Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1895-11-15

there is throbbing life beneath the
dainty glove, and after again hearing
her own name spoken in the ever IA
mlllar voice, that this strange sensa-
tion vanishes.
THE STRANGE MEETING.
The meeting of the two women
whose pictures are here given, shows
that everyday life furnishes expert
ences as thrilling as those that come
to us only in our 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 sex
alone.
From living picture she became, in
less than year, a wreck of human
wretchedness. From dependency to
despair seemed but the remaining step,
the last step.
HER LAST FAREWELL
Overcome by the presentiment that
precedes lingering death, she asked
to be removed to her old home in the
west, and spoke what to all seemed to
be her last farewell. In the very paper
that chronicled her departure the
doomed invalid found letters written
by Mrs Belle Dement,, of Iroquois, H.,
Mrs. Minnie Smith, of Lowell. Oregon,
and others. Some of these letters are
ynYi pf nd hal IL !
had been found for cases like her own
shattered health that had almost
sapped life away. With no more hope
than that which prompts the drowning
man to catch at a straw-for she firmly
believed herself incurable, just as tens
OF thousands of women believe them
selves incura ble-she followed the
advice contained in these letters. The
result is best told in the wonan's own
words. ''In less than five months
she writes, 81 returned to my friends
in the east, as well and strong in body
and mind and as happy and free from
pain as any woman in the world. |
had gained nearly thirty pounds In
weight and was SO changed in face and
form that when one of my dearest
friends met me in broad daylight she
SHE BELIEVED ME DEAD"
She adds: II owe my whole life and |
happiness to Doctor Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, which cured me after !
doctors, travel. baths, massage, cleo
tricity, had failed to even BENEFIr!"
This woman's case remarlza BILE as it
may seem, is not an exceptional one.
Thousands and thousands of Just such
cures have been made in every state by
this same special remedy for womens
peculiar disorders and diseases. This
remedy is not recon-
mended as "cure-all," but as a most
perfect specific for women's peculiar
ailments. As
POWERFUL. INvIGoRATING TONIC,
It imparts strength to the whole system
and to the organs distinctly feminine
out" rundown, 'debilitated teachers,
nilliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
shop girls" housekeepers, nursing
mothers, and feeble women generally,
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
he greatest earthly boon, being un-
,qualed as an appetizing cordial and
tonic. Asa
SOOTHING NERvINE,
'Favorite Prescription" is unequaled
n subduing nervous eXcita bility, irri-
ability, nervous exhaustion, nervous
neuralgia, hysteria, spasms,
horea, or St Vitus's dance, and other
distressing, nervous symptoms, com.
monty attendant upon functional and
rganic disease of the generative or
ans of women. 1t induces refreshing
leep and relieves mental anxiety and
In complicated cases. or when the
idneys or liver are effected, or the
lood impure, DIR. Pierces Golden Med
cal Discovery should be taken con-
ointly with the use of the ''Favorite
description" according to directions,
round each bottle.
A GREAT BOOK FEE
When DR.. Pierce published the first
jition of his work, The Peoples Com :
mon Sense Medical Adj ,
-1 wiser, he announced
<@8%NI hat after $50, O0) cop :
!: !: !. !:
les had been sold at |
saap ana, the regular price. 81. so
s.t SO per copy, the profit on C
snSd NJ which would repay 6
snn y. him for the great /
~ 'Qu~ mount of labor and n
hhus - money expended in =
q, w. producing it, he would
6k3$ssA distribute the next !.
- half million FREE. AS II
lis number OF copies has already been a
Ia, he is now distributing, ABSOLUTELY r.