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EUGENE CITY GUARD. X. L. CAMPBELL, . - rroprletor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. The fatal Nam of Walter. Indianapolis Time. Forty-four year ago the writer wai called in a professional capacity to a rudely constructed log cabin in the woods, sixteen niilos east of this city, A male child' was born the first-born of man and wife whose intelligence and general cultivation was much in advance of the society in which thoy lived. They were determined to make thomselvcs a home of plenty in the new country by tlioir own industry, having nothing but a quarter ne lion of good land and their household goods. Thoy came from Cluarmont county, Ohio. Three neighbor women were there, and after tho little stranger was dressed the mother, with black hair and beautiful eyes, was asked to name the boy. "I want to call him Walter, but it is an unlucky name. My great-grandfather was namod Walter, and he novor camo home from the war for independence. Then my husband's grandfather was named Walter, and he went to the war of 1812 and lie never returned. His oldest brother was named Walter. He went to sea and we heard that he be came a soldier in Europe, but he never returned. We do not know where any of them are bnried. No grave-stones mark their resting-plooes. There is no war now, and 1 trust never will be in our life-time in this country, and I am in favor of calling him Walter, that the old family name may be retained among us. Twenty-two years from that time Walter bade his widowed mother fare well to join the army for the defense of the Lnion and the home of his child' i t , . i i,. i, f,n J Jll $& tiZ A .?i $5. te jl Stone rivor. All efforts to gain some trace of his doath and final resting- plaoe proved futile. No one can tell where, whon, or .how he diod, or who disposed of his remains. His mother mourned the loss of her first-born, and often rogrotted that she bad named him Walter. A few years ao she died at the old home. On hor death bed she said : 'Uury me beside my hus band on the hillsido, and if Walter's frave is ever found spend all the cstato leave, if it takes that much, to bring him home and put him by his father and me. Oratoriral Power. An exchange says of Wendell Phil lips : "He was the great orator of the anti-slavory cause. In tlu stormiest period of tho abolition movement, when anti-slavery speakers wero hissed 'by the populace, when rotten eggs were hurled at them, whon mobs threatened and sometimes assailed them, he never quailed nor lost his presence of mind. lie was no ranter. In the tempest and whirlwind of pussion, with a furious mob responding to his every sontence with a storm of hisses and opprobrious epithets, he kept magnificently calm, end if he lashed his antagonist as with a whip of scorpions, launching upon them Lis scorn and deflauco, he did it like a gentleman. in this conuwaou it will bo proper to give another paragraph which is going the rounds: "On ono occasion during the war, whon Anna Dickinson had moved au audience to alternate cheers and tears, Wendell 1'hillipM, who had spoken at the same meeting, said to her: 'Anna, I would give much to lie able to make people cry as you do. Why cannot I do it?' 'I suspect the reason is bocauso you never cry yqjir- seii, was mo answor. Artlve Hr. Uaerry. Hmuptor Itmbllcan. Mr. W. W. (luoiry, of this oitv, is in many respects an extraordinary man. He is now about 40 years old. Iu child . hood both his arms were cut off about halt way betwoon tho elbow and shoul der by a sugar mill, but ho was full of envy, ami it was not a great while be fore he learned to get along without arms. He grew to be, and if yet, amau of prominence, integrity and usefulness. lie has a wife aim several childreu, is coronor of the county, acting bailiff of Aniericus district, and making a hand some income. In the business of life Mr. Ouerry hardly misses his arms. He iuserts the pon staff iu his mouth when writing, and writes as legibly and as fast as men generally write who are accustomed to tho use of the pon. Ho can swim, drive a horse, tie a knot, shoot a guu, and do almost anyiumg, and do it about as well as if his arms had never been out off. Katate of the Prince of Waterloo. Pall Mall Gasette.l Who is the prince of Waterloo? The name sounds strange to English ears, but it is familiar enough iu Belgium, whore it is known to appertain to the dukoof Wellington. A Nivelles news' paper contains an announcement of a proximate salo of trees upon the do' main known as tho "Hois do Nivelles," by order of "His ('trace Arthur ltiuh- nrd, Duke ot Wellington, Priuco of atorloo." I his extensive estate was conferred upon the Iron duke by his countrymen, as an additional testimony of their gratitude for Waterloo, and to give some sort of local color to his title of prince of Waterloo. The Bel gian government finds itself much hampored by this great foreign pro- urietor. and there wan unm.i Lilk a f..w months ago of its resuiuimr tho foa simple of the domain of Nivelles aud paying the duke an annual rent fur it making him a lifo-roiiter, in fact. I.tiey and Mnaaa'a Legae)-. The Boslon Traveler s.ivs the lie- quests lolt by Mrs. Eddy to Lucy Stone aud Susan " B. Anthony fJojOOO to each were not loft iu trust for the auf- irage cause, as nas been erroneously stifled, but lolt absolutely to each. Wendell Phillips dnw up the will, and hen he read it to Mrs. Eddy he said : "Now, if Mrs. Stone or Miss Anthonv choose to stand on India wharf and throw this money into the sea they could uo so, coma tueynotT "Cer tainly they could," Mrs. Eddy replied, "and no one could sav them nay. 1 trust Lucy and Susan absolutely," A ROVING PEOPLE. Love, OoarUhlp and Marriage Among the Arab fCol. De Funk lu Courier-Journal. 1 The girls have little to do with se- lecting tlioir husbands. The men nearly, always fix that up among themselves, A bold warrior sees a girl whom he loves in another tribe, lie rides up at night, rinds where she is sleeping, dashes up to hnr tent, snatches her up in his arms, puts her before him on the horse and sweeps away like the wind, If ha barmens to be caught he is shot, If he is not, the tribe from which he has stolon the girl pays him a visit in a fow days. The dervish, a priest of the tribe, joins the hands of the young man and the girl, and both tribes join in the merriment. All the bravost men steal tlioir wives, but thore are some who do not. Their method is a little different. Of a calm. moonlight night and moonlight in the Ironies is far more beautiful than here you may see an Arab sitting before the tent of his iuamorita picking a stringed instrument something like our banjo and singing a song of his own composition. This is his courtship, They are the most musical people in the world. They talk in poetry, and extemnorization is as easy with them as it was with the Scalds of old. If the girl is obstinate he goes else whore and soeks to win another girl bv LU songs and musio. Sometimes the fathers make tin the match, but always the girl is the obedi- ent slave. Hor religion, her people, her national instincts, the traditions of hor ancestors, all teach her to be the slave of her husband. The power of life and doath is in his hands, and she bows before his opinions with the most implicit obedience. It is only when the fair-faced Frank comes, with his glib talk of woman's highest duties and grandor sphore. with his winning man- grander spuore, wiiii nis winning man- nor, with his marked respect, so flatter- in to a womon's soul, that she leaves hor husband, forsakes the teachings of her childhood, gives up home and friends, and risks doath itself to repose in his arms. They are as fine riders as the men, and as fearless. They can go almost any distance without fatigue. They are tine shots, and don't know what personal fear is. Ihe women of these people are mod est and far more faithful than the women of civilized life. Indeed, it is the rarest thing in the world to hear of conjugal infidelity. The women mature at 11 and 12, and are old at !l.r. When young they are beautiful Thoy have soft, dark skin, black, H: wing hair, and soft, languishing eyes. They are pas sionate in their loves, but after marriage all their affection is centered in tlioir husbands. If a woman is found to be untrue to her husband she is instantly killed, togetlior with her lovor. liut this seldom happens. (George Ilanrroft. Youth's Comanlun.l George Bancroft is now 84 vears old, and he still contiuues his long, hard rides every afternoon of his life. He told me that he was fooling well, and it may be that he will yet make out his 100 years, ne nas not so mucu nesu us no had ten years ago, but what he has is all good solid muscle of the same ma- tonal as the famed shay of tho good old deacon, which dropped to pio.es all at 0IIC6. His wife, perhaps the most cultured woman in Washington, was ou years uiu iiio luiw'r pmi,u. lUHkiuuiHi., am sho looks much tho healthier of the two. Her eyes are bright, and her cheeks full and rosy. She is a very pretty lady, and one would not think of taking her for more than (10 at tho most. She has a won derful eyesight, and can soe at long dis tunces without glasses, though she uses them to read by. hen she went to Newport last sum mer, she was far from well, and had to ue uued in ana out oi the carriage whon she went to drivo. Now she is 1U p,.wt """. ''' '"i1 '- give will bo resumed this winter. Ilables on the Cars. Burlington llawkeye. And the babies ! Littlo bundles of fleecy white cloaks, blue cloaks, warm crimson cloaks, indescribable bundles of shawls and wraps and hoods and swan's-down, shapeless and motionless, until the car starts. The door is shut to with a bang like a Mississippi shot-gun, and the unwrapping process begins, and . . -...-II . . baby crawls out of his chrysalis, a fluffy tuft of crinkled hair; a tat, dimpled fist; thon a plump faco, rosy with the kisses of Jack frost: a pair of big, round, wondering eyes, and a dancing head that goes swinging around on that little crease that passes for a baby s nock, while the baby takes in tho whole car ml begins at once to mnke friends with tho ugliest and bashfulest man he can see, and buries the poor fellow under mountains of ooniusiou by call ing him "Papa." Cooled II 1m Mown. Atlanta Constitution. A geutleman ot Athens, (la., once had a lover's quarrel with his sweet heart, who gave him back his engage ment ring, a f'J'ilt diamond. Deliber ately walking to the hearth, he threw tho memento of his blighted happiness ou the stone and with his heel ground it to pieces. He then returned the lady a ring she once had given him. But she was guilty of nl such outburst, Calmly placing it on the mantel, she remarked, ell, 1 11 need it for my next beau." The quarrel was soon made up, and the hasty lover had to invest in another ring. Jnat Klcht. llrooklyn Eagle. "Madame, vou've destroyed fivo dol- Jars' worth of merchandise," angrily remarked a dude to a adv. as she seated herself in a chair in hieh he had de- posited a new Derby hat, "Serves tou right, alio replied, slowly rising from the ruin, "you had no business to buy a $5 hat for a 60-cent head." Animals dwelling at high elevations resemble those of colder latitudes. The same species of insects are found on Mount Washington as in Labrador and Greenland. A Siovel Matrimonial Kxprrlmenf. Tho Biographer has an account of the eecentrio Tboma Day, author of "Sundlord and Merton, who under took to raise a wife to ordor. When Day, who waa a precocious lad, came of age, he succeeded to an ampie loriune, aim w gan to looa auounuin ior a wiie. He met one lady who suited him, but he did not suit her. Then he conceived the notion of educating a girl to be his spouse. He chose two girls, in ordor to have a bettor chance of success; one from an orphan school, a flaxen haired girl of 12. named by him Babrina Kidney, after the Severn and Algernon Sidney ; the othor from the foundling hospital in London, whom he named Lucretio. He took the girls to Trance, where he hoped in quiet to discover and discipline tiieir tuients. In the course of the process thoy all three quarreled, and, to add to the dir Acuities the girls caught the small-pox When they recovered, he was glad to return to London, where he apprenticed Lucrotia to a milliner. Subsequently she married a linen draper, and Day, in his gratitude, gave her a dowry of HoW, Sabrina was given a furthor chance of educating nerseu to become Mrs. uay, hut it was impossible to eradicate her ense of pain. hen melted sealing' wax was dropped on her arms she flinched, and she started and screamed when pistols were fired at her garments. When Day triod her fidelity by telling her protended socrets, she divulged them iu gossip with her servants. He sent her to a boarding-school for three years, but, although she foil far short of his ideal, he was not altogether pleased when she married his friend Bicknell Day finally fell in love with Honora Sneyd, who was engaged to the un fortunate Maj. Andre. She didn't want Mr. Thomas Day; neither did her sister, to whom he proposed. At last, however, he met his reward in the uuwcer, uo iue uis rewaru m his person of Miss Esther Milnes.alady of wealth and culture. Dangla aa a Slave-Owner. New Orleans Cor. New York Tribune. ' Lost week while hunting near Mag- olia, Miss., I came across a crooked and lame, but pleasant, darkey well ad vanced in years, gotting out rude pine shingles. After learning some inter esting fact concerning his slave life he gave me to understand that he was of noblo extraction, having been the prop- erty of "Massa Douglas, fruin de norf. He reoollocted the brilliant and power ful senator very well, but had a much cleft i or remembrance of "Boss Strick- lun " the overseer of the plantation How many slaves did Douglas own f 'Bout 175, sail, chillun' an all. 'Mighty good niggahs too, sah ; but Boss Stricklun' he wuk us pow'ful hard," was the unhesitating answer. On going to dinner my inquiries dis covered several persons who recollected that Douglas once owned a slave plan tation in Lawrence county, and one could tell mo how to reach the historic spot, which is on Poarl river, a pleasant stream of yellowish, pearly color. No one knew how tho slaves ca'iie into the possession of Dougla-i. but "reckoned" lie bought thorn ' "bout forty year ago." Old In Xew York, Bnt New in Chicago Indianapolis Sentinel. i. t. tw;ii n ! x'.. York, stepped from a Michigan Cen- frnl train in thin nitv v Ant, a in 1 n v a lmnd- gom0 V0UI1K iftJy kip'ped up to him, threw her arms rapturously about his ne(,ka,,a ki8soa mm many times, say "Oh, papa, Im so glad you have come. Mr. Pease threw both arms around her and held hor firmly to his breast. Soon she looked up into his face and horror stood in her eye. "Oh, my! you re not mv papa! ' she said, trying to free herself from his em brace. Yes I am," insisted Mr. Pease, hold' fog hor tight! v. "You are my long lost dlllIghtor tnj i alu Koing to keep you right iu my arms till 1 get a police man. Whon the officer came and found Mr. Pease's diamond pin in the girl's hand ho said : "That's a new trick here." "Is it?" said Pease. " Well, it's old in New York." An Advance In I'taoiography. Chicago Current Edward W. Fell, of Cleveland, is re' ported to have invented a process by which absolutely permanent pictures may be instantly photographed upon any substance having a smooth surface Tho process is expensive, electricity being employed. Ihrougb his inven tion engraving is made an easy matter: entirely accurate copies on stone, wood, metal or shell may be made without the great labor and care now involved. There is always a feeling of melancholy engendered bv the news ot such in ventions, for it is nnnthor blow at handicraft. Of course it must be ad mitted that the world is made to progress by the inventors of labor saving methods, but their introduction ordinarily causes temporary hardship among tlioso who have trained tlioir hands to do that which the scientific. application of nature's forces more suo ccssfully accomplishes. i i ii i Wendell I'hlllipa In College, A correspondent of Tho Worcester Spy, in au account of a conversation he once had with Wendell Phillips, savs I askod him if he had any pleasure in fighting: if contest gave him any satis faction. He said 'not a bit,' that he hated fighting, and was the very last man who ought to have to do it, 'but,' he added, 'when I was in collego one of my classmates round lauit with mo for always standing up for any person or thing that was denounced , he said : "Say anythin? azainst a man, and up jumps Phillips to defend him.no mat- ler whether the man is right or wrong, whether rimnps mows anything bout him or not, it is enough for him " me man is atuu-aeu. -ow, sam Mr. Phillips, I thovgiit that the best compliment ever paid me; and I sup pose it was the bent of my character to defend anything that was attacked.' " If eegs keep on getting much higher in price millionaires will wear them as shirt studs. A WEST INDIAN SCENE. A Fire, in a Cane Plantation Explo ivn f the Ilnrnlnn Mnxar Cane. West Indies Letter. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and we, were standing outside admiring the scene, when a gentleman, at the north end of the veranda, sud lenly e claimed!: "Look here, quickly." We hurried lorward and turned onr eves toward the place to which he pointed There, in the edge of a cauetield, where the cane leaves wore as dry as tinder,(for the summer had lenn very hot, Me 8aw a ugh' flickering and wavori.ng in such a mannor as to bauisu all hope that it might be the light of a lantern. Ere we could speak or move it seeaied to dart along the ground, while a faint crackling reached our Then, with a roar as of a giant ears awakehed from slumber, the dostruc tive element sprang up in all its fury, throwing a strong, red glare over the landscape, on which, a short time befor), the peaceful beams of the moont had so gently rested. The sugaricane when burning explodes with ft report like that of a small pistol Imagine, then, the noise mado by bun- dreds . of canes exploding simultane- ously. But what is that dull, droning sound which can be heard even above the dim caused by the fire? That is the difa the fife is. m i e alarm, and an ingenious one it every estate yard are two or three huge, empty basins, called by the natives "coppers. What they are there air x . as uijokvij niuvu avnuuiv ast? out When struck by any hard substance for is! a mystery which cannot be solved. they U1 give forth the sound already described, and can be beard lor miles. Seal the summons is being answered The roads leading from town, and those connecting the various estates are thronged with people, hastening to the acenejof devastation. The police and the militia have been called out. Fire engines are of little or no use in a case like this. The devouring element spreads too rapidly to be checked by a single 1 jet of water. Already the field in wliihh the fire started is ablaze from end to end, and those sparks which are throwmfar and wide show too plainly what will be the result, if the fire is not at once checked. The negroes, provided with cane-knives and scythes, are sent to cut aown and remove the cane from the fields adjoining the burning ones. This is theonly way of checking the fire, out it seems as if their labors are in Vain. Before they can remove the canes they have cut down the flames leap across the narrow boundary be tween the fields, set the cane leaves alight, and a second Hold is given up to destruction. the red glare of the flanes is almost blinding, and the heat is intense. The scene is like a battlo-fiold. The popping of the canes sounds like dis charges of musketry, while the gangs of eager workers, cutting and hack ing as if for dear life, closely resemble conflicting armies. While we stood gazing, fascinated by the graudsur of the scene, a loud peal of thunder star tles us, and looking up we bee the sky overcast and cloudy. Soon the drops bojin to fall, then the rain comes down with a rush, and all work ceases on the part of those trvinor to subdue the fire. Now for the contest between fire and water, between the roaring, scorching names and the soak' ing, drowning rain. The flames, sub dued ' for an instant, sprintr up airain with greater fury, as if oil and not water had been poured upon thorn But it is ai unequal cqutest. The flames have no firm hold on anything, Those leaves and canes form no solid blazing mass which might defy the rain. Slowly, but surely, the tiro is mastered, and when, an hour later, the clouds drifted away and the moon conies out in all her glory, her beams rest upon a block and desolate spot. The Hat Our Father Wore. Detroit Free Press. ineiasnion in head-gear for men and boys has undergone a groat change during the last thirty years. Now caps or cloth are rarely seen except on men in uniform, or on foreign arrivals, and the silk hat is affected only by staid citizens of middle or mature age. The folt hat has usurped the place of both these head coverings for young and old, except when some Btate occasion demands the traditional "stove-pipe;" and there are few wearers of these who know their composition. Once when the "beaver hat was actually a beaver skin fashioned into a hat, the name was appropriate. Subsequent improvements reduced the price of "beavers" by changing the material, which became beaver fur sometimes cheaper fur attached by a glue or coment to a hat body of felt. Still later the fur was re placed by a a silk plush, glued on to a 11 1 1 W1.. ion lorm or uoay. isut of late years even the felt body has been discarded for one of coarse muslin or canvas, steeped in the same stiffening liquor used on the felt body sho.Iao dissolved in alcphol and receiving the outer cov ering of silk plush by the melting of the lac glue by means of a hot iron. Chlneae Conner vat Into. Exchange.) The ginger used in presorving and . 11 ...J.. A 1 1 T i . . I crystallizing in the big London estab lishments all conies from China. An amusing story regarding the familiar blue onu white stono jars is told. The Chinese made a very largo jar. After some years they were prevailed upon to make a second ize for the reception of ginger. In time a third size smaller was requested, but here the stublorn le.esuais reooued. lheir conserva tive character regarded any more inno vations as sacrilege. "And so," said the superintendent, "we had to hav small jars made in the Knglish potter es to hold our Chinese giug'r. So the ginger is genuine Ch.nese but the jars are not." Arkansaw Traveler: Young man. stick ter pupose. Forked lightnia am no sign o ram. ' A GREAT H0R8EKA5. Mr. J. II. Goldsmith, owner of the Wal nut Grove stock farm, N. Y aavs of the wonderful curative qualities of 6U Jacobs Oil, that having long used it for rheuma tism and on his breeding farm for ailments of horses and cattle, he cheerfully accords this great naia-cure hla nreferenr. u tho , -i ' I ' I beat be ever used, in an experience of I i"tmj jrui, i KEJECTED. Coventry Patmore. 'Pprha, ibo'i dancing somewhere now I" Th. .'i.n.wrht. nf llclit and music wake Sharp jealousies, that grow and f ro Till silence and the darkness ache. He sees her itp, so proud and gay, Which, ere he inane, foretold despairs Tbui did ihe look on such a day, And such the fashion of ber hair, And thus ihe stood, when, kneeling low, n . i, .hi i,..,ni,i. from her drrvs. And thus he laugb'd and to UM. whose "No" Was sweeter than anotter s -1 es. He feeds on tboushu that most deject; He Impudently foiirns ber charm., So reverenced in his own reieet, Dreadfully clasp'd by other ann ; And turns, and puts bis brows, that ache, Ai'iilnut thenitlow where 'tis cold. If only now his heart would break! liut on, bow niucn a neart can uuiui The Origin of the Walklng-Mtlek. Inter Oceaa.l The modern walking-stick h of ancient and respectable origin. Its de scent is directly traceable from the shepherd's crook, the palmer's staff, the traveler's stick, the wand of office, the scepter of monarchy and the sword It is a modification and a union of all of these, since it serves the purpose of each. It is now, as in the time when parables were written, a staff to the aged, a weapou of offense and defense, a mark of authority, and certainly, when its cost in individual instances is considered, a mark of the greatness of wealth. The walking-stick, identical in all points with the present cane, made its appearance some 400 years ago in the I pjrjscai nuuiz ouiuo j OA a ngv au mud court of the kins' of France. In a very short time the slender polished stick with a jeweled knob, became part of the possessions of every gentleman of quality. And so for centuries it bos continued an object of greater impor tance, according to the prevailing fash ion. Literature and the painter's art have not failed to mention the cane. History gives instances of its associa tion with the habits of great personages It was at one time the privilege of the noble-born alone to twirl and swing the walking-suck. Through different periods canes are of different fashion. They are rich or plain, slender and graceful, or thick, twisted, knotted and clubbed, long or short. They have been cheap or costly according to the owner's purse. Pepys saw a cane in London, in which wore set divers precious stones in worth ex ceediug 500 an enormous sum in his time. Ihe grand monarque had sev eral canes topped with jewels of great price. There are preserved in the cas tles and museums of Lurope numerous walking-sticks studded with diamond3 and rubies rich with gold and silver ornaments, relics of times when visible riches were necessary to convey to the popular mind the idea of personal grandeur or wealth. Different classes have been designated by the walking-sticks they carried. Thus old prints represent the physician accompauiod by his thick-knobbed and tasseled cane, the merchant with his stick shapod like the shepherd's crook, the swell of the period with the stick typical of his class, the ruffian with his short,, thick bludgeou. The greatest varieties of odd fashions was at the end of the last century. Canes for the con temporary millions who carry them are manufactured of almost every kind of wood. Oddity, which once exhausted itself on the shape of the stick, now at tacks the knob. Here, again, nearly everything in nature is imitated in gold, silver, brass and copper, ivory and wood. There is hardly a wider field for the carver and the designer, and it is worthy of remark that the handiwork of American craftsmen compares in originality and execution with any. judoe nAirsEss of imr yosx. The Hon. Joseph R. Flanders eniovs the eminent distinction of being one of the most prominent lawyers in New York. Born and brought up in Malone, Franklin county, on tne eage oi the Adirondack re gion, lie early devoted himself to the practice of law, and took an active part in the politics of the State. He was for years Judge In Franklin county; and he served with distinguished ability several terms in the Legislature of New York. He was for a long time in partnership, in the practice of law, with the Hon. w. A. Wheeler, who was Vice-President of the United States, during the Presidency of air. naves, juuhto f landers waa a mem. ber of the famous committee appointed about thirty years ago to revise the Con stitution of the State of New York. He always nas been a staunch and fearless ad vocate of temperance reform, and of purity In political affairs. During the controversy which led to the war, he was conspicuous for his consistent and forcible advocacy of "State rlirhta." always takinc the of the statesman and jurist, and not affil iating with the demagogues or noisy polit- utii cuariaians on eiuier siae. In his present appearance Judge Flan ders countenance urives no indication of the remarkable physical experience through which he has passed. No one would suppose, from seeing him busily at wura in ms law omce, a cneenul. hearty .i I, , i i . am, ni preserveu, eiaeny gentleman, that he was for many years a great suf ferer, and that his emancipation from slavery to severe disease was a mutter nf oniy recent date. Uut even so it is. Visiting him a few days ago in his well appoiuted law offices in "Temple Court," wnicn is one of the new twelve-story of fice buildings of the metropolis, we found him disposed to engage in conversation ann.JI.,n Uf 111 1 1 ' . . regarding his illness and his complete re. storation to health. The information which he communicated in regard to this extraordinary ease was substantially as follows- "For many vears I suffered fmm -ktohV digestion and the dyspepsia consequent upuu u. iuy neann was not at any time since I was twenty-one vpai-s nf mr via. orous; although by persistence and close application I have been able in most of me years to perform a large amount of work in my profession. KrnHnnllv I A. clined into a state of physical and nervous prostration, in which work becanfe almost an impossibility. In ltfTU I was all run 1 and" tiK IZ ambition had entirely departed. That summer I went to Saratoga, id took a variety of the waters, under tl direction of one of the resident phys ns. But instead of receiving any ' I grew weaker and more miserabV . jt time I was there. "In September I return . to Vew Ynrt in a very reduced state. I waa inrnnahla of work and hardly able to leave the house. Soon after my return I suffered a violent chill, which prostrated me to the laat degree. But under medicl treatment I gradually rallied, bo that iu the wluter and spring I managed to do a little work at my ofltce in my profession. During this time, however, I was subject to frequent fits of prostration, which kept I v. y. wuuba.su. .LIU J. t 1 1 k me for days and weeks at a time in the OOUM. "So I kept on until the summer of is, I tried a variety of medlcanienu whlrh kind friends recomended, and was un.i the care of several physician, f "rn to time. In the latter part of the anmi e I went to Thousand JsLds? wherrffl several weeks with friends. But I fQ '2 the atmosphere did not agree nitv, " Q Soon 1 had a chill; not aleverT one In my sUt it added to my weakneasand guneral discomfort. Several days aft., this I had auother chill, which totaJlJ prostrated me. wiy "As soon after this as I was able in travel. I went to Malone, my old Franklin county home, intending to stay f()r awhile among relations and friends, and to con suit my old family physician. lint I found that he was away In the White Mountain, with Vice-President Wheeler, my old friend and former law partner. They (, not return to Malone until three dayA.'V fore I left there. Of course I consul ted c'V physician. He neither said nor dliVmuVlA for me. I came away, feeling that the bat tle of life was nearly ended. The next time I saw Mr. Wheeler in New York he told me that tho doctor had said to 'him that he never expected again to see me alive. When I arrived at home in Septenj. ber. it was in a state of such exhaustion that I was unable to leave home except on bright and sunshiny days; and then only to walk slowly a block or two. "Meanwhile my son. who had been in Massuchusetts, made the acquaintance of a country postmaster in that State, aa elderly gentleman, whose prostration seemed to have been as great aa my own or nearly so. This gentleman had been taking the Compound Oxygen Treatment, and had received from it the most sur prising advantage. My son wrote fre quently, and urged that I should try this treatment. But I had lost all faith in remedies. I had tried many things, and had no energy to try any more, lint in September my son came to New York, and persuaded me to visit Dr. Turner, who is In charge of Dr. Starkey & Palen's office in New ork for the Compound Oxy gen Treatment My going thore was not because I had any faith in this treatment, but to gratify my son's kind importunity. When Dr. Turner examined mv case. h thought I was so far gone that he hardly dared to express the faintest hope. ' "On the seventh of October I commenced taking the treatment. To mv great sur prise I began to feel better within a week. In a month, I improved so greatly that I waa able to come to my office and do some legal work. I then earae to the office reg ularly except in bad weather. On the nineteenth of . December a law matter came into my hands. It was a compli cated case, promising to give much trou ble, ana to require very close attention. I had no ambition to take it for I had no confidence In my ability to attend to it. I consented, however, to advise concerning it, and to do a little work. One complica tion after another arose. I kept working ' at it all winter and into the spring. For three months this case required as contin uous thought and labor as I had ever be stowed on any case in all my legal experi ence. Yet under the constant pressure and anxiety I grew stronger, taking Compound Oxygen all the time. In the spring, to my astonishment, and that of my friends, I was as fit as ever for hard work and close aplication. "My present health is such that I can without hardship or undue exertion at tend to the business of mv nrofesnion aa of old. I am regularly at my office in all kinds of weather, except the exceedingly stormy, and even then it is seldom that I am housed. My digestion is good, ray sleep is as natural and easy as it ever was, and my appetite is as hearty as I could de sire. "A remarkable feature of my case is the hopelessness with which Dr. Starkey viewed It at the outset It was not brought to his personal attention until after, in Dr. Turner's care, I had begun the treatment. Then my son wrote to him, setting forth my condition, and ask ing him to interest himself individually in endeavors for my benefit. Dr. Starkey reinieu mai ne nau careiuuy examined the case, as set before him, and that there was evidently nothing that could be done. He saw no possible chance of my being -made better, aud doubted if I roiild ven be made more comfortable. 'I am very sorry,' he wrote, 'to give Buch a hepelesa prognosis, but conscientiously I can give no other.' What would Dr. Stnrkev have said, had he then been assured that in less than a vear from the time of his writing I should be thoroughly restored to as good health as ever I had. and that I should he, able to attend regularly to the arduous du ties oi my proiession r "Do I still continue to tAkn thn Treat ment? No; not regularly, for my system is iu bucu a condition mat 1 do not need It Once in awhile, if I hannen tn fjilra cold, I resort to the Treatment for a few days, and always with certain and benefi cial eftect "My confidence in the restorative nnvAF of Compound Oxygen is complete; as also it is in the ability and integrity of Drs. Starkey & Palen, and of Dr. Turner, who is in charge of their New York Depository; otherwise I Bhould not allow my name to be used In this connection. I have thua freely made mention of the hlstorv ot mv case as a duty I owe Of rendering possible service to Borne who may he as greatly in need of physical recuperation as I was." From the above It would seem tiateven the most despondont invalids and those whose condition has been annnnaeH ts ha beyond remedy, may take courage and be of good cheer. For the most ample de tails in regard to Compound Oxygen, ref. erence should be made to the pamphlet is Jed by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia. On ap plication by mall, this oamnhlet. will h. sent to any address. All orders for the Compound Oxygen ' Home Treatment directed to II. E. Ma thews, 600 MonUromerv Cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if sent directly to us in Philadelphia. "Dr. Plarxa'a M.mntl. Vtt- IP advertised in another column of this pa per. 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