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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-15
Natural Religion -

A friend named Blake, living in
Chicago, says Bob Burdette, has sent
me a letter on Natural Religion It
is a good letter, but I don't think I
care to order any Natural Religion
just now. I fact, | have quite a large
stock of it on hand that I would be
glad to get rid Of on any terms, if I
knew what to do with it. ] kind of
hate to give it to the purchaser. 1t
never did me any good, and can't
guarantee it as an article that ought to
be kept in every household. 'tNatur-
al Religion gets into the market early
and holds on long. have seen babies
in full possession Of it, rending their
playthings to rags, kicking and yelling
with infantile rage as though poss essed
of many devils, bowling for pure
.cussedness'' long, long before they
were able to lisp prayer. / have
seen little children in full possession
of Natural Religion" learning to lie,
to deceive, to steal, i'll natured, vain,
overbearing, treacherous, bad in
score of ways, and bad in spite of
teaching and training, just naturally
bad. have seen the guileless savage
OF the plains, with never a college or
theological seminary in all his tribe,
SO full of Natural Religion that he
couldn't get scalps enough to satisfy
the unspoiled cravings of the natural
man. nor drunk enough to celebrate
his triumph when the last prisoner was
finally carved up into small fragments.
Stanley tells US that he finds plenty of
Natural Religion all through Cen
trail Africa, where the hungry heather,
growing up far beyond the warping
superstition Of the church and the
seminary, loves his missionary rare
and without gravy, and takes his ma
tive ''licker'' straight from the was
sail bowl of his enemy's skull. You
can find it in the slums of New York,
and Brother Blake can run across acres
of it in the '.Black Hole'' of Chicago.
No trouble to find Natural Religion"
in this world; there's plenty of it. But
somehow, the more one sees of it the
less he wants it. Takes q power Of
grating to make a crab apple fit for
dessert.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-15

Dr.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
legitimate medicine, not beverage; care
fully compounded by an experienced ply
organization. It is purely vegetable in
composition and perfectly harmless in any
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alcohol to inebriate; no syrup or sugar
to ferment in the stomach and derange
digestion.
As an inyigorating tonic, it imparts
worked, WORKOUT" " rundown" debili-
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stresses, " shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing
mothers, and feeble women generally, DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest
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As a soothing and strengthening nervine,
"Favorite Prescription" is unequaled and
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-15
A Correct Diagnosis.

1t is told of a Pittsburg doctor, who
says he can diagnose ailments by exam
lining a single hair of the patient, that
two young men, as a joke, took him a
hair from a bay horse. The doctor
wrote prescription, and said his fee
was $25. as the case was precarious.
They were staggered, but paid the fee,
and after they got out laughed all the
way to the apothecary's. The latter
took the prescription and read in
amazement: One bushel of oats, four
quarts of water, stir well and give
three times aday. and turn the animals
out to grass!' Then the jokers stopped
laughing.