Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-04

of greeting, after again feeling that there :hro-
bling life beneath the dainty glove, and after again
hearing her own name spoken in the ver-famliar
voice. that this strange sensation vanishes.
THE STRANGE MEETING.
! The meeting Of the two women whose pictures
are here given shows that everyday life furnishes
| experiences thrilling those that come 10 us
| only in widest dreams. And the fact that
such meetings occur every day points moral that
every woman in the land should take to heart.
| Here was woman in the prime of life, pursued
| by that sentinel which seeks its victim, among
| her alone.
From a living picture she became, in less than
| a year. wreck of human wretchedness. From
| dependency to despair seemed but the remaining
| step-the last step.
HER LAST FAREWELL.
Overcome by tie presentiment that precedcs q
| lingering death. she asked to be removed 10 her
old bone in the west and spoke what to all seemed
| to ne her last farewell. Ii the very paper that
chroncled her departure the doomed invalid found
letters, written by Mrs. Belle Dement, of Iroauois
H.; Mrs. Minnie Smith of Lowell Oregon. and 9TH
Some of these letters are printed below They
told how cures had been found for like her
own shattered health that had almost sapped life
away. With more hope than that which prompts
the drowning man to catch at straw-for she
firmly believed herself incurable, just of
thousands of women believe themselves incur.ible-
size followed the advice contained in these letters
The result Is best told iii the womans words:
In less than five months, she writes, Il returned
to my friends in the east well and strong in
| body and mind and happy and free from pain
any woman in the world. 1 had gained nearly
thirty pounds in weight and changed in
face and form that when one of my dearest friends
met me in broad daylight she almost tainted, for
.. SHE BELIEVED ME DEAD"
She adds Il owe my whole life and happiness
to Doctor Pierce's Favoritc Prescription. which
| cured me after doctors. travel. baths, massage.
lpct hal fin ii la yen llane
This woman's ease, remarkable as it may seem,
is not an exceptional one. Thousands and thous
ands Of just such cures have been made in
every state by this special remedy
for women's peculiar disorders and Diseases This
world famed remedy is not recommended
"cure-all,' but most perfect specific for wom
ems peculiar ailments. As
POWERFUL, INvIGoRATING TONIC,
it imparts strength the whole system and the
organs distinctly feminine in particular. For over
worked wornout.' runs down." debilitntcd teach
ers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses. shop
girls housekeepers, nursing mothers and feeble
women generally Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is the greatest earthly boon being unequal ID
appetizEg cordial and invisorating tonic As
SOOTHING NEHVINE,
"Favorite Prescription" is unequaled in subduing
nervous excitability, irrtability. exhals-
ton. nervous prestrauon, neuralgia. hyste-ia,
spasms. cborea, st. Vitus' Dance and other dis
tIessing symptoms commonly Attendant
upon functional and organic disease of the general
tive organs Of women. 1t induces refreshing sleep
and relieves mental anxiety and despondency.
In complicated cases, when the kidneys or
liver are affected the blood impure, Dr. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery should be taken con-
Jointly with the use of the 'Favorte Prescription,
according to directions around each bottle.
When DIR. Pierce published the first edition Of
his great work, The Peoples Common Sense Medi-