The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-06-06
ACTIVE, EARNEST, PERSISTENT EFFORT

Energetic, persevering action is gener-
ally necessary to overcome the obstacles
and attain great and noble ends in life.
So, too, if one is afflicted with dread
disease which has fastened itself upon
some of the organs of the body and become
firmly seated as a lingering or chronic
malady, active and persistent treatment
is generally necessary to dislodge the
enemy.
Since any medical treatment, however
good it may be, must be long continued
in order to be effective in old established
and therefore obstinate cases, how i'm
portant that the remedical agencies en-
ployed be OF a harmless character. To be
safe and harmless when their use is thus
protracted, they should be of such nature
as to be easily eliminated or carried out
Of the system when they have performed
their work, just as the refuse of food is
carried out Of the system. Most mineral
medicines are not thus easily gotten rid
OF. Take arsenic, for instance, if intro
duced into the system in any considerable
quantity it will lodge in the brain, liver,
kidneys and other parts and there remain
asa foreign body to set up irritation and
disease for long period of time if death
does not sooner intervene. This is also
true Of most mineral medicines.
,. With medicines of vegetable compost
tion it is different. They do their work
NY diuluS GHe IlaGuial 1uncGiOnS OF Cno
several organs of the body for which they
have an affinity, and like the refuse of
our food, are carried out of the system
through the natural emunctorieS-the
lungs, skin, kidneys and bowels. Thus
no injury iszdone to the system in cases
where the use of such medicines is con-
tinued for a long period of time. Espe
free from alcohol. It is well known, how
ever, thateve small portions of alcohol
taken for a considerable period of time
will do serious injury to the bodily organs
and functions and especially to the brain.
How important then, in choosing a med
icine for treating malady of long stand
ing, and when medicines must, in order
to cure, be preseveringly taken for con-
siderable period of time, that those only
should be used which are k11O1U4l to be free
from alcohol and of vegetable compost
tion.
With most medicines put up for family
use and sold through druggists, their
known only to those who compound and
put them out for sale. Any afflicted
person who buys and uses then, does so,
as it were, in the dark, if not indeed at his
or her peril. They may and generally do,
contain very large percentage of alcohol
or cheap whisky which thoroughly units
them for protracted use. But this is not
the worst fault of many of them. Objec-
tionable though it is. Narcotics and
mineral poisons, which we have shown to
be so harmful, especially when used pro-
tractedly, are contained in many of these
secret compounds.
To overcome the we'll l-grounded and
reasonable objections of the more intel
ligent to the use of secret, medicinal COM
pounds DR.. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N.
Y, some time ago. decided to make bold
departure from the usual course pursued
by the makers Of put-up medicines for do
nestle use, and SO has published broad
cast and openly to the whole world, a full
and complete list of all the ingredients
entering into the composition, of his widely
celebrated medicines. Thus he has taken
his numerous patrons and patients into
his full confidence. Thus too he has re-
moved his medicines from among secret
nostrums of doubtful merits, and made
them Remedies OF, K1'o1o'. Composition.
By this bold step he has shown that his
formulas are of such excellence that he
is not afraid to subject them to the fullest
scrutiny. He has come to believe, and is
willing to concede, that his patients and
all who take his put-uD medicines have a