Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-14
G. M. D.
\ Medley. a Mystery, "a Marvel and a
Miracle.
The story of "a DveasrE.


Get money honestly if you can, but sc
money! was a foolish fathers adv ce 10 hi
son. Get money, if you can honestly, makes
but a slight alteration the order of The
words, but varies the sentiment considerably
There is no harm in making money. 1t an
swereth all things. Used rightly it is a power
for good, and there is money enou h III the
world to form lever by which the mass OF
humanity could be lifted, to a certain extent
out or Its depths of sorrow and despair Mon
ely we must have for money makes the mare
go. Some can make money who have no fac.
ulty for saving. Would you save you must
know how to deny those who would borrow
and never repay, as well as those who beg SIM
ply because they are too lazy to work. There
are men who never want to see you except to
ask the favor Of loan. They Will ask for
just one word with you, and that one word is
sure to be money. An 1mpecuD1Ous fellow
met rich acquaintance, and not liking to ask
directly for loan, said, :" Friend Smith, If you
had ten dollars in your pocket and | was to
ask you for the loan of five, how many would
remain in your pocket?" ''len dollars, TO be
sure" replied the rich man, without mo-
ments hesitation. He had gumption, and
knew too much to part with his money by any
such rule of subtraction.
o | see, said the 1mpecunlous man thus re-
buffed. He was able to owe. He was one of
the McaWLer sort-alway5 waiting for some
thing to turn up. How like some people who
are sick. They think to get well by letting dis
ease take care of itself. But diseases do not
heal themselves, and too late their victims full
often find this out to their sorrow death
SEXES upon them. Had they been wise III time
they might have added many years to their
lease of life. The cure WAS nigh them, as it is
nigh to all who read this medley. These
paragraphs tell the story. as a patient perusal
will prove. Those who have keen insight and
can read between the lines may solve the
cOnundrum the sooner for it, but upon all,
light will dawn ere they read the final word of
our story.
Light will dawn, we said and SO it will, light
of hope and help. Light is what certain in
dividual wanted. Mr.. Jones we Will call him.
He was very sick Consumption had fastened
its fangs upon him. He had long neglected
catarrh, and laughed it the idea of taking any
thing for it when advised to do So and so went
from bad to worse. His lungs became dis
eased, a hacking, churchyard cough racked
him almost to pieces and he was fast wasting
away. A mere shadow of his former self, he
scarcely slept at all at night. or slept only to
dream horrible dreams. Talk of nightmare !
A whole circus troupe, horses ald all, seemed
to make his bed the arena of their wild per-
formances. In this case money did not make
the mare 60 for he spent deal of money on
doctors and physics and was nothing bettered
He ate little, and was fast going down TO an
untimely grave, leaving his wife widow and
his four bright children orphans, when, 10 on
one eventful night he dreamed for once a
bright and happy dream, which cur next para
graph will relate.
Death, the black-visaged monster, mad until
then stared him in the face, but the dream
brought him hope. He saw a bright, white
robed angel in his dream, who SAID, 81 come
to bring you good news. Here is your cure
sure, safe, harmless. prompt, and reliable.
Get well and seek to take health thereby to
others. Behold the cure m With these words
the angel was gone, but ere the trail of light
which followed him had vanished the dreamer
saw glittering in the light three golden letters
C. NJ. d. "WEat can it meanY he said to
himself, as he awoke from his slumber. 81
have had good many dreams before but
never such as this" Startled and surprised he
aroused his wife and to her related his vision.
Alas, she could not solve the problem. Re-
Numbering all the medical advice, and the
physlc, and the expense involved since her
husband became sick, she expressed the hope
that the letters were not intended to suggest
that Good Many Doctors must yet be con-
suited in addition to all that had been inter-
viewed. He groaned in reply and remarked
that if he had TO consult any more there would
have TO be Gold Mine Discovered in order to
pay them.
Every day for week he and his faithful
spouse searched diligently for a key to the
problem In the dictionary, in such news
papers as they happened to have, in books, in
placards on the walls-everywhere they sought
hoping to find a clue. Letters stand for
words and they hoped TO light upon the words
that should suggest the cure. They Grieved
Many Days over their lack of good luck, as
they said, and the Good Man Dreamed again
and again, but saw no more angels. Hope de-
ferred maketh the heart sick. "Oh, that the
angel had Guided Me Definitely and Given More
Directions" he exclaimed again. and again.
Nearly two weeks had elapsed since the night
Sc ~
came to the house pamphlet. Tired with his
exhausting Office work, which he still pursued,
determining if possible to die in the harness,
Jones was about to throw the pamphlet in the
fire when something prompted him to examine
it. Surely, thought he, here can be nothing
that Will Pierce this Gloom Most Distressing
or Give Me, Dlsheactened. any relief. Poor
man, he had worked letters over in his mind
and made so many combinations with them,
that they occurred IN almost every sentence he
uttered. They entered even into his prayers.
Heaven Grant Me Deliverance, he would say
nor let disease Grind Me Down. and so forth
Gd minimum, and mile Or two beyond.
Mentally tortured and suffering in every
fibre of his body, what wonder that he read
page after page of the pamphlet. 1t was a
work on diseases, and in the morbid state of
his mind its contents seemed to suit him. It
spoke of almost every disease that flesh is heir
to, but oh, JOY as he read, q Glimpse Most
reka Eureka p he cried. ''Wife. have it. I
have it,
Everybody in the house heard him cry Eure-
ka, and rushed to the room to hear what he
had found. All expected to see some Great
Miracle Done, and then came the explanation
Simple, Of course, but why had he not thought
Of it before? Oh what a revelation! Here
was hope for him and for all consumptives.
Here, hope for suffering friends and nei5hbors.
That night he scarce could sleep, but when he
did, he again saw bright vision Of golden
letters, in fact, GIittering Monogram De-
ciphered readily, and reading G. M. D.; and
again P. P. P, and yet again f. P, and one
huge P, around which these others entwined
and then w. D. NJ. A. All the letters blended,
yet each was distinct. All ne had seen in the
book all he again saw in his vision.
Dream Most Glorious. D. M. c.. NJ. D.
Again he rang the changes; backward, for
ward, every way. Gold Medal Deserved. NJ
G. D..-Misery's Great Deliverer,-tiIl time
would fail to find them all. P. P P. stood for
Perfect Peace Promised for sufferers, and sweet
release from Frustrating Purgatorial Pains
And again T. p. was Freedom Promised, and
backward 2 T. 1t became Pain Fleas. Now he
could get well, and once well he could be a
missionary, Glad Missionary Devoted to the