The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-21

He has prepared himself for the fate
from which there seemed no escape,
and now he is to live, to be part of
this active, busy world 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
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
garret of a 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 a spacious chamber,
where nurses go about quietly and anx-
ious friends stand by to help and COM
fort. Perhaps it's the father of a fam
lily, who feels his day coming and Won
ders what will become of his babes.
Or perhaps it's a 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.
IT,,
diseases are incurable, he says that
the most incurable of these diseases
affect the lungs. And when there's
cough, hectic, night-sweats, emaciation.
bleeding at the lungs, some or all Of
these conditions, then the death sem
tence is pronounced.
What does the jury say? Judge
Ignorance declines a jury trial. He
objects to juries. He says iuries 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 a shadow, couldn't take nour-
ishment and then got well by the use
of DR.. Plerce's Golden Medical DiscOv-
cry, all l can say is you are mistaken
about the disease. You couldn't get
we'll under such conditions" That's the
ipse diXit of Judge Ignorance. But sup
pose we empanel a jury, the largest
jury ever empaneled in the world S
history, jury of one hundred thousand
men and women. Every member of
this jury has been cured Of disease by
Golden Medical Discovery under
just such conditions as Judge Ignorance
says are impossible outside our gigan-
tic jury box are another hundred thou
sand men and women who have been
similarly cured by the same medicine.
And among this great throng are thou
! sands condemned by Judge Ignorance
| to miserable death. lie said they
were 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 plow, 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 compose it are the
| backbone OF citizenship; the people
who work with brain and body, the pro-
| ducers. the great middle class, of whom
| Longfellow's Blacksmith is the splendid
type, a man of Drawn, his face tanned
| his hands hard,and with level eyes that
| look the whole world in the face"
! "Toiling. rcpoicing, sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes
| Each morning sees some task begun
| Each evening sees it's close.
Something attempted, something done
Has earned a nights repose"
II is that kind of man and his family
who make up our jury. And a poll OF
that jury would bring testimonies such
as these from every member, man OF
| woman:
Mr.. Charles A. Moore, OF Fivemile
Mason Co, w. Va, testifies 81 haC
been afflicted with lung trouble for tive
years. / tried all the surrounding ply
sicians but they did no good. After q