The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12


the train. It's but preliminary heat of
the great race their parents are engaged
in. AS a physician l realize as perhaps
you do not he continued, "the erroneous
change that fifty years have made in our
national life. People point back to grand
mothers and greatgrandmothers and say
LOOK AT THEM!
Compare them with the women of to-
day! How straight they were and how
strong, how hardy and how helpful they
were, how heartily they ate and how
heartily they laughed. They didn't smoke
cigarettes and sip cordialS and depend on
choral for sleep. They were a different
race from the bloodless dragged out, mar
Notwithstanding using women of to-
day. Now that's all true in general and
yet it misses the main point by falling to
consider the vast difference in the condi-
tons under which life is being lived by
the man and woman of to-day. Our an
cestry sauntered through life.
Far from the madding crowds ignoble
strife
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the even tenor of their way.
To-day as men and women, millions
of us do in earnest what those children
did in play; we run race daily against
steam, against electricity and all the mod
ern appliances for speed. Is it any Won
der men and women take to stimulantS
and narcotics? 1t isn't depravity. 1t isn't
because We are less of women or less of
men than our ancestors. It's because
We're keyed up to the straining point all
the time, and the nerves won't stand the
daily strains and drains without protest.
They call the effervescent bravery of the
man in liquor Dutch courage You might
as well name the affervescent strength
gained by stimulants Dutch strength 1t
is not strength at all"
There is a ton of solid fact TO reflect
on, suggested by the statement just quo
ted. What are we going to do? This is
the age of steam, the age of electricity.
We must keep up in
THE GREAT RACE.
But how long can we keep up when we
are depending on a false strength? No
longer, relatively, than the children kept
up their race with the train. What we
need is more Drawn and less brandy more
blood and better blood. Its as impossible
to get strength from stimulants as to
hatch a turtle dove from the egg of a
mud turtle. Strength of body depends on
a pure and plentiful blood current, for
science has never advanced a fact beyond
the statement of Moses that THE Blood
Is the Life" But every generation of in
vestigation shows the statement to be rue
in a wider deeper and broader sense Than
was dreamed Of in the past. Bad blood
means bad morals Foul blood and foul
living go together The faint in the blood
has an echo in salaeious speech a shadow
in corrupt conduct Side by side with
physical breakdowns, we see the moral
break-downs; defaulting cashiers, dislon-
est clerks. faithless husbands, false wives
1t all begins with the blood. And any hope
of reform must begin with the blood too
You can't divorce the mental and moral
bA nh Is toll
food that feeds the intellectual man, no
mama of the mind The mind is fed or
starved as the body is fed or starved. Thin
blood and weak nerves Shake the throne
of reason. Starvation of the blood and
nerves drives men and women to mental
moral and physical destruction. 1t is easy
to understand, in the light of these facts
the reason for the enormous percentage
of cures effected by Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t begins at the begin
ming with the blood. 1t cures practically a
wide range of diseases because many
forms of disease have their origin in the
blood. 1t is a scientific compound based
not upon theory, but upon the practical,
common sense proof that If you purify
enrich and vitaze the blood you over
come disease in any organ. The Golden
Medical Discovery" heals disease in Just
this way. 1t begins first of all to strength
en- the body through the blood, and every
ounce of new blood and pure blood counts
against disease. It's like the case of
beggar who may be the prey of parasites
1t is no good to attack the vermin until
you have cleansed their victim. Make him
clean and the parasites leave him. SO dis
ease germs cannot stay when the organs
they lodge in are cleansed of impurities,
when liver and lungs heart and kidneys,
are being fed every moment by pure
stream of rich blood.
This is only common sense. Few peo-