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Here is what a studious observer who wit. nessed what he calls "a preliminary heat" says: The train was just pulling out of Englewood, puffing and panting with its mighty efforts. As it slowly gained speed it came on a lot of tow-headed children roosting on a fence, who shorted and waved as the cars came up, and then, as if with a common impulse, every child leaped to the ground and began a race with the train. The race was of short dura Compare them with the women of to day! How straight they were and how strong, how hardy and how helpful they were, how heartily they ate and how heartily they laughed. They didn't smoke cigarettes and sip cordials and depend on chloral for sleep. They were a dif. ferent race from the bloodless, dragged-out, narcotic-and-stimulant-using women of to-day. Now that's all true in general and yet it misses the main point by failing to consider the vast difference in the conditions under which life is being lived by the man and woman of today. Our ancestry sauntered though life. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife "To-day, as men and women, millions of us do in earnest what those children did in play; we run a race daily against steam, against electricity and all the modern appliances for speed. Is it any wonder men and women take to stimulants and narcotics? It isn't depravity. It isn't because we are less of women or less of men than our ancestors. It's because we're keyed up to the straining point all the time, and the nerves won't stand the daily strains and drains without protest. They call the effervescent bravery of the man in liquor 'Dutch courage.' You might as well name the effervescent strength gained by stimulants 'Dutch strength.' It is not strength at all. There is a ton of solid fact to reflect on, sug gested by the statement just quoted. What are we going to do? This is the age of steam, the age of electricity. We must keep up in THE GREAT RACE. But how long can we keep up when we are depending on a false strength? No longer, relatively, than the children kept up their race with the train. What we need is more brawn and less brandy, more blood and better blood. It's as impossible to get strength from stimu. lants as to hatch a turtle dove from the egg of a mud turtle. Strength of body depends on a pure and plentiful blood current, for science has never advanced a fact beyond the statement of Moses that "The Blood is The Life." But every generation of investigation shows the statement to be true in a wider, deeper and broader sense than was dreamed of in the past. Bad blood means bad morals. Foul blood and foul living go together. The taint in the blood has an echo in salacious speech, a shadow in corrupt conduct. Side by side with physical breakdowns we see the moral break. downs; defaulting cashiers, dishonest clerks, faithless husbands, false wives. It all begins with the blood. And any hope of reform must begin with the blood, too. You can't divorce the mental and moral from the physical. There is no special food that feeds the intellectual man, no manna of the mind. The mind is fed or starved as the body is fed or starved. Thin blood and weak nerves shake the throne of reason. Starvation of the blood and nerves drives men and women to mental, moral, and physical destruction. It is easy to understand in the light of these facts the reason for the enormous percentage of cures effected by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It begins at the beginning with the blood. It cures practically a wide range of diseases because many forms of disease have their origin in the blood. It is a scientific compound based, not upon theory but upon the practical, common. sense proof that if you purify, enrich, and vitalize the blood you overcome disease in any organ. "The Golden Medical Discovery" heals disease in just this way. 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As head of the World's Dispensary and Surgi. cal Institute, in constant practice and consultation, treating successfully hundreds of thousands of cases, many of them the so-called hopeless cases, given up by every other physiclan, he was in a position to make practical proof of his knowledge. His success, the record of his triumph, is written in tens of thousands of testimonials received from grateful men and women. The following are fair samples of many thousands of letters received by Dr. Pierce: "It was near the little town of Leroy, W. Va., and during the month of March, 1896, that a young man lay pale and motionless upon (what the neighbors called) his dying bed. Disease of the lungs, liver complaint, kidney trouble, and pleurisy were fast hastening him to the grave. The doctors had given him up to die. The neighbors said, he cannot live." 'Oh, I would not care to die,' he said,'' were it not for leaving my dear wife and little child, but I know that I must die.' A brother had presented him with three bottles of medicine, but he had no faith in 'patent medicines'; but after the doctors had given him up to die and he had banished every hope of recovery, he said to his wife, 'Dear wife, I am going to die, there can be no harm now in taking that medicine. I will begin its use at once.' He did begin to use it, and at first he grew worse, but soon there came a change. Slowly but surely he got better. To-day that man is strong and healthy and he owes his life to that medicine. What was the medicine? It was Dr. Pierce's 'Golden Medical Discovery,' and I, Luther Martin, am the cured man. Dr. Pierce, I thank you from the very depth of my heart for rescuing me from the grave." The foregoing is from Luther Martin, Esq., a prominent citizen of Lubec, Wood Co., W. Va. Vt., writes: "I had been out of health for M. L. Messer, Esq., of Garfield, Lamoille Co., about two years. 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Much of the irritability in school children is caused by abused stomachs. A hearty noon. day meal of indigestible foods, and in many instances, no dinner at all, are the causes for much of the sluggishness and ill-temper that visit the school-room, particularly in the afternoon. Then again, where children are given a moderate allowance for the noon meal, the science of eating is understood by so few, that the needs of the body are not supplied in proper proportions. Few people understand well the composition of foods and the effects that different methods of cooking heve upon the digestibility of the foods. Hence many children are made lug. gish by an excess of carbonaceous foods; others are made thin and nervous by too much phosphate, and others again are made cross and sullen looking by a tired stomach that is ever wrestling with improperly cooked substances. If the child were studied in school with the view of discovering what his organism lacks, and then have the needed elements supplied at the noon-day meal, the public schools would be taking the logical step of preparing a wellbalanced organism in which to develop a sound mind. The habits of chewing gum and candy. smoking and drinking would receive a death. blow, for when all the tissues of the body are sufficiently fed, a peaceful, satisfied calm pervades the body. Then, too, the foods eaten at these meals and the styles of preparation might serve as guides for the children and their parents in making up the other two meals of the day. Let the day soon come when this plan will be put into execution and, in the meanwhile, let us encourage Dr. Andrews to give us more of such noble ideas. JOHN A. KERNS, Principal Cranston Grammar School. A NECESSITY. The necessity for taking a good spring medicine to purify the blood and build up the system is based upon natural and unavoidable causes. 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