The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-04-17

And sickness joins with poverty TO tame
Souls that might else place of pride and honor
claiml
But when had flown forth all the killing woes
That in Pandora fatal casket lay,
Lo! from its depths released, sweet Hope
arose,
IA breaks through sable clouds sun-lit rav.
| And as she rose, she sang, Mourn not for aye
some balm shall yet for all these pangs be
found.
No o., with vain show DO Nature stores display
! These trees and herbs that beautify the
ground,
Since in them Turk the charms to make your
sick ones sound!"s
To find the balm pledged in this promise dear.
Were many hearts through many ages fired
Until, TO search our country's forests here
young physician came, with soul inspired
And found at last midst secret shades retired,
The herbs and roots that had neglected
And nurtured in their veins the boon desired,
While DER them many summers moon had
shone
And many wiutry snow those treasures had
bcstrown.
Long used to ponder DER the ills of Man,
What rapture now in Pierce's bosom rose!
For he had marked the source from whence
began
The worst and deadliest of our podv's woes.
Anatomy's keen knife did well disclose
What organ, from its duty warped away,
Becomes the spring from which envenomed
The principle OF sickness and decay.
Though by thousand names its work VIC may
portray
The Liver, formed to keep Life's ruby tide
Cleansed OF each faint and play a guardians
part
BY drawing each corrupting germ aside
Was now compelled. 10y fell Disease art.
To Irovc IA traitor. and upon the heart
And painting lungs, poisoned stream TO pour,
N T1f1fI mn a orb
And fatal stings Of many an ailment more
Thus bidding countless homes their slaughtered
hopes dep,orel
Thence come the wasted form, the sallow
check,
The embittered tongue and often aching head.
And hence the livid face, with hectic streak
Displayed "a Natures danger-sgnal red
Hence, over many an else fair visage spread
UnsiRhtly blotches and eruptions vile,
Or hideous Scrofula does horror shed,
Killing Loves glow, and freezing Friendships
smile.
Or the scorchod heart consumes with black and
burning bile!
At once Pierce in his blest Discovery saw
That which the very root Of all should find,
And, by the workings OF unerring law,
Drive out the toe that thus life undermined
And with benignant torc,, and wisdom kind,
The shattered handspring Of our frames
That Bile no longer, like giant blind,
Might mischief work, but his true part should
To make this mortal mould strong, vigorous
and fair.
This remedy our trembling hearts shall arm
Against Malara's hend, though wide his reign,
For small would be his power to work us harm
Did not some drops of poison In each vein,
Traitors In our own citadel, remain.
Pure blood and heathful bile shall interpose
Celestial shields, while on our brows in vain
His foetid breath the marsh bred demon blow 9,
For these have proved his most victorious toes
Here rescue comes TO those whose bodies thrill
Beneath the Ague's keen consuming touch,
While scorchng fever aud congealng chill
Alternate wiring the victim In their clutch.
The healing aid, so often sought for such,
Is here at last, and, by our swamps and
streams
Rest comes for those who have endured so
much,
And for their fitful sleep, with hideous
dreams,
Shall slumbers sweet prevail, till break each
mornings beamsl
Thus do we foil Consumption's slow advance,
That DER Columbia stalks, with stern control,
For oft the ills we've touched, with speedy
Conclude in His. their dark and fatal goal.
And with most JOY IL shone on Pierec's soul
That here he smote his country's chiefest foe
And queled that malady that OF the whole
Dark hist did darkest it, death record show
Hydra, all whose heads he Topped at one brave
blowi
NOW, then, inc neW-fOund remedy 10 name:
Perhaps the choice, at first, perplexing
seemed
To the discoveries brain, till like a flame
The Golden Medical Discovery beamed
Before his vision. and worthy deemed
TO herald TO mankind that precious need
That should DER Otner potions be esteemed
As gold DER baser ores, and was decreed,
BY bringing health and strength, To make men
rich, indeedl
Mark, upon shakspeare's page, how wild Mac
beth
Tells us, in phrase not oft well understood
His silver skin laced with mis- golden blood"
And richer far is lfto's all-precious blood,
When by yon great Discovery purified.
Than the bright metal fortunes folded bud),
That sought 80 often, by mountain, vale or
tide.
Doth In auriferous veins OF California hidel
But. oh. delay not to ward or the shaft
Until mortal wound has pierced you
through
Now let the healing antldote be quafed.
Fer venom can its work completely do
ION Hover whose withered petals now bestrow
The earth shall soon, from Springs exhaust
less store.
But Mans frail organs, when destroyed, no
more
Can genial suns revive, or earthly skill restored
Woman no longer PLAYS Pandora's part,
Gazing with cold and curious smile to sec
The unshared evils that affict Mans heart.
Alasl earth's greatest sufferer Is she,
The guiltlcss prey of wasting agony,
Her path ocsct with countless springs Of pain.