The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
MANLY STRENGTH.
Facts That Thrill and Words
That Burn.
\ VAST AUDIENCE IN MUSIC
HALL.
More Interested Gathering
Never Assembled.
A SPLENDID PRIVATE LECTURE AND
ADVICE TO MEN.
Things all Men should Know, But Too
Often DO Not.
A SPLENDID PRIVATE LECTURE AND
ADVICE TO MEN.
Things all Men Should Know, But Too
Often DO Not.

a watch word of faith and promise; and
/ is of incalcuable value and benefit to
thousands struggling in our land of fast
/ living, tremendous activities and ruiuous
| tension.
One has but to look about in our daily
walks, with only the eommonest oppor.
tunities for observation and an unedu.
Gated eye, to detect the hapless victims
of this high nervous pressure.
| They comprise the young, with fields
of promise before~ them rich In oppor.
tunities. They tire ere the race is run
and are unable TO stand the strain. They
include those in middle life, who have
reached the mean Of active development,
and who ought to be at their best, but
who realize their strength and courage
are slowly giving out.
They are found among those advanced
in years who should have reached the
high goal toward which they had so
long pressed, but who sigh, alas. too
late for the strength loving nature
gave, but of which they robbed them.
selves.
What pitiable objects these, that thus
mar the landscape Of our American life
Springtime without its bloom. summer
Wis wanting flower and fruit, autumn
bleak and bare before its frosts.
Many causes are capable of creating
this condition OF
Nervous and Physical Prostration:
many easily understood and appreciated.
but the most dangerous and destructive
are those insidious and concealed sources
which are so characteristic of modern
social life that they almost seem an in.
eident of our civilization. From the
overtasked child at school to the tllete
and languid man Of advanced leisure,
samples multiply on every hand.
How does this terrible affection be
gin?
Above, beneath. beyond all else,
NERVOUSNESS nervous Weakness--that
state when one seeks solitude, when we
find companonship irksome, when we
wish to be alone, when we lose retentiVe
faculties and 1t becomes impossible to
fix the mind on any given object for any
length of time, when we experience
general languor, weakness. a dizziness
of sensations, dizziness, dimness of
sight, loss of memory, a gloomy and
depressed condition of mind, headache
and faintness. We blush at the slight
est cause, are timid, feel our nervous
force give way, are sleepless, have no
confidence, despair, want ambition,
suffer days of aimless unrest and nights
of unrcfreshing wakefulness, a disagree
able taste that destroys the appetite.
Then comes restlessness without ac-
tivity; tremulous voice in excitement,
irritabillty at the least provocation,
dull cloudy lack of sensations. a dsa
greeabe feeling we cannot explain,
affecting the head and eyes, and CON
n ian pf mind A
times we realize weakness in the back
and paIpiton of the heart, attended
with pain and discomfort. We have no
force, no energy, no ambition. Hope
and strength flee away Life is a burden
and sorrow. Suicide sometimes fol.
lows on the heels of despair
What is Its meaning?
Nothing less han that the unhappy
victim is suffering from nervous debility
and that weakness will, unless checked,
eventuate in complete nervous prostra-
tion--in physical and mental wreck.
The ineventual consequences of "a condi
ton like this are most fearful. No lqn-
guage of tongue or pen can adequately
describe them. All hope fades unless
recovery is made possible. Unless the
destructive forces can be met and van
pushed, the sun of Austerlitz must go
down in the night of Waterloo.
But what is the cure?
What will bring health?
No man among all the learned aud
skillful of the medical discoveries and
inventors has done so much in this
great work for humanity in behalf of
these suffering patients, AS has DIR.
Greene of "a Temple Place, Boston,
Mass. Early in his extensive practice
he realized the vast and important need
of more thorough knowledge in this
branch of medical science, and some
sure and reliable remedies tor this class
of patients, and while others failed he
found success; while others CROPPED
blindly in old and beaten paths, he blaz-
ed a new way and came to the sunny
opening. Through hidden recesses, in
out-of the way places, in field and lab
oratory, by search aud invention,
with patience that never tired and
courage that did not falter, he worked
out the glorious results which have
given him his great fame, and humanity
a cure for this most fearful affection.
His success has far exceeded his fohd-
EST antieipalions.
In the vegetable kingdom, wherein
Divinity has planted healing plants for
all the ills Of the flesh, he found the
things that he needed, and SO skilfully
has h compounded them that wonder
full and complete cure has been supplied
Tor this terrible weakness. thus is he
able to restore to the afflicted this lost
vitality, in every case, however difficult,
or long standing
SO unusual has been his success in
chronic instances that the Doctor feels.
and has the right to feel, his wonderful
remedies are invincible and equal to any
emergency. They never fail.
Thousands. out of whose lives all hope
had wel-nigh faded, now rejoice in
restored health and in renewed happi.
ness-old energy revived, ambiti in re-
turned, strength renewed and new life
gained.
Let all weak and debiltated men rouse
themselves and get well; for they can
get well. They can be Just as strong
and vigorous as at the most powerful
moment of their lives. There is cure
for this disease, so sure and certain that
it scarcely ever fails. 1t cures all
Those Dread symptoms.
perfectly and permanently. 1t is that
wonderful method of treatment which
DIR. Greene has devoted so many years
of his life to perfecting. The Doctor
has spent many years and enormous
sums of money in bringing from the
most distant parts of the world those
harmless but wonderfully Strengthening
and vitaizlng remedies, with which he
has such marvellous success i'm curing