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ALCOHOL AND THE ATHLETE
Qnettion of BtiraaUnti Diiicausd bj an
English Export on Trailing.
VERY HARMFUL IN THE LONG RUN
Bnt Very L'neful In KmrrKenele Ale,
Win mill Wlilnlty Allowed In
Smnll Clunntlf lr Trlnl of
(hr I'rnlclil Dirt.
Millionaires to Order
An Incident in the
Carnegie
(Copyright I'M, by E. H. Miles.)
As a general rule, 1 do not recommend
alcohol to anyone, either for this body or
brain, especially If no particular exertion
he needed nt tho particular time and If
other remedies bo possible: for example,
the stimulating effect of cold water poured
down tho spine. Yet alcohol dots seem
to have certain advantaRcs for modern
athletic conditions. I think tho tendency
will be for something eUe to tako lt
place, or, rather, for people to avoid tho
tho conditions which make alcohol neces
sary. At present It Is most useful for
enurgcnclcs. A man It playing a match
at lawn tennis; ho feels utterly tired; If he
can keep op for ten minutes longer he will
win. Ho takes a glass of brandy; ho keeps
up for ten minutes longer; he wlnj. This
value of alcohol has been proved so many
times that tboio so-called scientific men,
who deny tho truth of It, loso all hold
on tho popular faith, l'coplo see tho man
worn out. and then revived. If only for a
time. The fact Is undoubted, whatever the
ultimate results may be.
And eo It may bo with brain work. A
man may bo utterly Jaded, and a glass of
somo stimulant will glvo him energy to
work, at least for half an hour; that half
hour may be vital to htm. The alcohol
probably, among other good effects, clears
tho blood of Its poisons for the Immediate
present and that seems to me the best
thing that It docs. It Is not so much tho
heat that It produces at thn time, nor yet
tho quickening of tho heart, as the clear
ing of the blood temporarily of Its uric
acid, etc.
Even though tho most sensible people
will sco that the best plan Is to keep the
blood so pure nnd strong that thero will
not bo any need for stimulants, that the
body and brain will work tetter without
stimulants, yet so long as alcohol does
glvo energy for awhile, whether we take
It or not, will usually depend on whether
It bo worth whllo or not. Wo Injure our
selves by' a violent run after dinner to
catch a tram, Yet this may he qulto worth
whllo; so. much may depend on catching
that train that wo aro content to sacrifice
a certain nmount of health.
Worth While In 1'rrtiiln l.'nurn.
It Is all vory well to fay that It Is not
worth whllo to take nlcohol; It Is worth
whllq In certain cases. Temperance fan
atics compare It with drawing on one's
'capltnl. They forget that It Is sometimes
, .1 ... nnnltal Till, , V. .1
KUUU.IU Ml till Vll wuc n vniiinn nu. mvj
make their greatest mlstako In falso state
ments, which tho experience of millions
refute. When they say that alcohol docs I
not really produco heat, hut only seems
to, certain men havo a perfect right to
dony their conclusion. Only tho other day
n man told me that claret always made him
feel hot for many hours afterward. If I
had said to him, "You nro not really hot,"
tho man would have replied: "I don't earn
n hit about that; I feel hot, and that's all
that matters to me. So far as nil practical
purposes are concerned, I am hot."
And when somo theorists tell us that
alcohol does not produco energy they again
lay themselves open to tho answers that It
does produco energy; It may bo only calling
out the energy that already exists In tho
body, but, anyhow, without the alcohol
the energy 'would not bo called out at all.
The oDjectors may say that the effect Is
only the Immediate effect, but tho defend
ers of alcohol will reply: "That is all we
care for; we refuso to listen to you. You
must concedo what wo know to be true."
Tho Cambridge rowing crows, In England,
are often allowed a glass of port In tho
venlng, and some of the men are allowed
a glass of beer In tho mlddlo of the day.
Lehmann, the well known coach, advises an
occasional breaking of the training, If the
men get too "stale." In fact. It seems to
bo a common opinion that it Is better for
tho athlete to havo u thorough break, and
i fairly large, ordlnnry dinner with wine,
:tc, occasionally, than a steady amount of
alcohol every day. Personally, I think a
diet which makes pcoplo stale has some
thing wrong at tho root of It. It seems to
oio that English athletes, who are less
itrict about alcohol (especially foot bailers),
aro less liable to stateness than American
athletes.
Different UlTrcta,
Undoubtedly tho effect of alcohol differs
with Its different forms. It Is not always
the proportion of alcohol that la Important.
Tnere is a certain Cyprus red wine which
has next to no alcohol In It, and yet will
make a Tommy Atkins quite weak In the
head, even though ho has been used to
plenty of whisky. On the wholo, perhaps,
good old whisky, If you can got that kind,
and If you can take It weak, Is tho safest
drink for tho average athlete, If he must
tako alcohol at all. But Individuals differ
hero perhaps more than In any other re
spect. One of tho best and hardiest general
athletes of my acquaintance has a rule
never to drink any alcohol except old
whisky, and never to take that unless ho
Is going to work It oft by exercise very
soon afterward.
In my own case, alcohol has little or no
appreciable effect on my games. Nor does
It make any great difference la my stand
ard of endurance. In between games I
sometimes take It and sometimes not
have found that It makes very little differ
ence one way or the other. I am convinced
that In tho end the frequent uso of alcohol
does a great deal of harm, but I am also
convinced that It clears tho blood for the
time being. If tho blood be Impure, and to
clear the blood for the time being Is often
It was my privilege to be In the office of
the Carnegie Steel company, says a writer
In the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post,
when there occurred an event that, to my
mind, has rarely been equaled for dramatic
Interest. It was the making of a million
aire, A plain, undersized young man, bear
ing about htm all tho earmarks of a hard
working mechanic, came Into the outer
office where I was seated. Ills shoes were
heavy and covered with tho dust peculiar
to the man who labors In Ironworks. Ho
wore an old black derby hat, A heavy
overcoat, much the worse for wear, hung
loosely from his shoulders. It was neither
short nor long, but of that medium length
held In high esteem by the fashionable
world of today. Below the overcoat there
showed a pair of gray trousers, Innocent of
the tailor's creasing Iron and eloquent of
long service In a mill atmosphere. Tho
man had n roll of papers, apparently plana
or bluo prints, under his arm, which he
hugged closely to his side as If afraid he
might lose them. Ills hands wcro ungloved,
though thero was a snowstorm outride.
They wero coarso and toll-hardened, but
smalt and well shaped,
Thn man's face was pale. Ills mouth was
shaded by a thin brown moustache. It was
a good, strong mouth, and the clean-shaven
chin under It was a good, strong chin. His
eyes were bright and alert and seemed to
sco evorythlng all the time. Ho was, per
haps, 27 or 28 years old.
"Mr. Schwab telegraphed for me," the
man tald to an attendant.
"Yes, ho Is waiting for you Inside."
Tho man disappeared through a door to
the left and aa It closed behind him one of
tho officers of the company to whom I had
been talking said:
"Did you notice that man? You did?
Well, ho went In there nn ordinary me.
chanlc, a foreman In ono of our mills, work
ing at a foreman's wages. In about half an
hour, If you remain, you wU see him come
out a partner In tho Carneglo company,
with the incomo of a millionaire."
In the Carneglo atmosphere you becomo
accustomed very soon to millions and mil
lionaires. At tho works. In tho offices at
Duquesne club during luncheon hour you
are constantly touching elbows with mild
mannered, plaluly dressed young men who
aro pointed out to you as "Carneglo ruan,"
worth anywhere from J20.000 to $20,000,000.
But this thing of having a millionaire made
whllo you wait was a little bit strange,
even In tho Carneglo country, and I sup
poso my eyebrows went up with a show
of amaied Incredulity. At any rate my
Informant laughed and said.
"That kind of staggers you, docs It? It
Is true, noverntheless, nnd the history of
that man and his experience Is by no
means unusual with us. He Is the sort of
man we aro constantly on tho lookout for
and when found and tested he Is made a.
partner. There are now thirty partners In
the concern and almost without exception
they came Into their holdings the way that
man will come Into his."
"But for a man who Is about to step
from a mechanic's position to that of a
millionaire's he was about tho most un
concerned person I ever saw."
"That was because ho knew no more
about It when he came In than you did.
His first Information will come when Mr.
Schwab tells him what the company has
concluded to do. Ho has been with tho
concern about seven or eight years. Most
of that time ho has been employed as an
electrician. He has made many valuable
suggestions nnd hi? worth was recognlred
by his promotion to the poaltlon of fore
man. Ho has shown rare capacity In that
position for handling men; this, combined
with bis mechanical knowledge, has
pointed to him as tho proper man for
taking hold of a new enterprise on which
tho company Is about to embark. You
may havo seen by the newspapers that wb
aro going to build a $12,000,000 plant at
Conneaut. O. Ho Is to havo chargo of
tho construction of the works and on
their completion Is to bo general manager."
"And ho knew nothing of all that when
ho came In?"
"Nothing at all."
Unfortunately I could not eee through the
two stout oaken doors that separated me
from tho room where Mr. Schwab was
springing his little siirprlso on the foreman,
but it required little Imagination to pic
ture the scene. Some day I hope to see It
enacted on the stage, for surely hero was a
"situation" for any dramatist. Even
through the oaken doors It thrilled me so
that the conversation on my part lapsed.
The Carnegie official noted my silence smil
ingly for some moments. Then he said:
"Will you wait and see him come out?"
"Surely."
"Very well. I will Introduce him to you."
Perhaps t expected to see a physical as
well as a financial transformation when the
foreman reappeared; tho working raiment
fallen away; broadcloth and silk hat In
place of the shabby overcoat and dingy
black derby; patent leathers where tho
dusty shoee had been and doeskin trousers
replacing the gray working "pants."
Magic was In the air and I am sure such
a transformation would not have surprised
me any more than the fact that when the
man came out of the door again be seemed
not at all changed. His palo face had a
touch of color at the cheeks and his eyes
were perhaps a trifle brighter, but that was
all. Even the paper roll was as It had been
before and ho hugged It ae closely as ever.
I was Introduced, congratulations were ten
dered and then tho man with his millionaire
Incomo went his way.
"Ho will go home now and celebrate?" I
said.
"Not he. He will get hack to Homestead
as quickly as he can. His work Is waiting
for him and he must carry It on until his
successor has been appointed. Then he will
prepare for his task."
The formation of the bllllon-dollar steel
consolidation was announced about a month
nftcr this remarkable occurrcnco took place
In the Carneglo offices. On account of this
consolidation the Conneaut plans were
abandoned, but this In nowise affected the
position of the young man whose birth as
a millionaire I had attended. He holds his
partnership under the reorganization and
It has since been announced that ho will be
at tho head of one of tho most Important
plants of tho reorganized company.
As I have been told, almost every one of
tho thirty brilliant young men who made
up tho Carnegie company came Into the
partnership under very much the same cir
cumstances as was the case with this latest
member. Tho stories of their successes
read like chapters In a contlnuoua fairy tale.
Marriage and Divorce
Need of Uniform
Laws.
Abram II. Hummel cif Now York, one of
tho best known divorce, lawyers In the
United Stntes, discusses In the New York
Herald the conflicting statutes of states and
territories governing marrlago and divorce,
which havo been tho cause of widespread
public scandal and macaco to American
homes and morals. Mr. Hummel writes:
Itecent decisions of the auprerae court of
the United States nccentuato the absurd
conflict existing botween the laws of mar
riage and dlvorco In different states of the
union. While tho Judges of tho highest
tribunal In tho land did nothing more than
coincide with the views expressed repeat
edly by Judges of the supreme court of New
York, they havo again attracted attention
to tho distressing complications resulting
from tho legal divergencies.
This Is a very serious object, about which
too much cannot be said, as agitation may
bring about a needed reform.
Who can go over the facts withont coming
to the conclusion that thero Is something
radically wrong at present?
Is It propev that ono woman should be a
man's legal wife in Brooklyn, while another
Is bound to him in holy wedlock In Sioux
Falls, that he should be a bigamist here,
an observer of tho marriage law there?
Stop a moment and consider tho serious
complications that are bound to result, af
fecting not only property rights, but, what
Is still more Important, tho legitimacy of
offspring. Thcao vital questions are now
regulated by geography.
letter of tho law In contracting and In
sovorlng his marital ties. Again It comes
down to a question of goography.
Tho case carried to the supreme court of
the United States Involves this point:
A man goes to South Dakota, sues for dl
vorco and obtains a decree which Is valid
In that state, giving him the privilege of
contracting another marriage. His first
wlfo has not placed herself wl'hln the Juris
diction of the court and has Interposed no
defense. She has retained her rights In her
own state and sho remains his wife. She
may turn around and sue him for a divorce,
naming wlfo No. 2 as co-respondent.
But suppose that she does not see fit to
suo. Tho husband may establish a home In
tho west and live there some time, raising
a family. He may then conclude to return
cast to the woman whom he had left, and
who Is still bis wlfo here, and ho may havo
more children. Each family Is legitimate
at home, Illegitimate In the other state.
Carry the example a little further and
whore do you get? A man may be a
polygamist with a dozen wives and families
scattered through as many different states.
Each Is bound to him by the laws of the
state whero the marrlago was contracted,
and he may always havo acted within tho
Nothing could bo more dangerous than to
assume because a remarriage of a divorced
person might be legal In New Jersey It
could be contracted anywhore in the union.
In somo places such a marriage would be
bigamous.
If a person has no grounds for dlvorco
here, he can surely find some state whero
any particular grievance that he may have
will be sufficient, for there are laws to
suit all, and the only difficulty Is to find
them and to llvo In the place where they
apply long enough to acquire a residence.
The mlsmated must always avoid one state.
South Carolina, where no divorces aro
granted for any cause.
Even for a first marrlago it Is sometimes
essential to study the geography. A man
may elope with a girl who is less than 16
in New Jersey and contract a valid mar
riage with her, whereas in New York he
would be guilty of abduction, and liable to
a term of Imprisonment. '
In New Mexico tho bride would have to
bo less than 14 to fall within the statute
of clandestine marriages. In somo locali
ties when thero are sccrot marriages be
tween minors, both bride and groom are
subjected to punishment; In others, the
penalty Is directed to tho party celebrating
the marriage; in still others, to the person
Issuing the llcenso; while in somo states
liabilities attach to all concerned, and in
a few instances the property rights of the
wife or husband are involved.
There has been considerable agitation In
tho northwest within a few months about
a proposed law to prohibit marriages of
persons suffering, from tuberculosis and
other allmcntB liablo to be transmitted to
tbelr progeny. Thero aro other bars to
marrlago recognized In different states, all
having certain prohibitions on account of
blood or kinship.
Consanguineous marriages nre generally
nbhorrcd among .civilized nations. Al
though his father'. Araram, had married
Jochebed, a paternal aunt, Moses prohibited
by the Levltical law marriage among lineal
kindred of near blood, and declared such
practices an abomination In the sight of
God. By this law a Hobrew was forbidden
to marry his mother, or his sister, or his
daughter, or his aunt, and women were
prohibited taking husbands nearer In blood
than first cousins. This rule has been
general ever since, sometimes extending to
remote ramifications, as, for example, when
the Roman Catholic church, under Gregory
III, prohibited marrlago between sixth
cousins.
In Georgia and Florida the law of Moses
has been re-enacted. In several states, In
cluding California, Iowa, Kansas, Maine
and Montana, a man cannot marry his
niece, Delaware and Kentucky include
grandnloccs in the prohibition. In, respect
to tho marriage of cousins there has been
a great diversity of opinion. They' may
marry in New York, while they would be
liable to go to Jail If the ceremony oc
curred In Arizona, Nevada or Wyoming.
A marriage between cousins would be
valid In New York, but a grave question
would arise if cousins residents of a state
prohibiting their raarriaso were wedded
In New York and then returned to their
homes. Tho doctrine is that n marrlago
valid where solemnized is valid everywhere,
but on tho other hand the status of citizens
of a state must bo governed by the state
of their residence.
In Ithode Island tho matrimonial prohi
bition extends to stepparents and step
children, sons-in-law and parents-in-law,
though there Is a special provision that tho
Jews may contract marriages within the
degrees allowed by their religion. Several
other states. Including New Jersey, forbid
a man from marrying his father's widow.
In Virginia and in West Virginia a man
cannot marry bis wife's stepdaughter.
Thirteen states ray a man shall not marry
the widow of a grandson.
Miscegenation Is a geographical crime.
In Now York the Intermarriage of whites
and blacks Is deemed merely a matter of
taste. In many sections of the country It
Involves Imprisonment. In one locality a
whlto man may marry an octoroon, but not
a quadroon, while In another locality the
quadroon morko tho boundary line In test
ing the guilt or innocence of the bride
groom. In Ohio, to constitute a crime,
one party must be of pure white blood and
the other must have a sufficient amount of
African blood to render that fact visible
to the naked eye. In some sections of the
Pacific slopo the legislation Is extended to
cover tho Chinese, whllo North Carolina
Includes Indians.
I think that enough has been said to
show the folly of the present system, In
which the crossing of an Imaginary line
would make a marriage either valid or In
valid, and Involve endless complications.
Tho sole remedy Is to obtain uniform laws.
As It seems Impossible to get an amend
ment to the United States constitution giv
ing congress the power to legislate In this
direction, thero should be some concert of
action among tho states, and an agreement
reached to pass Identical laws. The scan
dal should be suppressed.
Invaluable for athletes. I remember a cele
brated cricketer who used to get In a ter
rible condition after dinner, and then, be
fore he went In to bat, would drink a quan
tity of liquor, and then make largo scores.
I remember, also, two Cambridge (English)
all-round athletes, who used to play beauti
fully the next morning after heavy drink
ing tho night before, followed by drinking
In tho morning. Evidently their eyes wero
cleared for the time being by tho alcohol;
but the after results aro usually bad. These
two athletes, who should havo been vigor
ous till 35 or 40, fell off conspicuously
after the age of 25. Prof. Michael Foster
told mo that we must not Judge of tho
effecta of such excesses until after the age
of 25, or even after the age of 30. More
over, these two athletes, and others, have
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I
never yet found alcohol reliable. Ono day
It might clear tho eye and produce wonder
ful success; another day tho effect might
bo absolutely tho roverse. That Is tho
worse of alcohol for training It Is un
reliable. Klglita Attain! Unilurniire.
Alcohol seems to fight against tho power
of long endurance. It may produce a flash
for a time, but will bo against steady and
persistent work with the body of brain.
On ono occasion It produces brilliancy; on
another occasion utter failure. Then
again, tho usual effect Is that the quantity
must be Increased. The craving for more
and moro is a marked characteristic of
alcohol drinkers; tho more they have the
moro they want, therefore, the more they
drink; and In extreme cases thero aro
other results of alcohol drinking, in the
form of Immorality ond crime, to say
nothing of despondency and restlessness.
All these are too commonplace to need
mention here.
Tho worst fallacy In regard to alcohol
Is tho fallacy of tho right way of giving It
up. It Is all very well to say to people:
"Avoid temptations to drink; do not go
where you will have to drink," and It Is
very well to say: "Use your will power;
refuse to drink;" but It Is far better to
show people also the conditions which
make them desire alcohol, so that they
may with perfect freedom of choice tako
It or refuse It.
Assuming, however., that alcohol really
docs harm to you Individually, then And
out what it Is that makes you desire it;
you gat then to the root of the matter. You
have to put yourself in such a state that
when alcohol Is offered you, you would
rather not take It. Tho first step Is to take
enough nourishment, not In the form of
fattening and beating material or of sheer
bulk, but In the form of blood-making
and tissue-making substances, namely, al
bumen. I get my dwn albumen entirely from
fleshless foods. It Is possible that others
may find that these fleshless foods are
valuable for them, as they may have been
for me. In my own case, when I first gave
up alcohol, I continued the use of meat.
etc., and I found that even at the end of
six months I still desired alcohol. Then
I gave up the flesh foods about four years
ago and almost Immediately the desire for
alcohol went. On the fleshless foods I be
lieve that, as a ruin, thn rioalr.. ..in a
oppcar. There seems to he something In
the flesh which produces the thirst for In
toxicants; though I found that In caso I did
urn ihro cnougn proiem or albumen and did
too much work or exerclso. I fi .k.
and the desire returned. I could at any
time, therefore, renrodum thn Hr.i.. v..
returning to tho flesh foods or by not taking
cuuuf 1'iuieia uany. ror it seems to me
iu uuiuo aown to mat enough protcld, aay
four ounces a day, In a fleshless form.
That Is the verdict nf nn ulnc-ln n..
aonal experience in each cage must be the
hU.UK Hcmanni experience extending over
at least some weeks.
Deforo I finish I must say a word about
immediate results; they are not to be mis
taken for full results; they are not to be
the criterion. When a man takes alcohol
the Immediate results are probably satis
factory, but he must nut Imm.ln,, .,.. .v..
final effect of alcohol Is satisfactory be
cause of this. He must bo cautlouB before
he decides. On the other hand, ho may
glvo up alcohol and find that the Immediate
effect Is depression; he must not conclude
from this that If he continues the treatment
depression will continue also. It Is quite
possible that, when he has given up alcohol
the poisons In his body nre circulating In
his blood on the way to passing out by
various outlets, No wonder, then, that ho Is
depressed. When most of these poisons
have passed out and when be has ceased to
add extra poisons, the depression may be
removed. It is a fallacy to Judge by Im
mediate effects.
My own recent experiment with alcohol
took some months to produce an appreciable
effect upon my brain work and training
except that It made tho desire for regular
exercise almost amount to a craving.
EUSTACE H. MILE8.
TlirmiKh thr I'U-turraqnr nine
Mtitintnlna.
The route of the Lehigh Valley railroad
between Niagara Falls and Buffalo and
New York and Philadelphia Is one of en
trancing beauty. Panoramic changes of
scenery greet the eye at every turn. Fast
trains. Dlnlag cars, service a la carte.
Stop-over allowed at Buffalo on all
through tickets to New York and Thlladel
Phla via this line.
The Destruction That Wasteth at ronMi."
Dying Man Turned Away I
THERE WAS NO ROOM IN A HOS
PITAL FOR DENNIS KENNY, A
CONSUMPTIVE.
Nkw York. Dennis Kenny, homeless, was found uncon
scious on the sidewalk at 44th Street and 1st Avenne on
Thursday night. An ambulance surgeon from Flower Hos
pital said that the man was dying of consumption. He was
taken to Bellevue and on Friday was sent to the Metro
politan Hospital on Blackwell's Island.
Last night Kenny was found unconscious in the street
again, when he was revived in the police station he said
that the people on The Island hat! told him that thev had
no room for him in the hospital nnd had brought him" back
to the city. Dr. Stewart, of Klower Hospital said it was a
shame that Kenny had been turned out of the hospital as
death was only a matter of a few days in his case. Kenny
was taken to Bellevue again.
Dr. Bickley, the acting superintendent of the Metropolitan
Hospital, when asked about Kenny's case over the tele
phone, said :
"Kenny was placed in the consumption ward, which is
terribly overcrowded. They are sleeping on the floor there
and we can only keep those who are unable to walk or
move about. Kenny was a very sick man and it was a
shame to let him go ; but he was stronger than some of the
others and so we had to leave him out. We couldn't put
him in another ward, as it would be a crime to put a con
sumptive in a regular ward. The whole city seems to be full
of consumption and we are so overcrowded here that a ter
rible condition of affairs exists,"
Figures are strangely inadequate to convey to the
mind some of the most appalling facts of civiliza
tion. We are told that 60,000 people die annually
of consumption. But the statement hardly touches
us. It is too great. It covers too much territory.
But when we read a story like the above, cramped
into a few lines, dealing with only one man's case,
and yet revealing a "whole city full of consump
tion," we see as under the glare of a search-light
the appalling ravages of the "destruction that
wasteth at noonday." Almost every hamlet and
village has its victims of this scourge of civilization
and towns and cities number their consumptives by
scores and by hundreds.
HOW TO AVOID CONSUMPTION.
The one sure way to avoid consumption is to
instantly arrest the conditions which tend toward it.
If you have a cough cure it. If your lungs are
weak make them strong. You can do this by the
use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
" For one year I was troubled with a cough," writes Mr.
H. E. Curtis, of Sumner, Bremer Co., Iowa. "As I continued
to cough during the summer, my wife became anxious, and
wrote to Dr. R. V. Pierce, for medical advice. It seemed to
us that we could notgo to a better source for advice, and so
it proved, as the 'Golden Medical Discovery' which was
recommended proved just the medicine to effect a cure. Dr.
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farmers used to say."
"Your medicine is the best 1 have ever taken," writes
Mrs. Jennie Dingman, of Rapid City, Kalkaska Co., Mich.
" Last spring I had a cough ; got so bad I had to be in bed
all the time. My husband thought I had consumption. He
wanted me to get a doctor, but thought we would try Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and before I had taken
one bottle the cough stopped and I have since had no signs
of its returning."
"BETTER LATE THAN NEVER."
Better use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
late than not at all. It may be too late to cure. It
can't be too late to try, and the evidence of the
people who have been cured shows that no man
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people given up by doctors have been cured by
"Golden Medical Discovery." Because people ema
ciated, weak with tearing coughs and bleeding
lungs, have been perfectly nnd permanently cured
by the use of "Golden Medical Discovery."
"Last spring I was taken with severe pains in my chest,
nnd was so weak I could hardlv walk about the house," s.tvs
Mrs. G. E. Kerr, of Fort Dodge', Webster Co., Iowa. " I tried
several physicians and they told me I had consumption. I
heard 01 Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery and thought
I would try some of it. Before I had taken the first bottle
I was very much better ; 1 took five bottles of it and have
not yet had any return of the trouble."
"My wife had hemorrhage of the lungs, " writes W. A.
Sanders, of Hem, Mason Co., W. Va. "She had ten hemor
rhages, and the people all around here said she would never
be well again. But she began to take Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery; and she soon began to gain strength and
flesh. After taking ten bottles she was entirely well.
Should you think this will do any good to publish, just use
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IT IS WONDERFUL
To read of such cures. But it is just as true as it is
wonderful that suclcurcs have been effected in
hundreds of cases by-thc use of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Like many of other wonderful
things these cures arc achieved by getting into line
with nature and assisting her. What is the chief
cause of physical weakness? Lack of nutrition.
You know that a starving man is weak. He can't
work, or only in a feeble way. You know if the
body is not fed it falls away and grows weak. But
when you speak of the body you include nil the
organs which compose it heart, liver, lungs, kid
neys, etc. , for these make the body. A body weak
ened by starvation then, means lungs weakened,
heart weakened, liver weakened, etc. How would
you restore the strength of a man, weak from
starvation? Why feed him. There's no other
way. How would you restore the strength to
"weak" lungs? By food. The doctor will say,
"Eat pleuty of nutritious food," and he'll add a
tonic to stimulate the appetite. But suppose the
stomach is "weak" and can't convert the food into
nutrition ? Then the doctor counsels Cod Liver Oil
or its emulsions to humor the weak stomach. The
point is that he knows the one need is food. He
knows that food doesn't nourish unless properly
digested and assimilated. Yet he does nothing
to cure the weak stomach.
Behind weak lungs is a weak stomach, and the
first step to a cure is to make the stomach and its
allied organs of digestion and nutrition strong, so
that the fcod eaten can be perfectly digested and its
nutrition assimilated. When this is done flesh is
gained instead of lost, and the man or woman who
is gaining in flesh has no fear of dying of consump
tion, the very sign of which is wasting of the flesh
and weakening of the body.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures dis
eases of the stomach and other organs of digestion
and nutrition. In this way the body is enabled to
receive its proper nutrition and to be made strong
in the only way possible by the perfect digestion
and assimilation of food.
There is no alcohol in "Golden Medical Discov
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all other narcotics.
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