The Portland daily press., 1899-12-23

she was drifting, drifting. drifting! Save
me y she cried, save me " as the old
man came to the waters edge. The griz-
zled mariner raised his hand to the side
of his mouth and cried hoarsely, Walk
ashore
That's all there was OF it. She was still
in shoal water. All she needed was tho
timely word Of instruction and advice.
But suppose II had not comet Suppose
she had not needed it, Was there no
danger? The open sea, frail raft and
Trailer woman
The woman on the raft is type of hun
dreds of thousands of her sex who are
drifting into danger Up TO definite day,
they have been enjoying life In perfect
security Then, in a moment, sense OF
impending danger comes. They are at the
mercy of disease. Every day increases the
danger. They are drifting, drifting, Drift
ing Then comes the cry for help. To
thousands of appeals there has come the
answer from DR.. X. V. Pierce, chief con.
sulting physician 10 the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, ~ Y,
WALK ASHORE WALK AsHoREll
You are still in the shallow waters of
disease. You can still get back without
more than Inconvenience TO the land of
health behind you. All you need is just
the right word of advice and common
sense Instruction in time, and the grip of
helping hand. That is just what Dr. Pierce
offers to every one suffering from disease !;
timely, health festoring, life saving advice,
practical help. It requires some confidence
to take advice when your own senses arc
against it, The woman on the raft could
not see the bottom of the folly water and
the land looked SO far away So the woman
in disease can't see how she can be cured,
aud recovery of health seems hopeless.
And, perhaps, the very disease that has
begun to threaten her is consumption, that
dreadful disease regarded by millions as
incurable. Her local doctors perhaps say,
I'VE can make your suffering little less,
but there's no hope"
Does DR.. Pierce claim to cure consump-
tion? That question isn't worth arguing
Look a! the record. Take a case in point.
Here Is a man Tor woman) with hacking
cough, a hectic flush, night-sweats, great ema-
citation or wasting OF flesh, splitting oil blood
shortness of breath and all the other symptoms
After every remedy and every local physician
has failed he as a last resort, takes /" Golden
Medical Discovery and the cough vanisnes. the
cheek gets back its natural color, sleep becomes
sound and refreshing, the splitting OF blood
stops flesh and muscles become hrm, weight
increases, and life goes along in quiet aud COM
fort to the full limit of the three score years
and ten.
that was attacking the very citadel of life and
IL was something that was cured by the use OF
DR. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery; And DR.
Pierce Is curing such something's" right along
with a record of over a quarter Of million
cases, aud no. more than three per 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, iayyngit., bronchitis, throat
disease and Kindred affections Of the air pas.
sages, which, II pegiected or badly treated lead
up to CONSUMPTION, can no longer ba doueted
in view Of the many thousandg Of well estab-
lished cures of such cases reported by the nost
trustworthy citizens. Many Of these cases have
by the best local physicians before the suffer
ers commenced the use of DR.. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery Whether the doctors have
cases o. not is not Tor Us to decide.