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BROKEN VOWS.
Pledges That Had Bettor Not
Been Made.
Others Which Should Not Have llccn
Fulfilled—Tlie Marriage Contract Itr
garded With Too I.ittle Seriousness
Coquetry and Flirtation the Great
Cause of Many Sorrows.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, I). D., preached
the third of his scries of “Sermons to
Women” last Sunday in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle. Bis subject was “Broken
Promises of Marriage,” and his text from
Judges xi, 35: “1 have opened my mouth
unto the Lord, and I can not go back.” He
said:
General Jephthah, the Commander-in-
Chief of the Israelitish forces, is buckling
on the sword for the extermination of the
pestiferous Ammonites, and looking up to
the sky he promises that if God
will give him the victory he
will put to death and sacrifice as a
burnt offering the first thing that comes
out from the door of his homestead when
he goes back. The hurrahing of triumph
soon runs along the lino of all the com
panies, regiments and divisions of Jcph
thah’s army. A worse beaten enemy than
those Ammonites never strewed any plain
with their carcasses. General Jephthah,
fresh from his victory is now on his way
home. As be comes over the hills and
through the valleys the whole march home
ward for his men is a cheer, hut for biin a
great anxiety, for he remembers his vow
to slay and burn the first thing that comes
forth from his house to greet him alter his
victory.
Perhaps it may be the old watch-dog
that shall first come out, and who could
get heart to beat out the life of a faithful
creature like that as he comes fawning
and barking and frisking and putting up
his paw against his master in merry wel
come after long absence! No; it was not
that which came forth to meet Jephthah.
Perhaps it may be a young dove let out
from its cage in the General’s home,
which, gaining its liberty, may seem
to rejoico in the public gladness and
flutter on the shoulder of the familiar
head of the household. But who could
have the heart to slay such a winged inno
cent? No; it was not that which came
forth to meet Jephthah. Or it may be
some good neighbor that will rush out to
greet him after having first boon in to t'll
the family of the near appro ich of the
General. But who could slay n neighbor
who had come on the scene to rejoice over
the reunited household? No; it was
not that which came forth to meet Joph
thah.
As he advances upon his home the door
opens and out of it comes one whose ap
pearance under other circumstances would
have been an indescribable joy, but under
the pledge of a sacrifice becomes a horror
which blanches his cheek and paralyzes
his form and almost hurls him flat to the
earth. His child, his only child, his daugh
ter, comes skipping out to greet him, her
step keeping time to a timbrel which
she shakes and smites. Did ever a con
queror's cheer cad in such a bitter groan?
No wonder Dore, in two of his master
pieces, presents the scene. And Handel
made it the last and climacteric work of
his life to put this pathetic and overpower
ing circumstance in an oratorio, seven
months toiling amid its majestic harmonies
until his eyesight gave out, and,as though
the sad scene of Jephthah’s daughter’s sac
rifice were too much for mortal vision, the
grand old musician was led blind into the
orchestra for the first rendering of Jcph
thab. All the glories of victorious war are
blotted out from Jephthah’s memory, uml
his banner is folded in grief, and his sword
goes back into the scabbard with dolorous
clang, and the muffled drum takes the
place of the cymbals, and the '‘tremolo”
the place of the trumpet, and he cri<‘» out :
“Alas! my daughter, thou hast b ought
me very low, and thou art one of them that
trouble me, for I have opened my mouth
to the Lord and lean notgoback.” During
two months amid the mountains wilhou
shelter the maidens who would have been
at her wedding ranged with Jep’uthah's
daughter up and down, bewailing her
coming sacrifice.
Commentators and theologians are in
dispute as to whether that girl was slain
or not, and as to whether, if she were
slain, it was right or wrong in Jephthah
to be the executioner, a discus
sion into which I shali not be di
verted from the overmastering consider
ation that we had better look out what we
promise, better be cautious what engage
ment we make, better that in regard to all
matters of betrothal and plighted vow we
fed the responsibility, lest we have oitlier
to sacrifice the truth or sacrifice an im
mortal being, and we be led to cry out
with the paroxysm of a Jephthah, “1 have
opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I can
not go back. - ’
There is one ward in almost all the iu-
Bane asylums and a largj rogion in almost
every cemetery that you need to visit.
They are occupied by the men and women
who are the victims of broken pronAsesof
marriage, lue women in those wards and
in those mortuary receptacles arc in the
majority, because woman lives more in
her affections than does man, and lacera
tion of them in her case is more apt to le
a dementia and a fatality. In some re
gions of this land the promise of marriage
is considered to have no solemnity or
binding force. It was only made in fun.
They may change their mind. The en
gagement may stand until some one
more attractive in person or opulent
in estate appears on the scene; then the
rings are restored and the amatory letters
and all relationship ceases. And so there
are ten thousand Jephthah’s daughters
sacrificed as burnt offerings. The whole
subject needs to be taken out of the realm
of comedy into tragedy, and men and wo
men need to understand that, while there
are exceptions to the rule, once having
golemuly pledged to each other, heart and
hand, the forfeiture and abandonment of
that pledge mako the transgressor in the
sight of Sod a perjurer, and so the day of
judgment will reveal it. The one has lied
to the other; and all liars shall have their
place in the lake that burneth with lire and
brimstone.
If a man or woman make a promise in
the business world, is there any obligation
to fulfill it' If a man sjgn a note for SSOO,
ought he to pay itf If a contract be sign
ed involving the building of a house or the
furnishing of a bill of goods, ought they
stand by that contract! “Oh, yes,” alwavs
answered. Then 1 ask the further ques
tion; Is the heart, the happiness, wel
fare, the temporal and eternal destiny of
man or woman worth as much as the house,
worth *SOO, woj.ti, any thing! The realm
pi i? fi Uetl with men and wcatfii
as a result of the wrong answer to that
question. The most aggrevating, stupend
otsand God-defying lie is a lie in the shape
of a broken espousal.
But suppose a man changes his mind,
ought he not back out! Not once in ten
thousand times. What if I change my
mind about a promissory note, and decline
to pay it, and suddenly put my property in
such shape that you could not collect your
note! How Would you like that? That,
you say, would be a fraud. So is the
other a fraud, and punish it God will, cer
tainly as you live, and just as certainly
if you do not live. I have known men be
trothed to loving and good womanhood
resigning their engagement, and the
victim went down in hasty consumption
while suddenly the recreant man would
go up the aisles of a church in brilliant
bridal party, and the two promised “I
will” with a solemnity that seemed in
surance of a life-time happiness. But
the simple fact was that was the first
act of a Nhnkesperean play entitled “Tam
ing the Shrew.” Ho found out when too
late that he had not married into the fam
ily of the “Graces,” but into the family of
the “Furies.” To the day of his death
the murder of his first betrothal followed
him.
The Bible extols one who “sweai'eth to
his own hurt and changeth not.” That is,
when you make a promise keep it at all
hazards. There may be cases where de
ception has been used at the time of en
gagement., and extraordinary eirenm
stauces where the promise is not binding.
But in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases
out of a thousand engagement is as bind
ing as marriage. Robert Burns, with ail
his faults, well knew the force of a mar
ital engagement. In obedience to
some rustic idea he, standing on
one side of the Brook Ayr, and Mary Camp
bell on the other, they bathed their hands
in the water and then put them on the
boards of a Bible, making their pledges of
fidelity. On the cover of the Old Testa
ment of that book to this day in Robert
Burns’ handwriting may be found the
words: “Leviticus, xix. 13: Ye shall not
swear by my name falsely; I am the
Lord.” And on the cover of the New
Testament, in his own handwriting:
“.Matthew, v. 33: Thou shall not forswear
thyself, but shaft perform unto the Lord
thine oaths.”
But suppose a ship captain offers his ser
vices to take a ship out to sea. After he
gets a little way lie comes alongside of a
vessel with a more beautiful flag, and
which has perhaps a richer cargo and is
bound for a iuoro attractive port. Sup
pose he rings a bell for the engineer to
slow up and the wheel stops. Now I see
the captain being lowered over the side of
the vessel into a small boat and he crosses
to the gayer and wealthier craft, and
climbs up the sides and is seen walking
the bridge of the other ship. I pick up
his resigned 'speaking trumpet and I
shout through it: “Captain, what does
this mean! Did you not promise to take
this ship to Southampton, England!”
“Yes,” says the captain, “but I have
changed my mind, and I have found 1
can do better, and lam going to take
charge here. I shall send back to you all
the letters I got while managing that ship
and every thing I got from your ship, and
it will bo all right.” You tell me that the
worst fata for such a captain as that is
too good for him. B it it is just \\ hat a man
or woman does who promises to take one
through the voyage of life, across the
o ;ean of o irthly existence, and then
breaks the promise. The sea ling back of
all the letters anl rings and necklaces
and keep silk os can not make that right
which is in the s : ght of God, and ought
to be in tho sight of mm, an e*nlust
ing wrong. Wh it American society needs
to be taught is that betrothal is an act so
solemn and tremendous that all
men and women must stand back
from it until they are suiwr R* s
right, and sure that it is best, and sure
that, no retreat will be desired. Before
t at promise of lifetime companionship
any amount of romance that you wish any
order of friendship, any coining and going.
But eipousil is a gate, a golden gate,
which one should not pass unless he or she
expecis never to return. Engagement is
•he porch of which marriage is the castle,
you have no right in tho porch if you do
not mean to piss into the castle.
The trouble has always been that this
vvhoio subject of affiance has been rele
gated to the realm of frivolity and joke,
and considered not worth a sermon r r
eveu a serious paragraph. And so the
nuusacre of human lives has gone on and
the devil has had it his own cruel way, and
what is mightily needed is that pulpit and
platform and printing press ail speak a
word of unmistakable and thunderous pro
test on this subject of infinite importance.
We put clear out into thin poesy and light
reading the marital engagements of Pe
trarch and his Laura, Dante and his Bea
trice, Chaucer and his Phillippa, Lorenzo
de Medicis and his Lucrotia, Spenser
and his Rosalind, Waller and his
Saccharissa, not realizing that it
was the style of their engagement
that decided their happiness or wretch
edness, their virtue or their profli
gacy. All the literary and military and
religious glory of Queen Elizabeth’s reign
can not blot out from one of the most con
spicuous pages of history her infamous be
havior towards Key nour and Philip and
Melville and Leicester and others. All
the ecclesiastical robes thtt Dean Swift
ever rustled through consecrated places
can not hide from intelligent people of all
ages tho fact that by promises of marriage
which lie never fulfilled he broke the heart
of Jane B aring after an engagement of
seven years and the heart of Stella after
an engagement of fourteen years; and the
poetic stanzas he dedicated to their ex
cellences only make the more immortal
his perfidy.
“But suppose 1 should make a mistake,”
says some man or woman, “and I find it
out after Ihe engagement and before mar
riage I” My answer is: You have no ex
cuse for making a mistake on this subject.
There are so many ways of finding out all
about the character and preferences and
dislikes and habits of a man or woman that
if you have not brain enough to form a
right judgment in regard to him or her,
you are not so fit a candidate for the mat
rimonial altar as you are for an idiot asy
lum. Notice What society your especial
friend prefers, whether he is industrious
or lazy, whether she is neat or slatternly,
what books are read, what was the style
of ancestry, noble or depraved, and if there
be any unsolved mystery about the person
under consideration postpone all promise
until the mystery is solved.
O woman, you have more need to pause
before making such an important promise
than man, because if you make a mistake
it is worse for you. If a man blunder
i.bout promise of marriage, cr go on to an
unfortunate marriage, he can spend his
evenings a wav, and can go to the . club or
Republican or Democratic headquarter*
and absorb his mind in city or State or Na
tionai elections, or smoke himself stupid,
or drink himself drunk. But there is nc
place of tegular retreat for you, O woman,
and you could not take narcotics or iutox
ieants and keep your respectability. Be
fore 3’ou promise, pray and think and
study and advise. There will never again
in your earthly history he a time when
you so much need God.
It seems to me that the world ought to
cast out from business credits and from
good neighborhood those who boast of the
number of hearts they have won, as the
Indian boasts of the number of scalps he
has taken. If a man will lie to a woman
and a woman will lie to a man about so
important a matter as that of a life-time’s
welfare, they will lie about a bill of goods
and lie about finances and lie about any
thing. Society to-day is brim full of gal
lants and man-milliners and carpctknights
and coquettes and those most God for
saken of all wretches—flirts. And they go
about dlowing-rooms and the parlors of
watering piaees, simpering and bowing
and scraping and whispering, and then re
turn to the club-rooms if they be men,or to
their special gatherings if they be women,
to chatter and giggle over what was said to
them in confidence. Condign punishment
is apt to come upon them and they get paid
in their own coin. I could point you to a
score whom society lias let drop very hard
in return for their base traffic in human
hearts. As to such men they walk around
in their celibacy, after their hair is
streaked with gray, and protending they
are naturally short-sighted, when their
eyes are so old in sin that they need the
spectacles of a septuagenarian, an
eye-glass about No. 8, and think
they are bewitching in their stride
and overpowering in their glances, al
though they are simply laughing-stocks for
all mankind. And if these base dealers in
human hearts be females, they are left af
ter a while severely alone, striving in a very
desperation of agony of cosmetics to get
back to the attractiveness they had when
they used to brag how many masculine
affections they h id slaughtered. P’orsaken
of God and honest men and good women
are sure to be all such masculine aud fe
male fritters with human and yet immor
tal affections. O man, O woman, having
plighted your troth, stick to it! And here
my idea widens, and I have tosay not only
to those who have made a mistake in
solemn promise of marriage, but to those
who have already at the altar been pro
nounced one when they* are two, or in di
versity of tastes and likes and
dislikes are neither one nor two,
hut. a dozen—make the best you can of
an awful mistake. And hore let me answer
letters that, cotne from every State of the
American Union, and from across the sea,
and are coining year after year from men
and women who are terrifically alienated
and tied together in a hard knot, a very
hard knot. The letters run something like
this: “What ought I to do? My husband is
a drunkard.” “My wife is a gad-about
and will not stay at homo.” “My compan
ion is ignorant and hates books and I revel
in them.” “I like music aid a piano sets
my husband crazy.” “I am fond of social
life and my companion is a recluse.” “I
am trying to be good and my life-long as
sociate is very bad. What shall I do?’
My answer is, thore are ccitiin good rea
sons for divorcement. The Bible recog
nizes them. Good society recognizes them.
But it must be the very last resort, and
only after all reasonable attempts at re
clamation and adjustment have proved a
dead failure. When such attempts fail it
s gei.erally because of meddlesome out
siders, who i women tell the wronged wife
how she ought to stand on her rights, and
men tertl the wrougod husband how he
ought to stand on his rights. And lot hus
band and wife in an unhappy marriage re
lation stand punctiliously on their rights,
and there will be no readjustment,
and only one Uiing will bo sure to
them, and that hell on earth. If you
are unhappily married, in most cases I ad
vise you make the best, you car. of an
awfully bad bargain. Do not project your
peculiarities more than is necessary. I’er
haps you may liavo some faults of your
own which the other party in the marital
alliance may have to suffer. You are
in tlie same yoke. If yon pull aside the
yoke will only twist your neck. Bet
ter pull ahead. The world is full of
people who m do mistakes about many
things, and among -other things about
betrothal and marriage, and yet have
been tolerably happy and very useful in
the strength of God and by the grace
promised in every time of need if thoso
who seek it conquer the disadvantageous
circumstances. I am acquainted with
lovely women married to contemptible
men, and genial men yoked with terma
gants inspire! of the devil. And yet un
der these disadvantages my friends arc
useful and God helps people in
other kinds of martyrdom, and to singe in
the flame, and Ho will help you in your
life-long misfortune.
Remember the patience of Job. What n
wife he had ! At a time when he was one
great blotch of eruptions and his property
was destroyed by a tornado, and, more
than all, bereavement had come and th<
poor man needed all wise counsel, she ad
vised him to go to cursing and swearing
Khe wanted him to poultice his boils with
blasphemy. But. he lived right on through
his marital disadvantages, recovered his
health and fortune and raised a splendid
family, an l tho closing paragraph of the
book of Job has such a jubilance that 1
wonder people do not ofteuer read it:
“So the Lord blessed the latter end oi
Job more than his beginning, for he had
fourteen thou«an d sheep, and six thousand
camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and
a thousand she asses. He had aiso sevei
sons and three daughters. And he callet
the name of Ihe first Jemima; and the
name of the second, Kezia; and the name
of the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the
land were no women found so fair as the
daughters of Job: and their father gave
them inheritance among their brethren.
After this live 1 job a hundred and fortj
years, and saw his sons and his sons’ sons,
even four generations. So Job died, being
old and full of days.”
Now, my badly-married friend of either
sex, if Job could stand it by the help of
God, then you can stand it by the same di
vine reinforcement. You have other rela
tions. O woman, beside the wifely relation.
If you are a mother, train up youfr chil
dren for God and Heaven. If you are ?
member of a church, help move on its en
terprises. You can get si much of the
grace of God in your heart that all your
home trials will seem insignificant. How
little difference does it make what your
unrighteous husband calls you if God
calls you His child and you are an heire-s
of whole kingdoms beyond the skiesf
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The pleasantest th ugs in the world ar--
pleasant- thoughts, ml the great art in life
is to baveasmauj sf them as possible.--
Mom,
ANNEXATION OF CANADA.
The Disastrous Attempt to Accomplish It
by Force -A Famous Kf treat.
The present agitation concerning the re
lations between Canada and the United
States recalls the time when the annexa
tion of that country was proposed to bo
brought about by force of arms. Tlie proj
ect was entrusted to the brave General
Montgomery, assisted by the famous patri
ots, Colonels F.than Allen and Seth Warner.
While engaged in this invasion Ethan Allen
was taken prisoner by the British and sent
to England, where he experienced very
harsh treatment.
It was Colonel Warner who twice [con
ducted his men safely home, though the
march was constantly surrounded by dan
gers. Once Montgomery sent them home
because their time was out, and though
they were willing to continue in service,
they were without sufficient clothing, and
nong could be had in that country.
Colonel AVarncr had hardly arrived home
before ho heard that Montgomery had been
killed, and the cause, as well as tho lives of
the men, were put in great jeopardy. Ho
collected his men again and at once started
for Canada to assist his countrymen in their
extremity. But his efforts were of rfo avail,
and it was soon found necessary to take up
the lino of retreat.
Tt was the dead of winter, aud only ne
cessity sanctioned moving the troops. Tho
terror of pursuit and the rigor of the sea
son furnished sufficient cause for alarm ami
haste. Colonel Warner remained with tho
rear of tlie army, and aided them in many
ways most effectually, as he was a man
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knowledge now came into excellent use.
He must keep the army in motion, not a
day must be lost, and yet he was without
any chest of medicines. But he understood
the medicinal use of roots and herbs, and of
proper care at critical times, and with theso
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disease among his men. .
When Ticonderoga was reached and the
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Col. Warner saved the lives of hundreds
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Dr.GREENE’S
HERVURA
NERVE TONIC,
THE GREAT STRENGTHENING AND
INVIGORATING REMEDY,
FOR THE POSITIVE CURE OF
NervoiiMieKS, WeaknpM, Xcrvous Debility,
Xe von* ittul JPhy*Scnl Kxlraiivtlou. Nerv
ous l ttleepleseness
enry, PuralysU, Xiimbneso. Trem tiling:.
Keiir:ilsl:», Rhei«mntl»in« PnSiu In Hide
an«l Rack, Fits, St. Titus's
Rince, Palpitation, Niervoum nn«l Nick
Tired Feellnur, l).v*pe;»»ln,
Indigestion, I.oss of Appetite, I onMlpa*
tiou, Kidney ami ILiver JHsesvses, £tc.
Nervous Debility.
Sufferers from nervous debility complnin of phys
leal and nervous weakness and exhaustion; there is
prostration of tho physical strength, a tired feeling
with no inclination for exertion, and tho power to
work is diminished; the patient wakes mornings
tired and unrefreshed; there is an extreme nervous
WEAKXrs-i AXO and irritable condition; a
\F.KVOI dull, cloud? sensation, oft
en accompanied by disagreeable feelings inthehmd
and eyes; the thoughts w ander easily ; there will bo
gradual failing of strength, with weakness and pain
in the bock; bad taste in tho mouth mornings; tho
vision becomes dim, the memory impaired, and
there is frequent dizziness; the I>EI*K FX.MOX'
nerves become so weakened OF MiM).
that the least excitement or shock will flush tho
face, bring a tremor, trembling, or palpitation of
tho heart. There is often gloom and depression of
tho mind. For theso symptoms !)r. Greene’s Ner
vura Nrrve Tonic is a certain ami positive cure.
Under the use of this wonderful restorative, whi h
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eyes regain their brilliancy, tlie pale look and hol
low checks show renewed health and vitality; the
!>l>f VIMIOX, wcakand exhausted
I PA ! MEMORY. feedings give place
to strength and vigor, the brain becomes clear, tho
nerves strong and stead/, the gloom and depression
are lifted from the rairufamt perfect and permanent
health is restored. It is an absolute specific for
nervous debility. Voting A WONlfKftFrL
men with weakened nerves RF.MEIIY.
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its iisa. It restores lost energy and invigorates the
weakened vital forces in old and young. No one
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the century, and an tfbsolutely certain cure will re
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Be sure and get Tm. Greece's Nervtka Nerve
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If Hour druggist does not have it. he will get it for
* on. It* discoverer, GUEENE, Ml West
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nervous and chronic disea‘mt, can be consulted free,
personally or by letter. Use ins great rem
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Los the h'ooil, sire..-.-:hens the system, assists dtvr.stior-,
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T ’cusondsof tt !*timonials prove its marl „
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Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciat
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Toothache, Sore Throat, Swell
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WHAT IT IS.
J It is in one word a cure; it is not merely
.'7 1* a relief and in no sense a cure-all; it
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It strengthens while it soothes and sub
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quers pain.
Qfj Its effects are curative and permanent ta
DU. the whole group of muscular miseries
and nervous agonies.
/](I II does not merely irritate the outer spr.
■HI. face, nor does it merely soften or relax
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r.tji It penetrates deeply but gently; search-
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Rth ill constituent of the formula has a
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The treatment of many thousands of eases
of thoso chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the Invaiids’
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
has afforded a vast experience in nicely adapt
ing and thoroughly testing remedies for the
cure of woman's peculiar maladies.
B»r. Fierce’s Favorite Proscription
is the outgrowth, or result, of this great and
valuable experience. Thousands of testimo
nials, received from patients and from physi
cians who have tested it in the more aggra
vated and obstinate cases which had baffled
their skill, prove it to bo the most wondt rful
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of
suffering women. It is not recommended ns a
“cure-all,” but as a most perfect Specific for
Woman's peculiar ailments.
As n powerful, invigorating tonic,
It imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the womb and its appendages in
particular. For overworked, ' worn-out,”
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keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women
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As a soothing and strengthen!n(
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duing nervous excitability, irritability, ex
haustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and!
other distressing, nervous symptoms com
monly attendant upon functional aud organic
disease of the womb. It induces refreshing
sleep and relieves mental anxiety and de
spondency.
Hr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
is a legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by nn experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to woman's, delicate
organization. It is purely vegetnblo in iff
composition and perfectly harmless in its
effects in any condition of the system. For
morning sickness, or nausea, from whatever
cause arising, weak stomach, indigestion, dys
pepsia and kindred symptoms, its use, in small
doses, will prove very beneficial.
“Favorite Prescription ” isapoel.
five caro for the most, complicated and nb.
stinate cases of louoorrhea, excessive flowing,
painful menstruation, unnatural auppressions,
prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back,
“female weakness,” anteversion, retroversion,
bearing-down 6onsarions, chronic congestion,
inflammation and ulceration of tho womb, in
flammation, pain and tenderness in ovaries,
accompanied wUh “ internal heat.”
As a regulator and promoter of func
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Golden Medical Discovery, and sum!! laxativs
doses of Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pellets (Little
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diseases. Their combined uso also removes
blood taints, and abolishes cancerous and
scrofulous humors from the system.
“ Favorite Prescription ” is the only
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u positive guarantee, from the manu
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ease, or money will be refunded. This guaran
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and faithfully carried out for many years.
I.nrge bottios (100 doses) SI.OO, or six
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For large, illustrated Treatise on Diseases of
Women (100 pages, paper-covered), send ton
cents in stamps. Address,
World’s Dispensary Medics! Association,
663 Main St., IJFFFA 1,0. N. V.
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