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DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC KEWS. In Nebraska an increased acreage of wheat over that of last year has been sown. Colonel Mapleson did not sail from New York for Europe last week, as was ex pected. The coinage at the mints for April was $4,502,410, of which $2,:J00,000 were stand ard dollars. The Treasury last week purchased -300,-000 ounces of silver for delivery tp the va rious mints. The decrease of the public debt since June 30, 1883, is $37,000,000; cash in Treas ury, $399,752.26. Enoch Brown (colored) was hanged at the Halifax court house, North Carolina, recently, for wife murder. The Chicago Board of Trade has taken exclusive charge of handling its own tele graphic and other commercial quotations. A bill was introduced in the Senate re cently by Plumb, for opening to home stead settlement portions of Indian Terri tory. William McUaigh was hanged in the enclosure at the rear of the court house in Cincinnati last week for the crime of wife murder. ' The House Committee on Public Lands has decided to consider the bill to forfeit the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The son of Mrs. Catherine Friess of Bal timore died recently, and three of her daughters are in danger of dying from eating sauerkraut. The United States Treasurer is now pre pared to forward fractional silver coins in suras of $o00, or its , multiple, at the ex pense of the government. " The sale of trotting horses at Woodlawn, near Cincinnati, belonging to the estate of Horace xiugner, was very successiui. ,Twenty-two head brought $20,015, an aver age of $1,182. It is reported that an explosion of fire damp occurred last week in the Alleghany vailev coal mines, nine miles irom jrarser, Pennsylvania, and that a number of the miners were killed. Jacob Dobson. one of the Hill boys' gang, who shot ex-Sheriff Atkins, of Boone county. West Virginia, two weeks ago, was lynched last week at Griffiths- ville, Logan county. . A reduction ot 10 to 15 per cent in the salaries of employees of the Union Pacific Railroad was ordered by Manager Clark at Omaha last week. The men struck against the reduction and the order was countermanded. The report is received from Medicine Lodge, Kansas, that the four bank robbers were captured and placed in jail. A mob broke in the jail, shot one dead and took . the other three out and hanged them Mrs. Frank Leslie, speaking of her con templated marriage with the Marquis de Leuville, says: " In my new life I shall be compelled, not involuntarilyJ however, to devote my attention between my business ana mis band. A nre last weefc destroyed the rear por tion of b. li. b. Uwleys fi: iJros. livery sta bl'e on Fifth street, Kansas City. Twenty six horses perished in the Haines. Quite a number of vehicles and a quantity of hay were destroyed. Senator Lapham recently introduced bill to provide that the provisions of the act approved August o, loifz, to encourage and promote telegraph communication between America, be extended to cover a period until the 8th of August, 1880. Henry Pfaff, a German, who a short time aero shot and killed Charles P. Perci val, a Frenchman, living in San Francisco, because the latter abused Bismarck, was last week convicted of murder in the first degree, with punishment at life imprison ment. TheGreely relief flagship Thetis sailed from New ork harbor last -week. Secre taries Chandler and Lincoln. General Han cock and other celebrities accompanied the vessel to Sandy Hook on the gun boat Tal lapoosa. Harbor salutes were given to the departing crait. B. F. Sicielly, alias Sivolls, was arrested recently at Oberlin, Ohio, by Inspectors Bidell and King for swindling. His scheme was to advertise for coins, such as good specimens of trade and Bland dollars, offering a premium for them. When he received them, of course, he made no returns. The failure of Palmer, Batchelder& Co., Uos ton jewelers and importers of watches. etc., was announced recently. Business was extremely light, compared with ex penses, and it was decided to cease pay ment. It is impossible now to state either the liabilities or the assets. Thomas Dickson was hanged at Bloom field, Missouri, recently, for the murder of James McNab, near Essex, Stoddard county, four years ago: Four thousand people were present. Dickson made a brief speech on the scaffold, in which he declared his innocence. Gertrude Ash, accomplice of Jesse Wil-; liams, the negro who committed assault upon Miss Maggie Harvey, on March 8th j last, at the Sloan flats, Broadway and Thirty-second street, New York, was found guilty and sentenced to. eighteen and one-half years in the penitentiary. The divorce suit in New York brought by Roger M. Sherman against Florence Sherman, daughter of the late Governor Bagley, of Michigan, was again in the courts last week, on a motion to vacate or der for examination of certain witnesses by a commission. The decision was re served. The Iron Manufacturers' Association of the west, organized during the great strike of 1882, met in Pittsburgh recently. The dispute with the Amalgamated Association over wages for the ensuing year was dis cussed, and it was determined to maintain the demand for a general reduction of 10 per cent. The Western Union Telegraph Company recently ordered a reduction of from 20 to 30 per cent in rates to prominent points South and West. AH night messages as far west as Kansas City will he forwarded for 15 cents for ten words, and one cent for each additional word. There will be no " . change in the tariff in Eastern messages. The Sheriff of Mason county, at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, telegraphed re cently to Charleston, same State, for car tridges. There is a prospect of a mob lynching James Kirby, who was fined $100 and imprisoned for thirty days lor the murder of younar Hall. The people are in furiated at the verdict of the jury in the case. Benjamin Wallace, a wealthy soap man ufacturcr of New York, has been missing since April 20th, when he left the office of George McAdams, his lawyer, in company with a stranger. He had a large amount of money and valuable jewelry on his per son, and foul play is feared. His business is in a flourishing condition and he is said to be worth $7,UUU,uuu. A general strike of silk weavers in Pat terson, Union Hill and Hoboken, New Jersey, is soon expected. Owing to the tembie depression in the silk trade, many manufacturers claim that their establish raenta have been running at a loss for months, and that they have been keeping their workmen employed for the sake of support to them and their families. Judge Simonton. of HarrUburg, filed an opinion recently in the canes of the State of Pennsylvania vs. the Western Union Telegraph Company. Both cases grew out of appeals from tax assessments made on the capital stock of the telegraph company lor. loo and lral. ihe court gives judg 'ment against the company in the first case for ?1J,41, and in the second case for $44, 045. Clem Davis, a colored citizen of Rich land county, South Carolina, apparently fell dead, and was duls laid out for burial. Colored people gathered at his cabin at night to pray and sing, when Clem sud denly sat up, after he had been in a cata mose state for twenty-four hours. The watchers fled in horror, but came back cautiously and extended their congratula tions. FOREIGN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Maria Taglioni, the famous dancer, died at Marseilles recently. Anarchist placards have been found posted in various portions of Nice. Report8from the interior of Egypt state that the cotton worm has reappeared. Bemlont Castle, near Dundee, burned recently. Many valuable paintings were destroyed. ; Sara Bernhardt, while playing La Dame aux Camelias recently, was hissed at by fickle Parisians. Li Fong Pao, Chinese Embassador, left Berlin for Paris last week to open negotia tions with Ferry. The Crandallillouse and sixteen other structures at Trenton Falls, Ontario, were destroyed by fire recently. . Every village between Berber and Khar toum is reported to be in rebellion, and rebels are entering Berber. Another band of- insurgents have ap peared in Catitonia, Spain. Efforts are being made to capture them. Sir Edward Walkin, a member of the English Parliament, offers JE5,000 toward the rescue of General Gordon. Sir Evelyn Baring has advised the En glish government to abandon the Soudan after relieving General Gordon. Heavy frosts have occurred in south England during the last few nights, and there is a general blight in f nut. The German government insists upon the adoption of anti-Socialist laws, with the entire provisions unchanged. Between 4.000 and 5,000 Chinamen are at the Twenty-third siding on the Canadian Iraeine trying to obtain employment. Three hundred track layers and laborers on the Ontario and Quebec Railway, near Toronto, Can., have struck for higher wages. : A London cable savs: Orders have been sent to Cairo to establish a special messen ger post to convey '.dispatches to General Gordon. As a result of the terrific explosion near Havana a day or two ago, the dead so far numbers twenty -one, and the injured sev enty-nine. . France accepts the proposed conference in principle, but stipulates that it snau not be confined to the discussion of the financial situation. Ship owners of England have approved the proposal to lay up one-fourth of their tonnage in view oi me present conumuu of the freight market. Advices from Cape lown mention a strike and seriou9 disorders in the dia mond fields. Men are searched daily at the conclusion of work. A Winnipeg dispatch says: Dr. Wilson has been appointed Provincial Secretary, in place of the late Attorney General Mil ler, on provincial rights. Farrel Williams, an Irish-American, has been arrested at Ballymot, Ireland. He had a loaded revolver and treasonable documents in his possession. . All the federal Princes agree that if the German Reichstag rejects the measure, prolonging the anti-Socii lution of that body shall antl-bocialist law, a disso ensue. Hussein Pasha telegraphed that he is still at Berber. It is too late to retreat, as the town is completely surrounded, and the garrison utterlydemolished. Fifty workmen were buried under a fall ing wall of Whitley s minding m London last week, i Most of the workmen were ex tricated. A large number were wounded The latter part of last month a band of Mexican insurgents, in rebellion against the 'State of Guerrero, were defeated at Taipsche by troops and fifty-two of them killed. Two bands of insurgents appeared at Lerida and Gerona, Spain, recently, and cut the telegraph wires and destroyed the railroad bridse at Gerona. troops are in pursuit, j Forty-one bodies have been extricated from the recent railroad wreck in Spain, near Madrid. The number of wounded are thirty-eight. The dead are mostly peasants. ' The Italian Consul at Malta proposed to deposit in the government stores zJUU cases of dynamite from a vessel, but the Gov nor ordered the ship to sail within forty- eight hours. Lrd Rawton, of London, who is editin papers left bv Earl Beaconsfleld. has f oum no memoirs among his effects, although a mass of partly arranged notes and letters was discovered. A Montreal dispatch says: The bottom of the ferryboat at St. Albert's crossing on the A icolet river broke throueh last weeK Louis Demeros, wife and daughter, Joseph Gauther and child, and two other.children were drowned. Upon the assembling of the Chamber of .Deputies last week, vice Admiral 1'ayron, Minister of Marine and the Colonies, sub mitted a bill for additional credit for 4,000, 000 francs to defray the expenses of the Tonquin expedition. William Lei eh. for twenty years town clerk of Victoria, died suddenly last week of hemmorrhasre of the lunrs. He was only sick for a few hours. Deceased was a native of England and had resided in Victoria for thirty -two years. Last Friday's edition of the Republican newspaper, tA falenqiie. published at Havana, was seized, and the director, sen tenced for previous offense, imprisoned for six months, to be deprived of the right to vote and to pay the cost of trial. The National Bank of Monte de Piedad, the oldest financial institution in Mexico, closed its doors last week. There had been a run on the bank for several days owing to the expectation that the government would demand assistance from it. A profound sensation was created in Toronto recently through the discovery of two powerful dynamite cartridges, with wire and fuse attached, under the Crown Land Office of the Parliament building, and two under the steps leading to the speaker's chamber. Professor Virchows, of Berlin, says that trichnosis in Germany, caused by eating imported American pork, is confined to a few isolated eases at Bremen, ne points out the dangers connected with eating pigs, and urges compulsory examination of German and American pork. Count d'Aguilla, uncle of the ex-King of Naples, has summoned the Italian govern ment to appear at the tribunal on Slay 15th to answer to his claim for the restitution of his patrimony, sequestrated by General Garibaldi. He claims U,UUu,UUU I lire, be sides arrears of interest since 1S70. The marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse, to Prince Louis, of Battenberg, took place at Darmstadt last week. The streets were profusely decorated with flags and thronged with sightseers. After the wedding the newly married couple started for Jugenheim, amidst the plaudits of the people. i ! The murderer, Campi, was beheaded at T- A t 1 1 A 1 fans recenuy. uampi muraerea a reurea lawyer who lived in Rue du Regar, and almost killed the murdered man s sister, He refused to disclose his real name in deference to his brother, who is an officer in the army. Campi confessed that plunder was the object of the murder. Daly, the suspected dynamiter, was es corted to xirKennad last week, bv armed police, for trial. Daly was committed un til the Chester assizes. Majendle, Chief Inspector ot Explosives, deposed that he had experimented with a bomb found in Daly's possession. It had inflicted 160 wounds on twelve life-size wooden dum mies, i It has been discovered by Victoria. B. C. authorities that all English and Cana dian mails that left Victoria on the 21st and 24th of March by Puget Sound steam ers for transportation eastward, via the Northern I Facinc itailroad, have never reached their destination. There were over 200 registered letters In the two 018118. ! PORTLAND MARKET REPORT. - i .. , j- Jb'LOUR Fanr-v extxst: a hhl. SU.75- bakers extra, country, $4.00(&a.50; superfine, $3.75. -..., FEED, Etc. Corn meaLlOO lbs., $2.75 3.00: buckwheat, $5.50; Oat meal, $4.00 4.25; cracked wheat, $3.253.58; bran, ton $18.20; shorts. $2225; middlings, fine, $2n.0030.00; hay, baled, $18.0020.00; Chop, $22.5025.0j: oil cake meal, $30.00. tsuriXM rancy, fresh roll, V lb., 35 40c; inferior, grade, 20&25c; pickled. 25 30c. CHEESE California. 17(31 19c: Oretron large, choice. 19(5. 20c small, none. OATS Choice milling, nominal: Brood feed, 50c ordinary feed, 4850c. BARLEY Brewing 100 lbs., nominal; feed, nominal; ground. $25.0027.50. WHEAT Good to choice, 100 lbs., $1.47il.50, good valley; Walla Walla and Eastern Oregon, $1.40(ai.45. FISH Extra Pacific codfish, whole, in. c, c, Doneiess, in Dxs.rs$c IB.; domestic saimon, ni bbis., $.uo7.UO, bbls., $11.00, 1-id. cans, & doz., 1.4o; mackerel, No. 1, f kit, $1.752.00, No. 2, $1.501.75, No. 1, hf bbls., $10.00. No. 2. 88.50: herrintrs. salted, hf bbls., , dried, 10-lb. bxs., 75c. HIDES AND BAGS Hides, dry, over 16 lb., lb., 14c; Murrain hides, two-thirds off; hides, wet salted, over 55 lbs., $ lb., 6 7c (one-third less for light weights, dam aged, cut grubby or dry salted); pelts, shearling,- 10c$1.00; deer skins, winter, 1215c, Eastern Oregon, 22c, summer, E O., 1820c, valley, 2530c; burlaps, 40 in., 8c, 45 in., 9Jc, 60 in., 15c; twine, flour, 35 40c, wheat, 35c, fleece, 1213c; gunnies, 18c; wheat sacks, 773c: - HONEY In comb, lb., 22 25c; strained in 5 gal., 11c lb.; 1-gal. tins, doz, $14.0015.00, half-gal., $7.50. HOPS W tb.. 1520c; PROVISIONS Bacon, lli12$c; hams, country, lb., 1315c, butcher, scarce; shoulders, 10llc. LARD Kegs, f lb., 12c; Eastern, pails, I213jc Oregon, tins, 1212c; Cali fornia, 10-lb. tins, none GREEN FRUITS Apples, bx., $1.50 2.00; lemons, California, $4.00 5.00, Sicily, $12.0013.00; oranges, bx., $4.004.50: limes, 100, $1.502.0O VEGETABLES Potatoes, bu., 50 60c, according to variety; cabbage, & lb,. 2Jc; turnips, sck., $1.25: carrots, $1.25; beets, $1.2i; onions (new), j lb., li3c; parsnips, zc. BUCKWHEAT Nominal, $3.00. CORN-No demand. RYE Nominal, 100 lbs., nominal $1.502.00 POULTRY--Chickens, doz., spring, $4.0U5.50. old. 86.00: ducks. S10.00Toil2.ll0 geese, $8.0010.00: turkeys, lb., 1518c. PEAS, SEEDS, Etc. Beans, lb., pea, 4c, 8. w 3c, Ig. w., 4Jc, bayou, 4Jc, pink, 5e, limas,i4c; peas, field, zjMtyc. sweet, 1520c; timothy seed, 10il2c, red clover, 2225c, white clover, 4050c, alfalfa, 16 20c, hungarian grass, 810c, millet, 810c, orchard grass, 1820c, rye grass, 2025c, red top, 1517c, blue grass, 182c, mea quite grass, 1012ic: . SUGARS Golden C. in bbls., $ lb., 8ic, in hf bbls., 8fc; refined D, bbls., 7c. hf bbls., c; dry granulated, bbls.; 0$e, hi bbls., ygc; crushed, bbls., 10c; fine erushed, bbls., 10c, hf bbls., 10ic; cube, bbls. 10c. hf bbls, lOJc; islands, No. 1, kgs, iWt&, bgs., U27C RICE Sandwich Islands, No. 1, $ lb, oc; China mixed, 45c; China No. 1, none: Rangoon, 5Ac SYRUPS-California refinery s, $ gal., bbls., 40c, kgs., 50c, cs., gal. tins, 60c; HAStern, bbls., v gaL, 505oc, kgs, b065c, s., 6065c. "FRUITS Prunes, Hungarian, lk., 12$ 15c; raisins (aew), bx., $2.502.75, hf bxs., ?iJ.753.00, qr bxs., $3.5253.3o, 8th bxs., $3.253.50; currants, Zante, 1? K. in bxs., 10c; citron, & lb. in drums, 22c; almonds, Marseilles, lb., 1820c, Lane, 20c; walnuts, Chili, ll12ic, California, 1213c. DRIED FRUITS Bleached, 14 15c; apples, machine-cured, lb., 1516c, sun cured, 910c; peaches, machine-cured, in boxes, 1314c; German, in boxes, $ lb., 10 llc; plums, sum-cured, pitless, 1516c, machine-cured, 1018c; pears, machine cured, 1012c, sun-cured, 10llc; figs, California. 25-b. bx.. 9c: Smyrna, 202oc. WOOL Valley, 1416c; Eastern Ore gon, I415c. SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS. RECEIPTS Wheat, 45,000 ctls.: flcur, 42.000 qr. sks.: oats, 100 ctls.; potatoes, 2, 000 sks.: eggs, 12,500 doz. FLOUR San Francisco extra, best, at $5.255.40; medium, $4.254.75; shipping superfine, $3.00 4.50. WHEAT Spot delivery was not wanted, while the demand for futures was anything out brisk. Sales in No. 1 white were as follows: Buyer 1884 200 tons, $1.82: Seller 1884100 tons, $1.39. 100, $1.39 prices were: No. 1 whit Bid. Asked. Buyer season $1 52J $1 53 Buyer 1884 1 54$ 1 54 Seller 1884 1 39 1 395 BARLEY Holders arc not forcing busi ness, but meet the wants of the trade quietly at a range of 8H82c ctl. for the better grains of feed. Nearly 6,000 tons of No. 1 feed changed hands as follows; Buyer season 400 tons, 79Jc; 400, .79$c; 200, 79Jc; 900, 70c; 400, 78gc; 500, 78c; 100, 78fc; 100, 78$. Seller season 300 tons. 77gc; 700, 77ic Buyer 1884100 tons, 88c; 100, fc7c; 100, 87c; 100. 87ic. Seller 1884 200 tons, 77c $ ctl. OATS Black, $1.351.40; white. $1.50 1.65; for common, $1.70l,8O for fair to good, and $1.701.75 for extra choice CORN Choice dry yeliow, $1.60; white, choice dry, $1.5O1.50; common, $1,374 1.45; Nebraska, $1.351.40. UK AN Quiet and unchanged at $ii.ou 15.00 $ ton MIDDLINGS Active at $17.0019.00 ton. HAY Wheat, $1I.0013.00; wild oat, $11.0013.00; barley, $8.0011.00; stable, $13.0014.00: cow, $10.0012.e0; alfalfa, $6.0010.00 & ton. STRAW Quotable at 4557ic bale. BU CKWHEAT Quotable at $3.253.50 ctl TALLOW Good to choice rendered, 7j 7c; refined, 8i(S83c lb. HOPS Quotable at 1618c, lb. for fair to medium, and 2022c for good to choice. APPLES Oregon, bx., $1.50, $2.25. HIDES Dry, $ lb., usual selection, 20c; dry kip, 20c; dry calf,20i23c; prime hair goatskins, 6070c. LARD Eastern refined, 3 to 10-lb. tins, 12313c. Other provisions unchanged. SALMON Oregon, 1-lb cans, doz., f. o. b., $1.20, $1.22. EGGS-V doz.. 2122c. MILLSTUFFS-3round barley. $24.00 25.00 ton; oil cake meal, old process, $30.00, new process, $28.50: rye Hour. $6.00 bbl.; rye meal, $5.50; buck-wheat flour, lb., 5c; pearl barley, 45c; graham flour, 33c; oatmeal, 5Jc; Eastern oat meal, $bbl., $9.75, net cash; cracked wheat, lb., 4c. DRIED PEAS Green, $3.503.75; niles, $2.002.25; blacxeye, $3.00 $ ctl BEESWAX Quotable at 2628c, $ lb. BEANS We quote as follows: Pea and small white, $2.80 $ ctl.: bayos, $5.00; pinks, $4.75; red jobbing at $5.00; lunas, $2.802.90; butter, $3.73 3.80 ONIONS Good to choice, $ sk.. $1.15 1.25 POTATOES New sell, according to quality, as follows: Small, 2c; medium, 2c; large choice, 3Jc tb. Sweets, $2.75 3.00: Cuffey Coves. 75c; Jersey blues, 6075c: Humboldts, $1.60; Petalumas, $1.50; Tomales, $1.50: early goddrieh, $1.25; early rose, $1.12$; river reds 90c; peerless. $1.601.65. HONEY Extracted, 6c, 8c, lb.; extra white comb, 18c, 20c; white, 13c, 16c; dark, c, 12c. SEEDS Brown mustard, $2,75 3.00, yellow, $3.00 Flax, ?a.75aa.oo, f ctj.: can. ary, 55ic; alfalfa, 88ic; rape, 2JSc hemp. 4c; timothy, 5ioc, lb. for im ported. BUTTER Good to choice roll, $ Tb., 2122c: fair, 2324c; flrkin, 2225c: west ern. 16 20c CHEESE California, 1718c; Eastern creamery. 1416c; Western, 1518c, fe. POULTRY Dressed turkeys. 3031c, live, 2728c, lb., for hens, and 2729c for fobblers, geese, $1.50(22.00 pair; ducks, 10.0012.50 doz.: hens, $9.00 10.50; roosters, young, $9.50 11.50. old do. $7.50 8.00; broilers, $4.004.50, according to size T. 8. ARTHUR AT SEVENTY-FIVE. For manv vears the eenial 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 on the route between his home and his office. His name has been a household word among the readers of pure literature throughout the wnoie country, ana "iu fhur'sllome Magazine," which he has so lontr and so , successfully edited, has se cured so hearty and so permanent a wel come in many thousands of the best households in the land, that Mr. Arthur cannot be regarded as a stranger 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, and who 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 who 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 there 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 manv vears. Mv streneth was gradually returning. This slowly but steadily increased, in a few months 1 was able to resume my pen, and 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. or more than seven years after this I applied 'myself 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 tormer state oi exnaus tion? "The improvement was subbtantial 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 Irom my friends was, How well you are looking!' Nor was it only in the" strength and vitality that I gained by the use ot uompound uxygen, For twenty years I had suffered with par oxysms of nervous headache, sometimes once or twice a week. They were very severe, lastine 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 L 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 rarelv that I now take cold. When I do an. T at. niipfi resort to Oomnound Oxvsren. 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 7o. 1 Bleep wen, and am aoie to iaKe 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 at tend 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 eves. Were it not for the fact that with advancing years I fjnd 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 published by Dra. Starkey & Palen in their pamphlet and advertisements, if literally true, show Compound Oxygen to be the most remarkable curative agent yet discovered. Do you believe them all to be genuine? "I have the most complete confidence in them. For years I have had personal acr quaintance with Messrs. Starkey & Palen, and exceptionally good opportunities for serving them, as well in private life as in their professional relation to the public. I am sure that neither of them would or could become a party to any fraud or de ception. But facts are of-more value than opinions. Let me give you a fact. I pub lish a magazine, 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 patients letters from which these reports were taken, and know the extracts made therefrom, and published in my magazine, to be literally correct. Stronger evidence of genuineness than this, cannot of course be given," Mr. Arthur, some years ago you gave a testimonial in regard to what Compound Oxycen 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 favor of other speciairemedial 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 Compound Oxygen. This I have done, ribt 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 amcliui atcl atncl -vary oitoa. on. tirely broken, and the sufferer restored to comparatively good health. I also believe, that by its use the liability to disease may te removed, and the general health of the community greatly improved. From what I know of its action, as well in my own case as that of many others, I am satisfied that if promptly used it will arrest the 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 dlrelict 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 yoti 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 large. I have been much at the office of Drs. Starkey & Palen. and have heenmn nAi-annnllv an. quainted with many who have taken the Treatment. In almost every case, where u given, aecioeu oenent was obtained. Some very remarkable cases in consumption, rheumatism: catarrh, con- jestion of the lungs, asthma, etc., have come to my personal knowledge, the re sults of which seemed almost miraculous." jjo you still resort to the Compound Oxygen Treatment now that your health is restored? 'I do not as a recmlar thine. Onlv. when I have a cqjd, 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 pute nature into condition to defend itself aeainst the attacks of disease. If there are any cases m wnicn persons are disappointed in re gard te Compound Oxjgen,! 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- aooress to urs. otarKey ec .Faien, lliw 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 H. E. Ma thews. 606 Montcromerv 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 oi Flso s Cure will give you a night s rest. Kate Greeaaway is building a fine house in London with her earnings. "Mens sana in corpore sano." "A sound mind in a sound body," is the trade mark of Allen's Brain Food, and we assure our readers that, if dissatisfied with either weakness of Brain or bodily powers, this remedy will permanently strengthen both. "$1. At druggists or by mail from J. H. Allen, 3lo Jb irst Avenue, .New York City. Redington, Woodard & Co., Portland. Or, "Rough on Coughs." 15c., 25c., 60c., at Druggists. Complete cure Coughs, Hoarse ness, bore JLhroat. ; Melvin & Co., Druggists, Oakland, Cal.. say f Caloric Vita Oil: "It is indeed a splendid remedy, and has given our cus tomers great satisfaction." A CAKI). To all who are suffering from errors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weaJcneea, earlj decay, loss of manhood, eta, I will lend a receipe that will cure you, FREE OF CHARE. 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