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TABERNACLE PULPIT.
"THE SICK GENERAL" AS A
SERMON'S SUBJECT.
God Does Not Want Thls Worhi to Bit
Full of Ilappinees , Lest We Should
Want to Remain here-The Sorrows
of Every Life.
1 BROOKLYN , N. Y. , Nov. iS , 1873-
IIere we have a warrior sick , not
with pleurisies ot rheumatism or consumption -
sumption , but with a disease worse
than all of these put together. A red
mark has come out on the forehead ,
precursor of complete disfigurement
and dissolution. I have something
tl' awful to tell you. General Naamanthe
commander in chief of all the Syrian
forces , has the leprosy ! It is on his
hands , on his face on his feet on his
entire person. The leprosy ! Get out
of the way of the pestilence' If its
breath strike you , you are a dead man.
The commander in chief of all the
forces of Syria ! And yet he would be
glad to exchange conditions with the
boy at his stirrup or the hostler who
blanlteLs his charger. 'T1 p news goes
t' like wildfire all through the realm ,
and the people are sympathetic , and
they cry out : "is it possible that our
great hero , who slew Ahab and aroturd
whom we came with such vociferation
when he returned from victorious
battle-can it be possible that our
. grand and glorious Naaman has the '
s leprosy ? " Yes. Everybody has some
thing he wishes he had not. David , an
Absalom to disgrace him ; Paul , a
thorn to sting him ; .lob , carbuncles to
plague him ; Samson , a Delilah to shear
him ; Ahab , a Nabotlr to deny him ;
Hainan , a Mordecai to irritate him ;
orge Washington , childlessness to
afflict him ; John 11'esley , a termagant
wife to pester him- Leah weak eyes ;
' Pope , a crooked back ; Byron , a club
foot ; John Milton , blind eyes ; Charles
Lamb , an insane sister ; and you , and
you , and you , and you , something
which you never bargained for , and
would like to get rid of. The reason
of this is that God does not want this
world to be too bright ; otherwise , we
would always want to stay and eat
these fruits , and lie on these lounges ,
and shake hands in this pleasant so-
ciety. We are only in the vestibule of
a grand temple. God does not want us {
to stay on the doorstep , and therefore
he sends aches , and annoyances , and
sorrows , and bereavements of all sorts' '
to push us on , and push us up toward
riper fruits , and brighter society , and
' 4 more radiant prosperities. God is
only whipping us ahead. The reason -
son that Edward Payson and Robert -
ert Hall had more rapturous views
of heaven than other people had
11 was because , through their aches
and pains , God pushed themn nearer
up to it. If God dashes out one of
r your pictures , it is only to show you a
brighter one. If lie sting your foot
1 with gout , your brain with neuralgia ,
your tongue with an inextinguishable
thirst , it is only because he is preparing -
ing to substitute a better than you
ever dreamed of , when the mortal
shall put on immortality. It is to push
you on , and to pushc you up toward
< something grander and better , that
f God' sends upon .you , as he did upon
'l General Naaman. something youdo not
want , Scatul in his Syrian mansion ,
% i all the walLs glittering with the shields
vhicli lie had captured in battle ; the
corridors crowded with admiring visitors -
ors , who just wanted to see him once ,
music and mirth and banqueting filling -
ing all the mansion from tessellated
floor to pictured ceiling , Naaman would
J hate forgotten that there was anything
t2 better , and would have been glad to
stay there 10,000 years. Bat 0 , how
the shields dim , and how the visitors
i 1ly the hall , and how the music drops
$ dead from the string , and how the
y gates of the mansion slain shut with
sepulchral bang as you read the closing -
ing words'of the eulogium : + He was
a leper ! He was a leper ! "
'
There was one person more sympathetic -
thetic withi Gcnsral Naaman than any
other person. Naaman's wife walks
the floor , wringing her hands , and trying -
ing to think what she can do to alleviate -
ate her husband's suffering. All remedies -
dies have failed. The surgeon-general
and the doctors of the royal staff have
"
met.and they have shaken their heads ,
as much as to say : "No cure ; no curer"
I think that the oilice seekers ] mad all
folded up their recommendations and
bone home Probably most of the em-
ployes of the establishment had
dropped their work and were thinking
of looking for some other situation.
What shall now become of poor Naa-
man's wife : ' She must have sympathy
t e somewhere. Inrher despair slid goes
to a little Hebrew captive , a servant
i
girl in her house , to whom she tells
the whole story ; 'as sometimes , when
overborne by the sorrows of the world ,
and finding no sympathy anywhere
else. you have gone out and found in
the sympathy of some humble domes-
- tic-Rost , or Dinah , or Bridget-a help
whieh the world could not give you.
What a scene it was : one of the
grandest women in all Syria in cabinet
council with a waiting maid . over
the declining health of the mighty
' general " 1 know something , " says
, the little captive maid. ' 'I know something -
thing , " as she bounds to her bare feet.
"In tha land from which I was stolen {
there is a certain prophet known by
the name of Elisha , who can cure almost -
most anything , and Ishouldn't wonder
if he could cure my master. send for
7
him iraRlmt away. " " Oir hush ! " you 1
' ' medical talent in
say1f the highest
t" all. the land can not cure that leper
there is no need of your listening to
{
any r tallk of a servant girl. " But do
not scoff , do not sneer. The finger of
I that little mzid is jmointisT in the ight
direction. She ( night have said :
r. "This is a judgment upon you'-for
stealing me from my native land.
. pidn't they snatch me off in the iiighi,1 i
. -
breaking my ; father's and mother's
heart ? And many a time I have lain
and cried all night because I was so
homesick. " Then , flushing up into
childish indignation , she ntight have
said : "Good for them : I'rn glad
Naaman's got the leprosy ; I wish all
.the Syrians had the leprosy. " Np.
Forgetting her personal sorrows , she
sympathizes with the sufferings of her
master , and commends him to the
famous Hebrew prophet.
And how often it is that the finger
of childhood has pointed grown persons -
sons in the right direction. 0 Christian -
tian soul , how long is it since you got
rid of the leprosy of sin ? You say :
' hct rue see. It must be five years
now. " Five years. Who was it that
pointed you to the divine physician ?
' ' 0 , " you say , "it was my little.Annie ,
or Fred , or Charley , that clambered on
my knees , anl 1OOket1 into my face ,
antl asked me why I didn't become a
Christian , and , all the time stroking
my cheek , so I couldn't get angry , insisted -
sisted upon knowing why I didn't have
fancily prayers. " There arc grandparents -
parents who have been brought to
Christ by their little grandchildren.
L'lnere are hundreds of Christian m oth-
crs who had their attention first called
In Jesus by their little children. How
did you get rid of the leprosy of shit ?
Iron- did V.011 find your tivay to the divine -
vine physician ? ' ' 0 , " you say , "ncy
child-fly ( lying child , with wan and
wasted finger , pointed that way. 0 , I
never shall forget , " you say , "that
scene at the cradle and the crib that
awful night. It was hard , hard , very
hard ; but if that hittleone on its dying
bed had not pointed me to Christ , I
don't think I ever would have got rill
of my leprosyGo into the Sabbath
school and will find
any Sunday you
hundreds of little fingers pointing in
the saute direction , toward Jesus Christ
and toward heaven.
Years ago the astronomers calculated
that there must be a worhl hanging at
a certain point in the heavers , and a
large prize was offered for some one
who could discover that world. The
telescopes fron time great observatories
were pointed in vain ; but a girl at
Nantucket , Mass. , fashioned a telescope -
scope , and looking through' it discovered -
covered that star amid won the prize ,
and the admiration of all the astronomical -
mical world , that stood amazed at her
genius. And so it is often the case that
grown people can not sec the light ,
while some little child beholds the star
of pardon , the star of hope , the star of
consolation , the star of Bethlehemthe
morning star of Jesus.Not many
mighty men , not many wise men are
called ; but God bath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the
mighty ; and base things , and things
tltit are not , totbring to nohght things
that are. ' ' Ode not despise the prattle
of little children when they are speaking -
ing about God , and Christ , and heaven.
You see the wayyour child is pointing ;
will you take that pointing , or wait
until , in the wrench of some awful
bereavement , God shall lift that child
to another world , and then it will
beckon you upward ? Will you take
the pointing , or will you wait for the
beckoning ? Blessed be God that the
little Hebrew captive pointed in the
right direction. Blessed' be God for
the saving ministry of Christian
children.
how the countrymen gaped as the
procession passed ! They had seen
Naaman go past like a whirlwind in
days gone by , and had stood aghast at
the clank of his war equipments ; 'but
now they commiserate him. They say :
"Poor man , he will never get home
alive ; poor man ! "
General.Naaman wakes up from a restless -
less sleep in the chariot , and he says to
the charioteer : IIoiv long before we
shall reach the Prophet Elisha : " The
charioteer says to the waysider : "how
far is it to Elisha's house ? " He says :
-Two miles. " "Two " '
miles ? .Chen
they whip up the lathered and fagged
out horses. The whole procession
brightens up at the prospect of a speedy
arrival. They drive up to the door of
the prophet. The charioteers shout :
' 'Whoa ! " to the horses , and tramping
hoofs and grinding wheels cease shaking -
ing the earth. Comne out , Elisha , come
out ; y'ou have company ; the grandest -
est company that ever came to
your house has come to it now
No stir inside Elisha's house. The
fact was , the Lord had informed Elisha
that the sick captain was coming , and
just how to treat him. Indeed , when
you are sick , and the Lord wants you .
to get well , he always tells the doctor
holy to treat yon ; and the reason we
have so many bungling doctors is because -
cause they depend upon their own
strength and instructions. and not on
the Lord God , and that always makes
malpractice. Cone out , Elisha , and
attend to your business. General
Nauman and his retinue waited , and
waited , and waited. The fact was ,
Naaman had two diseases-pride and
leprosy ; the one was as hard to get
rid of as the other. Elsha sits quietly ,
in his ] rouse and does nit go out. After
awhile , when he thinks he has humbled -
bled this proud man , ha says to a servant -
vant : "Go out and tell General Naa-
man to bathe seven thanes in the River
Jordan , out yonder five miles , and lie
will get entirely- e1L" The message -
sage comes out : "What ! ' ' says the
1
commnander-in-chief of the Syrian
forces. his eye khrdling with an animation -
mation which it iad not shown for I
weeks , and his stollen foot stamping
on the bottom of the chariot. regardless -
less of pain. " 11 hat ! Isn't he coming
outlo see me ? Why , I thought certainly -
tainly lie would come and utter some
cabalistic words over me , or make some
enigmatical. passes over my wounds.
Why , I 'don't think he knows who I
am. Isn't he coming out ? Why- ; when { t
the Sliunamite woman came to him , he
rushed out and cried : 'Is it well withm
thee ? is it well with thy husband ? is
it well with thy child ? ' and will lie
treat a poor unknownwoman , like-that ,
and let me , a titled personage , sit here
in my chariot and wait , and wait ? I
won't endure : it an longer. Chariot-
eer drive on ! Wash in Jordan ! Ba !
ha ! ' The slimy Jordan-the muddy
Jordan-the monotonous Jordan ! I
won't be seen washing in such a river -
er as that. Why , we watered our
horses in a better river titan that on
our way here-the beautiful river , the
jasper-paved river of Pharpar. Besides -
sides that , we have in our country another -
other Damascene river , Abana , with
foliaged bank , and torrent ever swift
and ever clear , under the flickering
shadows of sycamore and oleander.
Are not Abana and Pllarpar , rivers of
Damascus , better than all the waters
of Israel ? " -
After all , it seems that this health
excursion of General Naaman is to be a
dead failure. That little Hebrew captive -
tive might as well have not told him of
the prophet , and this long journey
niight as Swell not have been taken.
I'oor , sick , dying Naaman ! Are you
going away in high dudgeon , and worse
than when you came ? As his chariot
halts a moment , his servants clamber
up in it and coax him to do as Elisha
said. They say : "It's easy. If the
prophet had told you to walk for a
mile on sharp splices in order to get rid
of this awful disease , you would have
done it. 1t is easy. Come , my lord ,
just get down and wash in the Jordan.
You take a bath everyday anyhowand
in this climate it is so hot that it will
do you good. Do it on our account ,
and for the sake of the army you command -
mand , and for the sake of the nation
that admires you. Come , mny lordjust
try this Jorlanic bath. " 'Well lie
says , "to please you I will do as you
say. ' ' The retinue drive to the brink
of the Jordan. The horses paw and
neigh to get into the stream themselves -
selves and cool their hot flanks. General
Nauman. assisted by his attendant , gets
down out of ] rig chariot and painfully
comes to the brink of the river , and
steps in until the water comes to the
ankle , and goes on deeper until the
water comes to the girdle , and now
standing so far down in the stream ,
just a little inclination of the head will
thoroughly immerse him. lie bows
once into the flood and comes up and
shakes the water out of nostril and
eye ; and his attendants look at him
and say : "Why , general , how much
better you do look. " And he bows a
second time into the flood and comes
up , and the wild stare is gone out of
his eye. Tie bows the third timne into
the flood and comes up , and the
shriveled flesh has got smooth again.
lie bows the fourth time in the flood
and comes up , and time hair that had
fallen out is restored in thick locks
again all over the brow. IIe bows the
'
fifth time into the flood and comes up ,
and the hoarseness has gone out of hid
throat. He bows the sixth time and
comes up , and all the soreness and
anguish have gone out of the limbs.
"Why , " he says , "I am almost veil ,
but I will make a complete cure , " and
bows the seventh time into the flood
and lie comes up , and not so much as a
fester , or a scale , or an eruption as big
as time head of a pin is to be
seen on him. He steps out on
the bank and says : "Is it possible -
sible ? " And the attendants look and
say : "Is it possible ? " And as , with
the health of an athlete , he bounds
back into the chariot and drives on ,
there goes up from all his attendants a
wild , "Huzza ! Huzza ! " Of course they
go back to pay and thank the man of
God for his counsel so fraught with
wisdom. When they left the prophet's
house , they went off mad ; they have
come back glad. People always think
better of a minister after they are converted -
verted than they do before conversion.
Now we are to them an intolerable
nuisance , because we tell them to do
things that go against the grain ; but
some of us have a great many letters
from those who tell us that once they
were angry at what we preached , but
afterward gladly received the gospel
at our hands. They once called us fanatics -
natics , or terrorists , or enemies ; now
they call us friends. Yonder is a man
who said he would never come into
the church again. He said that two
. He said " - shall
years ago. : "My familyshall
never come here again if such doctrines
as that are preached. " But lie came
again , and his family came again. lie
is a Christian , his wife a Christian. all
his children Christians , the whole
household Christians , and you shall
dwell with them in the house of the
Lord forever. Our undying coadjutors
are those tvlto once heard the gospel -
pel , and 'went away in a rage. "
I suppose that was a great timne at
Damascus when General Naaman got
back. The charioters did not have to
drive slowly- any longer , lest they jolt
the invalid ; but as the horses dashed
through the streets of Damascus , I
think the people rushed out to hail
back their chieftain. Naamans wife
hardly recognized her husband ; he
ivas so wonderfully changed site had
to look at him two or three times before -
fore site made out that it was her n e-
stored husband. And the little captive
maid , she rushed out , clapping her
hands and shouting : "Did he cure you ?
Did he cure you ? ' ' Then music woke
up the palace , and the tapestry of the
windows was drawn away , that the
multitude outside might mingle
within the princely- mirth inside , and the
feet went up and down in the dance ,
and all the streets of Damasers
that night echoed and re-echoer with
the news : " Naaman's cured ! Naa-
man's cured ! " But a gladder time than
thitt it would be if your 'soul should
get cured of its leprosy. Time swiftest
white horses hitched to the king's
chariot would rush the news into the
eternal city. Our loved ones before
the throne would welcome the glad
tidings. Your children on earth , with
more emotion than time little IIebrew
captive , would notice the change in
your look and the change in your man-
ncr , and would put their arms around
your neck and say : "Mother , I guess
you must have become a Christian.
Father , I think you have got rid of the
leprosy. " 0 , Loid , God of Elisha , have
mercy on us !
it is possible to become Lad under the best
of .
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LONDON'S GAS COMPANY.
A Gigantic Corporation Snccossfully flan
- on the I'roat-Sltaring Plan.
An acco int of the recent half-yearly
meeting.of the Great South Metropol-
Han gas company of London , gives
such an idea of its activities and exhibits -
hibits its operations in a light so favorable -
able that from the ordinary point of
view it would seem to be an ideal
corporation , and , indeed , to present a
near approach to a millennium , so far
as the conditions of an illuminating
x'1113 may bring it about. At first
glance , therefore , one might be at a
loss td account for the well nigh
unanimous popular demand for a
change. The supply of gas by private
companies in London is hedged about
by very stringent provisions , imposed
by act of parhiannert in the interest of
consumers , says the Boston 1-lerald.
One of these requirements is that the
rate of dividend cannot be increased
without a corresponding reduction in
the price of gas. It appears that
to this end the South Metropolitan
company last March reduced its price
by one penny , making the rate about
forty-eight cents , which was equivalent -
lent to a saving of nearly $110,000 a
year for consumers. In consequence
there had been a large increase of
business , equal to live and three-
fourths per cent over that of the corresponding -
responding period of time corresponding -
ing year. 'limo number of consumers
and of gas stoves in use had increased
to a remarkable extent. The company
puts out gas stoves on hire , and the
riumber of these increased from 21,600
to 29.70T in one year. 'lie practice of
putting in penny-slot nmeters and small
stoves-lirst introduced believe
gas - , we -
lieve , by the city of Birmingham with
its municipal supply--has been adopted
( with great success by this company ,
fleeting a demand of the working
classes without making , it is claimed ,
any surplus profit. 'S'he number of
penny'-slot customers is now 20,000 ,
who used ! 40,000,000 feet in one year ,
at a profit of about G0,000 , of which
nearly 15,000 went to a further reduction -
duction of price.
For four years the company has
tried a prolit-sharing system , and the
experience , in promoting elicieney ! of
service ott the part of employes , has
been so gratifying as to justify the increase -
crease of the bonus , on condition that
one-half be invested in time company's
ordinary stock. Employes , therefore ,
now receive 1 per cent on their salaries -
aries and wages for every pennyat
whichm gas is sold below 66 cents a
thousand. In five years over ? 0,000
has thus been paid to emptoy cs one-
half of which is deposited with the
company at 1 per cent. The company
pays a dividend of 13 per cent , but
bring entitled to pay 13' ' per cent the
remainder is carried to the reserve
fund. Referring to the deputation
which waited upon Ilon. James Bcyce
the other dayin behalf of public
ownership of time gas supply ,
the chairman of the company ,
very naturally found gave objections
to such a course ; it would mean an
outlay- something like X250,000,000
for the purpose , and he doubted the
ability to manage the business as a
public enterprise , a doubt that seems
hardly justified by the experience of
other large cities in Great Britain. IIe
held that consumers would have the
worst of it , and would have to pay
more for their gas in order that consumers -
sumers of electric light might pay less
But that dividend of thirteen per cent
annually is what sticks in the crops of
consumers. If the company earls
such a profit as to equal its entire capital -
ital stock in less than every eight
years they reason that under public
ownership the capitalization might
soon be wiped out , and the consumer
be given the advantage of the present
enormous profit in the shape of low
rates for their gas.
lerlts of Politico.
lfy friend , " said the candidate fo
sheriff , drawing a one-eyed stranger
close to his means of livelihood. "do
t'ou want io make 5 easy to-night ? "
, rep ! „
"All right. When I say in my
speech , 'Is there a man among you
who will deny this statement ? ' you
jump to your feet in the rear of the
hall and shout : 'Yes , sir ; I will. You
are a liar , and I can prove it ! ' and
read from this clipping. Then I will
call you down and make' you ridicu-
lous. but you will get the V. neverthe-
less. Is it a go ? "
"Nope. 97
"Why not ? "
"I tried the same thing in Wild Cai
Gulch a year ago , and the candidate
jumped on me so hard that the audience -
ence kicked me out of the hall and
rode me out of town on a rail. I
didn't get the five , either. Tryit on
some one else-I've been there.--
Boston Herald.
The Passing of the Press.
A writer in Sccibner's Magazine
prophesies the displacement of time
newspaper by time phonograph. Says
the writer : 'The voices of the whole
world will be gathered up in the celluloid -
luloid rolls , which the post will bring ,
morning by morning , to the subscribing -
ing hearers. halets and ladies' maids
will' soon learn how to put them in
place , the axle of the cylinder upon
the two supports of the motor , and
will carry them to the master of mistress -
tress at the hour of awakening ; Ly-
ilig soft and warm upon their pillow ,
trey' may hear it all , as if in a dream
--foreign telegrams , financial news ,
humorous articles , the news of the
, lay- . , '
Why Ife Wept.
Jones-What makes you look so
blue ?
Smith-My only brother is going to
marry Miss White.
"I don't wonder you feel bad about
our brother marrying that heartless
flirt. '
'Oh , it isn't that ; I want to marry
liner . " .
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Returns of the French vintage of
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The best vintage in France this year
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ing wine. For 1894 the yield of the
leading Bordeaux vineyards is as follows -
lows : M'edoc , 1,000 hogsheads of forty-
eight gallons ; Chateau Lafitte , 700
hogsheads ; Mouton Rothschild , 550 ;
Cos d'Estournel , 600 , and Pontet Canet ,
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Two strangers in a first class railway
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ly conversation. The windows have
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subject of ventilation.
"I make it , " says one of the two , "I
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dow open all the year round. "
"Ha , ha ! " laughed the other. " 1 perceive -
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"Notat all , " was the confidential re-
ply. "To tell you the truth , strictly
between ourselves , I am-a burglar. "
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Forty years since "Porte Crayon" was
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native that there were men with mouths
eight inches wide. The native declared
that was a fish story. Porte reproved
him for his inereduality and pointed
out that deductions from down facts
proved this statement. "We know , "
he said , "that oysters must be eaten
whole. We know that there are oysters -
ters eight inches across the minor di-
mension. Therefore there must be
mouths eight inches vide to take them
in , or time beautiful chain of harmony 1
in time universe is broken.-San Francisco -
cisco Argonaut.
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Piso's Remedy for Catarrh gives immediate
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smell , heals the sores and cures the disease.
In proportion as people love they t ecome
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It is trange that with all the scientific -
tific tests applied to milk suspection
there is no recognized standard of the
purity of milk. Science cannot as yet
distinguish the difference between watery -
tery milk from a poor cow and good
milk adulterated with water. The
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A Child Enjoys
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soothing effects of Syrup of Figs , when
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Qttttliiett Forgiveness.
"You ought to have been at the
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con Sobers. "Bill Abnerford got up
and told how he had forgiven you for
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' 'Oh , yes ! " said Deacon Podberry ,
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This may seem like a bold assertion to
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which they are acquainted. Nasty cod-
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mixtures , had been tried m nearly all these
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a short time. Extract of malt , whiskey ,
and various preparations of the hypophos-
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