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Show "Know Tlij OpportuiiUy." The grim monster, Death, ws fUaltl.ily approaching. 1 could almost al-most Jeel bict hot, liery breath upon my forehead. My JuithleM goddess, 1 lygeia, had utterly deM-i u d me. hily now and then would Morpheus belricnd me, hut on this auspicious day, he- hud deigned lo moisien my eyelids with heavenly uinhnwia, und 1 slept. As 1 slept, behold, 1 hud a dream! 1 thought that 1 wai roaming roam-ing Uon foreign sil, whiiher my f-hysician hud ent me lo recover my health. 1 was iu u great metropoii.-, one of the grand marls ul the world. In uno of my strolls 1 chanced to meet a man who had in his band a handpoinely-Uiund volume, entitled "Tho People's Common Kenan Medical Medi-cal Adviser," aud who said l.ml ho was an agent fur the sulu ul the b,.ok. The title was such a novyl om- that J was impelled to give the work a .T.iAtial notice. As 1 hantilv L-lauctd over Us pages, 1 olwcrved Unit it contained con-tained treatiaes Hot commonly loui.d ' in medical works, lint I had lou ' many times been hoaxed by appear-1 appear-1 mice, and 1 determined that I w.mld have nuihtwj to do with it. A voice within me, hko a laithful mentor, wh'spered, "Amir Ay ojf(titn; in that Uok is thy salvation!" I began ri-A-oning with myseK. Although doubuul and distrustful, yet I put lerlh my baud to take the ook, and, lo! the agent was gone! I was mi.-er-nble. In my agony I awoke. Ureal drops of perfpiratinu were on mv brow. By my bed-ide w:i a Irieial who had called during my slumlier to leo me. Had my friend, "I have brought with me a Ixok, just published, pub-lished, which 1 thought might interest inter-est u." One glance at the work, and I was assured that it was "lhe l'eiiple'a Common Scnie Medical Adviser." Ad-viser." by' Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Ihillhlo, N. V, Surely, tins was the veritable book which I had seen in my dreams. My friend loaned mo the work, and every day, as mv etrcisgih permitted, I poriised it-pagt?. it-pagt?. Although it contained Ten-interesting Ten-interesting treatise! on Bioioyy, Cer ebral 1'hyjiology, Hinnati Tt inpera-mciits, inpera-mciits, N nrr-ini: of the tiick, etc., vet, heme, an invalid, I wus moot in'ter-e-ttl in the subjects of Diea,9 and .Remedies. I bchevt-d that 1 had hver allcction, and yet mure than one medical attendant had pronounced , my disease Consumption, and that I I would fall wiin tho autumn leaves. Iu that book I found my symptoms perfectly portrayed. I was then Confident Con-fident that I had not deceived myself, my-self, I reasoned thus: " Anv man who can so truthfully depict niy feel-; feel-; ings and apparently understands my constitutional tendencies, must know I iut vi,ii my physical cy-tein demands. de-mands. I will trust my care with Dr. Pierce. 1 wiil take hia Gulden Medical Discovery as recommended for rny disease." Tne result is, that alter having per.-everingly followed hi prcscril ed treatment, I once agin en;uy the bh-rvii ngs of health. Tliere-, Tliere-, f.ire, I would bay to the alllictc-d, "Know thy opportunity," aud take Dr. I'ierce's Goiden Medical Dn- |