The Arizona sentinel., 1899-07-01

Deaming eyes, erect ngure ana elaSt1C step. Health seemed to radiate from her with every movement. For the first time since her visit the interest of her guest seemed aroused, and as she turped her head to watch the retreatjng, figure, she cried in tones that came from the heart "Oh! What would not give to be like that woman. To have such a complexion such brightness, such energy"
 "Well, :" said her companion, You can have all that if you want 1t q" If want it! Why health is the fondest wish of my life. don't live now. I only exist. But what do you fnean by saying can be like that hearty, healthy, vigorous woman7 It is impossible. She has something to draw on; 1; stamina, constitution, something that am utterly deficient in. How I wish were as she is." My dear" said her friend, eff
 But to wish more virtue is to gain,'
 your wish has carried you one step toward the goal of health. But wishing must give place to willing before you can move far ther. My father had clerk who was a poor penman. One morning the mail bfS,,srt;t lette-- written in the most per feet commercial hand. Tie said to my father, '" How wish could write like that. I'd give hundred dollars to be able to do it" "You can do it." was the answer "but not by wishing. You must will to do it and work to do it. Take this letter, copy it as fairly as you can once every day for three months. At the end of that time you will be as perfect a pen man as the man who wrote this letter." And he was. Now let me tell you
 Z THAT WoMAN's STORY.
 She had three children in the first three years of her married life, and at the end of that time she was nothing but a wreck She had severe trouble with the womb, soI, 1.a,- I,A~ shattered, she lost flesh, her rounded checks fell in, her eye grew dull, she could barely drag herself about And how did she recover7" the guest broke in eagerly " Did you ever hear of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discov- cry? Why, they are patent medicines, aren't they?" was the reply of the visitor. "Of course they are, " was the response.
 Do you know of anything of great public utility that is not patented?"
 You came here in patented Pullman Car. You sit i'll a patent rocker. You wear patent safety hook, see, to hold up your dress, and yet object to patent medicine. In everything else patent is an honor. It puts the government back of the thing patented. It guarantees the public protection from fraudulent imitation ernment patent be veritable badge of honor to medicine? It really is. A patent is really cfown 6 nerlr winch the gov ernment awards to the skill, patience, labor and thought that enrich the world with a new commodity or new device. Every patent medicine begius YitA formula that is common property. It is the Skill to ecfn- bine, the discovery of one more needed ingredient, the exact relation of the remedy to the needs of the body that lifts it out of the common formula and gives it a claim f0 be hOuOred bV a Datent D
 But do you really mean to say that Dr. Pierce's medicines made her
 A PERFECTLY WELL WOMAN"
 "I mean to say just that" was the answer She had tried everything. Her local doctors had experimented with her She was broken in health and bankrupt in hope. Then, when calling on friend, she happened to pick up copy of Dr~Pierce's great medical book, the Common Sense Medical Adviser" Turning over the pages idly she read passages that impressed her with the practical common sense of the views advanced. She discovered that she had been at war with nature and must be reconciled. But not to prolong the story, it led to her taking Dr. Pierce's Fa- vorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery, and the result is what you see."