The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-13

"T don't see anything remarkable
about these things Jack" said the old
lady. I'VE all know that the sugar
and rum come from the indies, and
land knows there must be mountains
of sugar and rum to keep up the sup
ply all these years" Tell me Of some
strange and extraordinary thing you
saw on your voyage"
Poor Jack was now puzzled. TTe had
drawn on his imagination to the limit,
and could think of nothing more. so
he fell back on the truth, We'll,
mother" ne said, "a good many things
are extraordinary on a first voyage.
Perhaps the thing that struck me most
was when we ran into a school of NY
ing fish and saw them jump out of the
water and fly away like flock of
I.birds."
The old lady threw up her hands in
horror Jack" she said, II don't want
| any of those sailor yarns here. I'm
surprised at your talking about fish
! flying and in school too. I can be-
| lieve the chariot wheel got caught on
| the anchor and thai mountains Of
| sugar and rivers of rum are found
| in the West Indies. Those things stand
to reason. Put to talk of fish flying
| is an insult to common sense"
! Truth is stranger than fiction" to
| many another besides the sailors
mother TO strain at the gnat and
| swallow a camel" is still the popular
| practice. Let a Tan come from for
! eign shores, with some unknown plant
with a strange sounding name and
! everybody will be willing to believe in
| the miraculous cures attributed to the
wonderful herb.
JUST SUPPOSING.
Suppose some explorer comes back
from the heart of the Dark Continent,
! bringing a medicine composed OF herbs
gathered i'm that far off land. lie says:
1T is a really wonderful medicine. I've
seen people so sick they could hardly
| crawl, made strong hy it. I've seen
Gaunt attenuated frames round out
with healthy flesh and strong muscles
by the use of it, I've seen men and
. women whose every breath was a sigh,
who were coughing away their lungs
their lips dyed red with hemorrhages
their eys hollow. their cheeks blazing
with the hectic of lfe's autumn have
| seen these people under the healing in
nunce of this medicine, come back t.
robust hath, hearty, hardy men and
| wCmon."
What a popular ClamOr there would
be for such a medicine were it founc
| And yet there is not claim made fol
this suppOsitiUus medicine that cannot
| he made for Dr Piercc's Golden Medi,
i cal Discovery, and substantiated by
facts. There are thousands, tons OF
thousands, hundreds of thousands OF
people wrD can testify to sick slOmachs
! made well weak lungs made strong
foul blood made pure by the use ol
Golden Medical Discovery" Yet. be,
cause the medicine is on sale every.
| wherc, instead of coming from some
remote corner Of the globe, and becaus,
its merits are testified 20 I'm the familiar
speech of friends and neighbors, We
think there is nothing wonderful about
It, There's nothing wonderful about q
medicine which has cured Mrs. Brown
or Mr.. Smith But if the claim is
made Of a cure of
THE AKOOND OF SWAT,
people talk OF the miraculous medicine
that did it, It's only when the disease
is desperate, and the doctors are help.
less tha- people learn the real value
of Dr., Piercc's Golden Medical Dis.
coyery.
Some two years ago | was almost g
helpless victim to that dread disease
consumption" writes Mr.. Charle.
F'ross, p. NJ, Of Sitka. White county
Ind II was confined 10 my room fOl
several months; my friends and neigh
bOrs had given up all hope OF my re-
covery. until one day a friend advised
me to take DR.. Pierce's Golden Medica
Discovery, and after I had taken tn,
contents of the second bottle I begaI
to improve After taking six bottles
was honestly believe, delivered from
the grave and entirely cured. | an
nuow a strong and hearty man"
The direct claim that DIR. PierCei
Golden Medical Discovery cures con
sumption is never made because con
sumption has many stages, and la tn,
later stages Of the disease a cure CaI
rarely be expected, Hut it is neyerthe
less fact, that Golden Medical Dis
lcovery" has cured, time and again, il