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That * There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy! —The Ef fect of Mind Upon Bodily Ills—Science, With All Its Rapid Strides, Fails to Account for What Has Become Common Phenomena —Forced to the Belief That Some Common Laws of Nature Are Still a Sealed Book. DY BYRON MILLETT. There is an oriental tradition that once upon a time, in a far-away coun try, the people became very wicked. It came to pass that, one night after the monarch had retired, the Angel of Death appeared to him in the recesses of his chamber, who informed the monarch that the Lord was displeased and would send the cholera upon his country, which would cause the death of twenty-five thousand of his subjects, and then disappeared. The scourge came, and one hundred and twenty five thousand of the king’s subjects perished. The ruler felt that he had been sorely afflicted, and prayed fer vently for mercy. ‘The angel reap peared, the monarch said to him, you threatened to take only twenty-five thousand of my subjects by sending the cholera into my kingdom, and you have taken one hundred and twenty five thousand by the epidemic. Where upon the angel said: “ Your majesty is mistaken; twenty-five thousand per ished by the disease and one hundred thousand died from fright.” This story is narrated for the pur pose of showing the power of mind over the bodily functions of human beings. How frequently have we ob served that we happen suddenly to think about a person, whom we have not seen or even heard about for a long time, and he would all at once cross our vision! This leads us to conclude that there must be some invisible commu nication between mind and mind which is difficult of explanation. These occult forces are always at work throughout the universe. Their effects can be seen and felt, like the manifestations of electricity, but as yet with our finite capabilities, we are only on the borderland of this un known world. It is fair to venture the assertion that, there are more and greater wonders in the unseen world than were ever dreamed of in heaven or on earth. Science is no longer con tent to crawl at a easil’s pace. She is making strides with the pace of a giant. She flashes her rays of light into the dark corners of bigotry and supersti tion, regardless of the hootings of owls and the screaming of the bats that in habit them. The mystery attending the operations of this psychic force has been felt and manifested through out the ages. The priests of Egypt and Chaldea doubtless possessed great er knowledge and skill in this particu lar than modern historians would have us believe. We read in Holy Writ, that the rods of Moses and Aaron became serpents, after they had come in contact with the earth. The Hindoo adepts perform greater wonders by using their occult powers to subdue wild animals. They go into the jungles of India without any weapons where tigers have their abodes and the animals have found themselves powerless in presence of those adepts. They knew, of course, what they were doing, before they un dertook such hazardous adventures. It is recorded that, at the zoological gardens, there are men employed who are able to hypnotize lions and ele phants. The Austrian government employs horse-tamers, who use this power successfully to break in fractious steeds for the army. Some wonderful, but not very well authenticated, ac counts, have recently come from India, about men going into trances, and permitting their mouths and ears, while in that state, to be filled with wax, who were then placed in iron boxes, hermetrically sealed, remaining buried under ground for the period of six weeks, then resurrected, and again appearing in the flesh. A great many persons in this day and age have mor bid fears about being buried alive. Such fears are doubtless engendered because we read accounts in the daily press of suspended animation, where persons who were supposed to have died, having been placed in coffins ready for interment, showed signs of life and unexpectedly came to their senses. There are numerous such in stances on record, which have battled the best medical talent in the land. A few years ago, the press reported that an Indiana woman, while in a catylep tic State, was twice prepared for bur ial; that the first time this spell came upon her, she remained in this state for three days. The mourners were about to take a last fond look at the supposed corpse. One of the mourne ers present discovered a movement of the eyelids of the subject. The cere monies were thereupon suddenly brought to a standstill, and the sub ject revived. At the latest accounts this woman was alive and enjoying good health. Socrates, the great Grecian philoso pher, was continually tormented by an inner voice speaking from his subcon scious to his conscious self. Undoubt edly, the condition of that great and good man was similar to those unfor tunate men and women, of whom we read in biblical times as being pos sessed with devils. We may find in stances in our daily walks through life, if we but take no little pains to watch the workings of this mysterious force. Let us suppose there is assem bled a crowd of happy-go-lucky indi viduals, indulging in fun and merri ment at a particular place and time; a stranger with morbid feelings ap proaches this group, but who never utters a word, it will not be long be fore he infects the whole gathering with his mentality. Each individual will in a very short space of time take on the unhappy condition of the new comer. Similarly, take a crowd of mourners, one cheerful person sudden ly appearing in their midst will soon work a marked change regarding the feelings of all present. We are all aware that there are certain persons, who we have never before seen, when brought in contact with us, we either feel friendly or unfriendly towards them from the commencement of our acquaintance, though such individuals may not have spoken a word in our hearing up to the time we were thus impressed. We feel that we do not like them, and cannot tell the reason why? Such persons may be better morally than we are, but nevertheless we cannot help that feeling of uncon geniality which has taken possession of us. The latest revelations of sci ence have shown that man possesses two minds; one the objective, with which he does business through the medium of the five senses; the other, the subconscious mind is the one that receives impressions, the memory of which is said to be perfect. Hypno tism is derived from the Greek word which signifies sleep. More properly speaking, it is that state which implies induced sleep of the objective faculties, in which condition the hypnotized in dividual receives suggestions from the operator and is under his control. A multitude of individuals is more sug gestible than any one of the crowd of which it may be composed, for the reason that one mind suggests to the minds of the others subconsciously. The momentum of thought keeps on increasing until the entire gathering becomes enthusiastic, or manifests the mob spirit, ready to commit deeds of violence at the slightest prompting in that respect. Whenever men get in such condition their moral powers are paralyzed, they are incapable of rea soning. The mob spirit exhibited in many of the Southern States within the past twenty years might properly be termed mental epidemics. History is replete with instances of mental crazes. Sometimes they have taken the forms of religious frenzies. A good illustration in this particular is furnished by the first crusade to the holy land in the Middle Ages, which was instigated by Peter the Hermit. The world is still in doubt whether this same Peter was a madman or en thusiast, who led thousands of men, women and children on their suicidal mission to Palestine. The bones of the crusaders whitened the wayside from the confines of Italy to Jerusa lem. Von Sybel, the historian, in speaking about the first crusade, says: “We can hardly understand such a state of mind. It was much as if a large army were now to embark in balloons, in order to conquer an is land between the earth and the moon, which was also expected to contain the paradise.” Swarms of different nationalities, with their wives and children, with infants taken from the cradle, and grandsires on the verge of the grave, flocked to the standard of Peter, Walter the penniless and Gotts chalk the leaders of those motley hosts. ‘The holy land was finally con quered, but the Christians were unable to retain their possessions and were at last compelled to surrender them to the unbelievers. About the year 1212, Stephen a shepherd boy at Cloyes, be gan to preach to the children exhort ing them to enlist in a holy war. Young children 8 and 10 years of age rallied under his banner by the thous ands. History tells us that in this vast multitude of hypnotized children, little girls formed a large part of this army of little ones. King Phillip Au gustus of France, issued an edict com manding the children to return to their homes. Their religious enthu siasm, however, was stronger than the king’s command, and the children continued to assemble. The efforts and prayers of fathers and mothers were of no avail. Bolts and bats could not hold those children. They would break loose and swarm like bees, and then march not knowing whither they were bound. In a village near Cologne, Nicholas, a boy of ten, began to try at crusade preaching. Thous andes of children flocked to him from different localities, far and near. Pias ters and parents were unable to re strain the little ones while they were in that dreamy state. An army of those children marched to Rome, where Pope Innocent the Third suc ceeded in directing the footsteps of this army of little pilgrims back to Germany. After much suffering the children who had not perished on the march, reached their homes; and when asked regarding the reason as to their strange acts, as it suddenly awakened from a long sleep, said they did not know. After the crusades came the Black Death, which caused thousands to perish in continental Europe. When this plague was at its height, an anti- Semitic frenzy seized European na tions. Thousands of Jews of both sexes were burned and slaughtered. Thereafter, came the dancing mania— dancers filled nearly every European city. This mania was so virulent that peasants left their plows, artisans their workshops and housewives their kit chens to join in the wild revels upon the public streets and in thorough fares. Girls and boys also imbibed this mental infection, leaving parents and friends to take part in hideous orgies. In Italian communities, old men of ninety and children five years of age were alike affected with such mania. The history of the human race has demonstrated that at recur ring periods in times past that men and women have gone mad in herds. About the year 1634, the Dutch in Holland suddenly became possessed with a mania for tulips. The ordinary pursuits of the people were neglected. Men in all walks of life from the high est to the lowest station embarked in the tulip business. Some daring spec ulators invested as high as one hun dred thousand florins in the purchase of forty tulip roots. The bulbs in many instances were considered more valuable than diamonds. The stock jobbers who dealt in tulips found themselves suddenly rich. Lands were sacrificed for small considerations in order to purchase tulips. Nobles, citizens, farmers, chimmey-sweeps, footmen, maid-servants and washer women speculated in tulips. For eigners became infected with the mania and money poured into Hol land from all points of the compass for investment. When this specula tive mania ran its course, tulips sank to their normal value. Thousands of merchants found themselves ruined financially, and the cry of distress was heard in the land. England and France in the Eighteenth century suffered severely from speculative manias. Turning now our attention to Amer ica, we find that she too has been in fected from time to time with religious, financial and other crazes. Only a few instances can be given within the compass of this paper. A religious mania passed over this country in the year 1800, and reached its high tide of excitement in the Kentucky revivals. The first camp meeting was held at Cabin Creek, in that State, beginning May 224 of that year. The singing, crying, praying, shouting and falling into convulsions made the days and nights hideous. Some persons who tried to escape the excitement seemed to have been held by a mysterious force incapable of explanation. Others, again, were seized on the way. There was a general revival held at Indian Creek, in Harrison county, Kentucky. It lasted five days. The meeting was at first quiet, but did not so remain very long. A boy of twelve took his position upon a log, began to rave violently, which attracted the atten tion of the crowd. In tears and pers piration the youngster cried out: “ Thus, O sinner, shall you drop into hell, unless you forsake your sins and turn to the Lord.” Just at that time many fell to the ground writhing and jerking in frenzy. Indifferent on lookers, even skeptics and mockers caught the infection and fell to the earth in convulsions. In many places this religious mania took the form of laughing, dancing and barking like dogs. Such proceedings were not con fined to the vulgar minded. Cultivat ed men and women were affected alike with this frenzy. These religious re vivals have swept over the country from time to time, which have im pressed participants therein that they were incapable of sin. Clergymen, who reasoned logically were termed emissaries of Satan by many of these religious enthusiasts. In 1895, there appeared a man by the name of Schlatter, who held forth in camp-meeting style on the out skirts of Denver, Colorado, who by reason of his enthusiasm attracted great crews of people. Many claimed and believed that he possessed the divine power of curing and healing the sick by the laying on of his hands or by simply touching the garments of those afflicted. The newspapers of that city ridiculed his pretensions and the claims of his adherents. One of the leading dailies sent a representa tive to report the proceedings of one of his Sunday meetings. The reporter, though a skeptic and unbeliever, was seized with convulsions while the ex citement was on. We have in recent years heard about the great following of people, who have been infected with the teachings of Alexander Dowie. This individual seems to have the faculty of leading and controlling large crowds of people to his way of thinking. The whole country in epots seems to be tainted with his views. As strange as it may seem there are persons in this town, who believe that Dowie possesses healing powers. The green back, Coxie, silver and gold crazes are familiar to the general public. We are, therefore, led to believe that this occult force of suggestion is always present; it is recognized by scholars and by scientists, but thus far it is little understood. From the vast amount of literature pertaining to this subject, it goes without saying, that the thoughtful men and women of earth are now giving the matter earnest and serious consideration, en deavoring to discover the underlying principles governing such phenomena, that they may be able to meet manias and crises whenever they may appear with counter suggestions thereby turn ing the direction of thought into healthful channels and placing the same upon higher moral planes. DISPUTE THIS, IF YOU CAN. The Sage of Yelm Propounds Some Trouble some Inquiries to Republicans. Yeu, Oct. 17. Ep. STANDARD. Allow me one more “ whack” at the d.o. p. before the people are called upon to cast their ballot, and by way of introduction, I want to say that if I had been in “ Taxpayer’s” place I should have signed my name to the anonymous circular lately issued. It is nothing to be ashamed of. “I'm all wool and a yard wide.’ My brand always goes with my writings, whether they like it or not. I am an uncom promising enemy of modern Republi canism and I think the readers of the STANDARD all know it. And, by the way, I am prepared to give my reasons for it, which is more than the average Republican can do in advocacy of his principles. Taxpayer has shown beyond a shad ow of a doubt that there is a screw loose somewhere in the administration of county affairs, but the people al ready know it. They found it out when they went down in their jeans to pungle the taxes. It is the same old story wherever and whenever they get a“ pull.” We haven’t forgotten the long years of public plunder prior to 96, and the retrenchment that on the part of the fusion officials was neces sary and that was legally carried out, according to ante-election promises for the succeeding two years, resulting in restoring the credit of the State and county and bringing our outstanding warrants, the result of d. O. p. extrava gance, up to and above par, which be fore had gone begging on the market at any old price. We are not likely to forget it, or no, not on your tin-type, and I am glad to note that a few of the most intelligent of the rank and file of the d.o. p. have paused long enough to consider the situation in its true light and have turned from the error of the past and are now enlisted under the banner of “ equal rights for all and special privileges for none.” Among them I find my friend Ment zer. I heard him speak at Sodom, and he did himself credit. The only thing I blame him for is that he didn’t investigate sooner, for investigation is all that is necessary to prove the in consistency of d. o. p. argument. The slaves of the south were happy in their ignorance. Their masters took good care that they didn’t have an oppor tunity to find out that slavery was only the outgrowth of human despo tism, human avarice and contaminated greed and selfishness, and that no man has a right to compel another man to work for his hash and clothes with out his consent. This was Lincoln’s argument against slavery but it is seldom the d op orators quote Lin coln. They don’t dare to. The in consistency would be too glaring, ’twould dazzle their eyes. There stands in the city of New York a statue of “ Liberty Enlightening the World.” Seven thousand miles dis tant we find 8,000,000 people recently brought into bondage by an adminis tration honored by that statue. Talk of inconsistencies! This is the most gigantic the world has ever known. Plant the statue of ‘ Liberty Enlight ening the World” in our metropolis and straightway proceed to deprive 8, 000,000 people of that greatest of blessings! ‘Consistency thou art a jewel.” Ingersoll once said that “ any one who believed in hell must be af flicted with at least two diseases, pet rifaction of the heart and petrifaction of the brain, and I agree with him, and I go farther and assert it as my solemn conviction that anyone who can endorse the Philippine policy of the administration must certainly be suffering from a like infliction. But this is not the only delusion or inconsistency of the party. There is the tariff feud. There stands on the statutes of the United States the high est tariff known in the history of the country. Why should we have such a tariff? For the benefit of the masses? Not on your weasel-skin. Oh no. “The people be damned.” It’s for the benefit of the manufacturer and capitalist alone, but some of the dam phool people think its for their benefit —that it enhances the price of labor. Well, let's see. I find by the statistics for the year ending June 30, 1904, the sale of manufactured products to for eigners amounted to $452,000,000, of which fully 85 per cent was sold at cheaper rates than are charged for precisely the same goods when sold to Americans. ‘The average price of these goods in the foreign market is 29 per cent, less than the selling price in the home market. On agricultural implements, tools, machines and hard ware, the difference in the price to the foreigner and to the American varies from 10 to 50 per cent. On wire, cart ridges, playing cards, etc., the differ ence is more than 100 per cent, and on each articles as rope and borax the difference is 200 percent. With these facts staring you in the face, can you see wherein the producer of wealth is benefited by the tariff, when those moguls can compete with the pauper labor of Europe and Asia and actually sell their products, after shipping them thousands of miles cheaper than they sell them in the home market. Dur ing the first 23 months of its exist ence, the steel trust made net profits of $327,000,000, an average of $30,000 an hour for a day of ten hours. Isn’t that a pretty fair profit for protection? Is it any wonder that these “ phellons” can’ contribute to a d. o. p. campaign fund? The d.o. p. schemers have the audacity to stand before an outraged public and tell us that during low tar iffs we have always had panics and during high tariffs we have always been prosperous which simply shows their ignorance of history or their dis regard of facts for every panic we have had for more than 30 years has been under high protection. . The gold panics which gave history black Fridays,” (I quote from the Commoner,) occurred during the month of Sept., 1869, when the Republican party was in power. The great panic marked by the failure of Jay Cooke Co., occurred in Sept., 1873. ‘Then the Republican party was in power and seven months prior to that time the Republican party had been re-elected to power. The Wilson bill was passed ten years ago. But that panic did not originate in '94. It did not originate in 93; it began long prior to the Pres idential election of ’92. The panic originated and reached its worst form under that famous tariff law known as the McKinley bill. The Republican party went into power March 4, 1869. The McKinley bill became a law Oct. 6, 118y0. November 11, 1890, the re ports showed financial distress in New York clearing house association voted its certificates to banks in need of as sistance. The Boston clearing house association did the same thing Nov. 17. Barker Bros. Co., big bankers in Philadelpia suspended at that time with liabilities placed at $5,000,000. Nov. 19, 1890, there was a run on the Citizen’s Savings bank of New York and a receiver was appointed for the North River bank. Nov. 27, 1890, the United Rolling Stock Company of Chi cago assigned, with liabilities at $6, 857,000. Nov. 26, 1890, B. K. Jamie son Co., Philadelphia, bankers, failed with liabilities of $2,000,000. Jan. 3, 1891, the Scottsdale Rolling Mills and Pike Works and the Charlotte Fur nace and Coke Works in Pennsylvania closed, throwing 10,000 employes out of employment. Jan. 12, 1891, the American National Bank at Kansas City suspended with liabilities at $2, 250,000. The Homestead strike and other strikers occurred in ’92, as we all remember. Grover Cleveland was inaugurated in 93. In May, 1893,5. E. White and others suspended in New New York. The Chemical bank of Chicago and its branches suspended. Other failures followed and finally the famous raids on the U.S. Treasury were made. Jan. 17, ’94, the Cleve land administration ordered a $90, 000,000 bond issue. Aug. 1994, the Wilson tariff law went into effect and the plates for those bonds had already been prepared by Mr. Harrison’s Sec retary of the Treasury and he had made a visit to New York for the pur pose of negotiating the bond deal. He was wired by Mr. Harrison to return to Washington as he had concluded not to have any bonds issued during his administration and, in order to avoid the stigma, the Harrison admin istration warded off the bond issue and unloaded it on the incoming Cleve land administration. The bond issue was seven months before the Wilson bill became a law. The first indica tions of the panic occurred Nov. 11, 1890, a little more than 30 days after the McKinley tariff became a law. It reached its worst stage in ’93 and dur ing the early days of '14, during all of which time the McKinley tariff was in effect. When the Democratic admin istration surrendered the reins of gov ernment March 4, 1589, there was the largest surplus in history. When the Republican party went out of power March 4, 1893, there was a large de ficit. Now in view of these facts, and they can’t be disputed, how can any man, imbued with the least sense of honor, have the unmitigated gall to stand before an enlightened audience and state, without a sense of shame mantling his physiognomy, that high tariff has always been followed by prosperity and low tariff by adversity? Say, go and soak your heads, so they will hold facts. J.C. Cod. P. S.—The above is my brand and I am ready to clinch what I write. DRIFTWOOD. An Essay on Fools and Foolishness. BY SUE F. VERNON. Why do fools monopolize so much of Driftwood? Are the doings of wise men not of more interest than the follies of the unwise?” Thus, and much more to the same effect, a serious-minded gentleman writes to expostulate with me. “Sue F. Ver non,” he complains, evidently more in sorrow than in anger, “ seems to be prone to search out the pitiful weak nesses of our poor human nature wherewith to furnish the harmless paragraph, instead of chronicling great thoughts, noble examples, and so forth,” and thus Sue F. Vernon, aforesaid, merely tickles the idle pal ate of those who read to be amused, instead of stimulating the readers of the WASHINGTON STANDARD to the doing of doughty deeds that would shine like atats in the darkness of a naughty world. Of course my bumpsome censor doesn’t say all this—not, that is to say, in these words. He is evidently much too tremendously in earnest to use phraseology so frivolous. But as to what he wants to beat, there can be no manner of doubt. He wants to take “ Driftwood” seriously—the more seriously the better—and I verily be lieve, 80 deadly earnest is he, that if I were to discourse after the fashion of “Meditations Among the Tombs,” or of such light and airy tomes as “Locke on the Undertaking,” he would cut out my column every week and paste it carefully in his scrap book. Instead of which, I persist in persiflage, and balancing the peacock feather on my nose, as it were, to the great mental distress of those of my readers who, like my friend, take life seriously. Sad, isn’t it? And yet, after all, there is some thing to be said for the laughing philosopher. ‘ Life,” says Disraeli, “is a comedy to him who thinks, a tragedy to him who feels.” Evidently my correspondent feels. For myself, I am content to survey men and things “from China to Peru, from Olympia to Japan,” to shoot Folly as it flies, and generally—to use the im mortal phrase of a great French thinker—to make haste to laugh, lest I weep. You see, the fools, speaking generally, are so much more numerous, and infinitely more interesting, than wise folk, like the Solon whose grave remonstrance has set me on this train of thought. “Twenty-nine millions, mostly fools,” said Carlyle, in his sententious fashion. That was quite a long time ago, of course, and there are more than twenty-nine millions of us now. But the proportion of fools remain about the same, I think, and really my grave and glum friend— who, too, lest I forget, did not sign his name to his letter—ought to con sider that fact when next he seeks to criticise an amiable looker-on at life, like myself. We who write and read “ Driftwood” do not belong to the mostly, of course—indeed the very fact that you peruse and appreciate this weekly column of gossip, my dear reader, is sufficient proof that you be long to the wise minority. Or so, at least, it seems to me. But perhaps I am prejudiced—one never knows. As to the fools, however. The fool, as I have said, is more interesting than the wise man. Take, for in stance, a case which has recently been occupying the attention of the Paris police. It seems that a certain per son was attending a large number of patients in a populous district of the gay city without, apparently, having taken the precaution to provide him self with the necessary medical di plomas. Acting—as the police gen erally do not—on “ information re ceived,” the authorities hunted this vile imposter to his lair. It turned out that he was a duly qualified medi cal man, who had passed all his ex aminations with distinction. He had at the outset settled down as a regular doctor, but no patients came to him, and he was on the point of starving when it occurred to him to remove to another quarter of Paris, and under an assumed name to practice as a quack medicine man. And he had amassed so large a practice that he was in a fair way to become a millionaire! Fancy that! And yet this curmudgeon would have me neglect the fools. Though I am not always, when I come to think of it, quite certain that the contraps of the wise are not even more interesting to the student of mankind than the folly of the fool. I happened across a popular magazine, the other day, for example, and there in I encountered this paragraph: ~Mr. Hoyle tells us that Professor Dean once ‘playfully’ suggested to him the disquieting idea that, could a proper detonator be discovered, an ex plosive wave of atomic disintegration might be started, through all matter which would transmute the whole mass of the globe, and leave but a wrack of helium behind.” Pleasant prospect, don’t you think so? And, mark you, it is towards this “ wrack of helium’’—whatever that may be— that the wisdom of the wise men of science is steadily tending at the pres ent moment of time. So that the gap between the fool and the wise man is not really “as deep as well, nor as wide as a church door,” as Shakespeare put it. Indeed, the border-line is so faint, that I, per sonally, have never been able to de cide to my own satisfaction where folly ended and wisdom began. And for the purpose of this article, I cite the case of a man who lives, and thrives, on a diet of grass and water. He is a Spaniard, and he answers to the liquid name of Lucebio Santos. He went to New York—so I learn from an associated press dispatch— from a town in Georgia, a physical wreck, with his nerves and digestion ruined. And again (I quote the press dispatch) . As an experiment, he com menced living on nothing but grass and water. He is now apparently in perfect health. Doctors are examin ing his case.” Santos says that he soon began to like grass, which he gathers free in the public parks. Now that winter is almost here, he will, most likely, proceed to Florida, for fresh grazing country. Now Santos is either a fool or a wise man. If he is wise, then he is very wise, for he has succeeded in solving that problem which dogs the waking moments and disturbs the sleep of ninety-five per cent. of the inhabitants of the United States—the great bread and butter problem, to wit. If it is possible for man to become _ herbivar ious, and to live and wax fat on grass and water, then life becomes merely a picnic. I leave you to consider the economic possibilities of the thing at your week-end leisure, and I invite my anti-fool correspondent, whoever he is, to favor me with his convictions on the subject. But perhaps Santos is only a fool, after all. It’s perfect nonsense, Bessie, for you to talk of being laid on the shelf. Why, it all depends on yourself. Forget your worries, your aches,and ailments ; do as I did, to!.. a of out-of-door air, cultivate happi ness by not allowing your mind to dwell on the trifles and the worries of life. I sell thirty-one cents in a to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., for his ‘Common Sense Medical Adviser,’ and found it con tained much useful information about the care of my health, about physiology, anat omy, and everything a woman should know. I then decided to write Dr. Pierce and tell him all about my ailments. I received such a nice, carefully considered and con fidential letter, in reply, giving me advice about my diet, exercise and all. This advice is free to everyone and I wonder you don’t write him at once. It didn’t take me many months to regain my good looks. Ever since I was fifteen I have suffered untold agonies periodically but now I am free from pain, worry and bad temper. Oc casionally I took Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets—this for the complexion, and to stimulate the liver. Then I took Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription three times a day for those womanly weaknesses I told you about. That’s my secret of beauty. It’s the easiest thing in the world to be happy and keep one’s good looks. Look at the thousands of women who have been made well by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription; look how they keep their od looks. Dr. Pierce offers $500 reward s any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weak ness, Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb which he cannot cure. All he asks is a fair and reasonable trial of his means of cure.” A CONFIDENTIAL CHAT.
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