Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-21

a part OF this active, busyworld again
from which he has been so long shut
out. Never did the sky seem so blue,
the sun SO bright, or the world so fair
as at this moment.
That scene is rare though it has been
enacted more than once. But there is a
scene enacted every day somewhere in
this world-yes, every hour of every
day, in which some poor sufferer con-
demned to death, waits hopelessly for
execution of the sentence. There is no
gathered crowd, no public demonstra-
ton, no wide interest in this coming
death. Sometimes the scene is in the
garnet Of city house, where the sun
finds only one little window to look in
at as he passes in his daily round
There some young man waits in utter
loneliness the fatal hour. Or the scene
may be laid in g spacious chamber.
where nurses go about quietly and
anxious friends stand by to help and
comfort. Perhaps it's the father of a
family, who feels his day coming and
wonders what will become CT his babes
Or perhaps lisa poor seamstress,, who
sits and coughs, while the hectic burns
in her cheek and her breast heaves
with her convulsive breathing. Some
where, such as these, every hour of
every day, sit waiting for the sentence
of death to be carried out.
Who condemned them?
JUDGE IGNORANCE.
Judge Ignorance insists that certain
diseases are incurable, he says that the
most incurable OF these diseases affects
the lungs. And when there's cough,
hocfic nj or a.; tio,, Hood
ing at the lungs, some or all of these
conditions, then the death sentence is
pronounced
What does the jury say? Judge Ig-
norance declines jury trial. He objects
TO luries. He says juries are ignorant.
They don't know what they are talking
about. Il say" he busters, that such
things are impossible. You can't be
cured when the lungs are so affected.
and If you say you had an obstinate
cough, splitting of blood, were worn to
shadow, couldn't take nourishment
and then got we'll by the use Of DR..
Peirce's Golden Medical Discovery, all
l can say IS you are mistaken about
the disease. You couldn't get well un-
der such conditions" That's the ipse
dixit OF Judge Ignorance. But suppose
we empanel a jury, the largest Jury
ever empaneled in the worlds history.
jury OF one hundred thousand men
ana women. Every member of this
Jury has been cured of disease by Col
den Medical Discovery" under just
such conditions as Judge Ignorance
Gays are impossible. Outside our
gigantic jury box are another one hun
ured thousand men and women who
have been similarly cured by the same
medicine. And among this great throng
are thousands condemned by Judge Ig-
norance to miserable death. He said
they We're too sick to live. But here
they are very much alive. They've got
their working clothes on They've come
from the forge. the pillow, the store.
from the churn and typewriter. from
the parlor and from the Office. It's an
interesting jury. It radiates health
and happiness. The people that com
pose 1t are the backbone of citizenship:
the people who work with brain and
body, the producers, the great middle
class, of whom Longfellow's Black
smith is a splendid type, a man of
Drawn, his face tanned, his hands hard.
and with level eyes that look the
whole world in the face
Foil.ng, rejoicing sorrowing.
inward through life he goes
Each morning sees some task begun
Each evening sees its close.
something attempted. something done
Has earned nights repose''
# is that kind of man and his family
VINO make up our jury. And a poll of
that jury would bring testimonies such
as these from every member, man or
woman:
MT. Charles A. Moore. of Fivemile,
Mason Co.. w. Va. testifes: Il had
been afnicted with lung trouble for two
Years I tried al the surrounding