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Thaaa ' isetakteiataa.aadCCC. tniaaaa 1 em M ye of BtMl back. aa (3 FREE j.. to Every Man Woman Monday, g f ' April Htm" ! . TiJ If Is. fe) PUGILISTS AFRAID OF GINS Many of Them Terrorized by Kerry Sharpshooters. COCK SOBINS RACE FOR LIFE Earliest riaaters la Partlealar Wero .. Fearful of Dead Gaaao Aaaerlcaa ports. Heady with H r yelvera la Old Daya. NEW TORK. April 2.-' In the guod old days we had a lot of fun with aome Eng lish fighters who tame to America to win fame and fortune In the ring," said the old New Tork sporting man the other evening-. "It seems to me that nearly every pua-illat Is afraid of a sun, and espe cially the Johnny Bull fighters, who have an Idea that every American is a wild west desperado and will shoot at the drop of the hat. We had all the British scrappers buffaloed on the sheeting end of the gam In the old days. Even Jem Mace. Tom Allen, Joe Goss and other rood English pugs were lesry of the Tankee shooters when they first came over here. But after getting next to the right people they In turn used to scare other English fighters who arrived here by relating alleged hair breadth escapes from a rain of bullets at the ringside. "There was a game little' English chap who called himself Cock Robin and he was deed craty to have a go with any 110 pounder. So we matched him with Soap McAlplne, who must have outweighed him by at least twenty pounds, but Cock Robin said he'd fight even if Soap weighed a ton. It was a cold night in midwinter, snowing hard, when we got together In an old road tiouse not far from Rldgewood, L. I. The fun did not begin until long after mid night, In such a cold back room that everybody was soon lit up with the In fernal boots which the bloated Innkeeper was only too glad to sell. It was a banner night for him, and he told ua to go ss far as we liked, aa he had everything fixed so that there was no chance of being pinched. , , Made a Marathoa Record. "We let the game Robin punch old Soap for half a dosen rounds, when we started a fake rough house acrosa the ring. First it waa a war of hard words and then we began pulling our guns. . shooting at the celling. Poor Cock Robin was the worst frightened man I ever aaw. He was para lysed for a couple of minutes, and finally, dashing out of the ring, he bolted through a back window, carrying aaah and all with him. AH hands cried to him to come back and he would not be harmed, while soma of the boys started after him across the fields In the deepvsnow. But CocTc Robin could run, and did run, faster than any Marathon star I ever aaw. "With only a pair of tights and shoes to handtcao him he apei along like a deer In the chilly wind. We felt sorry for the Robin, for It waa only a joke, and wa wanted to hand him a' puree for his game ness in the ring. But he was never seen In America again. How he ever got to town that night, half naked, nobody ever knew. I heard years after that he went back to his old calling, that of training dogs at Birmingham, telling his countrymen what terrible gun fighters there were in this country and how he ran fifty miles with a hall of bullets falling all around him. Ona Baaea . Oatwltted. "In 1887 Charley Johnaton, Jimmy Wakely, Phil I,ynCh and Billy Porter, the bank burglar, crossed the Atlantic for the purpose of seeing Jake Ktirain meet Jem Smith in Kranca for the champloniblp of i England. Thase four Americana had the reputation of being handy with the gun. Charley Mitchell, who was Kllraln's chief aecond and who didn't fancy the preaenoa of these gentlemen at the ringside, quietly put up a job to. ehut them out. Johnston had been appointed Kllraln's umpire and had declared In London that his man would get ,fair play or there'd be serious trouble. He was so loud In his threata that George Atkinson soon declared that ha would refuse to referee tha mill If Johnston and his party were allowed to be present. Mitchell waa evidently playing the double croas game by pretending to be Kllraln'a friend and at the same time betting his coin on Smith, as It waa afterward learned. On the train to Dover Mitchell crossed over to where Johnston was sitting and began In a rather playful manner to fan the American for his gun. When he found that Johnston waa well heeled, Mitchell said: "I see you'va got your re volver with you! Do you expect trouble V " 'Xot st all, replied Johnston, Tve al ways got It with me!' ! "That was enough' "for Mitchell, who re turned to Pony Moore and Atkinson, with whom he held . a whispered consultation. When the party arrived at Rouen, Fiance, thev put up at different hotels. Johnaton and his three friends asked Mitchell if they'd have the time to get shsved and wash up a bit. Mitchell assured them that there waa no hurry and that they would not have to leave for the battleground until I o'clock tha next morning. But when Johnston and his friends called at Mitch- ell'a hotel at 7 o'clock In the morning they found that the fly Enghahman and liU cronlea had aklpped out about ten mtn utea before, leaving no word as to their deatlnatlon. Johnaton wired all over tha rnnntrv and finally discovered wherw Mitchell and his gang had left the train. When Johnston. Wakely. Lynch and Porter reached the station they were informed that Mitchell and company had taken a boat up the river. There waa no boat In which to follow them, so the four runners were left high and dry without a chance to witness the battle they had traveled 1600 miles to see. It wss a clever trick oh the partof Mitchell and he got away with It, although Johnaton came nearly blowing his head off in Paris the day after the mill. It waa only the Interference by aome gendarmea that prevented a gunplay. How SaaltB Waa Bavcg. "Kilrain and Smith fought 106 rounds to a draw. Referee Atklnaon aaid he stopped the fight on account of darkness, but moat of the fair play Britons at the ringside said tha battle was stopped merely to aave Smith, who waa backed by a tough mob. It waa the old Jack Baldock gang, whoae motto waa 'win, tie or wrangle.' With Johnaton and bla fel low gunner at the ringside the result might have been different or there would have been aome trouble. Mitchell knew this and that a the reason he gave tha four Americans the slip. The English rowdies, as tough as they were, dldu't want any blooming American shooters for theirs. "This same Charley Johnaton was after ward the backer and manager of John L. Sullivan and about the only man that ever could handle tha big fellow. It waa simply because Johnston would not stand for any funny business and was ready to hold up the biggest fighter ever born with his hooting Iron. Sulllvsn knew this and always respected Johnston. I heard tha latter on aaveral occasions uaa rough lan guage to Sullivan after John had been on one of hia epreea. Sullivan never got angry, but took the lacing good naturedly and tried to laugh It off. After Sullivan waa matched with Kilrain he atai-ted drink ing and never went to bed until after the sun waa up. When JoTinston heard about John a orgies he came over from Brooklyn on the Jump, hunted up the big fellow ami the calling down Sullivan got was the fiercest I ever heard. Johnston then rushed the big fellow Into a drug store, gave him a done of calomel and packed him off to Muldocm's farm to start train ing. allr raral a Gaa. flulllvan. like sJPlut fighters, never liked gunsmiths. When he fought Mc Caffrey In Cincinnati he might have knocked Domlnlck out had not the litter's brother threatened to ahoot him several times during the aix rounds. It was only the assurance that Billy O'Brien gave Sul livan that no harm would come to him thai kept John In the ring, for every time ha got a peep at the giin McCaffrey's brother had he wanted to call the fight off. At one time the gun man Jumped Into the ring-I think It waa In the third round and, holding It under Sullivan's noae, threatened to blow his head off. This little gunplay, of course, waa dead wrong, but it surely took all the fight out of Sullivan, who was afraid to sail In with hi" usual heavy punches. "There was another time I saw Sullivan aldosrtep a gunflghter. It was the night that Charley Mitchell made his first ap pearance here by outpointing Mike Cleary. Sullivan sat near the ring and kept coach ing Cleary. A man named Kenny, who eat In front of Sullivan, objected to the latter'a aubcellar volco which was ringing in his ears, and several times he asked John to keep quiet. Sulllvan'a answer nnally was a swing at the Jaw. Kennv Oulckly Jumped out of harm s wsy and whipped out a gun. Billy O'Brien, who had aaved John at Cincinnati. tumnM be tween them and gave Sullivan a chance to run out of the hall. "Bla; la' Fled for Bostoa. "Billy Traoey, who had killed Kid Miller On Broadway many years aao. once mat on Suillvaji's trail, and if he had overhauled tne big fellow he'd have put htm away as sure as you're alive. Tracey stood by Sulli van the night he fought John Flood on a barge In the Hudson river, opposite Tonkers. The New Tork gang were all with Flood and they didn't Intend to aee him wolloped. There waa a Job framed up to cut the ropes and throw Sullivan In the river In case he waa too much for Flood. There was a hot bunch of gunflghters abroad that barge and they were out for a sure thing. Little Tracey, however, game aa a pebble stood by Sullivan snd turned the tide In his favor. Tracey had a few gun men with him and they all made good when It cams to a showdown. The ropes were not cut and Sullivan won In a walk, In eight terrific rouods. Flood proved to be a mutt without any science. He was only a rough-and-tumble scrapper around the old horse market on the east side, but the gang had an Idea ha waa a coming cham pion. "Sullivan had promised to show up at Tracey'a aaJoon Immediately after their victory and Billy had a fleet of gay sports to meet him. But John forgot his friend Tracey and spent the night and his win nings somewhere else. This Ingratitude so enrsged Tracey that he went looking for Sullivan and when John heard that he was after him he took a fast train for Boston. It waa lucky for Sullivan that ho got away, for Tracey, with or without a gun, could fight like-a wildcat. Policeman Saves Sfyer. "George W. Walling, who was superin tendent of the New Tork Police depart ment about thirty years sgo, used to tell a atory about how he aaved the life of Tom Hyer, then the American , heavyweight champion. One night back In 18, Walling, aa a patrolman, was on duty on the corner of Brosdway and Park place when he heard great racket In an oyater saloon directly In frost of him. Suddenly a waiter rushed out of the aide door and told Walling that there waa a murder Inside. Wallln Im mediately broke his way In and found Hyer atandlng over Tankee Sullivan, who had evidently been roughly handled. Wall ing grabbed Hyer by the arm. " 'Who the devil are you?" demanded tha big fighter gruffly. " 'I'm an officer," replied Walling, aa ha showed his star, for in those days the coppers were not In uniform. " They're going to bring the gang here,' said Hyer in a calm voice, 'and I don't intend to let them murder me without a hard fight for my life.' l " Come, get out of here! Come along with me, Tom!' said Walling aa he led the champion to tha atroet. After walking half a block Hyer left Walling, aaylng that he waa going over to the Empire club, a powerful political organisation in these days. "No sooner waa Hyer out of sight than Sulliman'a gang came rushing and bowling down Broadway. They were chiefly gun fighters and were looking for a chanoe to crook Hyer, but when they found that he had escaped from their clutches they raged like a lot of demons. If they had got to Hyer that night It would have been a repetition of the cowardly murder of Bill Poole, who waa aaaisalnated by Lew Baker and a mob in a Broadway cafe years ago. Jack Dempsey'a Experience. ''When Jack Dempeev was returning eaat after hia firat trip to the Pacific coast, his train stopped at a water tank station In Montana and a wild western bull puncher, swinging a big cannon, hop ped aboard, demanding to aee the pugilist. Jack tried to hide himself from the des perado, but the gun man dug Jack out and asked him to leave tha train to have a ball. At first Deznpsey refused, but sfter the bull puncher held his cocked revolver at Jack's head he consented. It waa a tough looking bar and tha boose was still tougher, so Jack thought he'd have some soft stuff. j" 'Not on your life. It'a red eye or die?" yelled the desperado. While Dempsey kept on making excuses for not drinking the fierce liquor, the bartender suddenly grabbed the gun and struck the bull puncher over the head with It. Then ho Jumped over the bar and threw the would-be man killer out of tha joint. Dempsey laughed then and aald he only got off the train to save trouble. He waa one fighter who would not bark water for any gunner and I've seen him in aome very tight fixes, but he wss always dead game. "One of Rob Fitaaimmon'a little Jokes is to get some friendly fellow to box with him for the fun of the thing, ahoot over a pj'ich on the point of the Jaw and put hia man partially to aleep. He has worked thla gag many times and has enjoyed It hugely. But he ran up against a tartar one time In Captain Joe Early, who was Cal Mc Carthy's old backer and manager. Fits, in rare food humor one day. Invited Early to put on the glovea with him and the nimble little captain agreed on the con dition that the Cornlahman would not hit hard. After boxing a bit Fits ahot over a rather stiff left snd Early's brain became ao rattled that he heard a million birda aln ring in his ears. Jt waa what Pita called a 'mild knockout,' but when Early came to In about three minutes, ha whip ped out his gun and Ruby Robert took to hia heels with the little captain In full pur suit. Fits was tbe faster runner, but he didn't escape before two bullets whistled within a few inches of his top piece. "Thea bloomln' guns are to fast for me.' said Fitasimmons a day later: 'be sides, when they land it a a real knockout with no coma back.' " EXAMPLES FOR JIM JEFFRIES Many Pugilists Hare Waited Too Lone; Between Mills. TOO MUCH REST IS OFTEN FATAL nowa'all af John I,., Jim Cornet, Jimmy F.lllatt, Joe Ooaa, Caartor MMrbell. ritaslmmeas aad tn NEW TORK, April 2.-"I don't know how you fellows sise up Jim Jeffries' atti tude regarding a match with the big coon champion, Johnson." ssld the old New Tork sporting man to his friends the other evening, "but I think Jeff Is a wise guy all right for not taking a chance while out of condition. It us look back at the mis takes other great fighters have made after retirement or a long rest between battles and you'll agree with me that the boiler maker Is not a chump. Fighters In a way are like musicians, artists and others who have to keep In practice In order to re main at the top of the heap. "You all remember the Bad fate of John L. Sullivan when he went up against Jim Corbett In 192. Sullivan for ten years held the championship pf America against sll comers and considered himself Invinci ble. He had gone Into the ring so often when hog fat snd out of trim that he thought he could get away with Corbett without much training. Id fact, his work at Canoe Place inn down on Long Island waa a perfect farce. He simply laid off there and guixled bottle after bottle of alo right under the nose of his pstlent trainer, Phil Casey, the hand ball champion. When Sulllvan'a closest friends suggested a little real training he sat back and declared that Corbett was such a pipe that he didn't have to be In first-class form to win In a few punches. The night before he left here for New Orleane I asked Sullivan bow long he expected the fight would last. . Salllvan's Silly Boaat. " Oh. It may go eight rounds, but no further,' replied John, who looked the pic ture of confidence. He was lying In bed In a room over Casey's hand ball court over In Brooklyn at the time, and I looked him over carefully. He waa as fat as a prise ox and aa slow as molasses. He had a pronounced paunch and was in no shape to flght'a boy. It dawned on one then that John was up against It, and I told him then and there that he was making a mistake In taking chances with such a young", clever boxer ss Corbett. John didn't like msre marks one bit and, getting out of bed, he offered to show any man In the room whether he could fight or not. Of course nobody sccepted, but Charley Johnston, his backer, said to him: " 'John, you may fool . the American public, but you can't fool me! You're not fit.' "Sullivan, who had much respect tor Johnston, only laughed and replied: " 'There's no fear, Charley 1 I'll win In a walk!' Still In his fat condition, we all thought that Sullivan could win, as he had done so many times before under similar ad verse conditions. We all know the result of the mill.. Sullivan was too heavy and slow to get out of his own way. He never landed a solid blow in the twenty-one rounds. He became so tired that he couldn't hold up his arms In defence and finally Went down In aectlons, Corbet continually raining blows on his jaws and body. Finally the big brewery horse dropped , all in a heap, completely ex hausted, but practically uninjured. As soon as he waa counted out he got up slowly snd made a speech to the Immense crowd at the ringside an unusual thing for a defeated champion to do. What Jeff Knows. "Jeff knows all about Sullivan's Water loo. He haa read it over and over again. Billy Delaney, Jim 'Corbett and many others have dinged It Into his ears until Jeff knows round by round ' by heart. Sulllvan'a downfall Is a sound lesson for Jeff. He probably thinks It over nowadays and says to himself: " 'Nix! Not for mine! I ll be right when I get Into the ring after four year's retirement. I'll take no chances!' "There's where Jeff is wise. One of the reason's for Sullivan's defeat by Corbett was a layoff of three years. After beating Kilrain In 1889 John did not have a battle until he met Corbett and by that - time he had gone way back, like' many other fighters who have remained outside the ropes too long; i'Let mo cite a few other caaes! There waa Jimmy Elliott, who gave Jim Dunne of Brooklyn the fight of his life.. Elliott waa taken out of Sing Sing prison after many years of at aence from the rlpg and was pitted against that slashing young giant, Johnny Dwyer of Brooklyn. The battle took place In Canada before as fine a gang of cutthroats aa ever held up a train. Elliott waa aged and alow and Dwyer cut him to rlbbona In eight rounds. When they picked poor Elliott up and washed the blood from his broken face he turned to me and said: "I've been too long away from the game. It's my own fault. I should have tried my self out before I went up against such a cle er man." ' Jimmy Elliott's Strrt," "And yet Elliott had the nerve to go up against John I Sullivan three yeara later, in 188?. in this city. Sullivsn was in his prime then, just after winning the cham pionship from Psddy Ryan, and the way ho knocked out pocr' Elliott in the third round was a shame. It was a picnic and a lot of easy coin for the champion'. After It was sll over I asked Elliott why he used such poor judgment in going on with Sully, whereupon the broken down pugilist whispered to me: " 'I neded the money. I'm getting so slow that I can't break Into banks any more, so I'm willing to take a knockout with big gloves.' "With all his fauits' Elliott was dead game. It was not long afterward that he was killed by Jere Dunn In a fiercj gun fight In a Chicago reataurant. "Charley Mitchell fell to the layoff mis take and got walloped by Corbett at Jack sonville In 1814' aa a reault. Corbett waa as fast as a streak of lightning on that occasion, while Mitchell was almost aa alow and stiff aa Bulllvan was two years be fore. Mitchell hadn't fought for aix years when he got into the ring with Corbett, hia previous battle being the famous thir-ty-nine-round draw with 8ulllvan in France. Mitchell was so fast In the Bulll van mill that John couldn't put the bee on him. but the Englishman locked like a selling plater when he faced 'Gentleman Jim.' who knocked him out In three round;) When Charley woke up and began to think It all over ho said to me: " 'How blooming stale I got In a few years! Why. I must have loat my nut to ever make that match, although I can lick that pompadour gint any day in a street scrap!' "And I guess Chsrley could, at that! ll was a great rough house arnat, you know! Bjt Corbett didn't fancy trut stjle of milling, even when Mitchell ran up against him in a Bowery saloon one day and called Jim all. the choice names he could think of. No, James wouldn't reeent the insult on tbe spot, but waited for a chance lo square accounta with Mitchell In tha ring and Incidentally clean up about gwnno on tha side. I orbed Makes the Mistake. "Even Corbett made the mistake of re maining out of the ring too long! What n splendid fight ha put up against Jeffries at Coney Island In W0! He danced around the bollermaker for twenty-three rounds, Jsbblnf him here snd thero almost st will. Meanwhile Jeff kept using a round arm left swing sixty-seven timet, according to my account, until re caught Jim on the Jaw with the sixty-eighth blow of this kind and scored a clean knockout. ,lf Corbett could have stayed those last two rounds. Referee Slier would have had to hand over the championship to Corbett Or If the af fair had been a twenty-round go Inatead of one of twenty-five. Jeff would surely have lost his title. After this clever per formance Corbett waited three years bo fore he tackled Jeffries for the second time In 'Frisco In 1508. By this time Jeff hsd Improved wonderfully, while Corbett hsd been dropping back, with the result thst It took Jeff ten rounds to put the ex bank clerk away. "I saw Joe Goes back In 1876 put up a grand battle against Tom Allen in Ken tucky under London rules. The next time I saw Goes fight was with Paddy Rysn at Collier, Station, W. Vs., In 1880. What a change had come over Goes! He was old and fat and slow. All his cleverness had left him. although at that ha gave Ryan a good punching. Old Joe'a wind finally gave out after he had battled for one" hour and twenty-seven minutes snd ' Arthur Chambers threw up the sponge. Ryan waa really the biggest dub I ever saw as champion. He couldn't fight a little bit, and beat Goes slrrply by youth and endur ance. "When Heenan whipped Sayrrs In Eng land In 130 he waa the Ideal heavyweight But like so many others, Heenan laid off for three years .without a fight until he met Tom King.' who beat him easily. Heenan was simp'y a has been and he knew enought to quit. Tom Sharkey a Joke. "Tom Sharkey fought Gus Ruhlln the Inst time In 1902 at Coney Island. Two yesrs after that he met Jack Munroe, a third rater, In Philadelphia, and Munroe put It all over the sailor in a six-round bout. Sharkey bad gone bsck so far In those two short yeara that he was simply a Jcke. He must have thought bo himself, for Sharkey haa not been in the ring since. In 1904 Bob Flttstmmor.s stood the clever Philadelphia Jack O'Brien off for aix rounds. Three yetrs later Fits, who had been out of the ring, took a crack at Jack Johnson and was stopped in two rounds. Bob waa only a baby In the big coon's hands, yet If they had met four yeara earlier Johnson would have been slugged down and out In Jig time. "Look at Marvin Hart. There waa a fighter., according to Jeffries, who should have been the latter'a successor.. When Hart got a decision over Jack Johnson. at 'Frisco in 1906 Jeff picked him cut as the coming champion. But Hart took such long rests between fights that he gradually lost his form and finally fell before the lemon, Mike Schreck! In twenty-one rounds, at Tonopah In 1907. "If you want another terrible example, take the once great Kid McCoy. He laid off for four yeara after winning a twenty round battle from Jack (Twin) Sullivan at Los Angeles until last fall. 'when with a flourish of trumpets he came back to the ring with a bout with ona Stewart, a fourth rate dub. . McCoy quickly showed thst he was gone,- that he couldn't fight at all, jot Stewart waa even worse. Those who bow this miserable farce lost no' time in realis ing that McCoy had been Idle too long, r Jackaon aa Example. ' "When Peter Jackson knocked out Frsnk Slavln and also broke his jaw In ten rounds before the National Sporting club of Lon don the Australian negro was then tha greatest heavyweight In the .world, not barring Sullivan. After this victory, how ever, Jackson came to America and played In 'Uncle Tom'a Cabin' all over tha coun try. Peter didn't fight again for six years, but In 1898 he tackled Jeffries on the coast and lasted Just two rounds. That was tha year before Jeff becante champion. Jack son was all In" and the easleat kind of a mark for the bollermaker. It waa another illustration of the mlstske of waiting too long. I There's only one way. boys, If you want to keep on top, and that is never stop fighting. Keep limbered up. Don't lose your speed by stopping for a year or so. Big Jeff knows all about this and that la the reason he was tardy about declaring himself one way or the other. WThllo there are many pugilists who lay off too long between battles there are many othera who fight themselves out In a few years. One Is Just aa erratic an the other. The man who does about six good turne a year In the ring keeps himself warmed up and can take a look at the bright lightB now and then without tear of going back to an alarming degree. Among the pugilists who fought themselves out of it by loo constsnt milling were Dixon, Kid Carter, Walcott. I-avlgne, McGovern, Stanton, Ab bott and Dempsey. There are many others who have suffered from too much fighting. Too many mllla can injure a man Just ss muoh aa too much Inactivity." LANGFORD WILL TAKE THEM ON Maaaaer of Boaloa MlddUwelnht Will Poat Forfait. SEW YORK, April J. If Jack Johnson, the champion of the world, or Stanley Ketchel, the middle-weight champion of the world, wishes a ten-round fight with aide bet of 15.000. he may aign articles any day. Joe Woodman, manager of Sara Langford, th Bo'eton middle-weight, makea the offer. I will put up 5,000 or . any . part of It that Bam can beat Johnaon or Ketchel In ten rounds or sny other number, including a finish fight," said Woodman. "For v.irhel we will make 158 pounda at t o'clock, or will make that weight In the ring. If Sam were to meet Johnson, he would probably enter the ring under 170, while Johnson would no doubt weigh 303, as he did In the fight with Burns In Aus tralia." " Johnson snd Ketchel's manager did a lot of talking the other day over a wire be tween New York and Chicago. Then the story was given out that they had been matched, with a bet of 15.000 a aide. Few persona paid much attention to It. for Juat at that moment both Ketchel and Johnaon were in need of advertising. Both were being sadly overshadowed by the presence of Jim Jeffrlea in New York. When Jeff left the center of tha New .York stage to take the center of the Boaton stage, the bet and maU-h were forgotten. Aa to Jack Johnson, the largest purse that ever came hia way was 15.000 for his end In the contest with Tommy Burns at Sydney. Before that time Johnaon had thought that P . was a fortune. There i. w.v tittle doubt that tbe National club. or the Falrmount club of this city, or the Marathon club of Brooklyn would pay him 15.000 to get htm Into the ring for ten rounda with Langford. A ten-round bout, with Langford on onu end and either Ketchel or Johnaon on the .ihor. would draw mora money than any other possible match In which Jim Jeffries didn t figure. CURES If you are. one of the great number oF persons who are afflicted with an old sore, we are sure this short talk will be of interest to you. It is a simple statement explaining the cause of chronic ulcers, and truthfully pointing out the surest and quickest way to effect a cure. 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Woman are the buyer, which ac counta. la part, for the renmrW 'able returns to our adrertlsers. . mm:, a-r n f s o ci)g FROM THE CALF OF LEG TO ANKLE A SOLID SORE' My limb from the calf to tha ankta r as one solid inflamed sore, and truly waa In bad ahapo. I improTed rp Idlv under tha ass of 8.S.8., bat a boat this time I had an attack of Ty phoid Fever and thla aettled In the original aore. This, of course, caused a baokaet, but having- confidence in the ability of 8. 8. 8. 1 began It araln aa soon aa I waa over tbe fewer, and to make a long atory short waa completely and permanently oared. Two yeara have elapsed and I hare never had a retnrn of tba trouble. Too much cannot bo aald in praise of yoar medicine. MRS. K. A. DUFIY. S14 W. Wash. St., New Oaatle.Pa. ENTIRE FOOT A SOLID SORE Some time ago I had a aora to come on my foot and nothing-1 used would do it any arood. It continued to grow worae and eat deeper into tha ear rounding fleeh. until tha entire foot waa a solid sore, and rave mo a great deal of worry and tronbla. I tried almoat everything; t heard of, but aot no benefit Until I oommonoed 8. B. 8. In a abort time after commencing this remedy I began to Improvaand I eontinued to uae it until it drove tho poiaon from my blood and com pletely cured thla obatinata aora. I recommend It moat highly aa a rem edy for aores a nd ulcers. ' DAVID O. MILLtR. 243 W. 49th St., New Tork, N, T. A BAD SORE ON, HIS FACE I waa affiioted with a' aora on my face of four yeara' standing. It waa a email pimple at first, but It grad ually grew larger and worse in every way until I beoama alarmed about it ana consulted several physicians They all treated me, but the eore con tinued to grow worae. I aaw 8. 8. 8. advertised and commenced its uae. ana alter taxing- it a while I waa completely cured. 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