The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-31

it: Martin Chauzzlewit has just landed.
He has presented his credentials and
met several prominent citizens In
company with two of these he is leis-
urely walking down the street, engaged
in conversation. Suddenly the clang-
ing of hell is heard and the CStlnlable
citizens start off at break-neck speed in
the direction of the sound. Other re0-
pie are seen running in the same direc-
ton, Martin conjectureS that it is a fire,
and quickens his steps. Around the
corner he comes on Il brawny negro,
ringing Il hell with great industry and
sees a struggling crowd fighting their
was through IA narrow door eager to
reach the dinner-table. Martin finds,
by the courtesy of the colonel, Il seat
turned down for him and he watches
the scene in amazemen;. Everybody
scrambling boiling and gulping as If
life depended on swallowing all the
food possible in the most indigestible
condition.
THE poultry flew as rapidly as if
every bird had the use of its wings and
had flown in desperation down Il human
throat. The oysters slid by scores into
the mouths of the assembly. The
sharpest pickles vanished like sugar
plums. Great heaps of indigeStible mat
ter melted away as ice before the
sun. 1t was Il solemn and awful thing
to see dyspeptic individuals boiling food
ia wedges; feeding not themselves but
a brood of nightmares Spare men
with lank and rigid checks came out
unsatisfcd from the destruction OF heavy
dishes and glared with watchful eyes
upon the pastry
OF course this is caricature. But it
is caricature which inpresses on us
that we eat too much and too rapidly.
That we eat without any regard to the
fitness of our food for the nourishment
of the body. That we overload the
stomach crush the digestive and nutri-
tive organs under a burden they cannot
carry, and recruit the ranks of that
great army of men and women who are
victims of stomach trouble" The
sanitariums are full of such people. The
springs and baths i'll this country and
Europe are largely supported by them.
They are tormented day and night
and are constant victims of quackery
in their struggle to escape their tor
ment America is known today as Il
dyspeptic nation. If it be true, as cruSty
old DR.. Abernethy used to say, that
the first place to look for the cause of
disease under ordinary conditions is
in the stomach. how much more true
must that statement be under the eX-
tr2ordinary conditions when Il man
abuses his stomach as he would not
abuse a beast of burden, when he
scalds it at one moment and freezes 1t
the next, stuffs it and starves if at the
same time, irrtates it with condiments,
slrices it with all kinds of fluids and
loads it with substances of as little food
value as wood pulp:
That is the actual condition of things
which DR.. Pierce undertook to cope
with when he prepared his Golden
stomach and organs of digestion and
nutrition. The theory that diseases
which originate in the stomach must be
cured through the stomach" was the
theory on which DR.. Pierce
worked, and in a practice of more than
thirty years, cures of disease in heart,
head, lungs, liver, nerves and other or
gans. by the cure of the diseased c0ndi-
ton of the digestive and nutrtive sys-
tenn. have abundantly demonstrated the
soundness of the Doctors theory and
the perfection of the remedy he prepared
to meet the required conditions. These
cures can be numbered by hundreds %
thousands and the benefciaries of DR..
Pierce's skill are found i'll every walk of
life
As an Illustration of these statements
and claims, take the case Of Mr.. John
J.. Coughenour, of Glensavage, Somer-