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ON BOARD THE TRAIN
DR. TA'-MAGE’S words OF CHEER to
COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
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\VASiHNOTON, Feb. 19.—1 n this discourse
Dr Talmas gives words of good cheer to
commercial travelers and tells of their
safeguards and their opportunities; text,
Nahum ii, 4, “The chariots -shall rage in
the streets; they shall justle one against
another in the broad ways; they shall
seem like torches; they shall run like the
lightnings '
It has been found out that many of the
arts and discoveries which we supposed
were peculiar to our own age are merely
the restoration of the arts and discoveries
of thousands of years ago. I suppose that
the past centuries have forgotten more
than the present century knows. It seems
to me that they must have known thou
sands of years ago, in the days of Nineveh,
of the uses of steam and its application to
swift travel. In my text I hear the rush
of the rail train, the clang of the wheels
and the jamming of the ear couplings.
“The chariots shall rage in the streets;
they shall justle one against another in
the broad ways; they shall seem like
torches; they shall run like the light
nings.’’
Have you ever taken your position in
the night far away from a depot along the
track waiting to see the rail train come at
full speed? At first you heard in the dis
tance a rumbling like the coming of a
storm; then you saw the Hash of the head
light of the locomotive as it turned the
curue; then you saw the wilder glare of the
fiery eye of the train as it came plunging
toward you; then you heard the shriek
of the whistle that frenzied all the echoes;
then you saw the hurricane dash of cinders;
then you felt the jar of the passing earth
quake and you saw the shot thunderbolt
of the express train. Well, it seems that
we can hear the passing of a midnight ex
press train in my text, “The chariots shall
rage in the streets; they shall justle one
against another in the broad ways; they
shall seem like torches; they shall run like
the lightnings.’’
I halt the train long enough to get on
board, and I go through the cars, and I
find three-fourths of the passengers are
commercial travelers. They are a folk
peculiar to themselves, easily recognized,
at home on all the trains, not startled by
the sudden dropping of the brakes, fa
miliar with all the railroad signals, can
tell you what is the next station, how
long the train will stop, what place the
passengers take luncheon at, can give you
information on almost any subject, are
cosmopolitan, at home everywhere from
Halifax to San Francisco. They are on
the 8 o’clock morning train, on the noon
train, on the midnight train. You take a
berth in a sleeping car, and either above
you or beneath you is one of these gentle
men. There arc 100,000 professed com
mercial travelers in the United States, but
500,00(4 would not include all those who
are sometimes engaged in this service.
They spend millions of dollars every day
in the hotels and in the rail trains. They
have their official newspaper organ. They
have their mutual benefit association,
about 4,000 names on the rolls, and have
already distributed more than $200,000
among the families of deceased members.
They are übiquitous, unique and tremen
dous for good or evil. All the tendencies
of merchandise are toward their multipli
cation. The house that stands back on its
dignity and waits for customers to come
Instead of going to seek bargain makers
will have more and more unsalable goods
on the shelf and will gradually lose its
control of the markets, while the great,
enterprising and successful houses will
have their agents on all the trains, and
‘ ‘their chariots will rage in the streets, they
shall jostle one against another in the
broad ways, they shall seem like torches,
they shall run like the lightnings.”
Words of Good Cheer.
I think commercial travelers can stand
a sermon of warm hearted sympathy. If
you have any words of good cheer for
them, you had better utter them. If you
have any good, honest prayers in their be
half, they will be greatly obliged to you.
I never knew a man yet who did not like
to be prayed for. I never knew a man yet
that did not like to be helped. It seems to
me this sermon is timely. At this season
of the year there, are tens of thousands of
pien going out to gather the spring trade.
The months of February and March in
all our commercial establishments are
very busy months. In a few days our na
tional perplexities will all be settled, and
then look out for the brightest ten years
of national prosperity which this country
has ever witnessed. All our astute com
mercial men feel that wo are standing at
the opening gate of wonderful prosperity.
Les |he manufacturers put the bands on
their wheels, and the merchants open a
pew set of account books in place of those
filled with long columns of bad debts. Let
tis start on a new commercial campaign.
Let us drop the old tunc of “Naomi,” and
take up “Ariel” or “Antioch.”
Now you, the commercial traveler, have
received orders from the head monos the
firm that you are to start on a long excur
sion. You have your patterns all assorted
and prepared. You have them put up in
bundles or cases and marked. You have
full instructions as to prices. You know
on what prices you are to stand firm, and
from what prices you may retreat some
what. have your valise or trunk, or
both, packed. If I Were a stranger, I would
have no right to look into that valise, but
as I am your brother 1 will take the liber
ty. I look into the valise, and I congratu
late you on all these comfortable articles
!)f apparel. The seasons are so changeable
you have not taken a single precaution too
many. Some night you will get out in
the snow bank and have to walk three or
four miles until you get to the railroad
station, and you will want all these com
forts and conveniences. But will you ex
cuse me if I make a suggestion or two
(ibout this valise? You say, “Certainly; as
;>e ape pavipg a plain, frank talk I. will
not ba offended at any honorable sugges
tion.”
Put in among your baggage some care
fully selected, wholesome reading. Let it
■ >' in history, or a poem, or a book of pure
fiction, or some volume that will give you
information in regard to your line of busi
ness. Then add to that a Bible in round,
beautiful type—small type is bad for the
W<'» anywhto), but peculiarly killing iu
the jolt of a rail train. Put your railroad
guide and your Bible side by side —the one
to show you the route through this world
and the other to show you the route to the
next world. “Oh,” you say, “that is su
perfluous. for now in all the hotels, in the
parlor, you will find a Bible, and in nearly
all the rooms of the guests you will find
one!” But, my brother, that is not your
Bible. You want your own hat, your own
coat, your own blanket, your own Bible.
“But,” you say, “lam not a Christian,
and you ought not to expect me to carry a
Bible.” My hroiher, a great many people
are not Christians wh > carry a Bible. Be
sides that, lieforc you get home you might
become a Christian, find you would feel
awkward without a copy. Besides that,
you might get bad news from home. I
see you with trembling hand opening ths
telegram saying. “George is dying,” or
“Fannie in dead; ej-ne home!" Oh. aS
you sit in the traiu, stunned with the
calamity, going home, you will have no
taste for fine scenery or for conversation,
and yet you must, keep your thoughts em
ployed or you will go stark mad. Then
Vou will want a Bible whether you read
it or not. It will be a comfort to have it
near you—that book full of promises
which have, comforted other people in like
calamity. Whether you study the prom
ises or not you will want that book near
you. Am I not wise when I say put in
the Bible?
Now, you are all ready to start. You
have your valise in the right, hand and
you have your blanket and shawl strap in
the left hand. Goodby! May you have a
prosperous journey, large sales, great
percentages. Oh, there is one thing I for
got to ask you about —what train are you
going to take? “Well,” you say, “I will
take the 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon
train.” Why? “Oh,” you say. “I shall
save a day by that, and on Monday morn
ing I will lie in the distant city in the
commercial establishment by the time the
merchants come down!” My brother, you
are starting wrong. If you clip off some
thing from the Lord's day, the Lord will
clip off something from your lifetime suc
cesses. Sabbath breaking pays no better
for this world than it pays for the next.
There was a large establishment, in New
York that said to a young man, “We
want you to start tomorrow afternoon—
Sunday afternoon—at 5 o’clock for Pitts
burg.” “Oh,” replied the young man,
“I never travel on Sunday.” “Well,” said
the head man of the firm, “you must go.
We have got to make time, and you must
go tomorrow afternoon at 5 o’clock.” The
young man said, “I can’t go; it is against
my conscience; I can’t go.” “Well,” said
the head man of the firm, “then you will
have to lose your situation. There are
plenty of men who would like to go. ’' The
temptation was too great for the young
man, and he succumbed to it. He obeyed
orders. lie left on the 5 o’clock train Sun
day afternoon for Pittsburg. Do you want
the sequel in very short meter? That
young man has gone down into a life of
dissipation. What has become of the busi
ness firm? Bankrupt—one of the firm a
confirmed gambler. Out of every week
get 24 hours for yourself. Your employer,
young man, has no right to swindle you
out of that rest. The bitter curse of Al
mighty (hnl will rest upon that commer
cial establishment which expects its em
ployees to break the Sabbath. What right
has a Christian merchant to sit down in
church on the Sabbath when his clerks are
traveling abroad through the land on that
day? Get up, professed Christian merchant
so acting. You have no business here. Go
out and call that boy tack. There was a
merchant in 1837 who wrote: “I should
have been a dead man had it not been for
the Sabbath. Obliged to work from morn
ing until night through the whole week,
I felt on Saturday, especially on Saturday
afternoon, that I must have rest. It was
like going into a dense fog. Everything
looked dark and gloomy, as if nothing
could be saved. I dismissed all and kept
the Sabbath in the old way. On Monday
it was all sunshine, but had it not been
for the Sabbath I have no doubt I should
have been in my grave.” Now, I say if the
Sabbath is good for the employer it is
good for the employee. Young man, the
dollar that you earn on the Sabbath is a
redhot dollar, and if you put it into a bag
with 5,000 honest dollars that redhot dol
lar will burn a hole through the bottom
of the bag and let out all the 5,000 honest
dollars with it.
A Place to Study.
But I see you change your mind, and
you are going on Monday morning, and I
see you take the train—Pennsylvania, or
the Baltimore and Ohio, or the Hudson
Biver, or the Erie, or the Harlem, or ths
New Haven train. For a few weeks now
you will pass half of your time in the rail
trail:. How are you going to occupy the
time? Open the valise and take out a book
and begin to read. Magnificent opportu
nities have our commercial travelers for
gaining information above all other clerks
or merchants. The best place in the world
to study is a rail train. I know it by ex
perience. Do not do as some commercial
travelers do —as many of them do, as most
of them do—sit reading the same newspa
per over and over again and all the ad
vertisements through and through, then
sit for two or three hours calculating the
profits they expect to make, then spending
two or three hours looking listlessly out
of the window, then spending three or
four hours in the smoking car. the nasti
est place in Christendom, talking with
men who do not know as much as you do.
Instead of that, call William Shakespeare,
the dramatist, and John Buskin, the es
sayist, and Tennyson, the poet, and Ban
croft and Macaulay, the historians, and
Ezekiel and Paul, the inspired men of God.
and ask them to sit with you and talk
with you. as they will if you ask them. I
hear you say: “I do wish I could get out
of this business of commercial traveling.
I don't like it.” My brother, why don’t
you read yourself out? Give me a young
man of ordinary intellect and good eye
sight, and let him devote to valuable read
ing the time not act ually occupied in com
mercial errand, and in six years ho will
be qualified for any position for which he
is ambitious.
“Oh,” you say, “I have no taste for
reading.” Now. that is the trouble, but it
is no excuse. There was a time, my broth
er, when you had no taste for cigars, they
made you very sick, but you persevered
until cigars have become to you a luxury.
Now, if you can afford to struggle on to
get a bad habit, is it not worth while to
struggle on to get a good habit like that
of reading? I am amazed to find how
many merchants and commercial travelers
preserve their ignorance from year to year,
notwithstanding all their opportunities.
It was well illustrated by one who had
been largely successful, and who wanted
the show of a library at home, and ho
wrote to a book merchant in London, say
ing. ‘Send me six feet of theology, and
about as much metaphysics, and near a
yard of civillawin old folio!” There is
no excuse for a man lacking information,
if he have the rare opportunities of a com
mercial traveler. Improve your mind. Re
nn mi tar the 'Learned Blacksmith,” who,
while blowing the tallows, set his book
up against the brickwork, and became
acquainted with 50 languages. Remember
the scholarly Gifford, who, while an ap
prentice. wrought out the arithmetical
problem «!G his awl on a piece of 1 at her.
Bi-:.-m 1 -r Abercrombie, who snatched
here as I th- 'e a fragmentary five min-
' uu>s from an exhausting profession, and
wrote immortal tn-itises on ethics.
A Royal Family.
Be ashamed to sell foreign fabrics or
fruits unless you know something about
the looms that wove them or the vineyards
that grew them. Understand all about
the laws that control commercial life,
about tanking, about tariffs, about mar
kets. ataut navigation, alsmt foreign peo
ple—their characteristics and their polit
ical revolutions as they affect ours; about
the harvests of Russia, the vineyards of
Italy, the teafields of China. Learn about
the great commercial centers of Carthage
and Assyria and Phoenicia. Head all about
the Medici of Florence, mighty in trade,
mightier in philanthropies. You belong
to the royal family of merchants. Be
worthy of that royal family. Oh, take my
advice and turn the years of weariness into
years of luxury. Take those hours you
spend at the depot waiting for the delayed
train and make them Pisgah heights from
which you can view the promised land.
When you are waiting for the train hour
after hour in the depot, do not spend your
time reading the sewing machine adver
tisements and looking up the time ta
bles of routes you will never take, going
the twentieth time to the door to see
whether the train is coming, bothering
the ticket agent and talegraph operator
with questions which you ask merely be
cause you want to pass away the time.
But rather summon up the great essayists
and philosophers and story tellers and
thinkers of the ages and have them enter
tain you.
But you have come now near the end of
your railroad travel. I can tell by the
motion of the car that they are pulling the
patent brakes down. The engineer rings
the bell at the crossing. The train stops.
“All out!" cries the conductor. You dis
mount from the train. You reach the
hotel. The landlord is glad to see you—
very glad! He stretches out his hand
across the registry book with all the dis
interested warmth of a brother! You are
assigned an apartment. In that uninvit
ing apartment you stay only long enough
to make yourself presentable. You de
scend then into the reading room, and
there you find the commercial travelers
sitting around a long table with a great
elevation in the center covered with ad
vertisements, while there are inkstands
sunken in tho bed of the table., and scat
tered all around rusty steel pens and
patches of blotting paper. Os course you
will not stay there. You saunter out
among tho merchants. You present your
letters of introduction and authority. You
begin business. Now, let me say, there
are two or three things you ought to re
member. First, that all tho trade you get
by the practice of * ‘ treating’' will not stick.
If you cannot get custom except by tipping
a wine glass with somebody, you had tat
ter not get his custom. An old commercial
traveler gives as his experience that trade
got by “treating” always damages the
house that gets it in one way or the other.
Practice Sobriety.
Besides that, you cannot afford to injure
yourself for the purpose of benefiting your
employers. Your common sense tells you
that you cannot get into the habit of tak
ing strong drink to please others without
getting that habit fastened on you. Ido
not know- whether to tell it or not. I
think I will. A close carriage came to the
door of my church in Brooklyn one night
at the close of a religious service. Some
one said, “A gentleman in that carriage
wants to see you.” I looked into the car
riage, and there sat as fine a salesman and
as elegant a gentleman as New York ever
saw, but that night he was intoxicated.
He said he wanted to put himself under
my care. He said he had left home, and
ho never meant to go back again. I got into
the carriage with him and rode with him
until after midnight, trying to persuade
him to go home. I have been scores of
times to Greenwood, following the dead,
but that was the most doleful ride I ever
took. After midnight 1 persuaded him to
go home. We alighted at his door. We
walked through his beautiful hall, his
wife and daughter standing back affright
ed at his appearance. I took him to his
room. I undressed him. I put him to
bed. Where is that home now? All broken
up. Where aro the wife and the daugh
ter? Gpnc into the desolations of widow
hood and orphanage. Where is the man
himself? Dead by the violence of his own
hand. O commercial traveler, though
your firm may give you tho largest salary
of any man in your line, though they
might give you 10 per cent of all you sell,
or 20 per cent, or 50 per cent, or 99 per
cent, they cannot pay enough to make it
worth your while to ruin your soul. Be
sides that, a commercial house never com
pensates a man who has been morally
ruined in their employ. A young man in
Philadelphia was turned out from his em
ploy because of inebriation, got in the
service of the merchant who employed
him, and here is the letter he wrote to his
employer:
“Sir, I came into your service uncor
rupt in principles and in morajs, but the
rules of your house requircd me to spend
my evenings at places of public entertain
ment and amusement in search of custom
ers. To accomplish my work in your serv
ice, I was obliged to drink with them
and join them in their pursuits of pleas
ure. It was not my choice, but the rule of
tho house. I went with them to the thea
ter and the billiard table, but it was not
my choice. I did not wish to go. I went
in your service. It was not my pleasure so
to do, but I was tho conductor and com
panion of the simple ones, void alike of
understanding and of principle, in their
sinful pleasures and deeds of deeper dark
ness, that I might retain them as your
customers. Your interest required it I
have added thousands of dollars to the
profits of your trade, but at what expense
you now sec, and I know too well. You
have become wealthy, but I am poor in
deed. And now this cruel dismissal from
your employ is the recompense I receive
for a character ruined and prospects blast
ed in helping to make you a rich man!”
Alas for tho man who gets such a letter
as that!
Again, I charge you, tell tho whole
truth about anything you sell. Lying com
mercial travelers will precede you. Lying
commercial travelers will comp right after
you into tho same store. Do not let their
unfair competition tempt yon from the
straight line. It is an awful bargain that
a man makes when he sells his goods and
his soul at the same time. A young man
in one of the stores of New York was sell
ing some silks. He was binding them up
when he said to the lady customer, “It is
ity duty to show you that there is a fra
ture in that silk.” Fhe looked at it and
rejected the goods. The hood man of the
firm, hearing of It, wrote to the father of
the young man in the country, saying:
“Come and take your son away. He will
never make a merchant. ” The father came
in agitation, wondering what his boy had
been doing, and the head men of the firm
said: “Why. your son stood here at this
counter and pointed out a fracture in the
Bilk, and of course the lady wouldn’t take
It. We arc n<rosy, ii-.ie for the Igno*
ranee of cu-r miers I'm. nvM must, look
out forth i,. Iv<■ and we look out for
ourselves. Your son will never make a
merchant. '■ “Is that all?” said the father.
“Ah! I am prouder of my boy than I ever
was. John, get your hat and come home.”
But it Is almost night, and you go back
to the hotel. Now comes the mighty tug
for the commercial traveler. Tell me
where hi- spends his evenings, and I will
tell you lib,-re he will spend eternity, and
I will tell you what will be his worldly
prosixvts Then- is an abundance of
choice. There is your room with the books.
There are the Young Men's Christian as
sociation r"um, I'here are the week
night serve f the Christian churches.
There is tin- gambling saloon. There is
the theater There is the house of infamy
Plenty of places to go to. But which, O
immortal man, which? O God, which?
“Well," you say, I guess I will I gue- i
I will go to th theater.” Do you think
tho tarrying in that ; iace until 11 o’clock
at night will improve your bodily health
or your financial prosp -is or your eternal
fortune? No man ever found tho path to
usefulness or honor or happiness or com
mercial success or heaven through tho
American theater “Well," you say. "I
guess, then. 1 .. i! gn to— I guess I will
go to the g !milling mloon.” You will
first go to look, i'hen you will go to
play. You will make SIOO, you will make
SSOO, you will make SI,OOO, you will make
$1,500 —then you will lose all. Thon you
will borrow some money so as to start
anew. You will make SSO, you will make
S2OO, you will make SOO0 —then you will
lose all. These wretches of the gambling
saloon know how to tempt you. But
mark this—all gamblers die poor. They
may make fortunes—great fortunes —but
they lose them.
lie Pure In Thought and Action.
“Well, - you say, “if I can't go to the
theater and if I can’t go to t.ljp gambling
saloon, then I guess—l guess 1 will goto
the house of infamy.” Commercial trav
elers have told me that in the letter box
at the hotel within one hour after their
arrival they have had letters of evil solic
itation in that direction. It is far away
from home. Nobody will know it. Com
mercial travelers have sometimes gone in
that evil path. Why not you? Halt! There
are other gates of ruin through which a
man may go and yet come out, but that
gate has a spring lock which snaps him
in forever, lie who goes there is damned
already. He may seem to ta comparative
ly free for a little while, but he Is only on
the limits, and the satanic police have
their eyes upon him to bring him in at
any moment.
The hot curse of God is on that crime,
and because of it there aro men whose
heaven was blotted out ten years ago.
There is no danger that they ta lost.
They are lost now. 1 look through their
glaring eyeballs down into the lowest cav
ern of hell! Oh, destroyed spirit, why
comest thou in here today? Dost think I
have the power to break open the. barred
gateway of the penitentiary of the damned?
There is a passage in Proverbs I somewhat
hesitate to read, but I do not hesitate long.
“At the window of my house I looked
through my casement and beheld among
the simple ones, I discerned among the
youths, a young man void of understand
ing, passing through the street near her
corner, and he went the way to her house,
In the twilight, in the evening, in the
black aud dark night. He goeth after her
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slough
ter, or as a fool to the correction of the
stocks, till a dart strikes through his
liver.”
But now the question is still open,
Where will you spend your evening? Oh,
commercial travelers, how much will you
give mo to put you on the right track?
Without charging you a farthing I will
prescribe for you a plan which will save
you for this world and the next if you will
take it. Go before you leave home to the
Young Men’s Christian association of the
city where you live. Get from them let
ters of introduction. Carry thorn out to
the towns and cities where you go. If
there bo no such association in tho place
you visit, then present them at the door of
Christian churches and hand them over to
the pastors. Be not slow to arise in the
devotional meeting and say: “I am acorn
merial traveler. I am far away from
home, and I come in here tonight to seek
Christian society.” Tho best housesand
the highest style of amusement will open
before you, and instead of your being de
pendent upon the leprous crew who hang
around the hotels, wanting to show you all
the slums of the city on the one condition
that you will pay their expenses, you will
get the tanediction of God in every town
you visit. Hemember this, that whatever
place you visit bad influenceswill seek you
out. Good influences you must seek out.
While I stand here I bethink myself of
a commercial traveler who was a member
of my church in Philadelphia. He was a
splendid young man, the pride of his wid
owed mother and of bis sisters. It was his
joy to support them, and for that purpose
he postponed his own marriage day. He
thrived in business and after awhile set
up his own household. Leaving that city
for another city, I had no opportunity for
thjee or four years of making inquiry in
regard to him. When I made such inquiry,
I was told that ho was dead. The story
was, he was largely generous and kind
hearted and genial and social, and he got
into tho habit of “treating” customers
and of showing them all the sights of the
town, and he began rapidly to go down,
and he lost his position in tho church of
which he was a member, and he lost his
position in the commercial house of which
he was tho best agent, and his lieautiful
young wife and his sick old mother and
his sisters went into destitution, and be,
as a result of his dissipation, died in Kirk
bride Insane asylum.
<) commercial travelers, I pray for you
the all sustaining grace of God! There
arc two kinds of days when you are espe
cially in need of divine grace. The one,
the day when you have no success—when
you fail to make a sale, and you are very
much disappointed, and you go back to
your hotel discomfited. That night yoq
will be tempted to go to strong drink and
rush into bad surroundings. The other
day when you will especially need divine
grace will ta when you have had a day of
great success and the devil tolls you you
must go and celebrate that success. Then
you will want the grace of God to restrain
you from rollicking indulgences. Yes,
there will ta a third day when you will
need to be Christians, and I
last day of your life. 1 du riot know where
you will spend i». Perhaps in your house,
more probably in a rail car, or a steamer,
or the strange hotel. I see you. on your
last commercial errand-. Yon have bidden
goodby to the family at home for the last
time. The train of your earthly existence
is nearing the dejs.t of the grave. The
brakes are tailing. The bell rings at the
t i minus The train st : -
eternity. Show your ticket now for get
ting into |l; u ga»e. uj th- shining city—the
nil tiek.it washed iu tin- blood of the
Lamb.
CASTO RIA
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of—
and has been made under his per
supervision since its infancy.
-/yf Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations anti Substitutes are but Ex
periments that trifle with anti endanger tho health of
Infants anti Children—ExjM*rlence against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
ami Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
anti allays Feverishness. It cures l>iarrht»-u anti Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food. regulates the
Stomach anti Rowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Tho Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
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Cures Deadly Cancer, Scrofula, Boils, Blood Poison, Bumps,
Pimples, Bone Pains, Ulcers, Eczema, Sores on Face,
Catarrh, Rheumatism and Broken-down
Constitutions.
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Everyone who is a sufferer from bad
blood in any form should write Blood
Bahn Company for a sample bottle of
their famous 13. 13. 13.—Botanic Blocd
Balm.
B. B. B. cures because it literally drives
the poison ot Humor (which products
blood diseases) out of the blood, bones and
body, leaving the flesh as pure as a new
born babe’s, and leaves no bad after effects.
No one can afford to think lightly of
Blood Diseases. The blood is the life
thin, bad blood won’t cure it.-eli. You
must get the blood out of your bones and
body and streng hen the system by new,
fresh blood, and in this way the sores and
ulcers cancers, rbeumatism, eczema, ca
tarrh, etc., are cured. B. B. B. does all
this lor you thoroughly and finally. B B
B is a powerful Bloor] Remedy (and not a
mere tonic that stimulates but don’t cure)
and for this reason cuics when all else
fails.
No one can tell how bad blood in the
system will show itself. In one person it
will break out in form of scrofula, in
another person, repulsive sores on the face
or ulcers on the leg, started by a slight
blow. Many persons show bad blood by
a breaking out of pimples, sores on tongue
or lips. Many persons’ blood is so bad
that it breakes out in terrible cancer on
the face, nose stomach or womb. Cancer
is the worst form of bad blood, and hence
cannot be cured by cutting, tacause you
can’t cut out the bad bLxxl; but cancer
and all or any form of bad ljloo>l is easily
and quickly removed by B. B B. Rheu
matism and catarrh are both caused by
bad blood, although many doctors treat
them as local diseases. But that is the
reason catarrh and rheumatism are never
cured, while B. B. B. has made many
lasting cures of catarrh and rheumatism.
Pimples and sores on the face can never
be cured with cosmetics or salves because
the trouble is deep down below the sur
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face in the blood. Strike, a b’ow where
the di'< , j. •> l i.< d.-uu
by taking i> i>. Li. and driving lite bad
blood out of the body; in thia way your
pimples and unsightly blemishes are
cured.
People who are predisposed to blood
disorders may experience any one or al!
of the following symptoms: Thin blood,
the vital functions are enfeebled, constitu
tion shattered, shaky nerves, falling of the
hair,disturbed slumbers,general thinness,
and lack of vitality. The appetite is bad
and breath foul. The blood seems hot in
the fingers *nd there are hot flushes all
over the body. If you have any of these
symptoms your blood is more or less dis
eased and is liable to show itself in some
form of sore or blemish. Take B. B. B.
at once and get rid of the inward humor
before it grows worse, as it is bound to do
unless the blood is strengthened and
sweetened.
Botanic Blood Bahn (B. B. B.jis the
discovery of Dr. Giliam, the Atlanta
specialist on blood diseases, and he used
B. B. B in bis private practice for 80 years
with invariably good results. B. B. B
does not contain mineral or vegetable
poison and is perfectly sale to take, by the
infant and the elderly and feeble.
The above statements of facts prove
enough for any sufferer from Blood Hu
mors that Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B )
or three B’s cures terrible Blood diseases,
and that it is worth while to give the
Remedy a trial ihe medicine Is for sale
by druggists everywhere at (1 per large
brittle, or six bottles for $5, but sample
bottles turn only tie obtained of Blood
Balm Co. Write today. Address plainly.
Blood Balm Co., Mitchell Street,Atlan
ta, Georgia, and sample bo file of B. B. B.
and valuable pamphlet on 8100 l and
Skin Diseases will be sent you by return
mail.