The Arizona sentinel., 1899-04-15

beamlug eyes, erect figure and elastic step. Health seemed to Iadiate 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 TetreatiDg, figure, she cried in tones that came from the heart "Ohi 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 {" eff want 1t Why, health is the fondest wish of my life. l don't live now. l only exist But what do you mean by saying I can be like that hearty, healthy, vigorous woman? It is impossible. She has something to draw on i; utterly deficient in How I wish I were as she is" My dear" said her friend, if
 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 vii. Hg before you can move far ther. My father had a clerk who was poor penman. One morning the mail brought a letter, written i'll the most per feet commercial hand. The clerk said to my father, " How wish I 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 IL. letter, copy Ii as fairly as you can once every day for three months. At the end of that time you will be as perfect pen man as the man who wrote this letter" And he was. Now let rie tell you
 THAT woMAN's STORY.
 She had th-ee children ill the first three years of her married life, and at tue end of that time she was nothing but a wreck She had severe trouble with the womb which caused her agony, her nerves were shattered, she lost flesh, her rounded cheeks fell in, her eye grew dull, she could barely drag herself about. e And how did she recover?" the guest broke in eagerly. ' Did you ever hear of Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discov- cry v Why, they are patent medicines. aren't they? was the reply of the visitor ' Or course they are, '' was the response.
 Do you know of anything of great public utility that is not patented :"
 You came here in a patented Pullman Car. You sit in Q patent rocker. You wear patent safety hook, I see, 10 hold up your dress, and yet object to patent medicine. In everything else a patent is an honor. It puts the government back of the thing patented. It guarantees the public prctection from fraudulent imitation Of valuable articles. Why should not a gov ernment patent be a veritable badge of honor to Q medicine? IL really is A patent is really a crown of merit which the gov eminent awards to the skill patience, labor and thought that enrich the world with a new commodity or a new device. Every patent medicine begins with formula that Is common property. It is the skill to com bire, the discovery of one more needed theseSart relation of the remedy to the needs ofsthe body that lifts 1t out of Lhe C0nimon f6rIiula and gives it claim to De hOuored by patent' -''-' ~
 " But do yOu really mean to say tfIat. Dr PieIce's medicines made her
 A PERFECTLY WELL WOMAN
 1T mean to say just that" was the answer. Sue had tried everything. Her ocal doctors had experiIreuted witii her. She was broken in health and bankrupt iu nope. Then, when calling on 8 friend, she happened to pick lip copy of Dr. Pierce's great medical book, the Common Sense Medical Adviser" Turning over the pages dly sue read passages that impressed her with the pra -tical common sense of the views advanced. She discovered that she lad been at var with nature and must be econciled But not to prolore the tory, it led to her taking Dr Pierce's Fa- yorite Prescription ard Golden Medical Discovery, and the result is what yen see."