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A PICTURE.
Lewi Morris.
Long rolling surges of a falling sea,
B mi ting the sheer din's of an unknown
shore;
And by a fanged rock, swaying helplessly
A mast with broken cordage nothing more.
THE GRUMBLING CAMEL.
The ,Mhip of the Desert an rly
Craft to Manajre.
I London Telegraph.
The telegrams from our special cor
respondents in the Soudan, bear witness
to the importance of these dillicult
beasts, although their presence invites
perils. Not only are they themselves
the prizes 'which the Arabs, thinking of
plunder as much as bloodshed, are anx
ious to make, but they necessitate a
deplorable weakening of the advancing
column. Require, as they do, sure foot
ing for every step they take, it often
happens that at a narrow passage over
a bridge, or through flooded rice fields,
the whole force is halted to let the great
alow brutes slouch forward one by one.
Men and horses and mules tramp
through the mud, wade the stream,
scramble over rough bits ; but the camel
positively refuses to do anything ex
cept move upon flat and trustworthy
ground. Mud is an abomination to it;
water an impossibility. So, let the
Harrow pathway be never so tortuous
the long - files of grumbling monsters
have to thread their way in and out, one
.behind the other, while the soldiers
halt and guard the caravan as it reforms
and starts afresh.
Sor, at a pinchr is the animal to be
depended upon for extra work, as the'
hardier mule or human being may bo.
Its measure of wk is so exactly de
fined that any attempt to exceed it is
promptly resented by death. So care
ful in this res'ect are eastern men that
rather than overtax one of them, even
for a short march , they will distribute
the extra weight among their own
shoulders, and "a camel-load" is used
as a phrase expressing a certain ac
curate quantity of grain, or salt, or
other goods, and as being itself too no
toriously recognized to require state
ment in avoirdupois. When once its
burdens are adjusted, and the beast un
derstands that they are complete, the
smallest addition, even an ounce weight,
is remonstrated against, and with such
a prodigious affectation of suffering
-that it might be thought the big im
postor's heart was bre iking under
the pressure of an intolerable grief.
Nor does it betray any proportionate,
vivacity in easy times. If told to sit
down and there is nothing which a
ca.nel does more cheerfully it groans
as though it were being put to the rack.
If its load is being taken off its back it
moans as if it were being flared alive.
Should the road betray the slightest
a cent, it commences grumbling as if it
were being asked to walk up the wall
of a house like a t'y ; and yet when the
path begins to descend again, its dolor
ous complainiogs are redoubled. Going
up is bad, it says, as b.ul as can be
and going dowu is worse. So the
Oriental has a proverb that when mov
ing up hill it envse it-? parents, and
when down hill it Maker.
t'lswrrt In tli Mick K om.
Philadelphia Times.
The "superstition," as he called it,
that plants are not healthful in sleep
ing or sick rooms was vigorously at
tacked by Dr. J. M. Andrews yesterday
fternoon in a lecture before the social
meeting of the alumni of the College of
Pharmacy, on Tenth street, above
Arch. The deleterious matter that
they gave out, the doctor declared, is
too small to have any appreciable effect,
while their positive value in a sick
room is great. They fulfil two func
tions that of the generation of ozone
and exhalation of vapcr, by which the
. atmosphere of the rcem is kept in a
healthful condition of humidity. Tests
made by the doctor at Christ' hospital
showed that in two rooms, alike in all
respects except that one contained some
tlowers and the other none, that con
taining the flowers was cooler by 1 de-
- grees than the other.
The ozone which is generated by
budding and flowering plants the doc
tor had found to have great Eanitary
value, in that it purified the air, rid
ding it of disease-breeding germs and
of the vapors of decomposition. For
consumption ozone is of great benefit,
arresting the course of the malady, and
by living among flowers constantly con
sumptives have been known to reach an
advanced age. Of thirty florists whom
the doctor v.'sited, he found none who
had consumption, though among the
families of several it was hereditary.
Foliage plants, the doctor found, pro
duced no ozone and, so far as he had
experimented, he had found no differ
ence between odoriferous and non
odoriferons plants. More experiments
were urgently advocated to determine
more definitely the value of this new
remedy for consumption.
Ielt It to Ilia Servant.
Ssan Francisco Chronicle, j
A young gentleman had been boast
ing to a lady friencL-married, about his
duck-shooting, which, he declared, was
the most difficult of sports, lie said
he never came ba?k without a lot of
victims, and promised, the next time he
went shooting, to send her a couple of
the results. He gave her notice he
was going and he went. He got
no ducks, but his reputation was
at stake. He sought the usual
refuge of frozen-out sportsmen, the
market; but, unfortunately, left the
commission of purchasing and sending
the ducks to his servant. Two days
after he went to call on the lady. She
was profusely grateful for the ducks,
and, just as he was leaving, she begged
him to come and see them prepare 1.
They sought the veranda, aud there in
the yard at the back of the house strode
up and down two tame ducks, quack
quacking with lively delight. He had
uo words.
BiZ Inducement 1m Insurance.
Texas Sif tiuga.
"I don't think I'll insure with you,"
said Jenkins, as the lifeinsurn .ce agent
entered the office.
"Why not?"
"Well, you see, the agent of anothei
company called in yesterday, and offered
me much better ter us than you do."
"Yen, I tuppose he represents one of
those snide companies that are willing
to insure for less money than we ask. I
am not authorized to guarantee it, but
I give you my word as an insurance
agent, that if you insure with us, you
will be under the sod ten years before
you will think of dying if you insure in
that other company. Give us a trial.
We are offering yon the biggest kind of
inducements." '
Cieorxe Kilot. .
When the "Biography of George
Eliot." upon which Mr. Cro is is en
caged,' and th? forthcoming volume of
"Essays" have been given to the world
there "will remain hardly anything of
jreorge Eliot's unprlnted.
. QUEER THINGS IN EARS
What Home Folk Foolishly Do, Who
Ought to Know Better.
' New York Times.
"You would be astonished,' said a
skilled aurist in one of the publio eye
and ear infirmaries, "at the large Dum
ber of children who are brought to us
in the course of a week to have some
thing removed from their ears that they
have foolishly stuck in them and have
been unable to get out again. I have
sometimes disposed of ten such cases in
an afternoon, and have pulled almost
everything out of the human ear that is
possible to get in there shoe-buttons,
pieces of slate pencil, candies, and wads
of paper. Four times oat of five" the
youngster is old enough to know better ;
but it is a habit they fall into, the same
as biting their nails or scratching their
heads. One boy not yet 12 years old is
almost a weekly visitor here. 'Well,'
I said, as I saw him come in as usual
yesterday afternoon, 'what have you
got in there this time?' 'Nawthin' but
a bean,' he drawled. Oh, ye, I took it
out.
Iiut I recently met with the most re
markable case of that kind in twenty
years' practice. A young woman of 113
came in so deaf that I could hardly
make her hear by shouting through a
trumpet. After removing a great
quantity of wax from her ears I found
something metallic
'WThat's this, I said, 'have you been
putting something in your ear?
" 'Oh, dear, no,' she said, 'I am not so
foolish as that.'
"Imagine her surprise when I pulled
out a smooth, round brass button, with
quite a large shank to it. 'This seems
to have been in there a great many
years,' I said. To my surprise the
young woman crouched in the corner in
undisguised terror.
" 'Oil, doctor,' she s.ud, 'what is that
awful noise?'
"It was nothing but a wagon rumbling
by, but I instantly saw what the trouble
was. Her hearing had become normal
when I had removed that button, and
she was frightened and bewildered at
the jumble of confusing sounds. The
ticking of the clock, chirping of the
canary, or drippig of water distressed
her, and the rustle of her own silk
dress made her start with fear. I sent
one of the assistants home with her in
a carriage, and he said that the clatter
in the street so distracted her that he
was compelled to hold her in her seat.
About a week afterward she came in
again "
'And wanted the button put back, I
suppose," interrupted the reporter.
"Oh, no, she was brimming over with
happiness, though for a day or two she
was afraid to leave the house. But she
told me all abotit that button. 'When
I was about 8 years old, she said, I
was sent to a village t-hurc'j in New
England witli my grandmother. The
sermon as always long and tiresome,
and I used to amuse myself by pulling
at the bras buttons on ray cloak. On
of them came off one Sunday, and I
occupied myself for a time with putting
it in my car and shaking it out. again.
Suddenly I felt it sink away in there
and I could not get it out. I was afraid
to tell my grandmother at the time,
and soon afterward forgot it. At 10
years of age I began to grow deaf and
have been getting worse ever since, but
I never ouca thought of that button
until you removed it."
"Do grown people," asked the re
porter, "ever come to you wi!h things
m tlie.r ears ?
" Fi e juently, but in most cases it is
through no fault of their own. I know
one man, a butcher, who comes hee
regularly in the summer time to have
flies removed from his ears. I have
taken out six at one time for him. How
ever they get there I don't know. He
says they fly in; bat they dou't fly out,
I'm sure of that. A man called me out
of bed one night to get a Croton bug
out of his ear. Now, a water bug will
never back. He must either turn
arou.id or go straight ahead. This fel
low had crawled into the man's ear,
and, not finding room enough to tarn
around, went ahead. He was pawing
away with his feelers on the drum,
causing the poor man fearful agony.
Men employed in tanneries often get a
peculiar looking worm ia their ears,
which is po n trouble to remove."
Stephen A. Ious;la.
Ben: Farley Poore.
Judge Douglas was a man of great
ability. His mind was capable of grasp
ing, analyzing and elucidating the most
abstract and difficult subjects, either in
the science of law or that of govern
ment. To these qualities was added a
courageous vigor, a manly boldness
which characterized all his efforts, and
which enabled him to stand up against
the slave-holders' power. He expected
to have been nominated for president
in 1852, and again in 1850, when the
combined courtesies of Franklin Pierce
and Jefferson Davis secured his sup
port for the administration of the
former; but after Buchanan's inau
guration a breach ensued. "I beg you
to remember," said Buchanan to
Douglas, when their difficulties com
menced, "the fate of Talmadge and Rives
who undertook to oppose the head of
the party to which they belonged."
"Mr. President," exclaimed Douglas,
defiantly, "I beg yon to remember that
Gen. Jackson is dead."
From that day he had to fight the ad
ministration on the one side and the
Republicans of Illinois, headed by Lin
coln, on the other. In I860 he would
have been satisfied with the Charleston
platform and James Guthrie of
Kentucky as a compromise candidate.
It was the fear of this that made the
disunionists put Breckenridge into the
fight, against his wishes and his will,
but he could not hake olf his political
entanglements. When hostilities were
declared, ho found his efforts to save
the Union washed out in blood. Hal
his life been spared, he would undoubt
edly have stood by his o d antagonist,
President Lincoln, as a defender of the
Union. He died when a young man,
disappointed and broken-hearted, but
no public man at Washington no, not
one has left behind him more devoted'
friend than Stephen A.. Douglas.
Kncouraiing Advice.
Philadelphia Call, j
"You want to watch out for alh
very carefully at first," was the adv.ca
gifen a northern iuvalid on Ids arrival
in Florida, "but after you have been
here a few weeks it won't so much
matter."
" Why not ?". was the question. " Why
should I be more cautions at one time
than another ?"
"Because," was the reply, "after you
have been here a little while you will
have grown too thin to be an object of
interest to alligators. They only want
fresh arrivals.
French Philosophy : What is want
ing in woman is the intermediate senti
ment between lose nnl hate; she knows
nothing of that weapon of the strong
man, indifference.
HE CAME OUT AHEAD.
A ttentlecaan In the Clothlax easi
ness Beats the Cm Company.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
I have a friend in the clothing business
who denounces his gas bill as exorbitant, and
sometime comes to my office to see about it.
He lives in a palatial residence on Eighth
street, and when he came in last week and
handed me his bill. I saw at once that it was
an unusually small one for such an estab
lishment as he keeps up. Being somewhat
familiar with the arrangements and number
of burners in his house. I determined upon
catching him at his own game, and show
ing that be was indebted to the company for
more gas than the bill called for, but he was
too much for in?. Taking the bill from htm,
I said:
"Well, Mr. , you have a burner in the
cellar r
"Yes, sheneraL dares a punier in the cel
lar, but, holy Mosea, who efer heard of light
ing gas in de cellar."
"You have a laundry f
"Liundry! laundry, you say! Who efer
heard of people washing py gaslightP
"Well, you have burners in your kitchen,
haven't youf"
"Yes, dey are dare, but ve nefer use 'em;
we haf 5-o'clock dinners."
"Well, don't your servant use any in the
eveniugsP
"Veil, I'll tell you, sheneral, ve haf the
vonst hiret girls you efer seen. Dey are nefer
iu the house; dey are out all times of night
after dark."
"How about the dining-room?"
''Didn't I tells you ve haf 5-o'clock din
ners, and the children alvays plays in de
darkf
"Well, there's your sitting-room"
"Sitting-rooms 1 Ve nefer light the gaa
there; ve alvays sits on the front schteps."
"Well, you surely have a light in the hall?"
Vy, vould you vant to preak a man npf
"Well, there's your handsomely, furnished
parlorf
"Yes, ve l:af nice parlors and ilegant fur
nisher, but ve haven't hat a visitor for ofer
a year."
Becoming discouraged, I skipped the other
apartments in the house, and came to a point
where I thought I would be sure to catch him,
and I asked :
"How about your bed-chamberl You
surely use gas in that apartment?"
Imagine my chagrin when after a mo
ment's hesitation, he answered:
"My ped chamber? Vy, I tell you, aheneral,
ve haf burners there, but we nefer use 'era.
My wife, she is a very modest voman, and
always goes to bed in de dark."
He got a rebate.
Industry as a Matter of Race.
The Continent.
That the theory accepted by the popular
mind as unquestioned fact is by no means
necessarily anything but Action, finds a new
demonstration in some statements in a recent
number of The Spectator. The writer takes
up the question of "Industry as a Matter of
Race," and proceeds to demolish the general
conviction that "black men are very lazy,
brown men lazy, yellow mm rather lazy, and
the white men lazyish, while the Englishman
alone loves work for itself." On the contrary,
there is no race that objects to overwork so
strenuously, or that plans as assiduously for
short hours and an uninterrupted seventh of
the week. The idea of rising in life, for every
one who owns Saxon blood, is to be free from
heavy work. The yellow man, otherwise the
Chinaman, cares nothing for time so long as
he is paid for it, and will toil cheerfully nix
teen hours a day. The brown men,
taking the East Indian as an illustra
tion, though called lazy by Europeans
because relaxing toil in the cool of the even
ing, begin at 4 in the morning and work
steadily till 3, with no weekly holiday. The
negro, as soon as paying work offers, is an
indefatigable laborer, though he enjoys idle
ness as thoroughly as the Englishman.
"The best test is piece-work, and we should
say and we have seen all of them at work
that, granted strict supervision aud piece
work, the Chinaman was far away the most
industrious worker in the world; that the
well-fed n6gro conies next, provide ! he is al
lowed holidays if not, he grows morose,
like an over-worked child; that the average
Englishman comes third, provided ho is al
lowed to make up for short hours by extra
energy ; that the Continental European comes
next, working long hours rather perfunctor
ily; aud that the brown man is last, with
ihe exception of the 6avage, drea ling over
time too much. He will not work to earn
more than he thinks he wants, plus a modi
cum of hoarding, and is not tempted at all
by over-time allowances. We should say,
too, that while the yellow man already works
up to his full power, and the black man can
be induced to do the same though not quite
as continuously the Englishman i ap
proaching to the brown man in a delibviate
desire to limit his own industry. He con
siders more leisure better worth bis while
than more pay, and is trying to secure it
a decision to which the brown man came
2,000 years ago."
Irvine's Htory.
Boston Cor. New York Graphic
There is one little anecdote which Mr.
Irving told during his last stay here which
might not be an uninteresting foot-note to
Queen Victoria's "Tales and Legs of John
Brown."
The queen, as he who wishes may read,
has often made visits both of pleasure and
policy to her estates in Scotland, being at such
times more than heartily welcomed by the
canny Scots, who almost without exception
highly reverence her and indorse all that she
does.
On one occasion, shortly after a visit to
her castle in 'the outskirts of Balmoral
(ble-sed aptness!) Mr. Irving, who was trav
eling through the country, met an old Scotch
woman' with whom he spoke of her majesty.
"The queen's a good woman, " he said.
"I suppose she's gude enough, but there are
things I canna bear."
"What do you meanf asked Mr. Irving.
"Weill I think there are things that even
he queen has uo recbt to da For one thing
she goes rowing on the lak on Soonday and
t's not a Chreestian thing to da"
"But you know the Bible tells us "
"I knaw," she interrupted angrily. "I've
read the Bible since I was so high an' I knaw
evry word in't I knaw a boot the Soonday
f sbing and a' the other things the good Lord
did; but I want ye to know, too, that I don't
think any the more, e'en of Him, for adoin'
it."
Where Consumptives Should
An article in The Planet upon t' "e
climatology of southern California gives
a terse summing up of the weather in
Santa Barbara for one vearl The ac
count was kept by Dr. Bradley, of
Aurora, Ills., who was suffering from
advanced pulmonary disease. There
were 310 pleasant days in which an in
valid could be out of doors with comfort
and safety; twenty-nine cloudy days,
upon twenty of which an invalid could
be o it of doors ; twelve showery days,
upon seven of which he could be out an
hour several times each day'j fen windy
days, confiuing tlie invalid wholly to
the house, and five rainy days, also pro
hibitory. The advantages of the resort
lie in the fact that invalids may be
nearly all the time in the open air, and
also in its having an e pi able tempera
ture. The latter h vera res 61.35 degrees
for the year, the difference between
July and January being but 1.1 degrees.
Something to Think About.
Inter Ocean.
It may set French and German statesmen
to thinking when America resolves that they
hall take our 2 per cent, of trichinae or we
won't take their 100 per cent, of delirium tre
mens. In fact, old boots, logwood and cop
peras, and fourth proof whisky are cheap
enough In this country to enable ua to make
very fair article of French brandy now.
T. S. ARTHUR AT SEVENTY-FIVE.
For many years the genial countenance
of Mr. T. S. Arthur has been a familiar
sight to the citizens of Philadelphia, as he
has walked the streets of the city .ontne
route between his home and his ornce.
His name has been a household word
among the readers ef pure literature
throughout the whole eountry. And Ar
thur's Home Magazine," which he has so
long and so successfully edited, has se
cured bo hearty and so permanent a wel
come in many thousands of the best
households in the land, that Mr. Arthur
cannot be regarded as atranger by intel
ligent people anywhere. The many sto
ries and tales of which he is the author,
are written in the interest of purity, good
morals and reform, and, especially those
which are in aid of temperance work,
have been productive of immense good.
They have had an exceptionably favorable
reception, and have nobly served their
purpose of stimulating people to high
aims and noble intentions.
It might be supposed by those who have
not personally seen Mr. Arthur that a man
who could for years work as diligently as
he has, andwho could produce the extra
ordinary amount of superior literary ma
terial which has come from his pen, must
oe one of giant physique and robust consti
tution. Those w ho are familiar with his
slender form know- that it is far otherwise.
His constitution was never strong. About
1870 he suffered to such an extent from
physical and nervous exhaustion that
most of his friends gave him up as not
likely to live long. It seemed as if his
work was almost done.
The narration of Mr. Arthur s decline in
health, and his restoration to vigor and
the enjoyment of life, is of singular inter
est, as given by himself to one of our edi
tors who recently enjoyed a protracted
conversation with him. Mr. Arthur said,
substantially: ...
"Previous to the year 1870 my health
had been very poor. For a number of
years I had been steadily losing ground in
consequence of the constant physical and
nervous strain resulting from overwork.
I became so exhausted that my family and
friends were very anxious about me. Only
a few of the most hopeful of them thought
I could live for any considerable time. I
was forced to abandon all my most earnest
literary work, and I regarded my career
in authorship at an end. I was so weak
that I could not walk over a few squares
without great fatigue. The very weight
of my body was to me a wearisome bur
den. My appetite was poor, and my di
gestion was much impaired.
"About this time my attention was at
tracted to Compound Oxygen as then ad
ministered by Dr. Starkey. I had heard
of wonderful cures wrought by its agency;
so wonderful indeed, that had I net per
sonally known the Doctor, and possessed
the fullest confidence in him, I should
have been very skeptical on the subject.
I tried the Compound Oxygen Treatment,
first simply as an experiment. I knew it
could not make me worse than I was,
and I hoped it might make me better.
That it would do for me what it has, I had
not dared to hope."
How soon did you begin to realize the
advantages of the treatment?
"Almost immediately. Its effect was
not that of a stimulant, but of a gentle
and almost imperceptible vitalizer of the
whole system. Soon I began to have a
sense of such physical comfort as I had
not known for many years. My strength
was gradually returning. This slowly but
steadily increased. In a few months I
was able to resume my pen, aud within
six months after doing so I completed one
of my largest and most earnestly written
books; and this without suffering any
drawback, and without any return of the
old feeling of exhaustion. For more than
seven years after tnis l applied mvseii
closely to literary work, doing, as I be
lieve, the best work of my life.'
Did your uniform good health continue
during those years, or did you suffer re
lapses into your former state of exhaus
tion? "The improvement was substantial and
permanent. Not only had I no return of
the old weakness and exhausted feeling,
but I was able to work in my study from
three to four hours a day. The constant
remark I heard from my friends was,
How well you are looking!' Nor was it
only in the strength and vitality that I
gained by the use of Compound Oxygen.
For twenty years I had suffered with par
oxysms of nervous headache, sometimes
once or twice a week. They were very
severe, lasting usually six or seven hours.
In a year after I commenced the Compound
Oxygen Treatment, these were almost en
tirely gone. It is now over ten years since
I had such an attack. I was, moreover,
liable to take cold, and I had frequent at
tacks of influenza, which always left me
with a troublesome cough. It is very
rarely that I now take cold. When I do
so, I at once resort to Compound Oxygen,
which invariably breaks up the cold in
from one to three days."
And now, Mr. Arthur, what is your
present condition of health?
"It is all I have any right to desire or
expect at my somewhat advanced age of
75. I sleep well, and am able to take my
proper amount of food, enjoying my meals
with regularity and heartiness. My di
gestion, although slow, is good. I do not
confine mvself to any particular articles
of diet, but eat what other people eat, re
jecting of course that which seems to be
indigestible, or too rich. I am able to attend-to
my customary literary work, de
voting about four hours a day to it, and
that without any sense of weariness ex
cept as to my eyes. Were It not for the
fact that with advancing years I find my
eyesight not as good as it formerly was, I
should be able to work longer without fa
tigue. I enjoy moderate exercise, and
take it regularly without that feeling of
exhaustion which was formerly so de
pressing." The testimonials and reports of cases
miblished bv Drs. Starkey & Palen in
their pamphlets and advertisements, if
literally true, show Compound Oxygen to
be the most remarkable curative agent yet
discovered. Do you believe them all to be
cremiine?
"I have the most complete confidence in
them. For years I nave had . personal ac
nuaintance with Messrs. Starkey & Palen
and exceptionally good opportunities for
serving them, as wen in private me as in
their nrofessional relation to the public. I
am sure that neither of them would or
could become a party to any fraud or de
ceDtion. But facts are of more value than
opinions. Let me give you a fact. I pub
lish a macrazine. and have had an adver
tising contract with Drs. Starkey & Palen
for over six years. During this time
I have published, monthly, from one
to six or seven different reports
of cases and cures under their new
treatment, or over three hundred in
all. Now, in every case I have ex
amined the vatient's letters from which
these reports were taken, and know the
- i 1 . 1 .. ,1 nnkli.V.J
extracts maue niereirum, onu uimautu
in my magazine, to be iiterally correct.
Stronger evidence of genuineness than
this, cannot of course be given,"
Mr. Arthur, some years, ago you gave a
testimonial in regard tor what Compound
Oxye-en had done for you; and you also
have spoken freely in your magazine con
cerning Messrs. Starkey & Palen. Do you,
in view of your present acquaintance with
these gentlemen, and your large experi
ence with Compound Oxygen, endorse all
you have said?
"I do, most fully, and without any re
servation whatever."
And now, as to testimonials. Have you
at any time given a testimonial in faver of
other specialremedial agents or modes of
treatment? , , ,
"Never. The first and only time that I
have permitted my name to be used In
commending a curative agent to public
notice and confidence is in the case of
Com pound Oxygen. This I have done, not
from solicitation, but voluntarily and from
a sense of duty. I believe, that in the use
of this newly discovered substance, dis
eases long classed as 'incurable,' may be
greatly ameliorated and very often en
tirely broken, and the sufferer restored to
comparatively good health. I also believe,
that hv itH use the liability to disease may
be removed, and the general health of thej
community greatly improve", num
I know of its action, as well In my own
case as that of many ot hers, I am satisfied J
that if promptly usea it win an cm, un?
progress of acute pneumonia, consump
tion, catarrh, and most of the diseases
which originate in colds. Believing this,
as I certainly do, and from the evidence
which is to direct, and positive to be ig
nored, I would be direllct in my duty If I
did not do all In my power to induce the
sick and suffering to seek relief in the use
of so beneficient an agent."
Have you seen or known other persons
who have used Compound Oxygen; and
have you had opportunities of observing to
what extent they have received benefit?
"My observation and my opportunities
in this respect have been larce. I have
been much at the office of Drs. Starkey &
Palen, and have become personally ac
quainted with many who have taken the
Treatment. In almost every case, where
a fair trial was given, decided lenefit was
obtained. Some very remarkable cases in
consumption, rheumatism, catarrh, con
jestion of tbe lungs, asthma, etc., have
come to my personal knowledge, the re
sults of which seemed almost miraculous."
Do you still resort to the Compound
Oxygen Treatment now that your health
is restored ?
"I do not as a regular thing. Only,
when I have a cold, as I before remarked,
I take it for a day or two, and always with
good effect. I find that it helps nature to
throw off the cold, by imparting the need
ed vitality to enable the system to do its
proper and natural work. It puts nature
into condition to defend itself against the
attacks of disease. If there are any cases
in which persons are disappointed in re
gard to Compound Oxygen, I believe them
to be those in which patients have been so
impatient for speedy cure that they have
dropped the Treatment before it had op
portunity to make its impression on the
system. Such people will fly from one
remedy, consume large quantities of al
most every medicine brought to their no
tice, and yet continue to be invalids.
Compound Oxygen does not cure by
magic in a moment. If it claimed to. it
would be a quackery. But I regard it as
one of the most wonderful and beneficent
curative agencies ever brought to public
notice.
For further and fuller answers to the
countless inquiries suggestet by the above
to thoughtful minds, and to those who
are solicitous about their own well-being
and that of their friends, mail your ad
address to Drs. Starkev & Palen, 1 10U and
1111 Girard street, Philadelphia. The
pamphlet you will receive in reply will set
forth full particulars.
All orders for the Compound Oxygen
Home Treatment directed to If. E. Ma
thews, 606 Montgomery street, San Fran
cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if
sent directly to us in Philadelphia.
Patti plays billiards almost as well as
she warbles.
If a cough disturbs your sleep, one dose
of Piso's Cure will give you a night's rest.
Kate Greenaway is building a fine house
in London with her earnings.
"Mens sana in corpore sano." "A sound
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$1. At druggists or by mail from J. H.
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Redington, "Woodard &"Co., Portland. Or.
"Rough on Coughs." 15c., 25c., 50c., at
Druggists. Complete cure Coughs, Hoarse
ness, Sore Throat.
Melvin & Co., Druggists, Oakland, Cal.,
sav of Caloric Vita Oil: "It is indeed a
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Blackwell's Bull Durham Tobacco. The soli
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When feline concerts
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To Onr and All. -Are yon snflVrln
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of the various pulmonary troubles that bo often
enu in uonaumpuoitf ir so. use "wilborb
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I continued until I took nine bottles. I am now
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Something old Allen's Bilious Physic
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Redintrton, Woodard & Co.,
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Brown's Bronchial Troches for Coughs
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THOMAS PBICE. Analytic Chemist, twononnees
the GIANT BAKINO POWDER nearly one-third
trenger than any sold on the Pacific Coast
Nan Francisco. September 24, 18S3L
H. E. BOTH1N, President Bothin MT( Co.:
Dear Bik: After careful and complete chemical
analysis of a can of Giant Baking Powder, purchased
by us in open market, we find that it does not con
tain alum, acid phosphate, terra slba. or any injuri
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tar Baking Powder, and as such can recommend is
te consumers. WM. T. WENZELL A CO.,
: We concur Analytie Chemlsta,
R. BEVERLY COLE. M. I)..
J. L. MEAR8, M. I7Health Officer,
i ALFRED W. FERRY. M.D.,") Members of San
W. A. DOUGLASS, M. J-Franciseo Board
AUU. ALERS. M. D.. . ) of Health.
! Manufactured by tbe
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Tbe experience in the treatment of Cancer with Swift's
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it wiU cure this much oreaded scourge. Persons so
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I believe Swift's Specific has ssred mi life. I had lr-
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arms from the poisonous eiiects of a large cancer on my
neck, and from which I had suffered for twenty years.
8. H. S. has relieved sae of all soreness, and the poison
is being forced out Ot my system. J win soon be well.
W. &. Kobisow, Darisboro. Ga.
Two months ago my attention was called to the case
or a woman afflicted witn a eancer on her shoulder at
least tire inches in circumference, angry, painful, and
fring the paUent no rest day or night f r six months
obtained a supply of Swift's Specifie for her. She has
taken S bottles and the ulcer ia entirely healed np, only
a very small scab remaining, and her health is better
than lot & yaars past; seems to be perfectly cured.
Rev. Jksse 1L Campbell, Columbus, Ga
I hava seen remarkable results from use of Swift's
Specino on a cancer. A young man here has ben
afflicted five years with the most angry-looking eating
cancer t ever saw, ana was nearly -aO. The nrst bot
tle made a wonderful change, and after five bottles were
taken, he is nearlv or quite well. It is truly wonderful.
M. F. Cbumley. M. I., Oglethorpe, Ga.
Treatise on Blood and 8 kin Diseases mailed free.
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