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m TO A GHAT HAIR. Gray visitant! What brings you boa Unasked, unwelcome, prematurely? Too noon by nrnny and many a year; There's some mistake about! it 'surely! Ixrne "silver thread among the gold," (Not that I'm grieving that you're lonely), I'd {mil you out, bnt I am told Thai two will come where one was only. To greet yon thus with jesting rhymes. No aoubt appears the height of folly; Bat know "the lip may smile at times, Although the heart be melancholy. What brought you hero I can't suppose; My life has flowed in quiet fashion- Not time, not core, not dunp, not hone, Not grief, not poverty, not paseio.i. 80 when my glass brings you to vi I must exclaim: .'"How in the : Upon my upper lip did yen"-- On! X forfot, NOT dissipation. How in the nation (with a d--), You ought much longer to have I'm healthy, under thirty-three, Not very poor, and still unmarried. Coiutitutum. STOLEN KISgBg. In silence and hush of a dream, With never a sound to be heard. Bat a touch of lips in the gleam Of th fire and never a word. The echo will ever repeat, Breaking the silence in twain: : "Stolen kisses are.always sweet, And love is never in vain!" For a kiss would a maiden wake From the charm of a dreamful sleep, And a touch of true love would break Tho peace that the blue oyes koep, Forever the echo shall greet, Like song of a ripening rain: "Stolen kisses are always sweet, And love is never in vainJ" When life's romance has been told. And kisses have lost their power, Then * hall soft memory fleet. No more a dream to enchain: Yet" Stolen ki sses are always swee^ And love is never in vain." AN ACCIDENT. child afraid lie was kind of dazed--but don't bnt too slowly for big Bill. The Police jon bother, Bill, he's all right, for he Surgeon waa called in. Bill Foster in­ takes to playing now. He's only quiet j siating on paying him a fee. The opin- I:. I • No one ever knew where the Cftine from, or even its name. One day a sloop freighted with brick was unloaded up town, and a hand on dec^ was towing bricks, two by two, to another man on the (lock. All of a sudden a wee little chap, not more than 2 years old, came toddling along, got right in the way, and way knocked over by the Hying bricks. Bill Fosrter, who was handling the load, was a rough man. It had not been exactly his fault that the child had been knocked down, still he felt very sorry for it. The little fellow's head was badly cut, and he waa stunned. He was carried into the cabin of the sloop, and there lay quite motionless. The captain of the sloop sent to the police station, and the surgeon came The child was carefully examined. The surgeon said the case might be a seri­ ous one, and that the little boy had better be taken to the hospital. For- ster had a sister who worked in a laun­ dry, and at once he sent for her. Molly Forster hurried down to the wharf, took the child in her lap, and listened breathlessly to what the surgeon said. The cabin of the brick sloop was not a handsome place to look at. It was dirty and slovenly, hot and close. Molly Forster set about making it tidy. She opened the little windows of the cabin, and kept off the crowd who were swarming in the narrow quarters. She fanned the child, laid it on a coarse pillow, having first spread her c!ean apron over it, and bathed the poor baby's head, trying to staunch the flow of blood from the wound. "If," said the surgeon, "you could keep the child perfectly quiet for a while it would be all for the better. I am afraid to jolt him in the amlmlanee. Maybe he will come to before long. It is rather cooler here on the river than in the hot wards of the hospital. Can you take charge of him until I come back ? I will see you this evening." Molly had already torn up her handkerchief and bandaged the child's head. Now she followed the surgeon's directions. The doctor was a humane man, for when he left he put a half dollar into Molly's 2-- hand and told her to buy some ice to oool tho water she was using o^ the bandages. Molly Forjter fanned and fanned that little sufferer, and bathed its head, and was tender with the child. About sunset the surgeon came again, and just then the child opened his eyes. "Well, that's a good sign," said the doctor. "Now hadn't you better ad­ vertise him since no Aie has come for him ? Somebody will claim him, I sup­ pose. I can arrange for you to keep him if you want to." Although the accident was reported in two brief line3 in all the newspapers, and notwithstanding the efforts of the police to find the parents of the Child, no one ever came for it. All that night Molly Forster nursed the child. Occa­ sionally Bill would push his hard-liiied and weather-beaten face into the cabin window and look wistfully at the little child. Ho never went to sleep that night, bnt kept walking wistfully up and down the deck. At daybreak he said to Molly, in a hoarse whisper: "Molly, take that kid to your room. It's got to be done." . Bill Forster, who was a man of 40,1 have said, was rough. I do not know how it happens, but handling bricks seems to make people coarse and rather brutal. Bili would take not only one glass of whisky, but as many as he conld drink. Mixing with a crowd of men worse than he was, who frequented rumshops, he was much given to fight­ ing, and his face was as often as not disfigured with a blackeye or a cut lip. Bill earned about $1.25 a day, and when the week was up he never had a penny lelt. Perhaps if Bill had not been a little drowsy and stupid that morning from two much, liquor the day before when the little chap got in the way he (Bill) would have been more careful how he threw his bricks. The week after Mollv had taken charge of the child. Bill resisted the temptation to go on a spree, and gave his siBter $1.50. That was the first time for years that he had ever saved a cent. The week after that Bill did even better. There was Molly working as hard as she could at the washboard or ironingboard, earning 70 cents a day and feeding the child.' That shamed Bill. It happened that the little boy's short frock had been stained with blood. Molly had carefully washed it, bnt still Bill thought he saw stains on it, and that worried him aick. Next week, when he saw his sister, who waa waiting on the wharf for him with the little fellow in her arms, he said: "See here, Molly, it's kind of hard on yon, having to feed this little fellow. Bread and milk and potatoes cost money, aud nursing him take s away lots of your time. Anyway, a dressing of that kid would be jnst ru­ ination to yon. Here's $1.50 for his keep, and here's $1 besides, and buy calico or something and make a frock for that child, and mind you burn the one he's got on, and next time 1 see him let him be looking prime. - Won't jon?" "It's mighty good of you, Bill--and jnst yon wait I'll rig him out. He isn't a bit of trouble. When I'm at work I take him to the laundry, and he's a real pet there. I used to be on account of his natural sweetness-- all real good children's that way--and I love him, jnst as if he was my own baby." On the next trip to the North Biver Bill Forster poudered a groat deal over the child. The fact is, the child, whether he was awake or asleep, was never for a moment out of Bill's mind. He had never thought much about anything before, and it was hard work for him to think at'all. Maybe because for more than one-half of his life his brain had been so muddled with liquor had never set it working. As the empty sloop floated up the broad river, slowly moving the tide, Bill sat in the shade of the flapping jib and argued with himself, and the general conclu­ sions arrived at were by no means flat­ tering to himself. * "The beginning and the ending of this here is mm. I've wasted nigh on "to twenty-five years of my life Why hasn't the boom of that mainsail knocked the stupid brains out of me before this ? What have I got to show for forty years of life? Just these here ragged and brick-soiled clothes I stand in. Game near murdering a child, did you, yon good-for-nothing beast? Didn't have no better sense nor that? A herding with drunken sailors, you big blackguard, and not knowing nothing better? Just fitten to toss bricks from on and off a Bloop. That's the best yon kin da You took a drink this morning, and yon feel sharp set for another just this blessed minute. You can't get it be­ cause you are on the river Where grog shops ain't floating around. Ain't you man enough to go to Haverstraw and, no matter what happens, say; 'Bill Forster, don't you take another drink, no matter if another fellow does stand treat ?' There's lots of things that kid wants. There's a whip. Likewise a pair of shoes, and when winter comes, flannel petticoatB and wool socks; like­ wise Christmas presents. Now, you loafer of a Bill Forster, every time you see the bottom of a glass ain't you guz­ zling down something that little shaver wants? Maybe it's just like you, you white-livered purp; you'll be letting your sister take the victuals ont of her own month so as to feed 'em to that child, and it w$s yon as shoved the kid on her. Maybe you'll be hunting around for more babies to knock over with bricks, you good-for-nothing Por- tugee." When Bill had called himself a Por­ tugese he had poured the last drop from his private vial of wrath on his own head. Bill helped to load the sloop with brick at Haverstraw, and although it was a hot, sultry day, and the work was heavy, he never took a drink. The other hands might come back smacking their lips and bantering him, but he stood firm. "No use, boys," said Bill. "I did the business for that baby--and once is enough. I have got to take keer of him. It stinds to reason. None of you is family men like me. I kin stand as much running as the best of you, but don't you try and rub it in too steep. I hain't got the reputation of being sweet-tempered, and mebbe I kin teach some of yon manners." It must be Btated that there really was no necessity for Bill's excited words, for the hands on the sloop seemed to take in the situation at once, and rather respected the way Bill as­ sumed his self-imposed duties. Down the river Bill was thinking what name the child ought to have. Should it be George Washington, Ulysses Grant, or Moses? He knew all the names of the steamboats going iip to Albany, and to call the child "Albany," or "Vibbard," was suggested to him. At last he made up his mind that Molly should have the naming of the child. "She's got most rights to to him, anyways." Then he felt kind of melancholy with the idea that some­ body might come later and claim the child. Bill had never read a story book in his life, so no romai^pe of a rich father and mother coming in a carriage to demand their lost baby pre­ sented itself to his imagination. Bill became parsimonious, and that week saved almost every cent of his wages. He begrudged himself even the tobacco he chewed. He only kept sufficient money for his most, meager wants. He never took a drink, and de­ clined being treated. To Molly he gave his money. Sure enough the little boy, when Bill next saw him, had on a new frock, and with what pride Molly presented him to her brother! "He just looks like a daisy, Molly. Isn't he pretty? Kind of sleepy, ain't he, Molly?" "He does sleep a good deal, but that's natural, Bill. Much you know about babies! But, Bill, what's this pile of money for ? I ain't spent all you gave me yet. I don't need it, and the child don't His cost for keep is so little. It's mighty good of yon, Bill; and now and then you can give him a bit of clothes. As you say, when winter comes the poor little lamb will want thicker things, and they will cost more money. Here, I ain't going to take this, depriving you of your hard-earned wages," and Molly made a motion as if to return the handful of silver. "But, Moll, just hold hard a minute. He mayn't want it now. Supposin' work was slack and I didn't earn noth­ ing. You have got to keep the cash for the time the boy grows. He's got to go to school, and has got to look as nice as any other boy." He's to be hed- dicated--know something more nor handling bricks. Don't he do a lot of sleeping, Molly ?" inquired Bill, anx­ iously. "Oh! don't you keep worrying abput him. He's been playing ever so sweet. Maybe he's one of them children what talks late in life, and they, so I hear tell, is always the smartest in the long run. Fact is, Bill, I have a surprise for you. He never said a word before yesterday. I was afraid myself he was kind of dumb." Bill averted his face, and then looked out on the water, for the brother and sister were talking on the dock. "But--bnt to-day. Bill, he aaid 'mud- der' so sweet, and then be said it over and over again, and held out his pretty mouth to be kissed. Oh, Bill, his senses is coming back to him, slow, but sure." And Molly cuddled the sleeping child closer to her breast. Bill kept right on in the good way he had planned for himself, and never swerved a hair's breadth. Molly was his savings bank. Brother and sister contributed to tho child's support. In a month Bill was richer than he had ever been in his life. Then he insisted that Molly should rent a better room. The one she lived in, he said, looked out on a dingy, dreary back yard. "Stands to reason," said Bill, "that a bab> should see horses and trucks, and things a moving about in the streets. It makes them lively."^ "Little Bill"--so they called him, Molly insisting that her brother's name shonld serve for the child--improved. ion the doctor gave was a guarded one. "There is manifest improvement-- not, perhaps, as rapid as I should wish. Yon are a capital nnrse, ma'am, and I am sure your kindness and attention will help the child. He will come round, I believe." The cool weather came, and with lowering temperatures the doctor hoped the child would gain strength. The cicatrice on the head had quite healed. Slowly the little boy seemed to acquire new words. Molly wondered at them at times, and thought that she had taught them to the child; but then again the little fellow's adopted mother was startled by words she felt quite certain the child had picked up some­ where else. These new words came to the child at first vaguely. He would repeat them over and over again, at firat hesitatingly, then giving them a slight emphasis, as if to fix them on his mind, something like a little bird that pipes the first faint tune it has heard. The child was more awake now. This change delighted Molly. It never was fretful. The child would lay quiet, with its blue eyes wide open for hours, without a whimper. So it went on for another week or two. Bill, who was always coming or going, when he le t New York for a trip up the river, was happy, for the child was bettering fast, so he believed. It was an October evening when, as the brick sloop was being brought up to the wharf, Bill saw Molly leaning against one of the big wooden posts of the dock. Bill was busy with his hawser, but at once he saw that his sis­ ter did not have the child in her arms; more than that, she was crying. Bill chokod down his grief--he seemed to know at once what had hap­ pened. One last hope there was. Maybe it was so cool that Molly had been afraid to bring the child with her. "Bill," said Molly, sobbing, "the little fellow has gone to--to oaven. It was last night He called to me and said: 'Good-night, mud- der; good-night, far-der--now I am go­ ing walking in a garden--good--good­ night !' Oh, Bill! he had never spoken so long a string of words before--then he played for a moment with a ring on my finger, and then he added: 'God blesa far-der and mud-derand then he looked so lovingly at me, and around the room as if searching for you--and then he died--so quiet! Bill! Bill! don't you take on so! It was an acci­ dent, and God and his little child have no fault to find with you.--New York Times. poor hoavc Judging by the Wash Line. Gentle reader, never jndge a family by its wash-line display. It is unjust to anybody to attempt to base an esti­ mate of his or her character on the style of clothes that float proudly in the breeze that careers across his or her back yard. When I see the shirt of a man for whom I entertained the most profound respect hanging by its tail and waving its arms in harmless curves, striking at space, and sawing wind as if his life de­ pended upon it, I know that it will not do to presume upon him because his shirt failed to hit anything when it reached forth its arm, and if I have a row with him, I want some other assur­ ance that he will not fight before I take the liberty of calling him a liar. I realize that though his shirt may con­ tain only atmosphere, he may be full of the very devil, and while I would not be afraid to stand right up to his shirt and tell it what I think regarding its demonstrative style of pugilism, while it hangs on the line, when I find it on him, I am ready to treat it with all the civility and social regard that the most exacting person could de­ sire. When I see a female shirt hanging on the line in mute and armless quietude, and behold it inflated with the breath of awakening summer, and threatening to burst with the obesity of unruffled good nature, I do not rashly conclude that it belongs to a corpulent angel. I know that in the darker and more sombre walk and conversation of its every-day life it may be hanging limp and ample on a wiry form that knows bow to make bald-headed men, and de­ lights in putting her knowledge into practical use. Remember, reader, that the arms of a chemise are too short to attract attention to their nervous twitchings on the line, and that while it looks harmless and good natnred on wash-day when we see it in repose, on other occasions its caustic contents may warp our very being, and corrode the moments we have set apart for pleasure. My friends, do not rashly judge man­ kind by what you see on the line on wash-day. The big-legged drawers are a delusion and a snare, and the puffed up shirt that looks too happy and jolly to raise a bump on your head, may be the cover for an infernal machine in human form. People do not hang their bed-bugs or bad habits out on day.--Through Mail. The Placidity of Franklin. There is a sort of intensity which re­ quires no strength of passion, none of the burning phrase we are accustomed to associate most usually with elo­ quence, the placid intensity of steady conviction and cool determination. Of this kind Benjamin Franklin is the great example. Courage, learning? per- severaace, sound judgment, and the strongest and most masculine exhibi­ tion of determined struggle were his; yet he never made a speech or wrote a line of passionate declamation. If one should try and describe his surface character in a world, it would be, pla­ cidity. Yet who, of all the voluntary statesmen, accomplished more than he? Who left so deep an impress on the thought and policy of the age in which he lived?--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Miracle Explained. "What miracle was performed at the time of this lesson ?" asked the Sunday- school teacher. "The miracle of the loaves and fishes," was the prompt reply. "How many persons were fed?" i:; ; "Five thousand," echoed the client's "How do you account for five loaves of bread feeding 5,000 persons, Willie ?" "I guess our hired girl baked it and they couldn't eat it! Gosh! you ought to taste her bread! You can't sit the taste outen yer mouth fur * week!"-- Newman Independent. The Dairy. A Yassar graduate, being ont in the country, went into the stable of a farm house. "Dear me, how close the poor cows are crowded together," she remarked. "Yes, mum, but we have to do that." "Why so?" "So they will give condensed milk." She believed it--Texas Sifting s. THE .man who fell into a barrel of whisky said he was "depressed in spirits." PITHAHPFOLHT. THE most reliable sanitary engineers are Soap and Exerciae.--Barbers' Ga­ zette. A PARAGRAPHS® in the East is named Burr. Look oat lor chestnuts.--SL Paul Herald. "FINE day," remarked the prisoner, aa he waa accompanied into the Poliee Court room.-- Merchant Traveler. ONE green eherry under a boy's jacket is worth more to a druggist than two on the tree.-- Tonker's Gazette. THE man who sets out to be the champion dranght player enters upon a checkered career.--Boston Courier. ELLA WHEBLEB, the Wisconsin po­ etess, has moved to Connecticut, in or­ der to flavor her poems with wooden nutmegs.--Newman Independent "BOBBIE," said the visitor, kindly, "have yon any little brothers and sis­ ters?" "No," said wee Bobbie, sol­ emnly, "I'm all the children we've got." --Astray. IN these hard times, when borrowing is so difficult, we'd like to know whether distance keeps up its time-honored habit of lending enchantment to the view.--Texas Sittings. A SYRACUSE man hanged himself be­ cause his wife told him to do so. We are always glad to oblige a lady, bnt we'll be hanged if we think we could stretch courtesy and a rope in that way.--Fall Biver Advance. "KIN I git yer to do a leetle fftithin' for the pedeFtul fun', sir?" "Oh, get out; you're off your base." "Right yer air, cap'n; but its meself that takes the liberty of axin' yer for a few pennies to set me on it again.*--Harper's Weekly. "On, George! How superlative^ still, clear, and beautiful is the night!" she whispered, leaning her finely- veined temple against his coat collar; "how soothing, how restful!" "Yes," he replied, toying with her chestnut aureole of hair. "What a night to shoot cats!" "No, ARMINTA, yon mistake; it is a carboy which contains vitriol; a cowboy is a very different kind of vessel, though, to be sure, it is frequently filled with 'something very like vitriol. After all, it is not to be wondered at that you confounded the two."--Boston Transcript. A NEWMAN woman planted potatoes while her husband rocked the baby and sang: "Hoe'em, Hoe 'em, Sweet, Sweet Hoe'em."--Newman Independ­ ent. That's better than running in debt for them, and then singing, "Owe'em, owe'em, Sweet, Sweet owe' em."--Whitehall Times. WHEN a fond young mother holds up a little, speckled, wrinkled, homely baby for your inspection, and asks yon if you don't think it is real sweet, &c., yon are justified in lying about it in saying "Yes." This is the only time that the recording angel does not pnt down a black mark against your name. --Brooklyn Times. '1 W-WANT two g-grains of q-quinine an' four o-ouuees of w-whisky," shiv­ ered a man with malaria to the drug clerk, "an* I'll take it n-now." "Isn't that rather a small dose?" suggested the olerk. "You seem to have got it bad." "I d-don't know but what it is. Make it e-eight ounces of w-whisky, an' I'll run the risk."--New York THrnes. THE WCTMPB. The bugwunjp comes when the hour ia late , t ( To the pane where the light is shining, » ' '* And the hupump stands at the garden g*te|| ? , ? His arm the maid entwining. ^ , The drugwump waits for the stealthy Wink, '*"7 The brand Idenoniinating, And the jugwump gaily takes a drink <• From his jug while his hook he's baiting. , ( The pugwump kisses the nose of her pet, : And folds him to her bosom, V /.ndthe mugwump waits for his office yet, *! And--well, we must excuse him. --Boston Courier. FRESH fish are very rare in the mar­ kets of the Oity of Mexico, although there are plenty of fish in the waters round about As long as the fish are permitted to remain in their native element, the City of Mexico cannot hope to eompete with America in a certain species of exaggeration. If a Mexican is not lazy enough to sit all day on the river's bank fishing, he has been outrageously slandered.--Norris- town Herald. A MISSOURI man who had stolen a horse, and who bad been arraigned be­ fore a court, said: "Judge, so far as I am concerned, yon may have the horse. No one oan say that I have ever been stingy. It's the only horse I have, but it's youra." J The Judge explained that the crime consisted of a violation of law. "Oh, that's it, eh?" said the pris* oner. "Well, then, I reckon I'm in for it, bnt say, if it's not the horse they care for, just keep him till I get out, and I'll make it all right Won't eh ? Let me tell yon. Your blamed law is so mixed up that nobody understands it,"--£rkansaw Traveler. Bathing in India. The gospel of cleanliness is not for India. Do I begin to argue? I am told that "a virtue of Gautama Buddha was his dirty face!" And yet a bath is a Hindoo's frequent practice. But the use of mustard oil overbalances all ablutions. A native always jpolishea his skin with mustard oil before bath­ ing. "It prevents the water from en­ tering the blood through the skin," Gauga tells me. It makes the presence of a native anything but agreeable, for the anointing having greatly dimin­ ished the power of the water, the sun's action upon the cutaneous surface is such that the smell has actually the effect of ruining the health of Europe­ ans who have to inhale it for many hours daily in the katcherries and courts of law. If you say to one of .these objection­ able smelling parties: "You would do well to take a bath !" h^ will answer, spitefully: "I am fa Hindoo!" This, being interpreted, taeans that the man scrupulously observes the many wash­ ings that the law enjoins. But those washings are something like the mumbling of a formal prayer. Indeed, the high-caste Hindoo may not, like the Pharisee of old, eat except he wash. A CLERGYMAN out in one of the towns in Wayne County, New York, wrote a personal letter to old Commodore Van- clerbilt saying he was very poor, and wanted to attend a ministers' confer­ ence at Syracuse, but 'could not afford it He closed by asking for a free pass to Syracuse and return. The Commo­ dore good-natnredly passed the letter over to one of the road officials, and the dominie was sent a pass for one trip until December 31. Along in January the Commodore received an­ other letter inclosing the pass, stating that the recipient was much obliged for it, but had been unable to attend the conference, and "would Mr. Yanderbilt be so kind as to return its equivalent in cash, $3.17?" 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This system of practice, the marvelous success which has been attal through it, demonstrate the fact that diseases display certain phenomena, which, being sub­ jected to scientific analysis, furnish abundant ana unmistakable data, to guide the judgment of tho skillful practitioner aright in determining • m- Hil .•Yi , analysis, furnish ata, to guide practitioner aright tho nature of diseased conditions. The most ample resources • J diseases, and the greatest skill, reach of every invalid, however the physicians making the treat- FuU particulars of for treatln are thus .. distant be or sbe may ment of such affectioi or chronic in the easy reside from >n^ a specialty. particulars of our < nal, scientific sj tance are contained in •• T»e reopie's. vonaieB seass medical Advleer." By R. V. Pierce, M.D. MOO pagea and over 300 colored and other illustrations. Sent, post-paid, for Si .BO. Or write and describe your symptoms, inclosing ten cents in stamps, snd a complete treatise, on your particular disease, will be sent you, with our terms for treatment and all particulate. •Pi COMMON 8ENSB AS APPLIED TO MEDICINE. dSeJSthan he who%ttempts to tost; evaryJU to^wWch - - - * 1 investigation of a certain -- treat every ill to which flesh Men. in sll ages of the world, who have become famous, have UtoBvUthormi»h organization, and subdividing the practice of medicine and surgery in this institution, every invalid Is treated a s^Slst-onewho devotes his undivided attention to the particular class 0? diseases to which the case belongs. The nntase of this arrangement must be obvious. Medical science offers a vast field for Investigation, and.no n the Mef limits of a life-time, achieve the highest degree of sucoesa in the treatment oftewry malady OUR FIELD OF IUUL, TRUMT HI Lima DISUSES. Recognizing the fact that no great institu­ tion dedicated exclusively to the treatment ippr fumigations, forms of of chronio diseases, would meet the needs of the afflicted of our land, without the most perfect, oompleteand extensive provision for the most improved treatment of diseases of the air-paaaagea and lungs, such as Ohronle Nasal catarrh, E.aryng- AsOmsa, and Couanmption, we have our institution one of the leading Depart- 7 kind of useful instrument for examining such as rhtnosoopes," lacyngosoopea, stetho- soopes, spirometers, etc., eto^ as well as all of the most approved kinds of apparatus for the application of sprays, fui "-- atomizations, pulverizations, inhalations, and ail other approved medicinal applications. _ . „ We publish three separate books on Nasal, Throat and Lung diseases, viz.: A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bron­ chitis : prtoe, postpaid, ten oents; A treatise on"Asthma, or Phthisic, giving new and suooessfUl treatment; price, postpaid, ten oents; A treatise on Chronio Nasal Catarrh, price, postpaid, two oents. - Dyspepsia, MI«tver Complaint," <fb- stlaaie Couatlpatiou, Chroule Diar­ rhea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections are among those chronio dlseasnn in the sno- oessful treatment of which our specialists have attained unparalleled sucoess. Many of the dis­ eases affecting the liver and other organs con­ tributing in their functions tolhe process of digestion, are very obscure, and are not infreqently mistaken by 60th laymen ana physicians for other maladies, and treatment is employed directed to the removal of a disease which dpes not exist. Our Complete Treatls^ on diseases of the Digestive Organs will bo sent to any address on receipt of ten oents In postage stamps. QUESTION. DISEASES. IISEASE, DV have been in thousao1 . beyond hope. , DIABETES, and very largely treated, ds or nses whloh had The study and practice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of cases, with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our institution long ago became famous, has naturally led to a very extensive practice in diseases of tho urinary organs. Our specialists have scqulred, through a vast and varied experi­ ence, great expertness In determining the exact nature of each case, and, hsnoe, have been successful in nicely adapting their remedies for the cure of each individual caSe. The treatment of diseases of tho urinary organs having consti­ tuted a prominent branch, or specialty, of our practice at tho Invalids' Hotel tuad 8urgtoal Institute, and, being in constant re­ ceipt of numerous inquiries for a complete but concise work on the nature and curability of these maladies, we have published a large illustrated treatise on these diseases, which will be sent to nny address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. I N F L A M M A T I O N O P . T H E Qravel, Enlarged Proa* , Msteutlon of urine, and ons mdy be included among thoso in the cure of which our specialists have achieved marvelous success. These are fully treated of nsgtts. in our illustrated pamphlet on Urinary i>isea It includes numerous testimonials from well-known people. Sent by mall for ten cents in stumps. Send for it at once. STRICTURES AND IJBINAKT FI8- .--Hundreds of eases of the worst form , many of tliein greatly aggravated » use of instruments in tne hands physicians snd surgeons, eaus- , and other complications, annu- _ly consult us ror reller ana cure. That no case of this class is too difficult for the skill of our specialists is proved by cures re­ ported in our illustrated treatise on these maladies, to which wo refer with pride. To intrust this class of eases to physicians of small experience, is a dangerous proceeding-. Many a man has been ruined for life by so doing, while thousands annually lose their lives through unskillful treatment. 8end particulars or j esse and ten osnni in Oostage Stamps, ' tUBOoatalnAae many traiUno&ials. , tor a large, illustrated your trea- Eplleptlc Convulsions, or Fits, Pa­ ralysis, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia, St. Vltus*s Dance, Insomnia, or inability to sleep, and threatened insanity. Nervous Debility, arising from overstudv, excesses, and other causes, and every variety or nervous affec­ tion, arsi tnstoa by our specialists for these dis- £ue«?wo3Li hereto f orersgwded as imp«srtble. See numerous cases reported in our different illustrated pam­ phlets on nervous diseases, any one of which will be sent for ten * > • » _i 1 ia oasAmnsnian DISEASES. oants in itngtsgw Stamps, when request , for tiem is^aorompanied with a statement, of a Which one Of ISEASES OF tation, so that we may know ly prevalent are those chronic dis- to females^ and so famous have Ions become for their cure that we _ long ago obliged to create a special depart- MfftHTM I ment, thoroughly organized, and devoted ex-VIKL J GPSSIIJ. LAJAAIS' &' Stat™ on beds, and they go home well and strong. Every «use^consult­ ing our specialists, whether by letter or In person, is given the most careful and considerate attention. Every important case (and we cet few which have not already baffled the skill of ftJ I toe home physicians) has the benefit of a full Council, composed of skilled specialists. Our Department and rooms for ladies in the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute are so arranged as to be very private, snd free from the annoyances so common in other institutions. Send ten cents In jxwtage stamps for our huge Complete Treatise on Diseases of Women, illustrated with nume­ rous wood-cuts and colored plates. PILES, FISTULA IN AXO, and other dis­ eases affecting the region of the lower bowel, are largely treated, and with marvelous success, by specialists, who give their whole time to the study and treatment of this class of affections. We never fail to cure pile tumors, however huge. When the patient can oome here for treatment, we will guarantee a en re. Fortunately for suffering humanity, a method of treatment has been perfected and thoroughly tested In our institutions, by which in from six to fifteen days radical and perfect cures of toe wont forms of piles are effected without causing any severe suffering. Send tea oents in stamps for our large illustrated Treatise on Plies. Hernia (Breach), or Rnptsre, no matter of standing, of what size, or what the age may be (if not under four jreanus d radically eared in every ertaken by oar speelallata. without the knife, without depend trasses, without paint and without dani Tm« iur awkward, ohaiing, old lal relief, wnich never cure, bui • -'4 : V y* i». ' ; (drii how long standi) case nuderta iter. Thfere is no longer any need of w< wkward, ohaiing, old tr Tnneere only Partial relief, wnich ne,*.. wvcu 1 HU55E.S. great injury and Induce inflammation and stranguhfc. trusses, wi at best, give often inflict tton, from which thousands annually die. & indues There is no safety in depending- upon any.kind at truss, though, no doubt, every man who has suffered the aaonlea of a strangulated hernia, and died, thought himself safe. Both the rupture and the truss keep tip a mental strain and debility and various organic weaknesses of the uce nervous ** l . . . kidneys, b)a<Mer«|uid associate organs. CURES GUARANTEED I Can any sufferer ask for greater i .... Notwithstanding the great number of ruptures treated In the every case undertaken. inducements than these? umber of ruptures treate three years past, many of them of immense size snd of such a baracter that no other plan of treatment could possibly have ucoeeded, every case to wnich this perfected system of treatment has been thoroughly 'applied, has been perfectly cured. Only a sucoeede few days residence at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical institute is n^?bun^Hnt references, by permission of those whom we have cured, will be furnished to any one wishing to call upon or write them. An Illustrated treatise on Rupture sent to any address upon receipt af ten cents. Organio weakness, nervous debility, premature dccline of the manly powers. Involuntary vital losses, and kindred affections, are speedily, thor­ oughly and permanently cured. To those acquainted with our institutions it is hard I v accessary to say that the invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, with tho branch establishment located at No. 3 New Oxford Street, London, England, have, DISUSES. for many years, enjoyed the distinction of being the most _ _ patronized and widely celebrated institutions in the world for the treatment and cure of those affections which arise from youthful indiscretions and pernicious, solitary oraciJees. We, many years ago, established lit,pedal Department for tho treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our 8taff, in order that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of a full Council of the most experienced medical men. WEBFFEB tion to this negl' No Ipobosr. IT" We offer no apology for devoting so much atten- >n to this neglected class of diseases, believimr 110 condition of humanity is too wretched to ment the sympathy and best services of the noble pro­ fession to which we belong. Many who suffer from these terrible % diseases contract them innocently. Why any medical man intent , ' \ on doing good, and alleviating suffering, should shun such cases, wc cannot imagine. Why any one should consider it otherwise thqn most honorable to cure the worst cases of these disease®, we understand; and yet of all tho other maladies which afBict . -i? mankind there arc probably none about which physicians in gear cral practice know so little. . „ We fully agree with the celebrated. Dr, Bartholow, who says, I think it a reproach to our profession thatr this subject has been permitted, in a measure by .our own indifference, to pass into tho 35 of unscrupulous pretenders. Because the subject Is disa- 1 causes the treatment of this greeabie, oompetent physicians are loath to be concerned with it. The same unnecessary fastidiousness cuus malady to be avoided in private practice. We shall, therefore, continue, as heretofore, to treat with our best consideration, sympathy, and skill, all applicants who are suf­ fering from any of these delicate diseases. ^ , t Our Complete au J Illustrated Treatise on these subjects issent to any address on receipt of ten espts In stamps. ALL CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY. we have,In the ^retiMing paragraphs, made mention the special ailments to which particular attention • \ specialists at the Invalids' Hotel and S institution abounds In skill, facilities. successful treatment of every form of requiring for its cure medical or surgical H-,,-- . .. All letters of inquiry or of consultation should be addressed w wnirt Mtusixi s»eu itasnsi. , 063 JUla STNTT, BUVFALO. >. 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