Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-28

age.
Poor Jack was now puzzled. He had
drawn on his imagination to the limit,
and could think OF nothing more, so
The fell back on the truth. We'll,
mother" he said, "a good many things
are extraordinary on first voyage
Perhaps the thing that struck me most
was when we ran into school OF fly
ing fish and saw them jump out of the
water and fly away like flock OF
BIRDS
The old lady threw UP her hands
in horror. Jack" she said, Il don t
want any of those sailor yarns here.
I'm surprised at your talking about
fish flying and in school, too. | can
believe the chariot wheel got caught on
the anchor, and that mountains o.
sugar and rivers of rum are found in
the West Indies. Those things stand
to reason. But to talk of fish flying is
an insult to common sense"
Truth Is stranger than felton," to
many another besides the sailors
mother To strain out the gnat and
swallow a camel is still the popular
practice. Let man come from foreign
shores with some unknown plant with
r strange sounding name and every
body will be willing to believe in the
miraculous cures attributed to the
wonderful herb.
just Suppcsing.
Suppose some explorer comes back
from the heart of the Dark Continent,
bringing a medicine composed of herbs
gathered in that far off land. He
says: 1T is really wonderful medi-
cine. I've seen people SO sick they
could hardly crawl, made strong by 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 sigh, who were coughing
away their lungs, their lips dyed red
with hemorrhages, their eyes hollow,
their cheeks blazing with the hectic of
life'S autumn have seen these peo-
pie, under the healing influence of this
medicine, come back to robust health,
6earty, hardy, men and women"
What popular clamor there would
De for such medicine were it found.
And yet there is not claim made for
this suggestions medicine that cannot
be made for DR.. Pierces Golden Medi-
can Discovery, and substantiated by
facts. There are thousands, tens of
thousands, hundreds Of thousands of
people who can testify to sick stomachs
made well, weak lungs made strong,
foul blood made pure by the use OF
Golden Medical Discovery" Yet be-
cause the medicine is on sale every
where, instead Of coming from some
remote corner of the globe, and be-
cause its merits are testified to in the
familiar speech of friends and neigh
bors, we think there is nothing won
derful about it. There's nothing Won
derful about a 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 doctors are helpless
that people learn the real value of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Some two years ago l was almost a
helpless victim to that dreaded disease
consumption" writes Mr.. Charles
? Fross, P. NJ, of Sitka, White Co., Ind
Il was confined to my room for several
months; my friends and neighbors had
given up all hope of my recovery, I'M
til one day friend advised me to take
DR.. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery,
and after | had taken the contents of
the second bottle | began to improve.
After taking six bottles l was, 1 hon
estly believe. delivered from the grave
and entirely cured. I am now a strong
and hearty man"
The direct claim that DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery cures con-
sumption is never made, because con-
sumption has many stages, and in the