The times., 1898-07-27

who sat ST some distance on the beach
mendtng his nets. How slowly he got up.
How slowly he tramped across the sandy
shore And she was drifting drifting.
drifting. Save mel" she erred. save
mel as the old man came 10 the water >
edge. The grizzled mariner raised his
hand TO the side of his mouth and cried
hoarsely, Walk ashcrer
Walk ashore,
That's ali there was of 1t. She was still
In sheal water. All she needed was the
timely word OF instruction and advice.
But suppose it had not come? Suppose
che had not Needed It. Was there no
danger? The open sea, fran raft, and
a Trailer woman There are all the posi-
bihties of a tragedy in these Many and
many a drama of the sea mas been played
on q smaller stage.
The woman on the raft is type OF
hundreds OF thousands of her sex who are
drifting into danger. Up TO definite
day, a given hour even, they have been
ENJOYING life in perfect security. Then, in
a moment sense OF impending danger
comes Theyr realize thatsthey are at the
mercy of disease, as dangerous an enemy
to the body as the great sea and its tenn
pests are TO a raf1. Every day increases
the danger They are drifting, drifting.
drifting away frsm peace of mind and
ease of body to that Silent sea where hope
and help can never come. Then comes
the cry for help. To thousands of ap-
peals there has come the answer from
DR.. r. V. Pierce chief consulting ply
sician to the IavaIids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute. Buffalo. N. z,
WALK ASHOREi WALK ASHOREr'
You are still in the shallow waters of
disease. You can still get back without
more than inconvenience 20 the land OF
health behind you. Ali you need Is just
the right word of advice and common
sense instruction in time, and the grip Of
a helping hand. That is just what DR..
Pierce offers TO everyone suffering from
disease; timely, health restoring, lne-sav-
ing advice practical herp. II requires
some confidence to take advice when your
own senses are against 1t The woman on
the raft could not see the bottom of the
roily water and the land looked so far
away. So the woman in disease can't see
how she can be cured, and recovery of
health seems hopeless. And. perhaps, the
very disease that has begun to threaten
her is consumption. that dreadful dis
ease regarded by millions a. incurable.
Her local doctors perhaps say, I'VE can
make your suffering little less, but
there's no hope" There is hope! Who
savs so? The man who knows the whole
It described II and charted II in his great
work. the Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser. a million two hundred thousand
a. 200. .000) copies of which have been sup
piled TO American homes Tnere this Die
tionary of Disease and Herald of Health
is regarded as verftable Bible of the
Body" On what ground does he say 1t?
On the ground of a record of cures COW
ering tens of thousands of such cases.
Were they sure enough cases of con-
sumption? That's what the doctors said
and the patients said. What did DR.
Pierce say? He said they were cases OF
walk ashore" You can understand that
You can't drown in shoal water. unless
you are scared to death. It's the scare
and ignorance that speed the consumptive
IN his way. He may be IN shoal water
but he doesn't know 1t, and just gives ur
| his
GRIP ON LIFE.
When Dr. Pierce says walk ashore,
| he says it in the knowledge that those
words have been New Life to a host
doomed by fear and friends and ignoranc,
and physicians to a consumptive's grave
Does DR.. Pierce claim to cure consump
| ton? That question isn't worth arguing
Look at the record Take case in point
| Here is a man Cor woman) with hack
Ing cough, leCtlc nlSHI-SWedtS
great emaciation or wasting of flesh, spit
| ting OF blood shoFtness of breath and al
the other symptoms. After every remed,
| and every local physician has failed he
! as a last resort, takes Golden Medica
Discovery and the cough vanishes, tn,
! cheek gets back its natural color, sleeJ
| becomes sound and refreshing, the spit
| ting of blood stops, flesh and muscles be
| come firm, weight increases, and life goe
along in quiet and comfort to the full
| limit of three score years and ten.
But may be it wasn't consumption afte
all? May be II wasn't. You know i
| was something that was attacking TIL
very citadel of life, and it was somethin,
| that was cured by the use of DR.. Pierce
| Golden Medical Discovery. And DR.
| Pierce is curing such ''somthings'' righ
along with a record Of over a quarter o
| a million cases. and not more than pc
cent of failures.
| One fact, at least, is well established
That the Golden Medical Discovery
| does cure weak lungs. bleeding from
| lungs, obstinate, lingering coughs, laryn
| gifts. bronchitis, throat disease. and kin
| dred affections of the air passages, which
| IL neglected OF badly treated, lead up t
| consumption, can no longer be doubte
| In view of the many thousands of wei
established cures sof such cases reporte
| by the most Trustworthy citizens. Man
| of these cases have been pronounced con
| sump;ion--and incnra hle-by the best loca
| physicians before the sufferers com
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