FRANCO PIPER'S OPINION.
How The World's Great Banjo Boloist Was Convinced Of The Restorative' Value Of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
Mr. Franco Piper, who has lately been fulfilling an engagement at the Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Equare, London, and drawing enormone audiences, sojoys the dis tinotion of being the World's greatest Banjo Juggler and Soloist. He is assisted in his
Races by his performas.des
Piper converted him, and how Mrs.
scepticism to a most enthusiastic belief in the tonie virtues of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People he explains in the communication which, with his permission, we publish here.
“My wife had on various opesions taken Dr. Willams Pink Pills when feeling ran down, for she credited them with having taved her life as a girl though medical men had given her caso up” said Mr. Piper, "At that time I certainly thought all this mere fancy and did my best to make her think so.
"When in Leeds a few years ago necessity arose to call in a physician to my wife; and I thought the chance a good one to convince ber. Judge of my astonishment when
my medical friend (who is at the hand of a lead- ing hospital) turned round and exclaimed,
Why, Piper, they are just the thing for her." Indeed he praised Dr. Williams' Pink Fills so highly that my scepticism was die- pelled entirely, and I felt that I could no longer oppose my wife's belief in thom, backed up as it was by anch learned and weighty evidence.
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"Often in my work, and especially when in London, I had felt the need of arestorative, so after this I took Dr. Williams Pink Pills myself, and now-well I must frankly confess that when I feel run down I find them the most affective, if not the only, tonis.
"I am under a terrifio strain, with the work I am doing At the London Alhambra, although one has to hide such a fast from the audience. After my jaggling and spin- ning and playing heavy banjos I have to sit down quietly and play selections with four-
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am not ashamed to say that I am a whole-hearted convert to the belief of my wife in this remachable remedy."
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THIS
HELPED MAN UNTIL HE WAS COHED BY MOTHER SEIGEL'S SYRUP.
The Marquis Matsumi had been in England for eight years now. He came of an ancient Samurai Family in the highlands of Japan-his ancestry dated back unbroken for hundreds of years. But the westernising and modernising of the country had ruined him. Bit by bit his possessione fell into other bands. His feudal prestige departed, and as a young man he found himself shorn of all his ancient splendours with but a hundred or two pounds in the world, and his own discovered with growing horror and sus woman, of oxtraordinary and noticeable Confronting him was a tall elderly way to make. His family had taken nopicion, there were many convenient obesity. Her large fat face was as big part in the modernising of Japan. He deaths in the highest circles of society as a han; her eyes pale and flickering; was unknowa at Court and in all the which could never be traced to the quiet her mouth, which wore a perpetual busy centres of his country. He deter scientist of Bloomsbury, but which were, smile, a slit of nervous cunning mined to seek his fortunes in another nevertheless, his work."
He spoke one word to her Well?? land. He did so, however, with a strictly conservative mind, merely as a means to wonderfully finished as a chair by Shera-But the sooner you have a look at her
His crines
"She is safe enough, sir," the woman answered, in a colt, ingratiating voice. an end. The highland villagers still ton or Chippendale, reverenced his name; civilisation had not
To commit then, an organisation was room ws used last time, and you can look the better. I have put her in the old penetrated very deeply in them. Had he bat possessed the means he might have necessary, and this, with infinite care, at her through the window above the continued to live the life that was in his elaborate precaution, end true Eastern door; but I tell you, sir, 1 have not blood, and which was his ideal. He went there were many people who did his nothing. I tell you, there is going to he patience, he had gradually built up. worked for you here these years for out into the world determined to make bidding blindly, who were well paid for trouble,” fortune, to make it quickly, and when their services, and who were restrained, that was done, to return to the land he not only by interest, but by the blackest loved, and one more to be the chief of tear, from betraying the slightest and his people. That was his sole, single most insignificant of his secrets. hearted aim, and from the very first he never made the mistake of trusting | NOTHING moment, whon almost penniless, he had
any of his underlings, The units of landed at San Francisco, he pursued it his little army did this or that. Each without the slighted deviation. His in- one obeyed blindly, not knowing in the tellect was of the highest possible order. least what his or her services meant, re- He realised at once that as a means to alising only that they wero pieces of an end he raust accommodate himself to mosaic in solue great picture which they He western life, learn all its secrets, in order themselves would never see. No one was to wrest from it the fortune he desired, entrusted with too much. Four people He was anhampered by a single moral were employed to do what one person scruple. The suffering or pain of others might easily have done in order that. weighed with him not a jot; he was a
that one should have no clue as to the cool, calm intellect, and nothing more. meaning and reality of the master's The ordinary human passions of mankind operations, seemed to have no place in his composi tion. He had one object in life, and that was all. During his years in America he lived as he himself only could tell. With extraordinary facility he educated him self to fight the requirements of modern life. He took his degree as a dostor in an American University. He became a scientist of some repute. Little by little, means of he accumulated money-by which only he himself was aware. When he found himself thoroughly equipped he came to England. He had realised by this time that, while it was easy enough for him to make a comfortable income which would satisfy any ordinary desires, to amass the large capital he needed was very different matter. Keen and acute as he was, his bent of mind was not that of the businesa mati. To build up a for- tune by honest commercial pursuits pre- sented enormous difficulties to him; and above all, such a process was slow. did not intend to waste the best year of his life in obtaining his desires, and then find, when he had done so, that he was incapable of enjoying the fruition of his single-hearted scheme of life that he must get rich quickly.
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CHOISING, German str., 1,021, J. Bruhn, 20th August-Hongay 18th August, Coal-Butterfield & Swire. DALGI MARU, Japanese str., 1,846, Y. Somekawa, 22nd August-Swatow 1st August, General.-Ösaka Bhosen Kaisha.
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Beetham, 15th August-Vancouver 24th July, General.-Canadian Paci- fic Railway Co.
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Hy digestive organs were out of order and I was unable to digest even light foods! Hundreds of thousands of people, everywhere, are in just that con- By this means the Japanese had ren-dition half of their days; but they go on dered himself impregnable. His secrets and on, and suffer and get worse until at were entirely his own, save only for his last they despair of health and happiness single partier, his one confidante, his and sometimes think death itself would absolutely necessary tool Here he had he relief. been assisted not by his own efforts so almost accidentally, they hear of Mother And then, anexpected and much as by rather good luck. He had Seigel's Syrup and take it and find them- met the heautiful and popular Mrs. sclves cured. Albemarle by chance. She had become and wonder why they had suffered so long. Then they are surprised interested in him at ones, and beneath when the real remedy was so near, and so the exterior of a fascinating and fashion- able woman of the world, his keen in-cheap and simple.
Mr. J. Marr, a man in the very prime tellect had discerned something un- usual, something far out of the ordinary South African Railway, and living at of life, employed as engine fitter on the le discovered a nature not absolutely bad at that moment, but strangely non-539, Market Street, Pretoria, must have moral. He found in her a vivid im spent a lot of money in trying to get agination and a daring and recklessness cured of Indigestion; but it was money quite alien to the general feminine tera-wasted. Then he took Mother Seigel's was cured quickly and pornment. Adventure, secrecy, the sense Syrup and
In a letter dated March dealing with great forces, the love of thoroughly. tortuous intrigue were all strangely de- th, 1918, he uses the words quoted above Heveloped in this woman. He took up each and tells the whole story.
cord in her nature with subtie and "I had considerable trouble," he says, devilish skill, tuned them, played upon with my bowels and stomach, being them, strengthened them until the be-costive and subject to severe headaches came a perfect instrument for his hide-and biliousness. The medicines I used ous purpose. One thing only remained weakened me to an alarming extent.. is render her his absolute tool. That Acting on medical advice I dieted myself thing came to pass. The woman who and took medicine. Eventually seeking fused end disdained innumerable rest and change of air I went on a holi proffers of love, became madly en-day, took casy exercise, but get no better. moured of the little ice-cold Japanese. My appetite almost failed, my pains were In her distorted brain, where good and intense and my nights sleepless. evil were but names, he assumed the proportions of an absolute ruler and A FELLOW. WORKMAN'S ADVICE. master of mankind. Knowingly, con- In this wretched condition I returned sciously, and without a shred of remorse to work, feeling that I should soon have where he led, and it was through her day advised sie very strongly to take or 2 hint of vacilation, she followed to give it up, when a fellow workman one that his horrible opportunities come, and Mother Seigel's Syrup, which had given that people in high places, and with him great benefit. I bought a bottle of averted heads, paid vast sums of money the Syrup and after only a few doses felt to they knew not whom in order that greatly relieved. From then my recovery someone or other who stood in their way was so rapid that after taking a few might be quietly and safely removed:
bottles I was quite cured. My appetite Now, at this very moment, the Marquis was all that could he desired; my strength shio Matsumi had almost realized his and vitality were restored; all acies and he was amazed at the ineptitude and ideal. He was rich, a very little longer pain left me as if by magie; my bowela futility of the professional criminal. No and his life's desire would be well within became regular. I am now a well mar.” professional criminal ever made a foris grasp. There was one disadvantage Mr. Marr's cast is no new thing to us; | Scandia, Africa, Arabien. 19th-4chi- tune or enjoyed immunity from punish and disability. He saw clearly enough we receive hundreds of such letters, les, Bayern, Benalder, Derflinger, lys ment. This he
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Erd-Antenor, professional criminal, however great his which Julia Albemarle demanded. He cunning or resource, was, in the main, who had never loved any woman must gives relief and then cures the severest Atsuta Mars, Ceylon, Lothian, Nippon, a non-intellectual man; while at the same submit to be loved by one if he was to be cases of Indigestion: The extracts of Paikan, Syria, Walton Hill. Machaon, Nore Ulysses, Pien time, he was hampered by human passions. afe for ere. He had yielded and roots, barks and leaves of which it is com- The Marquis knew himself to be absolute-bound the woman to him more firmly posed hare a specific, curative, tonic and Caledonien, Prinz Ludwig, Prometheus, August 2nd-Benlo- ly free from ordinary frailties; he knew than ever, but at the back of his mind, strengthening effect on all the organs of Saluzie, Tydeus.
Then your food, being pro-mond, Hirano Yaru, Palma, P. E. Fried undeveloped as yet, was the germ, the digestion. himself also to possess a brain of the very sharlow; of a thought, more hideous than perly digested, gives nourishment for rich, Seneca, Stentor, Den of Glamis. highest order.
any that had ever lurked in that chamber nerve, bono and muscle, the blood is pure 8th-Hitachi Maru, Liberia, Bramley. Oceanien, It remained & question as to what of horrors before, People incon-and health and vigour take the places of 9th-Denbighshire, Namur, branch of crime he should devote his venient to himself had been removed be weakness and misery.
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He was close upon the river bank when fashioned houses of the time of Queen Anne, now deserted and often falling to decay, surrounded by high walls With his scientific knowledge, with his which have yet evenped the ravages of vivid imagination and absolute callous the builder, and remain gloomy monu ness, it was not a difficult thing toments of the past in this part of London. become a secret murderer almost as safe He stopped at length before the high from detection as any human being closed gates of a large brick house. The DEVON AND
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It was one thing, however, to murder wall, and they were shuttered, while the Visitors to Brighton, Fastbourne Hastings successfully; it was another to turn his whole place had on air of disuse and decay. Two large stone pillars flanked Bournemouth, Wye Valley, Severn Valley hideous crimes to profitable account the gate, and upon each was a rampant Bath, Weston-super-mare, Malvern, Hereford This, too, in the course of time, he man- Worcester, Gloncestor, Llandrined Wells aged to do. fncredible as it sounds ia of stone. covered now with moss. broken and imperfect through the pass- Llangollen, Aberystwyth,
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