Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 August 1900 — Page 6

CITY AND COUNTRY. Dr. T&lmage Talks of the Good Done by the Former. lie Says It la the Birthplace of Clvlll■ation and Not Neeeaaar.lly Evil—Some Advice to tho Yonag. [Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] Washington, Aug. 12. From St. Petersburg, the Russian capita], where he was cordially received by the emperor and empress and the empress dowager, Dr. Talmage sends tins discourse, in which he shows the mighty good that may be done by the cities, and also the vast evil they may do by their allurements to the unsuspecting and the unguarded. The text is Zechariah 1:17: “My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad.” « The city is no worse than the country. The vices of the metropolis are more evident than the vices of the rural districts because there are more to be bad if they wish to be. The merchant is as good as the farmer. There is no more cheating in town than out of town—no worse cheating; it is only on a larger scale. The countryman sometimes prevaricates about the age of the horse that he sells, about the size of the bushel with which he measures the grain, about the peaches at the bottom of the basket as being as large as those at the top, about a quarter of beef as being tender when it is tough, and to as bad an extent as the citizen, the merchant prevaricates about calicoes

or silks or hardware. And as to villages, I think that in some respects they are worse than the cities, because they copy the vices of the cities in the meanest shape, and as to gossip its heaven is a country village. Everybody knows everybody's business better than he knows it himself. The grocery store or the blacksmith shop in day and night is the grand depot for masculine tittle tattle, and there are always in the village a half dozen women who have their sunbonnets hanging near, so that at the first item of derogatory news they can fly out and cackle it all over the town. Countrymen must not be too hard in their criticism of the citizen, nor must the plow run too sharply against the yardstick. Cain was the founder of the first «ity, and I suppose it took after him in morals. Itf takes a city a long time to escape from the character of a founder. Where the founders of a city are criminal" exiles, the filth, the vice, the prisons, are the shadow of those founders. It will take centuries for New York to get over the good influence of the pious founders of that city—the founders whose prayers went up in the streets w’here now banks discount .and brokers bargain and companies declare dividends and smugglers swear custom house lies, and above the roar of the wheels and the crack pf the auctioneer’s mallet ascends the ascription: “We worship thee, O almighty dollar!” The old church that used to stand on Wall street is to this day throwing its blessing on the scene of traffic and on all the ships folding their white wings in the harbor. Tn other days people gathered in cities for defense—none but the poor, who had nothing to be stolen, lived in the country, but in these times, when through civilization and Christianity it is safe to live anywhere. people gather in the cities for purposes of rapid gain. : Cities are not evil necessarily, as some have argued. They have been the birthplace of civilization. In them , popular liberty Has lifted its voice. Witness Genoa and Pisa and Venice. After the death of Alexander the Great among his papers were found extensive plans of cities, some to be built in Europe, some to be built in

Asia. The cities in Europe were to be occupied by Asiatics; the cites in Asia were to be occupied, according1 to his plans, by Europeans, and so there should be a commingling and a fraternity and a kindness and a good will between the continents and between the cities. So there always ought to be. The strangest thing in my comprehension is that there should be bickerings and rivalries among our American cities. New York must stop caricaturing Philadelphia, and Philadelphia must stop picking at New York, and certainly the continent is large enough for St. Paul and Minneapolis. What is good for one city is good for all the cities. Here is the great highway of our national prosperity. On that highway of national prosperity walk the cities. A city with large forehead and great brain—that is Boston; a city with deliberate step and calm manner —that is Philadelphia; a city with its pocket full of change—that is New York; two cities going with a rush that astounds the continent—they are St. Louis and Chicago; a city that takes its wife and children along with it—that is Brooklyn. Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh, all the cities of the north and all the cities of the south, some distinguished for one thing, some for another, one for professional ability, another for affluence, another for fashion, but none to be spared. What advantages one advantages all. What damages Boston common damages Washington squake. Laurel Hill, Mount Auburn, Greenwood, weep over the same grief. The statue of Benjamin Franklin in New York greeting the bronze statue of Edward Everett in Boston. All the cities a confraternity. I cannot understand how there should go on bickerings and rivalries. I plead for a higher style of brotherhood or sisterhood among the cities. But while there are great differences

in some respects I bare to tell yon that all cities impress upon me and ought to impress upon you three or four very important lessons, all of them agreeing in the same thing. It does not make any difference in what paH of the country we walk the streets of a great city there is one lesson I think which ought to strike every intelligent Christian man, and that is the world is a scene of toil and struggle. Here and there you find a man in the street who has his arms folded and who seems to have no particular errand, but if you will stand at the corner of the street and watch the countenances of those who go by you will see in most instances there is an intimation that .they are on an errand which must be executed at the earliest moment possible* so you are jostled hither and thither by business men, up this ladder with a hod of bricks, out of this bank with a roll of bills, digging'a cellar, shingling a roof, binding a book, mending a watch. Work, with its thousand eyes and thousand feet and thousand arms, goes on singing its song, “Work, work, work!” while the drums of the mill beat it and the steam whistles fife it. In the carpeted isles of the forest, in the woods from which the eternal shadow is never lifted, on the shore of the sea over whose iron coast tosses the tangled foam, sprinkling the cracked cliffs with a baptism of whirlwind and tempest, is the best place to study God, but in the rushing, swarming, raving street is the best place to

siuoy man. Goins' down to your place of business and coming home again I charge you look about; see these signs of poverty, Of wretchedness, of hunger, of sin, of bereavement, and as you go through the streets and eorfle back through the streets gather up in the arms of your prayer all the sorrow, all I the fosses, all the sufferings, all the bereavements of those whom you pass and present them in prayer before an all sympathetic God. In the great day of eternity there will lie tkpusands of persons with whom you in this world never exchanged one word will rise up .and call you blessed; and there will be a thousand1 fingers pointed at you in Heaven, saying: “That is the man, that is the woman who helped me when I was hungry and sick and wan. deringand lost and heartbroken. That is the man, that is the woman;” and the blessing, will come down upon you as Christ shall say: “1 was hungry and ye fed me, I w’as nuked and ye clothed me, I was sick and in prison and ye visited me; inasmuch as ye did it to these poor waifs of the streets ye did it unto me.” Again, in all these cities 1 am impressed with the fact that life is full of pretension and sham. What subterfuge, what double dealing, what twofacedness! .Do all people who wish; you good morning really hope for you a happy day? Do all the people who shake hands love each other? Are all those anxious about youfcfiealth who inquire conperning it? Doall want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as much as it pretends to know? Is there not many a wretched stock of goods with a brilliant store window? Passing up and down the streets to your business and your work, are you not raigj~essed with the fact that society is hollow and that there are subterfuges and pretensions? Oh, how many there are w'ho swagger and strut and how few people who are natural and walk! While fops simper and fools smelter and simpletons giggle, how few people are natural and laugh! I say these things not to create in you incredulity or misanthropy, nor do I forget there are thousands of people a fifreat deal better than they seem, but*I do not think any man is prepared for the conflict of "this lifp until he kn<%s this particular peril. Ehud comet1 pretending to pay his tax to King Eglon, and,

wane ae stands in front of the king, stabs him through with a dagger until the haft went in after the blade. Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. One of the mightiest temptations in commercial life in all cities to-day is in the fact that many professed Christian men are not square in their bargains. Such men are in Baptist and Methodist and Congregational churches, and our own denomination is as largely represented as any of them. Our good merchants are foremost in Christian enterprises; they are patronizers of art, philanthropic and patriotic. God will attend to them in the day of His coronation. I am not speaking of them, but of those in commercial life who are setting a ruinous example to our young merchants. Go through all the stores and offices in our cities and tell me in how many of those stores and offices are the principles of Christ’s religion dominant? In three-fourths 6f them? No. In half of them? No. In onetenth of them? No. Decide for yourself. The impression is abroad somehow that charity can consecrate iniquitous gains and that if*a man giVe to God a portion of an unrighteous bargain then the Lord will forgive him the rest. The secretary of a benevolent society came to me and said: “Mr. So-and-So has given a large amount of money to the missionary cause,” mentioning the sum. I said: “I can’t believe it.” He said:* “It is so.” Well, a went home, staggered and confounded. I never knew the man to give anything. But after awhile I found out that he .had been engaged in the most infamous kind of a'swindle, and then he promised to compromise the matter with the Lord, saying: “Now, here is so much for thee, Lord. Please to iet me off!” I want to tell you that the church of God is not a shop for receiving stolen goods and that if you have taken anything from your fellows yon had better return it to the men to whom it belongs. In a drug store in Philadelphia a young man was told that he must sell blacking on the Lord's day. He said to the head man

| of the firm: **J can’t possibly do that. I I am willing, to sell medicines on tb« Lord's day, for I think that>i* right ; and necessary, but I can’t sea this patent blacking.” He was discharged from the place. A Christian man hearing of it took him into his employ, and he went on from one success to ! another until he was known all over the land for his faith in God and his good works as for his worldly success. When a man has sacrificed any temporal. financial good for the sake of J his spiritual interests the ixird is on his side, and one with God is a majority. . But if you have been much among the cities you have also noticed that they are fu.l of temptations of a political character. It is not so more in one city than in all the cities. Hundreds of men going down in our cities • every year through the pressure of j politics. Once in awhile a man will come out in a sortfof missionary spirit and say: ‘‘I am going into politics now to reform them, and 1 am going, to reform the ballot box. and I am going to reform all the people 1 come in ' contact with.” That man in the fear and love of God goes into politics with that idea and with the resolution that he will come out uncontaminated and as good as when he went in. hut gen- j erallv the case is when a man steps into polities many of the newspapers try to blacken his character and to distort all his past history, and after a little while has gone by instead of | considering himself an honorable citi- | sen he is lost in contemplation and in admiration of the fact that he ha* so ; long been kept out of jail! If a man 1 shall go into politics to reform politics and with toe right spirit, he will come , out with the right spirit and unhurt. ! That was Theodore Frelinghuysen. of New Jersey. That was George Briggs, i of Massachusetts. That was Judge Me- I

Lean, of Ohio. Then look around and see the allurements) to dissipated life. Bad books, unknown to father and mother, vile a's the reptiles of Egypt, crawling | into some of the best families of the ! community; and boys read them while the teacher is looking the other way. or at recess, or on the^corner of the street when the groups are gathered. 1 These books are,read late at night. ! Satan finds them a smooth plank on ! which he can slide down into perdi- j tion some of your sons and daughters. I Reading bad books—one never gets over it. The books may be burned, ) but there is not enough power in all ; the apothecary’sj>reparations to wash ! out the stain from the soul. Fathers’ hands, mothers' hands, sisters’ hands 1 will not wash it out; none but the hand of •the Lord can wash it out. . I And what is more perilous in regard tp some of these temptations we may not mention them. While God in His Bible from chapter to chapter thundered His denunciations against these crimes people expect the pulpit and the printing press to be silent on the subject, and just in proportion as people are impure are they fastidious on this theme. They are so full of decay and death they do not want their sepulchers opened. God will turn into destruction all the unclean, and no splendors of surrounding can make decent that which He has smitten. God will not excuse sin merely because it . has costly array and beautiful tapes- 1 try and palatial residence any more ! than He will excuse that which crawls ! a blotch of sores through the lowest j cellar. Ever and anon through some | lawsuit there flashes upon the people of our great cities what is transpir- j ing in seemingly respectable circles, j You call it “high life,” you call it “fast living,” you call it “people’s eccentricity.” And while we kick off the sidewalk the poor wretch who has not the means to garnish his iniquity, these lords and ladies, wrapped in purple and i: linen, go unwhipped of public justice. Ah, the most dreadful part of the whole thing is that there are persons abroad whose whole business it is to despoil the young. What an eternity such a man will have! As the door opens to receive him thousands of voices will cry out: “See here, what have you done?” and the wretch will wrap himself with fiercer flame and leap into deeper darkness, and the multitude he has destroyed will pursue him and hurl at him the long, bitter, relentless,, everlasting, curse of their own anguish. If there be one cup of eternal darkness more bitter than another, they will have to drink it to the dregs. If in all the ocean of the lost world that comes billowing up there be one wave more fierce than another, it will dash over them. But there is hope for all

who will turn. I stood one day at Niagara falls, and I saw what you may have seen there | —six rainbows bending over that treJ mendous plunge. I never saw anything like it before or since. Six beautiful rainbows arching that great cataract! And so over the rapids and angry precipices of sin, where so many have been dashed down, God’s beautiful admonitions hover, a warning arching each peril—six of them, Stts,of them, 1,000 of them. Beware, beware, beware! Young men, while you have time to reflect upon these things and before the duties of the office and the store and the shop come upon you again, look over this whole subject, and after the day has passed and jyou hear in the nightfall the voices and footsteps of the city dying from your ear, and it gets so silent that you can hear distinctly your watch under your-pillow .going “tick, tick,” then open your eyes and look out upon the darkness and see two pillars of light, one horizontal, the other perpendicular, but changing their direction until they come together, and your enraptured vision beholds it—the cross. Not to Be Doubted. Jane—My husband’s sight was pool before I married him. Annie—I supposed so.—Tit-Bita.

GIVES FULL ASSENT. ▲dial E. Stevenson Speaks on the In* snes of the Campaign at 'adlannpolls. In his speech of acceptance Hon. Adlal I £ Stevenson said, in part: ■ I I am profoundly grateful for the honor i conferred upon me by my selection By the national democratic convention as its candidate for the high office of vice president of the United States. For the complimentary manner ip whieh such action has been officially made known to me I express to you. Mr. Chairman, and to your honored associates of the committee, my sincere Deeply impressed with a sense of the responsibility assumed by such candidacy. I accept the nomination so generously tendered me. 8hould the action of the convention meet the approval of the people in November, it will be my earnest endeavor to discharge with fidelity the duties of the great office. i Sympathy for Slate# Republics. Clearly and unequivocally the democrats convention has expressed Its sympathy with the burghers dr the South African republics in their heroic attempt to maintain free government. In this the convention not only voiced the sentiments of American democrats, but of liberty-loving men everywhere. f War Taxes aad Expenditures. The lavish appropriations, by the present republican congress, should challenge the attention of all thoughtful men. Subsidy bills and all unnecessary taxes are condemned by our platform. The accumulation of surplus revenues is too often the pretext for wasteful appropriations of the public money. The millions of surplus now accumulating in the treasury should remain in the pockets of the people. To this end the democratic party demands a reduction of war taxes te the actual needs of the government, and a return to the policy of strict economy in all governmental expenditures. Laws to Curb Monopolies. In apt words the Dingley tariff law is condemned. It is tersely characterized as legislation skillfully devised in the Interest of a class, and to impose upon the many burdens which they should not bear. Adhering to the time-honored doctrine of the democratic party, we oppose all tariff legislation, the necessary consequence of which is at the expense of the'consumer, to secure unjust advantage to the favored few. Experience has demonstrated that unjust tariff laws have deprived the government of needed revenues, secured to favored beneficiaries colossal fortunes, and largely increased to the people the cost of the necessaries of lif€*. The baleful but logical result of the tariff law condemned by our platform Is seen In the sudden growth of giant monopolies, combinations in restraint of lawful trade and “trusts” more threatening than foreign foe to the existence of popular government,

Labor. Pensiom and Bimetallism. Our platform favors the creation of a department of labor, whose chief officer shall take rauk with other constitutional advisers of the president. This is in the Interest of justice and will prove an important step looking to the proper recognition and encouragment of the producers of wealth. In explicit terms it favors liberal pensions to our soldiers and sailors and to those dependent upon them. With equal justice it reiterates the demands of a former democratic platform for bimetallism; the restoration of silver to its proper function in ous monetary svstem. For the protection of the "home laborer it demands the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act. Favors Nicaraguan Canal. And in the interest of an enlarged commerce it favors the Immediate construction of the Nicaraguan canal. This, however. with the provision that it shall remain forever under the exclusive ownership and control of the United States. The pending Hay-Pauncefote treaty is condemned as a surrender of American rights, not to be tolerated by the American people. The Paramount Iaane. A question is yet to be discussed, to which all of these are of secondary importance. It is solemnly declared by our platform to be the paramount issue. Questions of domestic policy, however important, may be but questions of the hour —that of imperialism is for time. In the presence of this stupendous issue, others seem but as the dust in the balance. In no sense paltering with words, it Is the supreme question of republic or empire. The words of the eminent republican senator. Mr. Hoar, challenge attention: “I believe that perseverance in this policy will be the abandonment of the principles upon which our government is founded; that it will change our government into an empire: that our methods of legislation. of diplomacy, of administration must hereafter be those which belong to empires, and not those which belong to republics.'* jWe believe that liberty, as well as the constitution, follows the flag. Democrats, in common with many republicans, oppose the Porto Rican law as a violation of the constitution, and a flagrant breach of good faith toward a dependent people. Jefteraonfan Expansion. The democratic party has ever been the expansion. advocate of wise territorial The policy of aggressive expansion—of subjugation of distant islands—pursued bv the present administration, finds no precedent in the peaceable cession of the Louisiana country by Napoleon, that of Florida by Spain, nor that yet later, of the vast western area by Mexico. The territory acquired under democratic administrations was. with favorable climatic conditions, the flt. abode for men of our own race. At the time of annexation It passed under the rule of the Anglo-Saxon, who carried with him our language and our laws. It was territory contiguous to our own, and acquired with the declared intention—when conditions and population would justify— of carving it into states. The result: Millions of American homes, our national wealth increased beyond the dream of avarice, and the United States chief among the nations of the earth. Can it be that the new policy of forcible annexation of distant islands finds precedent in the historic events I have mentioned? The answer is found in the bare statement of facts. Monroe Doctrine Enduring. The Monroe doctrine is wholesome and enduring. It is the faith of Americans of every creed and party—is of the very warp and woof of our political being. It was promulgated at the critical moment when the holy alliance” was attempting to stifle the republican spirit and reestablish the despotism of Spain upon her revolted colonies in South America and Mexico. The essence of the doctrine as then understood by the world was, while we forbid the establishment of despotic governments upon the American continent, we recognise the corresponding obligation to refrain from any attempt to force our political system upon any part of the old world.

Militarism. As a necessary corollary to imperialism will come the immense standing army. The dread hand of militarism will be felt in the new world as it is in the old. The strong army of power will be substituted for the peaceable agencies which for more than a century have made our people contented and happy. We stand 100 years from the hour when the political forces were gathering which were to result in the election of the first democratic president. The anniversary of the masterful day in our history was wisely chosen for the assembling in convention of the representatives of the historic party whose founder was Jetterson —and whose platform is the declaration of Independence. In. the great struggle now upon us we Invoke the cooperation of all woo revere the memory of our tethers, and to whom this declaration is ybt unmeaning parchment—but the enduring chart of our liberties. Upon the supreme Issue now in the forefront—and to the end that republican government be perpetuated—we appeal to the sober judgment and patriotism of the American people Every German cavalry regiment la now supplied with two boats, made of waterproof canvas, whicn, when not in use, can be folded up. Each boat will carry from six to eight men, and two boats bound together form a raft capable of bearing from 25 to 2? hundredweight. A Cffinese dinner, like a visit to the dentist, is pleasant only as a reminiscence. For lavish display, abundance of floral decorations, originality of customs and uneatable edibles a Chinese dinner has no counterpart.

CHINA DESIROUS OF PEAC U B»t Chang to Ncfotlttc with th« Power* for » C«N*M«n of Ho*tit r tie* wad Cl tlnaMte Peeire. Washington, Aug. 12.—Indications of the desire of China for a peaceful settlement of her present difficulties have been .multiplying for several days. Evidence of that desire was presented to the department of state today. It was in the form of an t*>»ct promulgated by Emperor Kwang Jsu, appointing Earl Id Hung Chang as minister plenipotentiary to negodate with the powers for an "immei iata cessation of hostilities,*’ pending K solution of the problems which have grown out of the anti-foreign uprising in the empire. Li’s Act* Will be Approved. Earl Li is to act directly for the- emperor, and a fair inference is hat whatever terms of settlement he .ray reach with the powers will be approved by the imperial government. .Minister Conner Can Hold On. During the day only one disputlch that was tnade public reached ary of the government departments :?m>ra China. A belated message from Mine isfer Conger was transmitted to the war department by Gen. Chaffee. It expressed ’simply his ability to “hold on” until Geii. Chaffee should conn1 to his relief. All the power of this government will be exerted to get that relief to him and the other imprisoned legationer at the earliest possible aioment.

A Chinese Imperial 13dlei. , Minister Wu was an early calljnvnt the, department of state. Shortly after nine o’clock he made an engngement with Acting Secretary of State Adee to meet him at the department at 10:30 a. ni. Promptly at that hour the minister’s automobile stopped at the west entrance of the department. Minister Wu alighted and hurried to Secretary Adee's office. He presented to Mr. Adee a copy of the imperial edict which he had received last night. It had been transmitted to him in the Chinese foreign office cipher, and its translation and preparation for submission to the department of s:att» had occupied much Of the night. Discussed the Terms of the Edict. Minister Wu remained with Secretary Adee for1 three quarters of an hour, discussing the terms of the edict and the probable response to it of :his government. Before Minister Wu left the department £*£retary of War Boot returned with some diplomatists, but remained long enough only to obtain a cop} of the document and discuss it briefly with the Chinese official. Way to Peace Made Euy. < Minister Wu expressed the belief that the edict presented a means of a peaceful adjustment of the present trouble, and that, the request of the Chinese government for a cessation Of hostilities pending peace negotiations was entirely reasonable. ' Transmitted to the President. Immediately upon the conclusion of the conference, the text of the ed el, together with the details of the call of Minister Wu, was communicated to President McKinley at Canton. The president’s reply as yet has not b en received. Later in the day Acting Secretary Adee made public the text of the ecict in the following statement: Secretary Adee’a Statement. “The department of state makes public the following edict appointing Viceroy Li Hung Chang as envoy plenipotentiary to propose a cessation ol hostile demonstrations and negotiate5 with the powers, a copy of which v aa delivered by Mr. Wu to the acting secretary of state this, Sunday, morning at 10:30 o’clock. “An imperial edict forwarded by tins privy council at Pekin, under date of the 14th day of the seventh moon (August 8) to Gov. Yuan Tsi Nan, Sht.ii Tung, who transmitted it on the 11i.li day of the same moon (August 11) to the Taoti of Shanghai, by whom it v an re-transmitted to Minister Wu, who -eceived it qn the night of the same day

(August 11). “The imperial edict, as t tansmitt ed by the privy council, is 41s follows: The Imperial Edict. ‘^‘In the present conflict bet we in., the Chinese and foreigners there has been some misunderstanding on the part of the foreign nations and alsc a want of proper management on the part of some of the local authoriti ;s. A clash of arms was followed by calamitous results, and caused a rupture of friendly relations which will ultimately do no good to the world. We hereby appoint Li Hung Chang as c ur envoy plenipotentiary, with instr, ctions to propose at once by telegra >h to the governments of the several pc irers concerned for the immediate cess ation of hostile demonstrations per fling negotiations, which he is here >y authorised to conduct for our part, f Mr the settlement of whatever questions may have to be dealt with. The questions are to be severally considered in a satisfactory manner and the res, It of the negotiations reported to us far our sanction. Respect this."” *• ‘The above is respectfully copi :d: for transmission to your excellency, to be communicated to the secreta y at state, for his excellency's information.’ ” V America May Hot Consent. While it is conceded by the Was 1ington officials that, the conference >f the plenipotentiary authority upt n Earl Li to negotiate with the powe .* for the settlement of existing troubl :s is a step in the right direction, it m by no means assured that the United States government will consent, o:£hand, to open negotiations with tl l« distinguished viceroy. The demands it this government upon China have be, m made plainly, and without equivocation. They can not be misunderstood ™* evaded.

• Jobm* Strove Points. Rev. Dr. Prank Bristol, paster of the Metfopolitan church, in Washington, which i* attended by President McKinley. tells a. rtory which he heard one evening while din-; ing at the white house with the 'president and Bishop Chandler, of the Methodist church south. The party was tailing about revivalists and revivals, and the case of the well-known exhorter, Sam Jones, was brought up. ’‘The best characterisation of Sam Jones’ preaching I ever heard,” said the bishop, “was that of a good colored brother in Virginia. He had just heard Jones preach, and was describing it to some of his fellows. Mist as long as Bre’r Jones sticks to de Scripters,’ said the coiored man, *he ain’t no better preacher than eny uv de rist of us. But when he cuts loose from the Scripters and jist lets ’ef sail, denTtg’a de doggondest preacher dat ever pounded a pu.pit. ”—Pittsburgh Post. Psuto ~ and Weak Women Beauty and strength in women vanish early in life because of monthly pain or some menstrual Irregularltym Many suffer silently and see their best gifts fade away• Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helps women preserveQ roundness of form and freshness of face because It makes their entire female organism healthym It carries women safely through the various natural crises and Is the safeguard eI woman*s health. The truth about this great medicine Is told In the letters from women being published in this paper constantly•

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