The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-23
THE OLD HOMESTEADS.
Historic Monuments to the Thrift of
Our Ancestors.

It is as natural for us to love the trees,
the meadows, the old homesteads, as it
is to want food and drink. Our ances-
tors built well when they erected those
old mansions, the walls of which are in
many cases as firm and good to-day as
they were one hundred and fifty years
ago. Our ancestors lived more simple
lives than we do at the present day.
They lived closer to nature. They lived
in the sunshine and out of doors. As a
rule they ate simple foods and easily di-
gested them. To-day the American peo-
pie eat fast, eat unwholesone foods and
are shut up in dark and close offices,
shops and lily ventilated rooms. Nature
provides us with all we need for life if
we only can take advantage of the good
air, sunshine and eat good fruits and
vegetables. Nature also provides the
remedy for i11-health and stomach troub-
les in its roots, herbs and barks. Some
forty years ago DR.. R. V. Pierce, now
chief of staff to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y,
found that certain herbs, roots and barks,
when made into a concentrated extract,
helped in the assimilation of the food
and purified the blood This vGo1den
Medical Discovery" of DR.. Pierce makes
pure rich blood. Every bottle bears the
stump " pNCCtC UHpyOO0b- AC ACdoOAA
many patent medicines fail in curing
disease and, eradicating poisons from the
blood is because they contain large guam
titles of alcohol. DR.. R. V. Pierce never
believed in the use of alcohol for me-
dicinal tonic, as he found it shrunk up
the red blood corpuscles, and although
it might give temporary benefit, it did
no lasting good. Any one can easily
prove that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery contains no alcohol by simple
distillation Therefore do not permit
the dealer to persuade you that he makes
something better, or knows of something
ujust as good" for it is almost certain to
contain alcohol or narcotics, and will moi
do you the lasting good which this Dis
coverN" of DR.. Pierce is sure to do
Thousands of people have given theii
testimony as to its merits, and lack Of
space only permits us to publish few Of
the many letters received every day from
those who have tested its merits. The
reason they speak so highly of It is be
cause it supplies the needed strength to
the body to throw off a cold-to prevent
catarrh, pneumonia or consumption. By
its nourishing qualities the body is filled
with renewed vitality and for the weak
eued system as a remedy for those re
covering from sickness it is the safest
tonic one can take.
vIwould be ungrateful indeed" write;
Mrs. J. M. Kizziar, of Murfreesboro, Ark.
Ushould I not do all could to assist YOU
in your great effort to relieve the suffer
ing. Nothing would give me NOR
pleasure than to be the means of help
ing some poor suffering woman t.
find relief, as 1 have done. Words fai
to express my gratitude to you and t.
the Faculty of your Institute for the re
lief from the great suffering I SO loni
endured I consider my cure almos
miraculous. Six years ago my healtl
began to fail. 1 took many differen
kinds of patent medicine, was treated