The herald., 1898-03-27

cars came up, ana then, as X with common
impulse. every child leaped to the ground
and began race with the train. The race
was of short duration. AS the machine
left the painting little runners behind, this
gray-hairea onooker, smilingly sadly, re-
marked:
Young America all over. Nothing too
swift. for them to race against" Yes,
you couldn't find a filter exempl.ficat.on
of the familiar saying, The child is the
father of the man. than in that group of
children racing against the train. It's but
a preliminary heat of the great race their
parents are engaged in. AS a physician,
l realize as perhaps you do not" he con-
tinued, 1.-The erroneous change that fifty
years have made in our national life. Peo-
pie point back to grandmothers and great
grandmothers and say
LOOK AT THEM!
Compare them with the women of today!
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 cordiais and dependl on choral for
sleep. They were a different race from
the bloodess, dragged out narcoiic-and-
stimulant-using women Of today. Now
that's all true in general, and yet it misses
the main point by falling to consider the
vast difference In the conditions under
which life is being lived by the man and
woman of today. Our ancestry sauntered
through life.
Far from the maddng crowds ignoble
strife
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool, sequestered vale OF lie
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 a race daily against cleo
tric!ty and all the modern appliances for
speed. Is It any wonder men and women
take TO stimulants and narcotics? 1t isn't
derravity. 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 strain
ing point all the time, and the nerves
won; stand the daily strains and drains
without protest. They call the efferves-
cent bravery of the man in liquor Dutch
courage You might as well name the
effervescent strength gained by stimu
lants Dutch strength 1t is not strength
at all"
There is a ton Of solid fact to reflect or,
suggested by the statement just quoted
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. It's as impossible
INN nc IN
hatch a turtle dove from the egg of a mud
turtle. Strength of body depends on a
pure and plentiful blood current, for SCI
ence has never advanced a fact be-
yond the statement OF Moses that "1'he
Blood is The Life" But every generation
of investigation shows the statement to be
true 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 tant in the
blood has an echo in salacious speech, a
shadow in corrupt conduct. Side by side
with physical break-downs We see the
moral break-downs; defaulting cashiers,
dishonest 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 mora from the physical. Inere is no
special 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 de-
structon. 1t is easy to understand In the
light of these facts the reason for the enor-
nous percentage of cures effected by DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1t be-
gins at the beginning with the blood. II
cures practically a wide range of diseases
because many forms of disease have their
origin in the blood. Ii is a scientific COM
pound, based, not upon theory. but upon tho
practical, common sense proof that IL you
purify, enrich and vitaize the blood you
overcome disease in any organ. The
Golden Medical Discovery heals disease
in just this way. II begins. first of all. to
strengthen the body through the blood,
and every ounce of new blood and pure
blood counts against disease. It's like the
case of a beggar who may be the prey
of parasites. 1t IS no good 10 attack the
vermin until you have cleansedl their vic
tim. Make him clean and the parasites
leave him. So disease germs cannot stay