Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — G. M. D. [ARTICLE]

G. M. D.

A Medley, * Mystery, a Marvel and * Miracle. The Story of a Dream. “Get money, honestly, if you can, but get money,” was a foolish father’s advice to his son. Get money, if you can honestly, makes but a slight alteration of the words, but varies the sentiment considerably. There is no harm in making money. It answereth all things. Used rightly, it is a power for good, and there is money enough in the world to form alever by which the mass of humanity could be lifted, tp » certain extent, out of its depths of sorrow and despair. Money we must have, for money makes the mare go. Some can make money who have no facility for saving. Would you save -you must know how to deny those who would borrow and never repay, as weS as those who beg simply because they are too lazy to work. There are men who never want to see you except to ask the favor of a loan. They will ask for just one word with yon, and that one word is sure to be money. An impecunious fellow met a rich acquaintance, and, not liking to ask directly for a loan, said: “Friend Smith, if yon had ten dollars in your pocket, and I was to ask you for the loan of five, how many would remain in your pocket?* “Ten dollars, to be sure,” replied the rich man, without a moment’s hesitation. He had gumption, and knew too much to part with his money by any such rule of subtraction. 0,1 see, said the impecunious man thus rebuffed. He was able to owe. He was one of the Micawber sort—always waiting for something to turn up. How like some people who are sick. They think to get well by letting disease take care of itself. But diseases do not heal themselves, and too late their victims full often find this out to their sorrow as death seizes upon them. Had they been wise in time they might have added many years to their lease of life. The cure was nigh them, as it is nigh to all who read this medlev. These paragraphs tell the story, as a patient perusal will prove. Those who have keen insight and can read between the lines may solve the conundrum the sooner for it, but upon all light will dawn ere they read the final word of our story. Light will dawn, we said, and so it will, light of hope and help. Light is what a certain Individual wanted. Mr. Jones we will call him. He was very sick. Consumption had fastened its fangs upon him. He had long neglected catarrh, and laughed at the idea of taking anything for it when advised to do so, and so went from bad to worse. His lungs became diseased, a hacking, churchyard cough racked him almost to pieces, and he was fast wasting away. A mere shadow of his former self, he scarcely slept at all at night, or slept only to dream horrible dreams. Talk of nightmare! A whole circus troupe, horses and all, seemed to make his bed the arena of their wild performances In this case money did not make the mare go, for he spent a deal of money on doctors and physic and was nothing bettered He ate little, and was fast going down to an untimely grave, leaving his wife a widow and his four bright children orphans, whenlo! on one eventful night he dreamed for once a bright and happy dream, which our next paragraph will relate. « Death, the blaok-visaged monster, had until then stared him in the face, but the dream brought him hope. He saw a bright, whiterobed angel in his dream, who said, I “come to bring you good newa Here is your cure —sure, safe, harmless, prompt and reliable. Get well and seek to take health thereby to others. Behold the cure!” With these words the angel was gone, but ere the trail of light which followed him had vanished the dreamer saw, glittering in the light, three golden letters—G. M. D. “What can it mean?” he said to himself, as he awoke from his slumber. “I have had a Good Many Dreams before, but never such as this.” Startled and surprised, he aroused his wife and to her related his vision. Alas, shecould not solve the problem. Remembering all the medical advice, and the physic, ana the expense involved since her husband became sick, she expressed that the letters were not intended to suggest that a Good Many Doctors must yet be consulted in addition to all that had been interviewed. He groaned in reply and remarked that if he had to consult any more there would have to be a Gold Mine Discovered in order to pay them.

Every day for a week he and his faithful spouse searched diligently for a key to the problem. In the dictionary, in such newspapers as they happened to have, in books, on placards on the walls—everywhere they sought—hoping to find a clew. Letters stand for words, and they hoped'to light upon the words that should suggest the cure. They Grieved Many Days over their lack of good luck, as they said, and the Good Mau Dreamed again and again, but saw no more angela Hope deferied maketh the heart sick. “Oh, that the angel had Guided Me Definitely and Given More Directions,” he exclaimed, again and again. Nearly two weeks had elapsed since the night of the Great Mysterious Dream, when there came to the house a pamphlet Tired with his exhausting office work, which he still pursued, determining if possible to die in the harness, Jones was about to throw the pamphlet in the fire when something prompted him to examine it Surely, thought he, here can be nothing that will Pierce this Gloom Most Distressing, or Give Me, Disheartened, any relief. 'Poor man, he had worked letters over in his mind, and made so many combinations with them, that they occurred in almost every sentence he uttered. They entered even into his prayers. Heaven Grant Me Deliverance, he would say, nor let disease Grind Me Down, and so forth, ad infinitum, and a mile or two beyond. Mentally tortured and suffering in every fiber of his body, what wonder that he read page after page of the pamphlet It was a work on diseases, and fn the morbid state of his mind its contents seemed to suit him. It spoke of almost every disease that flesh is heir to, but oh, joy! as he read, a Glimpse Most Delightful of light stole in upon him. “Eureka! Eureka!” he cried. “Wife, I have it. I have it ”

Everybody in the house heard him cry Eureka, ana rushed to the room to hear what he had found. All expected to see some Great Miracle Done, and then came the explanation. Simple, of course, but why had he not thought of it before? Oh, what a revelation! Here was hope for him and for all consumptives. Here, hope for suffering friends and neighbors. That night he scarce could sleep, but when he did he again saw a bright vision of golden letters, in fact, a Glittering Monogram Deciphered readily, and reading G. M. D., and again P. P. P., and yet again F. P., and one huge P., around which these others were entwined, and then W. D. M. A All the letters blended, yet each was distinct. AU he had seen in the book, aU he again saw in his vision. Dream Most Glorious. D. M. G.—G. M. D. —Again he rang the changes; backward, forward, every way. Gold Medal Deserved. MG. D.— Misery’s Great Deliver—till time would fall to tell them all P. P. P. stood for Perfect Peace Promised for sufferers, and sweet release from Prostrating Purgatorial Pains. And again F. P. was Freedom Promised, and backward, P. F. it became Pain Flees. Now he could get .well, and once well, he would be a missionary, a Glad Missionary Devoted to the work of telling others how they might get deliveranca He went through the list of diseases among those of his own acquaintance, from John Robinson, whose torpid liver gave him constant headache and severe bilious attacks, on through the list of those suffering from ulcers, coughs, weak and diseased lungs, to his friend, Gen. B , who was as near the grave as he. And for all these, as weU as for himself, the Grave May Disappear from S resent vision, and each may be Given More ecades of life than they had hoped to have years Against the milder oases he marked P. P. P. Against the serious oases he marked G. M. D., not the Grizzly Monster Death, which he so long had dreaded, but something—oh, so much better, as we shall presently sea In a short while our hero was well, and went everywhere K among his friends and neighbors, teUing of his good fortune and showing the sick and the suffering how they might be healed. Some laughed and continued to suffer, refusing to be healed. More were wise, took his counsel aud proved his vision of the night as he had dona

“A vision, less beguiling far, Than waking dreams by daylight are." Can anything be more delightful than health after sickness? To be a well man, to feel pure blood coursing through your veins, to know that lungs, liver, kidneys and all the Grand Machinery Does its duty perfectly in one’s body; to carry health's ruddy mark on the cheeks. Ah, this is Good Most Decidedly. This was our hero’s case, and thousands can tell the same story. The good angel has come to them. They have seen the letters Gleam Most Distinctly before their eyea, and Going Most Definitely to work in pursuing the instructions given, they have recovered that great blessing— Health. G. M. D. has been to them a channel of good. Good Mysteriously Done, and they have bid their sick friends do what all the sick should do, namely, put themselves In communication with the W. D. M A.. Which Done Most Assuredly will put them in the Way Desired Most Anxiously. Alas, that human nature is so slow to bolieve—alas, that men and women are bowed down with the burden of complaints, of which they might be rid—consumption, bronchitis, dyspepsia, heart disease, kidney disease, malarial complaints, scrofulous diseases, skin diseases, tumors, ulcers and many mora It would seem as though son>e ill-deity had given every letter of the alphabet as many diseases as it could possibly desire, thus forming an alphabet of sorrow, suffering and woa Happy they who, the Great Mystery Discerning, have escaped the clutches of sad diseasea Looking back upon his past experience, Mr. Jones feels Grateful Most Decidedly, and continues telling the old story of his sickness, his vision, and his restoration to health; tor *U w«Uy«& RuthehM

had the pleasure of seeing, M he says, Good Miraculously Done to hundreds upon his personal recommendation ■ Dear reader, bear with us awhile if light has not yet dawned on your mind. The .mystery will soon be revealed. If the key be not on your rteAf hand it to fit least on opened the portal to a long life and a useful OD€l Initials of words that stand for all that is sorrowful and sad, letters, the self-same letters, are often initials of words that breathe of hope apd benediction. Search but awhile and you will find the boon, the blessing and the benefit The mystery of the three F’s. of the F.JP.. of the G. M D, and of the W. D. M. A, Will Dawn Most Auspiciously upon you. Columbus discovered America and won high honor and immortal tame, and tpey who have learned the secrets of the wonder before your eyes, good reader. Give Most Delightful testimonials of their gratitude Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these—it might have been—so sayeth the poet. When we think of the myriads that might have been saved from untimely graves had they seen Mr. Jones’ vision and sought his way to health, we feel sad. Yet we cannot but rejoice at the Great Many Delivered from death’s door by G. M. D., and that Pain’s Positive Persecution has been escaped again and again by P. P. P. Virtues unnumbered serve to make G. M D. the Greatest Mercy Deigned by favoring providences for the relief of sufferers, ana Its discoverer feels P. P. P.—Perfectly Pardonable Pride, in telling of the Growing Multitude Delivered from the Grasp Most Dreadful of Greedy Mournful Death. Every sick person is interested in the theme before us, and every well person, too, for who does not know some one who is sick and needs, therefore, the good news of health that is Given Many Daily. Reader, mystified reader, we will detain S>u no longer. Perhaps you have Guessed oat Deftly the hidden meaning. P. P. P., you know, stands for Pleasant Purgative Pellets, curing constipation, torpidity of the liver, headache and many other complaints. F. P., of course, is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, that has proved such a P. F., Prime Favorite and Precious Friend to ladies; safe, easy to take, working like a charm—curing the peculiar weaknesses incident to their sex The letters W. D. MA. stand for the World’s Dispensary Medical Association, at Buffalo, N. Y.. with its imposing structures, its army of medical men, specialists all of them, ana its President, Dr. R. V. Pierce (the large and central P of Mr. Jones’ second vision), all at the service of the sick and suffering everywhere; while G. M. D. is—well read the initials of the paragraphs of this article and you will see that G. M. D. is Golden Medical Discovery, the boon of the diseased. This wonderful medicine cures all humors, from the worst scrofula to a common blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipelas, salt-rheum, fever-sores, scaley or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by baa blood, are conquered by this powerful, purifying and invigorating medicine. Great eating ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influences. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing tetter, boils, carbuncles, scrofulous sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre or thick neck and enlarged glands Consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs, is promptly and positively arrested arid cured by this sovereign and God-given remedy, if taken before the last stages ore reached. For weak lungs, spitting of .blood, consumptive night-sweats and kindred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. For indigestion, dyspepsia and torpid liver, or “biliousness,* Golden Medical Discovery has no equal, as it effects perfect and radical cures. You will do well if afflicted with any chronic disease to write to the Association for advice, describing your malady as well as you can. Many oases are successful'y treated through correspondence, and no fees are charged for consultation- For one dollar and a half you can secure a copy of the “People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser,” sent post-paid to your address. Its purchase will repay you In this is given more desiraable information than you can find in any other work of a similar nature.