from the hyssop branch and it would go soaring into the heavens. Now open your eyes wide, my dear brethren and sisters, and see that that first bird meant Jesus and that the sec ond bird means your own soul. " There is nothing more suggestive than a caced bird. In the down of its breast j - you cp, see the glow of southern climes. In the sparkle of its eye you can see tne flash of distant seas. In its voico you can hear the song it learned in the wild wood It is a child of the sky in capitiv ity. Now the dead bird of my text, cap tured from, the air. suggests the Lord Jesus, who came down from the realms of light and glory. He once stood in the sunlight of heaven, lie was tno rayorite of the land He was the King's Son. Whenever a victory was gained or a throne set up, he was the first to hear It.. He could not walk incognito along the street for all heaven knew him. For eternal ages he had dwelt amid the mighty populations of heaven. No holi day had ever dawned on the city when he was absent He was not like an earth ly rrineeL occasionally issuing from a palace heralded by a troop of clanking horse guards, xio. He was greeted ev erywhere as a brother, and all heaven was perfectly at home with him. . :r , . ..The King's Son. Bat one day there came word to the palace that an insignificant island was hi rebellion and was cutting itseii to pieces with anarchy. I hear an angel say i . VLet it perish. - xne ikmg s reaim is. vast enough without the island, ine tributes to the 'King are large enough without that Wa can spare it " "Not so," said the Prince, the King's Son, and I see Hm push out one .day under the protest of a great company. He starts straight for the rebellious island. He lands amid : the execrations of the in habitants that grow in violence until the malice of earth has smitten him and the spirits of the lost world put their black wings over his dying head and shut the sun out The hawks and vul tures swooped upon this dove of the text until head" and breast and feet ran blood, until under the flocks and beaks of darknesa the poor thing perished No wonder it was a bird that was tanen ana sTMn over an earthen vessel of running water. It was a child of the skies. If tr-nified him who came down from heav en in agony and blood to save our souls. Blessed be his glorious name xoreveri I notice also in my text that tne Dim that was slain was a clean bird The tp.xt demanded that it should bo. The raven was never sacrificed, nor the cor morant no" the vulture. It must be a clean bird, saya the text, and it suggests the pure Jesus the holy Jesus. Al though-he spent his 'boyhood in the worst Tillage on earth, although blas phemies were poured into his ear enough to have poisoned any one else, he stands before the world a perfect Christ Herod was cruel, Henry VIII m lfMt VVV A 1 was . nnciflftn. v imam, jjj. was treacu- erous, but point out a fault of our King. Answer me, ye boys who knew nun on the streets of Nazareth I Answer me, ye miscreants who saw him die I The skep tical tailors have tried lor l.buu years to find out one hole in this seamless rarment but thev have not found it The most ingenious and eloquent infidel of this day, in the last line oi nis dook, all of which denounces Christ, says, All ages must proclaim that among the : sons of men there is none greater than jAgns. " So let this bird of the text be clean its feet fragrant with the dew that, it pressed, its beak carrying sprig of thyme and frankincense, its feathers washed, in i summer showers. O thou spotless Son of God, impress us with thy innocence! J Tbon lorely source of true delignt Whom L mween, adore. jnveil tby beauties to my sight. That I may lore thee more, i i None to Help. I 'remark also in regard to this first bird mentioned in tho text that it was a rfnfpnsdlpss bird. When the easrle assaulted with its-iron beak it strikes -" a t 1 fWTt lito a Wilt against its auvcrsarv. ims was a dbve ' or a sparrow, we do not know iusfc which. Take the dove or pi rrrvsrt in Vour hand, and the necking of its beak on your hand makes you laug at the feebleness of its assault The reindeer, 'after it is down, may fell you with its antlers. The ox, after you think it w dead, may break your leg in its death struggle. Tho Iiarpoonod whale, hi its last agony, may crush you in the coil cf the: unwinding rope. But this was a dbv' or harmless,5 perfectly him who: said. press alone, and there was none to help." None to he-jpl The murderers have it all their own way. Where was tho soldidr in the Roman regiment who swung hi sword in the defense of the divine martyr? Did. they put one drop of oil on his gashed feet? Was thero one in all that crowd manly and generous enough to stand un for him? ere the miscreants at the cross any more inter f ered with in their work of spiking him fast thanjthe carpenter in his snop driv ing a nail through a pine board? The women cried, but there was no balm in their tears. None to helpi hone to help O my Lord Jesus, none to help 1 The wave of anguish came up to the arch of his feet, canie up to his knee, floated to his waist, rose to his chin, swept to his temples, yet none to help. Ten thou sand times 10.00Q angels in the sky, ready at command- to plunge into the bloodv affray and strike back tho hosts of darkness, yet none to help, none to heln I Oh.' this dove of the text, in its last" moment, clutched not with angry talons. It plunged not a savage beak. It was a dove helnless: defenseless. None to help ! None to help 1 As after a severe storm in the morn ing you 'go out and find birds dead on tho snow, so this dead'bird of the text makes me think of that awful storm that swept the earth on crucifixion .day, when the wrath of God and the malice of man an4 the fury of devils wrestled beneath the three crosses.. As we sang just now: j ; Well might the 6nn in darkness hide And shot his glories in, When Christ, the mighty Maker, died For man, the creature's 6in. t Blood Atonement. But I come now to . speak of this sec ond bird of j the text 'We must not let that fly aivay until we have examined it Tho priest took the second bird, tied it to the hyssop branch, and then plung ed it in the blood of the first bird Ah, that is my soul, plunged for cleasing-in the Saviour's blood. There is not enough water in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to wash away our smallest sin. Sin is such an outrage on God's universe that nothing but blood can atone for it You know the!life is in .the blood, and as tho life, had been forfeited nothing could buy ifc tac but Wd. What was it that was sprinkled on the doorposts when the destroying angel went through tho land?j Blood. What was it that went streaming from the altar of an cient sacrifice? Blood. What was it that the priest carried into the holy of holies, making intercession for the peo ple? Blood. What was it that Jesus sweat inl the. garden of Gethsemane? Great drops of blood. What does the wine in the sacramental cup signify? Blood. What makes the robes of the righteous n heaven so fair? They are washed in! the blood of the Lamb. -What is it tnatj cleanses an our ponmitmr The blood-of Jesus Christ, that cleanseth from" all sjn. I hear j somebody saying, "I do not like such d sanguinary religion as that. ' ' Do you think it is very wise for the pa tient to tfell tho ; doctor "I don't like the medicine you have given me?" H he wants to be cured, he had better take the medicine. My Lord God has offered us a balm and it is very foolish for us to say, ' don't like that balm. J we had better take it and be saved But you do not oppose the shedding of blood in other directions and fcr otnerenas. If a hundred thousand men go out to battle for jtheir country and have to lay down their lives for free institutions is there anything ignoble about that? No; t . . - . . r, .t It you say, j "glorious sacrince ratner. And is there anything ignoble . in tne idea that the Lord Jesus Christ by the shedding of his blood delivered not only one land but all lands and all ages from bondage, Introducing men by millions and millions into the liberty of the sons of God? Is there any thing ignoble about that? j - ,; As this second' bird of the text was plunged in the blood of the first bird so we must! be wasned. in tne mooa oi Christ or kro collated forever. v . . j. From thy side a healing flood, Be of sin tho double cure, 6av$ from earth end make me pure. . I j Sin Is SlaTery. ' I notice now that as soon as this second. bird was dipped in the blood of the hrst bird the priest unloosened it and it was free fre6 of wing and free oi iooc ic COUlu wnes us utxu. buxj it chose. It could peck the grapes of any vineyard it chose. It was free a type of our souls alter we nave wasnea in the blood cf the Lamb We can go where we wilL We can do what we wilL Ydu say, "Had you not better qualify thatC No, for I remember that in conversion the will is cliangea ana the manjwill not will that which is wrong. There is no straitjacKet; in our religion, j A state of sin is a state of slav ery. A state of pardon is a state oi emancipation. The hammer of God's grace knocks the hopples from the feet, knocks the handcuffs from tne wrist opens the door into a landscape all ashimme? with fountains and abloom with gardens. It is freedom. If a man has become a unnstian, ne t a - m r rm xl fa .nr mnrfl afraid oi SUiaL ine muu- Icrs of Sinai do not frighten him. ; You iive, on! some August day, seen two a STKirrow perfectly swers, "Mercy, mercy I" Anatneu tne defenseless rvoe of clouds. burst and empty their Jtreasur I Hi-e-n frnrt tho TrinA 1UIO UI1B WTreUU UUU lb wutta . . 1 , : 11 thunder showers meet One cjpud fraxa this '.mountain and another cloud from that mountain, coming nearer and near er together and responding to ach oth er, crash to crash, thunder to thunder, boom, boom I And then the; clouds break and the torrents pour, and they are emp tied perhaps into the very Isame stream that comes down so red at yourfect that it seems as if all the carnage of jthe storm battle hon been emptied into it So in thi Bible I see two; storms gath er, one above Sinai, the other above Cal vary, and they respond one to -the other flash to flash, thunder to ithunder, boom, boom L Sinai thunders, f iThe soul that sinneth, it shall die ;'f Calvaryi re sponds, 'Save them from going dcwn to the pit, for I have found a ransom." Sinai says,' VWoe, woer' j Calvarylan- flcrwing to our feet, red with the carnage of jour Lord, in which if thy soul bo plunged, hko the bird in the text, it shall go forth free free I Oh, I wi?h all people to understand this, that when a man becomes a Christian ho does not become a slave, but that he becomes a free man; that he has larger liberty after he, be comes a child of G od than before" ho be came a child of God General Fisk said that he once stood at a slave block where an old Christian minister was being spld The auctioneer said of him : ""What bid do I hear for this man?. He js a very good kind of a man; ho is a minister." Somebody said "twenty dollars" (he was very old and not worth much); somebody else "twenty-five' ' " ' thirty' ' "thirty-five" "forty."' Tho aged Christian minister began to tremble. v He had expected to be able to buy his own freedom and he had just $79 and ex pected with the $70 to get free.' As the bids ran up the old man trembled more and more. "Forty" "foft-five'1 "fifty" "fifty-five" " sixty ' f "4ix-ty-fivo." The old man cried out "sev enty. " ne was afraid they wuld cjut bidhim. The men around were trans fixed. Nobody dared bid,!andtho auc tioneer struck him down, to himself done. done I; I 'V. Purchased by Christ, f ' S But by reason of sin we are poorer than that Africam . We cannot buy bur own deliverance. The. voices of death are bidding for us, and they , bid us in and they bid us down. jBut jthe Lord Jesus Christ comes and jsayst "I will buy that man. I bid for hpoa my Bethle hem manger ; I bid for him my hunger on the mountain ; "I bid for him my aphing head; I bid for him my fainting heart; I bid for him all my wounds, 'f A voice from the throne of God says: "It is enough 1 Jesus has bought . him. ". Bought with a price.'" The u purchase complete. It is done j . j . The great transaction's done. ! j I am my Lord's, and he is mine! ' He drew me, and I followed on, c Charmed to confess the voice divine. Why, is not .a man freej when he gets rid of his sins? The sins jof the tongue gone; the sins ot action gone; tne sins of the mind gone. All tneitransgressipns of 30, 40, 60 70 years gone-fno more in the soul than the malaria that float ed in the atmosphere 1,000 years ago; for when my Lord Jesus pardons a man he pardons him, and tnerp f no naii way work about it ( j Here I see a beggar going along , tne turnpike road. . He is worn out, with dis- ease. He is stm m tne joints. He is rheum in his nlcered all over. He "has TTe is sink and wasted.'; He is in Every time he puts down nis swollen feet -he cries "Ohthe pain! He sees a fountain by thf roadside un der a tree, and he crawls up. to that fountain and says: "I must wash. Here I may cool my ulcers. Here I may get rested "' He stoops down; and scoops up in the palm of his hands enough water to slake his thirst, and that is all gone. Then he stoops down and 'begins i to his eyes, and the rheum is all rrrvn e Then ho Tints in-his swollen feet, and the swelling is gone. Then, willing no longer to be only half cured, ne plunges in, and his whole body is laved in the stream, and he gets fnpon the bank welL Meantime the owner of the mansion up yonder comes down, walk- ing through the ravine witn nis only son, and ne sees tne nunaie oi rags anu asks, " Whose rags are these?7 A voice from the fountain says, "Those are my rags. Tben says tne masTer ?o nis son, 'Go up to the house" and get tne best - - - - i ' j new smt you can una ana Dring it down. " "And he brings down the clothes, and the becrrar is clotned im tnem ana he looks around and says: 'I was filthy, - . -r i J3 1 i. but now l am wean. j. wsas raggeu, uuu now I am robed y I was tlind, but now sea ' Glory .be to; the owner of that mansion, and glory be . to that son who brought me that new suit gt clothes, and glory be to this fountain where I have washed and where! all; who will may wash .and be clean!" Where sin abounded, grace dotn mncn more abound The bird has been dipped ; now. let it fly away. j 4 The Way Indicated The next j thing I notice about this bird when it was loosened and this is the main idea, is ' that it flew away. Which way did it go? When you let a bird loose from your grasp, which way does it fly?. Up. What jare wings for.' To fly with. Is there anything in the KnctTpcHon of the direction taken by that bird to indicate which way we ought to go Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, . Thy tetter portion trace, t Eise from transitory things To heaven, thy nativ place. We . should be going .heavenward. That is the suggestion. But I know that we have a great many drawbacirs. xou had them this morning j perhaps. You had them yesterday or", the day before, and, although you want toj be going heavenward, you are confetanily discour aged But I suppose when j that bird went out of j the priest sj nan as it went by inflections sometimes stooping A bird does not shoot directly up, but this ia tViomnHnn nf a tiird. So the soul soars toward God, rising up in; love! and same- times depressed by trial. It does not ai - it would like tvaysgom the direction t) go, but the- main course is right i 1" ! There is one passage in the Biblet which I quote of tener to myself than any oth er, "He knoweth our frame and! he ro membereth that we are dust " .4 There is a legend in Iceland which" rays that when Jesus was a boy,. playing with his comrades one Sabbath 4ay, he made birds of clay, and as these Ijirds of clay were standing J upon the grotuid an old Sadducep came! 'along and xe was disgusted at the sport and dashed the birds to piedea But the legend sajys that Jesus waved his hand above the proken birds and they took Wfhg and went sing ing heavenward. Of course that is a fable among the Icelanders. Bbt it is not a fable that we are dust; anil that the hand of divine grace waved 6ver us once, we g6 singing toward the skic&. I wish, my ' friends, that welcould live in a higher atmosphere. It aj man's whole life object is to make dollars, he will be running against those who are making dollars. If his whole object is to n get. applause, he- will run against thos who lore seeking applause. But if he rises higher than that he' will not bo interrupted in his flight heavenward Why does that flock of -birds, floating up against?tho blue sky so high that you can hardly see them, not change its course forj spire or tower? They are above all obstruct ions.: So we jj would not have so of ten to change our; Chris tian coursjtf if we lived in a higher at- mosphero f? nearer Christ, nearer the throne of 0od ; ''v,., Refuae Not. . : ' " Oh, ye who have been washed; in tho blood of Christ ye who have been loos edjfrom the hyssop branch, start heav enward It may be to some of - you a long flight Temptations may ispute your way,; storms; ?f bereavement' and trouble -may strike! your soul, but God will see you through. Build not;on the earih. Set your affections on things in heaven, not on things on earth. This is a perishing world Its flowers fade. Its fountains . dry! up. its promises jcheat Set. your affections upon Chrifit and heaven. I rejoice, my dear brethren and sisters in Christ, that the flight wiU J after awhilo be ended. Not always beat en of tho storm. Not always going on weary wings. Th'ero is a warm dovecot of eternal rest where we shall find a place of comfort, Jto tho everlastihg joy of our souls. Oh, they are goingjnp all tho time going up from this church going up from all tho families and from' all tho churches of the land the weary doves seeking rest in a dovecot Oh, that in that good land we may all meet when .our trials are over I We pannot get into the glorious presence of our de parted ones unless we have been cleans ed in the same blood that, washed their sins away. I know this is truo"of all who have gone in, that; they were plunged in the blood, that they were unloosed from the hyssop brahchj Then they went singing into glory. S4e that ye refuse not him that speakethj for" if they escaped not' who ref nso hiin that spake on earth how much more shall not I we escape if wo turn away from him that speaketh from heaven? ( Kvanseline's Query.' Mrs. Baxstono is! one of tho busiest society women in town. She belongs to three afternoon whist clubs and two dancing clnbs. She and her husband are members of several pedro clubs, and she is invited to three t imes as many recep tions and parties as it is possible for her to attend. . j . But it happened, one day last week that' Mrs. Baxstone didn't kget ready to go anywhere after luncheon. f This . caused her little 3-ydar-old daughter to wonder. The child Raited expectantly for awhile, and then in wide eyed amazement said: . ' 4 Ain' t you going! away, today, j mam ma?! , '!:'. " I ' - "No, darling," said her. mamma. "I'm going to bo at homo with you all this afternoon. " Little Evangeline was elated,' and merrily danced about the house dl the rest of the day stopping every? little while to be retold that her mamma was not going out. . j - That evening after dinner Mr. and Mrs. Baxstone repaired to thetibrary and sat down.- Evangeline stood -Jin si lence for a reasonable length o time, but at last she went up to her mamma and asked: . "Are you and papa dcin to stay home dis evenin?" ; 'Yes, deafest" Evangeline looked thoughtful for a moment, and then; in her sweetj inno cent way, lisped :' f ' "What's wrong?" Cleveland Leader.- The Old Parish. The word parish" indicated brigi- n.illv the i?eorrranhical area overwnicn the jurisdiction of a bisnop exrenaeo. It was not i ill a later time, and when that area had been subdivide into smaller ar. .;s, each of which was com mitted to t he oversight of a priest re sponsible T-f such functions as only a priest coul. I- discharge, that the sSmaller area got t be called the parishi while the larger area, comprehending an ag gregate of parishes, was called the bish op's diocese. As time went ' cdj, by a confusion in language, of which! abun dant examples might be giveh, the name, which was strictly a designation of the geographical area, got to be ap- plied to the community inhabiting that; area, and thus the word parish is, even! in pur own days, used sometimes to in-J dicate the area inhabited by.tHe'convj munity and sometimes the community itself ; ' . ' .. . : - J T ' la the latter senise the parish was a purely jeligious 6rganization, distinct in its origin, its working and ijjts aims from the manor, the' township or the ' ? i ... . . tithing, though composed of the sam0 personnel, man for man. . "Tne narisn 'of the townihip or j was the community ganized for church purposes and subject tr ehnwh discipline, with a constitu tion which recognized the rights of the whole body as an aggregate and th0 right of every adult member, whether nan or woman, vo a voice m ou i.-nn!PntRer. Dr. Jessun' in Nine- .ecnth Century, NO. 10 The Deacon Stosee. "Dey tells me,' said the old color ed deacon, "dat Moses vcuz tho meek, est man, but fomchow I got my doubts 'bout it, kaze onco do chill un cr Isril been mighty thiraty en pro . jickin erbun powerful for water w'en word would come, ter Mosoa dat of he'd speak terde'rocks de wa ter would run out er 'um. 8o Mokes open up a long conversation, wid do rocks v but hit wuz all one sided. Do rocks lay low en, say, nut tin,. So I reckon Moses say ter hi&self: Looky heah, dis b cab's a mighty rocky time I havin 1 Mua' be do 10th er de montb en do water chut off 1 En de mo' be think about it do madder he git 'twell finally ho grabbed a pine Faplin en hit derock a blow dat shuck de ground, en, lo, en bchol, da water come a-runnin out lak' a mill gettin. mad. All 1 docs say la ucy warn't ro meekness in dat action, fer ho des 'bout busted de rock wide open, ho did, en .w'en de rock boo ho mean business hit give him do bos' it had. No, dey wnzn't nuttia 'meek', 'bout Moses. not ter my min'. Br'r Williams, please pass do hatl" Atlanta Constitution, v : I The Theory 'ind the Faet. " ; Good Minister I don't see how I am to get through my serrnon to day. It's almost church time. , Fond Wife What is the text! "It is about tho wise and foolish virgin?." .t - "But you wero writing ut that sermon last night. Why didn't you,, finish it?" ; "I couldn't. Tho lamp wont out. New York Weekly. ; r . j . 1. Tho stock of Bank of England' notes which aro paid in tivo years fills TJ,i00 boxes, which, if placed Eide by side, would reach over two miles. If the notes themselves were placed in a pile, thoy would jonch to a height of five miles. Tliqy weigh 90 tons and represent 1,71)0,000,000. . . THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE LUNG TROUBLES AND CONSUMP TION CAN BE CURED. . An Eminent New York Chemist and Scientist Makes a Free Offer to Our Readers, . The distinguished New York chem ist, T. A. Slocum, demonstrating his discovery of a reliable and absolute cure for. Consumption ? (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) and all bronchial, throa'f lung and chest diseases, stubborn coughs, catarrhal affections, general decline and weakness, loss of hVbh, and all conditions of wasting 'away, will send THBEE FREE BOTTLES (all different) of his New Discoveries to any afflicted reader of the Economist writing for them. His "New Scientific Treatment" bag cured thousands permanently by Its timely use, and ho considers it a simple professional duty to suffering human ity to donate k trial of his infallible cure. Science daily develops new wonders, and this great chemist, patiently ex perimenting for years, has produced results as beneficial to 'humanity as can be claimed by "any modern genius. Uii assertion that lung troubles and consumption are curable in any climate is prov en by "heartfelt letters of grati tude," filed in his American and Euro liean laboratories in thousands - from those cured in all parts of the world, . Medical experts concede that bron chial, chest and lung troubles lead to Consumption, which, uninterrupted, means speedy and certain death. Simplr write to T. A, Slocum, M. C, ' 08 Pine street, New York, giving post office and express address, and the free medicine will be promptly sent. . Suf ferers should take instant advantage of his generous proposition. 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It keeps them young by keeping them healthy. $1.00 at . the drug' store. v h' For sirtos In eases iwjulrfnf speck! directions, sddress, flnr aymptoma, the "Lsdfes'; Advisory Dypartment. TheChattanooeaMedJclaeCo.. Chstta . BoogajTeaa. - :.!.'.'. . W.LlI)blSOH,M.DMCsrj,KUssarn ! oss Wins of Csrdul sstsnslTSlT la nyp(asmdflndJtamsstsxssirai . preSsrattoafsr fsraala trouhUs." 8 1
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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June 3, 1898, edition 1
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