Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1906 — Page 7

Aate kill a Raftler. ▲ hunter tells an Interesting story I of the way in which a colony of red I ants put to death a rattlesnake which dared to disturb their abode. He was out hunting when be saw the rattler and started to put a load of shot into k the reptile when he noticed that it was ■k headed straight for an ant hill of unf usual size and waited to watch the proceedings. It had hardly got halfway across the mound when a big red ant hastened to the attack and sank I his nippers into the snake’s body. In less than two minutes he was joined I by the whole colony, which practically ■f covered the whole body of the rattler, each one sinking its scissors-like blades \ Into the Intruder’s body. The snake began to thrash and squirm, but the ants held on like bulldogs. The rattler’s fury grew’ so great that he sank his fangs Into his own body, then straightened out after a few more convulsive efforts to get away and was. dead ip less than ten minutes after the first ant had mounted his body.—Kansas City Journal. Should Have Been Put Otherwise. An esteemed Perthshire minister was visiting a burly parishioner suffering from the “mulligrubs,” or “Effie Lindsay.” The strong man was intensely irritated at being attacked by disease, and he greeted his minister thus: “Weel, Messjohn, I thocht ye wad never come. I ken ye are busy wi’ thinkin’ whatna fresh notion ye can gie huz on the Sawbath, and I ken ye maundung yer brains—as I jalose—by readin’ a’ . the bit bookies ye can come by to hae a crap o’ profitable notions for a’body. Sit ye doon, sir, in the big chair, and, Janet, gie Mr. Pottedhead a whang o’ gouda cheese, a soupie scone and the grunds o’ the greybeard. The bite and sup will keep his boast, puir stock. Noo, sir, It’s baith lamentable and awfae, but this is the first Illness I have ever had in a’ my born days. I tell ye, my first illness!” “Well,” ret plied the minister, in a voice meant to be plangent with suppressed emotion, “I most earnestly hope it may be your last.”—Dundee Advertiser. Honeymoon Reading. The house had quieted after the wedding. Mother and Aunt Mary were in the parlor talking it over. “So it’s over," said Aunt Mary, smiling into mother’s eyes. “Yes,” said mother bravely, although a little tearfully, “It’s over—and begun.” “They’ll be happy, I’m sure.” “Yes. They are very well suited to each other.” “Very. I could see that They both have studious habits.” “Yes. But, Mary”—mother paused, and the gleam of mischief evoked by Aunt Mary sooner than anybody else darted into her eyes—“ Mary, they can’t . have much sense of humor. Though it’s my own girl, I say it” “■Why not?” “Do you know what she took to read > on their wedding journey? Stevenson’s ‘Travels With a Donkey.’ ”—Tit-Bits. I Give Your Horae More Water. Water should be before horses at all times when indoors, and at least no meal should ever be offered and no night lights ever turned out until every animal has had his chance at as many brimming buckets as he will take, says the Outing Magazine. The shy drinker i may be tempted by many artifices, like fe., mixing a little molasses, or salt, or oatmeal, or flaxseed jelly, or bran, etc.-, with the water, and constantly varying the flavor. Horses may even have all they want right after feeding, provided they have not been deprived of water for some time previous. Many shy drinkers, like shy feeders, who are generally nervous, take all nourishment best at night, when it is dark and quiet, and morning finds the empty manger and bucket which it had seemed, by day, almost nauseated them, > Nelson In Wolsey’s Tomb. Lord Nelson’s sarcophagus in St Paul's cathedral has been aptly described as a secondhand national tomb, for it was originally constructed for another great Englishman, Cardi- ' nal Wolsey. Wolsey had cherished an ambition to be buried within the precincts of Windsor castle and caused his sarcophagus to be carved by one of the most famous sculptors of his time. But Wolsey died in disgrace, and the , sarcophagus remained empty at Windsor until Nelson’s death, when it was thriftily employed to hold the remains of the hero of Trafalgar. Old Time Punishment. In “Pike’s History of Crimes,” volume .1, page 226, is found the following copy of the sentence of an old time traitor: “It is the order of the court that for yoor treason you be drawn and hanged and beheaded and that your heart, bowels and entrails, from whence come your traitorous thoughts, be tom out > ? and burned to ashes and that the ashes be scattered to the four winds and that your body be afterward cut into four ■quarters.” A Disintegrated Group. “What did the girl do when her father discovered them eloping?” “She burst into tears.” “What did the young man do?’ “Oh, he went all to pieces.” “What did the old man do?” “He! Why, he exploded with rage And blew them both ftp.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Just the Thing. Young Lady (to clerk in bookstore)— I am looking for something suitable for an old gentleman who has been married fifty years. Can you suggest something? Clerk (promptly)—“A Halt •Century of Conflict.'”—Life. As long as the heart to young and the thought Is youthful old age cannot touch you.—Succooe Magaaine.

How Dolphins Play. The waters of the gulf of California teem with other wealth than pearls. Here are fish of every description. The tuna is abundant, and the gamy Spanish mackerel is everywhere. The dolphin seems monarch of all the gulf. In the vicinity of the great island of Carmen they are encountered by the thousand. One school, comprising many hundreds, were encountered by the steamer on which the writer was a passenger a short distance from the beautiful bay of Escondido. They were a half mile distant when they observed us going in the opposite direction. Suddenly the leaders, in a clearly evinced spirit of rollicking sea dog fun, turned every one of them and gave chase to the steamer. It was perfectly evident they enjoyed the performance as much as the spectators. For a little while the noise was deafening, as if a thousand gamins of the streets had been turned loose in a go-as-you-please bathhouse. Then, having proved their ability to catch up with the steamer, they as suddenly veered and sped southward.—Sunset Magazine. An Elder Brother. In a case in the orphans’ court of an eastern city one of the principal witnesses was asked if he had any brothers or sisters. “I had a brother,” he replied, “but he died 150 years ago.” “What? A hundred and fifty years ago?” echoed the judge, with an -implied rebuke for a possible jest. “Yes. I am telling you the truth. My father was married at nineteen years of age. Within the year a son was born to him, who shortly afterward died. Becoming a widower before he was thirty, my father married again at the age of seventy-five. I was born next year. I am at present ninety-four years old- If you will make the necessary calculation by adding my age, ninety-four, to the number fifty-six. which is the difference between seven-ty-five and nineteen, the ages of my father at the time of his respective marriages, the resplt will be exactly 150. So it is just a century and a half since my brother died.” ————— Let the Children Play. It is too often true of the unhappy children who are forced to rise too early in their classes that they are conceited all the forenoon of life and stupid all its afternoon. The vigor and freshness which should have been stored up for the purposes of the hard struggle for existence in practical life have been washed out of them by precocious mental debauchery—by gluttony and lesson bibbing. Their faculties are worn out by the strain put upon their callow brains, and they are demoralized by worthless childish triumphs before the real yyork of life begins. I have no compassion for sloth, blit youth has more need for intellectual rest than age, and the cheerfulness, the tenacity of purpose, the power of work, which make many a successful man what he is, must often be placed to the credit not of his hours of industry, but to that of his hours of idleness in boyhood.—Huxley. Rogers as a Story Teller. Charles Dickens used to describe the way in which Samuel Rogers, the poet, told dinner table stories when grown old and feeble. A manservant stood behind Rogers’ chair and at appropriate intervals would thus admonish his master: “Tell Mr. Dickens, sir, the story of the Hon. Charles Townshepd and the beautiful. Miss Curzon.” The old poet would start in a slow chant: “The Hon, Charles Townshend became enamored of .Miss Curzon. She was beeyewtiful. He be-rlbed her maid to conceal him. in her chee-amber and when she arrived to dress for a ball emerged from his hiding place. She looked at him fixedly, then said, ‘Why don’t you begin?’ She took him for the ’airdresser.” Two Ways of Putting It. Two groups of persons were seated in a railway station, according to Lippincott’s Magazine. One consisted of a fashionably attired pair, the other of a pair who looked as if they were from tile country. They had been there only a few minutes when a girl came in whose complexion was as nearly perfect as anything in this world ever is. While she was buying her ticket the young man remarked to the ladies with him: “Isn’t Miss Cransford a beauty? Her complexion is as perfect as a rose.” At the same time the other man clutched his frtfe’s arm and whispered: “Lord, Nan; hasn’t that gal got a party hide?” Sterne and Garrick. Sterne, who had the reputation of treating his wife very badly, was one day talking to Garrick in a sentimental way in praise of conjugal fidelity and love. “The husband,” he declared, “who behaves unkindly to his wife deserves to have his house burned over his hesd.” “In that case,” replied Garrick, “I hope your house is insured.” An Exception. “Which is the first and most important sacrament?” asked a Sunday school teacher of a girl preparing for confirmation. “Marriage,” was the prompt response. “No, baptism is the first and most Important sacrament,” the teacher corrected. “Not in our family,” said the pupil haughtily. “We are respectable.” Precisely Located. “Where were the kings of England crowned?” was the, question on an examination paper. “On their heads,” wrote a boy in the space left for the answer.No gentleman ever finds-it necessary to proclaim his character in the assertion that he la a gentleman.—Duluth News-Tribune.

The Truee* of God. ’ One of the most curious of the many | queer mediaeval customs was that known as “the truce of God.” From what we have been able to learn of it the custom appears to have originated as an outgrowth of a desire ito protect the common people to some extent at least against the lawless tyranny of the feudal lords of the middle ages. It was firsf decreed at a church synod which convened at Roussillon in the year 1027. By this decree it was provided that no man should attack his enemy between Saturday evening at . nones and Monday morning at the hour of prime. About the year 1032 a similar compact was entered into between the church and the barons of England. The church forbade barons to make any attack upon each other between sunset’ on Wednesday night and sunrise on the following Monday or upon any feast or fast day. The same truce made provision that no man should be disturbed while laboring at his trade or while going to or from a place of worship. Lost a Railroad. “A champagne dinner once cost St. Joseph, Mo., the Union Pacific railroad,” said an old railroad official. “The Union Pacific aid bill was up for consideration In congress In the early sixties. It fixed St. Joseph as the eastern terminus of the road. While the bill was under consideration a banquet was held at St. Joseph. It was attended by many of the leading men’* of the town. After they had filled up on champagne a question arose as to which flag should, float from the city 1 hall. The Confederate flag was finally . decided on, and in the morning the . stars and stripes were hauled down and the stars and bars hoisted. The ‘ news reached Washington tljiat very day, while the Union Pacific bill was still under consideration. Senator Pomeroy moved that the name St. Jo- ' seph, Mo„ be stricken from the bill and Omaha, Neb., be substituted. The amendment carried and St. Joseph 1 thereby lost the Union Pacific.”—Kan- I sas City Journal. A Shifting Landmark. In the first years of navigation on western waters, says the author of “Early* Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River," pilots were forced to use all sorts of signals and marks to decide their courses. One had a custom of running a certain crossing if he came to it at night by the aid of a dog. The animal belonged to a family living iri a house at the foot of -the crossing directly in the course of the ( bend. Whenever a boat was coming j this dog ran out to the bank, always I in exactly the same place, which was ' in line with the channel, and barked his loudest. The pilot ran toward the sound of the barking with the utmost confidence. Unhappily the dog one night took a notion to change his stand and barked a little higher up. The next morning the boat was a hopeless wreck on a sand bar, into which the pilot had run at full speed. t > Our Lead Pencils. Many a boy is made happy these days by a present of half a dozen pen- I cils with his name printed thereon in gold letters. Perhaps the name “lead pencil” will last through all time and eternity. The original pencil was really made of lead, and on the rough paper of the time made a clearly discernible mark. Germany led in its manufacture, Our earljest importations were. much sought after, and none could be bought with other money than gold 1 coin. A common "lead” pencil was al-I most worth its weight In gold, and a ' man who got a supply had to be well recommended. When a New York mer- i chant advertised the arrival of a con-' signment of “lead pencils” the rush to ’ buy was pellmell. This seems incredible to us young roosters, who can buy a dozen pencils today for 10 cents.— New York Press. i The Murderous Trout. Os all creatures the angler is the least offender in the crime of killing. l The very game he seeks, though beau- ! tiful and gentle to the eye and at times noble in deed and purpose, is the ' most brutal killer of all the races—the lovely trout in its attacks upon gaudy ; flies, the valiant bass and pike in de- . vouring their smaller brethren and the : multitudinous sea fishes not alone in ' their feeding upon one another, but in , their wanton murder of the millions , upon millions of victims of their pure 1 love of slaughter.—Country Life In America. The First Inquest. The nearest approach to the holding of a judicial inquiry into the cause of 1 death in England occurred as long ago : as the year 1200, when, according to an e old writer on the subject, “six and 1 twenty venerable persons were sum- J moned together to hear and consider ' the testimony of any who could speak ■ with authority regarding the death of a digger in the fields named Martin Bolsover.” Food For the Dead. 1 Corn and bread are still offered by the pious Basques of the Pyrenees to the dear departed on their death anniversary. A traveler in Spain describes how at San Sebastian be has often seen some poor fisherman’s daughter praying in a church for a dead relatiee “amid baskets full of fruit, loaves 1 of bread and corn and kneeling upon I the tomb of her Ancestors.” < Exact. 1 Bridegroom (who is receiving his bride’s dowry)—Ten dollars is still wanting. Father-in-law—What? Oh, my daughter swallowed that $lO when t she was a child.—Fliegende Blatter. < Eaaeutlal Reqalreaseata. 1 “A man must know a great deal to be a good diplomat.” “Yes, and be able not to tell it” ,1

| Pampered Stomachs. Even though It takes pork four hours to leave the stomach and six more to be dissolved and absorbed in the small intestine, what does that matter so long as it is completely assimilated by the end of that time, as it is in 90 per cent of all digestive canals? It is the slowest, but one of the surest foods that we have to give off all its energy to the body. Its very slowness is what gives it its splendid staying powers for hard work, whether muscular or mental. As a matter of fact I have seen more cases of dyspepsia cured by the use of breakfast bacon than by any kind of drug or restricted diet. An adult alimentary canal which cannot digest bacon or ham is not to be regarded as healthy, and, instead of humoring and giving in to a .weak digestion, it should be braced up and. under skilled supervision, educated to take what is given it and make no fuss. Stomachs can be spoiled by giving them too little to do almost as easily as by giving them too much. A healthy stomach fit to cope with the emergencies of life must be able to digest not only that which is digestible, but much that is difficult of digestion, and this is the standard which should be aimed at in dietetic therapeutics.—Woods Hutchinson, M. D., in McClure’s Magazine. Got a Cheap Dinner. Verily the duchy of Baden possesses a Solomon in the person of one of her magistrates. He is the burgomaster of a village in a street whereof a cyclist ran over and killed a goose. The , owner of the bird demanded 3 marks ' damages. The cycilst thought 2 ample, i The case came before the chief magl istrate, who gave bis judgment as , follows: “The plaintiff declares that if paid 3 marks he will make no claim for the dead goose. The defendant, who is willing to pay 2 marks, also makes no claim for the body of the goose. Defendant, hand me 2 marks, and you, plaintiff, hand me the goose.” I When both had obeyed his commands be produced 1 mark out of his pocket and handed all three to the plaintiff. The goose he kept for himself and doubtless ate it with the good digestion which comes from the knowledge of having pleased everybody. Arsenic. Arsenic has been known from very early times as a deadly poison. It is believed to have been the means employed by Nero to remove his enemies, and there is little doubt that it was also known to and employed by Messalina and Agrippina. During the mid- ! die ages it was extensively used as a i secret poison, being sold by alchemists , and poisoners of Italy under the name of “widow’s powders” or “succession powders.” Its properties were definitely ascertained and made public by Brandt in 1733. The plant from which asafetida is produced is a native of Persia, Afghanistan and northern India. In all these countries the inhabitants use it as a seasoning for I their meat and vegetables, much as red ' pepper is employed by the natives of Mexico and South American states. The odor is not deemed by them in the ■ least offensive, ’ * — Aiming a Revolver. It is a peculiar fact that, very few men, even accomplished shots, know how a revolver ought to be handled. Nearly all are taught to handle a revolver as if it were a rifle—that is, by bringing the object aimed at and the fore and hind sight into a line. This Is all well enough for shooting gallery practice, but should never be followed in the field. When training troops to use the revolver they are taught, In aiming, never to look at the weapon at all, but to keep their eyes on the object to be struck." In quick firing, and specially In shooting from horseback, much better results are obtainable in this way. A Poser. i A Missouri judge tells bow he quieted a barber who had a lotion for sale. The barber bad just shaved him and before letting him up wanted to sell him the lotion to use on bis face when he shaved himself. “Is this what you use on your customers?” asked the judge. “No.” replied the barber; “it is so expensive I cannot afford it.” “If you can’t afford when you get 10 cents for shaving a man,” replied the judge, “how do you expect me to afford it when I shave myself for nothing?” The barber was nonplused and gave up the sale. Not Himself. Mistress (to head gardener, who has been ill)—l’m glad to see you out again. Bates. Bates—Thankee, ■num. But I ain’t anythink like right yet Why, when the wind blew these ’ere pots over, hinstead of a-callin’ the bunder gardner to pick ’em up, blessed ir I didn’t start a-doin’ of it myself!— Punch. For the I.nnd’i Sake. The farmer was fertilizing his soil. A lady from the city stopped to gaze at him. “What on earth is that?” she asked. “A new fertilizer, ma’am.” “For the land sake!” she cried. “Yes, ma’am.” said the farmer. Not Worth While. “Perhaps if I were to boll it down,” ] suggested the space writer. “Wouldn’t do any good,” said the ob- ( durate editor. “Take a gallon of water and boil it down to a pint, and it , would still be nothing but water.” ' Antidote For Cgrholic Acid. It may prove valuable information . to know that alcohol is the antidote of carbolic acid and how to use it. If the ‘ burn Is external pour alcohol over it; if . internal, swallow whisky. The virtue lies in the struggle, not | .in the prize.—Houghton. • i

IN A CLASS ALL BY THEMSELVES.

Whatever may be said or written for , or against so-called patent medicines, 1 there is this to he truthfully said of Dr. Pierce’s medicines that applies to no other medicines put up for sale through druggists. They are entitled to a place all by themselves because they are neither patent nor secret medicines—all their ingredients being openly printed in plain English on their bottle wrappers. Then again they are entitled to a place all by themselves because they contain not a drop of alcohol in their composition, or make up. Send your address to Dr. R. V. Pierce, at Buffalo. N. Y., with a request for a free booklet, compiled by him from standard medical works and you will learn on reading it that the leading medical writers and teachers of all the several schools of practice endorse and recommend, in the strongest terms possible, each and every ingredient entering into the composition of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for the cure of weak stomach, dyspepsia, catarrh of stomach, "liver complaint,” torpid liver, or biliousness, chronic bowel affections, and all catarrhal diseases of whatever region, name or nature. It is also a specific remedy for all such chronic or long standing cases of catarrhal affections and their resultants, as bronchial, throat and lung diseases (except consumption) accompanied with severe coughs. It is not so good for acute colds and coughs, < but fer lingering, or chronic cases it is especially efficacious in producing perfect cures. It contains Black Cherry bark, Golden Seal root, Bloodroot, Stone root. Mandrade root and Queen’s root—all of which are highly praised as remedies for all the above mentioned affections by such eminent medical writers and teachers as Prof. Bartholow, of Jefferson Med. College; Prof. Hare, of the Univ, of Pa.; Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Bennett Med. College, Chicago; Prof. John King, M. D., late of Cincinnati; Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., late of Cincinnati; Prof. Edwin M. Hale, M. D„ of Hahnemann Med. College, Chicago, and scores of others equally eminent in their several schools of practice. The "Golden Medical Discovery ” is the only medicine put up for sale through druggists for like purposes, that has any such professional endorsement—worth more than any number of ordinary testimonials. Open publicity of its formula on the bottle wrapper is the best possible guaranty of its merits. A glance at this published formula will show that "Golden Medical Discovery” contains no poisonous, harmful or habit-forming agentsand no alcohol—chemically pure, triple)-re-fined glycerine being used instead. Glycr erine is entirely unobjectionable and besides is a most useful ingredient in the cure of all stomach as well as bronchial, throat and lung affections. There is the highest medical authority for its use in all such cases. The "Discovery” is a concentrated glyceric extract of native, medicinal roots and is safe and reliable. Eminent doctors also praise the ingredients entering into Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Dr. John Fyfe one of the Editorial Staff of The Eclectic Medical RbView says of Unicorn root (Helonias Dioica) which is one of the chief ingredients of the "Favorite Prescription”: "A remedy which invaribly acts as a uterine 'invigorator * * * makes for normal activity of the entire reproductive system.” He continues," in Heloni as we have a medicament which more fully answers the above purposes than any other drug with which I am acquainted. In the treatment of diseases peculiar to women it is seldom that a case is seen which .does not present some indication for this remedial agent.” Dr. Fyfe further says: following are among the leading indications for Helonias (Unicorn root). "Pain or aching in’the back, with leucorrhoea; atonic (weak) conditions of the reproductive organs of women, men- i

The Philosophy of Thunder, Thunder is caused by the lightning spark heating the air iu its path, causing sudden expansion and compression all around, followed by as sudden a rush of air into the partial vacuum thus produced. If the spark be straight and short the clap will be short and sharp; if its path be a long and crooked one a succession of sounds, one after the other, with a characteristic rattle, will be heard, followed by the echoes from other clouds. The echoes have a rolling and rumbling sound. The Tendon Achilles. Anatomists fancifully call the big tendon of the heel “tendon Achilles,” after the Greek hero. The mythological story goes that his mother, Thetis, holding him by the heel, dipped him Id the river Styx to make him invulnerable. Put Paris inflicted a wound that proved fatal on the heel that had not been A Dangeroni Practice. A.— ls dying the hair as dangerous as the doctors would make it appear? B.—Certainly! You take my word for it. Only last spring an uncle of mine dyed his hair, and in three weeks he was rifcrrled to a widow with four children.—Fliegende Blatter. Overdid It. “So sorry not to have heard your lecture last night,” said the loquacious lady. “I know I missed a treat Everybody says it was good.” "How did they find out?” asked Mr. Frockcoat “The lecture, you know, was postponed'” The Clever Girl. Daughter — I don't want to marry just yet. I’d rather stay at school. Mother —You must remember, dear, men do not wish clever wives. Daughter—But all men are not like papa. Undecided. . “1 say Maud,” said Mamie, “did you see Mrs. Jinkles’ pew vase?” “Yes. Isn’t it perfectly horrid?’ “I don’t know yet. 1 haven’t found out whether it is modern and perfectly horrid or antique and perfectly lovely.” A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES Itdning. Blind. Bleed.ng. Protruding Piles, Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure In 6 to 14 days, 50a • : — j To Cure a Cold in One Day i Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets , Druggists will refund money If it fails to cure < E.w.GROVE’S signature is ou each box 25c J A Guaranteed Cure for Piles gives ease and rest, 50c. If your druggist has- a n’t it send 50c. Instamns ana it will be forward . rded postpaid by the Parle Medicine 00.. s St. Louis MO ( r

tai depression and irritability, associated I with chronic diseases of the reproductive ; organs of women, constant sensation of heat in the region of the kidneys; menorrhagia (flooding), due to a weakened condition pf the reproductive system; amenorrhea (suppressed or absent monthly i periods), arising from or accompanying i an abnormal condition of the digestive organs and anaemic (thin blood) habit; dragging sensations in the extreme lower part of If more de less of the above symptoms ’ are present, no Invalid woman can do better than take Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, one of the leading ingredients of which is Unicorn root, or Helonias. and the medical properties of which it most faithfully represents. Os Golden Seal root, another prominent ingredient of "Favorite Prescription,’ Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, says: "It is an important remedy in disorders of the womb. In all catarrhal conditions * * * and general enfeeblement, it is useful.” Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., late of Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root: "In relation to its general effects on the system, there is no medicine in use about which there is such general unanimity of opinion,,. It is universally regarded las the tonic useful in all debilitated I states.” • Prof. Bartholow, M. D., of Jefferson Medical College, says of Golden Seal: "Valuable in uterine hemorrhage, menorrhagia (flooding) and congestive (tysmenorrhoea (painful menstruation). ” Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription faithfully represents all the above named inI greaients and cures the diseases for which they are recommended. Os Black Cohosh, another ingredient ■ of " Favorite Prescription,” Prof. John King, M. D., author of the American Dispensatory, says: " In the painful conditions incident to imperfect menstruation, its remedial action is fully displayed. By its special affinity for the female reproductive organs, ■ it is an efficient agent for the restoration of suppressed menses. In dysmenorrhcea (painful periods), it is surpassed by no other drug, being of greatest utility in irritative and congestive conditions of the uterus and appendages, characterized by tensive, dragging pains, resembling the pains of rheumatism. It j is -a good remedy for the reflex ‘ side-ache ’ ot women. It should be remembered In rheumatism of the uterus, and in uterine leudorrhoea.” Blue Cohosh root, and Yellow Lady’s Slipper root, the two remaining ingredients not mentioned above, have just as strong endorsements for their curative merits in diseases peculiar to women, but we have room for no mpre. "Favorite Prescription” is a happy and harmonious compound of the above mentioned ingredients and faithfully represents them in curative results. The foregoing are only a few b-ief extracts taken from amongst the voluminous endorsements which the several ingredients entering into Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription have received from the most eminent medical writers of all the different schools of medicine. After reading them who can doubt that Dr. Pierce nas selected and compounded his "Prescription" from the most valuable ingredients known to the medical proses- • sion for the cure of those chronic dieeases of women for which he recommends it? A far more extensive endorsement will be mailed free, in form of a booklet of extracts, from standard medical works, to any one sending name and address to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., and re» i questing the same. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are tiny, sug-ar-coated anti-bilious granules. They regulate and Invigorate Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Do not beget the “pill habit.” but ■ cure constipation. One or two each day for I a laxative and regulator, three or four for an I active cathartic. Once tried always in favoft M qI I !■!» ■- — — — —W. Uli «■ I .11.1. "

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