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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. L. CAMPBELL. Proprietor, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. WISDOM IN KHYME. . flu ii. turn Advocate. If jrnii your llw Would k'ep fnuii Fire things olmerve willi van: Of whom you nk. To whom you tt-k. A oil bow, ami wliea, ami altera. If you yotircnn Would wivu fruiu jeer. Tmwh thing k meekly bid; Myvii ami I And mine ami my, And bow 1 do or did. THE STAGE COACH ROBBERS. The One . r.jrd Paaaensjir onlda't HoaMt. Knt 4'ould Flh. Detroit Free By and by tlie army officer ment'onod something iilHiut road agents, ami ill' reetly the conversation became interest ing. Couches liad Uh'U atopcd at various points on thu linn within a week, and it wan pretty generally lwlievcd that a bad gang had descended on the route and wero still ripe (or business, The man with one eye had nothing to say. Once or twice lie raised hi head aud that single 170 blazed in the darkness liko alone atar, but not a word naeaped his mouth. The captain had aaid what he would do in case the coach waa halted, and thin brought out the others. Jt waa firmly decided to fight. The passengers had money to tight for and weai)on to nglit with. The man with one eye aaid nothing. At aucli a time and under such i-irounv stances there could be but one inter rotation of inch conduct. "A coward ha no business travel in ir this route," aaid the captain, in a roioe which every nian could hear. Tho atrangcr started uj), and that eye of Lia scomod toshower sparks of tire, but, after a moment, he fell hack again without having replied. Jf he wasn't chicken-hearted, why uidn t he show Ins colors? If lio in touded to fight, where were hia weapons? Ho had no Winchester, and, ao far aa any one had aeen as he entered , the conch, he una without revolve. Everybody felt contempt for a man who calculated to hold up Ins hands at thu order, and permit hiniHclf to be quietly uw polled. "Pop! pop! halt!' Thu passenger's were dozing as the nahi to of thu road agents reached their rara. The coach a as halted in a way to tumble everybody together, and legs and bodies were still tangled 1111 a hen a voice at the door of the coach called. out: "No nonsense now I You gentlemen climb right down here and up with your hands! The tl rat man that kicks on me will got a bullet through his liair We had agreed to fight. Tho captain bad agreed to lead u. We were liMteii ing for hia yell of dollauce and t lie click ol laa revolver when ho stopped down and out aa humbly as you please. Tho sutler had been aching to chew up a dozen road agents, and uow he was tho accoud man out. 1 ho surveyor had in timated that ho never passed over the route without killing at least throo highwaymen, but tins occasion was to m an exception. In three minutes tho five of ns wero down aud in lino and hands up, aud the road agent had said : "Straight mutter of business! First one who droits hia hands on 't ever know what hurt him!' Where waa tho man with one evu? Thu robber appeared to believe that wo were all out, ami he waa just approach ing the head of the lino to bogiu his work when a dark form dropped out of the coach, tliero waa a yell as if from a wounded tiger, and a revolver began to crack, the rolilier went down at tho first pop. Hia partner was just coming around tho rear of the coach. He waa game man. He knew what had hap pened, but he was coming to tho rescue 1'op! ioj! pop! went tho revolvers, their flashes lighting up tho night until we could see tho driver 111 his seat. It didn t take twenty seconds. Oue of tho robbers lay dead in front of us- the other under the coach, while tho man with one eyo had a lin k cut from hia head aud tho graze of bullet across hia cheek, not one of us had moved a finger. e were Ave fools in a row. There waa a painful lull after tho last shot and it lasted a full minute boforo the stranger turned to us and remarked in a quiet, cutting mannor: "Gentlemen ye kin tdrop yer hands!" We dropped. We undertook to thank him, aud we wanted to shake hands, and somoltody suggested a shake-purse for hia benefit, but he motioned us into the coach, banged the door afUr us, and climbed up to a seat Iieside the driver. His contempt for such a crowd could not be measured. fraarra lladooa Hnrartt a Mr I hod. Chicago TritHinu. ) Mrs. Burnett, author of "Through lino Administration, ia at present en gaged ujHin another play. "I am very lazy," hIio savs, "and although Fve done an immense amount of work I have writteu ten books, including tho earlier aerials 1 have accomplished it only w ith tho greateot effort. I don't like to work, aud I'm very lazy. Of course, 1 work methodictlly. I go to my room, which ia on the third floor, every morn ing immediately after breakfast, aud stay there until luncheon. I atay, but I can't always write. Sometimes I ajn-nd nearly the entire time walking up and down, towing a ball, a habit 1 have, as J am obliged to use my hands when thinking." A Heavy LrKal C'aae, Chicago Tritmna The transcript in the M.na Clarke (iainea caae, on appeal from "the circuit rourt in Louisiana to the supremo court of tho United States, has occupied the work of thirty-five elerka three montha and contains 9.000 pages and weigh 1W pounds, It ia twnty-one inche in depth, twenty in length, and acventeen and one-half in betilth. The huge book Las just boen forwarded to Washington l. iiXDrtss from New Orleans. Jona Bo If O'KHIIjr. filmier Hichankon. The other day I ay John Boyle O'iieilly in the street. O'iieilly is one of the aalt of tho earth it seem ad vantageou to lie one of thu aalt rather than one of the Iresh of the earth. O'Jteilly is a poet, a Fenian, an essay 1st, a fanatic, a philosopher, a lunatic on the question of canoeing, a wit, an orator, an editor, and anything else yon may happen to think of that i have ex cepted. Mr. O'lleilly is a charming man in whatever walk of life he mav ImpiH-n to be in for tho moment O'iieilly can maka a very interesting half hour for IJr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, of ISoston. w ith his couversa' tion, and he can also make a very in ti resting half hour for John It. Hull! van, of Jfoston, w ith a set of Inning gloves. He is one of the bet fencers 111 the country; he can run like a deer, and he can hit a blow that is like the kick of a multichargo mule. O'Kcitly waa a young-.t r in the queen's armv, and an informer swore that he had induced many of his com radea to be in readiness to turn Kng land' arms against her in the cause of Iroland. Ho was a Fenian, fast enough, but he Riiy this waa tliowork of a per jurer. Anyway O iieilly wus sentenced to exportation for life. He escaped from the penal colony, waa taken on loard a lankeo schooner, got into fcng land, hid himself in Liverpool for awhile, aud ultimately reached Amer ica, lie finally lecame thu editor of The Boston l'ilot, which ia a paper that ia made np too largely of clippings; but the editorial pago of which always contains matter that ia allot as straight from the shoulder as the bullet is shot from the gun. ltovle O'iieilly works hard, and has gainud a literary reputa tion. He la a young man, of dark eyes, a closely-cropped head, a black nms' tache, short stature, and an expression of perfect good humor. 1 would rather have a Philadelphia newspaper read to me than have him carcsa mo with boxing glove. French nararterltirs. Paris Letter in Courier-Journal. Jt la a too general ldoa among us that tho French are insincere. W have not found them ho, and I think it baso ingratitude in any true-born American to do their national character audi injustice. Can wo remember the noble Lu l ayette and hia clnvulrio fol lowers who lent their strong right arms aa a bulwark in defense of our rights and to aid us in the struggle for our country's freedom, and not feel bound by every tie of gratitude ami sentiment to their countrymen? 1 do not dat e, to any there ia not Home insincerity here, for there are good and bad traits in every nation. John Hull is a noble animal, but he is also tyran nical and morose sometimes; Sandy leal and clannish, but stubborn to a fault; "Hans'' is honest but a tritle too phlegmatic and unreel ing, and "I'ucle Sain," with his many fine traits, is know n to be upon occasions a slippery individual, lint it would be neither fair nor wise to judge them by the vulnerable spot in their natures, to blow away all the grain, leaving only tho chuff'.' Take the French from a general point of view ; kind and clever, chivalriu and hospitable, heroic and patriotic (for I kuow not a single breiiehmau who would net bleed and die for his coun try 'a sake I, and admire mid respect tlieiu for what thev are. Wo must not judge tiiem by Voltaire, for he was not a typical frenchman: he had their head, but not their heart, and did more harm than they even now see. Yet their very respect for his memory allows what beautiful natures they have ready to forgive and forget. A 4ifra)iuau leading a Miarge. I Chicago Tribune. The l!ev. (leorge Washington Xolley, who diml last week at Ashland, Ya.. aged NO years, hud performed fifty-eight vcara active service 111 the Methodist ministry. Ho it was who led a charge of the Confederate troop in the luttlo at Itrook Church, near liicliniond. In me midst 01 me ngiil, as the story is told in "Soldier Life in the Army of Northern irginia, a voice was heart. shouting, "Where's my bov ? I'm look ing for my boy!" Soon the owner me voico appeared' tan, sum, ug: with aiiver-grav hair, dressed in a full suit of broadcloth. A tall silk hat and a clerical collar and cravat completed his attire. Hia voico, familiar to the people of Virginia, waa deep and now erf ul. As he continued to shout thu men replied: "do back, old gentleman you 11 get nun ncre; go Hack, go back !" "No, no," said he, "I can go anywhere my boy has to go, and tao ijord is here. 1 want to see my lov. and 1 will we him! Then the order Forward" waa given, aud the men mado once more for the eneinv. Tho old gentleman, hia beaver in one hand, a big stick in the other, hia long hair flying, shouting, "Come on, boys! dis appeared in tho depths of the wood. well lu front. A Big IMrtUnary. iDeniorwil MouUilv.1 , The first part of a gigantic dictionary of the F.nglish lunguugo ia aliout to be issued by the Oxford university. It was commenced twenty-tive yeara back, and more than H00 persons have Wn employed in collecting material for this mighty history of every world in the Knglish sjH'aking language. The Chi nese are aaid to have cyclopedias upon which thousands of literati were at work all their lives. Una work is almost of a aimilar character. It will give the History and definition or 2:17,000 worda. 1 here are to be twenty-four parts of iW pagea each. All the volumes are very large, with three columns to the page, the history, definition and changes in every word used in the Eng lish iangnage will be found in this mar velous ami minute compendium. The cost of this work will be over half a million dollars, but Oxford university will doubtless receive aomething from the sales of these great volumes, which, when completed, will be the moat com plete thesaurus in any language. Mississippi has gained over 100 per cent, in five years in manufacturing in dustries, having at this time 7,000,000 invested in such enterprises. EN ROUT TO THE PACIFIC. Home mt the I'nplraannlneaa ol Travel Xev.ida Sot Ail taurine In Wealth. E Iwar l ItoU ts In Chicago NVws. ) It costsexactly f 1 to get anything to eat at the st.itiona on the Central I'aciric road, and one is only giv.-n twenty-five minute in which to eat that dollarV worth of food, l'hil Itohinson in hit latest lss)k, "Sinners aud Saints," (jues tiona whether or not a rmiman car conductor ia a gentleman of leUure traveling for pleasure. I question what the mission is of table waiting girls at railway stations. Thuv certainly can not w ait on people to show their beauty, for I rarelv come, across a pretty a t- ress. Xor are they employed to teach one manners, for they have none tliem selves. It must be that they are in vented to teach travelers patience. Tin way tliey throw food at one, and theiu' ditlereiit air with which they take an order makes one want to swear, lint lie can't swear at a woman, and it would do no good if ho did. Hie Central l'a citio girls take delight iu being surly. I never saw one smiiu, and I also never saw anv one they pretended to wait on smile It will be a glad day when the road runs its own dining-cars through to 'Frisco. 1 should ih content to eat 111 such cars as run on the Burlington road to l'acitic Junction from Chicago even if 1 got much less to eat than 1 do at the eating Ktations. There would be at least one aatisfiictiou -a man could t njoy some degree of regularity, which' he rurely Cftnuot do under thu present condition of affairs. Hut in spite of hunger, and notwithstanding the roughness of the road, I had a good sleep while we sped westward through the night, and Jtuno waa reached just as I got up. The only importance Iteno has is that it serves b a junction station for tra!na going off the Central 1'ac.iHo road to Virginia City. I talkod with a man who go: on our train, and who mado hia home at this once blooming city in Nevada. " Virginia City to-day," ho aaid, "lives on its past reputation. A few years ago it had a population of 21,000 people, and now tliero are not over 7,000 there. Aud not that many would stay if they could only get away. Husiness is ab holutelv dead, and union, some new ami valuable discoveries arc made, nothing will save the place." Are the old bonanza mines worked out ?" 1 askod. Yos," he said; " nearly so, if not entirely. Levels are down :j,!00 feet, and the ore found won't pay hauling up. Many people have lost their all in the city, and those who put money into real estate are hurt the moxt. it is abso lutely impossible to sell a house or a business, and the cost of living is enormous. It seems to have been a policy of the Central l'acitic to destroy irginia City. J. lie freight on ore to 1' ris.?o is :ll a ton. and on wheat $2: a ton, and is relatively as great on all goods." Is Nevada a country for cereal growing .' tcs; but a farmer c.iu't raise wheat and pay $'2Ha ton. freight to get it to market. Neither can we pay $.'!4 a ton ou ore and make any money. The truth is Nevada cannot advance iu wealth unless the roa I reduces it charges and ceases its persecutions." "(oh! It'a a Telephone I" I Inter ( c an. A well to-do but uusophiHtica!i I farmer from one of the b nder counties of Indiana was in tho city lately at tending the fat stock eh w. and brought along his wife and daughters to nco die sights aud do soino shopping. Among other 1 daces they visited was Mandel a new tdore. and, after wandering around the first (lis r for awhile, the party came to a stop near tho elevator. One of the (laughters was first to dis cover tho cars movim; silently up and down, receiving and discharging their cargoes of passengers. She jerked her fathers coat-sleevo 1 1 direct his atten tion to thu phenomenon, mid, in a ton that was audible to thu elerka in tin neighborhood, asked : " What's that, paw tliat thing goiu up and (loan, with Nofys 111 it V Tho old man gave the elevator a lou calm, delils'iute, acrutini.iug stare, and exclaimed, with joy: "Hygosli! it's a telephone! the fir I ever aisa!" A Few Health AphorUniM. ll'upular Science Monthly. A chan go of air is less valuable than a change of scene. The air is changed every time the direction of the wind is changed. Calisthenics may be very genteel, and romping very ungontool; but ono is tho shadow, tho other thu aulwtance, of healthful exercise. Blessed 1k he who invented sleep. but thrico blessed tho mau who will invent a euro for thinking. Dirt, debauchery, disease, and death are successive links in the sumo chain, India'a Magnilnile. In attempting to assist the reader to realize tho magnitude of India The Spectator says that it contains some &0,(HKi,(KK) more people than the whole of Europe. India has sixty-two citie? of more than 50,000 people, twenty-two wiiu more than a kmj.ooo, w hile Cal cutta contains about MUi.OtXI souls. There are hundred of cities of 20,000, even the names of which are generally unauvwu 10 r.uropcana. A FAN-80NG. IKdward Wick.1 Fan me to mt, for slx-p-timo swt is ooru- imr. Ami oil I ao tinsl I, and olit m rrMl.su. TIm grateful utuau of thy aervnelv sjninnir uuiy can criaria me uiu inouguu UintrvMh KM. Fan me, l iva, fan mo, love, day light it iIihuI. lore Drad its dark anrrowda.1 its wild jwtf; Into tho land of old bygoiMs, u f)n (ova; ran ma 10 Love, do you har tba Ut kna bird-born aolo Uruunic ma-way-ward from tho grim Render It o'er to me, and dug it low low- Kmu won Low as a lup of wind oVr dark wood roacbea. Fan nw, lovw, fan me, lov, g,lur u th day's luva Ootioiu wrd hatmi yrt Tin di (rami! To-morrow I've gut flftmt dollars to raia F-f f fan tno to real' Bonterer'a '.Fertility. Fannie Brigham Ward in P oorer Presn. The principal crops in this state are corn, barley, bean a and sugar cane and they tell stories almost aa tall aa the corn about the marvelous growth of the latter. Hiding along the watercourses, anywhere in the suburbs, one sees im penetrable thickets of giant wild cane, rivaling Jack's historic beanstalk in height. A gentleman who ow ns w hat he calls a "quiuta pequino" (little gar den) of 100 acres, near Monterey tells me he lionght it, in 1882, for $22 per acre, and that the first year's yield of only ten acres of it in sugar cane real ized $700. Judge (iolinilo, a resident of this city, and one of the federal judges of Mexico, informs me that his sugar ranch waa seeded twenty-three years ago. Tho cane has ripened year after year more than nine feet high, and there has never been any falling off in the yield. But there are draw backs to this flattering picture. Irrigation, which is trouble some and expensive at best, is essential here, and the trouble in this bection seems to be that all the available water has already been transferred from the rivers to the irrigating ditches. The water question, which in Utah the Mormons have regulated to the nicety of clockwork, is here among the mysteries which "no fellow can find out." If you auk a farmer as to hia ir rigation privileges, ho will tell you he has "nine days' water," "thirteen days' water," "twenty days' water," as the case may be which means that he has the privilege of turning water on his land once in nine, thirteen or twenty days for which privilege you may be sure he pays a good round sum. It must be borne in mind that the raina of heaven, like many other things in this tropical clime are not to be depended upon. Didn't Hell Any ; rave tone. Merchant's Traveler. An enterprising traveling agent for a well-known Cleveland tombstone manu factory lately made a business visit to a small town in an adjoining county. Hoaring, in the village, that a man in a remote part of the township had lost his wife, he thought he would go and see him and offer consolation and a gravestone, on his usual reasonable terms. He started. The road was a frightful ono, but the agent pcrsovored, and finally arrived at tho bereaved man's house. Bereaved man's hired girl told the agent that the bereaved man waa splitting fence rails "over in the pastur, about two miles." The in defatigable agent hitched his horse and started for tho "pastur." After falling into all manner of mud holes, scratching himself with brier and tumbling over decayed logs, the agent at length found the bereaved man. In a sulalued voice he asked the man if he had lost hia wife. The man said he ha.l. The agent was very sorry to hear of it, and sympathized with the man very deeply in his great affliction ; but death, he said, was an insatiate archer and shot down all, both of high and low degree; informed the man that "what waa his loss was her gain," and would be glad to sell him a gravestone to mark tho spot w hero the beloved ono slept marble or common stone, as he cho.se, at prices defying competition. The bereaved man said there was "a little difficulty in the way." "Haven't you lost your wife?" inquired the agent. Vt hy, yes, I have, said the man, "but no gravestun ain't necessary; yon ace, tho cussed critter aiu't dead. Slie's scooted with auother mau !" The agent retired. The Fleawure of Choking to Death. t'Cor. Tall Mall Gazette.) While a student, I was ono evening investigating the question of respira tion, and to obtain more definite data I took a scarf, bound it about my throat, and held it there, drawn with my full force. My room-mate, on the "other side of the atudy table did not notice what I was doing, and went on with his talking, w hich died away by degrees into a murmur and was lost. My owu senses seemed normally acute, but gradually and without' any distress sight aud sound failed me, and a droamy and not unpleasant state 01 incipient insensibility, not uu like that produced by ' chloroform, sot in, and passod into a painless and complete oblivion a total insensibility to all surrounding impressions or phys ical sensations. I w as conscious of no choking or effort at breathing; and, in deed, that function seemed to be quite superfluous. I liked the sensation, and hung on to the scarf with unsuspicious vigor as long as consciousness re mained, aftor which my hands relaxed their hold, the scarf fell, and slowly breath and circulation resumed their oflicea. I might, I suppose, have died and known nothing more of tho matter, and why should not the "poor scamp" who must be choked to death be al lowed to go bv tho easy way I traveled out of sight of life and without a pang? I'laiitatlun I'hlloaoph)-. IArkauiiw Traveler. Too much iH'i ftiine makes a man sick. Do sweeten smell in all ul' il mithiu. When do cummunitv fakes im .In notion dat a man is er fool, dar ain't much use'n him kickin' agiu de lodg ment. I ain' afford o' do mau what wheu he giU mad. . bat de man what smues wuen lie s mml makes m f...l mighty oneosy. Je man what coos ter church denuw ain' al'ers de shoes' o' coin' ter healien De duck washes his.se'f heep oftener 'en de turkey, but airier all he ain' lm'f enclazde. qalrtly Remark. IKxchangw. If you are particularly anxious to abuse a man don't call him a fool, he might be annoyed ; don't call him a rascal, he might knock von down; quietly remark, with a heavenly smile: Sir, you present a fane large margin for improvement" Mr. Teter Mallen. 212 W. Twentv-fonrth atroet, New York, aaya that he suffered six yeara with rheumatism and found no re lief nntil Su Jacobs OU. the sovereign remedy, was applied, which cured him eompleUly. AN AMUSING ANECDOTE. Dlploaaary, According ta "Monsieur" A Proof of Heaeonsfleld'a Ureal eaa. The French Fitraro Dublishes the fol lowing amusing incident, which is said to have taken place during one of the state dinner at liorlin, and at wnicu the late Lord Beacon stleld and the mar nnis of Salisbury a ere presont: Prince Biama-ck. who is well known to be a great eater, tilled his platj with cherries; the marquis of Salisbury ob served it. "l'rinoe,".aid he suddenly, "what you are doing is very unhealthy. "WliatV uuiil 1'rince Bismarck, in astonishment. "You have just swallowed two cherry stones." "You are mistaken," said the prince, with marked coldness. "Never!" replied Salisbury, with that hautenr which characterizes the proud English aristocracy. "Monsieur le Marquis!" said Uis marck. his eves shooting fire. It was at thit moment that Lord Beaoonsfleld came to the rescue. "Perhaps," he insinuated, in his soft est voice, "you are both right; your highness must be so occupied with seri ous thoughts that you might inadvert ently have swallowed a tiny stone." "Two!" interrupted Salisbury, Jin a decided tone. , "Or two," continued Lord Beacons field, as calmly as possible; "and you, my dear lord and colleague, enjoy such good sight that nothing escapes you. Now, prince, and marquis, will you al low me to decide this difficult ques tion?" "How?" murmured Bismarck. "Your plate, highness, if yoa please." This last was in English, the corre spondent adding that Lord Beacons field was the only diplomatist at Berlin who never talked French. The plate was sent to Lord Bcaqonsfiold, who at once emptied the contents on the table. All eyes were now fixed on him. With his long, bony, agile fingers, covered with precious stones, he began to ar rango what looked more like a child's game than an occupation worthy ol such a distinguished minister. He put all the stones in a line, and placed a stem on each stono. Then, in that clear, piercing voica that has so often moved the house of commons, tho English prime minister began to count one, two, three, and so on to forty-seven stones, and likewise with the stems, till he had counted forty-nine. The proof was there two stones were wanting. Bismarck rose and said in an agitated voice, "Marquis, you are right!" then, turning, said iu a loud voice, "Lord Beaconsfield, you are a great man !" A.V OU) APACnK'S OKA. Cor. biter Ocean The frequent outbreaks and raids of the Apaches and the seeming inability of the government to keep these Indians under control has had the effect of bringing thu military into contempt with the citizens. The story of the old Apache chief who we-it to an officer in command ol one of the posts in Arizoua and asked that a cannon be given him is often t.ild to strangers traveling in Arizoua aud illustrates the feeling toward the mili-' tary. The officer refused him the can 11011, saving : "I suppose you want that cannon to kill my soldiers with." The old chief re died: "Want cannon to kill cowboys; kill soldiers with a club." REVIEW OF A GREAT AMD BENEFICIENT WORK. Two recognizee! vuocliH of linninn life have been completed since we began this work. It is meet that we make a halt, long enough at least to take note of the region over winch we have journeyed. and to examine the horizon which opens up 10 us. I wice seven years ago one of us started smglc-liandvd to inaugurate and develoi a new use: at once scientiful ami nrm-tim proftfSNional and commercial, busi ness-like and lieneticient. They only who have tried it know the difficulties to lie encoun tered in creating an entirely new business and securing its recognized entrance into uie rank and tile of business. That we nave done tins iriveH us t he riuht to KnenW For e irht years this sinirle-handed work w as prosecuted. The operator had a con- viction that in the Compound Oxygen he found the mode of redeeming his fellow men from the sutt'erintrs of li sense, mnm potent aad benign than the world had ever seen, hum inspired him with the courage to abandon a lucrative practice w hich he had been twelve years in building, and to oiemuueju ousiacies in uie wsv 01 realiz ing his dream of proving to the world that his conviction was securely founded. That this has been fully accomplished, thousands of people either cured or made richer in greatly improved health-stand ready to testify. Sixteen years ago the senior partner had his attention called to a few persons who n; iakihk uieiompound Uxvgen. They declared that thev were improving with satisfaction, lie felt sure they were being stimulated; and that, consequently, they would soon show the effect of all stimula tion, and retniL'aile lul ; health at which they begnn the treatment. jiv can-iuiiy w aiclnng the cases for sev eral months, his prediction failed of veri fication iu a single case. He then induced several of his own patienta-aases which any physician weuld have considered very doubtful under any system of medication to try the effect of the Compound Oxy gen. With surprise he watched them making commendable speed healthward He put members of his own family under treatment, and w ith like good results. All this provoked a conflict in his mind, lie had proof that in tb iY,.nn,.,i n..- gen there was an aitent that would cure many sick ones whose condition would baffle the medical skill of any physicians whom he knew. And many others whom he miKht cure in sit nr would get w ell in aa many weeks under i mm ui uisi agenu Now Uie quest ion forced iUelf upon his """" i""-'""riiy aemanued an an swer: "What nr this latter class of patients, w ho confide to your care the restoration of their health? . iiimui pnysician la it not voar duty to take the surest and shortest way to se cure to them that for which they are nv. :.nl?7?u'.1 "eVvhat Uthe propositioir . ---- , kn n line U U know- thev can be better served than they can be under your care and rr,iniut,, i But that would be suicidal. "n th. ?trtion of such patienta would be small " rue. but the ouulir will not Himi .1 They will see only that the doctor sends' his patienta elsewhere to bo cured, and therefore, be lacks confidence in his medi cal skill. " ell, there is one way out of the dilemma; get posKession of the super lor curative agent aad thua make peace with your professional conscience and Drove yourself a friend of sutterlng humanity." What, and be Jeered by one's friends, and tabooed by one's professional brethren? "That appear to be about the price. Hut what U the alternative?" Iteauft: He gives up his hard-earned practice, secures at great price the knowledge of and the right to administer the Compound Oxygen in thia citv. this included only the office treatment In Philadelphia. Soon he waa exercised by the fact that the operaslon of an olllc. business was very limited. Something must be done to dispense the blessing far and wide. Accordingly, at no little ex pense, he hastened to make known to hia professional brethren the virtues of Com pound Oxygen and to furnish them w Ith outfits for administering it. As he ought to have known would bo the case, his ef forts excited ridicule and reproaches. Nothing daunted, he entered upon a long series of experiments, which resulted in tlis conviction that there was a much bet ter method of accomplishing the end in view than the one which had fulled. Hence the widely known Home Treat- " lnt"this untried field he lalwred for a year, meeting many failures in his expert inents, working hard at details, ami creat ing a literatnre which the work alwolutely rwiiiired. On the last of June, ten year ago, the practabllity of the enterprise was demonstrated. Hut he had exhausted hia resources, broken his health, and almost sacrificed his life. The ship was built and launched, but three years' struggle proved to him that he could not freight and man iu Six and a half yeara ago he found a man w ho could appreciate the value of the work in hand. Our united forces have fulfilled the brightest hopes of the pioneer. A new departure was theorderof the da v. The first and essential thimr to be done was to let those who needed our curative agent know that we were In possession of it. Know in that many fortuues have been sunk in advertising, we decided to put that part of the business into the hands of one whose skill and experience had licen proven, it is enougn 10 say mat Uie methods which he adopted have revolu tionized important branches of advertis ing. From the outset we have dealt truthfully with the sutTerins sick, rvalizimr that thru at least had a right to demand such deal ing. We knew that we had a curative agent superior to any other in the world, and, therefore, the simple truth about it would be Uie best credentials itcoujd have; hence we were not tempted to Invent tes timonials, nor to steal genuine ones, nor to romance on any. The growth nf the business has been phenomenal. During the first year the business doubled each month. During the last four years we have recorded iu our books, statements of diseeses, reporta of progress, repeated advice and prescrip tions, of over twenty thousand crsons. Much more could be said iu proof of the success of our work as a commercial en terprise; but let this suffice. It is of much greater imKrtance to prove that our pro- lesstonai success has exceeded the other. hat have we to show in this direc tion? During those fourteen years we have treated thirty thousand patients. Among these a hirRe proportion had been sick for years. They had exhausted the skill of the best physicians of all schools, dif ferent sanitariums, various natural health ersorts, shops of nostrum mongers and months of hygienic traveling. In manv of theac cases it has cost more to remove the baleful effects of the treatment prac ticed on them, than those of the original disease. How many of them have been desperate cases may be inferred from the fact that we have filled scores of orders sent unconditionally in which the patient had passed beyond Uie reach of anv rem edy on its arrival. And out of this un promising multitude, ninety per cent have been either cured or greatly benefitted. We have proved that a numlier of dis eases which by common consent have la-en assigned to the category of "incurable," no longer belong there. We have cured a numlier of cases of Wright's disease. Two of these cases were brothers; whose father, one brother and one sister had died of the same diseae. We have treated four m.w of Loco-motor ataxia, or progrtssivf jtar alynis. In all of these the progress of the disease has been arrested (which 110 sys tem of medication has ever been known to do), and the patients have mado genu ine progress towards health. We never fail to cure asthma even of fifteen years' standing unless tho case has !een spoiled by the use of narcotics; which served as palliatives, but constantly ag- gnuaiea 1110 disease. The same can la said of the "arprobrium mlcndi," hav fever. The cases of consumption con tinued phthisis which the Compound Ox ygen has cured can be counted by scores We are confident that we make more gen uine cured of catarrh - nasal laryngial. bronchial and pulmonary than all the catarrh specialists in the country. A distinguished mendsT of the New lork Har, who appeared to be a w reck, both physically and mentally, and who had settled up his worldly affairs, resumed Ins active business after three months' treatment; and this busiuesa he has suc cessfully followed for a year. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, who had been disabled for nearly two years by a dangerous exhaust on of the brain, has for a year and a half been prosecuting her professional work . with more ease and energy than ever before. The Hon. W. 1)7 Kelley the lather of the National House of Kepre sentatiyes, w ill tell any one that he owes the last ten years of his life to Com- disputed that during this period his labors have not been snrmiHiwH ,r .1, any other member of Congress. Wil ham Penn Nixon, 0f the Chicago Inter uccan, wa that he owes his life and some It l W fSV. UHefuJu,s8 to the virtues ?i . m nd 0x3r?JL- , 7he Pul'"c know m7t the "nttu'ied testimony w hich ir. 1. b. Arthur hna u... - il,r... j V m lavor 01 the Compound Oxviten as ei.iin,i i i own case. But whv nniltinlv 1 t.. , published' manv 1 .n'". ' " " f e h, h.ii... ' ,""u "utiemenia in of rfiiV a n" lanK"W of Uie effort k!na,Cdse0Xgen in '" '-"- Now what of tlm fni Tr-..i :houidzdr k? more beneflcient. A . "V". . divirt..aXUhT b'wlneiw has been the rnmrnVnmby tl,e Popularity of our "1 0xgt'n' ! to show that raUomdl, il ine?-. B,lt until hey can nXrVTiaCeUnt,r,or the thousands of riles si L?8 effted by il. their ti Wwm"1, ,0' course there are ana there will DrobH i vhu I-.!... "rs of the Cnmnn., r"'"''"A' have already .taiE " Vf.i?" ,me ture. and evnn nni iiiera- th,. i.. V. . """'HoniaiB. uno ot EL !"!? ?bu,ned from wulia ntt in hP. pln,on of Compound Oxygen houThMrV6' "ow Polishes i t as mem inTtP, n WMfurci by his treat- ay ,nn(iou8: but we have a good reason in ku-i. . wo nave. them are ItlTlw i" "'" have their dav ' '"J"", ihey will lor full Information roffardinir the treatment and it use, address 1100 .n,t iinK'r STJiRK1!ir & pAt-. directed to YLR-ffa ar,!W1,jd.on.Iie ume terms aa if aent dlmUy to ua in PiOladelphla,